On January 20, 1981, "The Wrong Car", which was released in Taiwan for nearly two months, was still released in major theaters in Taiwan. This year, there is really no good movie in Taiwan. An American movie that was screened twice in Taiwan 20 or 30 years ago can be screened for five months in Taiwan for the third time. "The Wrong Car", a good movie that is close to Taiwanese lives, will only be screened for five or six months.

As for "The Royal Sister", the attendance rate in Japan and Hong Kong has dropped to a certain data, and the Golden Princess and Songzhu films are gradually decreasing the number of screenings. So far, "The Royal Sister" has won more than 19.3 million box office in Hong Kong, and the box office in Japan is even more amazing 1.4 billion yuan (equivalent to about 45 million Hong Kong dollars).

The box office situation in Japan has been transmitted back to Hong Kong, and the Hong Kong film industry is in full swing. Cheng Long's movies were less than 1.2 billion yuan when the most in Japan were in Japan.

The horrifying box office of "The Royal Sister" in Japan once again attracted many Hong Kong filmmakers to join Oriental DreamWorks, or directors readily took the script to dreamWorks to attract investment.

"The Original Landscape of Hometown" also sold well in the United States, reaching 200,000 copies in just half a month. Compared with other popular records, this number can only be considered a minor matter. The top few record sales list in the United States are sold by millions. However, "The Original Landscape of Hometown" is a pure music record, and the sales of 200,000 copies are already a very good result.

Kang Jianfei, who was selling the record, was sitting at Tang Shuxuan's house, playing with a Taoist monkey and laughing and crying.

This pottery was bought from an American musical instrument store, and it also comes with a record "The Original Scenery of Hometown" and a simple pottery blowing textbook.

Tang Shuxuan brought a cup of coffee to Kang Jianfei and said, "The review of "The Royal Sister" has been passed, and the movie rating is R-level (it is recommended to watch it over 17 years old)."

Kang Jianfei smiled and said, "Haha, fortunately, I'm not a brain-dead level 17 (nc-17, no viewing under 17 years old)."

Tang Shuxuan flirted with boredly looking through Tao Wu’s simple textbook and asked, “Did you write this book?”

Kang Jianfei shook his head and smiled bitterly, "It was made by the Americans. I said how could Columbia Records spare no effort to help me promote records. It turned out that it also sold musical instruments and textbooks. The pottery in my hand was produced by an American factory that used to specialize in the production of ocarina. It is estimated that before the record was released, they had studied the structure of the pottery, mass-produced it by using the method of ocarina, and then wrote basics and used textbooks to sell them together with records."

Tang Shuxuan said: "Tao Wu is our Chinese musical instrument, and it is good that Americans can promote it."

Kang Jianfei sighed, "I heard that Columbia has just negotiated with several conservatories in the United States to supply pottery and records for music research and teaching. I can't get any of the pottery and textbooks they sell, and only if the record is sold can I share the profit."

Kang Jianfei is really depressed. If Columbia Records can promote the instruments like Taowu in the United States, selling musical instruments will make more money than selling records. But Kang Jianfei has no way of doing anything. Even if he set up a Taowu factory now, he will not be able to compete with Colombia for business. The sales channel in the United States is ace.

"Dingdong, Dingdong..." The doorbell rang.

Tang Shuxuan got up and opened the door, but Jiang Zhiqiang came.

After Jiang Zhiqiang sat down, Kang Jianfei hurriedly asked, "Brother Jiang, how is the matter of forming a temporary theater?"

"It's a bit difficult," Jiang Zhiqiang analyzed. "Now, the total cost of a movie screening in large cinemas in the United States is about $500. The cinemas in the Chinese community have very low operating and management costs, and the cost of a movie screening is about $50 to $200. According to the ticket price of a movie of $2, an average of 70 viewers can be used to recover the cost. But these cinemas are too small, with the largest seats of about 500 and the smallest theaters only 200. After deducting various tax and fee expenses, it is calculated by a 500-seat theater. Even if the audience is full, we can earn up to $500 in the box office."

"How do you negotiate the rent of the theater?" Kang Jianfei asked.

The rent of theaters is related to whether temporary theaters make or lose money, because even if Kang Jianfei only divides the 30% production share of the 500 US dollar, he will only have 350 US dollars left. In order to establish temporary theaters, they have to pay the rent for these theaters. After paying the rent, what is left is the money earned by theaters and theaters.

Jiang Zhiqiang said: "The monthly rent for two is quoting between 60,000 and 100,000 US dollars per theater. For 500 theaters, the daily rent is more than 1,600 US dollars, and each game is $350. It is exactly $1,750 per day. It just made 150 yuan."

"That's the loss?" Kang Jianfei said with a wry smile.

It is said that each theater can earn 150 yuan a day, but it is actually calculated that every venue is full, and every venue is full for two months.

Is this possible?

Obviously impossible.

"Only consider the compression cost and reduce the rent a little." Jiang Zhiqiang took out a small notebook and said, "I calculated it repeatedly. Since we are temporarily operating, the cost of film screening can be reduced by about 30%. The operating conditions of cinemas in those Chinese communities are also relatively poor. If we continue to talk, the rent should be reduced by 10,000 or 20,000 yuan. If we calculate this way, each cinema can earn $700 a day according to the best situation, and it can earn $300 a day in ordinary situations."

Kang Jianfei took the notebook in Jiang Zhiqiang's hand and saw that it was written on it with various expenses and also marked it with a red pen to indicate how to save expenses, etc. After looking at it, the semi-illiterate bitch Fei looked at it and couldn't help but sigh in his heart: Some things need to be done by professionals. If he and Tang Shuxuan were asked to run the theater chain, he would have to lose all his underwear.

Kang Jianfei asked: "How many cinemas have you contacted now?"

Jiang Zhiqiang said: "I have contacted 47 companies in total, but excluding some of the ones that are not conducive to the establishment of theaters or are bound to lose money, there are only 31 theaters left."

For 31 cinemas, each cinema earns $200 a day, and the revenue of cinemas and theaters alone is 6,200 yuan, which is a net profit of $370,000 in two months.

Jiang Zhiqiang said: "From the audience base of Chinese community theaters, I think our temporary theater chain should be maintained within one month. After one month, basically no one will watch the same movie, and the two-month rental period is too wasteful. In this way, the single-day income will increase greatly."

"I only need 25% of the box office revenue." Kang Jianfei took the initiative to reduce his production share.

If the American distribution company is asked to help the issuance, the issuing company alone will have to share 30% of the box office, and then deduct the sharing of theaters and theaters and pay taxes. It is considered a conscientious price to be able to get 17%.

Kang Jianfei has contacted some major Hollywood companies these days. 20th Century Fox and Warner Bros. are willing to distribute "The Royal Sister". However, Kang Jianfei has no foundation in the American film industry. These grandsons have been able to earn Kang Jianfei, and even the publicity fee is required. All kinds of expenses are deducted, and they can get up to 10% of the box office.

Kang Jianfei didn't expect the temporary theater chain he and Jiang Zhiqiang to make a box office. He just wanted to use this to make the reputation of "Sister Royal", so that American distribution companies and theater companies can see the box office strength of the movie, and then negotiate with the other party based on this.

Kang Jianfei voluntarily gave up the 5% box office share, but Jiang Zhiqiang did not refuse, but said: "A Fei, I contacted Martin Theater Company, they are a little interested in your film."

"Is there a company called Martin Cinema?" Kang Jianfei had never heard of it.

Jiang Zhiqiang smiled and said, "There are many cinema chains in the United States, and it is normal that you haven't heard of them. This Martin theater company is not normal. There are 119 theaters with a total of 233 canvases under the theater. Just in terms of the number of theaters, Martin theater company can rank seventh in the United States. However, its theaters are mostly small communities with less than 200,000 people, and their profits are very low and generally not valued."

Kang Jianfei didn't know that the Martin Cinema Company at this time was the predecessor of Carmake Cinema, the fourth largest theater company in the United States in the future.

Kang Jianfei asked, "What conditions are they willing to give?"

Jiang Zhiqiang said: "Fuka Group, where Martin Theater is located, has its own film distribution company. If your movie is favored by them, they are willing to give you 10% of the distribution fee. Generally speaking, you can get at least 25% of the box office revenue."

Kang Jianfei said strangely: "This Martin Cinema Company and Fuka Group are also given these discounts?"

Jiang Zhiqiang smiled and said, "Because their theaters are all in small communities, these communities don't have many choices to watch movies, so they can only go to the theaters under Martin Theater, so they can save a lot of publicity expenses. Moreover, in order to survive and develop, Martin Theater has always adopted small profits but quick turnover measures, which is their company strategy."

When Kang Jianfei heard that there was such a good thing, he asked quickly: "Where is the headquarters of Martin Cinema? I will come to them with the film immediately."

Jiang Zhiqiang said: "In Georgia."

Kang Jianfei thought in his mind that the temporary theater they formed was screened in the Chinese community, the Martin theater was screened in the small community, and the quality of "The Royal Sister" would definitely make him famous. At that time, when you go to mainstream theaters to discuss the second screening, you should take the opportunity to ask for a box office share of more than 20%.

Alas, it is too hard for a small company to release movies overseas, and it has to be slim to share a little profit with Chengdu. A while ago, Kang Jianfei was dissatisfied with Lei Juekun, thinking that "Happy Ghost" was sold in Japan for more than half a year before it was sold, and the negotiations broke down several times. Now he realized the difficulties of Lei Juekun. Overseas distribution is really not that easy to do.

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Lao Wang is not familiar with the American film industry and is even more unaware of the situation in the American film industry in the 1980s. The data in this chapter cannot be found online. It is calculated by Lao Wang based on various data from mainland China, Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea and the United States, and then the economic development of various countries over the past few decades. The data must be different, but it won't be too outrageous, probably that's it.
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