How China Entertainment was developed

Chapter 470 Christopher Nolan comes to visit
After the contract of intent for "Transformers 2" was signed, Zhang Nan and Old Luke left Paramount.

Because Warner Pictures’ [Harry Potter 6] will be released on July 7th.

In order to increase the movie box office, Warner Pictures made an exception and hired Zhang Nan to promote the movie. As an important supporting role in [Harry Potter 6] and the protagonist of the [Harry Potter-Voldemort] series, Zhang Nan After Warner Pictures offered real money, it was really hard to refuse.

As for the executives and president of Paramount Pictures, Dick Frank, watching Zhang Nan leave, they felt extremely melancholy for a moment.

a while.

Some of the more radical executives suddenly couldn't help but said: "Are we really going to give Zhang Nan a fixed salary of US$4 million, plus a 50.00% box office share and a 60.00% peripheral income share? According to this payment method , how else can I make money?”

"Otherwise, can you give me an idea?" A more stable Paramount executive asked.

Under this rhetorical question, all Paramount executives fell silent.

Because in the current Hollywood, or in the global film and television industry, it is really unique that someone with Zhang Nan's box office appeal can dare to sign a billion-dollar global box office betting agreement and still be able to afford the compensation.

The capital of two Toms and one Will won't do.

But being able to afford the compensation is not the point.

Say so!

After the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers, the fiercest competition for the legacy of Lehman Brothers in the entire financial circle was not the remaining money of Lehman Brothers and other high-quality assets.

The most fierce competition is the partial distribution rights of Zhang Nan Changgong Film and Television Fund owned by Lehman Brothers investment bank.

Without it.

At present, the world's top financial groups are basically not short of money. What they are short of is various channels that can sustainably and stably generate high returns.

The Longbow Film and Television Fund owns the rights to distribute the remuneration of Zhang Nan's many films, and the revenue is billions of dollars every year - all the remuneration contracts of Zhang Nan's starring films are directly transferred to the Longbow Film and Television Fund. In the financial market, it can be realized quickly.

This is just Zhang Nan, and Longbow Film and Television Fund also has good cooperation habits with many top Hollywood celebrities.

Taken together, Longbow Film and Television Fund handles tens of billions of dollars in revenue from share-sharing contracts every year.

Under the influence of this scale, the popularity of film projects starring Zhang Nan in the financial market has been further deepened.

Nowadays, a situation has arisen, that is, whenever a film and television company produces a project starring Zhang Nan, the company's stock price slowly begins to rise.

When the movie is released, it will automatically increase sharply, without the film and television company spending their own funds to operate it.

This kind of influence is the main reason why Zhang Nan dared to ask such high prices from Hollywood giants.

And Dick Frank saw that his senior executives were silent. He, the leader, could not be so frustrated, so he slowly said: "It is impossible to change people, but just admit it directly, that is not our Paramount." The style still needs to be tried a little bit.”

"How to operate?" A senior executive asked curiously after hearing this.

After hearing this, Dick Frank looked at the part of the contract of intent regarding co-productions with China Film Group, and said: "They are all co-productions, and the interests are the same. We have to share a big chunk of the profits. I think the same is true for China Film Group." I have some ideas.”

……

a few days later.

Mainland, China Film Headquarters Building.

Han Sanpin was particularly excited after receiving a letter of intent from Paramount Pictures to co-produce "Transformers 2".

Without it.

With such an achievement, a lot of the failure of [Red Cliff Up and Down] can be erased.

But not long after he was happy, Han Sanpin felt some hints from Paramount Pictures.

Fixed remuneration of US$50.00 million, 60.00% global box office share, and [-]% dividend from peripheral income of the second film.

Seeing Zhang Nan's salary in "Transformers 2", even Han Sanpin, who had seen Zhang Nan's conditions in "Transformers 1" before, took a breath.

Not to mention anything else, just the 50.00% share of the global box office makes Han Sanpin speechless.

For mainland producers, the best box office share a movie can get is just over 30.00%, close to 40.00%.

In "Transformers 1", when Zhang Nan took 40.00% of the box office share, the corners of Han Sanpin's eyes were already twitching.How long has it been!
It increased another ten percent, and they were all opened in half.

Of course.

Feeling emotional.

Han Sanpin, who is also a human spirit, quickly understood what Paramount Pictures had vaguely revealed, wanting him to bargain with Zhang Nan.

But a bad person's wealth is like killing his parents. How could Han Sanpin do such a thing.

Moreover, the main reason why he wanted to work on the "Transformers" project was to gain a reputation as a top movie co-production. It didn't matter whether he made more or less money.

then……

Han Sanpin started to show off what it means to be clever but misunderstood by cleverness - pretending to be stupid.

As a result, Paramount Pictures' plan failed.

……

Zhang Nan didn’t know about the operation between Paramount Pictures and China Film. After signing the contract of intent for [Transformers 2], he took the money from Warner Pictures to help [Harry Potter 6]. 】Running for publicity.

The effect is quite good.

Because at this time, "Pirates of the Caribbean 3" is still collecting box office in North American movie theaters and global movie theaters in June, while Zhang Nan, the leading actor, is promoting another movie.

Quite a contrast.

The effect cannot be bad.

then……

There's no after that.

Because Zhang Nan's appearance fee is not cheap, three times five divided by two will consume all the funds prepared by Warner Pictures' distribution department for Zhang Nan.

But as soon as Zhang Nan took the money from Warner's distribution department, someone came to visit with money from Warner's project department.

……

Inside the villa.

Director Christopher Nolan sat opposite Zhang Nan.

Although "Batman 2" was influenced by Zhang Nan's "Harry Potter-Voldemort", it failed to break the billion-dollar global box office threshold like The Original Time and Space.

However, the global box office of more than 9 million US dollars still made Christopher Nolan's reputation great.

Christopher Nolan, who had gained both fame and fortune, began to think about his life as a director and came to a conclusion.

That is, he cannot tie himself to the label of a comic book film director, otherwise his director career will be almost ruined.

Because the artist's image is positioned and can be changed by playing other roles, it is just a film contract. The cost is not high, but the success rate is low.

But the director's image has been positioned so hard to change.

After all, the investment required to make a movie is not small, and no one would choose an outsider director.

In an action film, between a second-rate action film director and a first-rate animation director, the producer will definitely choose the former.

So Nolan didn't start preparing for [Batman 2] immediately after [Batman 3] ended.

Instead, they stopped preparations for [Batman 3] and started all over again to prepare an original movie.

I have to say that Nolan’s operation is very smart.

Because even if his original movie fails, he still has [Batman 3] to make a comeback.

(End of this chapter)