Time flies, in a blink of an eye, in the second half of October 1991, this is already the seventh week of the release of "Hurricane Rescue", its total box office in North America has accumulated to 184.04 million, the market potential has not been exhausted, the theater's market experts have made an assessment, it has the possibility of breaking through the 200 million mark. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

At the same time, "Terminator 2" has officially been released, its final box office is 192.11 million US dollars, Li Wei felt very strange when he got the news, he judged that this was a butterfly effect, in the previous life "Terminator 2" was a member of the 200 million club, and now it stops at 200 million, which shows that his "Hurricane Rescue" changed the trajectory of history.

The big hit of "Hurricane Rescue" made New Line and Touchstone Pictures a full house, and the North American box office score alone was as high as 100 million, and the copyright income will not be lower than this figure.

In recent days, the media has been studying the profitability of the two studios, especially New Line, which not only acquired part of the rights to "Hurricane Rescue," but also exclusively owned all the rights to Li Wei's first film, "The Killer's Tragedy."

Since 1986, the rental and retail sales of the North American home video market have exceeded the total box office value, and in 1990, the revenue of the video tape market was as high as 6.3 billion US dollars, and the total box office value of the film market was only 5.6 billion US dollars, so the profitability of this market is very terrifying.

"In the past year, the rental revenue of the "Killer Tragedy" videotape has reached 16 million, and the retail revenue has reached 4 million, which is just a profit created in just one year."

"The new line is making crazy money!"

"The new line can earn at least 100 million US dollars from the copyright income of "Killer Tragedy" and "Hurricane Rescue"!"

After this news was poked out by the media, Hollywood's old studios almost dropped their jaws, they couldn't make so much money in a year of hard work, Li Wei's action movies are simply money printing machines!

When the media was collecting these materials, the global screening of "Killer Tragedy" had just ended, with a total box office of 132.1 million, which did not exceed that of North America, but a total box office income of nearly 300 million, which directly led to the booming market of "Hurricane Rescue".

The company in charge of distribution has been very busy lately, and the task of global release is extremely heavy, especially high-quality high-grossing films, which need to launch promotional activities in dozens of countries at the same time, and they cannot complete the task without first-class distribution capabilities.

Before filming "Hurricane Rescue", Li Wei signed a labor agreement, and he has the right to share the global box office, but the film has just started its global release, and this money cannot be obtained in the short term, and he can only enjoy 15% of the profit share of the North American box office.

As early as the fourth week of the screening of "Hurricane Rescue", the first box office of major theaters in North America began to settle, and the theater chain deducted a series of costs such as venue fees, water and electricity bills, and insurance premiums, and then paid the distributor's box office share in proportion.

This sharing model is the most beneficial for commercial films, because commercial films earn the box office in the first few weeks, and the distributor has more than the theater chain, and if it is a long-term literary film, the theater chain will share more than the distributor.

At present, the share of "Hurricane Rescue" has accumulated to 100 million US dollars, which was first remitted by the theater chain to the special account of the distributor Bowei, and the producer and Li Wei, who participated in the sharing, cannot get the money for the time being.

According to the agreement, distributors must first ensure their profits, and they must first deduct the distribution costs paid in advance, including the copy of the film, the advertising fee placed by the media, the publicity fee of the theater, and the public relations activity fee, which is about 10 million US dollars.

The publisher then deducts the distribution agency fee, which is the regular distribution commission, and they take 5 to 20 percent of the total box office, and the 10 percent distribution commission in the "Hurricane Rescue" distribution agreement they signed.

In this way, Bo Wei first took 30 million US dollars, and the rest of the money will be checked by the accountants of the three parties, and then divided between the new line and the touchstone and Li Wei.

If the box office of "Hurricane Rescue" is not high, and the box office share is not enough to pay for Bo Wei's distribution expenses, then Li Wei will not be able to get any of them, let alone the share, so if Li Wei wants to make money, it must be based on the premise that the movie is a big hit.

After nearly half a month of bargaining, the three parties completed the first liquidation.

As soon as Li Wei got his share, the media followed suit and exposed the news.

"New Line with Touchstone Pictures to Will. Lee pays a whopping 27.4 million box office share! ”

This is a story published in The Hollywood Reporter.

When Li Wei saw the news, he was receiving Tracy at home, and he immediately asked, "Why do I make less and less?" The movie "Killer Tragedy", I made more than 40 million before and after, and the box office of "Hurricane Rescue" is higher than that of "Killer Tragedy", I should become a billionaire! ”

Tracy cleared his throat and said, "Will, according to the labor association we signed, you also have a share of the overseas box office, as well as the income from the video cassette rights, I guarantee that you will become a billionaire within a year!" ”

Li Wei casually dropped the newspaper, touched his chin and said, "I thought that the new line and touchstone would delay the payment of my money, but I didn't expect them to be so happy!" ”

Tracy laughed, "They don't dare to offend you, although you rejected their investment in "The Outlaws", but you have registered so many scripts in the association, they all want to cooperate with you for a long time, and they will not have conflicts with you because of this little money!" In addition, those old studios are contacting me, they want to buy your script, do you really not sell any of them? ”

"I'll give you another batch of scripts in a few days, all of them are second-rate small movies, these can be sold, I don't want to refuse them all the time!" Li Wei was a little unwilling, "Hurricane Rescue" made too little money.

But how can you make a lot of money? He knew in his heart that he could only become an exploiter and become a film businessman.

However, he did not have the ability to compete with established studios for the time being. Spielberg's Moon Boy was founded, and it was a good time for him to rise, and he had to take advantage of the accumulation of funds in the past few years.

Li Wei immediately pressed the matter and asked Tracy: "How is the preparation of the crew of "The End of the World"? ”

Without waiting for Tracy to answer, the doorbell rang suddenly, Li Wei looked at his watch, today he made an appointment, it was the private detective Augustus introduced by the driver Martin. Robin, more than half a month ago, Li Wei hired this private detective to secretly investigate the attack on Lady Lai, and there should be a result.

He immediately said, "I'll report later, and I'll see a guest with me first!" ”