Chapter 170: Out-of-town publishers
On May 16, 1984, Tengfei Entertainment ushered in a wave of special guests, all of whom were well-known filmmakers from all over Southeast Asia.
In the reception room of Tengfei Entertainment, more than a dozen people sat there silently, most of them knew each other, and some were business opponents, in order to prevent their hole cards from being known by their opponents, they all chose to be silent.
Wang Zichuan walked quickly to the reception room, and Zhang Meng, who was following behind, had to trot to keep up with him.
When Li Chaofeng saw Wang Zichuan coming in, he immediately introduced to everyone: "Hello everyone, this is the general manager of our company!" ”
The person who reacted quickly immediately stepped forward to introduce himself.
"Hello Mr. Wang, I'm Li Xi, a Taiwanese film distributor!"
"Mr. Wang, I am Choi Shinmin, a Korean distributor, and I have my own company in South Korea, and you can rest assured that the movie is sold to me."
"Mr. Wang, the contemptible person is Yamada of Japan, I am the agent of Toho Co., Ltd., I came here this time, I am optimistic about the prospects of your company, I hope we can establish further cooperative relations."
Wang Zichuan smiled and nodded.
"Mr. Wang, I am Li Shuai, a Singaporean theater businessman, and this time for the distribution rights of "The Frog Prince", our company is willing to bid 300,000 yuan to buy out the screening rights in Singapore."
"Mr. Wang, hello, I am a Malaysian theater businessman Zhou ago, and I also came for the release of "The Frog Prince" in other cities, and our company is willing to bid 500,000 yuan to buy out the screening rights in the Malay region."
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After everyone finished introducing them in turn, Wang Zichuan said with a smile: "Everyone's intention is the same, our Tengfei Entertainment is a newly established company, and everyone knows the film very clearly." ”
Everyone looked at Wang Zichuan in puzzlement, they can do business in Hong Kong, and they can use the dialect here freely.
Wang Zichuan continued: "Is there anyone who doesn't lose money in business? ”
Yamada sneered: "Mr. Wang, you are really joking, if you don't lose money in business, wouldn't it be a mess, at least no one has seen it." ”
"I haven't seen it either!"
"You can see people losing money everywhere!"
Wang Zichuan raised his hand to signal everyone to calm down, and said confidently: "I have a way to make you only earn and not lose!" ”
The Malaysian businessman Zhou Qian immediately asked: "Mr. Wang, please say, if there is really a business that only makes money and does not lose money, I am willing to do it with you Zhou Qian!" ”
Everyone laughed and looked at Zhou Qian, how could there be such a cheap thing in the world?
Wang Zichuan said: "You bring in films from Hong Kong and return to your own country to screen them, some make money and some lose money, how wrong am I saying?" ”
"That's it! You eat by your eyes. Li Shuai deeply agrees, he has been doing this business for more than ten years, and sometimes he will look away.
"Have you ever thought about risk aversion?" Wang Zichuan's gaze swept over everyone one by one.
The expressions of the theater dealers present were strange, of course they thought about it, they all tried to keep the price to the lowest, the film had a high box office in Hong Kong, they bid high, and the box office of the film was low, and they bid low.
Wang Zichuan held up the "Frog Prince" film and asked, "How much do you think it can be worth?" ”
"Three hundred thousand!" Singaporean businessman Li Shuai repeated.
"Five hundred thousand!" Japanese filmmaker Yamada thought about it for a moment before he said it.
"We don't have such a popular film in South Korea, I can only make 200,000!" Cui Xinmin's eyes were sly, and he looked at Wang Zichuan with a smile.
Li Xi, a businessman in Taiwan, said confidently: "I bid one million to buy out the distribution rights in Taiwan, Wang Zichuan is what our Mr. Wu explained!" ”
"Mr. Wang, we are all small businesses, I can only take out 300,000 to buy out the screening rights in Malaysia!"
"Yes, Mr. Wang, several of us are new to the industry, and I paid 400,000 yuan to buy out the screening rights in Singapore."
"I paid 300,000 to buy out the screening rights in Thailand."
The rest of the dealers offered much lower, and some could only come up with 50,000 Hong Kong dollars.
Li Chaofeng shook his head at Wang Zichuan, these people are here to try their luck, they saw that the Hong Kong film industry was developed, so they put all their belongings into it, and went to Hong Kong to look for opportunities, low-box office films, they didn't dare to buy them, for fear of losing money, they couldn't afford high-box office films, after a long time, the daily expenses were also large, and they didn't want to go back in disgrace, so they could only stay in Hong Kong to see if they could meet good films.
Wang Zichuan knows in his heart, he is very optimistic about these people, he has the courage and patience, give them a chance, maybe they can create a lifetime.
"Guys, I have a mention that can help you reduce your risk!" Wang Zichuan took the film and said as he walked: "You spend money to buy the film just to make money, if our company shares the risk with you, isn't it small that you will lose money!" ”
Li Xi looked sneering in his tone and asked, "Mr. Wang, I didn't understand what you said, what is your consciousness?" ”
Wang Zichuan said: "You come to me to buy out the film, I don't charge you money, you take the film back and release it, and we will share the box office with fifty-fifty!" ”
"Impossible!"
"You can't do that!"
As soon as Wang Zichuan's voice fell, many people objected, and they made less money by doing so.
Li Shuai said: "Mr. Wang, this idea is good, but we can't agree, it's better to buy out the film!" ”
Wang Zichuan just smiled and glanced at everyone, especially the small courtyard merchants who gathered together.
"I promise! Mr. Wang, I am Zhao Qian, a businessman from Singapore, and I am willing to cooperate in the form of sharing. ”
"I promise too!"
"I promise too!"
Some people took the lead, and many merchants compromised.
Wang Zichuan silently calculated, although there are still a few areas that have not responded, but the important foreign cities have been included.
"Okay, those who promise to share can stay and continue the negotiations, and those who refuse to share can leave first."
Li Xi glanced at the few people who remained, and said angrily: "You guys are breaking the rules!" ”
Japan's Yamada hesitated, turned around again, and explained embarrassedly: "Mr. Wang, the distributor can only get 50% of the rationed income that we implement in Japan, and if you want to take a share, the producer can only get 50% of the rationed box office." ”
Wang Zichuan has already heard Li Chaofeng's introduction to the Japanese rationed box office, the film is released in Japan, and the theater will only come up with 50% to 60% of the box office, this is the rationed box office, if Tengfei Entertainment takes 50/8 of the rationed box office, it will be 25% of the total box office, a very low share.
Li Chaofeng said: "Mr. Yamada, as far as I know, Golden Harvest Pictures gets seventy percent of the ration box office, and if it is Cheng Long's film, the share is even higher." ”
Yamada sneered: "If your strength is the same as that of Golden Harvest, of course you can get the same way as them." ”
Wang Zichuan said: "Mr. Yamada, I think you can't be the master of this, you go back and sue your boss, 70% of the ration box office is our bottom line, you can go and inquire, we take off the box office of the movie produced by Zuò ......"
"Bang...... Achuan! Great joy! ”