Super Zoo

Ruffians are not scary, and educated and reasonable people are not scary either. What is scary is the combination of the two. Ruffians start to reason and pretend to be educated people. People hold full tickets to the zoo and say that we paid in full when we bought the tickets, but your zoo only opens a part of the area. What does this mean?

This is deceiving consumers, this is fraud, this is blatant commercial fraud!

The staff of the zoo came up to persuade them, saying that we are making a movie, please forgive me. The ruffian said, "I am not your father, how can I forgive you like this?" You can forgive me, but either you pay ten times the compensation, or let us go in and see what kind of movie it is, and whether it is not suitable for children?

Ten times the compensation, the tickets of a dozen little hooligans will have to pay several thousand. The money is not much, but if we pay today, they will definitely come again tomorrow, and come every day in the future. The zoo will keep these "fathers". Besides, if we compensate them, what will others say?

The employee who came to persuade them found the security department. The boss came with a group of security guards. Before the boss could speak, the two leading hooligans started to act like scoundrels. They lay on the ground, looking like a dead pig that was not afraid of boiling water. They shouted that your zoo was a gangster anyway. You bully customers because you are a big store. You keep a group of hooligans to bully people. This is an old trick of the zoo. If you want to fight, then fight. We won't fight back. When the time comes, the public will judge who is right and who is wrong.

The boss was so angry that his nose was crooked. A group of hooligans came to the zoo to make trouble, pointing at his nose and calling his security guards "gangsters". Isn't this the thief crying "catch the thief".

He called Su Ming. After Su Ming heard what the boss said, he understood about 70% of it. It was obvious that they came to find a place to smash the car a few days ago.

Let them watch, it's just a movie.

A hole was opened in the filming area, and a dozen hooligans rushed in excitedly, preparing to make some trouble to disrupt the filming crew, but when they arrived at the scene, the hooligans were dumbfounded.

Hundreds of strong men, each holding an iron rod and steel whip, naked upper body showing iron-like muscles, with a cold expression, looking at them expressionlessly... Not far away, an officer in a armed police uniform was squatting behind the camera and looking at the lens.

When a scholar meets a soldier, he can't explain his reason; what if a gangster meets a soldier...

"Okay, okay, it's a good movie, you guys are busy, you guys are busy..." The leading hooligans laughed and turned away. After leaving the filming area, they ran away from the zoo without looking back and never appeared again.

Except for this little episode, everything went smoothly during the filming process. Guo Zijian worked his way up from the bottom of the set. He almost worked in all the positions of the crew. He has a very high grasp of the filming work, and Su Mingcao doesn't need to worry at all.

Su Ming's main energy is used on the future distribution of the film.

Whether a movie can make money in the end depends on the quality of the movie itself and the promotion of the movie in the early stage.

Let's not talk about the quality of the movie. Due to the limitation of the total investment, Su Ming is not going to invest too much in this "testing the waters". He only uses Weibo and live broadcast platforms for simple promotion. The local box office in Yangchuan City should not be too bad, because this movie has been deeply branded with the label of "Yangchuan City", and local audiences will support it.

But if you want to promote it on a large scale nationwide, the money you have to spend will be huge. According to the general rule, if a movie with an investment of 100 million wants to be effectively promoted nationwide, the promotion cost may account for one-third to one-half.

In addition to the quality of the movie and the promotion, the real decisive factor for the box office is the scheduling of major theaters.

No matter how good the movie is, no matter how well the promotion is done, the theater will not schedule it for you. A theater will schedule two shows for you out of a total of 100 movies a day, and both are at 2:30 in the middle of the night. What can you do? No matter how good the movie is, there is no box office.

Many bad movies can achieve amazing box office, while some good movies have a miserable box office, which is related to the cinema's filming. Su Ming has encountered this situation. Some movies have more than ten shows a day, and they are shown for one or two months in a row. Some movies are shown for a total of three or five days. When you know that the movie is released and go to buy tickets, you find that it has been taken off the screen. Of course, the box office gap is huge.

It can be said that the cinema determines the life and death of a movie.

Twenty or thirty years ago, when the Hong Kong film market was the hottest, the competition between Shaw Brothers, Golden Harvest, Golden Princess, Debao, and Xinbao was a complete history. Long Wu, who came from that era, knows the importance of cinemas.

Of course, in addition to private transactions and suppressing opponents, the most important thing for cinemas to shoot movies is whether the cinema is optimistic about the movie. Cinemas also need to make money. They will schedule more films that they think may be profitable, and fewer films if they think they are profitable.

As for Su Ming's film... there is no big director, no famous actors, no big investment, and the fan base is ordinary. The only thing worth mentioning is that Long Wu is the producer and Zhang Jiahui is the supervisor.

Su Ming never saw Zhang Jiahui from beginning to end.

As for the cinemas, Su Ming has no connections at all. He called several cinemas, but they didn't buy it at all. Some smaller cinemas, seeing Su Ming's halo, gave a 5% filming rate and three days of screening.

This is useless!

Some medium-sized cinemas got the news of the zoo's filming and showed interest in cooperation at first, but when they heard that it was a horror film, there was no love element and no star effect, their attitude immediately dropped to the freezing point.

Not only Su Ming has no connections, but even Zhao Yun is helpless this time. It's rare to find a legitimate industry that he doesn't get involved in.

Those who can run theaters have terrifyingly powerful backers. Movies are a big cake. The box office revenue, the movie-related industries and the various benefits brought are amazing. Those who are qualified to get involved in this industry and set up theaters are all domestic giants.

For example, Wanda does not need to give Su Ming a face as a NPC representative. No matter how powerful the Russian Airborne Division is, can it send troops to occupy Wanda Plaza?

We can only rely on Long Wu.

"Brother Shi, as a producer, you should always speak out at this time." Su Ming said with a smile on the other end of the phone.

"I knew you called me to schedule the film. I told you to shoot some commercial films earlier, but you didn't listen and insisted on taking the literary route..." Long Wu had already classified Su Ming as a "feeling" literary young man in his heart, and thought he made movies to fulfill his dreams.

"Brother Shi, what's the point of saying these useless things? Are you going to help or not?" Su Ming asked.

"Wow, the youngsters nowadays are so arrogant, threatening me." Long Wu laughed on the other end of the phone: "Okay, youngsters are promising, I will fight for you, but let me say this in advance, your film is not well received by anyone, I dare not say how much I can get, anyway, I will try my best."

"Okay, thank you, Brother Shi."