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After attending the meeting and formulating the next step of publicity and promotion, Lehman went back to Firefly Pictures.

Nowadays, the sequel to "Prison Break" has also begun to be broadcast on TV.

Compared with the first one, after accumulating a little audience base, and the plot of this drama has not collapsed, the outline of the story has been improved. Therefore, the ratings can basically stabilize at about 5.4 in a single episode, and encounter a small climax of the plot. 7 is also common, and occasionally I can touch the threshold of 8.

And in this one, Mi Shuai succeeded in winning a team with the common goal of "jailbreaking" in Fox River Prison.

Although several of them all have their own calculations, and even the relationship between them is not very good, it is really plastic, but between the stumbling and stumbling, after Mi Shuai gained the trust of the warden, he quickly found a way to escape and rescue his brother.

Of course, the production cost of this drama has increased a lot from the previous one. After all, after the drama became popular, the salaries of the protagonists have risen.

However, this has little to do with Firefly Pictures. Anyway, they never thought about making a profit on this project. The advertising share and the money for the purchase of broadcasting rights are basically divided by several signed partners.

Alas, speaking of it, we are still operating in debt until now. Perhaps we will have to wait for the profit of "Dead Silence" and the payment of "Batman: The Mystery of the Shadow" to get out of this state.

But to be honest, without introducing investment banks such as Wall Street, the security of the capital chain is really insufficient.

Lehman understood why Spielberg had to win over two allies before he dared to set up DreamWorks, even though the studio's profit was high, the profit model was really tight.

It’s no wonder that some second-tier studios will go bankrupt and disbanded due to the failure of the investment of a blockbuster film, and be acquired by others. This is really the introduction of external funds and it is easy to lose the control of the company. Capital, development is too slow, often debt management, one is not careful, it is easy to collapse.

Counting and counting, both methods have their difficulties. Even now, Firefly Pictures hasn't had a new line of production projects in one year, and there are more Lionsgate. Not to mention that compared with the Big Six, internal resources are even more scarce, but the advantages are It's a solid step by step.

After paying off the bank and the financing debts on the French side, a big step can be taken again.

Either acquiring companies to supplement the industrial chain, or improving publicity channels, and seeing if they can deploy overseas as well as Lionsgate, are the next operational priorities.

Of course, these require "Dead Silence" to be strong enough, otherwise the profits of a "Mystery of Xia Ying" will not be able to repay the debt, unless the company's daily operating expenses are deducted, and the big money-eater in the digital field will stop funding and continue to public relations technology. barrier.

But think about it, it's impossible to do that.

When Lehman got home, took a shower and read the newspaper, it was about 45 in the morning.

Turning on the computer, an email came in the mailbox.

After reading it in detail, Lehman couldn't help smiling.

You know, the production cost of "Dead Silence" is only more than 20 million U.S. dollars. Counting the announcement and release, Blue Butterfly Pictures may not be a bit wasteful, and it is only less than 31 million. But on the first day plus midnight, there will be 22.82 million. Market potential The space is quite sufficient.

Of course, the plot of the original "Dead Silence" has been criticized as such. The total box office in North America and overseas is more than 56.7 million. The box office has a small loss, and the long-term operation can still recover the cost.

Just relying on long-term operation to recoup costs, basically is to exchange time for funds.

For most studios, it is certainly not acceptable.

Just like the box office failure of "Saharan Raiders", if the copyright runs for more than ten years, the loss will be reduced a lot, but the original profitable project becomes like that, who can accept it-not only did not make much money, but also slow Slowly return to the original cost, once up and down, how much profit margin is gone.

With a box office record of 17.25 million US dollars on the first day of "Dead Silence", as long as the subsequent screenings are normal, the rise should rise and when it should fall, the extent can be controlled and the cost recovery is easy.

Many people in the industry can learn about this achievement from various channels.

Several executives of Mubao Pictures, who were quite concerned about this, met for a while to discuss, and then they stopped.

After all, the means to discredit and guide is useless, and it can't beat "Dead Silence" than quality or momentum. What if you don't accept reality obediently?

"Exorcism", which finally collected more than $75 million in North America at a small cost in the previous life, will obviously not have such good results.

Competitors are big, but they can't keep their market share, showing signs of decline.

With the realistic scheduling management of North American theaters, it will soon reduce the number of screens and the number of films arranged.

If the two are reduced, it will definitely increase the difficulty of obtaining the box office, thus increasing the box office shortage.Basically it is an endless loop.

On the 18th, new media newspapers were released.

Although film critics still comment that "Dead Silence" will not say anything good, but the results are there, it is an iron fact.

Movie fans obviously also value the box office as a reference certificate.

The attendance rate of the next day not only did not fall, but increased a bit.

The Los Angeles Times reported: "According to the box office statistics of the theaters yesterday, the box office of director Wen Ziren's new film exceeded $10,000, which completely detonated the film market in September. In just 22 hours, 8 shows, a total of 22.82 million. US dollar box office."

"On September 17, "Dead Silence" was released nationwide, successfully refreshing director Wen Ziren's first day record. It can be seen that it will be another successful work, and the screenings are hot."

"The Nielsen Data Agency randomly selected 1,500 fans in the audience, and they were relatively positive about "Dead Silence". More than 20% of them rated A, and about 40% rated A-...only 20% rated D. "

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The first day of "Dead Silence" was obviously good. With this result, Blue Butterfly Pictures, including all beneficiaries, are very enthusiastic.

In the office of Blue Butterfly Pictures, Liam kept answering calls early in the morning, basically continuing to discuss with the various chain theaters about increasing the input of screen resources.

The reduction of the share of "Exorcism" is basically determined. The theaters don't care about other things. If you can't, you can't take up the extra screen space.

After a friendly exchange of interests, Liam instructed the staff of the distribution department: "Go and prepare 300 copies as soon as possible. In two days, the theater will be in a hurry to use them. Don't delay."

As long as the box office does not drop too much, the reference results of the first weekend basically determine the scale of the next week.

Now, everyone with a discerning eye knows that "Dead Silence" is basically stable, and of course the theaters will make this very simple choice.

Speaking of it, isn't they looking for benefits?

No one will hesitate to maximize the benefits.

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