Chapter 161: Another 158 million income
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The matter of sharing the box office should have been done a long time ago, and "The True Color of Heroes" has actually been painted in Hong Kong for a while. However, because when he was just painting, Li Mingbao began to talk about the theater with Zou Wenhuai and Lei Juekun, so this matter has been delayed until now.
Although there are many box offices in Hong Kong, they are not put in the hearts of the bigwigs, especially the harvest of this movie in the overseas market is very good, much more than the Hong Kong box office, although the Hong Kong box office is breaking the box office record, but in the light of the overseas box office, this money is really nothing.
What's more, the box office in Hong Kong is not only one or two to eat, but four to eat together, no matter how much the box office, in the case of so many people, the profit will not be too high. Now the sixth uncle has pulled this matter out, one is to solve the problem of the tail of the hand, and the other is to relax the atmosphere, so that it will not be tense at the beginning of the discussion, which is not a good thing for cooperation.
Since the box office this time is shared by Li Mingbao, as well as the sixth uncle, Zou Wenhuai, and Lei Juekun, the money from the box office did not fall to any company's account, but directly applied for a public account in Standard Chartered.
Now that the money has begun, it is necessary to settle the accounts. As the sixth uncle who first mentioned the box office, he said: "This movie has a box office of almost 63 million, according to our previous agreement, that is, Li Sheng will take 40% of the total box office, and we will divide the rest equally." ”
When the sixth uncle said this, Li Mingbao immediately interjected and said: "This fraction of the box office is not easy to calculate, so I suffer a loss, just calculate it according to the whole number, I will play 60 million to calculate the forty percent, and you will take the rest." ”
"Li Sheng is worthy of being a person who makes a lot of money in Hollywood, close to the mantissa of three million Hong Kong dollars, don't say no, be generous." Lei Juekun said in a weird manner, which can be regarded as revenge for being forced by Li Mingbao before.
"It's not a question of whether I'm arrogant or not, it's mainly that I'm going to have to talk about business later, and the appetizers have to be noisy, it's not like that. Two or three million Hong Kong dollars, I believe that everyone here will not pay attention to it, so I will also promote the style. Li Mingbao didn't feel much about Lei Juekun's tone.
After all, he wants to rob Princess Jin, Lei Juekun complains, it's a normal thing. If he could negotiate the matter with such a small grievance, Li Mingbao would definitely make a profit, but things will obviously not be so simple.
"Since Li Shengdu said so, sixth uncle, you can count it, how much can Li Mingbao take for forty percent?" Li Mingbao didn't care about these trivial matters with Lei Juekun, and Lei Juekun would not rashly provoke trouble, so he immediately changed his tune.
"If it's only 60 million, it's very good. Li Sheng takes four components in every cinema chain, including those small movie theaters, so that the money Li Sheng can get is 24 million Hong Kong dollars. Of course, this is only the box office in Hong Kong. Overseas sales, Europe and the United States are Li Sheng, you talked about it yourself, and we can't get involved in that money.
Now let's talk about the money we made from cooperation, according to the June Fourth opening, the box office in Southeast Asia plus Taiwan, my income here is about 130 million Hong Kong dollars. So Li Sheng, you can get 54 million Hong Kong dollars, and I will transfer this money to you later. The sixth uncle spoke.
In fact, the box office in Taiwan plus the box office in Southeast Asia is not only 130 million Hong Kong dollars, but the actual box office is much more than this box office. But overseas is different from Hong Kong, Uncle Six is not covering the sky in those places, although he has his own theater, but he is more cooperating with others, after all, it is very difficult for Uncle Six to spread out such a big stall. So in other places, Uncle Six basically uses his own theater if he can use his own theater, and if he can't use it, then cooperate with others to strive for a larger market.
Since there are many local theaters that are not in the hands of Uncle Six, more money will naturally not fall into Uncle Six's pocket, but will be made by local film merchants, just like Li Mingbao asked Twentieth Century Fox to do business in the United States, and he always has to pay for it.
Therefore, at the overseas box office, Southeast Asia and Taiwan's "True Colors of Heroes" sold better than any of Li Mingbao's previous films, but the money received was not much. Of course, this is also because the sixth uncle did not finish the agency in East Asia, leaving Japan and South Korea to let Zou Wenhuai do it.
Hearing Uncle Six mention the overseas box office, although Zou Wenhuai was still disgusted by Uncle Six, he pretended to be very happy on the surface and said to Li Mingbao: "To say that this time this film has received a better share in Japan and South Korea, which is higher than the share of your previous two movies."
Don't look at just two countries, but the box office revenue is much more than that of the whole of Southeast Asia plus Taiwan. Of course, more money was made by their local studios, but it was still not a small amount left to us.
This time, South Korea and Japan contributed more than 200 million Hong Kong dollars to the box office, and Zhou Yan was over there, which also opened up the market.
200 million is just over a few million, and you won't mind Li Sheng, so I'll just count 200 million. According to our sharing method, it is still six or four cents, then your income is 80 million Hong Kong dollars, which is more than three times higher than your box office income in Hong Kong. If Hong Kong's movies can make money like you, then this industry is really a money printing machine. ”
Maybe it was the reason why Li Mingbao was too lazy to calculate those fractions before, at this time Zou Wenhuai also ate the fractions, not that he was really greedy for millions of Hong Kong dollars, but that he also had to breathe a sigh of relief, he had been in the Hong Kong film industry for so many years, but now he was eaten by a hairy boy, Zou Wenhuai was a little unhappy no matter how atmospheric he was.
And the way the big guy is unhappy, just like Zou Wenhuai, he will directly eat you millions, anyway, at this time, Li Mingbao will definitely not bother with him because of this little thing, if he can take advantage of it, then he can't suffer. Presumably, Uncle Six did the same.
Zou Wenhuai didn't believe that the box office figures that Uncle Six got were really so neat, with Uncle Six's stingy personality, if the money was less than 130 million, then Uncle Six would definitely work hard to count all the odds and turns for Li Mingbao, not losing a penny to Li Mingbao, but Li Mingbao didn't want to earn a penny more from his sixth uncle. But if there are too many, the sixth uncle will definitely not be polite, and secretly deduct all the excess money, save trouble and take advantage, this kind of thing the sixth uncle likes to do the most.
Although Zou Wenhuai also took advantage, Zou Wenhuai's atmosphere than the sixth uncle was here, even if he took advantage, he came clearly, unlike the sixth uncle who was so stingy that he took advantage and hid, and he didn't say anything if others didn't ask. In addition, he was disgusted by the sixth uncle before, and now Zou Wenhuai brings up the problem of fractions, and he does not want to give the sixth uncle eye medicine.
In fact, it's not just Uncle Six and Zou Wenhuai, if Princess Jin has channels to do overseas markets, and Li Mingbao hands over the film to him to deal with, he will do the same. But Princess Jin just didn't have this ability, so Lei Juekun could only take advantage of the verbal before.
Princess Jin's overseas channels have not been very good, even in history, the new art city has been dispersed, and this problem has not been solved. So overseas, it has always been the dream of the golden princess, but unfortunately the ability is not good, no matter how many dreams are just dreams.
What kind of idea did Zou Wenhuai play, how could Li Mingbao not know? The sixth uncle has always been at odds with Zou Wenhuai, so Zou Wenhuai did this, Li Mingbao is not surprised at all. He is not afraid that there will be a contradiction between the sixth uncle and Zou Wenhuai, but he is afraid that the sixth uncle is good enough to wear a pair of pants with Zou Wenhuai, so that Li Mingbao will be difficult to do.
And now looking at the situation, Uncle Sixth obviously has no idea of reconciling with Zou Wenhuai, but Li Mingbao is a lot more relieved, none of the bosses of these three cinemas is a fuel-efficient lamp. If you only deal with Zou Wenhuai and Lei Juekun in the future, these two people want to unite, and Li Mingbao will have to weigh it.
And now put the sixth uncle in, even if Zou Wenhuai and Lei Juekun join forces, Li Mingbao is not afraid, there is the old fox of the sixth uncle, the significance of these two people joining forces, there is absolutely no significance for the sixth uncle not to join forces, doubles and doubles, Li Mingbao is really not afraid of Zou Wenhuai and Lei Juekun.
The income brought to Li Mingbao by the movie "The True Color of Heroes" has also come out now, Europe and the United States have just been released, and the box office will have to wait for a while to know, but even the East Asian box office has brought Li Mingbao great profits.
The local box office is 24 million, the box office in Southeast Asia plus Taiwan is 54 million, and the box office in Japan and South Korea is 80 million. Nearly 20 million in taxes, which is not a small amount. The reason why the previous movies didn't pay much tax was because Li Mingbao's income was not high at the beginning, and the tax of millions of Hong Kong dollars was really drizzle compared to the income of one or two hundred million.
In addition, the film tax in East Asia is completely incomparable with Hollywood, and even the tax revenue for Hong Kong films is even less and there are subsidies. So Li Mingbao is making movies in East Asia, and he wants to be comfortable, compared to Hollywood's taxes, this is heaven.
But in fact, the tax gap is not so exaggerated, mainly because the tax revenue on the US side is US dollars, while the currency value in East Asia is not too high, so when compared, the tax gap looks very large. The same tax of one million, with Hong Kong dollars here and US dollars there, the actual difference is eight times, which looks terrifying.
With so much box office revenue, compared to Li Mingbao's previous investment, it is completely disproportionate. To be calculated according to the investment interest rate, it is an interest rate ratio of 1:316, which is more profitable than any investment in Hong Kong today. Of course, the investment and return gap of "True Colors of Heroes" is large, but compared to "Home Alone", it is far behind.
At the beginning, Li Mingbao's investment in "Home Alone" was only about one million US dollars, but the income brought to Li Mingbao was 160 million US dollars, and if the income from copyright is added, the rate of return of Home Alone can reach an astonishing 360 times. With such an income ratio, maybe Li Mingbao will not be able to break it in his life, and if he wants to find a suitable movie like this, he can't do it at all, unless Li Mingbao is investing in other industries.