What was a cinema chain?
It referred to relying on cinemas, using capital and film supply as a link.
A film distribution and screening business mechanism formed by a film distribution main body and a number of cinemas.
The cinema chain implemented a unified brand, unified screening, unified operation, and unified management for its cinemas.
This was the official explanation.
However, in Lin Bei's eyes.
The cinema chain was actually the monopoly of capital over movies.
After all, every cinema chain was actually a tool used by those capitalists to strangle the throats of film practitioners.
One had to know.
The film screening industry was an industry with a monopoly management system.
In order to develop and protect their business interests, the operators controlled a considerable number of cinemas in certain cities or regions and established a screening network to monopolize the public screening of new films in a certain country or a certain film production company.
Under such circumstances.
The cinema chain had a lot of say.
In the end, the investors could only get no more than 40% of the box office earnings of a movie.
The rest...
Most of them were taken away by the cinema chains.
Meanwhile, in China.
This situation was even more serious.
The development of the big cinemas was getting faster and faster, while the development of the small cinemas was getting more and more difficult.
Furthermore,
Most of the cinemas were across provinces and cities, such as Yanjing, Mingzhu, and Shencheng. There were basically five or six major cinemas occupying the major cinemas.
On the other hand, Jin City had ten cinemas occupying the top spot. Most of the cinemas in the country were under the top ten cinemas.
Other than that.
Most cinemas were located in big cities. There were few medium-sized cities, few in small cities, and few in small towns.
And in these cinemas.
There were more developed areas in the east and coastal areas than in the west and inland areas.
Apart from Yanjing, there were more cinemas in the south than in the north.
So,
That was why Lin Bei set his sights on the distribution department of the top ten cinemas.
Because he knew very well.
Only by letting the movie be screened in the top ten cinemas would the box office be high.
However, he never expected this.
Because her reputation in the industry was too bad previously, she had recently become a trending topic on Weibo.
This caused the distribution departments of many theater chains to lack confidence in Crazy Stone.
"Mr. Lin, I'm sorry, but our theater chain is not available.”
"I'm sorry, Director Lin. Let's work together again if there's a chance.”
"I'm really sorry, but we don't need any new movies recently.”
"Hurry up and leave. We won't be screening your film. Are we going to wait for the audience to scold us for money?”
"I'm sorry, our manager doesn't have time to see you.”
This was the reply that Lin Bei received after visiting all the distribution departments of the top ten cinemas.
Those who had a better attitude politely refused.
Those with bad attitudes,
He couldn't even see Manager Fang's face.
There are even worse cases.
He told himself directly.
It wasn't that the quality of the movie wasn't good, but that his current reputation had already made the theater chains not dare to gamble on the movie.
After all, once it was released,
If the movie was boycotted by the majority of the audience.
When the box office fell, the cinema chains would also lose real money.
Wouldn't it be better to use the same time and schedule to release a movie that would definitely make a profit? Wouldn't it be better to release a low-budget movie like Crazy Stone?
After all,
The latter didn't have any big-name celebrities to support it, and the theme wasn't very popular either.
It was even to the extent that…
Lin Bei, the director, scriptwriter, and producer, had a bad reputation on the Internet and was being boycotted.
Under such circumstances,
Naturally, the cinema chains wouldn't dare to bet on Crazy Stone.
Even those who had seen the trailer were very clear.
This was definitely a good quality movie.
But what was the point?
There were many good movies.
There were also many outstanding directors.
The world was never fair.
……………………
Sitting on the train back to the mountain city,
Lin Bei looked worried.
He had asked the system before, trying to find a solution to the current predicament.
However, according to the system.
The Perfect Life System could only be activated when he completed a charity mission.
For example.
If Lin Bei used the box office earnings of 'Crazy Stone' to sponsor 100 children who were unable to drop out of school, the system would give him a corresponding reward.
If they sponsored a hundred poor families, they would also receive corresponding rewards.
Therefore, he had no choice.
In this situation, Lin Bei could only rely on himself.
"If it really doesn't work, I can only sell it to video websites.”
Lin Bei rubbed his chin and thought to himself.
Nowadays, with the development of the internet, some low-budget movies would often choose to sell their movies to major video websites when they could not enter the theater.
The price was definitely not as high as the income from the cinema.
But overall, it was still very cost-effective.
Especially for a low-budget movie like Crazy Stone, if it could sell for 10 million, Lin Bei would be considered successful.
Even five million was not a loss.
But the problem was…
Lin Bei was really unwilling!
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