Chapter 582

  The director of Great Wall Film Company, Yu Changming, brought Ran Xinming, Guan Shujie and 6 mainland Chinese who came here during the day to visit the comrades who are popular on Hong Kong Island.

  Check the ticket to enter the theater in North Point, which covers an area of ​​3600 square meters and can seat 1600 people.

  As soon as he sat down, Yu Changming smiled and explained to Ran Xinming and others, “Mr. Henry-Li was at the restaurant of Mr. Ruan today and invited a dozen of English leaders to dinner.

The purpose of    is to thank them, and there are no obstacles to the introduction of mainland cartoons.

  If today’s movie is in theaters, Hong Kong Island’s film companies will probably love and hate Mr. Henry Lee, but they will be powerless. "

  Looking at the theater that was almost full, Ran Xinming and the others, with a happy expression, suddenly laughed helplessly when they heard this.

  Since they can be sent to investigate, Ran Xinming, even if they are not professional, has at least seen a lot of information before coming here, and they are considered to have a preliminary understanding of some Hong Kong Island movies.

  Movies with a box office of over 5 million have appeared, but the top ten movies at the box office are between 1 million and 3 million.

  In other words, except for one or two films whose directors don’t understand why the box office will explode.

  Even if other movies make a lot of money, they will only make one or two million at most.

  Of course, according to a 100-square-meter house in Causeway Bay on Hong Kong Island at this time, it is about 220,000, and one or two million is a huge sum of money.

  But this money has nothing to do with the director, the actors, and the backstage half of the money.

  Anyone in the entire crew is paid a fixed salary. Even if the box office explodes, directors just get a bonus of double their salary.

  Others, the film company kindly sent out a red envelope of 100 yuan, and then it’s not bad to ask everyone to have a good meal.

  So for countless film entrepreneurs, once the box office of cartoons blows up, it means that there is at least one layer of practitioners who are already struggling at the bottom and don't even think about starting work again in less than a week.

  For film companies, they actually don’t want to see cartoons selling.

  The reason is simple, there are so many markets and audiences.

  Even if the box office is increasing every year, the number of viewers is also increasing, but a cartoon can grab 1 million in the box office.

   means that the movies played in the same period have lost 1 million.

  An even more troublesome problem is that no matter what era, theaters are always grandfathers.

  Fortunately, the movie company that has its own movie theater. Anyway, their big business is big, and the movie can be recovered from the theater.

  And even if you lose money, it won’t hurt your muscles.

  It can be a simple film production company like the Great Wall Film Company. When a movie wants to be released, it does not share the box office with the theater, but pays a sum of money to cover the theater.

What does that mean.

  Take the North Point theater as an example, the Great Wall Film Company wants to show its own movies here.

  One month you have to give the theater 120,000 Hong Kong dollars, and the 900-square-meter theater in Central gets another 80,000 Hong Kong dollars.

  If it were not for Li Changheng to give them a 30% discount, regardless of whether the Hong Kong Island Government suppressed them or not, they would receive 720,000 per month for the charter fees of 7 theaters.

  If there is no discount, it will be over one million.

  Furthermore, as the box office continued to break records, the cost of the theater's private space, in the three years after Li Changheng got the seven theaters, probably increased by about 6 floors.

  Ordinary film companies, if they don’t have enough confidence, they really can’t afford the theater.

  Therefore, many companies usually make a package for one or two weeks.

  If the box office is not good, just bye bye after three days of release.

  I would rather accompany some money, or as a liquidated damages 4 days after the first week, than to pay the second week's charter fee.

  For Li Changheng’s seven theaters, there are no movies to show, and the old movies of United States are directly shown during the day.

  Not only does it cost less, it also attracts many curious young people, as well as foreigners.

  For the evening performance, just find a troupe that has cooperated in the past to save the scene.

  After all, these are the 7 theaters in the most prosperous part of Hong Kong Island.

   Not to mention seeking theatrical troupe and famous actor, at least no troupe or famous actor dared to offend the theater.

  Because of a very helpless fact that, no matter how famous the troupe is, he can only perform in one theater.

  Besides, there is no way to perform 365 days a year, every day, let alone one show for a year.

  Furthermore, whether the location of the theater is good, not only reflects whether they are famous, but also directly affects their income.

  When I came to the theater to find someone to save, because I got the remaining 4 days of charter fees, and there were no fewer people watching theaters than watching movies in this era.

  Between the big troupe and famous actors, you can easily get 10% to 20% more money.

  In other words, when theatrical troupes and celebrities took the opportunity to take a break, they were really anxious for the film to be booked out on the street.

  In addition, bad guys and short mules dare not come to these seven theaters to collect money and make trouble, which also leads to theatrical troupes and famous actors, and they are even less willing to offend the theater.

   On the contrary, in order to have a backer, if it is not necessary, at most, it is just to add some money when it is necessary to save the field.

  Adding money is such a thing, but anyone who runs a theater has a bit of a brain, and will not make a difference with the ticket money for a small amount of money.

  Great Wall's Yu Changming saw Ran Xinming and others laugh without saying a word, so he could only shook his head helplessly.

   However, thinking about this drama, it is a copy made by someone from my company dubbing it.

  In addition to a few old Hollywood movies, they are also talking about dubbing. Yu Changming thinks that one can earn tens of thousands of dollars, and he finally feels better than a lot.

  Even with the beginning of the movie, I was still thinking in my heart, would I also let people visit the mainland to buy some cartoons?

  When I thought of the 30% discount for the private room, I was worried that Li Changheng would be offended.

  After all, the last movie, although it was only shown for 2 weeks and the box office was only 580,000, it became the company's only profitable movie in the past two years, even earning 200,000 Hong Kong dollars.

  And Yu Changming knows very well ~ lightnovelpub.net~ In the box office of 580,000, as long as there are only one or two box office, it is because the audiences who have seen the movie "Home Alone" have habitual thinking about the movie theater.

  If there are no such favorable factors, the upper movie will still hit the street in the end, and it will be miserable.

  Think again that many film practitioners who have been treated unfairly because of their closeness to the mainland have been more or less leaning toward their own companies.

  Yu Changming feels that he is better to be honest.

  Furthermore, if it hadn’t taken advantage of the opportunity to help Henry Lee contact the mainland, he would not receive a call today, specifically allowing himself to receive comrades from the mainland.

  After all, people who are closer to the mainland than you are, and even more suitable for receiving people.

   At 7:50 in the evening, when the movie ended, Ran Xinming and others were sitting in the front row. They looked at the screen with only a few sugar canes, and there were crowds of people. Listening to the sound, they knew that they were in a good mood. They slowly left the theater.

  He was immediately happy and excited.

  The rumors of the sugarcane gang, I have seen it with my own eyes today, but only a few sugarcane incidents also show that this cartoon is really popular with people on Hong Kong Island.

  (End of this chapter)