Chapter 295 "Source Code 2" (Part )
Judging from the box office in the past few days, "Source Code 2" is higher than "Source Code".
This is the advantage of a sequel, with the fan advantage of the previous film, the early box office will definitely be explosive. At the same time, this is also the disadvantage of a sequel, because the box office potential is overdrawn in the early stage, and the box office in the later stage will be very poor.
This is the case with "Source Code 2". On Sunday, the 23rd, the box office hit a new record, breaking 400 million in a single day, reaching 413 million.
The 24th was Christmas Eve, but it was also a weekday. The box office shrank, but it did not fall below 300 million. Until Friday, Source Code 2 could get more than 300 million.
On the 30th, the New Year's Day holiday arrived, and the box office of Source Code 2 began to rise. However, because it has been released for more than a week, the increase in box office is not as large as the first weekend. But the daily box office is more than 350 million.
After half a month of release, Source Code 2 has earned 5500 million yuan at the box office, but this has almost exhausted its box office potential. The single-day box office has dropped sharply to just over 100 million yuan. It has recovered somewhat during the weekend, but it is still less than million yuan.
At this time, major companies have already arranged new movies to be released. These movies have taken over the box office revenue vacated by Source Code 2, pushing Source Code 2 off the top spot in the single-day box office chart.
Fortunately, Source Code 2 was of good quality. Although its box office potential was almost exhausted, it still managed to earn nearly 100 million yuan in a single day, following the recent releases. By the weekend, Source Code 2 once again pulled its single-day box office to over 100 million yuan thanks to its quality.
When Source Code 2 was released, the total box office was HK$7320 million, breaking the box office record of Source Code.
The whole of Hong Kong is counting the total box office of "Source Code 2" to make a living. When seeing that the box office record of "Source Code" was broken, all media reported on it.
All the major film companies held celebrations one after another, filling up the schedules of the big hotels in Hong Kong. Many families who wanted to get married recently had to postpone their weddings for a while.
Tomorrow Films even held a large celebration banquet at the Peninsula Hotel. All the major film and television companies that were partners came, and they also brought their big stars. Tomorrow Films also sent invitations to theater partners in Southeast Asia and other places, and these partners sent people to attend.
They were very familiar with the routines of Tomorrow Film Company. Although this banquet was nominally a celebration banquet, it was actually a film sales meeting. When Tomorrow Film Company was established, they died so late, and they played it for ten years.
This tactic is old-fashioned, but it works very well. If the theater representatives don't come, they will have to watch others transfer the money away.
This is what is meant by "one trick to conquer the world".
Liu Hongmin also attended the celebration banquet, but this time he did not bring so many actresses with him because Gong Li was not in Hong Kong, she would go to the mainland to celebrate the New Year.
In order to give birth to a child, Gong Li did not go home for more than a year, and her parents were very worried.
And she also wanted to have a good talk with her parents when she went back this time. She wanted to follow Liu Hongmin without any status, and her parents would definitely not agree. But she didn't want to have a bad relationship with her parents, so she could only give them some information bit by bit.
Li Lizhen did not attend the celebration banquet because she had to take care of two young children. However, she still arranged for two girls from the company, Zhu Ying and Cai Shaofen, to walk the red carpet with Liu Hongmin.
Liu Hongmin didn't have any thoughts about the two little girls. He let them follow him and walked onto the red carpet.
Zhou Xingxing, on the other hand, seems to have some different ideas about Zhu Ying. However, Zhou Xingxing is a taciturn person, and only becomes talkative when filming a movie. But unfortunately, he is a tyrant on the set and has scared Zhu Ying several times. Liu Hongmin sometimes worries, will Zhou Xingxing remain single for the rest of his life?
Although he wanted to help, Liu Hongmin was powerless.
Wang Yaowei was still the one who received the theater representatives. He didn't need to say anything more. The copyright fees for the good films of the film company tomorrow had become a routine. As long as they followed the routine, the theater representatives had no intention of lowering the price.
This is a record-breaking movie. Unless there is some force majeure, the price cannot be lowered.
After a brief negotiation, the copyright fees for Southeast Asia, Macau City and Green Island were sold for a total of million Hong Kong dollars.
Adding the more than 3800 million in box office revenue sharing, "Source Code 2" earned million Hong Kong dollars in box office copyright.
"Source Code 2" cost million yuan, and the publicity cost million yuan, with a total cost of about million yuan, and a profit of almost ten times.
Based on their investment shares, major film companies can get 8 times the profit.
Tomorrow Films enjoys the peripheral copyrights of "Source Code 2", and this part of the income is about million Hong Kong dollars, which makes up for the loss of Tomorrow Films in box office copyright fees.
The news of the celebration banquet was everywhere, and all the film and television companies were hyping this matter. The powerful companies were all preparing to go public, and such great positive information would naturally be made public to reassure the stockholders.
Tomorrow Films was also hyping this matter. After considering it for a while, Liu Hongmin agreed to Wang Yaowei's listing plan. Listing financing can increase the market value of Tomorrow Films. If there is another share exchange agreement like the one with MGM, then Tomorrow Films will get more.
The second is that after entering the stock market, Tomorrow's film companies will get a lot of cash. Hong Kong's cinema chains are already saturated, but Tomorrow's film companies can still acquire cinema chains in Southeast Asia and other regions. When the relationship with the United States deteriorates, Hollywood will inevitably enter the Southeast Asian market and occupy the back garden of Hong Kong movies.
By then, if Hong Kong films do not have their own cinema chains, they may still lose the Southeast Asian market as in the past.
Before the mainland market matured, the Southeast Asian market was the lifeblood of Hong Kong films.
It was precisely because of this that Liu Hongmin agreed to the listing of Mingtian Film Company.
Of course there is a third reason, that is, tomorrow's movie special effects companies will also need a lot of funds to research special effects technology. The money earned from the business is only enough to pay salaries.
Liu Hongmin has money, but he needs to invest it in other more important places. Therefore, if the film company wants to make money tomorrow, the only way left is the stock market.
After the celebration banquet, Wang Yaowei launched the listing plan.
After this news spread, the whole of Hong Kong's attention was once again drawn to Tomorrow Film Company. As the first stock in the entertainment industry, other film companies were watching how Tomorrow Film Company operated. When they were ready to go public, this was all experience.
(End of this chapter)
