Chapter 642: $200 million budget
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Yu Dong was a little ashamed and said: "I'm sorry, boss, overseas investment is not too smooth, the total investment budget for the film is less than 200 million US dollars." ”
"How many?" Wang Qinian asked.
"It's about $185 million." Yu Dong said.
"It's just about the same." Wang Qinian didn't care.
Originally, the current global film market has basically encountered bottlenecks, for example, the box office of films in Europe, the United States, Japan and other countries has been stagnant for many years. Even if there is a small increase, it is mainly due to the increase in inflation.
Not only that, but the film market in many countries in the exhibition has basically not grown significantly.
The exhibition of China's film box office market in the past ten years has been unique in the global film market. If it is not driven by the Chinese film market, the world film market may not only not grow, but even fall into a continuous recession??.?? `
A film to pull investment, moreover, about $200 million investment. Considering that after the release of the movie, there are still promotional costs, as well as differences in market sharing in various countries, it is estimated that there will be a box office of more than $100 million to make money.
In the history of the global box office, there are still only a handful of blockbusters worth $100 million. Therefore, the probability of losing money for such a high-budget movie is far greater than the probability of making money.
Therefore, the project is very risky, but there is little room for making money, which is why it is not so easy to pull investment. Suppose that Wang Qinian announces a total investment of less than 3ooo US dollars for the new film, I am afraid that global film investment institutions will rush to send money.
Because. Blockbusters of less than $3ooo dollars, mainly in the Chinese market, have the hope of recovering all costs and may have room for profit. Overseas market exhibition. It's pure earning.
It is difficult to pull overseas capital, in fact, the more important reason is that foreigners have become poor!
In terms of the average income in Japan, the income of Japanese people 3o years ago is similar to that of Japanese people today, and it has not changed for decades. Even. Some Japanese economies have been sluggish for many years, and zero-hour workers are more popular. Many workers are paid lower rather than higher salaries than they did more than a decade ago. Income is more volatile, not more stable??.? `
Overseas capitalists are also having a hard time, for example, Japan's Sony has certainly been ridiculed, and it has lost more than ten years in a row, which can be regarded as a skill. But what about other companies like Panasonic, Sharp, Toshiba, etc., that mix well from time to time? Actually, no, there has been a huge scandal in recent years. In fact, many companies in Japan have concealed their bad debts and huge losses in history, and many companies have been unable to hold back their losses and have begun to break out one huge loss after another.
The failure of a large number of corporate entities has naturally affected the investment intentions of Japanese capital. In the past, when Japanese companies were at their peak, for example, in the 8o, they were very profitable. Therefore, we continue to invest in overseas branches or acquire some overseas enterprises. However, the Japanese economy has continued to decline in recent years. As a result, not only did they sell off a large amount of overseas capital to make up for the overall shortfall, but even many Japanese consortia announced the sale of their subsidiaries. All assets, including the Japanese headquarters, were sold to the outside world, and the proceeds from the fire sale were used to save the other subsidiaries of the consortium.
A lot of capital that was originally active is in a state of contraction. The interest in selling assets is higher than that of foreign investment. In this way, the film attracts overseas investment, but it is not as smooth as before. In fact, if before the subprime mortgage crisis in O8, the capital of the country was more confident and more keen to make profits, at that time, it was obviously better to pull investment than now.
In this movie, domestic capital naturally occupies the lion's share, and the investors of the small partner film and television investment fund alone have invested 650 million yuan, equivalent to 100 million US dollars. Although the "Magic ** Catalog" project is relatively risky, based on the current small partner film and television investment fund, it has successively produced masterpieces such as "Thai Embarrassment" and "Journey to the West", which have earned investors a lot of real money. Therefore, at this stage, most of the fund's investors are very confident in the fund's projects. Including such a large investment as "Demon Forbidden", it has also attracted hundreds of high-net-worth investors to actively invest.
In addition to the Little Partner Film and Television Investment Fund as the largest leading investment institution, the Little Partner Film and Television Group Company, Golden Harvest Entertainment Company, and Little Partner Cinema Company, all three of which have each invested 5ooo yuan.
In addition, state-owned film and television companies such as China Film Group and Shanghai Film Group have also invested 1ooo yuan. In fact, this investment is not much, and once such a large-scale film project is released, the attendance rate will definitely be about the same. And China Film, Shanghai Film and other companies, the bulk of the profit is not film and television investment, but theaters and lines, even if the film project investment is at a loss, after that, there is hope to rely on the profits earned by the theater line to earn back the investment amount with interest.
In terms of overseas markets, Disney is also very interested in this work, investing 2ooo million US dollars. The rest of Time Warner is next to the next with an investment of $150,000.
As for the Japanese market, Sony Entertainment invested $2ooo, and surprisingly, the software bank also invested $1ooo.
Although the total investment of all parties has not reached 200 million US dollars, which is only equivalent to about 185 million US dollars, the gap is not too big.
In fact, the so-called scale of 200 million US dollars is only a range. Essentially, no one knows how much the movie will cost until it's finished.
Of course, in order to make up a budget of $200 million, Wang Qinian announced that his personal directorial salary is equivalent to $150,000.
However, the movie is not profitable, and Wang Qinian does not get paid. If the film is profitable, then Wang Qinian has the right to participate in the film's dividends according to the investment amount of $150,000.
Many big directors in the film industry are quite greedy, not only asking film investors to give them a guaranteed salary, but also requiring additional dividends after the film is a big hit.
Wang Qinian's so-called salary equivalent to 150,000 US dollars seems to be a record high salary. But to be honest, it's not greed. After all, only when the box office results meet the standards and the project makes money will it participate in account sharing. If he does not meet the standard, it means that he does not get paid, and he does not ask investors to pay him.
Wang Qinian naturally took the money justifiably, and investors were more likely to accept his conditions.
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