Hollywood Domination Chapter 353: Global box office champion

"Isn't it?" Standing at the door of the ticket office, Carrie Motland couldn't help crying, "It's already January, why are the tickets still selling so well? ——Are you sure there are no tickets in the middle?" Is there an empty seat?"

"Sorry, kid, but if you can accept the show the day after tomorrow morning, I still have the golden seat No. 20 in row 6." The big white man sitting in the ticket booth shrugged and said sympathetically, " I can also give you a coupon for popcorn and Coke."

"But the day after tomorrow is Monday!" Kerry said excitedly, and then put on a polite thank you tone, "I mean, thank you, but that's when we have classes."

"I'm sorry," said the conductor, "—hey, it's better to take the voucher and discuss it with your girlfriend. If you can accept the marginal position, I still have a few tickets here, but You have to decide quickly."

Gripping up the colorful coupons, Kerry walked towards his girlfriend in frustration, intending to tell her the bad news, while a few young people standing aside and chatting—of course, judging from their clothes , should already be a member of the society, so he chatted with him curiously.

"Why don't you buy tickets online? Fandango is doing an event, and the imax hall of this theater seems to be participating, and the ticket price can be cheaper-of course, there is no popcorn and coke, but I don't think it's too much Big question." A friendly chubby geek asked, pointing to Carrie's Monroe T-shirt with a smile, "By the way, I have one too."

"Yes, we know, but we need to grab the discount tickets for imax. We will run out of tickets when we get home from class. My parents don't know computers, so they can't help." Kerry hung his shoulders, "We can't let Shall we skip class for this?—Maybe come back next week, and we should be able to buy a good position by then."

"Last week, there must have been a lot of people who thought the same as you," a pretty girl next to the geek interjected, "but now imax is still very popular-is it your and your friend's mobile phone? If so, I know An app that can also directly inquire and buy movie tickets, and can also choose imax seats online, are you interested?"

"Really?" Kerry said in surprise, and he quickly opened up the chatterbox without any defensiveness, "Tell me the name-oh my god, that's what we thought last week, wait until next week Come here to buy tickets, but imax can only buy vouchers on fandango, and there is no way to guarantee seats, and Molly and I just want to watch another show in a good seat, you know, we have seen ordinary 3D, we must come to imax Watch it once - but it's the fourth week, tickets are still so hard to buy, I almost give up, but Jack said that the effect of imax is so good, you know, he got the best tickets and wants to invite Mo Li went with him—"

After the eloquent narration, Kerry closed his mouth, feeling a little embarrassed, but these big boys and girls didn't seem to care too much. Instead, they looked at each other and laughed tacitly.

"Then you should sign up for this app and go make Molly proud. In high school, there are not many girls who won't betray you for a difficult ticket," the beautiful girl laughed and took Kerry's mobile phone found his name in re, "You won't regret it, this is the third time we've watched imax, the effect is so good that it explodes, the 3D feeling is so real, you seem to be real It’s like going to an alien planet once.”

Although part of it was for his girlfriend, Kerry still widened his eyes expectantly when he heard such a guarantee, "Thank you, thank you——if you need this coupon——"

"A suggestion to you, ask Molly if she is interested in "Sherlock Holmes", you can watch "Avatar" next week, but don't waste a date, so the voucher will come in handy. "The tall and thin boy who had been silent before said, "I wish you luck."

"Thank you, thank you." Kerry took back the phone and said repeatedly, he glanced at the screen of the phone, "Well, tikt—the name and icon are cool!"

Seeing Carrie, who was buried in her mobile phone, slowly walking back to Molly who was queuing at the dessert station, Jon teased Charles a little excitedly, "Did you hear that, he said that the name is very cute?" Cool! ——I really think you should hire someone to distribute leaflets in theaters, especially now is a great opportunity, grabbing the selling point of imax that you can choose seats, your app will become popular in a blink of an eye, isn’t it?”

Charles, who has been trying to make a comprehensive ticket-grabbing software, spread his hands helplessly, "You know, this is just an experimental work on our whim, and it has just been launched for testing. Who would have thought that "Avatar" would become such a hit? ? In the fifth week, buying tickets for imax is still a problem.”

"To be fair, tickets are already available now, unlike previous weeks, when the theaters were almost full on weekends, so the demand for tickets is not so strong-but the students are not only interested They are price-sensitive and more sensitive to experience than adults. Most adults have realized that buying tickets online is more meaningful for imax before they get used to checking in. You know, it’s like fandango, when you When watching ordinary movies, it doesn’t really matter whether you buy tickets online or in the cinema. If you want a good seat, you have to come early and line up to enter the venue. You look like us. Unless it’s a midnight show, we basically don’t make reservations, but imax does. It's different, it must be seated according to the number, and fandango will also provide some discounts-it just can't choose seats, and it doesn't support mobile phone purchases for the time being, this is the core competitiveness of tikt, you should carry out promotion work on campus, students It perfectly matches your user group, which is much more suitable than finding someone to hand out leaflets at the entrance of the theater."

"That's right," Jon laughed. "If it's released in theaters, it's possible that the security guards will ask you to leave—by the way, Charles, did yesterday's overseas box office come out? How much has it reached globally now?"

"The world is already 1.82 billion, either today or tomorrow, it should be able to surpass "Titanic", "Charles, who was still planning quietly just now, diverted his attention a little excitedly, "I hope to be able to win at the Golden Globe Awards Before becoming the global champion-although we may not get the best film, but in that case, we are still the uncrowned kings.”

"Avatar" successfully turned him and Harry into Jennifer's heavy fans again, but this time, they were not impressed by her performance, but by Jennifer's accurate prediction ability and super investment I was overwhelmed by his eyes. If before this, Charles’s love for Jennifer was still a bit of a man’s taste for women, then now, he has a kind of worship mentality for Jennifer, whether it is the magical special effects of "Avatar" or it. They were astonished and proud of the amazing box office.

"Will the Golden Globes be tomorrow night? Then you have to make a breakthrough today so that the news can be published before the awards ceremony tomorrow." Harry also frowned and began to calculate. For the great people he admired, men have everything. This kind of mentality is to hope that they will be as legendary as possible, and it is best that they are so majestic that the whole audience will worship them. "Oh, is it time to enter - let's go."

"I heard that they have to be watched by people at the entrance of the movie theater during the day, especially the movie theater where "Avatar" is shown-even a lot of homeless people come in, buy the cheapest ticket, and want to Get into the movie theater and watch a show."

"How do you see without 3D glasses?"

"Yeah, so it's just a rumour, but it's true that everyone I know is asking if I can get tickets to imax, and I gotta say, if I'd known this, I'd have bought it sooner Bet on imax stock—it’s been up for a month.”

"Haha, here are the people who bought stocks after watching the midnight market—" Jon said happily, "imax, Focus, all bought as soon as the market opened on Friday, and I have already earned a car It's—"

She touched Charles, "What's the matter? Have you seen anyone you know?"

"Oh," Charles, who turned around before and searched for the crowd in the IMAX hall, turned his head and shrugged, "It's nothing, I seem to see a familiar face just now, I seem to have seen it somewhere, but I didn’t think of it—hey, I’m talking about you—"

"Hi, buddy." A hunched man came up behind them, and he raised his hand to greet Charles, "We're all J.J fans, aren't we? I think I've seen you at a meet and greet before. "

"Ah... that's right! At a screening - I wanted to sit with you at the time, we were the only boys among the girls in the room, weren't we?" Charles said enthusiastically and curiously I gave him a serious look, "So, you just came out of the show, and then——"

Showing up the tickets in his hand, 'Humpback' smiled shyly, "I bought four games in a row, but they didn't let me stay in the hall, so I had to come out once for each game. Give glasses back—kind of silly, isn't it?"

Buy four games in a row!

... Jon and Charles, who have always claimed to be core fans, are a little ashamed. Seeing the hunched back, this is obviously not the first time to see it. Maybe they come here every weekend. It's just for the third time.

"Looks like you really like j.j." Charles said with a smile, "Oh, here's the ticket--"

After entering the arena, they naturally separated from the hunchback, and took their respective seats—Jon looked at the hunchback sitting a few rows in front of them and stuck out his tongue, "Four games! He must love j.j very much."

"The strange thing is, I remember that he didn't seem to have a hunchback when we met last time..." Charles said with some doubts, but he quickly put down the topic, "Guess who will the best movie tomorrow belong to?" ?—I think it’s really hard to say.”

"Actually, "Avatar" doesn't have a high chance of winning. After all, they haven't won the Sentinel Award for best film so far. Of course, they have won a lot of technology awards."

"That's because the film will only be released in December, and the association awards will start to be awarded in December, right? Generally speaking, the effort is still in the second half, but if the Golden Globes can't win the best film, the Oscar There must be no play."

"Didn't Catherine's "The Hurt Locker" win the Best Film Award from the Radio Film Critics Association a few days ago?"

""Millionaire" may also have a certain chance of winning. They just won several awards from the New York Film Critics Association."

"I want to know if j.j will go, she won the Golden Ball last year, so it should be impossible not to come?"

"It's hard to say, didn't she just return to New Zealand?"

"She should come, this is the Golden Globes after all, but I don't know if Cesare will come, have you watched tmz? He went to New York again, I don't know about Disney's acquisition of Marvel Does it matter?"

"Is Marvel in New York?"

"Marvel's headquarters is in New York, and tmz said that he seems to have gone there because of the Disney matter-j.j seems to be a shareholder of Marvel, he has to deal with related paperwork, I don't know. "

"Oh? Really? Then j.j is going to become a shareholder of Disney now?"

"Shh, the movie is starting."

For those who know the movements of Jennifer and his wife best in the world (now Harry and Charles are more enthusiastic than Jon), the long commercials before the movie started flew away in the chat, and soon, the imax movie appeared on the movie Mark, the noisy movie theater suddenly fell silent - but there were still low humming, chewing and snorting of Coke.

However, five minutes later, the huge imax hall was completely silent, whether it was chatting, eating or drinking, seemed to have been forgotten by the audience, only the excited and depressed children who did not know how to restrain themselves low shout.

"Wow - cool - this is absolutely amazing -"

Just as Jon hoped, on January 17, the box office of "Avatar", which will be released for one month, reached 1.86 billion (excluding areas that were not counted in time), breaking through the 1.845 billion of "Titanic" and becoming the largest box office in history. The global box office champion, this news was released at noon on January 18, and instantly captured the headlines of major websites, and it also provided an excellent gimmick for the Golden Globe Awards ceremony to be held tonight: "I am really confident that I will win the grand prize, but everyone knows that tonight's Golden Globe Awards must be the crew of "Avatar", and the core characters in the audience, except for James Cameron and Jennifer. Apart from Jefferson, of course, I don't want to be a third person!