Chapter 2213, The Rapidly Developing Film Industry
As Daming Pictures cooperated with businessmen from various parts of the Ming Dynasty by transferring copyrights, the movie "Huo Qubing Defeat the Huns" was quickly released in various parts of the Ming Dynasty, and even around the world.
With the powerful charm of the movie and the excellent production of "Huo Qubing Defeat the Huns", the movie quickly became popular all over the Ming Dynasty.
The first people to come into contact with movies are naturally the big cities everywhere. There are squares, stadiums, venues, etc. in the big cities. Movies are played every night, and the venues are almost full.
Expensive tickets can no longer prevent people from Ming Dynasty from going to see this movie, because if you don’t go to the movie now, you won’t even be able to get involved in the topic.
Both men, women and children are now discussing this movie and its plot and content. If you don’t watch it, you won’t even know what the movie is.
Only by watching it in person can you know what the movie is like, what the movie is about, and the form through which it is disseminated.
Otherwise, you simply won’t understand why those people who spent expensive tickets to watch a movie are all so excited, excited, and enthusiastic, and feel that their money was well spent.
It's incomprehensible if you don't go to see it, and you might even think that these people are stupid. They spend a few taels of silver to go to a big show or something. It's too expensive, and it's better to buy food or something that's more cost-effective.
Only after going to see it once in person, you may feel that this ticket is still too expensive, but you will definitely not regret it. You will also feel that the ticket is a bit expensive, but it is still worth it.
Movies quickly became popular all over the Ming Dynasty, and they also quickly became popular in overseas colonies, vassal states, and vassal states.
Suddenly, the entire Ming Dynasty was discussing this movie and the history of the early Western Han Dynasty.
The newspaper readers in the teahouse have to supplement their knowledge of this history, otherwise you will not be able to properly explain this history to others.
The same goes for school teachers, because there are always students who ask about this, such as what are the Huns, why are we called Han people, etc.
For ordinary people, after watching this movie, the awareness of family, country and world becomes clearer. At the same time, they are also deeply attracted by the scenes of thousands of troops and iron horses. A large number of young people have the idea of serving the country with loyalty.
I want to join the army.
Countless literati wrote wonderful poems to express their inner emotions. At the same time, they used to be full of contempt for soldiers, but now this concept has slowly changed.
Soldiers are no longer Qiu Ba, but their image has gradually become taller. They are loyal men who serve the country with loyalty, warriors who protect their home and country, and a powerful force for a nation and country to stand up in the world.
The movie's continued popularity continues, and it has an enduring trend and feeling.
A steady stream of money also flowed into Daming Pictures like running water, making Daming Pictures make a lot of money.
The movie theater I opened sold like crazy and made huge profits by selling tickets.
But this is only part of it. The real big money comes from selling copyrights, such as in super cities like Songhu.
With a population of several million, a prosperous economy, and a lot of affiliates, a big city like this has huge market potential. Daming Pictures has sold tens of millions of taels of silver just to sell the copyrights.
In addition, in various provinces of Ming Dynasty, overseas vassal states, colonies, vassal states, etc., discerning businessmen from all over the world are looking for Daming Pictures to buy the copyright.
If any copyright is sold, it will be hundreds of thousands of taels or millions of taels of silver. When it is added up, it is very impressive and huge.
The figure was much larger than Hong Ting's initial estimate, and it also made Daming Pictures a huge profit. It not only recovered the initial investment and costs, but also had a large amount of sufficient profits.
Eunko went to shoot more movies.
Because of Liu Jin's instructions, Daming Pictures also expanded rapidly and developed a large number of film and television industries.
On the one hand, it constantly improves and improves many film-related technologies, building its own factories to produce film, projection equipment, etc., on the other hand, it sets up multiple film shooting groups at the same time and starts shooting multiple movies of various themes at the same time.
Because they have money, Daming Pictures is even planning to build a professional film school to cultivate film and television-related talents, develop related technologies, etc.
These have greatly stimulated the development of the film industry.
In just a few months, Daming Pictures originally only had a few thousand employees, but it quickly expanded to tens of thousands. And the scale of tens of thousands is still too small, and it is still expanding its scale. There are many
The trend of forming a new huge industry.
Of course, it’s not just Daming Pictures that is laying out all aspects of the film industry.
Since ancient times, as long as it is a profitable business, there will be no shortage of people, and the same is true for the film industry.
From the moment the movie was released to its rapid popularity and sold-out theaters, people immediately realized that the film industry would be a very lucrative field and industry in the future.
In a very short period of time, dozens of film companies, large and small, were established in the Beijing-Tianjin area of Ming Dynasty. Some of these film companies directly went to Daming Pictures to purchase copyrights, and then transferred the rights to broadcast movies in various parts of Ming Dynasty.
, collect tickets and make money.
Others are learning from Daming Pictures and shooting their own movies. After all, the copyrights from Daming Pictures are too expensive.
To casually represent a region's copyright can easily cost hundreds of thousands of taels of silver. People with no financial strength simply cannot afford it.
Even if you can afford it, you still have to worry about whether it can recover the cost and whether it is profitable.
The careful businessman carefully calculated that the cost of shooting a movie may not even cost one hundred thousand taels of silver. It does not necessarily have to be a grand scene like "Huo Qubing Defeats the Huns". In some ordinary movies, actors
It doesn’t need too much, and it doesn’t need to spend too much money on venues, props, etc.
It doesn't cost much to hire some actors or something. After all, tens of thousands of taels of silver are estimated to be enough to make a movie.
Why spend so much money on a gamble, spend your own money to make a movie, and if you cooperate with others to release the movie, you will make a lot of money from the custody.
There are many shrewd businessmen and many people who see the potential for money in the film industry. In just a few months, many films are being planned and produced.
It's just that we are all newbies and don't know much about everything. We are all novices, so the progress of this shooting is very dissatisfying.
In particular, many people were not well prepared in advance, and the resulting film was completely incompetent. There was no way it could be compared with "Huo Qubing Defeats the Huns" and it was impossible to put it out.
So until the end of 1751 in the Yanhuang calendar (the third year of Zhengde), when Daming Pictures was preparing to release three movies at the same time, other film companies had not yet released their own movies.
This makes many investors quite anxious.
It seems that the Chinese New Year is coming soon. According to past situations, this Chinese New Year period is a time when the Ming Dynasty people’s spending power is at an all-time high. No matter what product or commodity it is, it will be very easy to sell, and any business will be particularly easy to do.
If this movie could be released a year ago, with the current popularity of the movie and the peak sales season during the Chinese New Year, it would be easy to make a lot of money, even if the movie is not successful.
Okay, the filming was mediocre, but now the movie is still very visible, and people will still pay for it.
Bai Baoting, the owner of Shengshi Pictures, came to the crew of his Shengshi Pictures film because of this incident.
Bai Baoting is not a particularly rich man. He only has a textile factory in his family, and it is not large in scale. It only has a textile factory with more than 1,000 people.
Nowadays, the competition in the textile industry is very fierce, it is already a red ocean, and profits are very thin.
So Bai Baoting was thinking about whether he should make a change. The emergence of movies coincided with the emergence of movies, which allowed him to see huge business opportunities at once, and he decisively decided to switch to the emerging industry of movies.
It cost a lot of money to hire people to shoot the movie, but because there was little experience, the shooting progress was not ideal and it took several months.
Bai Baoting has invested almost 100,000 taels of silver, but up to now, the filming of the movie has still not been completed. Seeing that the funds on hand are drying up, he is also very anxious now.
There is an urgent need to finish shooting the film quickly and then show it in the market, so that the funds can be recovered quickly and the film will not be unable to survive for several years.
Of course, he now urgently needs to see if this movie can make money, and whether the industry in which he has invested all his money can bring him new opportunities and huge wealth.
Compared with the textile industry, the film industry has just started, and he believes that he can definitely find gold in this field.
