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"At the end of July, "Spiderman" and "Star Wars Episode 2" were released in mainland China, and "Infernal Affairs" ended perfectly with RMB 15720 million, which became a new record for Chinese-language movies in the mainland! The 22-year-old young director Wan Xiaohu became a Chinese-language The new overlord of commercial films!"

In the blink of an eye, July of 2002 has passed, and the storm effect of "Infernal Affairs" in Asia is still continuing, but the theater release has ended one after another. mme time.com naturally made detailed statistics on the box office of "Infernal Affairs".

Mainland box office.

In the first week, including the first day of release data on Sunday, there are a total of eight days, 5700 million yuan.In the second week, 3900 million RMB.In the third week, 2100 million RMB.In the fourth week, 1700 million RMB.In the fifth week, 1150 million RMB.The first week was 820 million RMB, the seventh week was 350 million RMB, and the total box office was 15720 million RMB.

Hong Kong box office.

In the first week, 2700 million Hong Kong dollars, in the second week, 1600 million Hong Kong dollars, in the third week, 980 million Hong Kong dollars, in the fourth week, 240 million Hong Kong dollars, in the fifth week, 50 Hong Kong dollars, with a total box office of 5570 million Hong Kong dollars, officially drawn.This figure is second only to "Shaolin Soccer", "Police Story 3: Simple Mission" and "Red Fan District", ranking fourth in the Hong Kong box office of Hong Kong films.

Asian overseas box office, 5970 million yuan, the current global total box office 26190 million yuan, or about 3200 million US dollars.The film has been sent to the Venice International Film Festival for exhibition, looking for distribution agents from European and American filmmakers.

It was a big success at the box office, but it has yet to surpass the 38460 million yuan of "My Sassy Girl" and the 4500 million US dollars of "The Butterfly Effect".However, in terms of word of mouth, "Infernal Affairs" has brought Wan Xiaohu to a new height, with Mtime.com's score maintaining at 9.1 points, and the media has crowned it as a masterpiece.

Of course, amidst such hype.Naturally, there are also many people who dismiss movies, thinking that movies are not so magical at all.

But as soon as the next news came out, this group of people would be ashamed.

Five Hollywood film companies watched "Infernal Affairs" at the same time and wanted to buy the copyright of "Infernal Affairs" for a remake.

"Since "My Sassy Girl", Hollywood has once again met thousands of young tigers. The five film companies have sent people to the capital to discuss... The reporter has learned from the copyright owner Dandelion Films. There are indeed five Hollywood guests, one of them It is the famous Warner Film Company. However, Dandelion has clearly rejected Hollywood's request to purchase the copyright."

"The reporter asked Dandelion's executives why they refused, but the other party did not give an answer. The reporter then asked whether Dandelion intends to enter Hollywood with the Wan Xiaohu version of "Infernal Affairs". I don't know what Dandelion's plan is. In addition, the reporter met Wan Xiaohu in a hurry. Wan Xiaohu replied that he had other arrangements for "Infernal Affairs", so he stopped talking."

Naturally, the media didn't know Wan Xiaohu's plan, because he had already decided that if "Infernal Affairs" failed to sell in Europe and America, then "Infernal Affairs" would be fiddled with.In his previous life, he had noticed that the Hollywood copyright of "Infernal Affairs" was only sold for 175 million US dollars, but "The Infernal Affairs" made nearly 3 million US dollars.

This isn't a Hollywood flop of My Sassy Girl, it's going to be a very successful one.It also helped Martin Scorsese get the best director statuette, how could it be sold at such a low price.Although Wan Xiaohu has no plans to enter Hollywood yet.It is estimated that he will not enter Hollywood to make movies in a few years, but it does not mean that he will let go of Hollywood's endless treasures.

First of all, Wan Xiaohu will preemptively register a batch of good scripts, and then he will buy the film and television adaptation rights to store a batch of good novels.

Naturally, Wan Xiaohu needed to own a small film company in the United States during this period.

Although the procedures are a bit complicated, as long as you have money.Acquiring such a small company is a simple matter.Dandelion's current cash flow is tens of millions of dollars more for the copyright fee of "Super Girl" alone, plus the income from several movies, a total of 6000 million dollars.

"This meeting is held to discuss the matter of entering Hollywood. We have too much cash flow and can't find investment directions. The mainland film market is too small, and there are no good films worth investing in. We have released three films in a row. , did not spend $1000 million. Compared to revenue, our spending is a failure."

"Butterfly Effect", "Crazy Stone" dvd distribution, income from TV broadcasting rights, box office share of "Infernal Affairs" and video products that have already started, advertising endorsement income of "Super Girl", artists under Shining Star, Jeon Ji-hyun , Huang Xiaoming, and Huang Bo are all popular, and their income continues to increase.

The company has new money coming in every day.

But spending is too wasteful.

The investment in "Night Watchman" is considered large, 400 million US dollars, and 10,000+ may be posted every month, and Mtime.com also needs tens of thousands of posts per month.

"Crazy Racing" was 2500 million RMB, but before the filming started, the placement of advertisements was under negotiation, and the copyright distribution was snatched up by Huayi Brothers at a high price, and the cost had already been paid back.

The copyright of "Savage Senior Sister" was 800 million yuan, and the copyright was reserved by Yu Dong at a high price. Yu Dong's Bona Film has already discussed cooperation with the central enterprise Poly Group to establish Poly Bona Film Company, which will be a big company that is not inferior to Huayi Brothers.This also pays off.

"Infernal Affairs 2" is even wilder, because there is no plan to invite Andy Lau and Tony Leung, the budget of the film has been greatly reduced.However, in order to obtain the agency rights, Huanyu Films directly invested 800 million Hong Kong dollars in advance, and various advertisers asked to be implanted in "Infernal Affairs 2", and the advertising fees continued to rise.

Before filming started, the film has already started to make money, which is a rare thing in Hong Kong in recent years.

"Super Girl" is even more powerful. It was named by Mengniu at a sky-high price of 1 million yuan. Although the bulk was taken by Shonan Satellite TV, MapleStory Entertainment still made a lot of money and was assigned to Dandelion.

In this case, dandelions are really hard to spend money on.

If you can't spend money, you can only deposit it in the bank to earn interest, but it is just a stupid way to deposit it in the bank.As a high-end person reborn, Wan Xiaohu would never allow this to happen.

"I have made a budget to acquire a small film company in the United States through an agent. Ten million dollars is enough. After the acquisition, I will be in charge of the production of the film. I don't want to develop it. I just want to make Dandelion have a presence in the United States. A foothold. I have some ideas, which must also be completed through a dedicated film company. 1000 million acquisition funds. Add 1000 million operating funds, and it will be fine."

When Wan Xiaohu spoke out his thoughts, he basically made a decision.His prestige in Dandelion is definitely at the level of one word, and Su Ya also blindly worships Wan Xiaohu.

"Even if we acquire a company in the United States, we still have 3000 million US dollars that we can't spend. You all have to make up your mind and see how we spend it."

"How many theaters to buy?" a supervisor suggested.

"It's too difficult for movie theaters in the mainland to make a profit, and we can't buy a few theaters with 3000 million yuan." Another executive denied.

"Hey, how many more artists will you sign?"

"Flashing Star's policy has always been to strive for perfection. The current four artists are enough for us to operate." Li Xia shook his head.

Ma Yudong, the director of the production department, suggested: "President Su, President Wan, since we have already filmed films in Hong Kong, why don't we consider establishing a company in Hong Kong, or directly acquiring a company?"

Acquire an American film company, and then another Hong Kong film company?

That's a good idea.

Wan Xiaohu nodded: "Tell me in detail."

"It is always a pity to rely on other people's distribution network. We should build our own distribution network. There are many established film companies in Hong Kong. There are also many companies with distribution networks in Southeast Asia and other markets. We can directly acquire them and then take over the original network. , with our Dandelion's current reputation, it shouldn't be difficult to expand our network."

"That's right, the distribution of movies. Sometimes it's more profitable than the production. We can't lose this piece of cake."

Ma Yudong said with a smile: "Actually, I have been in Dandelion for so long, and I have always been very pleased with the vigor and vitality of the company. With an excellent director like Wan Dao in charge, the future is promising. And I am also concerned about our shortcomings. Distribution channels Blocking, it seems that the paving is very large, but in fact it is all empty, and the complete upstream and downstream are not done well. It is very difficult for Dandelion to take care of all aspects in a short time, but there are shortcuts.”

"Director Ma, don't sell it, just say it, we are all waiting for your opinion."

"Haha, I don't dare to take it for a high opinion, I just throw bricks to attract jade. There is an old film company in Hong Kong. Everyone knows that Golden Harvest Entertainment Co., Ltd. is an old film company in Hong Kong. After buying 2000, not only Hong Kong movies are in a downturn, but these old film companies It has also become sluggish, especially Golden Harvest, now that Golden Harvest is weak, it is a good time for us to acquire."

Golden Harvest Entertainment, the famous film company in Hong Kong back then, was founded by a generation of tycoon Zou Huai. It made Bruce Lee and Cheng Long popular, two international superstars.Of course, this is the past.

Now Golden Harvest is not as good as every year, and fewer movies are made every year, and its theaters are also unable to make ends meet due to daily losses.Now the market value of Golden Harvest as a whole is only 5 million Hong Kong dollars, which is a little more than 4 million yuan.

"Although Golden Harvest is good, is Zou Huai willing to sell the shares now?" Wan Xiaohu wondered, he knew that later, around 07, Golden Harvest was acquired by Orange Sky Entertainment.But now, a year earlier, it's hard to say whether Golden Harvest's Zou Huai has the intention of retiring.

"Mr. Wan, Zou Huai is already 75. Seventy is rare in life. His daughters, except for one daughter, have all gone overseas for development. He has no intention of taking over Golden Harvest, which is getting worse and worse. Others are 70 years old. He's retired, how long can he last? We don't have to buy it, we get in touch slowly, as long as Zou Huaiyou loosens up, then we will do it."

In the end, the company meeting passed a resolution to acquire Golden Harvest.

The former overlord has grown old, and it is time for a new generation of filmmakers to make way.

ps: Messy and clueless.

Things are busy recently, and the manuscript is rushed.

This ** is not handled well, sorry!

Allow me to take a breath, first conceive the story, let's explode, two more for the time being.

I'm so sorry.

I'm so sorry!

0190【The next plan】

Whether it is the acquisition of an American film company or the contact with Golden Harvest Entertainment, there are professionals who do not need to worry about Wan Xiaohu.He belongs to the role of the company's strategic commander-in-chief. When he is free, he can give advice and tell others what to do. If he really wants to do it himself, he can't do it.