The State Administration of Radio, Film and Television severely cracks down on box office fraud and the Office of Electricity and Resources: There are indeed loopholes in the system

In response to the recent hotly debated news of some movie box office fraud, the head of relevant departments of the State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television responded in an interview with CCTV reporters, saying that they would regulate ticket management through various channels and severely crack down on box office fraud.

The so-called movie Ghost Arena refers to the number of theaters lining up at midnight, and the venue is full, in order to boost the box office, but in fact there is no audience at all. This year, domestic films such as "Monster Hunt" and "Lost in Hong Kong" have been reported to have box office fraud.

The illogical phenomenon of a two-hour-long film appearing in the same theater at intervals of half an hour or even 15 minutes puts some films and theaters in the embarrassing situation of box office fraud.

State Administration of Radio, Film and Television: Strictly crack down on box office fraud In

response to the recent hotly debated news of box office fraud of some movies, the head of relevant departments of the State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television responded in an interview with CCTV reporters, saying that they would regulate ticket management through various channels and severely crack down on box office fraud.

Issuer: There are hidden secrets about box office water injection.

Li Dong, deputy director of the Film Finance Office of the State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television, analyzed the reasons for box office fraud and said: The distributor injected water into the box office in order to complete the box office tasks assigned by the film company, and poured water into the box office in order to create a first-round sensation of the film's release.

The Film Bureau has always paid close attention to box office fraud by a small number of theaters and film distribution agencies. In July 2014, it issued the "Notice on Forwarding the Implementation Rules for the Management of Cinema Ticketing Systems (Software)", clearly requiring: The screening plan (including screening of films and opening times, etc.) arranged by the cinema in the ticketing software must be consistent with the actual screening, and all actual screenings (including screenings in conference rental rooms) must be truthfully arranged or registered in the ticketing software. The corresponding screening plan. This means that as long as it is written in the schedule, it must be actually screened, and the screened times must also be registered in the system.

Cinema: Not monitoring of box office will affect the opening of theaters.

The reporter learned during the interview that at present, cinemas that apply for opening every day across the country must meet one of the approval criteria: the computer ticketing information system built by cinemas can be normally connected with the national data platform. If the data cannot be connected, it will affect the normal opening of the theater.

The "Implementation Rules for the Management of Cinema Ticketing Systems (Software)" also stipulates that cinemas (including movie ticket online distributors) must report relevant raw data of each movie ticket to the national data platform within 10 minutes after the completion of each ticket sales operation., cinemas must report statistical data on the previous business day to the national data platform before 12:00 on the same day, and the reported statistical data should include data on all screening activities during the previous business day. These two regulations require cinemas, including online movie ticket sellers, to report raw data related to movie tickets to the national data platform within 10 minutes after each ticket is sold. Shortening the time for uploading data to 10 minutes has greatly curbed box office concealment and fraud.

Box office: The calculation system does have loopholes or has been

flooded. Li Dong, deputy director of the Film Funding Office of the State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television, admitted that the vast majority of theaters are true and transparent under the constraints of the existing ticket management system. A few box office fraud behaviors are concealed to a certain extent. Some theaters and films have the phenomenon of falsely reporting the box office. For example, a 200-seat movie hall shows that 300 tickets have been sold, or regardless of ticket categories (full-price tickets, discounted tickets), all of which are reported based on the face price. The ticket amount is reported according to the price statistics... The rule of reporting ticket sales data within ten minutes allows for timely grasping and handling of these abnormal information.

Li Dong said that in the future, relevant management departments will continue to supervise theater ticketing regulations from aspects such as system improvement and technological updates, severely crack down on box office fraud, and issue a blacklist of violations in a timely manner; and call on movie audiences across the country to actively report problems with movie tickets or screenings to the film authorities.

Editor: vian