"I didn't expect that "The Rise of a Great Power" sold no less than "Datang"?" Zhang Shaojie looked a little surprised.

"Even though there are 1 million readers in Hong Kong, only 200,000 people actually buy physical books. The mainstream readers of "The Rise of Great Powers" are the middle class, and there are some rich people, politicians and others. These people, who think that readable things, will pay for them! Jin Yong was not surprised at all.

Zhang Shaojie thought for a while and said: "Walking on the elite route, although in the short term, their consumption is very bold. However, if I publish half of "The Legend of Double Dragons of the Tang Dynasty" and release 50 episodes a year, will they still buy 50 copies? ”

"That's not going to happen!" Jin Yong said.

Intellectuals often read books over and over again, and even take notes with a pen. You can't finish a book in less than a month. Such intensive reading makes it impossible for them to become the mainstream purchasing power in the book market!

After leaving the Ming Pao group.

Zhang Shaojie went to the Golden Harvest set to visit the crew of "Datang", but was called to the office by Zou Wenhuai, it turned out to be the dividend of the overseas box office of "Modern Bodyguard"!

"It's a big deal!" Zhang Shaojie gasped.

In September, "Modern Bodyguard" has been successfully completed, and the total box office in Asia has reached 31.25 million US dollars, of which the book accounts for the majority, and 6% of the box office revenue is obtained in the market.

Golden Harvest Company divided the accounts of Zhang Shaojie, and the after-tax dividend reached 13 million Hong Kong dollars. The cash balance in Zhang Shaojie's bank account finally reached HK$27 million.

This undoubtedly greatly alleviated Zhang Shaojie's financial pressure in the face of the gold-swallowing beast of industrial light and magic.

Zou Wenhuai was in a happy mood and encouraged: "Come on, "The Legend of Double Dragons of the Tang Dynasty" will be filmed well, and it will be impossible to say in the future, and it will be able to set a new high at the box office!" ”

Although "Datang" is produced by Baolong Film Company, it has been handed over to Golden Harvest Company in terms of theatrical distribution. For theatrical distribution in Hong Kong, Golden Harvest only receives 20% of the box office dividends.

For the release of theaters in other overseas countries, Golden Harvest only charges 10% of the intermediary fee, and the rest of the box office dividends given by overseas theater companies are not taken by Golden Harvest.

Overall, although Golden Harvest does not pay as much dividends as Zhang Shaojie, it bears fewer risks.

Regarding the box office results of "Modern Bodyguard", Zhang Shaojie can't help but be quite proud.

Historically, "Modern Bodyguard" was the first blockbuster in Hong Kong to be created under the name of "Chinese New Year film", with a total box office of 17 million in Hong Kong, setting a new local box office record in Hong Kong. In the following years, "Rich and Powerful", "Lucky Stars", "Eight Star Annunciation", etc., are all following the concept of "Chinese New Year films" of "Modern Bodyguard".

However, "Modern Watch", which was released a year in advance, was screened in the summer and did not play the concept of "Chinese New Year film", but the box office was even better!

Especially the overseas box office, it is even more amazing! In history, "Modern Bodyguard", which was released in the book in 82 years, only achieved 835 million yuan, and when converted into Hong Kong dollars, it was only 70 million Hong Kong dollars, and now the total box office of the book has reached 2.1 billion yuan, which is nearly twice as high as in history.

"Fortunately, I can't make a good movie by myself, otherwise it wouldn't be against the sky!" Zhang Shaojie couldn't help but realize that the film industry was a sleeping wolf. Now that I'm asleep, I don't bite, but once I wake up, I'm sure I'm going to eat people like crazy.

The success of "Modern Bodyguard" is actually due to the success of Golden Harvest.

"The Legend of Double Dragons of the Tang Dynasty", a movie that has not been made in history, tests Zhang Shaojie's planning ability!

Of course, a high-cost martial arts blockbuster like "The Legend of Double Dragons of the Tang Dynasty", which is not inferior to Hollywood blockbusters, is also a heavyweight chess piece that Zhang Shaojie is preparing to occupy the film market!

The fans of this book are actually more star-chasing and hardcore than fans in other countries.

For example, Jackie Chan made a reputation in the Yueben film market because of "Drunken Fist" in the 70s, so that for more than 30 years, as soon as fans heard about Jackie Chan's movies, they were used to going into the cinema to watch them. Later, in the total box office of Chinese films, Jackie Chan's movies alone accounted for one-third of the box office of Chinese films.

In the animation industry, this kind of hardcore phenomenon is very common.

The best-selling comics and animation works are rarely serialized for several years, and most are serialized for decades, and some people chase an anime, from elementary school to marriage and childbirth, and have been waiting for a new episode of anime works. This kind of stubborn pursuit of surnames is indeed stunning!

"In the future, the market will basically be a dumping ground for Hollywood movies! Instead of cheap Hollywood blockbusters, it is better to let Hong Kong films firmly occupy this market. If the local film industry is cowardly and Hong Kong does not occupy it, Hollywood, Bollywood and even South Korea, which gradually rose in the 90s, should also snatch this market! ”

"Oh, and games! The game industry is more profitable! Zhang Shaojie's thinking suddenly jumped to other aspects: "Now the game market is still dominated by arcades!" Nintendo's FC home console didn't come out until '83, and who made the world's most successful Super Mario? Well, it seems that a street painter Shigeru Miyamoto turned game technician and wrote the script. In the early 80s, Nintendo became popular with FC! Later, Sega Saturn and Sony PS consoles entered the game console market to compete with Nintendo, and then Microsoft Xbox En, by the way, China's 90s Little Overlord "

Do you want to get a game console between '83 and grab the console market before Nintendo?

As a descendant, Zhang Shaojie naturally knows that game consoles are not technically difficult.

Just get some technicians and tell them to integrate the sound processor into the CPU with a 6502 CPU with a clock speed of 1.8MHz, 2K memory, and an image controller. There should be a slot on the console that can read game cartridges, as well as a gamepad.

Then let the programmer write a simple game console system. After putting together a simple console, you can seize Nintendo's head start in this era!

In the blink of an eye, Zhang Shaojie smiled dumbly again.

Being a human being is so greedy.

The film industry in front of me has not yet been completed, so I am hungry for the game industry! Beware of the old saying "a bear breaks a stick, breaks one and throws one"!

―――――――――― after returning home.

Zhang Shaojie began to sort out the manuscript of "Resident Evil".

"Resident Evil" was originally a console game released in 1996 on Sony PSP and Sega Saturn. As of 2007, a total of 6 Resident Evil games have been released, with a total of 30 million units sold.

In addition to its gaming success, Resident Evil has been adapted into a Hollywood blockbuster. Since 2002, the "Resident Evil" series has released four movies in a row, with an amazing reputation and a huge fan base, each of which has a global box office of more than $100 million!

In particular, "Resident Evil 4" is because of the outstanding reputation of the first three films, and "Resident Evil 4", released in September 2010, has a budget of 60 million US dollars, which has occupied the weekly top of the North American box office for several weeks, and finally locked in a global box office of 278 million US dollars.

And the game company of "Resident Evil" not only authorized Hollywood to adapt electronic music. and authorized the Hong Kong comic company to adapt the Hong Kong comic, and even authorized the American writer S.D. Perry to write the novel of the same name "Resident Evil".

Zhang Shaojie was writing "Resident Evil 1: The Conspiracy of the Umbrella Company" at this time, and the Chinese version of the original work written by S.D. Perry was only 120,000 words long.

In this episode of the novel, the time is in 1998.

The location is the fictional "Raccoon City" in the United States, because the citizens have suffered a series of murders, and there are rumors of "ghouls" in the city, causing a huge panic among the citizens.

Raccoon City's police commissioner, Ellons, announced that an elite police team will be dispatched to investigate the truth, track down the murderer, and protect the safety of citizens.

The full name of this police force is S.T.A.R.S. unit, and the team members include the main characters of the story, Jill Valentine, Chris Ros. Redfield, Barry. Dunbo, Rebecca. Chambers and Albert. Wesker is a battle-hardened character with superhuman combat effectiveness.

This team started out as a sacrificial pawn - because the serial deaths of citizens were caused by the Umbrella Company's experiments with biological and chemical weapons.

The police commissioner has actually been bought off by the Umbrella Company, and the captain of S.T.A.R.S, Albert Wesker, is simply a spy sent in by the Umbrella Company - in order to lead this team into a dangerous and dangerous situation, fight zombies, and test the power of the Umbrella Company's biological weapons.

The entire S.T.A.R.S force was originally outnumbered, but at the beginning, the vanguard fell into the trap of the umbrella company and suffered heavy casualties, and only Rebecca survived.

And the follow-up troops, Jill, Chris, Barry, and Brad in front of the teammate died, and were sent to continue the investigation.

After layers of death traps, everyone knows more and more truths! Later, everyone also learned that Wesker was a spy sent by the Umbrella Company.

When the group was about to make an end with Wesker, they alarmed the tyrant zombies in the castle.

Everyone fled, and Wesker was killed by the tyrant zombie (fake death)! Then, the Tyrant Zombie continues to hunt down the people.

At the end of the first episode, Jill, Chris, Barry, Rebecca, and the others face the final pursuit of the Tyrant Zombies when the plane of S.T.A.R.S. rescuers arrives. Everyone used bazookas to attack the tyrant zombies, but they detonated the self-detonation device of the ancient castle, causing the entire huge ancient castle to be reduced to ruins in an explosion. Much of the evidence of the Umbrella Company's crimes was thus destroyed in the explosion.

The first part of Resident Evil, the version of the game, the movie, the novel, etc., although there are a few differences. However, the general context is still the adventure in the castle.

Zhang Shaojie combines the advantages of novels, movies, and games, and reconstructs his own "Resident Evil"! Zhang Shaojie is confident that with these thrilling plots, curious settings, and classic character settings in "Resident Evil" such as Jill, Rebecca, Chris, etc., he can write works that are more in line with his appetite in his own language!

Of course, Zhang Shaojie hinted that "Resident Evil" is not the goal - the more ambitious goal is actually for "Infinite Terror"!

"Infinite Horror" is essentially a fandom that synthesizes a large number of movie worlds.

What is valuable is that the setting of "Infinite Horror" is beyond the original setting of those movies. The guy who is the biggest one has a bad character, but his creativity is endless.

It's a pity that "Infinite Terror" is such a good idea, but it can't be adapted into a film and television drama because it involves too many Hollywood movie copyrights.

Now, Zhang Shaojie has decided to draw salary from the bottom of the kettle! The film copyright needed for "Infinite Terror" was all written in the form of a novel in advance! In the future, these copyrights belong to themselves, so they will naturally be used if they want to!

(To be continued)