The Bourne Counterattack

Chapter 291 The box office is out

The movie "Ghost Husband" has been released for a week, and the box office results are out. Taking the Jincheng Grand Theater as an example, there were four screenings a day, and 1,800 people were full.

Ticket prices range from 10 cents to 30 cents.

Take the middle number and say two cents a ticket.

Since last week, almost every venue has been full, and the daily box office revenue is around 1,200 yuan. In addition, although the snacks and the like around the theater are not considered box office, the turnover has increased several times.

These theaters and the vendors near the theaters are making a lot of money.

This is just one cinema in Jincheng. Huatai also owns the Jincheng Cinema, which has a slightly smaller number of seats than Jincheng and generates nearly a thousand yuan in box office revenue every day.

After one week, the profit was nearly 15,000 yuan.

This is already a big hit. According to previous movie box office calculations, the box office of a movie during its first week of release will be three to four times the total box office. But if the screening is extended, it may be more, but there are more.

These are just two theaters, Jincheng and Jindu, not counting the other theaters.

Moreover, a shooting base must be set up in advance...

He has written this script a long time ago, but Su Xuan needs to shoot Huatai's movie, so she needs to wait for her schedule, and there are some actors who also need to be cast, especially the flying and escaping scenes in the movie. What do you think? Find a way for him. This is a new topic and requires the director to use his brain.

Anyway, as long as it is a theater that joins the theater chain alliance, the daily box office of "Ghost Husband" will be at least 600 yuan or more.

If it weren't for this new cooperation model, I'm afraid those theaters wouldn't be willing to cooperate.

Cheng Mo decided to invest all the money he earned from the first film into building his first filming base. He bought a large piece of open space near Zhaofeng Park in West Shanghai, and used the method of filming a film and building an outdoor filming location. He spent four to In five years, it has built the largest film and television shooting base in Asia and even the world.

In short, this movie has at least doubled the money on the basis of recovering the cost, and the theaters that decided to cooperate with Loulan Film and Television have all made money without exception.

Don't leave your people idle, otherwise, they will become lazy.

According to this calculation, the movie "Ghost Husband" now brings him about 7,000 yuan in income every day.

Cheng Mo threw out the concept of "Wi-A", and the rest was up to them to research on their own. Anyway, the crew's casting and preparation would take at least two months, and the filming would not start until after the Spring Festival.

The starring role will naturally be Su Xuan.

One week is a profit of 50,000 yuan. This is a net profit, but the movie "Ghost Husband" cost more than 200,000 yuan.

And this is just the box office revenue. The popularity of the movie has also driven the sales of the original novel. Huajianshe took the opportunity to launch a version with movie posters.

What Cheng Mo signed with them was a sharing agreement, with a 40-60 share. Cheng Mo would provide a copy, and the screening time would be two months, and a certain number of screenings would be guaranteed. After two months, the copy would be given to the other party, and the money earned from subsequent theater screenings would be given to them. , Loulan Film and Television does not charge a penny.

Based on the current box office calculations, there is no problem in recovering all the investment in Shanghai alone, not counting several other cities.

This is just the beginning. This movie will bring a steady stream of income to Cheng Mo in the future, and Cheng Mo's Virgo Change movie was a huge success. What about his second work "The First Dream", if it is also adapted If it becomes a movie, as long as the quality is high enough, it will definitely make money!
But for Loulan Film and Television's second film, Cheng Mo obviously doesn't want to continue adapting his novel "The First Dream". He plans to make "A Chinese Ghost Story".

He couldn't do this on his own, so it was inevitable to cooperate with filmmakers in Shanghai.

The impact of Wang Zhaoming's "sexually explicit" posts continues to grow. Chongqing has announced that he will be expelled from the Kuomintang. Then major patriotic figures and organizations have also criticized his "traitorous behavior".

Public opinion is lively. Su Moer is on her period again.

I was in a bad mood. When I got home at night, I almost cried in bed alone.

Cheng Mo could understand it. The two of them actually worked very hard, but things like pregnancy and childbirth were really based on metaphysics.

Sometimes, you really can’t force it.

Cheng Mo comforted her for a while before she calmed down.

The efficiency of the call back in Chongqing was obviously much slower. Cheng Mo roughly guessed that Dai Yunong went to Hong Kong and arranged the assassination in Hanoi.

Dai Yunong went to Hong Kong and was expected to meet his sister. She had been away for more than a month and should be back.

There are a lot of things in Shanghai waiting for her to deal with when she comes back.

"Boss, SH City Bank reported that they received a large amount of counterfeit banknote deposits." That afternoon, Xu Qinghe knocked on the door and came in to report.

"Counterfeit banknotes, that's not a case of the criminal department. What does it have to do with our political department?"

"My colleagues from the Criminal Division said that if this was a case of a few counterfeit banknotes, our Secret Service Unit would not be needed. There might be an organization behind this that prints counterfeit banknotes, so the Political Unit has to take over." Xu Qinghe said.

"You really know how to shirk responsibility." Cheng Mo knew that if only sporadic cases of counterfeit banknotes were discovered, it wouldn't be a big problem. He could just arrest people. He was afraid that there were powerful forces behind the production of counterfeit banknotes, and some of them were even police officers. Don't dare to mess with it.

Cheng Mo knew that the Japanese invaders had a plan to manufacture counterfeit currency on a large scale to disrupt the domestic market and implemented it. They also used fake legal currency to obtain a large amount of strategic materials. However, as the legal currency depreciated and expanded, the Japanese invaders' strategy failed in the end. It didn't have much effect. It only tasted a little sweetness at the beginning of implementation. However, they also invested a lot in imitating legal currency.

The agency that makes counterfeit currency is the "Shan" agency. Is it possible that this "Shan" agency has already come to Shanghai?
"Let's go and take a look first."

Cheng Mo, Xu Qinghe and others drove to Shanghai Savings Bank and entered the deputy general manager's office under the guidance of a lobby manager.

"Detective Cheng, look, this is the fake legal currency we received this morning, issued by the Central Bank." The deputy general manager took out a stack of legal currency from a box and handed it to Cheng Mo.

Cheng Mo learned coin appraisal when he was in Qingpu class, but when he touched the counterfeit coin in his hand, he really didn't notice it.

All I can say is that the imitators are so good. If it hadn't been sent to the bank, it would probably be circulated in the world, and it would be really difficult to recognize it.

"Where did the money come from?"

"An old customer of our bank deposited it, saying it was a payment for cotton. We didn't find out at first. After all, this part of the counterfeit money was mixed with real money. Later, one of our cashiers sorted out the money and prepared it for delivery. When I put it in the vault, I noticed something was wrong. After identification, it was determined that it was a counterfeit currency!”

"How did he find out?"

"He used to work in the Commercial Press and was exposed to the printing of legal currency. He found that the paper of the counterfeit currency was different from the real currency. Otherwise, we would not have discovered it." The deputy general manager explained.

"After you discovered this batch of counterfeit coins, did you check all the banknotes that were put into the warehouse?" Cheng Mo asked again.

"Not yet." The deputy general manager said.

"Check it out."

(End of this chapter)