How China Entertainment was developed

Chapter 296 Huge Influence
[Lord of the Rings 2] was released at a very symmetrical time on Wednesday, before and after the weekend.

It stands to reason that this time point is not very good.

However, [The Lord of the Rings 2] has achieved a box office of 2 million US dollars on the first day of its North American launch, which is even stronger than [Harry Potter 2615.9].

Then came Thursday's $1387.8 million, Friday's $1922.4 million, Saturday's $2275.2 million, and Sunday's $2003.1 million.

In the first week of its release, it grossed over US$[-] million at the box office in North America.

According to the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy filmed at one time, and the cost has been recovered in "Lord of the Rings 1", and a small profit was made.

The box office of [Lord of the Rings 2] is a net profit for New Line Cinema.

Under such a situation, the stock price of New Line Pictures directly ushered in a surge.

Because everyone knows that there is still [Lord of the Rings 3] on New Line Films that hasn't been released yet.

Of course, there are also those who are particularly prepared for a rainy day, and they have begun to bad-mouth New Line Pictures after the end of the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy.

But anyone with a discerning eye can see that this is Warner Pictures' trick behind the scenes.

However, although Warner Pictures' move was insidious, it was based on facts, so it also attracted the attention of a group of Wall Street financial institutions.

After all, the financial institutions on Wall Street have a tendency to find something to do no matter what, and to make waves even when there is no wind. If there is an excuse, they will naturally not let it go.

Then a piece of news that shocked the entire Hollywood was announced by New Line Cinema in the form of a press conference.

New Line Pictures will join hands with Zhang Nan to develop a spin-off film project about the Demon Lord Sauron based on the IP of "Lord of the Rings".

Originally, this kind of film and television project approval plan was nothing to shock Hollywood.

The key is that New Line Cinema has disclosed the specific content of the entire film and television project.

When the fixed salary of 30.00 million U.S. dollars, 50.00% of the total box office dividend, [-]% of the peripheral income sharing...etc., Zhang Nan's conditions were exposed.

The whole of Hollywood is dumbfounded.

To be honest, before Zhang Nan and Disney made a cooperation condition in the "Pirates of the Caribbean" project, it has already made all the film and television companies in Hollywood feel that it is outrageous.

It's just considering that although Disney Pictures wears the skin of a Hollywood giant, it is basically the advertising department of Disneyland.

Therefore, many Hollywood film and television companies barely understood Zhang Nan's asking price, thinking that Zhang Nan slaughtered a big family and picked up a bargain.

But now that New Line Films has made such a move, many film and television companies feel the crisis.

Because of Zhang Nan's current global box office appeal and popularity, many film and television companies are thinking of cooperating with Zhang Nan.

But seeing how Disney and New Line have done this, raising Zhang Nan's salary to such an exaggerated level, many film and television companies feel that prices are soaring in the red-light district, and someone is disrupting the market!
However, before these film and television companies began to denounce New Line Films on the charge of disrupting the market, someone soon discovered the even more exciting terms in the cooperation between Zhang Nan and New Line on the derivative film of "Lord of the Rings"——

It includes a global box office of one billion US dollars, if the box office is less than that, Zhang Nan makes up for it.

Then the whole of Hollywood, no, really the film and television companies in film markets around the world, went crazy.

Global box office revenue of one billion US dollars!
That's a global box office of one billion US dollars! !
So far, there are no films in the world that can reach this threshold.

Counting and counting, there are only [Titanic], [Survival of the Doomsday 1.2.3], [Rebirth of the Doomsday 1] and [Star Wars Prequel 1], and nothing else.

Every film is an existence that can make money for film and television companies and make them numb.

Now Zhang Nan dares to guarantee the 'mass production'.

Although the price of the remuneration is a bit harsh, if the contract is really signed according to Zhang Nan's conditions, then Zhang Nan will get the bulk of the profits of the entire project, and the film and television company will only get a small amount.

but--

The global box office of one billion US dollars, even if it is a small amount, is a profit that is not inferior to that of ordinary Hollywood A-level productions.

More importantly, over the years, North America has used Hollywood movies to spread its cultural attributes around the world, playing a cultural war.

Film markets around the world have more or less begun to pay attention to this aspect of culture warfare.

Many local governments have also begun to help their own local film and television companies, trying to resist Hollywood blockbusters, but they have not seen much effect.

At this time, Zhang Nan's promise to mass-produce a movie with a global box office of one billion US dollars made leading film and television companies in many regions excited.

After all, if a film and television company in a region wants to spend [-] million U.S. dollars to hire Zhang Nan, they can't afford it.

But if it is a film and television company on the outside and a local propaganda organization on the inside, then hundreds of millions of dollars is a small amount of money.

So Zhang Nan originally thought that if he released a fixed salary of [-] million US dollars, plus a series of harsh sharing conditions, the number of projects that dared to invite him to star in movies would drop sharply.

The result is just the opposite, the number has increased sharply, but most of them are representatives of film markets from all over the world wearing film and television companies.

Those who are unpretentious are just spending money on Zhang Nan.

There are those who are implicit, such as France, who specially hired Luc Besson as a cover and a contact to discuss cooperation with Zhang Nan.

Zhang Nan had never seen such a battle before. After negotiating the specific conditions with the new line, he ran to the mainland.

In the end, it was announced that this kind of guaranteed cooperation method was limited to the development of derivative films of the super movie IP, and this wave of turmoil was slowly calmed down.
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Mainland.

Left on the 17th and returned on the 23rd.

In a short period of time, there has been almost no change in the mainland, and even the film market, which has always been turbulent in an instant, has basically not changed.

It's still [Hero] in the north and south of the river, and the rampant madness has swept the box office.

The sudden birth of "Hero" made audiences who have basically never seen any blockbusters in line with mainland culture in these years deeply feel a wave of soul-piercing shock.

Due to the long history, let me give a more vivid metaphor.

[Hero] is to the mainland at this time, just like the future [The Wandering Earth] is to the sci-fi movies in the mainland at that time. It gives movie fans the feeling that it is an epoch-making shock, and even [Hero] is stronger than [The Wandering Earth].

Because [The Wandering Earth] was in the mainland at that time, it cannot be said that there were no domestic sci-fi blockbusters, only that there were no good-looking domestic sci-fi blockbusters, such as [Magic City Fortress], [Crazy Alien]... Although it is not off topic, it is rubbish , but at any rate, it has the title of a sci-fi blockbuster, and it can also deceive people.

But [Hero] At this time, in the mainland film and television industry, there are not even fake blockbusters with blockbuster titles to deceive the audience, because at this time, mainland film and television professionals and audiences are basically ignorant of the blockbuster movies that can be produced in the mainland. With an attitude of disbelief.

So it is different from the situation after [Wandering Earth] was born, it was basically the voice of reputation.

As soon as [Hero] Pu Yi was born, although the box office is rising steadily, but the reputation is not much, but the infamy is a lot.

There was even an old artist association in some area who spontaneously organized a discussion meeting to criticize [Heroes].

(End of this chapter)