Chapter 509 Prove It to You

With the 4,000 people in the playground last night, plus the spontaneous promotion of 1,600 people in the four theaters.

Plus television, newspapers, and radio are touted all over England.

The next day, before Li Changheng and Annie had finished their breakfast, when they went to the University of London's School of Art, the manager in charge of cinema affairs called and told them.

After 8:00 this morning, there were many people queuing up at the four cinemas. Not only were the tickets for the 9:00 show sold out, but even the tickets for the next three days were almost sold out.

Moreover, depending on the number of people queuing up, it may be sold in the next week.

There are also movie theaters in the Westminster area. Seven of them have called early in the morning, wanting to get film.

Li Changheng directly asked the lawyer team and United Artists to take charge of this matter.

However, cooperation can be discussed, but when he can get the film, it depends on when United Artists really belongs to him.

Then during the formal signing of the contract with United Artists, it was hard to find a ticket in the whole of London.

And whether it is now or in the future, London's fares are notoriously expensive.

Not to mention that the four theaters are already in the most prosperous places in London.

If it weren't for Li Changheng's pressure not to increase the price, the theater would want to directly increase the average price from 2 pounds to 3 or even 4 pounds.

According to the current exchange rate, 2 pounds is 5.2 US dollars.

Except for the MGM people who flew back to Calman, California early in the morning, the remaining three people observed in London for two days, and conducted a questionnaire survey with the people left by United Artists.

The people who decided to line up to buy movie tickets after One Planet are basically parents whose children go to nearby schools.

Make sure right away that there is nothing fake in it.

While admiring Li Changheng who proposed the promotional plan, he basically changed the plan slightly and sent it back to the United States.

Then, in three days, the income of the four theaters reached 58,000 pounds, 150,800 US dollars.

If this situation lasts for a month, it will be 580,000 pounds and 1.508 million US dollars.

Not to mention this figure for a month, cinemas in the East End of London and even many cities in England have an annual income of less than 580,000 pounds.

As soon as this news was reported by the media, and it was the first time ever to record and broadcast the scene of hundreds of people queuing up in a 100-meter-long queue outside the theater, after it was broadcast on TV.

Let alone other cinemas in London, the cinemas in the whole of England were so impatient that they rang up the phones of the four theaters.

Not surprisingly, people from theaters in the nearest France and Spain came to London on their own initiative, hoping to introduce Home Alone to them.

Of course, Li Changheng didn't care about this, but paid people to dub the movie into the languages ​​of the major countries, even after the people from the island countries were dubbed.

After thinking about it, I actually spent nearly 10,000 pounds to prepare a Russian version of the master tape.

Then the company responsible for copying began to work overtime to reproduce the film.

And a copy of 1,900 pounds, in the eyes of ordinary film companies, has to consider the cost, but in the eyes of Li Changheng, it is not considered money at all.

Moreover, because the exchange rate of the British pound has continued to fall, if you calculate the cost, it is already 21% cheaper than copying it in the United States.

Therefore, he directly signed contracts with 11 companies in London that could copy.

The news of 1,500 copies within ten days, as soon as Li Changheng asked someone to take the initiative to disclose the news, instantly made those theaters who wanted a piece of the action find all kinds of connections and want to get the copy directly from him.

Unfortunately, before Li Changheng signed a purchase contract with United Artists, he would not let any tapes flow out.

Even if Charles, Andrew, Grosvenor, Bell, Jeffrey, and a few others had already emptied their gold futures contracts in December.

And in London, as well as the county where their family lives, they bought 42 movie theaters, and when they came to him, Li Changheng didn't agree to sign a broadcasting agreement with them first.

However, he went to Intel first, and then found Bodun Electric, which was established by the nobles.

Even wearing a white coat, he went into the camera and shot an advertisement, which was added to the title of the movie.

On January 10, 1972, after Li Changheng signed the acquisition contract with United Artists in London, he not only settled the copyright issues such as Home Alone, but also directly paid 20 million US dollars in advance.

On Santa Monica Boulevard in downtown Los Angeles, a 19-acre golf course about the size of 11 football fields was bought to transform it into a United Artists studio.

I will do this, except that I have too much cash in my hand, and I don’t need to spend it, and there are still a few months until the final tax filing period.

The second is the location of this land, which is really very good.

Speaking of which, the difference between Los Angeles and many cities is that the land price in its central city, as long as it is not in the financial and commercial districts, is actually not as expensive as the hilltops in the suburbs.

Otherwise, this golf course would not have been opened on Santa Monica Boulevard back then, which would become the core area of ​​the luxury villa area in the future.

Moreover, it is obviously the studio of United Artists, but Li Changheng's real purpose is to think that there will be more and more films in United Artists in the future.

Maybe this studio can be demolished and turned into a playground for United Artists.

45 million to buy Lianmei, 20 million to buy land, and 10 million capital increase to the Lianmei account.

The fact that 75 million US dollars was spent in one day made Li Changheng appear in newspapers all over the world again.

If you add that a few days ago, the media reported that he spent 35 million US dollars to buy 4 theaters in London.

There is also the news that it spent 15 million yuan to buy 7 theaters in Hong Kong and Kowloon the year before last.

The cost equal to 125 million US dollars has directly made him the most desirable object of marriage for women in the United States and even in the entire capital world.

Moreover, this is even more shocking than the fact that he spent 150 million US dollars to buy 79.2 million barrels of crude oil in the United States.

The next day, Barron, the general manager of United Artists, signed a distribution contract with MGM.

As soon as the document was signed, while dozens of people present kept taking pictures, someone immediately shouted for Li Changheng to come out for an interview.

It's a pity that Barron just said sorry, and the four theaters added more shows in half a month to reach a box office figure of 330,000 pounds.

The jealous theater managers from France, Italy and other countries swarmed up and surrounded

This time, without the help of MGM, United Artists can easily obtain the theater resources of the major European economies.

As for South America and Asia, the release can be delayed by a month or two.

This also saves money on copying.

Kallman of MGM looked helplessly at the surrounded Barron, envious and jealous, and flew back to the United States directly with the contract.

On the plane, I thought of Cork Entertainment, which was still making an offer to MGM, and Home Alone's hot market in London for half a month.

Kalmar's heart became ruthless, and he quickly decided to use up all his contacts and resources.

It is necessary to promote the three major theaters in the United States to jointly screen in all first- and second-tier cities in the United States.

I don't believe that if a thousand movie theaters in a prosperous area open at the same time, the box office will not break through the 100 million US dollar mark.

Even if you can't be Henry Lee's subordinate, let him know that it's not that you are incapable, but that you are completely implicated by the wrecked ship Michael.

Moreover, who knows what will happen in the future.