North American box office for a week

August 20-August 26, 2004 -

Movies - Ranking - Number of Weeks - Number of Theaters/Change - Average - Box Office of the Week - Total Box Office

"The Exorcist Prequel" - 1st place - 1st week - 2803 - 8,593 - 24,085,989 - 24,085,989

Napoleon the Great - 14th - Week 11 - 577 (+14) - 5,153 - 2,972,993 - 20,296,701

"The Notebook of Love" - 17th place - Week 9 - 621 - 2,033 - 1,262,797 - 76,784,282

"The Wedding is Coming" - 26th - 14th week - 335 (-36) - 1,160 - 388,600 - 37,752,617

......

On the night of August 28th, Phil Collins' singing set the Staples Center on fire, and many classic tracks, including "You'll-Be-in-My-Heart", detonated the City of Angels concert with great success.

Ye Wei continued to survive in the wilderness in the Laurel River Reserve, fishing, digging wild vegetables, and gnawing weeds, until the afternoon of the 29th, when it was time to go back, the box of compressed biscuits was not even opened, and the five days of joy were A+ results.

As he did at the end of every field camp, he carved a "vi" on the body of a large tree in the camp, carried his things and left, leaving behind a large pile of firewood ashes.

When he returned to Dubov's house in Scarborough in the evening, Ye Wei met Nina, who was playing football on the lawn in the front yard.

Seeing his dusty appearance, as if he hadn't taken a bath for several days, and there was a burst of boyish sweat, Nina pinched her nose and said suspiciously and funny: "Someone has been abused by relatives." ”

"I? no. Ye Wei walked up to her, his mood was already very different, "I have a gift for you, and I made it myself." ”

"Don't talk to me, Yunik Hawking. Nina turned around and strode away, saying that she would resist him.

Ye Wei shrugged his shoulders and grimaced, saw the football rolling down at his feet, kicked it towards her, and used the foot strength and footwork of the best scorer, hitting her in the back with a bang. Nina shrunk her shoulders and hugged her head in disbelief, reacted, and looked back stupidly, "Do you want to die!"

"Well, isn't that the Bulgarian way of saying goodbye?"

"It's not!"

Nina turned around and walked away angrily, not seeing Ye Wei's evil smile.

On Monday, August 30th, many schools across North America began the new school year, and students who were nostalgic for the summer returned to campus life.

This was the first day that Ye Wei and Nina went to school in Wexford, one in the tenth grade and the other in the ninth grade, both of which were driven by Mihaela, and Nina was very unhappy to share the car with Gu You, and asked to get off the bus one block in front of the school and walk over by herself to show her disdain for him.

This situation will probably be solved until Ye Wei drives his own car.

More than 1,100 students gathered on the school's track and field field, President Tom Zazaro spoke, and student representatives gave speeches to welcome the new students and look forward to the new school year.

The excitement and anticipation of the new students are written on their faces, and the high school that sways their youth!

Ye Wei is also very happy, for him, the tenth grade is the beginning of high school, and the good news is that no one has recognized him yet, at most he looks at him suspiciously, there are more whites and South Asians in the school, Asians, blacks and other ethnicities are average, and Asian families still like academic high schools.

"From now on, I'm not just a wolverine, I'm also a Viking, and I'm rewarded for my merits!"

"Palman-qui-meruit-ferat" was Wexford's motto, which is also USC's, so he liked it.

Los Angeles, Harvard-Westlake junior high school and high school are also ushering in the first day of school, and the Saperstein Theater of junior high school is holding a school opening assembly.

On the stage, the principal of the junior high school, Jenny Hebricht, said the opening speech, and there was a lively undercurrent surging in the silence under the stage.

The seventh-graders are so new to Yiqiē that many of them have already heard the legend of VIY, such as last year in this theater, he made Principal Hednatt lose his old face, and it is exciting to think about it. Joining a club is another exciting topic, and the Dream League is undoubtedly one of the most popular, but now you have to go through a lot of tests to get in.

As one of the examiners, Babu, who is already in the eighth grade, has his head up, or how can he be admired by the freshmen?

The Dream Chaser Alliance was also established in the high school, such a happy event, Lev and Bard pondered how to achieve firecracker celebration, but at the same time, in this wide and quaint campus, a female voice screamed: "It's really hell, that slut !!"

"Master Gia, don't you think there's a lot of time to play? "Yes, yes!"

Listening to Lev's words, Gia almost fainted, but couldn't argue that the HW High School is in school five days a week, and each academic class is only four times a week, which means more X time than the Middle School, allowing students to do more community service, beyond academics to design and develop their own areas of interest.

Not only do you have a good SAT score, but you also have to have a beautiful resume when applying to college, which is more difficult and fun than just reading a book, isn't it?

The average SAT score is 2100...... That slut!" Gia's screams continued, "I'm going to art school too!!"

Compared with Harvard-Westlake, one of the top 25 high schools in the United States all year round, Ye Wei personally feels that it is so cool to go to school in Wexford!

Academic classes can only stand aside in the curriculum, and the main characters are acting theory, body movement, voice, drama theory, drama rehearsal, etc. And the style of study is so different, relaxed, artistic, not showing off wealth, in Harvard-Westlake, everyone seems to be in a hurry, and here, there are students sitting against the wall in the corridors everywhere, doing their own thing.

There will be no reprimands from the instructors, and no one will feel bad, things related to art can be seen everywhere, and the sound of acting and music wafts in the air.

There is also Chinese food in the cafeteria! There is no need to talk and talk about the theory of the school, although the craftsmanship is average. Ye Wei's favorite is the gym, which is one of the few facilities that is superior to Harvard-Westlake, because acting students need to shape and exercise their bodies, which is a course.

During the lunch break, Ye Wei had just left the cafeteria and came to the corridor outside, where the students were coming and going, which was something he didn't like, it was too crowded.

At this time, he met acquaintances, Nina and the three girls came talking and laughing together, he didn't know if it was her new friend or old classmate, and it was easy to meet some new friends with her temperament. In the crowd, Ye Wei raised his hand to say hello, "Hey, Ni......"

Nina also saw him, and immediately looked away, and hurried past with her friends, ignoring him, really like she didn't know him at all!

“ok。 Ye Wei smiled helplessly and walked forward.

A white boy with flat hair and curly hair approached him, "That girl is so spicy, and hot girls are always so arrogant." I'm Damien Rush, 11th grade, Visual and Media Arts. Ye Wei reached out and bumped fists with him, "Yunik-Gu, tenth grade, performing arts." ”

"First of all, I'm gay. Demian's tone was serious, not afraid of being heard by the people around him.

"Oh. Ye Wei was stunned, sexual orientation is not a joke, such a blatant high school student, he has seen it for the first time, maybe it is common in art school? After all, there are many, many homosexuals engaged in the art industry. He is not homophobic and nods: "It's okay, I'm an enlightened person who supports the legalization of gay marriage." ”

"Is it possible for us, then?" said Damien, staring expectantly.

"No, I only like girls. Ye Wei said seriously. Damian suddenly looked disappointed, and Ye Wei said again: "We can be friends." Damian hurriedly said, "I do!"

In Los Angeles, the Shooter Girls' School is also open.

Emma Roberts was promoted to eighth grade, and at this time she was in a daze in the classroom of English class, and the girls around her were chattering, she took out the book "Outlaws" and flipped it up, remembering that day, she couldn't help but hold her cheeks with her hands and exhale, how is that villain in Toronto?

......

North American box office for a week

August 27-September 2, 2004 -

Movies - Ranking - Number of Weeks - Number of Theaters/Change - Average - Box Office of the Week - Total Box Office

"Heroes" - 1st place - 1st week - 2031 - 11,680 - 23,722,503 - 23,722,503

Napoleon the Great - 14th - Week 12 - 706 (+129) - 4,476 - 3,159,981 - 23,456,682

"The Wedding Date is Approaching" - 29th place - 14th week - 317 (-18) - 1,174 - 372,158 - 38,124,775

There were also bright spots in the film market during the first week of school, such as "Hero", which was released in China nearly two years late, and another victory for Chinese-language films after "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", Miramax's controversial release, which would have been even higher if it had been released while it was hot in 2002, when it was nominated for the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film.

"Napoleon the Great" continues its miracle, this comedy with a production fee of only 400,000 has become a phenomenon, popular with young people, and overshadows many blockbusters.

also obscured a lot of the light of "The Wedding is Coming", in the media, the Hess are heroic geniuses, and Ye Wei is a depraved bad genius. However, the box office of "The Wedding Date is Coming" did a good job, taking advantage of the rising momentum of Ye Wei's popularity, it is only less than two million away from the goal of 40 million box office, which is not an unrealizable dream.

In September, ME released the Q-score statistics for the third period of 2004, which is the latest situation in the past four months.

After a summer, many new celebrities and celebrities entered the scope of the investigation, including Ye Wei, of course, with a positive Q score of 27 points!

This score made Brian and Leslie cheer, Ye Wei compared to their other customer, Tom Hanks, who ranked first with 57 points, is nothing, like Jim Carrey, Bruce Willis, Tom Cruise, these people with more than 50 points can be called superstars, 27 points are not enough to be a first-line TV star, but it is a surprise!

The original minimum idea was 10 points in one year, 20 points in three years, and the most optimistic idea was to wait for the success of "Little Sunshine Beauty" to score 20+ points, and the result was less than half a year after its debut, it was already 27 points, which is definitely one of the fastest soaring speeds.

When Brian happily informed Ye Wei, he got a lazy oh from the other party, "It's only 27 points, no wonder no one here has recognized me yet." ”

Of course, 27 points will not walk on the street and everyone will know you, but you will be mistaken for "you are the one, the one...... "If it weren't for the fact that Ye Wei was much younger and more handsome than John Zhao, there would definitely be this situation."

"When will I get 30 minutes and look like a hot soap opera star, be happy Brian. ”

"But, I'm convinced of you, you're just a newcomer, and how many Disney kids don't have this score!"

One more point...... Ye Wei's negative Q score also far exceeded expectations: 15 points.

It's a very dangerous, starting to stink score, and it's not primarily because of "I don't know about him," but because of "he's an inferior guy," and I hate him! Maybe because of his recent scandals and scandals, maybe for something else.

The total score of positive and negative scores is 42 points, in fact, there are a lot of people who know viy, and popular soap opera stars do not necessarily have this total score, unless they are a member of "** City".

Ye Wei was also dissatisfied with the negative Q score: "It's only 15 points, I thought there would be a 20 score anyway." ”

Brian was dumbfounded, it was the first time I heard that a client wanted his negative Q score to be high, how many brokerage teams and public relations teams were fired because a client's negative Q score was too high, even those reality TV stars who specialize in grandstanding and attracting people's attention, they only want their positive Q score to be high.

"You don't deliberately do anything stupid to increase the negative Q score!" Brian had to warn, thinking about that public statement, it was really scary.

"No time, no interest. ”

Brian thought that Viy would go to Canada, both good and bad.

The bad thing is that he left the spotlight and his exposure continued to decline, since he went to Toronto, his street photography in the media is gone, and there is no news of him participating in the event, if it weren't for the weekly article in the "viy said" column, in the eyes of the public, Ye Wei would have disappeared.

It's fatal for a new star, and before people remember you much, you don't move.

He is now really sorry that Ye Wei and Lily Collins finished playing, originally Ye Wei attended Phil Collins's Los Angeles concert a few days ago, it would be exposed again, and the relationship would be announced naturally, but now there is nothing.

The good news is that Toronto is a quiet place away from all temptations, and for a 16-year-old who has suddenly become famous, and where "Little Miss Sunshine" is the most important part of the plan, there is no better place. You must know that viy is not only famous now, but also has money, driving a pie, racing a sports car, smoking marijuana or something.

Money can make people happy, and money can also make people ruined.

What can be done, it depends on Ye Wei's own, this bad boy who some people love and some hate.

......

Three months after its release, the North American box office of "The Wedding is Coming" is close to the dust has settled, and the settlement of accounts is also being carried out one after another.

It's not uncommon for an independent film to be distributed by a well-known or unknown distribution company and make a lot of money, and everyone is jubilant and then bitter.

The reason may be that the publisher is inflating the box office, or it can be non-compliance with the agreement or default...... A wide variety of questions. A fresh** example is the hugely controversial film "The Passion of the Christ," where producer Mel Gibson has just taken distributor Newmarket, whose actual share of the bill is inconsistent with the agreed rate.

Fortunately, this kind of thing has not happened on ifc and Pretong, they are neither the big six studios that can deceive people, nor are they small studios that no one cared about before and will care about in the future, they have a lot of scruples, like Hanks's reputation, why do they do this kind of thing that does not outweigh the losses?

"The Wedding Date" currently grosses $38.12 million and is split between three parties: the exhibitor, the distributor and the producer.

It was already set at the contract stage, and Mr. Salton was paid a lawyer's fee.

To figure out the box office split, we must first understand the first step, how to divide the relationship between the exhibitor and the distributor.

In terminology, the fee paid by a movie theater to the distributor for a film released is called the "rent" of the film, and the reason why this term is used is because there is a time limit for the movie theater to use the copyright of the film, and the proportion of rent to box office revenue at different times can be different, and the settlement time is different, depending on the agreement.

Typically, mainstream distributors get 53% of the rent, and exhibitors get the remaining 47%.

Independent distributors do not have the strength of mainstream distributors, generally only 40%-50%, and if they are distributed in art theaters, it is even lower, only 35%-40%, because independent film distributors' art films often do not do much publicity, and the director theater itself has to bear a lot of publicity costs.

Therefore, making literary films is thankless, everything is difficult, and you can't make money, but some films always have to be made.

There are two main types of sharing protocols that are used to calculate this percentage: the standard protocol and the aggregate protocol.

There are several different standard agreements, the most mainstream is 90/10-wish-floor-of-70%, and option A has a "housing rental fee (operating costs of the theater and venue fees)", which is split between 90/10 (distributor/exhibitor) for the first 2-4 weeks, followed by 60/40, 50/50, and 40/60 per week...... There is no rent for option B, which is 70/30 for the first 2-4 weeks and about 50/50 at the end.

This kind of agreement is very complicated, in order to maximize profits, the two sides have a lot of wrestling, and the box office of the film released on a large scale at the opening is the largest in the first few weeks, and the distributor likes 90%;

This led to the emergence of a completely different and simpler way of splitting accounts: the total agreement.

All box office revenues are distributed according to a percentage initially agreed upon, and there is no zài rental, which is divided from the first week to the last week, with the prevailing 55/45 in fashion.

Whether to use the standard or the total depends on the film's own situation, of course, a blockbuster like "Spider-Man 2" is 90/10, and its North American box office in the first two weeks (including the first two days of the opening weekend) is 2. 7.7 billion, now 9th week 3. 6.8 billion, in total, the projectors will laugh crazy.

But for independent films with very long release cycles, the exact opposite, such as "My Grand Greek Wedding", which has a 51-week release cycle, if you use the traditional 90/10, the film is equivalent to giving the film to the exhibitor after the 10th week, and like "Napoleon", the sprint does not start until the 12th week.

It's like "The Wedding is Coming", it only has 1 theater in the first week, what is the use of 90/10?

Therefore, ifc and the cinema company signed a total agreement, 51/49, which is already ifc's biggest capacity, and fortunately, its parent company is AMC broadcast network.

On a 51/49 basis, $38.12 million at the box office, 1944. 120,000 rents to the publisher, 1867. 880,000 belong to exhibitors.

This rent is then divided between the distributor and the producer, and how to divide it depends on the copyright ownership of the film, whether the distributor buys it out, or does it share?

"The Wedding is Coming" is not a buyout, but a partnership, and the ratio originally set by the two parties is to deduct the total distribution costs (1, publicity costs; 2) distribution costs, including copy fees, transportation, printing, attorney fees, etc., generally 8% of the total rent), and then 35/65 points (distributor/producer), which is a fair percentage that both parties are satisfied with.

The cost of issuance can be a lot of tricks, but Pretong and ifc have been cooperating for some years, even if ifc wants to take advantage of it, it will not be too much.

The total publicity fee before and after is 1.5 million, and the issuance cost is 1.65 million, after deducting the 3.15 million, the total rent becomes about 16.3 million, and IFC takes 570. 50,000, other 1059. 50,000 yuan will be handed over to the producer, and according to the agreement, IFC will also compensate Pretong for 500,000 publicity fees, so Pretong will get about 11.09 million.

Next, there is the internal division of the producers, which involves the proportion of shares, and it depends on whether there is any sponsorship investment.

In the case of "The Wedding is Coming", there are only two companies that want to divide the money, but Image and Pretong, although out of the 2 million production fee, Pretong only contributed 100,000, but its efforts in the remake, such as forming a crew, providing footage of "My Grand Greek Wedding", and contacting distribution, etc., make it have a reason to take more shares.

The original agreement was 70/30 (Wei Duo Image/Pretten), if Gonzman and Hanks had foreseen that "The Wedding Date is Coming" would be so sold, would they have asked for an increase in their own dividend ratio?

There is no such thing as ifs, after paying about 800,000 yuan of the crew's deferred salary and bonuses, 10.3 million miles of Pretong received 3.09 million, and only Duoduo Image received 7.21 million.

7.21 million is just the result of a simple calculation, don't forget to pay taxes! Lawyer Salton said a lot of various taxes, Ye Wei was impatient to hear it, and told him, "If you can avoid taxes, you can avoid taxes, yes, I am a bastard who avoids taxes, and I am also a good person who does not support the Bush administration." ”

In terms of any preferential treatment and tax avoidance, Solton's lawyer calculates that he will have to pay about 15%-20% tax, but the image has received nearly $6 million from the box office.

Is it a lot compared to 2 million production fees and 38.12 million box office? This is one of the reasons why it is becoming more and more difficult for producers to make money at the box office and more and more series of films.

Of course, every movie has post-merchandise, and the problem is that if it fails at the box office, can it succeed in post-peripherals? Usually, the winner takes all and the loser has nothing.

"The Wedding is Coming" belongs to the winner, but Duoduo Image will not only earn 6 million net profits, video disc rental and sales, TV broadcast copyright fees, overseas distribution, etc., in the future, there will be checks flying over one after another, if it is good, it can bring tens of millions of net profits.

The money is not all immediately credited to the company account of Weiduo Image, and it takes time to settle, but this is the number.

Finally, the company's internal account, the Ye family accounts for 78% of the shares, and other investors account for 21%, and the Schwartz boss is now smiling so much that he can't see his eyes, and he has made a lot of money!

The Ye family can take about 4.7 million from 6 million, and when the 1.5 million debt is settled, there will theoretically be 3.2 million, this amount of money is the approximate net profit of the Ye family at the North American box office of "The Wedding is Coming", not a lot, but definitely a lot, more than enough to buy a seaside holiday villa in Malibu.

From huge losses to millions of profits, and the predictable tens of millions, the key person is, of course, Ye Wei.

3.2 million is given to him, no one will say badly, except for Ye Haogen and Gu Qiao, how did the previous viy spend money? They are the people who are most afraid of Ye Wei going to ruin Miè and love him the most, so they naturally strictly supervise the company's account, and as a reward, they allocated 500,000 yuan to him.

But every time a single expenditure exceeds 10,000 yuan, they must get their consent before they get the money.

So although Ye Wei's wallet is bulging, he is still firmly controlled by his parents, he is only 16 years old, they have the right to do so, and he likes to be controlled by them.

With money, you have the mind to invest, "Little Sunshine Beauty" doesn't need so much, it's stupid to put it in the bank, and the film industry is very risky.

Ye Wei had an idea and persuaded his father to take out a sum of money to make the dentist clinic bigger, and invite a few old dentist friends to come in and partner to build a large clinic. He can introduce customers, there are too many people who have to take care of their teeth in the entertainment industry, with these celebrities and celebrities, are you afraid that there will be no other ordinary customers?

Ye Haogen is very interested, this matter is his business, Ye Wei doesn't care.

On her mother's side, she said that family comes first, but Ye Wei felt that she could also make a career, after all, Duoduo went to school, and she had a lot of free time. Now that more and more people are learning Chinese, it should be good to open a Chinese training class or something, Gu Qiao is also interested, this is his mother's business, and he doesn't care.

Every qiē is getting better, and the whole family is full of vitality.

"Brother, brother, when are you coming back?" Duoduo asked on the phone, she had already enrolled in Berkeley Hall's nursery class, no one dared to bully her, and she was having a good time.

"How many days are left on your birthday?"

"48 days!"

......

Wexford Art School, this afternoon, Ye Wei met Nina and her group again in the corridor outside the art center.

The two haven't spoken for a few days, and every time they meet at school since the beginning of school, Ye Wei will greet him with a smile, and Nina completely treats him as air, and at the dinner table at home, in front of Konstantin and Mihaela, well, well, hehe.

This time it was like this again, Ye Wei smiled at her and nodded, Nina and the two girl friends walked directly, he was used to it, and he didn't care.

The two girls glanced at him a few more times, and when he walked away, one of the white blonde girls asked in surprise, "Nina, do you know him?" ”

"Hmm......" Nina replied for a moment, "I don't know him, he's an international boarder at my neighbor's house, what's wrong?"

"The day before yesterday, I saw him picking a few sticks of grass outside the grass and putting them in his mouth to eat, and I saw him chew for a while and swallow it!" The blonde girl's face was full of strangeness, and another black-haired South Asian girl suddenly exclaimed: "Really, it's terrible, Nina, you can't make friends with this kind of person, or we'll all be embarrassed......"

Just because art school doesn't respect cool kids, and it's not okay to be friends with freaks.

The corners of Nina's mouth twitched, "He eats grass?" "He's a cow?

"It's definitely him, or the suit he wears, he eats one after another, and I'm stunned. ”

"He's not going to be a snack on weeds, is he?"

They stopped talking, and the situation was clear, there were few poor freaks who changed their clothes and used weeds as snacks.

"Who knows. Nina forced a smile and felt a strange feeling in her heart......

Producer Mel Gibson has just taken the distributor Newmakitt to court, and Newmarket's actual split ratio is inconsistent with the agreed ratio.

Fortunately, this kind of thing has not happened on ifc and Pretong, they are neither the big six studios that can deceive people, nor are they small studios that no one cared about before and will care about in the future, they have a lot of scruples, like Hanks's reputation, why do they do this kind of thing that does not outweigh the losses?

"The Wedding Date" currently grosses $38.12 million and is split between three parties: the exhibitor, the distributor and the producer.

It was already set at the contract stage, and Mr. Salton was paid a lawyer's fee.

To figure out the box office split, we must first understand the first step, how to divide the relationship between the exhibitor and the distributor.

In terminology, the fee paid by a movie theater to the distributor for a film released is called the "rent" of the film, and the reason why this term is used is because there is a time limit for the movie theater to use the copyright of the film, and the proportion of rent to box office revenue at different times can be different, and the settlement time is different, depending on the agreement.

Typically, mainstream distributors get 53% of the rent, and exhibitors get the remaining 47%.

Independent distributors do not have the strength of mainstream distributors, generally only 40%-50%, and if they are distributed in art theaters, it is even lower, only 35%-40%, because independent film distributors' art films often do not do much publicity, and the director theater itself has to bear a lot of publicity costs.

Therefore, making literary films is thankless, everything is difficult, and you can't make money, but some films always have to be made.

There are two main types of sharing protocols that are used to calculate this percentage: the standard protocol and the aggregate protocol.

There are several different standard agreements, the most mainstream is 90/10-wish-floor-of-70%, and option A has a "housing rental fee (operating costs of the theater and venue fees)", which is split between 90/10 (distributor/exhibitor) for the first 2-4 weeks, followed by 60/40, 50/50, and 40/60 per week...... There is no rent for option B, which is 70/30 for the first 2-4 weeks and about 50/50 at the end.

This kind of agreement is very complicated, in order to maximize profits, the two sides have a lot of wrestling, and the box office of the film released on a large scale at the opening is the largest in the first few weeks, and the distributor likes 90%;

This led to the emergence of a completely different and simpler way of splitting accounts: the total agreement.

All box office revenues are distributed according to a percentage initially agreed upon, and there is no zài rental, which is divided from the first week to the last week, with the prevailing 55/45 in fashion.

Whether to use the standard or the total depends on the film's own situation, of course, a blockbuster like "Spider-Man 2" is 90/10, and its North American box office in the first two weeks (including the first two days of the opening weekend) is 2. 7.7 billion, now 9th week 3. 6.8 billion, in total, the projectors will laugh crazy.

But for independent films with very long release cycles, the exact opposite, such as "My Grand Greek Wedding", which has a 51-week release cycle, if you use the traditional 90/10, the film is equivalent to giving the film to the exhibitor after the 10th week, and like "Napoleon", the sprint does not start until the 12th week.

It's like "The Wedding is Coming", it only has 1 theater in the first week, what is the use of 90/10?

Therefore, ifc and the cinema company signed a total agreement, 51/49, which is already ifc's biggest capacity, and fortunately, its parent company is AMC broadcast network.

On a 51/49 basis, $38.12 million at the box office, 1944. 120,000 rents to the publisher, 1867. 880,000 belong to exhibitors.

This rent is then divided between the distributor and the producer, and how to divide it depends on the copyright ownership of the film, whether the distributor buys it out, or does it share?

"The Wedding is Coming" is not a buyout, but a partnership, and the ratio originally set by the two parties is to deduct the total distribution costs (1, publicity costs; 2) distribution costs, including copy fees, transportation, printing, attorney fees, etc., generally 8% of the total rent), and then 35/65 points (distributor/producer), which is a fair percentage that both parties are satisfied with.

The cost of issuance can be a lot of tricks, but Pretong and ifc have been cooperating for some years, even if ifc wants to take advantage of it, it will not be too much.

The total publicity fee before and after is 1.5 million, and the issuance cost is 1.65 million, after deducting the 3.15 million, the total rent becomes about 16.3 million, and IFC takes 570. 50,000, other 1059. 50,000 yuan will be handed over to the producer, and according to the agreement, IFC will also compensate Pretong for 500,000 publicity fees, so Pretong will get about 11.09 million.

Next, there is the internal division of the producers, which involves the proportion of shares, and it depends on whether there is any sponsorship investment.

In the case of "The Wedding is Coming", there are only two companies that want to divide the money, but Image and Pretong, although out of the 2 million production fee, Pretong only contributed 100,000, but its efforts in the remake, such as forming a crew, providing footage of "My Grand Greek Wedding", and contacting distribution, etc., make it have a reason to take more shares.

The original agreement was 70/30 (Wei Duo Image/Pretten), if Gonzman and Hanks had foreseen that "The Wedding Date is Coming" would be so sold, would they have asked for an increase in their own dividend ratio?

There is no such thing as ifs, after paying about 800,000 yuan of the crew's deferred salary and bonuses, 10.3 million miles of Pretong received 3.09 million, and only Duoduo Image received 7.21 million.

7.21 million is just the result of a simple calculation, don't forget to pay taxes! Lawyer Salton said a lot of various taxes, Ye Wei was impatient to hear it, and told him, "If you can avoid taxes, you can avoid taxes, yes, I am a bastard who avoids taxes, and I am also a good person who does not support the Bush administration." ”

In terms of any preferential treatment and tax avoidance, Solton's lawyer calculates that he will have to pay about 15%-20% tax, but the image has received nearly $6 million from the box office.

Is it a lot compared to 2 million production fees and 38.12 million box office? This is one of the reasons why it is becoming more and more difficult for producers to make money at the box office and more and more series of films.

Of course, every movie has post-merchandise, and the problem is that if it fails at the box office, can it succeed in post-peripherals? Usually, the winner takes all and the loser has nothing.

"The Wedding is Coming" belongs to the winner, but Duoduo Image will not only earn 6 million net profits, video disc rental and sales, TV broadcast copyright fees, overseas distribution, etc., in the future, there will be checks flying over one after another, if it is good, it can bring tens of millions of net profits.

The money is not all immediately credited to the company account of Weiduo Image, and it takes time to settle, but this is the number.

Finally, the company's internal account, the Ye family accounts for 78% of the shares, and other investors account for 21%, and the Schwartz boss is now smiling so much that he can't see his eyes, and he has made a lot of money!

The Ye family can take about 4.7 million from 6 million, and when the 1.5 million debt is settled, there will theoretically be 3.2 million, this amount of money is the approximate net profit of the Ye family at the North American box office of "The Wedding is Coming", not a lot, but definitely a lot, more than enough to buy a seaside holiday villa in Malibu.

From huge losses to millions of profits, and the predictable tens of millions, the key person is, of course, Ye Wei.

3.2 million is given to him, no one will say badly, except for Ye Haogen and Gu Qiao, how did the previous viy spend money? They are the people who are most afraid of Ye Wei going to ruin Miè and love him the most, so they naturally strictly supervise the company's account, and as a reward, they allocated 500,000 yuan to him.

But every time a single expenditure exceeds 10,000 yuan, they must get their consent before they get the money.

So although Ye Wei's wallet is bulging, he is still firmly controlled by his parents, he is only 16 years old, they have the right to do so, and he likes to be controlled by them.

With money, you have the mind to invest, "Little Sunshine Beauty" doesn't need so much, it's stupid to put it in the bank, and the film industry is very risky.

Ye Wei had an idea and persuaded his father to take out a sum of money to make the dentist clinic bigger, and invite a few old dentist friends to come in and partner to build a large clinic. He can introduce customers, there are too many people who have to take care of their teeth in the entertainment industry, with these celebrities and celebrities, are you afraid that there will be no other ordinary customers?

Ye Haogen is very interested, this matter is his business, Ye Wei doesn't care.

On her mother's side, she said that family comes first, but Ye Wei felt that she could also make a career, after all, Duoduo went to school, and she had a lot of free time. Now that more and more people are learning Chinese, it should be good to open a Chinese training class or something, Gu Qiao is also interested, this is his mother's business, and he doesn't care.

Every qiē is getting better, and the whole family is full of vitality.

"Brother, brother, when are you coming back?" Duoduo asked on the phone, she had already enrolled in Berkeley Hall's nursery class, no one dared to bully her, and she was having a good time.

"How many days are left on your birthday?"

"48 days!"

......

Wexford Art School, this afternoon, Ye Wei met Nina and her group again in the corridor outside the art center.

The two haven't spoken for a few days, and every time they meet at school since the beginning of school, Ye Wei will greet him with a smile, and Nina completely treats him as air, and at the dinner table at home, in front of Konstantin and Mihaela, well, well, hehe.

This time it was like this again, Ye Wei smiled at her and nodded, Nina and the two girl friends walked directly, he was used to it, and he didn't care.

The two girls glanced at him a few more times, and when he walked away, one of the white blonde girls asked in surprise, "Nina, do you know him?" ”

"Hmm......" Nina replied for a moment, "I don't know him, he's an international boarder at my neighbor's house, what's wrong?"

"The day before yesterday, I saw him picking a few sticks of grass outside the grass and putting them in his mouth to eat, and I saw him chew for a while and swallow it!" The blonde girl's face was full of strangeness, and another black-haired South Asian girl suddenly exclaimed: "Really, it's terrible, Nina, you can't make friends with this kind of person, or we'll all be embarrassed......"

Just because art school doesn't respect cool kids, and it's not okay to be friends with freaks.

The corners of Nina's mouth twitched, "He eats grass?" "He's a cow?

"It's definitely him, or the suit he wears, he eats one after another, and I'm stunned. ”

"He's not going to be a snack on weeds, is he?"

They stopped talking, and the situation was clear, there were few poor freaks who changed their clothes and used weeds as snacks.

"Who knows. Nina forced a smile and felt a strange feeling in her heart......