Entertainment 2000: Supporting female stars will bring you a hundredfold return

Chapter 58: Changing Her Prejudice Against Asians

Tang Wen walked into the New Line Company Building.

From the front desk to the back staff, everyone saluted.

Not counting the director’s salary, the film cost $15.

After three days of release, the film grossed over 300 million US dollars.

This rate of return has rarely been achieved in the history of Hollywood.

Moreover, according to the partners, the publicity plan that played a big role was also proposed by Tang Wen.

"Director Tang"

"Director Tang"

Along the way, people kept saying hello.

The male staff member took the initiative to give way.

The female staff member has a beautiful smile.

If the company's performance is good, their bonuses will be higher.

"Expand the scale of release! 1500 theaters, not enough. 2000, at least 2000..."

In the partner's separate office, Robert was yelling into the phone.

Seeing Tang Wen coming in, he hung up the phone.

He took out a green instrument, placed it on the table, and pressed a button.

"what is this?"

"A jammer to prevent eavesdropping."

"In your company, in your office, are you so careful?" Tang Wen said with a smile.

Robert locked the door. "Don! We are talking about selling the company, aren't we?"

“It’s a win-win cooperation.”

"Yes, yes, win-win cooperation." Robert poured him a cup of black tea and said, "Will New Line be responsible for the promotion of Saw 1?"

Tang Wen: "If New Line gives me the share of Comet as quickly as possible, then it will be fine."

Robert said in a serious tone, "This is the benefit I gained after arguing with you. You were originally planning to ask the six major Hollywood studios to distribute it."

"That's right, Robert, you are the hero of the new line!" Tang Wen raised his glass and took a sip.

Robert nodded. He believed it no matter whether others believed it or not.

It was originally New Line's share, but now it has become Robert's own, so of course he is satisfied.

Another week passed in the blink of an eye.

Zhang Ran helped Tang Wen to look at the courtyard house and paid a deposit.

It is a three-courtyard house with a construction area of ​​more than 450 square meters.

It is almost twice as big as the 250-square-meter yard that Murdoch later bought.

At more than 20,000 yuan per square meter, the total price is nearly 10 million yuan.

Tang Wenren is abroad and cannot get a loan.

The two parties agreed on installment payment, with the full amount to be paid in five installments within one year.

Buying the house is the first step. If you want to live comfortably, you have to do some extensive renovation.

Tang Wen found a designer and came up with several decoration plans.

Underground garage, underground swimming pool, water circulation system, smart security... everything is needed.

This way, not to mention the cost, the renovation alone will take more than half a year.

Half a month after the release.

The box office of "Comet" reached more than 2700 million US dollars.

The trend is showing signs of fatigue.

The dividends from hype news are almost exhausted.

However, word of mouth spread and the film gained popularity among science fiction fans.

Everyone started watching it for the second and third time.

Thanks to this, the single-day box office remained above one million US dollars.

The cinema’s first share of profits to New Line has also arrived.

Hollywood's profit-sharing adopts a complex tiered profit-sharing model, and the share given to producers is much higher than that in China.

As a producer, you can get about 50%.

Of course, this is only limited to the North American box office, the overseas box office is far from being that high.

Thanks to Robert's efforts, the first share of the profits soon reached Tang Wen, amounting to more than 400 million US dollars.

Just the first payment alone filled his wallet again.

Converted into RMB, it is nearly 3200 million RMB.

Tang Wen took a sip of tea comfortably: Hollywood, you’ve come to the right place.

At this time, America was in its last glorious period.

Lots of money, easy to earn!
"You need to file your taxes, find an accountant as soon as possible." Robert warned: "In America, you always remember to pay taxes until you die."

Tang Wen, who has watched many American TV series, naturally understands this truth.

He used his connections with domestic film companies to find accountants and lawyers who served Silicon Valley's technology tycoons.

The movie is in its fourth week of release.

Huang Xiaoming flew to Los Angeles. Saw 1 officially started filming.

The two male leads are not very famous and have only played supporting roles in American TV series.

The pay was very low, less than $10 for the two of them combined.

Huang Xiaoming's offer was even lower, $3, basically just to give Tang Wen some face.

The role of the sexy beauty in the play is played by Naomi Watts.

In the evening, Tang Wen prepared a simple meal and red wine so that everyone could get to know each other.

The two male actors became excited when they saw the beautiful and mature Naomi.

As soon as Tang Wen appeared, Naomi walked over and took his arm.

The two male actors immediately looked away, realizing that this woman was not someone they should be thinking about.

Outsiders may not know who Tang Wen is.

They had inquired and found out that Director Tang’s last movie had not yet been released.

The cost was hundreds of thousands of dollars and the box office revenue was tens of millions.

Little Karami can't afford to offend the two of them.

"Director Tang, I haven't practiced my lines yet." Huang Xiaoming glanced at the blonde beauty next to Tang Wen. Without caring about envy, he shamelessly pointed out his own shortcomings.

In his previous life, Tang Wen had heard of his "Nao Tai Tao" and was well prepared.

"It's okay. I'll deduct 5,000 US dollars from your salary and hire a spoken English teacher to accompany the crew. You just need to act it out. If it doesn't work, we can do the dubbing later."

Huang Xiaoming breathed a sigh of relief and didn't care about the deduction of his pay.

After the party, no one dared to drink too much.

Only Naomi couldn't hold her liquor and asked Tang Wen to take her home personally.

The crew had a car, a black Cadillac.

As soon as she got in the car, Naomi smelled the faint scent of laundry detergent on the young director and felt particularly happy.

"Comet" was a huge success, and she benefited the most among the actors.

Now her agent has offered a price of $60.

Ten times more than before!
All this is thanks to the young director next to me.

The car was getting closer and closer, and it was almost home.

She rubbed her legs with black stockings gently, leaned close to Tang Wen's arms, and asked again:
"Tang, there are many things I don't understand about the script."

"Ok?"

Naomi gently took his hand and placed it below the waist: "Tang, in order to play the role well, I need your individual guidance."

"no problem."

Before getting off the car, Tang Wen told the driver: "Come pick me up at 8:30 tomorrow."

Naomi's expression remained unchanged, and she took him upstairs with a smile.

As soon as they entered the door, the two hugged each other.

The apartment is not big, time is limited, there are many things Naomi doesn’t understand, and her comprehension ability is average.

Naomi was exhausted from learning, but also extremely satisfied: "Tang, you corrected my prejudice against Asians."

Tang Wen thought that American cars were tough.

If it were a Bentley, it would have broken down by now.

The filming of "Chainsaw" went smoothly.

Even though Huang Xiaoming's lines were often off the mark, Tang Wen never got angry.

The atmosphere in the crew was relaxed and everyone felt lucky to have met a good-tempered director.

Only Naomi knew.

Director Tang was so fierce when he was instructing her, and it had nothing to do with good temper!

On the tenth day of filming, Huang Xiaoming finished filming and returned to China.

Another two weeks passed and the filming was basically completed.

Comet has also been taken off the screen.

The final box office was $4700 million.

Everyone on the new line was crazy with joy.

The remake rights bought for 200 million are totally worth it.

Various small and medium-sized companies in Hollywood began to inquire about Tang Wen.

In China, Shanghai Film Group has a small share of "Comet".

As soon as the box office was released, they immediately organized media publicity:

[Shanghai Film Group and New Line Cinema jointly remade the movie "Comet", which grossed 4700 million US dollars at the box office]

The domestic entertainment industry was in an uproar.

And before that, a press conference was held.

Many people know that Tang Wen has investments.

The box office of 4700 million US dollars is equivalent to 3.85 million RMB.

Among them, how much did Director Tang earn?

(End of this chapter)