"Of course I have confidence, otherwise I wouldn't have it to cooperate with Mr. Shao. If you want to say how confident this is, I think the box office is at least much higher than your interstellar dullness and Jiahe's new Shushan Swordsman." Qiao Feng smiled confidently.

Shao Yifu was not surprised to hear Qiao Feng say this. If Qiao Feng had expected a lower flower than the movies he valued by his family and Jiahe, Qiao Feng would not have said that he would compete with Xinyi City for the Spring Festival.

So he asked a nonsense, and Shao Yifu smiled bitterly in his heart and asked the most concerned point.

"Mr. Qiao, how much do you expect to invest in this zombie movie?"

Qiao Feng pondered for a moment. He knew that the original Mr. Zombie invested a total of 8.5 million yuan, but now the investment will definitely not be used.

First of all, the actors' pay at this time will definitely be lower than in the original 1985 years, and other crew expenses will also be lower, which is certain.

Another thing is that when the original film was filmed, the situations in the middle appeared frequently, especially Liu Guanwei, who was the first director. He used to be a photography photographer who had high requirements for the picture, but when the script was filmed, he had to change it when there was a problem. Back and forth, it cost a lot of money to shoot scrap film, scrapped sets, etc.

So the initial investment was obviously 4.5 million yuan, and the shooting time was one month, but when the filming was completed, I spent another 4 million yuan, which was twice the original investment, and the time it took was three months more.

The script provided by Qiao Feng is directly a complete storyboard script. There is not much room for editing after shooting according to the script. There is no need to waste so much manpower, material resources, financial resources, labor, sets, film, etc. like shooting the original film. Qiao Feng feels that at least more than three million can be saved, and an investment of five million is enough.

"I think five million is enough." Qiao Feng said after roughly calculating in his mind.

"You want us to invest five million in a zombie movie. Just kidding. I heard that when Sammo Hung was filming ghosts, he only invested more than one million, and he got more than five million in the box office. You want five million in investment now. Do you think you can get two five million in the box office?" Fang Yihua said a lot.

Fang Yihua is just unreasonable, so betting and profits are not calculated like this.

Qiao Feng smiled helplessly and said, "Miss Fang, if you calculate this way, I heard that the ghost-fighting sisters that Hong Jinbao is going to start filming is scary. Jiahe also invested 4 million yuan. The box office should be 20 million yuan at the end. Do you think it is possible?"

"Oh, if you don't say it, I don't know that Jiahe is going to make zombie movies, so we can't invest in you. Two films of the same type will definitely influence each other. Moreover, Jiahe will be released in the Spring Festival, and the new Shushan Swordsman is the most likely to be released in the Christmas and New Year's Day. The impact of ghosts and ghosts is definitely not bad when people are scared. If that person is scared, will your film be even more affected. "Baobaba said that, Fang Yihua looked at Shao Yifu and said, "Sixth Brother, he is cheating us, we can't invest."

Shao Yifu had been smiling before and watching Fang Yihua and Qiao Feng's verbal battle. Now that Fang Yihua is leading the words to him, he can no longer watch.

"Ms. Fang is not unreasonable. Mr. Qiao, I think the time to shoot this zombie film is not ripe now, so why not change the schedule.:

Qiao Feng naturally refused to accept changing schedules, otherwise why did he come to Shaw Brothers? He could handle it with Jiahe. Moreover, Jiahe has never asked how much investment it takes, and he only said that as long as he changes schedules, he can cooperate in investment at any time.

It is because Jiahe has too much confidence in the New Shushan Swordsman and has too much investment. Qiao Feng feels it is impossible to convince them to draw the picture when the box office is not ideal, and Qiao Feng doesn't want to overstate how bad the New Shushan Swordsman is.

In fact, the overall special effects of that film were already good enough in Hong Kong in this era, and the story was not bad, but the director Xu Ke was too pursuing the special effects scenes, and instead put the real focus, that was, the story was not told well, which led to the final box office not being ideal.

Qiao Feng didn't want to offend Xu Ke because he said too much that the new Shushan Swordsman was not good. He also thought that he could cooperate with Xu Ke in the future, and even brought him under his command.

Xu is one of the few directors in the Hong Kong film industry who has his own style and is willing to stick to his own style instead of just following money.

In the original time and space, only Xu Ke and a few directors in China's future special effects blockbusters are the best ones to play.

If there is no special reason, Qiao Feng thinks that Jiahe is really the most suitable film company for cooperation in the Hong Kong film industry.

Unfortunately, Qiao Feng only has one option to choose from Shaw Brothers this time.

With the bet, Shao Yifu was still not optimistic about zombie movies and was reluctant to invest in five million, but Qiao Feng could not give up.

He had no choice but to discuss and said, "How about this, if Mr. Shao feels afraid of losing money in investment, I will also participate in the investment. We will pay half of each of five million, and I will only account for 60% of the profit."

"Mr. Qiao just wants to make this zombie movie. Are you optimistic about it?" Shao Yifu was a little moved when he heard that Qiao Feng not only wanted to invest half of it, but also took the initiative to reduce his profit sharing.

You should know that Qiao Feng can be divided into 10% of the total box office of the movie, which was lower later. At the beginning, when the God of Gamblers, Qiao Feng's share of the total box office was 20%, and a movie made more than 10 million and nearly 20 million.

The share of 10% is also quite high, but if you use half of the investment proposed by Qiao Feng, plus the total profit of the script, Qiao Feng will be equivalent to making less than 5% of the total box office that the script can get.

Because if you count purely profits, investors in a movie can at most get half of the box office, which is 50%.

After seeing it clearly, this means that at most half of the time can be obtained. This is basically achieved in Hong Kong like Shaw Brothers who have their own theaters. Because their own movies are released in their own theaters, they basically won’t deduct the distribution fee. Anyway, it’s a matter of the left hand turning to the right hand.

Otherwise, a movie theater will take half of the box office, and the publisher will take another 5 to 15%, leaving only 45 to 35% of the box office income to the investors.

(Of course, this is just a rough calculation. If you have to calculate it carefully, if you calculate it strictly like Hollywood or later Chinese film market, the money will be left to the investors in the end. For example, the promotional cost and so on are fragmented. Many times, it is obviously a box office big sale, but the investors on the books lose money, especially those who are only responsible for participating in investment and not other links. Investment institutions on the United States Wall Street are often cheated by Hollywood to lose money. So when you look at the big Hollywood stars who want to add more money to their movies, they all need box office share rather than profit share. What you are afraid of is that they can't get a dime in the end, and they may even owe money.)

But as long as Hong Kong has a theater chain, it is not cost-effective to divide the profits into the total box office. At least 10% of the total box office share that Qiao Feng could get was greatly reduced. It is actually impossible to laugh at him because the profits in the outside world are even lower, so Qiao Feng is trying to make a lot of money to lose a lot of money this time.
Chapter completed!