China Entertainment 2000.

Chapter 34 Total box office 1204 million

After a trip to the headquarters, Jiang Liu's worries and uneasiness of the past few days disappeared.

With no more burdens in his mind, he used his few connections to contact local state-owned film and television organizations that had [production licenses].

Through the phone call with Li Xing, Etai was eliminated.

After talking to Dunn, Jiang Liu no longer looked forward to Wan Provincial TV Station.

The CCTV Film and Television Production Center has sufficient funds, a wild approach, and a lot of talents, and they look down on a little guy like him.

The attitude of the Shanghai Film and Television Center towards him was even worse.

The river flow in "Hidden Dragon and Crouching Tiger"?The reputation is too bad, there is no willingness to cooperate, and they are so rich that they are not even willing to rent a [production license].

Not to mention Shenzhen, Guangdong and other local stations at the forefront of reform, which are the back gardens of Cantonese-language TVB.

There are also several local state-owned enterprises that either make some inexplicable requests.

Or offer a sky-high price of more than [-] yuan for an episode of TV series.

When Jiang Liu was at his wits end, good news came to Yan Yan.

The director of his former unit, the Jin Provincial Television Film and Television Production Center, is in the capital and would like to make an appointment to meet and discuss possible cooperation.

Jiang Liu almost instantly decided to meet the next day.

After hanging up the phone, Jiang Liu returned to his residence without stopping.

Ever since "Hidden Dragon and Crouching Tiger" was released, Jiang Liu has been thinking about and imagining the script for a new drama these days when he is very bored. Now it's time to put pen to paper.

The table used for cutting vegetables on the balcony was moved into the room, the small bench was straightened, the whirring fan was adjusted, and Jiang Liu spread out his notebook.

In just a few minutes, there were already more than a hundred words in the notebook.

The title of the script in order: "Wulin Gaiden"

Type: Zhanghui costume sitcom
Main characters: Tong Xiangyu, Bai Zhantang, Guo Furong, Lu Qinghou, Li Xiulian, Mo Xiaobei
Secondary Characters:.
Character introduction [1]: The widow Tong Xiangyu is the shopkeeper of Tongfu Inn and the daughter of Longmen Escort Bureau.
Character introduction [2]: Bai Zhantang is the legendary thief, but he doesn't love his job.
summary of the story:.
"call"

After more than 40 minutes, Jiang Liu wiped the sweat from his forehead and took a long breath.

He hadn't sat for such a long time in a long time. He was still in a hot and stuffy environment, and his body was not used to it.

In addition, his brain is too sensitive now, but his hand speed cannot keep up. As a result, he writes more and more urgently, which increases the burden on his body.

But the results are gratifying.

He successfully restored many storylines in "Wulin Gaiden". When revising the draft, he would replace the time-era plots, and the script could be directly regarded as the final draft.

"Damn, "Wulin Gaiden" should be able to compete with the hit dramas of the past two years."

Jiang Liu rubbed his wrist and said to himself.

His decision to make "Wulin Gaiden" was not made at random.

Instead, we decided to start filming "Wulin Gaiden" after careful consideration based on the prosperity of the TV drama market in the next one or two years and the cost of series production.

More than half of the year 2000 has passed, and smart people have realized that the domestic TV drama market is about to usher in an era of drama explosion.

Jiang Liu knew this very well, he had experienced this era.

So I know "The Heroes of the World", "The History of Martial Arts", "The New Consort", "The Beautiful Twins", "Young Zhang Sanfeng", "The Emperor of Han", "Xiao Shiyilang", "Black Hole", "Liu Laogen", "Iron Teeth and Bronze Teeth Ji Xiaolan", "Looking for Qin", "Monkey King" and other popular dramas.

It has to compete with so many classic and popular dramas.

And to make the first TV series he directed become a hot topic among the people and the market, he must do a ruthless job.

The creators of this era are too ruthless, and the themes of TV series are too all-encompassing.

Martial arts dramas, historical dramas, mythological dramas, criminal investigation dramas, police dramas, country dramas, war dramas, period dramas, historical romance dramas, ethics dramas, youth dramas, costume thrillers, urban dramas
Even Korean dramas, Thai dramas, Hong Kong dramas, and Taiwanese dramas.

A TV series needs to break out of the TV series market with so many themes and achieve good results.

Jiang Liu could only find another way to shoot low-cost costume sitcoms that have been tested by ordinary people.

In order to save costs and make the TV series topical, Jiang Liu once speculated that "Journey to the West" has not yet appeared.

But the result let him down.

"Journey to the West" just finished airing on local stations a few months ago.

It can be said that Jiang Liu has no choice but to come up with "Wulin Gaiden", which will definitely be a hit in a few years.

First of all, he couldn't think of a better and cheaper drama that could be accepted by people today.Second, there are not so many production costs.

After resting for a while, Jiang Liu continued to write quickly at his desk until the beeping sound came from the pager.

【Come for a visit】

The news came from Yu Dong. Jiang Liu looked at the time and saw the lunch entrance, so he had to close his notebook and go to Bona.

"United Cinemas is planning to remove "Hidden Dragon and Crouching Tiger" from the shelves."

Bona Company, Yu Dong said sadly after seeing Jiang Liu.

"Hidden Dragon and Crouching Tiger" has been released for almost half a month. Jiang Liu was mentally prepared to be abandoned by the theaters at any time, but he still asked: "There is no box office at all? Where is the total box office? When will it be divided?"

"Let me tell you about the box office situation in the past 12 days." Yu Dong clicked on the file on his computer to prepare for reporting data.

Jiang Liu picked up a chair and sat down next to him, and saw the document saying:

"Hidden Dragon and Crouching Tiger" release date: July 2000, 7

7月8号票房总计183万余元，各地城市票房为北平【12万】、魔都【33万】、苏州【16万】.
The total box office on July 7 was more than 9 million yuan, and the box office in various cities
The total box office on July 7 was more than 10 million yuan.
July 7: 11 million yuan.

July 7: The total box office was more than 12 yuan.
Seeing more than 73 yuan, Jiang Liu couldn't help but clicked his tongue.

It seems that starting from the 12th, the producers of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" started to kill "Hidden Dragon and Crouching Tiger".

Jiang Liu looked at the box office data and found that it was only a few hundred thousand per day. The box office jumped to more than 107 million yuan on Saturdays and holidays, and 97 yuan on Sundays. Then the box office plummeted.

The box office on the 19th and 20th was only 26 yuan and more than 22 yuan respectively.

Jiang Liu estimates that it will fall below 10 yuan today.

“截止昨天7月20日，《藏龙卧虎》在全国23个城市487家电影院共上映12天，票房总计1204万元！”

After Yu Dong finished reading the last row of data, he stood up and stretched out his hand: "Director Jiang, congratulations."

Jiang Liu smiled and stood up and stretched out his hand: "We are happy together! Mr. Yu, I hope we can continue to cooperate one day."

Jiang Liu was really happy and satisfied at the moment.

When he conceived and wrote the script of "Hidden Dragon and Crouching Tiger" on the train, he was thinking that he might be able to make some money by playing porcelain.

After going through many difficulties, during the secret filming of "Hidden Dragon and Crouching Tiger", he kept encouraging him, numbing himself that the film would definitely make money.

Today, the harvest time has finally arrived.

Jiang Liu asked him what he was most concerned about: "When can the theater chain split the accounts? I need money urgently."

The box office of 1204 million excludes film funds and taxes.

60% theater share.

20% share of promotion and distribution.

After he pays the corporate tax, he will probably have about 400 million left.

This money was Jiang Liu's first pot of gold in his life.

But if you want to get the money successfully and quickly, you must pay some other price.

A movie involves multiple processes from project establishment, preparation, production to release. Theaters not only play an important role in it, but are also the final link. All the box office of the movie is in the hands of the theaters.

No one or company is willing to take the initiative to take money out of their own pockets and give it to others.

The same goes for theaters.

Therefore, it is extremely common for theater chains to default on their box office share to producers, and this is true for both domestic and foreign theater chains.

For a large theater chain that wants a good reputation, it will take a year and a half to earn some interest, so financial management is the norm.

It won't be a big deal for a small theater chain to wait for three or two years.

"The money will be transferred to Bona's account in a week. I will pay you directly after deducting the issuance share."

Jiang Liu looked at Yu Dong in disbelief.

Domestic theater chains are so easy to talk to that they even waive the normal collection process?

(End of this chapter)