Lao Mouzi has reason to be happy!

"Red Sorghum" has been shortlisted for the official competition unit of this year's Berlin Film Festival, and as Lao Mouzi's first film, he can achieve such an achievement, and he is naturally happy.

"When are you going to leave for Berlin?" asked Wu Jianye.

"In two days, the opening day of this Berlin Film Festival will be on February 12, and I discussed with Brother Wu Tianming and prepared to go over a week in advance!" Lao Mouzi said with a smile.

The Berlinale was first held in June, but in '78, it was held in February every year in order to compete with the Cannes Film Festival.

"Then I wish you in advance that you can win the Golden Bear Award!" Wu Jianye said with a smile.

Why do you say that Zhang Yimou is at the peak of his debut, because Zhang Yimou's first film "Red Sorghum" won the Golden Bear Award at the Berlin Film Festival, which is almost the same as Wu Jianye.

Lao Mouzi smiled reservedly: "How can it be so easy!"

Wu Jianye: "Let's put away your hypocritical smile and go to the film festival, it's not to win the award." ”

Others may be deceived by Lao Mouzi's dull temperament, but as an old classmate for many years, Wu Jianye clearly knows how proud Lao Mouzi is.

Even if he never said it, but Lao Mouzi's psychology must be secretly stronger, Wu Jianye won the Golden Lion Award in Venice, Chen Kaige won the Silver Leopard Award at the Locarno International Film Festival, Zhang Yimou naturally saw it in his heart.

Participating in the Berlin Film Festival this time, he naturally hopes to make a difference!

The two chatted for a while, and Wu Jianye told Zhang Yimou that he would see Zhang Yimou off when he left, and Zhang Yimou got up to say goodbye.

Then Xia Xiaohong came to Wu Jianye's office, and what she sent was the report of Phantom Entertainment last year.

87 years of Phantom Entertainment handed over an answer sheet to the whole of Hollywood that was the envy of all production companies.

The first is Phantom Entertainment's ace film series "Home Alone 4", which achieved a box office of $146 million in North America and a global box office of 213 million!

The film is still co-invested by Phantom Entertainment and Universal Pictures, Universal Entertainment invested $10.5 million, and Phantom Entertainment invested $24.5 million, according to the film's investment producer, it will get a 45% box office return, Phantom Entertainment will get $45.99 million at the box office in North America, deducting $24.5 million in production costs, and Phantom Entertainment will make a profit of $21.9 million!

Combined with the $31.95 million in global revenue, Phantom Entertainment's box office revenue is $53.85 million!

At the same time, the videotape also has to add videotapes, TV rights, and peripheral product income, this kind of income has not declined because the "Home Alone" series has been filmed in the fourth part, and it still remains at about 85 million US dollars, and most importantly, there is no Universal share in it!

A total profit of $138.85 million!

The ability of "Home Alone" to attract money once again made all the production companies look at it, which directly led to Linda's final decision to continue to develop the value of this play, Wu Jianye has no opinion on this, and puts aside the benefits of more than 100 million US dollars a year not to make money, Wu Jianye is also a little reluctant.

So last year, "Home Alone 5" started filming, and it was also broadcast in last year's Christmas file, which means that last year, the "Home Alone" series directly launched two parts.

However, it is precisely for this reason, coupled with the fact that the screenwriters of the "Home Alone" series have lost their passion for creation, and they are just using the previous stalk repeatedly, so it directly led to the box office of the fifth "Home Alone" in North America only 103 million US dollars, just exceeding the passing line of 100 million US dollars!

The box office in North America has also shrunk sharply, with only $115 million, and the surrounding revenue has also shrunk significantly, only $50 million.

The income was 86.34 million US dollars, falling out of the ranks of 100 million yuan for the first time!

Last year, Phantom Entertainment gained $225.19 million from the series "Home Alone", which is enough to make Hollywood's seven envious, but this is only the beginning of Phantom Entertainment.

Because last year, Phantom Entertainment also launched Arnold Schwarzenegger's new film "Predator", which invested only $18 million, but bombarded the box office in North America with $59.75 million.

Excluding the North American market, the box office was $43.25 million.

However, because Arnold Schwarzenegger has become famous in North America, when he started filming this movie, he was no longer recognized by other film companies as before, so the seven major companies also found Phantom Entertainment one after another, hoping to cooperate with him.

In order to develop demand, Phantom Entertainment did not choose to cooperate with Universal Pictures this time, but chose 21st Century Fox, with an investment of 18 million, and 21st Century Fox took an investment share of 5.4 million!

So in terms of box office revenue, Phantom Entertainment got $26.19 million.

Arnold Schwarzenegger's films have always been very popular in the videotape market relative to box office revenues, so the revenue from the entire periphery exceeded the box office receipts, reaching $33 million.

The total revenue of "Predator" is $59.19 million!

These two benefits are actually expected by the seven major Hollywood majors, and the other three projects that really surprised the seven major are "Three Daddy and One Baby" invested and filmed by Phantom!

This film, with an investment of only $35 million, hit a box office of $167 million in North America and $138 million at the global box office, such a small-budget investment movie brought $98.61 million in box office revenue to Phantom Entertainment, as well as $72 million in revenue around it!

The total revenue reached a terrifying $170.61 million, surpassing the $138.85 million of Phantom Entertainment's ace movie "Home Alone 4"!

The second project is the new star Bruce Willis signed by Phantom Entertainment, and last year Phantom Entertainment launched the first movie "Die Hard" starring Bruce Willis!

The film invested $28 million, hit down 83 million box office in North America, and $57.75 million at the overseas box office, bringing $19 million to the Phantom box office, although it doesn't seem like much, but in this era in the North American and global film market, the income of video tapes is particularly important, and the revenue of this film video tapes and surrounding areas reached 47 million US dollars.

In other words, the film brought in $66 million in revenue for Phantom Entertainment!

What really surprised Hollywood production companies was that Phantom Entertainment had announced that it would be a series.

Although the series of movies "Die Hard" does not seem to be comparable to "Home Alone", a movie can reach more than $60 million in revenue, which is enough to make all production companies envious.

If the above projects are all cruise missiles dropped by Phantom Entertainment to the North American and even global markets, then the animated film "The Lion King" produced by Athena Animation, a subsidiary of Phantom Entertainment, during New Year's Day this year, is at the level of a nuclear bomb!

After several years of production, "The Lion King" was finally released in North America! The release date was January 1, 1988 North American time!

And as soon as this cartoon was released, it immediately detonated the box office market throughout North America.

As of today, "The Lion King" is still not off the shelves, but the box office in North America has exceeded 300 million US dollars, and the overseas box office has exceeded 600 million at this time!

Although in North America, only a month has passed since 1988, some media have asserted that "The Lion King" will win the highest box office in North America this year and the highest grossing movie in the world!

What is the investment in this movie?

$45 million!

At the same time, this movie is also a film wholly invested and produced by Athena Animation, a subsidiary of Phantom Entertainment!

A film has stirred up the global film market!

As for the income, since the movie has not been officially drawn, it has not been officially counted, and all this will not be officially counted until the movie is drawn.

It is precisely because of the appearance of "The Lion King" that Phantom Entertainment officially became the eighth largest production company in Hollywood this year!

No one doubts the strength of Phantom Entertainment anymore!

It is precisely because of this that Linda has officially begun to negotiate with theaters in North America and Europe to form her own distribution network at this time.

Leaving "The Lion King" aside, Phantom Entertainment's revenue exceeded $500 million last year, reaching $550 million!

This also includes the proceeds from Phantom Entertainment's films with other film companies and Linda's own films.

After reading the report of Phantom Entertainment, Wu Jianye personally called Linda to encourage and affirm Linda's work achievements this year.

.......

"Lao Wu, the work of "Desire" is complete, and now it is waiting to be broadcast on CCTV!"

On this day, Zhao Baogang and Zheng Xiaolong came to the court culture.

Wu Jianye asked, "How did CCTV arrange it?"

Zheng Xiaolong smiled: "Ranked behind "Journey to the West". ”

"Journey to the West" has been scheduled to be broadcast during the New Year, because with several episodes of 86 years of simulcast, "Journey to the West" has long had a strong audience base in China, and in the past two years, every year, Tangting Culture will come out with two to five episodes of "Journey to the West" to satisfy the audience's hunger.

It can be said that it has whetted the curiosity of the audience.

In fact, the official broadcast of "Journey to the West" in another time and space was also in 88, and the reason why it was later called the 86 version of "Journey to the West" was actually because in 86, a few episodes were simulcast, and there would be a later generation.

Especially this time "Journey to the West" was officially broadcast, Tangting Culture began to promote it in major domestic media and newspapers early, of course, the propaganda of this era cannot be like the propaganda of later generations, speculating on IP, speculating on the insider, if Tangting Culture dares to do this, it is estimated that the ban will have come down long ago.

"What's next?" Wu Jianye asked.

Zhao Baogang said with a smile: "I'm going to take a break for a while, during this time, I feel a little overdrawn in order to catch up with the filming of "Desire". ”

"Body overdraft?" Wu Jianye teased and looked at Zhao Baogang.

At this time, Wu Jianye really wanted to recommend Hui REN brand kidney treasure to Zhao Baogang......

Zhao Baogang's face turned red: "What I'm talking about is that I'm tired." ”

"Yes, we know!" Wu Jianye's smile became more and more meaningful.

Seeing this, Zhao Baogang simply didn't explain.

This year is also an important year for the court culture.

During the New Year, two major dramas "Journey to the West" and "Desire" will be broadcast, and two TV series "Fengshen Bang" and "The Legend of the New White Lady" will be filmed this year.

After 88 years, the domestic film market will enter an era of rapid contraction, and the rise of TV dramas is already irresistible.

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