How China Entertainment was developed

Chapter 378 The long-coveted [Heart-Changing King Kong]

Nowadays, as the Internet becomes more and more prosperous, we don’t even wait for the Oscar Awards ceremony to end.

The news about Li An winning the first Oscar for Best Director for a Chinese-speaking filmmaker with "Brokeback Mountain" was published in the news sections of Houlang, Penguin, Somao... and other online portals.

However, due to the sensitivity of the subject matter of "Brokeback Mountain", most media in the mainland adopted the Spring and Autumn style of writing, focusing on Li An and ignoring the film itself.

For a time, Li An's reputation in the mainland soared rapidly.

Of course.

Compared to the situation in the original time and space, it is still a lot worse.

In the original time and space, Li An directly became the number one director in the mainland with the Oscar for Best Director brought by "Brokeback Mountain", and also made his own film in North America discontinued due to the failure of "The Incredible Hulk". The road that had fallen off was once again patched up.

But now~
Mainland audiences have been swept away by Zhang Nan in Hollywood, which has greatly raised their psychological threshold, and they are quite immune to Li An's wave of awards.

In addition, the theme of the movie "Brokeback Mountain" is very different from the mainland's aesthetics.

So Li An is now sitting in the mainland coffee scene, that is, just looking at Zhang Yimou who just turned over and Chen Wuji who just had his hips stretched out.

In North America, the major film and television companies have been overwhelmed by Zhang Nan's box office revenue of hundreds of millions and over one billion US dollars in recent years, and their interest in art films has been greatly reduced.

In the original time and space, Li An relied on [Brokeback Mountain], which can be said to have re-opened his path in Hollywood on a trail. Now, the effect is like a single-plank bridge.

Of course, compared to Gong Li and Zhang Ziyi's "Memoirs of a Geisha", Li An's benefits from "Brokeback Mountain" are already very good.

Because the entire "Memoirs of a Geisha" news was directly blocked in the mainland.

Without it.

The three views of this movie's title are a bit too mundane.

Selling yourself and publishing a memoir?
Simply.

Don't talk nonsense. Geishas are neon performing artists who only sell their skills but not their bodies.

How many neon performance artists have finally reached the point of no return?

Too much.

And if you really don’t have any dirty intentions, wouldn’t it be better to just name it Memoirs of an Artist?

Of course, the most important point is that "Memoirs of a Geisha" made too little profit at the Oscars.

Best Cinematography, Best Art Direction, Best Costume Design.

These are all scraps of scraps awards.

However, these news have not yet reached the point of reaching Zhang Nan's eyes. Zhang Nan is currently in talks with Paramount.

Yes.

After Warner was leaked by professional paparazzi about its plans for a [Harry Potter-Voldemort] spin-off.

After such a long delay, Paramount finally discussed and unified their ideas internally, and then sent an invitation to Zhang Nan.

……

Paramount headquarters.

conference room.

Zhang Nan was looking through the contract for [Transformers 1] that Paramount had prepared in advance.

Zhang Nan looked very slowly.

Because he has been coveting the [Transformers] project for a long time.

Others don't know the value of [Transformers], but he knows the value of [Transformers] too well.

If we really talk about it, the peripherals of the [Star Wars] series may not be able to sell the [Transformers] in terms of total revenue.Without it.

The peripherals of the entire [Transformers] series are really highly developable.

For example, [Star Wars] can only use two long light tubes at most, [Harry Potter] can use carts and wooden sticks, [Jurassic] can make small dinosaur models...etc., the playability is there, but that's all. That's it.

But [Transformers] is different. What child can’t love a toy that can transform?

And other movie peripherals can only sell toys.

[Transformers] can be different.

The robots in the movie can all turn into cars.

In other words, [Transformers] movie peripherals can cooperate with the automobile industry, and a highly compatible joint model can be produced.

How much benefit is there?
You must know that Europe and the United States are deeply influenced by car culture, and cars are not cheap.

Even if it is Wuling Hongguang with [-] hands, it will take Xiaoqian RMB to win it.

With all these things, Zhang Nan couldn't help but be cautious and serious.

Turn over the pages.

Since this contract is only a preliminary intention, it does not contain much content.

Moreover, Paramount did not introduce much about the main body of the [Transformers] project. It focused its main energy on the price offered to Zhang Nan, so Zhang Nan finished reading it quickly.

It has to be said that Paramount's sincerity is still very good. According to Zhang Nan's previous habit, two ways of cooperation were directly provided.

The first is a fully fixed-remuneration model of US$7 million, which is a direct increase of US$6000 million from Warner's asking price for [Harry Potter-Voldemort].

The second is a fixed salary of US$2.5 million, plus 60.00% of the total box office and 30.00% of peripheral income.

From the second cooperation method, the 30.00% peripheral income conditions can be seen.

There are smart people here at Paramount.

Knowing that once [Transformers] is successful, the peripheral income will be extremely generous, so the proportion of box office sharing is deliberately adjusted to reduce the proportion of peripheral income.

All the executives at Paramount in the conference room were focused on Zhang Nan, so after Zhang Nan read through the contract, the executives at Paramount were waiting for Zhang Nan's reply.

After waiting for Zhang Nan to speak for a while, Paramount President Dick Frank said with some hesitation: "Zhang, what do you think of this contract?"

"It's generally pretty good, but there are a few small things that I'm not satisfied with." Zhang Nan couldn't hit the smiling person with such a good attitude, so he said vaguely and tactfully.

After hearing this, Dick Frank immediately answered: "You can tell us what you are not satisfied with. This is just a contract of intention for preliminary cooperation. We can modify many places."

"In that case, I'll just say it. My words may be a bit unpleasant, so please bear with me." Zhang Nan said politely.

Dick Frank nodded quickly to show he didn't care.

So Zhang Nan spoke directly: "First of all, is Paramount's vision a bit too narrow? Why is there only three films planned for this series? What will happen after the three films are finished? You want to imitate New Line Cinema's [ Lord of the Rings, will you continue to make spin-offs?"

You can say that the first three "Transformers" movies of the original time and space have no content, ridiculous plots, and are full of loopholes, but you can never say that "Transformers 1.2.3" is an unqualified commercial film.

But [Transformers 4.5], you can criticize it as you like.

The main reason for this is of course that the script is a piece of shit, but the more important reason is that Paramount's plan for "Transformers" is to only have a trilogy.

No, it is very likely that Paramount is preparing only one Transformers movie.

It's just that the film industry in Hollywood has already matured its methods to expand sequels to popular movies, so it can only follow up with [Transformers 2.3].

However, due to the inherent lack of preparation, [Transformers 4.5] was unable to tell a story that connected the past and the next, which also made the subsequent [Transformers] series a mess.

This can be seen from the follow-up [Transformers], where even the protagonist was changed, and the story and setting were even more chaotic.

(End of this chapter)