Chapter 582

Yu Changming, the person in charge of the Great Wall Film Company, brought Ran Xinming, Guan Shujie, and 6 mainland comrades who rushed over during the day to visit the film, whether it is popular on Hong Kong Island or not.

The ticket check enters the theater in North Point, which covers an area of ​​3,600 square meters and can seat 1,600 people.

As soon as he sat down, Yu Changming smiled and explained to Ran Xinming and others, "Mr. Henry Li invited a dozen England leaders to dinner at Boss Ruan's restaurant today.

The purpose is to thank them for not setting up obstacles to the introduction of mainland cartoons.

If today's "Havoc in Heaven" hits theaters, Hong Kong Island's film companies will probably love and hate Mr. Henry Lee in the future, but they will be powerless. "

Looking at the almost full theater, Ran Xinming and the others, who looked happy, laughed helplessly when they heard this.

Since they were sent by the superiors to investigate, even if people like Ran Xinming were not professionals, they had at least read a lot of materials before coming here, and they could be regarded as having a preliminary understanding of some Hong Kong Island movies.

Movies with a box office of more than 5 million have appeared, but the other top ten movies at the box office are only between 1 million and 3 million.

That is to say, except for one or two films whose directors don't understand why the box office exploded.

Even if other movies made a lot of money, they would only make one or two million at most.

Of course, according to the 100-square-meter house in Causeway Bay on Hong Kong Island at this time, it is only about 220,000, and one or two million is a huge sum of money.

But this money has nothing to do with the director, actors, or half a dime behind the scenes.

Everyone in the entire production team is paid a fixed salary. Even if the box office is a big hit, the director will only get double the salary as a bonus.

For others, the film company kindly sends a 100 yuan red envelope, and then treats everyone to a good meal, which is considered good.

So for countless film entrepreneurs, once the box office of cartoons explodes, it means that at least one layer of practitioners who are already struggling at the bottom will stop working within a week.

But for film companies, they are actually unwilling to see cartoons sell well.

The reason is simple, there are only so many markets and audiences.

Even if the box office is increasing every year and the number of viewers is also increasing, if a cartoon grabs a box office of 1 million.

It means that the movies played in the same period will earn 1 million less.

Another more troublesome problem is that no matter what era, theaters are uncles.

It's good for a film company with its own movie theater. Anyway, their family has a big business, and the movie loses money and can get it back from the theater.

And even if you lose money, it won't hurt your bones.

But for a simple film production company like Great Wall Film Company, if a movie wants to be released, it does not share the box office with the theater, but pays a sum of money first to reserve the theater.

What does that mean.

Take this theater in North Point as an example. The Great Wall Film Company wants to show its own movies here.

A month would cost 120,000 Hong Kong dollars to the theater, and a 900-square-meter theater in Central would cost another 80,000 Hong Kong dollars.

If Li Changheng hadn't given them a 30% discount, regardless of whether the Hong Kong government suppressed them or not, the monthly booking fees for the 7 theaters alone would have cost 720,000 yuan.

If there is no discount, it will be over a million.

And as the box office continues to break records, the cost of theater reservations has increased by about 6 floors in the three years since Li Changheng got these 7 theaters.

Ordinary film companies, if they don't have enough confidence, really can't afford the theater.

So in many companies, it usually takes a week or two.

If the box office is not good, just say goodbye after three days of release.

I would rather pay some money, or use the last 4 days of the first week as liquidated damages, than pay the second week's booking fee.

As for Li Changheng's 7 theaters, there are no movies to play, and they go directly to the old movies of United Artists during the day.

Not only does it cost less, but it can also attract many curious young people, as well as foreigners.

As for the performance at night, just find any troupe that you have cooperated with in the past to save the show.

After all, these are seven theaters in the most prosperous area of ​​Hong Kong Island.

Not to mention begging for troupes and famous actors, at least no troupe or famous actors would dare to offend the theater.

Because a very helpless fact is that no matter how famous the troupe is, he can only perform in one theater.

And there is no way to perform every day 365 days a year, let alone perform a play for a year.

Besides, whether the location of the theater is good or not not only reflects whether they are famous, but also directly affects their income.

In this way, when looking for someone to save the theater, because I got the remaining 4 days of booking fees, and in this era, there are no fewer people watching theaters than moviegoers.

Big theater troupes and famous actors can easily get 10% to 20% more money if they bid a little bit more.

In other words, when troupes and famous actors take the opportunity to take a break, they are actually eager to see a movie that has been booked out.

In addition, poor guys and short mules dare not come to these seven theaters to collect money and make troubles, which also leads to troupes and famous actors, and they are even less willing to offend the theaters.

Instead, in order to have a backer, if it is not necessary, at most it is just arguing for more money when it is time to save the field.

As for the matter of adding money, as long as the people who run the theater have a bit of brains, they will not make trouble with the ticket money just for a small amount of money.

Seeing Ran Xinming and the others smiling without speaking, Yu Changming from the Great Wall could only shake his head helplessly.

However, thinking about the movie Havoc in Heaven, it was dubbed by people from my own company, and then made a copy.

In addition to a few old Hollywood movies, and they are also talking about dubbing, Yu Changming thinks that one of them can earn tens of thousands of yuan, and he finally feels better.

Even as the movie started broadcasting, I was still thinking in my heart, would I also ask people to go to the mainland to buy some cartoons?

But when he thought of the 30% discount for private bookings, he was worried that he would anger Li Changheng.

After all, the last movie, even though it only aired for 2 weeks and had a box office of only 580,000, became the company's only profitable movie in the past two years, even earning 200,000 Hong Kong dollars.

And Yu Changming knew very well that among the 580,000 box office, as long as there were one or two at the box office, it was because of the habitual thinking of the audience who had watched the movie Home Alone.

Without these favorable factors, the last movie would have hit the street in the end, and it would have been a disaster.

Think about it again. Recently, many film practitioners who have been unfairly treated because of their closeness to the mainland have more or less leaned towards their own companies.

Yu Changming felt that it was better to be honest.

Besides, if he hadn't taken the opportunity to help Henry Li contact the mainland, he wouldn't have received a call today, and he was specially asked to receive comrades from the mainland.

After all, there are people who are closer to the mainland than me, and even more suitable to receive them in terms of status.

At 7:50 p.m., when the movie ended, Ran Xinming and others sitting in the front row saw the curtain with only a few sugar canes, and there were still crowds of people. They could tell from the sound that they were in a good mood, and the crowd slowly left the theater.

I was suddenly happy and excited.

I have seen the rumors of the cane biting gang today, but the incident of just a few sugar canes also shows that this cartoon is really popular with Hong Kong people.