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Chapter 1045 "The Great Wall" project

After spending a day with Mina and seeing her at her best, Zhou Xia's inner doubts are still unsolved.

Mina categorically denies the matter with Xiao Ai, does not admit it at all, and there is nothing he can do.

Soon it was time for "Descendants of Yanhuang" to be released in North America, and Zhou Xia, Yaya and others set off for the United States.

The announcement in North America is in charge of Xiahua Studio8, a North American company owned by Xiahua Holdings.

Xiahua Studio8 is now considered one of the eight giants in North America, surpassing Lionsgate and Paramount in terms of assets and production capabilities and ranking sixth.

Moreover, he also owns a lot of shares in Legendary Pictures, and has been trying to acquire Legendary Pictures.

This time Zhou Xia's film screening in North America is still very grand, and many contracted artists and co-artists have been invited.

The movie is officially scheduled to be released at midnight next Friday, that is, August 8th. After Zhou Xia arrived in North America on August 14th, he accepted some media interviews during the day and attended the media screening of the movie that night. Yes, and started to go to New York, Houston, Chicago and other big cities with Yaya to promote the film.

At the end of the four-day promotion, he returned to Xiahua studio8 in Los Angeles.

The president of the company is Jeff, the former president of studio8, and the vice president is Peter, the former president of Xiahua North America Company, which can be regarded as a check and balance relationship.

Zhou Xia returned to the company again, and will wait until the film is officially released in North America. During this period, he has many things to deal with.

Especially before some major Hollywood production companies contacted him, wanting to invite him to direct or participate in movies.

Because Yaya was worried about her two children, after promoting the film, she returned to China with other main creators.

Zhou Xia is not alone here, with Yufei here, besides making movies, she also has many opportunities to star in American dramas.

"Boss, these are the negotiation items you requested to keep, the latest progress we have contacted."

Under the leadership of the two presidents, Zhou Xia visited studio8, which has been developed for more than half a year. After getting to know the new employees here, he came to a large office. Peter and Jeff were going to talk to him about something.

Zhou Xia took the file and flipped through it.

The first document was that Warner Bros. President Kevin asked him to direct the film of Wonder Woman, the famous heroine of DC Comics.

Zhou Xia never refused.

In addition to the fact that he has always wanted to try to make a blockbuster movie in Hollywood, it was also to limit the development of Marvel, and to revenge Marvel for engaging in his comics at the time.

So this cooperation is just the beginning. If both parties are satisfied and the final result is good, then there will be more cooperation in the future.

This is also one of the current development strategies of studio8 in North America, which is to cooperate with Warner Bros.

If I remember correctly, the director of this movie "Wonder Woman" with many female characters is also a woman, named Patty Jenkins. In 2003, her feature film debut "The Devil" won wide acclaim. Well received, starring Charlize Theron won the 76th Oscar for Best Actress for this film.

She has also directed a string of TV shows including Arrested Development, Murder, and Betrayal.

This female director is very young, only 43 years old this year, she is not only talented, but also very beautiful.

This is not the point, the point is that this female director is now the contracted director of Xia Hua studio8.

Zhou Xia carefully looked at some of the terms negotiated in the document.

Warner Bros. agreed to allow Xia Hua stdio8 to send suitable actresses to participate in the casting of this drama. In addition, Xia Hua Film and Television is also responsible for the promotion in Greater China.

In addition, that is Zhou Xia's director's salary, as well as the global distribution of accounts.

Zhou Xia has now become one of the most expensive directors and actors in the world with four consecutive films that have sold well all over the world.

The remuneration offered by Warner Bros. this time is also very interesting, with a remuneration of 8000 million US dollars, plus the global box office share.

Of course, the basis for splitting accounts is that when the global box office is higher than 3 million US dollars, it is 2%, and every 1 million US dollars higher is increased by [-]%.

In fact, this salary can only be regarded as basically in line with Zhou Xia's worth. Compared with Stallone's salary split in the "Expendable Squad" series, and Tom Cruise's salary and split in the "Mission: Impossible" series, it is not so exaggerated.

Cruise can earn more than 1 million US dollars for a single film, and some even [-] to [-] million US dollars. He gets the big money, while the investors get a small part.

But what is different this time is that Zhou Xia does not play the leading role, but is only the director, and the investment in studio8 also accounts for 20%, which can be considered as making up for it.

After reading the entire document, Zhou Xia said, "Make an appointment with Kevin, I'll talk to you, and I'll read the script before we talk."

Zhou Xia was not beaten to death.

"Understood, boss." Peter agreed, and handed Zhou Xia another document.

Zhou Xia opened it to see Legendary Pictures' project about "Pacific Rim 2", as well as the script modification of the latest "Great Wall" project.

After Legendary Pictures cooperated with Xiahua Film and Television to achieve success in "Pacific Rim", the boss Thomas Tull began to try new IP projects more aggressively.

As a result, besides "Godzilla" and "Jurassic World", these well-known projects made a fortune.

Other films shot in the past two years, such as "300 Warriors: Rise of the Empire", "Scarlet Mountain", "Hackers Clash", "Out of Compton", "Steve Jobs", "The Seventh Son" are not in a mess , It is barely paying back.

Under such circumstances, Legendary Pictures was not so stubborn anymore, and wanted to discuss these two projects with Zhou Xia again, especially when he declined to come to "The Great Wall".

Ever since Zhou Xia and Lao Mouzi rejected the "Great Wall" project, Legendary Films had been in contact with the big domestic directors Mr. Xu, Wu Yusen and others, but in the end due to various reasons, they couldn't reach it.

The most important thing is that Legendary Pictures is too ambitious and wants to use this new IP to create a series of myths in the mainland market, so it attaches great importance to the first part. Naturally, the director and actors strive to choose the most important film to protect the film. successful.

But after all these years, when it comes to the mainland market, apart from Zhou Xia, no one else can compare with him.

Therefore, after experiencing setbacks, Thomas Tull thought of cooperating with Zhou Xia, even if the first part gave up huge benefits.

As long as Zhou Xia can make this film successfully, with his influence in the mainland and the world, the subsequent series of films will naturally be able to make money steadily.

Zhou Xia was not surprised by Legendary Pictures' big concession this time, but Thomas had ideas and he had countermeasures.

He is actually very optimistic about the project of "The Great Wall", of course, the premise is that the script is better written.

As the seventh wonder of the world, "The Great Wall" is undoubtedly well-known around the world, and it is also a business card of China, so it must be done well.

Therefore, he needs more leadership in this project, preferably after Legendary is acquired, then this project can be the master, and everything will be simpler.

After all, Legendary Pictures was acquired by Wanda, so Zhou Xia hoped that Xiahua Film and Television or Xiahua sduio8 could do this first.

(End of this chapter)