The King of Huayu Science Fiction

Chapter 74
Regarding Zhang Weiping's article, Zhang Jingyan called Chen Jingxing and asked him not to respond.

"Sister Zhang, do I seem to be such an unsteady person? What am I fussing about with him? Just talk, he won't lower the box office of "Fatal Identity"."

Zhang Jingyan chuckled: "You think he didn't complain that the copyright transaction amount of "Fatal Identity" threatened his record before he spoke?"

"Is there any other reason?"

"Zhang Weiping is a shrewd businessman, so it's not too early to be unlucky. After he broke up with the teacher, he has been silent for two years. He is coming back with a new work. Why don't we find someone to warm up and hype it?"

Chen Jingxing was a little depressed: "I mean, I haven't offended him. Why did it happen so suddenly? Then I can't cooperate with him. "Fatal Identity" is not short of popularity, so why let him benefit for nothing? His new project this time What is a movie?"

"It's produced by Jingying. Zhang Weiping is the producer. It's called "White-haired Witch". It's a martial arts movie. It has invited several big-name stars. The filming is almost finished, and it may have to wait until the summer release."

""The White-haired Witch"? Hehe..." Chen Jingxing showed a mysterious smile.

Compared with the unanimous applause on the Internet for the high price of "Fatal Identity" for selling overseas copyrights, other producers and even several major video websites are only jealous.

Although "Fatal Identity" claims to have an investment of 5000 million, in the eyes of his peers, at least a [-]% discount is required. Even if Luo Chen is a popular idol, his film remuneration is different from that of TV dramas.

Seeing that the domestic box office of the film is going to be more than 3 million yuan, and the copyright has been sold for tens of millions of dollars. This money does not need to be split. According to the current exchange rate, 1320 million dollars is equivalent to more than 8000 million yuan. The copyright alone doubles the profit Back, plus the box office...that's a profit of at least seven times the cost.

The most important thing is that the capital operation cycle is only two months. This level of profitability is also rare in the film industry, and everything comparable to it is basically written in the criminal law.

Chen Zhonghuai, CEO of Penguin Video, is listening to reports from his subordinates.

"What did DreamWorks say?"

"Mr. Chen, the reply from DreamWorks is that Director Chen Jingxing is still out of town, so it is not convenient to talk about this matter, but this time, DreamWorks has made it clear that it is open to outside investment intentions."

"Oh? The rhetoric has changed this time." In the previous few inquiries, they all replied that there was no need for financing.

Chen Zhonghuai nodded. It's a good sign that DreamWorks' loose attitude is a good sign. He only hated himself why he didn't win over this young director earlier. In fact, it's not that he didn't fight for it. When Chen Jingxing became famous because of "Comet", Penguin Video had contacted him DreamWorks, but did not pay special attention to it at that time.

After all, "Comet" is an online movie. Who would have thought that just over two months later, their second movie not only went to theaters and achieved a good box office, but also won international awards and sold tens of millions of dollars. copyright.

It was so fast that it caught people off guard.

If he had expected this day, Chen Zhonghuai would definitely invest top-notch resources to win over Chen Jingxing. Although Penguin Video currently has fewer users than Huanshi.com, but he has a big backer, and he thinks the success rate of intercepting Hu is still very high.

Originally, the parent company has been discussing the establishment of a higher-level specialized film and television company to step into the field of film production and distribution, but Penguin Video is still the main department responsible for investment in film and television dramas. If "Fatal Identity" is replaced by Penguin Video The project, with this capital, is even enough for Penguin Video to gain the dominance of future film operations. Even if a film and television company has to be established, he is likely to be able to become the helm of this higher-level subsidiary.

A similar situation not only happened to Penguin Video, but also to Skyfox Video, Fengshen Video, and even the executives of some traditional film studios were jealous, while preparing to invest in DreamWorks and even planning to win over Chen Jingxing.

In the film industry, whoever can master high-quality creative resources can be invincible. There are countless famous directors and charismatic stars, all of which have been tested by the market for many years and have been recognized by major companies. Once it is in the hand, a dazzling gold pops out suddenly, who can't be envious?
As news of the copyright deal spread, "Fatal Identity" became the most dazzling star movie to start the year in 2014.

Until Friday, January 1, the seventh day after the premiere, "Fatal Identity" was still not sluggish, with a box office of 14 million and a cumulative box office of 2900 million in one week of its release!
And on January 1th, the second Saturday after the movie was released, the reported revenue was 15 million, realizing the reverse drop in the box office of the next Saturday!

This shocked the major studios and distributors, although it is not that the box office of the next day will be lower than that of the previous day. For example, if the previous day is a working day and the next day is a weekend, the box office will increase.

But the next Saturday’s box office is higher than the first Saturday’s, which is quite rare. Although the box office on the 16th has not yet come out, two days of the next weekend may not be higher than the first weekend, but according to the statistics of pre-sales and online tickets, The box office on the 16th will not be much less than that on the 15th, which means that the box office of "Fatal Identity" may only drop slightly or even be the same as the first weekend.

The box office predictions of "Fatal Identity" on various domestic websites ranged from 3 million at the beginning to 3.5 million. After the 16th, it has increased to between 4 million and 4.5 million.

And 4 million has already been able to rank 2013th in the domestic box office rankings in 11.

……

Tang Xin was paralyzed on the sofa, swiping her phone, and asked in surprise, "If we can get 4 million box office, according to the one-third ratio I checked online, that would be 1.3 million, plus 1320 2.1 U.S. dollars in copyright fees, which is about [-] million yuan? According to the production and distribution costs you mentioned, that is at least six to seven times the cost of profits? No wonder so much capital is going to the film and television industry, such huge profits."

Chen Jingxing was playing "dog's paw on top" with Qi Qi, and said, "It depends on what kind of movie you watch if you don't want to make a huge profit. Huaguo produces five or six hundred movies a year, and [-]% of them lose money. Among the movies that can make money If the rate of return can reach that of "Fatal Identity", there may not be one movie a year, whether it can make money, and how much it can make depends on the person."

Chen Jingxing had been a trapeze artist for a week, and finally came home. It happened to be Sunday. Chen Jingxing, Tang Xin, and her cousin, Cheng Sister Yao, had a sumptuous so-called "reception banquet", and sat down on the sofa and chairs respectively. superior.

"Let's not talk about me, judging by your tone on WeChat, did you pick up some money recently?" Chen Jingxing asked curiously.

(End of this chapter)