Chapter 144: "That Mountain, That Man, That Dog" made money

There are countless tragedies caused by drinking, and Liu Ye created one alive and made himself a pit.

According to the regulations, Liu Ye, as the leading actor, was going to attend the screening ceremony, but yesterday these people cried wildly, Liu Ye's eyes were swollen from crying, and they were swollen like a peach.

Ho, good guy, as a student of Chinese opera, this product dares to pretend to be forced to this point, it is simply ignoring the teachers and classmates, when this product came on stage, there was a boo, and the sound almost lifted the roof.

This is pretending to be forced to be struck by lightning, although this product is not intentional, but it is all from a school, and you dare to wear glasses on stage to attend the screening of your own movie, which suddenly provoked public anger.

Chang's mother couldn't help but scold him, let him take off his glasses, this thing was still twisted for a long time, and finally had no choice but to take off the glasses, the huge peach-like eyes, looked full of joy, so the whole atmosphere was transformed in everyone's laughter.

To be reasonable, wearing glasses to attend the screening ceremony was not Liu Ye's original intention, but speaking of which, this product was self-inflicted, not worthy of sympathy, his anxious appearance in the auditorium almost made Zhou Bai laugh, last night this thing howled and cried there no matter how he couldn't persuade him, and wiped his tears and snot on Zhou Bai's body, and now it is purely retribution.

Although there was a little joke in the screening ceremony of "That Mountain, That Man and That Dog", the whole screening effect was very good, everyone was very sure of Liu Ye's performance, and this time the show also made him completely famous, at least in Chinese opera, his limelight is unparalleled for a while, he is about to become CEO, marry Bai Fumei, and go to the peak of life.

The nomination of the Golden Rooster Award made Liu Ye's harvest not only the affirmation of teachers and classmates, but also more displayed in real money, some companies invited Liu Ye to endorse, and some script invitations were sent, Liu Ye picked among them and decided to take over the next TV series called "Happy Street", he is the male number one in it.

"That Mountain, That Man, That Dog" is a popular movie this year, at least it is very popular at some film festivals, the Montreal International Film Festival won two awards, the College Student Film Festival also won the grand prize, and the Golden Rooster Award won six important nominations, which also gave Truth Film and Television the confidence to do a better job in the overseas distribution of the film, so it was a strange commodity and did not sell the overseas distribution rights of the film early.

Zhou Bai invested 1.5 million yuan in this movie, of course, in the name of Truth Film and Television, if this movie does not have more than 100% profit, Zhou Bai will not easily sell the distribution rights anyway.

Dongying people are very interested in this movie, and when the Golden Rooster Award nominations came out, they came to talk to Li Film and Television about the distribution rights, but they were only willing to pay 100,000 US dollars, even if the price was 40,000 yuan higher than the original history, but Zhou Bai couldn't look at this money.

Zhou Bai knows how popular "That Mountain, That Man, That Dog" will be in Dongying, accumulating more than 800 million yen at the box office, even if this is the result of the right marketing strategy adopted by the Dongying distributor, it cannot hide the essence of the film's style that is very suitable for the Dongying market.

Zhou Bai is more willing to share the box office account with Dongying distributors, but the shrewd Dongying people are obviously optimistic about this movie, and they can't talk about it, even if Truth Film and Television is willing to be responsible for all marketing and publicity expenses, they are unwilling, and they feel that the distribution fee of 5 million yuan offered by Truth Film and Television is too expensive and refuses to accept it.

To be reasonable, five million sold the distribution rights of "That Mountain, That Man and That Dog", Zhou Bai is already cutting his flesh in pain, according to the final box office of "That Mountain, That Man and That Dog" in Dongying in history, it only accounts for about 10% of the box office, but Dongying people feel that Truth Film and Television is opening his mouth in a lion's mouth.

Zhou Bai actually knows that the sooner the investment is recovered, the more cost-effective it is, in the case that it is impossible to share the box office account, the investment cost is recovered one day earlier, and there will be a day of benefit, the money can be used to invest in other projects, continue to make money, and it is a loss to drag it all the time.

In the case that the box office account sharing can no longer be realized, before the National Day, after Zhou Bai communicated with his uncle Zhou Zhengli, he decided to sign a contract in the form of a gambling and adopt a tiered distribution fee.

The basic distribution fee is 200,000 US dollars, if the box office is within 300 million yen, this distribution fee remains unchanged, and for every additional 100 million yen after 300 million, the distributor will have to pay the producer 150,000 US dollars, and when the total box office exceeds 800 million, the final distribution fee will be capped at 1 million US dollars.

The VAM contract is essentially a win-win situation, with a base distribution fee of 200,000 yuan that is acceptable to the Toei people, and then an additional $150,000 for each additional 100 million yen.

This is also a figure that both sides can accept, with a cap of one million US dollars, which is equivalent to more than 8.2 million yuan, and to reach this number, there must be a box office of 800 million yen, a box office of more than 40 million yuan, and 20% of the distribution cost seems very expensive, but Dongying people feel that it is impossible.

Now the highest box office of Chinese films in Dongying is only more than 10 million yuan, and although Yanbo Cinema and "Xunbao" are optimistic about "That Mountain, That Man and That Dog", they still feel that the final box office can reach 20 million.

The box office of 20 million yuan, the cost of distribution rights of 200,000 US dollars, is not expensive, less than one-tenth, this business can be done, although the price is higher than the 100,000 US dollars they originally gave, but they believe that the quality and style of this film will be affirmed by the market.

On the day of the release of the Chinese opera, the distribution contract was finally signed, and 200,000 US dollars were paid to the account of Daodao Film and Television Investment, which is equivalent to more than 1.6 million yuan, plus a total of 100,000 US dollars sold in other places overseas, so far "That Mountain, That Man and That Dog" has successfully recovered its cost, and there is a small profit, the TV broadcast right of 500,000 yuan on the movie channel is considered to be earned, and the box office of 300,000 yuan before, and the account sharing is also more than 100,000 yuan, so it is a small profit.

Hearing the report of "That Mountain, That Man and That Dog", Kang Jian almost scared to pee, in his estimation, this movie is an ironclad loss, but he didn't expect to make money, although Xiaoxiang Factory only accounts for less than 40% of the investment amount, but it can also earn 200,000, which is a big surprise.

200,000 is not much, but this is a profit, although you still have to pay taxes, but a movie that I thought would lose money, under the operation of the rational investment, finally succeeded in making a profit, the difference is not 200,000, but the difference between heaven and earth, one is to make money, the other is to lose money, a little IQ to know the difference.

After solving the problem of selling films of "That Mountain, That Man, That Dog", Zhou Bai's heart finally calmed down, he didn't tell Kang Jianyan that there would be 800,000 US dollars in income in the future, and they could still get a profit of about 2.5 million yuan, anyway, when Dongying people will operate "That Mountain, That Man and That Dog" will be released and break the box office record held by "My Father and Mother", Kang Jianyan will know.

Speaking of the movie "My Father and Mother", Zhou Bai has a little pain, because this movie and another movie "National Anthem" starring Zhou Bai will be released in China almost ten days apart, and the two movies will wrestle in the air at that time, which is simply Zhou Bai's left hand and right hand fighting, which failure will be his loss.

"National Anthem" is scheduled to be released on October 7, Zhou Bai has to attend the premiere, and he will be very busy for a period of time in the future.