director of the millennium

The release of "Time Raiders" is in full swing, and the box office performance has been steadily rising. Two weeks after its release, the total box office successfully exceeded 10 billion yuan. However, such box office results have basically reached the limit of this movie.

In the half-month release period, most audiences and fans who are interested in this movie have gone to the cinema to watch it. In the remaining half-month period, it will only generate a box office of 1-2 million at most.

Both Guangying Times and Liu Yifei, Lei Datou and others are very satisfied with this box office result.

Because Liu Yifei's salary was directly deducted from the investment, the cost of this movie was not high for Guangying Times. In fact, it only spent 2000 million in cash. After adding Liu Yifei's salary, the investment announced to the public was 4000 million. Add to that the publicity cost of nearly 3000 million, and the box office of about 1 billion was obtained with a cost of less than 12 million. It is already a huge profit.

Of course, this is only a movie starring Liu Yifei that Guangying Times dared to invest so much in publicity costs. Otherwise, for a low-cost light comedy of this size, the publicity costs would only be around 1000 million.

But all this investment is worth it!
Liu Yifei was even happier because her film remuneration was directly converted into investment. Although it was not calculated according to the normal ratio, she could also obtain 3% of the investor's profits.

That is a profit of about 1 million, which is much more than her current salary of "2000 million".

That's because she's the boss lady of Light and Shadow Times, which is why the company is so easy to talk to. Of course, Light and Shadow Times didn't expect that this movie would make so much money.

When Su Lun submitted the script for internal risk review, the company's data department estimated the film's box office to be only 3-5 million yuan at the limit. After Liu Yifei confirmed her participation, the estimate was raised to 7-8 million yuan.

This is still the most ideal situation, but I didn’t expect that "Time Raiders" would eventually achieve such good box office results.

Liu Yifei, who was sure that she could earn 100 million yuan, was so proud and arrogant in front of Wu Yuan these days.

"One hundred million!" She blinked her big, sparkling eyes and said happily, "It's higher than my salary in Hollywood. I didn't expect that I could make so much money by acting in a movie!"

Liu Yifei's film salary in Hollywood is quoted at around 800 million US dollars, which is close to the level of Hollywood's top actresses. In fact, it is a bit inflated. After all, her price includes the Chinese market, which is why she can get such a high price.

Otherwise, if she were a white American actress, given her fame in Hollywood, she would only be able to get a maximum of $500 million in salary.

Don't be fooled by the fact that Hollywood gives those top-tier male superstar actors a base salary of 2000 million US dollars plus box office share, and those male actors who star in commercial blockbusters can easily get tens of millions of dollars, but this is only limited to superstars, and they have to be male actors.

The problem of unequal pay for equal work in Hollywood has long been deeply rooted. Unlike the situation in China where many actresses are paid more than male actors of the same level, actresses of the same level in Hollywood are paid only half of what male actors are paid.

Scarlett Johansson's Black Widow is famous enough, but her salary when she first appeared in "Iron Man 2" was only 40 US dollars. Even in "Avengers 2", her total salary (basic salary + box office share) was only 2000 million US dollars.

Robert Downey Jr. received $1 million for "Avengers 5000" and $8000 million for "Avengers " (base plus box office share).

Even when Scarlett Johansson starred in "Lucy", her salary did not exceed 1000 million US dollars, which was the highest salary for an actress in Marvel. As a leading actress in Hollywood commercial films, although Scarlett Johansson's status is certainly not as good as Robert Downey Jr. and Chris Evans, who plays Captain America, the difference in salary is not that big, because Hollywood actors and actresses are paid differently for the same work.

But she and Chris Evans were paid the same for Juno.

Well, Wu Yuan is a good director who pays actors equal pay for equal work. He paid the two leading male and female actors the same salary.

This may be because he was still a pure "Chinese-language filmmaker" back then.

After all, his mind at that time was full of the development of the Chinese entertainment industry in the next 20 years. In the Chinese entertainment industry, especially the TV drama industry, it is very common for top actresses to receive similar or even higher pay than male actors of the same level.

Well, China's entertainment industry has indeed achieved gender equality in terms of pay.
The price of this equality is that the pay for both male and female actors is ridiculously high, so high that Wu Yuan can't even afford the top actors in the TV drama circle.
"It's just 1 million." Wu Yuan's mouth twitched as he watched Liu Yifei showing off, and he said in a strange tone: "Do you know that many actors in the domestic entertainment industry can earn more than million for acting in a TV series?"

"For some actors, although the contracts they signed show that they only have tens of millions on paper, in fact, they have yin-yang contracts, dividing the high salary into several contracts, and finally they can get more than 100 million."

"For example, the contractual salary they gave you for the movie 'A Chinese Ghost Story' is 4800 million, but they secretly hinted to the company that they could help with the accounting, so the actual salary they could give you is 1.8 million."

"The main purpose of doing this is to evade taxes. After all, if the contract is written according to the actual number, at least half of the 1.8 million yuan salary will be used to pay taxes."

"There is such a thing?!" Liu Yifei's eyes widened in disbelief. She had never paid attention to this kind of thing. Most of her film contracts were handled by people arranged by Wu Yuan.

"Yes, but I rejected it. We can't do such things. We must abide by the law." Wu Yuan shrugged.

The first target of the "A Chinese Ghost Story" crew was indeed Liu Yifei. After all, she is the most fairy-like actress in the circle and the only one who could reach the level of Joey Wong in the role of "Xiao Qian", so they found her at the first opportunity.

However, Wu Yuan knew too well how complicated the story behind this movie was. Moreover, this movie created the sky-high price meme of "one cool = 208 million". Wu Yuan was not interested in letting Liu Yifei step into this big pit.

Let Mou Shuang fill this hole. Mou Shuang was not a good person anyway, so Wu Yuan chose to respect her fate.

However, when thinking of Mou Shuang, Wu Yuan thought of another topic about Mou Shuang that could not be discussed at all, and then thought of Liu Yifei.

"Xixi, you will be 32 after the Chinese New Year. Shouldn't we have a child?"

"Otherwise you will become an elderly mother!" (End of this chapter)