How China Entertainment was developed

Chapter 351 Total Annual Remuneration—One Billion Dollars

"What does Disney Pictures think of [Pirates of the Caribbean 2]? Is it still an advertising film?"

Regarding Old Luke's question to change the subject, Zhang Nan asked after thinking for a while.

"Of course not. [Pirates of the Caribbean 1] has been so successful at the box office. Disneyland has decided to build another Pirates of the Caribbean park based on the original new project Pirates of the Caribbean. So Disney Pictures has [Pirates of the Caribbean 2] takes it very seriously." Old Luke described the situation.

"For this project [Pirates of the Caribbean], you try your best to negotiate a full fixed salary for me, and don't ask for any other dividends or shares."

Old Luke was shocked when he heard this, "If you don't like [Pirates of the Caribbean 2], the movie hasn't started filming yet!"

Zhang Nan shook his head upon hearing this.

Among the five films of "Pirates of the Caribbean", "Pirates of the Caribbean 2" has the highest box office - US$10.66 billion.

"It's not that you're not optimistic, but don't you think my current salary model is a bit too fixed?"

Zhang Nan continued to explain: "Besides, I am being watched by so many people. When negotiating with Hollywood giants on film remuneration, it is very difficult to negotiate, so I want to make a change."

Fixed pattern?

Not good at bargaining?

When you say this, why don't you consider your actual salary which is quite outrageous!

"Zhang, I am your agent. If you are really not optimistic about [Pirates of the Caribbean 2], it has nothing to do with telling me the truth. We are on the same boat, and I will help you fight for your best interests." Old Luke still felt a little bit Doubtful.

Zhang Nan said speechlessly, "What I said is really my actual thought."

"But to outsiders, your actual idea seems a bit..." Old Luke said reluctantly.

"If you don't believe it, I can sign a betting contract with New Line Cinema to make [Lord of the Rings - Legend of Sauron] a $[-] billion box office, and I'll pay you whatever the shortfall is."

Helpless, Zhang Nan gave me a plan in exchange for trust, but then said: "But if Disney wants to sign this gambling contract with me on [Pirates of the Caribbean 2], it will give me an additional $1000 million on the original basis. "

"Why? You have signed a gambling agreement with New Line Cinema for [Lord of the Rings - Legend of Sauron] and Universal Pictures for [Jurassic World], but there are no additional charges." Old Luke asked in confusion.

"The past was before, and the present is now. [Lord of the Rings - Legend of Sauron] has proven my global box office appeal, so the situation will naturally change." Zhang Nan explained.

Old Luke: "..."

After a moment of silence, Old Luke changed the subject again, "What do you mean by Universal Pictures' request for cooperation on [Jurassic World 2]?"

Hearing about the project [Jurassic World], Zhang Nan felt a little confused.

Because Zhang Nan is very optimistic about the [Jurassic World] project.

After all, there is this series in the original time and space, and the box office performance is quite good, he just got it out in advance.

Even Zhang Nan feels that it is very possible for this wave of "Jurassic World 3" with 1D blessings to have a final box office of over [-] billion without using even a little bit of the box office appeal of Goldfinger.

"I am very optimistic about the box office performance of [Jurassic World 1], so regarding [Jurassic World 2], I want to wait until the results of [Jurassic World 1] come out before considering it," Zhang Nan said. .

Old Luke was speechless when he heard this: "But Universal Pictures did this because they wanted to sign a contract with you in advance to prevent you from raising the price crazily because of the good performance of [Jurassic World 1]!"

"Universal Pictures has arranged this show, so I have to cooperate with the performance? There is no such thing as that!"

Zhang Nan waved his hand and took the initiative to change the subject: "Let's talk about the starring film appointment here first. You can arrange the release time of the two [Martial Arts] series spin-offs. Now, the [Lord of the Rings-The Legend of Sauron] spin-off The movie is so popular, it's a good time to follow suit and release one." Old Luke nodded, then put away the contract for Zhang Nan to star, and took out the contract for Zhang Nan to guest star.

However, this stack of contracts is much thinner than the previous starring contracts for stars.

Because Zhang Nan's current guest appearance salary has soared to 3000 million US dollars for eight hours, there are really not many crews who can afford Zhang Nan to guest star.

"George Lucas wants you to make a cameo on the set of [Star Wars: Episode III], and offers him $3 million.

The crew of Universal Pictures' "Fast and Furious 3" has decided to direct our company's newly signed director Lin Yishan, and they also want you to make a guest appearance, with an offer of US$2800 million. "

After Old Luke said these two words, he stopped talking.

"I'll go to George Lucas's place, and then [Fast and Furious 3] will be promoted. The price is a bit low. I want to maintain my worth."

Zhang Nan found an excuse and turned down the crew of "Fast and Furious 3" which was going to be a big failure at the box office.

Old Luke didn't have any objections when he saw this. His attention was now focused on those large projects that started at hundreds of millions, and might be five to six billion, or seven or eight billion US dollars in revenue.

……

December 2004 passed quickly.

When the time came to January 2005, "The Lord of the Rings - The Legend of Sauron" didn't have any problems. It steadily accumulated box office according to the trend predicted by all parties, and was finally released steadily.

Then Zhang Nan's popularity exploded again.

At first, it was just the Hollywood media, following the tradition of the past years, they started to count the top ten movies in the global annual box office list, and by the way, they also calculated the salaries of the actors who starred in the top ten box office movies in the year.

But after counting for a while, someone discovered some inconsistencies in the data.

Its main discordant data are concentrated on Zhang Nan.

The specific performance is as follows:

主演收入方面，张南一部【指环王-索伦传】整了7亿多美金；客串收入方面。【我，机器人】2000多万美金，【国家宝藏】2000多万美金、【后天】2000多万美金、【哈利波特3】2000多万美金、【蜘蛛侠2】2000多万美金、【谍影重重2】2000多万美金、【功夫】一千500万美金。

Adding all these bits and pieces together, Zhang Nan's annual salary income in 2004 was close to one billion US dollars.

This is a statistic that Zhang Nan alone can beat everyone behind the list.

If only this is the case.

After all, people in Hollywood are basically used to Zhang Nan's incredible performance over the years.

But during the time period when the list was announced, several pieces of news spread.

2.4th Century Fox has reached a cooperation with Zhang Nan, which is directed by top Hollywood director James Cameron. Zhang Nan's fixed salary is 40.00 million U.S. dollars, which is not a big increase compared to the previous one, but at the box office In terms of dividends, it reached [-]%.

Some experts pointed out that if the total box office of Zhang Nan's movie with 6.6th Century Fox and James Cameron reaches one billion U.S. dollars, then Zhang Nan's single-film revenue will be as high as [-] million U.S. dollars just by relying on fixed salary and box office dividends. If peripheral income is included, it will break its previous income record in "The Lord of the Rings - The Legend of Sauron".

This news is good, but another news coming from Disney Pictures is shocking.

(End of this chapter)