This director needs to apologize

Chapter 41: Return to the Magic City to share the box office

On December 12, Chen Yiming and Guyuehe returned to the Magic City empty-handed.

Queen Lee and Sister Shin flew directly to Los Angeles together. The former's destination was a mansion in Beverly Hills, while the latter went to several major Hollywood studios for further contacts.

The screening of "Holiday" on the 11th attracted four of the top seven Hollywood stars to Montreal. Apparently, "waiting and watching for three days" tilted the balance significantly towards Chen Yiming's side.

Erchazi raised the price on the night of the 11th, raising the price of buying out the issuance rights to 220 million nut coins.

The answer I received was of course "seriously consider it". After all, more than one major manufacturer has entered the market now, and the possibility of second-tier companies "picking up the slack" has been reduced to a minimum.

Even if the four major manufacturers all hint at deception like the Stein brothers, they still have to talk about it.

Chen Yiming estimated that there would be no results in a short time, and he was not interested in following Shen Pengfei Fei Nuo for business, so he decisively dragged Gu Yueherun back to his country.

After the plane landed, Ma Yunteng provided one-stop services including picking up the plane, picking up the wind, and cleaning the dust. He was really a good brother, and he knew the pain of Chen Gu and Chen Gu when they froze to death in Montreal.

After steaming out the chill hidden in the bones in the sauna, the three men slumped in the warm spring-like private room of the bathing city, chatting shirtless.

“I’m telling you, this trip to Montreal is worth a fortune.

Lao Gu, you are stuck in the country this week. You will know when you return to Tang and Song Dynasties. If you arrange invitations one day at a time, you can be paid directly to you until next year.

It has been rumored in the media that you will go to Hollywood to make a movie next year. Your fans on the Internet are so inflated, that is, you did not win the Best Actor this time, otherwise you will definitely become a god! "

Guyuehe looked stunned. Will his fans expand?

He doesn't believe it!

They were obviously a bunch of interrogators, and they always took pleasure in teasing him. Otherwise, how could that video of his singing skills be spread so fast?
During his stay in Montreal, Lao Gu was mostly a guest, standing behind Sister Shen as a male model. Although he was in various photos with the big guys, he himself did not have much experience as the protagonist.

Naturally, he could not imagine what rich associations the domestic media and movie fans would have after seeing those photos.

Da Zhuang turned to Chen Yiming again and said.

"Tie Zhu, you are also popular, and no one has grabbed your headlines this time.

In fact, the media has been gathering around you to interview you for a long time, but haven't you been abroad? Although you have been interviewed by several domestic media abroad, they were too simple and routine. After the news spread in China, the media's interest became even more intense.

Xiaomei has a backlog of interview invitations, waiting for you to choose one when you return to the company.It doesn’t look good if you keep pushing, it all has something to do with it, it’s either a friend of a friend or the path of the demon shadow.

But we have to make a trip to 595 tomorrow. My dad said he has something to discuss with us. "

After listening to Da Zhuang's detailed introduction, Chen Gu and Chen Gu realized that after its release was postponed, "Holiday in the City" had become a hot topic.

In fact, the average film schedule at the time of the postponement had dropped to single digits, and even the two movie theater chains under the Movies only had 10%.

After all, since December, domestic and foreign blockbusters have been released at a rate of two per week, and there is really no room for "Old Movie" to be scheduled.

However, taking advantage of the opportunity of the film festival screening, the news of "Holiday in Magic City" has not stopped.

Today I am cool and cool, tomorrow I am beautiful and beautiful, and the day after tomorrow I am praised by the chairman. I always maintain a sense of presence in front of the public.

At this time, compressing the number of shows actually increased the movie's attendance rate.

More importantly, this year's Lunar New Year movies are really hard to describe, causing the entire market to fall.

Take the two new films released in the first week of December as an example. "Martial Arts" was infected with literary youth disease by director Wan Dao. It is a stream-of-consciousness work that too tests the ordinary audience's traditional understanding of "new martial arts".

"Dr. Q - Dark Sun Crisis" is slow-paced and the script is too long. The villain in this episode neither wants to rule the world nor wants to explode the world with nuclear weapons. He only wants to avenge his father. It is like a script swap with "Martial Arts".

The two major productions were not strong enough, and "Holiday in the City", which had an attendance rate of around 5%, got an advantage and its film schedule increased somewhat.

As a result, the weekly box office miraculously did not fall but rose. In the fifth week of its release, it still managed to collect a few million, stubbornly staying in the top five of the box office list.

The media has once again raised the box office expectations of "Holiday in the Magic City", and there is great hope of hitting the 1.5 million threshold.

Ma Yunteng plans to hold a celebration banquet if it breaks 1.5. He has long thought about his addiction to smashing ice, which may stimulate the box office.

Driving Gu Yuehe home, Da Zhuang couldn't help settling accounts with Chen Yiming in the car.

The two of them have been working on their own business for half a year. In the final analysis, they just want to count money happily.According to China's movie box office accounting rules, after removing 5% of the special film fund, 3.5% of taxes and fees, and 1.5% of the Phantom Digital Agency fee, the remaining divisible box office is 90% of the total box office.

Calculated based on the total box office of 1.5 million, that is 1.35 million.

Of the 1.35 million, theaters will first take away 50%, 6750 million; theater chains will take another 10%, 1350 million.

Not all of the remaining 5400 million belongs to Platinum Media, it still needs to be divided with Moying Group.

First of all, we need to exclude the distribution expenses paid by the Phantom Distribution Department. The specific amount has not been released because it has not been released yet, but Da Zhuang estimates it to be around 800 million, which is close to [-] million.

Then there is the "contracting fee" of the Phantom Film Studio. Of course, if you have a factory label, you will be given a share, but it is not high. The film studio's net share is 5%, which is 230 million.

Then, in order to expand the film schedule and arrange test screenings, the additional share promised to the Demon Shadow Distribution Department is 12% of the film studio's net share, 550 million.

After seven deductions and eight deductions, more than 3800 million is left, which is the final income of Platinum Media, accounting for about 25% of the total box office.

The project cost invested by Platinum Jue was 400 million yuan, and the net profit was 3400 million yuan. In half a year, it increased more than 8 times.

In fact, this rate of return is not high. After all, "Holiday in Magic City" was independently invested by Platinum Jue. The more you earn, the greater the risk.

The usual practice in the industry is to bring together multiple investors to share costs and risks.

As a result, the film studio's share will be very limited.

Take for example a typical medium-cost blockbuster film with an investment of tens of millions and a box office of over 3000 million. The film studio can only get a maximum of [-] million.

If the producer only holds a small share, they may earn hundreds or tens of millions in half a year, and just paying salaries to the main creators and behind the scenes may not be enough.

Compared with Hollywood, Chinese films at this stage can only rely on theater box office to make money, and there is almost no room for copyright operations after the release.

Accordingly, filmmaking in China will be limited to a small circle for a long time, and it will be difficult for a company that relies solely on investment to maintain its operations.

Platinum Jue is able to play well because Master Teng is here, investment can be kept as low as possible, and many potential costs are offset by the relationship of the magic circle.

Naturally, as Ma Yunteng's best friend, Chen Yiming is also firmly bound to the magic circle. He cannot do what many time-traveling predecessors did, first get it from both sides and then establish his own business and finally become bigger and stronger.

Putting the brakes on his wild thoughts, Chen Yiming and Ma Yunteng discussed and used 800 million to give red envelopes to the crew members.

The salary that Chen Yiming offered was so low that it was so bad that the movie didn't make any money. Since he made a lot of money this time, the red envelope couldn't be too small.

The Chinese film industry is actually not that big, and it has a good reputation for being generous and generous, which is good for them and Bo Jue.

Da Zhuang immediately nodded in agreement.

Ma Yunteng is clear in his heart. 800 million red envelopes are really not that much.

Don't look at the fact that only 3000 million is left after being divided east and west, but don't forget that the overseas distribution rights and film copyrights of "Holiday in the City" belong to Platinum 100% and do not need to be divided with anyone.

According to the latest round of quotations, the buyout fee for overseas issuance is at least 250 million Nut coins.

The right to adapt the movie costs at least 200 million nut coins.

This translates to 3500 million Chinese national currency, which is 500 million more than the box office share.

The return on investment is not 8 times, but starts at 16 times.

As for Chen Yiming himself, in addition to the crew's salary and company dividends, he also has other gains.

For example, the theme song "Tonight I Celebrate My Love" is still being released globally.

Lily's father helped release the version on Nuts, which was a duet between Lily and folk singer Brison. After its release, it has already reached No. 34 on the Billboard.

The Chinese version, which was released with the help of the Shanghai Art Development Center, was sung by Lily and Gu Yuehe. The current sales volume is 128 million downloads.

The composition of music copyright income is complicated. Chen Yiming has no idea about it and has no interest in understanding it.

He directly asked Da Zhuang to introduce a trustworthy lawyer to set up a trust with all current and future copyright proceeds from the song, and anonymously contribute to the national student aid program on a regular basis.

(End of this chapter)