On September 16, "Sword Venerable" was officially released worldwide, with a final box office of 5.7 billion Chinese coins, totaling 836 million US dollars!

After the final box office was confirmed, the media and others naturally came to another wave of scramble to report, all kinds of claims, including touting, "Sword Zun" naturally became the benchmark of Chinese movies, which is the same as the previous "Xuanyuan Sword Master" became the benchmark of Chinese TV dramas, there is nothing surprising. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

In addition, it must be mentioned that Hou Muyun and Chu Qing were once again crowned by the media as "the most investment-minded couple", to put it bluntly, everyone thinks that Hou Muyun and Chu Qing are crazy this time.

Actually, of course, yes.

The total investment of the final production fee plus the publicity and distribution cost of "Sword Zun" is 550 million, of which Qingtian Film and Sky Culture, as the producer, jointly invested 350 million Huaxia coins, and the other 200 million is basically an investment in publicity, which is shared by two distribution companies and multiple cooperative companies in the future.

-- In order to make the release of "Sword Zun" more smooth and other aspects can keep up, it is definitely necessary to find a distribution company, everyone knows that "Sword Zun" will definitely make money before it is released - but no one expected that it will be so popular in the end - so to some extent, this is a gift of money. Sending money is naturally for the convenience of the film scheduling ratio and other aspects - at the beginning of the release, 22% of the film scheduling ratio is a lot - at the same time, Chu Qing is not such a simple "God of Wealth", and the place where she should be said is naturally ruthless, so the publicity and distribution costs worth 200 million yuan fell on these companies.

Having said that, the investment in the production fee is 350 million Huaxia dollars, and if it is calculated according to the box office, the box office will basically not lose 1 billion, and no matter how much the subsequent box office income is, 33% of it is the profit part of the production fee!

And this is still the box office of Huaxia alone!

The method of film account sharing in other countries and regions is different from that of Huaxia, and generally the box office share of the producer is very high, even higher than that of the movie theater.

For example, in the North American market, its account sharing ratio is dynamically adjusted, generally speaking, the producer accounts for 70% in the first week, 60% in the second week, and 50% in the third week....... As a result, North American cinemas naturally want movies to run as long as possible, and long screening times require quality as a premise, so North America is the easiest to produce and invest in movies.

All in all, the producers of "Sword Honor" got more than 1 billion Huaxia dollars from the domestic box office account, deducting the investment of 350 million, and making a profit of 650 million Huaxia yuan!

The 2.6 billion box office in the rest of the world's markets, with different account sharing ratios in each country, the final production fee was 1.4 billion Huaxia yuan.

In other words, the final profit of the producer is 2.05 billion Huaxia coins!

After deducting various fees and expenses including taxes, the net profit brought by "Sword Venerable" to Qingtian Film and Sky Culture is 1.73 billion!

The production fee of a film earns more than 1.7 billion Chinese coins, which is definitely the highest profit ever.

More than 1.7 billion Chinese coins, how much you earn!

But!

With such a profit, to be honest, Hou Muyun and Chu Qing were not so happy.

The reason is actually really simple, that is, this most profitable Chinese movie in history actually brings them less profit than the third season of "Xuanyuan Sword Master"!

You must know that the third season of "Xuanyuan Sword Master" sold 2.5 billion, unlike the movie, which requires various account sharing, and finally went into the pocket of the production fee more than 2 billion!

The filming + production time of the movie "Sword Zun" before and after is nearly ten months, and various publicity and various roadshows are also needed!

It took less than five months before and after the third season of "Xuanyuan Sword Master", and the production cycle was less than half of that of "Sword Venerable", which only needed some simple publicity and did not need various roadshows.

In such a comparison, at least the final benefit is not enough to make the two happy.

Of course, the movie also has some surprises that the TV series can't harvest, not to mention anything else, at least the success of "Sword Zun" this time has made Qingtian Film and Sky Culture have one more leg to walk, not just relying on TV series, although the movie is not so strong, but it is only relative to TV series, it is actually quite big!

In addition, the big screen is definitely more able to pull the "market value" than the small screen, the eye-catching performance of "Sword Zun" this time, whether it is Qingtian Film and Television or Sky Culture's "market value" has been raised again, if these two companies have been listed, a few price limits are certain.

Many experts and industry insiders have given a very high valuation, not to mention the sum of the two, just Qingtian Film and Television, the current valuation has exceeded 10 billion!

Sky Culture is definitely lower at the moment, but more people are optimistic about its future, for the simple reason that it is the source of content!

As for Hou Muyun, in this round of valuation of the two companies, he also got another nickname-

Hou tens of billions!

Nothing else in particular, well, just purely referring to his worth!

Qingtian Film and Sky Culture held a meeting after the release of "Sword Zun", and the first content of the meeting was about the copyright sales and other related issues after the release of "Sword Zun".

The movie is released, which naturally does not mean that there will be no income. Like in the past, the release of movie discs is naturally the most important out-of-the-theater income, and now, it is natural to authorize the broadcast copyright of the movie to major websites.

As for TV stations, they must also have the habit of buying movie broadcast copyrights, but to be honest, there are fewer and fewer now, and TV stations that will choose to broadcast movies will definitely not have high ratings, advertisements will definitely not sell, and the money that can be made will naturally be less. In this regard, it is negligible.

The copyright of movie broadcasting is not like a TV series with a two-star restriction, and naturally it will not be broadcast exclusively nor will it restrict the two platforms, which is very open.

Soon after the meeting, more than a dozen domestic video platforms in China basically bought them, and more than 40 foreign broadcast platforms also bought the broadcast rights of "Sword Zun".

In the end, in this regard, the producer got nearly 200 million Huaxia coins.

Don't look at 200 million, which is much worse than the box office of the movie, this number has also set a record for the sales of Chinese films on online platforms!

The second content of this meeting is much more important than the follow-up copyright sales of "Sword Venerable", Sunny Sky Film and Sky Culture have jointly established a studio, a studio specializing in film and television special effects!

This idea was had and was 100% determined during Hou Muyun's filming of "Sword Zun", and even earlier during the filming of the TV series "Xuanyuan Sword Master".

A good special effects team plays a huge role in film and television production!

Hou Muyun knows very well that he and his and Chu Qing's company will definitely shoot more film and television dramas in the future, and he is too eager for a good special effects production team, not only eager to cooperate, but also eager to have!

Hou Muyun really spent a lot of money this time, aiming to create a special effects studio with the world's top level!

He spent a lot of money to poach a special effects master from ILM that he had been working with!

He spent a lot of money to dig up many special effects artists in the special effects team that Xu Lao Wei has been working with!

He spent a lot of money to keep several domestic special effects artists who have been working with him from TV series to movies!

Then, he spent a lot of money to ask these people to help him dig up more special effects talents!

Then, he spent a lot of money to customize and purchase the world's top special effects tools, equipment and all kinds of equipment needed!

Then, he spent a lot of money to buy a manor covering an area of more than 100 acres in Hangcheng Linshi, which was used to house their talents and equipment and provide them with more creative space!

The reason why we need such a large space is because "special effects" are not just computer related software to synthesize and edit special effects, not to mention anything else, just the models required for various special effects, if you want to reach the world's top level, the space requirements for the studio are very large!

The establishment of a special effects production studio is something that Hou Muyun has already thought about a long time ago, and there are many things that are naturally not done at this moment, such as digging people, Hou Muyun has already finalized the "targeting" people through various methods long before this!

The site of the studio was also found in Linshi through the owner of the farmhouse compound in "Returning to the Garden", that is, the wrong uncle Uncle Wu, there are ready-made buildings, and the places that need to be changed are naturally handed over to the construction company under the Chufeng Group, and Hou Muyun naturally provides a modification plan, which can be completed in a very short time.

And those tools that are needed, these people who are dug up naturally have their channels, Hou Muyun only needs to ensure that the money is in place, and those tools can naturally be in place.

When this special effects studio called "Seventy-two Changes" was established, Hou Muyun and Chu Qing had already spent 300 million Huaxia coins together, yes, this is the money that has been spent at the beginning of the studio's establishment, not the amount of investment.

As for the investment amount, the first round of investment is 500 million Chinese dollars.

At the same time as its establishment, it pursued a second round of investment of 300 million Chinese dollars.

In other words, the amount of investment that has been determined so far is 800 million Huaxia dollars.

Take 800 million to smash a special effects studio!

It is estimated that there are really only Hou Muyun and Chu Qing who dare to play like this in the entire Huaxia, and even, there are not many people in the world who play like this, only a handful!

What is called a handful, no more than ten, no, five!

There is a third thing in this meeting, that is, the fourth season of "Xuanyuan Sword Master" has begun to enter the preparation stage!

In the fourth season, Hou Muyun still did not hang the assistant director, nor did he hang other crew positions, and like the third season, he was only responsible for the two roles of "Tianjian" and "Jianzun" in the fourth season.

Regarding the assistant director, I must say a few more words, the fourth season of "Xuanyuan Sword Master" has as many as 4 assistant directors, and they are all assistant directors in charge, plus the director Li Xue, there are at least 5 main shooting teams in the fourth season!

In addition, more than half of the four assistant directors and their two assistants are young people under the age of 35.

Digging talents, excavating talents, and reserving and cultivating talents, Hou Muyun and Chu Qing, or Sky Culture and Sunny Sky Film and Television, have always attached great importance to it.

There must be more talents!

Not to mention the film and television of "Future War", Hou Muyun wrote the script for the first season of "Nine Days" a few months ago, but there is currently no suitable person to be in charge of directing and setting up the crew.