My Animation Era

As early as a few months ago.

Gu Miao made suggestions to Hou Bin, hoping that he would give up the theatrical release and release the movie "Armageddon!" "Dragon Fighter X-Ray Envoy" is exclusively broadcast on Wanbao Video website.

Unfortunately, Hou Bin did not agree.

He still has illusions about the box office. Even if the movie is not well received, he still wants to try it in theaters.

What if there is a miracle?

Under this premise, Gu Miao let him go. If he wants to go to theaters, let him go. Anyway, the company will not allocate funds for early publicity and promotion.

In other words, although this movie has been released in theaters, the publicity and promotion has been basically zero.

This is not because Gu Miao is stingy.

To be honest, he was quite happy to spend tens of millions on promoting the movie. Even if he failed to recover the cost in the end, the loss was within an acceptable range.

But the problem is...

Too much publicity and promotion for "Armageddon!" "Dragon Fighter X-Ray Envoy" is not necessarily a good thing for this "toy commercial film".

This involves a question of "expected value".

To use an analogy.

Suppose that before the movie was released, Wanbao spent huge sums of money on crazy advertising on various media platforms, whetting everyone's appetite and arousing the curiosity of countless people.

As a result, everyone walked into the theater and found that the movie they had been looking forward to for so long was just a "toy promotional film". How about they be pissed to death?

Think about it from another perspective.

Assuming that this movie was not announced, it was very low-key before its release, and not many people even knew about it.

Audiences who entered the theater with no expectations in the first place will not feel disappointed after watching it. You might even feel... Ouch! Not bad!

Although it is a bit suspected of selling toys, the overall plot is quite satisfactory and barely worth the price. It should not be so "unpopular". Maybe I can give it to friends around me?

This was Gu Miao's plan.

He told Hou Bin that the movie "Armageddon!" The completion quality of "Dragon Fighter X-Ray User" is very average.

If it is promoted in a high-profile manner and promoted vigorously, it is likely to backfire and arouse the dissatisfaction and anger of many movie fans.

Instead of spending a lot of money and being criticized as a bad movie, it is better to release it in a low-key manner and lower the audience's expectations for the movie.

This might work wonders!

Hou Bin thought about it seriously and felt that what Mr. Gu said made sense. Since the quality of the film cannot support high-profile publicity, then it should not be publicized at all.

Ever since.

Under the arrangement of him and Gu Miao, the movie "The Final Battle!" "Dragon Fighter: X-Ray Envoy" was released quietly in mid-May.

…

No publicity, no popularity.

Except for a few people who have heard of the news that Wanbao has released its second major theatrical movie, most people are unaware of it.

Hu Yingjun didn't know either.

If his son, who was in the first grade at Fandou Elementary School, hadn't clamored to see "The Magic Dragon", he wouldn't have known what kind of movie it was.

All right!

Even though he knew the name of the movie, he still couldn't figure out what story the movie was telling.

It does not matter……

Anyway, it was his son who wanted to watch it, so he just took the time to watch it with him. It didn’t matter what movie he watched, what mattered was enjoying the rare family time.

anyway.

For such an unpopular movie, the box office in the five days it was released was only over 6 million. How did Tutu know?

"Zhang Shuaizi has seen it!"

Tutu explained seriously: "Zhang Shuaizi's mother took him to see a movie and bought him a Magic Dragon toy, which is amazing."

oh! That’s how it turns out…

A child! There is always a very strange sense of comparison. When you see what others have, you feel sad if you don't have it.

No wonder Tutu pestered him to go see the Magic Dragon. It turned out that after watching it, Zhang Shuaizi from the community came back to show off in various ways in the community, which made Tutu want to see it too.

After understanding the situation, Hu Yingjun immediately made a decision.

Not just watching movies.

After watching the movie, he would ask how much the so-called "Magic Dragon" cost. If it was not expensive, he would have to get one made for Tutu.

What a toy!

If spending a small amount of money can make the child happy for several days and allow him to integrate into the circle of children in the community, then Hu Yingjun thinks it is nothing.

Very traditional parental thinking.

When Hu Yingjun was a child, he also went through the stage of Tutu. At that time, he was very envious of the pencil box at his desk that had a built-in "pencil sharpening" function, but unfortunately his family was too poor to afford it.

What I experienced as a child cannot be repeated to my son now.

If it's something particularly expensive, then maybe forget it.

But a toy would not make Hu Yingjun feel that he was spoiling his son. After all, it’s not normal for a son to like toys at his age!

After making the decision, Hu Yingjun told his wife Zhang Xiaoli and immediately took his son out.

Destination, Vientiane Cinema.

Since they had booked their tickets online in advance, when the father and son arrived, they did not have to buy tickets a second time and could just check in and watch the movie.

"There are quite a lot of people!"

When he walked into Cinema 3, Hu Yingjun was surprised to find that there seemed to be a lot of parents bringing their children to watch the movie today.

Looking around, almost all the hundreds of seats were occupied.

But this is normal, after all, today is Saturday, the children have the day off. If it were a weekday, there wouldn't be so many viewers.

"Tutu, eat slowly!"

"The movie hasn't started yet..."

He just bought a bucket of popcorn, but his son had already eaten half of the bucket before the movie started. Hu Yingjun was speechless.

Don't know what to say.

On the one hand, my son is indeed greedy, but on the other hand, he also wants to complain. Is the portion of popcorn sold too small?

It looked like a big bucket, but I didn't eat much and there was not much left.

Damn profiteer!

After complaining about the amount of popcorn, Hu Yingjun was about to go out and buy another bucket. The moment he was about to get up, the movie started.

On the mysterious moon.

The prince of the Modong clan is planning a conspiracy. In the parallel world of Earth, Xiaodu, who returned to a peaceful life, also discovered traces of the former demon king of Chuangjie Mountain, Duouda.

"Wuhu, Dragon God..."

Seeing that the Holy Dragon Concubine heard the call for help, she sent the Dragon God and the Denglong Sword to the earth world where Xiaodu was. After Xiaodu successfully summoned the Dragon God in the earth world, Tutu couldn't help but his eyes lit up.

So disgusting!

The background of the earth world where Xiaodu lives is roughly the same as the real world.

When the Dragon God appeared in the real world, Dadi pulled out the magic gun among the high-rise buildings and fired the magic badge...

Crossroads, zebra crossing.

The Magic Badge draws a dazzling six-pointed star magic circle, and the Magic King of Earth makes his debut! It was at this time that everyone suddenly discovered it.

It turns out that the Demon King of Earth is so tall? In comparison, why does the Dragon God summoned by Xiaodu feel so short?