How China Entertainment was developed

Chapter 264 The North American spring file of recovery of all things
"A commercial movie?"

Zhang Nan asked rhetorically, and then continued: "If there is a global box office of [-] to [-] million US dollars, do you think Disney will come to me to continue making sequels? At that time, this will be a series with a fan base. Now, can the conditions still talk to the present level?"

A commercial film.

A global box office of [-] or [-] million US dollars?

"Can it be so high?" Old Luke couldn't believe Zhang Nan's box office guess.

Zhang Nan looked at Old Luke, counted the conditions with his fingers, "This project is a promotional project for Disney Pictures to its pillar industry—Disneyland.

When the production of the film is almost finished, in terms of the promotion and scale of the release, it will definitely sell hard.

With the strength of Disney Pictures, a Hollywood giant, coupled with such efforts in publicity and release, it shouldn't be a problem for [Pirates of the Caribbean] to earn a box office of [-] to [-] million U.S. dollars around the world, right? "

"..."

Old Luke was a little confused, then nodded and said, "It's not a problem."

"As an agent, you should be the clearest about my current coffee position and box office appeal. If there are too many, I dare not say. As long as I star in any movie project, the global box office appeal of [-] to [-] million U.S. dollars should be It's still not a problem!" Zhang Nan continued to snap his fingers and said.

The corners of Old Luke's eyes twitched as he listened, and he continued to nod.

"A project that can earn at least [-] to [-] million US dollars in box office worldwide, let alone a commercial, it is a documentary, do you think it will have a sequel?" Zhang Nan finally asked.

Old Luke was completely speechless.

Let alone a project that can earn [-] to [-] million U.S. dollars in the box office worldwide, even a project that can win [-] to [-] million U.S. dollars in the global box office, no film and television company will let it sit in its hands of.

Didn’t you see that MGM has been clinging to the original series of [007] for these years, and the sequels that come out every time are only in the early [-] million.

Universal even made a sequel plan with great fanfare for the "Fast and Furious" box office of [-] million US dollars.

"I'll talk right away," said old Luke, about to jump out of the car.

Zhang Nan hurriedly stopped him and said, "It's too obvious for you to talk about it now. The terms of the cooperation have only been roughly finalized. When the contract is signed in two days, you can mention it by the way."

"That's the only way to go." Old Luke nodded.
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A few days later, when the formal contract was signed.

According to Zhang Nan's intention, Old Luke put forward his amendments to this article in a timely manner.

But Disney is not an idiot, and it has long been focused on preventing this.

The two sides dragged each other for a long time, and each took a step back.

Zhang Nan did not develop a single film condition into a whole series of conditions, and Disney did not lock this condition on a single film. The final result was a plausible condition: if there is not much change, the continuation of the next film According to this, but the next movie is about to change.

For this final result, Zhang Nan was a little disappointed, but he quickly accepted it.

After all, it is already very good to be able to take away such a large piece of cake from the [Pirates of the Caribbean] series that originally belonged exclusively to Disney.

Old Luke was a little annoyed at the mistakes he made when negotiating terms.

After all, for the old Luke who was born in the authentic North American Stars and Stripes, sometimes he felt that he was losing money even if he didn't make money, not to mention losing money.

Seeing this, Zhang Nan didn't say anything, because during this period of time, Old Luke's mentality was indeed a little drifting.

It's good to be taught a lesson.
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2001年末至2002年出的这个北美冬季档，不光是酝酿出了两部票房近10亿美金的电影——【指环王1】和【哈利波特1】，还弄出了一部全球4亿多美金票房的【十一罗汉】。

Therefore, the box office potential of the entire schedule has basically been squeezed out.

After "The Lord of the Rings 1", "Harry Potter 1" and "Ocean's Eleven", even though there was still nearly a month left in the schedule, not even a single movie with a relatively bright box office was born.

Fortunately, with the passage of time, the winter file slowly ended, and the spring file began.

Just like the natural world, whenever spring comes, it is the season of recovery of all things.

There is also a trend of recovery in the North American film market.

2 month 22 day.

At the turn of winter and spring, the cost of a film is only 500 million US dollars, and the investor is not any Hollywood giant, "My Big Fat Greek Wedding", which was released.

This is a very standard low-cost love movie.

At the beginning of its release, it did not receive much attention.

But when the first week's box office data came out, it immediately attracted a lot of attention.

Without him.

The box office of 4000 million US dollars in the first week in North America not only allowed it to recover its costs and make money by relying on the box office alone, but also made its expected box office in the future not less than [-] million US dollars.

But in fact, the box office trend of "My Big Fat Greek Wedding" is stable beyond the deduction of the official box office forecasting agency.

The next week's box office did not fall but rose, with a single-week box office of 6000 million U.S. dollars.

Breaking through [-] million in two weeks, it is basically certain that its total box office will not be less than [-] million, and it has once again attracted more attention.

And the reason [My Big Fat Greek Wedding] garnered so much attention.

The main reason is that since Zhang Nansheng's coffee, after [Notting Hill], he no longer accepts any appointments for medium and small-budget romance movies.

The small and medium-budget romantic film market that Zhang Nan took advantage of to ignite did not immediately become lonely after Zhang Nan left. Instead, many film and television companies continued to invest in it.

As a result, after a few years, there was not a single box office blockbuster, but this group of film and television companies that bet on small and medium-budget romance films were pitted enough.

Now that a box office dark horse finally came out, it naturally attracted a lot of attention.

Even old Luke's attention was drawn.

"Zhang, you even accepted commercials, why don't we go back to small and medium-budget romance films?"

Old Luke held the newspaper in his hand, and continued to Zhang Nan in a greedy tone: "The box office of 500 million yuan is at least [-] million U.S. dollars. This is a dividend of [-] million U.S. dollars just for the box office. Twenty times the income! !"

When Zhang Nan heard this, he was not interested at all.

Romance?
This thing has passed its glory days, and the upper limit is extremely limited. The next ten years will be the era of special effects movies.

"If you really want to play some high-yield projects, you'd better focus on action movies, which are relatively reliable."

Zhang Nan gave some selfish suggestions to Old Luke. After all, his subordinates Zhou Jie and Wu Jin are currently more suitable for action movies, especially Wu Jin.

Moreover, although this suggestion is a bit selfish, it is very pertinent.

Because compared with romance films that have passed their glory days and have a very limited box office ceiling, action movies have not fallen, but their box office ceiling is relatively limited, but they are more sustainable.

Because it is not so difficult to make a sequel to a popular small-to-medium-budget romance film.

After all, the hero and heroine can never fall in love again.

But if you want to make a sequel to a big-selling small-to-medium-budget action movie, the difficulty can't be said to be the same as drinking water, but it's not too difficult.

After all, love can't be talked about repeatedly-it's a bit too unreasonable, but fighting can continue.

Old Luke's eyes lit up when he heard the words, "Zhang, do you have the idea of ​​making small and medium-sized action movies?"

"I'm slowly diluting the influence of the [Wuguan] series, what do you think?"

Zhang Nan shook his head, and said truthfully, "If you have time, you can use my banner to find some small and medium-sized projects for Wu Jin and Zhou Jie. You can't let these two guys be idle, let them move for you. I create value."

After hearing this, Old Luke immediately relaxed, "I'll try my best, but even if it's under your banner, I guess I can only let some small and medium-sized crews give the two of them a chance to audition. It's very difficult to star in the role. "

No way, Hollywood is so exclusive.

But also normal.

If it is hard to understand, you can put yourself in the shoes and think about it. Suddenly there is a white or black person in the mainland film and television industry. Do you think he can get the starring position and resources from the major directors?
(End of this chapter)