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Chapter 428 - 273: Investing Earned Money into Technological Research (10/10 Additional Updates by the Alliance Leader)_2

Chapter 428: Chapter 273: Investing Earned Money into Technological Research (10/10 Additional Updates by the Alliance Leader)_2

As her sister Ding Xiaoyou put it, she has found a promising direction in optimizing the chemical vapor deposition method for graphite stripping.

With a little more time, she believes she can optimize the chemical vapor deposition method to achieve efficient, high-purity graphene stripping.

Since her sister Ding Xiaoyou is working so hard, Ding Yue can’t stop her.

Her brain is probably developed to a new height by now, isn’t it?

After all, even before Ding Yue used the Personal Learning Buff on her, she was already a super overachiever at the level of the College Entrance Examination Champion.

With the Personal Learning Buff that Ding Yue has used on her, it is hard to estimate how intelligent Ding Xiaoyou is now.

"Research is important, but don’t overwork yourself, okay? Your health is the real capital of the revolution!"

After Ding Xiaoyou got out of the car, Ding Yue took the time to remind her.

At the same time, Ding Yue was about to spend 50 reputation points in the system mall in front of him, to redeem a [Physical Fitness Scroll (Personal)] for his sister.

Ding!

"Congratulations to the host for successfully using 50 reputation points to redeem the [Physical Fitness Scroll (Personal)]."

With a prompt in his mind, Ding Yue looked at the item redeemed in the item bar, then selected the user—his sister, Ding Xiaoyou!

Ding!

"Congratulations to the host for successfully giving Ding Xiaoyou, a freshman student at Mist City Arts and Science University, the [Physical Fitness Scroll (Personal)], increasing her physical fitness health+1!"

This [Physical Fitness Scroll (Personal)] can improve the physical fitness of the user to a certain extent, allowing her to maintain a healthy physical level even if she doesn’t exercise regularly.

However, this doesn’t mean that physical fitness can be wasted recklessly. If she continues to stay up late, sleepless, and doesn’t exercise, her body will collapse quickly.

"I know, when did you become as nagging as Mom, Ding Yue."

Ding Xiaoyou rolled her eyes and then headed to the energy chemistry lab.

After returning to Elegant Garden No.1 apartment building and parking the car, Ding Yue went upstairs back to his apartment room.

In the study of his apartment, Ding Yue reviewed the list prepared for the University Education Innovation Exchange Conference.

Two hours passed in a flash, Ding Yue stretched lazily and yawned as he headed to the bathroom.

After taking a shower, Ding Yue wrapped himself in a small blanket, picked up his phone and looked at the time.

Half past eleven in the evening.

It was time to go to bed.

But before going to bed, Ding Yue planned to check on the overall box office status of the day.

When he and Huang came out of the theater at around eight in the evening, Huang had checked on the box office. But that result only included the earnings after the batch of screenings that ended after six, there would be another burst of box office revenues from the screenings starting after eight.

And there was another one after ten.

Because a movie usually lasts one to two hours, to arrange screenings, cinemas often make full use of their halls.

Especially during the National Holiday Period such as this, typically after the screening that starts at six ends, the same hall will immediately schedule the next screening that starts after eight.

[Box Office Ranking on September 30] ——

First place: "Chronicles of Demon Sealing", total box office 170 million, occupancy rate 57.31%

Second place: "Space Fortress", total box office 104 million, occupancy rate 33.24%

Third place: "Our Youth Time", total box office 101 million, occupancy rate 55.47%

Fourth place: "Super Combat Team", total box office 94.23 million, occupancy rate 90.28%

The ranking of the box office did not change, but the gap both widened and narrowed.

The widening gap was mainly between the first and second places.

That is, "Chronicles of Demon Sealing" and "Space Fortress". When Huang Youjie had checked earlier, there was only just over 10 million difference in box office earnings between the two.

But now, "Chronicles of Demon Sealing" has continued to strive, although due to the showtime after ten, the occupancy rate has dropped a bit, there is still 170 million in box office.

Meanwhile, "Space Fortress", which had the highest screen share today, ended up with a box office of only 104 million yuan. It was utterly thrashed by "Chronicles of Demon Sealing" which had a lower screen share!

"Our Youth Time" in third place is relatively stable, with decent attendance and box office. Although it did not make a huge splash, nor did it flop. Even if its premier screening drained some of its potential, in the first few days of its official large-scale release, it should still rake in a good amount of box office revenue.

The gap has narrowed particularly in regards to Ding Yue’s Mist City Arts and Science University’s "Super Combat Team" and "Space Fortress".

Using "Space Fortress" as the median, "Chronicles of Demon Sealing" has clearly outperformed it.

"Super Combat Team" came within a gap of just ten million yuan to "Space Fortress" box office figures, despite its screen share being less than 10%.

Yes, you heard right!

"Space Fortress", which had a screen share almost four times that of "Super Combat Team", is only ten million yuan ahead in box office at this point.

This edition of "Space Fortress" directed by Ma Wenhai is indeed in total shambles.

This also shows that Mist City Arts and Science University’s "Super Combat Team" has been successful, and popular to a degree that seems to surpass Ding Yue’s initial expectations.

After all, from the outset, Ding Yue thought that given the relatively low screen share for "Super Combat Team", a first day box office of over fifty million yuan on the 30th of September would already be impressive.

Now it is an astonishing 94.23 million, far exceeding Ding Yue’s initial projections.

This leaves Ding Yue quite thrilled.

After deducting about one third of the 94.23 million yuan box office for cinema revenue sharing, the rest goes to the production and distribution companies.

This is why it’s said that in order for a film to be profitable, the box office needs to exceed three times its production cost.

If a movie’s investment is one hundred million yuan, it would need a box office of over three hundred million yuan. Only then, after the revenue-sharing deductions, would the producer get back the initial hundred million, breaking even.

In this parallel world, movie box office revenue is mainly split into three parts - cinema revenue, distribution revenue, and production revenue. Of course, there is also a small portion taken by the Film Bureau.

Of the three parts, the cinemas portion might be on the larger side, but generally it hovers around thirty something percent.

Whatever is left over is split between the production and distribution companies.

But sorry to inform you!

For Mist City Arts and Science University’s "Super Combat Team", both the production and distribution companies are Ding Yue’s Feiyue Group.

Which means, out of the 94.23 million yuan box office, after deducting the 30 something percent of cinema’s share, the bulk of the remainder goes straight to Ding Yue.

About sixty something million yuan in total!

Oh my!

He’s essentially broken even already!

Only when Ding Yue calculated this did he realize that the production costs for "Super Combat Team", including production and promotional costs, were just around fifty million yuan.

He’s even turning a small profit already.

A subtle smile appeared on Ding Yue’s face upon realizing this.

In other words, every subsequent day’s box office revenue, after the cinema’s cut, will be pure profit for the Feiyue Group.

A large chunk of this box office revenue is set aside by Ding Yue to be allocated to the photolithography machine research project.

This is because the photolithography machine research project is really a costly venture.

If the box office revenue is strong, some of the profits can be used for educational expenses, student welfare and other necessary expenditure. Due to investing seven billion yuan in expanding the school campus, Ding Yue’s cash flow actually become quite tight.

But now fate is playing a fair game.

It appears as if animation movies produced by the Mist City Arts and Science University are quite a lucrative venture!

Although Ding Yue cannot predict how much "Super Combat Team" could eventually gross at the box office, it should have no problems making one hundred million, even two to three hundred million, right?

Ding Yue is increasingly confident in his initial idea.

That is, to invest the money earned from film and television productions into school construction and the development of scientific research projects, thus enhancing the school’s influence and achievement.

Huh?

Has Ding Yue discovered another sustainable and healthy cyclical development model?

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