Disaster Artist

Lanchuan, Nanqiao District, Echo Theater Office Building, office on the 35th floor.

The air, somewhat quiet—

Zheng Haipeng glanced cautiously at Lin Fenghua who was standing in front of the floor-to-ceiling windows, wondering if he could leave so as not to disturb his boss's thinking.

After all, as CEOs, they need to consider the overall situation, but it's not something they can see through, and it's just getting in the way here.

But if the boss quietly leaves without speaking, what will happen to the meeting? There are a bunch of people bustling in the conference room, arguing and waiting for the CEO to finalize the overall situation. Even if Lin Fenghua does not go to the conference room, he still needs to go to the conference room with a password.

That quietness made one's scalp tingle, but Zheng Haipeng still spoke against his scalp.

"Mr. Lin, do we need to respond?"

— Complaints and protests from members.

At the beginning, "Unfriending" accidentally became popular on social networks, which ignited a movie-watching frenzy. As a result, the audience went to the cinema excitedly but couldn't find the movie. As a result, members of the theater chains protested one after another, causing major theaters to be in a hurry , that is also a unique landscape.

Now, it's happening again; and, it's even crazier.

After all, the current Lu Qian is no longer the unknown person he was back then, and "Starfall City" is not "unfriending" who relies on novelty to create topics.

With the second wave of word-of-mouth frenzy set off by "City of Stars Falling", the mighty frenzy swept in like a midsummer heat wave. The alliance formed by the five major theater chains still silently enforced the sanction order and refused to screen the Golden Kite Award winner. Faced with protests and complaints from members, it was completely backlashed.

More than Resonance Cinema—

In fact, on the social networking platform, someone launched the hashtag "Resist the Sanction Order of the Theater Alliance", and it soared at a rocket speed.

In just a few days, the number of views of the hashtag has exceeded 100 million. It has been on the hot search list for a long time, and it is not easy to ignore it.

Criticize, attack, protest, complain.

In the eyes of netizens, theater alliances are evil dragons that eat people without spitting out their bones. They exclude Blue Whale Films, which is to suppress small companies and cut off the livelihood of small workshops. Bullying Lu Qian, as well as Echo and Blue Whale Pictures, are pure bullies.

They couldn't understand why "The Woman Who Left" was sanctioned when it was released simultaneously in theaters and Echo. It was obvious that no theaters were interested in this movie and no theaters were willing to show it. As a result, the theater alliance jointly sanctioned it.

They also couldn't understand why the theaters couldn't accommodate a "City of Stars Falling". Originally, these two works of Blue Whale Films were works of art and had nothing to do with the box office. Seriously.

Here, seeing "Starfall City" sweeping the box office of 1.5 billion in just two weeks, it became the biggest surprise at the end of the year, and even suppressed "Jedi Knight 8"-even though it was only the "Jedi Knight 8" in the third week of release. 8", but "Starfall City" was able to counterattack and reach the top of the global weekend box office rankings, and it still fell below countless glasses.

On that side, the theater alliance is still indifferent, and there is no sign of the sanctions being withdrawn, so that the general public cannot see this movie smoothly—if they really want it, they have to go to the three theaters in a detour. It's really too unfriendly to the viewers who have online membership cards.

Cursing, overwhelming.

For the general public, things are very simple, there are not so many detours at all, they just want to use their membership cards to see the "City of Starfall" nearby, and other things have nothing to do with them, One or two yelled at the theater alliance.

But real professionals know that this is a war involving huge future interest disputes. It is far from something that can be changed by the box office revenue of one or two movies. It is impossible for the theater alliance to make concessions. Not only is it impossible, And follow-up sanctions should be implemented immediately.

Zheng Haipeng is one of them.

He knew that the brilliant box office results of "City of Falling Stars" were of no real value to Echo Cinema, but he needed to know how they should respond, otherwise the members' complaints would definitely not be a good thing, and it might even affect the brand image. The company needs to give an official attitude.

Things are, very, very, very tricky.

This also means that every step they take next needs to be cautious.

Lin Fenghua stood in front of the floor-to-ceiling windows overlooking the entire scene of Lanchuan, didn't answer Zheng Haipeng immediately, paused, and asked without warning.

"Hai Peng, do you think Ming Xuan said that he only contacted me, is that true or a lie?"

Words, the bull's head is wrong with the horse's mouth, has nothing to do with Zheng Haipeng's worries.

Gu Mingxuan, the top leader of the Global Market Strategy Department of Zhai Zhai, used to be college classmates with Lin Fenghua. After graduation, they both joined Magic Pictures and worked in different departments, but they stayed at different times. They left Magic Pictures one after the other. Move on to a new career.

Going around, now the two are standing in high-level positions of two large companies.

Look, Zheng Haipeng is worried about members' protests and complaints, and the sanctions of "Starfall City" need to respond positively; however, Lin Fenghua doesn't take it to heart at all, and the focus of the whole attention is not on these things at all. The problem facing Echo Theater is something else.

Zheng Haipeng: ...

Trembling, how should he answer this question? It was a private matter between the two big bosses, how dare he, a little shrimp, talk about it?

Fortunately, Lin Fenghua did not expect Zheng Haipeng's answer. After the question was thrown out, Lin Fenghua asked and answered by himself, "The answer is not important at all."

"Whether you only contacted us or contacted other theaters, this all shows one thing, that is, Ru Zhai is already on the same front as Echo."

Zheng Haipeng hesitated for a moment, "Mr. Lin, do you mean that other theaters may also be tempted?"

"It's unlikely. UU Reading www.uukanshu.com" Lin Fenghua gave the answer directly, with a bitter smile, "I can't deny it 100%, but it's really hopeless. Streaming media, this is directly from our bowl How can we compromise if we grab food?"

Zheng Haipeng thought, what happened to the Chaoyue Cinema, Qingshan Cinema and Xiazhi Cinema?

Lin Fenghua saw through Zheng Haipeng's thoughts at a glance, "You must be thinking, what's going on with those three cinemas, is it because you're out of your mind?"

"The reason is very simple, interest."

"Whether it's us or them, the essence of any choice is profit. Don't be fooled by those superficial slogans. I think there is only that idiot Lu Qian. Every time he says something, he is sincere. You can tell it at a glance. He is an idealist who has never been severely beaten by society."

"Those three theaters believe that the future of streaming media to seize the market is irreversible, so they pre-emptively take a share from Echo; our theaters don't believe that streaming media can become popular, and theaters are still the king. , we need to reassert our position.”

"Actually, everything is as simple as that."