Entertainment tycoon who started out as a director

Chapter 162 "Untouchable" Huge Profits
"Okay, let's start."

The camera immediately focused on Chen Kun's face and hands. In order to ensure that Chen Kun and Huang Xiaoming were highly identifiable, so that other viewers would not be able to tell who was who. In the end, the scene felt messy, so he kept it. It's long hair, the same as the original male protagonist's hairstyle.

Huang Xiaoming has neat short hair.

As for why Huang Xiaoming is not allowed to have long hair, there are only four words.

"Summer's Desire".

No more reasons are needed.

"I'm going to flip through the cards quickly, not this one, this one is too obvious."

Chen Kun picked up a deck of cards, put it in front of his face, and started turning over the cards.

"No, never."

"It didn't work this time."

"I can only see the Seven of Diamonds, and all other cards will be in a state of indistinctness."

"Okay!" Chen Kun took a deep breath, picked up another deck of cards and quickly played a few times. After finding the feel, he tried again.

This time it was perfect.

"Guarantee, do it again."

This one was pretty perfect too and the shoot continued.

Zhong Xintong didn't have many lines, only "Yes, yes, no." Three sentences, and after the male protagonist asked "What am I repeating all night, the closer you are" and everyone shouted "What you see is The less.”

Throw a handful of cards into the sky.

This time I threw it several times, and the building not far away also cooperated so that the curtain wall showed the 7 of diamonds.

After filming the audience's reaction, he immediately used a helicopter to take a shot of the building with the 7 of diamonds and Victoria Bay in the distance.

I have to say that there is a special beauty to this kind of tall buildings and bright lights.

……

Some more shots were taken.

The crew went directly to a stadium.

Thousands of extras were invited.

What was filmed here was definitely a big scene.

A rich white man who worked in insurance without any conscience was cheated. No, it cannot be said that he was cheated.

This is what he should do.

All of his money was transferred to those who bought insurance from his insurance company and deserved to receive the money.

Thousands of people are thousands of heads and thousands of ideas.

There is always a weirdo in a class.

Let alone thousands of people.

They are still group actors, not professional actors. They are afraid that they will find it difficult to survive in this circle if they offend Gu Ming, and they are not afraid of not being able to earn a living if they cause trouble.

Emergencies continue.

It took three nights of shooting to finally complete this scene.

After all the scenes on Hong Kong Island were over, Gu Ming asked some people to stay in China temporarily and took others to London, England, to film the escape magic that introduced the character played by Li Bingbing.

I don’t know if the actress mentioned in her previous life was really stuck when playing this role. It was a crew member who noticed something was wrong and realized that she was not acting. Is this a real thing or a publicity effect.

Anyway, Gu Ming would not allow this to happen.

Too dangerous.

It might be easy to cause trouble.

After testing Li Bingbing's holding time several times, he started shooting.

It is strictly forbidden to exceed that time. When the time is almost up, pull the person out immediately.

……

All filming went on smoothly.

Most of the subsequent scenes were shot in the United States.

No way, who asked the FBI to show up?

Everyone can accept him as a villain, even Americans.

The shooting was halfway through.

"The Intouchables" was released in North America, and when the final box office was supposed to be over [-] million, Beidou Star Entertainment and Sony Entertainment contributed half of the money, pushing the figure to [-] million!

The North American box office was US$[-] million.

It directly made "The Intouchables" temporarily No. 6 on the North American box office list. After taking a look, among the remaining movies, the only one with a North American box office of more than 3 million was "The Lord of the Rings [-]". Finally, "The Intouchables" The North American box office should be ranked seventh in the year.

This box office.

It doesn’t just bring fame.

There are more benefits.

It happened to be filming in Los Angeles, and Gu Ming was able to participate in all processes.

After the film was completely canceled, the share of the North American box office has not yet been received, and even Sony has not received it.

However, in order to distribute "The Intouchables" globally as soon as possible and make more money, Sony's payment for the worldwide distribution rights outside North America has been received.

In addition, there is the cost of the video DVD of "The Intouchables", the TV broadcast rights, and peripherals.

"Overseas distribution rights are US$6000 million."

"North American home theater rights consisting of video tapes and discs were transferred to Sony Columbia for US$2000 million plus a 20.00% share of rental sales."

"The ten-year broadcast rights for public television stations are US$200 million, the ten-year broadcast rights for cable TV stations are US$800 million, and the five-year broadcast rights for the Internet are US$200 million."

"$200 million in derivatives."

"Yeah." Gu Ming was not surprised by the last item. For such a movie, it is not "Spider-Man". What kind of derivatives can it sell? Such a price is not bad.

"So, how much is the total amount received?" Gu Ming sat on the chair and listened to Sophia's report.

"The overseas distribution rights of 6000 million are ours. The remaining home theater rights and TV rights will have to be taken by Sony Columbia at 20.00%, and the derivatives will be taken at 50.00%. The final payment is 300 million."

"We have $300 million on the books now."

"This does not include box office revenue. Based on US$5000 million, Sony Columbia can get over US$500 million. Our box office revenue should be US$[-] million, and future disc rental sales will be in the tens of millions." "Boss, for a cost of [-] million US dollars, we earned twice the profit." Sophia couldn't control her smile.

The net profit is nearly [-] million, which is not a small number in the United States.

He is really glad now that he did not stay in WMA.

Coming to Beidou Star Entertainment was definitely the right step in her life.

"Let the finance department continue to divide the money. Give these 300 million to whomever should be given, and transfer them to various investors as soon as possible." It is easy to borrow and repay, and it is not difficult to borrow again. Gu Ming has no idea of ​​​​squeezing out the amount. Share the cake.

Holding it in your hand for a while won't make you much money.

And ruin your reputation.

There is absolutely no need to do this.

Short of that little money?
"Ok."

Sophia immediately went and handed over this task to the finance department.

Calculate and calculate.

The profit of 300 million US dollars, after deducting the 15.00% management fee of Beidou Star Entertainment and the 15.00% profit due to the production company, is 790 million US dollars.

There is also director Gu Ming's box office share. The North American box office exceeded 12.00 million US dollars, and the box office share was 400%, which is [-] million US dollars.

Withholding taxes and producer alliance management fees in advance and other nonsense fees, it was about 900 million.

"The final fee that can be distributed to investors is..."

"Thirty-five million dollars."

"Oh..." Gu Ming quickly opened and closed his mouth, and stopped talking several times.

Know that Hollywood companies make money.

But when he heard this number, Gu Ming was still a little emotional.

I have to say, Hollywood still knows how to play!
After 300 million, only about one-third is left attributable to investors.

In this regard, Gu Ming did not make any messy operations and settled the accounts in an orderly manner. Even the profit share attributed to Beidou Star was 5.00% less than other companies, showing his kindness.

Like those big companies, the production company and the distribution company are both subsidiaries. They directly open a high-commission distribution contract for themselves, and the publicity and distribution expenses are calculated separately.

At that time, investors will receive even less.

In the end, the actors made money, the director made money, the distribution company made money, the production company also made money, and the investors lost all their money.

Of course, the investors of "The Intouchables" will definitely make money in the end this time.

First, who allowed them to meet such a kind, conscientious, and moral entrepreneur like themselves?
Secondly, this time I paid a large share of my director's share.

I won’t give myself this when I check out next time.

Based on the box office share of 5000 million, the profit distributed to investors can be just over 3000 million.

In addition to the 200 million this time and the tens of millions of dollars in advertising revenue, it can be over 7000 million.

Compared with the investment of 500 million US dollars, isn't this just making money?

I make quite a lot of money.

This does not include 20.00% of subsequent disc sales.

It is very likely that they will make back their money by doubling their profits.

It's just that the checkout time is a little longer.

Well, thinking about it this way, I am still worthy of investors.

He is worthy of the title of benevolent and righteous young man!

"All right."

"Let's distribute the profits as soon as possible according to this number."

"Go to work."

After waving the others to go out, Gu Ming calculated in his mind that if the income after the box office settlement was 5000 million, he would probably be able to earn it in the end.

Beidou Star earns 300 million, and its directing fee is 700 million. If Daystar earns 1000 million.

8000 million US dollars.

Including disc income, maybe [-] million.

"Not bad!"

Gu Ming opened his mouth and laughed, but he was only happy for a while.

[-] million US dollars, no need to wear a photo.

Not to mention that I only made a small amount of money, the majority of it went to Sony Columbia, the publisher.

Just talk about your income.

NetEase's stock price is now over 50 US dollars.

I bought it for US$450 million at an average price of less than two US dollars.

This has already made hundreds of millions.

Or make hundreds of millions easily.

"What does it mean to be a billionaire!" (tactical retreat).

……

The income is large, the future is promising, and everyone has a bright future just like everyone else.

Gu Ming was in a very good mood, and his mood affected the progress of the shooting a lot.

Filming took place in late October.

The filming of "Now You See Me" has been completed.

The rest is basically the work of the special effects company, and it will take several more months to produce.

Rendering is also time-consuming.

After being watched by Guangye Gongmo for a week, Gu Ming handed it over to his subordinates.

It's a pity that at this time, I can't return to my country.

There is one more thing that I have to do on my own.

(End of this chapter)