Rebirth Enchanted Xiangjiang

"Of course I have confidence. Otherwise, I won't come out and cooperate with you, Mr. Shao. To say how confident this is, I think the box office is at least much higher than your interstellar blunt tires and Jiahe's new Shushan swordsman. "Qiao Feng smiled confidently.

It is not surprising to hear Qiao Feng say that Shao Yifu is not surprised. If Qiao Feng expects to be lower than the films he and Jiahe value, Qiao Feng will not come out and say he will compete with Xinyicheng for the Spring Festival.

So I asked nonsense, Shao Yifu smiled bitterly in his heart, and asked what he cared most.

"Mr. Joe, how much do you expect to invest in this zombie movie?"

Qiao Feng groaned in his heart. He knew that the original Mr. Zombie had invested a total of 8.5 million yuan, but now the investment will definitely not use that much.

First of all, the actor's pay at this time will definitely be lower than the original time and space in 1985, and the expenses of other crews will also be lower. These are all for sure.

The other is that when the original film was shot, the intermediate situation frequently appeared, especially Liu Guanwei, who was a new director, used to be a photographer and had high requirements on the picture, but the script was filmed and felt that there was a problem and he would change it back and forth. It costs a lot of money to take the waste film, the waste set, etc.

Therefore, the initial estimated investment was 4.5 million yuan, and the shooting time was one month, but when it was finished, the additional investment was spent 4 million yuan, which was twice the original investment and took more time. It was three months longer.

The script provided by Qiao Feng is directly the sub-shot script of the film. There is not much room for editing according to the script, and there is no need to waste as much manpower, material and financial resources as the original film, labor, scenery, film, etc. Qiao Feng feels that at least three million yuan can be saved, and an investment of five million yuan is enough.

"I think five million is enough," Qiao Feng said in his heart.

"You want us to invest 5 million in a zombie movie. Just kidding. I heard that Hong Jinbao invested only a little over 1 million when he was shooting ghosts and killing ghosts. The box office took more than 5 million. You now want to invest 5 million. Do you think you can get 25 million at the box office?" Fang Yihua choked.

Fang Yihua is totally unreasonable, and betting and profit are not calculated like this.

Qiao Feng smiled helplessly: "If you count Miss Fang, I heard that the ghost story that Hong Jinbao is going to shoot is scary. Jiahe also invested 4 million yuan, and the box office should have 20 million yuan in the end. Yes, do you think it is possible?"

"Oh, don’t you say that I don’t know that Jiahe is going to shoot a zombie movie, so we can’t invest in you anymore. Two movies of the same type will definitely affect each other, and Jiahe’s Spring Festival file will be showing the new Shushan Swordsman. Hong Jinbao’s film is considered to be the most likely to be released on Christmas and New Year’s Day. The influence of ghosts and ghosts is definitely not bad at the scary box office. If the scary jade is in front, your film will be more affected. Speaking of this, Fang Yihua looked at Shao Yifu and said: "Brother Six, he is pitting us, we cannot invest."

Shao Yifu had been watching the fight between Fang Yihua and Qiao Feng with a smile before. Now that Fang Yihua has brought the words to him, he can no longer watch.

"It's not that what Miss Fang said is unreasonable, Mr. Qiao, I think the time to shoot this zombie movie is immature, or change the schedule.:

Qiao Feng naturally refused to accept the change of schedule. Otherwise, why would he come to Shaw, he could handle it at Jiahe, and the people at Jiahe never asked how much investment it would cost. They just said that as long as the schedule is changed, anytime. Can cooperate in investment.

It is true that Jiahe has too much confidence in the new Shushan swordsman, and the investment is also too large. Qiao Feng feels that it is impossible to convince them to quickly draw when the box office is not satisfactory, and Qiao Feng does not want to overstate how bad the new Shushan swordsman is. .

In fact, the overall special effects of that film are already good enough in Hong Kong in this era.

Qiao Feng didn't want to offend Xu Ke because he said too much that the New Shushan Swordsman was not good. He also thought that he could cooperate with Xu Ke in the future and even earn him under his command.

Xu Ke is one of the few directors in the Hong Kong film circle who has his own style and is willing to stick to his own style instead of blindly following the money.

The original space-time, future Chinese special effects blockbusters will also be regarded as the most sleek and best played by a few directors such as Xu Ke.

If there is no special reason, Qiao Feng feels that Jiahe is the most suitable film company for the Hong Kong film industry.

Unfortunately, this time Qiao Feng only has one option for Shaw Brothers.

With the gambling contract, Shao Yifu is still not optimistic about zombie movies, and he is not willing to invest 5 million yuan, but Qiao Feng cannot just give up.

He had no choice but to discuss and said: "Why else, if Mr. Shao feels that he is afraid of losing money in the investment, I will also participate in the investment. We will spend half of the five million, and I will only account for 60% of the profit."

"Mr. Qiao wants to make this zombie film so much. Is it so optimistic about it?" Shao Yifu was a little moved when he heard that Qiao Feng not only had to invest half of his own, but also actively reduced his profit share.

You need to know that Qiao Feng's script can be divided into 10% of the total box office of the movie. This is still lower. At the beginning of the gambling god, the total box office of Qiao Feng was 20%. More than 10 million and almost 20 million.

The 10% share is quite high, but if half of the investment Qiao Feng actively proposed, plus the script accounted for 60% of the profit, Qiao Feng would be equivalent to earning less of the script. Earnings of more than 5% of the total box office.

Because of pure profit, investors in a movie can get half of the box office at most, that is, 50%.

It’s clear that this means that it can be divided into half at most. This is basically achieved in Hong Kong, like Shaw Brothers, who have their own theaters. Because their own movies are shown on their own theaters, they basically do not deduct the distribution fee. , Anyway, it's a matter of left hand over right hand.

Otherwise, a movie theater chain will take half of the box office, and the distributor will take another 5 to 15%, leaving only 45 to 35% of the box office revenue for investors.

(Of course, this is only a rough calculation. If you want to calculate it carefully, like Hollywood or later in the Chinese film market, if you do a strict calculation, you will eventually leave less money for investors. What kind of publicity costs, etc., will be calculated in pieces. In many cases, it is obvious that it is a big box office, but the investor loses money in the end, especially the kind that is only responsible for participating in the investment, not responsible for other links. The American Wall Street investment institutions often lose money when investing in movies by Hollywood. So you see When Hollywood celebrities want to increase their remuneration, they want the box office share instead of the profit share. What I am afraid of is that the profit share will not be calculated at the end and will not get a dime. Maybe they will owe money.)

But for Hong Kong, which has its own theater network, the profit is still less than the total box office share. At least the 10% of the total box office score that Wu Yuanqing's script can get is greatly reduced, and it can be 100%. Fifth, it’s all snickers. In fact, it’s impossible, because Waifu has lower profits, so Wu Yuanqing is trying to shoot this Mr. Zombie because of a great loss.

"I have to shoot this film. As long as Mr. Shao thinks that the bet is still valid, the Spring Festival schedule may be released, even if I invest all of it, I will shoot it."