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Chapter 92 Income, to breathe fresh air (eighth more)

On the other hand, Neon also reported good results. "Source Code" was released for a week, and the box office was 3 million yen, equivalent to RMB 1500 million. The market is larger than South Korea, but slightly lower than South Korea. It is understandable, after all, they expanded the The action was late, and Guorong didn't run the road show, so naturally it wouldn't be particularly high.

However, Neon has an advantage. "Hero" will not be released on Neon until two weeks later. Ten thousand RMB or so.

This number looks huge, but it is actually incomparable to that of "Hero". They will win 40 billion yen in Neon in the future!
Fortunately, Lu Pingan split the accounts.

On December 12th, Lu Ping'an and Guorong ended their roadshows in South Korea and Neon.

"Source Code" has been released overseas for two weeks, and the box office has also come out.

The first thing Lu Pingan looked at was North America.

"Source Code" was released in North America for two weeks. In fact, it was only released on the 1000-yuan big screen for one week, but the total box office reached 2100 million US dollars!
The most important thing in North America is that "Hero" may not be released until 03.

Lu Pingan knew that the original space-time "Hero" was not released until 04, and there were rumors that it was to make way for the two blockbuster films "Gangs of New York" and "Chicago". Big productions worth hundreds of millions of dollars.

In Hollywood, in the same company, it's normal for the big investment to go first. Even if "Hero" has been promoted in the mainland for half a month, it may still be frozen.

And these two blockbuster films were also released in North America in mid-December. Although the box office was not too big, it also caused a lot of impact on "Source Code".

But that's quite enough.

"Source Code", as a Chinese-language sci-fi, grossed US$2100 million at the box office in North America in the first two weeks, and it was paid in a step-by-step manner, with the producer making 70% of the accounts in the first two weeks!According to the contract, Ping An Road can actually get about 25%, which is 40 million US dollars before tax!
Earn money!

Wattsberg called Lu Pingan again: "I regret it."

"Source Code" was released in South Korea for a week, and the number of viewers exceeded 60.

Basically exceeded the critical point of payback.

Next, it is basically earning.

And the enthusiasm for watching "Source Code" has not diminished in the slightest.

At present, the number of big screens has increased to 800, and it is still hotly released, and will increase in the future, eventually covering 1100 screens, and there is still a week before the release of "Hero".

In the coming week, there is no problem with the number of movie viewers exceeding 100 million.

One million movie viewers is more than 100 million RMB.

In other words, after deducting the publicity costs, Lu Pingan can earn about 40 US dollars.

This number is basically the same as the issue buyout price.

In addition, after "Hero" comes out, although it will have a certain impact on the box office, the 100% schedule of "Hero" will not work well in South Korea.

Among the publishers of "Source Code", there are already three publishers who bought "Hero".

After they joined in, they expressed pity and regret to Lu Pingan again and again, and then began to vigorously publicize it.

After "Hero" comes out, they will buy it out. Although "Source Code" will definitely be squeezed in the film schedule at that time, they will definitely promote it vigorously now.

There is money to make, why not make money?
. . . . . . .

The North American account is like a big piece of fat.

The pre-tax split of 800 million is terrifying, but in fact, after paying taxes, legal fees, and tripartite supervision fees, those who get it will have to cut in half.

The publicity fee has not yet been calculated. If Wattsberg uses Hollywood's traditional performing arts, Lu Ping'an may be in vain.

Fortunately, he has already grabbed the offer, and if it doesn't work, he will use it up.

As my 100% loyal employee, I can't fool the boss, right?
However, he still decided to wait a few days before using it. The offer cannot be used so easily. If there is a better one, of course it must be applied to a better candidate.

The North American box office came out in two weeks, and the rest of the region followed closely.

The number of movie viewers in South Korea has reached 140 million, which is equivalent to a box office of 4200 million yuan. After deducting the cost of publicity and distribution, counting the distribution, and subtracting the distribution profits of South Korean filmmakers, this wave can get about 800 million yuan in box office revenue. pre-tax.

Neon's box office is 16 billion yen, or 8000 million yuan. The overall calculation of Neon's account is relatively low, about 20% to 25%, but the advantage of Neon compared with South Korea is that they are large-scale from the beginning. When it was released, the publicity cost was much lower than that of South Korea, so if calculated at 20%, you can get about 1600 million yuan before tax.

The box office in Germany, Spain and other five places is equivalent to a total of RMB 5 million, and the income from sharing accounts is still less than 1.2%, about RMB 20 million before tax.

After these regions, the box office will not increase too much.

Because "Hero" has been released one after another, and has achieved amazing results.

Calculated in this way, so far, Road Ping An's theoretical overseas distribution income will have a box office distribution income of 1.1 million before tax.

And Ping An accounted for 85%, which is about 9300 million.

If you add the 4000 million income from the mainland, Hong Kong and Taiwan, the total will be close to 1.4 million!
And how much Lu Pingan invested in the "Source Code" project, not counting the money for special effects, he only invested less than 600 million yuan.

This is simply, earn to death!
At this time, "Hero" began to be released overseas.

Zhang Weiping shouted: "The hero will surely create a miracle in the overseas box office of Chinese-language movies!"

This is indeed the case.

The overseas box office of "Hero" is very good.

The total box office of the original time and space was 1.77 million US dollars.

Lu Pingan never thought that "Source Code" could compare with it.

The original version of "Source Code" was only about 1.4 million US dollars.

How does this compare?
So Lu Pingan ignored it and let him go.

Of course, the domestic box office of "Hero" still needs to be paid attention to.

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On December 12, "Hero" was released for a month, and the box office exceeded 31 million.

The numbers are scary.

But it was only 200 million higher than that of "Source Code" in the same period.

This also makes many people express regret.

You know, at the beginning the media shouted that the "Source Code" record was broken in 10 days!

Now it seems that everyone has already decided that the box office expectation of "Hero" in the future will drop from more than 3 million to 2.5 million.

why?
It's not because the word-of-mouth of "Heroes" is too torn!
Now that Zhang Weiping turned on his computer, there were some positive comments on the Internet, but at the same time, there were more scolding ones.

Various comments such as saying that the three views are not correct, beautifying the tyrant, and the plot is disordered.

Coupled with the fact that "Source Code" is in the forefront, the reputation of "Hero" is even worse!

The poor reputation of a movie will definitely affect the box office.

But as Zhang Weiping said.

Word of mouth isn't actually the main issue.

The main thing is to rely on the support from above.

Now it’s the Lunar New Year stalls, with 100% theater coverage, 100% film scheduling, and a 20% increase in ticket prices.

I can't do "source code"?
funny!

So in the following January.

As the student body begins the holidays.

"Source Code" has long been offline again.

"Hero" does not have any rivals in China.

So Zhang Weiping once again launched a propaganda offensive.

Go on TV, run road shows, and engage in publicity.

It's July 1th.

"Hero" finally broke through 2.3 million!Beyond Source Code.

Zhang Weiping shouted immediately: "The box office record of "Hero" will open the door to blockbuster domestic films!"

Very arrogant.

but.

Not many people bought it.

Because your reputation is not good.

So some media posted:
"If the ticket price of "Source Code" increased by 20% like that of "Heroes""

I understand everything I understand.

If it rises by 20%, it will exceed 2.6 million.

So what is your "hero"?

Of course there are people who refute.

What's the use of saying that "Source Code" has a good grade?

Lu Pingan didn't make any money.

No money?
Okay.

Here comes the reckoning.

"Source Code" has been released overseas for two weeks, and the current overseas box office totals 6.5 million.

Among them, the box office of Road Ping An's overseas account distribution area was 4.1 million yuan.

Much better than expected.

And what shocked everyone even more was Lu Pingan's theoretical income sharing!
4.1 million, everyone rounded up to 30%, that is the income of 1.2 million yuan!
The equivalent in US dollars is 1400 million US dollars!
see this number.

Everyone doesn't care if it's reasonable or not.

Whether to deduct publicity fees, taxes and other miscellaneous items.

Everyone only knows one thing, that Lu Ping'an has made a lot of money!
"The media that said that Lu Ping'an is the biggest loser, stand up!"

"For a movie, the income from overseas accounts is 1400 million U.S. dollars, plus the copyright income is 300 million U.S. dollars. This is half of "Hero". How much does "Source Code" cost!"

"The point is that it's not over yet. It's only been released overseas for two weeks, and the numbers will still go up!"

"..."

A group of people in the industry and netizens discussed frantically.

A group of producers who quit early were all blue with regret.

Han Sanpin was so happy to die.

He has been paying attention to overseas box office situations.

It also knows more details than the average person.

In fact, "Source Code" has almost been released overseas.

The data given by the media is lagging behind.

So the real benefit will be more!
But even now.

It is also completely enough for him to feel proud in the company!

Before I had to split the bill, didn't you say that I was too inconsiderate of the company and blindly followed Lu Ping'an?
Now let's see, the income from sharing accounts far exceeds the sell-out price.

What do you say now!
The same is true for Ray Wang Changtian.

He was the only one who gambled with Lu Pingan apart from China Film.

Now that Lu Ping'an is "excited", Wang Changtian directly reports on his own media channel, Tiantian.

""Source Code" is a hit at the box office in North America. Under the account-sharing model, the rate of return of "Source Code" far exceeds that of "Hero"!"

"The cost of "Source Code" was 600 million U.S. dollars, and the global box office hit 1 million U.S. dollars. The excellent results are miracles in Hollywood!"

""Source Code" was released in South Korea, and Guorong and Lu Pingan were sought after by thousands of people!"

"..."

Anyway, it's just for publicity.

In addition, the actual box office is indeed here.

Then you can't exaggerate it.

The media even changed their attitude, describing Lu Pingan as "a loser" to "a strategic vision!"

Overnight, Lu Ping'an was once again promoted to the "Altar".

So now some people have begun to compare the income of "Hero" with "Source Code".

This is another shocking reversal.

In the beginning, they were all bragging about how high the copyright income of "Heroes" was and how much Lu Pingan was concerned. It was too young and unsafe.

Up to now, they are all bragging about how awesome "Source Code" is and how powerful Lu Ping'an's vision is.

Everyone started to calculate the cost.

"Source Code" cost $600 million, and "Heroes" cost $3000 million.

The overseas income of "Source Code" is 1400 million US dollars, which is more than doubled.

As for "Hero", it only paid back its capital, and the distribution rights were sold out!
Even if the subsequent box office is so high as to set a record in film history in the world, "Hero" will not earn a dime.

And don't say far, just say near.

If the final domestic box office of "Hero" reaches 2.5 million.

Very awesome.

But your ticket price is 20% higher than other people's "Source Code", have you overlooked it?

So this comparison, coupled with the torn word-of-mouth of "Hero", makes everyone feel that "Source Code" is awesome.

Seeing this, Zhang Weiping directly shouted to the media again: "The overseas box office of "Hero" will definitely set a record for Chinese-language movies! The significance of "Hero" lies in cultural export! It is to let more people understand Chinese culture, not just a single film The movie is so simple! This is far beyond the comparison of "Source Code"!"

After shouting, everyone applauded.

But it won't have much impact on word of mouth.

Especially for domestic.

It will be better if you are abroad.

After all, the original space-time "Hero" has a good reputation abroad.

It's July 1th.

"Source Code" has been screened overseas one after another.

The number of movie viewers in South Korea reached 177 million, or 650 million US dollars.

The box office of Neon is 19 billion yen, or 1100 million US dollars.

The box office in Germany and other regions has a total of 1700 million US dollars.

The largest box office in North America, "Source Code" was released for one month and 1000 big screens for three weeks, with a total box office of 4200 million US dollars.

In total, "Source Code"'s account-sharing income, calculated according to the proportion of all parties, reached about 2100 million US dollars before tax, and after deducting the publicity and taxes of all parties, it can be roughly half.

Of course, how to successfully recover the money is the next thing to deal with slowly.

The box office of the remaining non-account-sharing regions is about 3700 million U.S. dollars.

Including the box office of the mainland, Hong Kong and Taiwan, "Source Code" is equivalent to a global box office of 1.4 million US dollars!
At the same time, in terms of the global box office of "Hero", because "Hero" has not been released in North America, the total global box office is only about 7000 million US dollars, and the final draw is expected to be 8000-9000 million US dollars.

No matter how much it is, it is much less than the $1.4 million of "Source Code".

Some people said that "Source Code" disregarded the morality of its compatriots and blocked "Heroes" overseas!
Star Films Wu Guohua directly held a press conference, and asked the camera: "Who will show it first?"

Just this sentence has the meaning of piercing the window paper.

In October, "Hero" blocked "Source Code" during its release. Do you really think that everyone can't see it?
It's just that no one pierced the window paper, so the face has been kept very good.

But up to now, "Source Code" has far surpassed "Hero" in domestic reputation.

Lao Mouzi was a big disappointment.

The overseas results are not much different from "Source Code", and the statistics are even worse, which is so much worse than "Source Code".

In terms of profit, Road Pingan has a more "strategic vision".

"Hero" is now basically a bit like "South Korea reached the semi-finals".

You won at the mainland box office, but did you really win?
You don't even look at how much better the schedule is than "Source Code".

Tickets cost another 20 percent more than Source Code.

The film schedule is more "shameless" than "Source Code", 100% scheduled, so that other films have no way out.

In this way, the mainland is only 2000 million more than "Source Code".

Xiangjiang's box office is less than 2600 million, which is 2000 million less than "Source Code"!
For a while, the word-of-mouth of "Hero" was even more torn.

From winning, slowly changing to winning and losing, it is estimated that it will soon change to losing and losing again.

And here it is, the era of blockbuster movies at the end of 2002.

Everyone will no longer mention 2002 and only remember "Hero".

Instead, I will inevitably talk about that word-of-mouth explosion, earning a lot of "Source Code" overseas!
In addition, there is Lu Pingan, a new director.

Discussions about Heroes and Source Code continue.

But now, for Lu Pingan, "Source Code" has temporarily ended.

Next, the next item.

That night, Lu Pingan flew to Laomei again, and the Sun Denis Film Festival closed, and he was about to win an award.
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