How China Entertainment was developed

Chapter 349: MGM and Warner Pictures Affected
end of December.

The North American box office of "Lord of the Rings - Legend of Sauron" has accumulated to 4.03 million U.S. dollars, and the global box office has exceeded the 10 billion U.S. dollar mark, and reached the position of 11.36 billion U.S. dollars.

However, such box office results have basically squeezed out the potential of "The Lord of the Rings: The Legend of Sauron". In the end, the total box office of "The Lord of the Rings: The Legend of Sauron" is estimated to barely reach 12 billion US dollars.

Zhang Nan was a little dissatisfied with this result.

Because others don't know it, Zhang Nan knows it all too well. He used his golden finger to invest [-] million US dollars in box office appeal in this "Lord of the Rings - The Legend of Sauron".

That is to say, among the 12 billion U.S. dollars in box office, excluding the 7 million U.S. dollars he cheated, the actual box office of "The Lord of the Rings - The Legend of Sauron" is only [-] million U.S. dollars.

Compared with the 8.98 million, 9.47 million, and 11.47 billion box office of the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy, the gap is a bit too huge.

But this disparity is only in the eyes of Zhang Nan. In the eyes of others besides Zhang Nan, this spin-off film of the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy - "The Lord of the Rings - The Legend of Sauron", is superior to the main story. The pressure of ending the series, if nothing else goes wrong, will buck the trend and earn a higher box office than the original trilogy. It is a new glory, and it can be said that it is a success and cannot be more successful.

Therefore, during this period of time, although the major Hollywood giants have become less excited as time goes by, their inner restlessness is increasing day by day.

For example, MGM, which has experienced bankruptcy and has just completed its restructuring, has held high-level meetings before.

There is only one theme of the meeting - to discuss the candidates for the latest [007] series.

Yes, with the end of [2002: Die Another Day] in 007, Pierce Brosnan, who has played four [1995] series since 007, will also step down as the role actor of 007.

And [007] is a top priority for MGM, which has just gone through bankruptcy and reorganization. The confirmation of its actors is naturally very important to MGM.

The identity of the next 007 actor has actually been discussed, and it is Daniel Craig, an authentic British male actor.

But within this month, the spin-off film "The Lord of the Rings - The Legend of Sauron" starring Zhang Nan was so strong at the box office.

It made all the MGM executives excited to see it.

So while we were chatting, the topic deviated from discussing the choice of actor to play 007 to an idea that had been discussed within MGM before.

That is, should MGM follow the example of New Line Cinema and cooperate with Zhang Nan to make a spin-off of the [007] series? It will be a few zeros, Zhang Nan can choose the number, and the film will be paid by Zhang Nan, as long as the box office of the movie can exceed ten [-] million is enough. MGM is in need of a film that will make a name for the successful reorganization of the company.

Finally, the topic was ended with a question by a senior member of the participants.

The question is: "We don't seem to be able to afford Zhang Nan! Zhang Nan's previous fixed salary was 2.2 million U.S. dollars. After the success of "The Lord of the Rings-The Legend of Sauron", it's not even 3 million U.S. dollars. I'm afraid it won't be It will be less than 2.5 million U.S. dollars, so the entire film investment will not be less than 4 million U.S. dollars. We, MGM, have just reorganized..."

When other participants heard this question, they fell into silence, but their hearts were full of shame.

As a Hollywood giant, he can't even afford actors now, so he's really doing poorly.

The meeting at MGM ended with mixed emotions.

After the meeting ended, the content discussed in the meeting was processed by someone unknown and turned into MGM's intention to select Zhang Nan as the next generation 007 actor, and then it was passed on to the next 007 In the ears of the British actor who plays the actor, Daniel Craig's manager.

In fact, this kind of thing is normal. After all, what an agent values ​​is a well-informed person.

After receiving the news, Daniel Craig's manager immediately nervously communicated with his artist and recounted the news he had received.

When Daniel Craig heard his agent's account, his first reaction was that he didn't believe it at all. "How can he play 007 as an Asian? His skin color is wrong too!"

In response to Daniel Craig's rhetorical question, his agent only used one sentence to answer, that is: "But the [Lord of the Rings] spin-off he starred in has a global box office of over 007 billion! You should understand the nature of capital. , as long as it is profitable, let alone the yellow-skinned [-], a dark-skinned short-haired Superman or a dark-skinned curly-haired mermaid is not impossible."

Daniel Craig's breath suffocated when he heard this. He felt a little panicked and said, "No way!"

"Some time ago, I saw a script called [Superman Hancock] in the Script Association, and Will Smith's company paid attention to it." His agent gave Daniel Craig a very unpleasant answer.

Daniel Craig was completely panicked, "What do I do now?"

Daniel Craig is very aware that his weight is half a pound compared to Zhang Nan. To put it nicely, it is half a pound, but if you look closely, he is half a pound of scrap metal and Zhang Nan is eighty ounces of gold.

"Let's keep the salary low. Although our conditions are indeed not that good compared to Zhang Nan, Zhang Nan's price is indeed a bit ridiculously high. We try to finalize the contract first, anyway, as long as we star in a movie [ 007], and if the response is good, then MGM will not be able to replace people in the future, and we can slowly increase the salary at that time."

Regarding the suggestion given by his agent, Daniel Craig nodded and agreed.

Then the two of them immediately took action, leaving MGM confused: Why did such a good actor cut his own salary?

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As for MGM, it was because they were strapped for cash that they had no choice but to end the idea of ​​cooperating with Zhang Nan on a spin-off film.

So Warner Pictures is not shy about their money, but they feel regretful and entangled in their hearts.

My regret is that I didn’t sign a cooperation with Zhang Nan on the derivatives of the Harry Potter series when [The Lord of the Rings: The Legend of Sauron] was a hit at the box office. Now Zhang Nan’s salary has increased.

The reason for the struggle has not changed - Zhang Nan's salary is too expensive.

A fixed salary of more than 2 million US dollars, plus 30.00% of the movie box office dividend starting at 40.00, and peripheral income starting at [-]%, are completely unacceptable conditions for Warner Pictures.

But judging from the current situation, Warner Pictures can temporarily ignore Zhang Nan's conditions. After all, "Harry Potter" has only filmed the fourth part.

But as time goes by, after the [Harry Potter] series slowly comes to an end, it is absolutely impossible for Warner Pictures to let go of the [Harry Potter] series.

Because Warner Pictures currently only has one specialty series: the Harry Potter series.

And if you lose the housekeeping series, your stock price will definitely fluctuate violently.

Of course, with the continued success of Nolan’s [Batman] trilogy, [DC Super Heroes] and other projects, the influence of the [Harry Potter] series on Warner Pictures will also weaken.

But at this time, movies such as [DC Super Heroes] have not yet had any signs of development.

Nolan's [Batman] trilogy has just started filming the first part at this time, and he doesn't know if it will be successful.

It can be said that this time period is when Zhang Nan can best control Warner Pictures through the [Harry Potter] series.

(End of this chapter)