How China Entertainment was developed

Chapter 350: All of Hollywood is paying attention to your salary

However, although the timing was good, Zhang Nan did not have time to deal with Warner Pictures.

Because as soon as he returned to Hollywood, his hands were filled with film appointments.

While each project is not a small one, the producers’ bids are also particularly generous.

For example, [-]th Century Fox did not approach Zhang Nan through James Cameron this time, but directly gave Zhang Nan a film contract for "Avatar".

The conditions are quite good.

The fixed salary is 2.5 million US dollars, plus 30.00% of the total box office and 40.00% of the peripheral income.

The conditions are similar to those of Zhang Nan in "Jurassic World", with a fixed salary of US$3000 million more.

And then there's Disney Studios.

The entire [Pirates of the Caribbean 1] staff has been negotiated, and we are just waiting for him.

The conditions were similar to those offered by 2.4th Century Fox, with a fixed salary of US$40.00 million, plus a 40.00% dividend from the total box office, and a [-]% peripheral income.

Even Lianlianqiu Pictures came to join in the fun and wanted to sign a contract with Zhang Nan for "Jurassic World 2" before "Jurassic World" was released.

The conditions are basically the same as those of [-]th Century Fox and Disney.

"Are these Hollywood giants angry at my salary? Why are they all offering similar prices?"

Zhang Nan flipped through the stack of film contracts handed to him by Old Luke after returning to Hollywood. He looked at the conditions that were almost the same and sighed with emotion.

Hearing this, Old Luke glanced at Zhang Nan angrily and said, "You still need to pay for your film? Let the whole Hollywood know about it, okay?"

Zhang Nan was stunned when he heard this, and then he reacted.

It was he who was stupid.

Now that his salary is so high, not to mention a Hollywood giant, even one person selected from the many employees in Hollywood can probably recite his salary by heart.

Let's put it this way, some Hollywood media have already opened a special column for him to track the changes in his salary.

The effect was quite good, attracting a lot of attention and supporting many media people.

"But why is there no film contract from New Line Cinema here? It stands to reason that [The Lord of the Rings - The Legend of Sauron] has done so well at the box office. They should be the ones who want to strike while the iron is hot?" Zhang Nan quickly read through it from cover to cover. He asked with some doubts, holding the film contract in his hand.

Old Luke looked a little strange when he heard this. He did not answer Zhang Nan's question directly, but settled a score for Zhang Nan.

"Look, if nothing else happens, the global box office of [Lord of the Rings - Legend of Sauron] will be almost 12 billion US dollars." Old Luke asked Zhang Nan.

Zhang Nan nodded after listening and quite agreed with this box office prediction.

Old Luke continued to calculate: "So based on the 30.00% dividend of the total box office, we can get 3.6 million U.S. dollars, plus the 2 million U.S. dollars fixed salary previously given by New Line Cinema. The current film "The Ring" [The Legend of King Sauron], we can confirm that the income is as high as 5.6 million U.S. dollars. If peripheral income is included, this number will exceed 7 million U.S. dollars, which should be no problem."

Zhang Nan continued to nod, there was nothing wrong with this algorithm.

"Then the question is, the production cost of [Lord of the Rings - Legend of Sauron] is 4 million U.S. dollars. Of the 12 billion U.S. dollars in box office, 3.6 million is from the theaters and 3.6 million is yours. New Line Cinema can only take to $4.8 million."

"Excluding the production fee of 4 million US dollars, New Line Cinema's box office income is only 8000 million US dollars. Counting the 60.00%, it is almost 3 million US dollars in peripheral income. New Line Cinema's current wave of [ "The Lord of the Rings: The Legend of Sauron", the total revenue is about 7 million US dollars." "After working for a long time, you, the leading actor, earned the most, with an income of about 3.6 million US dollars, and the theaters earned the second place with [-] million US dollars. In terms of revenue, New Line Cinema ranked last as a producer.”

"Tell me, is New Line Cinema still enthusiastic about striking [The Lord of the Rings - The Legend of Sauron] while the iron is hot? Others have taken away the iron they struck while it's hot, how can they still be so enthusiastic!"

Old Luke answered Zhang Nan's initial question in a self-questioning and answering manner.

But Zhang Nan was very dissatisfied with this answer and retorted: "Luke, you can't calculate the accounts like this. An investment of 4 million U.S. dollars, after deducting the cost, returned a profit of 3 million U.S. dollars in one year. This It’s almost a [-]% return rate, and it can’t be considered a low-yield project anywhere.”

"And you only counted the movie box office and peripheral income, but you didn't mention the income from [Lord of the Rings - Legend of Sauron] on New Line Cinema's stock price at all!"

Regarding Zhang Nan's rebuttal, Old Luke was about to roll his eyes.

Why are you making a spin-off of someone else's well-known movie series, and you're also eyeing the earnings on someone else's company's stock price.

No capitalist can settle accounts like you!
"If there is really no profit from the company's stock price, then do you think New Line Cinema still needs to complete the [Lord of the Rings-The Legend of Sauron] project?" Old Luke said speechlessly.

Zhang Nan also felt that he was a little too greedy in settling the accounts, eating out of the pot and staring at other people's bowls.

"So... New Line Cinema felt a little bit pained for a while and wanted to take it easy."

Old Luke nodded and said, "This is probably the case."

Zhang Nan was a little speechless when he heard this, and then turned his attention to the pile of film appointments sent by [-]th Century Fox, Disney and Universal Pictures.

After thinking for a while, Zhang Nan began to give instructions: "I promised James Cameron this [Avatar] project, so I can't turn it down, I can only agree.

But this condition was met..., other conditions were good, but the fixed salary was a bit low.

James Cameron gave me some encouragement and said that 5th Century Fox gave him a production fee of 2.2 million US dollars. After including all costs, he could finish the film for about [-] million US dollars.

No, after practicing on [Jurassic World], the cost is expected to be reduced further, so... when you go to negotiate with 3th Century Fox, you can offer me a fixed salary of [-] million US dollars. "

3 billion dollars?
How dare you really open your teeth!

Rao is Zhang Nan's manager and is a purebred of the North American Stars and Stripes. Even Old Luke thinks this number is a bit outrageous.

"Isn't it a bit too... outrageous?" Old Luke stuttered a bit.

Zhang Nan waved his hand and said: "Let's talk about the price. Of course, you have to open your mouth at the beginning so that you can retreat later. For the [Avatar] project, I will give you a course of action. The fixed remuneration can be lower, not less than 2 million." That’s fine, but the proportion of box office dividends should be negotiated as high as possible, and I have to fight for even one percent.”

The idea is correct. Asking a higher price at the beginning will indeed make it easier to retreat later.

But your fucking lion mouth is so loud that it almost drives people to the edge of the cliff. Isn’t it a bit outrageous?
This was Old Luke's first reaction. Then Old Luke heard Zhang Nan's optimism about the box office of [Avatar] from Zhang Nan's subsequent remarks, and asked: "Are you so optimistic about the box office of [Avatar]? From 3 From a fixed salary of US$2 million to a fixed salary of US$30.00 million, this is a gap of US$[-] million, but at most you can get a few points of box office dividends, because your current box office dividends are already as high as [-]%, which is worth it ?"

Is it worth it?
[Avatar] has a global box office of 27 billion U.S. dollars. One percentage point is 2700 million U.S. dollars, which is 2000 million U.S. dollars higher than the threshold of Hollywood's 700 million salary club.

That is a box office share of 3.7 percentage points, which is [-] million US dollars.

"James Cameron has made [Titanic] with a box office of 18 billion US dollars. You have also seen my performance over the years. This [Avatar] can be said to be my first in-depth cooperation with him. You said I have No confidence?" Zhang Nan asked.

Old Luke was silent for a while after hearing this, then changed the subject and said, "What about Disney's [Pirates of the Caribbean 2]?"

(End of this chapter)