How China Entertainment was developed

Chapter 268 Don't Do This Next Time
With the passage of time, the North American summer vacation has also come to the hottest May.

5 month 3 day.

For the release of "Spider-Man", Columbia held a rather grandiose premiere.

After all, including Zhang Nan's high guest star remuneration, the production cost of this "Spider-Man" has soared to nearly 1.6 million US dollars.

If this investment is screwed up, then Sony Columbia, which is famous for its arrogance in Hollywood, will not be able to bear it.

Zhang Nan arrived at the premiere as scheduled. After walking the red carpet, he greeted director Sam Raimi and lead actor Tobey Maguire, but was pulled aside by the president of Columbia, Clive Sander.

"Zhang, there is something I don't know whether to say or not."

Hearing what Columbia President Clive Sander said, Zhang Nan resisted the urge to roll his eyes.

You have said all this, don’t you just want to say it.

Zhang Nan walked up a step and said, "Clive, we've been friends for so many years, it doesn't matter what should be said or not, but it doesn't matter."

Clive Sound was waiting for Zhang Nan's words, so he said without hesitation: "It's not a big deal, it's just the release of [Spider-Man], I want your help."

Zhang Nan was stunned for a moment when he heard the words, and looked around at the lively scene of the premiere of "Spiderman".

"It's already the premiere, you asked me to help with the distribution? Is there still time? And... Columbia's distribution channels are much stronger than the distribution capabilities I have at hand!" Zhang Nan was a little puzzled asked.

Then Clive Sound quickly explained the current situation of [Spider-Man] to Zhang Nan.

At the very beginning, the [Spider-Man] project was a follow-up work that Columbia watched the No. 20th Century Fox comic film [X-Men] with good income.

However, since this is the first time that this kind of manga movie has been made, Columbia's release plan for "Spider-Man" is to release it in North America first, and then to launch "Spider-Man" based on the box office performance of "Spider-Man" in North America. Global distribution strength and scale.

After all, you have to pay for distribution, and different distribution efforts and scales consume vastly different resources.

In case [Spiderman] explodes at the box office in North America, then reduce the intensity of global distribution and lose less money.

"But... even if it is a global distribution channel other than North America, the distribution channel I have on hand is not enough compared to the one in Colombia!"

Zhang Nan is still a little puzzled. After all, as he said, there is a huge gap between the two distribution channels he has and Colombia's distribution channels around the world.

Columbia's distribution channels are more than enough to release a movie with a box office of more than one billion US dollars.

As for the fragile global distribution channel that he created with a lot of international capital, although he has continuously cultivated the distribution channel over the years, the distribution channel has grown a little bit, but it can only release a box office of 2.4 million US dollars in North America and other countries around the world. Local box office of 3 million US dollars.

Moreover, many of the distribution channels of this 5.4 million US dollars still overlap with the distribution channels of Colombia.

As for the distribution channel in Asia, it is only limited to Asia. At present, when the share of the film market in the mainland has not increased, the total amount is still very small.

"Zhang, you are too modest to say that. Although Columbia is in North America, Sony is thriving in Asia!" Clive Sand reminded with metaphorical words.

When Zhang Nan heard this, he immediately understood.

Columbia has taken a fancy to his distribution channel in Asia.

Or to put it more accurately, I am interested in the movie market in the mainland.

But this is also normal. Among the current Hollywood giants, there is no one who does not covet the mainland movie market.

After all, it is a huge market with more than one billion people.

For this market, many Hollywood giants have been sending their blockbuster films to the mainland for many years at ultra-low prices.

In the beginning, it was directly bought out by the mainland, and how much the movie was released had nothing to do with Hollywood.

Up to now, Hollywood giants can share 13.00% of the box office of their own movies, but the number of movies that can enter the mainland is severely restricted, only twenty movies a year, which has only increased in the past few years.

"Clive, I understand what you mean, but it's not very easy to introduce [Spider-Man] to the mainland. Don't look at the [My Sassy Girl] and [Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon] I did in Asia. 】It’s pretty good, it didn’t even take up the introduction quota, so it was released directly in the mainland, but those were all projects I invested in or arranged for distribution, and with my identity, it’s not difficult to deal with, but [Spiderman] ..."

Zhang Nan didn't finish his sentence, but his meaning was very clear.

This [Spider-Man] is not easy to deal with without his investment.

Clive Sound quickly waved his hands and explained: "Zhang, I know this too. What I want is not to put aside the introduction quota and directly introduce to the mainland, but to let you help me in the introduction quota!"

Zhang Nan glanced at Clive Sound in surprise.

Taking the route of introducing quotas into mainland film and television, the profit that can be shared is only 13.00% of the box office, and the current mainland is different from North America, and copyright awareness is relatively weak.

Not to mention the peripherals of the movie, even the genuine discs are not very popular in China - a genuine disc is nearly a hundred or a few dozen, and a pirated disc is ten yuan or 20 yuan. Everyone knows which one to choose, after all, TVs are not big screen.

For this profit...

Thinking of this, Zhang Nan suddenly realized.

A ratio of 13.00% may not seem like much, but in fact it seems to be quite large.

After all, the current scale of the film market in the mainland will be brought to the level of 2.5 million yuan by the end of the year by [Heroes], which is more than 4000 million US dollars.

This scale is considered a head in Asia, and it is quite powerful in Europe.

The most important thing is that the investment in the film industry has already been invested, and the cost will not change. In terms of income, if you sell more copies, you will get more.

"I can help with this. I have a good relationship with Huaying and Modu Film Group in the Mainland, but..."

Zhang Nan rubbed his hands together, without saying a word, expressing his meaning very clearly.

You just come to me for help with a red mouth and white teeth?

It's hard for me!
Faced with Zhang Nan's almost undisguised request for benefits, Columbia President Clive Sander had anticipated and prepared.

"The release of [Spider-Man] in Asia is all up to you. The market price is [-]% to [-]%. I will give you this amount." Clive Sound stretched out a hand to Zhang Nan look.

Zhang Nan is very familiar with this action, because when Zhang Nan asked Disney to help release "Doomsday Rebirth 1", he also performed this action.

Even Disney was moved by this action, and Zhang Nan was no exception.

What's more, the distributor is actually responsible for a certain degree of movie promotion.

But the global movie promotion of "Spider-Man" has basically been done by Columbia.

So this wave of [Spider-Man] distribution in Asia, Zhang Nan saved some publicity costs.

Zhang Nan directly held Clive Sound's palm with his hand, "We have been good friends for so many years, you still see each other like this, don't do it next time."

Clive Sound: "..."

You are so shameless, that's not what you said just now...?
Huh, this guy didn't seem to really say that he wanted benefits just now, he just gestured.

If you think about it this way, it seems pretty good to use some metaphors for some operations.

Learned another trick today!

(End of this chapter)