Chapter 394: Coordination with the listing, movie changes

This long review on Douban resonated with many people. In less than half an hour, there were a long list of replies below.

"After watching the movie, I couldn't calm down for a long time until I left the theater. I thought it would be a wonderful game of intrigue and solving crimes, but the result was unexpectedly heavy. The depression and emotion are still lingering in my heart!"

"This film does not use a lot of space to show the glorious image of underground party members like mainstream films do, nor does it show the underground party members using their superior wisdom to escape danger time and time again and dismantle the enemy's conspiracy.

The Japanese puppets were just as smart, and even more brutal. From the beginning to the end, it was only one person who held the initiative. Our underground party members paid the price of one death and one serious injury to conceal the truth and truly "win" that one time! "

"After watching this movie, I finally understood what kind of people our ancestors were facing at that time. The Japanese puppets were no longer the fools who were fooled around in other movies and TV shows. They were just as smart!"

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The numerous discussions online have also made the movie "The Sound of Wind" more and more popular.

More importantly, we learned from Han Shanping that the higher-ups were very satisfied with the tribute film "The Whistleblower".

Liu Zhou was also very happy to hear the news, as it showed that all the hard work of Jiahe was not in vain.

Liu Zhou then tentatively asked whether the movie could be broadcast on the news, and was immediately rolled his eyes by Han Shanping.

Liu Zhou smiled a little embarrassedly and no longer expected "The Sound of Wind" to be on the news broadcast. It seemed that in the original time and space, even "The Founding of a Republic" did not appear on the news broadcast.

As word of mouth for the film gradually spread and it achieved outstanding box office results in the first three days of the weekend, the film’s creators became more and more active in roadshows.

In the past, roadshows were rarely held for movie releases, but Liu Zhou knew how effective roadshows were in terms of publicity.

So starting with "My Sassy Girl", Liu Zhou would take the movie's leading actors on a crazy roadshow in the first few days after the movie was released.

As Liu Zhou became more and more successful, more and more crews imitated him. Later, they found that the publicity effect was actually very good, so roadshows gradually became the main promotion method after the movie was released.

Liu Zhou believes that roadshows are a must for every movie, not just about selling box office tickets for that particular show.

Roadshows can also attract journalists and allow the audience to get close to the stars, and then they will definitely show off among their friends, which can indirectly expand the influence of the film.

Another thing is that other audiences can see how hard you are promoting the film and how warm the atmosphere is. Some audiences who haven't seen the film will definitely be curious about what kind of film it is that makes the audience so enthusiastic.

This is of great help in increasing box office revenue.

With the hard work of Fan Xiaopang, Zhou Gongzi and others in promoting the film, and Golden Harvest spending a large amount of advertising money, "The Whistleblower" still earned 21 million at the box office on the next working day.

"The Whistleblower" was released for four days and the box office successfully exceeded 100 million yuan.

This once again attracted a lot of media reports, and some media and film critics also raised their total box office forecasts for "The Whistleblower".

Previously, the outside world estimated that the box office of "The Whistleblower" would be around 200 million yuan, and that was considering that Golden Harvest attached great importance to it.

The total box office of the movie in four days is now 1.09 million. According to the current reputation of the movie, there will be no problem for the total box office to exceed "Hero", and it may even exceed million.

In fact, in Liu Zhou’s mind, the minimum box office guarantee for "The Sound of Wind" is 300 million.

Historically, when "The Whistleblower" and "Founding of a Republic" were released at the same time, they both earned more than 200 million yuan at the box office.

Now, "The Sound of Wind" is in the summer season, and there are no other threatening movies during the same period. It can be said that the schedule is unique.

Plus, this life’s film market is much larger than the film market at this time in history.

Finally, Golden Harvest Group attached great importance to the film and the publicity expenses invested were almost as high as the production costs.

The total investment in "The Whistleblower" has exceeded 100 million yuan, and the media publicity is actually not exaggerated at all.

Therefore, Liu Zhou felt that with the quality of "The Sound of Wind", the box office would not be able to break 300 million, unless there were force majeure factors, otherwise it would be a foregone conclusion.

However, even though the box office of "The Whistleblower" exceeded 300 million, Golden Harvest did not make much money.

Because the main income of this movie comes from the mainland box office, plus some other copyrights.

It is difficult for "The Sound of Wind" to get much box office revenue overseas.

Wanwan might be better off, it would be hard for this movie to make over HK$10 million in Hong Kong.

However, Liu Zhou did not expect to make money through "The Whistleblower". For him, "The Whistleblower" only had two functions: one was to serve as a tribute film, and the other was to cooperate with Golden Harvest's listing.

It is now obvious that "The Sound of Wind" did not disappoint Liu Zhou's hopes. Not only are the higher-ups satisfied with the film, but its box office performance is also very good, which will definitely have a huge promoting effect on Golden Harvest's listing.

Although this period is not like the later generations, a box office hit movie can increase the market value of a listed film and television company by tens of billions.

For example, in the movie "Lost in Hong Kong", the main investors are Xu Zheng and Boss Zhao, and Guangxian only earned the distribution fee.

However, after the huge success of "Lost in Hong Kong", the market value of Guangxian increased by more than 2 billion yuan, making huge profits.

The shock of the current 300 million is no less than that of the movie box office of over 1 billion at that time. With the size of Golden Harvest, the box office performance of "The Whistleblower" is also likely to boost Golden Harvest's market value by 10 to 20 billion. So it is no wonder that gambling agreements are rampant in the entertainment industry in later generations. It is too easy to make money with capital. Gambling with those big stars and directors is profitable no matter what.

They don’t care whether you can complete the bet or not. If you succeed, that’s great, but if you fail, that doesn’t matter either, because after signing the bet agreement, they will use your influence to tell stories to investors and make back all the money.

And you still have to work hard for the capital like a worker to complete the bet.

The most obvious one is Zhou Xingxing. His strength is there, so the amount of the bet is also relatively large.

PDAL, a company owned by Zhou Xingxing, sold 13.2% of its shares to a Hong Kong-listed company called New Culture for 51 billion yuan.

However, this requires Zhou Xingxing to make PDAL achieve a net profit of 10.4 billion within four years, otherwise he will need to make up for it and repurchase shares.

So after "The Mermaid", he has been rehashing old stuff. The movies he filmed, "The Monkey King 2" and "The New King of Comedy", both received very bad reputations, which in turn affected his personal reputation.

But in fact, under this agreement, Stephen Chow will make money no matter what he does, because he needs to complete the performance of 10.4 billion. That is to say, even if Stephen Chow does not make any movies, he can still earn 2.8 million.

In the end, although Zhou Xingxing failed in the bet, he only earned 8.05 million in four years, still 2.35 million short.

Although Zhou Xingxing paid an additional 2.35 million yuan, he can still get 8.05% of the million yuan. Even if he has to buy back the company's shares, he has earned more than billion yuan.

Therefore, the rumors online that Stephen Chow mortgaged his mansion after losing a bet are completely nonsense.

How could a shrewd man like Zhou Xingxing put himself in such a risky situation? You have to know that he is a billionaire.

In this bet, the ones who really lose money are the retail investors who buy New Culture shares.

As for the boss of New Culture, he had already settled the matter after signing a bet agreement with Zhou Xingxing when the stock price of New Culture soared.

There are many such examples. The most famous one in the mainland is that Huayi purchased 2015% of the equity of Fengkuazi Dongyang Latin America for 10.5 billion in 70, and acquired 7.56% of the equity of Dongyang Haohan owned by Zheng Kai, Da Hei Niu and Chen He for 70 million.

Dongyang Latin America was established less than half a year ago, and the latter was established just one day ago. The money at that time was really not money.

Huayi’s vision was not very good, and both of its bets failed. In addition, Wang Zhongjun’s de-filming strategy caused Huayi to lose nearly 5 billion in two years, and its stock price plummeted.

It is fake that Zhou Xingxing is selling a mansion, but it is real that Wang Zhongjun is selling antiques and calligraphy and paintings.

Before Liu Zhou was reborn, Huayi's stock price had fallen so much that it was almost delisted.

Liu Zhou doesn’t know whether he will be the banker and gamble against some celebrity directors in the future, but he doesn’t want to do that now.

Liu Zhou already had enough wealth at this time, and there would be more in the future. The money he earned from gambling was nothing to him.

Instead of making this money, it would be better for Liu Zhou to make some contribution to domestic films and feel more fulfilled.

However, it will take another four or five years before capital starts to have a frenzy in the entertainment industry. It is still early now. The most important thing for Liu Zhou is to successfully list Golden Harvest.

The subsequent performance of "The Sound of Wind" did not disappoint Liu Zhou. After earning 88 million in box office in the first three days of the weekend, it also earned 93 million in box office in the next full week.

After ten days of release, "The Whistleblower" earned a total of 1.91 million yuan at the box office.

If "Transformers 2" dominated the charts in July, then "The Whisper" dominated the charts in August.

So far, four movies have been released in August, but the one with the highest box office is only "Forbidden City Cop", which has been released for a week. The movie took in 36 million in the first week.

The combined box office of these four films is not even a fraction of that of "The Whistleblower".

With 1.91 million yuan in ten days, it is almost certain that the total box office will exceed million yuan.

Just when Liu Zhou was putting all his energy into the roadshow, he unexpectedly encountered a problem with a movie that Golden Harvest Group was negotiating.

Originally, Liu Zhou didn't need to worry about a movie, but this movie was a little different. It was the "Aftershock" in which Liu Zhou snatched Feng's pants.

Moreover, this incident was related to Liu Zhou.

"What exactly happened? Aren't the talks with Tangshan going well?" Liu Zhou asked Zhang Zhao who came to report.

Zhang Zhao sighed, smiled bitterly and said:

"We were talking well, and I didn't expect them to suddenly raise new demands."

"any request?"

"They want you to direct the film 'Aftershock' yourself, and it must be released in 2011, which is the 2011th anniversary of the earthquake."

PS: I have written half of the third chapter, but my butt is so sore from sitting that I can’t stand it anymore. I will make up for it tomorrow.

(End of this chapter)