Jimmy stood up, circled around Yu Dong, and finally returned to his original position and sat down. He looked at it with a smile and said, "Tsk, tsk, my Dong, you can always surprise me. The scary thing is
, I have gradually begun to get used to this feeling. I believe that in a few days, when Mr. and Mrs. Williams hear your thoughts, they will definitely open their mouths. I can’t wait to see their surprised faces.
Maybe if I look in the mirror now, I can see it."
"I can't provide many ideas. The key is to rely on Roberta. She seems to have great ideas about this type of game. After her studio is established, let them focus on making this game as their main task," Yu Dong said.
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Jimmy snapped his fingers, "Yes, I think so too. If this game can be done well, then Xueleshan will not need to make other games in the future. This game alone will be enough for the company. By then, with this
With games and the space platform, the scale of Xueleshan will not be small."
Yu Dong nodded, "Let's make this game well first. If we want to make this game well, Xueleshan's current manpower alone is still quite difficult. The company now has basically no people who make games. We want to form a mature team."
Building a game production team is not an easy task, and it requires more efforts from Roberta and the others. When we hold a discussion meeting later, we will talk to Roberta and the others about this matter and ask them to form a team as soon as possible and put into production
Work."
With that said, Yu Dong stood up with coffee and walked to the window.
There is a large floor-to-ceiling window in the suite. Standing next to the window, you can see the Hollywood sign in the distance.
Jimmy also walked over with a smile, pointed at the huge Hollywood sign, and asked, "How about it? Standing here and looking at that sign, do you feel like you are trampling all of Hollywood under your feet? Or is it a feeling of looking down?
Do you feel like you have all of Hollywood under your control?"
Yu Dong looked at Jimmy with a smile and said jokingly, "The reason why you booked this room is because standing here looking at the Hollywood sign will make you feel like you are stepping on the entire Hollywood under your feet?"
Jimmy shook his head, "Of course not. The goals of deep space are no longer limited to Hollywood. Now, Universal, Warner, Fox... various companies regard us as competitors, but our deep space company's competitors will always be
It won't be these companies. In the past two days, "Golden Dream" will be released. What we are most concerned about is not ourselves, but these companies I mentioned. They will even get the box office data of "Golden Dream" earlier than us.
."
"If you didn't tell me, I forgot to ask, what are the box office data of "Golden Dreamland"?"
"I haven't gotten the specific data yet, but according to estimates, the box office on the first day yesterday should have exceeded 10 million US dollars, and it will be more than a lot. This is enough. If the box office of "Golden Dreamland" in the first week can reach
I am already satisfied with US$28 million, and now it seems that the target of US$28 million in the first week should still be achievable.”
Jimmy never had high expectations for the box office performance of "Golden Dreams".
In Jimmy's estimation, the North American box office of "Golden Dreams" should be between US$120 million and US$180 million, and it won't be too low or too high.
After all, "Golden Dreams" is a movie adapted from a novel, and the original work is so famous, so the novel will naturally bring a lot of viewers to the movie.
Moreover, Deep Space Company has given "Golden Dreams" a lot of promotional resources. In addition, the leading actor of the movie is Matthew McConaughey, a popular actor. There should be no problem with the movie's guaranteed box office of 120 million.
But if you want to exceed 1.8 billion, it is a little bit difficult.
In fact, it is not just this movie, even for many popular movies, it is not difficult to exceed 100 million US dollars at the box office, but it will be much more difficult to exceed 180 million US dollars.
Just say that last year, among the movies released in North America, 23 movies had a box office of more than 100 million U.S. dollars, but only four of them had a box office of more than 180 million U.S. dollars, and only six of them could overcome the 80 million U.S. dollar threshold.
one.
However, these are all predictions before the movie is released. After the subsequent data comes out, the prediction range will definitely change based on the existing data. Now they only have the approximate data for the first day, which does not have much reference significance. It would be better to have one
Weekly data, so that box office trends can be compared.
The final calculated cost of this movie was less than 30 million U.S. dollars. If the North American box office could reach 60 to 70 million U.S. dollars, it would basically be a guaranteed profit.
This movie will be released in China next month, and the box office should not be low. However, the Chinese box office will not make much money, because this movie is introduced as a blockbuster, and the share that can be given to Deep Space is very limited.
For movies like "Golden Dreams", what Jimmy values ​​​​is not the box office revenue, but the continued copyright revenue.
For example, the box office of "Two Smoking Barrels" was not very high, but after the movie was released, it can now bring close to 10 million U.S. dollars in revenue to the Deep Space Company every year.
The most exaggerated one is "Resident Evil". The four movies in the entire series can bring in 100 million US dollars in revenue to Deep Space Company every year, and this revenue is growing every year.
Therefore, box office is not the focus, the income after the movie is released is also very considerable.
Deep Space currently holds the rights to so many movies, and even if it doesn't make new movies, it can still survive by resting on its laurels.
What the movie "Golden Dreams" aims at is also the subsequent income.
In addition, the movie can also be used as a promotional video for the novel.
Many people go to the movies because of the novels, but there are also many people who buy the novels because of the movies.
Before the movie was officially released, the book market had already given feedback. In the previous week, the sales of "Golden Dreams" on Amazon were 35% higher than the sales in the previous week.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! I believe that after the movie is released, this sales figure will increase a lot.
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The first-week box office of "Golden Dreams" came out quickly, with a total of just over 30 million US dollars. This figure exceeded Jimmy's previous expectations, but it was not much more.
Jimmy's prediction for this movie is that the box office in the first week will be around 28 million U.S. dollars, which is not low. The reason for this prediction is that "Golden Dreams" has been well promoted and has the original novel and
With Matthew McConaughey joining the cast, the early box office will definitely not be low.
After seeing the box office data for the first week, Jimmy stopped paying attention to the data. He had many things to do every day, and it was impossible for him to focus on one movie every day.
If he didn't pay attention, Yu Dong naturally had no time to pay attention. After chatting with Jimmy, he started to go to various places to do autograph signings like Yu Hua and the others.
At the end of the more than a week-long book signing tour, Yu Dong and the others met again in New York. Before leaving, they were going to participate in an ABC talk show.
ABC has two headquarters, one in Los Angeles and one in New York. Yu Dong originally wanted to hold the interview in Los Angeles so that he could hold a discussion meeting with the Williamses directly after the interview.
However, ABC proposed to visit the Deep Space Company, shoot some material inside the company and broadcast it on the program, and wanted to hold the interview as close to New York as possible.
This was a good publicity opportunity for the Deep Space Company, so Yu Dong did not refuse. As for the Williams couple, they could only trouble them to make a trip.
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For this interview, ABC rearranged one of their studios. They removed the table where the anchor originally sat, and then placed a row of seats directly inside the studio, and posted a huge sign behind it.
Poster with the words "Dialogue with Literary Writers".
These arrangements make the studio look less like a studio and more like the scene of a literary event.
In addition, ABC also specially invited hundreds of students from major universities. Not only can they watch the interviews up close, but they also have the opportunity to have direct conversations with the writers. At the end of the program, there will be a question-and-answer session from the audience.
When Yu Dong and others arrived at the ABC headquarters, Clezio and Alice Munro were already there.
After chatting, I found out that the two of them had arrived in New York yesterday and stayed in the same hotel with Yu Dong and the others, but they didn't know each other.
Clezio was very happy to see Yu Dong and others, and talked about his travels in Africa during this period. At the end, he said with a smile, "In many places in Africa, there is no literature, let alone us.
The existence of human beings. But what’s interesting is that once I discovered the existence of Chinese characters in a village in South Africa. Guess what they are?”
"Chinese characters? That can't be Yu Dong's novel, right? I heard that some of Yu Dong's novels sell well in South Africa." Bi Feiyu guessed, holding his chin.
Wang Xiaobo shook his head and denied Bi Feiyu's speculation, "Even if Yu Dong's novels sell well in South Africa, they should be limited to cities. The literacy rate of rural people is very low, and even if it spreads to villages, it will not
It shouldn’t be the Chinese version.”
"Then what are you talking about? If it weren't for his novel, it would be even less possible for us."
"Clezio didn't say it must be books, it could be something else. Isn't Lenovo planning to enter the African market? Maybe they have already started? What he saw was a computer?" As he spoke, Wang Xiaobo added
He rejected his guess, "That's not right. The probability of computers appearing in rural areas of South Africa is much smaller than the probability of books appearing. Besides, there are no Chinese characters on Lenovo computers."
Then everyone guessed a few more answers, but to no avail.
At this moment, Yu Dong suddenly said, "I think what you are seeing is the music album "Fantasy", right?"
Hearing Yu Dong's words, Clezio opened his eyes wide with an incredible expression on his face, "How did you guess that? It was the album "Fantasy". I was very surprised when I saw this album.
.Although I don’t know many Chinese characters, I know the person on the album cover. He is Jay Chou. We have met before at the Deep Space Annual Conference. I took a photo of the album cover with my camera and asked him later.
Only then did I realize that it was Jay Chou's album released last year. I even asked the children who had the album where this album came from, but no one could tell clearly. Please tell me, how did you guess it?
of?"
Yu Dong smiled and explained: "It's actually very simple, because the album was distributed by Deep Space Company. In order to allow poor tribes in Africa to enjoy the right to listen to music, Deep Space Company distributed a total of 20,000 cassettes in South Africa, and also
Some tape recorders were distributed. Not all of the 20,000 albums are from Jay Chou, there are also several other singers, but half of them are from Jay Chou, so if you said you saw Chinese characters, I guess they are Jay Chou's albums."
Clezio couldn't help sighing, "It's really admirable that the public welfare of your Deep Space Company has reached Africa. What you have done is very good. In such a village, it is amazing that children can listen to music.
A very happy thing. Let alone music, anything that can make a sound can make them happy. They did have a radio there, but I didn’t think much about it at the time. After all, the village was not particularly far from the city.
It's far away, maybe someone brought it from you in the city, but I didn't expect it to be given to you by you."
Yu Dong smiled, Clezio's words hit an important point.
Deep Space Company distributes music albums not randomly, but with purpose according to the region. A large part of the albums are not distributed to rural areas, but to cities. Even if they are distributed to rural areas, they are some distance away from cities.
Very far away rural areas.
The reason for releasing music albums is of course not to allow Africans to enjoy the right to listen to music as Yu Dong said, but to allow Chinese music to spread across the land of South Africa.
Music communication is the simplest and most efficient.
Whether it is novels or TV, there are barriers to dissemination.
Needless to say the latter, first of all, if you want to watch TV, you must have electricity. If you have electricity, you must also have a TV. With the TV, you must have programs, and with the programs, they must be understandable.
As for the former, at least others must be literate.
But music is different. People don’t need any threshold when listening to music. They only need to have ears, and it can also be passed down by word of mouth.
In fact, Deep Space Company is not only doing this in South Africa, they are doing it in many countries. Even in the United States, many places have received albums from Chinese singers.
Of course, Clezio could also imagine that Deep Space Company was doing this to promote Chinese music, but in his opinion, even if Deep Space Company was doing this to promote the music of its own singers, their behavior would bring a lot of harm to the local people.
Chapter completed!