How China Entertainment was developed

Chapter 507: Winning [Mission: Impossible 4], but a small profit is a loss
  1.25 million US dollars in the first week.

The next week coincided with Thanksgiving, and [Harry Potter 7: Death Note (Part 9352)] collected another US$[-] million.

In two weeks, the North American box office directly exceeded [-] million.

Moreover, the box office data of [Harry Potter 7: Death Note (Part [-])] in overseas movie theaters have basically been released.

Among them, Europe's box office performance was the best, with a box office of nearly 4 million U.S. dollars in two weeks, making the global cumulative box office of "Harry Potter 7: Death Note (Part [-])" directly cross the threshold of [-] million U.S. dollars. .

But this momentum is similar to the situation of previous games. It may be a bit difficult to hit the global box office and exceed one billion US dollars.

This result made Warner Pictures quite depressed.

But when Warner Pictures was a little depressed, Zhang Nan's mood was quite wonderful.

Because in [Mission: Impossible 4], Old Luke and Tom Cruise completed cooperation negotiations.

Longbow Film and Television Fund and Zhang Nan personally invested US$4 million to obtain the remaining [-]% of the production fee of "Mission: Impossible [-]" and a film contract with an important supporting role.

However, Longbow Film and Television Fund and Zhang Nan did not intervene in the specific shooting matters of the project and only sent financial personnel to supervise the funds.

Moreover, Zhang Nan personally invested this US$[-] million investment in the form of a fixed salary as a guest star.

The standard salary for a cameo is US$1500 million per minute, plus [-]% of the movie's box office dividend and [-]% of peripheral income.

Looking at the fixed salary alone, Zhang Nan's supporting role is more expensive than Tom Cruise's leading role.

Because Tom Cruise's fixed salary is only [-] million US dollars in total.

But if we really count the total ledger, Tom Cruise still gets more.

"If this contract continues, the theater chain will get 4% of the box office revenue of [Mission: Impossible [-]], and Tom Cruise will get [-]% personally. You can probably get [-]%." Second, the remaining [-]%, our Longbow Film and Television Fund and Paramount will split [-]%, we will get [-]%, and Paramount will get [-]%." Old Luke took the contract and began to settle the accounts for Zhang Nan.

Zhang Nan listened to the figures divided by various parties, and further processed it based on the box office of "Mission: Impossible 4" of 6.94 million US dollars in the original time and space in his mind.

Then the theater chain’s box office dividend is 3.123 million U.S. dollars, Tom Cruise’s is 1.041 million U.S. dollars, Zhang Nan’s personal share is 1388 million U.S. dollars, Longbow Film and Television Fund is 1.846 million U.S. dollars, and Paramount is 7911.16 million U.S. dollars.

"Why do theaters get so much, [-]%? Shouldn't they all be [-]%?"

Since the control of "Mission: Impossible 4" is in the hands of Tom Cruise, and in order to have stronger distribution capabilities for the film, Tom Cruise did not choose Longbow Distribution Company, but found Universal Pictures. Such a large [-]% box office dividend is a bit dazzling for Zhang Nan.

Old Luke rolled his eyes when he heard this and said, "Thirty percent? Do you think that no matter what movie it is, the theater will be so profitable that it only takes [-]% of the box office dividend?"

"Isn't it?" Zhang Nan asked, somewhat unresponsive.

Old Luke replied directly: "Of course not. Except for your starring project, which has a box office of over [-] billion, the others all start at [-]% to [-]%, and maybe it can reach [-]%."

Zhang Nan suddenly realized after hearing this, and his face looked a little embarrassed. After all, he was used to such a division.

"So... the [-]/[-] split that Tom Cruise got from Universal Pictures is pretty good?" Zhang Nan said awkwardly when she had nothing to say.

"What else do you think?"

Old Luke said angrily and introduced in depth: "[Mission: Impossible 3] has a global box office of over 4 million U.S. dollars. Compared with [Mission: Impossible 2]'s global box office of more than 4 million U.S. dollars, it is already It's a huge setback, and many theaters are not optimistic about [Mission: Impossible [-]] at all.

At the same time, [Mission: Impossible 4] is the fourth part of the trilogy. You have to know that Hollywood has been saying that the trilogy curse has been there for so many years, which makes it even worse.

To be able to talk about a [-]% to [-]% theater share is already because Tom Cruise has gone a bit wild, and I guess he negotiated this share with Universal under the guise that you would be a guest star. ”    Zhang Nan felt a little bit at a loss when he heard this.

Because according to this box office share.

As an issuer, Universal is just sitting on its hands with more than [-] million US dollars in turnover, and leaving the issuer at the mercy of others, a minimum profit of [-] million US dollars is the minimum.

Tom Cruise stood and received more than [-] million US dollars in box office dividends and [-] million US dollars in fixed salary.

Paramount invested [-] million US dollars, received nearly [-] million US dollars, and made a small profit of [-] million US dollars, but it didn't worry about it.

And he and Longbow Film and Television Fund contributed people and money, and together they got almost [-] million US dollars in box office dividends.

If the investment of 7000 million US dollars is thrown away, the income will only be about 1.3 million US dollars.

A rate of return of nearly [-]% is still a large amount measured in hundreds of millions of dollars.

For others, it must be a good deal.

But for Zhang Nan...

"It's not very profitable, it's a bit thankless." Zhang Nan murmured.

Old Luke on the side also agreed deeply when he heard this. It's not that Old Luke has a big appetite like Zhang Nan, but from Old Luke's perspective.

[Mission: Impossible 3] only had a global box office of 4.0 million U.S. dollars, and [Mission: Impossible 4] might have a box office of more than [-] million U.S. dollars.

This deal is really not worth it.

"Have you talked to Tom Cruise about his commission business?" Zhang Nan planned to find some income from other places.

Old Luke nodded, "We talked, and what Tom Cruise said is that if the price is right, there is no problem in leaving it to us.

But I tested it a few times, and he didn't hide it, and I roughly figured out its psychological price.

Fifteen percent of the box office share, he wants to use 6000 million US dollars of the 4 million movie box office, and also wants to package his 6500% revenue share contract for the "Mission: Impossible 7500" video disc, asking for [-] Between [-] and [-] million US dollars.

I feel that the price is a bit high, so I might as well ignore it. "

Zhang Nan was delighted when he heard this.

Because according to Tom Cruise's asking price, even if he wins it at the highest price of 7500 million US dollars, he can make a net profit of [-] million US dollars from the [-]% box office dividend contract alone.

Including the [-]% of the DVD share, it is not a problem to make another [-] million US dollars.

But Zhang Nan also knew that he couldn't agree so simply.

"never mind?
  When we invest in this project, we are not only rushing to get the first-come-first-served rights, win the movie sharing contract, and expand the consignment business of Longbow Film and Television Fund.

Forget it now, what were all the previous operations for?

You go and have a good talk with Tom Cruise. I'll give you a bottom line, about $7000 million, and you can confirm it. "Zhang Nan pretended to grit his teeth and said.

In fact, Zhang Nan was gritting his teeth because he was afraid that he would laugh out loud if he didn't grit his teeth.

(End of this chapter)