27. Sign the contract and prepare to build momentum
Ye Sumang, who was suddenly noisy by laughter, was stunned at the same time, but they didn't expect that there were others in this screening hall.
The three of them immediately turned back to find the source of the laughter, but unfortunately the screening room was now so dark that it was impossible to see where anyone was.
"Yezi, do you think it will be a representative of the theater chain?" After turning his head, Huang Bo immediately asked Ye Sumang on the side with a nervous expression.
"I'm afraid it won't be, and you don't want to think that all the theater representatives are gone, so just keep him? It's also too weird. Ning Hao shook his head, breaking Huang Bo's illusion.
"That's right, huh."
"Leave him alone, let's watch the movie first. If he is really a representative of the theater chain, then he will naturally come to us after the film is screened. ”
Ye Sumang's words made the two of them immediately focus on the movie again, but as the film played, the laughter in the back kept ringing, and it was really difficult for the three of them to focus on the film, and even Ye Sumang couldn't help but have some hope for the owner of the laughter behind.
The 80-minute film ended quickly, and Li Mao, who had been laughing from beginning to end, was holding his stomach at the moment, just because the laughter was too exaggerated, and he accidentally got angry.
"This is the movie I want!" After Li Mao calmed down, he immediately beat his palm with his fist excitedly.
He usually thinks that he is a person who does not smile, that is, people often say that the laughter is very high.
But after watching this movie, Li Mao still laughed angrily.
There are no empty piles of funny words in the movie, but more use of contrast, implicit techniques, the humor to the fullest, although the whole movie has no earth-shattering plot, and there are no touching characters, but it can make you laugh all the time, for a comedy, it undoubtedly has the conditions for success.
The lights in the screening room came on again, Li Mao squinted his eyes, and before he could get used to the light, he stood up and shouted excitedly: "Who is the director of this movie!?" ”
"Hello, I'm the director of this movie, Ye Sumang." Ye Sumang's eyes flashed with excitement, knowing that his opportunity for this film was coming.
Huang Bo and Ning Hao, who were on the side, also looked at Li Mao expectantly at this moment.
Li Mao was stunned at first.
He didn't expect that the director of this movie would be such a handsome boy. And he looks eighteen or nineteen years old at most, which is too young.
However, he quickly came back to his senses, if he hadn't seen the movie, he might have been a little contemptuous, but at this moment, he only kept sighing in his heart that Ye Sumang was young and promising.
"Hello, I'm the owner of Times Studios, my name is Li Mao!" Li Mao's face turned red with excitement, and without waiting for Ye Sumang to move forward, he took a few steps to Ye Sumang's side, shook Ye Sumang's hand, and then handed over a business card of his own.
Ye Sumang looked at the business card in his hand, and his brows couldn't help frowning slightly.
The reason is simple, because there is no name about the theater on the business card, only the title of general manager of Times Studios. This made Ye Sumang a little puzzled for a while, could it be that the person in front of him was the kind of liar who specializes in reselling movie copyrights?
"Director Ye, your movie is really good, I appreciate this film very much, I wonder if I can talk to you about the contract?" Li Mao didn't know that his identity was suspected by Ye Sumang, and still asked expectantly.
"The contract is not in a hurry, can I ask, how many theaters does your cinema chain have, and how many screens can be provided to our movies? And when are our movies released? Ye Sumang did not express his doubts, but indifferently put away his business card, and then asked a few questions that he thought were very important.
"Uh... We... In fact, we don't have a formal cinema approval, we are just an alliance of more than a dozen small theaters combined. Li Mao touched his head a little embarrassed, but after seeing Ye Sumang's gaze gradually cold, he immediately said anxiously: "But we are willing to schedule all the screening halls and screening time for this film, at least for a month, and the share of zuihou is also negotiable!" ”
"All?" Ye Sumang asked in surprise, that means that in the next month, these theaters can only show his own movies.
"Yes, all, if you don't believe it, we can put this clause into the contract." Li Mao shook it, and at this moment he already had the determination to break the boat.
"Leaf, promise to come down! This opportunity is rare! ”
"Leaves..."
Ning Hao and Huang Bo were in a hurry, and they couldn't wait to step forward and kick Ye Sumang away to talk to Li Mao.
Ye Sumang did not rush to agree at the moment, but thought about the pros and cons.
It is natural to have a theater to show movies.
However, the scale of Li Mao's theater alliance is too small, and most of them are concentrated near the Kyoto area, and the geographical location is not excellent, and the flow of people is not large. and looking at their appearance, I am afraid that they will not be able to provide funds to promote their films, which is likely to affect the box office of the film to a certain extent.
If the results are really poor after the release, then naturally it will no longer be favored by those big theaters, and the film will really be thrown into the garbage dump.
But after thinking about it, Ye Sumang felt that he was really worried. No theater has thought about itself in the first place, and someone has sent it to the door to screen a movie at the moment, so what is there to hesitate about? Whether it's good or bad, you have to fight to know!
"Manager Li, I think we can find a place to talk about the contract." Ye Sumang was glad that he didn't get into the tip of the horns, slowly breathed a sigh of relief, and shook hands tightly with Li Mao, who was excited.
The finalization of the contract is very simple, in addition to several preferential policies proposed by Li Mao, the sharing is a fifty-fifty split between the crew and the theater alliance, which is also the benefit of selling to the theater, and the cost of the theater is left in the middle.
Then the two sides finalized the release time, and Li Mao was going to return to the theater to start a new wave of publicity work.
Because he had no money, Li Mao couldn't make any efforts. But in more than a dozen theaters on his side, he also created momentum. Like a movie poster, trailer or something, it is necessary to play it every day, and he is also ready to put the trailer of this movie at the end of every movie broadcast in the theater, and strive to do his best to carry out brainwashing publicity.
Ye Sumang still has about 200,000 funds left, and it is definitely not enough to play TV commercials and the like, and Ye Sumang has never thought about that kind of money-burning thing.
He had already prepared his own propaganda methods, because he had already set his sights on the Internet games that were gradually becoming popular in China.