How China Entertainment was developed

Chapter 497 Warner: Talking about loneliness
"Zhang, [Inception] is an action film, and it is not a series. The box office potential and peripheral income are limited. With the current investment and share, it will be difficult for Warner to recover the cost, so... can the share contract be adjusted? one time."

Director Christopher Nolan is an important content creator for Warner in the future and cannot be neglected, so the [Inception] project must be carried out.

But Warner is really out of money, so it can only try to find some luck from Zhang Nan.

However, Warner President David Morris also knew very well that Zhang Nan was not easy to get along with.

So they didn't dare to mention the fixed remuneration, but they politely talked to Zhang Nan about the 50.00% box office share and the 60.00% peripheral income.

Then, the profit share negotiated with Zhang Nan was made into a contract and packaged into a bank loan. After a few miscellaneous pieces of work were put together, the project [Inception] was barely able to be launched.

Zhang Nan originally wanted to reject David Morris's proposal.

But considering that the box office of the project "Inception" is not high, it is only more than 8 million US dollars worldwide.

And then there is no need to mention the peripheral income. There is only copyright, and there is no way to sell toys.

"I can adjust my share, but in this case, the box office betting agreement will be forgotten, and I want the right to determine the casting of the movie, and the filming location of the movie must be in Longbow Film and Television City." Zhang Nan directly made his request .

The profit sharing has been adjusted, so Zhang Nan will definitely not use his golden finger box office appeal to make money for others. He is no longer weak when he just debuted.

The purpose of placing the film shooting location in Changgong Film and Television City is to further improve the film industrialization progress of Changgong Film and Television City, and at the same time boost Pengcheng's GDP.

The final casting decision was made by Zhang Nan, who planned to gather all his artists to give a good performance in "Inception" in order to facilitate the recruitment of top artists in the mainland film and television industry.

When David Morris heard Zhang Nan's requests, he took a breath and wanted to refuse.

After all, regardless of the last two conditions, just not signing a box office betting agreement will greatly reduce the value of the project.

But in an instant, David Morris reacted.

This [Inception] was originally prepared to win over Christopher Nolan, as long as it didn't lose money.

After thinking about this, David Morris turned to look at Christopher Nolan, his eyes full of questions.

Christopher Nolan's thoughts are opposite to David Morris. He values ​​Zhang Nanti's last two conditions more.

After all, he started this project just to prevent himself from being labeled as a director of comic-book movies, and at the same time, he tried to take on the starring role of Zhang Nan and have a shot at the title of director with a global box office of one billion US dollars.

"Zhang, did you get the casting rights to stuff actors?" Christopher Nolan asked worriedly.

Zhang Nan nodded, "My Longgong Film and Television Company has been established for so many years, and has signed many contracts, but it has never held any decent activities. This time I plan to take advantage of your director's opportunity to Wu Jin, Zhou Jie, Chenglong, and some other artists gathered together to hold a 'carnival'."

Christopher Nolan was a little confused when he heard Zhang Nan's answer.

Carnival?
What the hell kind of thinking is this?

However, the names Zhang Nan mentioned made Christopher Nolan feel a little excited.

Because his film is originally an action-oriented project, if he can invite these Chinese action superstars, it will definitely add luster to the entire project.

After all, in the minds of global audiences so far, in the field of action movies, it is the mainland's signature film.

"I have no objection." Christopher Nolan is no longer obsessed with casting rights. After all, if he asks him to hire these people, he probably won't be able to hire them.

"Then it's settled." David Morris on the side quickly confirmed the conclusion.

Zhang Nan had no doubts when he saw this.

As for the specific amount of box office share and peripheral income share that Zhang Nan will give up, it is not for the big shots in these projects to discuss in detail, but for the people below to pull it. …

A few days later.

Old Luke came back with the terms of the [Inception] project negotiated with Warner Pictures.

"According to what you said, the fixed remuneration and peripheral income can be discarded, and we should try to negotiate the share of the film.

But for your fixed salary, Warner Pictures didn’t dare to talk about it, so I couldn’t talk about it, so it’s still 4 million US dollars.

However, the box office share dropped from the original 50.00% to 40.00%, a decrease of [-]%.

Then the peripheral income dropped from 60.00% to 50.00%, a decrease of 12.00%.

Then Zhou Jie, Wu Jin and Cheng Long all negotiated a fixed salary of 100 million US dollars as a backing, and the main thing was a [-]% box office share.

Then Hu Ge, Yu Entai and Liu Dehua received a fixed salary of 50 US dollars as their partners and [-]% of the box office share.

Overall, the box office share we can get has increased instead of falling, from the original 50.00% to 50.00% and [-]%.

You start with another 70.00% commission, but the conditions are basically unchanged. "

Old Luke reported to Zhang Nan the [Inception] salary that was discussed in detail with Warner Pictures.

Zhang Nan nodded slightly after hearing this, quite satisfied.

After all, although the box office of "Inception" did not exceed one billion US dollars, it still had 8.2 million US dollars.

One percent is the salary of US$820 million, and Zhou Jie, Wu Jin and Cheng Long can get [-]% as supporting actors.

That's a profit of 2460 million US dollars, which is already quite good. It is higher than the average starring members of the Hollywood 2000 million salary club.

As for Hu Ge, Yu Entai and Liu Tianwang's 410% salary, that is also 50 million US dollars. Including the 460 US dollars for the costar, that is [-] million US dollars.

Converted into RMB, it is more than 2000 million.

Not to mention in 2010, even in 2020, if the mainland can get this kind of salary, it is quite acceptable.

……

If Zhang Nan is quite satisfied.

David Morris of Warner Pictures is a bit confused.

This is so special.

Why is it that after much talk, the box office share has increased instead of falling?
A movie accounts for [-]% of the box office cost, and the theater chain takes at least [-]% of it, and Zhang Nan takes another [-]%.

The project itself is designed to win over Christopher Nolan, so he must not be treated harshly.

Then there is another 5.00% box office share, plus 1500 million US dollars gone.

But now that the matter has come to this, David Morris can only comfort himself and say: "Fortunately, the cast did not cost much, and the movie should be able to be made with US$[-] million."

(End of this chapter)