After Yuliang reported the rumors, he added: "President Yang of Science Fiction World told me to check your email or Dongdong. She sent you a message, but you haven't replied."
"Really, she is in a hurry?"
"Then I don't know. I just told you to read the news."
"okay, I get it."
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After hanging up the phone, Yu Dong opened Dongdong and saw Yang Xiao's message.
Yu Dong is running around outside these days, and he doesn't have time to open his mailbox and Dongdong every day. Anyway, they can contact him if there is any spare time, and they basically communicate by phone.
Moreover, although the domestic Dongdong and the foreign Dongdong have the same name, they are actually two softwares. If you want to receive news from Yang Xiao, you have to use the Chinese version of Dongdong.
The message Yang Xiao sent was very simple. First, he congratulated "The Martian" for finally being released successfully, and second, he wanted to talk to Yu Dong about the Deep Space Company's annual meeting at the end of the year.
Looking at the time, it was only around eight o'clock in the morning. Thinking that Yang Xiao might not have rested yet, Yu Dong sent a message back to Yang Xiao, saying that he had been busy outside for the past two days and had not seen any news from her.
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After about three minutes, Yang Xiao replied to the message.
Yang Xiao: Actually, it’s not something too urgent. I happen to be chatting with Mr. Yang about other things, so just ask him to remind you to read the news. In fact, it’s okay to wait until you return to China to talk again.
Yu Dong: You said you wanted to talk about the company’s annual meeting. What specifically were you talking about?
Yang Xiao: I have an idea. Do you think it is suitable? Can you set up two booths for us and "The King of Science Fiction" in the science fiction theme pavilion in the park during your company's annual meeting?
Yu Dong: No problem, I’ll leave the balance to you.
Yang Xiao was stunned for a moment when she saw Yu Dong's reply. She knew that Yu Dong would most likely agree, but she didn't expect Yu Dong to agree so simply. It hadn't been half a minute since her message had just been sent.
, the news about Yu Dong came back.
Yang Xiao had already had an idea about setting up a booth in the science fiction theme pavilion. Especially after this year's science fiction theme event was held, she felt the influence of the deep space park.
Yang Xiao couldn't help feeling that Yu Dong had been very attentive in helping them over the years.
Chinese science fiction now has a complete industry chain. Science fiction writers publish novels, and then magazines such as Science Fiction King select the higher-quality novels and adapt them into comics. Deep Space Animation Studio then selects higher-quality adaptations from these comics.
into animation.
Some works will also be directly made into TV series or movies.
The formation of this industrial chain was naturally attributed to Yu Dong. It was the emergence of Yu Dong that brought Chinese science fiction to the world stage, and domestic science fiction fans began to grow rapidly from that time.
Later, a series of operations by the Deep Space Company directly established the science fiction industry chain.
This year's science fiction themed event held in the Deep Space Park was a great success. It is said that the combined turnover of all the booths in the entire park during that week was as high as 230 million yuan, with an average of more than 30 million yuan sold every day.
There is definitely some moisture in this figure, but even if it is discounted in half, the total business volume of 100 million yuan a week is extremely exaggerated.
This year’s science fiction themed event has also attracted the attention of many other local governments, such as Chengdu.
Not long after the Deep Space science fiction themed event ended, the person in charge of the relevant unit in Chengdu called Yang Xiao. The other party's intention was very clear, and he asked Yang Xiao if it was possible to replicate the Deep Space Company's science fiction themed event.
Chengdu has been vigorously developing the local tourism industry. It has tried many methods over the years, but the results have still been minimal and cannot be compared with other cities with developed tourism.
In the past few years, Jinling has suddenly emerged, and the output value of the tourism industry has increased several times, which has also made Chengdu a little greedy.
However, Yang Xiao regretfully told the other party that Jinling’s science fiction themed activities were too difficult to replicate and almost impossible.
When the other party asked why, Yang Xiao gave him an analysis one by one.
At the end of the analysis, the conclusion is that there is not a large international company like Deep Space in Chengdu. Just building a park of the same size as the Deep Space Park is enough for the Chengdu government.
The so-called scale does not only refer to the area of ​​the park, but also depends on the infrastructure of the park.
Not to mention anything else, the money spent on Deep Space Company's world-class IMAX theater alone is equivalent to the cost of building a small building.
Let’s talk about those screens in the deep space park.
Many people say that the boss of Deep Space loves screens especially because of the large number of screens in the Deep Space Park. In the Deep Space Park, there is almost no place without screens. There are all kinds of screens when you look up and down.
Precisely because of these screens, the Deep Space Park gives people a strong sense of technology.
Moreover, these screens are still consumables for Deep Space, because Deep Space will replace a batch of screens every once in a while.
To put it bluntly, the Deep Space Park is made of money. It’s just that they can hope to make money back if they pile money, but others will only lose money if they pile money.
Yang Xiao also asked the other party, if they were given a deep space park, could they not charge admission fees?
This question immediately stopped the other party. After pondering for a long time, the other party still told the truth that they couldn't do it.
If such a park is open to the public and does not charge entrance fees, they will not be able to afford to lose money every year.
But the Deep Space Company can do it. The Deep Space Park has been open for so many years, and there is still no charge, and the standard of thirty points has not changed to this day.
The reason why Deep Space Company can do this is of course not only because their company has money, but also because they can get money from other places, and points are no different from money to Deep Space Company.
After listening to Yang Xiao's analysis, the leader didn't say anything else.
When Yang Xiao was analyzing the situation for his leaders, he also lamented that in less than ten years, the Deep Space Company had grown to such a scale that Yu Dong seemed to have become an existence that they could not touch.
It was precisely because Yu Dong's current status was so high that Yang Xiao was even more moved.
Yang Xiao: Thank you, Yu Dong, for causing you trouble again.
Yu Dong: Sister Xiao, you're welcome. I should do something, and it's not a trouble. What you said also reminded me that it's time to reserve a booth for you, and not just for you two.
The booths of other science fiction-related magazines also need to be divided, but your two booths must be larger.
In the past two years, many magazines similar to "Science Fiction World" and "Science Fiction King" have appeared in China, but their development is average, but Yu Dong does not want to give up these small magazines. The vitality of the market still depends on these small magazines.
Although Yu Dong believes in Yang Xiao's ability and character, he still believes that it is not a good thing for "Science Fiction World" to stand out and have no opponents at all. This will make "Science Fiction World" lose external motivation. Once "Science Fiction World"
Something went wrong, and the Chinese science fiction community was hit hard.
Even if Yang Xiao and Tan Kai can stay true to their original aspirations and maintain their motivation to move forward, there is no guarantee that the rest of the magazine can be like them. Sooner or later, they will retire, and no one knows what the situation will be like when others take over.
It’s easy to say, so Yu Dong needs to be prepared for a rainy day.
Yang Xiao: Okay, thank you very much. Also, congratulations. Although there was a little incident, the release of "The Martian" was not affected in any way. I went to the cinema today and I could still see a lot of people queuing up. We
The agency also spent a lot of effort on getting the tickets. Now all units are organizing employees to go to the cinema. Two days ago, the radio and television people asked me if they could get more discounted tickets. They probably thought that our agency would go deep into space with you.
is relatively close.
Yu Dong: Haha, although the theater is not under our control, if you really need tickets, we can help get some.
Yang Xiao: That's really not necessary. If they really want cheap tickets, they can tell the theater themselves that the relationship between radio and television in theaters is relatively good. How is the premiere of "The Martian" going? Is there any specific data?
Yu Dong: I haven’t gotten the specific data yet. The data from North America should not be available for another three or four days. It’s hard to say about the domestic data, because the domestic data is a bit troublesome to collect and will have to be delayed for a while.
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Yang Xiao: Can you tell me about the North American data after it comes out?
Yu Dong: No problem, I will ask Yiliang to send you detailed data as soon as possible.
Yang Xiao: Actually, there is one more thing. We want to make some changes to the Galaxy Awards next year, and we would like to ask your opinion.
Yu Dong: What changes?
Yang Xiao: We want to revoke the Foreign Novel Award.
Yu Dong: Why was it cancelled?
Yang Xiao: Listen to me. The reason why we want to cancel the Foreign Novel Award is because we want to expand the selection scope of the original award. The award is no longer limited to domestic works, but can also include foreign works, as long as the work is translated that year.
If it is published in Chinese, it will be eligible to participate in the award. In this case, there is no need for the Foreign Novel Award to continue to exist.
After seeing the news about Yang Xiao, Yu Dong probably understood that Yang Xiao wanted to make the Galaxy Award a worldwide award like the Nebula Award and the Hugo Award, so as to increase the influence of the award.
Of course Yu Dong thinks this is a good thing. The Galaxy Awards have been making changes over the years. From the beginning, they only judged works serialized in magazines. Later, the selection scope was expanded to include all domestic science fiction works. From the beginning, only A and B awards were set up. Later,
The number of awards has increased by double digits, and the awards have been improving.
Yang Xiao has actually thought about this before, but she has never had the conditions to realize it before, because in the past, very few new science fiction novels by foreign authors were translated into Chinese, most of them were short and medium stories, and basically they were
Published in "Science Fiction World".
In this case, it is enough to set up an award for the most popular foreign novel.
But the current situation is obviously a little different, because many foreign novels have begun to be published in China, and there are even some foreign novels that have not even been published in their own language, but the Chinese version has been produced.
, because China’s current science fiction market is the largest in the world. After these novels are serialized in domestic science fiction magazines and achieve good results, they will be directly translated into Chinese and published in single volumes.
After thinking about it, Yu Dong sent a message.
Yu Dong: I think it’s good, but do you have any ideas about giving an award to a certain foreign novel next year?
Yang Xiao: I knew I couldn’t hide it from you. It’s not that we decided who to give the award to. After all, it was the jury that decided who to give the award to. It’s just that this year there is a foreign novella that is quite competitive. It will be very competitive next year.
There is hope for winning the medium article prize.
Yu Dong: In that case, let’s change it. I think it’s good. When you are sure you want to change it, I’ll tell Jimmy and ask the company to cooperate with you in publicity.
Yang Xiao was overjoyed. The reason why she wanted to listen to Yu Dong's opinion was that she really wanted to see what good ideas Yu Dong had, and she also hoped to get help from the Deep Space Company.
If they want to become a world-famous award and compete with the Nebula Award and the Hugo Award, in addition to award restructuring, publicity work is definitely indispensable, and if they want to publicize it, Deep Space Company is naturally their biggest reliance.
Of course Yu Dong also knew what Yang Xiao was thinking, so he said it himself without waiting for Yang Xiao to speak.
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Three days later, the North American first-week box office of "The Martian" was also released, totaling US$72 million, directly ranking first in the box office this week.
With such a high first-week box office, if there are no big surprises, the North American box office of "The Martian" will definitely start at US$300 million, and it is very promising to enter the top three at the global box office.
With the exception of "Titanic", the other top movies at the global box office are all about the same, with over one billion US dollars. As long as "The Martian" can get a global box office of US$1.1 billion, it will be ranked third.
Two names.
However, the situation soon changed.
By the end of its second week, the North American box office of "The Martian" exceeded $145 million.
According to the data at this time, the North American box office of "The Martian" was at least 400 million US dollars.
In addition, other countries and regions have also released films one after another. Although the global box office statistics are somewhat delayed, we can still have a rough estimate. At this time, the global box office has reached 250 million, and there are many countries.
It hasn't been released yet, but when these countries that haven't released it start releasing it, the global box office will increase at a faster rate.
With this momentum, there is basically no big suspense for "The Martian"'s global box office to reach 1.1 billion.
The second place has been stabilized. It stands to reason that the first thing to consider at this time is to hit the first place. But the problem is that according to the current situation of "The Martian", it is basically impossible to surpass "Titanic", and it can't even be brushed up.
In other words, "The Martian" is destined to be the second best movie.
Chapter completed!