How China Entertainment was developed

Chapter 327 James Cameron and [Avatar]

a few days later.

A piece of vague news suddenly spread in Hollywood.

Zhang Nan and Universal Pictures have reached a new cooperation in the Jurassic Park series, which has basically stopped development.

And Universal Pictures offered Zhang Nan a very high price.

[Jurassic Park], Zhang Nan, the asking price is very high.

Any one of these three elements can cause quite a stir in Hollywood.

Now that they are all gathered together, the effect is naturally even more extraordinary.

Then someone began to discuss the key element of money involved in this piece of gossip—a high price?
How tall is it?
You must know that Zhang Nan's fixed salary alone in "Pirates of the Caribbean" has reached 1.2 million US dollars, not counting other things.

Later, in "The Lord of the Rings - The Legend of Sauron", New Line Cinema offered Zhang Nan a fixed salary of US$2 million on that basis.

Now Universal Pictures has spread such high-price news again, which has attracted considerable attention from many people.

Under such circumstances, very professional paparazzi, disguised as reporters, quickly went to Universal Pictures for verification.

Universal Pictures has long known that the cooperation signed with Zhang Nan a few days ago cannot be hidden for long.

But I didn't expect that the news would be leaked within a week.

This is so...

Fortunately, Universal Pictures is used to this kind of thing, or in other words, all Hollywood giants are used to it.

So when faced with the paparazzi's questioning, Universal Pictures did not hide it, and held a press conference openly and even more elaborately, telling some specific details that had not been disclosed.

"Yes, we at Universal Pictures have reached relevant cooperation with Zhang Nan on the restart development of the [Jurassic Park] series IP."

"The rebooted [Jurassic Park] series will be renamed [Jurassic World]."

"This series will star Zhang Nan and be directed by Spielberg. The total investment in the project will be US$4.2 million."

When the reporters who were invited to the Universal Pictures press conference heard this answer, they all hummed in shock.

I thought that in the news this time, there were only three points: Universal Pictures, Zhang Nan and [Jurassic Park].

Unexpectedly, the great director Spielberg was also involved.

The reporters became even more excited, and some of their faces turned red with excitement. Apparently their brains were already running red-hot and they began to think about how to write reports.

However, some paparazzi did not forget their original intention and continued to ask how high Zhang Nan's high salary was.

The spokesperson for Universal Pictures did not hesitate and gave the answer directly.

"A fixed remuneration of US$2.2 million, and we have also signed a supplementary clause with Mr. Zhang Nan. If the global box office of [Jurassic World] exceeds one billion US dollars, then for every US$1000 million exceeded, Zhang Nan will be paid another Sir, I will receive an additional salary of US$[-] million."

As soon as the spokesperson of Universal Pictures finished speaking, the reporters below were stunned for a moment, and then exploded.

I was stunned at first because the fixed salary of 2.2 million US dollars offered by Universal Pictures to Zhang Nan was an increase compared to the 2 million US dollars fixed salary offered by New Line Cinema for "The Lord of the Rings - The Legend of Sauron". The magnitude is not huge.

But what happened later was that the paparazzi reacted.

Compared with US$2.2 million, the range is indeed small.

But this is because the bases of the two are too large.

If you really think about it carefully, this is totally an extra film contract for a superstar in Hollywood's 2000 million salary club.

You must know that today's Hollywood's momentum in conquering cities and territories in the global movie market has slowed down a bit.

Therefore, no new stars have joined Hollywood's 2000 million salary club for several years, and even many old superstars have begun to fail to keep up with the times and cannot reach the threshold of the 2000 million salary club.

Under such circumstances, Zhang Nan is rising against the trend, and as soon as the salary increases, it will reach the threshold of the 2000 million salary club.Of course, the most important thing is the supplementary terms signed by Universal Pictures and Zhang Nan.

The global box office exceeds 1000 billion US dollars, and every time it exceeds [-] million US dollars, the salary will increase by [-] million US dollars.

What does this mean?
This means that Zhang Nan is very confident in this [Jurassic World] project!

Otherwise, who would have no problem coming up with such a supplementary clause?

……

After Universal's press conference, the explosive content revealed made many Hollywood giants who have not yet reached a super blockbuster cooperation with Zhang Nan restless, especially [-]th Century Fox Pictures.

Because there is a way that can be one or two, but not three.

Disney Pictures spent a fixed salary of 1.2 million US dollars to hire Zhang Nan to create a "Pirates of the Caribbean" series, and it was a huge success at the box office.

They can say that Disney Studios is stupid, rich and lucky.

New Line Cinema spent a fixed salary of 2 million US dollars to hire Zhang Nan to work on "Lord of the Rings - The Legend of Sauron". They can say that New Line Cinema is watching the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy coming to an end and is in a panic. Those who seek medical treatment make random moves.

But now Universal Pictures has also reached a cooperation with Zhang Nan on "Jurassic World". If you think like this again, you are a bit deceiving yourself.

There are now only six Hollywood giants left, and one-third of them have such in-depth cooperation with Zhang Nan.

As for the remaining two-thirds, Warner Pictures and Zhang Nan have always had a vague relationship in the [Harry Potter] series.

Paramount also reached a certain cooperative relationship with Zhang Nan through the low-priced release of "Rebirth 2".

Columbia Pictures' "Spider-Man" series even spent a lot of money from the beginning to invite Zhang Nan to guest star.

Twentieth Century Fox carefully looked around its surroundings and found that it was the one with the least involvement with Zhang Nan among the six giants in Hollywood.

How does this work?
But [-]th Century Fox really can't think of any projects to cooperate with Zhang Nan for a while.

then--

Twentieth Century Fox found James Cameron.

……

James Cameron was confused when he was called to Twentieth Century Fox Pictures.

Because after filming "Titanic", he took a break and focused his main energy on the preparation of his new work "Avatar".

But when he sent the plan for Avatar, which didn't have any superstars and had a production fee of 2.8 million, to [-]th Century Fox for review, the whole project got stuck there.

James Cameron also understood why the project was stuck by [-]th Century Fox.

Mainly because when he was filming "Titanic", he caused too much damage to [-]th Century Fox in terms of investment overruns and filming delays.

The production fee of 7500 million US dollars was dragged down by him into 2 million US dollars.

The shooting cycle, which was less than a year, was delayed by him to two years.

So much so that [-]th Century Fox couldn't bear it and attracted investment from Paramount halfway through.

Now he started with a production fee of 2.8 million U.S. dollars. It is estimated that in the eyes of 5th Century Fox, the total investment will be [-] million U.S. dollars.

But for God's sake, he really didn't falsely report his investment this time.

But his past criminal record makes it difficult for [-]th Century Fox to listen to James Cameron's explanation.

When I have been struggling until now, I have no clue about the establishment of the entire project. James Cameron almost wants to give up the investment of [-]th Century Fox and turn to Disney to ask for production fees.

As a result, at this juncture, [-]th Century Fox actually changed its mind.

(End of this chapter)