Summit Entertainment is already a company that Hollywood can't ignore.

Generally speaking, Hollywood's medium-sized studios produce five to six films a year, and only large studios will adopt a waterfall-style production model.

Large studios, which produce about ten films a year and distribute more than a dozen films, are the best of the best, but there is also an element of gambling, as long as a third or less of the film is successful, the film company is enough to make a profit.

Stephanie Mayer's "Twilight" has certainly helped a lot in its development at its peak, with three series being released to date and earning nearly $2.6 billion at the global box office.

Peripheral retail, follow-up window period income more...

But Stephanie Mayer also earned at least $300 million in the development of this project, and she has box office revenues...

And Dingfeng didn't pit her, the account sheet she got was definitely the most authentic financial statement.

It's too simple to pit a layman, just do something on the bill - the two films "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" have a global box office of 2.4 billion US dollars, but they are completely losing money at the box office, and the books are true!

No professional accountant can find out the problem...

Pinnacle has enough respect for Stephanie Mayer, you must know that the "Twilight" series was originally spent on Paramount's desk for 6 months, but it was not watched, and they all felt that the vampire theme was old-fashioned, and the story was mentally retarded, and it was a rotten project, and no one wanted to do it.

Think about it, too, if someone from the Big Six is interested in "Twilight", where will it be the turn to shoot the top!

Even so, the summit still gave fifteen percent of the box office profits to Stephanie Mayer.

Reference Warner Bros. treatment of Rowling...

Hollywood still treats the original author with great respect!

However, the Host...

$20 million + 20% share, this price is a bit high.

Unlike the "Twilight" series, "Host" is a short story, even if Meyer intends to write two more sequels to make a trilogy...

The price is a bit high...

I heard that Lionsgate happily took on the series, and good luck to them!

……

"The total revenue of 'A Quiet Place' is $381.2 million, the total revenue of 'Human Eradication Project' is $338.2 million, and the total revenue of 'Latent' is $418.1 million..."

"In fact, we have a market for just making horror movies!"

Last year, Summit Entertainment's overseas revenue reached $3 billion, and if channel revenue is added, this figure may have to double!

Of course, the profit is not so high, this is only the total income, excluding labor, taxes, operations, lawyer fees, accountant fees, channel expenses represented by video tape stores, relativistic borrowing interest and overseas channel expansion, etc., the net profit is almost 800 million US dollars...

These are just book figures, as a producer, it is the main spender of various expenses, such as the union fee of the film, the post-production bonus of the main creator, the market research fee, etc...

"Last year, the peak profit was almost $1.5 billion, and I felt like we could do theme parks. ”

"What kind of theme park, horror house?"

“… Can't you?"

"It's not impossible... Freman, what do you think?"

Freman looked at Wen Ziren: "... If you can get the rights of Saw back, I think we can make a theme park!"

“… Lionsgate can't sell it to us!"

Zhang Junsheng suddenly blessed his soul: "Then buy it!"

“… Lionsgate?

"Yes, it's worth $5 billion now, excluding the shares of Starz TV Network, it's worth about $1 billion, Freman, you find Universal or Disney, we will buy it jointly, we want the film library, Starz TV will give it to them!"

“… Disney has recently pursued Lucasfilm..."

"Universal is also interested in Lucasfilm..."

"Then go to Amazon or Apple, they definitely want to get involved in streaming!"

“… Why can't we buy it?"

Zhang Junsheng sighed: "Because I am Chinese, US law does not allow foreigners to obtain the qualification to operate TV and TV networks!"

Freman glanced at Wen Ziren, then asked, "... Boss, what is your share?"

"About 60 percent left... What's wrong?"

“… It's okay..."

He also wanted to persuade Zhang Junsheng to dilute his shares, but now it seems that there is no possibility...

Sixty percent, listed in March after reading, with a market value of at least $40 billion - Google opened a $38 billion merger and acquisition, which was rejected...

Wen Ziren proposed: "John Malone has always had the intention of selling his shares, if we can contact him..."

"Who is John Malone?"

"Lionsgate's majority shareholder!"

“… Do you know him well?"

"It's okay, he was the one who promoted my "Chainsaw" back then!"

"You go talk to him, Freman, you go to Sally Redstone, as far as I know, Viacom has been stuck in making a hit TV show, and they should be interested in Starz!"

“… That?"

"What's the problem?"

"No, tonight's Oscar..."

Zhang Junsheng rolled his eyes: "Oscars are there every year, and the merger and acquisition of Lionsgate is such an opportunity, and it will not come again!"

“… OK！”

……

The Oscars have a bonus to the box office of a movie!

The best picture can increase the box office by an average of 18.1 million US dollars, and now the dividends are more obvious, and generally the Oscar best picture can enter the markets of many countries around the world, such as "The Shape of Water", a pure tertiary film, a human-animal love, and it was actually released in the mainland?

But for films like "Untouchable", which has already received close to $800 million worldwide, the effect of the Oscars is not so obvious...

The main purpose of this rush is to stabilize Yuehua's stock price.

Uncle Ge and Zhou Xing left, Yuehua's stock price fell into a low ebb, at that time, the company formulated two policies, one of which was to use the Oscar, and the other was to stimulate the box office of "Thai Embarrassment"...

However, no one dares to guarantee the success of "Thai Embarrassment" before its official release...

That rushing to the Olympics is equivalent to double insurance.

After reading, it was burned immediately, and last year's dividends peaked, Zhang Junsheng received an income of up to 1.8 billion US dollars...

In addition to dividends, in the past five years, he has a lot of personal income, especially last year, as the president of two companies, the first producer of a series of movies and TV series, he has a corresponding income, during which the annual salary, screenwriter's fees, producer's salary, producer's share, etc., a total of up to 300 million US dollars.

If nothing else, this can also dilute the film's profits.

In North America, if a movie makes a profit, the taxes that need to be paid are not much, but they will not be less!

Zhang Junsheng really couldn't think of a good investment project for this fund, so he simply transferred it to China...

Of course, half of the taxes are paid.

Various legal tax avoidance methods can be used, but the measures that are too risky are not suitable for the time being.

For example, what about offshore registration companies, money laundering and the like, Zhang Junsheng himself is Chinese, once he provokes the IRS, maybe he will directly dog leash...