Phantom Entertainment's development plan and financial statements are sealed in a brown paper bag, even if Wu Jianye confessed, Linda also knew that it involved some development secrets of Phantom Entertainment, so it was sealed.

Actually, Linda wanted to send it back, but Wu Jianye thought about it for a while and asked Zhao Lei to bring it back, he didn't want this thing to be sent to Singapore, and then the other party made another mistake.......

"You sit down first!" Wu Jianye opened the brown paper bag and pointed to the seat opposite him.

The first thing Wu Jianye watched was Phantom Entertainment's financial situation this year, and Phantom Entertainment invested in a total of three Universal Pictures films this year, namely $3 million "French Open Condor", $5 million "Horror Inn", and $6 million "Heavenly Soldiers".

As for the earnings.......

It seems that the goal of recovering the cost has not yet been achieved, and it is estimated that if you want to break even, it will not be possible until the three films are released on videotape.

In the past two years, the cooperation between Phantom Entertainment and Universal Pictures can be said to be more and more intimate, and the two sides are still in the honeymoon period.

As for Phantom Entertainment's own investment and production, it still has a very high influence in North America The "Home Alone" series, and now "Home Alone" has been filmed in the fourth part, and almost every one of the first three is a nuclear weapon for the North American New Year, but no matter what, fans still have some viewing fatigue, so when the third part is gone, there is no explosiveness of the previous two films, and now the fourth part has not been released, and it is very good to think that the box office in North America can be maintained to 150 million US dollars.

But one thing that makes other Hollywood studios extremely envious is the investment in Home Alone.

With the performance of the male number one child star in "Home Alone", he has become the hottest child star in the United States and even the world, and by the time of the third part, he asked for his salary to 15 million US dollars, which is already the highest salary of a top male movie star in North America.

Hollywood is not yet born with a 20 million club.

When it came to the filming of the fourth part, Linda asked Wu Jianye for what he meant, and decisively gave up the original starring role, and then the fourth part of "Home Alone" auditioned and recruited in the United States.

Among the more than 10,000 school-age children, Leonardo DiCaprio, who was only 12 years old with his parents coming to audition!

This also led to the budget of the fourth "Home Alone" dropping from $50 million at the beginning to $35 million!

When he learned that the star of "Home Alone 4" was Leonardo DiCaprio, Wu Jianye immediately informed Linda that he had signed a ten-year contract with him.......

At the same time, Phantom Entertainment also started a movie for the company's contracted artist Arnold Schwarzenegger, "Commander of the Devil"!

The film has been released in North America with a production cost of $10 million, but the box office has reached a box office of $58 million, which once again proves Arnold Schwarzenegger's box office appeal, which also makes Arnold Schwarzenegger another action star in North America after Stallone!

However, this is not the biggest expense of Phantom Entertainment this year, Phantom Entertainment's biggest expenditure this year is the establishment of a production company called Athena Animation, the initial investment of this production company is as high as 50 million US dollars, of which 10 million US dollars are used to buy various machines and recruit talents, and the remaining 40 million US dollars are invested in the production of an animated film.

Although Linda knew that Wu Jianye had been preparing an animated movie, when she knew that the investment in this animated film was as high as 40 million US dollars, she couldn't help but hesitate, but in the end she still chose to believe Wu Jianye.

The main thing is that if she doesn't agree, her stake in Phantom Entertainment will be diluted with the establishment of Athena Animation.......

The anime is now in production, but it will have to wait until the end of next year or the beginning of the year after it to be completed.

This is also a good choice for Phantom Entertainment, if the box office of "Home Alone" is not satisfactory this year, Phantom Entertainment is likely to choose to refrigerate this series first, and then take it out for the second round of money making after a few years.

Phantom Entertainment's two biggest projects this year are "Home Alone 3" released on New Year's Day in '86, the film has an investment of $50 million, of which Universal Pictures, as a partner company of Phantom Entertainment, took a share of $15 million in investment, and the film has a box office record of $162 million in North America and $218 million worldwide outside North America, both of which are less than the previous two.

According to the share calculation, Phantom Entertainment recovered $62.37 million at the North American box office alone, deducting $35 million from Phantom's investment, making a profit of $27.37 million, and the global box office revenue will receive $61.04 million after deducting the share with Universal Pictures.

Add to that the revenue from videotapes, television rights, and merchandise, which is almost equal to box office revenue, at $86 million, which is not shared with Universal Pictures.

In other words, this year's "Home Alone 3" movie alone brought $174.41 million to Phantom Entertainment.

This is also why "Home Alone" is the most money-attracting movie series in Hollywood today.

The income of Phantom Entertainment's other film "Commander of the Devil" is also objective, this film belongs to Phantom Entertainment's independent investment and shooting, Universal Pictures has fallen into a financial crisis in the past two years, and Schwarzenegger, who has only succeeded in one movie, and this movie is not a sequel to "Terminator", there is no investment.

In other words, the film's revenue at the North American box office reached $31.9 million, which even surpassed "Home Alone 3" in terms of revenue alone, but in terms of global box office revenue, this movie has no way to compare with "Home Alone 3".

The film only grossed about $70 million in the United States, and earned only $28 million.

However, now Arnold Schwarzenegger's film is very popular in the videotape market because of "Terminator", so the income in this area has also brought nearly $30 million to Phantom Entertainment.

The entire revenue of "Commander Devil" for Phantom Entertainment is $89.9 million!

Relying only on the two movies "Home Alone 3" and "Commander Devil", Phantom Entertainment has benefited a total of $264.31 million, which not only makes Phantom Entertainment the most profitable independent production company in Hollywood, but also surpasses the three major Hollywood studios, MGM and Columbia.

has become a force to be reckoned with in Hollywood.

If it weren't for Phantom Entertainment's insufficient distribution capabilities, Hollywood's eight major studios would have been mentioned again.

But even so, there have been Hollywood media pointing out that in less than three years, Phantom Entertainment will become one of Hollywood's eight majors!

In fact, there is also a relationship with Linda, as of now, all the external docking of Phantom Entertainment is made by Linda, so the impression given from the outside is that this company belongs to Linda, as a pure Hollywood, Phantom Entertainment under the leadership of Linda has not been too excluded by other companies.

After reading the financial situation of Phantom Entertainment, Wu Jianye looked at Linda's plan for Phantom Entertainment next year.

As predicted by Hollywood media, Phantom Entertainment will focus its main work on distribution next year, which means that Phantom Entertainment will officially enter the ranks of distribution, which is a long way to go, but it has to be done.

Only when it truly masters the distribution can Phantom Entertainment really have its own voice in Hollywood, and it does not have to be subject to Universal Pictures or other film companies that want to come in and get a piece of the pie.

For example, Universal Pictures, which is in financial crisis this year, even if Universal Pictures has not released blockbuster movies in recent years, it still surpasses Phantom Entertainment in terms of income by relying on its strong distribution ability, and a large part of the income is earned by Phantom Entertainment's movies.

If it weren't for Hollywood's anti-monopoly law, Wu Jianye would have wanted to buy the theater chain in the United States by himself, but unfortunately Hollywood's monopoly law made this idea impossible to realize, but it doesn't mean that there is no other operability, but it just has to be slowly figured out.

As for the filming plan, the most important thing for Phantom Entertainment next year is about Arnold Schwarzenegger's new film plan, and now Phantom Entertainment has screened film scripts suitable for Arnold Schwarzenegger throughout Hollywood, and Hollywood has thousands of scripts sealed every year, and there are not no scripts that are not favored by everyone.

Some are because the technology is not enough, some are because there are no suitable actors, maybe when there are suitable actors in the future, or when the technology matures, these scripts will be taken out again.

So there is no need to worry that Schwarzenegger will not find a suitable script, not to mention that there is also Wu Jianye's recommendation here.

Schwarzenegger, who is backed by Phantom Entertainment, can only achieve better development in the film and television industry than the original time and space.

As for the "Home Alone" series, it has just been said that it will be tentatively filmed according to the situation of the fourth part.

At the same time, Phantom Entertainment will also prepare for the release of the new animation according to the production situation.

Of course, there will also be Linda's own film investment as the general manager of Phantom Entertainment, but Wu Jianye once instructed her to ask Wu Jianye what Wu Jianye meant when investing more than 10 million US dollars, which was also to avoid a large loss of Phantom Entertainment.

After reading the entire 87-year plan, Wu Jianye thought about it for a while, and still made a transatlantic call to Linda.

When Linda received Wu Jianye's call, she had just arrived at the company, and Wu Jianye didn't say too much nonsense, but gave Linda a task.

is to let her find Bruce Willis, who participated in the TV series "Blue Moonlight Detective Agency" last year, and ask the company to sign him, and say that at the beginning of the year, he will give a movie script about Bruce Willis starring!

In the late 80s and 90s, there were many action stars in Hollywood, the most famous of which were Stallone, Schwarzenegger and Bruce Willis.

Now that Stallone has made a name for himself in Hollywood with "First Blood", it is unrealistic to sign him, but Bruce Willis still has no problem, and now Bruce Willis is still a little transparent in Hollywood, and he has just made some names on the small screen.

If you have Schwarzenegger and Bruce Willis throughout the 80s, you don't have to worry about the movies produced by Phantom Entertainment at the box office.

As for the script that Wu Jianye took out, it is also Bruce Willis's famous work "Die Hard", the most important thing is that this movie will also be a series of movies, when the popularity of "Home Alone" is gradually lonely, "Die Hard" can be a good match for this series!

After hearing this task, Linda said that she understood, as for why Wu Jianye would know such an actor, Linda has given up asking, she has been reading books about Huaxia recently, including the book "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", in her opinion, Wu Jianye is Zhuge Liang in the book.

You don't have to go out to know what is going on in the world!

But then Linda said casually that a screenwriter came to Phantom Entertainment with a movie script and wanted to get investment.

Linda herself likes this script, but the investment is more than 10 million dollars, close to 35 million, and this screenwriter is just a new screenwriter who has just written a movie script.

Wu Jianye asked curiously: "What is the name of this screenwriter, what is the name of the script, and what is the story?"

Linda said: "This screenwriter is called James Orr, and the name of the script is called Three Daddy and One Baby, which is actually the story of three people with different professions who accidentally received a newborn baby, and their lives changed!"

Wu Jianye held the phone, his eyes lit up, and he said with a smile: "It just so happens that I have time now, can you tell me the content of this story in detail!"

Linda: "Okay......"

After listening to Linda's narration, Wu Jianye smiled, and sure enough, it was the movie in his impression: "Invest in him!"

After Linda listened to it, she didn't think much about it, it's only 35 million dollars, and for Phantom Entertainment, it's not a problem at all!

Linda then said a few other things before hanging up.

The movie "Three Dads and One Baby" is actually not very famous in the Hollywood movie stream, but he won the first place at the North American box office next year, in 1987!

The screenwriter of this movie is James Orr, and after he wrote the script, he searched almost all Hollywood studios, but no one was optimistic about the prospects of the film.

In desperation, James Orr even found a record company, and co-invested with several film companies that were not famous at this time to make this movie, and his remuneration was extremely low.......

But when the film was released, it immediately detonated the North American box office, and when it was finally painted, it grossed as much as $167 million in North America.

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