Chen Cong and Du Ziteng’s decision

Kyoto, Tiange Game Club.

Chen Cong leaned back in his office chair, slowly hung up the phone, and then turned to look at Du Ziteng.

"Mr. Chen's movie is hitting theaters on August 15th."

"Hmm, isn't that great? We can go support it then."

Du Ziteng nodded upon hearing this. He had been paying attention to Mr. Chen's new movie and had even learned the details from the two managers at Lanpian Film and Television.

"But I'm a bit confused?"

Chen Cong looked puzzled.

"Confused? What are you confused about?"

Du Ziteng looked at Chen Cong in confusion, not knowing what Chen Cong was confused about.

Chen Cong looked at Du Ziteng and asked.

"Tell me, is there anyone who finishes a movie and then doesn't do any promotion at all before putting it in theaters?"

"That's unlikely. No matter how good a movie is, if there's no promotion, no one will know about it."

Du Ziteng shook his head lightly.

Finishing a movie without promotion—how could that be possible?

Nowadays, which movie doesn't do promotion before release?

Some directors even want the movie to be known nationwide so that it can sell well on the first day.

How could there be no promotion?

"Mr. Chen didn't do any promotion."

Chen Cong spoke slowly. Wang Bin from Lanpian Film and Television had just called him to inform him of the movie's release time and then told him about the current situation of the movie.

"None at all?"

Du Ziteng asked uncertainly.

"None at all."

Chen Cong nodded.

"This…"

Du Ziteng fell into silence for a moment. After finishing a movie, not doing any promotion—what exactly did Mr. Chen want to do?

After a long while, he came back to his senses and looked up at Chen Cong.

"Then what do you plan to do?"

He knew that Chen Cong was planning to put Mr. Chen's movie into his own cinemas and arrange for it to be played during prime time.

But now that Mr. Chen's movie hadn't done any promotion, it would undoubtedly greatly affect the cinema's occupancy rate.

Chen Cong sighed long and hard upon hearing this.

"I choose to continue supporting him."

"Aren't you worried that if the movie is poorly made and is just garbage, it will affect your cinema's box office revenue?"

Du Ziteng looked at Chen Cong curiously.

Chen Cong's family's Tianda Plaza was open all over the country, and every Tianda Plaza had a Tianda Cinema.

If all the Tianda Cinema locations nationwide played Mr. Chen's movie during prime time, it would undoubtedly be a very risky move.

After all, Mr. Chen hadn't established Lanpian Film and Television for very long, and when he had a drink with the two managers from Lanpian Film and Television last time, they also understood the configuration of this movie.

First, when Luo Xiao directed this movie, he had only directed two movies before, and both ended in failure.

Second, the actors used in this movie were all novices and would not bring any traffic at all.

Third, it was what he had just learned: this movie had not undergone any promotion.

A director who had failed twice, actors with no acting experience and no traffic, plus no promotion.

Combining these three points,

Anyone would feel that this movie had nothing to look forward to.

If Chen Cong was just doing it to save face for Mr. Chen and simply helping out, it could be understood, but if he were to stake all the cinemas nationwide on that uncertain movie, it would truly be a bit unreliable.

"I am a bit worried, but when I drank with Luo Xiao and the other guy last time, I could feel that those two were very confident about the upcoming movie."

"Of course, a more important point is that even if this movie is poorly made and fails, the only thing I lose here is some money. But at my home, would we be short of that money? It's just earning a little less."

"Moreover, 'adding flowers to the brocade' is not as good as 'sending charcoal in the snow'. I suspect Mr. Chen didn't invest in movie promotion because he didn't have the spare funds. I know recently that Mr. Chen's Garment factory is being rebuilt, and the entire Industrial Park has become Mr. Chen's Garment factory."

"Rebuilding such a large Industrial Park undoubtedly requires massive funds to support. It's very likely that Mr. Chen poured all the Group's capital into the reconstruction of the Garment factory, which is why there was no extra money to promote the movie."

"And if I ignore the risks of that movie right now and have all the Tianda Cinema locations across the country play Mr. Chen's movie during prime time, that is undoubtedly 'sending charcoal in the snow'."

"Once our actions are known by Mr. Chen, we will undoubtedly gain Mr. Chen's friendship. Once we have Mr. Chen's friendship, won't our future cooperation with Snowy Sky Games be much smoother?"

Chen Cong spoke eloquently, with a faint smile on his face.

He felt this was an opportunity to build a good relationship with Mr. Chen.

Du Ziteng nodded in agreement as he listened to Chen Cong's explanation, but he soon looked at Chen Cong with some confusion.

"If you do this, will your father allow it?"

He just remembered that the Tianda Cinema didn't belong to Chen Cong, but to his father, Chen Tianlin.

Chen Tianlin could be considered an old businessman; would he allow Chen Cong to be so willful regarding such a risky behavior for a cinema?

"Him? He's been wanting to retire for the past two years to train me and hand over Tianda Group to me. If he doesn't agree, he can forget about me returning to work at Tianda Group. He wants to retire? No way."

Chen Cong said with an indifferent expression.

Taking over a Group company involves a lot of things to deal with, and he wasn't willing to do it at all.

Uh!

Du Ziteng was stunned for a moment as he listened to Chen Cong's words, and then he thought of himself.

Wasn't he the same?

Wasn't his old man the same, urging him from time to time to take over part of the company's affairs, and then gradually hand over the Group company to him.

Sigh!

Du Ziteng couldn't help but let out a long sigh.

Chen Cong also couldn't help but sigh when he heard Du Ziteng sighing.

Then the two looked at each other and smiled helplessly.

"Since you want to gain Mr. Chen's friendship, I have some methods too. I can't let you do everything."

After a while,

Du Ziteng looked up and said slowly.

"What method?"

Chen Cong looked at Du Ziteng in confusion, not knowing what other method Du Ziteng had to gain Mr. Chen's friendship.

"You said Mr. Chen might not have enough funds to promote Boring Short Videos, so I'll find a way to help promote the movie."

Du Ziteng smiled slightly as he said this.

"Don't forget about Tiger Head Livestream. Just have the person in charge of Tiger Head Livestream issue a task for those streamers on Tiger Head Livestream to help promote Mr. Chen's new movie, wouldn't that work?"

"Hmm, that's a good idea, and we can let Jiang Jiu and the others try it first."

Chen Cong's eyes lit up.

He was responsible for arranging the movie for the best broadcast time, and Du Ziteng was responsible for promoting it on Tiger Head Livestream.

Combining the two, wouldn't it be perfect?

Thinking of this,

The two smiled at each other.