Hong Kong Entertainment's Life Simulator

Chapter 56 It's Really Heartbreaking
After a period of time, Zhao Donghuai sent He Guanchang away, and after he tidied up, he just planned to go to the Qingshuiwan studio to develop the sample of the new action type filmed yesterday.

I saw a young man in a suit knocking on the door.

After the young man saw Zhao Donghuai, he also smiled enthusiastically, "Director Zhao, I Li Guoxing, it's really not easy to find this place."

Zhao Donghuai invited the other party in, and said with a smile, "Li Sheng?"

Li Guoxing smiled even brighter, "I came here uninvited, so I'll make a long story short. I came up with 1000 million yuan to buy out New World's distribution rights in Southeast Asia, Wanwan, island countries, and South Korea."

"I know that director Zhao is cooperating with Shaw Brothers, and there is no shortage of distribution channels, but the release of Shaw Brothers is released in which month, how long is it released in various places, and how much time do you have to checkout after the release? Transfer? It won't be half a year, right? , it is even more difficult to be dragged by the card.”

"If Director Zhao is willing to sign a contract, 1000 million will be credited within two days."

Zhao Donghuai, "..."

This is one of the key channels for Hong Kong films to make money. The box office in Hong Kong really doesn’t make a lot of money. It’s a problem to slowly pay back the investment of 500 million yuan. Wait for a few months for you to split the box office, and send it slowly.

Of course, it is not uncommon for darker ones to delay you for half a year or a year.

When you go to other cities, whether it is Wanwan, South Korea, Daoguo theaters or Xingjiapo, Malaysia and other places, you will slowly settle the accounts after the release and release, and share the accounts with Shaw Brothers, Golden Harvest and other companies, and then go to Shaw Brothers Golden Harvest to pay the bills. The production film company, then the time is...

It's fast to get it in half a year.

Selling out is a quick way to withdraw funds.

After Cheng Long became popular in this era, it is very common for a film to be bent before it is shot, and a Southeast Asian film company finds a film company and wants to buy out the distribution rights of a new film.

In the past, Zhao Donghuai was unknown, but now it is normal for publishers to come to him.

After thinking about it, he smiled and said, "1000 million? Li Sheng is a little sincere."

Just like what He Guanchang said before, Cheng Long's "Master Long" cost 1800 million Hong Kong dollars in Hong Kong, but including Wanwan, South Korea, Xingjiapo, an island country, etc., it was about 1300 million US dollars.

Calculated at [-] US dollar to [-] Hong Kong dollars, that is a box office of [-] million Hong Kong dollars.

Even if they share with theaters around the world, they will still have tens of millions. This is how Golden Harvest and Cheng Long make money, and it is also the reason why Cheng Long's film salary is so expensive, not to mention that theater releases are only one of the profits, and there is also video tape distribution. .

This is not the 90s, when DCD and VCD were rampant, and pirated copies were everywhere. In this era, video tapes were basically used for video recorders, which were expensive and difficult to deal with, and the distribution of video tapes was also very profitable.

Before the rise of piracy, the benefits of videotapes were actually great.

You said that the exchange rate between the Hong Kong dollar and the U.S. dollar has been changing. Master Long’s example is not appropriate... You’re right. In the early and mid-70s, a U.S. dollar was only exchanged for a little over five Hong Kong dollars.

October was the month when the Hong Kong dollar and the US dollar were fixed at 10 to [-], which has remained unchanged for many years.

Take plan A as an example. It will be released in December this year. The Hong Kong dollar exchange rate has already been set. Hong Kong Island’s local port is more than 12 million, ranking below the five lucky stars and the best partner. But an island country is 1900 billion yen, worth more than 31 Ten thousand U.S. dollars, at this time the U.S. dollar to the yen is around 1000:1.

The total box office is about 2600 million dollars, and the island country accounts for half of the total box office.

Multiplied by 2, the total box office is more than [-] million Hong Kong dollars!

Roughly half or more will be distributed to theaters in various countries. For taxes, publicity and distribution costs, and other miscellaneous fees, Golden Harvest and Cheng Long can also pocket about 8000 to [-] million yuan, and the videotape will be even more profitable.

But this is Cheng Long.

If the market in his new world is too poor in the island country, or it may not be able to enter the big theaters.

It is not too much to cut nearly half of the total box office, maybe [-] million Hong Kong dollars. This is still the benchmark A plan, the data of all box office sales outside the island country.

The original genuine Infernal Affairs 1 and the new world are in the island country? ?Not many box office gains.

Tax deductions, publicity deductions, half of the theater deductions, and a few percent deducted by Shaw Brothers in Hong Kong Island, he will only get [-] million or so in his pocket, and it will take a lot of time to wait. If the box office in any country fails to explode If so, the numbers will be less.

If I was scammed by a theater dealer in another city, if I stole the box office...

In this way, taking 1000 million within two days is not too small.

"It's okay to sell out, but I want 500 million."

All other cities are as popular as Hong Kong Island. After waiting for a few months or even more than half a year, more than 2000 million will be recorded in succession, and 500 million in a few days. He will definitely choose the latter.

In other words, the total box office figure of Hong Kong Island is similar to the final net box office profit of other cities.

But the biggest problem is that he doesn’t know anyone in Xingjiapo, Malaysia, India, Thailand and other places. Halfway through, it was hard for him to prove it.

Even if Boss Shao is very kind and doesn't cheat, what about the theaters in various countries?After the millennium, theaters in various provinces and cities in the Mainland steal the box office, and it is difficult to restrain those with the Chinese prefix. How can we talk about overseas tricks in this era?
It's really better to get the money in advance to do some business, and even take advantage of the current low real estate market price to collect a few good houses with room for appreciation.

Before Li Guoxing could speak, he continued, "There's no need to bargain. Everyone knows that my film is thanks to Shao Sheng's support. If you agree to the figure, I still have to ask Shao Sheng if he is willing to buy it out at the same price as you. "

He and Shao Daheng have always been considered a win-win situation, helping the sparsely populated Shaw Cinemas, from Du Qifeng to Zhou Runfa, he also made great efforts to support it once.

If he poached Du Qifeng, Zhou Runfa, Wan Ziliang and others to sign roles during the filming, it would definitely be unfair, but he didn't poach any of them!

Since then, the salary of that large group of people has risen sharply, and he can't get a cent.

Shaw can be divided into commissions.

It's just that the new film wants to sign Lan Jieying as the heroine. When I asked Lan Jieying, the other party didn't officially sign with TVB, and he didn't steal her.

From Shaw Brothers renting equipment to the studio, crew, screening, etc., he also paid enough money according to all the rules.

It was shown in Shaw theaters, and it was a small and medium-sized company model. Shaw theaters divided 6% and he got 4%, not Xu Guanwen's Golden Harvest release. Cheng... His company has Golden Harvest shares, subsidiaries, and Golden Harvest will divide it again.

The most important thing is that at the beginning, it was only said that it would be released on Hong Kong Island, so we made an appointment.

Waibu didn't say anything, and there was no verbal agreement. At that time, Shao Daheng was thinking that he would rush to the street and ask Wang Tianlin to remake it.

Li Guoxing frowned and thought for a while, then nodded, "All 1500 million will be issued, yes, you can talk to Shao Sheng, and call me anytime."

After speaking, he took out a business card and put it on the table, smiled politely, and left.

Boss Li wanted to get the videotape together, but unfortunately, he knew that the videotape was useless after asking the theaters to release it. The videotape, Huang Feihong's Top Gun in 1991 and Ajie's, had a box office of 2900 million Hong Kong dollars in Hong Kong, but from 91 to 2001, Just renting video tapes, Amei earned 1023 million dollars.

hanging?

Ajie's Fist of Fist has a box office of 1500 million Hong Kong dollars on Hong Kong Island, which is considered a pure hit in terms of his popularity, but the rental and sales of Amei's DVDs are 840 million dollars, and the video tapes are 835 million dollars, a discount of more than 1 million Hong Kong dollars.

Hei Xia has a box office of more than 1300 million Hong Kong dollars on Hong Kong Island, hitting the streets!Amei's DVD rental was 1860 million dollars, and the video tape was 1747 million dollars. A black man only worked as a salesman in North America and earned 3607 million dollars. According to a ratio of 2, it is more than [-] million Hong Kong dollars.

The big brothers who wear coats in the later generations are weak!

This is still a film that has not been shown in Amei theaters, or has a mediocre box office after its release.

Cheng Long also said later in an interview that he was paid $1 million for Rush Hour 500, but Rush Hour 2 was 1500 million plus $2000 million in dividends. With the $2000 million in dividends, the DVD and video tape market dominated the market.

After more than ten years of filming, there are still a lot of dividends in the account every year.

Therefore, in the Chinese film industry, Hong Kong Island and Hong Kong are tied for [-]% on Mondays, and Ajie is not far behind. Outside, Ajie and Cheng Long are both international superstars, and their salaries are exploding.

Similarly, it is not a year or two for videotapes to compete. It is common to still make money in ten or twenty years, and then the Internet copyright comes.

After watching Li Guoxing go, Zhao Donghuai grabbed the business card and played with it, then picked up the phone with a smile, and called Shao Daheng.

"Shao Sheng, I'm Zhao Donghuai. I'm resting at home today. A man named Li Guoxing came and said that he is willing to spend 1500 million to buy out the distribution rights of my new world theaters in East Asia and Southeast Asia outside the mainland."

"If I promise, I can get the money in a few days."

"I invested 500 million at the beginning, and the profits have doubled in the past few months. I am really excited. You know, I am short of Hong Kong dollars."

"But I haven't promised him yet, I'm still thinking about it, Shao Sheng, do you think I'll sell it or not?"

(End of this chapter)