How China Entertainment was developed

Chapter 257 1950 million dollars in cameo pay
When Zhang Nan took his private plane back to Pengcheng, Warner Pictures basically counted the first-day box office of "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone".

Zhang Nan, who already knew the result in advance, did not ask deliberately, and Warner would not specifically inform Zhang Nan. After all, the starring role is not Zhang Nan, and Zhang Nan is just a cameo.

But when the results of the first week of "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" came out.

Even if he was in the mainland, even if Zhang Nan didn't try to understand it deliberately, relevant information still kept flooding Zhang Nan's ears.

Without him.

3672 theaters in North America, 9029 million US dollars in the first week

There are 507 theaters in the UK, with a box office of 1633 million pounds in the first week.

Just adding together the data of these two ticket warehouses, the box office of "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" has exceeded [-] million in the first week.

If you count the box office of other film markets around the world.

Well, the global box office of "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" in the first week, not to mention breaking through 2 million U.S. dollars, but 1.5 million U.S. dollars is still more than enough.

If the box office of commercial films is halved in the next week, the box office of the first week is about one quarter to one third of the total box office.

Then "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" will be released in the third week, and Warner Bros. will be able to pay back its capital by relying on box office dividends.

And even if the total box office is calculated according to the worst case of one-third, [Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone] will bring Warner Bros. a box office profit of no less than 1 million US dollars after throwing away the cost. .

What's more, the box office trend of "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" is a little different from that of general commercial movies.

Its box office decline in the following week was well controlled.

If "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" can be stabilized, then the box office will have a chance to try to break through the global threshold of one billion US dollars.

Another blockbuster movie that may have a global box office potential of one billion US dollars, once again has something to do with Zhang Nan, which ushered in another wave of gains for Zhang Nan's guest appearance.

As a result, Zhang Nan's guest appearance contract has reached 1950 million US dollars for eight hours, which is only 2000 US dollars away from Hollywood's 50 million salary club.

It can be said that the distance between Zhang Nan's current guest appearance and Hollywood's 2000 million salary club is much closer than that of Zhou Jie and Wu Jin's leading roles.
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Longbow Film and Television City, the crew of [Rebirth at the End of the World].

When the shooting of a scene is over, everyone else is busy setting up the scene and doing makeup.

Seeing that Zhang Nan was free, Old Luke hurriedly walked to Zhang Nan, and said, "Warner has released the news of filming the [Harry Potter] sequel, and also asked the relevant personnel to contact me."

"How much is Warner going to pay me?" Zhang Nan asked.

Old Luke said a little excitedly after hearing the words: "Warner was hesitant at first, wanting to bargain, but in the end they insisted on following the market price.

During the negotiation, I could feel that Warner felt a little heartache.

But this is also normal. If you pay 1950 million US dollars for a supporting role, it will hurt anyone to change it.

With this money, he could invite a Hollywood superstar with a salary of 2000 million to play the leading role. "

"Then it won't hurt his heart, and make him feel that it's worth the money." Zhang Nan said.

Old Luke was taken aback when he heard the words, "What do you mean?"

"Don't delay signing the contract. I still have two cameo projects to be released in December. Let's see the situation." Zhang Nan explained.

Only then did Old Luke realize, "You mean [Ocean's Eleven] and [Lord of the Rings 1]?"

Zhang Nan nodded.

"Zhang, are you so confident in these two films? If the box office of these two films hits the box office, you are in the market..."

Old Luke didn't want to take this risk, and wanted to eat the 2 million US dollars guest star salary in [Harry Potter 1950] now.

After all, even if the box office of these two films continues to explode, Zhang Nan's current market price of 1950 million U.S. dollars in cameo pay is basically at the top, and he cannot continue to increase on a large scale. At most, it will increase by dozens or hundreds. Just ten thousand dollars.

But if these two films fail at the box office, then Zhang Nan's market price of cameo performances will drop, not just tens or millions of dollars, but millions of dollars.

Even with the good box office performance of "Harry Potter", Warner Pictures can still bargain on Zhang Nan's already declining cameo pay.

This is obviously an operation in which the profit is not much if you win, and you will lose a lot if you lose. Old Luke is somewhat resistant.

But Zhang Nan thought more than old Luke.

The film and television copyright of [Harry Potter] is in the hands of Warner, he wants to wait for the end of the main story of [Harry Potter], and then make a spin-off of [Voldemort] to harvest fans of [Harry Potter] We must have a good relationship with Warner.

Contradictions are accumulated bit by bit. Now that Warner is heartbroken because of the guest appearance, how can we cooperate in the future?

Besides, Zhang Nan is very sure about the box office of "Ocean's Eleven" and "Lord of the Rings 1".

So Zhang Nan waved his hand at what Old Luke said, interrupted his words, and then explained:
"I did it for two reasons.

First, I think the [Harry Potter] series is pretty good, and I estimate that the future prospects will be pretty good, and it can breed a huge fan market, so I plan to wait until the main story of [Harry Potter] ends in the future. , Cooperate with Warner on a spin-off project featuring Voldemort as the protagonist.

So for the time being, it is not easy to accumulate unhappiness with Warner. After all, Warner can choose to cooperate with me in the [Harry Potter] derivative film project, or start a new one on its own, and the latter will even make more profits.

Second, I have confidence in the box office of [Ocean's Eleven] and [Lord of the Rings 1]. "

Old Luke is not a fool, Zhang Nan's first reason convinced him, because Zhang Nan currently has a ten-part plan of "Rebirth at the End of the Day".

Although the grade of "Rebirth of the Doom" is high enough, Zhang Nan's career as a commercial superstar is still a bit unsafe with such a major series.

After all, he has stayed in Hollywood for so many years, but he has seen too many commercial superstars fall because of the end and failure of his mainstay series.

"Okay! I know what to do." Old Luke nodded.
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Throughout November in late 2001, the global film market was basically dominated by [Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone].

【Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone】was raging in the global film market for a whole month, and then won a result that made Warner Pictures feel satisfied.

After all, in the first month of its release, it won a box office of 8.25 million US dollars worldwide, and no one would be happy with it.

Even according to this trend, [Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone] has a high probability of breaking through the billion-dollar threshold, becoming the next best-selling series after [Titanic], [Survival at the End of the World] trilogy, [Star Wars] Prequel [-]], the fifth film to hit the billion-dollar box office worldwide.

(End of this chapter)