Chu Xuan opened the door and walked in. Wang Jinhua was in front of the water dispenser to get hot water.
"How is your hand?" she asked with concern.
"The recovery is very fast. The doctor said that it can be healed without scars within three months." Chu Xuan sat down on the sofa.
Wang Jinhua nodded, stood up, took the thermos cup and walked towards the sofa.
"Your brother is quite unique." She sat down next to Chu Xuan.
"One glance will make you remember." Chu Xuan said with a smile in his eyes.
Wang Jinhua suddenly couldn't help laughing, and Chu Xuan said what she wanted to say.
"Yes." She said suddenly.
"I will go back and look at the information on Huang Bo's previous works in the evening. I will chat with him tomorrow and ask Li Hu to take it after signing." She added.
Chu Xuan nodded, Sister Hua was professional in this matter, and he did not need to intervene.
Wang Jinhua put the thermos cup on the coffee table and said: "Game of Thrones" is still negotiating with that company. It won the film and television adaptation rights of "The Twilight Saga" for US$800,000, including the priority purchase of the film and television adaptation rights of the sequel.
right."
"So expensive? Five to six million yuan." Chu Xuan was slightly surprised.
"Not only do you have to deal with the original author, but there is also a publishing house in between. The publishing environment in foreign countries is different and they attach great importance to copyright. The price of adaptation rights is naturally different from that in China." Wang Jinhua explained.
Chu Xuan nodded, expressing understanding.
"We are holding on to the rights to adapt this novel. We will wait until the company opens up overseas channels to decide." Wang Jinhua crossed her legs.
Chu Xuan nodded in agreement.
"But..." A smile appeared in Wang Jinhua's eyes, as if she had thought of something interesting.
Chu Xuan turned his head to look at her, with a hint of curiosity on his face.
"When we won the film and television adaptation rights of "The Twilight Saga" some time ago, director Kai Ge happened to come to the company. With nothing to do, he sat in the office and read this book for a day. He said that from this
What kind of inspiration did the novel find?" Wang Jinhua felt interesting.
"Director Kai Ge?" Chu Xuan raised a smile.
The great director found inspiration in the Twilight novels?
Chu Xuan became a little interested for a moment.
"What does he want to do?" he asked.
Wang Jinhua looked at Chu Xuan and said: "He mentioned that that day, if Edward is regarded as a zombie in China, and Isabella is regarded as an ordinary girl in the ancient version of White Moonlight, all the novelty elements in this book will be replaced.
Incorporate the exotic elements of Chinese mythology, then transform the painting style into a Chinese-style fantasy love story, and create a series of Chinese-style magical love movies, maybe it will be a hit."
Chu Xuan couldn't help laughing and said: "Director Kai Ge is so imaginative?"
Wang Jinhua’s eyebrows arched and she said, “You don’t have enough imagination to shoot The Promise?”
"The Promise"?...Chu Xuan felt happy and said: "Sister, you don't like "The Promise"?"
Wang Jinhua suppressed laughter and said: "Last year I read the script of "The Promise". Director Kai Ge looked at it like a treasure when he showed it to me. But I have read different types of film and television drama scripts for more than ten years, and I was a little bit a little bit interested in his script.
Incomprehensible."
Last year, when Chen Kaige invested in Brilliant Times, she took the opportunity to find Chen Kaige and read the script.
After all, it was a big project with an investment of three to four billion, and she was really curious about what kind of movie would require so much money.
But perhaps she is not artistic enough. She must not be able to understand the strange characters and strange lines in the script.
Chu Xuan was delighted when he heard this and said: "The Promise should be in the post-production stage now, and it should be released by the end of the year. If Director Kai Ge has experienced failure, he will definitely grow. At that time, we will give him a hand and turn "Twilight" into a masterpiece."
"City of Light" was given to him and asked him to write a Chinese-style magical love script in a Chinese-style Liaozhai style. I am very curious about director Kai Ge's imagination."
"I'll mention it to him then." Wang Jinhua felt very interesting.
Chu Xuan nodded slightly, stood up, picked up the cup and walked towards the water dispenser.
"After the small talk, let's talk about business." Wang Jinhua looked at his back and said.
"Sister, tell me." Chu Xuan bent down to receive the water.
"Whether it's helping Hu Jun and others invest resources, or help with investment and marketing of "The Condor", including buying the film and television adaptation rights of "The Twilight Saga" and investing in "Crazy Stone", what about the investment company?
The side has currently spent 60 million, and the remaining 40 million, and the head office has not touched the 300 million." Wang Jinhua talked about the company's accounts.
Chu Xuan got up after getting the water and walked towards the sofa.
"Leave 100 million as a capital reserve in case of accidents. Currently, the company's available funds are 240 million. We need to spend some of this money, otherwise it will be wasted." Wang Jinhua stood up and walked to the desk.
Chu Xuan sat down on the sofa, took a sip of water, and said, "Sister, what are your plans? You called me and said it was related to the movie?"
Wang Jinhua opened the drawer, took out a document from the drawer, and said, "I have a theater plan."
"Academy line?" Chu Xuan raised his eyebrows in surprise.
Wang Jinhua walked towards Chu Xuan, handed him the document and sat down.
With curiosity, Chu Xuan opened the document and read it.
Wang Jinhua crossed his arms, looked at Chu Xuan and said, "I don't want to invest in those big-ticket movies in recent years because they are too risky. We will make plans when the domestic entertainment movie market gradually develops."
Chu Xuan nodded and looked at the contents of the document carefully while listening to Sister Hua's story.
"But just because we don't make big movies or invest in big movies currently doesn't mean we won't do film-related things."
"So sister, you have to make arrangements in advance."
"Yes." Wang Jinhua admitted and said eloquently: "A cinema has three halls, three screens, and costs more than one million. I plan to invest 150 million to establish the Bright Times Cinema Company and build a theater in first- and second-tier cities across the country.
One hundred theaters will be completed within two years."
Chu Xuan lowered his head to read the document, thought for a while, and said: "A regular hall has 234 seats, and a theater has 702 seats. Calculating it as 700 seats, ideally, the average attendance rate for a movie is 10%
, that’s 70 seats. Each theater shows 4 movies every day, that’s 280 seats. A movie ticket is 20 yuan, and the daily income of a theater is estimated to be 5,600 yuan.”
"You are good at math." Wang Jinhua couldn't help laughing.
Chu Xuan raised his lips slightly and followed up on the previous topic: "The box office revenue of theaters is 57%. The daily income of a theater is about 3,000 yuan. If you throw out publicity, labor and taxes, even if it is 2,000 yuan, it is 60,000 yuan a month.
, that’s 720,000 a year, and 100 theaters is 72 million.”
"Bull." Wang Jinhua smiled and gave a thumbs up.
Chu Xuan shook his head and said: "To ensure good service, cinemas need to be overhauled or renovated every few months and six months. Labor wages and bonus costs are also increasing year by year, as are publicity expenses. An investment of 150 million
10,000 yuan is just an initial investment, and 72 million yuan will be reinvested in one year. If you need two years to fully build a hundred theaters, then I estimate that the cost will be recovered in four to five years."
"It's quite different from what I thought." Wang Jinhua nodded.
"But this is just an ideal situation. If we don't have a large number of professionals to help us with management, then the worst thing to think about is that we can't compete with other theaters, and there is no hope of recovering costs." Chu Xuan analyzed.
"China Film is our shareholder. If we want to build a cinema, we must join the China Cinema Line." Wang Jinhua looked at Chu Xuan.
"So what? A theater chain is a theater chain, and a theater is a theater. The State Administration of Radio, Film and Television stipulates that theater chains cannot participate in theater management." Chu Xuan looked at her.
"Theatrical chains cannot participate in theater management, but China Film Group can." Wang Jinhua said with a smile.
Chu Xuan was startled, glanced at Wang Jinhua a few times, and said, dumbfounded: "Sister, if you have something to say, just say it. Why are you playing riddles with me?"
Chu Xuan's appearance made Wang Jinhua smile happily.
"This plan was proposed to me by Huaying," she said.
"Hua Ying mentioned it?" Chu Xuan frowned, thinking about it but couldn't think of a reason.
"Sister, Huaying must be in need, right?" he asked with a frown.
"China Film Group will send a professional team to teach us how to take care of everything in the theater in the early stage, including theater decoration design, style formulation, publicity plans, service training, communication with the local government, and striving for the best policy support from the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television, etc.
, these Huaying will take care of it, but Huaying alone wants 20% of the shares of our theater company." Wang Jinhua stated Huaying's needs.
Chu Xuan raised his eyebrows and said, "20% of the shares? I'm a white wolf with nothing. If our theater develops, then Huaying will make a lot of money."
He shook his head again and said: "But if there is help from Huaying, and Huaying will help take care of everything in the theater in the early stage, it really gives me hope to develop the theater. This Huaying is equivalent to helping us grow, am I right?
Can it be regarded as Huaying training its younger brothers?"
Wang Jinhua raised the corner of her mouth and said: "Our company has comprehensive channels in television, but it is indeed the younger brother in film. This must be admitted."
Chu Xuan nodded. Although he didn't want to admit it, it was the truth.
Wang Jinhua continued: "With the help of Huaying, the theater will soon be on the right track. As long as our theaters can meet the standards, Huaying will also help talk to the radio and television, so that we can successfully obtain the theater license."
"With the theater chain license, we have our own theater chain. With our own theater chain, we have our own absolute say in the film schedule and release schedule."
"China Film has a stake in our cinema and a stake in Bright Times. As the cooperation between the two parties becomes more and more pleasant, we will not be controlled by others in the future in terms of movies."
Wang Jinhua added, "The most important thing is that with our own theater chain, when the company grows, if we want to cooperate with Hollywood in the future, we will have a greater say."
Chu Xuan nodded slowly while thinking.
He believes that operating a theater in today's era is very risky.
This risk refers to losing money and not making money.
But on the contrary, the high profit risk means that it is not difficult to operate theater chains.
If we wait for the film market to develop before we develop theater chains, we will undoubtedly face huge competitive pressure.
If you spend 150 million on it now, you may not be able to get your money back for several years, and you may even have to spend more money to maintain the survival of the theater.
But if we look to the future, the benefits of owning our own theater chain are self-evident.
Sister Hua's thinking is still very clear. She plays now and focuses on the future.
"Then let's do it." Chu Xuan said casually.
Now the company only produces TV series, and its investment in movies is also small.
The company's TV drama channels are fully integrated, so there is no pressure in the face of market competition.
But if the company waits for a few years to focus on making movies, the pressure will definitely be much greater.
The film industry is more difficult to navigate than the television industry, and the big capital in the industry is also concentrated in the film industry.
If you want to play, play happily, no one likes intrigues.
For this, Sister Hua needs to make arrangements in advance.
Sister Hua is very similar to him in this aspect of her character. She eliminates all obstacles that can be imagined in the future in advance.
"I like this." Chu Xuan said in his heart.
Wang Jinhua was very happy to see Chu Xuan approved her plan.
In private, Chu Xuan is her closest brother.
Yu Gong, Chu Xuan and her are partners who signed a unanimous action agreement.
Both parties have the same goals for the future, and there are no differences. She feels a little happy both privately and publicly.
"Since we have to build theaters and theater chains, distribution cannot be left behind," Wang Jinhua said with a smile.
Chu Xuan crossed his legs and was amused when he heard this, "Production, production, distribution, theaters, theaters, sister, do you want to have one-stop logistics services for a movie before we concentrate on making movies in a few years?"
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"That's right. If it goes through smoothly, then when we make big investment and big movies, we can go directly to the expressway." Wang Jinhua smiled and nodded.
Directly onto the expressway?
Sister Hua's little humor made Chu Xuan laugh.
"This is from the perspective of company development." Wang Jinhua stretched out a finger and tapped it casually.
"If you think about it in terms of money, you also know that under normal circumstances, investors who invest in a movie can only get about 38% of the box office share, the distributor can get up to 5%, and the theater can get 57%.
We also have to pay up to 5% to the theaters as service fees.”
Chu Xuan frowned slightly.
"If we distribute it ourselves, we have our own theater chain management company, and we have our own theaters, then if we invest in a movie and all the shares are taken into account, we can get nearly 50% of the box office share, and the rest will be other
Theater carve-up among theater chains.”
"The 12% gap is very big." Chu Xuan picked up the tea cup and took a sip of tea.
"Of course it's big!" Wang Jinhua raised the corner of her mouth, "If we invest in a movie with a box office of 1 billion, we can get 120 million more than other entertainment companies. If this gap continues, then we will
It’s difficult for most companies to succeed.”
Hearing this, Chu Xuan raised his smile and said, "Let's do it. According to the budget I just made, the tens of millions of dollars received from the theater every year have been repeatedly invested in maintaining the theater's expenses in the past few years. It should be enough."
"What if it's not enough?" Wang Jinhua narrowed her eyes.
Chu Xuan looked at her and said: "Get a bank loan for the shares of Xinlang Weiyu."
Wang Jinhua put her palms together and said happily, "As expected of me, he is my brother. I think the same thing as my sister."
She added, "Then it's settled. I'll hold a shareholders' meeting in a few days to explain the situation."
Chu Xuan smiled lightly, "That's it. Then I'll sign the contract when I come back from filming?"
Wang Jinhua nodded, "Okay, I still have to discuss the details with Huaying, which will take some time."
Chu Xuan nodded and said, "Okay, now that we've finished talking, can we go have a meal? I haven't eaten anything since I got off the plane."
Wang Jinhua was speechless and happy, stood up and said: "Let's go home, sister will cook in person."