The original "Tianhua Film Company" had a certain distribution capacity in Taipei, and after being acquired by the "Wang Family", these relationships were also retained, and it had already been negotiated with several large movie theaters in Taipei, and it was released at the same time two days after the premiere. As for other regions, the release date will have to be postponed.

At this time, in the conference room of Wang's Film Company, film dealers from all regions of Taiwan who came to buy films gathered together, and Bai Muyang had not yet arrived, and the families had already quarreled. The so-called "purchase of films" is only the purchase of "screening rights", also known as "copyright". Buying a film is not only to buy the "screening rights" to show it, but also to buy a "copy". Usually, the purchase of a film includes a "copy" and "screening rights", if a "copy" is not enough, and you want to buy additional "copies", you have to pay an additional fee, which is the "rule of trade" all over the world. The negatives are the property of the production company, and "copies" can be added at any time at an additional cost.

The reason why those filmmakers are arguing together now is that there are not enough copies. In that case, they would have to wait until the next batch of copies to get their hands on the film, and every night and a day, they would make one less day of money, which is why they fought so fiercely.

In Wang Zijun's office, he bypassed the publisher and personally negotiated with several major theaters. This will not only save the publisher from taking the 10% to 15% agency fee in the middle, but also expand the distribution capacity of "Wang's" to the central and southern regions. Of course, it is only a few large theaters, those small and medium-sized theaters, "Wang's" cannot and does not have the energy to contact them one by one, and can only trouble the distributor to act as an agent.

Everyone has seen the effect of "Bloody Lonely City", and Wang Zijun and Bai Muyang dried these people for a full hour this morning.

"Sorry, sorry, keep you waiting." Wang Zijun walked into his office at almost ten o'clock, and hugged his fists and said haha to the owners of those theaters, but his face was full of smiles, and he looked a little sorry.

"Where is it, Chairman Wang is a busy man, we should wait." Theater owners have chimed in.

In recent years, there is often a shortage of films in Taiwan, and theater owners have become accustomed to pretending to be grandchildren.

Wang Zijun sat down in his boss's chair and asked casually, "What do you think of my company?" ”

"I think Wang Dong is young and promising, and the future of Wang's company is limitless!"

"Yes, yes, in two years, it will definitely be comparable to China Film and Federal!"

"I heard that Wang's company already has its own studio, Wang Dong is really far-sighted!"

“……”

One by one, Wang Zijun laughed, and when the theater bosses were dry-mouthed, he seemed to remember something, patted his forehead and said: "Oops, I almost forgot the official, let's talk about the film today." ”

"We ask for 200 copies."

"I want 500 copies."

"I want 300."

“……”

Wang Zijun was puzzled: "This copy, it seems a little nervous." ”

"The price is easy to say, just 55455!" The bosses said in unison.

At present, the general films are divided into five or five accounts, and 5545 means that the film company needs 55% and the theater chain shares 45%, which is basically a very good film to get this treatment, such as "Brother Tangshan". If the film is very poor, then the theater will take the lion's share, which is four or six, or even lower.

"Five-five?" Wang Zijun looked up at the ceiling and said intentionally or unintentionally, "But the authorities don't charge taxes for this film." ”

"No taxes?" The bosses were surprised and delighted. Thirty percent of the tax is taken away by the political axe before the share, although the ticket can escape some, but if the tax is exempted, then everyone can earn more.

"Then divide it into six or four."

Wang Zijun takes 60% and the theater takes 40%, it sounds like the theater suffers a loss, but in fact, aside from the tax exemption, the theater will only make more.

"Guys, how about that number?" Wang Zijun compared a "six" in his hand and a "five".

"No, no, no, it's going to be so low."

"yes, there's never been such a low share."

“……”

Wang Zijun really wants to kick these insatiable guys out, save 10% or more of the agency fee, and then remove the tax, which is seventy-three points, and these theaters are not less than usual.

Wang Zijun sneered, stood up and said, "Since everyone can't talk about it, then I'll hand it all over to those agents outside." But you have to think clearly, if the cooperation is successful this time, then you will be in direct contact with my Wang family in the future. ”

The owners of the theater line hurriedly stood up and stopped, calculating the gains and losses in their hearts, and found that it was actually very cost-effective to divide the six-five-three-five shares, but they saw that Wang Zijun took so much by himself, and his psychology was a little unbalanced.

If other film companies dare to argue with theaters like this, it is better for large companies to say that small companies have been directly banned by theaters. Don't think that theaters are easy to bully, you have to ask others to sell the movies you make in the end.

Although Wang's is not a big company, but there are authorities as backers, "Bloody Lonely City" can be regarded as a political propaganda film, it is impossible for theaters to block it, and in the end, it must be forced by the authorities. And this movie is a good blockbuster, the theater opens its doors to do business, and there is no need to push the money out.

Wang Zijun smiled and said: "The advertisement of "Bloody Lonely City" on TV didn't ask everyone for a penny. ”

Saying this, everyone finally let go of the dissatisfaction in their hearts. As Wang Zijun said, the advertisements of "Bloody Lonely City" on TV and newspapers and magazines are really saved for everyone, and all they have to do is to publicize it on a small scale in their own local scope.

The final result was naturally that the theater was soft and signed a contract according to the ratio of six-five-three-five.

And Bai Muyang's side also talked very smoothly, and he insisted that he would only be an agent for distribution, and refused to sell the film directly. Fifty-five percent of the box office profits are not willing to let go, but the remaining forty-five, how these distributors and their local theaters divide is their own business.

The factory was running frantically, truckloads of copies were constantly being shipped out, and just when the bosses in other places called to arrange the screening, "Bloody Lonely City" was finally released in Taipei.

Since there were no good films released in June, all theaters simply removed all the movies that could be removed and replaced them with "Bloody Lonely City".

There was a queue at the door of the cinema, most of them came after watching TV movies, and the rest came to Wang Zijun and Deng Guangrong.

Others came to the premiere that day, and they called friends and friends, praised Wang Zijun's film as if it was in the sky, and automatically helped promote the film.

However, the current ticket-buying queue is not as terrifying as when "Tangshan Big Brother" was released, which may be because word of mouth has not yet spread.

The fact that Hou Hsiao-hsien became an assistant director in the new movie has been rumored to the school, you must know that the film industry at this time is completely slowly mixing qualifications. From a newcomer to a director, it takes at least seven or eight years; It was Chen Kunhou who followed his uncle to learn photography, and he also ran errands for more than ten years before he was promoted to a photographer.

Hou Xiaoxian became an assistant director before he left school, what a sensational thing. Many professional students who are about to graduate have been stimulated by Hou Xiaoxian's incident and have begun to inquire whether "Wang's" is still recruiting.

"Hyo-hyun, is this film really that good?" A classmate asked suspiciously.

Hou Xiaoxian said a little proudly: "You watched the trailer on TV, right?" It is definitely the top level in Taiwan. ”

At this moment, a man at the ticket office yelled: "What's the matter, why is it all "Bloody Lonely City"? Lao Tzu doesn't watch gunfight movies, I want to watch martial arts movies! ”

The ticket seller said disdainfully: "I like to see it or not, and the one in the back is still waiting to buy tickets." ”

"yes, do you look at it or not, if you don't watch it, get out!" The people in the back also coaxed.

The man turned around and scolded, "What's the hurry? Of course I have to see if I bought a ticket! ”

In the theater, Bai Jingrui took the movie ticket in his hand and said strangely: "This time, they are all seated, is it true that the movies spread outside are exempt from tax?" Don't have to run tickets? ”

Li Xing pointed his finger upwards and said with a smile: "Most of it is true." ”

Lai Chengying's expression was a little depressed, in the premiere that day, the photography in the movie made him remember deeply, and those photographers were actually his nephew's commander-in-chief, plus he was sneering before, which made him unable to get off the stage for a while.

The three of them came to see it for the second time.,At the premiere, they all stared at the plot later.,I actually forgot to look at it from a professional perspective.,Today I'm holding a book.。

Just in the back row of the three, a girl pouted and said angrily, "Aren't you watching a love scene together?" What's so good about a movie about war? ”

Her boyfriend laughed and said, "They all say it's good-looking, and besides, you can't buy anything else in the cinema now." ”

When the movie finally started to be screened, the manager of the Mirado Cinema called the boss to report the situation and said, "Boss, good news, the attendance rate is 65%. ”

"Very well, keep watching!" The boss said happily.

June is the off-season for movies, and this is the first release of "Bloody Lonely City", plus it has been diluted by other theaters, and it is already very good to have a 60% attendance rate.

"Ahh Accompanied by the sound of artillery fire, there was the screams of women in the theater, and a big living person was blown into meat dregs, which is a disaster in the eyes of audiences who have not seen horror movies.

Even the men sat solemnly one by one, their foreheads and palms were covered with sweat, and the depressing atmosphere that could be created made people shudder.

"Good! Well played! It wasn't until I saw Feng Baohua, played by Wang Zijun, commanding his subordinates to throw grenades together and blow up the rows of soldiers that the audience finally had a goal to vent. Last year, they would collectively stand up and applaud when they watched "Big Brother Tangshan", and when they saw the heroic soldiers killing the devils, where could they bear it.

The roars in the theater came and went, until Deng Guangrong, who was in charge of guarding the main gate, was actually poisoned to death by a local gas bomb after repelling the enemy many times. If the hero died in a frontal battle, maybe everyone didn't react so much, but the hero Zhisi died so badly, which is unacceptable to people.

Seeing this, almost the whole audience stood up and kept scolding me for being despicable and shameless. It turned out that the girl who complained that she didn't buy a movie ticket for a love scene had fallen into her boyfriend's arms and cried.

Three hours later, when the second scene of the movie was released, the manager excitedly said on the phone: "Boss, the attendance rate is 80%." ”

"What? Are you sure it's 80%? ”

"That's right, it's 80 percent. Those who watched the first show went back to queuing up to buy tickets after leaving the cinema. ”

(To be continued)