Chapter 156: Big Profit

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Because the audience of "Dao Ma Dan" is not as wide as "Happy Ghost", the box office has not been as high as "Happy Ghost", but has been relatively stable for two weeks and began to decline.

But this is not Waterloo, when many filmmakers thought that "Sword and Horse" was going to stop at 19 million, they didn't expect that by the time the painting was finally made, it would be over 20 million.

On August 1, "Fast Food Truck", which took over "Dao Ma Dan", was finally released vigorously in the overwhelming advertising. However, at this time, many newspapers published some eye-catching news.

"Millions of writers! 20 million screenwriters! ”

According to incomplete statistics, just by virtue of the income from writing books, Lin Jing's income has reached 10 million. In the script written by Lin Jing, just the box office in Hong Kong, there have been three more than 20 million. ”

"In fact, there are many powerful writers, but Lin Jing is the only one who can have both quality and degree, so she is a writer of tens of millions."

In fact, when it comes to tens of millions of writers, Jin Yong is a veritable tens of millions of writers, as are Gu Long and Ni Kuang. But in order to attract the attention of readers, the newspaper deliberately did not mention these three old-timers.

So, because of those reporters who like to talk endlessly, Lin Jing has two more "tens of millions of writers" and "twenty million screenwriters" that sound ugly, but I don't know how many writers and screenwriters have nicknames.

Lin Jing's books "Heroes", "Kunlun", "Those Things in the Ming Dynasty", and "Three Kingdoms" have been sold all over Hong Kong and Taiwan, and even to the Chinese areas of Southeast Asia.

As for the English novel "Harry. Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" has also been launched in Europe and the United States. It's just because Lin Jing is an unknown newcomer in Europe and the United States, and she is also Chinese, so "Harry. Potter and the Philosopher's Stone not only did not sell as well as the previous titles at first, but also very poorly.

Thankfully, over time, Harry. The fermentation of the fame of Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, sales are finally slowly getting better.

In terms of films, because Hong Kong films do not pay much attention to publicity, the cost of a film in Hong Kong is not high, except for the share of the theater chain, the extremely low film tax that symbolizes the surname, and sometimes, some large production companies can even get as much as 4o% or even more than 4o% of the total box office share.

Time and Space Film Studios is not large and has a long history, and certainly does not belong to this category of companies, so its total box office share does not reach 4o%. However, compared with the previous movie "If the Wine Sells Nothing", "Happy Ghost" and "Dao Ma Dan", the box office sharing agreement reached with Golden Harvest is much higher.

The reason for this is, on the one hand, that Golden Harvest sees the potential of Time and Space Film Studio, or wants to establish a good relationship with Lin Jing. Lin Jing's screenwriting ability has been proven by high-grossing movies such as "Five Lucky Stars", "Plan A", "If the Wine Sells Nothing", "Happy Ghost", and "Dao Ma Dan", which are beyond doubt.

On the other hand, Golden Harvest's competitor Xinyicheng has brought a lot of pressure to Golden Harvest in the past two years, and Shaw Brothers, who were on the same front before, has been confirmed to be no, in order to improve its competitiveness, it urgently needs to find powerful friends.

The relationship between Time and Space Film Studio and Xinyicheng is very cold, not to mention that the enemy of the enemy is a friend, so in order to envelop the Time and Space Film Studio, Golden Harvest "generously" gave more benefits to his friends.

So, in the end, for these two films, the revenue of Time and Space Film Studio may reach fifteen million. After deducting the cost of making the zuò of 5 million, the profit is about 10 million.

The profit of 10 million is only the box office revenue in Hong Kong.

Time and Space Film Studios.

"Miss Lin, this is Chen Qizhi Chen, Manager of the Scholar Company."

"Hello, Manager Chen."

"Hello, Miss Lin, I have admired the name for a long time."

The two sides sat down and discussed the issue of "Happy Ghost" and "Dao Ma Dan" in Taiwan.

The scholar company has established a huge cinema chain, but the film production has not kept up, and the film production in Taiwan has declined, so it relies heavily on Hong Kong films in terms of film sources. is so hungry for film sources that scholar companies invest in movies from all sides. Later, in Hong Kong, except for a few film production companies such as New Arts City and Golden Harvest, which did not have funds from scholar companies, the others more or less accepted investment from scholar companies.

"I'm not afraid to be honest, our scholar company makes movies and movies to make money. If we don't make money, or if we don't make money together, both your and my companies will go out of business sooner or later. ”

"The truth is indeed the truth." Mo Ziqi replied.

"Hmm." Chen Qizhi was very satisfied with Mo Ziqi's answer, he nodded, stretched out the middle index finger of his two right hands, and said, "The movies you make in time and space movies are all very good, whether it is the "If the Wine Sells Dry" released at the beginning of the year, or "Happy Ghost" and "Dao Ma Dan" released two months ago. Therefore, our company is ready to buy out the exercise of the rights of these two films in Taiwan. ”

"Buyout?" Mo Ziqi frowned slightly.

Lin Jing was not surprised by Chen Qizhi's proposal to buy out the exercise of "Happy Ghost" and "Dao Ma Dan" in Taiwan. Buying out the exercise of Hong Kong films in Taiwan is a common practice of those film companies in Taiwan.

At this time, Taiwan is the world of Hong Kong films.

Generally speaking, Hong Kong movies have a high box office in Hong Kong, and in Taiwan, the box office will not be low.

Of course, there are no absolutes. A literary song and dance film with the background of Taiwan's era, although the director, screenwriter and some of the actors are all Hong Kongers, is actually a Taiwanese movie, so its Taiwan box office is much higher than the Hong Kong box office.

Therefore, Taiwanese businessmen are very fond of films that have already had a successful reputation in Hong Kong, and "Happy Ghost" and "Dao Ma Dan" are naturally very successful examples.

"So, how much money is your company going to spend on it?" Mo Ziqi asked.

""Happy Ghost" is 4.5 million, and "Dao Ma Dan" is 3.5 million." Chen Qizhi took a sip of coffee, and then replied, "Including the exercise of the right to the videotape." ”

"Four and a half million, three and a half million?" Mo Ziqi's brows furrowed even deeper.

Perhaps seeing Mo Ziqi's thoughts, Chen Qizhi smiled and added: "Don't worry, it's not NT$, it's HKD." ”

If it's NT$, then it's really hell, Chen Qizhi thought that if he said it was NT$, he was afraid that he would be swept out of the house immediately.

"It's a fair price, and we both make money."

For the 4.5 million in "Happy Ghost" and the 3.5 million in "Sword and Horse", Lin Jing was not too surprised, and her psychological expectations were almost like this. These two films, which have exceeded 20 million, have already made a lot of money at the box office in Hong Kong. Outside of Hong Kong, you can make as much money as you sell. (To be continued.) )