Chapter 1538: There Is only One Winner

In a blink of an eye, the first box office week in October passed.

As the Gaomen Films team expected, the documentary Mount Everest achieved a reversal in the second week of its release from October 1st to October 7th. Although it was not high, only a 6% reversal rate, it undoubtedly proved once again that The word-of-mouth and market potential of this documentary.

In short, in the second week of its release, Mount Everest received an average of US$59,000 and received another US$8.21 million, bringing the cumulative box office to US$15.99 million.

On October 8th, a new box office week, in addition to the imax screens, with the support of Daenerys Entertainment's strong publicity background, the Gaomen Films team quickly rolled out 1,563 ordinary screens for Mount Everest in North America.

Daenerys Entertainment has been cultivating the documentary market since the very early imprint of Gucci. Therefore, for the full rollout of Mount Everest, this side is not worried about commercial performance, but is very confident that after large-scale rollout, This documentary will have even better market feedback.

Even, some media have already predicted that Mount Everest is likely to exceed the box office of 100 million US dollars and enter the North American box office club of 100 million US dollars.

Judging from the trend of the past two weeks, coupled with the spread of ordinary screens, this possibility is not impossible.

October 9.

It's another Saturday.

Simon wakes up early in the morning in his mountainside mansion on the shores of Lake Como, north of Milan, Italy.

I have been in New York for the past week, working among several women with big bellies, and occasionally talking to Sophia, who is in charge of the four major fashion weeks here. After being teased, Simon became 'angry' and wanted to come over to clean up the women.

Just kidding, of course.

I just don't want to be bound by anything. If now, I can't just leave at any time, life will be too boring.

So it flew over.

This autumn's Milan Fashion Week opened yesterday and is expected to last until next Thursday for exactly one week. Then, it will be the most important and final Paris Fashion Week.

There is no way, even though Melisandre is already the largest luxury goods group in the world, the fashion industry in France is still stronger than Italy because of its many brands. Let's talk about fashion week, here is 7 days, and Paris is expected to be a full 11 days.

Of course, even though several major core brands are based in Italy, Melisandre is now a global enterprise with brands all over the world, and France is no exception.

After some quarrels in Africa, in order to avoid some moths, Simon rarely went to France in recent years.

Not interested this time either.

Arrived yesterday afternoon, socializing with Sophia, the evening is a world for two, a new day, no work arrangements, a complete pastime.

But it's basically watching shows everywhere.

Simon's pastime made Milan restless.

After all, a super tycoon suddenly appeared in various shows in Milan. For a model, if he was spotted, it would be a step up to the sky. Even the brand itself, many people are looking forward to being acquired by Melisandre. After all, the trend of the current luxury goods market is very clear. If various established companies insist on going it alone, it will be difficult to survive under the globalization industry trend. Affiliation with giants is undoubtedly the best choice.

Simon didn't care about that.

The main thing is to look at the girl.

Although, I don't remember how many times I slept, but the girl is like a spring flower, one crop after another.

Um.

Anyway, on Saturday night, it became Simon's personal time again, and this time the theme was high-cold beauties.

The subject of failure.

Because it turned out that none of them were too cold and cold, but their enthusiasm made Simon a little overwhelmed.

For example, he was woken up the next day by a 'little snake' swimming on his body.

Maria Carabogono, whose abbreviation is mcb, was once nicknamed "Snake Spirit" in the circle, and she is still a young snake who has just debuted for two years, and she is also the only one among the girls that Simon searched for yesterday.

But, considering the six in New York, Simon didn't have any idea of ​​further development.

After having breakfast with a group of beauties who finally got out of bed and got a little colder again, Simon took a private jet to Finland and attended a board meeting of Nokia, also about the summary of the third quarter that just passed in 1999, and then In the evening, I flew to London again, and in the evening I took Shurshikina to participate in the entertainment that should be in the UK.

The next day, return to North America.

Arriving in Los Angeles, Hollywood, in addition to the steady progress of various projects, Simon went to work on Tuesday, and received another report that surprised him again.

It's still about Tianlongbabu.

After the first round of broadcasting of dho was completed, Tianlong Babu was officially launched on the Blockbuster channel on Monday, October 4th.

Then, with the help of this Chinese martial arts TV series, even after the broadcast of DHO, the enthusiasm did not cool down at all. In just one week from October 4th to October 10th, it created a turnover of 3.1 million US dollars on the Blockbuster channel.

At $3.1 million, it's certainly not comparable to those blockbuster movies.

However, this is a Chinese martial arts TV series that must be unpopular in North America, and it still has no English dubbing and only subtitles.

The turnover in the first week of listing was 3.1 million US dollars. According to the evaluation of the Blockbuster team, this project is expected to reach 10 million US dollars in the first month. Then, considering the home entertainment

Channels have a longer-term trend than theaters and TV. It is estimated that in the next year, this project can bring at least US$30 million in revenue to Blockbuster.

Even higher, even 50 million, is not impossible.

Now, things are more fun.

When Simon invested in this project, he never thought of making money at all. The release in Asia also proved that the project’s payback was nowhere in sight, suggesting that Daenerys bought the European and American copyrights, and Simon had no idea of ​​making money. I just feel that it is a pity that such a good TV series is not shown on more channels.

As for the feedback from North American audiences, anyway, there is a certain foundation of kung fu movies here.

Unexpectedly, things would evolve to the present level.

Let's talk about this item, what's the margin for the home entertainment channel?

According to the agreements signed with the major guilds, the gross profit of the home entertainment channel is calculated with reference to 20%, but in fact, everyone understands that this figure, even if it is reversed, is not an exaggeration.

But, of course, first of all, without considering the production cost of the project itself, we only talk about the production cost of video tapes/dvd and other carriers and the operating expenses of home entertainment channels.

This also means that, even according to Blockbuster's conservative revenue forecast of US$30 million and an 80% gross profit level, in the next year, Tianlongbabu will be able to bring Daenerys Entertainment just on the Blockbuster platform. gross proceeds of $24 million.

24 million US dollars, deducting 15 million production costs, a profit of 9 million US dollars.

Of course, things don't work out that way.

The production cost of 15 million US dollars was originally paid by Simon himself. But this time, the actual calculation method should be that Daenerys Entertainment spent 1 million US dollars to buy out the European and American copyrights of the project, and then spent 1 million US dollars on the production of subtitles and other aspects. As for the announcement, it is also here. Within 1 million US dollars, in addition, it mainly depends on some routine operations of the DHO and Blockbuster teams.

In short, it is about 2 million U.S. dollars in investment, not to mention the potential benefits brought by the late-night theater ratings record created by DHO before, but only Blockbuster, which is exactly 24 million U.S. dollars, minus 2 million costs, is profitable $22 million.

From the ratio of return on investment, the profit is doubled!

Um.

To break it down again, to be more precise, Simon, an unlucky investor, is still in a state of loss because he "sold" the copyright of Tianlong Babu before. Loss, after all, the two parties only provided some resources, but they certainly couldn't benefit from the North American profits of this project.

The final result is that there is only one winner in the Tianlong Babu project, Daenerys Entertainment.

Now, here comes the problem.

What next?

Before that, because of the success of Tianlong Babu on the dho platform, Daenerys' first thought was to purchase more Chinese martial arts TV series. Unfortunately, after investigation, it was discovered that they did not say most of them, but Most, or almost all, martial arts TV series, compared to Tianlongbabu, can only be regarded as shoddy.

Or it's not just TV series, even some classic martial arts movies in Hong Kong, compared with the excellent rivers and mountains and excellent production of Tianlong Babu, they can only be described as rough.

Not worth buying at all.

If you can't buy it, the best way, of course, is to make your own investment.

The people here have generally found out that Jin Daxia, the author of Tianlong Babu, has more than ten series that can be developed, so there is no shortage of projects.

So, do you?

After all, the $15 million investment in Tianlong Babu is a sky-high price in China, but it is really nothing in Hollywood.

Let me just say a small comparison, the American version of the female high school ghost story that will be released on Halloween at the end of the month is the one adapted from a Korean movie. The final production cost in Hollywood is 10 million US dollars, which can only be regarded as a low-cost production. , but the same 10 million US dollars is enough to make a blockbuster in South Korea.

The exchange rate advantage is incomparable.

Therefore, it is also affordable to invest here.

However, everyone also has concerns, mainly because the success of this Tianlong Babu is just a flash in the pan. After all, if ordinary TV dramas are not shoddy, according to the standard of Tianlong Babu, it will take about two years to start planning now and finally complete it.

Two years from now, who knows what the tastes of Hollywood audiences will be like?

After all, even if it is an English-language film, Hollywood will have some themes that are no longer so popular every few years. Perhaps, when the next one is made, people have already forgotten this popular TV series at this time.

In the end, of course, the question fell to Simon.

Do you want to continue?