It's not the first time I've been to London, but every time I come over, I feel something completely different. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

If he had enough time, he would like to go to the Lake District or the Scottish Highlands to see the natural scenery such as lakes and mountains, but since he has limited time, he will simply wander around the city of London alone.

Speaking of which, there are many must-see places in London, but fortunately, they are relatively concentrated, such as Westminster Abbey, Big Ben, the London Eye, the Cavalry Battalion, Buckingham Palace, Trafald Square, the National Gallery, etc.!

But this time, Lin Han chose to go to the British Museum to have a look, and he missed this place the last time he came.

Located in Great Russell Square on the north side of New Oxford Street, the British Museum is the world's oldest and most magnificent comprehensive museum, as well as the world's largest and most famous, with more than 13 million collections, but due to space constraints, there are still a large number of collections that have not been exhibited publicly!

It is said that one-third of these collections were looted, one-third were purchased at a low price, and one-third were donated.

It is certainly impractical to browse all the exhibits in one day, as the museum has ten branches: the Coins and Commemorative Coins Pavilion, the Egyptian Pavilion, the Ethnography Pavilion, the Greek and Roman Pavilion, the Japanese Pavilion, the Oriental Pavilion, the Prehistory and European Pavilion, the Printmaking and Drawing Gallery, and the Western Asia Pavilion.

Lin Han followed the crowd into the museum, which seemed a little crowded, and he saw tourists from all over the world, with different skin tones and languages, and the roof of the entire hall was completely covered with glass, which seemed spacious and bright.

There is a beautiful and spacious public space with a lounge, café, restaurant, food stall, small gift stall, and a reading hall in the middle!

He stood under this large grid-like canopy, looking up at it, and he was really a little dizzy, as if a huge spider web was floating on his head.

Lin Han originally wanted to take pictures to commemorate it, but as soon as he walked into the museum, he was attracted by many exhibits and made him forget about it.

The megalithic statues of Easter Island stand in Lin Han's sight, followed by Egyptian monuments and mummies, Chinese Buddha statues, murals, porcelain, Indian bodhisattvas, ancient Babylonian statues of human heads and bulls, ancient Greek and Roman Parthenon statues of the three goddesses of fate, and sculptures drawn from the Acropolis!

The rich and diverse collection simply attracted Lin Han's mind, and if it weren't for the vibration of his mobile phone, he would never have left the museum so early.

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Taking a taxi to the office building of MPC Special Effects, Lin Han saw Richard Steinmer who came to greet him at a glance.

"Hey Lin, long time no see!" Richard Steinmer reached out to shake Lin Han's hand, and he said: "I only saw you receiving the award in Paris on BBC News last night, and I didn't expect to be in London so soon. ”

Lin Han shrugged his shoulders, he put away his umbrella, "It only takes two hours to get from Paris to London, which is very convenient and fast. ”

Because Lin Han's previous fee for film placement advertising was much more than expected, and the film copyright income from his auction of the two novels "Time Traveler's Wife" and "The Wandering Earth" was also very large, plus the budget was well controlled when shooting the movie, so he had a lot of money left.

So he raised the cost of special effects from $15 million to $20 million!

Don't look at it as only 5 million US dollars more, but it can make more effects look better, after all, the total investment of Lin Han's "The Matrix" has exceeded 250 million yuan, which is a big cost in a big cost!

In fact, there are many films that claim to be this level of investment, but the money actually spent on movies may only be half of "The Matrix", and many of the rest of the films use money on various big-name actors.

The competition for special effects companies is also fierce, and in the eyes of Richard Steinmer, Lin Han is a big customer, in addition to "The Matrix", the latter two films have also signed commission agreements.

"To be honest, the footage of this movie is very shocking, maybe you can set a small record and win the first sales award, and you can also win the literary award, and you can also win the film award. ”

Lin Han watched the numbers on the floor above the elevator keep changing, and he replied: "There is no extravagant hope for the film awards, I just hope that the audience will like it." ”

Richard led the way, but he was very interested in Lin Han's movie, "This is the best Chinese film I have ever seen, maybe it will be very popular in the UK, I hope to see this movie in London." ”

"This wish will definitely come true, after all, we plan to do the screening overseas, and you will have to buy your own tickets to see it when the time comes!"

The overseas distribution rights of "The Matrix" have long been handed over to Hollywood's top predators, Twentieth Century Fox, who have a wide distribution channel and a lot of experience, which is much better than those small film and television companies.

Although domestic films do not belong to popular entertainment products overseas, Lin Han's first two films show that audiences in Europe and the United States still have a high acceptance of this type of science fiction film!

"The Martian" has grossed $700 million worldwide, and the box office in China alone is not enough to sustain it to this point, and it is a hot seller in almost every market.

Even the unpromising "Immortality", which costs only 100,000 yuan, but the box office in North America alone is tens of millions of dollars, which makes the distributor Weinstein Pictures pick up a leak!

Xu Jiayan was still joking about Lin Han getting more and more picky, and after he filmed "Immortality", he received a red envelope of 1 million yuan from Lin Han as a salary, and he earned one million in a few days of filming.

But when filming "The Matrix", it was only five million in a few months, and I was too tired to do it, which was really not worth it.

The appeal of traditional martial arts movies to overseas audiences is gradually decreasing, and the vast majority of Chinese films in North America have very few films, which are basically small-scale screenings!

These movies are basically watched by the Chinese themselves, and foreigners don't watch them much.

But when Lin Han's two movies were released, they aimed at the broadest range of foreigners, science fiction movies were originally the mainstream overseas, the science fiction atmosphere was very good, and with the help of Lin Han's novels, the box office was still quite good!

Martial arts can't be recognized by overseas audiences, but science fiction can, which greatly smooths out the adverse effects of literary and artistic differences, at least everyone can understand what the movie is about.

In addition, the distribution companies selected for these two films are very powerful, and they did not choose small companies, but chose to let Twentieth Century Fox and Weinstein, these companies have a dedicated distribution team, from marketing to finalizing theaters, they have their own set, which can maximize the box office potential of a movie!

When it comes to overseas distribution, it is usually the distributor who occupies a strong position, but this time Lin Han's film is not so niche, so he does not need to lose money at all.

The overseas distribution agreement signed between Galaxy Pictures and Twentieth Century Fox adopts the method of guaranteeing a minimum price, and Fox buys all overseas distribution copyrights including theaters, networks, DVDs, and VODs, not a one-time buyout, but a account-sharing model, and Galaxy Silver occupies 30% of the box office share in the specific account-sharing ratio.

In fact, this is Fox taking advantage, because the North American box office is a grading agreement, the first week by the film side to take 80%, the theater to take 20%, the next week to become 70% of the film side and the theater 30%, and then slowly change, with the increase of time, the higher the proportion of the cinema, the later the theater can even get 60% of the box office share, in order to encourage the cinema to screen films for a longer time!

Therefore, many movies in North America are still earning money at the box office after two or three months of screening, because most of the box office at this time is attributed to movie theaters.

Such a floating ratio is finally counted, and the filmmaker and the theater can each take about half!

In other words, if the North American box office is $100 million, then the theater can take $50 million, and the remaining 50 million will be divided between the producer Galaxy Pictures and the distributor Twentieth Century Fox, of which 30% belongs to Galaxy Pictures, that is, the final share of $15 million.

Of course, this ratio is helpless, even if it is a domestic box office of 100 million, the producer can only get 30 million income.

So many people on the Internet say that if you want the movie to recover its cost, then the box office must be three times the cost, of course, if you can get more revenue in the non-theater link, then the requirements for the box office are much lower!

It's like CCTV6 spent 4 million yuan to buy the TV broadcast rights of "Immortality", and video sites such as iQiyi and Tencent also spent millions to buy network copyrights, and this part of the money is purely earned by Galaxy Pictures, without any sharing with others.

Relatively speaking, the revenue of DVDs, Blu-rays, TVs and online on-demand in North America will be much higher than that in China, and at this time, only Twentieth Century Fox and Galaxy Pictures need to be separated, and the sharing ratio is different from the box office of the movie, reaching five or five points!

It is not an exaggeration to say that Hollywood movies only account for 30% of the box office revenue, and in general, Lin Han is quite satisfied with this ratio.

In the past, there were many international distributors who wanted to buy out the copyrights directly, and they wanted to buy out all the overseas copyrights of "The Matrix" for only $5 million, I really don't know where the confidence came from!

It is estimated that Lin Han is regarded as a stunned young man who does not understand overseas distribution, who knows that Lin Han recruited Miao Hong, the former head of Sony Pictures in North America, and he knows the bends and turns well.

It's easy to deceive Lin Han, but it's not so simple to deceive Miao Hong!

The novel of the same name, the pioneer of "The Matrix", has been sold well in various countries and regions around the world, and the discussion about its various contents has basically reached its peak, creating very good external conditions for the release of the movie.

This is also the reason why Twentieth Century Fox is willing to take a gamble, and they plan to make "The Matrix" release on February 14, two days earlier than in China, because it happens to be Valentine's Day.

The Spring Festival in China is on February 16, and spring in North America has always been an unpopular schedule, and there will be basically no sci-fi blockbusters released, so it is conducive to the large-scale screening of "The Matrix" at that time!