Pokémon's Lord of Fear

"How's the filming of Batman: The Dark Knight going?" Teng Shu sat in his seat and looked at the financial reports. The first of these reports was the revenue of Ghost Pictures, and Teng Shu read it very carefully.

According to the above statement, Ghost Pictures' box office share has now been determined. In fact, the box office share of a film company is quite complicated, but generally speaking, when calculating how much a movie can get from the box office, a simple and rough estimate of one-third is basically correct. That's why some movies with an investment of 1 billion can be considered a loss even if they get 2 billion at the box office.

Because in reality, the investors only got a share of the box office revenue of about 600 million yuan, less than 700 million yuan, so naturally they didn't make a profit.

Although calculating it based on one third is not very accurate, after all, the distribution ratios between different movies may be different, but for non-industry insiders, there is no big problem in calculating it based on one third, anyway, it is just an estimate.

If you really want to know the specific distribution ratio of a movie, it is generally a bit difficult.

"Boss, the investment in The Dark Knight is a bit huge now, but the filming is already more than halfway through, and only the ending is left." Zoroark thought of the astonishing numbers in the financial report and still felt that it was a bit outrageous.

When has Ghost Pictures ever made such an expensive movie? The prices of some previous big productions were not that high. The highest price was probably Sherlock Holmes, but the investment in Sherlock Holmes was very high. Although this Batman Dark Knight also had some investment due to the comics, most of the investment was made by its own boss.

There are not many advertisements. It can be said that the cost of Batman The Dark Knight has now reached 1 billion Alliance coins. It is estimated that another 500 million will be needed after the subsequent filming, and the final cost will be around 1.5 billion.

Fifteen billion is an astonishing number, and there is not much advertising sponsorship this time. After all, it is still a question of what kind of response a unique movie like Batman will bring to the market and what answer the market will give.

Teng Shu didn't have any objection. After all, the others were not time travelers, so they naturally didn't dare to take risks. Even Teng Shu himself had to take some risks. Fifteen billion, although it was nothing to Teng Shu, it would still be a headache if he lost it all.

"Don't worry, money is just a number." Teng Shu waved his hand. He was not too worried about the cost issue. Although the cost seemed very high, it also brought about extremely high production standards and special effects quality.

Of course, there aren't too many special effects in The Dark Knight. The biggest expense is probably assembling the Batmobile and blowing up the hospital. The other expenses are not very high.

"What's more," Teng Shu held the financial report in his hand, which showed a line of data recording the revenue of Ghost Pictures. Just relying on the IP licensing of Tom and Jerry and Sherlock Holmes, Ghost Pictures earned 4.7 billion, which is an astonishing figure.

You should know that these can almost be considered pure profits. After all, Ghost Pictures' IP licensing is only responsible for supervising the quality of your final product. Ghost Pictures has no control over the production and sales of these products. The IP licensing fees submitted are also pure profits.

It’s very cool.

Even after deducting the high cost of Batman, the licensing of this IP alone is enough for Teng Shu to build other hospitals, not to mention that Teng Shu has other income besides these.

The box office revenue and the profits earned from the contracts with directors and actors are all very large, enough to produce several blockbusters like Batman: The Dark Knight.

Teng Shu continued to look through the financial reports in his hand, which also included the financial report about the Love Foundation. With Teng Shu's continuous operation and the release of the previous documentary, the Love Foundation has received more attention. Some people even called the Love Foundation the most conscientious charity organization in the alliance.

Praise is not always a good thing, especially when these people drag other charitable organizations out to criticize them. Teng Shu can see what these people want to do, but the operation and maintenance of the charity foundation is very perfect, and others have no handle on it.

Although such prosperity has also brought some crises, such reputation has also attracted more attention and donations to the charity foundation. In the previous quarter, a total of 10 billion donations were received, and all of these donations became good medicine to help those families.

"Hmm? What Code said is..." Teng Shu looked at the work report attached to the financial report with some thought in his eyes.

Code added here that their charity organization now has branches in every region, and according to Teng Shu's instructions, all donations from the charity foundation are used for charity, and the salaries are paid by Teng Shu. What Code means now is that the number of people who meet the application criteria of the charity foundation has become much smaller.

This doesn't mean that there are no more people who can't afford medical treatment. Such a world is basically unlikely to exist. Teng Shu took a look and understood what Code meant. What Code meant was that the number of patients who met the criteria was decreasing because they had almost all been helped by the foundation.

After all, not every family will encounter unimaginable disease crises these days, so in this case, it is a good thing that there are fewer and fewer people on the foundation's help list. At least it proves that the foundation's current performance is outstanding.

However, there are still many patients who do not quite meet the requirements. Although they know that they do not meet the standards, they still apply just to get some help from them. Code wants to ask Teng Shu whether the standards need to be adjusted?
"Adjust the standards." Teng Shu scratched his head. He had set such strict standards in the first place to prevent any problems. After all, Teng Shu himself knew very well that a strict standard was the key to the normal operation of the foundation without too much negative news.

After all, they are all patients. If their family members were asked to come forward for help, they would probably say one miserable thing after another. So in such a situation, strict standards will help resolve disputes, which is what Teng Shu is currently doing.

But now, those patients who meet the criteria are indeed getting fewer and fewer. After all, Teng Shu only helps those who are sick and have no money for treatment and can only wait to die. And such people are indeed not the majority in society.

"Relaxing the standards won't work. It will only cause doubts from other parties." Teng Shu began to approve Kede's application. Although relaxing the standards can solve the problem, it is also easy to cause disputes. What will those who had previously sought help think? What will those who have sold their houses and cars and lost everything think?
Why was it that I was rejected when I applied before, but now those people can apply? There are always people who think this way. After all, the world is so big that it is impossible for there to be a few weirdos.

Therefore, if you want to solve this problem, you must be cautious, and the solution given by Teng Shu is to let the charity foundation set up a unique application project. This application will lower the standards, but at the same time, the amount will also need to be restricted, and the rules and regulations will also need to be changed. Therefore, how to change it and how to maintain a balance between the two parties has become a fatal problem.

Teng Shu had no choice but to call the think tank to hold a meeting. At the same time, he notified Code and others and asked them who were in charge of the review to come as well. Of course, there were also people from the Legal Department. The Legal Department was the main force. After all, these people were responsible for deducting the clauses, so they should be able to solve it.

Soon, a group of people came to the conference room, and Code also came. After all, this problem seemed very serious to Code. The foundation was receiving more and more donations. If it was not dealt with as soon as possible, then fewer people would be helped, and public opinion would become a devastating flood, so this problem must be dealt with as soon as possible.

The meeting lasted for five hours. Two buckets of water were drunk, countless tea leaves were brewed, and the toilet was often occupied. There was no other way. Now the Love Charity Foundation has become the signature of Ghost Pictures, or the signature of its good reputation. Therefore, Kuroda attached great importance to this issue and brought people here to discuss it.

If Teng Shu had not made the final decision, the debate on this issue might have continued for a long time. Thinking of this, Teng Shu felt a little stomachache. After all, such a long debate was also a torture for him. He needed to listen to other people's opinions, give suggestions, and finally he had to make the final decision. It was very annoying. Teng Shu even lost a few strands of hair.

But at least a relevant implementation plan was summed up in the end, and Teng Shu was very satisfied. This charity foundation was set up under his personal management, and being able to handle it properly was also what Teng Shu needed very much, so Teng Shu insisted on handling it well, and for now, the result is still good.

So in the next few days, the charity foundation started advertising, promoting the fact that most of the families with medical difficulties who met the application criteria had been solved, and it was not expected that there would be much surge in the short term. This was the contribution of all caring people.

After a few days of publicity and everyone knew about it, they began to explain that in order to allow the donations to help more people, the Love Foundation had set up a new application called the [Life Guardian Line] application. The requirements were more relaxed than before, but the corresponding review was also very strict. At the same time, if the patient was unconscious and unable to be identified in a designated hospital of the Love Foundation, the Foundation could temporarily pay to maintain vital signs.

After determining the other party's subsequent situation as quickly as possible, we will deal with it according to the circumstances. At the same time, this has been notarized and officially recognized and protected by the alliance. In other words, if someone wants to extort money by this method, it will not work.

Soon, the new application to the Love Foundation received a lot of gratitude, and then the application became busy again, and more and more people were helped.

Teng Shu pinched his brows. Although they had thought about the consequences of this problem as much as possible and tried to avoid it as much as possible, it was obviously not an easy task to avoid it completely.

Although most people on the Internet were praising them, there were also some people who were abusing and questioning them. When questioned, they took out their mace and laughed out loud. However, Teng Shu did not say anything. After all, there would always be such people. They would be scolded no matter what they said or did. If you gave them money, they would probably be called fools behind their backs.

Therefore, Teng Shu doesn't care much about these public opinions. He just pays attention to the thoughts of most people in society. At present, it is still very good, which also makes Teng Shu feel a lot happier.

With nothing to do, Teng Shu is not in a hurry to release his next movie. After Ghost has been filmed, Teng Shu plans to wait until Batman: The Dark Knight is out of theaters before releasing it. Although this may take half a year, it doesn't matter. After all, some movies are delayed for several years, and half a year is considered fast.

During this time, Teng Shu also plans to spend more time with his girlfriend Shizuka.

So, Teng Shu and Shizuka spent two happy months, and at this time, Batman The Dark Knight was also completed and edited.

"Zoroak, release the trailer." Teng Shu was talking to Zoroark while stroking the car in front of him. This car was the Batmobile, and it was very expensive.

In order to make the Batmobile have some of the performance features seen in the movies, Teng Shu really invested a lot of money in research and development. These cars now have top-notch speed, styling, and defensive capabilities. They are even equipped with some simple attack devices, as well as special devices to protect against Pokémon invasions.

It can be said that the cost of building this car alone is more than 100 million Alliance Coins. After all, this car can really be accelerated by nitrogen, and when accelerated, it can even drive on walls. All the materials are top-notch.

Such a luxury car naturally fell into the pocket of Teng Shu. Although some wealthy people who followed the Batman comics wanted to buy it, Teng Shu refused. This was the Batmobile, and it was an authentic Batmobile. Teng Shu must keep it for himself.

The driving license rules in the Pokémon world are different from those in the previous life, so you can also drive on the road and get a license, but Teng Shu doesn't have a driver's license yet. Thinking of this, Teng Shu feels that he probably needs to take the driver's license test first.

"Okay, boss." Zoroark stared at the Batmobile, unable to take his eyes off it. Teng Shu sat in it to experience it. He felt very good at the moment. The workmanship quality was very good. Teng Shu was very satisfied.

With a Batmobile, the promotion of Batman: The Dark Knight has officially entered the publicity period. However, this time Nolan has adopted a dark style. The film begins with Batman's own narration, but does not reveal too much. It just raises a question: when a vigilante like him appears, is he a righteous man or a criminal? (End of this chapter)