Chapter 24 National Screening
In the afternoon of that day, Wang Meng, Han Sanye and Yu Dong began to discuss the release issue.
Before release, the interests of all parties need to be distributed well.
The distribution of this life has changed compared to the previous life, but not many have changed.
In the end, after discussion, Wang Meng and the other two found that Wang Meng received a net total box office revenue of 18% and a 45% peripheral revenue, which was two percentage points less than the 20% box office guessed by him and Wang Peng.
However, Wang Meng did not suffer any losses because she had less trouble.
In addition to the state directly deducting 5% of the box office allocation here, as a special film fund, and 3.3% of the tax, this part accounts for 8.3%.
This 8.3% special funds clearly know where they are spent and what roles they have played in the film industry. Unlike in the previous life, you don’t know where the special funds went.
The remaining 91 and a half yuan were almost half a mile, and it was directly distributed to theaters and theaters.
Among them, the theater chain is about 5%, which is about 100 yuan, and there is more than 4 yuan.
After the theaters are distributed, the issuer will also charge an issuance agency fee, which is currently a proportion of 5 to 15% of the distributable income at the issuance box office.
Distributable income at the box office = total box office - 3% movie fund - 5.5% tax - theater and theater sharing (38% to 43%)
Total distributable income from issuance = box office distributable income + other channels of issuance income.
The issuer must subtract the following items one by one from the total distributable income of the issuance:
1. Issuance commission.2, director or creator star reward.3, advance payment of issuance cost (copy fee + promotion fee, etc.).4, tax.
But Wang Meng didn't need it anymore. Wang Meng and Yu Dong agreed to 18% of the gross income.
All the above has been reduced, and the rest is the net distribution income of the film company. Generally speaking, if the box office revenue of 100 yuan is earned, the film company can get more than 30 yuan.
Although Wang Meng only has 18%, this is the net income of the total box office after taking all the taxes. After all, although the producer can get 30% after the split, this 30% has not yet been withdrawn.
If you remove personal income tax, it will only be between 22 and 25%.
It seems that he is still at a disadvantage, so there are some tricks. The tricks are the copying costs and publicity costs, and Wang Meng doesn't need to spend money.
It's just like waiting to collect the money now, and after Han Sanping and Yu Dong have such a share, Wang Meng doesn't have to worry about them not doing their best.
Because as long as you want to make a profit, you have to work hard to promote and convince more theaters to be released... including finding film critics through relationships, promoting newspapers, etc. These all require connections, which happens to be not owned by Wang Meng.
Not to mention the peripheral operations such as TV, audio, and online broadcasting, we also need connections.
So such a contract is what Wang Meng needs most at this time.
It is now the second half of October, and the three agreed to be officially released on November 3rd.
As the director, Wang Meng and the starring actor have the obligation to cooperate with the publicity. The advantage of this obligation is that when the movie is sold, there are red envelopes to get.
At least the red envelope money is higher than the pay given by stingy Wang Meng...
As the movie is about to be released, Wang Meng was interviewed for the first time in her life, and was interviewed separately. Although it is not a big newspaper, top magazine, or high-end TV program, she has always experienced the feeling of being a celebrity.
After Wang Meng's opinion, the third master and Yu Dong began to pay attention to online publicity. Wang Meng also learned this publicity method from Midi's viral publicity.
It just so happens that China has no such precedent.
So, in the past few days, a post appeared on major forums and websites "What kind of experience would you have if you were a primitive caveman who had lived for 14,000 years."
At the beginning, I didn’t care about it, but the reply was not “You are sick.”
It's just "The author did not take the medicine, and the identification was completed."
After all, "Cute" and "**Silk Youth" have not become popular yet.
However, when a replies full of passion and lust appeared, new humans on the Internet began to pay attention.
"If I had lived for 14,000 years, then my traces would have appeared in history. Maybe I was Guiguzi and had dealt with many historical celebrities... I want to have four beauties, I want to be the emperor..."
When everyone saw this answer, they were immediately happy and thought that this would be possible, so they responded enthusiastically.
What - "I have had an intersection with the four beauties"
Even - "I told a monkey hundreds of years ago, but now I think it's Journey to the West."
etc……
Until a week after such a discussion, another new post appeared:
[China's first science fiction movie, "This Man from Earth" was released nationwide on November 3. The protagonist is the caveman who has lived for 14,000 years].
When everyone suddenly felt cheated, they already had a sense of expectation for this movie.
So there are still many netizens leaving messages...
"Although I knew I was cheated, it fully aroused my curiosity. I decided to watch it. If the movie was not satisfied with me, the hype writer would wait for me to be scolded!"
【Netizen】——Little mouse
"What a big tone, China's first science fiction movie and the world's first soft science fiction movie. I firmly resist such unscrupulous hype."
[Netizen] ——Don’t brag with me.
"Science fiction fans do not explain, they support Chinese self-produced science fiction." [Netizen] - I am a science fiction fan.
...
On Thursday, November 3, the only movies released nationwide were "This Young Man from Earth". Yu Dong and Han Sanye arranged 460 screens nationwide. I have to say that for Wang Meng, who was the first time as a director, it was a good result.
Wang Meng came to the classroom that day and has not been here a few times since she was reborn. She has been busy some time ago and has been released today. I don’t care about the box office, so I can be considered a precipitation.
But everyone's eyes looked at Wang Meng in the classroom differently.
Before his rebirth, Wang Meng didn’t like socializing, didn’t live in school, and had few friends. Besides, there were few students in the director department, most of them came to tutoring classes.
Some of them even went to learn from the crew and didn't see them for a long time, and everyone was just familiar with them. Of course, the biggest reason was inseparable from their previous personality.
So when everyone saw Wang Meng, they were surprised, except for a few saying hello, it was just that.
Although Wang Meng was calm, her thoughts floated to the release of the movie...
Wang Meng recalled the memories of her previous life and said she was lucky.
There were only five films released in November 2005, one of which was "The War of Two People" starring Zhou Gongzi, Xi Meijuan and others two days later. Wang Meng was somewhat impressed by this movie, but there was no threat at the box office.
The biggest threat in November was three days later, the Hollywood blockbuster "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" on November 6. Wang Meng remembered that the film in her previous life won a box office of 9,400, ranking third in the total box office in the mainland in 2005.
Wang Meng didn't understand this magical masterpiece without being dropped by a butterfly.
As for the other two movies, it seems to be a Korean "Sword Without Shadow" and a documentary, which can be said to be without threat. Currently, all the movies released in October are from October, whether it is "The Legend of Zorro" or "The Ghost Girl".
As long as Harry's impact is held for three days, the whole month can be said to be the world of "This Man from Earth" and "Harry Potter".
Of course, the premise is that "This Man from Earth" is attractive to the audience...
But at this time, there were scenes of stories in the cinema...
Liu Wei is a science fiction fan. He has been unemployed recently and stayed at home. He learned about this movie when he was visiting the forum a few days ago. He saw that everyone was discussing it very enthusiastically, so he became interested.
I arrived at the theater early that day.
There were not many people in the theater at this time. After all, there were not many good movies since October. What everyone is most looking forward to is "Harry Potter" three days later and "King Kong" and "The Promise" to be released in December.
After buying the ticket, I sat in the cinema where there were not many people, waiting for the movie to begin.
"I hope I won't let it down, as long as I can get by," Liu Wei thought to himself.
After all, this is the first science fiction movie produced by China, and Liu Wei did not expect the quality of "Star Wars". He was nothing more than supporting his own country's movies.
When the picture slowly unfolded, the audience who had just started talking and laughing in the cinema were suddenly attracted. This was the setting. The man who had lived for 14,000 years thought that a god-like existence actually had so much helplessness.
There is no real friend. Seeing the people around you die from their backgrounds, the inner shock and gradually numbness deeply attracted Liu Wei.
Liu Wei's thoughts were attracted by the movie and he didn't want to miss any scene. Suddenly, an annoying voice came...
"Hey, Li Bingbing is really beautiful." A man didn't even think of something in the movie. He said to his girlfriend next to him with a lewd look: "Wife, I learned a new trick from the Internet. Let's go back and try it?"
This noise made Liu Wei very disgusted with the young couple.
"Try your mother, you haven't seen a man of 14,000 years old. What a great story, don't bother me~~!" The woman among the young couple said such words that surprised Liu Wei.
"Uh... it's really good, this movie is good." The man didn't dare to say anything, afraid of his wife.
Liu Wei was happy, but he would be pulled back by the movie.
"I'll go, he is the ancestor Huangdi?" Liu Wei was shocked. This idea is so bold, much bolder than those people on the Internet. The legendary Huangdi is!
Such a scene is repeated in many cinemas across the country.
There are also many people who abuse them. The hard bridge and hard version of science fiction are what they like. After all, some people cannot accept this kind of drama-style soft science fiction.
Some people even think of "Wait for me to go home and scold me online! Humph..."
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Chapter completed!