Star Entertainment Tycoon

"Well, it's okay...well, I'm fine...well, there's already a way to release the movie, so you don't have to worry about me." Gu Jingchuan chatted with Shen Zhuo on his personal terminal for half an hour before hanging up.

He stretched himself, lay back on the slightly damp bed, and looked at the dim ceiling with a smile.This was the third message he received from Shen Zhuo this month. It was hard to imagine that someone with some social barriers like Shen Zhuo would take the initiative to contact him, and the chat lasted for half an hour.Although Shen Zhuo's tone was flat, the concerns in his words were undoubtedly revealed, and Gu Jingchuan was quite appreciative.

During the 20 years after Gu Jingchuan crossed over, there were actually not many people who had a close relationship with him.You can't say you don't have any friends, but Shen Zhuo is the only one who has close friends.

At the beginning, Gu Jingchuan was often tortured by nightmares, and his spirit was on the verge of collapse. Although the people around him would not send him to a mental hospital, they didn't interact with him very much, and it was too late to hide from him, let alone make friends. .When he no longer had nightmares, he left school and came out to work, all of whom were temporary workers. Although he had some good colleagues, he gradually lost contact because of the change in the working environment.

After all these years, Shen Zhuo was the only person who had been with him the longest and cared about him the most.In his heart, Shen Zhuo is undoubtedly the most important person in his life, and he is confident that his position in Shen Zhuo's heart will not be too light.Just because Shen Zhuo was his good friend, he was even more embarrassed to make Shen Zhuo worry about him.

Although his tone is very relaxed, in fact he is not very sure whether the film will be released.He did think of a feasible solution, but he didn't know if the other party was willing to cooperate.

He has already asked almost all distributors of Entertainment Star, but they all rejected them. The road he came up with may be the last way for the film to be released. No matter what, he must give it a try!

It is enough for him to know this kind of uncertainty alone, there is no need to tell Shen Zhuo to worry.Gu Jingchuan shook the personal terminal in his hand and looked at the dark ceiling.This time, it must be successful!

In the era of cosmic history, traditional media such as TV, newspapers and magazines no longer exist.People are chasing high efficiency, chasing the latest information, and chasing absolute autonomy, but traditional media cannot achieve these characteristics they expect, so they are destined to be eliminated.

In a new era, a new mainstream will naturally be born, and the mainstream media in all eras of the universe is the Internet.

Of course, this network is no longer the old-fashioned mode of telephone line dial-up or fiber-optic broadband. The network in the universe history has already entered the era of Optical Express.No matter which habitable planet in the galaxy the people of Huaguo go to, they can freely and conveniently use the star brain and personal terminal to surf the Internet at any point on the planet, and choose the webpage they want to know.

It's not that others instill in them what they need to watch, but to choose what they want to watch.This mode of allowing viewers to be more independent made the rise of the Internet inevitable, and also made video websites replace traditional TV stations as the most popular leisure choice for people today.

Instant.com, which occupies 14% of the galaxy market share, has a monthly unique user visit of one billion, and is a leading video website recognized by the entire galaxy.In this era when the entertainment industry is not entertaining at all, many people in Huaguo would rather spend money on the Internet and watch videos uploaded by netizens themselves than spend money to watch boring movies. Jixun.com is undoubtedly their resting place The first choice to pass the boring time.

At seven o'clock in the evening, Ah Xing and his girlfriend were waiting for the spacecraft in the waiting hall of the spacecraft station.Just now, the broadcast informed him that the spaceship he was on would be delayed, and it was not certain when he would arrive.Bored, he turned on the Internet casually, logged in to Instant.com with the personal terminal on his wrist, and searched for videos he was interested in, so as to pass the time waiting for the spaceship.

He originally wanted to click on a news video, but who knew that his girlfriend called him at this time, so he clicked the wrong one when he was so distracted, and clicked on a video box marked "Mingquan" next to the news.It's okay, he planned to turn off the video and listen to what his girlfriend told him to do, who knew that after watching the video that had already started playing, the movements of his hands stopped completely, and his eyes widened involuntarily. Staring at the picture that is playing on the screen tightly, I don't want to leave for a second.

"What's wrong?" Seeing that he didn't respond, his girlfriend leaned over and glanced at the screen strangely.Who knew that with just one glance, this girl was also completely attracted by the scene shown in the video, completely forgetting what she wanted to do when she called her boyfriend to stop, and put all her mind on the video.

The 1-minute video completely caught the eyes of Ah Xing and his girlfriend. It wasn't until the video ended and the screen went black that Ah Xing reacted and murmured: "Cool..."

His girlfriend also woke up at this time, and said curiously: "The video just now seems to be a trailer for a movie called "Mingquan"." She said with a frown, and she herself felt a little unbelievable after she finished speaking ,trailer?Or a movie trailer?Can something as old as a movie make such a good-looking trailer?

Her boyfriend also frowned and couldn't believe it, "But it seems that it's really a preview of the movie..." Although he said so, he wasn't too sure, because he and his girlfriend were patronizing to watch the wonderful scenes in the video just now , I didn't pay attention to the text marked on the image and the narration in the video, so I hesitated at this time.

"Why don't we watch it again?" Ah Xing asked.

"Okay, okay, let's watch it again!" His girlfriend readily pressed the replay button for Ah Xing, and soon, the replayed video caught Ah Xing's attention again...

In this Internet era, the entertainment industry is not strong enough. Netizens have become accustomed to using exaggerated and attractive titles to lure viewers to click when uploading videos. .The title of this video called "Mingquan" is too abnormal, but it has attracted many netizens to click.

At the very beginning, netizens were only interested in the overly concise title of the video, but when the video started playing, no matter young or old, they were all stunned by the picture on the screen.They can't help but look down, and they can't even slow down until the video finishes playing.

If it was an ordinary video, the netizens would turn it off after playing it, but after watching this video called "Mingquan", the netizens all chose to do the same thing—recommend the video to various social software and forums, and then click the replay button to watch "Mingquan" again.

In this way, this "Mingquan" spread on the Internet like the most harmful star brain virus. As time went by, more and more people chose to log in to Jixun.com and click on this video, which made even The number of visits to Xun.com rose rapidly, and the entire website was almost paralyzed by the swarming netizens.

"What the hell happened?!" A senior executive of Jixun.com scratched the hair on his head and felt a headache. He has been in the business for 30 years, and he has never encountered such a crowd of netizens. A situation where the website is paralyzed by crowding.You must know that the server of Jixun.com is the most advanced equipment in Huaguo. There has never been a problem in these years. How many netizens have to log in at the same time to crash such a powerful server...

A Jixun employee reported: "It seems that a video has become popular on social software and forums, which has attracted so many netizens to watch."

"A video?" The executive was stunned, it was hard to believe such a result.Just a video?impossible.As an executive, he doesn't remember any special plans recently for the website to attract netizens. If it wasn't for the website's plan, would it be the videos uploaded by netizens that detonated the entire Internet?Is this possible?

He shook his head, no no no, it's impossible.As a website executive, he knows how tricky the tastes of netizens are now. Even the most popular news program on their website cannot attract so many netizens to visit. A chain reaction?Obviously impossible.

Seeing that the boss didn't respond, the employee simply clicked on the video with a surge in views and handed it to the boss.At the beginning, the senior official just glanced at it casually, but after a few seconds, his eyes widened, and he directly snatched the star brain from the staff!

"This video! This video!" The executive thought for a long time, but couldn't think of suitable words to describe the scene in front of him. In the end, all the emotions could only be boiled down to one word, "Cool..."

This movie called "Mingquan" is of course the ancient costume mystery drama movie shot by Gu Jingchuan, and he also put this trailer video on Jixun.com.

This version of the trailer was edited by him after the film was completed. It was originally used to arouse the distributor's interest when promoting the movie. Who knew that the distributor had no interest in his trailer at all, so he just Can be used for other purposes.For example, put it on the Internet to attract the attention of netizens...

On that night, Gu Jingchuan saw the video broadcast on the personal terminal in the window, and realized that he had made a huge mistake—he was framed by the experience of the previous life, and he had not completely innovated.

In the 21st century, the distribution of formal movies often depends on distributors and theaters. Only after they are officially released in movie theaters will they be considered to be made into DVDs, or put on TV and the Internet.He has repeated this pattern all his life, and has formed a deep-rooted habit. Even in this life, he has forgotten to break this inherent way of thinking.

Why do movies go to the big screen first and then the small screen?Because the big screen is more profitable, the film company can earn more money, and because the visual effect and auditory experience of watching a movie in a movie theater are better than that of a small screen, it will bring a stronger sense of impact and substitution to the audience.

The advantages of showing a movie on a big screen are very prominent. The company can get more remuneration, and the audience can also exchange money for enjoyment. It can be said to be a win-win situation, but it is different for movies on a small screen.

In the 21st century, piracy/versions are rampant, and high-definition movie videos are everywhere on the Internet. Thanks to these piracy/versions, it is difficult for film companies to make money on the Internet.Although a certain fee can be charged for buying and broadcasting by TV stations, this fee is also very limited. Compared with the money earned on the big screen, it can only be regarded as a drop in the bucket.Putting it on a small screen, the audience is satisfied, but the company doesn't get paid much, so film companies are often not very enthusiastic about the small screen.

Although some movies will be screened in cinemas and online at the same time, and netizens can choose to pay to watch movies online, this release mode obviously reduces the difficulty of piracy/version, making high-definition pirated/version videos appear earlier on the Internet , It also reduced the income of film companies a lot.

Because of these reasons, Gu Jingchuan has been used to ignoring the small screen in his last life, and subconsciously believed that the small screen cannot be profitable. It was not until that night that he suddenly realized that he had made a big mistake!

Now is the cosmic calendar, and it is no longer the 21st century he lived in.The problem of piracy/version has been solved long ago, and the income of paid video subscriptions on the Internet may not be less than that of big screens!Since the income has not been affected, why should he worry about the order of the big first and then the small?There is nothing wrong with the unconventional practice of starting small and then growing up.

On the set star, the film crews he stayed in all chose to let the film go on the big screen first.It is the actions of these crews that are no different from those of the 21st century, which made him habitually only consider the big screen, and did not jump out of the misunderstanding of thinking.Now that distribution companies and theater companies have blocked his longing for the big screen, he can only choose to fight his way out on the Internet.

When the time comes, those theater companies will naturally put down their airs and post it when they see the number of subscriptions to the website rising steadily.And netizens who feel that the movies shown on the small screen are not enjoyable enough will choose to go to the cinema to watch them again at that time, so that the benefits of the big screen will come.

It is precisely because he has figured out this problem and has absolute confidence in "Ming Quan", that Gu Jingchuan simply put the trailer on Jixun.com.He thought that after a period of time, when the number of clicks on the video increased, he would have the capital to go to the headquarters of Instant.com to discuss movie subscriptions with senior officials of the website.Unexpectedly, the popularity of the "Mingquan" trailer far exceeded his imagination, but within a few hours, the netizens who rushed to Jixun almost paralyzed the entire website.

Not only that, on all the search engines of Accelink, the search curve for the word "Mingquan" has been rising all the way, defeating all keywords and rising to the first place in the search ranking.

On social software and on various forums, "Mingquan" has parachuted to the top of the list, overwhelming the following topics.It is estimated that netizens felt that this was not enjoyable enough, and soon, No.2, No.3, No.4, and No.5 on the list were also occupied by "Mingquan", leaving no room for other topics at all.

But in just one night, people used "Mingquan" as a mantra, as if they didn't know the meaning of these two words, it was equivalent to being isolated from the world and completely out.Everyone is discussing "Mingquan", who is its director, who is its actor, when will it be released, and how much box office is expected to be...

What the boring Huaguo people look forward to is something new, and their desire has been completely detonated by "Mingquan"!

Gu Jingchuan didn't know anything about all this. He went to a restaurant not far from the basement to do a part-time job to make money the night before just after uploading the video. He didn't go back to his room until early in the morning to sleep.Unexpectedly, he had only slept for an hour, and the personal terminal on his wrist rang irresistibly.

He thought that as long as he ignored it, the other party would automatically hang up after a while.But the other party obviously didn't give up as easily as he thought, but had the aura of swearing to never give up, making the ringtone of the personal terminal ring again and again, the whole thing was a series of deadly chains!

Gu Jingchuan, who was so sleepy, barely raised his eyelids, picked up the contact, and asked half asleep, "Hello?" As a result, the other party's words drove away Gu Jingchuan's sleeping insects, making him excitedly lying on the bed. Almost jumped up.

It's Jixun!Instant.com executives asked him to meet to talk about movie network subscriptions!