How China Entertainment was developed

Chapter 381: Purity at the premiere of [Mission: Impossible 3]
"Of course you, Paramount, are the producers."

Zhang Nan first used humorous remarks to calm down Dick Frank's excitement, and then continued: "But if you let me direct, I can guarantee that part of the film production fee will be recovered before the filming starts. Reduce the pressure on [Transformers] to repay capital and increase [Transformers]’s profitability.”

Regarding Zhang Nan's continued words, Dick Frank fell silent.

Because he heard from Zhang Nan's words about reducing the pressure to repay [Transformers]'s capital, he heard that Zhang Nan would most likely choose a share-sharing cooperation plan, which made his most hoped-for buyout cooperation plan come to nothing.

But Zhang Nan's words of increasing the profitability of [Transformers] made him unable to refuse Zhang Nan's proposal.

Because the rate of return of the [Transformers] project will greatly affect Paramount Pictures' stock price.

"Zhang, if it can only be achieved through pre-roll ads and advertising placement, then why would Paramount choose you, an expensive director?" Dick Frank asked after hesitating for a moment.

Mainland movies have begun to use bumper ads and ad placement techniques, and Hollywood is even worse. This is not a new thing.

As for "Transformers", a movie full of car content, there is no shortage of smart people in Hollywood. Even many people in the Paramount Pictures industry have set their sights on advertising in the world's top movies. On the automobile group.

Zhang Nan faced the question without any hesitation: "Because other directors dare not sign a betting agreement with advertising parties, but I dare and I can."

Dick Frank immediately fell silent upon hearing this, his face speechless.

What a unique trick, you can eat it all over the place!
Previously, you signed a gambling agreement with the producer to increase your salary.

Now you have to sign a gambling agreement with the advertiser to increase advertising investment.

"What... do you want to change the salary to?" Dick Frank compromised somewhat unbearably.

Upon seeing this, Zhang Nan picked up the pen and wrote down his own conditions in the blank space of the contract document:
The fixed salary of the starring and director is US$3 million, 30.00% of the total box office dividend and 70.00% of peripheral income.

Zhang Nan's conditions can be said to be a reduction in the proportion of dividends and peripheral income in the sharing terms previously provided by Paramount Pictures.

"That's absolutely impossible." Dick Frank jumped on the spot.

But this was within Zhang Nan's expectation, so Zhang Nan said with a smile: "This is just my preliminary intention. We can continue to talk."

After some wrangling, Zhang Nan and Paramount Pictures finally settled on the terms of cooperation for "Transformers": a fixed salary of US$3 million, plus 40.00% of the total box office dividend and 50.00% of peripheral income.

"Pleasant to work with."

After signing the contract, Zhang Nan extended his hand to Dick Frank.

Dick Frank shook hands with Zhang Nan hesitantly and numbly, but his heart was full of tangles.

You said this cooperation is not pleasant!
Judging from Zhang Nan's current emotional state, the film "Transformers" can at least bring hundreds of millions of profits to Paramount Pictures, and is expected to become Paramount Pictures' most successful film in these years.

But let’s just say it’s a pleasure to work together!

Dick Frank's heart ached when he looked at the large percentage in the contract.
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Although the cooperation on [Transformers 1] has been negotiated, due to Zhang Nan’s previous request, the entire [Transformers] series must be created according to the ten-part storyline, and paving the way for the subsequent rebirth stream must also be added. .

Therefore, the scripts of the entire [Transformers] series need to be overhauled.

Without a script, the early preparations would basically be impossible to start.Preparations for the [Harry Potter-Voldemort] series from Warner Pictures are also in progress, and Zhang Nan is temporarily unavailable for the starring role.

Therefore, although she has two top blockbuster film contracts in hand, Zhang Nan is actually free.

But Zhang Nan also knows that the current leisure is false.

Because [Pirates of the Caribbean 2] will be released during the summer vacation.

When the global box office of "Pirates of the Caribbean 2" reaches one billion US dollars, Disney Pictures will definitely talk to him about "Pirates of the Caribbean 3".

And in the second half of the year, Spielberg will basically be able to handle the sale of DreamWorks, and Universal Pictures will definitely take the opportunity to propose cooperation on "Jurassic World 2".

[Transformers], [Harry Potter-Voldemort], [Pirates of the Caribbean 3], and [Jurassic World 2].

These four major productions have been piled up until the second half of the year. In addition, he still has a bunch of guest film appointments to deal with. If he doesn't take advantage of this time to deal with some, then he will probably be extremely busy in the second half of the year.

So Zhang Nan started to get into the rhythm of constantly making guest appearances, and planned to get rid of some of the guest appearances on hand first.

But the idea is good, but the progress is bumpy.

In the end, Zhang Nan starred in "National Treasure 2" starring Nicolas Cage and "The Bourne Supremacy" starring Matt Damon.

Among them, the reason why [The Bourne Supremacy 3] could be dropped quickly was mainly because the crew of [The Bourne Supremacy 3] felt the threat of [Mission: Impossible 3], so they wanted to use Zhang Nan's name as early as possible. Impact away some of the momentum of [Mission: Impossible 3].

No matter what, time is slowly passing by, and another year of North American summer vacation is here.

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5 month 5 day.

[Mission: Impossible 3] took the lead in launching the 2006 North American summer vacation and held its premiere at the Chinese Grand Theater in Hollywood.

Although Zhang Nan did not star or guest star, she had no choice but to attend because she served as a bridge between Paramount and Tom Cruise and earned a lot of agency fees.

Fortunately, at this wave of [Mission: Impossible 3] premieres, no one came to 'harass' Zhang Nan with projects anymore.

While Zhang Nan breathed a sigh of relief, he also realized a hint of the cruelty of Hollywood.

The reason for this situation is that the current price is too expensive, and "Pirates of the Caribbean 2" will be released in the middle of the summer vacation in July.

A group of people from the film and television company probably planned to see the results of [Pirates of the Caribbean 2] first and then pester him based on the situation.

Otherwise, with his current status and popularity, there should be no shortage of people harassing him with projects when he appears in public.

"Since you are just a wallflower, don't blame me for talking loudly when the time comes." Zhang Nan muttered silently in his heart, and then set his sights on [Mission: Impossible 3] on the big screen.

(End of this chapter)