Chapter 422 The Movie World Shocks!

As soon as the New Year's Day holiday passed, Xiangjiang's film industry ushered in an earthquake.

Lei Juekun, the owner of Golden Princess Cinemas, officially announced that his subsidiary Golden Princess Cinemas will cancel the basic fee from now on, and adopt the method of sharing with the film producers to release movies.

As soon as this news came out, all the film companies and filmmakers were in an uproar.

Xiangjiang's film package fees have been learned from the United States, and it has been implemented for decades, and it has long been deeply entrenched among theater owners.

The base fee is a guarantee for the theater owners. No matter whether your movie is good or not, I will guarantee it.

But for film companies, it is a huge burden.

Especially for small film companies, their production fees are often not as much as the base fee.

As a result, many films could be produced, but because of insufficient cover fees, they could only be screened in remote rural cinemas to earn income.

In fact, such a basic fee is not a good thing for some independent theaters.

Because although they keep their income in droughts and floods, if fewer movies are shown and their theaters are empty, it will be even more wasteful.

The result of this situation is that theaters can keep their own food and clothing, but it is impossible to make money and make a lot of money.

The United States has already implemented the system of sharing theaters and film companies, but it has not been implemented in Xiangjiang.

The reason is that the theater owners want to get more income, but they are unwilling to give up the current benefits, for fear that after the change, it will be worse than before.

This kind of ambivalence of wanting to eat but afraid of burning your hands is actually the thinking of most ordinary people.

In fact, not only ordinary people, but even a hero like Lei Juekun dared to make such a decision after thinking about it for a long time and doing a lot of work.

The day after Lei Juekun announced the cancellation of the basic fee, Jiabao Film Company announced that their latest film, which is written by Yin Jun and co-starred by superstars such as Hong Jinbao, Yuan Biao and Zeng Zhiwei, "Young Master Wei" "Wei" will be screened at the Golden Princess Cinemas in three days.

All right.

Hong Jinbao, Yuan Bin, and Zeng Zhiwei will definitely be superstars in twenty years, but they are not considered superstars now. Superstars should be Xu brothers and Cheng Long.

But people like to use this for publicity, and it is true that they are very famous, so they naturally attract a lot of attention.

Zhong Fa told Yin Jun that Boss Lei paid a big price this time, and gave Hong Jinbao a full 1 million Hong Kong dollars, and there were some discounts in terms of share, so Hong Jinbao decided to get the Golden Princess to screen.

Hung Kam Po just bought the script of "Young Master Weiwei", which cost 1 million Hong Kong dollars. Adding up labor salaries and so on, the filming also cost about 800,000 yuan, and the overall cost has exceeded 1.8 million.

There are a total of 16 theaters in the Golden Princess Cinema Line, among which Boss Lei's own 4 are very luxurious and big-name, not bad at all compared to Golden Harvest.

However, the reason for Hong Jinbao to release the Golden Princess this time is definitely not as simple as 1 million yuan.

Hong Jinbao, if you say he is smart, he is indeed very smart.

From Jiahe's current attitude, he could already see that Cheng Long, not him, was the most popular star in Jiahe.

Even the Xu family brothers are ahead of him.

Hong Jinbao never thought that he was much worse than others, especially after Yin Jun gave him two movies, which made him continue to rise, he felt that he had the ability to become the top star in Xiangjiang.

However, the fact now is that Golden Harvest's resources don't fall on him, and he ranks third, which proves that he can't get the most no matter in terms of schedule or financial support, so the results must be different from Cheng Long and Xu's brothers difference.

The sudden emergence of the Golden Princess Cinemas is an opportunity for Hong Jinbao.

The Golden Princess Cinemas does not have its own film company, they can only rely on other people's films to dominate the market, and they are the first to rely on it. When Cheng Long and the Xu family brothers can't transfer files, they must be regarded as the Golden Princess. First.

There are 17 movie theaters in the Golden Princess Cinema Line. Once they fully support one person, will they worry about their performance not being good enough?

Besides, I and my brother have a good relationship with Yin Jun, and if we can get at least one script a year, we already have the biggest base to rely on - with Yin Jun's script, we can find about 10 of them by ourselves. Showing in independent theaters, earning two or three million is the same as playing!

If luck is even better, Yin Jun's script is strong, the Golden Princess theaters are exploding here again, and the copyrights in other places can still sell well, maybe a movie can earn 10 million, then it will really be released!

Once Hong Jinbao can earn an unprecedented tens of millions of Hong Kong dollars for a movie, which theater in Hong Kong will not welcome him?

Even if the Golden Princess theaters are no longer good, even if Golden Harvest doesn't welcome him, then there are Shaw Brothers movie theaters that want to make money, and other small theaters!

With so many ideas, Hong Jinbao seemed very risky to release the new film in the Golden Princess Cinema.

And three days later, on Thursday, January 10, the performance of "Young Master Weiwei" also proved that Hong Jinbao's idea was correct.

With the full support and publicity of the Golden Princess Cinemas, this urban movie featuring light-hearted humor and fierce fighting was screened in 17 theaters together. The box office on the first day was as high as 1.08 million Hong Kong dollars, breaking his own "Owl" movie. With Dumbo's box office record of 1.01 million.

Then the next day’s box office was 1.02 million, Saturday’s box office was 1.05 million, Sunday’s box office was 1.1 million, and the box office of the first 4 days was 4.25 million. It easily broke the record of the cumulative box office of the four days!

According to the sharing agreement, the Golden Princess Cinemas earned 2.025 million Hong Kong dollars in this week, which made Lei Juekun happy, and the pressure from the theater bosses who joined behind him also disappeared, and Lei Juekun was replaced. Praise and adoration!

In the following week, "Young Master Weiwei", which received rave reviews, once again reported a receipt of 4.8 million, breaking the 9 million mark in less than two weeks!

Considering that Cheng Long's "Laughing Fist" broke the 9 million mark in 12 days, now "Young Master Weiwei" broke the 9 million box office record in 11 days, and it was only released in 17 theaters. There were 13 less movies in Boxing Monster Moves, so it set another box office record again.

Of course, the box office explosion of "Young Master Weiwei" is also related to the fact that the price of movie tickets has risen again by 9% since January 1 this year, reaching 7.6 yuan.

If it keeps the same ticket price as last year, then its income is actually less than that of "Laughing Boxing Strange Moves".

But the audience didn't care about this, they just cheered and cheered that their favorite movie won a very high box office, and it was very likely to break the local box office record of nearly 13 million in Cheng Long's "Laughing Boxing Strange Move".

The media didn't care about the ticket price, they just pointed to the dispute between Hong Jinbao and Cheng Long, and the dispute between Jin Gongzhu and Golden Harvest to write articles. For a while, these movie theaters and stars didn't fight themselves, and the media first helped them fight.

...

Wireless TVB headquarters, general manager office.

As for Shaw Brothers Films, Yifu Shao has given Fang Yihua full authority to take care of it, and he only takes care of the main parts.

Today Fang Yihua came to ask if Shaw Brothers Films should cancel the basic fee.

With the big profits made by the Golden Princess Cinemas in "Young Master Weiwei", the owners of the franchised theaters of the Shaw Brothers Cinemas are also a little unsteady.

Shaw Cinemas basically only releases its own films, and then some small independent film companies can also release films, but few of them can make money.

Generally speaking, the franchisee theater owners of these theater chains are starving to the point of starvation.

In the past, it was fine. Anyway, it belongs to the feeling of sitting on the ground and collecting rent, and I don’t bother. Anyway, I still have a lot of income a year, which is enough for food and drink.

But I’m afraid of a comparison in everything. In the past, everyone was similar, so it’s okay, but now seeing the popular and spicy food in the Golden Princess Theater, they are thinking, when can we be like them?

For this reason, they all came to Fang Yihua's side. Fang Yihua couldn't take it anymore, so she came to ask the master's opinion.

"Hmph, these people are all brainless!" Shao Yifu snorted coldly, "Where is the success of the Golden Princess Cinemas? It's not their sharing system at all, but because they introduced it at the same time when they used the sharing system." It’s a movie co-produced by Yin Jun and Hong Jinbao! Such a movie with the potential to be a big hit, coupled with Lei Juekun’s spare no effort to promote it, will certainly make money! Why don’t you try a random movie? Share? You can’t even earn back the electricity bill!”

I have to say that Shao Yifu is worthy of being a person who has been making movies all his life, and he can see the key point at a glance.

Lei Juekun just relied on "Young Master Weiwei" to build his reputation, and then tied up those theaters, and insisted on making profits with him!

And those small and medium-sized film companies will also think that "Young Master Weiwei" can earn so much, and I might as well, so they go to the Golden Princess Cinemas in large numbers.

It is a good thing that there are more movies, but if they are all bad movies, where do you find profits? It's worse than the previous era of basic package fees!

"Then we..." Fang Yihua asked.

"wait!"

Shao Yifu said indifferently, "Now is not the time. When Xiangjiang Film Company has more and more prosperity, we can also open it to more companies. But now our self-produced and self-marketed films are enough to be released. , why should more money be given to those theater owners?"

"Okay!" Seeing that Shao Yifu had made a decision, Fang Yihua could only obey.

...

Another film giant in Xiangjiang, Golden Harvest, is also under discussion now.

But the direction of their discussion is not quite the same.

"...The above is what Young Master Jun thought of for the Golden Princess Theater." Cai Yongchang said the information he had worked so hard to find.

Yin Jun gave Lei Juekun two ideas.

The first is to abandon the basic fee and change to share distribution; the second is to implement a reasonable review system, with film critics and practitioners in one group, and ordinary audiences as a group to cross-check and conduct comprehensive evaluations.

Hearing what Cai Yongchang said, Zou Wenhuai and He Guanchang were most concerned about the second point.

"Well, Yin Jun is indeed a genius. I see that this film quality review system is very forward-looking." He Guanchang said, "We also had film review before, but it was far less detailed than Yin Jun thought, especially It is to let the audience join in, which is more conducive to the box office estimation of the movie. This way, it will not be harmed by bad movies."

Zou Wenhuai, who came back from the United States and was preparing for the Chinese New Year, laughed and said, "Yes. Actually, there is no need to wait for the share agreement. Now we, Golden Harvest and our satellite company, can do it in this way. If the response is real Not good, then we can modify our own movies again.”

"Okay! I'll let them start preparing." Cai Yongchang nodded.

Golden Harvest's ability to act is very strong and never drags its feet. This is one of the important reasons why they were able to sweep the Xiangjiang film industry in the 1980s and 1990s.

"How about Sanmao? His next movie is going to be in the Golden Princess Theater?" Zou Wenhuai talked about another thing.

When he mentioned this, both He Guanchang and Cai Yongchang were a little downcast.

Hong Jinbao's "Young Master Weiwei" and Jiahe did not discuss the basic fee, release date and number of theaters, etc., so he went to the Golden Princess Cinema, which made Jiahe very angry.

As a result, "Young Master Weiwei" became popular as Hong Jinbao expected, and it was very popular, which made Jiahe very unhappy.

The money should have been earned by them!

But it was useless to say these things at this time, so Zou Wenhuai asked He Guanchang to find Hong Jinbao two days ago, hoping that his next movie would not go to the Golden Princess Cinemas, and it would be screened in Golden Harvest.

But when He Guanchang mentioned it yesterday, Hong Jinbao was still hesitant. He Guanchang didn't mention it when he came here just now, so Zou Wenhuai was a little worried.

"He hasn't decided yet." He Guanchang said, "But according to my private interview with one of his subordinates, he seems to be planning to find Yin Jun again and work out a script. If the script is good, he plans to stay with Princess Jin, but He asked Princess Jin to set up more separate theaters to increase the number of theaters for him."

"Hmph, it means that we Jiahe can only pick up trash?" Zou Wenhuai frowned even more.

"It can't be helped, he knows that the most important star in our future is Aaron, not him, so he has to find a way out." Cai Yongchang said realistically, "He is also ambitious, and he is not willing to be under others for a long time. Now there is Jun Shao, such a super perverted gold medal screenwriter, which makes him a lot more courageous."

"You said it would be nice for Yin Jun to do his real estate and comics honestly. Why is he still in our film and television industry? Is it very profitable for him to write a script for 1 million?" He Guanchang couldn't help it. complained.

"Who knows? Maybe it's out of hobbies." Zou Wenhuai murmured, "We don't need to worry, we'll wait for Aaron's movie to come out. Jiahe must be steady and see how Princess Jin will do and develop. Only then will we have the bottom line.”

"It can only be the."

Both Cai Yongchang and He Guanchang nodded slightly, agreeing with his opinion.

To be honest, they all regret now that they didn't ask Yin Jun to write a few more scripts.

With Yin Jun's scripts now all selling well, a mere 1 million plus a 15% profit share is nothing at all.

But at this time, Jiahe couldn't save face, let alone Yin Jun was no longer a screenwriter, and his family property was a little more than the three bosses of Jiahe combined.

In addition, Jiahe also has Cheng Long, a powerful weapon.

If Cheng Long keeps up his game and makes a movie with a box office of 30 million US dollars or even 50 million US dollars in Hollywood, then the grade will be different.

Golden Harvest can become Xiangjiang's number one movie overlord by itself!

It's just that they haven't thought deeply about another question.

What if, what if Cheng Long's movie fails to meet expectations?

At that time, could Golden Harvest still be the number one in Xiangjiang?

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