Six days later, Dongfang Yuqin came to report and moved into the villa to live.

Li Zetian signed a confidentiality agreement and contract with her, temporarily hiring her as her secretary, and then threw her a lot of information to let her get familiar with the business content first. Li Zetian planned to train her for a period of time and then determine whether she has the ability to become the CEO of Times Technology Company, depending on the situation.

...

Li Zetian is now reading a large number of books on artificial intelligence related fields, which is the main development direction in the future. Research in this field includes robots, language recognition, image recognition, natural language processing and expert systems, etc., involving philosophy and cognitive science, mathematics, neurophysiology, psychology, computer science, information theory, cybernetics, and infinitive theory...

Li Zetian said that he was "pressure was great", and it seemed that he would be difficult to complete the life of a person who was poor.

On the afternoon of the end of August, Yangtian and Li Zetian were swimming in the swimming pool. George Lucas suddenly called and said that the post-production of "Star Wars" has been completed and is ready to be released.

"George, bring the film to me, I have a small family cinema here."

"Okay, Chronos, I'll send it here in person right away and talk to you about something."

"Um."

Beverly Hills is too close to Hollywood. In less than an hour, George Lucas came to Li Zetian's house.

After everyone briefly greeted him, they went straight to the home cinema.

Li Zetian called Yu Jingqiu and Dongfang Yuqin to come to watch the movie together.

The first "Star Wars" was filmed very well, similar to the one Li Zetian remembered, except that there were more things, such as Apple-ll and Walkman of Apple, and special effects shots were added, but it made the movie look even more brilliant and technological.

During the movie watching Yu Jingqiu and Dongfang Yuqin, they made surprise sounds from time to time, which shows that this movie should have been successful!

Then, everyone answered the living room, and Li Zetian poured a glass of water for George Lucas and said, "George, the photo was good, I like it very much! By the way, didn't you say that you had something to talk to me about? What exactly is it?"

George Lucas shook his head and sighed, "Twentieth Century Fox is not optimistic about Star Wars. Our movie has just been made and has not even been promoted much, so they are ready to arrange for release."

"No publicity?" Li Zetian frowned unconsciously when he heard this.

"It cannot be said that there is no publicity at all - it is just that there are some movie posters of "Star Wars" at the entrance of the cinema. However, what is extremely bad is that Twentieth Century Fox only allocated us more than a dozen cinemas..." George Lucas said this with an almost desperate tone.

Day, I had more than 30 cinemas in my previous life. In this life, Apple invested, so the number of cinemas was even smaller.

Li Zetian cursed in his heart, but on the surface he tried to calm down, patted George Lucas on the shoulder and comforted him: "It doesn't matter, I believe "Star Wars" is a very good movie. With the reputation of it, more and more people will definitely go to the cinema to watch our movies! At that time, 20th Century Fox will naturally increase the number of screens for "Star Wars"."

"Hope so."

George Lucas finished speaking and took a sip of water.

Li Zetian asked: "George, do you plan to film the second part of "Star Wars"?"

"If the movie becomes popular, of course I will!"

"Haha, that's all, I'm looking forward to our cooperation again!!"

Li Zetian reached out and shook hands with him.

The copyright of "Star Wars" belongs to Star Wars Films. The second film is directed by Li Zetian, whoever is directed by the director, but he is more inclined to let George Lucas shoot because George Lucas' understanding of "Star Wars" is incomparable to others. Moreover, his previous life has proved George Lucas' success!

Not long after, George Lucas left.

"Science fiction movies have no market in the United States, so it is natural that 20th Century Fox does not value Star Wars. There are only a dozen theaters in the United States, so it may be difficult to make a profit..." Yu Jingqiu said.

"Dare you dare to bet with me? I think "Star Wars" will be popular all over the world, with a box office of more than $100 million." Li Zetian smiled. He said a very conservative number. The global box office of this movie in his previous life reached an astonishing more than $775 million, close to $800 million, of which the box office of the United States reached $460 million.

Yu Jingqiu obviously didn't believe it, "Go and bet! What are you going to bet?" she said with her head raised.

Li Zetian smiled and leaned into her ear and whispered.

Yu Jingqiu's face turned red and she glared at Li Zetian coquettishly.

"Do you dare?"

"What are you afraid of? But you haven't said yet, how do you punish you if you lose!"

"If I lose, I will be honored!"

"Then I have to think about what kind of tricks can punish you! Don't complain then!"

Li Zetian smiled proudly at this time. When he thought of Yu Jingqiu's promise to him, every pore in his body became excited.

...

On September 10, "Star Wars" was officially released.

Due to lack of strong publicity and only a dozen screens, the first day of Star Wars was a terrible box office, and at the end of a day, it was less than $20,000.

The next day, unexpectedly, almost all the Star Wars movie theaters were lined up.

"I want a Star Wars movie ticket!"

"I want two Star Wars movie tickets!"

"I also want two Star Wars movie tickets!"

“…”

In less than an hour, the "Star Wars" movie tickets sold out that day!

People who did not buy tickets sighed or complained.

"Fuck, I actually sold out. I want to see how this movie is like! My friend said "Star Wars" is super good. He bought three tickets and it seems that it's not enough to be fine after three times!"

"My classmate also said that "Star Wars" is super good. The movie has unprecedented space scenes, complex galaxy struggles, and super cool laser swords. I highly recommend it to me to watch it! Alas, I didn't expect to buy a ticket!"

"Brother, let's go to other cinemas together to see if there are any tickets!"

"OK!"

“…”

Many people went to other cinemas, but unfortunately, these cinemas did not release "Star Wars" at all.

Everyone couldn't help but complain, why did such a good movie only be released in more than a dozen cinemas? Is the movie distribution company so funny?

One day passed, and early the next morning, the cinema was not open, and there were more people coming to queue up. The long dragon of dozens of meters was shocking!

Passers-by were surprised: "What's the situation? What movie is so good? There are so many people queuing up before the cinema is opened!"

An insider told these passers-by: "The best and coolest science fiction movie in history, "Star Wars", is said to have been sold for $50 per scalper!"

Passers-by widened their eyes and couldn't believe it.

"I really didn't lie to you! You don't know. So far, there are only a dozen cinemas in the United States playing this movie, and the value is in short supply! I sold out the tickets for the whole day in a while in the morning! Look over there, the grand occasion of queuing has attracted reporters!"

On the fourth day of the movie's release, with reputations passed down, "Star Wars" became even more popular, with hundreds of meters of traffic blocking traffic at the entrances of various cinemas.

That night, local TV stations made special reports on Star Wars, and media newspapers also reported on Star Wars.

Twentieth Century Fox held a meeting soon.

A middle-aged man looked at the CEO of the film company, Alan Ryder, and said excitedly: "Mr. Alan Ryder, the dark horse has appeared, and the dark horse has appeared in the movie!!! The science fiction movie "Star Wars" filmed by George Lucas was almost full. There were hundreds of people queuing up at the entrance of the cinema in the morning, occupying several streets. It was so exaggerated. This is a situation I have never seen in decades of experience!"

In the conference room, many people seemed very surprised and talked a lot.

Alan Ryder, little, thought for a while and said in a deep voice: "Create 500 copies of the movie immediately and distribute it to 500 cinemas!"

"yes!!!"

After a week, Star Wars won $550,000 in box office just after only a dozen screen releases.

In the second week of the release of the Star Wars movie, the number of screens in Star Wars finally increased to as many as 500. Although the number of screens is relatively small compared to other movies, George Lucas was very happy and satisfied. This means that Star Wars was successful, and not only could he make a fortune, but he might even make a big profit.

However, Star Wars' results are obviously beyond George Lucas and everyone else's imagination.

Like before, there were long queues at the entrances of many cinemas, and more than 500 cinemas were almost full.

In a week, Star Wars won a box office of $15.8 million, directly winning the box office championship this week!

"Damn it, Star Wars is so fierce!!!"

Everyone at Twentieth Century Fox was shocked.

Alan Ryder, a little hand waved, "Add 2,000 more copies!!!"

"yes!!!"

As a result, in the third week of the release of "Star Wars", the number of screens became more than 2,500. The attendance rate of cinemas was as high as more than 90%. There is no doubt that "Star Wars" once again won the box office championship this week, with a box office of $70.2 million this week!

At this moment, Twentieth Century Fox was speechless and was immersed in great grief. He thought, if he was willing to invest more, the copyright of "Star Wars" would belong to him!!!

Deep resentment!

Regret endlessly!

However, having money is not profitable.

Cinema companies came to their doors and asked Twentieth Century Fox to copy their movies.

So, Alan Ryder, little, waved again, "Add 2,500 more copies!"

In the fourth week, Star Wars' screens reached an astonishing 5,000 yuan. Many people are waiting for the box office of Star Wars. Star Wars did not disappoint them, with a box office of $114 million this week.

"Star Wars" has been released for one month, and the cumulative box office of the United States has exceeded 200 million US dollars!

Twentieth Century Fox's stock price doubled!

Due to the repeated close-up shots of Apple-ll and Walkman in the movie, the sales of these two products increased dramatically during this period, greatly increasing Apple's brand awareness. Wall Street evaluated Apple's market value to be 7 billion US dollars, an increase of 1 billion US dollars from the last financing!

Like Twentieth Century Fox, Thomas Rockefeller's regrets are all blue. Twentieth Century Fox is unwilling to add additional investments, after all, there are risks and understandable. However, Thomas Rockefeller took the initiative to give up Star Wars Film Company, which made him regret it to death.

"Star Wars is a big hit at the box office and is popular in the United States. Chronos should be proud now..." Thomas Rockefeller said with a wry smile.

In fact, Li Zetian is indeed very proud now. What he is proud of is not how much money he earned for him in "Star Wars", but that Yu Jingqiu lost his bet and wanted to fulfill his bet.
Chapter completed!