According to Joseph Drake's prediction, the producer's revenue should be close to $20 million — net income minus production costs.

Combined with the income from video tapes and TV entertainment, a few can make up $30 million.

In other words, "The Fault in the Stars" can create a net profit of more than 80 million for Wonderful Studio...

The unit is in US dollars.

In fact, Shen Xudong also knows that he probably can't keep a secret - Hollywood has a lot of inventory every year: the annual money-making movies or something, will definitely expose the profitability of "Juno" and "The Fault in the Stars"...

In addition, Golden Harvest has also participated in the investment of many projects - the annual financial report will be public, and it will also be exposed!

So Shen Xudong's approach is really to take off his pants and fart - this is an extra move.

But he liked it.

Regarding the proceeds of "The Fault in the Stars" this time, Shen Xudong decided to take half of it and improve his life.

The remaining half is still used for project development.

Ever thought about building a distribution system?

In fact, Joseph Drake and Jason Buren have quite a few complaints about Lionsgate's 13% of the issuance fee...

Yes, the 13% distribution commission is already the lowest in the industry, and Paramount, Universal DreamWorks' works are both 17 percentage points.

But Lionsgate was given $10 million in 'protection money' for each movie, and everyone was quite unhappy.

But we also know that in order to build a distribution channel, there is a big premise: to produce 12~15 movies per year.

Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen formed DreamWorks with a start-up capital of $2.6 billion, but none of them managed to get the distribution network...

Because of a necessary premise: if you want to have your own distribution company, you have to produce at least 12 to 15 films a year, but DreamWorks can only produce 6 "decent movies" a year - big studios have hundreds of scripts waiting to be made at any time, but DreamWorks doesn't!

Even if DreamWorks later had its own distribution company, its strength was weak after all, and whether it was movies, TV or DVDs, they had to be jointly distributed with the help of the distribution networks of giants such as Universal and Paramount, which of course also meant the diversion of profits...

Wonderful Studio tentatively produces five to eight films per year...

In fact, "Twilight" received an investment from Lionsgate — half of which Lionsgate invested.

You don't accept the investment of big studios, which is equivalent to 'the leader picks up the dishes and you change the table, and the leader toasts you don't drink'...

You want to fly, huh?

Although Lionsgate is incomparable with real large companies in terms of volume, they started with B-grade movies and horror films, which is in line with the attributes of Wonderful Studio, in addition, the TV series "Urban Rogue Player" produced by Joseph Drake will be broadcast on AMC Cable Station, and Lionsgate is the one who connects Lions Gate - Lionsgate and AMC TV have reached a five-year cooperation strategy, during which they launched "Mad Men", "Single Drug Mom"...

It's a pity that AMC's flag-carrying work was "Breaking Bad", which has nothing to do with Lionsgate!

Why didn't Shen Xudong fight the idea of "Breaking Bad"?

Hehe, although there were many twists and turns in the birth of "Breaking Bad", his producer, screenwriter and director Vince Gilligan has been in the American television industry for more than ten years, and even has a masterpiece - the "X-Files" series...

He insisted that "Breaking Bad" would be a hit, and he would not accept copyright sharing at all!

- It's okay to invest, but don't think about copyright, how can Shen Xudong invest with such an attitude?

……

"Blockbuster" was released on August 20, which is the final work of the summer file.

But it also avoided the peak viewing period of "Harry Potter", and it can be regarded as an exclusive schedule of nearly 20 days - it was not until September 7 that two new films were released, namely "Embroidered Spring Knife" and "C+ Detective", in addition, "The Sun Also Rises" will be released on September 21...

Of course, even if he has an exclusive schedule, Shen Xudong also feels that it is difficult for "Blockbuster" to break 100 million - a joking story that exposes the birth process of domestic blockbusters, and predicts that "blockbusters will die", and also secretly satirizes "Red Cliff"...

is too industrialized, such a movie may not be of interest to the public.

I talked to Chen Daoming about the '200 million' start on the set of "Rise to Fame" before, which was to fool him...

Let him shoot "Rise to Fame" with peace of mind.

If you really think that "Blockbuster" can exceed 200 million, it will definitely be released before "Lao Qian", and it will not be delayed until the end of the summer season.

But the premiere of "Blockbuster" is very good - the actors of "Blockbuster" are basically familiar faces in the Beijing circle, and even Feng Xiaogang came over to make a cameo.

At the premiere scene, there were many actors and directors who cheered on the scene.

The director of "Blockbuster" is Huang Jianxin, he has a good relationship with Han Dong of China Film, and he also has a good relationship with Yu Dong of Bona, in addition, he also gets along well with Chen Kexin...

Plus... may hold the Huabiao Awards the day after tomorrow, and many directors and actors who came in advance basically came to the premiere of "Blockbuster" to have a good time...

Shen Xudong was surprised to see Director Chen and... Zhang Ziyi, aren't you filming "Mei Lanfang"?

How did you have time to come?

But when people come, of course they have to say hello.

It's a little embarrassing, after all, Shen Xudong didn't say anything about "Wuji" back then, and as for Senior Sister Zhang, she also formed a bond at the Vanity Fair party...

Fortunately, everyone was a scene person, and after greeting each other, Director Chen specially mentioned "Becoming Famous" released on the National Day...

'I heard that your first movie is about to be released, congratulations! ’

‘… Thank you! ’

Over there, Chen Daoming and director Huang Jianxin were interviewed by the media, and Chen Daoming said directly: "This story is adapted by Xudong based on real events... The things in the movie are basically true. ”

Huang Jianxin said: "I didn't want to direct it, but when I saw the script of "Blockbuster", I couldn't help it, the theme of this play is actually satire, and it feels like "Black Cannon Incident"..."

Oh, the male protagonist of "Blockbuster" has changed from a young director of the avant-garde school to a middle-aged director who wants to make a good movie...

This kind of middle-aged director has had masterpieces, but after the film was marketized, he couldn't keep up with the times.

Then, he met a producer, listened to persuasion, and drummed up a book of martial arts productions, and the two partnered to make money...

The director is played by Ge You, the revised script, the producer is the actor, he has the most plays, and Chen Daoming plays the producer.

It's not a pit for money, at least in the eyes of the director played by Ge You, it's not a cheating - how can art be considered a pit?

First of all, the boss of Shanxi Coal - found Director He Ping to make a cameo, he is from Shanxi.

rolled 1 million, of which 300,000 was in his pocket, 700,000 rented a high-end car, packaged and promoted a director, and then went to the meeting of the big star Wu Jing, fooled him into signing a "contract of intent" with no legal effect, and then took a photo with him, and turned around with the contract and the group photo to deal with the boss in Shanxi;

Then he rolled 5 million from the Tangshan Iron Boss...

The actor of the old version of Tie is Jiang Wen...

5 million arrived...

At this time, the movie could not be filmed, because 5 million was not enough, so a special "press conference" should be held first, inviting celebrities and industry leaders from all walks of life, and inviting media reporters to come, and everyone stuffing red envelopes.

It's big news.

Celebrities and industry leaders from all walks of life are basically real people, Feng Xiaogang, Xu Ke, and Han Shanping all attended...

Oh, this script is called "Martial Arts", with a planned investment of 150 million, produced by Xu Ke, and invited Li Lianjie, Donnie Yen and Wu Jing to star...

The painting cake was successful, and he got 30 million from the boss of Zhejiang Fang...

Dong Yong, who plays the real estate boss - he is from Hangzhou, Zhejiang!

Okay, this is probably enough for the early stage of filming.

hasn't started up yet, the film review team has come down with the documents, saying that there is a problem with your script, the review has not passed, and you have not obtained the shooting permit.

What to do?

Change...

At the end, martial arts blockbusters have ebbed in Europe and the United States...

Of course, there is also an episode of the actress recommending herself to the pillow in the middle, and the process of the director changing from having artistic pursuits to obeying the producer...

Easter egg part, bathing center, Chen Daoming pinched his feet while discussing his new work with Ge You:

"Don't do martial arts, if you have an idea, we can do a Three Kingdoms, the theme of "Three Kingdoms" has been very hot recently, so let's shoot "Red Cliff"..."

"Red Cliff... I'm afraid I won't be able to shoot director Wu Yusen! ”

"It's okay, let's change the plot and change the reason why Cao Cao sent troops to Dongwu to want to get Xiao Qiao... The audience must think it is novel, find a beautiful actress to play Xiao Qiao, what do you think of Fan Bingbing? ”

"Then who plays Cao Cao?"

"Of course it's Chen Daoming!"

Ge You complained: "Chen Daoming can't do it, he plays everything the same, it's too upright!" ”

Chen Daoming was silent for a while, and then said, "... He is a Venice actor! ”

(End of chapter)