At first, I just wanted to make money

Chapter 592 "Big Movie"

According to Joseph Drake's prediction, the producer's income should be close to 2000 million US dollars in "The Fault in Our Stars" box office split - net income deducting production costs.

Coupled with the income from video tapes and TV entertainment, a few can earn 3000 million US dollars.

In other words, "The Fault in Our Stars" can create more than 8000 million net profits for Wonderful Studio...

The unit is US dollars.

In fact, Shen Xudong also knew that he might not be able to keep a secret—Hollywood has a lot of inventory every year: the annual money-making movies and so on, and the profitability of "Juno" and "The Fault in Our Stars" will definitely be exposed...

In addition, Golden Harvest has also participated in the investment of many projects - the annual financial report will be disclosed, and it will be exposed!

So what Shen Xudong did was really just taking off his pants and farting—it was superfluous.

But he likes it.

Regarding the income from "The Fault in Our Stars" this time, Shen Xudong decided to take half of it to improve his life.

The remaining half is still used for project development.

Have you ever thought about building a distribution system?
In fact, Joseph Drake and Jason Blum have some complaints about Lionsgate taking 13% of the distribution fee...

Yes, the 13% distribution commission is already the lowest in the industry, and Paramount and Universal take 17% for DreamWorks' works.

But each movie gave Lionsgate $1000 million in "protection fees" for nothing, and everyone was very upset.

But we all know that in order to build a distribution channel, there is a major premise: to produce 12~15 movies every year.

Back then, Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen formed DreamWorks with a starting capital of 26 billion US dollars, but they failed to get the distribution network...

Because of a necessary prerequisite: If you want to have your own distribution company, you must produce at least 12 to 15 films a year, but DreamWorks can only produce 1 "decent films" a year-the big studios have hundreds of films at any time. The script is waiting to be filmed, but DreamWorks doesn't have it!

Even though DreamWorks later had its own distribution company, its strength was weak after all. Regardless of whether it was movies, TV or DVDs, they had to rely on the distribution networks of Universal, Paramount and other giants to jointly distribute, which of course also meant a diversion of profits...

Wonderful Studio tentatively plans to produce five to eight films per year…

In fact, The Twilight Saga received an investment from Lionsgate — half of which was invested by Lionsgate.

If you don’t accept investment from a big studio, it’s equivalent to ‘the leader picks up food and you turn the table, and the leader toasts you don’t drink’…

You want to fly?

Although Lionsgate is incomparable with the real big companies in terms of size, they started with B-grade movies and horror movies, which conform to the attributes of Wonderful Studio. In addition, the TV series "Urban Robbery" produced by Joseph Drake " was going to be broadcast on AMC cable station, and it was Lionsgate who made the connection - Lionsgate and AMC TV station reached a five-year cooperation strategy, during which they launched "Mad Men", "Toxic Moms"...

It's a pity that AMC's work that carried the flag was "Breaking Bad", which has nothing to do with Lionsgate!
Why didn't Shen Xudong play the idea of ​​"Breaking Bad"?

Hehe, although the birth of "Breaking Bad" has many twists and turns, its producer, screenwriter, and director Vince Gilligan has been in the American TV industry for more than ten years, and even has a masterpiece - "X-Files" "series…

He insisted that "Breaking Bad" would be a blockbuster, and he would not accept copyright sharing at all!
——It’s okay to invest, but don’t think about copyright. With such an attitude, how can Shen Xudong invest?

……

"Blockbuster" will be released on August 8, which is considered the final work of the summer file.

But it also avoided the peak movie viewing period of "Harry Potter", and it can be regarded as an exclusive schedule of nearly 20 days-until September 9, there were only two new films released, namely "Embroidered Spring Knife" and "Harry Potter". "C + Detective", in addition, "The Sun Also Rises" will be released on September 7st...

Of course, even with an exclusive schedule, Shen Xudong felt that it would be difficult for "Blockbuster" to exceed [-] million—a joking story that revealed the birth process of domestic blockbusters, and predicted that "blockbusters must die", and secretly satirized "Red Cliff" …

Too industrialized, such a movie may not be of interest to the public.

The "[-] million" starting point that I told Chen Daoming on the set of "Rising Fame" was just fooling him...

Let him film "Being Famous" with peace of mind.

If you really think that "Blockbuster" can exceed [-] million, it will definitely be released before "Old Thousand", and it won't be delayed until the end of the summer vacation.

But the premiere of "Big Movie" has a lot of cards - the actors of "Big Movie" are basically familiar faces in the Beijing circle, and even Feng Xiaogang came to play a cameo.

At the premiere, many actors and directors joined in.

The director of "Big Movie" is Huang Jianxin. He has a good relationship with Director Han of China Film Group, and also with Yu Dong of Bona. In addition, he also gets along well with Chen Kexin...

In addition... the Huabiao Awards may be held the day after tomorrow, and many directors and actors who came in advance basically came to the premiere of "Blockbuster" to join in the fun...

Shen Xudong was surprised to see Director Chen and... Zhang Ziyi, aren't you filming "Mei Lanfang"?

How did you come here when you were free?
But when people come, of course they have to say hello.

It's a little embarrassing, after all, Shen Xudong didn't say anything about "The Promise" back then. As for Senior Sister Zhang, she also forged a bond at the Vanity Fair party...

Fortunately, everyone is a scene person, and after greeting each other, Director Chen specifically mentioned "Fame and Li Wan" which was released on National Day...

'I heard that the first movie you directed will be released soon, congratulations! '

'…Thanks! '

Over there, Daoming Chen and director Huang Jianxin were being interviewed by the media. Daoming Chen said directly: "This story is adapted by Xudong based on real events... The things in the movie are basically true."

Huang Jianxin said: "I didn't intend to direct at first, but I couldn't help it when I saw the script of "Blockbuster".

Oh, and the lead actor in "Blockbuster" has changed from an avant-garde young director to a middle-aged director who wants to make a good movie...

This kind of middle-aged director has had masterpieces, but after the film is marketed, it can't keep up with the times.

Then, he met a producer, listened to his persuasion, and tinkered with a book about a major martial arts production, and the two partnered to cheat money...

The director is played by Ge You, the revised script, the producer is the male lead, he has the most plays, and Chen Daoming plays the producer.

It’s not considered cheating money, at least in the eyes of the director played by Ge You, it’s not cheating money—how can art be considered cheating?
First, the Shanxi Coal Boss—he asked director He Ping to play a cameo, and he is from Shanxi.

Rolled over 100 million, 30 of which I kept in my pocket, 70 rented a limousine, packaged and promoted a director, and then went to the meeting of the big star Wu Jing, fooling him into signing a "intent" that has no legal effect "Contract", take a photo with him, and turn around with the contract and photo to deal with the Shanxi boss;

Then another 500 million from the Tangshan Iron Boss...

The actor of Tie Lao version is Jiang Wen...

500 million arrived...

At this time, the movie cannot start shooting, because 500 million is not enough, so first of all, we need to hold a special "press conference", invite celebrities from all walks of life, industry leaders, and media reporters, and everyone will give red envelopes.

Big news.

Celebrities from all walks of life and industry leaders are basically real people, Feng Xiaogang, Xu Ke, Han Shanping all attended...

Oh, this script is called "Martial Arts", with a planned investment of 1.5 million, produced by Xu Ke, and invited Li Lianlian, Donnie Yen and Wu Jing to star in it...

The cake painting was successful, and it got 3000 million from the owner of Zhejiang Fang...

Dong Yong who plays the real estate boss - he is from Hangzhou, Zhejiang!

Well, this is probably enough for the pre-shooting.

Before starting the machine, the film review team came down with a file, saying that there was something wrong with the idea of ​​your script, the review failed, and the filming permit was not obtained.

How to do?
Change it...

At the end, martial arts blockbusters have ebbed in Europe and America...

Of course, there are episodes in which actresses recommend themselves as pillow seats, and the director’s process from artistic pursuits to obedience to producers...

In the easter egg part, in the bathing center, Chen Daoming pinched his feet while discussing new works with Ge You:
"Don't engage in martial arts. If you have an idea, we can make a Three Kingdoms. The theme of "Three Kingdoms" is very hot recently, so we will shoot "Red Cliff"..."

""Red Cliff"...I'm afraid I won't be able to shoot director Wu Yusen!"

"It's okay, let's change the plot and change the reason why Cao Cao sent troops to Soochow to want to get Xiao Qiao... The audience must find it novel, and then find a beautiful actress to play Xiao Qiao, Fan Bingbing, what do you think?"

"Then who will play Cao Cao?"

"Of course it's Daoming Chen!"

Ge You complained: "Chen Daoming can't do it, he acts the same in everything, it's too serious!"

Chen Daoming was silent for a while, and then said: "...he is the best actor in Venice!"

(End of this chapter)