Chapter 88 The Periphery of the Movie

"Stealing Love" grossed as much as $130 million, and John, as an investor and producer, only received a measly $9 million. This rate of return is not cost-effective in any way, but if this is the case, then no one will invest in movies.

In North America, the box office is only a small part of the film's revenue, accounting for only 27% of the total revenue, while a whopping 73% of the revenue is generated from the movie's peripherals.

The first one is overseas copyright. John sold the overseas rights to "Stealing Love" to New Line Pictures for $47.65 million.

The overseas screening of films is very complicated, not only is the way of account sharing different from that of North America, but also there are often moths, such as stealing the box office, falsely reporting publicity expenses, and tax deductions.

With John's current capacity, he could not supervise overseas distribution, so he could only package and sell the overseas rights to New Line Films.

After the overseas copyright of the film is settled, it will be followed by the North American TV copyright. John sold the North American television rights to NBC for $6.5 million.

Overseas rights and television rights increased John's income to $63,343,953.

The more than $60 million was not John's final income, and he still had a large amount of income behind him.

John sold the rights to the videotape to New Line Pictures for $8.5 million.

Third-party copyright authorization, John received a total of 7 million US dollars, most of which were toys, clothing, and food.

As for the game copyright, "Stealing Love" cannot be adapted into a game, so there is no game company to come to the door, and John naturally does not have this part of the income.

But the movie soundtrack John has made a lot of money, and the movie soundtrack of "Stealing Love" has sold 8.74 million copies so far, and at a profit of $3 each, John can get $26.22 million on the movie soundtrack.

All the income was taken into account, and John ended up with $105,063,953.

The investment of 10 million US dollars has brought John 100 million US dollars in more than half a year, which is a terrifying return on investment, and this is only a temporary income.

The sale of soundtracks will accumulate over time, and John has only sold the overseas rights, television rights, and video rights for ten years, and after ten years, the rights will return to him, and he can sell them again at that time.

Movies are a long-term income, and as long as John doesn't sell out the rights, he will always enjoy the profits that "Stealing Love" brings him.

It's just sad that the $100 million that John just got in his hands left him before he could cover it.

ICM is currently expanding globally and is in dire need of money. So John had to put the $100 million into ICM's account, and he went from a billionaire to a poor man again.

After sending the money to ICM, John went alone to the Directors Guild Building at 7920 Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles. He already has a film in theaters, so he is eligible to join the directors' union.

After joining the directors' guild, John also joined the screenwriters' guild and recorded all the scripts he wrote, so that he would not be afraid of crashes in the future.

After the matter in Los Angeles was dealt with, John returned to Morgan Manor on Long Island, and he was an idler until the filming of "Forrest Gump" in the middle of next year. So he plans to stay at home during this time to take a good rest and write some scripts by the way.

"John, you don't have to make movies all year, do you have any other arrangements?" asked Mrs. Morgan, looking at John.

In the past few years, John has gone out to study, and after graduation, he went to Los Angeles to shoot movies, and rarely stays at home, so Mrs. Morgan hopes that John can spend more time with her at home.

John, who was watching the television, heard Mrs. Morgan's words and replied, "Mother, I'm going to stay at home and write some scripts, and travel abroad once in a while." ”

"Great!" said Mrs. Morgan, who smiled happily, for she had only one son, John, so she naturally hoped that John would always be by her side.

Compared with Mrs. Morgan's happiness, old Morgan on one side was very bland, and there was not the slightest joy in his angular face. "John, what do you think of the Middle East some time ago?" said Morgan Sr., who wanted to test John's political acumen and strategic vision.

The Morgan family has long since broken away from the role of early capitalists and has become a family integrating politics, economy, military and partisanship, so as the future head of the family, it is necessary not only to have leadership ability, but also to have forward-looking perspectives and thinking.

John on the other side heard Morgan's question and thought about it carefully, the Middle East issue in Morgan's mouth was the famous Gulf War.

The Gulf War took place on January 17, 1991, when YLK captured KWT. The US-led multinational forces, under the authority of the UN Security Council, are engaged in a local war against YLK to restore the territorial integrity of KET.

This war was the first large-scale local war in which the United States took the lead since the Vietnam War. In the war, for the first time, the US military put a large number of high-tech weapons into actual combat, demonstrating overwhelming air and electromagnetic superiority. At the same time, it is also the war with the highest degree of modernization, the largest use of new weapons, and the largest investment in military expenditure in the history of human warfare.

John also watched the forum about the Gulf War in his previous life, and most netizens analyzed that the reason why the United States helped KWT was because he was interested in the oil in the ground, and he was also convinced of the second statement in John's previous life, but in this life John had a different opinion.

"Father, I think the reason why YLK captured KWT was because of the support of SL behind it, SL wanted to use this war to drag the United States into the quagmire of war, so that it had no time to take care of SL's affairs, and SL also wanted to use this war to divert internal contradictions and make oil prices rise, so as to relieve its domestic economic pressure. ”

Old Morgan nodded when he heard John's analysis. "And if it were you, what would you do?"

"Father, haven't you already given the answer to this question? I will now answer that there is a suspicion of cheating. The Gulf War is over, and John only has to think about what the United States did during the Gulf War to answer this question.

"An open-book exam is also an exam. Old Morgan clearly didn't want to let John go.

"Okay!" John replied after sorting out his thoughts, "If it were me, then I would turn the passive into the active, and first unite with the Middle Eastern oil producers to stabilize international oil prices, so that SL will not have a chance to breathe." Immediately after that, he sent troops to end the war quickly, and by sweeping away SL's influence in the Middle East, he lit the fuse for the disintegration of SL. ”

Morgan Sr. listened and continued to ask, "Why don't we just overthrow the SDM?"

"Because if we want to overthrow the SDM regime, we may fall into the quagmire of war, and we must now preserve our strength to deal with possible emergencies in the disintegration of the SL, and when the disintegration of the SL is stabilized, we can free up our hands to solve the YLK problem. ”

Old Morgan did not speak when he heard John's answer, but only nodded, and he was generally satisfied with John's answer.

Just as John and the old Morgan father and son were exchanging questions and answers, Mrs. Morgan on the side suddenly exclaimed. "Oh my God, look at the news!"

With Mrs. Morgan's exclamation, John and Morgan Sr. stopped talking and turned to the television. I saw the pictures broadcast on the TV news, and everywhere the flood went there was a flooded country, countless houses were flooded, and countless people looked at the river and wept, and their hearts were full of sorrow.

John's brows furrowed when he saw this picture, because the place where the news was broadcast was Huaxia on the other side of the Pacific Ocean.