Golden Harvest Film Company.

"Raymond!"

He Guanchang hurriedly knocked on the door of Zou Wenhuai's office, and as soon as he entered, he said directly: "I just received the news that Huo Yaowen's "1999" has exceeded 300 million US dollars at the box office in the United States!"

"$300 million!"

Zou Wenhuai stood up suddenly, staring at the boss, and a look of surprise appeared on his face.

"Yes, it's already broken $300 million! I don't think there will be news from Hong Kong in two days!"

After saying this, He Guanchang still couldn't hide his excitement and shock, when he received the news, he seemed to be stupid, and he couldn't imagine that a movie could sweep the global box office of 800 million US dollars!

"The United States alone sold $300 million at the box office, and if you add Europe and Asia, wouldn't it be at least $450 million!"

The box office of "1999" in Hong Kong broke about 10 million Hong Kong dollars, which not only broke the box office record set by Bruce Lee's "Enter the Dragon", but also crushed the box office of "Ghost Horse Double Star", which was also good at the box office in the same period, and Nanyang all added up to more than 20 million Hong Kong dollars.

Not long ago, there was news from Japan, saying that it sold 1.8 billion yen and is expected to exceed 2 billion, which is superimposed, as long as Europe gives a little effort, four or five billion US dollars is a piece of cake!

"Four or five billion dollars? hehe, it's more than that!"

He Guanchang shook his head and said: "According to the analysis and report of the New York Times in the United States, the box office in Britain alone has reached a small 80 million US dollars, not to mention the rest of the countries, and the Americans have calculated that as long as there is no accident, the global box office is expected to exceed 800 million US dollars! This is the first film in the world to break 800 million US dollars, and the media in the United States are crazy!"

"Eight... 800 million dollars!"

Hearing this shocking figure, Zou Wenhuai subconsciously swallowed his saliva, he calculated a little in his heart, according to the investment ratio of Huo Yaowen's investment of 20 million US dollars, excluding the share of theaters in various countries and various taxes, Huo Yaowen's movie can earn at least one or two hundred million!

It's still dollars!

"It's crazy!"

Zou Wenhuai can't imagine that a movie can make one or two hundred million dollars, how many movies does he have to make to make this money? 50, or 100?

If you follow the recent Golden Harvest auction of "Iron King Kong Breaking the Purple Sun View", it earned almost 200,000 Hong Kong dollars in Hong Kong, and counting the box office in Nanyang and overseas, it can earn about 40~500,000 Hong Kong dollars.

According to the current bank exchange rate, 100 million US dollars is almost equal to 500 million Hong Kong dollars, which is equivalent to the fact that he Zou Wenhuai wants to make a thousand movies, and he can only compare the income of Huo Yaowen with a movie when he still makes money!

It's hard to accept!

Zou Wenhuai sat down slowly, his heart was full of jealousy and envy at this moment, and when he thought of what he had just estimated in his heart, he couldn't help muttering to himself: "Is it really so profitable to make Western films?"

"Not every Western film is so profitable!"

He Guanchang, who was sitting opposite, said: "Huo Yaowen's original "1999" has been published abroad for several years, and there are many fans, and if it is remade into a movie, it is natural that many audiences will go to the cinema to see it. Besides, you've seen this movie, and to be honest, I finally understand where the $40 million investment went!"

Last year, after Zou Wenhuai accompanied Bruce Lee to the United States to shoot "Enter the Dragon", he mentioned to He Guanchang that Huo Yaowen invested 20 million US dollars to shoot a science fiction movie with the American Twentieth Century Fox Company.

At that time, He Guanchang was thinking, how to spend the 40 million US dollars?

Could it be that all of them are invited, all of the world's top movie stars? For example, Marlon Brando in The Godfather, or Sean Connery, the actor of the 007 series?

This idea has always been in He Guanchang's mind, until two months ago, after the release of "1999" in Hong Kong, He Guanchang and Zou Wenhuai went to see this movie for the first time, and he realized where the $40 million investment was spent!

The thousands of simulated space battleships, as well as the picture of the explosion of the godlike planet, even if you don't understand the special effects technology here, He Guanchang can understand that it definitely took a lot of money to shoot this kind of cross-era picture!

"Ah Chang, you say, should we also go abroad to make movies?"

Zou Wenhuai completely lost his former calmness at this moment, he thought of the huge box office set by "Enter the Dragon" abroad, and now Huo Yaowen's world-shaking 800 million US dollars, aroused his desire to go abroad to make movies and earn US dollars!

He Guanchang frowned and said, "You are crazy Raymond! How can we have so much money!"

"No, I'm not talking about making Western films, but going abroad to shoot!"

Zou Wenhuai is not that kind of radical person, he can't follow Huo Yaowen's example, spend 20 million US dollars, and invest all of Golden Harvest's worth into making movies, and Golden Harvest is not worth so much money, at best, it is worth millions of Hong Kong dollars now.

"Framing abroad?"

"Well, Xiaolong's previous movies were filmed abroad, and the box office was very good, so we can learn from it. ”

At this moment, Zou Wenhuai gradually had a prototype of a story in his mind, that is, to learn "Raptors Crossing the River" and shoot a series of stories about Chinese people going to the United States.

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On the other hand, as soon as Huo Yaowen returned to Hong Kong, he learned the good news from the deputy manager of Huanyu Film Company.

Huo Yaowen leaned back in the boss's chair and looked at the telegram sent by Twentieth Century Fox, which wrote the results of their analysis several times, saying that the global box office was at least about 800 million US dollars.

also said that at this moment, the American media made this movie explode, and all newspapers and TV stations were reporting the world's first movie to break 800 million US dollars!

In the end, he also deliberately said that many film companies in the United States are interested in starting to shoot science fiction movies, and asked Huo Yaowen when he will start the filming plan of the second part of "1999", they Fox Company has prepared funds, and the director is still George Lucas, just wait for Huo Yaowen to nod here, and the filming will start immediately.

"Haha, not bad, not bad!"

Huo Yaowen laughed heartily, although the global box office of 800 million US dollars is less than the one billion he expected before, but that is just an expectation, and now it is estimated that 800 million US dollars is already very, very good!

For this movie alone, according to the previous sharing ratio, he can make a profit of at least 200 million US dollars!

Invest 20 million, get back 10 times the return in a year and a half, and make 200 million US dollars, this is a great deal!

And with the good reputation and good box office of the first part, the sequel to "1999" will continue to be filmed in the future, and the box office will definitely not be low.

Wait for Huo Yaowen to write "Our Journey is the Sea of Stars", and the StarCraft that unfolds in the universe is definitely more popular than the "Star Wars series" in the original time and space!

You must know that the "Star Wars" series has been selling well in the world for more than 40 years, although it has been poor at the domestic box office, it has a very large number of star fans in the open sea.

Therefore, "1999", which replaced the original Star Wars, as long as it works well, it will be enough to launch a movie in a few years, whether it is its box office or peripheral products, it will be enough to make Huo Yaowen rich for a lifetime!

Thinking of this, Huo Yaowen picked up a pen and paper and began to write out the IP operation plan that was very common in later generations.

"1999 Trilogy" has ended, but the movie only shoots two-tenths of the story, plus Huo Yaowen added some settings to the film shooting, I think I can still make five or six films.

This kind of sci-fi movie, as long as the special effects are powerful and the main story line follows the route he wrote, the box office of the next few sequel movies will not be too low, and the global box office of hundreds of millions of dollars should be very easy.

As for peripheral products, there are more, you can have model figures of space battleships, patchwork Lego, movie soundtracks, character figures, comic adaptations, animation films, and even sell the wonderful character images in the movie to some stationery companies, or clothing companies, print character cartoon versions, and so on.

"It looks like we're going to have to find someone to take care of these things. ”

Looking at the written IP operation plan, Huo Yaowen touched his chin, took out his phone book, and dialed Coverdale Davide, the manager of his private finance company, and asked him to come to the film company.

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