On December 6, Li Hualong invited Li Pingqian to the office to discuss the box office profit sharing of the movie "Ten Thousand Kinds of Style".

"There are 15,000 yuan here, which is the box office share of your directing "Ten Thousand Kinds of Styles".

"Fifteen thousand, that's so much?" Li Pingqian was slightly surprised, "The profit of the movie "Ten Thousand Styles" is not 100,000, right? ”

"A little more than 90,000, count 100,000, so it's easy to settle accounts." Li Hualong smiled and said, "Take it." ”

"Aaron, thank you!" Li Pingqian took the check with a smile, looked at the numbers on the check, and sighed, "I have eaten my old book this time, and next time I make a movie like this, I will definitely lose money." ”

"Don't say that, it's good to be able to get a box office of 250,000 in Hong Kong. Not to mention the films invested by our company, few films from other film companies can achieve such a high box office. ”

"In the future, we must control the cost of filming, and things that exceed the budget should at least happen less, otherwise it will be easy to lose money. I've heard that most of the films that other film companies invest in more than 200,000 yuan are losing money. ”

"I've heard that, too. In the past few years, Huayi Brothers has invested a lot in building various scenes on the set, and now it has formed a scale, and when making movies in the future, the investment in this area will be less and less, and the cost can be controlled, although there is no guarantee that each movie can reap more than double the profit, but I think as long as you make movies seriously and strictly control all links, it is not difficult to make money. ”

After chatting a few words, Li Hualong asked, "Have you seen a satisfactory script recently?" ”

"I watched a few, but I wasn't very satisfied." Li Pingqian smiled, "I want to make a movie with the script you provided." Boss, since I joined the company, I haven't made a movie where you are the screenwriter, you can't favor one over the other! ”

"I haven't had any inspiration lately, if you're not in a hurry, you can wait until next year, and I'll write a script for you."

"Okay, next year, next year, you have to remember to promise to write me a script. Being able to meet a good script, I want to make another movie this year. ”

"What type of film would you most like to make right now?" Li Hualong asked.

"There are no genre restrictions, just a good script, I want to try it if I can shoot it well. A while ago, I had a meal with Zha Liangyong, and he said that he would write a script for me, but there is no news yet. ”

"You can rush him."

"It's not good to push too hard, I'm afraid to give me a work to deal with." Li Pingqian picked up the teacup and took a sip of tea, "How many days are you going to stay on the set this time?" ”

"I came here yesterday. I'll be back to Hong Kong Island tomorrow. ”

"I heard that the post-production of "Kanto Swordsman" has been completed, have you seen this movie, how much do you think the box office is?"

"Hopefully it will be more than a million."

"If you say it can exceed a million, it must be more than a million."

"I didn't say that, I said I wanted to surpass." Li Hualong smiled brightly, "On the 14th of this month, "Kanto Swordsman" will be released publicly, and I will invite friends to watch a movie at Lianhua Cinema in Causeway Bay that day, at half past nine in the morning, if you are free, take your family to see it." At noon that day, I invited everyone to lunch. ”

"Please watch a movie, please eat, even if I don't have time, I have to find time, I'm sure I'll be there." Li Pingqian laughed.

At noon that day, Li Hualong, Li Pingqian and several others went to the set cafeteria for lunch together.

After lunch, Li Pingqian did not leave the set immediately, but went to the crew of "Huang Feihong's Boy to Be Self-Improvement".

Wang Tianlin had just eaten a boxed lunch and was discussing with the assistant director about making a movie, and after seeing Li Pingqian, he hurriedly asked his assistant to pour Li Pingqian a cup of tea.

After chatting a few words, Wang Tianlin asked: "Director Li, did you come to the set today to talk to your boss about making a new film?" ”

"It's not. Haven't found a good script yet. Director Wang, you have a good script here, but you have to think about me. ”

"I don't have any good scripts, the story outline of the movie "Men Should Be Self-Improvement" is provided by the boss."

"I know, you're good at making martial arts movies." Li Pingqian smiled slightly and lowered her head to drink tea.

A look of envy flashed on Li Pingqian's face, he felt that Li Hualong appreciated and valued Wang Tianlin, of course, he also admired Wang Tianlin's talent, after all, the few movies he directed had a bumper harvest at the box office and word of mouth.

Li Pingqian didn't want to delay Wang Tianlin's work, so she drank a few sips of tea, stayed for more than ten minutes, and then left.

……

On December 14, "Kanto Swordsman" directed by Yue Feng was released in Hong Kong.

Before the release of "Kanto Swordsman", it attracted a lot of attention in Hong Kong, and the heads of major theaters in Hong Kong watched this film and were also very optimistic about the box office of this film, but after its release, the reputation was not good, and the weekly box office of 250,000 Hong Kong dollars in the first week, and the weekly box office of the second week was only 120,000, a decrease of more than 50%, and the weekly box office of the third week was only 60,000, and the weekly box office of the fourth week was 40,000 Hong Kong dollars.

In just four weeks after its release, "Kanto Swordsman" was drawn offline in Hong Kong, with a total box office of 470,000 Hong Kong dollars, 20,000 less than the cost of the film of 490,000 Hong Kong dollars, and Huayi Brothers Film Group's box office revenue in the Hong Kong market was only 180,000 Hong Kong dollars.

Fortunately, before the release of "Kanto Swordsman" in Hong Kong, Huayi Brothers sold the distribution rights of the film in Southeast Asian countries and earned 800,000 Hong Kong dollars, earning back the cost only by relying on overseas sales income.

One day in late January, Li Hualong and Yang Meng invited Yue Feng's family to the hotel for dinner.

At the dinner table, Li Hualong took out a check for 60,000 yuan and gave it to Yue Feng, which was the profit dividend of Yue Feng's "Kanto Swordsman".

Before the start of filming of "Kanto Knife", Yue Feng and Huayi Brothers Film Group signed a profit sharing agreement, the lower the profit of the film company's investment in the filming of this film, the smaller the dividend ratio Yue Feng gets, and the higher the profit, the higher the dividend ratio of the director.

According to the agreement, the profit margin of "Kanto Swordsman" exceeded 90%, but not more than 100%, and Yue Feng was able to get a dividend of 60,000 yuan.

"60,000, that's too much money." Yue Feng excused himself, "The reason why "Kanto Swordsman" can make money is because before the movie was released in Hong Kong, the distribution rights in Southeast Asia were sold, and this time it was a mess and damaged the company's signboard......

"Brother Yue, you may not know that the box office of "Kanto Swordsman" in Xinmatai is quite high, and the distributor who bought this film did not lose money." Li Hualong interrupted with a smile, "You just take it." ”

"Oh!" Yue Feng answered, took the check, and was stunned, "You said they didn't lose money, so they didn't make much money, right?" ”

"Basically didn't make any money. In the past, they made enough money by distributing other films in our company, and this time they didn't make them lose money, and they didn't have anything to say. ”

"In the next movie, I don't dare to make a blockbuster, I'm really afraid that the company will lose money."

"When you invest in making movies, you can't lose every film. Of course, it's best to be able to make money all the time. The next movie, you shoot a low-cost one, find the feeling, and then make a blockbuster. ”

Li Hualong raised his wine glass with a smile and continued: "Come, let's do one!" ”

Although "Kanto Swordsman" made Huayi Brothers Film Group earn 490,000 yuan, with a return on investment of 100%, which looks very good, this incident sounded the alarm for Li Hualong, and he will invest in filming a movie with an investment of more than 300,000 yuan next year.

"It's been more than a week since "Huang Feihong's Boy Should Be Self-Improvement" was completed, when is this movie going to be released?" Yue Feng asked.

"The second day of the first month of next year."

"Released on the second day of the first lunar month?" Yue Feng was stunned when he heard this, "Is this time good?" ”

"I think it's good. Just after the Chinese New Year, many people are on vacation, although they have to visit relatives and friends, but I think the movie "Men Should Be Self-Improvement" can attract the audience to the theater to watch the movie. Li Hualong said confidently.

"How much box office do you expect to earn?" Yue Feng asked.

"I hope more than a million, hehe, to be exact, I want more than 1.2 million. I hope that this film will be a big hit at the box office in Hong Kong, and overseas sales will not be discussed until half a month after its release in Hong Kong. ”

"See if you're confident in this movie." Yue Feng raised his wine glass with a smile, "I salute you!" ”

"Cheers!" Li Hualong touched the cup and poured a small half cup of beer into his stomach.

"Before the release of "Kanto Swordsman", were you not optimistic about the box office of this movie?" Yue Feng asked with a smile.

"To be honest, I'm not 100% confident, but I know that with the income from overseas films, I will definitely not lose money. Brother Yue, you directed "Kanto Swordsman", and you didn't make the company lose money, don't think about it, let alone have pressure. ”

"I won't be stressed. I believe that the next movie will definitely be able to be made. ”

"That's right, you have to have faith in being a man." Li Hualong smiled, "You are older than me, and you understand the principles of life better than me." ”

"You can't say that, you see a lot of things better than I do. Learn martial arts first, the master first, in the future, I want you to learn more! ”

After having dinner with Yue Feng, Li Hualong went to work for more than ten days in a row.

Lunar month, approaching the end of the year, Li Hualong has a lot of things to do, counting rest days, this month, he works an average of more than nine hours a day, if you count the time to write novels, then his working hours are longer.

Of course, Li Hualong's work is different from other people's work, when he goes to work, he doesn't feel tired, but feels very fulfilling, and he likes the feeling of fulfillment.