As soon as the headlights of the car were turned on, Xiao Ran and the other three saw a young man walking towards them who was soaked like a drowned rat. Sunshine and Monkey looked at each other. Neither of them expected that they would immediately have work to do as soon as they took over this position.
Xiao Ran glanced at it and thought at the same time: This guy really has a lot of enemies!
Xiao Ran didn't know what Yangguang and the others were thinking. But he recognized the person walking forward, the young man who was punished by the Ghost King Dongkai Xiangtang last night. The young man came to the front of the car with a determined face, and saw Yangguang and the monkey
Just when he was about to take action, the young man dwarfed and disappeared from the front of the car.
Sunshine and Monkey were slightly startled. Monkey had already opened the car door and jumped out very quickly. Sunshine took advantage of the situation and used his body to block the angle in front to prevent any bullets from sneaking up. Xiao Ran was really surprised, he didn't
I thought that these two new bodyguards had such a tacit understanding and were extremely skilled.
Suddenly, Xiao Ran remembered the movie "The Bodyguard of Zhongnanhai". He felt like he was the protected object in that movie, and Sunshine and Monkey were the bodyguard Li Zhengyang. This ridiculous idea made him laugh.
, causing Yang Guang to take a strange look at this guy who was still calm and composed in the midst of a "crisis".
Even though he didn't know what the young man was doing, Xiao Ran didn't think he was here to kill him. He nodded to Yangguang and said with a smile, "It's okay, I know you!" He took the umbrella handed by Yangguang and got out of the car, and came to the front of the car.
Unexpectedly, he saw the young man kneeling in front of the car, with his head raised and looking very arrogant, while the monkey stared at the young man unhappily because he was wet.
Seeing Xiao Ran finally get out of the car, the young man felt excited and said in a deep voice: "Give me three million, my life will be yours!"
This... Xiao Ran was suddenly shocked, what does this mean? He came to the young man's side, squatted down slightly, and said softly: "Tell me, why!"
"I want three million to send my mother to the United States for medical treatment!" The young man did not refuse Xiao Ran's kindness, and a warm current flowed through his heart. No one was so easy on him: "Give me three million, and my life is yours."
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Xiao Ran was stunned. He didn't expect this young man to be so filial. Thinking of his parents in his "dream" and the parents who rarely visited them, his nose suddenly became sour: "What do I want to do with your life? Get up.
I’ll give you three million!”
The young man showed an expression of surprise in disbelief. Xiao Ran nodded affirmatively. He could no longer honor his parents in the dream. Maybe this method could reduce his guilt.
"Don't leave in a hurry!" Regardless of his identity, Xiao Ran reached out and helped the young man stand up, said something to Sunshine and Monkey, and then said to the young man: "You have been in the rain for a long time, go and see if there is anything wrong first.
thing!"
In the hospital, Xiao Ran learned everything about this young man. His name was Lin Yongmai, and people on the street called him A Mai. Not long ago, his mother became seriously ill and needed a kidney transplant. In order to raise money, he
After the society's debts were collected, he did not turn them over, but embezzled them for himself. He also beat and slashed a brother who tried to stop him, so he was served by Ghost Wangdong according to the family law.
However, it would be better not to check. After the check, even Sunshine and Monkey smacked their lips and secretly said: This guy is cruel enough. Ah Mai knelt on the nail board yesterday, and his knees were about to be pierced by nails.
I was stabbed a few times because of my family's behavior, but this guy only had to be bandaged a little, and he was able to endure it until now. It's really amazing.
When Xiao Ran asked why Ah Mai came to him to ask for money, Ah Mai's answer made him lament that wealth should not be revealed. Although he didn't reveal anything yesterday, the 10 million he threatened made Amai understand.
Xiao Ran was a rich man and had some strange connections with the underworld, so he came to visit.
After writing a check to Amai, Xiao Ran handed it to him with a smile: "Whether you leave your life to yourself or your mother, in short, don't give it to me! I don't want to be responsible for other people's lives!"
Amai didn't say anything, just looked at Xiao Ran silently, and the determination in his eyes made Xiao Ran unable to face it. However, in the days that followed, Amai found Xiao Ran and said nothing. He just followed Xiao Ran wherever he went.
The fuss made Xiao Ran extremely depressed, and after trying several times to no avail, Xiao Ran reluctantly accepted Ah Mai, just asking him not to follow her.
That night, Gui Dongwang called and told Xiao Ran that Wang Yu was dead. Wang Yu was betrayed by his subordinates. Xiao Ran was very trustworthy and asked Gui Wangdong to give the guy the ten million. The whole thing went on quietly.
Solved...
Life was very ordinary. On December 1st, the Xinbao Cinema Line, which had spent a total of 20 million to renovate, finally began to operate. After coordinating with Xinyi City, the two parties revised the contract and agreed on the share of the movie.
With some slight changes. After all, if Xiao Ran's theater chain joins, the income of Phantom's films in the Golden Princess Theater Line will definitely be affected.
It should be mentioned that a movie theater refers to more than just an independent movie theater. This entire large theater is actually divided into several screening halls. In other words, the original large theater model is pushed forward and allows screening
The screenings in the hall have become more refined to meet the needs of audiences with different needs.
At present, among Hong Kong's theaters, only New Treasure has a complete multiplex screen. Secondly, only Golden Princess and Golden Harvest have more multiplexes, while Shaw Brothers and Wing Ko basically do not. This is the mistake of the decision-makers in the leading direction.
In fact, there are not many movies shown at this time every year, and the quality is not particularly good. This is because this time is very strange. It is a bit close to the Spring Festival, but also a bit far away from other movies. It is the off-season anyway.
At this time, a new film by Wang Jing, who has made three consecutive films of "Fine Covers Chasing Girls", was released. It was a film called "The Supreme", starring Tan Yongling and Lin Junxian. In fact, the plot is exactly what Xiao Ran remembers about "The Supremes".
"The Supreme Being", but the male lead was changed from Liu Hua to Lin Junxian, a handsome young man who was once highly praised by Wang Jing.
What a mess! Xiao Ran cursed secretly and then enjoyed the film. This film was actually very well shot. Strictly speaking, this is definitely a rare tragic film among Wang Jing's works. This made Xiao Ran very depressed.
I didn't even think of this movie.
However, this is also due to his decision not to pursue gambling films. In fact, during this period, several gambling films have been released, but none of them are threatening at all. Only Wang Jing's film is the real one.
Xiao Ran originally planned to release "The Gambler" in December, but he hesitated when he saw this situation.
The reputation of "The Supremes" is quite good, but the Asia's fastest crab played by Lin Junxian has no personal characteristics at all, which is far inferior to Liu Hua's version. If "The Gambler" competes with "The Supremes", I'm afraid it will lose its reputation in terms of reputation.
They lost a lot, and judging from the trend, these two films will definitely be a hit, and I'm afraid there will be more and more people following the trend.
But if we move forward, I'm afraid there won't be any good schedules. Even if I can put my new treasure on the Spring Festival schedule, twenty-eight theaters are definitely not enough to show the strength of "The Gambler", and a movie like this is not
Movies that win based on word-of-mouth must create a sensation in a short period of time to achieve maximum box office success.
After thinking for a while, Xiao Ran finally decided to officially premiere "The Gambler" seven days later, otherwise the early investment in publicity funds would be in vain. Most importantly, Xiao Ran felt that there would be no problem with this in theory.
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"The God of Gamblers", "The Gambler" and "The Gambler" will be made into a series and become one of the signatures of Phantom Company. This is Xiao Ran's plan. In fact, before writing the script, he had already asked Liu Zhenwei to consider the sequel.
problem.
Four days later, countless audiences laughed at the test screening and gained an excellent reputation among the audience. Coupled with the cooperation of the marketing department, the box office on the day of the premiere a week later almost exceeded 2 million, breaking the previous record.
The first box office record set by "Prison" on weekdays (that is, non-holidays).
On this day, everyone in the company saw Xingzi, just like in "Shanghai Gamblers", laughing so hard that they couldn't close their mouths. This time, even fools knew that he was destined to be popular. Of course, how long can he be popular?
It also depends on luck.
This film did have a very big effect, but it failed to create a big whirlwind in the literary and art circles. After all, it was a film that was only meant to be funny, rather than a film with connotation. Liu Zhenwei felt very regretful every time he thought about this.
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However, due to the classification system, "The Gambler" was rated as a second-level film, so the audience it can target is slightly smaller than the first-level film. As a result, the box office did not exceed 40 million, and only stayed at 3,800.
Ten thousand.
Xiao Ran was amused when he mentioned this classification system. Originally, Hong Kong's formal classification system and film censorship regulations would not be officially released until next year, but because of his appearance, it has been released a full year in advance. However, this does not matter and does not hinder
The Phantom's expansion.
The distribution department has set up branches in Japan and South Korea, two key places, to facilitate discussions on theater chain agents. Ge Wenqiu's skills are good, and he won the Philippine theater chain without Wei Dongling's intervention.
After Wei Dongling took action, Malaysia and Singapore also won the agency rights for theaters. The main thing is that they lack Japan, South Korea and Taiwan.
At the same time, under Wei Dongling's suggestion, Xiao Ran separated the post-production department from the production department into a separate department. Then again, Xiao Ran's original plan was actually to support Jingyi Company, which is the most powerful company in Hong Kong.
Later, he quickly learned that this company only had advantages in recording and subtitles, so he gave up the idea.
Even though Xiao Ran knew very well that in the future, these would definitely have to be split up in order to make things more professional, but it was obviously not the time yet. However, as of now, Phantom Company's business has basically formed a comprehensive business that is comparable to Jiahe
Sex Film Company. To put it simply, with the support of financial resources, Phantom is now completely independent from the help of other companies, and can independently handle everything from production to screening to distribution, forming a one-stop service.
However, these departments will be spun off by Xiao Ran sooner or later. If a listed company needs to make profits for three consecutive years, Xiao Ran will definitely find a way to immediately raise investors' money to expand again.
Where are Hong Kong movies ruined? There are piracy and other factors, but one of the most important is that everyone lacks a long-term vision to formulate appropriate development strategies. If we refer to Hong Kong alone, Golden Harvest is definitely the largest
film empire, but in the end it was still destroyed because of a lack of long-term vision.
A long time ago, when Wei Dongling didn't understand movies, he thought that a movie only relied entirely on box office revenue. However, now he knows better than anyone that the box office revenue of this movie is not the entire income at all.
Take "The Gambler" as an example. The online expenses of this film (that is, the remuneration of actors and directors) are very low. As a result, they mainly spend on offline expenses (that is, money spent on technology). As a result, the investment in this film is only
It's only three million. However, the expenses definitely don't stop here. The marketing department spent a full eight hundred thousand on publicity expenses, and they planned to invest four million.
The box office was as high as 38 million, and after sharing with theaters, it got 22 million. This alone is enough to recover all the costs, but the money has not stopped. The distribution can earn at least 60 million, and then
Plus the low-profit video tapes are sold locally and distributed through Southeast Asian distributors.
Since video recorders have not been popular in Asia for a long time, the income in this area is relatively low. However, the cost of video tape production is very low, and the profit is at least half of it, which means that there is a profit of at least 10 million.
If you think that the profits stop here, you are totally wrong. Broadcasting on TV is another way to make money. Of course, TVB and ATV cannot afford high prices. However, "The Gambler" was sold to TVB
The price is 800,000 per time, which is still a low price for wireless. If you sell the TV broadcast rights in Taiwan and Japan, if you calculate it on a per-time basis, the intermittent income is definitely not low.
And the profits haven't ended yet. The copyright of this film is another big profit, just like a Hollywood film company can use its own film library as a mortgage in a bank. In this way, this film can at least make money for Phantom Company.
Hundreds of millions of Hong Kong dollars.
Thinking of this number, Xiao Ran felt extremely weird. In terms of making money, it is certainly not as good as Hollywood blockbusters. However, if we talk about profit ratio, this number ranks first in the world.
However, he couldn't figure it out. With this way of making money, Golden Harvest could theoretically develop very fast. Moreover, as long as other film companies picked up such a blockbuster film, they would have ample development funds. Think about it carefully,
He was full of emotions again. It seemed that everyone was only focusing on making a big profit out of small things. He couldn't blame Hong Kong for the fact that the output of Hong Kong films exceeded 200 in the years when they were at their peak.
If you make money, you don’t just put it in your pocket, but you should continue to invest it to make money. (In fact, Hong Kong gangs are far more serious than what is written in the book. However, as I said, this book will involve as few gangs as possible.
So I wrote relatively little). He only regretted that too many filmmakers only took advantage of the east wind to make quick money, and as a result... he didn't even want to think about it.
Fortunately, with the support of Phantom now, he can only win the Southeast Asian market. If he can win the mainland market, everything will be fine. He will definitely no longer worry about following suit in the future. After all, he has a huge market, so he has nothing to worry about.
It's random. Besides, as long as he can control the distribution rights in Southeast Asia, in that case, as long as it is a slightly inferior film, he will not distribute it. At that time, it seems that these fools would dare to blindly make random films.
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