v3 Chapter 1137： The Hong Kong Film Market has changed (1/2)

After the failed sniper of ”Blade Runner”, all major Hollywood studios knew that ”Alien E·T” was unstoppable and the lion's power was unstoppable.

Fortunately, the film companies can only postpone the release of the main film recently released.

Their choice is extremely beneficial to MGM Pictures. In the absence of a good movie in the same period, the audience naturally rushed to watch the movie ”Alien E·T”.

In addition, MGM Pictures has once again cooperated with some positive theaters, and the number of theaters in North America alone has reached more than 1,250.

This made ”Alien E·T” the weekend box office champion in production and refreshed the box office height, and the global box office reached a new high in the second week.

Reached $84.69 million!

The total box office in two weeks has reached 158.23 million US dollars.

Because the publicity is done by itself, the cost is lower and the box office share is higher.

Not to mention that Universal Cinemas is the largest screening party, and profits are left-handed to right-handed.

So in fact, the cost of investment in filming and the cost of publicity has long been earned back, and a certain amount of profit has been obtained.

The box office behind is pure profit!

Historically, the total North American box office of the movie ”Alien E·T” was US$360 million, and the global total box office was more than US$792 million.

However, the production cost of ”Alien E·T” in this life is more than 20 million US dollars, and the power of publicity is more powerful.

Therefore, it is absolutely not a problem to go beyond the original trajectory, and it is easy to break through 800 million US dollars.

This means that in the future, ”Alien E·T” will be able to earn more than 450 million US dollars in net profit for Xia Yu at the box office.

Coupled with the value of various copyrights, creating a value of 600 million US dollars is absolutely not a problem!

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In the following days, ”Alien E·T” continued to be released hotly, but in Xiangjiang, the Shaw Brothers Film Company became a laughing stock, because after the box office of ”Blade Runner” plummeted, it really couldn't get up.

As for Shaw Brothers’ losses, many media have probably estimated them. Not mentioning the hidden reputation and future losses, the loss of cash alone exceeds HK$130 million.

It is equivalent to losing the net profit of one of the top 100 listed companies of Hong Kong!

Soon, there was another breaking news that the Shao family was ready to completely accept the plant and quit the film industry, intending to sell the Shaw Brothers Film Company and the Shaw Cinemas.

This news is really breaking news, and many people are unbelievable. The former overlord of the Hong Kong film industry, the Shaw Brothers Film Company, which has made outstanding contributions to the Hong Kong film industry, is going to disappear?

Who will spend the huge assets of the Shaw Brothers Film Company and the Shaw Cinemas?

What will the structure of the Hong Kong film market become?

For a time, discussions on these issues became very intense.

In this case, Wu Siyuan and Jiang Xieqiang once again joined Xia Yu's office.

Xia Yu reads the newspaper every day, so of course he is also clear about the Shaw Brothers Film Company.

Looking at Wu Siyuan and Jiang Zhiqiang sitting in front of them, Xia Yu smiled and asked: ”What? Do you have any thoughts on the Shaw Brothers Film Company and the Shaw Cinemas?”

Wu Siyuan and Jiang Zhiqiang looked at each other, and both smiled awkwardly.

Wu Siyuan gently patted Xia Yu's flattery and said: ”Chairman Yingming, we really can't hide anything from you!”

Xia Yu laughed dumbly, and said with a smile: ”Don't give me these empty heads, talk about things.”

”Can you be 100% sure that the Shao family is ready to quit?”

Wu Siyuan looked at Jiang Zhiqiang, he did the inquiring about the news, and he knew better.

Jiang Zhiqiang nodded and said: ”Chairman, the news is certain. It was Shao Yifu's son Shao Weiming who personally released the news. I asked others to call and ask, Shao Weiming also admitted on the phone.”

”It's impossible for Shao Weiming to joke about this kind of thing, and no one from the Shao family came forward to refute the rumors.”