Because the time difference between Hong Kong and the United States is 13 hours, June 13, Hong Kong time, is the day when "Raiders of the Lost Ark" will be officially released in North America. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

There is no such thing as a global simultaneous release, even the 2011 god film "Avatar" is also released in batches, and it is rare to have a few movies that can really be released simultaneously around the world.

The reason is that the theater chains in various countries are different, and the interests are inconsistent, and it is simply impossible to achieve a result that everyone is satisfied with.

In the future, Wanda Group is very attentive, not only to create the largest cinema chain in China, but also to buy the second largest cinema chain in the United States, and then to conquer cities in Europe, Southeast Asia is also their next plan...... With such a strategy for more than ten years, it is not much of a problem to establish a global cinema chain.

But that doesn't mean it's safe.

Don't look at the fact that the theater doesn't have to do anything, just screen movies to make money, and it's quite leisurely to share the spoils, but if you encounter movies that are not suitable for you in a row, good movies are not released here, or a financial crisis or something, it will immediately cause huge losses.

Aren't all those European and American cinemas bought by Wanda forced to sell to Wanda for this reason?

Therefore, Wanda is not only actively buying and establishing theaters, but also more actively involved in the film industry, wanting to make its own movies.

This is how Wanda Pictures was established, and then they also spent $3 billion in the United States to buy the legendary film company, a leading second-tier film company, and even actively contacted the seven giants of Hollywood, wanting to follow the example of Sony and buy one of them to create a better source for their own theaters.

Yin Jun didn't know if their method was right, but after all, this was an attempt by the richest man Wang, and in Yin Jun's opinion, there were also a lot of lessons to learn from.

Leave this matter out of the way.

Historically, American movies have been released in North America, and Canada is actually included.

In 2020, Canada will have a population of less than 40 million, and in 1980, it is about 25 million, which is not even one-tenth of that of the United States.

But this is also a developed country, with a population of 25 million, it can also provide more than 5 million moviegoers, which is already good.

Once Lei Shidong has a goal, it is really amazing to work hard, and the number of screens released in "Raiders of the Lost Ark" is a total of 1733, including 218 in Canada.

Such a number, let alone a second-tier theater chain, even if it is the seven giants of Hollywood, the number of screens that can generally be made up is so much.

In fact, although there were 1,078 movie theaters in the previous life of "Raiders of the Lost Ark", the number of screens was more than 2,100, which is not much more than the current scale, but the location of the theater is much better than now.

Hearing the news, it is said that Fox was stunned at first, and even called out impossible.

Paramount was even more confused, and their president directly dropped the cup and scolded.

Of course, these have nothing to do with "Raiders of the Lost Ark" now, and their entire staff, including the movie theater owners who joined Lei Shidong's temporary theater chain, are excitedly and apprehensively waiting for the opening of "Raiders of the Lost Ark".

When Lucas and Yin Jun called, they both seemed a little restless.

Spielberg, by contrast, is much more calm.

If it weren't for the publicity around some time ago, Spielberg would have come to Xiangjiang to discuss the specific preparation and filming of "E.T." with Yin Jun.

In recent months in the United States, Spielberg has been pondering "E.T." in his free time, drawing thousands of sketches alone, collecting various materials and plots, and writing several books.

As long as "Raiders of the Lost Ark" can meet expectations at the box office, then Spielberg can get rid of these cumbersome socializing and come to Yin Jun to talk about business.

I don't know if it's because Yin Jun has always been very confident, not only Lucas, but even Lei Shidong will call Yin Jun when he is nervous, hoping to get encouragement and encouragement.

Even Zou Wenhuai, who has called Yin Jun more frequently in the past two days, if he wasn't busy with something here, Zou Wenhuai would have wanted to go to the United States to guard.

Perhaps, only Yin Jun has not been worried.

In the previous life, when the production funds were not enough, they could get a box office of 384 million US dollars, and now Yin Jun has added so much to them, including Zou Wenhuai's 5 million US dollars, a total investment of 25 million US dollars, and the finished film effect is really too fine.

In addition, in terms of publicity costs, those movie theaters want to get 50% of the income, so they do their own movie theater-related publicity, and other publicity, including TV, newspapers, etc. 3 million US dollars, is also borne by Yin Jun, Zou Wenhuai and Lucasfilm. -- In terms of propaganda expenses, Lucas must not be allowed to cheat and play tricks, and must strictly follow the proportion of investment allocated.

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At 2 o'clock in the afternoon, that is, at 1 o'clock in the morning of US time, Yin Jun was explaining to Wang Jing the details of the sub-shot of a shot, and the phone at home rang.

"Hey!" Yin Jun asked Wang Jing to write by himself first, and got up to answer the phone.

"Yes, yes, Jun, do you know what our first-day box office was?" Lucas's furious voice came from the other side of the phone, "Oh my God! We actually have a box office of 1.7 million! And both critics and audiences have praised "Raiders of the Lost Ark"! This time we succeeded!!"

Yin Jun was also happy in his heart.

In the previous life, the total box office of "Raiders of the Lost Ark" in North America was about 8 million in the first weekend, but according to the situation that it is Thursday in the United States today, the box office of tomorrow Friday, the day after tomorrow, Saturday the day after tomorrow, and Sunday will definitely be more than the box office on Thursday.

It's 1.7 million today, and the reputation is very good, so the box office in the four days adds up, it's not difficult to pass 10 million, right?

Don't underestimate the box office results of 10 million, this is 1980, not 2020!

In the summer of 2020, the first weekend box office of 10 million box office will not be ranked in the top five, and the top ten will not be your share if you are unlucky.

But the box office of $10 million in the first weekend of 1980 was really a bull's match, a safe No. 1! And the No. 1 of the year!

Lucas was so happy when he thought of this.

"Oh, it's also that our strength is not enough, otherwise with more good downtown screens, the box office results can already be better......"

Lucas was wordy for a while, and then hung up the phone excitedly, looking at his appearance, he didn't want to sleep tonight.

It's no wonder that this is the first blockbuster produced by Lucasfilm, and it almost fell out with Paramount, if this is not successful, then the movies he makes in the future will definitely be suppressed by the seven giants and bite hard.

But now it seems that "Raiders of the Lost Ark" has a good chance of success.

So from now on, Lucasfilm will have one more road, and when facing major theaters, it will have a lot more confidence.

After Lucas, Lei Shidong also called.

He was excited, and he was even happier than Lucas.

This is the first time he has done such a large-scale joint screening, once it fails, those theater giants and the seven major film giants will definitely tear him to slag, and those failed movie theater owners will also leave him.

Now, however, it is clear that it is a winning stance!

Lei Shidong is happy that it is definitely not just such a small profit from "Raiders of the Lost Ark", what he cares about is that he has led up a huge theater chain, which is bigger than Emperor Entertainment, the largest theater chain in the United States.

With successful experience and good films in the future, he can pull up the same scale, or even more theaters at any time, so that he will become a guest of honor in Hollywood film companies, not to mention making more money, and his power will definitely increase!

"Summer. Before hanging up the phone, Yin Jun reminded him: "Don't offend the rest of the theaters, at this moment of victory, what we should think about is to expand the results of the battle, rather than rest on our laurels, right?"

"Don't worry. Lei Shidong is certainly not stupid, he smiled, "I have already discussed with Lucas just now, as long as they want to get in the car, then they can come, the more successful Raiders of the Lost Ark is, the more we can get." ”

Putting down the phone, Yin Jun smiled unconsciously.

Such a thing, of course, there is no need for Yin Jun to remind Lei Shidong.

In the future, they will be one of the top entertainment giants in North America, if they are not smart enough, how can they develop to this point?

It is conceivable that after this success, Lei Shidong's dream of cinema will definitely be accelerated, and he may be able to complete the accumulation many years earlier than his previous life, so as to acquire the Paramount and TV station of his dreams, and step by step towards the peak of his career.

It's just that Yin Jun of course also knows that Lei Shidong can share weal and woe, but he definitely can't share happiness.

Just think about the fact that he first went to court with his wife, and then with his daughter, you can see this person's character.

Although there are many such people in the United States, such as Murdoch, one of them, but there are probably only two or three people like Lei Shidong.

After Lei Shidong, within a few minutes, Zou Wenhuai called again.

"Ah Jun! We succeeded!!Thank you! Thank you! Golden Harvest is going to show its face in the international arena this time!!" The chairman of Golden Harvest was even more excited than the previous two.

But Yin Jun knew the difference between him and the previous two.

Lucas's first sentence was "made", while Zou Wenhuai was "successful", which means that the two of them have different attitudes towards movies.

One is to use movies as a means to make money, and the other is to take movies as their own ideals.

In the future history, the two did the same.

Lucas sold Lucasfilm at the peak of its value, but Zou Wenhuai waited until Golden Harvest could no longer sustain it, so he reluctantly sold it.

It's not that Zou Wenhuai is bad, but that he is in the wrong place and at the wrong time.

If he can be in the United States, let alone Lucas, even Lei Shidong may not be able to win him.

It is precisely because Zou Wenhuai really loves the film industry that Yin Jun did not drive him out of "Raiders of the Lost Ark" this time.

Otherwise, according to Yin Jun's shareholding ratio, if he forcibly asked Lucas to choose between the two, Lucas would definitely have to choose him.

And Zou Wenhuai didn't have the courage to invest more than $20 million into "Raiders of the Lost Ark".

Increasing the strength of Golden Harvest is not in the future, so that Golden Harvest will have a stronger power to impact the film market of the whole world!

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