466 Chapter 463 Settled in HBO (seeking subscription, tickets) (1/2)
The HBO representatives were very good at talking and chatted for a long time.
Lehman only felt that they had learned the essence of Tai Chi.
For a while, the meeting room suddenly quieted strangely.
After a while, Lehman felt the atmosphere was awkward, and he didn't continue to circle with them at all.
”The Walking Dead is still filming. We need to find a platform to host the trial broadcast. HBO is our company's ideal partner after considering it. After all, our relationship with Warner is pretty good, right?”
”We are also optimistic about this drama, so we can talk about the conditions first.”
”HBO doesn't have ads, right?” Lehman asked suddenly.
”Yes, we do not have an advertising business. But we are different from other wireless TV stations in that the user's subscription fee can replace this part of the revenue. Moreover, we are always the most aggressive in buying broadcast rights. Can inquire.”
Lehman wanted to laugh a little.
Why is the courage to buy dramas the most? It's not because the coverage area of the cable TV network is inherently worse than that of the wireless TV network. If you don't pay a high price, who will sell it to you?
However, HBO's self-operated business is still very good, although the total market share is not too much, but in terms of profit alone, they are not bad.
”Then how is the share of the subscription fee calculated?”
”The number of new people watching ”The Walking Dead” and the number of old users renewing the series to watch the series, the former is 64 and the latter is 80.”
Well, old users are generally accustomed to paying for renewals, even if the new drama ”The Walking Dead” is replaced with other items, the most is the change in the number of viewers.After all, HBO does not only operate this TV series, it also has a lot of fans from other series.
”This is fair. Warner has a close and mutually beneficial relationship with me. Sometimes, it is better for both of us to deepen our cooperation.”
The representative nodded, seeming to express approval, ”Mr. Barry Meyer said that you value feelings, and he is right. Well, it seems that looking at your new drama project plan, the previous shooting budget for the first season is About thirty million dollars?”
When Lehman heard it, he understood that this person wanted to start quoting broadcast rights.
As for the importance of sentiment in the front, just listen to it. It is probably a pretext for the next price reduction, but this attitude is not a bad thing for Lehman. After all, the people at HBO are satisfied with the new drama project. , I want to fight for.
”The shooting budget is probably enough. I haven't heard of any delays in the crew.”
The man smiled and thought for a while before he said: ”The first season is 24 episodes, and the average production cost per episode does not exceed 1.25 million US dollars. So, how about we are willing to pay 3.2 million for each episode purchase cost?”
”3.5 million in a single episode?”
”No, 3.3 million.”
”3.4 million?”
”Each episode is 3.35 million, totaling US$8040. We are already very sincere.”
”Well, for Barry Meyer's sake, we agreed to the price.”
With this $80 million, deducting the production cost, and subtracting the share of the two directors' creative teams, Firefly Pictures can almost get more than 35 million, which is not a disadvantage.
Looking at the rising corners of the HBO representative team, Lehman also knew that the big head was still eaten by the broadcasting platform. Even if the first season of ”The Walking Dead” only had 70% of the market prospects of the previous life, it is estimated that the total value of the project will be more than 300 million.
Of course, there is no deduction of operating costs, because that is the sole responsibility of HBO.