With Jiang Zhiqiang's matchmaking, Kang Jianfei quickly contacted Martin Cinemas, and the two parties agreed to test the film in Georgia in two days...

Jiang Zhiqiang took care of the temporary theater matters alone, and Kang Jianfei made some preparations and went to Georgia with Zeng Bolin.

When they came to the headquarters of Martin Cinemas, they were received by Martin Cinemas Director and General Manager Carl Patrick. In another time and space, this person will deliberately purchase theater shares as a director of the company next year, and eventually take control of Martin Cinemas Company, and connect the names of his two sons to rename Martin Cinemas.

Carl Patrick had a mustache and his clothes were burnt straight. This old guy was jazzed in England, and his every move was quite like an old aristocratic temperament.

If the negotiations are reached, then the person in front of him will be his noble person. Kang Jianfei enthusiastically shook hands with Carl Patrick and said, "Hello Mr. Patrick, I'm happy to see you."

After Carl Patrick shook hands with Kang Jianfei, he laughed and said, "It's you, Kang, when that Mr. Jiang mentioned your name, I guessed it was you."

Kang Jianfei said in surprise: "Have we ever seen it?"

Carl Patrick said: "I happened to buy movies in Hollywood during Christmas. I heard that Master Bernstein was going to conduct New Year's Day concerts, so I spent two more days in Los Angeles."

Kang Jianfei then realized it and said with a smile: "It turns out that Mr. Padric was also in the concert hall at that time. If I had known I would have contacted you at that time."

Carl Patrick said: "I didn't expect that you were not only a musician, but also a film company owner."

Kang Jianfei would not miss this opportunity to bring the two closer together. He took out a Taoist monk he carried with him and said, "It turns out that Mr. Patrick likes music. This Taoist monk was made by me. If you don't dislike it, please accept this meeting gift."

Carl Patrick has the title of jazz, so he naturally has to show his aristocratic style at any time - for example, listening to a symphony concert. He did not like Kang Jianfei's Taoxia very much, but he had an ancient oriental instrument for collection, and it was handmade by Chinese musicians. He could still show it out in the future.

After accepting Tao Wu, Carl Patrick said, "Kang, let's watch the movie first?"

Kang Jianfei asked, "Don't you have to wait for the people from the issuing company?"

Carl Patrick smiled and said, "No, as long as I'm optimistic."

Martin Cinemas and the issuing company are both under Fuka Company, while Carl Patrick is the vice chairman and president of Fuka Company. Naturally, he has the final say in this kind of thing.

Martin Cinema is an old theater company. As early as 1912, Roy Martin founded the Martin Cinema Chain.

35 years ago, the young Carl Patrick joined Martin Cinema Company as a novice. With his super abilities and means, he became the general manager and director of Martin Cinema Company in just three years. In the next 20 years, Carl Patrick gradually operated Martin Cinema Company from a small theater to a top ten large theater company in the United States.

Later, Fuka Company acquired Martin Cinemas, and Carl Patrick also became a shareholder of Fuka Company with his shares in Martin Cinemas. After more than ten years, Carl Patrick climbed up step by step and became the vice chairman and president of Fuka Company.

Judging from Carl Patrick's professional experience, you can tell how powerful this old guy is.

This guy is less than 60 years old now. He is obviously the president of Fuka Industrial, but he holds the position of general manager of Martin Cinemas. He even often watches movies in person.

Perhaps in the old man's heart, Martin Cinemas is the most important thing, more important than his parent company Fuka Industrial. By next year, he deliberately bought shares in the Cinemas from other shareholders and named the Cinemas after his son. He gradually made it the fourth largest Cinema in the United States.

Kang Jianfei followed Carl Patrick to the screening room. In addition to the two of them, there was also the follower Zeng Bolin brought by Kang Jianfei and Carl's assistant. The film had not started to be screened yet, and Carl's youngest son Michael Patrick also came in.

Michael is nominally the assistant to the general manager of Martin Cinemas, but in fact he is the real manager of Martin Cinemas. Because his father also has to manage Fuka Industrial, Michael is often the one who handles specific affairs of the theater.

Michael Patrick looks less than thirty years old, tall and thin, quite handsome, but unfortunately a black mole on his nose destroyed the overall image.

The lights of the movie projector have turned on, Michael pointed to the big screen and asked with a smile: "Is this the Chinese movie that Jiang said?"

Carl Patrick said to his son: "This Mr. Kang is an oriental musician. His performance at the Los Angeles Music Center was directed by Master Bernstein himself."

"Is that so great." Michael said slightly surprised. Obviously, Bernstein's name is still a fool.

Kang Jianfei asked, "Mr. Patrick and Jiang Zhiqiang know each other?"

Michael smiled and said, "Of course we have known each other for more than five years. Martin theaters sometimes need to go to Europe to buy films, and Jiang often appears at major European film festivals to buy films. He and I met them at the Venice Film Festival, and we got to know each other after a while."

While the two talked, the opening animation of Oriental DreamWorks on the screen had already begun. When the music was thought of, Patrick and his son were attracted by the opening.

Carl Patrick whispered: "Dreamworks, DreamWorks... Old Tom, play the opening credits again."

"Okay, sir." The projectionist responded.

Michael asked his father curiously, "What happened?"

"Nothing, I just remembered something." Carl Patrick smiled.

Seeing the English letters of DreamWorks on the screen, the old man obviously remembered his past when he was young.

35 years ago, Carl Patrick was still a young man. With his love for movies, he entered the Martin theater chain, which was in a downturn, and became a little projectionist.

From an ordinary projectionist, he grew up little by little to a film buyer, and he traveled to major film companies in the United States for many years. Later, he became the manager of a theater and then the general manager of the entire theater.

Carl Patrick paid a lot for Martin Theater, and he also got a lot for it. All of this was just from his dream of film when he was young.

Carl Patrick has always believed that the time he was a young projectionist in the theater was the happiest time in his life. He could watch various movies every day without paying money, and that kind of work was simply enjoyable.

Carl Patrick turned to Kang Jianfei and said, "Young man, the name of your company is great."

Kang Jianfei smiled and said, "Thank you for the praise."

It was soon released in the main film. This version of "The Royal Sister" was specially invited by Kang Jianfei to make English subtitles, but the dialogue was still in Cantonese and Japanese.

After the movie was screened, Michael, who was already quite disdainful of Hong Kong films, had completely let go of his contempt.

Judging from the speed and explosion scenes in this movie, even if it is placed in Hollywood, it is first-class, and the plot of the movie is very good, and the action scenes are even more amazing than the current Hollywood action movies.

The only thing to worry about is that the actors in this film are all Asians, and the story also takes place in Asia, which may reduce the enthusiasm of American audiences to watch movies.

"Smack it..."

Carl Patrick was the first to applaud and exclaimed: "A very exciting action movie. Even Hollywood is not common. Mr. Kang, Martin Theater decided to show it."

Kang Jianfei asked, "How is Mr. Patrick ready to operate?"

Carl Patrick said: "I will handle the promotional release, so Mr. Kang doesn't have to worry. Nearly a month has passed now, and it's the off-season for the movie. There are no good movies to be screened, so I decided to give 100 screens to this "Soldier Royale"."

Kang Jianfei sighed in his heart: The United States is different, and it can be 100 screens at any time. Hong Kong’s three major theaters are so lively, with the largest number of theaters in Jiahe Cinema, which has only 19 theaters in total.

Kang Jianfei asked: "How to divide the box office?"

Carl Patrick thought for a while and said, "If the box office is below $2 million, I can only give you a 15% share of the box office. On this basis, for every $1 million added, I will give you a 1% share of the box office."

Kang Jianfei roughly calculated that although there are more than 100 screens, Martin Cinemas are all small community theaters, and there are not many theaters with more than 1,000 seats. Based on the average of 800 seats per screen, three screens are shown every day, and even if the scenes are full, it will only have a box office of 480,000 yuan per day.

However, the attendance rate of such small community theaters has always been very low. If you can have a box office of 240,000 yuan a day, even if you have a big movie, it will only be 2.4 million in ten days. The attendance rate may be even lower in ten days, and it will be less than 4 million even if you kill me.

In other words, Carl Patrick only gave him a box office share of 17% at most.

Kang Jianfei asked with a smile: "How about the box office share starting from 18%? As Mr. Patrick said, it is the off-season of the American film market now, and there are no good movies for release. If it weren't for my "Sister of the Royal Family", Martin Theater could only find other bad movies to make up for the numbers. That would not only not make money, but it would lose a lot of money if it were played."

Michael next to him said: "Mr. Kang, since Martin Cinema is a small community cinema, its profits are generally very low. If you give you a little more share, we will lose money."

Kang Jianfei shrugged and said, "If the division is so low, then I might as well go to the first round of mainstream theaters. Mr. Patrick, do you think so?"

Carl Patrick thought about it and said, "Then start with 16%.

Kang Jianfei bargained: "17%.

Although Carl Patrick is the vice chairman and president of a large industrial group, he is still so stingy and actually reveals the decimal point: "16.5%.
Chapter completed!