Chapter 900 People are stupid and money comes quickly!
Titan Force Security Company is the property of the Harris family, not the private property of Marco Xiao’s father, so it has no connection with Marco Xiao.
The African training camp can help people do some dirty work, and it has the shares of several allies of the Harris family, but they all use white gloves.
The African training camp is affiliated to Titan Force Security Company, of which the Harris family holds the largest share and is the largest shareholder and is responsible for daily management.
Therefore, if Brother Xiao Ma continues to work at Titan Force, he will at most become a company executive and will not be able to get shares.
Neither the members of the Harris family nor their allies will allow the shares of Titan Power to flow out.
Brother Xiao Ma is not stupid. He has known these almost obvious things for a long time. This time he can take the opportunity to find his own way, which is perfect for him.
Brother Xiao Ma, who has recovered from injury, found love, and found his own life position in Xiangjiang, is full of energy and exudes a kind of vitality.
Xiang Qiang was just like his performance in "God of Gamblers", with no expression on his face and walking past Brother Xiao without blinking his eyes.
Fa Ge, on the other hand, nodded and smiled at Brother Xiao Ma in a friendly manner, and received the same response from Brother Xiao Ma.
In fact, Xiang Qiang is not arrogant, nor does he look down on Brother Xiao Ma, who may burst out with huge energy at any time, and the Harris family behind him.
The main problem is that Xiang Qiang doesn't know how to communicate with him. Their status is very unequal, not to mention that they have almost no intersection. Xiang Qiang cannot be allowed to say to him: "Hello, Brother Xiao Ma. I just
On behalf of the Xiangjiang community, I would like to pay tribute to you and the Harris family!"
Isn’t this just an international joke?
Therefore, even if Xiang Qiang knew Brother Xiao Ma's identity, he could only turn a blind eye at this time. It would be too cheap to deliberately get involved, and there is no need for it.
The Xiangjiang premiere of "Ancient and Modern Battles between Qin Terracotta Warriors" was very successful. Driven by the three hosts, the atmosphere was very lively.
Chen Xinjian took the initiative to help guest host, not only to repay the favor, but also to get closer to Youlian.
He is a cross-border person, so he looks at issues from a higher perspective than other people in the Hong Kong film and television industry.
Although they are all in the Hong Kong film industry, Chen Xinjian has his own small circle. He did not pay much attention to the development of Youlian before. Because of this incident, he began to take a serious look at Youlian, an upstart in the Hong Kong film industry.
If you don’t know it, Chen Xinjian was shocked.
In the past few years, Youlian has been moving forward step by step. Although the annual production volume and the number of joint investments it participates in are very small, the selection of films is extremely precise. Almost every film is a hit, and almost all of them are hits.
It achieved double success in terms of word-of-mouth and box office.
The artists signed by Youlian also have endless potential. Fa Ge, Leslie Cheung and Simon Yam, which one is not the hottest actor in the Hong Kong film industry today?
A movie called "A Better Tomorrow" turned "poison hair" into "magic hair"; it brought Simon Yam, who had long been wandering between second- and third-tier actors, into the first-tier ranks; it even made the actor who only relied on fans to cheer him up to win the box office.
Leslie Cheung has a real fan group of his own.
Subsequently, Youlian, which was regarded by the industry as not doing its job properly, successively invested in two films, "The Last Emperor" and "Autumn Fairy Tale", with extremely bleak box office prospects.
Especially for "The Last Emperor", the supplementary investment of 6.5 million US dollars still has no copyright, and it has become a joke in the Hong Kong film and television industry.
If they knew the jokes of later generations, they would definitely say: "The people here are stupid and the money is plentiful. Come quickly!"
However, the facts mercilessly slapped all doubters in the face.
The literary film "Autumn Fairy Tale", with an investment of only 5 million Hong Kong dollars, has achieved a box office of 35 million Hong Kong dollars in Hong Kong, breaking the box office record of literary films in Hong Kong.
Moreover, the film won the first prize at the Venice International Film Festival, achieving a breakthrough for a film in an international A-level film festival.
After "Autumn Fairy Tale" won the award, its international sales soared, surpassing the sales revenue in Asia. This also made the film's after-tax profit easily exceed the 100 million Hong Kong dollar mark. Its investment return rate is really high.
Envy.
The results achieved by "The Last Emperor" are even more shocking.
This historical biopic co-produced by multiple countries has stated that it is aiming for Oscars from the very beginning of the project. This has basically announced that the film does not care about the box office.
Knowing this, many film and television companies are willing to participate in investment, production and distribution, but they do not want to invest too much.
It's enough to gain fame by free riding, but if you really have to invest huge sums of money to enter, will you lose everything?
When Youlian (Sun Dahai) publicly announced that it would take over the US$6.5 million investment gap in the film "The Last Emperor", many filmmakers in Hong Kong were discussing privately, is this a waste of money? Or is it a lost cause?
After the outspoken Honggu found out, she called Sun Dahai specifically to ask him to consider the investment carefully. Fa Ge and Leslie Cheung also vaguely advised Sun Dahai to act with caution.
Only Ren Dalai trusted the decision made by Sun Dahai.
He understood Sun Dahai's situation. Even if Sun Dahai's judgment and luck did not come into play in this project, judging from Sun Dahai's family background, an investment of more than six million US dollars was just a drop in the bucket!
After a long period of filming and post-production, "The Last Emperor" has finally been released worldwide. What is unexpected is that such a niche film, which is only liked by the academic old-timers on the Academy Awards jury, actually...
Sold well all over the world?!
Compared with the investment of 25 million US dollars, the actual box office performance of "The Last Emperor" is still a bit exaggerated. It can only be said that its box office performance is much better than that of other films of the same type.
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But this large part is completely different from other films of the same type.
This allowed the after-tax income of "The Last Emperor" to easily exceed the film's investment cost line.
In other words, "The Last Emperor" has recovered all investment costs based on global box office revenue (shares and sales).
This movie has achieved good box office results in Japan and Taiwan. Even in Hong Kong, which does not like historical movies, it has received more than 25 million Hong Kong dollars at the box office. Let those who promote pessimistic predictions in the media wait to see the joke.
People who have turned themselves into a joke.
While the filmmakers in Xiangjiang were lamenting the good luck of Youlian, Sun Dahai was hiding aside, secretly enjoying counting money.
Xiangjiang filmmakers do not pay much attention to the income from movie peripherals and derivative products, but the Hollywood movie marketing team hired by the "The Last Emperor" crew who spent a lot of money would not be such an idiot and miss such a major business opportunity.