Chapter 1394 Copyright Hot

In the days that followed, Hollywood had two metrics that kept growing.

One thing that continues to grow is the number of female stars who have publicly accused Harvey of sexual assault.

When the box office of "Zbie-Master" exceeded 100 million, the number of female stars who publicly accused Harvey by their real names also exceeded ten. A total of 12 female stars stood up and denounced the injuries they had suffered.

Of these 12 actresses, almost half were because someone anonymously broke Harvey's black material on the Internet, mentioning that Harvey had unspoken rules about these actresses, so these actresses jumped out to accuse Harvey in order to protect themselves.

This thing seems a bit cold in the world. Harvey has indeed done a lot of fucking things, and has also abused many female stars, but there are still more than half of the female stars out of voluntariness, or half-assistance, but In order to preserve their own reputation, they all put the responsibility on Harvey. For Harvey, now it is a matter of not being overwhelmed by debt, and not hurting if there are too many lice, but for these actresses, they are not willing to because of Harvey. Wei's affairs, and ruined his future.

Another growing statistic is the total box office of Zbi-Master.

The first day was 18.5 million US dollars, the second day was 33 million US dollars, and the attendance rate was 100%. On the third day, the theater was impressed by the strong attraction of "Zbie-Master", and the number of films continued to increase by 20%. The rumors about Harvey and the movie kept the movie's popularity growing, so the third day's attendance remained the same, still an astonishing 100%, and the total box office exceeded 41 million.

On the fourth day, the theater chain continued to squeeze the number of screenings, giving the film a higher rehearsal rate. The rehearsal rate increased by about 10% on the basis of the previous day, but the attendance rate decreased slightly, and the overall rate remained at 95%. The box office grossed $42 million, and within four days of its release, it crossed the $100 million mark and reached $134 million.

There is also good news that is expected to increase the box office. Coca-Cola and McDonald's have obtained the license to use the image of the new version of "Plants vs. Zombies Online", and have already started preparations for the launch. Soon, Coca-Cola with the image of Huaxia cartoon zombies will appear in the North American market. , as well as McDonald's set meals and toys, which will definitely boost the movie's box office to a certain extent!

Lucas estimated that the box office of this film may exceed the $300 million mark, which simply subverted his understanding of the entire film industry, and what he couldn't imagine was the DVD industry's response to this film. He is eager to cooperate with many DVD distribution companies, hoping to get the DVD distribution rights in North America from him. According to estimates, if the box office can exceed 300 million US dollars, then within the next year , DVD's total output value should also be able to break through 100 million US dollars.

Lucas carefully chose a most reliable DVD distributor and signed a 5:2:3 three-way cooperation agreement.

The DVD distribution rights in North America are licensed to Lucas by Makino Imaging, and Makino Imaging gets 50% of all DVD distribution revenue, and in the remaining 50%, Lucas shares 20%, and DVD distributors take 30% .

It seems that Lucas has suffered a bit of a loss, but in fact he is the most profitable one. As the copyright owner, Li Mu also paid the copyright cost when he obtained the copyright, and the DVD distributor not only has to undertake the production, promotion and sales of the DVD distribution. The three links of work also have to bear the risk of loss of production costs, and Lucas doesn't have to pay for shit, just sit down and sign the tripartite agreement, and 20% of the net profit will be available.

The US$300 million box office space in the North American market and the US$100 million DVD distribution space have already made Hollywood unable to complain. Seeing that an 85-year-old Hong Kong movie has made so much money, many Hollywood distributors have begun to look at it. Right for Hong Kong.

The success of "Zbie-Master" made Hollywood realize that in fact, the North American film market has no obvious peaks and troughs. It seems that Christmas and summer are the peak of the box office, but this does not mean that 3, 4 , May, September, October, November, how bad the box office market is, the key is to have films that can mobilize audiences to pay.

In order to ensure income, Hollywood blockbusters basically focus on Christmas and summer vacations, which has created an embarrassing situation where big productions are rarely released in other time periods. Although Hollywood is reluctant to move big productions to these time periods, but this During the time period, you can go overseas to introduce some high-quality overseas movies at a low cost, and then use them to tap the box office potential of non-popular schedules.

After all, the theater chain is not a popsicle stand. The latter is full of streets in summer, and disappears without a trace after summer. However, whether the theater chain is in peak or trough, every theater, every theater and every The seats are there, and even if they are vacant during the trough, they cannot be removed or used for other purposes.

"Zbie-Master" is such a coincidence. Anyway, there are no films competing now, and there are not many people competing for cinema resources, so it gave "Zbie-Master" a hardware foundation for the box office explosion.

Hollywood also took a practical class full of dry goods from this incident. In this case, I might as well operate some overseas ready-made products during this time period, just like Lucas introduced "Zbie-Master" and then cooperated with Makino Technology to promote it. film rights.

A few days ago, the Hong Kong film industry was still cursing Li Mu's low-cost sweeping routine. He took away all the copyrights of zombie films in Hong Kong to make a lot of money. In the end, he gave the Hong Kong film and television company the money, even 1% of what he earned. No, purely from this ratio, in their eyes, Li Mu is really the most treacherous profiteer in the world.

However, as the box office of "Zbie-Master" in North America is getting higher and higher, it has achieved great success in just a few days, and the Hong Kong film industry has ushered in a new spring.

Hollywood distributors and film and television companies have found various film and television companies in Hong Kong and actively sought cooperation, hoping to reach a copyright cooperation with them. the buyout price, a buyout agreement is signed, and then the Hollywood distributor will bring the film to North American release.

Originally, Hollywood may not be able to buy a few copyrights from Hong Kong in a year, but now, there are more than 50 Hong Kong films that Hollywood is interested in, and many of these Hong Kong film companies have reached agreements with Hollywood film and television companies. A cooperation agreement was signed. Because of the success of "Zbie-Master", the copyright price of Hong Kong movies has increased several times more than before.

One of the more representative of these is "Infernal Affairs" released last year in Hong Kong. This film was originally called the rescue of Hong Kong films, and the quality is very high. It is only a rare high-quality work in recent years. However, For such a movie, in the opinion of Uniasia, this movie has no chance to be released in North America at all, but this time, several Hollywood film companies rushed over to compete for the movie copyright of "Infernal Affairs", and the price was once fired up to 8 million In US dollars, you must know that the total box office of "Infernal Affairs" in Hong Kong is only 55 million Hong Kong dollars, which is about 7 million US dollars.

Uniasia had been cheated once by Li Mu before, and sold the copyright of a bunch of zombie films including "Mr. Zombie" to Li Mu for a price of about $100,000. After Li Mu took it, it was broadcast on TV. It sold hundreds of millions of dollars after giving the rights, and the North American box office is now more than one billion Hong Kong dollars. In contrast, Uniasia is really losing money to my grandma’s house.

So this time, when Hollywood wanted to buy the copyright of "Infernal Affairs" and the price reached 8 million US dollars, Uniasia hesitated instead.

In Huanya's eyes, "Infernal Affairs" is much stronger than "Mr. Zombie" in terms of production cost, production scale and star lineup, and the quality and depth of the movie are even more incomparable. If "Mr. Zombie" has both It can buy hundreds of millions of box office in North America, and there is hope for a phenomenal work like "Infernal Affairs" even if it is less than 100 million US dollars? If the box office is calculated at 100 million US dollars, and only 25% is taken, there will also be 25 million US dollars in revenue, which is much stronger than 8 million US dollars.

As a result, Uniasia made an offer to Hollywood that the North American distribution rights of "Infernal Affairs" would be divided into 30% of the box office, with a guaranteed minimum income of 10 million US dollars.

That is to say, whoever wants to obtain the North American distribution rights of "Infernal Affairs" must first give Uniasia a guarantee of 10 million US dollars, and then use the film to release it in North America. If the box office revenue after its release reaches 33.33 million US dollars, According to the 30% account sharing ratio, it is just equal to the guaranteed amount of 10 million yuan that Uniasia wants. If the total box office does not reach 33.33 million US dollars, then Uniasia will not refund a dime, and the loss part needs to be issued by the issuer. bear.

If the total box office exceeds 33.33 million US dollars, the issuer will also supply the additional revenue to Uniasia. For example, if the box office finally reaches 100 million US dollars, according to the proportion of 30%, Uniasia will share 30 million US dollars, in addition to the already paid The bottom line is 10 million US dollars, and the issuer will pay another 20 million US dollars to Uniasia.

The reason why Uniasia offered such cooperation conditions is entirely based on the successful precedent of "Mr. Zombie", but the people in Hollywood are not stupid at all. They know why "Zbie-Master" is a great success. The most important reason is that there are The explosive game "Plants vs. Zombies Online" is supported, coupled with the strong promotion ability of Muye Technology, the unremitting support of the Muying ticketing system, the huge concessions Li Mu has given to the cinema, and the various things that Li Mu has done through the Muying ticketing system. kinds of promotions.

Li Mu has so many resources as a success factor that he holds up "Zbie-Master". On the other hand, does "Infernal Affairs" have these resources?

The answer is of course no.

Therefore, the one-shot deal of US$8 million is the highest price Hollywood can offer to Uniasia. No Hollywood company is willing to give Uniasia a guaranteed share, which makes Uniasia extremely uncomfortable, but still insists on its own offer.

Uniasia's ambitions made the Hollywood distributors start to back down. One second they were fighting for the North American distribution rights of the film, and the next they announced their withdrawal from the competition, and then targeted other people. Hong Kong movies.

Uniasia thought it was a joint effort by several Hollywood companies to lower prices. It was very tough at first, but after seeing that all these companies were gone, there was no news, so I started to worry, and then turned around to look for these companies, expressing my willingness. Some concessions have been made in the original guaranteed minimum amount and share ratio. Previously, it was divided into 30% with a guaranteed minimum of US$10 million, and now it is divided into a 25% guaranteed minimum of US$8 million.

Several Hollywood companies still do not accept it.

The negotiator of one of the companies said to the negotiating person in charge of Uniasia: "If you can bring Muye Technology in to cooperate, even if we give you a guarantee of 20 million yuan, we are willing, but if there is no Li Mu, we will consider it carefully. The previous buyout offer of $8 million was a bit irrational, and the highest buyout offer we can give should be around $5 million.”

Huanya was depressed all of a sudden, why did he bring it back while talking? One will be eight million, one will be five million, which is scarier than the stock market crash!