Chapter 81 "Datang" was released
The next day, after Zou Shifang sobered up, he actually felt a little regretful. After all, he has no relatives or friends in Xiangjiang, and Great Wall Film and Television will not help him for no reason.
“Hey, drinking caused trouble!”
“Repented?” Liu Hongmin asked with a smile.
Zou Shifang said hard, "Who regretted it?"
Liu Hongmin also thought about it last night, leaving Zou Shifang in Xiangjiang was indeed a good move. He doesn't need Zou Shifang to manage the company. He can find someone to do it in Xiangjiang. After all, there are professional people doing professional things. He only wanted Zou Shifang to take care of the finance department, and Liu Hongmin had to be a trustworthy person in the accountancy department at this moment. Moreover, Zou Shifang can send him messages at any time, allowing him to control remotely.
"Actually, it's not that scary. I'm going to recruit Xu Xiaoming to cooperate. He has a lot of connections in the Hong Kong film industry. Then I will talk to He Renzong and wait for the merger of Great Wall and Xinlian. Get a new company to be responsible for the distribution. By then we will have a complete team, and all you have to do is keep an eye on the finances."
Zou Shifang was relieved when Liu Hongmin said this.
If you just focus on the financial aspects, then there will be no problem. Although he doesn't understand finance, he can learn it. You only get one chance, if you miss it, it may be gone.
“I can do that!”
Liu Hongmin smiled and pulled him up, "Clean up, let's go have breakfast and perfect the plan."
In the next few days, the two of them put everything they could think of on paper.
Liu Hongmin went to Xu Xiaoming and told him about cooperation.
“Brother Xiaoming, this is what I plan to do. I will keep all my royalties from Sanlian and invest them in the company until the company gets on the right track. As long as you can come, I will give you 10% of the royalties. Shares.”
Liu Hongmin’s royalties from Sanlian are already more than 2 million. As long as Xu Xiaoming joins the company, he will get more than 200,000 Hong Kong dollars for free. Although he makes a lot of money every year, getting two hundred thousand Hong Kong dollars for free is still a big temptation.
“What do you need me to do?”
Xu Xiaoming knew very well that the money was not so easy to get.
Of course Liu Hongmin has conditions, "Brother Xiaoming, you are very well-connected in the Hong Kong film industry. I hope you can help serve as the general manager of the company, set up a crew, shoot movies, and contact theaters."
Xu Xiaoming thought for a while, "Brother Liu, you are leaving the company to me!"
Liu Hongmin smiled and said: "We are strong partners, I will provide the movie script, Xiaoming If the movie needs to be shot in the north, I will take care of the filming. If it goes abroad, Brother Xiaoming will take care of it. We are a natural partner."
Xu Xiaoming smiled. He was not moved by Liu Hongmin's words.
“I know Brother Liu has a lot of royalties from Sanlian, but the money may not be enough to make a movie.”
Liu Hongmin: “I already have an idea, two million Hong Kong dollars. It's definitely enough."
Xu Xiaoming raised his eyebrows, "Then let's wait until the script is ready, and if it's feasible, we can talk about it."
"Okay!"
Liu Hongmin didn't expect to convince Xu Xiaoming right away. Xu Xiaoming was a talent and many people wanted to win over him.
But Liu Hongmin is confident that after Xu Xiaoming sees the script, he will definitely agree to it. In the days that followed, while waiting for "Datang" to be released, Liu Hongmin and Zou Shifang went to RTV from time to time to brush up on their presence. In their free time, both of them started writing. Liu Hongmin wrote the novel outline of "Bao Qingtian 2", and after giving it to Zou Shifang to write the novel, he then wrote the movie script.
Because funds are limited, it is necessary to write a script with low investment. With Xiao Bo Da, there are nothing more than two themes, one is comedy and the other is martial arts.
Liu Hongmin wants both, comedy and martial arts.
When he mentioned martial arts, Liu Hongmin immediately thought of the young actors from Shichahai Martial Arts Academy, and immediately had an idea in his mind.
Zou Shifang's writing is also very smooth. After writing "Bao Qingtian", his writing skills have improved a lot. Now when writing "Bao Qingtian 2", I basically just take it and write it. I believe that after "Bao Qingtian 2" is written, he can review it himself. In the future, whether he wants to continue writing "Bao Qingtian" or write other novels depends on his own choice.
While the two were creating, "Datang" was released.
The promotion of the Great Wall is mainly aimed at Southeast Asia. Xiangjiang did not invest much and only hung some posters in movie theaters.
Even with such a crude announcement, many people still noticed the existence of "Datang". In Xiangjiang, although moviegoers and TV watchers are two different groups, there are still some overlapping groups of people.
"What kind of movie is this? Was it filmed by Green Island?"
The full name of "Datang" tells you that it is not a Xiangjiang movie. In addition, Green Island movies are often shown in theaters, and many people I guess it was taken by Green Island.
At this time, many people who have watched it on RTV will explain: "It's not Green Island, it was shot on the mainland."
"The mainland can also make movies. ?"
"Of course! And this movie is very good and touching."
Hong Kong movie fans who have never watched mainland movies suddenly became interested. Spending more than ten Hong Kong dollars to watch a movie in a curious style is also a good experience.
So, a strange phenomenon appeared. In many theaters, there were more people watching movies in the morning than in the afternoon. When the theater managers looked at the box office, they noticed a name.
"The Last Military Expenditure of the Anxi Army of the Tang Dynasty"! ! !
Soon, Liu Hongmin received the news that the theater had added "Datang" to its schedule.
Liu Hongmin was very happy and took Zou Shifang to the cinema to check the attendance rate of "Datang". The result disappointed him. In fact, there were not many people, and the attendance rate did not even reach 30%.
Compared with the mainland, this attendance rate is completely disappointing. But in Xiangjiang, it is already very good to have such an attendance rate during the day.
Although the entertainment industry in Xiangjiang is developed, people still have to go to work during the day. They usually watch movies in the evening, and even at midnight shows, the average occupancy rate exceeds 50%.
Some theaters took the risk of moving the screening of "The Tang Dynasty" to the evening. As a result, what they were worried about happened. The attendance rate of "The Tang Dynasty" in the evening was not as good as that of other movies in the same schedule. The theater conducted a survey and found that moviegoers basically went to see "The Great Tang" driven by curiosity.
At the same time, they also learned that many people who have watched the movie will recommend "Datang" to their relatives and friends. However, many of the people who were recommended went to watch RTV's TV videos, and only a few people came to watch the movie.
Unable to compete with other movies of the same period, "Datang" can only rely on novelty to gain some box office.
Half a month later, "Datang" was gradually withdrawn, and the final box office was only 890,000 Hong Kong dollars. Liu Hongmin is not disappointed either. After all, this is a film that tests the waters, and Xiangjiang is not the main location for the release of "Datang". It is already a profit to get these box office. 89,000 Hong Kong dollars, which has already recouped more than half of the 50,000 yuan Liu Hongmin spent to purchase the distribution rights.
(End of this chapter)