"It's a one-time thing? You won't continue to blackmail me for money?"
"How is that possible?"
"Boss Han, who do you think I am?"
"I always keep my word, why would I lie to you?"
"What good does it do me to lie to you?"
"To tell you the truth, I actually paid the majority of the cost of booking the venue myself, but I think it's too boring to pay for it myself. It's better to find an ally."
"How about it?"
"Shall I add you too?"
"Then... add one more."
"You've said so, is it okay if I don't contribute the money?"
Wu Di clicked his tongue, very dissatisfied.
"Boss Han, I finally understand why Jingjing doesn't want to talk to you."
"You deserve it."
"what do you mean?"
"What's wrong with me?"
Han Jing looked confident, and that was correct. How could a conceited and narcissistic man like him be aware of his own problems?
"Boss Han, as a man, the most important thing is to be honest, especially for men. Isn't it good to be frank?"
"Although we haven't met much and don't know each other well enough, based on my impression of you, I think you are a really awkward person."
"I am also puzzled by this. Look, you are young and have a successful career. The most important thing is that you are good-looking and decent. But why is this character so awkward?
"
"If you have any ideas, just say it directly. We are all men. If you tell the truth, can I still eat you?"
"What's more, you also know my financial resources, and this is indeed within the scope of my affordability. I can't let you lose everything, so just put your heart in your stomach."
"As a friend, I suggest you be more open and honest next time, whether to Jingjing or your girlfriend."
"As a man, passion is more attractive, right?"
Han Jing didn't want to talk to him, decided on a way to pay him, waved his hand and left.
Wu Di could only look at his back and sigh.
How can young people be so unwilling to accept opinions?
Whether you are a man or a woman, it is not good if you have an awkward personality. You will know it when you encounter something.
Is this... done?
Wu Di put his hands in his pockets and got two million comfortably.
The name of a big star is really easy to use. You can easily get so much investment with almost no other strings attached.
Although of course Wu Di would not cheat Han Jing, and would divide the money in a strict manner when it was time to divide it, but this trust is also very valuable.
I can only say that no wonder others say that once they enter the pen, pigs can become prosperous and make a fortune. This may be the reason.
After all, everyone trusts your profitability and is willing to invest in you or even borrow huge amounts of money.
With this money as start-up capital, it will be difficult not to make money.
For ordinary people, let alone two million, even if it is reduced by another zero, there is no chance. It is definitely not that easy.
In fact, Wu Di just saw Han Jing and wanted to try his luck. It was okay for him to pay all the money himself.
Now Han Jing is given a chance to make money, but he doesn't know how to be grateful and doesn't know who his benefactor is. It's really pitiful.
With this amount of money, for a movie like Labyrinth, it is enough to build momentum in the early stage.
If it is a movie of the scale of The Orphans, this amount of money will never be enough. First of all, you will not be able to pass the cinema level.
There are also differences in the number of screenings in cinemas. There are large and small screenings, and there are also some medium-sized screenings, such as large screenings, which require hundreds of people per room.
If a movie wants to book a movie theater, at least a dozen tickets must be sold before the movie theater will show your movie honestly.
I’ll save this one for you. If it’s a small venue, it would be much more convenient. If it’s full, there might only be a few dozen people.
If the venue is reserved, five or six people will be enough.
Why should we reserve the venue? What can it reflect?
In fact, these five million are not only the cost of booking the venue, but also the sales volume at critical moments, and the sales volume is an obvious behavior.
As the name suggests, buying tickets costs money. Of course, in order to do the most with the least money, film companies still have many ways to buy tickets.
For example, by cooperating with relevant theaters, using members to purchase tickets, or purchasing group tickets, it can be at least half cheaper than normal on-site ticket sales.
Even if it is cheaper, it is still a genuine small ticket. Therefore, compared to buying tickets directly, more smart people will choose to book the venue to build publicity for their own movies.
As the name suggests, we have reserved the entire venue, but there is a difference between a private venue and a private venue.
Sometimes, the theater is reserved just to invite relatives and friends to watch a movie. In that case, the movie tickets have to be actually sold.
Cinemas also like this kind of private theaters, because not only do they sell tickets, but there are actually live people coming in to watch the movie.
This scene is considered to be played effectively.
The other method of booking a venue is very risky for movie theaters.
That is to buy a few tickets and reserve the theater, because for cinemas, no matter how exciting a movie is, it often cannot be 100% full.
At least, the first three rows of seats are usually not bought by anyone.
Generally speaking, for theater movies, the most popular ones, the attendance rate is basically maintained at around 8%, which is considered normal.
Of course, this 8% is also the comprehensive result of the total attendance rate. Ticket warehouses and cinemas with good facilities have extremely high attendance rates.
They cannot be compared.
In other words, for movie theaters, as long as the average attendance rate can be achieved, this movie must be played.
There are also requirements within the industry for opening rates.
If this average attendance cannot be reached, it may not matter during the off-season. Many movie fans will also find that some of the niche films they watch can be screened as usual with only two or three people at a time.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! But during popular periods, movie theaters will not lose money and make money like this. At that time, they will transform into box office machines and behave very cold-bloodedly.
As long as your movie does not do well at the box office, even if you have agreed on a film schedule, it will not help. Who is telling you not to make money?
If you don’t make money, can you still delay others from making money?
The competition for movies in popular schedules is very fierce. Once they find that another movie is more profitable, the theater chain will mercilessly cut off your movie schedule and replace it with another movie.
Not to mention this, there is something even more cruel.
Sometimes, the audience will find that the movie they have bought is not showing the movie, but has been replaced by something else.
Just because the attendance rate of the movie you bought was not up to standard and there were too few people, the theater manager just waved his hand and changed it to a blockbuster movie.
As for your ticket money, you either have to wait for the platform to refund you, or you have to torture yourself and watch a popular movie with someone else.
After such an operation, all your film schedules will be ruined. What else can you say about the box office?
Therefore, many fans and film producers, in order to let cinemas insist on showing their own movies, will use the tactic of booking out theaters.
By buying a few tickets for each show, the cinema cannot give up. So, what is the use of this?
Aren’t you still able to sell only these few tickets?
Of course that's impossible!
This is equivalent to an advertising act, that is, using the act of booking the venue to secure the right to screen our movie.
In this way, when the audience chooses to watch a movie, they can see our movie at the same time, which gives them more choices.
In fact, to put it bluntly, whether the film crew or the fans reserve the venue in this way, the purpose is to attract more passers-by to enter the venue and give themselves a chance.
Often, such reserved seats are easily discovered by ordinary people. Since the popularity of ticket purchasing software, computerized seat arrangement and seat selection have become more and more popular, making it more and more convenient.
The audience can easily see the seat purchase status of the movie he is about to purchase from the computer screen.
It is clear which seats have been purchased, which ones are still vacant, and which seat you have chosen.
With such a seating map, the behavior of booking a venue is basically clear.
Generally speaking, since you want to attract passers-by to the venue, you must leave good seats for real passers-by to watch the movie. Therefore, when booking a venue, you will choose seats in the corners.
Anyway, the seats are against the general movie-watching habits of passers-by. They are either in the first three rows or in the corners. In this way, it is too obvious.
There is also a professional term for this kind of booking behavior: locking.
Such lock-up behavior actually disrupts the market, but in 2010, no one cared about it.
No one will dig deeper.
However, in another five years, it will become a prohibited behavior, and if it occurs, you will be beaten and killed.
However, for Boss Wu, he does not have such patience, nor is it necessary. Such locking behavior is really too despicable.
In fact, such means are used to keep the film scheduled, which is enough to prove that this is really a bad movie.
Many movies, due to various reasons, may be in a difficult situation when they are first released, and it is difficult to stand out from the crowd of popular movies.
However, as long as the quality is excellent and theaters are willing to give it a chance, it is still easy to achieve ideal box office results.
And booking the theater is enough to prove that you are not favored by the theaters in the first place. At least, the theaters think that you should not have so many films scheduled.
If you do too much by booking theaters, you will offend the theaters and disrupt their normal film arrangement procedures, which is not worth the gain.
It is more cost-effective for us to spend our money on practical purposes.
When Wu Di handed over the money to book the venue to Lan Masanti, Ms. Lan was shocked.
How is this possible?
"I asked you for money, do you really just pay me?"
"My dear son, I was just teasing you. With such a small amount of money to book the venue, do I still need to use your funds?"
ah……
this……
"Mom, why didn't you tell me earlier?"
"I got the money from my friends, and my friends are ready to invest in joint production."
Ranmasanti chuckled: "What's this?"
"Aren't you still being trained?"
"This time, in order to collect money, you have to use a lot of brains, right?"
"That's right. To mix in this circle, you must not be stubborn and be smart and flexible. Now, although you have the help of Lao Zhang and others, your career is developing very well, and, for a long time, you will always be
Very good, I’m not worried about that at all.”
"Moreover, you are also capable and capable. This is the key. However, if you want to get better in this circle, you cannot have too limited vision."
"Looking at your type, you don't look like the soul muse of a certain great director. You can't become that kind of person."
"You are very handsome to begin with. Generally speaking, based on my experience in making movies over the years, many people who can become the favorite actors of a certain great director often have certain characteristics."
"Whether it's melancholy, cheerful, or affectionate, there are always some personal traits, and this trait is particularly obvious in this person."
"This kind of quality is what directors pursue, so these actors can often have a relatively stable, long-term cooperative relationship with big directors."
"But what about you, my son? I only praise you if you are not my own child. You are really handsome and conform to the mainstream aesthetics. This will weaken your charm in the eyes of the director. It will be difficult for you to always cooperate with a director.
Go down."
"Because you are handsome, sunny and easy-going, your personal characteristics are not very obvious, which makes it impossible for you to maintain long-term cooperative relationships with those big directors."
"In other words, even if you are old Zhang or little Zhang, they will always think of you when they make movies in the future, but it is difficult for you to play the leading role. You can't just do nothing for three to five years, just waiting for them to do something.
There must be a suitable script in it!"
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Wu Di never expected that Lanmasanti, who had not been too involved in his personal development and only supported him blindly, had already taken such a long-term view.
Could it be that this is the power of a biological mother?
"I think so too, so although I know that if I really don't want to pay the money, you will always have the money, but as long as I'm not at the end of my rope, I still want to try to find other options.
resource."
"I'm pretty lucky this time. Han Jing has already agreed to invest, and I've also added him as a co-producer. Part of the money is from my own pocket, but it's also in the name of my company. In this way, although our maze is
It’s a small-budget art film, but it’s co-produced by four or five companies, so it looks very impressive.”
"It's much better than before."
"I'm very happy that you can have such an idea. A man should be like this, ambitious and brave."
"You are busy with domestic releases first. After this round of releases, I will introduce foreign producers to you. If a movie like Labyrinth is done well, it can also earn a lot of money abroad. It's okay.
Expand your network and increase your visibility.”
"It can't be the same producer I met last time in Shuicheng!"
"Of course he does. We are old friends. It will be absolutely no problem to help you get a few theater releases."
"However, you also know that nowadays, the audience of these domestic movies abroad is always limited. This is determined by many factors."
"One is the language and the other is the cultural core. They are not the same. There is nothing we can do about it."
"Even if there are theater chains willing to take on the responsibility, in my opinion, there will probably be no more than 200 theaters that can open."
"Coupled with the restrictions on the subject matter and the restrictions on the number of moviegoers, the income is only a few million."
"It won't be too high. You have to be prepared for this."
"Mom, you are thinking too much. I don't have such a big appetite. I would have fainted from laughter even if I had a few million."