"So Close" was reversed by "Super Troopers" at the box office. The current daily box office performance is completely defeated by this Hollywood blockbuster, and it is losing ground every step of the way!

Everyone remembered that someone had said before that there will be two blockbusters in the Chinese film industry this year with a production cost of over 100 million, and they will be shouldering the important task of blocking the box office of Hollywood movies in the United States.

But now "So Far" has died before it even started, which is like a wake-up call to everyone who paid attention to this movie, and they are extremely disappointed.

Even some well-known film figures have begun to jump out in the media and discuss the various failures of "So Far and So Far" with hindsight.

These are the comments of these famous people, and no one takes them seriously. The matter has reached this level, and it is useless to only come out now as an afterthought.

Now that they think about it, they were all confused by the superficial victory of "So Close to the World" on the first day. After all, this movie is definitely a Golden Dragon Award-level lineup. Needless to say, it is popular. Everyone in China knows it.

Xiao, on the day of the movie's premiere, there will naturally be countless fans who come to pay for tickets to enjoy it.

But after the premiere, if you want to continue to be strong at the box office, it will be a matter of reputation.

Regarding the reputation of the movie "So Far", everyone in the film industry couldn't help but sigh.

It is a good art film, but not a good movie, or in other words, it is not a movie for the general public.

For two consecutive days, "So Far" was completely defeated by "Super Troopers" in the market during the Spring Festival, and was beaten without any ability to fight back.

Less than five days after its release, the box office of "So Far So Far" barely reached 30 million, which cannot be compared with the box office performance of "Super Troopers" which exceeded 100 million in five days!

And as the influence of word-of-mouth spreads, the box office of "So Close" will become lower and lower, and this gap will become wider and wider.

Lu Enzhong, the boss of Tianxia Film Company, is no longer as happy as he was on the day of the premiere. Now he is going crazy and wants to use various methods to bring the company's blockbuster, which cost over 100 million to produce, back to life. But what makes him feel extremely desperate is

, despite all his efforts, the box office of "So Far So Far" not only failed to improve, but fell even faster.

It only took 30 million at the box office within five days of its premiere. Lu Enzhong would have been secretly enjoying it before, but for a blockbuster with a production cost of over 100 million and trying to make money during the Spring Festival, this kind of result is a complete failure.

What makes Lu Enzhong feel most flustered is that judging from the current situation, it has become an extremely extravagant thing to recover the production cost of this film through the box office.

This will definitely be a major blow to Tianxia Film Company.

Although it is not enough to shake the foundation of Tianxia Film Company, its vitality has been seriously damaged.

100 million in funds is not cash that anyone can easily come up with!

Now Lu Enzhong must first solve how to reduce losses and recover more funds.

However, just when Lu Enzhong was racking his brains on how to avoid too much loss for the movie "So Far", a piece of news that shocked everyone in the entertainment industry suddenly came from Oriental DreamWorks, Time.com, Meituan.com, and Donghai Cinema.

The company spread the news.

Buy tickets and reserve seats online!

Self-service ticket collection service!

"You're still queuing up at the counter to buy tickets? You're either too rich or too obscene!"

"What does it mean to go to the cinema counter to buy tickets? Long queues; all the shows you want to watch are sold out or you can't choose a good seat; there is no show at the right time, so you can only hang around and wait for more than an hour... From a physical and psychological perspective

Say, this is all a waste."

"It is much more convenient to buy tickets online through Meituan.com and Shijiang.com. You can easily go to the theater in time. The self-service ticket machine can issue tickets in three minutes, and the seats have been selected in advance, and the price is still cheap. If you still insist on attending,

Queuing up at the counter to buy tickets either means you are too rich and don’t care about the price of the ticket, or it means you are an O-star and are about to be abandoned by the times."

..

Suddenly, an advertisement promoting the online ticket booking function appeared on major portals and many media. In professional terms, this is carpet bombing!

In just one day, the online ticketing and reservation system of Meituan.com and Shijiang.com spread throughout China in an instant and was known to countless people.

This system is called Maoyan!

Open Maoyan, there is currently only one movie on which you can buy tickets and select seats online. This movie is called "The Girl We Chased Together in Those Years".

Xiao Huang is a young man who pursues trends. He usually goes shopping, eats and watches movies with his girlfriend.

Especially as the end of the year approaches, he wants to spend time with his girlfriend and have a happy New Year.

It's okay to go shopping and eat. Although the flow of people is very heavy at the end of the year, if you encounter a restaurant that requires queuing, it is more convenient to change restaurants if you really can't wait.

But buying tickets to watch movies at the end of the year is a very painful thing for Xiao Huang.

After all, he hasn't taken annual leave yet. Basically, if he goes to see a movie with his girlfriend, he just goes to the movies and buys tickets.

If things go well in normal times, there is basically no need to queue up to buy tickets. Unless a blockbuster movie is released, movie tickets will be in demand and you need to queue up.

But this is the end of the year!

Xiao Huang had to go to work during the day. He had dinner with his girlfriend in the evening and wanted to go to the movies. When he went to the cinema to see it, he was almost scared to death. The queue to buy movie tickets was literally miles away. If he

If you want to buy a ticket to watch a movie, you have to wait in line for at least half an hour, and you are not guaranteed to choose the seat you want or the movie you want to watch.

But he couldn't skip work and buy movie tickets in advance during the day.

Today, Xiao Huang accidentally saw an advertisement on the Internet for the Maoyan ticket purchasing system jointly launched by Meituan.com and Shijiang.com. He immediately became interested and downloaded the Maoyan app on his mobile phone.

In fact, he didn't know that if he updated the apps of Meituan.com and Shijiang.com, he could also select seats online.

When he opened the Maoyan app, he found that there was no movie in the currently showing movies section.

Out of curiosity, Xiao Huang opened the upcoming movie again, and a movie "The Girl We Chased Together in Those Years" suddenly appeared in it. He still knew about this movie. After all, Yang Ming was not very popular among young people.

Blow!

This movie was officially premiered on the first day of the Lunar New Year! Moreover, Yang Ming directed and starred in it. In Xiao Huang's plan, he wanted to take his girlfriend to watch this movie during the Chinese New Year.

Romance movies are the favorites of couples!

When he saw the two small words "Buy Tickets" under the movie "Those Years" on his mobile phone, he couldn't help but click in, 'Donghai Cinema (Yingbin South Road Branch)', and continued to click, 'February

Show on the 12th'!

Below is a list of movie show times. Xiao Huang thought about it in his mind and clicked on the option of 'select seats and buy tickets' after the time period is 13:50.

Xiao Huang saw the screen that appeared after clicking on the option of 'select seats and buy tickets', and he suddenly became a little excited.

There are four icons: Optional, Selected, Sold, Couple Seat, and below the icon is a schematic diagram based on the seats in the real theater. The small squares inside represent the seats in the real theater.

It’s so advanced!

Oh, or the functions of this software are really awesome.

It was the first time for Xiao Huang to see this function. With excitement, he held his mobile phone and looked at the seat selection screen inside.

However, he saw that among the large blank seats inside, the two squares representing the best seats had turned red, which looked extremely dazzling among the large white squares. Comparing the icons above, Xiao Huang suddenly felt

He realized that someone had already booked the best seats before him.

When he thought of this, Xiao Huang immediately couldn't help it anymore and tapped his finger on the screen. After choosing two seats with better geographical location, he submitted the order and another interface popped up. Damn it, he hadn't registered yet.

Suddenly, he saw a line of small print above, which said members of Meituan.com and Shijiang.com could log in directly. Only then did he suddenly realize that these three companies must have the same owner.

Then Xiao Huang used his Meituan account and password to log in to the purchase interface.

He paid 18 yuan and received the text message, which was very smooth. In the past six months, he has used Meituan.com for group shopping many times, so he is naturally very familiar with this process.

What made him most happy was that after he bought the ticket, the Maoyan software popped up a self-service ticket collection prompt for him, which meant that members who purchased seats through Maoyan online could go directly to the movie hall to find one.

The machine collects tickets by itself, so there is no need to queue up at the front desk for verification before collecting tickets.

Xiao Huang read this prompt carefully and felt extremely excited. Today is almost a week away from the Chinese New Year, and this movie premiered on the first day of the new year. He still needs to wait at least a week to experience this.

Function.

He is looking forward to this very much!

At this moment, the same process as Xiao Huang is happening all over China. Out of curiosity, download the software, or directly select seats through Meituan.com and Shijiang.com, pay, and get verification codes and self-service ticket collection prompts.

You can choose seats and buy tickets online without queuing up to pick up tickets by yourself. When these two functions appeared in front of all netizens, they almost blinded everyone.

Regardless of whether you like watching movies or not, or whether you like Yang Ming's movies or not, anyone with a little bit of curiosity can't help but download the Maoyan software and try it out.

As soon as they experienced it, many people couldn't help but pay 18 yuan to select seats and buy tickets online for the movie "The Girl We Chased Together in Those Years".

The white squares representing seats in the mobile phone software turned red at a very fast speed. When 11 o'clock in the evening arrived, the mobile phone seat diagrams for all the performances of "Those Years" starting from 10:30 on February 12 were overwhelmingly

Most have turned red.

Even in some places, the seats in the prime time period of Donghai Cinema have all turned red, which means that the movie tickets for this show have been sold out.

The next day, after Oriental DreamWorks announced the first-day pre-sale box office of "Those Years", everyone was shocked.
Chapter completed!