How China Entertainment was developed

Chapter 693: Ten million salary? That's a thing of the past

Although the three-party ticketing departments of Penguin, Ali and Meituan subsidized a total of 57.6 billion yuan in ticket subsidies.

However, this 57.6 billion yuan is not exclusive to Zhang Nan. It also includes more than % and nearly % of the share of the theater chain.

If it falls into the hands of Zhang Nan, it will only be a little over 60%, or more than 3 billion yuan.

Not too much.

Moreover, the box office revenue of "The Wandering Earth" in the mainland movie market, even if it is mixed with ticket reimbursement business, is actually very good.

It's a little bit worse here in North America.

After all, this time "The Wandering Earth" is basically a wholly-owned production of Zhang Nan's own Longbow Film and Television. At most, other film and television companies can get some crumbs.

But fortunately, Zhang Nan is currently involved in a popular series with various Hollywood giants, so it is always a bit troublesome and Zhang Nan needs to urge him.

For example, now, at the end of July, Zhang Nan flew to Hollywood again, just in time to catch Tom Cruise's "Mission: Impossible 5".

After all, Tom Cruise, the star of the series, and the director of the yet-to-be-released Star Wars Episode VIII are both producers.

US$2030.1 million.

The next day.

It's not that Tom Cruise can't say this, but once he says it, he is destined to lose a good friend who has important help, and the gain is completely outweighed by the loss.

[Mission: Impossible 5]’s first day box office in North America is out.

Zhang Nan shrugged nonchalantly and said: "This matter has nothing to do with me. You asked Christopher McQuarrie to be the director of my digital series. I only gave it for your sake." MGM recommended it, and then the [005] project was suddenly approved. It was also MGM’s problem, not mine.”

In the screening room.

But this is Zhang Nan’s opinion, while Tom Cruise is a little panicked.

Because it was for this reason that he looked helpless.

Although the director has been changed, the quality of the film has not deteriorated.

Looking at Tom Cruise's various dazzling stunts on the big screen, Zhang Nan nodded slightly.

"Zhang, actually, I originally planned to let Christopher McQuarrie direct this [Mission: Impossible 5]." Tom Cruise said to Zhang Nan with a helpless tone.

But Christopher McQuarrie gave up the opportunity to direct "005" and turned to direct his "Mission: Impossible 5".

After all, although he and Christopher McQuarrie are good friends, and even Christopher McQuarrie went to work as director of Zhang Nan's digital series, there is also a human relationship between him and Zhang Nan.

[Mission: Impossible 5] premiere.

Not too explosive, but not too bad either.

……

This project has a 20% share that he borrowed from China Film Group. At the same time, Liu Tianwang's role in it has gradually replaced most of the original Simon Pegg.

Tom Cruise was speechless.

……

After all, you can’t ask [Mission: Impossible], which is not one of the world’s top series, to compete with Marvel Studios’ [Avengers] series, Spielberg’s [Jurassic] IP, George Lucas’s […] Star Wars] series.

That's so hard to do.

Of course.

The [Fast and Furious] series is an exception.

Moreover.

Even the "Fast and Furious" series only became a box office hit after the seventh installment, and in the eyes of outsiders, it even took Zhang Nan's lap.

Therefore, Tom Cruise, for his part, accepted the box office performance of "Mission: Impossible 5" on the first day not as a big hit, but as average.

After all, his original purpose of launching the "Mission: Impossible 5" project was just to bring back some blood, and he did not really want "Mission: Impossible 5" to elevate the "Mission: Impossible" series to the position of the top series in the world. …

Early August.

Mainland Longbow Film and Television City.

"Finally we're back!" Zhang Nan couldn't help but sigh after getting off the private plane.

Regarding the income issue of [Wandering Earth] in North America, after several days of discussion, it has finally been sorted out.

But the process is really torturous.

But for the North American box office of over one billion US dollars, nearly 65% ​​of the proceeds will be received as soon as possible, which is worth the torture.

After all, this is almost 650 million U.S. dollars, more than 3 billion yuan in revenue, which is almost the same as the ticket subsidy revenue of "The Wandering Earth" that Zhang Nan shared from Penguin, Ali and Meituan in mainland film and television. .

And in less than half a month since Zhang Nan left.

"Monster Hunt" and "Pancake Man", the former "Monster Hunt" has exceeded the box office threshold of 2 billion yuan, becoming the first domestic film in the mainland other than Zhang Nan to have a box office of more than 2 billion yuan.

The latter "Pancake Man" is slightly inferior, but it is also the 12th mainland film to exceed one billion yuan in box office.

Even if we put aside these two films and look down, there is still "Journey to the West: The Return of the Monkey King" with a box office of 9.54 million yuan.

Counting further down the line, the gap between box office openings becomes larger, leaving only "The Taoist Descends the Mountain", which could break through the box office of 4 million yuan, and "The Taoist Descending the Mountain", which almost reached the box office threshold of 5 million yuan, but stopped at 4.84 million yuan. Small Times 4].

But looking at the entire July schedule of 2015, this schedule was originally not considered popular.

This time, it has directly exploded, with a box office potential of over 5 billion yuan.

For a while.

Major film and television companies with projects in the mainland are already gearing up to do something big.

Because based on previous years’ mainland film market data, July can only be the smallest month among the twelve months of the year for the mainland film market, and the bulk is still to come.

Capital from all parties without projects is even more eager to pour into the mainland film and television industry.

Because if we talk about the bright projects in the mainland film market in the past, they were basically led by Zhang Nan alone.

Subsequently, it gradually evolved into the prerequisites of having Xu Zheng, Xu Laoguai, well-known variety show movies... etc., and it can also produce movies with good box office profits.

But those limitations are still too great.

After all, quality veteran directors, talented new directors, well-known variety shows... these elements are all scarce.

But the demand for capital is unlimited.

But the two films "Monster Hunt" and "Pancake Man" are obviously not like this.

They all have no special success factors, and the quality is quite average. They just rely on hard hype or some trickery to achieve box office success.

Don’t worry about how much money is being swiped or how much money is spent on hype.

After all, you can make money and gain fame.

Otherwise, the capital behind other people's projects would not engage in such a loss-making business.

Therefore, now that there are certain and replicable profit channels, capital from all parties is pouring into the mainland film market even faster.

The specific manifestation is that the salaries of artists in the mainland film and television industry have begun to skyrocket.

Ten million?

That's all in the past tense.

Many first-line artists' remuneration for a project has begun to be measured in units of 100 million.

(End of this chapter)