Chapter Eighty-Eight: A Movie Makes a Billion

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But even those American reporters speculated, the answer they gave was that Li Mingbao made a profit of 50 million US dollars in this movie. It is not surprising that they have such speculations.

You must know that the company that cooperates with Li Mingbao is Twentieth Century Fox, one of Hollywood's film giants. Judging from the global box office of this movie, it must be at least 400 million US dollars to release the movie "Raiders of the Lost Ark".

As an investor in the film, Li Mingbao is luckier than George Lucas, because they can only get box office dividends, director dividends, etc., but because they have no money to invest in movies, their dividends are far from comparable to Li Mingbao's.

If the box office is 400 million US dollars, then the theater chain may be able to get almost 100 million, and the remaining 300 million US dollars, 20th Century Fox will definitely take the lion's share, but no matter how much it takes the lion's head, as an industry, it is impossible to even take the investor's money, and it is not a strange thing for Li Mingbao to get 50 million US dollars by relying on the dual identity of the film's producer and investor.

And as soon as this speculation came out, there was a big market in the United States. And the newspapers in Hong Kong basically reported this speculated number jù as the exact number jù. Before Li Mingbao went home, he didn't disclose the news about this matter on the phone, so whether it was in the outside world or at home, everyone was inclined to the figure of 50 million US dollars for the money Li Mingbao earned.

$50 million is a very good income in the United States, but it is even more remarkable in Hong Kong. That's a full 400 million Hong Kong dollars, and it's just such a movie that earned it back. In comparison, Chu Wan of the Shaw Brothers has nothing to be proud of in front of Li Mingbao.

Since Li Mingbao was not in Hong Kong for most of the year, so at the reception banquet that came back this time, the people in the family made Li Mingbao a lot of things that Li Mingbao likes to eat, and half of the dishes on a table are Li Mingbao's favorites, and they don't care whether Li Mingbao can eat so much or not, after serving the table, they desperately put vegetables in Li Mingbao's bowl until the bowl is full, and then it stops for a while.

I haven't eaten at home for a long time, and Li Mingbao misses it very much, so after toasting and drinking, Li Mingbao didn't care about other things, so he began to eat in a big gulp. Li Mingbao's life in the United States is indeed very enjoyable, as long as he needs it, the future star of that prosperous town for a hundred dollars can simply have as much as he wants.

In terms of fun, there is no need for Li Mingbao to worry about, as long as he wants to play, whether it is a bar or other places, there are things that Li Mingbao is satisfied with, and Li Mingbao has not treated himself badly in terms of accommodation, such a big villa, Li Mingbao's bedroom alone, there are more than 200 square meters, and there are separate bathing equipment.

In other aspects, it is not a problem to have money in the United States, but the thing of eating is a troublesome thing. Although Li Mingbao himself is not a picky eater, whether it is a hamburger or a sandwich, or a French meal, as long as the taste is not too peculiar, Li Mingbao can swallow it. But what can be eaten, it doesn't mean that Li Mingbao likes it very much, in the United States, there are indeed many Chinese-owned restaurants, but their tastes are biased towards the West, and Li Mingbao would rather eat sandwiches than eat that thing.

Now when he returns home and sees the really delicious food, Li Mingbao has to make up for all the things he didn't eat over there.

Seeing Li Mingbao's appearance, the topics that other people in the family intended to mention were also eliminated. Anyway, now that Li Mingbao is home, if there are any questions, wait until after eating, and then ask, no problem, and don't rush that little time.

After half an hour, Li Mingbao and his family were finally full of wine and food, and removed the food, Li Mingbao and the men in his family all took out Li Mingbao's filial cigars and lit them, and after a while, the living room was full of smoke.

After everyone sat down, Li Mingbao began to talk in detail about his experience in Hollywood for most of the past six months. At the beginning of the United States, the experience of that period was certainly very dull, so plain that Li Mingbao was just a passing pass.

Li Mingbao talked about the important thing about the preparation for release after the filming of "Home Alone", the war of words with Twentieth Century Fox, coupled with advertisements throughout North America, and then the movie became a big hit, making Li Mingbao a well-known person in the United States.

By the time Li Mingbao finished talking about his experience in the United States, more than an hour had passed, and this was because Li Mingbao deliberately omitted some less important news, and he had been talking for so long just to tell it.

For other family members who don't know much about the movie, Li Mingbao's negotiations with Twentieth Century Fox didn't give them much feeling, including those who were divided into what, they didn't know how to calculate it, as the saying goes, interlacing is like a mountain, and there are many people in the Li family who are good at accounting, but they really don't know much about the form of this sharing.

But Li Mingbao's second brother, Li Minghui, is a person in the circle, and he understands how important a company like Twentieth Century Fox is in the United States. Li Mingbao and Jiang Zhiqiang actually single-handedly won such a preferential contract in front of such a giant, which really opened Li Minghui's eyes.

"Xiao Wu, I think you can succeed this time, the most important factor is that Jiang Zhiqiang. Such talents are very rare in Hong Kong, and it is really your luck that you can have such a person to assist you in Hollywood. You must use such a person well, and only if you are willing to spend money, the cooperation between you will last for a long time.

This time "Home Alone" is a big hit, how are you going to reward him? Li Minghui asked.

"Second brother, do you think I'm a reluctant person? If Home Alone hadn't been for him this time, I wouldn't even know where the door of Twentieth Century Fox would open, so you can rest assured, I won't treat him badly, and when the box office of this movie is divided into my hands, I will give him a 1% dividend, so that he will never say anything. In the future, in other American movies, the small production zuò is 5 percent, and the big production zuò is like this movie now, I will give him 1 percent, and after the convention is formed, I don't believe that he can still run away. Li Mingbao said confidently.

Hearing Li Mingbao's words, the second brother Li Minghui felt that Li Mingbao was kind enough, but his father didn't know what the one percent share was, so he felt that Li Mingbao was a little stingy. Say whatever you think, Li Guangxin is definitely the master of words at home: "Since you all think that this person is very important, Xiaowu, you should give him one percent of the dividend, or take out the dividends from your side, isn't this a bit less?" No matter how you put it, it's not too much to give 5 percent. If you want the horse to run, you have to give him good grass, one hundredth, and you can't take it. ”

Hearing his father's words, Li Mingbao couldn't laugh or cry a little: "Dad, do you know how much one percent of this dividend is?" You say I gave less. Not to mention one hundredth, even one thousandth, that's definitely not a small number. ”

"Xiao Wu is right, one percent is indeed a lot. According to Xiao Wu's estimates, the global box office of this film can reach about $500 million. Even if we count 500 million US dollars, of which the money for the theater chain is almost 1.5 billion US dollars. Little Five and Twentieth Century Fox can split the remaining $350 million.

According to their 46-share method, the 20 th Century Fox Company can get a share of $210 million, and apart from some bank investments, they can basically net more than $200 million. As for the money in Xiao Wu's hands, there are 140 million US dollars, and the dividend of 1% to Jiang Zhiqiang is 1.4 million US dollars.

Converted to Hong Kong dollars, that is, 11.2 million Hong Kong dollars, which is about the same as the total box office in Hong Kong of the movie "Senior Brother Goes Out". With so much money, Jiang Zhiqiang just helped Xiao Wu run the movie line, he definitely made a lot of money, and there was no reason not to agree. If you give 5 percent, according to Dad, do you know how much it is? That's 56 million Hong Kong dollars. With so much money, he can buy more than half of Jiang Zhiqiang's Anle Cinema Line in their house.

It's not that Xiao Wu is reluctant to pay, the main thing is that after giving enough money at one time, whether Jiang Zhiqiang will be so hard in the future is a question. If you have money, you will naturally be slack, it is better to have a long stream, which is a good thing for Xiao Wu and Jiang Zhiqiang. Li Minghui opened his mouth and explained on the side.

"What, why so much money? Didn't the outside say that Xiao Wu made more than $50 million? Why does Xiao Wu have a hundred and a half million dollars now? Li Guangxin said with a little foggy mind.

Not to mention Li Guangxin, even Li Minghui, who calculated this number, was dizzy at this time. His algorithm is absolutely not wrong, so Li Mingbao really made so much money, thinking that Li Mingbao can make so much money after staying in Hollywood for half a year, Li Minghui feels that he has a very good future in Hong Kong in the past six months, and there is no way to show it at all.

"The second brother is not mistaken, I am in the United States this time, as long as there is no accident, I can basically get a dividend of 1400 million US dollars. And when the movie comes out at the box office, I have more money than that.

Twentieth Century Fox intends to buy the European and American rights to my "Home Alone" series, and as long as I sell this copyright, I can still earn at least 100 million US dollars, or even 200 million US dollars.

Even if you just count the income of my movie and convert it into Hong Kong dollars, then the income of one of my movies is more than one billion Hong Kong dollars. Li Mingbao explained this, and he couldn't help but be intoxicated.

Filming movies in Hong Kong is not only inconvenient, but also the money in hand, the sum of the two films, and the sale of Asian copyrights, the income from Li Mingbao's hands is more than 200 million Hong Kong dollars.

But to make a movie in the United States, the investment is relatively large, but in terms of harvest, it is 800 miles away from the box office income of Hong Kong. is just a movie, not counting the copyright of the movie, Li Mingbao's income is more than 100 million Hong Kong dollars. The gap between them is unimaginable.