Coquettish Rebirth

"It's okay, I'm going in March." Who knew Jia Hongjian said firmly. "Oh...okay..." Director Tao hung up the phone awkwardly.After putting down the phone, looking at Spielberg's curious eyes, after Jia Hongjian told him, the old man gave Jia Hongjian a strange look, "Why do you want to release it in China so early? According to my The experience in the United States, this March is indeed the same as that Tao said, it is a bad time..."

Hearing what Spielberg said, Ye Jing also looked at Jia Hongjian in surprise.In her seriousness, Jia Hongjian smiled faintly, with a face full of confidence, "Stephen, you have to believe in our strength. Now in China, in the field of commercial films, no one can compete with you, even Hollywood. Bad movies can’t compete. If you want to know the level of Chinese commercial movies later, I can find a few movies for you to watch. So basically for us, in this era of China, there is no such thing as a good time or a bad time. Time is not that we have to adapt to the market, but that the market has to adapt to us. Whenever we arrange a release, China’s golden time will be at that time!”

What he said was so domineering, when Ye Jing heard it, the little stars in her eyes were so shining that she couldn't say anything!At this time, she looked at Jia Hongjian with admiration on her face, and the tenderness on her face showed her feelings for Jia Hongjian!That's right, for a girl, it's more satisfying for her sweetheart to be so domineering and confident than how awesome she is outside!

At this time, Spielberg was also a little shocked and began to think about it. He had heard Jia Hongjian say that the level of Chinese movies is low.But he doesn't know how low the directors in mainland China are in the field of commercial films.But now listening to what Jia Hongjian said, it is obvious that even the threshold of Hollywood cannot be touched, so under such circumstances, it is obvious that certain market laws can be ignored-this is like a seller's market. When it is the boss, the buyer can only be obedient, especially when there is no competition.

"Another thing is that our China is different from the United States. There are almost no pirated CDs in the United States. So if everyone wants to watch movies, they go to the cinema to watch them, and at most they rent videotapes to watch at home. But in China, everything It’s different. Our mainland China is the same as Hong Kong, Taiwan and Southeast Asia. There are pirated CDs everywhere. So unless it’s a particularly good movie, no one goes to the cinema to watch it. Everyone finds an acquaintance who rents out pirated CDs at the door of their respective communities. The price is only one yuan a day. That is, they can see Hollywood blockbusters for a price of more than ten cents, so why do they still go to the cinema to watch them?”

When Jia Hongjian said this, Spielberg and Ye Jing were dumbfounded!Because according to what Jia Hongjian said, if it was released in China, wouldn't that... wouldn't it be a loss?Yes, loss!In the commercial field, it does not mean that the money earned is lower than the cost is called a loss, but that the money that could have been earned is not earned, that is a loss!So, if there are too many pirated copies in the Chinese market, it will obviously make the money that everyone could have earned, which is a loss!

"Hung-chien, do you want me to find a relationship to crack down on piracy?" Ye Jing said very seriously at this time, "The gang of little kids who hung out with me when I was young are now famous and powerful in the central government. Greet the past, and then get along with the old men of those people, crack down hard without spending any money, and keep domestic investment fully profitable, it is probably no problem!"

Whoa!At that time, Jia Hongjian looked at Ye Jing and was stunned for a moment. He only remembered now that this girl is not just of three generations. The entanglement of various forces and connections behind this girl may not even involve his father. Her own contacts can make a lot of trouble in the mainland!And it is indeed the same as what Ye Jing said. He said in the forecast to the central government that the mainland will encounter the economic crisis in the future, which is likely to be the withdrawal of investment. A Chinese subsidiary of a joint venture company suddenly claimed that piracy harmed their interests, so will the central government take care of it?Especially when there are contacts who can make connections!

We must know that the fight against piracy is often a matter of one sentence from the central government.If the central government doesn’t say anything, the people below are too lazy to take care of it. After all, if you take care of it, you don’t have money to get it. In management, you can do as little as possible.After all, the key for bureaucracies all over the world to measure whether they are good or not is manpower and funding, not how many things they do.

Cracking down on piracy in this way will definitely boost the movie box office. However, considering that more and more layoffs will be made this year, and the wages of some workers who have not been laid off will also drop, is the FIT market real? There will be a big improvement, or how much the ban on piracy will promote the rise of the movie box office, then I don’t know.

Therefore, Jia Hongjian still decided to adopt his original plan, "No, no need, our domestic individual tourist market is relatively small, and the most important market is the collective viewing of movies by enterprises, institutions, and primary and secondary schools. So we We still have to push it up, try to make the meaning of this film a little bigger, and put a higher hat on our film, and then make our film a patriotic propaganda film. In this way , With nationwide collective movie viewing, can the box office be reduced? Not to mention a billion yuan like Cameron’s "Titanic", at least [-] billion yuan is always no problem."

Jia Hongjian said this in English, of course Spielberg understood it, and he was shocked at the time!What is the concept of a box office of 5000 billion yuan?That's almost $5000 million! What is the concept of a box office of 7000 million US dollars?That is, the Chinese market alone can almost earn back one-third of the investment!You must know that during the filming of "Saving Private Ryan", even if Spielberg had Jia Hongjian's "check" of [-] million US dollars in his hand, in the end, he only spent [-] million US dollars. The result of striving for perfection in all aspects is still counting the result of finding someone else to do post-production special effects!

If China has a box office of 5000 million U.S. dollars, according to what Jia Hongjian said, 5% of the total box office of co-productions will be deducted from some kind of development fund, and then 3.3% of business tax will be paid, and then it will be shared with theaters and movie theaters. The basic ratio I heard from Jia Hongjian that the publisher and the producer can get a total of about 41% to 42% of the original box office. In the end, they can earn more than 2000 million US dollars. This 2000 million US dollars is not one-third of the 7000 million investment. ?And this is just the Chinese market that everyone didn't think much of before!And the North American market too!

Not to mention the North American market, even if it is a box office of 2 million US dollars, this is a very conservative figure calculated by Spielberg based on his own experience. In fact, he feels that it is not a problem to get a box office of 4000 million US dollars.But even if it is calculated based on the box office of 2000 million US dollars, the final income of more than [-] million yuan, plus the more than [-] million US dollars from China, it basically pays off!

In this way, it means that the share of the screening in other parts of the world is pure profit!In this world, there are also Europe, South America, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Southeast Asia, Japan and South Korea. Counting these places together, even if you only earn 2000 million US dollars, this is still a profit!This is still the most conservative estimate!According to his own normal estimate, the share of the North American box office of [-] million can be nearly [-] million US dollars.In North America, because there is no piracy, the movie box office itself is used to pay back the cost, and the real money is in the peripherals-the release of various video and audio tapes!If it is released in this regard, it will indeed make DreamWorks make a fortune in the end, and it will not even be a problem to make one or two billion U.S. dollars in the end!

Although it looks like this, it seems that if it earns one or two billion U.S. dollars in the end, the box office of more than 2000 million in the Chinese market is not too much, but this is still 10%-20% of the profit income!In other words, if the box office in the North American market is used to pay back the same as in the past, then the Chinese market directly contributed 2000 million US dollars in profits, 10%-20% more profits. Of course, this market has been valued!Even Spielberg was thinking that it would be great if DreamWorks could go to Europe and open a branch. If it was released in Europe at that time, then there would be no need to sell it to others and only get about 3% of the share!You can also get more than 4% of the share!

At this time, Ye Jing looked at Jia Hongjian in a daze. She never thought that Jia Hongjian would think of this aspect. Indeed, according to her childhood experience, the school would indeed organize occasional movie watching. If so, is this direction really feasible?I didn't expect Jia Hongjian's brain to be so easy to use!Sure enough, it's Ye Jing's boyfriend, hehe!However, I still want to persuade Hung-chien to see if he can ban pirated copies, at least in two or three months, so that the box office can increase even more?Ye Jing thought about it, and a beautiful arc was drawn at the corner of her mouth.

Here, Jia Hongjian thought pretty well, but after he told Director Tao about the plan, he heard a piece of news that surprised him! "What? Now domestic film distributors and producers only have 35%? Are you kidding me?" (To be continued..)