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Chapter 473 The contract is tricky, the salary issue
"Is it so convenient? Hehe, when I was in China, I thought I was so tall." Zhou Xia couldn't help laughing. When mentioning actors who joined the Screen Actors Guild in China, many people would think that they were big names and powerful.

"Convenience is convenience, but there are also barriers to joining the union. It's just that you have no problem with it, boss." Seeing that Zhou Xia didn't care much about the actors' union, Zhang Xueda quickly explained.

"What's the threshold? How can I have no problem?" Zhou Xia was puzzled.

"It's actually not easy to join the Screen Actors Guild of America. Only when you meet the criteria can you apply for membership." Meet union standards!

Secondly, work in another production of the same standard for 30 days, but must apply to join the union within these 30 days, or, if any extra actor has three independent working days to participate in the union-approved production certificate, and attach Proof of income on the Internet, there is also a "membership application qualification." "

"I see, I understand." Zhou Xia nodded. According to this statement, he is indeed qualified.

He signed a two-month work contract with "The Expendables 2", with a salary of 120 million US dollars.

Although the salary is not high, it is already higher than most Hollywood actors. In addition, he appeared in this movie not for the salary. They Xia Hua also obtained the distribution rights of the movie in China, so he didn't think much about the salary. A question by Hollywood standards.

Moreover, his salary converted into soft sister coins is more than 700 million, and he is also a first-line male star in China, which is basically in line with his salary as an actor.

But now after hearing what Zhang Xueda said, he felt that he still couldn't give in in this regard.

The influence that "The Expendables 2" can bring to him is limited. The global reputation of this movie is mediocre. If his salary is sent back to China, there will definitely be many opponents who will follow the rhythm and say that he lowered his salary to participate in this movie. He also invested in buying domestic copyrights, posting it like this, which would have a very bad impact on his reputation.

After thinking about it, Zhou Xia looked at Zhang Xueda: "Zhang Xueda, then on what basis do you judge that my salary should be around $500 million? If I remember correctly, this salary is equivalent to that of a second-tier Hollywood star. Bell participated in "" The salary of "Thirteen Hairpins" seems to be 1000 million US dollars, but he is a first-line actor in Hollywood, those super stars, the film salary is 2000 million US dollars, plus the box office split, is it like this?"

"Boss, this may be the standard reported by the domestic media. The salary of Hollywood stars is much higher than this. Especially first-line stars, top stars, this domestic statement may only count their basic salary."

Zhang Xueda was a little embarrassed to say that what Zhou Xia said was wrong, so he tried to be as tactful as possible.

"Is that so, then how will their salary be calculated, roughly how much?"

"It's like this. In Hollywood, actors have a minimum salary, but there is no ceiling. The salary of many famous actors ranges from US$100 million to US$3000 million for a film. If the film is broadcast on other channels other than theaters, Celebrities will also have some additional income. For example, when a certain film is broadcast on a TV platform, the leading actors will receive an additional income of about 3.6% of their salary. In addition, first-line stars even have box office share and home video share.

Take Tom Cruise as an example. His total salary for the first three parts of "Mission: Impossible" is as high as 2.9 million US dollars. As the star and producer of the "Mission: Impossible" series, the contract he signed with the film studio is very domineering. , even if the box office of the third part is not as good as expected, he can still make a lot of money.And the income of Paramount, the investor, is less than a fraction of his, so "Mission: Impossible 4" took so long to start filming again, and Cruise's income this time is even higher.

For another example, Keanu Reeves, when the first part of "The Matrix", he only took 1000 million US dollars and a 10% share. As a result, the global box office of the film was 4.63 million, making him a profit of 5600 million.

But this is nothing. In the latter two sequel contracts, his share was increased to 15%, with a total income of 1.75 million. In total, he starred in the "Matrix" series and earned a total of 262 billion US dollars.

But he was nice enough to donate a large portion of his pay to the costume and special effects departments, making many millionaires. "

Zhou Xia was shocked when Zhang Xueda gave him a detailed list: "I know that the box office of Hollywood movies only accounts for 1% of the total revenue, and other peripheral revenues reach more than [-]%, but I didn't expect it to be so high. The revenue of a movie Nearly [-] million US dollars!"

"It's true. Hollywood movies have a global market, and their copyright protection is well done, so the peripheral income is very high. Some movies lose money just by watching the box office, but they don't actually lose money.

Just like "The Expendables 1" did not perform well at the box office. From the box office point of view, it can only pay back the money, but actually counting other peripheral income, the profit is very high, so they will make a sequel.

Boss, don't be polite to the producer of "The Expendables" in this regard, and don't be afraid, your salary of 120 million dollars is indeed relatively low.In this regard, you can provide proof of the income of the two movies you directed as a reference, and then the Screen Actors Union will be more confident in helping you protest and resolve this issue. "

"Okay, I'll have them fax the contract in a moment"

Zhou Xia agreed, and then heard the car stop, and a four-star hotel was outside the window.

Under the leadership of the staff, Zhou Xia entered the hotel and made arrangements, the next step was to apply for insurance and join the guild.

Lionsgate Films quickly arranged for a Chinese employee to come. Obviously, when they were in the car, they kept talking in Chinese. The other party didn't know what they were discussing, so they found a person to watch .

Zhou Xia ordered Li Jingwen to contact Yang Tianzhen in the imperial capital and fax the contract to the Hollywood office, while he was busy with other people.

When the work was over, Zhang Xueda had already printed out the faxed contract, and asked the lawyer in the office to read it carefully.

"How is it? Is there a problem?" Zhou Xia hurriedly asked Zhang Xueda when he saw Zhang Xueda coming with a contract with outlines and text marked on it.

"Yes, the other party obviously knew about this matter, so they specified some terms and converted it based on your salary in "Painted Skin 2", so they gave you 120 million dollars."

"Painted Skin 2, can we still initiate negotiations? My actor's salary in "Painted Skin 2" is indeed 800 million, but I still have the director's salary, box office share, and film copyright. For "The Expendables 2", I don't There might be some of these."

Zhou Xia explained to Zhang Xueda carefully so that he could judge the situation.

"This can be used as a reference, but it is written in the contract that your influence in the global market is limited to Chinese and the Asian region, so your salary is determined."

(End of this chapter)