Fortunately, Hollywood movies have a vast overseas market, otherwise with a loss of more than 100 million US dollars, 20th Century Fox and Paramount would not know who to go to.

However, although the overseas box office is nearly 1.2 billion US dollars, because of taxes, theater sharing, and other reasons, you must know that the studios of various countries have to make some money, and in the end, the revenue of 20th Century Fox and Paramount Pictures at the overseas box office is estimated to be 400 million US dollars.

In the end, the two major companies earned more than $200 million, and it is estimated that there is not much when you count the rewards given to director Cameron.

Many people don't believe it, but the reality is that a global blockbuster movie like Big Ship, 20th Century Fox and Paramount Pictures only make a little money in the end if they only count the box office.

If the big boat is a movie shot in Hong Kong, it can only be like this in the end, and it is a little bit to make some money, but for Hollywood film companies, the big boat is just beginning to make money, and the big head is still behind.

Because DVDs, TV broadcasts, licensing and other peripherals are the basis of Hollywood companies' profits, and at the beginning of the 21st century, there was even a claim that DVDs saved Hollywood movies.

Lei Weidong didn't know how much he made around the big ship in his previous life, and he doesn't know it now, because this is the secret of major Hollywood film companies, but Lei Weidong watched a movie called "Ice and Snow Adventure" in his previous life, and the peripherals of this movie can be found on the Internet.

This 3D film produced by Disney released in 2014 cost 150 million US dollars, 300 million US dollars in publicity and distribution costs, and the total cost is definitely more than 450 million, exceeding the production cost of the big ship, and its box office is more than 1.1 billion US dollars, far inferior to the big ship.

DVD + Blu-ray sold 39 million sets worldwide, $790 million, Bluy version 3 million sets $150 million, soundtrack DVD 8.95 million copies, $350 million, digital single + digital album 6 million copies, $110 million, Frozen Princess dresses 6.5 million sets, $975 million, Frozen Princess Play 3.2 million sets, $298 million, Frozen Snow Treasure 359,000, $19 million.

The cumulative sales of the above products are almost 2.7 billion US dollars, and other surrounding areas are not easy to count, such as theme parks, TV broadcasts, online on-demand, etc., it is estimated that only Disney itself has clear statistics.

However, it is generally recognized that the box office revenue has always accounted for only 20% to 30% of Hollywood studios, and even Hollywood companies can even achieve 15% of the box office revenue of some phenomenal films.

For example, the famous animated film "The Lion King" in the later generations only had a global box office of more than 600 million US dollars, but Dyniz relied on "The Lion King" to make a global profit of 2.3 billion US dollars in one year, what is this concept? In this step alone, the film earns more than Hong Kong movies in a year, whether it is Hong Kong or overseas box office combined.

And what is the reason why Hollywood studios can make money to this point?

Quite simply, the first is copyright, which is the spirit of Europe and the United States that attaches great importance to copyright.

It's not that there is no piracy in Europe and the United States, but if you go to piracy, once you are caught, you will die a miserable death, because it can be said that you have moved the cake of all the big European and American companies.

Second, the big Hollywood companies have been grouped in the 90s, and it can be said that the six major Hollywood film companies are no longer just film companies.

Hollywood in the mid-nineties.

20th Century Fox is a subsidiary of News Corporation, Paramount Pictures was acquired by Viacom, Columbia Pictures was acquired by Sony, Warner Bros. was acquired by Time Warner, Universal Pictures was acquired by Comcast Telecommunications, and Disney became a group of companies integrating film, animation, television networks, newspapers and amusement parks.

Each of these groups is worth tens of billions of dollars, and they are Fortune 500 companies in the United States and even the world, and it is because of this strength that they can make the best profits in their neighborhoods.

In contrast, even Spielberg's DreamWorks Film Company, one of Hollywood's four major directors, even if it produced a series of blockbuster films, did not have strong overseas distribution capabilities and peripheral profitability, and could only go out of business in the end.

I have said so many ways to make money from Hollywood movies, let's talk about Hong Kong movies.

Hong Kong films are not like Hollywood movies, which can make so much money around the periphery, and before the 90s, they could still make money on videotapes, but later they couldn't even make money from videotapes, and the main reason for this phenomenon is because of piracy, or the lack of attention to copyright.

In the United States, television broadcasting is a large part of Hollywood film revenue, and many studios can make a lot of money every year just by showing the film library on television, but this does not seem to be suitable in Hong Kong.

In his previous life, Lei Weidong had never heard of a film company that could make money from TV broadcasts before 2010, because Hong Kong TV stations are very tough, mainly TVB and ATV, of which TVB dominates in Hong Kong.

However, with Shao Tycoon's stinginess, he will definitely not pay the film copyright fee, and with Shao Tycoon's status in Hong Kong, you can't just release your movie.

If you can make a lot of money by relying only on the film library, Jiahe will not sell all the film copyrights in his hands at a low price in 1999.

TV can't be pointed to, and others can't be done, once clothing, toys or something become popular, those garment factories and toy manufacturers directly produce their own, and they don't consider your copyright! And you don't have the place to reason.

Without these pieces, it can be said that the periphery of Hong Kong movies can't be done at all, and you can work the songs, it is estimated that this is also the reason why Hong Kong movie stars can sing, it is said that there is its own record company in the usual space New Art City, and it makes a lot of money using the songs of those movies.

However, the money earned from songs is still very small, and it has to be shared with record companies, so Hong Kong films can only work hard at the box office, hoping to achieve a higher box office and make a lot of money, and at the same time hope to open up more box office markets.

After the decline of Hong Kong films in later generations, many people lamented that it would be good if they could enter the mainland market, at least Hong Kong films could survive in the mainland market.

However, what Lei Weidong wants to say is that it is useless for Hong Kong films to enter the mainland market, because in any time period, the mainland film market is also lost for 10 years.

How to say, in the 80s and early 90s, because there was no video hall in the mainland market, those mainland movie theaters can be said to be very comfortable, and it is also a golden age for mainland films.

In the early 80s, Shaolin Temple achieved a box office of hundreds of millions of yuan, and in the early 90s, the movie "Premier Zhou" achieved a box office of more than 200 million.

But after '93, the emergence of video halls in various cities on the mainland completely shattered this scene, and these video halls began to show a large number of pirated Hong Kong films.

In his previous life, Lei Weidong preferred to watch movies, because Lei Weidong was born in the 80s, and it can be said that he has completely experienced the feng shui of mainland cinemas.

When I was in elementary school, I couldn't go to the cinema to watch movies by myself because of my young age, and the movies at that time were basically movies chartered by the school, and I could watch two or three movies a year on average.

To this day, Lei Weidong still remembers those movies, such as the comedians Chen Jia's father and son's "Two Sons Open a Shop", "Father and Son Classic Car" and other movies, at that time, the movie theater can be said to be crowded, even if you usually pass by the movie theater, you can see many people waiting to watch the movie.

When Lei Weidong was in middle school, the situation changed a lot, and it was already the mid-nineties at that time, and video halls could be seen everywhere in Lei Weidong's city, although the ticket price was about the same as that of a movie theater, and it was cheaper.

At that time, the ticket price of the movie theater was three to five yuan, and the video hall was only two yuan, but one thing to admit is that you can see at least four or five movies in the video hall, including a tertiary film.

In the era when people's living standards are still relatively low, of course, everyone likes to take advantage.

It can be said that at that time, there were fewer and fewer people in the movie theater, and more and more people went to the video hall to watch the video.

Lei Weidong remembers very well that in 95, his father's factory issued a movie ticket, and his parents didn't have time to watch it, so Lei Weidong took it to watch a movie.

How to say it, a movie theater that can seat thousands of people, there are dozens of people sitting alone watching movies, and you can not see the scene clearly, which means that if you have time, you can watch it for a day and no one will ask you.

Lei Weidong watched the movie twice in it before leaving, you can imagine how many people watched the movie at that time, and how shrinking the film market was.

As for the movies he watched, Lei Weidong still remembers them very clearly. is the movie "Dugu Nine Swords" starring Sister Li Gang, who is known as the most beautiful Hong Kong sister, Yang Liqing, Liu Ximing and others.

That's right, it's "Dugu Nine Swords", although it is said that Hong Kong films have not entered the mainland market, but the pirated version of it is openly broadcast in cinemas in the mainland market, and it will not give Hong Kong film companies a penny anyway.

And Lei Weidong also heard many people say that at that time, the movie theaters in the mainland were blatantly stealing the box office, and a movie was at a high box office, and there was nothing to see on the books! You can't manage it at all, you can't manage it.

A movie sells 30 million, and the film can see that the box office of 10 million is considered good, so that the movie theater makes a lot of money, but the film's production company loses money one after another.