China Entertainment King of Science Fiction

Chapter 71 Copyright Negotiation

Regarding the matter of stolen box office tickets, unless you are a studio that has been operating in theaters for many years, such as Jiangho, Tianrun, Jingying Film, or United Cinemas, or you are Tai Suishan, such as Guoying, there is no good solution.

Can suppress the rate of being stolen.

And with the substantial growth in the number of theaters and screens in recent years, I don’t know how much capital has poured into this industry. Even the five major studios have gradually lost sight of the fish in this pond.

In Chen Jingxing's previous life, Penguin Pictures and Ali Pictures both sent large-scale inspectors to visit various theaters, including but not limited to entering the theater with their identities revealed according to the ticketing software to count people's heads secretly, and pretending to be ordinary audiences.

The Inspection Office secretly observes whether there are groups entering the theater without tickets and queues up to get in. Based on the screenshots of ticket sales at each show and the data from the dedicated platform the next day, it even takes advantage of the summer labor demand to place people to work part-time at theaters with major suspicions.

The above are all things we are still doing in 2020. Preventing theaters is comparable to guarding against thieves.

This is why the distributor and producer of the final subtitles of "Fatal Identity" brought together more than a dozen other distribution companies in addition to Huanshi.com.

Some of these distribution companies have "great powers", some are "sitting tigers", and some are simply the vests of certain theater chains. No matter how wealthy Huanshi.com is, it cannot handle distribution by itself. Without the participation of these distribution companies, then

The water is so muddy that even with a searchlight you can't see the fish in the water.

Not only can these theater chains get half of the box office revenue from specialized offices, they can also steal part of the off-book box office revenue, and they can even get part of the production and distribution box office revenue share. It is only by relying on these three sources that they can support a business that lasts for more than ten years.

Years of crazy expansion.

In addition, there is also the issue of film schedule. Although "Fatal Identity" has been rapidly gaining reputation from its premiere to now, there is even a "tap water" that brings its own dry food to promote the film. It can be said that it is a fantasy in terms of publicity.

Net has done the best it can at present.

Maybe at first, in the eyes of Huanshi.com, "The World" released during the Spring Festival still had more publicity and distribution resources than "Fatal Identity", but since Chen Jingxing took away the gold medal from Orlando, Huanshi.com also quickly increased its publicity and distribution resources.

The energy invested in it is no less than that of "The World of Joy" which is ready to be released during the Spring Festival.

The gold medal, publicity and word-of-mouth are basically the best, but the increase in film schedules is as slow as a tortoise in Chen Jingxing's eyesight.

This ability to influence film schedule is one of the core strengths of Jiangho Culture as one of the five traditional studios.

The purpose of this move of Huanshi.com is to kill two birds with one stone. By stimulating netizens' dissatisfaction with the "box office stealing" incident, it will make major theater chains restrain their behavior of stealing box office.

Only when the "backers" behind them are similar, can there be a fair competition between "geniuses".

Just like the "orderly increase" in the film schedule of "Fatal Identity", the "orderly decrease" in the film schedule of "Blood Sword Warriors", which has collapsed in terms of reputation.

Then they used the revelations from Tianhe Cinema employees to force Jangho Culture to vomit the film schedule.

The middle 5% of the film schedule was naturally taken away by Jiang Ho's "Blood Sword Warriors".

But as the saying goes, it is better to rely on yourself than to rely on others. He is not a contracted director of Huanshi.com, and Huanshi.com is not his Sun Xingzhe. Future movies cannot be escorted by Huanshi.com. He is not Tang Monk. He has Tathagata Buddha as his backer.

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It's already the fifth day of its premiere, and "Fatal Identity", which has an overwhelming reputation, still only has 35% of the film schedule, which is 4 points higher than the 31% of the second day of the premiere. In some theaters, it is still even lower than 30%.

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DreamWorks is the foundation, and "Fatal Identity" is the opportunity for DreamWorks to transform into a butterfly. How much box office split it can get is actually a trivial matter. The box office of "Fatal Identity" will become his principal. With this movie

, he can leverage the resources of the film and television industry several times or even ten times, paving a smooth road for his future film projects.

While Chen Jingxing was setting his ambitions in his mind, on the other side of the ocean, the two producers of "Fatal Identity" were also having difficult negotiations.

Even for the counterattack movies that made people excited during the Spring Festival in the previous life, if you take a closer look at their distribution company, they are also giants with a well-known name in the country.

Chen Jingxing admired Huanshi.com's plan in his heart. Of course, he didn't know the pessimistic views of Huanshi.com's senior executives on "Happy World".

Because in the eyes of netizens, your film schedule is on the rise, and the film schedule of "Blood Sword Warriors" is also declining. If you complain about this, it will give people a feeling of dissatisfaction or even insatiable desire. Only those involved in it can appreciate Jiang He

This cultural giant has deep-rooted influence in theaters.

The audience and netizens are not sensitive to this kind of invisibility. Therefore, the joint reputation of Fantasy World and DreamWorks this time is mainly aimed at stealing box office, rather than being suppressed in the film schedule.

Riding on the box office success of "Fatal Identity", Fantasy World has completed a perfect return of the king! In one fell swoop, it got rid of the haze of the tragic failure of "The Supreme Demon" two years ago.

"Zhang, your request is unrealistic. It's ridiculous. YiMou Zhang's "Hero" was preceded by "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon". Such a comparison is inappropriate. You rejected Miramax.

Lionsgate chose to talk to us. I think you are here with sincerity, but I don’t see your sincerity.” The bald man with a helpless smile on his face shook his head and refused.

If it can successfully capture the Spring Festival box office with "Happy World", Huanshi.com will immediately become the sixth giant in the Chinese film industry.

According to estimates from Huanshi.com, while other films have either failed in word-of-mouth or are struggling to make ends meet, "Fatal Identity" is capable of occupying 40% of the film schedule.

Zhang Tong didn't seem to be frightened by the other party's tone at all, and continued to say with a smile: "Mr. Birch, "Hero" did not win the Golden Spruce Award."

The bald man sitting opposite him is a negotiator sent by Columbia Pictures, named Edward Burch.

As the biggest winner in Orlando, "Fatal Identity" naturally attracted major publishers in North America. Zhang Tong and Xu Wenshen chose Columbia after contacting and negotiating with major publishers. Now the two parties still have not reached an agreement on the copyright price.

Columbia Pictures is the first Hollywood company to co-produce films with China and even distribute and promote Chinese-language films overseas, such as "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", "Big Shot", "Kung Fu", "Yangtze River 7" and more than 20 Chinese-language films.

All Chinese films are distributed overseas by it, and it can be regarded as an "old friend" of Chinese filmmakers. It has sufficient experience and sincerity in promoting Chinese films. This is why Zhang Tong and Xu Wenshen both prefer to work with it.

The main reason for negotiation.

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