How China Entertainment was developed

Chapter 743 Let Peter Jackson make a stable investment against Spielberg Gold

The entrance to the New Line Cinema office building.

After negotiating the terms and signing the contract, Alan Toby watched Zhang Nan board the extended Rolls-Royce and leave, and he made up his mind.

That is, with Zhang Nan's high salary, expenses in other non-essential aspects of the project must be reduced as much as possible.

Then Alan Toby said to his assistant: "Notify Peter Jackson that I can only give him a director's salary of 3 million US dollars for [The Legend of Sauron ]."

After hearing this, his assistant took out his notebook to write down. He was waiting to continue writing down, but found that his president had stopped talking, so he couldn't help but ask: "What else?"

"What else?" Alan Toby asked in confusion.

"That's it. There are no other conditions, such as box office dividends?" the assistant asked with some anxiety.

The assistant's words were not unexpected at all.

After all, Peter Jackson directed the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy and "The Hobbit" trilogy consecutively, and the combined box office of the two series is close to 6 billion US dollars.

A director like this must earn box office dividends from directing a movie, otherwise it would be insulting.

"No, this time we will follow what Universal Pictures did with Spielberg with [Jurassic World]. If Peter Jackson is willing, then he will still direct [The Legend of Sauron 3]. If he is not willing..."

Alan Toby paused, thought for a while, and continued: "Then you go talk to David Yates, the director of Warner Pictures' [Voldemort] series."

The assistant nodded when he heard this, indicating that he understood, and then thought about it for a while and found that David Yates was indeed not bad.

And it is very likely that he will agree to this condition.

Because he heard from people in the industry that after filming "Voldemort 3", David Yates directed a new character planned by the Marvel Cinematic Universe - "Doctor Strange" at a low price in order to catch up with Marvel Studios' projects. project.

It was also at this moment that the extended-length Rolls-Royce carrying Zhang Nan completely disappeared from the gate of New Line Cinema.

Then Alan Toby suddenly thought of a question.

That's when he just watched Zhang Nan get into the car and found that there were several popular female artists from neon and Korea sitting in Zhang Nan's extended version of the luxury car.

"What is the price of gold now?" Alan Toby suddenly asked his assistant.

The assistant was slightly stunned, but quickly replied: "More than one thousand two hundred dollars an ounce!"

As North Americans, especially those in the elite class, we are very familiar with financial products such as gold prices, stocks, futures, etc.

"What was the price of gold ten years ago?" Alan Toby asked again.

The assistant thought about it for a moment and gave a rough answer: "More than six to seven hundred US dollars per ounce! If it had been earlier, it would have been only three to four hundred US dollars per ounce."

After hearing the assistant's answer, the corner of Alan Toby's mouth twitched a little.

Because he knew that when Zhang Nan bought gold for his woman, it was definitely not just ten years ago in 2007, but earlier.

So Zhang Nanguang relied on this wave of investment that seemed very stupid at the time, and his income so far has increased at least four or five times.

Even though this multiple doesn’t seem to be much.

Compared with the stock prices of Internet companies that can easily reach tens or hundreds of times, it is completely incomparable.

But those Internet companies rose and fell too quickly.

And in many cases, you can’t just buy it if you want to.

Even if you buy it, when you finally sell it, the amount will be large, which will affect the stock price and reduce your income.

After all, a listed company with hundreds of billions of dollars is already considered a giant.

But billions of dollars in capital can almost cause considerable fluctuations in the company's stock price.

The money Zhang Nan has earned over the years is probably worth tens of billions of dollars.

But gold is different. Real hard currency, and the market size is also very large, with a volume of more than ten trillion.

Hundreds of billions of dollars are thrown in, and not even one percent of the water splashes.

Moreover, unlike oil futures, which are difficult to store, they will not be priced at negative prices.

It is true that gold does not lose much even if it is stored in the open air.

but……

Zhang Nan directly made the gold into a bed, and then rowed a boat on it, adding to Zhang Nan's attraction to female artists in the global film and television industry.

Although the gold is indoors, the environment it is in is probably very humid and corrosive, so it is probably better to be outside in the open air.

Of course.

What makes Alan Toby jealous the most is not Zhang Nan's stable and easy-to-handle visionary investment.

But Alan Toby thought of something.

That is, Zhang Nan has used every golden table to make a pie in these years, firmly capturing the hearts of a group of female artists, and incidentally hatching multiple human continuation projects of his own genetic sequence.

There is no doubt that the many golden platforms Zhang Nan promised will eventually return to his own descendants.

So Zhang Nan was completely free to enjoy and make money, and also reproduced offspring, killing three birds with one stone.

This is the thought.

Alan Toby suddenly felt a little less uncomfortable about Zhang Nan's operation of slashing his price just now, and he was even a little happy.

Without it.

Although he was severely cut off by Zhang Nan this time, he could still make a little profit, and it could also strengthen the momentum of New Line Cinema and dispel the idea of ​​acquisition by Warner Pictures.

Unlike those female artists who were completely eaten by Zhang Nan, they still served Zhang Nan hard and uncomplainingly.

Zhang Nan didn't expect that after Alan Toby watched him leave, he had so many scenes in his mind.

After leaving New Line Cinema, Zhang Nan went straight to Universal Pictures.

Because "Jurassic World 3" is about to be released during the summer vacation in May, and the "Fast and Furious 8" project has been started for some time, he had to go over and film his part.

……

Universal Pictures.

In the conference room.

Zhang Nan never imagined that he was here to discuss the premiere of "Jurassic World 3" and the contract for "Fast and Furious 8".

As a result, while we were chatting, the topic was dragged to the North American release of "The Great Wall".

Of course.

This is not to say that the cooperation between [Jurassic World 3] and [Fast and Furious 8] did not go well with him and Universal Pictures.

On the contrary, the cooperation chat went very smoothly.

[Jurassic World 3] is just a premiere, so as per the old rules, he can just walk on the red carpet.

For the "Fast and Furious 8" project, Universal Pictures offered him the same salary and treatment as "Jurassic World 3" - a fixed salary of million US dollars, and % % of global box office dividends and % of peripheral revenue sharing.

"I neither invested in nor starred in this project [The Great Wall]. You asked me to tell China Film about the film's North American schedule. Am I right?" Zhang Nan asked evasively.

(End of this chapter)