How China Entertainment was developed

Chapter 318: The waterless remuneration shocked the audience
[Kung Fu] Inside the studio.

Zhang Nan was trying on clothes and chatting with director and star Zhou Xingxing.

After chatting for a while, Zhang Nan turned the topic to guest pay.

"Director Zhou, it seems we haven't discussed it in detail yet, how much will my salary be?"

When Zhou Xingxing heard Zhang Nan's words, he hurriedly said: "Director Zhang, you said that you acted at a low price."

"Yes, I said that."

Zhang Nan nodded in agreement, "But the low price is not priceless. I'll give you half the price, 50.00%. It's low enough!"

Zhou Xingxing nodded slightly when he heard this.

This price is indeed low enough. After all, the sales in many shopping malls are about this range - buy one, get one free.

But Zhou Xingxing, who was cautious, still asked cautiously, "Then...how much is it specifically?"

Zhang Nan flicked the black round hat in the costume of the boss of the Crocodile Gang with his fingers, and said in a very calm tone: "My current guest appearance salary in Hollywood is 2500 million US dollars for eight hours plus a few supporting roles. Half of that would be $1250 million."

When Zhou Xingxing heard Zhang Nan's quotation, everyone was stunned, "How much?"

Zhang Nan naturally saw Zhou Xingxing's confusion and added: "Director Zhou, my offer is very honest. Many crews in Hollywood are begging me to be a guest star, but I am too lazy to go."

"Director Zhang, your Hollywood salary quotation is completely useless?" Zhou Xingxing asked with some astonishment.

In fact, Zhou Xingxing has also heard about Zhang Nan's starring and guest starring fees in Hollywood.

After all, the amount is quite astonishing, and it is still growing. It has become the focus of global media reports.

but--

The entertainment industry is notoriously exaggerated.

The remuneration quotations of many artists are quite high.

For example, the crew of "A World Without Thieves" that Feng Xiaogang and the Chinese-American Wang Da Wang created some time ago announced that Liu Tianwang was hired with a salary of 700 million yuan.

But this was only 2003, and the total investment in "A World Without Thieves" was only 3000 million yuan.

The Hong Kong film market continues to be in recession, and many artists have no filming appointments. Even Hong Kong's most popular artists like Liu Dehua are having a hard time.

Including "A World Without Thieves", this is Liu's first film to go to the mainland from North China and work with an ethnic Chinese who is a local leader in the mainland film market.

If there is a real degree of 700 million in the 400 million salary, then it is already quite good.

Therefore, based on this phenomenon, Zhou Xingxing's estimate for Zhang Nan's guest remuneration is half of the US$2500 million mentioned in the media, which is more than US$500 million.

Zhou Xingxing scraped together the money here and there, and he could still manage to make it.

For 1250 million US dollars, it would really cost Zhou Xingxing his life.

"Moisture?"

Zhang Nan curled his lips disdainfully, "I have never falsely reported my salary since my debut. If you don't believe it, you can ask Brother Chenglong whether the salary I received for our cooperation in the "Rush Hour" series is the same. It’s just as advertised, and a few days ago, he also invited me to make a cameo in his new film [Eighty Days Around the World], but I was too busy during this time, so I pushed it away.”

Zhou Xingxing was completely shocked by Zhang Nan's words, but just in case, he still planned to call Chenglong to confirm.

In fact, he and Chenglong were not very familiar with each other, and it felt like a king without seeing the king.

The two had previously watched each other's guest appearances in "Glass Bottle" and "The King of Comedy".

But they are both in Xiangjiang, and they have reached the top celebrity status in the same era. Even if they are not familiar with each other, they still have some friendship. It is okay to call them occasionally to ask about something.

When Zhou Xingxing stepped out to make a call, the heroine Huang Shengyi, who had been silent in the corner, became even more excited and trembled after hearing the conversation between Zhang Nan and Zhou Xingxing.

She also felt that Zhang Nan's salary in Hollywood was a bit outrageous due to the publicity, and she thought Zhang Nan's real salary was probably half the amount.

Of course, even a [-]% discount is not low.

But now that I heard Zhang Nan's explanation, I couldn't control myself anymore.Because according to what Zhang Nan said, the salary reported to Zhang Nan in the media is Zhang Nan's real salary.

Doesn't that mean that if Zhang Nan stars in a movie, he will earn hundreds of millions of dollars in fixed salary alone?

If we also include those various share-sharing contracts that are a bit exaggerated.

A movie makes [-] or [-] million US dollars?
Converted into RMB, it is RMB 50 billion.

In the past few years, it is not certain whether the total box office of mainland movies in the whole year was this high!

"Director Zhang, this is the hot tea I made for you." Huang Shengyi seized the opportunity and handed a cup of tea to Zhang Nan's dressing table.

Zhang Nan didn't say anything when he saw this, he just nodded slightly.

Regarding Huang Shengyi, Zhang Nan could only say that he was a man with scheming intentions, but his methods were too despicable.

In the original time and space, his success was due to Zhou Xingxing's support in [Kung Fu].

After she became famous, she couldn't bear the loneliness, so she hired a rich man to fix things, which made Zhou Xingxing angry, so she quit Xinmei Pictures, which is owned by Zhou Xingxing.

Logically speaking, if you want to change jobs, just change jobs.

Although it seems a bit ungrateful to pay the liquidated damages, there are really not many people in the vanity fair of the entertainment industry who can control their desires.

However, Huang Shengyi's style was to confront Zhou Xingxing directly in court and incited him in the media.

Of course, in the final lawsuit, Huang Shengyi won the case, so there should be some problems on Zhou Xingxing's side.

But for people like Huang Shengyi, Zhang Nan is naturally respectful and insensitive.

Watching him pour a cup of tea, he said nothing extraneous.

The atmosphere became a bit awkward, but fortunately Zhou Xingxing came back after making the phone call.

Zhou Xingxing walked into the house again, still thinking about Chenglong's words just now, and he was a little dazed.

After a conversation, Chenglong not only confirmed to him that Zhang Nan's guest appearance salary was indeed worthless, but also confirmed that Zhang Nan's guest appearance contract was indeed as popular as Zhang Nan said.

Because Chenglong was on the phone, he asked Zhou Xingxing to mention to Zhang Nan that as long as he could make a guest appearance in "Around the World in Eighty Days", let alone 2500 million US dollars, he would just add 500 million US dollars and spend 3000 million US dollars. Dragon is willing.

Pay 3000 million US dollars to hire a person to guest star in an eight-hour movie.

Zhou Xingxing thought about his film "Kung Fu". The total investment was only 2000 million US dollars, which was only two-thirds of Zhang Nan's guest appearance salary.

"confirmed?"

Looking at Zhou Xingxing's expression, Zhang Nan knew the result.

Zhou Xingxing nodded a little dizzy, "Chenglong asked me to tell you that he is willing to spend 3000 million US dollars to invite you to guest star for one day."

Zhang Nan waved his hand and said: "No need, I really don't have free time. If it weren't for the Chinese people who made me angry this time and wanted to use your movie to snipe them, and Director Zhou, your attitude towards movies It’s indeed possible, and I won’t make a guest appearance this time.”

Zhou Xingxing nodded in agreement and continued: "But Director Zhang, the total investment in [Kung Fu] is just that, I really can't break up the money."

The investment in the previous movie [Shaolin Football] was made by Zhang Nan.

Then the profits from [Shaolin Football] made Zhou Xingxing greedy.

Therefore, in this movie "Kung Fu", although Zhou Xingxing did not leave Zhang Nan's Longbow Film and Television to go it alone, he did not give up all the investment shares.

He took part of the investment himself, and also found Colombia to arrange some investment, allowing [Kung Fu] to form a three-legged investment situation.

Zhang Nan can understand Zhou Xingxing's approach. After all, he did the same thing when filming the second part of the [Martial Arts] series.

We attracted two investors, Disney and [-]th Century Fox, for [Magic City Martial Arts School].

"If you are close to asking Columbia Pictures, just use the name of me as a guest star. Columbia will have no objection."

(End of this chapter)