Urban Sims

Chapter 530 Amazing box office
A few years later, what would the critics who talked about the movie "Seven Swords Down the Mountain Fighting Evil Demons" or the audience who watched the movie think about this movie?
bad movie.

Undoubtedly a bad movie.

The disadvantages can be said a lot.

For example, the layout of the scene is simple, the props are extremely rough, the acting skills of the actors are poor, all kinds of goofs fall out, and the plot is embarrassing.

In short, this is a bad movie that will make future audiences feel full of urine and can't accept it.

However, once the film came out, the sensational effect caused will be talked about in the next 100 years, and it is believed that this film has created an era.

An era of cultural prosperity.

In the history of the development of the film industry, this is a beginning and a tall milestone.

All films of later generations, whether it is lines, plots, storyboards, or story rhythms, can more or less see the shadow of "Seven Swords Down the Mountain Fighting Evil Demons".

Under the background at that time, this movie was a legend that created history, and it was a classic that countless works imitated and paid homage to!

So, what is the story of "Seven Swords Down the Mountain Fighting Demons"?
It is said that a long, long time ago, evil cultivators were rampant in the world. There lived an immortal on a mountain named "Kunlun". The immortal adopted seven highly talented disciples. So he sent seven disciples down the mountain to kill evil and demons and protect the safety of mortals.

Because the seven disciples are good at using swords, they are called "Seven Swords".

After Seven Swords went down the mountain, they quickly fought against all kinds of powerful evil cultivators, but none of them were opponents of Seven Swords. With three sword strikes, he tried his best to kill the devil finally, sweeping away the turbid energy in the world, and returning the righteous energy to his place.

At the end of the movie, the ashes of the three swords and the four swords are frozen, and they return to Kunlun under the desolate sunset... It is a long aftertaste.

Just speaking from the script and story, this movie is indeed very exciting, and I can't fault it too much.

It is also because of this that when Zhou Ming held this movie for the premiere in the Jinmu Department, it caused a great stir.

Even the actors who participated in the filming all opened their eyes wide in disbelief.

Muttering to himself: Is this the story they filmed?
"Wonderful, it's really wonderful!" Some students watched with enthusiasm and applauded desperately!
"Those evil cultivators are really hateful, they should be killed, they should all be killed!" There were also students who had a strong sense of substitution, hated the evil cultivators in the movie, and gritted their teeth.

"Woooooo~ Sijian's death is too tragic, woooooo, I don't want them to die!" Many girls burst into tears, feeling very sad for Sijian's tragic sacrifice.

"In the future, I will also become a person like Seven Swords, learn high-strength martial arts, and rid the world of evil spirits!"

"Student Chen En, your performance of Sun Moon Sword is really brilliant, I admire you so much, please sign me."

"Student Zhang Yu, can I make friends with you? I really like the girl Yuan Ying played by you. Can we invite you to dinner?" Several female students walked up to Zhang Yu, very shy Zhang Yu was quite flattered when he proposed to make friends with her. He smiled and said yes, and several female students jumped up happily.

All the actors, even the ones playing the big villains, have gained a large number of fans, and there are several to dozens of people around each of them, asking for autographs or making friends, and each of them has become a big star.

Dudu Zhou Ming, the chief director who completed the script, props, shooting, post-editing, etc., was forgotten in the corner.

Since he was not involved in the show, there was no one other than him who was qualified for the position of "director".

So even if he had the urge to go up and perform, he still had to stay in front of the camera.

However, he was not depressed, on the contrary he was very relieved.

Be confident!

Only from the extraordinary performance of this premiere held in the Jinmu Department, we can draw a conclusion: the movie "Seven Swords Down the Mountain Fighting Demons" will definitely be a big success!
So he expanded the scope of film screenings.

He held three consecutive large-scale screenings in the academy's largest indoor auditorium that can accommodate [-] people.

Due to the lack of publicity in the first session, only [-] students entered the venue.

During the second screening the next day, the school auditorium was full, with more than [-] people crammed in, fully doubled.

During the third screening, the auditorium had to restrict students from entering, because more than 1 students who missed the first two screenings waited inside without food or drink for 24 hours, resulting in a maximum of 8000 people.

In the academy, "Seven Swords Down the Mountain to Fight Evil Demons" caused a huge sensation, and even attracted the attention of the leaders and professors of the academy. These leaders and professors also got hundreds of tickets and participated in the third screening.

"It's so wonderful, so beautiful!"

"This... is indescribable and incomparable. I have never seen such a story in my life."

"It's beautiful, it's beautiful!"

"That student made it? A genius, a genius!"

"Zhou Yuan, was Zhou Yuan invented again? From the Lingyuan wave telegram, to the Lingyuan typewriter, to this movie...he surprises us again and again!"

"Zhou Yuan, a student, not only has a very high level of cultivation, but also is an invention star of Daxian Academy. We Daxian Academy can only recruit such a genius in decades."

"This week, Zhou Yuan is the lucky star of our Daxian Academy. In the future, the academy will definitely be proud of him."

The leaders of the college spoke highly of it, praised him vigorously, and even added [-] college contribution points to him, to prevent it from happening, for fear that other colleges would snatch him away.

In addition, the commercial value of "movie" related equipment is also targeted by all businessmen with a keen sense of smell.

Every day, tens of hundreds of businessmen squatted at the door of Zhou Ming's residence, offering sky-high prices to buy his invention patents for film-related equipment.

A businessman offered 15 billion spiritual coins.

He was immediately suppressed by another businessman who offered 20 billion yuan.

"30 billion! 30 billion spiritual coins!"

"35 billion, to be paid in five years!"

"40 billion, paid in ten years!"

"50 billion, paid in 15 years!"

The highest bidder actually reached a jaw-dropping 50 billion!
Even Zhou Ming was surprised by the businessman's handwriting.

Speaking of invention patents for film-related equipment, are they really so valuable?

Not bad.

That's what it's worth.

Even if a businessman offered 100 billion to buy out the patent, Zhou Ming would not sell it.

Why?

Because making movies is so lucrative!
In fact, a few months before filming, Zhou Ming invested 5000 million Lingcoins. After buying a piece of land in the urban area, he asked the construction team to build a large indoor cinema with 1 seats. It can accommodate 2 moviegoers.

In the theater, there are also some drink and snack stalls, and the audience can eat snacks while watching the movie... This is also a major source of income.

After the completion of this theater at the end of May, the first movie "Seven Swords Down the Mountain Fighting Evil Demons" in the history of Wancheng Kingdom was moved to this theater for screening.

One screening every three hours, eight screenings per day.

As for the ticket price... 10 spirit coins per person, the price is not very expensive.

There is also an even better natural phenomenon: in many areas of the Lingyuan Continent, there is basically no night, and there are only a few dark days a year, and the rest are almost all daytime, so movies cannot be shown outdoors, and can only be watched indoors.

This means that large-scale piracy is unlikely to occur for many years to come.

If you want to watch a movie, you have to pay.

Because there are very few nights, people's work and rest time is not fixed, and there is no unified biological clock. The theater can operate continuously for 24 hours.

4500 million spirit coins.

In just one month, Zhou Ming earned so much with only one movie and one theater.

Some people may shout that this is impossible, because no matter how you calculate it, it is impossible to earn so much.

But there was no way, Zhou Ming did earn 4500 million, and basically earned back all the investment in building the cinema in one month.

"Seven Swords Down the Mountain Fighting Evil Demons" caused an unimaginable movie-watching frenzy in Zhenlin City. Not only were the venues full, they were even half-overloaded. The rated theater capacity of 1 people was often packed into 2 or 8000 people. [-] people.

Multiplied by the frequency of eight screenings per day, as well as the income from snacks and drinks... a monthly income of 4500 million spirit coins created a profit myth.

And this movie-watching boom will last at least for a long time.

Because of the movie "Seven Swords", many viewers never get tired of watching it. Three, four, and five shots are very common, and ten and twenty shots are not uncommon. The population of Zhenlin City exceeds 2000 million. Watching the movie once, that is the box office of [-] million spirit coins.

How about extending it to the entire Wancheng country?
It was unimaginable.

Therefore, Zhou Ming still holds the film patents in his own hands, and he is reluctant to sell them.

Then find a college to cooperate, he provides technology, accounting for 50% of the shares, and the college provides factory construction funds and talent support, as well as patent protection and long-term management, accounting for the other 50% of the shares.

The two sides have cooperated strongly to develop the film and cultural industry with all their strength.

At this time, it is estimated that someone will complain about Zhou Ming's stupidity. He actually distributed half of the patents worth tens of trillions to the college. Is there something wrong with his mind?

In fact, any product involving huge interests, if it is not protected by a strong organization, will only invite disaster if it is held in the hands of a strong organization. It will either be forcibly taken away or maliciously copy... Can't live with packs of wolves, tigers and leopards.

Only by seeking the cooperation of strong institutions can the interests be well protected.

Moreover, he only needs to provide technology, production, management, rights protection and other aspects, he does not need to bother.

So when Zhou Ming proposed the cooperation intention, the college leaders were overjoyed and immediately signed a cooperation agreement.

In addition, those friends and classmates who participated in the filming of the movie "Seven Swords", Zhou Ming did not forget, took out 3000 million Lingcoins from the box office revenue, and rewarded each of them with 100 million in the name of "remuneration", calling them all Surprised, they declined one after another.

In the end, Zhou Ming let them accept it, because compared with the total box office of "Seven Swords" that exceeded tens of billions of spiritual coins a few years later, a mere million is really a drop in the bucket, not worth mentioning.

(End of this chapter)