"The timing was just right!"

At this time, the audience who turned on the TV to watch "The Daily Show" will have this thought, today's program guest is Ye Wei, I have been looking forward to it for a long time, his last guest was a year and a half ago, the classic interview video clips circulated on the Internet, fans and fans are gods, what will he do this time?

Just looking at the two of them sitting there, the audience couldn't help but smile.

"What should I call you?" Jon shook his pen on the TV screen, shaking his pen uncertainly, "Yet-Ye, Yunik Kuller, or your nickname, Doctor Who?"

"Whatever you like. Ye Wei shrugged his shoulders slightly, "This is a democratic country, although many institutions have refuted my point of view. ”

There was a burst of laughter in the studio, and the audience would have noticed that he was mocking the MPAA, and maybe something else.

"Do you still believe it?" Jon looked surprised, looking at the audience, "what a dumb idiot." Forgive him, minorities are always behind in the news. ”

The audience inside and outside the TV laughed and became even more interested, Jon attacked! He won't let go of viy! Ye Wei was stunned for a moment, "What a white man." In the midst of the laughter, Jon whispered with a vicious face, "I am Jewish." ”

The audience chanted, and both of them couldn't help laughing. Jon continued, "Why did you have this idea?

"Nothing out of the ordinary, you know we all have dual identities. Ye Weihui's calm face was like a serious face, and like a light breeze, "Jennifer Garner uses a dual identity to be a spy, you use a dual identity to participate in makeup sex - love pie duì, and I use a dual identity to make movies." ”

This time, the laughter of the audience that had just gone down exploded again, and the TV audience also burst into laughter, knowing that VIY would not make Jon look good!

Jon was suddenly terrified, his hands were raised, and the pen flew away, "How do you know!?

The audience's laughter couldn't stop, and Ye Wei made a helpless expression, "Gossip tabloid, Jon! They even reported that you were playing the Flash." ”

The meaning of "The Flash" made the audience completely laugh crazy, and there were applause and shouts.

"Oh......" Jon exhaled, his expression fell, and his tone was palpitating: "I'm scared to death, I thought it was your ......" The burst of laughter couldn't stop!

"I don't go to that kind of place, I'm making movies. Ye Wei calmly replied, making the audience applaud. Jon asked with a frown: "Eyes Wide Opener"?" Ye Wei said disgustedly: "That movie is just a disaster, a daydream-like sexual fantasy." I prefer Ice Storm, oh no...... I didn't say Spider-Man was me. ”

The audience laughed and shouted, but most of them were just coaxing, and they couldn't fully grasp the joke. Both films discuss the sex-liberation of the 60s and 70s, and one of the stars of "The Ice Storm", Tobey Maguire, is none other than Spider-Man.

Jon also smiled, slightly baring his teeth very obscenely, he patted the table, and talked about tonight's theme: "Your new movie "Little Sunshine Beauty" is about to be released, I watched it, it's really a good movie, talk about your performance?"

Ye Wei said seriously: "I am playing an exorcist, and continuing to work for God is a huge new challenge." Jon was stunned: "Exorcism?" Ye Wei shook his head and said: "Come on, Jon, you haven't watched "Little Sunshine Beauty" at all, and you haven't even read the synopsis of the story we gave clearly, I didn't star in it!"

In the audience's laughter, Jon sat up straight, his hands on the table, expressionless, "I can explain......"

"You haven't actually watched "The Wedding is Coming", right?" Ye Wei was surprised, "dang-it, you watched "Eyes Open", but you didn't even watch the movies of the show guests. ”

After a few beeps, everything Jon said depressedly was silenced, and the audience's laughter continued, and Jon suddenly said loudly: "But I know that this movie really has a lot of star actors, Tom Hanks, Julia Roberts, Meryl Streep...... They're all on the same set, what's it like? Attend the Oscars every day?"

Ye Wei smiled, laughed for the second time tonight, and said: "It's not every day, we don't start work on weekends, after all, we have to participate in the Oscars." The audience burst into laughter.

"Did they have you as a director?" Jon asked with a smile.

"Of course, they were really professional, and I tried my best to do my job, believe it or not, I even read a couple of parenting books, and when Julia Roberts was upset, I said to her, 'Do you want to get some parenting experience from me?' and she was happy, 'Why not?'"

After the audience laughed, Ye Wei said seriously: "All our goals are to make movies well, they are all reasonable people, except for occasional creative disagreements, I can get them by being reasonable, very lucky." ”

"Little Sunshine has a legendary production process, more than 100 middle school students crowdfunded the script, and you even made a documentary because of it. Jon said with a sudden frantic gritted teeth, as if he was very jealous, "I don't even have a documentary, he has one!"

"162, 560,000. Ye Wei said, and the audience suddenly resounded with the audience's admiring shouts.

Ye Wei didn't mean to joke on this topic, but smiled seriously: "Everyone did things with enthusiasm at the beginning, and we didn't think much about the difficulty of buying the script and making it into a movie, we just recognized that there was nothing impossible." That's why we dared to start, and a lot of things happened that were completely different from the plan, but we got through and got it done. ”

The audience applauded even more, and Jon didn't joke about it, and said the next topic: "You have a lot of controversy right now, and you allow me to ask controversial questions, it seems that you are really not afraid." ”

"What are you afraid of?" Ye Wei was a little amused. Jon laughed a little thief, "Do you have an expectation for the box office of this movie? 10 million people hear it......" He laughed and endured.

"You mean the $100 million North American box office, right?" Ye Wei shrugged and frowned, "I was wrong about that, I was really wrong." ”

Oh!! the audience at the scene exclaimed, and the audience in front of the TV also exclaimed, what's going on?!

Jon was stunned, and Ye Wei immediately raised his eyebrows and said, "The expectation of 100 million US dollars is wrong, too little." Given that I'm so confident, I'm now strictly correcting it, and whoever wants to get it can get it, and my North American box office expectation for "Little Sunshine Beauty" is 1. $300 million!"

"Ahhh

It's not just the 100 million that is interpreted by others, it's the 1 that you say it yourself. 300 million! North American box office!

Really wrong!

"You didn't drink?" Jon leaned back on the TV screen, as if frightened.

"No, every nerve I have is very awake. Ye Wei smiled indifferently, "If you can't reach it, next time I come, even if you call me an idiot, so will you." ”

The audience's boiling was even worse, and when the time limit of the show was up, Jon suddenly looked at the camera and shouted with a smile: "Thank you Ye Wei and Yunik Kuhler for being guests!" "Little Sunshine Beauty", released on Friday, November 11! Everyone remember to watch it, it's really a good movie!"

The smiling Ye Wei got up and shook Jon's hand, the two were still laughing and saying something, but the camera zoomed out, and the TV audience only heard the sound effect of the end of the show and the shouts of the live audience.

......

Excited!

viy's box office announcement is so exciting!North America 1. 300 million!

On the eve of the release of this LMS, another bigger controversy!

Is it hype? Not necessarily, if it is done in the end, of course it will be cool and handsome, and if it can't be done, it will be like Tom Cruise jumping off the couch on "Oprah Talk Show" in May this year. Now it really gives those media who look down on LMS a chance to ridicule, Ye Wei finally went crazy and said that he was arrogant and frivolous, is this a believe?

But just after the Yonick-Kuhler trap, the media is a little conservative in their rhetoric, could this be another trap?

In fact, the DreamWorks Distribution Department was taken aback, what declaration was really not in the publicity plan, Ye Wei once again surprised everyone, including himself. Fortunately, it will not have a bad impact on LMS, because "The Daily Show" is mainly influential on young people, this group will like to be young and frivolous, and the release is imminent, and success or failure is not so can be affected.

So this matter is basically only about whether Ye Wei himself will become a laughing stock.

Speaking of box office expectations, for the North American box office of LMS, the outside world now has voices shouting from 50 million to 90 million. But the question is, what are the expectations of DreamWorks, Pretwin, and the big names? How much box office does it take to be commercially successful?

To understand these issues, we must first understand the two concepts of Hollywood's profit pie, "no net income" and "no one can get a share of the total income".

To put it simply, "no net income" means that regardless of whether the film is profitable or not, the big-name members get a share of the gross profit from the film's gross income (the contract that is shared from the gross profit after signing the "cash break-even point"), while most other creative personnel get a part of the net profit, which is the "net profit point".

But in fact, no matter how profitable the film may seem, these "net profit users" usually never get a single cent, especially in the case of big studio film projects.

This is because after heavy deductions of costs and gross profit sharing, even a film that makes money will lose a lot of money on the books. The so-called net profit sharing is only reduced to a spiritual comfort, a status symbol: "I can finally share the net profit, the next step is to share the gross profit." ”

Consider the case of "60 Seconds", a 2000 action film that was described as a "sensation" in the annual report of producer and distributor Disney (Disney's 3rd grossing North America that year and 22nd in the year), 90 million in production fees, 1. 0.1 billion North America/2. 3.7 billion global box office.

There can be no net profit at the box office. That 2. Of the 3.7 billion, theaters and distributors around the world took 1. 3.9 billion, which is equal to about 60%, so the powerful Disney only got about 100 million, 40%. After deducting 90.6 million global distribution expenses (including 67.4 million publicity expenses, 13 million copy fees, 10.2 million insurance, transportation, customs duties, etc.) from 100 million, only about 9.4 million adjusted gross income remains.

At this time, it is time to divide the money, Bowei (Disney) took 30% of the distribution fee, 2.82 million, and the project's gold medal producer Jerry Bruckheimer and superstar Nicolas Cage took a total of 30%, also 2.82 million, then there is 3.76 million left, and the book loss is 86.24 million, where is the net profit?

After that, "Speed 60 Seconds" sold 1 more on the DVD. 9.8 billion, but only 39.6 million of them belong to the film, because it can only get 20% of the copyright fee of all audio-visual and DVD revenue of Bowei Home Entertainment, and the other 1. 58.4 billion went to Disney, and this income had to deduct the cost of 19.7 million (about 50%), Cage, who had 5% gross profit dividends, took 3.9 million, and finally its audio-visual income was only 16 million, still losing 70.24 million.

The rights to the premiere of its TV pay channel were sold for 18 million, deducting 2.7 million in deferred pay to actors and unions.14 90,000 costs, about 15.15 million belong to the film, even if you don't count the arrears of gross profit sharing and 10% annual interest rate, it still loses 55.09 million!

Despite the fact that the film created zào 4. With a gross income of 500 million, the person who shares the net profit can only scold.

Is "Speed 60 Seconds" really losing money? Of course not, the Disney Group, which integrates production and distribution, actually shared a large amount of money from it, but it is only distributed to its various subsidiaries Bo Wei and Bo Wei Family Entertainment.

Bruckheimer and Cage also benefit handsomely from fixed compensation and gross profit sharing. The person who shares the net profit also gets a fixed salary, so everyone is happy, but don't be foolish enough to believe that you can really share the money.

But when 0. 900 million production costs/2. The $3.7 billion global box office is happening on independent film companies, and it's tough unless the distribution fee is small. Because independent companies do not have group-style distribution channels, they can't eat the cake by themselves, and in the end, they can't really make money. This is the main reason why it is difficult for independent companies to survive, and the busy work is to work for celebrities.

"We've dragged down a couple of studios?" Brad Pitt and George Clooney often joke about each other.

And because there's usually no net income, when a film has a net income, and there's even a bonus, that's a great way to be popular, and that's the most popular way for studios and filmmakers to get their money happy.

"No one gets a share of the gross revenue" means that no matter how famous or big you are, Spielberg, Bruckheimer, Hanks, Cruise...... No one can profit from unadjusted gross revenue, box office, audio-visual, all peripherals.

It can only be divided if certain conditions are met, such as when the film has earned back its fixed salary, or if the mainstream has now reached the cash break-even point specified in the contract.

If the balance point is set at $1, it means that as soon as the film recovers its distribution fee, it can start splitting the money. But this is a dream, and the balance is often set high enough for the producers to recoup most of the production fees. And not only are the balance points of different films different, but the balance points of different people in the same film are also different.

It's not based on finances or anything, but according to a Hollywood dogma: "Those with power have the right to make the rules." ”

So the most powerful people get the lowest balance, Tom Hanks's can be $1, Tom Skhan's can be $100 million. This allows the person who created the most power to get the first share, and this part of the money is also counted in the cost of others, making it more difficult for others to reach a higher equilibrium point.

As a result, the less powerful the person, the less likely it is to get the gross harvest, because the conditions will never be met. The terms of gross profit sharing have also been reduced to spiritual comfort and status symbols: "I have finally got a balance, and the next step is the lowest balance." ”

In Woody Allen's comedy "Hollywood Ending," he plays the lead director, Waxman, who has four times the balance of the big-name star, as a poke at the difference between a director and a superstar.

Waxman is quadruple, and Ye Wei doesn't have his own balance point, because his contract doesn't have a gross profit dividend clause at all.

Only Hanks and Roberts have it on the crew of "Little Sunshine Beauty", and both of them are $1, and as long as they have $1 in cash gross profit after adjustment, they can take 30% of it, 15% each. This is only the global box office part, and the other audiovisual parts have other calculations.

And Gary Gozman, Alan Akin, Tim Rose, Meryl Streep, and Hans Zimmer are the ones who share the net profit, but not much, which is equivalent to a possible bonus. Ye Wei didn't score anything personally, the fixed salary was a symbolic $1, and there was no deferred salary, he didn't want money if he wanted the opportunity.

The rest of the crew also only has a fixed remuneration and union commission, as well as a possible bonus after a high profit.

How much does the LMS need to collect at the North American box office to see the net profit?Roughly calculated, [x(1-60%)-15 million]*(1-60%)-6 million>0

Counting 40% of the box office share, DreamWorks 30% of the distribution commission, 30% of the gross profit share of big names, 6 million is the production fee (51% of Pretong, 25% of DreamWorks, 16% of Dream Chasing Alliance, 5% of Super Machine, 3% of Heller's peak films), and 15 million is the publicity and distribution fee (12 million publicity fees, 3 million distribution fees), which is already DreamWorks' biggest capacity today.

The result of the formula is...... $75 million.

It is the assessment expectation of many professional institutions that Wall Street wants to make more money by looking at 90 million.

If it's 75 million, there will only be 15 million gross profits, DreamWorks can earn 4.5 million distribution shares, and Hanks and Roberts can each get 2.25 million shares. And what the producer got was zero, and the people who were waiting to share the net profit and the people who paid bonuses were all zero.

But don't forget that this is only the North American box office, if the global box office is good, it can double the income on this basis, and then counting the income from audio, video, TV copyright, etc., the two superstars can probably have tens of millions of salaries. While this is a far cry from their value, Preton is the main producer, and Roberts has other interests.

There is also a premise, LMS is not a commercial blockbuster such as "60 Seconds", it is a literary film aimed at the awards season, and it is not easy to do this with this distribution fee.

If 75 million is a common agreement, everyone will not be very excited, but they are also satisfied with the receipt, Ye Wei did not mess up, and he is really a movie genius.

So when the North American box office is 100 million, the producer will have a net profit of 4 million, and the people who share the gross profit will share more, and others will also see the hope of sharing the money, and they will definitely share it! Of course everyone is excited, Ye Wei, this kid is a gold mine, and he has made a lot of money!

If it was Ye Wei's crazy 1. 300 million, the producer can have a net profit of 8.8 million, and those who can share the money can share the money, the two superstars have 5.55 million income each at the North American box office, and the total income can also be seen 20 million, making money and rising in value.

With the current world, an independent literary film can make a lot of money only at the North American box office, and it also shows the huge revenue potential of other markets, and there is also hope of winning awards...... How many people will laugh so happily that they will laugh their big teeth! Ye Wei: This time it is a $1 salary, and next time it will be a $1 balance point, from the smallest power to the largest power.

The senior management of the big studio immediately admitted his mistake and apologized for inviting guests to dinner, and invited the whole family to travel together, sign a film contract, sign a film contract, sign a film contract!

Actors flock here, genius, cooperate! I heard that acting in your movie has fame and net profit.

That's really hot, a new generation of power