How China Entertainment was developed

Chapter 430 Vacation is worse than work

"Zhang, are you interested in talking about cooperation on [Lord of the Rings - Legend of Sauron 2]?"

New Line Cinema President Alan Toby came to Zhang Nan's Hollywood villa. When he saw Zhang Nan and said these words, he felt very bitter in his heart.

After all, he originally created the "Golden Compass" series to replace New Line Cinema's dependence on the "Lord of the Rings-The Legend of Sauron" spin-off series, and to take advantage of the situation to reduce Zhang Nan's role in "The Lord of the Rings-The Legend of Sauron". remuneration.

But now that the box office of "The Golden Compass" has collapsed like this, it is obviously impossible to complete the vision.

What makes Alan Toby most uncomfortable is not only the box office failure of "The Golden Compass", but also the sharp increase in Zhang Nan's salary in recent years.

When filming "The Lord of the Rings - Legend of Sauron 1", although Zhang Nan's salary was high, it was only a fixed salary of 30.00 million US dollars, plus 50.00% of the total box office dividend and [-]% of peripheral income.

but now……

The latest news received by Alan Toby is from Disney Pictures, the price offered to Zhang Nan for "Pirates of the Caribbean 3".

A fixed salary of US$3.5 million, plus 40.00% of the total box office dividend and 60.00% of peripheral income.

Comparing the two, the fixed salary alone is 1.5 million US dollars more.

Including the higher 15.00% total box office dividend and [-]% peripheral income.

If calculated based on the global box office of one billion US dollars, that would be US$1.5 million in box office dividends plus US$1 million in peripheral income.

It cost an extra $[-] million.

And this is Zhang Nan’s asking price for [Pirates of the Caribbean 3], not Zhang Nan’s asking price for [Lord of the Rings - Legend of Sauron 2].

Thinking of this, Alan Toby's heart was bleeding.

"How could this not be interesting?"

Zhang Nan first took in Alan Toby's words, and then continued: "I have been looking forward to the cooperation on [Lord of the Rings - Legend of Sauron 2] for a long time."

Without mentioning New Line Cinema's careful thoughts on "The Golden Compass", Zhang Nan gave Alan Toby a very enthusiastic attitude.

But the more enthusiastic Zhang Nan was, the more panicked Alan Toby became.

"Zhang, we are all old friends. The current situation of New Line Cinema is indeed not very good. For this cooperation of [The Lord of the Rings - Legend of Sauron 2], New Line Cinema is indeed a bit big in terms of funds, so the production In terms of film costs, can we reduce the cost?"

To compress production costs, you ask me about the starring role?
Zhang Nan realized instantly that Alan Toby was bargaining secretly.

"The financial pressure is a bit high and production costs have to be reduced. There is no problem at all. Allen, how about we do this, I star in a fixed salary of zero US dollars, and then you give me a little concession in terms of total box office share and peripheral income." Zhang Nan said Got an idea.

No pay?
Is there such a good thing?

Alan Toby almost nodded, but fortunately he is a veteran who has been in Hollywood for many years. Finally, he asked more, "How much box office share and peripheral income will be given?"

"That's easy to say. We're also friends. Just keep it open." Old Luke, who was silent on the side, added appropriately.

After hearing Old Luke's answer, Alan Toby was stunned.

Because if it were really [-], it would be pretty good.

But Alan Toby reacted quickly and subconsciously wanted to curse, but he still held it in consideration of the situation.Because Zhang Nan negotiated with Disney Pictures for a 3% peripheral revenue share in "Pirates of the Caribbean 60.00".

The [-] out of [-] is definitely not his New Line Cinema, but Zhang Nan.

According to this classification, New Line Cinema completely worked for Zhang Nan in "Lord of the Rings - Legend of Sauron 2".

So...I'll open your mother's sales in Sanqi!
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After a somewhat heated discussion, New Line Cinema urgently needed a successful big production to stabilize its stock price, which became Alan Toby's weakness.

And old Luke, an old North American man with the Stars and Stripes, was particularly good at attacking the lame man's good leg in pursuit of victory.

finally.

Zhang Nan's salary for "Lord of the Rings - Sauron 2" was set at a fixed salary of US$3.8 million, plus 50.00% of the total box office dividend and 60.00% of peripheral income.

There is an additional condition, which is that the filming location of "The Lord of the Rings - Legend of Sauron 2" must be located in the Longbow Film and Television City in the mainland.

But Rao is so.

After seeing off Alan Toby, Old Luke still said with a bit of pity: "It's a pity! Compared with [Pirates of the Caribbean 3], the fixed salary is 3000 million US dollars more and the total box office share is 5.00% more. New Line Cinema is not willing to give up even [-]% of the peripheral income.”

"Still regretful? That's enough."

Zhang Nan was speechless about Old Luke's "greedy" idea. He was afraid that Old Luke would cause trouble in the subsequent cooperation, so he continued to analyze: "Now the various divisions are enough. New Line Cinema wants to Those who use "Lord of the Rings - Sauron 2" to stabilize the stock price are not trying to get caught by us. If they are really anxious, maybe Alan Tobey won't want to renovate New Line Cinema's business and just directly Dumped New Line Cinema to Warner.”

Hearing Zhang Nan's reaction, Old Luke thought for a moment and felt that Alan Toby and New Line Cinema should not be slaughtered too hard.

Otherwise, people will stop playing, and Zhang Nan will lose a series!
"Then the big projects you will be filming next year have already been confirmed to include [Pirates of the Caribbean 3] and [The Lord of the Rings - Legend of Sauron 2]. Now that the salary has been negotiated, do you have any ideas about the schedule?" Luke clicked his tongue and changed the subject.

Zhang Nan thought for a moment after hearing this, and said: "Let's arrange the time as early as possible in the middle and late stages of next year! And you can talk to your brother-in-law, the president of Disney, and see if you can decide on the filming location of [Pirates of the Caribbean 3]." Longbow Studios, this should be easy to handle, after all, the previous [Pirates of the Caribbean] series was filmed in Longbow Studios.”

The former arranged the filming period to the middle and late period of 2008. Zhang Nan wanted to make the release of the two movies as far away from 2008 and closer to 2009 as possible, so as to be less affected by the financial tsunami.

The latter arranged the filming location of "Pirates of the Caribbean 3" in Longbow Film and Television City. On the one hand, it was out of profit considerations. After all, Longbow Film and Television City is also Zhang Nan's property. On the other hand, the mainland is about to host the Olympics. , the big and small bosses in Pengcheng are also in urgent need of some eye-catching performance, so he will do something and send some favors.

"It should be no problem to set the filming location of [Pirates of the Caribbean 3] at Longbow Studios, but why do you have to postpone the schedule to the middle to late next year? You have a project at the beginning of next year?" Old Luke thought for a while and expressed his affirmation. At the same time, he also raised questions.

"I can't take a break!" Zhang Nan laughed and cursed.

Old Luke looked a little weird when he heard this and said: "Zhang, to be honest, you are not really tired when you are working, but once you take a break, neon, Korean, Wanwan, Xiangjiang, French... "

Zhang Nan's face turned a little pale upon hearing this.

Because it is.

Zhang Nan had tried taking a vacation before.

However, his vacation schedule is even busier than his usual work days.

When he was working on weekdays, he would at most spend his weekends adding nutrition express to his various models of cars, which meant that he would be busy for two days and still have a five-day cooling-off period.

But once he was on vacation, his surroundings were immediately filled with appointments, and there was no buffer time at all. It was all about shirtless fighting.

(End of this chapter)