Chapter 33 Golden Harvest
The so-called bottom-line payment is the charter fee for the theater.
Nowadays, theater chains in Hong Kong and Taiwan implement a theater guarantee system. That is, if a production company wants to get a movie to a certain cinema, it must decide to pay the monthly charter fee based on the seats, equipment, and expenses of the cinema. Regardless of the daily income of the theater, the charter fee will be paid on a monthly basis.
Take the leading theater chain of Taiwan, Wanguo Cinema, as an example. From Monday to Friday, the daily base fee is NT$80,000, Saturday and Sunday, the daily base fee is NT$120,000, and the daily base fee is NT$640,000 for a movie released for a week. This is just the base fee for a theater, and there are other theaters that are connected to the theater, which costs NT$20,000 or NT$30,000 per day. According to the current situation, the total box office revenue for a week in Wanguo Cinema will reach about NT$3 million, and the owner still has less than one yuan to pay. If it is less than NT$3 million, he has to take the money to redeem the copy himself.
After listening to Fatty Wang’s explanation, Li Xuan trembled his hands and gestured at the exchange rate between the Hong Kong dollar and the Taiwan dollar, and asked in surprise: “In other words, if I want to release it in Jiahe, I have to spend 400,000 Hong Kong dollars?”
This is a scam! The cost of this movie is only 80,000. How did the protagonist in the novel make a movie and it will be released directly!
"No need." Fatty Wang pursed his lips: "We are not as dark as Taiwan and Bay, and you probably only have a dozen cinemas at the beginning, and 200,000 is enough."
Nearly 200,000 is enough? Li Xuan's face turned black, and it will take half a month to publish his physical book. He only has some spare money left on his body, less than 10,000, so where can I find 200,000?
"Fatty, you..." Li Xuan looked at Fatty Wang in front of him carefully.
Wang Jin saw through Li Xuan’s idea: “Don’t say it, I don’t have that much money.”
"Go, I won't return you!"
"I know you can pay it back, but I really have no money." Fatty Wang said with an innocent look on his face.
"Oh!" Li Xuan sighed: "That's probably going to have to wait another half a month, so depressed!" Li Xuan scratched his hair vigorously.
Suddenly, Li Xuan felt that his hand was being grabbed. When he turned around, Zhong Chuhong was looking at him with a gentle face. With a smile, Li Xuan grabbed the little hand in his backhand into the palm of his hand.
"It doesn't matter." Fatty Wang touched his chin, and said the little lover who showed his affection in front of the ignorant.
Li Xuan's eyes lit up: "What's the solution?"
"Go first, please mercy and schedule the schedule. When the movie is about to be released, your money will probably arrive."
"Who are you asking for to plead with?" Li Xuan was surprised. Fatty Wang and the rich man he knew could control Jiahe's schedule?
"Who do you care about? Keep up." Fatty Wang said proudly, took the lead and walked out.
After looking at the beautiful full-time female secretary who was writing and drawing on the desk, Li Xuan, who was sitting on the sofa, said to Wang Jin next to him in surprise: "You are hiding deep enough, you actually know Zou Wenhuai!"
Wang Jin gave Li Xuan a blank look: "Aren't you talking nonsense? Uncle Huai worked with my dad at the time." Fatty Wang proudly held his chest up and continued: "Just the movie "The Legend of the Thief" you just watched, I wrote the script last year and threw it at Uncle Huai and filmed it!"
"Go, brag!" Li Xuan glanced at Wang Jin with contempt.
Now Wang Jin stopped doing it and asked directly: "Oh? Where did I brag?"
"When I was watching the movie, I saw several screenwriters' names. There are you, Wu Yaohan, and one named Liang... Liang and so on?"
"You, I don't know anything." Wang Jin was too lazy to look at Li Xuan, staring at the female secretary and said, "They are assistant screenwriters, and I am the screenwriter. You go and search the filing of the inspection department, but I am the screenwriter!"
"Really?" Fatty Wang didn't look like he was lying. Now Li Xuan admired him a little.
Wang Jin didn't reply, but just stretched out a middle finger at Li Xuan.
"Click"
The office door opened, and Fatty Wang stood up from the sofa. Now Li Xuan followed suit and pulled Zhong Xiaoniu and stood up.
"Along, if you think about it, tell your godfather, you will get the other godfathers done for you!" A middle-aged man's voice came from the door. As he spoke, the man walked out. He was a middle-aged man with white hair, wearing a pair of black-rimmed glasses, but unfortunately Li Xuan didn't know him.
"I understand, godfather, I'll give you a reply after I've thought about it these two days." A young voice that Li Xuan was a little familiar with came out. The next moment, a young man with long hair and big nose walked out.
Li Xuan's eyes shrank, he was wearing a black casual outfit, long hair and big nose. This is Chenglong! Do you want to go up and ask for an autograph? By the way, he hasn't asked anyone to sign for a long time since he learned to film with Wang Tianlin.
"Haha, Tuchang, let Along think about it carefully. Let's wait for Along's good news!" A bald middle-aged man followed him out at the end. Li Xuan recognized him now. The boss of Jiahe who always could see in the newspaper - Zou Wenhuai, the "godfather" of Chenglong at the beginning? Li Xuan was stunned. It was He Tuchang! Unexpectedly, he saw the two biggest bosses when he came to Jiahe for the first time.
The three people who had just come out obviously saw Li Xuan and the others. He Chuchang shouted to Wang Jin: "Jinzai, come to find your Uncle Huai?"
Now Wang Jin didn't dare to pretend to be too big, so he nodded and walked up and said, "Yes, Uncle Chang." After that, he called Zou Wenhuai, "Hello Uncle Huai."
He looked at Li Xuan and the others who were following Wang Jin strangely, and He Chuchang smiled and said to Zou Wenhuai, "Wenhuai, I'll take Ah Long down first, you can do your business."
"Well, that's it. Aaron, I welcome you at any time!" Zou Wenhuai responded and patted Chenglong on the shoulder.
"Then I will thank Uncle Huai first!" Chenglong replied with a smile, nodded to Li Xuan and the other two, and followed He Chuchang towards the elevator.
"Jin Zai, did you write another good drama..." Seeing Chenglong and the others leaving, Zou Wenhuai was about to ask Fatty Wang when he saw the two film boxes in Li Xuan's hand.
"Hehe!" Wang Jin smiled and replied, "Uncle Huai, this time it's not a script anymore. This is my friend Li Xuan. He just made a movie. I want to ask you to see..."
Seeing that Fatty Wang had introduced himself, Li Xuan quickly put down the film box and stretched out his right hand and said, "Hello, Boss Zou!"
"Uh, hello." Zou Wenhuai also stretched out his right hand: "I wonder what movie the little brother is making?"
"Criticism, terrifying." Li Xuan said nervously.
Sure enough, the next moment after hearing Li Xuan's words, Zou Wenhuai's brows frowned: "It's terrifying, not a lot... it's not very easy to shoot."
"Uncle Huai, this movie is very good, you can take a look first!" At the critical moment, Fatty Wang said nice things to Li Xuan next to him.
"Haha! OK, I believe in your eyes. My three million screenwriters. Go to the screening room." Zou Wenhuai laughed and took the lead in walking in front.
Jiahe is one of the best film companies in Hong Kong. The screening room looks like a small cinema. There are more than fifty seats alone, and all of them are black leather seats.
At the beginning of the movie, Zou Wenhuai looked at Fatty Wang strangely, but he recognized who the pregnant woman who played the teacher's wife on the screen was.
"Hehe, comedy, I also cameo later." Fatty Wang explained awkwardly.
Zou Wenhuai shook his head slightly. These young people thought the movie was so easy to shoot. Well, there was a little soundtrack, but it was very good and the sound effects were OK. But this shot was not very right. The lens without rapid changes had tension, making people feel like they were watching a living documentary.
Thinking of this, Zou Wenhuai's eyes shrank, a living documentary?
The boy in the "Meow" movie cried again, and Zou Wenhuai's hands tightly grabbed his thighs.
Li Xuan next to him smiled slightly.
Human beings’ inexplicable fear of ghosts and unknown things is an innate characteristic. Ghost themes will never be outdated, and only directors will be outdated. At this time, Hong Kong’s beautiful ghosts are almost outdated.
Now, Sister Jiayazi is coming!
Chapter completed!