At 7:50 pm, we arrived at the Peninsula Hotel in summer.`

"Hello, Mr. Xia, I have long admired my name! I am Li Guoxing!" A man who looked in his forties, with a frost-faced face, and like an old farmer in the countryside introduced himself.

Xia Tian nodded with a smile, but was not surprised by Li Guoxing's appearance.

Because in order to know himself and his enemy, he won every battle, he collected some information about Li Guoxing before coming. He knew that he followed his uncle around the streets and promoted videos when he was a teenager. It can be said that he had worked hard and experienced many hardships. In fact, he was only 32 years old this year, but he suffered too much back then, so he looked older.

"Hello, Mr. Li, I have long admired you." Xia Tian said with a sincere smile.

Li Guoxing went from being a poor boy selling videos along the street to become one of the largest businessmen in the Chinese film industry. Such a legendary experience really made Xia Tian admire him. You should know that he did not have the golden finger of "rebirth and time travel".

"Really, I'm so honored." Li Guoxing saw that Xia Tian didn't seem to be a compliment, but really admired him very much, and felt very happy, "Let's talk while eating, Mr. Xia."

"Okay, I'm hungry too." Xia Tian smiled.

...

After three rounds of wine, five flavors of dishes.

The two began to talk about serious things.

"Mr. Xia, I like to go straight and go straight, and I don't like to go around in circles. To be honest, I am very interested in your "Mr. Zombie" and want to buy it for a trip to the Southeast Asian Tour." Li Guoxing said straight to the point.

"Okay, it's really good." Xia Tian smiled. He didn't like to keep things around. It was so boring. "I wonder how much Mr. Li is willing to pay?"

"I know that the total box office of "Mr. Zombie" in Hong Kong is 25.6 million. In this way, I spent 35 million Hong Kong dollars to buy out the exercise of "Mr. Zombie" in Nanyang and the exercise of the videotape. `What do you think?" Li Guoxing asked tentatively.

Summer smiles slightly. Generally, if Hong Kong movies are sold to Taiwan, the selling price is basically 75% of Hong Kong's local box office. If they are sold to Nanyang, the selling price is 150% of Hong Kong's local box office. This selling price is only a copy of the movie, not including video tapes.

"Mr. Zombie" has a box office of 25.6 million in Hong Kong. The selling price in Nanyang should be 38.2 million. Li Guoxing paid 35 million to buy out the right to execute the movie, and the bid was quite fair. But if you want to buy the right to execute the video, you would be a little too greedy.

Others may not be able to watch the profits of hundreds of thousands of yuan for videos, but Xia Tian knows that the next few years will be the golden age of the videos. A popular movie can make 10 or 20 million yuan by using videos alone. Li Guoxing wanted to spend a penny and grab this business, which would be too foolish.

In 1975, Sony launched the world's first home video recorder betamax. It is translated as Betamax in Chinese as beta, abbreviated as beta video recorder, commonly known as small 1/2 video recorder in Hong Kong.

In 1976, Japanese JVC company launched a home video recorder in the VHS format; in 1978, Philips launched a video-2ooo format video recorder.

The video recorder has only been launched for ten years now, and it has not been widely promoted because of its high price. But in the next few years, I know that the video recorder will definitely be promoted.

Because the prices of electronic technology products like this are falling rapidly over time. Just like the big brothers back then, the price was 20,000 or 30,000 yuan. There was still a shortage of supply. But after ten years, there was no one to use it.

Now that the sales of videotapes are overwhelmed by tens of thousands of boxes, they make hundreds of thousands of dollars, or one or two million, which can only be considered small money. Of course, these film companies don’t care. But within one or two years, as long as the sales of videotapes increase, the sales of videotapes will immediately rise, and there is no need to worry about piracy.

Because the three video recorder manufacturers use different formats, their video tapes are incompatible with each other, which has also delayed the production cost of video tapes.`

For example, a blank video tape is now priced at more than 60 Hong Kong dollars. The cost of recording a movie video tape is as high as 70 Hong Kong dollars, so the cost of piracy is too high, which has curbed the pirated video tape. Therefore, in the next few years, it will be the golden age of the video show.

I remember in summer that in 1988, the box office of "The King of Flowers" invested by Cheng Long was only more than 16 million yuan in Hong Kong, which was only a small profit. However, this video made nearly 20 million Hong Kong dollars in Hong Kong and Taiwan just by relying on videotapes.

"The Overlord" is just a movie of average quality, and it can still make money like this. If you make videos like "Mr. Zombie", it is possible to make 20 to 30 million in the future.

Xia Tian remembers that when VCD was popular and pirated discs were rampant, Lin Zhengying's zombie films, Cheng Long and Li Lianjie's action films, Zhou Run's gambling films, and Zhou Xingchi's laughter films were the four most popular films.

"It's okay to buy out the rights of "Mr. Zombie" in Nanyang, but the rights of videotapes are not possible." Xia Tian waved his hand and said, "Mr. Li, don't bully me young, just think I'm easy to fool. In my opinion, videotapes may be more profitable than being released in theaters."

When Li Guoxing heard this, he immediately showed a surprised expression. He really couldn't understand how Xia Tian saw this.

Because so far, video recorders are just toys for rich people. The price of a machine of 4,000 to 5,000 Hong Kong dollars is indeed not something that ordinary people can afford.

In Hong Kong, the sales of a movie's video tapes are only 4,000 or 5,000 boxes at most, and they are usually sold to video tape rental stores for rental. Because the price of a video tape is 150 to 200 Hong Kong dollars, to be honest, ordinary people can't afford it at all, so they can only rely on rentals.

However, based on his years of experience in promoting video tapes, Li Guoxing concluded that such a convenient family entertainment method as video tapes will definitely be popular in Hong Kong and Southeast Asia in the future, so he is very optimistic about the video tape business.

Unexpectedly, Xia Tian was young and had never been involved in videotapes, so he could see the prospects. It was really extraordinary.

"Let me do this, I will add another two million to buy out the exercise rights of the videotape, how about?" In order to verify that Xia Tian really saw the prospects of the videotape exhibition, or use this as a reason to raise the price, Li Guoxing tried to add another two million.

Xia Tian smiled, "Mr. Li, don't try again. If you want to buy the videotape of "Mr. Zombie", you have to pay me at least 10 million Hong Kong dollars. Otherwise, this matter will be free from discussion!"

"That's impossible, Mr. Xia, you know that our Meiya is a small business, not as rich and powerful as Jiahe, Princess Jin, and Shaw Brothers. To be honest, I made these more than 30 million together. Where can I get another 10 million for you!" Li Guoxing immediately smiled bitterly when he heard this.

His Meiya Entertainment was founded in 1982, and it has only been three years since then. Although he has financial support from Nanyang and Li Guoxing's own efforts, the Meiya Entertainment Exhibition has been very fast, but his strength is still not comparable to giants such as Jiahe, Princess Jin, and Shaw Brothers.

"Let's do this, buy out the rights to the movie "Mr. Zombie" for 35 million yuan. As for the rights to the video tape, we can adopt another cooperation method." Xia Tian smiled slightly.

He also knew that it was difficult for Meiya to spend nearly 50 million yuan in funds at once. After all, it was not a giant like Shaw Brothers and Jiahe, and it can only rank at the end of the four major businesses.

"What kind of cooperation?" Li Guoxing asked curiously.

"I authorize you the videotape of "Mr. Zombie" to you. We will share the profit in half in the future. What do you think?" Xia Tian suggested.

"If we have half the score, we will suffer a little. After all, we have to be responsible for production, publicity, and conduct. In this way, what about you, you three, and I seven?" Li Guoxing thought for a while.

"Let's do this, each person takes a step back, you are six and I am four, how about it?" Xia Tian thought for a while, and then he said together.

"It's settled!" Li Guoxing decided for a moment and nodded with a smile.

Now, a videotape with high-quality movies can be sold at 200 Hong Kong dollars, while the cost price is only 70 to 80 yuan. If calculated based on the share ratio of 6 to 4, a videotape can earn 40 to 50 yuan. If it is operated well, it is okay to sell more than 100,000 games in the Nanyang area, which is a profit of millions.

"It's great to work with Mr. Li." Xia Tian smiled with satisfaction.

Through videotapes, he can earn millions or even tens of millions of dollars. Moreover, this business is long-lasting, and unless the videotape disappears one day, he will always make money.

"Mr. Xia, I know you have been making four movies recently, and I am very interested in those movies." Li Guoxing said with a smile again.

"I am of course happy that Mr. Li is interested, but those movies have not been produced yet and have not been released yet." Xia Tian waved his hand.

"I know, but I want to bet with Mr. Xia." Li Guoxing nodded.

"Gambling?!" Xia Tian was a little confused.

"That's right. These four movies have not been released yet, and the box office is still unknown. Maybe the box office is very good, or maybe the box office is bad. I think you can't guarantee this, Mr. Xia," said Li Guoxing. "So I want to bet on my eyesight and buy the exercise rights of these four movies in advance. If the box office is good, then I'm a loser; if the box office is not good, I'm blind. Mr. Xia, you can guarantee the income from drought and flood, but I don't know what to do?"

"Then how much do you want?" Xia Tian also felt a little interesting when he heard this.

"In this way, I will pay 30 million in "Zombie Family", I will pay 32 million in "Detective Chocolate", I will pay 20 million in "Heroic Color", and I will pay 15 million in "Overbial Flower". Mr. Xia, what do you think of the price?" Li Guoxing said confidently. He believed that Xia Tian would not refuse such a generous price. (To be continued.)

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