A different director [entertainment circle]

Kong Xiuming was urging Karl at the door of the room and said:

"Hurry up, the movie is about to start, I don't want to be late."

Carl, who is usually sunny and cheerful, is a little shy and awkward at the moment. He said to Kong Xiuming:

"Otherwise, let's think about it."

As a result, Kong Xiuming directly took Carl's hand and walked out:

"What else are you thinking about, let's go. Otherwise, the movie will start later."

As for why Carl suddenly became awkward, it was because Kong Xiuming finally decided to watch "Fortress Earth 3" first.

On the day of making an appointment to buy tickets, Carl offered to watch "Born in Silt" first, because he discovered that Kong Xiuming has a characteristic, that is, he habitually caters to his friends' opinions, especially his ideas.

I rarely express my opinions when I go out to play, and I always seem to be resigned.

In fact, this should be a habit of many Huaguo international students, that is, they will take the initiative to accommodate others during group activities.

It doesn't sound good, it means that you have no independent opinion and lack of self-awareness.This is also a point that Hua people are often criticized internationally.

In fact, Karl feels quite comfortable getting along with Kong Xiuming.

Most of the time, Kong Xiuming can be keenly aware of his emotional changes and take into account his thoughts, which is why Karl was willing to get closer to Kong Xiuming in the first place.

And he found a very interesting thing. In recent years, Kong Xiuming has become more and more cheerful, which should be related to Huaguo's increasingly three-dimensional image in the world.

Karl likes Huaguo and Huaguo people very much, especially Kong Xiuming.

He didn't want to watch a movie and needed Kong Xiuming to accommodate his own ideas, so he offered to watch "Born in Silt" first.

But who knows that Kong Xiuming still convinced him in the end:

"The theme of "Born in Silt" should be relatively deep, and it needs to be read slowly."

"If you watch "Born in Mud" first, then with your personality, I'm afraid you don't even know what the movie is about."

"So let's watch "Fortress Earth 3" first, and after that, you can watch "Born in Silt" with me."

In fact, Kong Xiuming also saw through Carl's thoughts, but he is a person who treats others well, and he will treat others well.

"Although you are willing to watch "Fortress Earth 3" with me first, you must not forget our bet."

"Good good."

Kong Xiuming didn't expect Karl to have such a side, but he also admitted that the awkward Karl is quite cute.

So Kong Xiuming coaxed Carl out like a child. Of course, Carl didn't forget his super big package.

Seeing that super salute, Kong Xiuming felt a headache.

He said hesitantly, but once he came to the cinema, Carl became excited.

The crowd flow in the cinema today is quite scary, it's only 10 o'clock in the evening, and there are crowds of spectators waiting for the premiere of the movie.

After all, this is the last part of the main story of "Fortress Earth"!

Kong Xiuming found that the theater had about 20% of the screenings of "Born in the Silt", which is already quite exaggerated for a literary film.

You must know that Kong Xiuming and the others went to the theater in the commercial area of ​​their city center tonight.They usually only show commercial films, and they are not interested in any literary films.

As for your question about the filming rate of "Fortress Earth 3"?

At least the screening rate of the zero-point field has reached more than 75%, which is so overbearing.

Of course, this only refers to the screening rate in the early morning, and the theater will still adjust it during the day.Otherwise, the anti-monopoly organization will have to find the theaters.

Karl looked eastward and westward, counted with his fingers and said to Kong Xiuming:

"Why, I'm not wrong, there are really a lot of people. Obviously more than 10 people! You promised me!"

Seeing Karl's excited face, Kong Xiuming knew that he could no longer escape, so he could only nod helplessly.

I only hate myself for why I promised Karl before!

In recent years, the peripheral products of the "Earth Fortress" series have sold quite well all over the world.

For example, human protective clothing, combat uniforms of the Earth Guard, fortress models, some clothing props worn by the protagonists in movies, high-tech weapon models, and even crystal robots.

These peripherals have brought Qin Yan a long-term income not lower than the box office.

Usually, there are people wearing special costumes of "Fortress Earth" at Halloween, masquerade parties, and comic conventions, not to mention today's much-anticipated premiere ceremony.

Some time ago, Karl quietly bought the earth protective suits of two people, and encouraged Kong Xiuming to wear them together for the premiere.

Kong Xiuming also secretly checked this kind of dressing, it seems that it is called cosplay, and it has developed into a kind of culture, which is quite popular all over the world, but he is still not used to such ostentatious dressing.

However, Karl is a person who will never give up until he achieves his goal. He repeatedly pesters Kong Xiuming, trying to show him cuteness, stupidity, and stupidity. Anyway, he just wants Kong Xiuming to accompany him in cosplay.

Kong Xiuming had no choice but to agree that if there were more than ten audience members wearing costumes from the "Earth Fortress" series at the cinema, he would wear them with Karl.

Kong Xiuming originally thought that he had landed safely, but he still underestimated the enthusiasm of the fans of "Earth Fortress".

Looking around, there are indeed many people dressed as fortress humans. Kong Xiuming also seems to see an Asian, wearing the clothes of "Shen Chunan".

The hole card that Kong Xiuming left for himself was to reject Kong Xiuming with "it is not easy to change clothes in the movie theater". Who knew that the movie theater had set up a temporary changing room for the audience.

It can only be said that people are not as good as the sky, and the sky is not as good as Qin Yan.

Some time ago, there was a dress-up event on the Internet called "July [-]th, let's defend the earth together".

Probably on July 7th, the audience was called on to wear their favorite Fortress costumes to go to the cinema to watch a movie, which was a successful end to the Fortress series.

In the beginning, this was just a non-governmental organization, but who knew that the government would stand up and support it later.

After the movie is released, upload photos on the designated website, and you will have the opportunity to obtain rare limited props, DVDs, autographed photos, and even admission qualifications for promotional events in various places.

According to the official statement, while uploading photos, write down your own memories with "Earth Fortress", which can also increase the chances of winning the high school prize.

Karl claimed that he wanted to get these precious prizes, so he took Kong Xiuming to participate in this event.

Kong Xiuming wanted to struggle again, so he said, "It's fine if you participate by yourself."

Carl put his hands on Kong Xiuming's shoulders with a smile and said, "Two people participate together, and the chance of winning is greater."

"Also, my memories of "Fortress Earth" are because this movie has gotten closer to you."

After finishing speaking, Carl turned around and walked into the changing room first.

Kong Xiuming stood in place holding his own protective clothing, blushing for a while, and then "reluctantly" walked into the changing room.

Of course, what no one knew was that these activities were actually a publicity plan designed by Qin Yan.

What kind of movie has the most appeal must become a cultural symbol, just like many cultural IPs such as "Warcraft" and "Star Wars", no matter how bad the movie is, there are countless audiences who are willing to cherish their memories.

"Earth Fortress" is a globally popular sci-fi IP, if it is only made into a movie, it is really overkill.When buying the copyright, Qin Yan had a lot of peripheral development plans in his stomach.

Qin Yan spent so much effort on props, costumes, and special effects, part of which was to make "Earth Fortress" a visual memory.

Frontier concepts, sci-fi elements, and cultural blending images make this world real and charming.

More and more people are falling in love with the world of "Earth Fortress", and what Qin Yan wants to do is to make this world richer and more concrete.

Although it is not as good as the hot-blooded comics of Disney, Marvel, and Sun Kingdom, there are too many elements that can be tapped in "Fortress Earth".

The follow-up development work has been planned long ago. In addition to asking Bessel to personally or authorize the writing of rumored novels, animation, TV dramas, peripherals, games, etc., have all started one after another.

However, these derivative works will take some time.

Therefore, Qin Yan needs to strengthen the IP appeal and memory of "Earth Fortress", otherwise, when the derivative works come out, the popularity of "Earth Fortress" will pass.

Of course, Qin Yan would not miss such a big event as the release of "Fortress Earth 3". Group activities are the best way to increase collective cohesion.

However, the effect of directly organizing activities by officials is too poor, and it is difficult to cause much influence.

So Qin Yan first found the heads of science fiction organizations around the world, and then planned a small-scale and "spontaneous" cosplay viewing event.

Then the "Earth Fortress" official came forward again, and it was logical to turn it into an official event.

Don't underestimate this small change. The degree of participation and discussion will be completely different in the end.

This is not an event plan that Qin Yan imagined out of thin air. In his memory, big movies such as "Warcraft" and "Naruto" were released, and they were all promoted in similar ways.After that, many movies will be released, and similar promotion methods will be deliberately adopted.

These methods do not have much to do with the quality of the film itself, but Qin Yan has become more and more aware that the film market is not a purely technical field.

Of course, Qin Yan did not forget his original intention.Movies are the end, and all other means are just means.

Many years later, after Qin Yan's method of publicizing the "Earth Fortress" IP was exposed, it was considered by countless people as "the most classic means of shaping cultural IP".

How many directors, novelists, cartoonists and other cultural IPs in various fields want to retake the path of "Earth Fortress" are not as light as Qin Yan's.

These are all things to say later, Kong Xiuming and Karl are still changing clothes in the movie theater.

When changing clothes, Kong Xiuming found that Karl was very careful. The protective clothing he bought for him was the same as "Shen Chunan" in the movie. There were some elements of Chinese culture on it, which were added by "Shen Chunan" himself. This suit They were all carefully restored.

I don't know how much the clothes cost, I have to give the money to Karl later.

After Kong Xiuming came out of the changing room, he still felt a little uncomfortable and kept pulling on his clothes.Because the material of the protective clothing has a leather feel, it will be tight when worn on the body.

Clothes made of this material are very weak in elasticity. When wearing them, Kong Xiuming realized that he might not be able to fit them no matter whether he was a size up or a size down.

Is Karl buying clothes so well?

Looking at myself in the mirror just now, I felt like I had become Ultraman.But it's really handsome...

"You look good in your clothes!"

Carl suddenly patted Kong Xiuming on the shoulder, then walked around Kong Xiuming with a satisfied expression.

Although Karl is praising himself, Kong Xiuming actually thinks that Karl is really handsome in the clothes of the Earth Guard.

Karl is already tall, coupled with the characteristics of the protective clothing, the outline of his figure is fully outlined.

This made Kong Xiuming a little bit jealous, why Karl's skeleton can be so well-proportioned, it looks like a clothes hanger when he puts on clothes.

However, he didn't know that in Carl's eyes, his skeleton was also very beautiful.

The two of them did not continue to brag about each other, but speeded up and walked towards the screening hall. In one minute, "Earth Fortress 1" will be officially screened!