How China Entertainment was developed

Chapter 711 Different attitudes of the three parties
In the screening room of [Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens].

"Why did you come now?"

Steven Spielberg looked at Zhang Nan, who was belatedly arriving, holding the time displayed on his phone, and said with some complaints.

Zhang Nan, who was sitting separately from the three women, sat on his seat, took a breath, and explained: "Something happened, and I got confused."

Hearing what Zhang Nan said, Spielberg didn't complain any more, but just as he was about to put his phone in his pocket, he found a message popping up on his phone with Zhang Nan's picture.

Spielberg casually clicked on the message on his phone, browsed the content, looked at it for a moment, then handed the phone to Zhang Nan to look at, and said: "Are you confused by this kind of thing?"

Zhang Nan took a closer look when he saw this, and found that the picture in this tidbit had specially enlarged his red skin, and also included prominent introduction words.

What the hell!

It is indeed the Internet era!
Information travels too quickly.

"If I say that I did it to make the promotion of [Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens] more eye-catching and live up to the high salary of tens of millions of dollars, Steven, would you believe it?" Zhang Nan explained dryly. .

Spielberg's eyes lit up after hearing Zhang Nan's words: "After delaying for so long, you finally reached an agreement with Universal Pictures?"

If you include the fixed director's salary, it would be 30 to 40 million US dollars, which is not a small amount.

"Okay, okay, as long as you are not afraid of affecting the filming process of [Jurassic World 3], let alone the premiere, I can help you with it even during the promotion period." Zhang Nan said without fear.

Steven Spielberg: "Zhang, we are old friends, so don't make up these lies. And what you said is not appropriate for me! The [Star Wars] series is Luca "

This allowed Spielberg to maintain his status as a star after the reputation of projects such as "Raiders of the Lost Ark", "War Horse", "Lincoln", "Bridge of Spies"... etc. collapsed.

"Don't change the subject for me. You let me off the hook for an hour today, so you have to compensate me. You have to attend the premiere of my new film [Giant] in June." Spielberg said rudely.

Although the IP of the [Jurassic World] series has been almost taken over by Zhang Nan, who is occupying the magpie's nest.

In fact, the reason why Zhang Nan is so motivated is mainly because he feels a little pressure.

Because it’s the end of 2015 now.

“Not only have we negotiated [Jurassic World 3] with Universal Pictures, but we have also negotiated [Voldemort 3] with Warner Pictures, and we have negotiated [Transformers 4] with Paramount Pictures. 】, in short, I will probably be busy this year." Zhang Nan replied a little tiredly.

Then the cold winter will usher in, and this cold winter is not temporary, but will follow another economic cycle downturn, and no one knows how long it will last.

Spielberg's presence in the entire "Jurassic World" project is more like a mascot, with only a fixed director's salary of 15 million US dollars and a 1% box office dividend.

Zhang Nan nodded when he heard this: "That's right. I'll chat with Lucas when I have some time."

Including that after the filming of the movie, it usually takes another year to be released. In other words, there are less than two years of work left in this golden age of the global film and television industry.

The profits contained in this are not small.

However, the [Jurassic World] series has exceeded one billion U.S. dollars in global box office, bringing continuous fame to Spielberg.

Not to mention that each of the "Jurassic World" series has a global box office of more than 1 billion per episode, and the 1% box office dividend is quite a lot, at least more than 10 million US dollars.

It is just over three years since 2019.

Anyway, as far as Zhang Nan knows now, until 2024, the popularity of the global film and television industry will not return to the state before 2019.

"They all signed a betting agreement with a box office of one billion US dollars?" Spielberg asked garrulously.

Zhang Nan shrugged and said, "Otherwise, without the protection of this agreement, it would be convenient for them to use the project to make money in the financial market. Do you think I am really worth the price of 400 to 500 million US dollars!" Don't look at Zhang Nan now. The starring actors have a fixed salary, and the salary is 400 to 500 million US dollars, which seems to be very high.

But the Hollywood giants took the movie shares guaranteed by Zhang Nan and sold them directly to other swindlers at high prices through the financial market.

And don’t think there aren’t so many scammers in the financial market.

Just say it!
Zhang Nan's fixed salary of US$4.5 billion per film has pushed the production fee to US$7.8 billion for a film project. If the share value were to increase by one-third in the North American financial market, it would not be enough to sell.

Without it.

Among the mold purchases of high-value items such as a coffee cup that costs US$1280, an office chair that costs US$9341, etc., the US$ million in production fees is simply a drop in the bucket and not enough to clean up.

Of course.

These operations have little to do with Zhang Nan, who is just a content creator.

But when Spielberg heard Zhang Nan's words, he was thinking about something completely different from Zhang Nan. He was calculating how much money Zhang Nan could earn from these three films.

In fact, it is easy to calculate.

Based on the fixed salary of a movie of US$400 million and the global box office of US$1.2 billion, about 50% of the movie's box office dividend is more than US$600 million, and there are also US$450 million in peripheral income.

So the total revenue of Zhang Nan's blockbuster series with a well-known IP is about 1.5 billion US dollars, and the total revenue of three movies is 4.5 billion US dollars.

At this point, Spielberg had a bit of a toothache and regretted that he had not caught up with such a good time when he was young.

That is when Zhang Nan and Spielberg were chatting.

The tidbits about Zhang Nan on the red carpet spread back to the mainland.

For a while.

The Chinese supporter behind Fan Bingbing, Xiao Wang, the Bole Zhang Yimou who supported Zhang Ziyi, and the real elders of Da Tiantian's family all saw it.

There are obvious differences in the attitudes of the three parties.

The Chinese-American Mr. Wang felt like he was eating shit, because Fan Bingbing was able to win the film contract of "Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens", and he also contributed a small amount of money to it.

A little money is nothing.

But after spending money and being fucked by others, it’s a bit unacceptable.

Zhang Yimou's attitude here is pretty good, a bit calm.

Because Zhang Ziyi was originally a substitute, and the original Gong Li had not been very successful in the outside world in recent years. After seeing Zhang Yimou and Zhang Weiping part ways, she returned in 2014.

He also collaborated with Zhang Yimou in the film "Return", playing an infatuated heroine, which can be regarded as a different kind of official announcement.

So at this time, Zhang Yimou couldn't care about Zhang Ziyi at all.

The elders behind Da Tiantian were anxious.

After all, Zhang Nan's strength and achievements are indeed strong and outstanding.

But the concave character design in recent years is obviously only suitable for being a boss, not a husband.

(End of this chapter)