thefictionvixens Chapter 40 Making Money from Movies is Hard
Chapter 40 Making Money from Movies is Hard
It's important to know that the film won't receive its first share of box office revenue until six months after it leaves theaters.
If you don't have certain connections, it might take you three to five years to get all the revenue sharing.
That's right, Wang Xiaohao was talking about Huang Anzhong!
Wang Xiaohao was certain that even if "My Sassy Girl" grossed 300 million yuan, Huang Anzhong would be lucky to collect his share of the 100 million yuan within three years!
That's the most annoying thing about it!
Huang Anzhong is doing well; he has already made money.
Therefore, for some time travelers, once you make money from a movie, you can immediately create a virtuous cycle, make more movies, and gradually expand your business.
Let me tell you, it's absolutely hopeless!
The revenue sharing alone can drive you crazy!
Unless you have very strong connections that can guarantee you get all the profits as soon as possible.
But with such strong connections, why make movies? Why can't they make money?
Why bother making a movie here?
The film industry is too murky; if you don't know the ins and outs, no matter how much money you put in, you'll still drown in it!
Even if you know someone inside and out, they can drown you in no time once you're inside.
The success or failure of a film's box office performance is often like gambling; it's impossible to predict in advance.
It has nothing to do with the quality of your movie!
Throughout film history, many great movies have failed to achieve great box office success.
How many good movies have been crushed at the box office by mediocre movies released in the same period?
There are too many to count!
In its previous life, "The Shawshank Redemption" was a masterpiece that consistently ranked in the top three of various movie charts. Then, upon its release, it suffered a massive box office loss.
Then, decades later, it was re-released.
Everyone thought that with the movie's reputation, the box office should be good, right?
As a result, the box office was still a complete flop after the re-release!
Therefore, people in the film industry are less likely to invest their own money in films!
If it weren't for a stroke of luck, Huang Anzhong probably wouldn't have invested in the film if he hadn't been planning to make a quick buck.
In fact, none of the film companies make money from movies! They make money entirely through financial means!
What Huang Anzhong did can actually be considered a financial technique. It's also commonly used by people in the industry!
Wang Xiaohao could actually follow Huang Anzhong's example and make money from outside the entertainment industry to produce movies.
The movie hasn't even been released yet, but I've already made money!
But Wang Xiaohao was afraid he would be beaten to death!
Huang Anzhong, with his connections, dares to play this game, but Wang Xiaohao is just an ordinary citizen with no background. Does he really dare to do this? Isn't he afraid the people who swindled him will kill him?
To be honest, Huang Anzhong is playing such a big game that those investors he's swindled will probably come after him sooner or later!
It's worth noting that even if Huang Anzhong ultimately behaved and distributed all 100 million yuan of box office revenue to the investors, it would still be a significant loss.
However, a group of investors put up 80 million yuan and spent three or four years, but the total profit sharing was only 100 million yuan.
With this kind of capital utilization rate, it's better to just put the money in the bank, right?
In this era of rapid economic development, what business can't be more profitable than this?
Not to mention, do you think Huang Anzhong would honestly share profits with these investors?
Some investors are lucky enough to recoup a small amount, while others lose everything!
If Huang Anzhong is really that ruthless, it's not impossible that he could be killed by some ruthless investors!
In fact, this kind of trivial matter concerning film costs is already commonplace in the film and television industry.
There's absolutely no need to make a fuss about it!
It's just that some people eat more gracefully, while others eat very poorly!
For example, Huang Anzhong is someone whose behavior is extremely unseemly!
However, from the past life to this parallel world, when has there ever been a shortage of people with such ugly behavior?
It's like in my past life I first swindled money from a coal mine owner!
A screenwriter later went on TV and said that what he missed most was the era of coal bosses... They only provided money and didn't care about anything, they just wanted you to make female stars famous.
shit!
Do coal mine owners make their money from thin air?
Is it true that no return is expected from investing?
Coal mine owners know that safe production requires expertise, and they cannot simply give orders themselves.
As a result, when the coal mine owners stopped interfering, these people went wild and swindled all the people's money!
Of course you miss that era, when people were naive, had lots of money, and were easy to fool!
Finally, have you seen any coal mine owners successfully establish themselves in the film and television industry?
Weren't they all ruined by those so-called "circle content"?
Then internet companies entered the market. These internet companies had more money, and they started to get ripped off even more by these industry insiders!
However, internet companies are financially well-funded, mainly using shareholders' money, so they don't feel bad about losing money.
Consider the hundreds of millions or billions lost as tuition fees!
Once they get used to your methods, they'll turn around and put a bridle on you.
We'll play the big data game with you and sign a performance-based contract with you.
They even monopolized the entire upstream and downstream industry, directly changing the entire industry ecosystem.
Do you still want to play with other people?
Haha, this is what they call being powerless against fate!
Intrigue can't compare to open strategy!
Then at this point, these people in the film and television industry started reminiscing about the coal mine owners... They swindled them out of everything, and now they're reminiscing? Where were they before?
However, the first to do this was actually Hollywood across the ocean, who swindled money from investors worldwide!
Hollywood's glamour and allure have attracted the attention of investors worldwide.
Of all the funds that went in, how many were able to get out unscathed?
Forget about making a profit; you might even lose all your principal.
It's just that the world is so big, and there are pitfalls in one place after another.
In the 1980s, the funds came from Europe; in the 1990s, they came from Japan, South Korea, and the desert.
Later, it was funding from the University of Tokyo...
If you dare to go in, I dare to kill you!
Wall Street sucks the blood of the whole world, yet when Wall Street's money goes into Hollywood, it still gets ripped off!
Of course, some people might say that Wang Xiaohao could be less ruthless than Huang Anzhong and honestly share the profits with others!
But to put it bluntly, he can't make excessive profits. Why should Wang Xiaohao go to such lengths to share profits with these investors? Is it really just to help them make money?
He might as well just stay at a big company!
How much less worry you have? And you still make a lot of money.
With the company around, Wang Xiaohao doesn't need to worry about financing, approvals, assembling the production crew, or even publicity and debt collection. He can easily live several years longer!
However, Wang Xiaohao ultimately did not make up his mind to join a large company!
Because Wang Xiaohao hates it when people tell him what to do.
Once he joined a large company, Wang Xiaohao was no longer allowed to decide for himself what he wanted to film!
The thought of this made Wang Xiaohao hesitate.
Let alone directors, anyone involved in the arts hates being told what to do.