>The Communist Party-run China Daily first alleged the distributor, Dayinmu Film Distribution, set up “ghost screenings” in which sold-out screenings started in less-than ten minute increments for two hour stretches after midnight. The paper ran pictures from social media accounts of the dubious showings, which purported to sell tickets costing $30, or five times the price of other showings that day.
fortune.com
Could this be happening in the US?
Other urls found in this thread:
en.wikipedia.org
youtube.com
deadline.com
translate.google.com.br
twitter.com
sounds more like tax fraud than anything else
Chinese cheat on everything...even movie showings apparently.
It is, but the incels need to keep talking about Disney products.
is there even a real LEFTIST in china? there are a few brave ones who do protests and such, those that get arrested... so officially i would presume they have none. what an ironic twist: the usa will become socialist and china will become neoliberal pigfuck capitalist
Yang is Taiwanese and red pilled
based ching chongs stickin' it to the mouse cucks
Advertising agencies do this on the US as well. They just spin it as “incels are crazy”
Did you read the article? They buy tons of tickets to inflate B.O.
I'm honestly not sure this is fake. The only reason I saw Avatar was because the TV told me the rest of America had seen it.
Have sex.
Imagine cinemas started playing movies for nobody at night and you were a worker just finishing up and you can hear ghost audiences clap.
>ghost screenings
Spooky
i like you
This. You buy tickets and create the hype and sensation, and FOMO takes care of the rest. It works.
>Is there a leftist in a country that has experienced 50 years of communism and now has a shot at capitalist prosperity.
What do you think, bud?
Capitalism unchecked is a direct threat to a government controlling a billion people.
So Chinese don't let ghosts in movies but they pay them to watch screenings? That's fucked.
>Americans ghosts
Can we meme this? Chinese are actually legit terrified of ghosts. Maybe we can say the Satanists at Disney are trying to summon "hungry ghosts" to China?
Hungry ghosts are a thing, Chinese people think they're about the worst.
Didn't Disney do something similar with Star Wars?
Kek. what?
Is this real?
>empty cities
>empty theaters
wtf where are all the chingchongs in china
"Hungry ghosts" aren't Satanist, they're Buddhist and just people burning off bad karma. People in China are areligious with folk superstitions more than anything, though.
it's bold claim, gonna need some evidence before I believe this.
>which purported to sell tickets costing $30, or five times the price of other showings that day.
Based chinks only charging $6 a ticket
Yes I promise you it's real, they even buy fake money and burn it to keep ghosts happy and shit.
OK you starry eyed one world idiot. I say they're demons. Folk religion is discouraged but actively practiced.
>chinese ditch planned obsolescence and go straight to selling products to non-existent people
lmao western capitalists think they're actually good at making money
S-shut up incels!
Have sex!
Who pays for ghost screenings
disney i guess. they have enough disposable income for it
>YouTube changes algorithm
>RT redesign
>RT stops accepting reviews below threshold
>Metacritic drops user scores
>"Journalists" in a tizzy
>Twitter in a tizzy
>Half empty theaters
>Ghost audiences
>insanely low critic and user scores (the ones they let be posted)
>Hollywood accounting
>Prelude to the biggest soi-movie ever
It's all legit goytlemen! Trust us!!
Makes sense - better to blow $50 million on fake tickets and maintain the appearance of success than lose $100 million on the stock market when your film bombs.
Like it's not infeasible to have third party firms buy out tickets, is it? You just fund them and have them purchase tickets en masse for no one. Everyone wins because this film isn't about box office, it's about their message. I'd like to know how much they offered RT.
I am an assistant manager at a local movie theater. I can't say that we've had any problems selling out shows to Captain Marvel with real, living people sitting in the seats. Maybe it's just a few theaters here and there that have problems with attendance, but Captain Marvel, followed closely by Medea Family Funeral and How To Train Your Dragon 3: The Hidden World, are the only thing bringing in the ticket sales right now. It just sucks that next week is US, the week after that is the real Captain Marvel, Shazam, and then Hellboy, and then Endgame. We really don't have any week to relax and just goof off in our shitty-paid wagie job.
Honk
Honk
classic textbook securities fraud
same as buying your own product
it can be written off and done legally but it has to be reported eventually
Ghosts are illegal in China. Disney will pay for bringing this evil to their land
It absolutely is happening in the U.S. also.
We’ve all heard of “Hollywood accounting” and there have been all kinda accusations of mostly empty theaters for Disney’s “Captain Marvel” flick, while at the same time, the studio is claiming bazillions of ticket sales and the same accusations were made for “Black Panther”.
Reminder FFVII the movie was NOT shown in China. Too ghosty.
>it's bold claim
How? Its common practice in the music industry, especially now where digital buys influence chart positions and radio-airplay.
Not saying its true but its very believable.
I guarantee a company like Disney takes enough precautions not to get caught (even if it is blatant). They'll have chains of middle-men hiring middle-men and shell companies for their shell companies and because it's fucking Disney nobody at the SEC will care enough to dig into it.
>Like it's not infeasible to have third party firms buy out tickets, is it?
Indeed, Disney sets up a company that exists to buy tickets for Disney flicks, which Disney counts as a profit and promotes as increased movie attendance and when the company goes bust, Disney further profits via tax write-offs.
>but it has to be reported eventually
pretty sure they just hide it in the marketing budget, maybe hire external contractors.
Even if they dodge legal repercussions the scandal will hurt them financially and people will be wise to these schemes in the future. It's a sign of weakness.
Hollywood accounting is one thing, a potemkin village premiere is another.
So they would play the movie for 10 minutes to give the illusion that it was playing, and then cut it thinking no one would notice?
>empty theater full of ghosts
>ghosts get angry if you don't show them the first 10 minutes over and over
they had to keep the ghosts busy until dawn or else evil mice would be released
They had to keep the ghosts busy till the Ghostbusters got there
>Even if they dodge legal repercussions the scandal will hurt them
What scandal? The government ain't going to do anything, as Disney bribes all the politicians and has dirt on them and the media is owned by same multi-national companies that all work together.
What scandal? The scandal all of the news outlets refuse to report on? The scandal whose discussion is censored and blacked out on social media sites?
As far as most people are concerned there is no scandal.
Kitty kitty wittle psycho scary mo fo I know you're here....pretty hard suck and very good intergalactic storage unit.
I've been trying to think this through from the reverse.
Are the reports of sold out theaters with lots of empty seats credible?
And if so, what other possible reasons could there be for so many unsold empty seats?
It seems more obvioius that they could set up a charity handpuppet, buy tickets, put "underprivliged" fuckers in the seats, without the obvious issue of having a bunch of empty seats.
you dumbfuck niggers
the stock market doesn't like it when you pull shit like this especially on the eve of a half trillion dollar merger
What is Jewish nepotism.
The people running the stock market go to the same temple as the people running Disney.
Would this be considered fraud, or totally legitimate? Any financial and legal experts around?
That one post mentioned the guy bought tickets in cash, twice. Maybe doing with legal tender allows them to slip by unnoticed because that won't be as easy to trace back.
All of the places around me were empty.
Plenty of ghost crab legs to eat at Chinese theaters I bet.
Of course it's fraud but as soon as some low level flunky in the SEC or IRS starts looking into it, one of Hollywood's bought-and-paid-for politicians squashes the investigation and the Mainstream Media sure as shit aren't going to expose it.
>Could this be happening in the US?
Yes
Disney buys a heap of online tickets through NGOs and write it off as tax deductions
Black Panther
Captain Marvel
These 2 definitely had this treatment.
Or they let some mid level Disney nobody take the blame for it and be disappeared. Won't even reach page 12. Or maybe it goes entirely unnoticed because all the transactions were done in cash.
Tax fraud usually implies not using fraudulent means to not pay taxes on earned money.
Selling out ghost showings of movies would be more likely to be money laundering, were money gained from illegal industrys like drugs, are then “paid” to legitimate industries, like movie showings, so you can pay taxes on the illegally acquired income, so it can then be used for official transactions, like buying property.
Alternatively, ghost showings could be used for publicity, or as a pump and dump means of raising the value of a property before a sale.
yes if the chinese are doing then the US market 100% is doing the same in some capacity
goddamn the paranoid retards here might have been right all along
Especially when you mix in guys coming in with cash. If the money is real, a theater chain isn't going to say no. A sold ticket is a sold ticket, but it does fuck with their expected concession sales because 500 tickets would probably except a certain number of popcorns and sodas sold, and that's how theaters really get their income for the first two weeks. But this HAS to be for the first two weeks so that more revenue returns to Disney.
couldnt it be legally considered marketing without it being technically fraud (ethically yes of course but not legally)?
Both lady ghostbusters and TLJ had the "It's a success, everyone's watching it, it's so good we're already planning sequels, come see what's the fuzz"
TLJ also used the confidence trick of "We like Rian so much we're giving him his own fucking trilogy!" A few weeks before release.
yeah exactly it's what I meant. The whole "oh everything is going absolutetly GREAT, the movie is so good and liked that we're already giving him THREE movies" seems like a cliche now
>ghost screenings
>when your local kinoplex's mausoleum is defiled by a necromancer and the theater exorcist is on lunch
This is why your theater comes equipped with a ghostlight to ward off the evil kino spirits. Use it.
Kek. Mutts BTFO!!!!
Avatar was fun, the visuals were grand then, Neytiri was a total slut, it's understandable.
H-h-have sex fucking incel!!!
judging by here, they all immigrated to america
youre all out of touch shut in retards. people go out ans watch movies. super hero movies appeal to all age groups. stop being retarded
are chinese supposed to be copying american corporations or viceversa?
big if true
People being paid to see Black Panther was not a secret though.
>Try to watch movie
>Zombie thots laugh at your small penis
people of Yea Forums needs to investigate this
Feige is Jewish too
Disney just got downgraded by S&P.
But they are inflating their earnings. Wouldn't that be the opposite of tax fraud?
It's viceversa. Facebook is desperately trying to push through to Chinese market for years now. Zuckerberg's recent censorious spergouts are nothing else but attempts to demonstrate ti Chinese government that he is able to hold tight leash over FB contents, which is biggest requirement of being able to work in China.
And people are noticing, Facebook was behind Goldman Sachs in recent ethic companies poll.
Explain
Just check the news bro
>“Ghost Screenings” and Fraud Hit Chinese Cinema
>“Ghost Screenings”
I thought this would be illegal in China?
>the usa will become socialist
HA HA HA HA HA HA
>universities, schools are all pozzed with liberal commies
>the future isn't socialist
ok bro
Their commie-government is "areligious".
"Areligious" people typically aren't willing to pay a Buddhist priest +$400 to "guarantee being reincarnated as an American citizen" or literally fucking kill themselves en mass to avoid being cremated after death.
Stacked-up like cornwood in suburban hovels, working 16-hours a day on a diet of gutter-oil.
Yeah bro, sounds sustainable.
We did, we found literally HUNDREDS of opening weekend screenings on websites and images from people actually at the theaters on twitter where screenings for Captain Marvel were near-empty.
If you believe that Captain Marvel is doing the gangbuster numbers they claim it is, you're a lunatic. Disney wanted the narrative that Captain Marvel is basically the most successful breakout solo Superhero character of all time because she's gonna be the new face of the franchise and Avengers, and they were going to get that narrative whether people showed up or not.
Here's a fun video too:
Wasn't Majora's Mask also banned due to depictions of Time-Travel also being illegal?
This needs to be the setting for some kind of alternate-universe fiction.
They have been pozzed since the 50's.
The youth were screaming about how the US would be Socialist, or outright Communist, back in 60's. And the 70's. And the 80's. And so on.
It's went down 15% from Monday to Tuesday
>4.25 crore
>$600,000
does that even count lol?
you mean in India? because it's like 10pm in Hawaii so no US earnings yet
boxofficemojo will probably take another 10 hours for Tuesday's numbers
You're thinking communism.
yeah. You would imagine a country of more than 1billion people would bring in more dosh
>actually thinking a billion Indians will march out to see Captain Marvel
>actually thinking the INR is worth a shit
most people watch Bollywood slop there, not English capeshit.
Based and informative post!
???
deadline.com
Nah, hollywood has always been tax frauding
the Marvel franchise is a huge money earner overall. it makes sense to prop up some of the shit ones like CM
sure it costs 50-100m, but it saves a billion dollar franchise from getting a stink attached to it, and stops a run on your stock
Sauce?
>ghost screenings
>free tickets
>opening in every market
captain marvel seems to be all the above
Sounds like the sort of shit Disney is pulling with Captain Marvel.
doesn't tuesday usually go up, a lot? at least in the US
Pajeets are DCshitters
>and stops a run on your stock
Which means it's a SEC violation. Disney should not be allowed to do this, but I have no idea who would be able to gather enough evidence to get the SEC moving on it. And that's assuming Disney didn't get it swept under the rug through political connections.
With sufficient evidence the SEC would move on it because the fines would be huge.
This is literally the reason The Last Jedi was pulled from China so quickly. Not being familiar with Star Wars, the people who watched it in order to approve it for audiences did not realise Yoda was a ghost. But other people realized it after it was already showing.
China loves Studio Ghibli films (to the point that they're marathoned on TV every holiday season and Chinese New Year) and one of the most famous of these films is Spirited Away, which is a film about a young girl being transported into a world full of ghosts and other spirits.
And in My Neighbor Totoro, Totoro is sometimes called a ghost depending on the translation.
My Neighbor Totoro recently had a remastered re-release in Chinese cinemas and it was a huge blockbuster there.
It was actually shown there and it was very popular, apparently.
Yes, Majora's Mask didn't get a release there but not because of time travel.
It was because of the dark themes it had.
>can't get over the fact that Captain Marvel made a lot of money
I just realized Yoda doesn' behave like a ghost in TLJ solely to avoid offending the gooks. This is the state of american cinema under Disney. I'm pretty sure they added the lightning and a puppet Yoda just for that. they aren't that stupid to not realize the lightning bolt was problematic. But it didn't matter to the kikes at Disney. Chinabux matters.
A movie in Brazil had 4 million tickets bought by the Church that produced it in advance, which roughly means 20 million dollars, a bigger number than Captain Marvel currently has in Brazil (14 million).
It's pretty easy to do it in 3rd world countries and Disney wouldn't even need to buy THAT much because a certain amount of people would in fact go see it.
This
It kinda makes me glad I got pushed back down to floor staff, minimal bullshit to worry about during this upcoming Summer clusterfuck (Thanks Disney! Again!!)
Money laundering more likely
The more time passes, the more it seems like money isn't the goal. Just because Jewish economists say that printing money reduces it's value doesn't mean they can't change the rules.