Robert came over at this time, and upon seeing him, Donnie led him directly to his office.
"Let’s talk about last night’s gains!"
On the stage of the Miss America final last night, Donnie’s income actually missed a part, which was the advertising revenue!
After all, during the city competition finals, Starry Entertainment had already collected all the advertising fees.
Now, the profits that could be relied on from the Miss America final were newspaper sales, the box office of the documentary, and peripheral income!
"I just got a set of data from Robinson, ’Atlantic City Post’ has been maintaining sales of around 200,000 copies during this period, and it’s been two weeks now, so ’Atlantic City Post’ has a total sales of 4.8 million copies, earning a profit of 28,800 US dollars!"
Speaking of this, Robert paused, and Donnie, looking at him, asked, "Is there any bad news?"
Robert said, "Robinson mentioned that with the end of the Miss America pageant, the sales of ’Atlantic City Post’ will inevitably decline. The previous records of ’Atlantic City Post’ sales were due to the voting for Miss America, creating record-breaking sales, but this volume cannot be regarded as normal sales data!"
Donnie said with an unconcerned smile, "If it’s just this, then there’s no problem. I was prepared for this, but you also have to tell Robinson, although I do not expect ’Atlantic City Post’ to maintain sales comparable to this period on regular days, if the sales per issue of ’Atlantic City Post’ fall below 10,000 copies, I still won’t be happy!"
’Atlantic City Post’ had used the popularity of Miss America to cultivate a reading habit among the people of Atlantic City. If it can’t maintain sales of even 20,000 copies in Atlantic City, then that’s on Robinson’s capabilities!
Robert said, "I will pass this message on to him!"
"The box office from the first week of screenings for the Miss America regional finals has also come out, totaling 1.5 million US dollars, far surpassing the preliminaries. According to the split, we will get an income of 600,000 US dollars. However, we will have to wait three weeks before we can get this money along with the box office split for the remaining three weeks!"
Robert continued to update Donnie on the current situation.
Donnie nodded, "This has already been agreed upon with Philadelphia Film Company, there’s nothing to worry about. However, you should communicate with them about the release of the finals documentary. This is our last squeeze from this edition of Miss America!"
Robert said, "I’ve already talked to them about expanding the release, and they are discussing it. They said they’ll give us an answer tomorrow!"
With the box office success of the two Miss America documentaries, Donnie naturally could now demand that Philadelphia Film increase the scale of the final documentary’s release.
"Tell them that if they cannot meet our distribution needs, then we’ll have to hand over the distribution of the final documentary to another company!"
Donnie spoke assertively.
That’s how the capital market is. Now that the Miss America documentary had proven its box office appeal, Donnie no longer needed to actively seek out partners. Those movie distributors would come to him.
However, if these people knew that Donnie was planning to invest in United Artists, then the release of the Miss America finals documentary might become an issue!
After talking about the first two sources of income, it was time for the big one, the peripheral income from the Miss America final!
Explore new worlds at empire
With the popularity of the preliminary and regional finals, the national finals drew even more audience and, naturally, more gamblers as well!
The total betting amount for the Miss America preliminary was over 8 million, and for the regional finals, over 14 million, which included the betting amount from Atlantic City.
Now, with the national finals, the total national betting amount had officially broken through the 20 million US dollar mark, reaching 21 million, with 2 million from Atlantic City and a combined 19 million from other regions.
After all expenses, on this occasion, Donnie earned a total income of 1.155 million US dollars from the periphery!
Including previous earnings, by this time, Donnie’s own disposable cash had finally broken through the 3 million US dollar mark!
3 million US dollars in cash flow was definitely a huge sum at the moment, but it was clearly not enough for what Donnie wanted to do.
"The Miss America pageant is drawing to a close, now we need to prepare for our next plan!"
Donnie sat there, tapping on the desk, and looked toward the door impatiently asking, "Where the hell is Walker? He better not still be in bed!"
New novel 𝓬hapters are published on ƒreewebɳovel.com.
Robert chuckled and said, "At this time, he’s probably explaining to Maholi!"
"What happened?" Donnie felt as if he had missed something.
Robert laughed, "After you went upstairs last night, Walker stayed drinking with us. Halfway through, Maholi sent someone to pick up Walker, and she saw the situation in the hall at the time. I reckon Walker was not in good shape last night!"
Hearing this, Donnie burst into laughter, "I had no idea Maholi was such a jealous pot!"
Robert spread his hands nonchalantly and said, "Who knows!"