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He Xiaochen was stunned.

[ Locking down? What? If you didn’t say that I wouldn’t have paid much attention. Aren’t they deliberately locking the field like this? ]

As long as one ticket was sold for each pre-sale, the theater could not change the movie at will.

The reputation of “Fantasy God Chronicles” was already beyond redemption. Everyone knew that it was a bad film, and most people would choose to avoid it and watch other films.

However, according to He Xiaochen, “Fantasy God Chronicles” had taken up quite a lot of show slots.

Shen Li opened the related app and casually checked the showtimes of several nearby cinemas for the next few days. As expected, she found something wrong.

Many show slots for “Fantasy God Chronicles” had only sold one or two seats. Some were in the first row, some were in the corner, and even the show slots for the next four or five days were the same.

This was clearly a problem.

Because the industry had been very optimistic about “Fantasy God Chronicles”, they had arranged a lot of showtimes for them in advance. Now that the situation was not good, the cinemas wanted to switch those showtimes to show “Chasing the Light” instead, but they could not do it because those showtimes had been locked in.

[ Isn’t the producer for “Fantasy God Chronicles” too shameless? His own film is so bad that no one wants to watch it, yet he’s forcibly occupying these allocation resources. Even if he could not sell the tickets, he’s not willing to make room for other films? A lot of people want to watch “Chasing the Light” but there are not sessions available! ]

He Xiaochen became even angrier when she thought about how she had searched for a long time yet had not managed to get a single ticket.

Shen Li’s eyes drooped.

She did not need to think hard to know that this was Yu Media’s doing.

The reason for their actions was simple: they wanted to ensure that their screening schedules were kept to the greatest extent in order to avoid going offline early due to poor box office sales.

In addition, if the movie was locked down, they would have room to maneuver and increase the box office.

As long as they created the illusion that the tickets were sold out, even if no one was watching, they could count this part of the movie as their box office results.

This kind of behavior was actually very shameful, especially for “Fantasy God Chronicles” and Yu Media. It was simply too degrading.

However, they probably had no other choice now.

The total box office sales in the past two days had barely exceeded 30 million. Anyone could easily tell that their box office sales would only get worse in the future.

As a result, they could only rely on this method to barely maintain the last bit of their reputation that they had.

Shen Li opened her Weibo and searched for news on “Fantasy God Chronicles” in real-time.

The page was refreshed, and almost all of them were complaining about how horrible the movie was. Shen Li scrolled down and soon found that there were indeed people complaining about the number of showtimes for “Fantasy God Chronicles”.

This was especially true in some small and medium-sized cities. There were very few cinemas, so the audience had very few choices.

“Fantasy Gods Chronicles” were occupying a considerable amount of showtimes because of its tight screening space. Many people had gone to the theater, but found that there were no other movies to watch at that time. Thus, they had been forced to choose “Fantasy Gods Chronicles”.

There were no suitable sessions for those who wanted to watch “Chasing the Light”, so they could only give up.

Shen Li looked at it for a while and soon found something unexpected.

Someone had posted on Weibo.

[ It wasn’t easy to get tickets for “Chasing the Light”, yet the tickets showed “Fantasy God Chronicles” instead?? What kind of deception is this? ]

There were two pictures attached below. One was a picture of “Chasing the Light” that had been taken in the theater, and the other was of two movie tickets with the words “Fantasy God Chronicles” printed on them.

Looking at the two photos, Shen Li raised her eyebrows.

Yu Media was truly insane. Were they even willing to do something like steal the box office earnings?

Her lips were slightly curved, but there was no smile in her eyes, only cold ridicule.

It was only the third day, yet Yu Yu could not take it anymore?

She exited Weibo and sent a message to He Xiaochen.

[ The new showtimes for “Chasing the Light” should be coming up soon. I’ll watch it then. ]

He Xiaochen sighed.

[ I hope so. ]

After that, Shen Li gave Zhao Xuan a call.

…

In the afternoon, an entertainment account with a million fans posted a Weibo.

[ Eight colors entertainment: Shocked! It’s been suspected that “Fantasy God Chronicles” has deliberately locked down their venues to grab sessions for their film and stolen the box office earnings from “Chasing the Light”! ]

Below was a grid, including many screenshots of “Fantasy God Chronicles” where only one ticket was sold, as well as many people’s complaints and photos of people who had clearly watched “Chasing the Light” but had received “Fantasy God Chronicles” tickets.

This was really a very direct thing, plus the blogger had organized it very clearly, so it was clear at a glance. Everyone quickly understood what had happened.

It was like a stone that caused a thousand ripples!

The comments rapidly increased.

[ Locking down the field? Stealing the box office earnings? Is there something wrong with “Fantasy God Chronicles”? ]

[ I was wondering why “Fantasy God Chronicles” had such a high rating when it was so terrible. So, it’s because they used such underhanded means?! ]

[ Let’s not talk about how they locked down the venue. Isn’t stealing the box office earnings too much? ]

[ Me! Me, me, me! When I watched “Chasing the Light” this afternoon, the theater gave me the tickets to “Fantasy God Chronicles”! I even asked the theater staff, and they said that it wouldn’t affect anything and that all of them watched it the same way. So they were trying to steal the box office earnings from “Chasing the Light”? Bah! How shameless! ]

[ I really want to vomit! This was a movie that a few hundred million yuan had been invested in? This is Yu Media which has stood at the top of the domestic film investment industry! This behavior was too disgusting! I won’t watch any more movies released by Yu Media in the future! ]

[ Heh, this company belongs to Yu Cheng. It’s not strange for it to be like this. ]

…

As soon as this Weibo post was posted, the number of reposts increased rapidly, and it soon caused a storm of public opinion.

#Fantasy God Chronicles lock down #

#Fantasy God Chronicles stealing the box office earnings from Chasing the Light #

It did not take long for the related entries to make it to the hot search rankings.

Since it involved the two most discussed movies, this matter attracted a lot of attention.

It was understandable to lock down the market, but stealing box office earnings was touching the industry’s bottom line.

When Yu Yu found out about this, she immediately called for a meeting at Yu Media’s headquarters.

She had not slept well these past few days. Seeing that “Fantasy God Chronicles” had only managed to hit 30 million at the box office in two days, she was so stressed that she almost broke down.

“Think about it carefully. With the current situation, what should we–”

As Yu Yu spoke, she was suddenly interrupted by Liu Bo, who was sitting on the right.

“President Yu, President Yu, please…”

Her face instantly darkened.

“What now?”

Liu Bo gulped and said with difficulty, “… Someone reported us to the film bureau, saying that we are being suspected of violating the rules! The film bureau is already preparing to investigate us!”

Yu Yu’s heart sank!

“What?”