"I think men, especially young men, would prefer this type of novel," Mai Chong casually clicked on two chapters. "If the author's writing is good, I think some older readers will also like it. ** ()¡±
Liu Mazi snapped his fingers, "Yes, the audience for this type of novel is mainly male. Now Qidian.com's novels are mainly of this type. Let's take a look at the second one."
The name of the second book is "The Lost Mask". From the introduction, we can tell that the novel is about a tomb robber who dug up the tomb of King Lanling and took out the mask of King Lanling. Then he suffered a series of misfortunes, as if he had suffered a lot. Like a curse, Mai Chong clicked on two chapters. The writing is solid, full of suspense, and very exciting to read.
Liu Mazi further explained: "This guy Xie Yi wrote this under a pseudonym. I only found out recently that there was absolutely no behind-the-scenes operation. He was able to get to this point only because of his own strength. I think this book is even in physical form." The image market also has certain potential."
Xie Yi is a member of the drama creative department and one of the people who are relatively close to Liu Mazi. According to him, Xie Yi has learned the true story of his master of suspense novels and is very knowledgeable.
Mai Chong nodded and looked at the third place "Dazzling Lanling". The introduction was written by Zou Zou. Mai Chong couldn't figure out why, so Liu Mazi explained to him: "In this novel, King Lanling Gao Changgong is a woman, she disguises herself as a man and sneaks into the military camp on the battlefield, and she has some emotional entanglements with Hu Luguang¡¯s son and Yu Wenyong, a bit like Hua Mulan.¡±
"You guys who write novels really dare to think about it. You actually wrote Prince Lanling as a woman and had a relationship with Yu Wenyong. You made a woman be the protagonist of the novel. This should be very popular among female readers." Mai Chong said with a smile.
"That's right! Almost all of the people who support this book are female readers. Although there are not many female readers in Qidian, if they all gather to support this book, the influence is no joke," Liu Mazi said with a smile. "I just saw that the readers of these three books are different, so I decided to split Qidian.com into three parts: the main website, girls, and literature. Each part is aimed at the corresponding readership, so that netizens can search according to their own preferences. It¡¯s more convenient.¡±
"It's a good idea. You can discuss it with Dingtian's boss and improve the page to make it more beautiful and easier to read."
"That's exactly what I meant," Liu Mazi said proudly, "Oh, by the way. Take a look at this again."
Liu Mazi exited the starting point and opened another web page.
"Time Network?" Mai Chong murmured, and then saw the promotional poster for "Lanling Mask" on the home page, as well as "A World Without Thieves" and "The Aviator" and "Ocean's Twelve" that are currently being screened in North America. ¡· and other films.
"Well, this is a movie website that was recently established. Its goal is to become China's imdb, with rating and comment functions. 1 (1)" This is something new that Liu Mazi discovered. Show off to Mai Chong like a treasure.
¡°Oh, let me take a look.¡± A Chinese film database is undoubtedly a new thing for Chinese film lovers, and it is also an inevitable product of the vigorous development of Chinese films. Mai Chong clicked on "Lanling Mask" and entered another page, which showed that the score of "Lanling Mask" was 8.5 points, with 132 people rating it, and there was also a basic introduction and comments about "Lanling Mask".
"The score is not low, but there are too few people who rated it." Although it was only the first day of the release, there were so many screenings before. In total, tens of thousands of people should have watched the movie. Compared with this number Come on, 132 people is really not a lot.
"This website has just started. There aren't many registered members yet, but it's pretty good to have more than a hundred people rating it. And I guess I haven't seen all of them, but a lot of them have rated it based on their feelings." Liu Mazi said.
Mai Chong clicked on "A World Without Thieves" again. There were 876 people who rated it, with a score of 7.4. It seems that the reputation of "Lanling Mask" is much better, and he is very happy. Then Mai Chong searched for the status of "Hero" and "House of Flying Daggers". The scores of the two movies were not high. "Hero" scored 6.4 points, barely passing, and "House of Flying Daggers" scored 5.3, still below the passing line. From this point of view, "Lanling Mask" has a very good reputation. If there is any top 250 list on this website, "Lanling Mask" should be on the list.
Mai Chong played around with Time.com for a while, and felt that this website was not bad. Although it was not established for a long time and was still relatively rough, the information on some foreign language films was quite sufficient. If you don¡¯t understand foreign languages ??and can¡¯t play imdb, Time. The Internet is a good choice. He also registered an account with the user name "Wu Ye". Fortunately, he was an early user and this name has not been registered yet.
After walking out of Liu Mazi's office, Mai Chong went directly to Irving's president's office. Just when Mai Chong opened the door, a huge man rushed out. You didn't need to look carefully to know that it was Irving. Although he was a little thinner, He is still huge??ŠÒ.
"What are you doing in such a hurry?" Mai Chong waved to Owen's back.
Owen responded without looking back: "wc."
Mai Chong walked into Owen's office and saw an exquisite small porcelain bottle on the table. This should be the weight-loss medicine that Xiaoyu gave to Owen. Mai Chong once asked Xiaoyu if there was any weight-loss medicine that had no side effects. Research on drugs should lead to more comfortable ways to lose weight. Look at Owen's pain just now.
Xiaoyu¡¯s answer was, ¡°Yes, but the process is complicated and she is too lazy to do it. This one is simpler and the raw materials can be bought at the vegetable market.¡±
Mai Chong was sitting on Irving's sofa waiting for Irving to come back. At this time, the phone on the table rang, and Mai Chong picked it up.
"Hello, Mr. Ou, I am Luo Qingqing from Shanghai Cinema."
"Oh, Ronaldinho, what's the matter?" Mai Chong suddenly had a childlike innocence and imitated Irving's voice. This level of imitation was a piece of cake for him.
"Mr. Ou, that's it. I want to report to you the situation of "Lanling Mask" in Shanghai."
"Oh, tell me, I'll listen."
At this time, Owen came back from the bathroom, with a relaxed and happy face. He was surprised to hear his own voice in the office at the door. When he walked in, he saw that it was Mai Chong sitting on his boss's chair learning to make calls in his own voice. Listen carefully, it turned out that he was on the phone with Luo Qingqing.
After getting down to business, Mai Chong teased Luo Qingqing a few more words, then put down the phone and raised his eyebrows at Irving: "So, I'm not bad at your job as CEO."
"You can do it if you like it. Do you know that I haven't taken a vacation in two years." Owen sat on the soft chair angrily. Well, Shutan, I almost collapsed just now.
"Forget it, although I am very talented. I can learn everything at once, but I love acting more." Mai Chong was very afraid that Owen would give up his career.
"What did Miss Luo tell you just now?" Owen asked Mai Chong, who was sitting in his seat, after he felt more comfortable.
"I didn't say anything. I just said that the zero-point box office of "Lanling Mask" in Shanghai was a failure." Mai Chong said lightly.
"Huh? What's going on?" Owen leaned forward and asked.
"It rained last night in Shanghai. Most of the theaters in Tiantian Cinema were ready to show "Lanling Mask". After all, movie fans have high expectations for this movie. However, because of the rain, there were only a few theaters in the huge theater. A few people in Luoluo. That's what Sister Qingqing said." Mai Chong briefly explained the situation, "Actually, it doesn't matter. People who didn't go to the movies because it rained will always find another chance to go. It's our turn. It will definitely not be able to win at the box office."
"It's already winter, why is it raining?" Owen sighed. Shanghai is a big box office. This rain will have a certain impact on the first-day box office of "Lanling Mask". Owen is afraid of the first-day box office. The numbers are not impressive enough. If it's not even as good as "A World Without Thieves", it will be very emotional.
After Luo Qingqing, the heads of Tiantian Cinemas in Beijing, Guangzhou, Hangzhou, Chengdu and other cities called one after another. Reporting on the grand event that the zero-hour show was full, this made Owen feel a little relieved. In fact, now he can also check the box office of "Lanling Mask". The high efficiency of Zhongtiao.com allows President Owen, who has extremely high authority, to check half of the box office. hours ago, but he still wanted to wait until tomorrow to watch it, so that he could be surprised when the answer was revealed.
While paying attention to the box office in the Mainland, Irving also does not forget Hong Kong and Taiwan. It is impossible for Irving to check the box office at any time there. However, the person in charge in Hong Kong said that "Lanling Mask" has zero sales in Hong Kong. It's a hit, and it's sure to be a box office success. The person in charge will report to him the details of the first day's box office the next day. "A World Without Thieves" failed to make any waves in Hong Kong and Taiwan, but "Lanling Mask" should not be the same. Of course, in addition to Hong Kong and Taiwan, there are also Japan and South Korea, which Irving is very concerned about.
"Hey, boss. Don't be so idle. Go to Japan tomorrow. It would be great if you can make more money in Japan." Owen said. "Lanling Mask" will also be released in Japan today, but all the publicity work will be left to Zhang Ziyi After all, in order to take care of her filming, the publicity work in the Mainland has not bothered her much. Of course, she has to share most of the Japanese publicity work in Japan, and she alone is enough to equal the influence of all other actors combined. This will save everyone the hassle of traveling and traveling all the way to Japan. Irving asked Mai Chong to go to Japan just to use Zhang Ziyi's international reputation to expand his reputation in Japan. After that, he and Zhang Ziyi will definitely go to South Korea together. As for places like Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand, Daniel Wu, Fan Bingbing and the others can almost cover them. Gotta live with it.
Mai Chong responded honestly. When he was going out, he happened to meet Wen Zhang walking in. The two greeted him warmly and chatted for a few words. Article?Because of his outstanding performance in "Lanling Mask", Xuexue has been accepted by Tianxiang's agent. Almost at the same time as him, Zhu Yuchen signed a contract with Tianxiang. The two are senior brothers in the Chinese drama, and they also have a lot of topics with each other. Since then, the number of male artists signed by Tianxiang Agency has reached five. After Huang Shengyi left, Liu Shishi was added as a female artist, and the number is also five, exactly five men and five women.
In the evening, Mai Chong went to several movie theaters in Beijing to make money for "Lanling Mask". At the same time, Chen Kun, Fan Bingbing, etc. were also in different cities to boost the box office of "Lanling Mask".
After work, Mai Chong came home exhausted. Xiaoyu was teasing Mai's cute cat. Mai Chong mentioned to her that he would go upstairs to rest after flying to Japan tomorrow.
Xiaoyu muttered: "If I had known better, I wouldn't have taken it back."
At night, when Mai Chong was sleeping soundly, a rapid ringing of the phone woke him up, "Hey, who is it?" Mai Chong answered the phone in confusion.
"Boss, I'm Owen." Ou Pang's voice was very excited.
"You'd better have a good reason to make this call, otherwise you're dead." Mai Chong murmured.
"Boss, I am reporting to you the box office of "Lanling Mask" on the first day. Is this a good enough reason?"
"Ma-so-hu-hu, let's talk about it." Mai Chong narrowed his eyes. (To be continued)