Chapter 592 "Blockbuster"
According to Joseph Drake's prediction, the profit of the producer of "The Fault in Our Stars" should be close to 20 million US dollars - net profit minus production costs.
Coupled with income from video tapes and television entertainment, a few can earn US$30 million.
In other words, "The Fault in Our Stars" can create more than 80 million yuan in net profit for Wonderful Studio...
The unit is US dollars.
In fact, Shen Xudong also knows that he may not be able to keep the secret - Hollywood has many reviews every year: the annual profit-making movies and so on will definitely expose the profitability of "Juno" and "The Fault in Our Stars"...
In addition, Jiahe has also participated in the investment of many projects - if the annual financial report is made public, it will be exposed!
So what Shen Xudong did was really just taking off his pants and farting - unnecessary.
But he likes it.
Regarding the profits from "The Fault in Our Stars", Shen Xudong decided to take half of it to improve his life.
The remaining half is still used for project development.
Have you ever thought about building a distribution system?
In fact, Joseph Drake and Jason Blum complained about Lionsgate taking 13% of the distribution fee...
Yes, the 13% distribution commission is already the lowest in the industry. Paramount and Universal both charge 17% for DreamWorks’ works.
But everyone was unhappy with the $10 million in "protection fees" given to Lionsgate for each movie.
But we all know that in order to build a distribution channel, a major prerequisite is to produce 12 to 15 movies every year.
At that time, Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen formed DreamWorks with a start-up capital of US$2.6 billion, but they failed to secure a distribution network...
Because of a necessary premise: if you want to have your own distribution company, you must produce at least 12 to 15 films a year, but DreamWorks can only produce 6 "decent films" a year - major studios have hundreds of them at any time The script is waiting to be filmed, but DreamWorks doesn’t have it!
Even though DreamWorks later had its own distribution company, its power was weak after all. Whether movies, TV or DVDs, they had to rely on the distribution networks of giants such as Universal and Paramount to jointly distribute them. This of course also meant the diversion of profits...
Wonderful Studio tentatively plans to produce five to eight films per year...
In fact, "Twilight" received investment from Lionsgate - Lionsgate invested half of it.
If you don’t accept investment from big studios, it’s equivalent to ‘the leader picks up the dishes and you turn the tables, and the leader toasts you but doesn’t drink’…
You want to fly?
Although Lionsgate cannot compare with real big companies in terms of size, they started out by relying on B-level movies and horror movies, which is in line with the attributes of Wonderful Studio. In addition, the TV series "Urban Rogue" produced by Joseph Drake "To be broadcast on the AMC cable station, the mediator is Lionsgate - Lionsgate and AMC TV have reached a five-year cooperation strategy, during which they launched "Mad Men", "Single Mom"...
It's a pity that AMC's flagship project was "Breaking Bad", which has nothing to do with Lionsgate!
Why didn't Shen Xudong take up the idea of "Breaking Bad"?
Haha, although there were many twists and turns in the birth of "Breaking Bad", its producer, screenwriter, and director Vince Gilligan has been in the American television industry for more than ten years, and even has a masterpiece - "The X-Files" "series…
He insists that "Breaking Bad" will be a hit and does not accept copyright sharing at all!
——You can invest, but forget about copyright. With such an attitude, how can Shen Xudong invest?
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"Blockbuster" will be released on August 20, which is regarded as the final film of the summer season.
But it also avoided the peak viewing period of "Harry Potter", and it can be regarded as exclusive for nearly 20 days - until September 7th, two new movies will be released, namely "The Spring Knife" and "C+ Detective". In addition, "The Sun Also Rises" will be released on September 21st...
Of course, even if he had an exclusive schedule, Shen Xudong felt that it would be difficult for "Blockbuster" to break the 100 million mark - a joking story that revealed the birth process of domestic blockbusters and predicted that "Blockbusters are bound to die". It also secretly satirized "Red Cliff" …
Too industrialized, such a movie may not be of interest to the public.
On the set of "Famous", I told Director Chen that he would start with "200 million", which was just to deceive him...
Let him film "Famous" with peace of mind.
If you really think that "Blockbuster" can exceed 200 million, it will definitely be released before "Lady", and it will not be delayed until the end of the summer season.
But the premiere of "Blockbuster" is very good - the actors in "Blockbuster" are basically familiar faces in Beijing circles, and even Feng Xiaogang came to make a guest appearance.
At the premiere, there were many actors and directors in attendance.
The director of "Blockbuster" is Huang Jianxin. He has a good relationship with Director Han of China Film Group and Yu Dong of Bona. In addition, he also gets along well with Chen Kexin...
In addition... the Huabiao Awards may be held the day after tomorrow, and many directors and actors who came in advance will basically come to the premiere of "Blockbuster" to join in the fun...
Shen Xudong was surprised to see Director Chen and... Zhang Ziyi, aren't you filming "Mei Lanfang"?
Why are you here free?
But when people come, of course they have to say hello.
It's a little embarrassing. After all, Shen Xudong didn't say anything about "The Promise" back then. As for Senior Sister Zhang, she also formed a feud at the Vanity Fair party...
Fortunately, everyone was in the scene and greeted each other. Director Chen specifically mentioned "Famous", which was released during the National Day...
‘I heard that the first movie you directed will be released soon. Congratulations! ’
'…Thanks! ’
Over there, Director Chen and director Huang Jianxin were being interviewed by the media. Director Chen said directly: "This story is adapted by Xudong based on real events... Everything in the movie is basically true."
Huang Jianxin said: "I originally didn't want to direct, but when I saw the script of "Blockbuster", I couldn't help it. The theme of this drama is actually satire, and it feels very much like "The Black Cannon Incident"..."
Oh, the male protagonist of "Blockbuster" changed from an avant-garde young director to a middle-aged director who wants to make a good movie...
This kind of middle-aged director has had masterpieces, but after the marketization of movies, he has not kept up with the times.
Then, he met a producer, took advice, and tinkered with a script for a big martial arts production, and the two teamed up to make money...
The director is played by Ge You. In the revised script, the producer is the male lead. He has the most roles, and Director Chen plays the producer.
It's not considered a scam, at least in the eyes of the director played by Ge You - how can artistic matters be considered a scam?
First, Shanxi Coal Boss hired director He Ping to make a guest appearance. He is from Shanxi.
I raised 1 million, of which 300,000 was kept in my pocket, and 700,000 was rented in a luxury car, packaged and promoted as a director, and then went to a meeting with the big star Wu Jing to trick him into signing an "intent of intent" that had no legal effect. "Contract", then take a photo with him, and go back to the Shanxi boss with the contract and the photo;
Then another 5 million was obtained from Tangshan Iron Boss...
The actor who plays the old version is Jiang Wen...
5 million arrived...
At this time, the filming of the movie cannot be started, because 5 million is not enough, so first a special and high-end "press conference" must be held, inviting celebrities and industry leaders from all walks of life, and then media reporters are also invited, and everyone is stuffed with red envelopes.
Big news.
Celebrities and industry leaders from all walks of life are basically real people. Feng Xiaogang, Xu Ke, Han Shanping all attended...
Oh, this script is called "Martial Arts", with a planned investment of 150 million, Xu Ke will supervise the production, and Li Lianjie, Donnie Yen and Wu Jing will be invited to star...
The painting was successful, and another 30 million was obtained from the Zhejiang real estate owner...
Dong Yong, who plays the real estate boss - he is from Hangzhou, Zhejiang!
Okay, this is probably enough for the early stage shooting.
We haven't started shooting yet, but the film review team has received the document, saying that there is a problem with the concept of your script, it failed to pass the review, and the filming permit was not obtained.
what to do?
Change it...
In the end, martial arts blockbusters are on the wane in Europe and the United States...
Of course, there is also an episode in which the actress recommends herself as a pillow, and the director's process of changing from having artistic pursuits to obeying the producer's words...
In the Easter egg section, in the bathing center, Director Chen pinched his feet while discussing his new work with Ge You:
"It's better not to do martial arts. If you have an idea, we can make a Three Kingdoms. The theme of "Three Kingdoms" is very popular recently, so we will make "Red Cliff"..."
""Red Cliff"... I'm afraid I won't be able to film it directed by Wu Yusen!"
"It's okay. Let's change the plot and change the reason why Cao Cao sent troops to Soochow to wanting to get Xiao Qiao... The audience will definitely find it novel. Let's find a beautiful actress to play Xiao Qiao. What do you think, Fan Bingbing?"
"Then who plays Cao Cao?"
"Of course it's Dao Ming Chen!"
Ge You complained: "Director Chen is not good at all. He always looks the same in every role. He is too pretentious!"
Director Chen was silent for a while, and then said: "...he is the best actor in Venice!"