How China Entertainment was developed

Chapter 370 David Morris: I would rather give it to Zhang Nan than the three little ones
"That's not it."

When Old Luke heard this, he quickly waved his hands and said: "New Line Cinema doesn't dare to make it difficult for us. After all, we don't make [The Lord of the Rings - The Legend of Sauron], and we can make other things, but if New Line Cinema doesn't [ The Lord of the Rings - The Legend of Sauron] is here to take over the main trilogy of [The Lord of the Rings]. It is estimated that the company's stock price will plummet if there is any slight disturbance."

"So is there any difference between Warner Pictures and New Line Cinema now?" Zhang Nan continued to ask.

Old Luke fell silent upon hearing this.

Because if you think about it carefully, it seems that the difference is really not big. At most, compared to New Line Cinema, Warner Pictures, as a Hollywood giant, has a deeper foundation and thicker capital.

But that's it.

After all, MGM's heritage and capital were not intimidating, and it ended up going bankrupt.

……

After the routine process was completed, the screening room became quiet.

The content of [Harry Potter 4] lit up on the big screen.

Just from the first few scenes, you can tell that the style of the movie has changed after changing the director.

But fortunately, [Harry Potter 4] as a whole still maintains the British style.

Moreover, the growth of the three little ones has also undergone tremendous changes compared to 2000, which has played a certain role in covering the changes in the film style.

But generally speaking, the quality of the script of [Harry Potter 4], which is adapted from a well-known best-selling novel and has not been altered in any way, is still passable.

157 minutes, more than two hours of viewing time, did not make the audience feel too bored.

This is already qualified for a well-known series.

Of course, this [Harry Potter 4] is not without its eye-catching plot.

For example, towards the end of the film, the scene where Voldemort, played by Zhang Nan, was successfully reborn was portrayed quite successfully, causing a commotion among the guests in the screening hall.

In fact, the guests present were the reason for the commotion.

On the one hand, it was because Zhang Nan himself was sitting in the screening room, and because Zhang Nan was currently so prominent, everyone gave Zhang Nan some face.

On the other hand, everyone knows that Zhang Nan's guest appearance salary in "Harry Potter 4" directly reached the level of 5000 million US dollars.

I originally thought that Zhang Nan would have a lot of scenes in "Harry Potter 4", but now I see that is not the case at all. There are only a few minutes of scenes in total.

In a few minutes, he earned a salary of US$5000 million.

Most of the guests present were from the entertainment industry, and all of them were envious and jealous, even if they didn't want to make a fuss.

Zhang Nan just smiled to save face and said nothing in response to this commotion.

But David Morris, the president of Warner Pictures, who deliberately sat in the back row, was disturbed by the commotion, and his emotions became more complicated.

Because [Harry Potter 4] has been released, and the [Harry Potter] novel has reached the seventh volume in total, this is something JK Rowling has made clear.

In other words.

The filming of the entire [Harry Potter] series is, as expected, already halfway through.

Warner Pictures has indeed arrived, and it has to consider what projects to use to take over the [Harry Potter] series.

And even if only half of the [Harry Potter] series is filmed, Warner Pictures will have to consider what measures can be taken to check and balance the [Harry Potter] series.

Because as time goes by, the three little ones have grown up, and the amounts of fixed remuneration and sharing contracts have also grown wildly.

For example, in this movie "Harry Potter 4", the fixed salary of the three actors together exceeds 4000 million US dollars. If you include the small box office dividends of the three people, it is not too far away from Zhang Nan's fixed salary of 5000 million US dollars. .

If we continue to let it go, the final result will definitely not be pretty.

And give Zhang Nan a high price to start the operation of the [Harry Potter-Voldemort] spin-off film.This can reduce Warner Pictures’ dependence on the [Harry Potter] series to a large extent.

It will also allow Warner Pictures to take more initiative when negotiating terms with the creative team of the Harry Potter series.

only……

In the foreseeable future, the Three Little Boys will demand high remuneration because of their irreplaceable importance in the Harry Potter series.

But that's the foreseeable future, not now.

And if we talk to Zhang Nan about the cooperation of "Harry Potter-Voldemort" now, Warner Pictures will immediately be bitten by Zhang Nan's lion.

And to be honest, David Morris was a little unsure of how big Zhang Nan's appetite and teeth were.

Maybe in the foreseeable future, the high-priced film remuneration that San Xiao wants will not be as much as Zhang Nan wants.

In such silence, David Morris watched the entire "Harry Potter 4" without saying a word. After more than two hours of hesitation, he finally made a decision in his heart.

After the box office results of [Harry Potter 4] are confirmed, we will officially discuss cooperation with Zhang Nan on the [Harry Potter-Voldemort] spin-off project.

The reason for this decision is that David Morris has already figured it out.

[Harry Potter] This is the fourth part, and it is about to end. Warner Pictures is in urgent need of a successor to the series, and looking at Hollywood, only Zhang Nan has this ability, so [Harry Potter] Special-Voldemort] is bound to do it.

So long-term pain is not as good as short-term pain.

Moreover, after producing [Harry Potter-Voldemort], it will also allow Warner Pictures to negotiate better with the three creative teams of the [Harry Potter] series.

Most importantly.

David Morris would feel bad for giving Zhang Nan a fixed salary of 5000 million US dollars, but only because Zhang Nan earned so much based on his own strength.

Can you give three little ones...waiting for the [Harry Potter] series creative team's high-priced remuneration...?
David Morris feels that Warner Bros. Pictures is not able to afford it, but that it is not worth it.

After all, these creators all relied on the [Harry Potter] series to get started. It cannot be said that they have no strength, but they can only be said to have more luck.
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[Harry Potter 4] carries the foundation accumulated from the first three parts.

On its first day of release in North America, it grossed US$4011.8 million.

The North American box office in its first week reached US$1.21 million.

To be honest, compared with other movies, this score is already very good, but compared with movies of the same level, it is almost unsatisfactory.

For example, compared with "Lord of the Rings 3", "Lord of the Rings 1.2", which only has the background of "Lord of the Rings 3", grossed US$1.24 million in its first week.

Although it is only 4 million US dollars more than [Harry Potter 300] in its first week of North American box office.

But one of them is the third part and the other is the fourth part, which means the accumulation of a whole movie is missing.

In the end, this happened.

Many people have already seen that it is probably a bit difficult for [Harry Potter 4] to hit the global box office of one billion US dollars.

And it is.

When November ended and time came to December, the single-day box office of "Harry Potter 4", which had only been released for ten days, had dropped from nearly 200 million U.S. dollars to [-] to [-] million U.S. dollars.

And even if it is a three-day weekend, the single-day box office has not returned to the level of tens of millions of US dollars per day, but has hovered around the single-day box office of around 500 million US dollars.

And on December 12th, the "Chronicles of Narnia" filmed by Disney and 9th Century Fox, imitating the "Harry Potter" and "Lord of the Rings" series, was released.

The single-day box office of the imitated "Harry Potter 4" suffered a serious blow.

The next week's box office dropped to less than one million US dollars. It would be an exaggeration to say that it was barely surviving.

(End of this chapter)