The King of Huayu Science Fiction

Chapter 71 Copyright Negotiations
Regarding things like stolen box office, unless you are a studio that has been rooted in theaters for many years such as Jianghe, Tianrun, Jingying, and United Cinemas, or you are Tai Suishan like Guoying, otherwise there is no good way Can suppress the ratio of being stolen.

Moreover, with the substantial increase in the number of theaters and screens in recent years, I don’t know how much capital has poured into this industry. Even the five major studios have gradually lost sight of fish in this pool of water.

In Chen Jingxing's previous life, both Penguin Films and Ahri Films sent large-scale inspectors to visit various theaters, including but not limited to entering the theater with their identities revealed by the ticketing software, and quietly counting people by pretending to be ordinary audience members. The inspection office secretly observes whether there are unticketed groups queuing up to enter the venue. According to the comparison of the screenshots of the ticket sales seats of each show and the data of the special fund platform the next day, they even use the summer employment demand to assign people to the theaters of major suspects to do part-time jobs.

All of the above are things that are still being done in 2020. Preventing theaters is comparable to preventing thieves.

This is why the producer of the final subtitles of "Fatal Identity" brought in more than a dozen other distribution companies in addition to Huanshi.com.

Some of these distribution companies are "supernatural powers", some are "sitting tigers", and some are simply the vests of certain theater chains. No matter how rich and powerful Huanshiwang is, it cannot undertake distribution by itself. Without the participation of these distribution companies, then It's just muddy water, and you can't see the fish in the water even with a searchlight.

These theaters can not only get half of the box office at the sole-funded box office, but can also steal a part of the off-book box office by stealing the box office, and can even get a part of the box office of the production and distribution. Years of crazy expansion.

In addition, there is also the problem of film scheduling. Although "Fatal Identity" has been brewing and fermenting rapidly since its premiere, word of mouth has spread rapidly, and even "tap water" has been born. Bringing your own dry food to promote the film can be said to be an illusion in the publicity and distribution. Wang has done the best he can do so far.

Perhaps in the eyes of Huanshi.com at the beginning, "Music World" released during the Spring Festival still had more publicity and distribution resources than "Fatal Identity", but since Chen Jingxing took away the gold award from Orlando, Huanshi.com also quickly increased the publicity and distribution resources Devotion, the energy it has invested is no less than that of "Music World", which is preparing to do a big job in the Spring Festival.

Gold awards, announcements, and word-of-mouth were basically achieved to the extreme, but the speed of rising film production was as slow as a tortoise crawling in Chen Jingxing's eyes.

It’s already the fifth day of the premiere, and the film schedule of “Fatal Identity”, which has an overwhelming reputation, is still only 35%, which is 31 points higher than the 4% the day after the premiere, and even still below 30% in some theaters .

According to Huanshi.com's estimates, when other films are either failing in word of mouth or at the end of their efforts, "Fatal Identity" is capable of occupying 40% of the film schedule.

Of course, the 5% of the film schedule in the middle was taken away by Jiang He's "Blood Knife Warriors".

Just like the "orderly increase" in the filming of "Fatal Identity", the filming of "Blood Knife Warriors", which has collapsed in word of mouth, is also "orderly decreasing".

This ability to influence film scheduling is one of the core strengths of Jangho Culture as the five traditional film studios.

Viewers and netizens are not sensitive to this kind of invisibility, so Huanshiwang and DreamWorks' joint reputation this time is mainly aimed at stealing the box office, rather than suppressing the release of films.

Because in the eyes of netizens, your film schedule is on the rise, and the film schedule of "Blood Knife Warriors" is also declining. If you complain about this, it will give people a feeling of dissatisfaction or even greed. Cultural predators have a deep-rooted influence in theaters.

Even if it was the counterattack movie that made people excited during the Spring Festival in the past few years, if you look carefully at their distribution company, it is also a famous giant in China.

Only when the "backer" behind them is similar, can there be a fair competition between "geniuses".

And Huanshi.com's move is to achieve the effect of killing two birds with one stone. By arousing netizens' dissatisfaction with the "stealing box office" incident, it will restrain the behavior of major theaters from stealing box office.

Then they used the revelations made by the employees of Tianhe Cinemas to force Jianghe Culture to spit out the film.

With the box office success of "Fatal Identity", Huanshiwang completed a perfect return of the king!In one fell swoop, it got rid of the haze of "Tai Shang Fu Mo" tragic hit the street two years ago.

If "Le Manrenren" can successfully reap the box office during the Spring Festival, Huanshi.com will immediately become the sixth giant in the Huaguo film industry.

Chen Jingxing admired the layout of Huanshi.com very much in his heart. Of course, he didn't know the pessimistic views of the senior officials of Huanshi.com on "Music World".

But as the saying goes, relying on others is worse than relying on yourself. He is not the contracted director of Huanshi.com, and Huanshi.com is not his grandson, and future movies cannot be completely escorted by Huanshi.com. .

DreamWorks is the foundation, and "Fatal Identity" is the opportunity for DreamWorks to turn into a butterfly. How much box office revenue can be won is actually a trivial matter. The box office of "Fatal Identity" will become his principal. , he will be able to leverage the resources of the film and television industry several times or even ten times, paving a smooth road for his future film projects.

While Chen Jingxing was setting his ambitions, on the other side of the ocean, the two producers of "Fatal Identity" were also having difficult negotiations.

"Zhang, your request is unrealistic. This is ridiculous. YiMou Zhang's "Hero" was preceded by "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon". Such a comparison is inappropriate. You rejected Miramax, Lionsgate chose to talk to us, I think you are here with sincerity, but I don't see your sincerity." The bald man with a helpless smile on his face shook his head and refused.

Zhang Tong seemed completely unfazed by the other party's tone, and continued to smile and said, "Mr. Birch, "Hero" has not won the Golden Spruce Award."

The bald man sitting opposite him was a negotiator from Columbia Pictures named Edward Birch.

As the biggest winner in Orlando, "Fatal Identity" naturally attracts major publishers in North America. Zhang Tong and Xu Wenshen chose Columbia after contacting and negotiating with major publishers. Now the two parties still have not reached an agreement on the copyright price.

Columbia Pictures is considered to be the first Hollywood company to co-produce films with Huaguo and even distribute and promote Chinese-language films overseas, such as "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", "Big Wrist", "Kung Fu", "Yangtze River No. 7" and more than 20 Huaguo films. The films are distributed overseas by him, and he can be regarded as an "old friend" of Chinese filmmakers. Both the promotion experience and sincerity of Chinese films are relatively sufficient. This is why Zhang Tong and Xu Wenshen are unanimously inclined to negotiate with them. the main reason.

(End of this chapter)