How China Entertainment was developed

Chapter 51 This is the Disney Legal Department

Inside a villa in Hollywood.

Zhang Nan lay lazily on the bed basking in the sun, motionless.

[Changing Faces] The filming crew finished, Zhang Nan stayed at home to rest.

This is the house that Zhang Nanxin bought. After all, he always lives in the Disney employee dormitory. Even if Disney won't drive him away, it's not convenient to live in.

And Zhang Nan has money now.

[Jingcheng Martial Art Museum]’s after-tax reward of 300 million, plus some piecemeal remuneration, [Men in Black]’s 500 million USD guaranteed remuneration, [Face Changing]’s 100 million fixed remuneration, [The Fifth Element]’s 600 million Guaranteed pay...etc.

All in all, Zhang Nan's income this year has already reached more than 500 million US dollars, and what he will get in the future is even more astronomical.

Of course, there are taxes to be paid here.

After all, in North America, not to mention celebrities, even gangsters who evade taxes will end up miserable.

A certain gangster brother in North America, at his peak, was so arrogant that he didn't even love the FBI.

But in the end, he fell in front of the tax office, and personally proved to everyone the combat effectiveness of the North American tax office.

He also set three major lessons for the world: heavy machine guns are easy to use, boating must wear safety measures, and the most important point-pay taxes on time.

Youdao is to listen to people's persuasion and eat enough food. Zhang Nan is not a hard-eared person.

After the remuneration was credited, Zhang Nan swiftly... called Robert Watt, the Vice President of Disney, Old Luke's brother-in-law, domestic abuser, senior wife with strict management, half-life savings blown up by his brother-in-law.

Apply for Disney legal department to give him some help in legal tax avoidance.

When Zhang Nan made this call, he was confident.

Because Zhang Nan has not resigned from Disney until now, and he is still the biggest voice actor in the Disney dubbing department-after all, no big star will be named as a voice actor in Disney.

And Disney sees that Zhang Nan will not resign, and will not dismiss Zhang Nan, a big star, with nothing to do, so he keeps the position of dubbing actor for Zhang Nan in the dubbing office, and pays salary and social security on time every month (if North America If you have social security).

As for Zhang Nan's call for help, Disney's legal department obviously accepted it, after all, idleness is idleness.

It can only be said that the reputation of Disney's legal department in the world is indeed not blown out, but just obtained by hard power.

Disney's legal department operated a set of bells and whistles that Zhang Nan couldn't understand.

The tax that was supposed to be close to 30.00% of the remuneration, which is more than 700 million yuan, directly became about [-] yuan.

"It doesn't mean you can't do it any further, it's too ugly and it's easy to be targeted by the tax bureau." This is what Disney's legal department told Zhang in an explanatory tone after taking out the [-] tax statement. Nan said.

Look at the meaning, this is not the minimum amount, it can be lower.

Zhang Nan felt that with the tone of Disney's legal department, they might come up with some ruthless tricks and get the tax bureau to pay Zhang Nan some money.

Then...it's too much, Zhang Nan accepts it when he sees it.

With the money, Zhang Nan bought the villa directly and moved out of the Disney staff dormitory.

However, Zhang Nan didn't buy too much of this villa, and only spent 50 US dollars.

After all, in North America, the financial crisis and real estate bubble burst every now and then, Zhang Nan still thinks that the place is enough to live in.

After resting for a few days, Zhang Nan was able to get rid of his previous exhaustion and recharge his energy a lot, but there was really nothing to do for a while.

Originally, Zhang Nan planned to go back to China directly to film the sequel of "Beijing Wuguan" after "Face Changing" ended.

When he returned to Hollywood in early October, Zhang Nan had already mentioned with Disney and [-]th Century Fox about the preparations for the sequel of "Beijing Wuguan".

He also revealed his intention to turn the whole movie into a series of "Wuguan".

The general idea is that the first part is [Capital Martial Arts], the second is [Modu Martial Arts], and the follow-up is to change cities for each part to keep fans fresh.

As for Zhang Nan's proposal, the executives of Disney and [-]th Century Fox happily agreed.

Because the sequel movie is the top eight favorite projects in Hollywood. This kind of project has a foundation of popularity, can save a lot of publicity costs, and the probability of losing money is relatively low.

Especially the kung fu movies of the [Wuguan] series.

There is no big scene, and there is no need for too much investment, but the upper limit of box office revenue is frighteningly high, and there is almost no probability of losing money.

The first [Jingcheng Martial Arts] has a global gross of 4.8 million U.S. dollars, and the sequel [Modu Martial Arts] is more hip. Relying on the fame of the first movie, the actuaries of Disney and [-]th Century Fox have estimated that the global box office will break [-] million U.S. dollars. Not a big problem.

But how much does it cost to invest in [Beijing Martial Arts School] and [Modu Martial Arts School]?

Although compared with the $500 million cost of the first film [Jingcheng Martial Arts], Zhang Nan increased the production cost of the sequel [Magic Martial Arts] tenfold to $5000 million.

But compared to other A-level productions in Hollywood that spend hundreds of millions of dollars at every turn, they can compete for a global box office of [-] million US dollars.

Zhang Nan's "Martial Arts" series of movies is simply the best project with less investment, more returns, and less risk.

The executives of Disney and 5000th Century Fox didn't even frown, and directly invested [-] million US dollars in the project account of [Modu Martial Art Museum] according to their respective investment ratios.

But there was something wrong with Modu Film Group, which made it impossible for Zhang Nan to connect seamlessly now.

In fact, at the beginning of the film group, when Zhang Nan was filming "Face Changing", they had almost prepared for "Modu Wuguan".

But when the people at Modu Film Group saw the 5000 million US dollars in foreign exchange in their accounts, they were all stunned.

They thought that [Modu Martial Arts], as the sequel movie after the fire of [Jingcheng Martial Arts], would definitely increase the production cost.

But everyone thinks that if it rises to 1000 million or 500 million U.S. dollars, if there is a [-]% or [-]% increase, it will be very extraordinary.

Unexpectedly, the actual increase was even more terrifying than they imagined.

It was directly doubled ten times, and it was done to a thousand percent.

The chief accountant of Modu Film Group carefully checked the series of zero-sum currency units several times after cleaning his glasses several times, and then carefully reported this figure to Chairman Zhu Guang.

After receiving the news, Zhu Guang, chairman of Modu Film Group, was silent for a while.

Zhu Guang had never seen so much foreign exchange before, and was really shocked.

(End of this chapter)