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In the summer of 1979, a high-level meeting was underway at Paramount headquarters in Hollywood, Los Angeles.

“This summer, the situation is not optimistic.”

"Warner Bros. has already taken advantage of today's advanced filmmaking technology to make a Superman movie first. They used this technology last year and caught us off guard."

The head of Paramount said this with a serious expression, and the other executives all had complicated expressions when they heard it.

During last year's Christmas season, no one expected that Warner Bros. would suddenly rise after being silent for so many years.

They quietly obtained the film and television rights to Superman and quickly found a special effects company to co-shoot the film.

Before the movie was released, the four giants, Paramount, 20th Century Fox, Universal Pictures and MGM, did not take Warner Bros.' Superman movie seriously.

Only after the movie was released did they realize how wrong they were.

This movie has a lot of big scenes, and it can be seen that Warner Bros. is really going all out this time and has invested a lot of money to make this movie.

After Superman was released, the box office took off.

Although the cinema giants have all been acquired by Zhao Mancang, in recent years, Zhao Mancang's focus has not been on Sam's Club.

So these big bosses followed what their boss Zhao Mancang had said before and tried to deviate from the Paramount Big Four as much as possible, but occasionally they also needed to make some money for film companies such as Warner Bros.

After all, movie theaters are for profit, not to provide a guarantee for the four giants like Paramount.

If the four giants like Paramount feed the audience shit and make terrible movies, there is definitely no need for cinemas to schedule so many screenings for them.

So in this context, cinemas still give priority to scheduling Superman movies.

As we all know, in the cultural industry and entertainment sector, the top movies will siphon off the box office revenue of the second-ranked and lower-ranked movies, and everyone's attention will be focused on the top movie, Superman.

Therefore, even if the Superman movie did not break the box office record in film history, the biggest winner of the entire Christmas season was the Superman movie.

The four Paramount giants who were attacked were of course very unhappy.

So this year, they vowed to snipe Warner Bros.' Batman movie.

The movie Paramount released this year is the science fiction movie "ET 2: The Extra-Terrestrial", which is a sequel.

The first movie was released in the summer of 1971, which is seven or eight years ago.

In addition to "ET 2: The Extra-Terrestrial", Paramount has also prepared the movie "The Emperor and the Beggars" for this summer's summer season.

As a Hollywood film giant, Paramount owns a large number of film series, whether they are science fiction films, fantasy films, or historical films, they have them all.

For example, they have been shooting historical series: "The Great Qin Empire", "The Rise of All Nations" and other movies, these are all Chinese history.

The movie "Beggar Emperor" tells the story of Zhu Yuanzhang.

In fact, many movies about Zhu Yuanzhang have been made over the years, but this time Paramount analyzes the character of Zhu Yuanzhang from a different angle.

The film was not shot in Los Angeles, but at the Yuwan Film and Television Base in Beijiang City.

In Yuwan Town, the city of Beijiang, it has been built into the largest film and television base in China and even in the world.

There are a large number of palaces, buildings, ordinary city neighborhoods, etc. from ancient Chinese feudal dynasties, all of which are completely copied according to historical books at a one-to-one ratio.

In addition to buildings, there are also many folk customs such as ancient clothing and jewelry, all of which have been carefully studied.

To this end, several universities, including Beijiang University, have established history departments dedicated to the study of ancient Chinese history, especially those related to folk culture, official history, and unofficial history.

Because Zhao Mancang has begun to promote the Hanfu business in Beijiang City.

The real success is to make the Hanfu business in Beijiang City flourish, to make the clothing wholesale city in Beijiang City really popular, and to make clothing merchants from all over the country and even the world come here to purchase goods.

Also because of the strong support of the City of Beijiang, "The Beggar Emperor" will be Paramount's trump card.

However, whether "Beggar Emperor" can be a big hit at the box office depends on the market's reaction.

On July 5, 1979, the summer movie season officially kicked off in Los Angeles.

The first two companies to release the film were Sony Columbia and MGM, with the former still preparing the monster movie Godzilla.

This time they have fully absorbed the lessons learned from previous experiences, so they are very well prepared, and they are also very much looking forward to the box office performance of this movie.

The movie that MGM came up with was "Skull Island", which was also a monster movie and a special effects movie.

It is obvious that the plot of the movie "Skull Island" is more complete and the special effects are more amazing.

So on the first day of release, there was not much difference in the box office of the two movies, but starting from the second day, the box office was different.

On the second day, the box office of the movie Godzilla stabilized and even showed a slight downward trend.

The special effects of this movie are okay, but the plot is a major flaw. It's the same old story over and over again, leaving the audience with nothing new.

On the other hand, "Skull Island" has very good special effects, a rich plot, and several big-breasted beauties with long, fair, and delicate legs. Not to mention those old perverts, even many female audiences are very envious.

It can be said that the movie "Skull Island" is precisely positioned and fully embodies what a high-quality movie is.

It was released from July 5th to July 8th, a total of four days in the first weekend, and Godzilla's box office was only 130 million US dollars, but Skull Island's box office had reached 520 million.

The two sides are not in the same league at all.

The next three days, the 9th, 10th and 11th, were working days, and Skull Island was still full of killing. Many people liked this movie very much and recommended it to their family and friends to watch.

This pushed the total box office of Skull Island to 790 million US dollars, nearly 800 million.

It can be said that at this point, the movie has already made a fortune.

Warner Bros.' Batman movie will be released on the 2th, and Paramount's sequel "ET the Extraterrestrial" will also be released on the same day.

For movie fans, movies like Godzilla, Skull Island, Batman, and ET the Extraterrestrial are all very good blockbusters, and this summer season will definitely be a feast for them.

But for Sony Columbia, the film was a flop.

Warner Bros. is also in a tough situation. With the box office hit Skull Island in front and the aliens ET eyeing them from behind, what should they do?
Just go ahead and do it!

The summer season is a battleground for all. Not only Warner Bros., but even the four giants like Paramount, don’t they fight over it every year?
Each of these four giants has very good movies, but didn’t they also come out to compete head-on?

However, the North American market in the past decade or so has been very different, with many movies having very high box office results.

This year in particular, while unemployment has fallen nationwide, inflation has skyrocketed, and movie ticket prices have soared to $10, with some even reaching $12. In short, inflation is horrific.

This is one of the reasons why the movie box office is so exaggerated.

Many young couples go out on a date to see a movie, and two movie tickets cost twenty US dollars, not to mention other expenses such as popcorn and cola.

So many people are crying out in pain that the price increases are too exaggerated.

Batman and ET the Extra-Terrestrial were released on the same day, but their first-day box office figures were different.

The former was $150 million, which was average, but the latter was $268 million, which scared Warner Bros.

From this day on, ET aliens seem to be entering a new chapter.

However, after four days of the first weekend, the box office of ET the Extraterrestrial was only fixed at 650 million US dollars, which was not very exaggerated.

After all, judging from the 268 million U.S. dollars in box office revenue on Thursday, the box office revenue for four days will definitely exceed 800 million.

The result was only 650 million.

Even so, Batman didn't fare well, because in the first four days of the weekend, Batman's box office was only 420 million US dollars.

There should be no problem in making money, but if you want to make more, that’s not the way.

Because on July 19th, a 20th Century Fox movie will also be released.

It can almost be said that the four giants of Hollywood have already occupied their respective schedules. They usually kill each other twice, but in the summer movie schedule, they will also unite to exclude other competitors.

From the current perspective, 20th Century Fox's movie "Jurassic World" is sure to be a big hit.

Dinosaur movies are the most successful monster movies in the world so far, no doubt about it.

Although compared to other monsters such as Skull Island and Godzilla, Earth creatures like dinosaurs are no match for monsters like Godzilla.

But the movies of both parties are not of the same genre, so there is nothing to compare.

And the box office is not even on the same level.

After all, the dinosaur movie itself is a series. After the end of the Jurassic Park trilogy, the Jurassic World pentalogy has also begun.

The box office of the series has exceeded 8 billion US dollars and is not far from breaking the 10 billion US dollar mark.

However, the box office is only a small part of the profit, and the real big part comes from dinosaur peripherals.

In China, the export value of dinosaur peripherals is at least 5 billion US dollars each year.

The global dinosaur peripheral market is worth at least $60 billion.

In addition, there is the dinosaur theme park on Hong Kong Island, which has also attracted global attention.

On July 19th, Jurassic World was released, and the box office directly broke this year's box office record, with the single-day box office soaring to 390 million US dollars. When everyone saw this data, they exclaimed that the wolf was coming.

so horrible!

Many people exclaimed that it was unbelievable.

But this movie is going to kill you like crazy.

The single-day box office of the three movies "Skull Island", "Batman" and "ET the Extra-Terrestrial" has dropped to only tens of millions of US dollars, and even "Batman" only has more than 10 million US dollars, and it is not far from being withdrawn from the theaters.

Godzilla was even more decisive, having been pulled from theaters by many cinemas due to poor box office performance and pitifully low attendance.

There are only about one or two hundred movie theaters in the United States that still show Godzilla, but what's the point?
Now that the movie is off the shelves, there’s naturally nothing much to say about the box office.

Zhao Mancang, who was far away in the city of Beijiang, was also slightly surprised when he received the box office results from the three film giants: Paramount, 20th Century Fox, and MGM.

This was 1979, and Europe and the United States were experiencing the worst economic crisis since World War II. Inflation remained high, unemployment rates continued to soar, and all industries were not doing well.

Only the film and entertainment industry is exceptionally prosperous. Wow, is it because of the economic crisis?

There really is no one left!

Hollywood movies are a global hit, and the city of Beijiang is also getting busy.

Especially after August, when "The Beggar Emperor" was released, Hanfu suddenly became popular for some reason.

The popularity of Hanfu has made the city of Beijiang even busier.

The ground staff working at Meiziba Airport can clearly feel that the passenger flow has increased a lot, and a large proportion of them are foreigners.

The popularity of the movie can indeed drive some industries.

In the past two years, the city of Beijiang has frequently appeared in everyone's sight, especially for audiences who often go to the cinema to watch movies, they will often see words such as Yuwan Film and Television Base.

"Aren't they saying foreigners are going through an economic crisis? Why are so many people still coming here to travel?"

In the conference room of the municipal government office hall, office director Li Dawei asked in confusion.

Zhao Mancang, who was sitting on the other side, smiled softly but did not explain.

This question is so magical that even people who understand the laws of economic operation may not be able to figure it out clearly.

In an era of economic crisis, it stands to reason that all industries are not doing well, but there are always some industries that go against the trend.

For example, the current economic crisis was actually a man-made oil crisis, which led to the subsequent economic crisis, causing a chain reaction in major economies around the world.

Take Sam for example, this country is huge and is currently the largest economy on the planet.

For Sam, the economic crisis will only affect some poor middle and lower classes, and will not have much impact on most other people.

They can even make a lot of money.

Take those people who speculate in finance and stocks, those fat-headed capitalists on Wall Street, which one of them didn’t know in advance that the oil crisis would break out and start preparing in advance?

Even if they are not prepared in advance, they will start working as soon as the war breaks out in the Middle East.

Buy low and sell high—isn't that the trick Wall Street financiers use? (End of this chapter)