Chapter 282 of the main text: Coping strategies

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Zhang Ran came out of the conference room, turned around and went back to his room, opened his hands, and fell back on the bed.

Close your eyes and think quietly.

This time the opponent is very strong, as long as he is not careful, he will not have a chance to turn over, he must think carefully!

Bowei tore up the contract, Zhang Ran's contract with the bank will be invalid, the bank will definitely withdraw the funds, and the contract is Zhang Ran's breach of contract, and the interest must be paid, adding up to 32 million.

Now Zhang Ran has $5 million in funds, and in addition, "Bursting Drummer" brought Zhang Ran $2.6 million in income.

The box office of "Bursting Drummer" in China is 100 million, and after removing 5% of the special fund and 3.3% tax, 91.7 million is left. Of the 91.7 million, the producer can only get 38%, that is, 34.85 million. At this point, Zhang Ran needs to pay the issuance fee to the issuer, the proportion is 15%, which means that there is still 29.62 million left. After deducting the cost of 6 million yuan from this part of the money, and deducting 70>00 million expenses such as publicity and copying, there is 16.62 million left.

16.62 million plus 2 million music and DVD copyrights, plus 10 million overseas copyrights, the final profit of "Burst Drummer" is 28.62 million. Zhang Ran said when he started the film that he would take 20% of the profit to everyone as a bonus, and pay 5% to Qingying Studio, leaving 21.46 million, that is, 2.6 million US dollars.

The 5 million in Zhang Ran's hand plus the 2.5 million in "Bursting Drummer" means that there is a gap of 24.5 million now. Of course, the total fund of the film is 1002 million, the cost is 90 million, and the remaining 12 million is a reserve. Now this 12 million reserve can be used to fill the hole, so that the funding gap for the film is 12.5 million.

The best solution to solve the funding loophole is to pre-sell. Luc Besson has channels and connections, as long as he stands up the problem is easy to solve. However, Xavi and they will not be able to leave such a big flaw, and if they dare to do this, they will definitely get Luc Besson.

Luc Besson, as the producer, has the right to share 15% of the profits of the film of "Time and Space Soldier", regardless of whether the copyright of the film is in the hands of Zhang Ran or in the hands of the insurance company. His 15% will not be less. If you work with Xavi, you will definitely get more, so there is no doubt about what Luc Besson will choose.

Although he knew that this was definitely the case, Zhang Ran still had a trace of expectation in his heart.

His closed eyes opened suddenly, Zhang Ran sat up from the bed all of a sudden, and reached out to touch the mobile phone on the bedside table. Because it was too urgent, the phone fell to the ground. He bent down to pick it up, and without thinking about it, pressed Luc Besson's number.

The call didn't go through, though. There was a cold response from the phone.

Zhang Ran hung up the phone and pressed the redial button. Repeated four or five times, but it still couldn't be connected. He then called Luc Besson's assistant again, but he couldn't get through.

Sure enough, Luc Besson and Jacobson have teamed up!

Zhang Ran felt a little sad in his heart, Harvey is a businessman, especially Harvey is a famous liar. They used tricks to plot against themselves, but Zhang Ran didn't think there was anything. But Luc Besson is different. This project was promoted by Zhang Ran with him, and Zhang Ran has always regarded him as his friend.

He never dreamed that it would be like this!

Zhang Ran sighed and walked towards Neil's room. In the next few days, he will be busy solving the problem of funding, but the crew cannot stop work, and the filming can only be handed over to Neil. Zhang Ran believes that Neil's level is also a fierce man who will shoot "District 9" in the future.

Listen to Zhang Ran finish what happened. Neil couldn't believe his ears, but when he thought about it, he understood.

In recent years, Disney's CEO Michael Eisner has made many mistakes, such as spending a lot of money on "Pearl Harbor" and losing all his money, acquiring AB TV so far without making substantial profits, and entering the online industry with a waterloo.

By Michael Eisner's self-serving, the company's performance declined. The shareholders of the Disney shareholders took the Disney board to court. Now that Michael Eisner needs performance and needs money to gag his shareholders, it's no surprise that he's eyeing Time Warrior.

Neil shook his head with a wry smile: "I thought that a company like Disney would be very civilized, would abide by the rules, and pay attention to food!

Zhang Ran thought so before, but now he knows that he is too naïve: "Civilization and rules are for people of equal status, and we are just ants in the eyes of giants." Would you be rude and civilized to an ant, not to mention that it was Miramax and Beauville who did it, and it had nothing to do with Disney. This is the purpose of Dinis to establish Bowei, and the dirty work is done by Bowei!"

The opponent is a giant like Disney, Neil is a little dazed and asks, "What do we do now?"

Zhang Ran stood up and said, "Go to Keanu, we need to delay the payment of the rest of the salary, we don't need to delay it for long, we just need to wait until the advertising company pays the follow-up funds." ”

Neil's eyes lit up, this was indeed a solution. Reeves is not a person who particularly cares about money, and when filming "Devil's Advocate", he took the initiative to reduce his salary of $1.8 million, hoping that the crew would invite Al Pacino. After filming for "The Matrix 2", he bought an expensive Harley-Davidson motorcycle for each of the 12 action doubles. What's more, he has a good relationship with Zhang Ran, and he will definitely agree!

When Zhang Ran and Neil arrived at Reeves' room, he was reading the script and preparing for tomorrow's shooting. Method actors, especially Zhang Ran, have to make a lot of preparations before filming, and they need to think through every line.

Reeves saw Zhang Ran and said with a smile: "Robin, it's just in time, talk to me about the lines!"

Zhang Ran smiled and shook his head: "Keanu, we have something to do with you." ”

Reeves asked, "What's wrong?"

Zhang Ran briefly explained the matter, then looked at Reeves and said: "Now there is a gap in the funding of the film, but we have an advertising contract of 30 million, and the other party has paid 12 million in advance, and the rest will be paid after the film is completed, and they will pay after inspection." When we get the money, we'll pay you the rest of your salary, okay?"

In Hollywood, there are various ways to pay for movies, and the general payment method is to sign a contract to pay 30%. 40% will be paid at startup, and the remaining 30% will be paid until the movie is completed. In the case of lack of funds, some films will negotiate with the actors to pay 30% upfront, and the rest will be paid after the movie is released.

Reeves didn't hesitate and nodded briskly: "Yes, I'll call the agent later." Give him a word!"

Zhang Ran smiled and said, "Thank you Keanu, I owe you once!"

"Don't say that, you are my friend and my teacher, I am willing to help you!" Reeves looked at Zhang Ran and said sincerely, "If the money is not enough, I can reduce my salary!"

A warmth rose in Zhang Ran's heart, friend. What warm words, the smile on his face bloomed: "Thank you Keanu, you deserve the movie salary, you don't need to reduce it, I have a way to get the rest of the funds!"

Reeves's salary is 1,500, and the remaining 30% of the deferred payment solves 4.5 million, and now the hole in the film fund is only 8 million.

Back in his room, Zhang Ran picked up the phone and dialed out. Said directly: "Lynn, I have something I want to ask you for help!"

The phone was answered by the film's special effects supervisor, Lynn Cartwright. He heard Zhang Ran's tone was wrong, and asked, "What do you say?"

Zhang Ran said directly: "Please come to Vancouver tomorrow with the finished special effects shots." Our film was in a bit of trouble and needed to find a distributor again. I need to show the distributor the footage of the film!"

Zhang Ran: They cut while shooting, and immediately sent to special effects companies in Australia and China for special effects processing, such as keying, compositing, and so on. Zhang Ran showed Harvey the footage without special effects compositing. It looks very rough. Now if you want to show it to the filmmakers, you must show them special effects.

When Cartwright heard that he had to find a new distributor, he understood that this was very important to Zhang Ran, and immediately said, "Okay, I'll bring the footage for simple special effects processing early tomorrow morning." But we've only done a simple process, and the graphics are still relatively rough!"

Zhang Ran nodded and said, "I know, you just bring it here!"

Cartwright said, "Okay, I'll come over tomorrow!"

Zhang Ran hung up the phone, called Chen Ningyu again, and said, "Ning Yu, how was the ten-minute car chase scene synthesized?" The car chase scene only needs green screen keying and synthesis, and there is not much technical difficulty.

Chen Ningyu said: "It's almost done, there is one more point." ”

Zhang Ran exhaled and said: "Now that the movie is in trouble, this part of the shot is needed, you let everyone in the company work overtime to catch up, you must rush out." The night after tomorrow, we must send it to Vancouver!

Chen Ningyu heard Zhang Ran say it so strictly, and immediately said: "I know, I asked everyone in the company to put down other jobs and concentrate on this part, and I will personally send it to you the night after tomorrow!"

Hanging up Chen Ningyu's phone, Zhang Ran dialed South Korea's CJ Entertainment Park Zhenghuan again: "Mr. Park, I'm Zhang Ran, you CJ Entertainment want the copyright of "Time and Space Warrior", right? Three days later, we will have a viewing party, and some companies will be invited to watch the film. If you are interested in this movie, you can come and participate!"

Now that "Burst Drummer" has nearly 1 million viewers in South Korea, Park Zhenghuan only hates not being able to get the copyright of "Time and Space Warrior", and now he is overjoyed to hear Zhang Ran's words: "I will definitely arrive in three days!"

Hanging up Park Zhenghuan's phone, Zhang Ran began to call the heads of several distribution companies such as GAGA in Japan and Xiangjiang Anle again, inviting them to participate in the viewing party.

"Burst Drummer" exploded at the box office in East Asia, and these companies made a lot of money, and they all coveted Zhang Ran's new film "Time and Space Warrior". It's just that this movie was originally distributed by Bowei, and Bowei has branches in many countries and regions, and they have no chance to get involved at all. Now that they received Zhang Ran's call, they were all overjoyed and said that they would definitely be there when the time came.

Neil finally had a smile on his face when he heard Zhang Ran's call with the publisher, and Harvey made a mistake. The pre-sale and distribution of "Time and Space Warrior" was done by Luc Besson, and Harvey thought that as long as Luc Besson was done, Zhang Ran would not be able to find a distributor in a short time. If it had been two months earlier, things would have been as they expected, but now that "Burst Drummer" has exploded at the box office in East Asia, these distribution companies are salivating over "Time Warriors" and just hate that they don't have a chance to grab it.

Japan is the second largest film market in the world, South Korea is the sixth largest, plus Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Xiangjiang, Taiwan and other places, pre-sales of one or two hundred million is not a problem. Zhang Yimou's "Hero" sold $8 million in Japan and $3 million in South Korea. "Time and Space Warrior" is an A-level blockbuster starring Hollywood superstar and Oscar winner, and it will definitely be better than "Hero" to sell.

As long as they can get the pre-sale of East Asia, Harvey's calculation will be in vain! )

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