Huayu Zhihao

Chapter 315

"The Ninth District" was officially launched worldwide, with an investment cost of US$4000 million, a North American box office of US$1.57 million, and a global box office of US$2.52 million. It was a dark horse in the box office in 2003.

It is worth mentioning that the global box office of "The Ninth District" surpassed the US$2.45 million of Li Zong's "Hulk".

This made Chen Hao the second highest-grossing Chinese director in the world, second only to Wu Baige!

Meanwhile, "District 1.57" made $60 million in North America, and the producers got 9420 percent, or $[-] million.

But first of all, Sony Columbia, as the distributor, has to share 5% of the total box office, that is, 785 million US dollars as the publicity fee.

Secondly, Chen Hao will take 10% of the box office share as the salary. It should be noted that this 10% is 10% of the North American box office, not the 10% of the producer's share.

That is to say, Chen Hao has to share 1570 million US dollars as the film bonus, plus the previous 1000 million US dollars, Chen Hao, as the producer, script, and director of "The Ninth District", received a total of 2570 million US dollars in remuneration.

The remaining 7065 million box office share will be distributed according to the investment ratio.

Among them, Tianchi Pictures invested US$500 million, plus Chen Hao's salary of US$1000 million, making a total of US$1500 million, accounting for 37.5% of the total investment.
Based on the investment ratio of 37.5%, Liangtianchi Pictures can get a total of 2650 million US dollars.

After excluding taxes, what Liang Tianchi Films and Chen Hao can really get is 4437 million US dollars, or 3.656 million yuan.

In mainland China, the total box office of "The Ninth District" was 1.0333 million yuan.

Because of Chen Hao's growing fame and the support of Han Sanpin, "The Ninth District" can enjoy the treatment of "Hero", and can get 40% of the box office share.

The announcement parties are Haotian Film and Television, Pauli Bernard and Bright Media.

In the end, Haotian Film and Television can get a total of 0.158 of the box office share, including investment and publicity. After deducting taxes, Haotian Film and Television can earn 1390 million yuan!

After deducting the publicity and distribution expenses from the income in the mainland, Haotian Film and Television and Chen Hao earned only 1000 million RMB!

Then there is the global box office of 8300 million U.S. dollars excluding the mainland and North America. According to the usual practice, 35% of the box office dividends can be obtained, which is 2905 million U.S. dollars.

Liang Tianchi Films and Chen Hao can get 37.5% of it, which is 1090 million US dollars, or 9000 million RMB!

"The Ninth District" has a global box office of 2.52 million U.S. dollars. After deducting various costs and taxes, Chen Hao and Liang Tianchi Pictures have earned a total of 5700 million U.S. dollars, or 4.7 million yuan in box office revenue.

Of course, distribution channels such as DVD rental and paid channel on demand for "The Ninth District" have also been rolled out, and the income here should be able to exceed the box office revenue.

Although the term is a bit longer, there has been a steady income for many years in a row.

Counting the income of 4.7 million yuan, the funds in Chen Hao's hands will reach 9.49 million yuan.

It can only be said that it is still easy to make money in US dollars. It is directly doubled by 8.24 times, even if it is less, it will become more.

Of course, all these benefits will not arrive at once, it will take some time.

Moreover, Liang Tianchi Pictures needs to reserve at least 1000 million US dollars for the normal operation of the company and the promotion and distribution expenses of the two films.

This has to be doubled by 8.24 times when spending money in North America, which is a bit distressing to spend!
"Outdoor Barbecue" that Smart of Liang Tianchi Films is optimistic about is still being filmed, but "Suspect Zero" has already been produced and is scheduled for August 8.

Although it is considered the latter part of the summer file, Chen Hao is still a little worried that a low-cost horror movie has been added to the summer file.

However, the Halloween file has already been booked by "Chain Saw 3", and it is impossible for Tianchi Films to beat itself, so it finally chose the end of the summer file after comprehensive consideration.

I just hope that this low-budget horror film "Suspect Zero" can perform a little better.

In addition, it is worth mentioning that the Marvel superhero movie "The Punisher" produced by Lionsgate Films landed in North American theaters on April 4.

In the first three days of the weekend, the tepid film ranked second in the North American weekend box office list with $3 million.

At the top of the list is "Kill Bill 2"!
After half a year of waiting, Hollywood geek Quentin Tarantino's new work "Kill Bill 2" proves to be worth the wait.

Not only did the media comment widely, but the box office also made persistent efforts, and won the box office championship for three days in the weekend, with a score of about 3 million US dollars.

Compared with the first episode, this result has increased by 16% (the opening income of the first episode was 2210 million).

That doesn't include nearly $4 million in revenue from the April 13 DVD and VHS release, which sold 200 million copies on its first day.

Compared with the production cost of "Kill Bill 2" which is only about 3000 million US dollars, it cannot but be said that it has made a lot of money.

And "The Punisher," which cost $3300 million to produce, performed poorly at the box office in its opening weekend.

To make matters worse, the media and film critics gave the film a bad review, as if the film was extremely stinky, and some people began to miss the 1989 Lundgren film.

Judging from its first weekend box office and word-of-mouth, Lionsgate's "The Punisher", which is testing the waters of the Marvel superhero movie, has a high probability of failure.

This also frightened Lionsgate Pictures to immediately terminate its attempts at Marvel superhero movies, and instead continued to talk about cooperation with Liang Tianchi Pictures.

Lionsgate wants to use the copyrights of Marvel superheroes such as Ant-Man, Black Panther, and Humanoids in exchange for the qualification to invest in Chen Hao's North American films in the second half of the year, and directly invest in copyrights.

That is to say, without spending any money, the copyright obtained from the acquisition of Artisan will be converted into money to invest in Chen Hao's new film in the second half of the year.

Liang Tianchi Pictures finally agreed to this plan under Chen Hao's behest, but how much investment the copyrights of several Marvel superheroes will be converted into will have to be negotiated separately.

Coincidentally, under Davis' persuasion, Sony Columbia agreed to transfer the copyright of Thor to Liangtianchi Pictures.

The requirement is to sign a cooperation agreement with Chen Hao, and Chen Hao needs to shoot three films for Sony Columbia.

It is naturally impossible for Chen Hao to agree directly. Anyway, Sony Columbia does not know the value of Thor now, which can be seen from the fact that it did not move before the copyright of Thor returned to Marvel.

Therefore, Chen Hao can bargain slowly.

The final agreement negotiated by the two parties is that Chen Hao will shoot two films for Sony Columbia within 5 years, but the films will be made by Chen Hao.

Chen Hao can accept or reject the script recommended by Sony Columbia, and Chen Hao can also create his own script.

But if the film is finally released, both parties will have half of the copyright of the film!
Although I have some objections to Sony Columbia taking up half of my script writing, but think about it, wouldn’t it be over if I didn’t write it.

Therefore, Chen Hao also agreed.

Now that the agreement has been negotiated, it is only waiting for Chen Hao to go to North America to sign the contract.

Once Chen Hao formally signs a contract with Sony Columbia, the copyright of Raytheon will belong to Chen Hao's Tianchi Pictures!
By then, Chen Hao's Liangtianru Films will gather all the core heroes and most of the main heroes of the Marvel superhero movie universe except the Hulk!

Chen Hao was naturally very excited, although no one can understand this excitement yet!
If it weren't for "Man with No Surname" that was about to wrap up, Chen Hao really wanted to fly to the United States right now to complete the contract.

Fortunately, after three lifetimes, the time in the top position is not too short, and Chen Hao's qi-nourishing kung fu is also quite good!

……

The cast of "The Man Without a Surname".

Now almost all the starring roles have been wrapped up, only Chen Kun, the leading actor, is left.

The middle-aged scenes of the male protagonist have been filmed, and what is left now is the scene in the future when the male protagonist has lived to be 118 years old.

"Good morning, director!" Chen Kun greeted with a smile.

"Morning, the state is very good recently!" Chen Hao said with a smile.

It may be that he has entered the role, or because of his acting skills, Chen Kun has performed very well recently.

"Maybe it's because I'm familiar with the role, so it's more handy to act." Chen Kun said with a smile.

"Well, no matter what, keep this state and try to finish all the shooting before the end of the month." Chen Hao said.

"Haha, I just want to start shooting right now, and I feel very good myself." Chen Kun laughed.

"Hahaha...Okay, but don't use too much force, you are already 118 years old now." Chen Hao laughed.

"Don't worry, director, I'm always ready." Chen Kun smiled.

"Okay, then you go to make up first, and start shooting later." Chen Hao said.

Because the male protagonist is 118 years old and has grown up to this point naturally, he has already had gray hair, wrinkles and age spots on his face, hands and neck, which requires a makeup artist.

Half an hour later, Chen Kun turned into an old man full of wrinkles and age spots. It would be more like him if he hunched over and walked less briskly.

When Chen Kun was putting on makeup, Chang Hongsong had already set up the green screen.

Because the male protagonist is 118 years old and involves future scenes, post-production special effects are naturally needed here.

Chang Hongsong led the special effects team to build the green screen, which is naturally convenient for the post-production special effects processing.

"The first shot of scene 258 of "The Man Without a Surname" is the first time, bang!"

In the camera, on a hospital bed, Chen Kun in a plain hospital gown slowly and tremblingly took off his hand covering his cheek, "Do I know you?"

"Crack!" Chen Hao stopped shouting immediately.

Chen Kun was taken aback when he heard the words, it was obviously his own mistake.

"Brother Kun, your body movements and facial expressions are very good, but your speaking speed and eyes are not right." Chen Hao said.

"Eyes?" Chen Kun raised his brows.

The speed of speech is not right, so it must be a bit too fast. After all, the male protagonist is already 118 years old at this time, so he must speak slowly and weakly.

"Yes, your eyes are a bit too bright, it's better to be cloudy, not so energetic and sharp, but more flat, after all, you are 118 years old, and your memory is not good!" Chen Hao said.

Chen Kun nodded when he heard the words. He may have just changed from a 34-year-old middle-aged man to a 118-year-old man, and he has not adjusted to it yet.

"Give me some time to adjust." Chen Kun said.

"No problem." Chen Hao nodded.

After 5 minutes, the filming resumed.

"Do I know you?" Chen Kun spoke slowly, while looking at the other party's eyes seemed unfocused, hesitant and confused.

"We see each other every week," said the doctor. "I'm Dr. Felt! What's your name?"

In the previous "A Man Without a Surname", the doctor was a QR code with a face. I don't know what is the use of such a design.

Is it to highlight the sense of the future?But why do people in the future have QR codes on their faces?
Could it be that everyone has become a QR code?Do you really use face brushing for everything?

"Chen, Mo. A person with an empty head." Chen Kun said viciously.

Holding a cane in one hand, the other hand trembled uncontrollably.

"You really can't remember anything?" asked the doctor.

Chen Kun heard that he was too lazy to see a doctor, so he turned his head and looked at the outside world curiously.

In fact, there is nothing there, just a piece of green cloth, but it will be made into a future city in the later stage, so Chen Kun is a little curious.

"Maybe I can use an ancient method to remind you of your past," the doctor said.

When Chen Kun turned his head to look at the doctor, the doctor had already taken out a rope tied with a small ball, and slowly shook it. This is the well-known hypnosis.

"Crack, okay, it's over!" Chen Hao shouted.

It seems that Chen Kun's condition is indeed good. It is estimated that he has put in a lot of hard work to adapt to the changes from middle age to old age so quickly.

The next filming is the future world, where Chen Kun is about to die, and the future people who have achieved immortality are very curious about this natural death, so Chen Kun has become the focus of everyone's attention.

"The first shot of scene 320 of "The Man Without a Surname" is the first time, bang!"

A reporter was very curious about Chen Hao, the last natural person, so he brought a tape recorder to interview Chen Kun, wanting to record his long life.

The story actually started here, and Chen Kun recalled his life.

"I'm curious, how do you natural people reproduce?" the reporter asked curiously.

Because people now have achieved immortality, they no longer need to reproduce, otherwise the earth will not be able to bear it!

"We will meet, know each other, fall in love, and then work in various places." Chen Kun said with a smile.

"What are you doing?" The reporter was a little curious.

"Yes, that is youth and love!" Chen Kun recalled, and then fell asleep again.

Because of his age, he lacked energy, and Chen Kun would often fall asleep irregularly.

……

"What kind of choice did you recall that actually happened?" the reporter asked helplessly.

Because Chen Kun has recalled many versions, each different choice has a different future world, which confused the reporter.

Chen Kun looked at the reporter with a smile, "Either one is true. And are you sure you are real?"

The reporter was stunned upon hearing this.

Chen Kun smiled and walked to the window, then pointed to the tall buildings outside.

The reporters were also dumbfounded when they saw this, because the whole city was disappearing and flying away at this time.

Of course, this is a non-physical performance, and the two just watched the green screen and imagined it out of thin air.

"Okay, it's over!" Chen Hao shouted, "I announce that "Man with No Surname" has officially finished!"

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