Chapter 279 Waifu Copyright Sales Record
The news that Source Code broke the 70 million box office record swept across Southeast Asia in just two days. Not only that, media from other countries were also paying attention to this matter. After all, when Source Code was promoted, it was called a milestone for Chinese science fiction films.
Foreign media are very curious. China has always been a desert for science fiction movies, so how good can the milestone be?
However, the box office record in Hong Kong seemed to prove that this was a very good science fiction movie. They contacted many foreigners in Hong Kong and asked them if they had seen "Source Code" and what they thought of it.
Those foreigners all praised "Source Code". Although the pictures of "Source Code" are far from those of the world-class science fiction films, the content of "Source Code" surpasses most science fiction films.
The reporters were surprised, but also more curious about Source Code. The financially well-off media immediately sent people to Hong Kong to see what Source Code was like before it was released.
The financially strapped media also tried to contact their acquaintances in Hong Kong in order to obtain first-hand information.
It is very good news that a good science fiction film has appeared in the science fiction desert.
Even more enthusiastic than the media are the film producers around the world. Tomorrow Films is a conservative company that has been focusing on Southeast Asia and the mainland. As for other markets, Tomorrow Films is not very enthusiastic. If there are film producers who want to buy the copyright, Tomorrow Films will sell it. If there are no film producers who want to buy the copyright, Tomorrow Films does not care.
Unlike other Hong Kong film companies, as long as there is an opportunity, they will spend manpower, material resources and financial resources to open up markets in other regions and launch so-called international superstars in order to gain recognition from all over the world.
They wanted to surpass Tomorrow Films by relying on the recognition of the whole world. But the result was that no matter what they did, they could never surpass Tomorrow Films.
Tomorrow Film Company does not have that many stars, but the No. 1 comedian in Hong Kong is Stephen Chow, and the No. 1 action star in Hong Kong is Jet Li. Tomorrow Film Company does not have that many works, but the box office champion every year is Tomorrow Film Company, and at least half of the top ten box office are from Tomorrow Film Company.
With these, Tomorrow Films has a very high authority in Hong Kong and Southeast Asia. They will not invest in cinemas in other countries, but the film copyrights of Tomorrow Films are the most expensive.
More importantly, other countries and regions like the movies of Tomorrow Films very much. As long as they come to buy the copyright, they will buy all the previous movies of Tomorrow Films together.
It was the same this time. After the film producers arrived, they rushed into the cinema immediately.
In less than half an hour, some film producers came out of the cinema and took a taxi directly to Tomorrow Film Company. After seeing the high-tech products in the movie, they decided to buy the copyright of the movie and release it in their own countries. Some of them didn't even understand Chinese and had to struggle to read the English subtitles at the bottom of the screen.
For a time, Tomorrow Film Studio was crowded with film producers from all over the world who came to purchase copyrights.
Tomorrow the film company received it seriously and quickly signed a contract with the film company. High-grossing regions like Europe and America are controlled by big film companies. The copyright fee in Europe is 300 million US dollars, and in North America it is 200 million US dollars. In South America, Africa, Australia and other parts of Asia, the copyright is sold by country, ranging from tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of dollars per country.
Finally, after the copyrights were sold to more than 100 countries and regions around the world, the foreign copyright fees of "Source Code" totaled more than 30 million US dollars. Converted into Hong Kong dollars, it is more than 240 million Hong Kong dollars, which is already a record for Hong Kong films in foreign copyrights.
Among them, the copyrights of Southeast Asian countries totaled 150 million Hong Kong dollars. From this, it can be seen that Southeast Asia is still the foundation of Hong Kong film's overseas copyrights. First, it broke the Hong Kong film box office record, and then broke the overseas copyright sales record. "Source Code" has established its status.
All the major film companies in Hong Kong were very excited and they immediately approached Tomorrow Films to start the project of Source Code 2. There is a lot of preparation in the early stages of a science fiction film, and if Source Code 2 is to be released during the Christmas season, it must be filmed as soon as possible.
It took more than a year for Source Code to be released from project establishment. If Source Code 2 wants to shorten this time, it must make preparations as soon as possible.
As a result, all major film companies contributed people and effort.
As a result, the film company told them tomorrow that "Source Code" was a co-production with the mainland, and if they wanted to start the project of "Source Code 2", they had to contact China Film and reach a new agreement.
Tomorrow Film Company has allocated 60% of its investment quota to major film companies in Hong Kong. If it gives China Film Corporation such a high share, Tomorrow Film Company will not have any share left.
Under such circumstances, let alone Tomorrow Films, they would not do it. Even if Tomorrow Films was willing, other Hong Kong film companies would not. Without the relevant interests, they were afraid that Tomorrow Films would not produce Source Code 2 and would take the opportunity to ruin the series.
Therefore, the major film companies in Hong Kong united together and formed an exchange group to go to Beijing to negotiate with China Film Corporation.
China Film also knew this, so it quickly made concessions. Because Source Code 2 was filmed at sea, China Film only retained 10% of the investment share, and the remaining 30% of the investment share belonged to Tomorrow Film Company.
In fact, China Film was not very willing to do so. After all, it made tens of millions of Hong Kong dollars from "Source Code", which was much more profitable than selling films.
Unfortunately, as I said before, the major film companies in Hong Kong dare not let Tomorrow Films take a small share. Without the motivation of profit, they are afraid that Tomorrow Films will not be dedicated!
Just like that, the investment shares of "Source Code 2" were determined, and all parties transferred the funds to the crew's account.
Then, Xu Xiaoming convened a discussion meeting to collect everyone's ideas and see if the plot and props described in the script could be realized.
After Mingtian Film Special Effects Company bought the first special effects machine, most of the special effects could be completed, which gave Xu Xiaoming great confidence. If the special effects were not completed, he would have to start researching from scratch again, and a year would definitely not be enough.
The success of Source Code also brought glory to Tomorrow Film Special Effects Company and Maizishan. Many movies use special effects, especially those involving gods, ghosts, and magic.
During this period, Tomorrow Movie Special Effects Company received a lot of orders, which made Maizishan very confident about the future.
(End of this chapter)
