After Shao Yingying stayed in the United States for another week, the news came that the box office of "Twilight" broke 100 million, and the results of breaking 100 million in the first week did surprise too many people, and the most important thing is that this movie not only broke 100 million at the box office in North America in the first week, but also broke 100 million in Europe!

It's amazing that a movie with a total investment of $40 million has become the most powerful gold-absorbing machine in the Christmas file, and even occupied the top spot in the North American box office charts in a single week.

"Shao."

In MGM's Harry Sloan office, Shao Yingying got the latest information, which came from Harry Sloan's personal investigation: "We're late. ”

"Why do you say that?" Shao Yingying asked.

"Wick Godfrey has finalized all the main cast of Twilight, and has signed a deal with Stephanie to prevent her from continuing to write a sequel to Twilight, which is said to have been implemented since the script of Twilight was finalized, and if you could have sued me a few months ago, maybe there is a way to reverse it, and we will pay a lot of liquidated damages for the sequel to Twilight. It's just that now we can't afford the liquidated damages of the entire "Twilight" crew, the key problem is that they have signed Meghan Fox, and now Meghan has become one of Hollywood's most powerful actresses with "Transformers" and "Twilight", and her liquidated damages alone are likely to exceed 100 million. ”

Harry Sloan didn't mention the benefits of doing things for Shao Hero this time, after all, this is for "Twilight", and if they can win the sequel, they also have a lot of money to make. Unfortunately......

Shao Yingying was cut off, and when he tried his best to swing between Columbia and MGM, he was still attacked by someone. This can't say that his ability is not good, it can only be said that Shao Yingying has no foundation in Hollywood.

Shao Yingying, who was very angry, did not attack on the spot, but the ugliness on his face actually made him rise with an aura that Sun Shengnan and the translator did not dare to approach at all.

"Shao, let's let go of "Twilight" first, the big screen market in Hollywood is not something you can rule if you have the ability, it needs to be operated for a long time, even the most credible person in Hollywood will dare to challenge his authority if he comes back after disappearing for a year. This is a place where whoever is ruthless eats meat. ”

Harry Sloan's counsel was affordable and reasonable.

"Alright, Harry. You can rest assured, I'm not going to be looking for trouble in Hollywood, and even if I did, it wouldn't be now. Wick Godfrey: yes? Shao Yingying smiled grimly.

Leaving MGM, there is also good news from China. Feng Xiaogang ordered "Assembly Number" to win the first week box office of 70 million under Shao Yingying's 'veteran' publicity. It's just that "Casting the Name", which has three major stars, still successfully reversed with its super appeal and obvious face, and topped the box office championship in the first week with a score of 90 million, and "Assembly Number" ranked second. Judging from the current situation, there is definitely no suspense about the two movies exceeding 100 million, and now these two movies are competing with who has stronger stamina, and see who can be the box office champion during the Chinese New Year. Because of the annual box office champion, they have no hope, and "Source Code", which has a box office score of 500 million, even sank "Titanic". What's more, these two films?

At the same time, the box office of "Twilight" began to slide sharply, after experiencing a peak of more than 100 million at the box office in the first week. In the second week, he lost the top spot at the weekly box office with a score of $50 million, and two weeks later, "Twilight", which was hyped up by scandals, failed to maintain the box office strength and was discounted sharply.

Two weeks later, the reputation of "Twilight" also began to slowly show a trend in history, and there were many people who were picky, scolding, and speaking American English in the film review columns of newspapers and magazines, and some people even wondered how such a movie could have been made by Shao of "Source Code", isn't this obviously a hoax?

What kind of movie is this? Bloodsucker? Love? Vampire love? An interracial love triangle between vampires and werewolves, humans? What about the director? What about producers? Could you please stand up and explain?

Well, I have to make this movie handsome for the men and beautiful for the women...... Film critics? Nope.

In the midst of the arrogant scolding, "Twilight" was discounted again, and the box office results in the third week ended with 25 million, and after three weeks of release, the current box office is 175 million, and the word of mouth can be said to be a tide of bad reviews.

"Twilight" not only did not receive praise from film critics, but websites like Rotten Tomatoes did not score any high scores, and even the score line was below the passing line, in the lower position, and some people even predicted that the movie "Twilight" could be nominated for all the Golden Sour Plum Awards.

But such a movie still snatched back 10 million US dollars in the fourth week, of course, the box office after the fourth week will definitely be about one million, and it will be reduced to a negligible Cheng dù from the fifth week, but Shao Yingying's money-grabbing plan was successful, and he snatched 185 million box office in North America alone, which took four weeks!

Don't forget, "Twilight" was not only released in North America, but also played a good box office in overseas markets, and the box office of this movie has exceeded 200 million outside the United States.

At this moment, the domestic box office is also in a dragon fight, Chen Kexin shouted the slogan of "300 million" box office after filming "Casting Names", and now after 20 days, the box office results are finally fixed at 192 million, at this time, everyone knows that it is impossible for "Casting Names" to reach 300 million box office; "Assembly" is also not much better, and the results of its 21 days of release only reached 180 million, but Feng Xiaogang was very content, and said to the media, 'I hope that the box office will reach 250 million when the movie goes offline'.

Shao Yingying didn't react when he heard this number, he remembered that in history, "Assembly Number" was the annual box office champion, and the box office results were a little more than "Casting Names", how did it come to reality that the situation was completely reversed?

Before Shao Yingying could figure it out, "Twilight" had been offline, and when the whole movie ended, it was completely unnecessary to go to China to release it again, at this time it must be full of pirated versions, and even if he returned to China, he couldn't avoid the miserable situation.

In the end, "Twilight" reached 193 million at the box office in North America, and 207 million at the overseas box office, no more, no less, just 400 million US dollars for Shao Yingying, and the DVD copyright fee sold a total of 20 million US dollars worldwide, after all, this drama is not a big production, and it is unlikely to sell at a high price like "Tomb Raider", even so Shao Yingying is very satisfied.

In the U.S., there are generally three ways for producers to work with movie theaters: a guaranteed price, a fixed price, and a share. When a film starts to be released in theaters (usually 28 days later), the theater will pay the distributor a certain share of the box office revenue, which is mainly based on the content of the contract negotiated between the theater and the producer before the release, and the negotiation is based on the evaluation of the film's box office appeal and the size of the producer. In other words, in Hollywood, big companies like Paramount, Warner, and Columbia definitely have an advantage over the average producer. And this part is often referred to as "slice rent".

Generally speaking, the "rent" usually deducts from the box office revenue the necessary fixed expenses determined by both parties, and this expenditure is mainly based on the conditions of the cinema, such as facilities, number of seats, etc., depending on the producer's situation. Or use a guaranteed sharing method, and the producer directly takes a certain percentage of the box office revenue. Generally speaking, the average producer will earn 50% of the overall box office revenue during the release period, and the theater will receive the remaining half.

If calculated according to this layered method, Shao Yingying will take away at least 200 million US dollars, but in fact this is not the case, here, not only the director and actors have to share the box office, but even the screenwriter has to share the box office, which means that Shao Yingying has no problem if he wants to take away 200 million, first of all, he has to peel off the skin.

Fortunately, except for Megan Fox, who wants to share 5% of the box office in this movie, most of the others share 1%-2% of the box office, and the original novel author Stephanie is only 3%, who let them participate in "Twilight" before they were all Hollywood actors, and at that time, Columbia and Shao Yingying were in the honeymoon period, desperately helping the hero Hua Yi to reduce the price.

So, Meghan Fox took 10 million US dollars just by relying on box office stratification, the actor took 4 million, the director took 4 million, Stephanie 6 million, Shao Yingying divided a total of 24 million, after deducting the 15 million to be paid to Colombia, Shao Yingying can finally take away 161 million from Hollywood, according to the exchange rate at the time, this 161 million * 7 = 1127 million, Shao Yingying deducted the cost of 335 million, and the total profit was 792 million, Plus 20 million DVD copyright fees, 810 million net profit!

In 2007, although Huayi's annual profit did not make up for the 500 million yuan that Shao Yingying took out like a family, the money-grabbing tactics of coming to North America to shoot and run still allowed him to wipe out the loan to the bank.

To make money, you have to come to North America, mainly because it is cool enough.

Looking at the numbers on the calculator, Shao Yingying's eyes lit up, as long as this money goes into Hua Yi's account, Hua Yi is still Hua Yi, and there is no need to worry about money anymore...... Well, it seems that there are more annoying taxes, how to calculate the tax Shao Yingying has not yet figured it out, he plans to hand it over directly to the Ministry of Finance, and this kind of thing is better to leave it to professionals.

"The Assembly" also settled in China at this time, and finally ended with a total box office figure of 260 million, but the final closing figure of "Casting Names" was also 260 million, but in the digital ranking after 10 million, "Casting Names" was slightly stronger than "Assembly", and in the end, "Assembly" was defeated, and "Casting Names" won the championship of the Chinese New Year.

At this moment, Shao Yingying picked up the calculator again and began to calculate how much money "Assembly" made for him, there is a special business tax of 7.8 million, a special fund for the film industry of 13 million, and a theater retention of 136.34 million, and the third master has to take away 7.17 million with a wave of his hand, and in the end, it seems that there is a lot of money in his hands, and there is 95.69 million...... But this money is compared with the more than 700 million left at the North American box office...... (To be continued......)