How China Entertainment was developed

Chapter 305 Wu Jin subdivided Li Lianlian's way and recruited Lin Yishan

[Deadly Cradle] had a box office hit of 1700 million US dollars in North America in its first week of release.

This box office is not very good, even worse than Chenglong's "Shanghai Noon 2" in the first week of the box office.

But the time point at the end of February is in the middle of the North American spring season. Due to the impact of the upcoming summer vacation, the film market is not very big. With this achievement, [Deadly Cradle] has already reached the top of the North American box office chart. .

The most important thing is that the production cost of "Deadly Cradle" is only 2500 million U.S. dollars, and the total box office can only be recouped if it reaches 5000 million U.S. dollars, so the box office pressure is relatively small.

Looking at the current trend of "Cradle of Death", it is not difficult for the total box office to reach 5000 million US dollars.

Then if the box office share can be recovered, the peripheral income of the movie will be a pure profit.

Compared with Chenglong's comedy action movies, the chic and sharp action styles like Wu Jin and Li Lianlian are more popular among videotape and DVD collectors in the video tape and DVD market. It will be lower than the box office.

Because the crackdown on video disc piracy in North America is very strong, the sales of genuine discs are relatively good.

And the price of a genuine disc is much more expensive than a movie ticket.

And regardless of the purchasing power of DVD lovers for genuine DVDs, there are quite a few DVD rental and sales stores in North America.

These stores regularly purchase DVDs of recently released movies in batches to fill their own shelves. They are an important part of many movie disc consumer markets.

And action stars like Wu Jin, who have become famous through many action movies in a row, have become the focus of attention in North America and even many video rental stores.

Most of the DVD rental stores will set up a personal shelf for Wu Jin.

At the peak of the original time and space Li Lianlian, the reason why he was able to get a single film salary of 2000 million US dollars and entered the Hollywood 2000 million salary club was largely because Li Lianlian's action movie peripherals had a very good sales rate, with sales exceeding [-] million yuan. of.

However, under the influence of Zhang Nan at this time and space, Wu Jin subdivided Li Lian's path, which made Li Lian unable to win a single film salary of 2000 million US dollars and stepped into the Hollywood 2000 million salary club.

Wu Jin, with the support of Zhang Nan, followed this path and lived in Hollywood.

If there is no accident, even if Wu Jin does not have Zhang Nan's support, as long as he makes a few qualified action movies every year, then he can always get a salary of tens of thousands of dollars in Hollywood until he can't move.

Even during the period, if he is lucky and makes a few hits at the box office, Wu Jin is expected to extend his hand towards the film sharing contract.

As for the 2000 million salary club~
Without Zhang Nan's support, Wu Jin might have no hope in Hollywood in his life.

After all, Hollywood has not added anyone to the 2000 million salary club since the turn of the millennium, and the old man is almost dying.

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The next week after the release of "Cradle of Death", the time has come to the beginning of March.

[Deadly Cradle]'s next week's box office in North America actually held up. It didn't crash like [Magic City Noon 2], but maintained on the order of tens of millions of dollars. It closed at 1032 million U.S. dollars, a drop of 40.00%. one.

However, the North American box office of nearly 3000 million U.S. dollars in two weeks has made the global box office of "Deadly Cradle" break through the 5000 million line, which is no problem at all.

Moreover, the sales of "Cradle of Death" in the video disc market are quite impressive, which makes Warner intend to continue this series.

After all, although the cost of this project is not high, and the profit is limited, it is still a profitable project, which is much better than a big production that is losing money, and it is also a brilliant performance at the end of the year.

But compared to the previous film "Fatal Romeo", which grossed nearly [-] million U.S. dollars at the global box office, the performance of the sequel "Fatal Cradle" made Warner think of changing directors.

It so happened that Zhang Nan was also interviewing a director in Longbow Film and Television Company at this time.

...In the North American office building of Longbow Film and Television Company.

Zhang Nan is sitting in the office, and sitting opposite is Lin Yibin, a Chinese with a slightly fat face.

Lin Yibin was found because Zhang Nan was interested in the development of Longbow Film and Television Company.

After all, if a film and television company wants to develop stably and for a long time, it will definitely be able to maintain it by relying on him alone. After all, his hanging is really a bit unreasonable, but it is too tiring for himself.

Then it would be very meaningful to sign a few directors with high level of online skills.

Of course, the great director Zhang Nan would not touch him, even though he had a good personal relationship with Spielberg, George Lucas, Roland Emmerich... and others.

But it was precisely because of the good personal relationship that Zhang Nan understood.

Great directors all have a heart that dare not be inferior to others, and all of them are rebellious.

Not to mention that he is a master, the rest is the Longbow film and television company of kittens and puppies, even Hollywood giants, these big directors are all contemptuous.

So Zhang Nan's goal is to be the kind of director whose level is online, with average achievements, able to do chores, and not complaining about suffering or tiredness...

In a word, there is one principle: eat grass, milk milk, eat not much, run extremely fast, and preferably Chinese.

Then, three figures quickly appeared in Zhang Nan's mind: Huang Yiyu, who had filmed "Death is Coming", Lin Yishan, director of "Fast and Furious 3.4.5.6", and Wen Wen from "Chain Saw". The word benevolence.

But soon Huang Yi and Wen Ziren were excluded by Zhang Nan.

Because of Huang Yi and because of the "Death is Coming" series, they are already famous and have been paid by New Line Pictures.

And Wen Ziren is still in college, and he will have to wait until next year to become a blockbuster through "Chain Saw".

Only Lin Yishan is the most suitable.

Because last year, that is, in 2002, Lin Yishan had just made his first feature-length film [Good Luck Tomorrow], which was regarded as a bright spot in the film and television industry, but the response was mediocre.

Lin Yishan will take over "Fast and Furious 2006" in 3, and slowly show his directing talent through "Fast and Furious 4.5.6".

"I won't say any unnecessary polite words. If you become the contracted director of Longbow Film and Television, the company will provide you with the right to direct these projects."

Zhang Nan directly pushed the project proposals for the two "Martial Arts" series to Lin Yishan.

Lin Yishan's eyes lit up when he saw the two productions cost as much as 5000 million U.S. dollars, and they were also derivative films of the world-renowned series "Wuguan" trilogy.

Because he is just a fledgling rookie director, and he is in the endless loop of no job if he is not famous.

[Wuguan] spin-off film is a top project in B-level movies, even in terms of fame, [Wuguan] spin-off film can be compared with Hollywood's A-level blockbuster with an investment of hundreds of millions. For Lin Yishan, it was considered hopeful unavailable resource.

But Zhang Nan is not over yet.

"Also, due to the recent release of [Deadly Cradle], because the box office has dropped too much compared to the previous one, Warner intends to change the director, because the leading role is an artist of the company, and the cooperation relationship between me and Warner is quite good. That's right, the next [Fatal] action series will have a high probability of being able to help you win the directing right."

"Besides, my latest collaboration with New Line Films [The Lord of the Rings - The Legend of Sauron], without accident, can arrange for you to go in as an assistant director, watch and learn."

"The general conditions are these, what do you think?"

(End of this chapter)