I want to be emperor

Chapter 1184 The movie is popular

In the theater, after the first movie was over, the audience came out one after another, and many of them were cursing.

But this did not affect the second round of spectators who had been waiting for more than ten minutes to enter.

Just after the second round of audience members entered, some people started arriving outside, but the movie had already started, so they could only wait for the next round.

Fortunately, due to cost control considerations, the movie "City Tour" is only 40 minutes long, which is not too long, so the audiences who arrive one after another don’t have to wait long to see it.

As for giving up halfway, this is unlikely.

Many people came here specifically to see the exhibit after seeing the information in the newspaper or flyers. It is unlikely that they would come from far away and then leave halfway.

Moreover, people these days don’t have many other entertainment activities, so they are still looking forward to movies and have a higher tolerance level.

Even those people who cursed after watching a movie, although they were still quite unhappy after watching it, would still recommend a movie or two when they heard others ask them whether it was good or not.

This is much more interesting than those documentaries.

Although the ending is fucked up, it doesn't prevent this from being a pretty good story movie. At least it has a plot, and the first half is quite funny.

Audiences these days have not seen any other feature films. The only films they have seen are documentaries. At the same time, movies are still a very new thing, so tolerance is very high.

This also directly led to the fact that after the release of City Tour, many viewers would tell their relatives and friends about it and even recommend it.

This resulted in more people coming to see the movie when it was shown the next day.

In this situation, Shi Tiancheng decisively found another theater and paid to borrow an unused projector from Chao Bao to show the second copy.

After a few days, we can’t say that every show was packed, but the attendance was pretty good. The most important thing is that the flow of people didn’t decrease at all!

  Looking at the steady stream of audiences, Shi Tiancheng realized that the movie was even more successful than he had expected!

After realizing this, Shi Tiancheng went straight to the Chaobao Theater, wanting to borrow their film broadcasting channels...not only to broadcast it in Hangzhou, but also to Songjiang and other cities.

The reason why this premise exists is that although these Chao Bao theaters are assets of the local Chao Bao institutions, their management is actually under the responsibility of Jinling Film Company.

After all, public welfare documentary films are also films, which involve copying, screening, and collecting admission fees. These things that have something to do with money are generally not managed directly by administrative agencies, but are done by officially controlled companies such as Jinling Film Company.

In other words, Shi Tiancheng could reach a relevant cooperation agreement with the Chaobao Theater and the Jinling Film Company behind it, asking them to help make film copies and broadcast them.

After Shi Tiancheng came to the door, it also attracted the attention of the local Chaobao Theater!

In fact, as insiders, many of them knew before that Shi Tiancheng had shot and produced a feature film... It was hard not to pay attention, because apart from those of them in Chao Bao, there are only a few individual enthusiasts who are into movies nowadays, and Shi Tiancheng is the only one who directly treats it as a business.

So there was some early contact.

After City Tour was released in recent days, the viewing craze it caused also attracted the attention of the local Chao Bao Theater, and many people even went there to watch it.

After all, they are all insiders who make documentaries every day. When a commercial feature film suddenly pops up, they are naturally very curious.

After watching it, the reviews were pretty good. At the same time, they also noticed the audience's reaction. Although there were many people who criticized it, the general response was pretty good, especially many people said that they would recommend it to their relatives and friends to see something new.

Considering that the ticket price for this movie reached 300 Chu cents, it was significantly higher than the price of only a few dozen Chu cents when the documentary was shown in their Chaobao Theater.

This also made them see the commercial potential of the movie City Tour.

The relevant information was quickly transmitted to Jinling Film Company, and the eyes of the management of Jinling Film Company lit up...

You should know that Jinling Film Company has actually had a hard time in recent years... As a state-owned enterprise that has been tasked with the public welfare mission of broadcasting a large number of documentaries and conveying world knowledge to the public since its birth, Jinling Film Company has actually been making losses.

Although they do not need to shoot documentaries, and the Chao Bao theaters in various places are actually assets of the local Chao Bao organizations, the cost of editing and producing documentaries, then making a large number of copies and maintaining the nationwide release of documentaries is still very high.

Movie copies aren't cheap these days, and the cost doesn't change just because you're making a boring documentary or a commercial feature.

The high cost of film copies, the shipping costs of the copies, and then the screening costs all cost money.

However, the ticket price for these documentaries is only a few dozen cents, and they are often shown for free. For example, school students are regularly organized to watch some popular science documentaries for free.

The fees are low, the costs are high, and the scale cannot be reduced... The task set by the Ministry of Rites is to ensure that every prefecture has at least one Chao Bao Theater to broadcast these popular science and promotional documentaries, and to expand the coverage in densely populated areas.

The most important thing is that even if the fee is only a few dozen cents, not many people are willing to watch documentaries... documentaries these days are too boring.

This series of reasons has resulted in Jinling Film Company being in a state of loss for many years, and it needs special funds from the Ministry of Rites to maintain its operations.

But now, Jinling Film Company has seen another way to make money, which is to help people distribute and broadcast some commercial films.

In this way, we can make money from commercial films, and then have money to subsidize the broadcast of documentaries that promote science.

Therefore, the headquarters of Jinling Film Company soon sent a telegram to the local staff, agreeing to cooperate. After signing the formal contract, the relevant personnel were asked to bring the film copies to the studio of Jinling Film Company as soon as possible to make film copies.

If all goes well, the film company plans to produce about one hundred copies for screening in the Chaobao Theaters in the economically better cities in the Pan-Jiangnan region.

If the later results are good, they will increase the number of copies and expand the scale of release.

Of course, Jinling Film Company couldn't help Shi Tiancheng do this for free, they also have to share the money! First of all, the local Chaobao theaters have to share a portion of the box office. These theaters are the official assets of the local Chaobao institutions. The film company doesn't charge you rent for making documentaries, and they also provide you with staff, but if you use it for commercial purposes, they will settle accounts with you.

Therefore, the Chao Bao Theaters in various places must take a portion of the profit first!

Then the remaining box office share needs to be deducted from Jinling Film Company's copy production costs, copy transportation costs, etc. After deducting these costs, the film company and Shi Tiancheng will share the profits.

After all the negotiations were completed, Shi Tiancheng would probably be able to get about 35% of the box office revenue.

Shi Tiancheng was not dissatisfied with the result, but was very happy!

You know, this part of the profit share does not involve any extra cost for him... He does not have to make the copy anyway, he can just hand over the master tape of the film to Jinling Film Company and then wait for the profit sharing.

At the same time, the film company did not prevent Shi Tiancheng from finding a theater to show his movies and continue to make money.

If he doesn't have the channels from the power supply company, he can only rely on himself to find a theater, make copies, find people and train them for broadcasting. The cost investment will be relatively high and the speed of making money will be very slow.

But if he goes through the channels of the film company, then everything will be easy. He only needs to hand over the master tape of the movie to the other party's staff and then wait for the profit sharing.

He agreed to this good thing on the same day and signed a formal distribution agreement with the other party.

As the master tape of the City Journey movie was packed into several large boxes by several staff members of the other party and then carefully taken on the train, Shi Tiancheng returned to his photo studio with joy and anticipation.

  Although he had signed a distribution agreement with Jinling Film Company, according to the agreement Shi Tiancheng could only broadcast and screen the film on his own to make money, and he could even find other channels for distribution... because this was not an exclusive distribution agreement!

But Shi Tiancheng could only make one or two copies for himself at most. As for the channels... in those days, apart from Jinling Film Company, there was no other film distribution channel.

So exclusive or not doesn't matter much.

However, when the film industry develops in the future and other distribution companies emerge, it may be possible to sign exclusive distribution agreements.

But now, not yet!

  Therefore, Shi Tiancheng still has to be busy making the third copy himself, and then contact the third theater to broadcast it!

Nowadays in Hangzhou, the movie City Journey has become quite famous. A large number of people who have seen the movie will inevitably discuss it, and then it will spread from one person to ten people, and from ten to a hundred people. Finally, many people know that a new type of business story movie has emerged, which is much better than those documentaries.

Therefore, there are many visitors who come here to see the show.

This also resulted in the fact that although we cannot say that every movie screening in the two existing theaters was sold out, there were indeed full theaters during some time periods when there were more people.

  And this is all money!

There are dozens of viewers for each show, and as many as one or two hundred. So, the total cost of one show is several dozen Chu Yuan.

One round of broadcasting can be done in about an hour, from morning to night. Even if some of the sessions have a small number of viewers, the total amount is still two or three hundred Chu Yuan.

Although the two or three hundred Chu Yuan box office revenue needs to be used to pay the projectionist's salary, the theater's venue rental, and the wages of the theater staff, it is still very profitable in the end.

With two copies and two theaters playing the film together, within a few days Shi Tiancheng had recovered all the costs of making the film and making the copies, and he even made a small profit.

This means that the profits generated from subsequent broadcasts are pure profit.

Under such circumstances, Shi Tiancheng would naturally not give up the opportunity to make money. While the market was still hot and the customer flow was still increasing, he purchased more films, asked several people from Chao Bao who knew how to make copies to help make the third and even fourth copies, and rented several other small theaters.

Although the process is hard, seeing the money coming in, a little hardship is nothing.

After a few days, Shi Tiancheng even felt that this small workshop model was too inefficient and seriously affected the speed at which he could make money.

In addition, as the popularity of city tours continued to grow, even several local newspapers in Hangzhou sent reporters to conduct interviews and then conduct special reports.

The popularity of City Tour is also news worth reporting for these reporters.

As these mainstream official newspapers reported the incident, more people saw the relevant news, and then more people flocked to those theaters.

  This made it unprecedented that these theaters were fully booked all day and night!

It is hard to say how much profit Jinling Film Company's subsequent screening plans can bring to him, but the small-scale screenings he is organizing alone are enough to make him a lot of money!

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Shi Tiancheng quickly applied to register the "Shishi Film Company". Shishi is the homonym of Shi.

Shishi Film Company had just applied and had not even received formal approval, but Shi Tiancheng began to recruit people, set up a small copy production workshop, and sent people to Songjiang City to purchase more projectors and films.

This is to make more copies and screen them in more theaters. Shi Tiancheng also plans to screen them in some surrounding counties.

The screening market in the surrounding county towns is also blank, because these places don’t even have the morning newspaper documentaries for popular science propaganda... The screening of public welfare documentaries also has costs. Jinling Film Company is already losing money, and if it wants to expand its scale to county-level cities, it will be even more doomed... So far, the documentary screenings of Jinling Film Company have actually only covered prefecture-level cities, not county-level cities.

Even documentaries have never been shown in these places. When the time comes, I can just take my commercial feature film and show it there. The gimmick of being the first movie to be shown there will be enough to attract a lot of audiences.

In addition, he also bought two better 16mm cameras in preparation for shooting the next movie.

Shi Tiancheng wanted to strike while the iron was hot and shoot one or more movies, then broadcast them directly and distribute them through the channels of Jinling Film Company to make more money.

Shi Tiancheng knew very well that such an opportunity to make a fortune would only come a few times in a lifetime, so once it happened he had to grab it.

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