Chapter 775: Must Have Your Own Theater
"Teacher Huang, you ~~~~~~~~~ in this scene later"
Song Zheng Balabala said a lot, Huang Lei nodded again and again, it has been more than a month since the filming of "Hurricane Rescue" started, everything is going well, Huang Lei has just joined the group, and now he is focusing on filming him. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
About Huang Lei's role, after repeated modifications, now it is very perfect, a black-bellied man, ostensibly a real estate agent, is actually a killer agent, he and the heroine Janeny work in a company, through daily contact, gradually fell in love with Janeny, and also came up with the idea of wanting to live a normal life, and to achieve all this, the first thing to do is to get rid of it, his current partner, a cold-blooded super killer, so, he designed a scene, let his partner assassinate John and Janeny, who are also very famous in the killer world, but he didn't expect that the killer Janeny turned out to be his colleague。
was talking to Huang Lei about the play, Ren Tong came over, Huang Lei knew that the two of them had something to say, so he used the excuse to familiarize himself with the script, got up and left.
"What's the matter!?"
During this time, it has been high-intensity shooting, and every day according to the agreement with the American staff, it is not until 12 o'clock that the work is finished.
After people go back from work, they can sleep, but Song Zheng doesn't have such a good life, he still has to figure out the shooting plan for the next day, basically he sleeps at more than two o'clock, and he has to get up early every day, be the first to go to the set, arrange preparations, only have more than four hours of sleep every day, and for a month, even if it is iron, it really can't hold on.
Ren Tong handed Song Zheng a cup of coffee first, and then said, "It was Sister Wenwen who called over and said that Ning Dao and they had already set off!"
Song Zheng nodded, Ning Hao went to the northwest with his head this time, and he didn't know what he could get out of the end.
"There is another thing, Sister Wen Wen said that the schedule of "Assembly Number" has been determined, and next Saturday, the number of films scheduled will be the same as expected!"
Song Zheng was not surprised when he heard this, the beginning of June was not the hottest time in the film market, and there were only two or three kittens that were released at this time, and suddenly "Assembly Number" suddenly popped up such a big production with three views and uprightness, and those theater companies naturally would not be disadvantaged.
"By the way, Su Wenwen didn't say it, the incident I mentioned to her last time!?"
Ren Tong replied: "Anyway, Sister Wenwen has also talked to the bosses of several theaters before, but the other party didn't agree, just promised to mention a point, and asked us to keep it secret!"
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Song Zheng scolded in his heart again, he had long known that those theater owners would not agree, but he didn't expect the other party to be so stuck.
You must know that the share ratio of domestic films is 41% for the producer and 59% for the theater chain, but before that, it has to pay 5% of the special fund for the film industry and 3.3% of the special business tax.
In fact, the producer can only share the remaining 91.7%, and if a movie ticket is 100 yuan, the producer can actually only get 37.6 yuan.
The majority of the profits have been taken away by the theater chain, and now there are many old film studios in China that have closed down because of the dismal efficiency, but the theater business is in full swing and very hot, and the reason is in this place.
This is also the reason why Wanda and other cinemas are trying their best to expand their own cinemas and theaters, but it is really unfair to Song Zheng who makes movies, so Song Zheng asked Su Wenwen to talk to the other party, with only one purpose, that is, to increase the share ratio!
The earliest share ratio, the producer only accounted for 39%, this is when Zhang Weiping was released in "Hero", desperately increased the share ratio to 41%, but since then, the film's score has never changed.
In this short period of time, the box office of the Chinese film market has doubled, the screen has increased by thousands of dollars, and almost all film companies feel that the 41% share ratio is too low.
Compared with the United States, American producers have to take 60% of the box office share, and from the upstream and downstream of the film industry, the risks that upstream producers have to bear are obviously far greater than the investment risks of downstream theaters, and it is more fair to increase box office revenue.
If Chinese films want to go global, they must be in line with international standards, and they must formulate reasonable market rules, and investors are the most risky.
Take Song Zheng's "Assembly Number" as an example, the actual investment is 80 million, if the box office is 200 million, the box office can finally get 75.2 million, and it can't get back to the cost at all, and the pressure is really great.
And those theaters are all lying down to make money, and they still take the big head, which is really unfair.
Song Zheng is now asking for an increase in the proportion of box office sharing, which is not for his personal interests, but once the share is increased, all domestic film companies and filmmakers will benefit.
Moreover, the box office of Hollywood movies only accounts for 20% of the film revenue, and the large companies are supported by media groups, so the six major Hollywood companies are particularly strong and can get 60%, while the Chinese producers are completely reversed, accounting for 80% of the box office revenue, so the theater chain is strong.
In the face of a strong cinema chain, if you rely on an individual, it is almost impossible to compete with it, Song Zheng has also thought about uniting with Huayi Brothers, and even pulling in new pictures, so that several large domestic production companies can unite to put pressure on the theater chain, and increase the account sharing ratio from 41% to 45%, an increase of four percentage points.
If it can be successful, take last year as an example, last year's national box office is expected to be close to 6 billion, and domestic films are about 3 billion, according to this ratio, the producer can get 110 million more!
However, because Song Zheng was in a hurry to come to the United States to shoot "True Lies", he didn't care about this matter for a while, so he could only let Su Wenwen talk to the other party first, he was not afraid of being this up-and-coming bird, reasonable interests must be fought for.
But the other party still refused, and only agreed to increase the box office share ratio by one point.
You must have your own theater!
Song Zheng's idea has never been so strong, if he has the theater in his hands, he will no longer have to look at other people's faces, unlike now, no matter how fierce he is, there is no way to persecute the other party.
On the contrary, he was in a hurry, and several major theater companies joined forces to boycott his movie, and when the time came, he could only suffer.
Song Zheng has a lot of funds now, but it is obviously not enough to lay a complete cinema line across the country, but he still has shares in Tencent.
After Tencent was listed in Xiangjiang, it has gone through several price limits so far, and compared with its previous life, Tencent may use a shorter time to reach the peak of its market value.
Song Zheng now has 37% of Tencent's shares in his hands, which is the largest number of personal shares, and he also knows that many people are now aiming at Tencent's shares, if this part of the shares is sold, the money for laying the cinema line will be available, but, obviously, now is not the best time to sell.
Before, Song Zheng's idea was just to find a stable partner, and Su Wenwen has been working hard in this regard, but after so much time, there has been no follow-up.
Now, Song Zheng has changed his mind, instead of looking for a partner, it is better to have a cinema line by himself, because no matter how good the relationship is, once it comes to the issue of interests, it is all nonsense.
"Brother, Sister Wenwen also asked me to tell you another thing!"
Song Zheng was stunned for a moment and said, "What's the matter, let's talk about it!"
"Warner Cinemas has decided to withdraw from the Chinese market, and several movie theaters in their hands are also looking for someone to take over!"
Song Zheng was stunned when he heard this, now that the domestic box office market is booming, and the theater chain is also in a period of explosive growth, it is a promising time, how could Warner withdraw?
The Yankees don't even want to make money now!?
Song Zheng thought about it, and hurriedly asked Ren Tong for his mobile phone, and called Su Wenwen: "Wenwen! Xiao Tong said just now that Warner Cinemas plans to withdraw from the Chinese market, what is the matter!?"
As early as December 2001, when China joined the WTO, it made a promise to allow overseas enterprises and institutions to invest in China's domestic film theaters, but required foreign ownership not to exceed 50 percent.
In 2002, Warner's subsidiary, Warner International Cinemas, entered China and opened a joint venture with Shanghai Film Group to open Yonghua Cinema, and in September 2003, the State Administration issued the "Interim Regulations on Foreign Investment in Cinemas", which pointed out that the shareholding ratio of foreign capital in seven pilot cities such as Yanjing and Modu could be relaxed to 75%, and as a result, Warner began to invest in China on a large scale.
But the good times didn't last long, because the competent authorities hoped that films that promoted the main theme could be scheduled and broadcast in cinemas around the country, but Warner's foreign-funded theaters refused the request for film scheduling out of box office considerations.
The competent authorities immediately realized that foreign-controlled theaters were a problem, so they changed the previous policy in the "Several Opinions on the Introduction of Foreign Investment in the Cultural Sector" issued this year.
The loss of control of new theaters made Time Warner feel that the future was bleak and it had to stop investing in the Chinese theater market.
After listening to Su Wenwen's explanation, Song Zheng suddenly drew a big "" in his heart.
"Brother Zheng, how about it, do we want our company to make a move?"
Needless to say?
Didn't Song Zheng want to have his own cinema system?
Now such a good opportunity is in front of him, how could he miss it.
"Take it with all your might!"