In the screening room of Light Screen Pictures, a film is being shown at this moment. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

In the entire screening hall, there are only five people, namely Lei Juewen, Li Chaosheng, Wu Siyuan, Xu Ke, and Shi Nansheng. The film screened, called Hell Without a Door, is a film invested by Wu Siyuan and led by Xu Ke.

Wu Siyuan is the boss of Siyuan Pictures, this person is behind the scenes of the director, and has a great position in the Hong Kong Island entertainment industry, if history has not changed, with the passage of time, his status in the Hong Kong Island entertainment industry will increase day by day, and he will even become the president of the Hong Kong Island Filmmakers Association, the chairman of the Academy Awards, etc.

At this moment, the reason why Lei Juewen watched this film in his film company was naturally because Wu Siyuan came to the door, hoping that his theater would be able to screen this movie. Wu Siyuan didn't come alone, while taking Xu Ke, he also brought Shi Nansheng, Shi Nansheng is currently working at ATV, Lei Juewen is looking at her face, and it is impossible to refuse.

Hell No Door is a typical New Wave film, the film may have a great artistic impact, but if in terms of viewing effect, this is a very poor film, after all, ordinary people don't understand art, and in their thoughts, only the concept of whether the film will be good, and Hell No Door This film is undoubtedly a film that is not good for the audience.

Hell No Door is 87 minutes long, Lei Juewen has 80 minutes to endure watching, as soon as the film ends, as soon as the lights are on, he stands up and invites a few people to leave. If it weren't for the fact that leaving halfway seemed very rude, and it would make Xu Ke ugly, he would have gotten up and left a long time ago, how could he keep watching.

A group of four people came to Lei Juewen's chairman's office, and Li Chaosheng came from behind, returning the tape of the film No Door to Hell to Wu Siyuan.

After Wu Siyuan took the negative, he asked, "Mr. Lei, I don't know what you think of this film?" ”

Lei Juewen nodded and said: "This is a good film, a very good art film, and it is one of the most excellent masterpieces in this New Wave era." ”

Wu Siyuan hurriedly asked, "Is Mr. Lei willing to screen this film?" ”

"The light curtain cinema line can show this film, but I can only give the whole day of three theaters, and then in the theater, you can only see the film at a fixed time."

The reason why Lei Juewen is willing to show this film is just to give the three of them a face, he doesn't think that this film can be a big hit, he already has a plan to lose money.

"Mr. Lei, there are too few theaters, right?" Xu Ke hurriedly said that this is the film he leads, and he naturally hopes that the film can be released in more theaters, even if the box office of the film is more, he will not be able to get a penny. But the higher the box office, the greater his fame, so he is not without benefits.

Lei Juewen shook his head and said: "Let's be honest with you, I'm not optimistic about the box office of this film, in my opinion, it would be good if the box office of this film could have one or two million Hong Kong dollars." For you, this film is still profitable at the box office, but for me, it's good to be able to show this film without losing money. ”

Wu Siyuan said: "Can Mr. Lei arrange a few more theaters?" ”

Lei Juewen shook his head and said: "I really can't help this, although the attendance rate of the Thousand Kings Fighting Thousand Tyrants is only seventy, but this film still has a long market potential for a long time, and I have done my best to give up three theaters." ”

Shi Nansheng interjected at this time: "Mr. Lei, the box office of the midnight show has always been small, and the Thousand Kings and Thousand Tyrants must be no exception, I don't know if I can put forward this time period and use it to screen the film Hell No Door." ”

Lei Juewen hesitated when he heard this, and looked sideways at Li Chaosheng and said, "How much box office did the thousands of kings and thousands of tyrants have in the midnight game?" ”

Li Chaosheng can be said to know these data well, and as soon as he heard Lei Juewen's question, he immediately replied: "A total of 430,000 box office, with an average of about 60,000 Hong Kong dollars per day." ”

Lei Juewen nodded when he heard this, such a number is indeed not much, but he said: "It's not that I don't want to give up the time of the midnight show, but I have a total of fifteen theaters, and there is no problem in giving up the midnight show of twelve of them, but if you burn twelve more rolls of film for this time period, the loss will only be greater, and it is not cost-effective." ”

If it is shown in the theater around the clock, let alone twelve rolls of film, if there is a theater, even twenty rolls of film will not lose money, but if it is at the time of midnight, it will indeed only cause a loss, after all, the number of people in the midnight show is not large, and the box office is very small. Based on the current cost of burning a roll of film, it costs 5,000 Hong Kong dollars, and 12 rolls cost 60,000 Hong Kong dollars, plus the cost of the film itself, and then deducting the share of the theater chain, if it is screened, there is no box office of 780,000 Hong Kong dollars, it is a loss.

Several people here will settle this account, Wu Siyuan heard this, and said: "This is fine, as long as Mr. Lei is willing to give up this time period." In fact, he knew that he would lose money by burning film specifically for midnight performances, but he could show it in other theaters during the day, so there was no loss.

"As long as you think there is no problem, then there is no problem on my side." Since Lei Juewen agreed, he naturally would not regret it.

Wu Siyuan said: "I don't know if it's divided..."

Lei Juewen didn't think about it and said: "It is divided into three or seven points, the theater line accounts for seventy percent, and you account for thirty percent." ”

"Thank you Mr. Ray for taking care of me!"

Wu Siyuan didn't bargain anymore when he heard this, and asked for a higher share. At present, among the theaters on Hong Kong Island, not to mention the silver capital institutions with mainland backgrounds, they only show films shot by themselves; Most of the Anle Cinema Line only screens Western films, and the Anle Cinema Line says that it is a cinema line, but in fact it is just a few theaters. Therefore, if you really want to talk about cinemas on Hong Kong Island, there are only three Golden Harvest, Shaw Brothers, and Light Curtain, all of which are large cinema chains, each with more than a dozen theaters and tens of thousands of seats, which is not trivial. Among the three major theaters, Shaw Brothers produces and sells its own films, and does not screen films from other companies, while Golden Harvest has its own satellite company, and even if the films of other companies can be screened, there will not be a good time period, not to mention, there is only a 20% box office share, and the exploitation is extremely serious.

Wu Siyuan used to screen movies in private theaters, that is, those small theaters that were not incorporated into the cinema chain, and there are more than 20 such theaters on Hong Kong Island, this one can be screened, that one can also be screened, and every time a movie is screened, there are seven or eight theaters, and it is also a 30% box office share.

was released in the light screen theater, although the time period was not very good, but fortunately, the location was good, the popularity was large, and the attendance rate was relatively high.