The King of Huayu Science Fiction

Chapter 143 Sky-high copyright
当10月3号《信号》再次拿下9500万的票房，上映三天半累计票房达到3.15亿后，猫眼电影便把《信号》的票房落点从6亿直接提升到了10亿。

The outbreak time of the National Day file is relatively short. Although it is a 7-day holiday, the box office market will gradually decline from the 3rd. After the holiday, the market will immediately plunge, so the 10 billion box office forecast is already optimistic about "Signal" The reputation is good, and the box office trend will be relatively flat.

With the box office of Huaguo movies exploding, several major Hollywood distributors who were extremely interested in the copyright of "Signal" once again sent negotiators to Beijing on a transoceanic flight.

Because there is no branch or representative office in Huaguo, they have to bear this very troublesome communication mode.

As for waiting for DreamWorks to take the initiative to come to the door, this is very difficult to achieve.

Chen Jingxing is now planning to rely on the domestic box office results to raise the price, and he will not take the initiative to contact the Hollywood film company in a short time.

And although these Hollywood distributors have vaguely reached some py agreements or tacit understandings against DreamWorks behind the scenes, they dare not bet whether someone will sneakily reach a copyright transaction agreement with DreamWorks, so they can't afford to wait. .

This time, not only Chen Jingxing, Xu Wenshen and Yang Dairong, Huanshi.com and United Cinemas participated in the negotiation as producers, but in the negotiation, Chen Jingxing relied on the local box office - the domestic box office did play a big role.

Although we all know that the Huaguo film market is already the second largest box office in the world, the Hollywood distributors are still surprised by the prediction of "Signal" that the box office will reach 10 billion yuan.

According to the exchange rate at this time, 10 billion yuan is equivalent to at least 1.6 million U.S. dollars. Such box office results are also quite high in North America.

After a lot of verbal battles, the North American copyright of "Signal", excluding the online copyright, was finally sold at a price of 2500 million US dollars.

It can be said that this copyright transaction amount has set a record, surpassing "Hero" and Cheng Long's "Flying Dragon Rebirth", becoming the highest transaction price of foreign film North American copyrights.

Immediately, this news was disclosed to the media by the publicity team, triggering another wave of topic discussions.

In fact, this so-called record is actually a little watery. For example, European films, especially British films, entered the North American market through direct distribution or joint distribution. However, there are actually no local film companies in the UK. Although the British branch of a major Hollywood studio is a foreign film company in name, it is actually a family.

There are also Latin movies, because the proportion of Latin Americans in the United States is relatively high, and most Latin movies enter the North American market through joint distribution or split distribution.

Therefore, the buyout of the North American copyrights of commercial films basically refers to Asian films, and to be more precise, East Asian films.

Of course, this price is indeed quite exaggerated, so it is not an independent buyout by a certain distributor, but a joint buyout by Columbia and Lionsgate.

After all, "Signal" is a foreign film for North America, and it must be the lowest level when negotiating a bill-sharing agreement with theaters. Therefore, the copyright price of 2500 million US dollars must be at least 6000 million US dollars at the box office to recover the cost.

Not to mention the distribution costs, but there are still DVD distribution revenues after all. Although the DVD revenue has shrunk by more than half under the impact of streaming media, it is no longer the same as it was in the past-"Heroes" and other Chinese blockbusters used DVD copyright separately. For sale, the DVD copyright at that time was equivalent to the current online copyright.

Therefore, considering the income from other channels, as long as the North American box office of "Signal" can reach 5000 million US dollars, it can make some money.

But even so, the risk is huge. Although "Signal" is of good quality in their opinion, and it is not inferior to "Fatal Identity" from a movie point of view, North American audiences have a greater appreciation for foreign movies, especially non-English movies. It is really difficult to grasp. After all, "Hero" was a great success, but "House of Flying Daggers" was a hindrance to Sony. They still remember this lesson very clearly. Chinese movies were the most popular foreign movies in the North American market at that time. , the scenery passed for a while.

In order to share the risk, Lionsgate and Columbia joined hands and jointly purchased the copyright.

But up to this point, Chen Jingxing was basically sure that the two companies had already reached an agreement behind the scenes to deal with DreamWorks.

It is definitely Lionsgate and Columbia that blocked DreamWorks' split distribution requirements. It is not common to jointly purchase the copyright of a foreign film in Hollywood. The negotiators of the two companies can make up their minds within a day. It is probably because of the negotiation.

Not to mention Chen Jingxing's displeasure with the two buyers, the other shareholders of DreamWorks and Huanshiwang United Cinemas, the two shareholders and co-producers, are very satisfied with this copyright transaction.

According to the exchange rate of 2500 at this time, 6.14 million U.S. dollars is 1.5 million yuan.

Even if the value-added tax and corporate income tax are removed, there are still 1.1 million yuan.

It can be said that close to the sale of the copyright, "Signal" has not only returned its investment, but also doubled its income.

The domestic box office share of "Signal" is pure profit.

Of course DreamWorks is the biggest beneficiary, Huanshi.com and United Cinemas also benefited a lot.

Even Penguin Video Network and Tianrun Pictures, which did not participate in the production of "Signal", were very excited because they participated in the production of "Source Code". In their view, today's "Signal" is their tomorrow.

After the copyright transaction was settled, DreamWorks.com and United Cinemas began to launch the overseas release plan non-stop. The distribution rights obtained by Guoying are limited to the domestic market, so this time the overseas release is still done by producers such as DreamWorks. take the lead.

With the distribution experience of "Fatal Identity", coupled with its good box office results, the overseas release of "Signal" will be much smoother.

Japan, South Korea, and Southeast Asian countries have all set release dates. Of course, except for a few countries and regions that release directly, most countries cooperate with local distributors for joint release.

Compared with "Fatal Identity", in the overseas release of "Signal", the producer mainly DreamWorks has gained more initiative, and has begun to establish its own distribution network and distribution relationship.

The so-called distribution network or ability is to use it to advance, not to lose it. The global distribution ability of major Hollywood companies is also a film. Chen Jingxing believes that DreamWorks will have real overseas distribution capabilities after one or two visits.

Out of the consideration of better publicity to stimulate the box office, and at the same time under the suggestion of local distributors in many countries, DreamWorks decided to send the main creative team to Japan, South Korea and various countries and regions in Southeast Asia to cooperate with the promotion of the film. .

(End of this chapter)