Chapter 295 Jin Yuanyuan's Purpose (Subscribe to support!)
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"Jin Yuanyuan wants to see me?"
After a little thought, Xu Kai guessed that Jin Yuanyuan must have come for the distribution rights of "Charlotte's Troubles".
To be honest, Xu Kai and others had a pretty pleasant cooperation with Aina last time, and everyone made a lot of money.
In theory, everyone should continue to cooperate this time.
But first of all, Xu Kai, who was extremely short of money because of running Xingyun Express, a money-burning machine, was going to eat alone this time and not let others share his pie.
Therefore, Xu Kai rejected Aina's request to cooperate with him using the same model as last time without even considering it.
And at this juncture, Cheng Yaojin emerged.
——Wang Lei, the general manager of the brother company, approached Xu Kai and said that the brother company wanted to help Xu Kai distribute "Charlotte's Troubles".
Brothers Company is the largest comprehensive private entertainment group in China that integrates investment and operation of movies, TV series, artist management, records, and entertainment marketing. Brothers Company also has its own cinema chain, and its domestic distribution strength is even greater than that of Aina.
In addition to its hard power, Brother Company also has extremely strong soft power, which is its relationship with Zhu Bing.
As soon as Zhu Bing graduated from campus, he joined a sister company with the same background as him, and then became famous with the help of the company's resources.
Later, when Zhu Bing had grown stronger, it was the sister company that helped him set up the Zhu Bing Studio.
Moreover, because they wanted to make friends with Zhu Bing, the brother company contributed money, manpower and effort, but did not ask for many shares in Zhu Bing Studio - the brother company only symbolically asked for 5% of Zhu Bing Studio's shares as a bond for the two parties to continue to establish friendship and cooperation.
It can be said that Zhu Bing has always maintained a good friendship with the sister company.
Let me put it this way, if Jin Yuanyuan had not become one of the investors of "Ten Miles of Foreign Concessions" by chance, if no one had expected that the first film of the unknown Xu Kai would be able to win the box office championship in the domestic film market, if the sister company had not even thought of competing with Aina for the distribution rights of "Ten Miles of Foreign Concessions", Aina might not have been able to get this great bargain of "Ten Miles of Foreign Concessions".
After losing the opportunity of "Shiliyangchang" which allowed the brother company to take a step forward, the brothers Wang Zhong and Wang Lei were very upset.
In order to make up for this huge loss, Wang Lei of the Wang Zhong faction had to buy the subsequent copyright of "Ten Miles of Foreign Lands" at all costs, and then shoot "Ten Miles of Foreign Lands 2".
But just when the brothers Wang Zhong and Wang Lei were about to win, some ruthless people like Zhao Qihang showed up. They went crazy and bought the subsequent copyright of "Shiliyangchang" at a sky-high price of 1.5 billion.
actually--
1.5 billion, it’s not that our sister company can’t afford it.
But the problem is that Xu Kai, the soul figure who made "Ten Miles of Foreign Concessions" famous, is unwilling to have anything to do with "Ten Miles of Foreign Concessions" anymore.
This made Wang Zhong, who had a keen sense of the market, cautious. In the end, he personally decided to give the subsequent copyright of "Shiliyangchang" to Zhao Qihang and others.
Although they gave in, the sister company did not have any good movies released during this year's Spring Festival.
The main reason is that the spy war blockbuster "Crane's Cry", which was produced by Brother Company with all its efforts this year, was suppressed by the two blockbusters "The Grandmaster" and "The Founding of a Republic", and the response was mediocre, which completely failed to highlight Brother Company's position as the industry leader.
So the Brothers Company urgently needs a movie that can prove its status.
To be honest, from this perspective, "Charlotte's Troubles" does not actually meet the requirements of the sister company.
You have to know that "Charlotte's Troubles" is just a small-to-medium-sized production with an investment of tens of millions - even if the cost of publicity and promotion is included, it does not exceed 50 million.
Moreover, although Xu Kai invited Zhao Laogen, Liu Hua, Jay Chou, Na Gege and others to make guest appearances, in fact, "Charlotte's Troubles" was starred by Xu Li and Ma Lili, who had never been the protagonist of a movie and had just gained a little fame. It is said that Xu Kai, who Wang Zhong and Wang Lei were looking forward to, was not going to show his face, and it seemed that he was only going to show his voice.
Such a movie obviously did not meet the expectations of the sister company.
However, Wang Zhong keenly felt that "Charlotte's Troubles" should not be that simple. More importantly, Wang Zhong felt that Xu Kai, who could bewitch Zhu Bing to such an extent, should not be that simple.
The key reason is that Brother Company's ace director Feng Dapao's new film "Earthquake" is not suitable for release during the Spring Festival. This year's Spring Festival, Brother Company has no outstanding movies.
So Wang Zhong asked Wang Lei to obtain the distribution rights of "Charlotte's Troubles" at all costs.
Because they wanted to make more money, Happy Wheat fully funded the production and promotion of "Charlotte's Troubles".
In fact, it’s not that no one wants to invest money in Xu Kai.
But the total investment in "Charlotte's Troubles" was less than 50 million, and Happy Maizi took it out casually.
In this situation, if others still want to invest money, it would be the same as snatching money from Xu Kai.
This will definitely offend Xu Kai.
Furthermore, when others saw that "Charlotte's Troubles" was starred by Xu Li and not Xu Kai, they realized that not only was the investment not good, but even the cast was not good. Although it was directed by Xu Kai, the domestic box office champion director, Xu Kai had never directed a comedy movie. He was not like Zhang, who failed in comedy. So when Xu Kai did not want others to share the pie, he did not actively promote the matter.
For the same reason, Yu Dongdong backed off after learning that a sister company was willing to pay 6% of the distribution fee to distribute "Charlotte's Troubles".
The distribution box office income (gross income) can be distributed to the audience at 5-15%.
——This mainly depends on the director, cast, investment, who pays for the publicity and promotion, etc.
For example, when "Ten Miles of Foreign Concessions" was released last time, Aina received almost 10% of the distribution fee, and the money for publicity and promotion was also paid by the producer of "Ten Miles of Foreign Concessions".
Without counting the money earned from cinemas or the appreciation of stocks, just counting the money earned from the distribution of "Shiliyangchang", Enna made a huge fortune.
That’s why it is said that the one who made the most money from the huge sales of “Ten Miles of Foreign Lands” was Aina.
However, in order to obtain the distribution rights of "Charlotte's Troubles", the brother company has reduced the distribution fee to 6%.
Although, if "Charlotte's Troubles" sells well, there will be some profit, and the theaters will also make a lot of money.
But this is not as much as earning 10%.
The key issue is that the sister company still wants to give "Charlotte's Troubles" the highest number of screenings.
In other words, if Aina wants to release "Charlotte's Troubles", it not only has to reduce the distribution fee to 6%, but also has to allocate all the screening time to "Charlotte's Troubles" like its sister companies.
This made Yu Dongdong very hesitant.
This is different from its sister company which did not have any outstanding films released during this year's Spring Festival.
Yu Dongdong summed up the reasons for Zhang's failure, and teamed up with the famous comedy director Zhu Ping, re-employed Shen Yang and the Zhao family, and shot an action comedy movie "Laughing Jianghu", which is also scheduled to be released during this year's Spring Festival.
In other words, "Charlotte's Troubles" and "The Laughing World" collided.
After comprehensive consideration, Yu Dongdong and other senior executives of Aina decided to give up the distribution rights of "Charlotte's Troubles" and focus on distributing "Laughing Jianghu" produced by their own company.
But Jin Yuanyuan has the exact opposite opinion.
——Jin Yuanyuan, who knew Xu Kai's magic, advocated that she would rather reduce the distribution fee of "Charlotte's Troubles" to 5% and postpone the release time of "Laughing Jianghu", and she must obtain the distribution rights of "Charlotte's Troubles" at all costs.
However, Jin Yuanyuan had just entered Aina after all, and her influence was insignificant, so she could not change the decision made by Yu Dongdong and others.
But Jin Yuanyuan was unwilling to give up, so she wanted to arrange a meeting between Xu Kai and Yu Dongdong, so that Xu Kai could persuade Yu Dongdong and achieve a win-win situation for Aina and Kai Xin Maizi...
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(End of this chapter)
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