Reborn Action Star: Starting in Hollywood

"What's the price of the movie ticket?" asked GAKKI.

"Let's set the price at $25 for North America and Europe, and other regions will adjust according to this benchmark." Lin Yuan thought for a moment and replied.

Upon hearing the amount, GAKKI-chan and Charlize were stunned for a moment, but they quickly accepted the price.

Under normal circumstances, the price of movie tickets in North America is 8 to 10 US dollars.

Lin Yuan's films have always been priced higher, around $15.

Due to special reasons, the price of "King of Spy Wars" was set at US$20, which also became the one with the highest ticket price among all Lin Yuan's movies.

But now it seems to be broken by "Lord of Spy Wars 2".

Such high ticket prices are even three times the price of many movies.

The fact that he dared to set such a high price shows how confident Lin Yuan is.

If other film companies pre-sold movie tickets like he did, they would be happy as long as there were fans willing to buy them, and would even promote them with low prices and discounts.

It is hard to imagine that someone like Lin Yuan would pre-sell at such a high price.

"Do you want to prepare a contingency plan?" Charlize teased with a smile, looking like she was there to watch the fun.

Plan?

Of course, it means that if the pre-sale results are not ideal, whether to consider price reduction and promotion and other plans.

But it is obvious that Charlize was joking. If the pre-sale amount is really not ideal, then the so-called price reduction promotion and other plans will be of no use at all.

It is human nature to like to join in the fun, to admire the strong, to like to add icing on the cake rather than to help in times of need.

If the pre-sales of "Lord of Spy V: The Last Airbender" are not ideal, there will immediately be a lot of voices questioning the film. Will we then reduce the price and promote it?

Not only will it have no effect, but it will also ruin the situation.

For Lin Yuan, this pre-sale is a stake in his entire reputation over the years, and he absolutely cannot afford to lose it.

Once the pre-sale starts, satisfactory results must be achieved, otherwise his speeding chariot may get out of control.

Lin Yuan smiled and said, "A contingency plan? Is it about preparing for exceeding expectations and how to celebrate?"

"Are you so confident? Are you not worried about the pre-sale results at all?" In Charlize's eyes, Lin Yuan, who was full of confidence at this moment, was so charming.

If she hadn't considered GAKKI-chan standing beside her, she would have sat down in Lin Yuan's arms.

"Of course we are confident, but one thing is very important, that is, we must prepare high-quality promotional videos before pre-sales begin," said Lin Yuan.

This is a must. If pre-sales start before the movie is even finished, there should at least be enough promotional videos, right?

Otherwise, the way you eat would be too ugly.

Of course, even if the way they eat is a little ugly, movie fans will probably still pay for it.

From the popularity of the petition, it can be seen that countless movie fans can't wait to pay for tickets based on the information currently disclosed.

However, Lin Yuan still insisted on making a high-quality promotional video so as to encourage more fans to pre-order in advance.

"Promotional video? That might be a problem. It's probably not that easy to produce a complete set of promotional videos in a short period of time." GAKKI replied.

According to normal promotional practices, a movie will have 5 to 7 promotional videos before it is released, which will extract exciting clips from different angles to attract the audience's attention.

If it is a big production, there may even be more than 10 promotional videos.

This series of promotional videos, from production to advertising placement, is a huge task.

If pre-sales cannot begin until this part of the work is completed, the start time of pre-sales will inevitably be significantly delayed.

The audience's enthusiasm is currently high, and it would be obviously disadvantageous to delay the start of pre-sales for too long.

Therefore, if you want to start pre-sales, you have to be quick, but even making two or three trailers is quite difficult.

That’s because the filming of "King of Spy V: The Last Airbender" has not been completed yet, director Coen has not started editing, and has not intervened in the post-production.

In other words, the production of a promotional video for "Lord of Spy 2" is currently stuck at the material level.

What to do?
"Don't worry, Director Cohen can handle the promotional video issue." Lin Yuan replied.

"Director Cohen?" GAKKI and Charlize were both stunned.

Director Cohen will definitely participate in the production of the promotional video, but can he solve this problem?
"Just wait and see, it will be fine."

……

……

In Yanjing, Liu Yufei's three-story villa.

It was already ten o'clock in the evening. Liu Yufei, who had been busy all day, walked to the floor-to-ceiling window after taking a shower.

In late spring and early summer, flowers are in full bloom, and the flowers and plants in the yard emit a refreshing fragrance, which makes her feel particularly at ease.

This villa was bought a few years ago and seems too "simple" by today's wealth standards.

But Liu Yufei particularly likes this small villa because all the scenery in the yard was designed by her herself, and she was also deeply involved in the decoration of every room in the house.

At that time, she was not busy and had plenty of time. She regarded this place as her future home with Lin Yuan, and poured a lot of effort into building it.

It is obvious that she no longer has so much time now, which further highlights the value of this villa.

Liu Yufei sat down on a pink cushion in front of the floor-to-ceiling window. This was Lin Yuan's favorite seat every time he returned to Yanjing, and it also became Liu Yufei's favorite seat.

Looking into the house from here, the kitchen is right in front of her. Lin Yuan likes to cook for her himself, and she always sits here watching Lin Yuan busy. The man who cooks is so handsome!

Looking out from here, I can see a bluestone path, a fish pond made of black stones, and flowers swaying in the wind...

It was extremely quiet outside the house, but Liu Yufei knew that just outside the high wall of the yard, there was a security team that was guarding her in shifts 24 hours a day.

Although the public security in Yanjing is absolutely impeccable and there is almost no possibility of any accidents, the cautious Lin Yuan still insisted on equipping Liu Yufei with such a security team.

Liu Yufei was full of worries about Lin Yuan's actions.

What she was worried about was naturally not her own safety, but Lin Yuan.

Lin Yuan's caution reflects the increasing pressure he is under in North America at the moment.

A few years ago, Lin Yuan had never thought about security.

Even though he and Betty were forced into a desperate situation by MGM CEO Mills due to the release of "The King's Avatar" and suffered their first assassination attempt in their lives, Lin Yuan did not take it too seriously.

Because at that time, he knew that the assassination was just an accident and not a normal occurrence.

But when the time came to this year, everything changed.

Lin Yuan has encountered dangers and calculations outside of filming many times, which means that as his career rises, the interests involved are also getting bigger and bigger.

The temptation for many of his enemies to try to physically eliminate him was too strong, out of desperation.

Worry, there is really no way not to worry.

Liu Yufei shook her head and cleared these worries from her mind. All she could do was to protect Lin Yuan, her most important asset.

As Lin Yuan’s official girlfriend, she is very clear about how much Lin Yuan values ​​these domestic industries.

Perhaps from an outsider's perspective, one would think that Lin Yuan's focus is on Europe and the United States.

But Liu Yufei knew that Lin Yuan’s real focus was in the country.

In recent years, financing through the Linyuan Pictures platform has been continuously flowing into the country.

After all, Linyuan Pictures’ own revenue-generating capabilities are so strong that it can be called a cash cow.

If it weren't for the purpose of sharing profits and winning over allies, Linyuan Pictures itself would not actually need so much financing. After all, every movie it shoots sells well and it has no shortage of money.

However, Linyuan still raised tens of billions of dollars in financing, and even went private this year and re-listed after restructuring.

Such a huge amount of financing poured into Linyuan Pictures, and then he injected it into China in the form of investment.

This makes Lin Yuan's domestic asset layout like an iceberg.

It may not seem very impressive from the surface, but the huge assets underwater are beyond anyone's imagination.

It can be said that Lin Yuan handed over most of his wealth to Liu Yufei.

In Liu Yufei's view, as long as she can help Lin Yuan protect this asset, then even if one day in the future Lin Yuan encounters a Waterloo in North America, he can calmly retreat back to China.

When Liu Yufei thought of the guy far away in New York, lying in the arms of countless beauties pretending to be sick and recovering from his injuries, her fists unconsciously hardened.

"Recuperating? By the way, today seems to be the pre-sale opening day for "The King of Spy 2"? " Liu Yufei suddenly remembered this.

She was so busy, from morning to night every day, with countless things waiting for her to deal with, that she almost forgot about this matter.

So Liu Yufei got up, ran up to the second floor with her bare white feet, and turned on the computer in the study.

She skillfully entered the official website of Linyuan Pictures.

On the most eye-catching homepage of the official website, there is a huge red title:

Pre-sale entrance for "Lord of Spy 2" and "Legendary Road"!
There is a countdown below: 00:12:57.

There are 12 minutes and 57 seconds left until the pre-sale starts. There is no need to say much about "Lord of Spy Wars 2". "Legendary Road" is a documentary about the filming of "Lord of Spy Wars 2".

Liu Yufei didn't expect that even this documentary was included in the pre-sale.

This made her full of expectations. If the two films were pre-sold together, would they be able to complement each other and push up the pre-sale amounts?
In fact, Liu Yufei also had doubts about this.

If these two films were officially released at the same time, then she would have absolutely no doubt that they would definitely promote each other.

After watching the wonderful "Lord of Spy V: Covenant", the audience will definitely feel unsatisfied and want to know how such a shocking movie was made. They also have a strong desire to communicate, wanting to communicate with other fans and the crew members, even if it is remote.

Under such circumstances, Liu Yufei believes that there must be many viewers who will buy tickets for "Legendary Road" to further satisfy their immersive experience in "Lord of Spy Wars 2".

After watching "Legendary Road", the crew members will inevitably be moved by the hardships and difficulties of the filming process, and will like "Lord of Spy 2" even more, which will also encourage them to want to watch it more.

It is worth mentioning that "Legendary Road" is not just a documentary. Even if it is judged by the standards of a commercial film, it is also an extremely exciting movie.

Therefore, if "King of Spy 2" and "Legendary Road" are released at the same time, there will definitely be a chemical reaction effect.

But put them together for pre-sale?
Is this appropriate?

Normally, the best way to get the most out of pre-sales is to not give consumers choices or distractions.

Only one intersection is provided and only one product is sold, so the transaction rate will be the highest.

But the current situation is that the amount of information and decision-making costs faced by consumers have increased.

Liu Yufei knew that since Lin Yuan did this, he must have his reasons, so Liu Yufei prepared to click in to take a look.

Although it will take more than ten minutes to register and purchase pre-sale tickets, you can click on the pre-sale channel first.

"Click!"

Liu Yufei clicked the mouse and found that the page was constantly spinning and loading very slowly.

It took more than ten seconds to load only half of the page.

This made her feel confused: Is it because her internet connection is not good?
Impossible, she is using a dedicated network, so there is definitely no problem with the speed.

That’s Linyuan Film’s official website, isn’t it?
That's not true. When Linyuan Pictures' official website was first launched, it was overwhelmed by fans several times, and the server often crashed during that period.

Later, the server architecture was rewritten, load balancing was implemented, and sufficient server resources were configured.

It can be said that even the traffic impact of the Spring Festival travel rush can be withstood by Linyuan Pictures’ official website.

So why is it so stuck at this moment?

Then there is only one explanation, that is, the number of visits is really too large, even exceeding the domestic Spring Festival travel rush level!

Liu Yufei turned her head and looked at the wall clock. It was a little after 9 o'clock in the evening in Yanjing time, which corresponded to a little after 8 o'clock in the morning in New York, and two or three o'clock in the afternoon in Europe.

It cannot be said that these areas are all in the popular time periods for netizens to surf the Internet, but it is obviously not the middle of the night.

So, at this moment, movie fans from all over the world are crowding into this pre-sale channel?

Liu Yufei felt that she must have guessed it right.

Although she was just sitting in front of the computer at this time, she felt like she was surrounded by crowds of people and Lin Yuan fans everywhere.

Fortunately, the webpage finally loaded.

She saw the icons of the two films and the entrance to pre-sale tickets in the center of the page.

You can't click to buy tickets at this time, but you can see the amount:
"Lord of the Rings 2", pre-order price is $25.

"Legendary Road", pre-order price is $15.

Liu Yufei was not too surprised by the $2 price of "Lord of Spy Wars 25".

But is the $15 price tag for Legendary Road really justified?

Although Liu Yufei knew from Lin Yuan that "Legendary Road" was absolutely wonderful, in the eyes of outsiders, it was just a collection of movie highlights, and it was sold at a higher price than ordinary regular films. Would anyone really buy it?

Liu Yufei did not draw any conclusions, but continued browsing the webpage.

Below is a text introduction to the two videos. There is no need to explain much, as it is basic operation.

But soon a promotional video caught her eye.

Is there only one promotional video?

It seems a bit small. Are you confident that viewers will pay for pre-orders based on just this one video?

No, aren't there two movies? Why is there only one promotional video?

Liu Yufei took a closer look and found that it was a promotional video for "Legendary Road". "King of Spy 2", which was the main character, did not even have a promotional video.

This operation...

Liu Yufei clicked on the video out of curiosity. She believed that every fan who saw this page would have the same thought in their mind as she did:
"Lin Yuan, you're really taking advantage of us. Do you know that even if you don't show a promotional video, we'll still pay?"

The promotional video begins playing.

On the black background at the beginning, a string of white subtitles appeared:

"All the images you see next are real shots."

"If you have any questions while watching, please refer to the previous sentence."

These two short sentences immediately raised Liu Yufei's expectations.

Good job, emphasis on real shooting.

This means that all the following scenes are real events, and are not like the stories in movies, which have fictional elements.

So what kind of images are shown that will make the audience confused and doubt whether it was really filmed?

It must be amazing, right?
Then, the screen switches.

What appears before the audience is a vast expanse of white snow-capped mountains.

The holy steps are majestic, but also full of oppression.

The camera shook slightly, and a person's heavy breathing could be heard.

Obviously, this was a picture shot by a handheld camera. The person filming was stumbling forward in the snow, seemingly struggling.

In front and behind the person taking the photo, there were staff members walking with crutches, who were obviously members of the crew of "The King of Spy 2".

Just this short opening scene seems to take the audience to the top of the snow-capped mountains.

This kind of slightly rough handheld shooting would not be used in normal movies, but when used in documentaries, it has an exceptionally real feel.

At this time, a large number of barrages floated by.

At first, Liu Yufei was not used to this barrage function created at Lin Yuan's request, and felt that it affected her attention in watching the film.

But once you get used to interacting with others in the barrage, you will discover the beauty of the barrage.

For example, the comments from netizens at this moment made Liu Yufei nod in her heart.

"Is this a scene from the filming of a movie? It looks like it's on a snowy mountain. I remember The King of Spy 2 went to the Yala Snow Mountain, right? A huge snowy mountain thousands of meters above sea level!"

"The snow on the ground is so thick that the person walking in front has snow covering his ankles!"

"Look in the distance! The snow is even thicker! Is it true that there won't be an avalanche?"

The camera moves up, and far away from them, a figure is seen walking alone in front.

Although the distance was far, it was still possible to see that the man's steps were very agile and he didn't feel like he was struggling to move forward in the snow at all.

Liu Yufei recognized the man at a glance: Lin Yuan, who was very familiar to her.

At this time, several comments passed by:

"Lin Yuan! That's Lin Yuan!"

"Can you see this?"

"Can't you tell? It seems you're not a die-hard fan."

"Of course! I can tell, too. If you watch Lin Yuan's previous movies a few times, you'll know this is definitely Lin Yuan's figure!"

"Why didn't Lin Yuan stay with the photography crew? Why did he go to such a faraway place by himself?"

At this moment, a strange sound suddenly came from the screen.

The sound was like low thunder, giving people an extremely oppressive feeling of unease.

"Director, look there!" someone exclaimed in the picture.

At this moment, the handheld camera moved up hurriedly, and the shaking picture made people feel dizzy, but it perfectly reflected the panic of the photographer.

Above the forest source, a huge layer of snow collapsed from the middle like cracked land after a long drought, turning into a white mud and rock flow, roaring and sweeping towards the forest source.

"Run! Lin Yuan! Run!"

Meng Tao's heart-wrenching cry can be heard from the screen. (End of this chapter)