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Chapter 357 Hollywood Picks Up Leaks ([-] daily updates, please subscribe~)

The development plan and financial statements of Phantom Entertainment were sealed in a kraft paper bag. Even if Wu Jianye explained it, Linda knew that it involved some development secrets of Phantom Entertainment, so they sealed it up.

In fact, Linda wanted to send it back, but Wu Jianye thought about it and asked Zhao Lei to bring it back. He didn't want this thing to be sent to Singapore, and then the other party would say a work mistake.
"Sit down first!" Wu Jianye opened the brown paper bag and pointed to the seat opposite him.

The first thing Wu Jianye looked at was Phantom Entertainment's financial situation this year. This year, Phantom Entertainment has invested in three Universal Pictures films, namely "The French Condor" for US$300 million, "Horror Inn" for US$500 million, and "Horror Inn" for US$600 million. Ten thousand U.S. dollars for "Soldier from Heaven".

As for income?
Now it seems that the goal of paying back the cost has not been reached. It is estimated that if we want to achieve a balance of payments, we will have to wait until the release of the video tapes of these three films.

The cooperation between Phantom Entertainment and Universal Pictures in the past two years can be said to have become more and more intimate, and the two parties are still in the honeymoon period.

As for Phantom Entertainment's own investment and production, it is still the highly influential "Home Alone" series in North America. Now "Home Alone" has filmed the fourth one, and almost all of the first three are New Year's Eve in North America. No matter what, movie fans still feel a little tired from watching movies, so the third movie has lost the explosive power of the previous two movies, and now the fourth movie has not yet been released. 5000 million US dollars is already very good.

But there is one thing that other Hollywood film companies are extremely envious of is the investment in "Home Alone".

In this series of films, the third one has the highest investment. With the performance of the leading male child star in "Home Alone", he has become the most popular child star in the United States, and even the world. By the time of the third film, even more He asked for his own salary of 1500 million US dollars, which is already the highest salary for a top male movie star in North America.

There is no 2000 million club in Hollywood right now.

When it came time to film the fourth part, Linda asked Wu Jianye what she meant, and decisively gave up the original leading role, and then the fourth part of "Home Alone" auditioned and recruited across the United States.

Among more than 1 school-age children, Leonardo DiCaprio, who was only 12 years old with his parents to audition, fell in love with him!
This also caused the budget of the fourth "Home Alone" to drop directly from the initial US$5000 million to US$500 million!

When he found out that "Home Alone 4" was starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Wu Jianye immediately notified Linda that he had signed a ten-year contract with him.
At the same time, Phantom Entertainment also started filming a movie for the company's signed artist Arnold Schwarzenegger, "Devil Commander"!
The film has been released in North America, with a production cost of 1000 million US dollars, but the box office has reached 5800 million US dollars, which once again proved Arnold Schwarzenegger's box office appeal, which also made Arnold Schwarzenegger the Another action star after Stallone in North America!

However, this is not Phantom Entertainment's biggest expenditure this year. Phantom Entertainment's biggest expenditure this year is the establishment of a production company called Athena Animation. The initial investment of this production company is as high as 5000 million US dollars, of which 1000 million US dollars It was used to purchase various machines and recruit talents, and the remaining 4000 million US dollars was invested in the production of an animated film.

Although Linda knew that Wu Jianye had been preparing an animated film, but when she found out that the investment of this animated film was as high as 4000 million US dollars, she still couldn't help but hesitated, but in the end she still chose Believe in Wu Jianye.

The most important thing is that if she disagrees, part of her shares in Phantom Entertainment will be diluted with the establishment of Athena Animation
This cartoon has now entered the production period, but it will have to wait until the end of next year or the beginning of the next year to complete it.

This is also a good choice for Phantom Entertainment. If the box office of "Home Alone" is not satisfactory this year, Phantom Entertainment will probably choose to refrigerate this series first, and then take it out for the second round after a few years money behavior.

The two biggest projects of Phantom Entertainment this year are "Home Alone 86", which was released on New Year's Day in 3. The investment of this film is 5000 million US dollars, of which Universal Pictures, as the cooperative company of Phantom Entertainment, took 1500 million US dollars. Investment share, while the box office record of this film in North America is 1.62 million US dollars, and the global box office outside North America is 2.18 million US dollars, both of which are less than the previous two films.

Based on the share calculation, Phantom Entertainment has recovered US$6237 million from the North American box office alone. After deducting the investment of US$3500 million from Phantom, the profit is US$2737 million. The global box office revenue will deduct the share from Universal Pictures, and it will get US$6104 million. .

At the same time, income from video tapes, TV rights, and peripheral products must be added. This type of income is almost the same as the box office income, reaching 8600 million US dollars, which is not shared with Universal Pictures.

In other words, this year, "Home Alone 3" alone brought Phantom Entertainment $1.7441 million.

This is why it is said that "Home Alone" is the most money-absorbing movie series in Hollywood today.

The income of Phantom Entertainment's other film "Devil Commander" is also objective. This film is independently invested and shot by Phantom Entertainment. Universal Pictures has been in financial crisis in the past two years. , and considering that this movie is not a sequel to "Terminator", there is no investment.

That is to say, the North American box office revenue of this movie reached 3190 million US dollars, even surpassing "Home Alone 3" in terms of revenue alone, but in terms of global box office revenue, this movie has no way to compete with "Home Alone 3" comparable.

The movie only grossed about $7000 million at the U.S. box office, and its revenue was only $2800 million.

But now Arnold Schwarzenegger's movies are very popular in the video market because of "Terminator", so the income in this area has also brought Phantom Entertainment nearly 3000 million US dollars in revenue.

The total revenue brought by the entire "Devil Commander" to Phantom Entertainment is 8990 million US dollars!
Only relying on the two films "Home Alone 3" and "Devil Commander", Phantom Entertainment earned a total of 2.6431 million US dollars, which not only made Phantom Entertainment the most profitable among Hollywood independent production companies, but also surpassed the top seven in Hollywood. Among them, MGM, Columbia's three major film companies.

Became a force to be reckoned with in Hollywood.

If it wasn't for Phantom Entertainment's insufficient distribution capabilities, the eight major film companies in Hollywood would be mentioned again.

But even so, some Hollywood media pointed out that within three years, Phantom Entertainment will become one of the top eight in Hollywood!

In fact, there is also a relationship with Linda. Up to now, all the external connections of Phantom Entertainment have been done by Linda, so the external impression is that this company belongs to Linda. As a pure Hollywood person , Phantom Entertainment under the leadership of Linda, so that Phantom Entertainment was not too crowded out by other companies.

After reading the financial situation of Phantom Entertainment, Wu Jianye looked at Linda's plan for Phantom Entertainment next year.

As predicted by the Hollywood media, Phantom Entertainment will put its main focus on distribution next year, which means that Phantom Entertainment will officially enter the ranks of distribution. This is a long way to go, but Something that had to be done again.

Only when the distribution is truly mastered, can Phantom Entertainment really have its own say in Hollywood, instead of being subject to Universal Pictures or other film companies that want to get in.

For example, Universal Pictures, which is in a financial crisis this year, even though Universal Pictures has not released blockbuster movies in the past few years, relying on its strong distribution capabilities, it still surpasses Phantom Entertainment in terms of income, and there is still a large part of it. The income is also earned by Phantom Entertainment's movies.

If it weren't for Hollywood's anti-monopoly law, Wu Jianye would have wanted to acquire theaters in the United States by himself. Unfortunately, Hollywood's monopoly law made this idea impossible to realize, but it doesn't mean that there are no other operability. Just figure it out slowly.

As for the filming plan, the most important thing for Phantom Entertainment next year is Arnold Schwarzenegger's new film plan. Now Phantom Entertainment has screened scripts suitable for Arnold Schwarzenegger in Hollywood. The scripts that Hollywood seals up every year There are as many as a thousand, and it is not that there are no scripts that are not favored by everyone.

Some are because of insufficient technology, and some are because there are no suitable actors. Maybe when there are suitable actors in the future, or when the technology is mature, these scripts will be produced again.

So there is no need to worry that Schwarzenegger will not find a suitable script, not to mention there is Wu Jianye's recommendation.

Schwarzenegger, who is backed by Phantom Entertainment, can only achieve better development in the film and television industry than the original time and space.

As for the "Home Alone" series, as I said just now, we will tentatively decide whether to shoot the fourth part or not based on the situation of the fourth part.

At the same time, Phantom Entertainment will also prepare for the release of the new animation according to the production status.

Of course, there will also be Linda's own movie investment as the general manager of Phantom Entertainment, but Wu Jianye once told her that she should ask Wu Jianye what he meant for investments exceeding 1000 million US dollars. Phantom Entertainment suffered a large loss.

After Wu Jianye read the whole plan for 87, he thought about it and made an overseas call to Linda.

When Linda received the call from Wu Jianye, she had just arrived at the company. Wu Jianye didn't say too much nonsense, but gave Linda a task.

It is to let her find Bruce Willis who participated in the TV series "Blue Moonlight Detective Agency" last year, let the company sign him, and say that at the beginning of next year, there will be a movie script starring Bruce Willis!

From the end of the 80s to the 90s in Hollywood, many action stars emerged, the most famous of which are Stallone, Schwarzenegger and Bruce Willis.

Now that Stallone has made his name in Hollywood with "First Blood", it is unrealistic to sign him, but Bruce Willis is still no problem. Now Bruce Willis is still a little transparent in Hollywood. Just made some big names on the small screen.

If Schwarzenegger and Bruce Willis had two major weapons throughout the 80s, there would be no need to worry about the box office of the films produced by Phantom Entertainment.

As for the script that Wu Jianye presented is also Bruce Willis's famous work "Die Hard", the most important thing is that this movie will also be a series of movies. When the popularity of "Home Alone" is gradually waning, " Die Hard could be a great addition to this series!

After hearing about this task, Linda understood. As for why Wu Jianye knew such an actor, Linda had given up asking. She has been reading books about Huaxia recently, including "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" In her opinion, Wu Jianye is Zhuge Liang in the book.

Know the world without going out!

But later Linda casually said that a screenwriter came to Phantom Entertainment with a movie script and wanted to get investment.

Linda herself liked the script quite a bit, but the investment was more than 1000 million US dollars, close to 500 million, and the screenwriter was just a new screenwriter who had just written a movie script.

Wu Jianye asked curiously: "What's the name of this screenwriter? What's the name of the script? What's the story?"

Linda said: "The screenwriter's name is James Orr, and the name of the script is Three Dads and One Baby. It's actually a story about three people of different professions who changed their lives after receiving a newborn baby by accident. !"

Wu Jianye held the phone, his eyes lit up, and he said with a smile: "It happens that I have time now, please tell me the content of this story in detail!"

Linda: "Okay."

After listening to Linda's narration, Wu Jianye smiled, and it really was the movie in his impression: "Invest in him!"

After Linda heard it, she didn't think too much about it. It's only 500 million US dollars. For Phantom Entertainment, it's not a problem at all!
Then Linda said some other things before hanging up the phone.

The movie "Three Dads and One Baby" is actually not very famous in the long history of Hollywood movies, but he won the No. 1987 box office in North America in [-] next year!
The screenwriter of this film is James Orr. After he wrote this script, he searched almost all the Hollywood film companies, but no one was optimistic about the prospect of this film.

In desperation, James Orr even found a record company, and jointly invested with several film companies that were not well-known at the time to make this movie, and his salary was extremely low.
But when the movie was released, it immediately blew up the box office in North America. When it was finally released, the box office in North America was as high as 1.67 million US dollars.

(End of this chapter)