Future Optical Brain System

Chapter 160 Closed Beta of <World of Warcraft>
"Whoever has a ticket for Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons, I'll exchange two for one!" An audience member waved two tickets for "No Light".

No one cares about him.

"Bad movie, who will exchange it with you." A person showed off with a ticket for "Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons".

3 for a change?I happen to have 3 tickets in my hand. In exchange for the "Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons" ticket in your hand, you can sell 3 of the 2 tickets for "No Light" at half price, and keep one to complain about "No Light". It's like watching movies for free. "

"No! I still want to watch "Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons". They said that "Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons" is very good and exciting!"

"I strongly urge theaters to release "No Light" and show "Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons". I want to watch "Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons", otherwise the ticket will be refunded!"

"That's right, bad movie, let's put "No Light" down and put "Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons", anyway, I don't watch "No Light", anyone who likes to watch it should go.

Soon, many spectators who were planning to watch the second scene with movie tickets of "No Light" murmured loudly, expressing their dissatisfaction.

The wave of ticket refunds suddenly brought "Lightless" to the forefront.

Of course, the media will not let go of such a sensational topic.

""Lightless" was complained by fans and rated as the worst bad movie in history."

"Fans criticize "No Light" as a bad movie with an investment of hundreds of millions. In addition to computer special effects being the bright spot, people don't know the so-called plot, incomprehensible dialogue, and inexplicable love. "This blockbuster film that gathers big names and fans are looking forward to, has been labeled as a bad film."

"The failure of "Lightless" triggered a wave of ticket refunds among movie fans!"

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Many film critics also published comments on "Lightless" on mtime.com.

"Rotten!" "Poor!" "Dumb!" "Unintelligible!"...

This is what film critics said about "Lightless".

And the fans' evaluation of "Lightless" is.

Douban has a score of 4.1.

Mtime time network 4.2 points.

Film Critics Network 4.0 points.
The tags for "Lightless" are bad movie (8454), great computer special effects (5451), don't know what to say (3499), not worth watching (5423)......
The complaints from the media, film critics and movie fans directly slapped producer Wang Xiaodong and director Zhang Yunhui.

Originally, the investment could be recovered more or less, but the strange thing is that "No Light" directly chose to compete with "Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons", and was directly crushed by "Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons", a blockbuster that has been praised by movie fans. Crush it to pieces.

The audience chose to watch "Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons".

By the second day of its release, "Lightless" was not fully seated, which is a very bad phenomenon.

What does it mean for a blockbuster movie with an investment + publicity fee of over 1.2 million, and it is only released on the second day, and the seats are not full?
Everyone in the industry knows that "Lightless" was a disaster, and it was crushed in the face of Chen Dong + Wang Sen's "Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons".

1.2 million investment, to recover the investment, the box office must be at least 3.5-4 million.

"Lightless" will be a hit if the crushing box office of "Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons" exceeds 2 million, and it may only be a little over 1 million.

If "No Light" did not grab the box office of "Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons", relying on shocking computer special effects and the attraction of big-name stars, it is still very hopeful to recover more than 2 million yuan.

No wonder, Wang Xiaodong and Zhang Yunhui were too confident, they directly chose to compete with "Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons", the box office loss was not 1 points, it was more than 2 million, or even [-] million.
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In a closed office.

Wang Xiaodong and Zhang Yunhui looked unhappy, smoking one after another.

The whole office filled with smoke.

On the second day of its release, the theaters were full of seats. For a blockbuster film with an investment of 1.2 million and a large number of blockbusters, it is simply unreasonable.

Coupled with complaints from movie fans, a wave of ticket refunds, fierce criticism from film critics, and fueled by the entertainment media.

Douban 4.2 points!
Mtime 4.3 points!
Film Critics Network scored 4.0!
Comprehensive score of 4.1 points!
The label of "Lightless" is a bad movie. I don't know what it means, and it's not worth watching.

All of this!
It all shows that the audience does not buy it!
"Pounce!" Wang Xiaodong said lightly.

"Yeah, it's a puff! It's good that "Lightless" can recover more than 1 million box office! It's more than half of the loss." Zhang Yunhui took a deep puff of his cigarette and said.

"Perhaps, we shouldn't compete with "Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons". Without "Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons" to grab the box office, with the shocking special effects of the movie and the gathering of big names, these two selling points can at least be recovered. More than 2 million." Wang Xiaodong said.He felt a little regretful.

You know, the production fee of 7500W plus the publicity fee of 4000W are all paid by him.Nearly 1 million 2 lost more than half, and lost at least 8 million. For him, it was absolutely traumatic.

If he didn't choose to confront "Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons", he could accept more than 2 million yuan and less losses.

As for Zhang Yunhui, although he did not lose money, he suffered a great loss to his reputation. Now many people question him.

With the investor's 7500 million investment, he made a bad movie!
Anyway, it can't hide the fact that he made a bad movie.

Next, neither of them spoke.

Both of them had sullen faces, smoking one cigarette after another, which could express their bad mood.
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Compared with the one-sided criticism of "Lightless" by fans, media, and film critics.

They all gave extremely high praise to the movie "Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons".

mtimetime.com 9.7
Douban score: 9.5
Film Critics Network Score: 9.6
Composite score: 9.6.

It can be said that fans liked this movie very much and gave it a very high score.

The tags of "Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons" are funny: (8458), classic (4587), tense and exciting (4514), love Chen Dong (5844)......

Under the influence of so many positive reviews, movie fans bought tickets one after another and walked into the movie to watch this movie that made people nervous, exciting, hilarious, and brought people a shocking visual feast.

After walking out of the movie, I checked the time. It was almost noon, and the two of them were a little hungry.

So, I drove to a nearby restaurant for lunch.

While eating, a phone call came.

Chen Dong picked up the phone and checked the caller ID, it was Gao Ming.

"Hey! Team Leader Gao, what's the matter?" Chen Dong put down his chopsticks, picked up his phone and said.

"Boss, "World of Warcraft" has been made. After the internal closed test, some bugs and some minor problems have been modified. You can enter the internal test at any time. I want you to take a look and enter the game to experience it yourself. What needs to be improved."

"Okay! I'll come over in the afternoon, is there anything else?" Chen Dong nodded.

"That's all. See you this afternoon."

"88!"

Chen Dong hung up the phone and said to Chen Ying who was sitting opposite, "Xiaoying, are you free this afternoon?"

"I took a day off today. I have time in the afternoon." Chen Ying raised her head and said to Chen Dong.

"Well, as the proprietress, are you interested in visiting our company this afternoon?"

"Boss lady?" Chen Ying glared at Chen Dong, "I haven't married you yet!"

"You will marry me sooner or later." Chen Dong said with a smile.

"It's like this. I founded a game development company last year. The company's second game is about to be tested internally. Now the person in charge of the company invites you to go to the company to experience the game and see what needs to be improved."

Hearing this, Chen Ying said in surprise, "You actually opened a game development company last year. What's the name of the company?"

Chen Dong took a piece of fish with chopsticks and put it into his mouth, and said to Chen Ying, "Tianlan Game Development Company!"

Upon hearing this, Chen Ying shook her head, "I don't know."

Indeed, when it comes to Tianlan game development company, few people pay attention to it. For example, in the original time and space, many people know the game "Angry Birds", but few people know that the game "Angry Birds" is the Made by the company.

"Then you always know, "Plants vs. Zombies"! "Plants vs. Zombies" was made by my company."

"Plants vs. Zombies"? It's that game that became very popular in the world last year!" Hearing this, Chen Ying was surprised, and said to Chen Dong in disbelief, "It was actually produced by your company."

"Plants vs. Zombies" has been very popular on the Internet since the second half of last year, especially after the mobile game version of "Plants vs. Zombies" has been released, and countless people have played it. It is interesting to play and full of challenges. The colorful pictures, as well as the cute plants and funny zombies, are popular all over the world.

Even she downloaded the game and played it for a while while chatting, it was so much fun.

I didn't expect that "Plants vs. Zombies" was produced by Chen Dong's company, it's incredible.

Next, the two ate and chatted.

Chatted with Chen Ying about the production process of "Plants vs. Zombies".

Chen Ying was very interested and listened carefully.

"In other words, the challenging and interesting idea of ​​"Plants vs. Zombies" is what you want to come up with." Chen Ying said to Chen Dong.

"Yeah, once, when I was surfing the Internet, I saw a netizen put forward a similar idea, so I thought it would be very interesting to make this idea into a game!
After thinking for a long time, I chose plants and zombies as the two sides of the battle, because there is no cultural difference between the East and the West for these two things, and both Easterners and Westerners like them.

After having plants and zombies, it took some time to enrich the game's fun, challenges, and diversity, and this was the later "Plants vs. Zombies".

As you know, at that time, I had not yet participated in the singing competition, and I had not received the first payment for "Those Things in the Ming Dynasty". I only had the salary I got from writing a book on Qidian.com, which was about 10,000+. !With this 10,000+ and a game idea, I founded Tianlan Game Development Company to produce "Plants vs. Zombies". Fortunately, I succeeded, and "Those Things in the Ming Dynasty" and No. [-] Records released my dreams. I'm not short of money anymore, otherwise, I wouldn't even be able to pay my salary. "

(End of this chapter)