How China Entertainment was developed

Chapter 425 [Transformers 1] The painting below proves itself again

Of course.

Lao Chen is just forcibly taking money from movie fans.

The rank is high, but the level is limited, the operation is a bit formal, and the money earned is still 'normal' money.

In the future, there will be a more aggressive approach, making movies not for the movie ticket money in the hands of movie fans, but for the money of stock investors in the stock market, launching a charge - the "Ip Man" series.

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Early November.

First, "Rush Hour 3" was released for three months. After earning 3.01 million U.S. dollars at the global box office, it began to be released worldwide.

If Chenglong achieved this result alone, then Chenglong would be able to return to Hollywood in peak condition.

After all, let alone Hollywood at this time, even for Hollywood more than ten years later, an actor who can single-handedly carry a global box office of 3 million US dollars cannot be said to be a top Hollywood star, and he can also be said to be highly sought after in Hollywood. The presence.

But it is a pity that this "Rush Hour 3" not only stars Will Smith, a top star who is currently popular in Hollywood, as one of the two protagonists.

Taking away a lot of the glory of the success of "Rush Hour 3", "Rush Hour 3" and Zhang Nan's friendly guest appearance, the benefits of Chenglong are really limited.

Of course.

The success of "Rush Hour 3" is still enough to return to Hollywood to film.

It's just that Chenglong cannot start directly from Hollywood A-level projects with hundreds of millions of dollars of investment as it did in its peak years. Instead, it has to start from Hollywood B-level projects with tens of millions of dollars.

If you perform well in B-level projects, it is not a problem to gradually upgrade to A-level projects.

Compared with the somewhat embarrassing situation on Chenglong's side, Matt Damon is quite proud of it.

Because "The Bourne Supremacy" was also released not long after "Rush Hour 3", it was almost immediately drawn.

But it’s different from [Rush Hour 3].

【谍影重重3】是在全球累计4.42亿美金的票房，超过了【碟中谍3】的3.98亿美金票房后，成为了目前好莱坞谍战片中NO.1才下画的。

And compared to the double-starring "Rush Hour 3", "The Bourne Supremacy" is Matt Damon's solo show.

In addition, Tom Cruise has not produced any outstanding works in the past two years, while Matt Damon is in the "Ocean's Dozen" series and "The Departed", which is competing for awards.

For a time, Matt Damon's power in Hollywood has somewhat overshadowed Tom Cthulhu.

but.

Whether it is Matt Damon who has surpassed Tom Cruise at this time, or Tom Cruise who has been surpassed at his peak, compared with the current Zhang Nan, the gap is still a bit big.

Because [Transformers 3], which was released earlier than [The Bourne Supremacy] and [Rush Hour 3], was also released not long after them.

And in other movie markets around the world except the mainland, including the North American movie market, it directly hit 12.07 billion.

Including the mainland box office of 13.7 billion yuan, calculated based on the annual exchange rate of 7.6, which is a box office of 1.8 million U.S. dollars, the total box office of "Transformers 1" directly came to 13.89 billion U.S. dollars, infinitely approaching 14 billion U.S. dollars.

While Zhang Nan exceeded his limit on a billion-dollar global gambling agreement, he also once again proved to the world that he still has terrifying box office appeal.

As for Paramount Pictures, they were so excited that they couldn't close their mouths when they saw "Transformers 14", which had a global box office of close to 1 billion US dollars.

Without it.

The benefits brought by this wave of [Transformers 1] are too great.And this is compared to the benefits generated by the global box office of one billion US dollars as previously predicted.

[Transformers 1]’s actual box office revenue of US$13.89 billion is nearly US$[-] million more than predicted.

Just from the revenue brought by "Transformers 1", after deducting the cost of US$4.5 million, Paramount directly made a huge profit of US$7.9 million.

This number is not too high.

Of course.

Of the US$7.9 million in revenue from Paramount Pictures, US$7900 million will be distributed to Mainland China Film.

And in terms of revenue from the [Transformers 1] project alone, Paramount is still slightly inferior to Zhang Nan.

因为张南靠着3亿美金的固定片酬、40.00%的总票分红5.54亿美金、50.00%五的周边收益7.62亿美金，直接从【变形金刚1】中拿下了16.16亿美金的恐怖收益。

It’s almost twice as much as Paramount Pictures did on [Transformers 1].

Paramount President Dick Frank's eyes turned red when he saw Zhang Nan's earnings, and he couldn't help but want to manipulate Zhang Nan's earnings.

But finally refrained.

The reason is simple and pragmatic.

Although Zhang Nan earned more on the books of the "Transformers 1" project, Paramount earned more through financial means in terms of the fluctuations in the company's stock price caused by "Transformers 1".

Especially in the bubble era before the tsunami-like financial crisis in 2007, Paramount has now earned at least several billion, which is no less than what Zhang Nan earned.

More importantly, [Transformers] is meant to be a series, not a one-off deal.

Now that Zhang Nan has been cheated, how can we film [Transformers 2]?
How can I make subsequent money?
If you want to cheat, you have to wait until the last part to cheat.

So in the end, Dick Frank not only enthusiastically helped Zhang Nan settle the accounts and pay the money, but he was even more enthusiastic towards Zhang Nan, saying "When will we film "Transformers 2"" the meaning of.

And the same attitude is not limited to Paramount President Dick Frank.

For example, I have been working on the [Pirates of the Caribbean 3] project before, and I kind of wanted to wait and see the limelight of Disney Pictures.

After seeing the global box office of "Transformers 1" of nearly 14 billion U.S. dollars, I immediately put the thought of waiting and seeing behind me.

For example, at this time, Disney President Bob Brett was on the phone with Zhang Nan to discuss cooperation matters in "Pirates of the Caribbean 3".

But the result~
You could hear in Bob Brett's voice that something was not going well.

"Why did the price increase...change the conditions?"

Bob Brett did not say the two words "price increase" which somewhat ruined the atmosphere, but replaced them with three words "change of conditions".

"It's really not what I want to change. It's actually the box office success of [Transformers 1] again. My agent, Old Luke, is the brother-in-law of your vice president of Disney Pictures.

If you have to take advantage of the popularity, maybe you can get a Guinness World Record!

I really can't convince him. Otherwise, if we postpone the cooperation on "Pirates of the Caribbean 3" until the popularity of "Transformers 1" subsides, we can cooperate again. Then my salary may be reduced. . "

Zhang Nan casually dragged Old Luke in as an excuse.

(End of this chapter)