Yu Changming, the head of Great Wall Film Company, brought Ran Xinming, Guan Shujie, who came here during the day today and 6 comrades from the mainland who came to visit the Tiangong movies. Is it popular in Hong Kong?

The ticket check enters the theater with an area of ​​3,600 square meters and a seating capacity of 1,600 people.

As soon as he sat down, Yu Changming smiled and explained to Ran Xinming and others, "Mr. Henry Li invited more than a dozen English leaders to dinner at Boss Ruan's restaurant today.

In order to thank them, there are no obstacles to introducing mainland cartoons.

If this movie is so popular today, Hong Kong Island film companies may love and hate Mr. Lee in the future, but they are powerless."

Looking at the theater that was almost full, Ran Xinming and others with a happy expression on their faces, they immediately burst into helpless laugh when they heard this.

Since they can be sent by the above for investigation, even if Ran Xinming and others are not professional, they have at least read a lot of information before coming, and they can be considered as a preliminary understanding of some Hong Kong movies.

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

In other words, except for one, two movies that the directors themselves do not understand why the box office exploded.

Even if you make a big profit in other movies, you can only make one or two million at most.

Of course, at this time, a 100-square-meter house in Causeway Bay in Hong Kong Island was only about 220,000 yuan, and one or two million yuan was also a huge sum of money.

But this money has nothing to do with the director, actor, and behind the scenes.

Anyone in the entire crew receives a fixed salary. Even if the box office is so big, the director like him will only get a double the bonus.

Others, the film company kindly sent a red envelope of 100 yuan, and it would be good to invite everyone to have a good meal.

So for countless film entrepreneurs, once the box office of an animation hits, it means that at least one level of practitioners who are struggling at the bottom of the industry will not start again in less than a week.

But for film companies, they actually don’t want to see cartoons sell well.

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

Even if the box office is increasing every year, the number of viewers is increasing, but if an animation wins a box office of 1 million.

This means that the movies played at the same time will earn 1 million less.

Another more troublesome problem is that no matter what era the theater is, it is a master.

It’s okay if the film company that has a cinema itself, but their family has a big business, so the movies can still be recovered from the theater.

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

But for a simple film production company like Great Wall Film Company, if you want to release a movie, you don’t want to share the box office with the theater, but pay a sum of money to book the theater.

What does it mean?

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

I have to give the theater 120,000 Hong Kong dollars in one month, and the theater with a 900 square meter in Central will cost another 80,000 Hong Kong dollars.

If Li Changheng hadn't given them a 30% discount, regardless of whether Hong Kong Island's political team suppressed them, the monthly reservation fee of 7 theaters would have been 720,000 yuan.

If you don't have a discount, you will have to exceed one million.

Moreover, as the box office continues to break records, the cost of theaters' reservations has increased by about 6 floors in the three years after Li Changheng received these 7 theaters.

If an ordinary film company does not have enough confidence, it will not be able to afford the theater.

So many companies usually book for one or two weeks.

If the box office is not good, I might as well say goodbye after three days of release.

I would rather spend some money with me or treat liquidated damages 4 days after the first week than pay the second week's enrolment fee.

For these seven theaters by Li Changheng, there is no movie to play, and they directly play the old movies of Lianmei during the day.

Not only does it cost less, it can also attract many curious young people and foreigners.

For evening performances, just find a troupe that you used to cooperate with to save the scene.

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

Not to mention asking for a troupe or a famous actor, at least not that troupe or a famous actor dares to offend the theater.

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

And it can't be performed 365 days a year, and it can't be performed every day, let alone a single drama for one year.

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

In this way, when I was looking for someone to save the venue in the theater, I got the remaining 4 days of ticketing fees, and in addition, there were no fewer people watching the show in this era than those watching movies.

After a little bidding between the big opera troupe and famous actors, you can easily get an extra 10% to 20% of the money.

In other words, when the troupe and famous actors take the opportunity to take a break, they actually want to have a movie that is hopeless to book a show.

In addition, the bad guys and short mules didn't dare to come to these seven theaters to collect money and cause trouble, which also led to the troupes and famous actors, so they were even more reluctant to offend the theater.

On the contrary, in order to have a backer, if it is not necessary, at most, I will just make some extra money when I want to save the venue.

If you have a little bit of money to increase money, anyone who runs a theater is a little smart, and you won’t be able to get over the ticket money just to make a little money.

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Yu Changming from the Great Wall saw Ran Xinming and others laughing but not speaking, so he could only shake his head helplessly.

However, thinking about this movie that makes a big fuss in Tiangong was the dubbing of the people from his own company and then making a copy.

In addition to several old Hollywood movies, he was also talking about dubbing. Yu Changming thought that one could make tens of thousands of yuan, and he felt much better.

Even as the movie started, I was still thinking in my mind whether I would have someone come back from the mainland and buy some cartoons?

But when I think of the 30% discount on the room, I worry that it will anger Li Changheng.

After all, although the last movie was only played for 2 weeks and the box office was only 580,000, it became the only movie that made a profit in the past two years and even made HK$200,000.

And Yu Changming knew very well that the box office of 580,000 yuan was as long as one or two in the box office, because the audience who had watched the movie "The Better Boy" and had inertial thinking about the cinema.

If these favorable factors were not available, the last movie would have failed in the end, and it would have been a terrible one.

Think about it again, many film practitioners who have been treated unfairly because of their closeness to the mainland have been more or less dependent on their own companies.

Yu Changming thought it would be better to be honest.

Besides, if it weren't for the opportunity to help Henry Li contact the mainland, he wouldn't have received a call today, so he would have specially invited himself to receive comrades from the mainland.

After all, there are things that people who are closer to the mainland than you, and even more suitable for reception in terms of identity.
Chapter completed!