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Chapter 543 [Inception] Premiere

mid-November.

Zhang Nan has finished her role in "Pirates of the Caribbean 4".

The reason why it's so fast is because in this "Pirates of the Caribbean" movie, although he has the title of starring, in fact, in order to leave room for Johnny Depp to play, his role has begun to fade.

"Depp, I will not be participating in [Pirates of the Caribbean 5]. Please tell your agent about this situation."

When filming was finalized, Zhang Nan specifically emphasized this point with Johnny Depp.

The purpose is also very pure, to give Disney Pictures some fun while preparing for "Pirates of the Caribbean 5".

After all, in the current "Pirates of the Caribbean" series, although Johnny Depp has his suppression, he was not able to get a huge salary in "Pirates of the Caribbean 1.2.3.4".

But Johnny Depp has potential.

Let's say that.

In the original time and space, among the four "Pirates of the Caribbean" movies with a box office of more than 3 billion US dollars, Johnny Depp relied on a fixed salary of tens of millions of US dollars, plus 20% of the global box office dividend. Together, the two , a total of no less than 600 million US dollars was made.

So don’t think that Zhang Nan’s asking price in the series is high, it’s really a normal operation.

For Zhang Nan, the only celebrity in Hollywood who can sign a billion-dollar global box office betting agreement and has completed it many times, it is very polite to receive 50% of the box office share and a fixed salary of several hundred million US dollars. .

……

11 month 18 day.

Warner Pictures was very generous and arranged the premiere of "Inception" at the Chinese Grand Theater on Hollywood Boulevard.

On the red carpet of the premiere of his own starring project, Zhang Nan naturally has to serve more snacks than on the red carpet of the premiere of other guest projects.

But that’s just treated as normal.

Then the process went smoothly, and slowly the creative team came to the stage to make the final speech.

Zhang Nan and director Christopher Nolan stood side by side at the front because they had the biggest roles in the movie.

"[Batman 3] has been filmed. I heard from Warner Pictures that you have another hard science fiction project?" Zhang Nan was chatting with Christopher Nolan, and his words were full of inquiries about the "Interstellar" project. the meaning of.

Nolan was a little nervous when he heard this, he just nodded but did not speak.

Without it.

After working with Zhang Nan on "Inception", he finally realized what it means to be the only superstar in Hollywood to attract money.

When filming [Batman 1.2.3], except for the first [Batman 1], his reputation had not yet grown, and he only received a fixed salary of several million US dollars.

In the follow-up "Batman 2.3", he got a share of the box office, and it was as high as %.

But in [Inception], apart from the fixed salary, there was no box office share at all.

It’s not that Warner Pictures is stingy.

I really can’t give it.

The total is 100% of the box office share. Because it is a movie starring Zhang Nan, the theater company's share can be reduced to 30%. Zhang Nan personally still has 50%, and only 20% is left. ’s box office share - so Zhang Nan’s high share is not only coming from the producer Quan Cong, but actually part of it, at least 15%, is deducted from the theaters. If you think about it, If so, the box office share given to Zhang Nan by the producer is 35%, which is only 15 points higher than the 20% that the average top star receives.

If this is divided a little more, the film will definitely still be profitable, but the accounts will be difficult to manage.

However, Warner Pictures did not treat Nolan badly and directly raised his director's fee to the super-high level of US$25 million. But if you can get this kind of super-standard remuneration once, you can continue to get it in the future. There is no need to cooperate with Zhang Nan to achieve it by sharing a small share.

So Nolan was a little resistant to Zhang Nan's idea of ​​caring about his new project.

After all, although Nolan is an artistic character, who wouldn't like being able to make a lot of money while doing art?

Zhang Nan also saw Nolan's resistance and quickly explained: "I'm not very interested in this kind of hard science fiction. They are some of the artists I have just signed. They have few film appointments recently, so I want to promote them."

When he signed contracts with Hu Ge and Yu Entai, Zhang Nan thought of training them in the mainland first, so he didn't know much about the current changes in the Hollywood film and television industry.

But after signing contracts with Jay Chou and Liu Tianwang, Zhang Nan discovered how difficult it is for Chinese artists with no skills to get along in Hollywood.

Wu Jin is very popular in North America for film offers, but these two people really can't get film offers!

But now the golden age of mainland film and television is coming. In order to raise the banner of these two people and harvest the top mainland stars in the future, Zhang Nan has to increase his support.

After hearing Zhang Nan's explanation, Nolan breathed a sigh of relief.

If it was just one or two guest roles, and Zhang Nan's face was there, he would definitely be indifferent.

"Do you have a phone number? I'll call and invite them to audition."

The word "audition" in Nolan's words has a very different meaning. After all, the director personally called and invited him. Obviously, the audition was just a formality.

And Nolan's words and actions can be said to have given Zhang Nan enough face and made Zhang Nan very comfortable.

It can only be said that although Nolan is a bit arrogant in the outside world, he is able to stand out in the post-Hollywood era where there is a lack of big directors. While he is artistic and directing, he must also be very accomplished in human relations.

After all, there is no shortage of geniuses in this world, but there are really not many geniuses who are also humane.

"You can do whatever you want in the crew, no need to worry about my face." Zhang Nan handed over two business cards of Liu Tianwang and Zhou Jiegun, and his words had the meaning of asking the teacher to teach the children not to be stingy with force.

Nolan just took the business card, smiled and said nothing.

Without it.

Nolan is very confident in training actors' acting skills.

Without this ability, he would not have made it from the UK to Europe and then from Europe to Hollywood with a multi-million dollar investment in "Memory".

The first few million dollars could not hire actors with high acting skills. Later, when they became famous, they had no ability and could not convince the actors with high acting skills.

Let's say that.

Nolan's directorial style is somewhat similar to Zhou Xingxing's.

They all have a sense of turning decay into magic for artists.

It's just that after Zhou Xingxing became famous, in order to pursue high profits, he kept looking for new people to star and repeat the operation.

After Nolan became famous, he rarely did this to save trouble.

……

After speaking as usual, Zhang Nan came to his seat in the screening hall.

The eldest brother Chenglong on the side came over curiously and asked: "Anan, what were you talking about with the director just now?"

(End of this chapter)