How China Entertainment was developed

Chapter 199 Release [Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon]

Mid to late March.

The 72st Oscars are on time.

[Survival at the End of Days 2.3] The two parts were nominated for seven or eight awards, but Zhang Nan felt nothing at all.

Because Zhang Nan knew that there was no cake for him in this year's Oscars.

Sure enough, [Survival at the End of the World 2.3] only won the few unpopular awards that the original [Matrix] won, such as best editing, best visual effects, best sound effects... and other unpopular awards.

It's a little bit up and down.

In contrast, [American Beauty] drives low and goes high.

The three major awards, Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Actor, were all awarded to [American Beauty].

But to be honest, Zhang Nan felt that Oscar was playing it very mockingly.

The title of the movie was [American Beauty], but the Best Actress was not awarded, so the Best Actor came out.

Is this inappropriate to slap the heroine of [American Beauty] in the face?

But fortunately, the leading actor in "American Beauty" is really good - this guy later filmed the classic American drama "House of Cards".

With such a result, Zhang Nan was naturally blocked by many reporters and paparazzi when he came out of the Oscar awards ceremony.

Everyone wanted to pry some explosive words from Zhang Nan's mouth.

But he closed his mouth tightly and didn't say a word.

Because he was still counting on an opportunity to come, to get a statuette for the best director Oscar.
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Early May.

The summer holidays in North America are officially here.

But just like early spring, although it is already spring, not many things have recovered.

Therefore, in the first and middle of May in North America, although it is nominally a summer vacation, it still maintains the temperature of winter.

And Zhang Nan urgently called Li'an from Cannes, France to North America.

Because this guy brought "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" to Cannes, and wanted to make the film go to the award-winning route.

Li'an's line of thinking cannot be wrong.

After all, he has always followed the path of winning awards and fame, and then selling copyrights to recover funds.

And before [Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon] came out.

No one expected that audiences in the North American film market would be so popular with this kind of oriental ancient kung fu blockbuster, and they could contribute more than [-] million US dollars at the box office.

Nowadays, this kind of oriental ancient Kung Fu movies are still in the niche category. No one would think of making such a genre movie and bringing it to North America to test the waters.

In fact, Zhang Nan is not completely opposed to the award-winning route of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon".

Zhang Nan just objected to Li'an bringing "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" to the three major European film festivals.

Because the three major European film festivals like to watch Asian films that are backward, distorted, and exaggerated.

At the same time, the facts of the original time and space have proved that the three major European film festivals are quite indifferent to the beautiful style of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", and they don't like it at all. It can be reflected in the income.

You must know that Li'an is still an old man in Cannes, and has won the Palme d'Or.

It is the Oscars and Golden Globes that really eat the style of [Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon].

Zhang Nan didn't want "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" to go the same way again, and wanted to help it speed up.

After all, the original time and space's release path of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" was too tortuous.

It debuted in Cannes, France in May, landed in Wanwan, Xiangjiang, and Kimchi Country in July, landed in Canada, Iceland, and Thailand in September, and did not land in North America until October, and it was only screened at two film festivals in New York and Austin. .

As a result, after the release, the effect was not bad, and only then slowly started from on-demand screenings, and gradually expanded the scale of screenings.

With such twists and turns, "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" also made a box office hit of 1.28 million US dollars in North America.

It can only be said that Li'an really captured the oriental kung fu style in "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" to the point that North American movie fans like.

Now that [Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon] has become Zhang Nan's investment, Zhang Nan naturally wants to maximize his profits.

And Zhang Nan also wants to try it out. Relying on the Longbow Film and Television Fund, he has a wealth of resources in theaters, Wall Street, international capital...etc., and he has pulled out a fragile and small distribution channel. How effective is it?

And the reason for using [Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon] to try.

It is because even if the effect stretches the hips, it doesn't matter.

After all, it is much better than the distribution route of [Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon] in the original time and space.

However, regarding Zhang Nan's actions, Li An was full of uneasiness.

"Director Zhang, isn't it good to do this?"

Li'an had always been playing in the literary film circle before, but Zhang Nan was suddenly dragged into the commercial film circle, and it was the main battleground of Hollywood, the world's top commercial film circle - the North American film market, which was not easy to accept for a while.

"Anyway, it's okay if the screening failed. If you don't delay the award-winning route, what are you afraid of?" Zhang Nan expressed his confusion.

Then Li An was taken aback when he heard Zhang Nan's words, and after thinking about it, he found that it was indeed the case.
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So in the next few days, Zhang Nan began to circle among forces other than Hollywood giants, such as theaters, Wall Street, media, international capital...etc.

The reason to remove the Hollywood giants.

First, it was the juncture of the summer vacation, and the Hollywood giants did not have any free channels for Zhang Nan to use.

They themselves are busy using their own channels to make money for their own projects.

Secondly, Zhang Nan wants to see what kind of distribution channel he can create while competing with Hollywood giants.

This means that he can independently operate large projects in North America.

Facts have proved that the seven giants of Hollywood have not lived in vain for so many years.

Rao is Wall Street, international capital... and other forces that covet Hollywood's profits, and strongly support Zhang Nan's establishment of this fragile and tiny distribution channel.

But in the end, the distribution channels that can be digested are the limit of the projects that can be digested, that is, the box office of 1.8 million US dollars in North America, and the box office of 2.4 million US dollars in other parts of the world, adding up to a total of 4.2 million US dollars in the global box office.

To be honest, for Zhang Nan, this total amount is a bit too small and not enough at all.

But for fledgling mainland and Asian film projects, that's pretty good.

It may not even be used up at all.

And don't look at the total amount of 4.2 million channels.

But after mastering the channel, if Zhang Nan buys out a blockbuster movie in advance to release it.

Then the profits that Zhang Nan can get are really high, let Zhang Nan experience first-hand, the feeling of Hollywood giants picking up money.

Because in this channel, the split between Zhang Nan and the theaters is 5.5 to 4.5.

At the same time, Zhang Nan took the 5.5% dividend, of which only Wall Street, international capital, etc. received 2.5% dividend.

Relying on this channel, Zhang Nan can share 3% of the total box office profits.

As for the copyright and peripheral income of the distribution project, Zhang Nan can directly get half of it.

In general, a box office of 1.8 million in North America and 4.2 million US dollars in the world, if the cost is not included, Zhang Nan can get a box office dividend of 1.26 million US dollars.

Movie peripherals are calculated on an average basis: half of the total box office revenue.

That's $1.05 million.

Added together is 2.31 million.

This is not counting the profits brought by the increase in the stock price of the film and television company for a movie that was a hit at the box office.

In this regard, Zhang Nan cooperated with several major Wall Street institutions through the Longbow Film and Television Fund, and the two sides split [-]-[-].

These professionals in finance are much more proficient in their operations than the Hollywood giants.

For a movie with a global box office of [-] million US dollars, the Hollywood giants can at most extract thousands of US dollars in profits from the company's stock price.

However, several major institutions on Wall Street can easily get nearly half of the profits of the box office.

So for a film project with a box office of 4.2 million US dollars, Zhang Nan can hold close to [-] million US dollars in profit.

The only downside is that.

Rao is Zhang Nan. Throughout the year, it is not easy to make a movie that does not have the involvement of Hollywood giants and is still a big box office hit.

This money is not easy to earn.

　There is another chapter at 250:[-] pm. I have something to do in the morning, so the number of words in this article is less than [-], and it is only [-]. I will try to write more in the afternoon.I feel that my degree of dedication is also ranked first at the starting point. Yesterday I was in the top [-] in the combat power list.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)