Hollywood Secret Garden

Chapter 245 Is film a profiteering industry?

"Hi dear, it's good to hear your voice... have you heard it? Yes... it's fine, we're all fine, except that I'm currently being asked to stay home and observe... yes, a disguised grounding, I can only talk to them on the phone...Okay, go ahead and say hello to Jesse for me, I'll wait for you to come and see me too!"

After turning off the phone, Angela smiled wryly and rubbed her ears. Although she knew that Lindsay only cared about herself, she was still not used to her exaggerated yelling on the phone.

Putting her mind away, the girl returned to the sofa in the living room from the window, and spread her hands with a smile in front of Paul Tuckers, who had already been promoted to the manager of Warner's production department: "Sorry, I kept you waiting."

"It's okay, it's just for a short while, I can understand." The other party had a clear look, obviously already aware of what happened to her on the set.

"Okay, where did we talk?" Angela didn't care, so she quickly got down to business.

"Increase theaters." Sparrow beside him reminded.

"Yes, increase the number of theaters." The girl nodded, "I think Warner can make adjustments in the theaters it belongs to now, and then arrange the movie to be released at the best time, isn't it?"

Angela has every reason to have the confidence to make such a request. Although "The Blair Witch" was released two weeks ago, only 25 theaters were showing it, and all of them were small theaters located in remote areas. The time slot was only slightly better. It's not scheduled for late night-of course, it's only a little better than late-night stalls.

But the girl did one thing in the first place—announced the release news on the theme website of "The Blair Witch", and listed the theaters where it was played and when it was played!So now, two weeks later, although there are only 5 more movie theaters, the box office has reached 600 million US dollars!

Of course, this figure is trivial for those big-budget movies, but think about 30 movie theaters, think about the production cost, and calculate the ratio between these numbers.Look at the long queue for buying tickets, and listen to those strong voices of adding games, any businessman with a brain should know how to do it!

"I have to say I'm sorry, Ms. Angela. Before the end of this week, the number of theaters can only gradually increase to about 800." Paul smiled wryly, obviously Warner has problems in this regard.

"May I know the reason?" the girl asked calmly.

"A lot. For example, schedule adjustments for other movies, playback adjustments for movie theaters, etc." Paul sighed, with a wry smile, "The most important thing is... not enough copies!"

Angela frowned imperceptibly, her tone was still calm: "I remember I asked to prepare as many copies as possible, and I also paid for a batch of flushing, isn't it enough?"

"In fact, we didn't expect such a fiery scene at all." Paul used his words carefully, with a wry smile on his face, giving the impression that this was indeed the case.

idiot!Fool!Short-sighted!Naturally, Angela would not be fooled by his expression. Although there was nothing on the surface, the slander had already started in her stomach. Obviously, they didn't make a single extra copy!

If Warner hasn't known the details, it's understandable for them to do so, after all, no one will pay attention to a movie with invisible benefits.But Angela, after discussing with Sparrow when the hype reached the later stage, decided to have a clean fight with them.Because no matter how well the girl understands those advanced tricks, she is still not professional enough. If she is not careful, if she doesn't adjust well, it will get twice the result with half the effort.Just before she made this decision, the related expenses had already cost nearly 200 million dollars!

Although the girl doesn't care about this little money, it doesn't matter if she spends another 200 million yuan compared to the final income, but Sparrow advised her to communicate with Warner on this aspect. If she can get their support, not only can she Let them share some of the publicity costs.It would also allow The Blair Witch to be treated better.

Angela finally agreed. After all, even if she has done so much, the attention of the website is obvious to all.But out of doubts about the movie itself, even Sparrow, who handles all of these, is still not very optimistic about the prospects of "The Blair Witch", so she is still doing good.

But after getting through with Warner, the other party didn't take this movie seriously. Although they were very curious about the girl's hype, you must know that many ordinary employees have discussed the Discovery Channel's East Coast location some time ago. A certain witch's tale!

Because they are not very optimistic about a certain issue, that is, the box office!Even if the hype seems to be successful, how many people will go to the cinema to see it?Although some people have suggested that Angela's name can be typed-such as the producer, or the value of discovering the video tape-this will win more attention.

Angela disagrees with this at all. The success of "The Blair Witch" lies in the successful packaging of this third-rate movie into a documentary. Any factors that may cause unnecessary associations must be completely put aside. If If someone suspects that she is behind the scenes, it will be troublesome.

As a result, in the end, Warner could only operate this as a low-cost movie, prepared 25 movie theaters, and did not reserve copies.

Even though Angela had a request to reserve a copy, and at the same time paid for a batch of them, they were still noncommittal and perfunctory. Therefore, when "The Blair Witch" became popular, the girl proposed to mobilize all Warner Bros. In the theater, Paul, who came to discuss, seemed very embarrassed.

"So, when can you use all your theaters?" Although very unhappy with their actions, Angela continued to ask calmly.

"We are already in contact with various film companies. Before next Friday, the number of theaters that will be released should reach about 2900." Paul said this with certainty.

"Okay, then I have no objections," Angela also knew that this was the only way to go. In any case, the movie will be screened for at least two months, and it's not too late to make up for it. There shouldn't be any problems.

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In the next two months, "The Blair Witch" had a great impact. Not only did the box office rise steadily with the increase of theaters, but many TV stations also reported on it.The Discovery Channel even played the original clip again and made a lot of speculation. Some good people went to Maryland to collect relevant information, but state officials denied that such a thing happened, but the same, there are good things The author claims that there are many local legends about witches.These remarks spread through the Internet, making it even more difficult to distinguish between true and false.

But in this way, it is tantamount to helping the movie to promote in a disguised form, arousing more people's interest, so 20 days after its release, on the eve of Halloween, the fully-stretched "Blair Witch" broke through [-] million yuan at the box office close!

Then, like all movies, there is always a downhill after the peak, and this technically bad film finally dropped before Thanksgiving after a superbly packaged and publicized release, and it was in North America. The total box office of the movie reached 1 million!This made Angela, who is an investor, laugh from ear to ear.

However, she seemed to be happy too early. Her agent Sparrow told her after calculation that the film's income in North America was about 3000 million.

"How is it possible?!" Facing such data, the girl jumped up from the chair in the garden with her eyes wide open, what a joke!This amount of money is less than 20% of the North American box office!

"I thought I could get at least half of it!" Angela looked at Sparrow aggressively with her hands on her hips, as if she didn't give me an explanation, so I'll give you an explanation.

The other party smiled and shook his head: "I mean net income, do you understand, Angie? Net income!"

He thought for a while, and then explained again: "Well, let me start from the beginning. Although the box office of the movie reached 1 million, first of all, Warner has to take 6% of the distribution fee, because the rental is Their theaters! Then, the theaters will take half of the box office, about 10%, not more than 50%."

"Wait, I remember you once said that the share of general theater chains starts from 40%!"

"Yes, yes, but that's the beginning, which means 60% of the film's revenue goes to the producer in the first two weeks, and maybe 50% in the second week. Afterwards, the box office revenue is only 40% to the producer. And theaters get 60%."

"Then...then I should share the box office of 6000 million, or nearly 7000 million, right?"

"Yes, of course, but please don't forget, there are promotional costs, production costs, and...personal income tax!" Sparrow said with a smile, "California's personal income tax is about 50%! I can ask you for details. of financial advisors would not be too far from this data."

Angela opened her eyes wide and was a little speechless. After a long while, she sighed and cried out: "I finally know why everyone hates tax officials!"

The girl shook her head dejectedly, then seemed to recall something, and looked at Sparrow: "I remember hearing from my father that there are reasonable ways to avoid taxes!"

"That's right," the other party nodded, "After tax avoidance in a reasonable way, the tax rate is only about 35%, but the avoided part is basically donated to charities or the establishment of charitable funds, etc., and still won't be held in your hands. , this time, Mr. Mason ordered so."

Seeing Angela's stinky face, Sparrow couldn't help laughing: "Okay, Angie, be happy, you know, the overseas box office will almost exceed 7 million, which is a huge sum of money." Income! Even for the 8 major film companies, the annual net profit is only 9 to 200 million. You only spent about [-] million US dollars this time, and you got such a big return. It is already amazing. I really dare not believe!"

The manager's words helped, the girl's mood finally improved a lot, overseas is still showing, judging from the current box office over 6000 million is absolutely no problem, then this time at least close to [-] million can be earned, if Sparrow didn't comfort me, the news If it is correct, this film has a year's income of a big-name film company, and it is indeed earned. People around will be even more surprised when they know it, right?It was so much fun!However, movies with a box office of hundreds of millions have only such a small income. I don’t know how much those movies with big investment can earn. It seems that the movie industry is not considered a huge profit, or is a movie with a small cost and a high box office the kingly way?