As soon as the headlights of the car turned on, Xiao Ran and the three of them saw a young man who was drenched like a chicken in soup walking towards them. Sunshine and the monkey glanced at each other, they didn't expect that they would have work to do as soon as they took over this position, glanced at Xiao Ran, and thought: This guy really has a lot of enemies!

What Sunshine thinks, Xiao Ran doesn't know. But he recognized the person who was going forward, the young man who had been disposed of by the Ghost King Dongkai Xiangtang last night. The young man came to the front of the car with a resolute face, and when he saw the sun and the monkey about to make a move, the young man was short and disappeared at the front of the car.

Sunshine and the monkey were slightly startled, and the monkey opened the car door early and jumped out with great agility. The sun is taking advantage of the situation to block the angle in front of it with its body to prevent any bullets from sneaking in. Xiao Ran was really surprised, he didn't expect these two new bodyguards to have such a tacit understanding, and they were extremely skilled.

Suddenly, Xiao Ran remembered the film "Zhongnanhai Bodyguard". He felt like he was the object of protection in that piece, and Sunshine and Monkey were the bodyguard Li Zhengyang. This ridiculous idea made him laugh out loud, causing Sunshine to take a strange look at this guy who was still calm in the "crisis".

Even though he didn't know what the young man was doing, Xiao Ran didn't think he was here to kill him. Xiang Sunshine nodded and smiled: "It's okay, I know!" Then he took the umbrella handed by the sun and got out of the car, and when he came to the front of the car, he saw the young man kneeling in front of the car, his head raised and looking very proud, while the monkey was drenched and stared at the young man unpleasantly.

Seeing that Xiao Ran finally got out of the car, the young man was excited, and said in a deep voice: "Give me three million, my life is yours!" ”

This...... Xiao Ran was taken aback, what does this mean? Came to the young man's side, squatted down slightly, and said softly: "Tell me, why!" ”

"I want three million to send my mother to the United States for treatment!" The young man did not refuse Xiao Ran's kindness, and a warm current flowed slightly in his heart, no one treated him so well: "Give me three million, my life is yours!" ”

Xiao Ran was stunned, he didn't expect this young man to be so filial. Thinking of the parents in his "dreams", and then thinking of the parents who rarely visit them, his nose suddenly sour: "What do I want your life to do?" Get up, I'll give you three million! ”

The young man showed a look of surprise in disbelief, Xiao Ran nodded affirmatively, he couldn't honor his parents in his dreams anymore, maybe using this method could reduce his guilt a little.

"Don't be in a hurry to leave!" Xiao Ran stretched out his hand to help the young man stand up, and said a word to the sun and the monkey, and then said to the young man: "You have been in the rain for a long time, go and see if there is anything wrong!" ”

In the hospital, Xiao Ran learned everything about this young man, this young man's name is Lin Yongmai, and everyone on the road calls him Amai. Not long ago, his mother became seriously ill and needed a kidney replacement. And in order to raise money, after collecting the debts of the society, he did not hand them over, but embezzled them privately, and beat and slashed a brother who tried to stop him, so he was served by the ghost king Dong with family law.

However, it doesn't matter if this is not checked, after checking, even the sun and the monkey smacked their tongues and secretly said: This kid is ruthless enough. Ah Mai knelt on the nail board yesterday, kneeling so much that his knees were about to be pierced by nails, plus he was stabbed a few times because of family law, this kid only bandaged a little, and he was able to endure it until now, which is really amazing.

When Xiao Ran asked why Amai came to him to ask for money, Amai replied that he sighed that wealth really can't be exposed. Although he didn't show anything white yesterday, the 10 million that was threatened made Amai understand that Xiao Ran was a rich guy and had a strange relationship with the underworld, so he came to the door.

wrote a check to Ah Mai, and Xiao Ran handed it to him with a smile: "It's good to leave your life to yourself, or to your mother, in short, don't give it to me!" I don't want to be responsible for other people's lives! ”

Ah Mai didn't say anything, just looked at Xiao Ran silently, and the perseverance in his eyes made Xiao Ran unable to face it. It's just that in the following days, Amai found Xiao Ran and didn't say anything, just like that, wherever Xiao Ran went, he followed. It was so depressed that I couldn't do it after a few times. Xiao Ran reluctantly accepted Amai at this time, but asked him not to follow him.

That night, the King of Ghost East called and told Xiao Ran that Wang Yu was dead. Wang Yu was betrayed by his subordinates, and Xiao Ran was very trustworthy and asked Ghost Wang Dong to give the 10 million to that guy. The whole thing was quietly resolved......

It was said that it was very dull, and on December 1, the Xinbao Cinema Line, which had spent a full 20 million yuan to renovate, finally began to operate. After coordinating with Xinyicheng, the two parties revised the contract and made some changes in the sharing. After all, if Xiao Ran's theater joins, the Phantom's film will definitely be affected by the income of the Golden Princess Theater.

It is important to mention that a movie theater is more than just a reading movie theater. In this whole large theater, it is actually divided into several screening halls. That is to say, the original big theater model has been pushed to the dao, so that the projection in the screening hall has become more refined to meet the needs of audiences.

At present, only Xinbao is a complete multiplex screening in Hong Kong's cinemas, followed by the only ones with more multiplexes in its cinemas, such as Golden Princess and Golden Harvest, while Shaw Brothers and Yonggao basically do not. This is the wrong direction of the decision-makers.

In fact, there are not many films screened at this time every year, and the quality is not particularly good. Because this file is very strange, it is a little close to the Spring Festival, but it is a little far away from other stalls, anyway, it is the off-season.

At this time, Wang Jing, who has filmed three consecutive "Hardcover Chasing Girls", released a new film, which is a film called "The Supreme", starring Tan Yongling and Lin Junxian. In fact, the plot is "The Supreme" in Xiao Ran's memory, but the actor was replaced by Liu Hua to Lin Junxian, a handsome young guy who was once praised by Wang Jing.

It's a mess! Xiao Ran scolded secretly and then enjoyed this film, which was actually very well shot. Strictly speaking, this is definitely a rare tragic film in Wang Jing's works. This made Xiao Ran very depressed, and he didn't even think about this film.

However, this is also due to his own decision not to follow the gambling film. In fact, since this period of time, there have been several follow-up gambling films, but none of them are threatening, only Wang Jing's film is a real masterpiece. Originally, Xiao Ran planned to release "The Saint of Gambling" in December, but he hesitated when he saw this situation.

The reputation of "Supreme" is quite good, only the Asia's No. 1 fast crab played by Lin Junxian has no personal characteristics, far inferior to Liu Hua's version. If "The Saint of Gambling" and "The Supreme" play against each other, I am afraid that they will lose in terms of word-of-mouth, and according to the trend, these two films will definitely be a blockbuster, and I am afraid that there will be endless followers when the time comes.

But if you move back, I'm afraid there will be no good schedule. Even if you can be on the Spring Festival file with your new treasure, the 28 theaters are definitely not enough to give full play to the strength of "The Saint of Gambling", and a film like this that does not win by word of mouth must cause a sensation in the short term to be able to achieve the maximum box office.

After thinking about it for a while, Xiao Ran finally decided to officially premiere "The Saint of Gambling" in seven days, otherwise the publicity funds invested in the early stage would be in vain. The most important thing is that Xiao Ran feels that there will be no problem in theory.

"God of Gamblers", "The Saint of Gambling" and "The Gambler" will be made into a series and become one of the signature signs of the Phantom Company. This is Xiao Ran's plan, in fact, before writing the script, he had already asked Liu Zhenwei to consider the issue of a sequel.

Four days later, the test screening attracted countless audiences and achieved an excellent reputation among the audience. Coupled with the cooperation of the marketing department, the box office almost exceeded 2 million when it premiered a week later, breaking the previous box office record for the premiere of "Prison Storm".

On this day, everyone in the company saw Xingzi just like in "Shanghai Beach Gambling Saint", smiling so much that they couldn't close their mouths. This time, even fools know that he is popular, of course, how long he can be popular, it depends on luck.

This film did cause a very big effect, but it didn't cause much whirlwind in the literary and artistic world, after all, this is a film that only seeks to be funny, not a film with connotation. Every time I think of this, Liu Zhenwei is very regretful.

However, because of the rating system, "The Saint of Gambling" was rated as a second-level film, so the audience level that can be targeted is relatively a little niche compared to the first-level level, and the box office failed to exceed 40 million, only staying at 38 million.

When it comes to this grading system, Xiao Ran is funny. Originally, Hong Kong's formal classification system and film censorship regulations were not officially released until next year, but because of his appearance, the results have been released a full year ahead of schedule. However, this does not hurt and does not hinder the expansion of the Phantom.

The distribution department has set up branches in two key places, Yuben and South Korea, in order to facilitate the discussion of the issue of cinema agents. Ge Wenqiu's ability is good, and he didn't need Wei Dongling to go out to win the theater chain in the Philippines, and Malaysia and Singapore also won the agency of the theater chain after Wei Dongling's release, the main thing is the lack of South Korea and Taiwan.

At the same time, at the suggestion of Wei Dongling, Xiao Ran separated the post-production department from the production part to become a separate department. Then again, in fact, Xiao Ran's original plan was to support Jingyi Company, which is the most powerful post-production company in Hong Kong, but he quickly learned that this company only has advantages in recording and subtitling, so he dismissed his idea.

Even though Xiao Ran knows very well that in the future, these will definitely be spun off in order to be more professional, but it is obviously not the time yet. However, for now, the Phantom Company's business has basically formed a comprehensive film company comparable to Golden Harvest. To put it simply, with the support of financial resources, Phantom can now completely rely on the help of other companies, and can read power to handle everything from production to release to distribution, which is to form a dragon.

It's just that sooner or later, these departments will be spun off by Xiao Ran. If a listed company needs to make a profit for three consecutive years, Xiao Ran will definitely find a way to go public immediately and gather shareholders' money to expand again.

Where are Hong Kong movies ruined? There are many other factors to piracy, but one of the most important is that people lack a long-term vision to formulate a suitable development strategy. If you refer to Hong Kong alone, Golden Harvest is definitely the largest film empire, but in the end, it is still ruined by the lack of long-term vision.

A long time ago, when Wei Dongling didn't know about movies, he thought that a film was just completely dependent on box office revenue. However, now he knows better than anyone that the box office revenue of this movie is not all the income at all.

Take "The Saint of Gambling" as an example, the online expenses of this film (that is, the salaries of actors and directors, etc.) are very low, and the result is mainly spent on offline expenses (that is, money spent on technology), and the investment in this film is only 3 million. However, the expenses are definitely not limited to this, and the marketing department has spent 800,000 yuan on publicity, and plans to invest 4 million.

The box office was as high as 38 million, and after sharing it with the theater chain, it got 22 million. This alone is enough to recoup all the costs, but the money doesn't stop. It will make at least $60 million from the release, plus the small profits of the videotapes will be sold locally and distributed through Southeast Asian distributors.

Since video recorders have not been popular in Asia for a long time, they are less profitable. However, the cost of video production is very low, and the profit is at least more than half, which means that there is at least 10 million profits.

If you think that the profit ends here, you are very wrong. Playing on TV is another way to make money. Of course, wireless and ATV can't afford to pay a high price. However, the price at which "The Saint of Gambling" was sold to wireless was 800,000 times, which is still the price of wireless pricing. If you sell the TV broadcast rights in Taiwan and Yueben, if you calculate it in terms of times, then this intermittent income is definitely not low.

And the profit is not over, and the copyright of this film is a big profit, just like Hollywood studios can use their own film library to the bank as collateral. In this way, this film can at least earn hundreds of millions of Hong Kong dollars for the Phantom Company.

Thinking of this number, Xiao Ran felt extremely weird. In terms of making a lot of money, of course, it is not as good as Hollywood blockbusters. However, if we talk about the profit ratio, this figure is the first in the world.

However, he couldn't figure it out that with such a way of making money, Golden Harvest could theoretically develop extremely fast. And as long as other film companies pick such a blockbuster film, it is equivalent to having abundant development funds. Thinking about it carefully, he is full of emotion, it seems that everyone only cares about the small and the big, and complains that the highest output of Hong Kong films has exceeded 200 in the past few years.

Making money is not to put it in your pocket and rot, but to continue to invest in it and make money (in fact, Hong Kong gangs are far more serious than what is written in the book, but as I said, this book will try to involve as little gangsters as possible, so I will write relatively little). I just hate that too many filmmakers are just taking advantage of the east wind to make quick money, and the result is ...... He didn't want to think about it anymore.

Fortunately, now with the support of the Phantom, we can only win the Southeast Asian market, and if we can get the mainland market, then everything will be fine. He will definitely no longer worry about following the trend in the future, after all, with a huge market, he is not afraid of chaos at all. Besides, as long as he can control the distribution agency in Southeast Asia, in that case, as long as it is a slightly worse film, he will not release it, and at that time, these fools would dare not shoot blindly.

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