Rebirth of the Great Entertainment Empire

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Now that Xu Chou has formed a theater chain with 310 movie theaters in the mainland, Yindu is no longer of any use to DreamWorks. In addition, Silver has deprived DreamWorks of the power to co-produce with mainland film studios. Therefore, without hesitation, Xu Cun kicked Yindu away and asked Shi Nansheng to go north to form a distribution team mainly composed of mainlanders.

In other words, in the mainland film market, DreamWorks has taken care of production, distribution, and screening, forming a large studio system.

Expressed in numbers, DreamWorks can get 82% of the box office share of each movie, in addition to paying business taxes, special funds for movies, and some unclear fees.

In addition, in view of the fact that the movie ticket prices in the mainland are too low compared with the movie ticket prices in Xiangjiang (in 1985, the movie ticket prices in Xiangjiang had risen to 17 yuan and 30 yuan, which is about 5 yuan a piece in RMB. ), most of the state-owned movie theaters in the mainland have raised the movie ticket price to 50 cents a piece-a rising tide lifts all boats, and DreamWorks Cinemas, whose service, environment, and equipment are much better than the state-owned movie theaters, directly raised the movie ticket price to 80 cents.

There are two reasons why ticket prices at Dreamworks Cinemas have risen so sharply-the first reason is of course for profit. The second reason is to leave room for the state-run movie theaters (at present, the reform and opening up is still in the exploratory period, thousands of state-owned movie theaters in the Mainland support a large number of idlers, if Xu Cun smashes the iron rice bowls of these idlers Now, these idlers must hate Xu Cun to death, and may push Xu Cun to the forefront, so Xu Cun has long made up his mind that he will never personally drive the state-owned cinemas out of the film market.).

Nowadays, DreamWorks has very little competition in the mainland. Under such circumstances, how could Xu Cun not want to take this opportunity to make a fortune?

Based on this, despite the many events at the end of the year, Xu Cun personally selected five films to be introduced in the Mainland.

After thinking about it for a long time, Xu Cun, an imported film from the Mainland in 1985, chose "Royal Senior Sister 1" (in order to avoid unnecessary trouble, Xu Cun personally renamed "Royal Senior Sister" as "Iron Policewoman".), "The True Colors of Heroes" ", "Tang Bohu Spots Autumn Fragrance", "Five Girls Bow to Birthday", "Zhu Xian".

The reason why Xu Cun chose "Royal Senior Sister 1", "The True Colors of a Hero", and "Tang Bohu Spots Autumn Fragrance" is not only that these three films are rare and good films, but also because these three films have no political color, and because Xu Cun wants to borrow Watching these three films increases his influence in the Mainland.

The choice of "Five Girls Blessing Birthday" and "Zhu Xian" is because Xu Cun is trying to please the audience in the mainland - Xiaobaihua Yue Opera Troupe and Xiaobaihua Yue Opera Troupe's "Five Girls Blessing Birthday" are very influential in the Mainland, and "Five Girls Bowing Birthday" "The actors in " are all mainland actors, which can arouse the intimacy of mainland audiences. Although "Zhu Xian" was performed by actors from Hong Kong and Taiwan, most of them were filmed in the Mainland.

Speaking of "Zhu Xian", Xu Cun is really pleased!

"Zhu Xian" finally won a box office of 44 million Hong Kong dollars in Hong Kong's local port, successfully killing "The True Colors of a Hero" and becoming the box office champion in Hong Kong.

In Japan, "Zhu Xian" won a box office of 8.9 billion yen, becoming the sixth highest-grossing movie in Japan.

In the Nanyang region, "Zhu Xian" won a box office of 12 million US dollars, which is a very good result.

In South Korea, the number of viewers of "Zhu Xian" reached 950,000.

In North America, "Zhu Xian" earned a box office of 79 million U.S. dollars, ranked ninth on the North American box office list in 1984, and became the box office champion of pure Chinese-language movies in North America.

In Central and South America and Europe, "Zhu Xian" won a box office of 54 million US dollars, and also broke the box office record of Chinese films in Central and South America and Europe.

Total: "Zhu Xian" has grossed $177 million.

The production cost of "Zhu Xian" is nearly 20 million US dollars.

The promotion fee of "Zhu Xian" is 30 million U.S. dollars - one of the important reasons why "Zhu Xian" can get a box office of 177 million U.S. dollars is that Xu Cun is willing to risk 30 million U.S. dollars to promote "Zhu Xian" . Of course, "Zhu Xian" is also worth Xu Cun's risk.

After deducting the fees paid to theaters and cinemas in various places and the cost of joint distribution, "Zhu Xian" earned Xu Cun a total of 23 million US dollars (not including peripheral and video profits.).

For Xu Cun, who is ready to lose money and make money, it is definitely good news that "Zhu Xian" can make a profit of 23 million US dollars!

but--

Although "Zhu Xian" earned Xu Cun $23 million, "Zhu Xian" is not the movie that made the most money for Xu Cun - "Back to the Future", "Terminator", "Ghostbusters", Both "Little Monster" and "The Little Mermaid" earned Xu Cun more money than "Zhu Xian".

"Back to the Future" made $210 million at the box office in North America and $380 million worldwide, earning Xu Cun $51 million.

"Ghostbusters" grossed $229 million in North America and $291.6 million worldwide, earning Xu Cun $24 million (due to Xu Cun only paid half of the production and publicity expenses of "Ghostbusters", so Xu Cun only owns half of the income rights of "Ghostbusters".).

"Little Monsters" made a box office of 148 million U.S. dollars in North America and 230 million U.S. dollars in the world. Excluding the dividends for Jeffrey, Xu Cun earned 29 million U.S. dollars .

"The Little Mermaid" earned a box office of US$69 million in North America and US$170 million worldwide. Excluding the dividends to Jeffrey, Xu Cun earned US$26 million.

"Terminator" has achieved a box office of 38 million U.S. dollars in the U.S. dollar and a box office of 96 million U.S. dollars worldwide (in the previous life, the global box office of "Terminator" was 78 million U.S. dollars, due to Xu Because of the strong distribution in Asia, the box office of "Terminator" was 18 million US dollars more.), because the production cost and publicity cost of "Terminator" are very low, so that the money "Terminator" made for Xu Cun is also low. This is half a million dollars more than what "Zhu Xian" made for Xu Cun.

(The profits of the above movies do not include the profits of peripherals and video tapes.)

Total: "Zhu Xian", "Back to the Future", "Terminator", "Ghostbusters", "Little Monsters", and "The Little Mermaid" made a total of $176.5 million for Xu Cun.

Plus the profit from peripherals and video tapes.

"Zhu Xian", "Back to the Future", "Terminator", "Ghostbusters", "Little Monsters", "The Little Mermaid" can probably earn Xu Cun $350 million.

When all the money has arrived, Xu Cun will return all the money to Baye Bank, and then collect some money to withdraw Huangtu Land, and then take Huangtu Land to Japan for a loan, laying out the layout for the Hiroshima agreement that will come next year .

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