Chapter 2215 , New Year's Eve Movies for Daming People
At the gate of the Fifth Middle School in the South District of Beijing, a large number of young and old men came in groups, dragging their families with them after seeing the advertisements, to watch the new movie "The Knights of Jianghu".
Bai Baoting looked at the dense crowd at the school gate with a satisfied smile on his face. The more people come here, the more money he can sell for his movies, and the more money he can earn.
It is not in vain that I have worked hard over the past few months and risked all my assets on this movie despite the huge pressure of bankruptcy.
Now it's finally time to harvest.
Looking at the school gate, there are many people who come to watch the movie. There are a few long lines of people paying money to come in to watch the movie. The money flows into their pockets like running water. This feeling is so refreshing!
There are already prepared classrooms in the No. 5 Middle School. As each classroom is filled with customers who come to watch the movie, the movie starts playing immediately. There is no intention of wasting time. There is no need to wait, and it starts playing directly.
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Bai Baoting prepared a total of 9 classrooms here, which are equivalent to 9 projection rooms in later movie theaters. One classroom can accommodate nearly a hundred people to watch, and can accommodate up to 900 customers at the same time.
Of course, this is only in the South District New City. In the East District and West District, Bai Baoting also cooperates with schools and has similar arrangements.
It was daytime, and at night, in order to recover the investment as quickly as possible, Bai Baoting also arranged to play movies in various school playgrounds, squares and other areas.
Although it is great to play movies in the classroom, the space is limited and the number of people it can accommodate is limited. One projector can only screen 100 people at most at a time.
It's different in the open air. A projector can show movies to thousands or even tens of thousands of people at a time. In that case, the efficiency is very high.
As for projectors, they are also in very short supply now. Bai Baoting had already placed an order a long time ago. Only then did he order dozens of projectors, which was barely enough to meet the current needs of the Beijing and Tianjin regions.
The vast majority of projectors are currently in the hands of Daming Pictures, which is currently expanding its film industry on a large scale.
It has a layout not only in the Beijing and Tianjin areas, but also in all major and medium-sized cities throughout the Ming Dynasty, as well as overseas colonies, vassal states, vassal states, etc.
Therefore, Daming Pictures' demand for projectors is also very huge. Fortunately, Daming Pictures has its own factory that can produce projectors and can give priority to meeting its own needs.
In the classroom, as the movie started, the people who came to watch the movie no longer cared about the crowding and darkness in the classroom, and their attention was immediately focused on the movie.
Although the investment in the movie "The Swordsman" is not large and there are not many actors, fortunately the story is novel and has many innovations. In addition, elements such as swordsmen, bandits, punishing evil and promoting good, love, etc. are integrated into it.
, the compact plot and the fairly exciting fights make customers enjoy watching it with gusto.
Soon, the one-and-a-half-hour movie was finished playing, and when the customers walked out of the classroom, they were all discussing continuously.
"This movie is quite exciting and very enjoyable to watch."
"Yes, it's still very good, and the finale is also very enjoyable."
"It's a good movie, and the money was not wasted."
"Although it is not as grand as Huo Qubing's victory over the Xiongnu, it is still very exciting, not bad, not bad!"
Everyone's evaluation of this movie is still very good.
Of course, this does not mean that the film is very good. In fact, it can only be regarded as an average level.
But who knows, there are very few movies at this time, and this martial arts movie is still very fresh, so even if it is of average quality, everyone will think it is good if they watch it.
With new ideas and the current popularity of movies, Bai Baoting's "The Swordsman" quickly spread in the Beijing-Tianjin area. Soon, young and old men in the entire Beijing-Tianjin area also knew about it.
In addition to the three movies produced by Daming Pictures, there is also a movie called "The Swordsman" released by the little-known Shengshi Pictures.
People who have watched this movie have given it good reviews, which makes more people willing to spend money to watch this movie.
In addition, this movie is shown both day and night. As long as you go there and there is a classroom, the movie will start playing as soon as it is full. This new method also makes many people think it is very good.
In the evening, in order to attract more people to watch the movie, Bai Baoting's ticket price is also set at a lower price. It only costs 500 coins per person to watch the movie, and children can also watch it for free.
During the day, almost all the venues are full, and there are almost no breaks in the screening rooms at every cooperating school.
As soon as the front part was finished, a large number of people came in immediately and the movie was shown one after another. Because as time goes by, more and more people watch it, and this movie has become quite famous.
More and more people came here to watch movies every day. After the third day, there was a serious shortage of screening rooms, and customers had to wait in line.
There is no way, the old and young men in the Beijing and Tianjin areas are really not short of money, and everyone has plenty of time during the Chinese New Year. They can watch movies during the day, so naturally they bring their families to watch.
Especially many people will bring their children to watch movies.
Because it won't be cold when watching movies in the classroom, it is not good for children to watch movies in the open air at night. It is very likely that they will catch wind and cold, get sick or something.
But it is definitely not possible to prevent children from watching movies, because children also need entertainment and like to watch movies, so it is also a good choice to take them to see this swordsman during the day.
"The Swordsman" began to slowly become popular, and more and more people came to watch the movie. Even at night, when the movie was played in the open air, there were still a large number of people regardless of the cold winter.
weather to watch this movie.
Bai Baoting, an investor in such a popular movie, was all smiles, and the money flowed into Bai Baoting's pocket like running water.
Only three days after the movie was released, Bai Baoting's investment of more than 100,000 taels of silver had already been recovered.
Don't look at the screenings that can only be done in classrooms during the day. Take the No. 5 Middle School in the South District as an example, there are 9 screening classrooms, each of which can accommodate 100 people. The ticket of 1 tael of silver is 100 taels of silver for one screening.
A classroom can screen almost 6 times a day, which works out to 600 taels of silver per day.
These nine screening classrooms earn more than 5,000 taels of silver per day, and there are three cooperative places in Beijing and Tianjin. This means that during the day alone, the income can be almost 30,000 taels of silver.
In the evening, movies are screened in the open air. Considering the cold winter, there are far fewer people willing to watch the movie than in the stadium.
But in one night, open-air screenings in various places still brought Bai Baoting almost 20,000 taels of silver in income, which worked out to almost 50,000 taels of silver in one day.
Of course, the first and second days did not reach this level, but starting from the third day, the income will exceed this number, allowing Bai Baoting to recover the cost in the first few days. This is still a long way to go.
When you go out with half of the tickets.
Every day that followed, Bai Baoting was all smiles, even grinning from ear to ear. He was able to earn a huge amount of tens of thousands of taels of silver every day. Not to mention how happy this little day was.
Bai Baoting made a rough calculation. Now it is only broadcast in the Beijing and Tianjin areas. Later, he can also learn from Daming Pictures and cooperate with businessmen from various places to sell the copyright.
Although it is not as popular as several movies from Daming Pictures, judging from the prices given by some businessmen who have come to visit us, it is not a problem at all to casually sell it for several million taels of silver.
The movie "Swordsman" cannot be shown in a stadium. Maybe it can explode at the box office. The three movies released by Daming Pictures during the Chinese New Year are all very popular. Each one is a hit, which is also a big hit.
Daming Pictures made huge profits again.
After investing one hundred thousand taels of silver, he easily earned millions of taels of silver in just a few months. Such a return on investment made Bai Baoting feel as if he had dug up a mountain of gold. This money was really worth it.
Very profitable.
In comparison, my own textile factory is half-dead, making extremely meager profits in the Red Sea, which cannot be compared with making movies.
One is in the sky and the other is underground.
Therefore, Bai Baoting decisively sold his textile factory and fully invested in the film industry.
Of course, the great success of Daming Pictures and Shengshi Pictures has also made other film companies in the Beijing-Tianjin area jealous.
Let’s not talk about Daming Pictures. Shengshi Pictures didn’t even have any reputation before, and Bai Baoting used to be just the owner of a small factory.
He was able to make a lot of money in one movie all at once, which made many people jealous, especially those movie investors who had invested in movies and were filming movies but had not yet caught up with the Spring Festival schedule.
They all regretted it.
Why didn't the movie I filmed be completed earlier so that it could be released earlier and make a lot of money during this Chinese New Year period?
But one thing is certain, that is, the emerging industry of film is indeed a sunrise industry that can create miracles!
ps: Ahem, I heard that many people have lost their temper recently. How is everyone doing?
