Hollywood Hunter - Chapter 1538: : There is only one winner

In a blink of an eye, the first box office week in October passed.

As expected by the Gaomen Films team, the documentary “Mount Everest” achieved a reverse decline in the week following its release from October 1 to October 7. Although it is not high, it only fell by 6%, but it is undoubtedly again. It proved the reputation and market potential of this documentary.

In short, in the second week of its release, “Mount Everest” received an additional US$8.21 million with an average of US$59,000, and the cumulative box office reached US$15.99 million.

On October 8, a new box office week, in addition to the IMAX screen, with the support of Daenerys Entertainment’s strong publicity and background, the Gaomen Pictures team quickly rolled out 1,563 ordinary screens for “Mount Everest” in North America.

Daenerys Entertainment has been cultivating the documentary market since the very early “Gucci Mark”. Therefore, for the full spread of “Mount Everest”, here is not worried about the commercial performance, but very confident in large-scale After being rolled out, this documentary will have even better market feedback.

Even some media are already predicting that “Mount Everest” is likely to exceed the $100 million box office and enter the North American billion box office club.

Judging from the trend of the previous two weeks, coupled with the roll-out of ordinary screens, this possibility is not unavailable.

October 9.

It’s another Saturday.

Simon wakes up early in the morning in a mountainside mansion on Lake Como in the north of Milan, Italy.

I have been in New York for the past week, working between several pregnant women, occasionally talking to Sophia who is working on the four major fashion weeks here. After being teased, Simon was ‘angry into anger’ and wanted to come over and clean up the women.

Of course, kidding.

I just don’t want to be entangled. If I can’t just leave at any time, life will be too boring.

So he flew over.

This autumn Milan Fashion Week opened yesterday and is expected to last until next Thursday for exactly one week, and then, the most important and final Paris Fashion Week will follow.

No way, even if Melisandre is already the world’s largest luxury goods group, the French fashion industry, because there are so many brands, is still better than Italy. As for Fashion Week, it is 7 days here and 11 days in Paris.

Of course, even if several core brands are based in Italy, Melisandre is now a global company with its brands all over the world, and France is no exception.

After some discords in Africa, Simon rarely went to France in recent years in order to avoid some moths.

Not interested this time.

Arrived yesterday afternoon, accompany Sophia to socialize, the evening is a world of two people, a new day, no work arrangements, complete pastime.

But basically watching the show everywhere.

Simon’s pastime made Milan agitated.

After all, a certain super tycoon suddenly appeared in Milan’s big and small shows. For models, if they are caught, it will be a step up to the sky. Even for the brand itself, many are looking forward to being acquired by Melisandre. After all, the current trend of the luxury goods market is very clear. If all established companies stick to the strategy of going it alone, it will be difficult to survive the global industry trend. Affiliation with giants is undoubtedly the best choice.

Simon ignored these.

The main thing is to look at girls.

Although, I don’t remember how many times I slept, but the girl is like a spring flower, crop after crop.

Um.

Anyway, on Saturday night, it became Simon’s personal time again, this time the theme was high cold beauty.

The subject of failure.

Because it turned out that all of them were not too cold, but enthusiasm made Simon a little bit overwhelmed.

For example, the next day was disturbed by a “little snake” swimming up and down.

Maria Carla Bogono, whose initials is MCB, was once nicknamed “Snake Spirit” in the circle. She is still a young snake who has just made her debut for two years. She is also the only girl who Simon collected yesterday that has been considered impressive.

But think about the six in New York, Simon doesn’t have any thoughts of further development.

After having breakfast with a group of beauties who finally got colder again after getting out of bed, Simon took a private jet to Finland and attended a Nokia board meeting. It also summarized the third quarter that just passed in 1999. Then In the evening, I flew to London again, and in the evening I took Shul Shikina to the British entertainment.

The next day, return to North America.

Arriving in Los Angeles, Hollywood, in addition to the steady progress of various projects, Simon went to work on Tuesday and received another report that surprised him again.

It’s still about “Dragon Babu”.

After the completion of the first round of DHO broadcasting, “Tian Long Ba Bu” was officially launched on the Blockbuster channel on Monday, October 4th.

Then, with this Chinese martial arts TV series, even if the DHO broadcast is completed, there is no cooling down at all. It was only a week from October 4th to October 10th that it created a turnover of 3.1 million US dollars in the Blockbuster channel.

The $3.1 million is certainly incomparable with those blockbuster movies.

However, this is a Chinese martial arts TV series that must be unpopular in North America. It is still a subtitled version without English dubbing.

In the first week of listing, the turnover was 3.1 million US dollars. According to the assessment of the Blockbuster team, the project is expected to reach 10 million US dollars in the first month. Then, considering that the home entertainment channel is more long-term than the theater and TV Trend, it is estimated that in the next year, this project can bring at least US$30 million in revenue to Blockbuster.

Even higher, even 50 million, is not impossible.

Now things are more fun.

When Simon invested in this project, he didn’t even think about making money. The release in Asia also proved that the project’s return to the original cost is nowhere in sight. It signaled Daenerys to buy the European and American copyrights. Simon did not have any thoughts of making money. It’s just a pity that I think it’s such a good TV series, and there are not many channels to broadcast it.

As for the feedback from the North American audience, anyway, there is a certain amount of kung fu film foundation.

Unexpectedly, things will evolve to the present level.

Let’s talk about this project, what is the profit margin of the home entertainment channel?

According to the agreements signed with the major guilds, the gross profit of the home entertainment channel is calculated with reference to 20%, but in fact, everyone knows that this figure, even if it is reversed, is not an exaggeration.

However, of course, first of all, without considering the production cost of the project itself, only the production costs of media such as video tapes/DVDs and the operating expenses of home entertainment channels are mentioned.

This also means that even according to Blockbuster’s conservative revenue forecast of $30 million and a gross profit level of 80%, in the next year, “Dragon Babu” will be able to give Daenerys only on the Blockbuster platform. Entertainment brings in gross revenue of $24 million.

24 million U.S. dollars, deducting 15 million production costs, the profit is 9 million U.S. dollars.

Of course, things are not so calculated.

The $15 million production cost investment was originally Simon’s own pocket. And this time, the actual calculation method should be that Daenerys Entertainment spent 1 million US dollars to buy out the European and American copyrights of the project, and another 1 million US dollars on the production of subtitles and other aspects. As for the announcement, it is also here. Within 1 million US dollars, in addition, it mainly depends on some routine operations of the DHO and Blockbuster teams.

In short, it is about US$2 million. Not to mention the potential benefits of the late-night theater ratings created by DHO broadcasts. It is only Blockbuster, which is exactly US$24 million, minus the cost of 2 million, and it is profitable. 22 million US dollars.

In terms of the return on investment ratio, the profits are overturned!

Um.

Let’s break it down again, and to be more precise, Simon, a hapless investor, had previously sold the copyright of “Tianlong Ba Bu” at a low price, and is still at a loss now, even with TVB and CCTV, which are partners. It is not a loss. After all, the two parties have only provided some resources, but they certainly cannot profit from the North American profits of this project.

The end result is that there is only one winner for the “Dragon Babu” project, Daenerys Entertainment.

Now, here comes the problem.

What’s next?

Before that, because of the success of “Dragon Babu” on the DHO platform, Daenerys first thought of purchasing more Chinese martial arts TV series. Unfortunately, after investigating, I found out that most of them are not mentioned there. But most, or almost all, martial arts TV series, compared to “Dragon Babu”, can only be regarded as shoddy.

Or not just TV dramas, even some classic martial arts movies in Hong Kong, compared to the great rivers and mountains and excellent production of “Dragon Ba Bu”, it can only be described as rough.

There is nothing worth buying at all.

If you can’t buy it, the best way is of course to invest in your own production.

People here have generally found out that Jin Daxia, as the author of the novel “Dragon and Eight Books”, has more than a dozen novels that can be developed, so there is no shortage of projects.

So, do you?

After all, the US$15 million investment in “Tianlong Ba Bu” is a sky-high price on the Chinese side, but it’s not a big deal on the Hollywood side.

Let’s just talk about a small comparison. The US version of “Girls’ High Story”, which will be released on Halloween at the end of the month, is the one adapted from a Korean movie. The final production cost of Hollywood is US$10 million, which can only be considered low. Cost production, but the same 10 million US dollars, placed on the current Korean side, is enough to make a blockbuster.

The exchange rate advantage is incomparable.

Therefore, investment is also starting here.

It’s just that everyone also has concerns, mainly because they worry about the success of this “Dragon Babu”, which is only a flash in the pan. After all, ordinary TV dramas, if they are not shoddy, according to the standards of “Tianlong Ba Bu”, starting planning now and finalizing it will take about two years.

Two years later, who knows what will become of the audience’s taste in Hollywood?

After all, even if it is an English movie, Hollywood will have some themes that are not so popular every few years. Perhaps, when the next one is made, people have forgotten that this is a popular TV series at this time, maybe.

In the end, the problem is of course pushed to Simon.

Do you want to continue?