How China Entertainment was developed

Chapter 87 The Terrible Income Sharing
The money is in front of you, but you can't earn it. This is the most uncomfortable point for the old Luke who is facing the Mi Ziqi in North America.

"Zhang, how do you choose this?"

Old Luke cast his eyes on Zhang Nan who was lying on the sofa beside him.

Hearing this, Zhang Nan came over and read all the invitations.

It was found that they were basically items that he had no impression of.

In other words, they were basically box office failures—otherwise he wouldn't be impressed.

Then Zhang Nan thought about it.

The global film market in 1998 seemed to be relatively average, with the box office performance of blockbuster films being average.

The annual box office champion is Michael Bay's "Peerless Catastrophe", but it is only more than 5 million US dollars worldwide.

In the original time and space in 1997, they couldn't even rank in the top three, which can be said to be very hip.

Of course, this is not to say that the global film market in 1998 was not good.

In fact, the box office of the global film market in 1998 was not worse than that in 1997, and even much higher.

So why is the overall performance so poor?
This is about the [Titanic]
Because "Titanic" was the box office champion of the year in 1997.

But its release time was actually at the end of 1997, on December 12th.

Moreover, "Titanic" is still a slow character in terms of box office, which means that "Titanic" didn't get much box office in 1997 at all.

[Titanic] The bulk of the 18 billion global box office was basically cut off in 1998.

However, since "Titanic" was released in 1997, the final honor is also counted in 1997.

In other words, [Titanic] stole the box office results belonging to 1998 to 1997.

And they stole a lot, starting at more than one billion.

But [Titanic] Zhang Nan has already caught up, so the rest doesn't matter.

But he can't pick none of them, it's too inappropriate, he needs to have a movie released every year to maintain exposure.

Then you can only choose the general from the dwarfs.

Zhang Nan carefully looked through the stack of film appointment invitations again, and managed to pick out one from the inside.

Roland Emmerich's new project - [Godzilla].

The global total is 3.79 million US dollars, ranking third in the year, and the results are not bad.

It's just that the subject matter is not very friendly to the protagonist.

But it is understandable.

After all, the name of this movie is basically a clear statement of who the protagonist of the movie is.

To be honest, Roland Emmerich was originally a great director of disaster films, making monster blockbusters like "Godzilla".

Although there is no counterpart in major, it does not deviate too much.

However, Zhang Nan estimated that Roland Emmerich had more thoughts in his heart when he filmed "Godzilla". I am afraid that he still has the idea of ​​following Spielberg and crossing the river by touching Spielberg's ass.

Because Roland Emmerich is now in Hollywood, although relying on the global box office of more than 8 million on [Independence Day], his status is not low.

But compared with top Hollywood directors like George Lucas and Spielberg, it is still a bit far away.

After all, he is just an "Independence Day" with more than 8 million US dollars.

Roland Emmerich still needs a blockbuster series before he can truly stand alongside Spielberg and George Lucas.

Then there are only two options left: following in the footsteps of the predecessors or re-opening the road yourself.

Obviously, smart people know which option is better.

And George Lucas's [Star Wars] series is really hard to imitate, and it's not Roland Emmerich's specialty.

But Spielberg's "Jurassic Park" series is very much in line with Roland Emmerich's appetite and strengths.

And [Jurassic Park 2] although the box office is a bit hip, but that is relative to the great success of the previous work.

The entire [Jurassic Park] series of two parts has a score of 15.32 billion US dollars.

From the present point of view, it is still much better than the 17.88 billion results of the original [Star Wars] trilogy without the prequel trilogy.

Old Luke was not surprised to see Zhang Nan choose this film contract.

"Zhang, there's nothing wrong with this appointment, but..."

There is no problem with the film appointment, but what?
Zhang Nan looked at Old Luke with some puzzlement.

Old Luke didn't explain, got up and went to Zhang Nan's study, took out another stack of contracts, and put them on the coffee table.

Zhang Nan took a closer look and found that they were all film contracts he had starred in before, so he looked at Old Luke with some confusion.

Old Luke took out the calculator that came with the Nokia mobile phone, opened the contract, and reported the numbers while calculating.

"[The Fifth Element] has a total box office of 3 million. Your salary is 500 million US dollars plus 400% of the global box office dividend. The total is 900 million, and [-] million has not yet been received."

Zhang Nan listened and nodded. He did not make a mistake, and said happily: "Luke, the original box office dividend was actually 300%. Later, Luc Besson asked me to be the assistant director, and Columbia didn't want to increase the production cost. So I exchanged my salary for [-]% of the box office dividend. I guess Columbia is regretting it now. The salary of the assistant director is only a few hundred thousand dollars. Now the [-]% of [The Fifth Element] Box office dividends, that's [-] million!"

Old Luke didn't make a sound, but continued to settle accounts.

"[Men in Black 1] has not been drawn yet, but the total box office is basically 6 million (5.89 million higher than the 1100 million in the original time and space), and your salary is 500 million US dollars plus 700% of the global Box office dividends, a total of 200 million, and [-] million have not yet arrived."

Zhang Nan was taken aback when he heard the total salary, "Is that much?"

Hearing Zhang Nan's question, the old Luke who read out the number thought about it for a while, and was a little tongue-tied.

Because Will Smith, who is starring in [Men in Black 1] with Zhang Nan.

Since he received all the fixed remuneration at the beginning, Will Smith only received 200 million U.S. dollars in remuneration, which is a full 500 million U.S. dollars less than Zhang Nan.

You must know that when "Men in Black" was filmed, "Independence Day" starring Will Smith has not yet been released, but in terms of fame and popularity, it is definitely no worse than Zhang Nan. The roles of the two are still basic. equivalent.

But today's reality is that Zhang Nan's salary is 500 million less than that of Zhang Nan.

However, the terms written in black and white were calculated with a calculator. Although the numbers are a bit shocking, they are not wrong, so Old Luke nodded.

Seeing that Zhang Nan didn't respond, Old Luke continued to settle the score.

“【我最好朋友的婚礼】总票房3.2亿（原时空2.9亿美金），伱的片酬是100万美金加全球总票房的20.00%分红，一共……6500万美金，还有6400万没到账。”

"Sigh~"

This number is a bit scary.

It can be said that this "My Best Friend's Wedding", Zhang Nan earned more than the producer.

It's just outrageous fucking open the door to outrageous, outrageous home.

Fortunately, there are not many such outrageous things in Hollywood, but they will happen once or twice every few years.

(End of this chapter)