How China Entertainment was developed

Chapter 184 Back to Hollywood

November.

The filming of the [Matrix] trilogy went smoothly.

It is estimated that the entire crew will not be able to finish filming until March 2000, but Zhang Nan has finished filming ahead of schedule.

Because after accepting the film contract, Zhang Nan put forward a time request with Warner: half a year at most.

Therefore, the filming plan of the entire crew was to focus on Zhang Nan's scene first, and it went smoothly, and the filming was completed in only five months.

After wrapping up, Zhang Nan first went to the premiere of [007: Black Sun Crisis] and praised the show.

MGM took advantage of the opportunity to hype up the name of Zhang Nan's box office mascot, and Zhang Nan was also happy about it. After all, someone else spent money to increase his traffic.

But the effect is limited.

It just attracted a group of crews to come to Zhang Nan for guest appearances, but did not increase the price of Zhang Nan's single-day guest appearance.

But this is also normal, the single-day salary of 700 million US dollars is really too high.

Working for three days in a row is even more expensive than being a superstar in the 2000 million salary club, starring in a major A-level project.

Then Zhang Nan was going to make a call to Wu Baige, discussing how to make a guest appearance in the crew of "Mission: Impossible 2" someday, and get the 500 million US dollars in salary.

As a result, Spielberg came to the door with British director Ridley Scott.

"【Gladiator】?"

Zhang Nan looked at the title of the project in his hand, looked up at Spielberg and Ridley Scott, and asked, "Isn't this project already finished?"

If we say that the pioneer and representative work of the era of mainland costume blockbusters, it is the "hero" of the national teacher Zhang Yimou.

Then the pioneer and representative work of the era of epic movies in Hollywood is the British director Ridley Scott and his "Gladiator".

With a cost of 1.03 million U.S. dollars and a global box office of 4.65 million U.S. dollars, it also won Oscars for Best Actor and Best Picture.

It can be said to be a blockbuster and acclaimed.

Subsequent blockbuster films such as [Troy], [Alexander the Great], [The Kingdom of Heaven], [King Arthur], etc., were all "follow the trend" works.

"There are some scenes that need to be re-shot. The original actor's schedule can't be adjusted, so I thought of you." Spielberg explained Zhang Nan's question.

But Zhang Nan laughed after hearing this and didn't say anything.

Can't adjust the schedule?

What a liar.

If you want to say that it was more than ten, twenty days, or a month of reshoots, this may still be true.

But if he dares to come to him for a make-up shoot, the time will definitely not exceed one day.

Otherwise, two days would be a price of 400 million US dollars.

This price is ruthless, plus a little more money, you can find a big star in the 2000 million salary club to star in a project.

So Spielberg's wave is actually aimed at his box office mascot name.

But Zhang Nan can also understand.

After all, this [Gladiator] is a wholly-owned project of DreamWorks.

And the production fee of up to 1.03 million US dollars has been paid.

It is reasonable to spend another 700 million U.S. dollars to make up a total of 1.1 million U.S. dollars to buy peace of mind and increase the film's promotional effect.

Yes, the reason why Zhang Nan's cameo pay was able to reach a single-day pay of 700 million US dollars.

Not only because of the title of Zhang Nan's box office mascot.

After all, this thing is a bit superstitious, and Hollywood is so big and there are so many people, there are always people who are not superstitious.

The more important reason is.

Over the past few years, every movie featuring Zhang Nan has frantically caught the promotion of Zhang Nan, the box office mascot.

Over time, the box office mascot is no longer just a matter of superstition, but a public expectation.

As long as many projects are revealed to have Zhang Nan participating in the performance, they will have a certain degree of traffic and popularity.

As we all know, for film and television projects such as movies, traffic and popularity are very fundamental things before their release.

All kinds of publicity before the movie's release is to stir up the movie's traffic and popularity.

But to promote this kind of thing, you can get the corresponding effect not by spending a lot of money, but depends on luck.

However, the publicity effect brought about by inviting Zhang Nan to play the role, after many people's research in the past few years, is relatively stable and worthwhile.

"Steven, my current price is not cheap, a full 700 million! With this money, I think it will be more beneficial to the box office of the movie if I have this money." Zhang Nan said this sincerely words.

As a result, Spielberg was anxious when he heard it, "800 million."

"As for?" Zhang Nan was startled when he heard the words.

Spielberg continued to increase the price, "900 million."

Zhang Nan finally understood why so many bar girls ended up being shot.

It's really hard to resist this kind of method of throwing money to open the way!
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With the insertion of [Gladiator], the guest appearance plan of [Mission: Impossible 2] will naturally be postponed.

After all, Zhang Nan still has [Sixth Sense] to shoot.

And after spending 900 million on the "Gladiator" crew, Zhang Nan joined the crew on the third day.

Zhang Nan, who joined the crew of "Gladiator", discovered that the fighting power in this arena is really not low.

Because none of the three leading actors is simple.

The future Wonder Woman, the 2019 version of the Joker, and a savior Noah who built a ship to save the world in 2014.

To be honest, with the configuration of this arena, it would be a red danger zone in Gotham City.

But fortunately, these people have not grown up yet, they are developing.

After the brief re-shooting ended, Zhang Nan saw the news of himself starring in "Gladiator" from various newspapers the next day, and the entire length of the news, the pen and ink were basically on him, and he was doing [ Gladiator] starring the same.

Obviously, the $900 million salary is not so easy to get.
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After guest-starring in [Gladiator], it was almost time, and Zhang Nan directly joined the crew of [Sixth Sense].

Tell the truth.

Projects like [The Sixth Sense], which are not invested by the top eight Hollywood companies, have a lot of projects in Hollywood every year, but not many of them are successful.

But Hollywood still attracts countless capitals from all over the world to come here to engage in projects.

Without him.

Because Hollywood's money-making efficiency is too exaggerated compared to other legal industries.

Take an A-level project with a production fee of hundreds of millions of dollars as an example.

Not to mention the explosive projects with a global box office of [-] to [-] million US dollars.

It is a project with a global box office of 50.00 to [-] million U.S. dollars. The box office alone can make investors get a [-]% to [-]% profit after paying back their capital.

If you count the copyright, peripherals... and other bits and pieces of income, a project is at least [-]%, or even [-]% of the income.

Moreover, Hollywood is now factoryized, and the cycle of a film project is basically about one year.

In one year, as long as it succeeds, it is guaranteed to double the income.

Even Ponzi schemes dare not do this, but Hollywood has really realized it.

Of course, it doesn’t mean that there are no formal and legal short-cycle, high-yield projects in other industries.

But often the amount of funds is relatively small, and the investment in a project is at most tens or millions of dollars, which is almost at the top.

What if it is doubled?
The amount of funds is too small, and many big capitals simply look down on it.

And what about Hollywood?
Million-dollar projects can only be micro-projects.

A project worth tens of millions of dollars can only be called a small and medium-sized project.

Big productions worth hundreds of millions are the norm.

(End of this chapter)