237. Magazine sales
"Nonsense, if you pay 50,000 US dollars for a movie review, I will praise your movie to the sky! By the way, Sue, how are you thinking about making the movie?" Frank said.
"If it is filmed, I hope that the script and director will be designated by me." Su Butong said.
"That's impossible, Su, this condition is too much, unless you invest in the movie yourself..." Frank said displeased on the other end of the phone.
"Frank, I attach great importance to this cooperation with Hollywood, but the story told in the Hollywood script is not the story I want to express." Su Butong said.
"What story do you want to tell? We have the most professional screenwriters here."
"We have received different cultural influences, and the stories written by American screenwriters will not be the same story," Su Butong said. "So I hope this is a Hollywood movie with Chinese elements."
Frank was a little irritated. He had never seen someone take himself so seriously. You haven't made a movie yet, why are you so awesome? Who knows you in the film industry? He just wanted to behave like a senior.
He wanted to teach Su Butong a lesson, but Su Butong ignored the remark. Instead, he asked: "What do you think of my previous voting idea?"
"I think it's better to vote by phone. It's faster to count."
"Frank, my friend, this is China, not the United States, and most people can't afford a phone," Su Butong said.
"Well, I hope you won't mess this up." Frank muttered. "Sue, maybe you are a business genius, but making a movie is not as easy as you think, especially from producer to director.
, you can't control every detail. Now is the best time for you to sign a movie contract, because everyone is interested in you..." Frank wanted to make one last effort to persuade this inexperienced young man.
"Frank, I know what I'm doing, and I'm not in a hurry to sell myself. Most people act in movies for money and fame. I do it to tell a Chinese story. The starting point is different, right?"
"Well, as long as you make money, I won't stop you from doing anything you want." Frank shook his head and said.
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When foreign games are released and domestic movies are released, the special edition of "Game Collection" is also released in July. As newspapers have reported before, the magazine published in the three months of July to September will have a full-page voting column.
, the voting column is divided into three categories - mainland singers, Hong Kong singers, and Taiwanese singers. There are more than 20 names to choose from in each column.
Voting will determine which star can participate in Michael Jackson's concert in China. The August and September magazines will also publish the results of the previous voting. If the top singer cannot come for some reason, the next-level singer will be invited
Ranked players.
For a time, paper was expensive in Luoyang.
"Game Collection" has become a popular magazine, making countless fans of the game collection extremely angry. They wonder which idiot came up with this decision. We want to read Zichuan, and we want to read games to enrich our souls!
Michael Jackson? Who is that?
Who are the stars here?
We want to watch the Zichuan show!
We want to see Di Lin!
Ever since, there was a scene at the post office that made people laugh and cry.
"I came first."
"I came first."
It is not uncommon for several people to grab a copy of "The Game Collection".
This situation made Hai Sheng helpless and called Su Butong: "Looking at the bad idea you gave, this is a good idea. Our magazine company's phone number keeps getting people saying that they can't buy the magazine."
"Add the seal." Su Butong said with a smile.
"How many more copies do you want to print?"
"3 million copies."
"Are you crazy? Print so many copies?" Hai said anxiously. The current sales volume of "Game Collection" remains at around 800,000 copies, which in his opinion is already top-notch.
"Then let's make 5 million copies." Su Butong thought for a while and said, "We will maintain this printing volume until December."
"The more you talk about it, the more enthusiastic you become, right?" Hai was very angry.
"We have also applied to the relevant departments to make the game collection a semi-monthly publication starting from August until the end of the year."
"We don't have that much content to do."
"That is to say, the content is separated. Now the game collection is an incubator, and we want to incubate the first comprehensive celebrity magazine."
"I understand what you mean, okay." Hai Sheng finally understood what Su Butong was thinking, "But if you can't sell it, all the money you lose will be yours."
Obviously Haisheng's imagination is still too poor. Haisheng is not star-chasing and doesn't know how charming celebrities are. How could a publication with the support of a heavyweight star like Michael Jackson fail to sell?
At the end of July, the 5 million copies of the magazine were sold out. It is said that many star-chasers from Taiwan and Hong Kong came to the mainland to buy game collections. Many people in Southeast Asia also asked relatives from the mainland to buy them.
This is the star effect. Su Butong accurately grasped the pulse of the times and stepped on people's psychological needs. Even the voting became the most eye-catching cultural event in mainland China in the second half of the year, causing many scholars to follow it.
researched.
What kind of era is this? Heartfelt, simple, with a bit of fierce idealism.
In the 1980s, people pursued knowledge and creation as obsessively as they did their first love. They regarded reading, exploration and thinking as the greatest joy in life, and they felt happy, romantic and happy.
When letters like snowflakes poured into the editorial office from all over the country, the editorial office deployed a large number of manpower to count the votes.
The rankings announced every month are exciting for a while.
Mr. Zhang and Mr. Tan are the most popular Hong Kong singers, followed closely by Xu Jie and Lin Xiang; Deng Li and Luo You are the most anticipated singers from Baodao, followed closely by Qin Qi and Fei Mo. As for mainland singer Cui Jian
, Liu Huan's votes were almost the same, and Su Ming and Zhu Ying were also popular among the masses.
There is not much difference in the number of votes for each singer. What can determine their ranking is the voting page in the "Game Collection"!
In the first half of September, the latest rankings were announced.
Xiangjiang: Tan Lin has accumulated 8.13 million votes, Zhang Sheng has accumulated 8.12 million votes, and Xu Jie has accumulated 6 million votes.
Baodao: Deng Li has accumulated 7.99 million votes, Luo You has accumulated 7 million votes, and Qin Qi has accumulated 6.2 million votes.
Mainland China: Cui Jian accumulated 9.32 million votes, Liu Huan accumulated 8.35 million votes, and Zhu Ying accumulated 7.98 million votes.
It can be seen that because mainland singers are loved by the local people, Cui Jian became the vote king. The competition between Tan and Zhang left the two Hong Kong singers with almost the same number of votes. The veteran king Xu Jie was slightly less popular. Deng Li from Baodao became the well-deserved first
A popular female star.
Zhan Long sent invitations to nine candidates in the name of Michael Jackson, asking them to make time to attend the concert.
Thanks to this incident, Game Collection became the game magazine with the largest circulation. Although it was somewhat undeserved, the Guinness Book of World Records still recorded this event.
Michael Jackson's concert is scheduled for October 11. When tickets were released in mid-September, 40,000 concert tickets were sold out in less than an hour, setting the fastest record in mainland China's history.
The most unforgettable impression for people who experienced the grand scene of that year is that it is hard to get a ticket.
Chapter completed!