"Boss Xiao, this is your first time talking about such a thing!" Lin Guiyun smiled softly. He and Xiao Ran had known each other before. Now he only regretted that he failed to seize the opportunity before the filming started: "Why don't we just talk about it directly?
The price is great!”
Xiao Ran laughed. He didn't want to negotiate the price directly. What he wanted most was a guaranteed share. Nowadays, the Southeast Asian film market basically depends on Hong Kong, so Hong Kong films are very popular.
"It's very simple. I have a general understanding!" Xiao Ran visited again for a week: "The box office results of an ordinary Hong Kong film in Taiwan, Singapore and South Korea are here."
When everyone saw Xiao Ran throwing out a few information sheets, they couldn't help but be slightly surprised. They didn't expect how much effort Xiao Ran had put into preparing for the negotiation. Xiao Ran rubbed his nose and chuckled: "As for the price,
Everyone knows this, but I don’t plan to follow this rule today!”
"What do you mean?" Lin Guiyun asked tentatively. He couldn't think of any other way.
"Originally I wanted to propose another plan, but after thinking about it, I don't think you will accept it!" Xiao Ran originally wanted to propose a sharing agreement, but thinking about the fact that Hollywood sells the release rights directly, he immediately
Decided to stop the original method: "So, let's follow the rules!"
"Fifteen million in Taiwan, 24 million in Malaysia, the Philippines and Singapore, and 20 million in South Korea!" Xiao Ran has done some research on this. Under normal circumstances, film companies still need to share their shares with movie theaters. After calculation, they
You can spend about 30% of the estimated total box office on this movie.
This number is just right. Originally, Xiao Ran wanted to give them a little discount on the first transaction in order to confirm long-term cooperation in the future. But when he thought about it more deeply, discounts may not be a good thing. It would be better to be tougher.
Let them all pay this price to buy it. At that time, in order to gain profits, they will naturally increase their efforts to promote it.
The most important thing is the following sentence. Xiao Ran pretended to be arrogant: "I will not give you any bad movies like other companies, and I will never package and sell them together. Phantom Company will never make bad movies."
I will sell it to you, and everyone must make money, so that a good market system can be coordinated and operated!"
In addition to buying a single film, there is another way for film companies to buy it. That is to attach a good movie to N bad films that do not have big stars and cannot sell at the box office, forcing film companies to buy them. In this way, film companies have no money at all.
After making money, I naturally became more sober and gradually stopped buying Hong Kong movies.
Therefore, Xiao Ran believes that the film markets in various places rely on local film companies to open up Hong Kong films, and the influence of Hong Kong films still needs film companies to complete it for them. Therefore, film companies must have money in Hong Kong films.
Make money, be profitable, otherwise Xiao Ran will not take the initiative to open up the market for Hong Kong films. And Xiao Ran needs film producers to complete the goal of Hong Kong films invading other regions and countries, so there are some things that must not be done.
Lin Guiyun and the others were not very surprised, because the price happened to be within their acceptable range. However, Xiao Ran did not realize that even if he raised the price, these film companies would still buy it, because in addition to Hong Kong films, Hollywood films
There are not many markets in these places, so it can be said that there is no choice.
However, even if Xiao Ran knew this, he would not raise the price. This price is just enough for both parties to make a profit. If he raises it again, he is afraid that the other party will be unhappy. Even so, these film producers still joined forces to try to counter-offer:
"Can it be lower?"
"It's definitely not low!" Xiao Ran looked solemn and tapped his fingers on the table: "This price can give us enough profits, and if we reduce the loss, it's mine. Either I won't sell it, or if I want to sell it, I'll sell the right one.
price."
The price was quickly negotiated. Everyone knew the market situation and there was not much to argue about. However, Lin Guiyun quickly brought up what Xiao Ran had been thinking about: "Boss Xiao, why don't we sign the contract now? Your company will
Also provide us with film sources.”
Xiao Ran could understand their thoughts. There were many competitors, and they were afraid that Xiao Ran would sell the film to others. Xiao Ran couldn't stop laughing, but his mind kept thinking: Should he sign a long-term contract?
If he doesn't sign, he will be flexible enough to deal with any situation. If he signs, he can ask these film companies to promote the Phantom Company to a certain extent, and he can have long-term partners.
The film company will undoubtedly be able to concentrate on making money for Phantom. He made the decision instantly and said with a happy smile: "Sign it, no problem!"
According to the requirements, in fact the terms in this contract are not as bad as imagined. It only restricts Phantom Company to sell the films within the time specified in the contract to them instead of selling them to other companies. Of course, if the specific price cannot be negotiated
, Phantom Company has the right to give the film to other companies.
On this point, several film dealers have no objections. For Phantom Company, the advantage is that with a fixed film dealer, the film will definitely be sold, and it can also promote Phantom Company and make certain benefits for the company's artists.
Propaganda. However, this is just a stop-gap measure by Xiao Ran. The contract is only signed for 1987 for the time being, and there will be better ways of cooperation to replace it in the future.
"It's so profitable!" When he learned about Xiao Ran's achievements, Wei Dongling was surprised and couldn't help but sigh: "I didn't expect that this film sold nearly 60 million as soon as it changed hands. No wonder everyone is vying to eat from the movie.
!”
It's only 59 million. Xiao Ran secretly chuckled. Thinking about a Hollywood blockbuster with an investment of hundreds of millions of dollars, it can completely recover its investment and still make money from overseas markets alone. This is enough to understand this movie market.
How big is it?
However, Xiao Ran was surprised when he thought about it. No wonder the film companies now and in the future seem to be crazy about making films. It's just that an ordinary film can make several times the profit just by selling it out of the country. This is very scary.
, no wonder it can make people chase it like crazy.
Don't think that Xiao Ran just divided the local box office revenue and the money from port sales to Fang Ruohai. He also had to remove all expenses related to the film. Even so, this number is very scary, just for "God of Gamblers" alone
"This movie alone made more than 80 million yuan. Xiao Ran couldn't help but cursed: "This is fucking more profitable than robbing a bank!"
In any case, this is the first pot of gold for Phantom Company. Although this pot of gold will be divided into more than 50 million yuan for Fang Ruohai, this is a good result. Xiao Ran flew away when he thought of more than 50 million yuan.
The flying one was gone, and he was so depressed that he almost turned into a chimney.
However, there is no one to blame, I can only blame him for the completely wrong way of cooperation when he chose his collaborators. If he had established a company first and then invested in the film, at least half of the more than 80 million would have gone into his pocket.
The current result is still barely acceptable, and at least 20 million can be pocketed. Xiao Ran, who was extremely depressed, found a way to distract himself from his depression. He was thinking about the distribution of the video tape. Now that "God of Gamblers" has been released, this problem has
It cannot be ignored.
After asking Wei Dongling for his opinion, Wei Dongling's idea was simple: "If you want to choose convenience, then you can sell the publishing and distribution rights of the video tape to others. If you want to do it yourself, you can use the money to do it.
Factory, but the problem is that we don’t have a video tape distribution network!”
Xiao Ran was speechless. This problem really stumped him. He could choose to sell the video production and distribution rights of this film to other companies, but in that case, they would not be able to establish their own distribution network. However, if he had to do it himself
If you do, you also lack a sufficient network of connections.
Frowning and thinking for a long time, Xiao Ran drank many glasses of water. He thought that if he gave it to others, this was definitely not an option. He might as well do it himself. No matter what, he must have the distribution channels in his hands.
In fact, local distribution is not very difficult, as long as some channel issues are solved. I believe no one will refuse such a film. Even distribution in Southeast Asia is not a problem. The key is that Xiao Ran also wants to win distribution in Europe and the United States.
Channels include not only video tapes, but also distribution rights, and the only company in Hong Kong that controls this channel is Golden Harvest.
Perhaps there is also Shaw Brothers. Shaw Brothers' 1973 "Punch" successfully entered the United States, and its box office performance ranked ninth among the top ten box offices in the world that year. Moreover, Shaw Brothers also cooperated extensively with Japan, and later with British companies.
Invested in "Seven Golden Corpses" and 60 million US dollars in "Taipan" in 1976. In 1978, he invested another 16 million US dollars in "Earth", and in 1982 he invested in the Hollywood classic film "Silver Wings"
"The Killer", however, none of these films made Shaw Brothers profitable, and the company became disillusioned ever since.
Golden Harvest took advantage of Bruce Lee's success to successfully open up the European and American markets. In 1980, it began to export films to Europe and the United States in a planned way, including Cheng Long's "The Killer" and "Cannonball Run" which brought Golden Harvest hundreds of millions of profits.
In 1990, Golden Harvest obtained the copyright to "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles", which became the most popular film in the United States that year, with profits exceeding one billion.
However, Xiao Ran didn't think that Golden Harvest would help Phantom Company promote these films. His colleagues were enemies! Even Shaw Brothers, which had stopped producing, had no reason to give him the channel, which made him embarrassed to death. Besides, Shaw Brothers was just "faking death."
That's all, it will be reborn soon.
After a long sigh, he still said to Wei Dongling: "Do it yourself, at least you can't rely on others!"
A few days later, Liang Jiahui got married. The person he married was Jiang Jiani, a TVB radio station producer. Fortunately, like in history, Liang Jiahui was not so depressed that his total net worth was only 8,000 yuan when he got married. For this, Liang Jiahui was very grateful to Xiao Ran.
, if Xiao Ran hadn’t encouraged him in his most miserable days and given him the opportunity to write a script together, he probably would never have entered the film industry again.
On his wedding day, Liang Jiahui only invited a few friends to attend the wedding. It was a simple wedding. Xiao Ran completely forgot about his identity and made Liang Jiahui laugh and cry.
Just when Liang Jiahui and Jiang Jianian were on their honeymoon, news of the marriage between Fa Ge and Chen Huilian came. Fa Ge told Xiao Ran very depressedly beforehand that if possible, he would choose a simple wedding like Liang Jiahui.
But Fa Ge couldn't. He is now the most popular actor in Hong Kong and loves to make friends by nature. As a result, this was done in a small way, but it was much bigger than usual. However, Fa Ge still tried his best to keep the wedding as low-key as possible.
Some.
In fact, history has really changed. Fa Ge and Liang Jiahui were originally married in March and April, but they were postponed to May, which proves everything. However, Xiao Ran doesn't care much about the changes in history now, at least he knows
Now that you have made your own foundation, you will never rely on plagiarism in the future.
However, Fa Ge and Liang Jiahui are both married, and Xiao Ran and Fang Ruoxin may not be far away...
It's time! It's time to arrange a wedding for them! Fang Ruohai is getting more and more nervous as the day gets closer and closer. Although he and his eldest brother have differences, they both love this sister very much, and they don't want her to be there.
Lost their happiness under the arrangement of their father, just like them.
After finding Xiao Ran and Fang Ruoxin, looking at the confused Xiao Ran and Fang Ruoxin with a faint sneer, Fang Ruohai smiled happily. After thinking about it, he still said this urgent matter: "Aran, you guys... get married.
Bar!"
"Get married?" Xiao Ran's jaw almost dropped to the ground, with a look of surprise on his face. He is only in his twenties now, and there is no rush for marriage. Besides, he never thought that marriage would be so serious in the first place.
After all, his ideas are closer to the 21st century than to the present.
Seeing Xiao Ran's look of reluctance, Fang Ruohai's face darkened. He couldn't believe it. Could it be that Xiao Ran was really just playing with Ah Xin? Fang Ruoxin didn't think of this at all, she just used her cold expression.
Stomping her high heels, Xiao Ran held her feet and shouted, "Why, it's so embarrassing to marry you. You are willing to marry me, but I'm not willing to marry you yet!"
Bang Bang ran upstairs angrily, Xiao Ran looked at Fang Ruohai with a bitter face, Fang Ruohai looked very ugly, and said in a very stern tone: "You are not playing with my sister, are you? Marry or not, it's up to you
Decide!"
Seeing the strange looks on the Fang siblings' faces, Xiao Ran was stunned. There was actually such a thing as forced marriage in this world. Could it be that Fang Ruoxin really couldn't get married? Or must he be forced to marry? He shook his head, still thinking in his mind
The word marriage is lingering around.
He didn't think he was playing with Fang Ruoxin, at least he thought so. But he never thought about getting married so early. Just kidding, getting married before the age of thirty would be like nothing. But he is also helpless now...
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