Prometheus

Wu Yuan didn't expect that after the Light Era signed a cooperation agreement with 20th Century Fox, the first cooperation project sent by 20th Century Fox would be this!

According to the project book sent by Fox, the production budget of the film is as high as $130 million, excluding the cost of publicity.

Fox plans to do the publicity and distribution of "Prometheus" by himself, that is, the production, production, and distribution are all undertaken by himself, and it is expected to invest $20 million in publicity.

That is, the total cost of the film is $150 million.

Perhaps for Fox, which was doing well in previous years, $150 million was just a small amount of money.

But in the past few years when the company has been operating poorly, $150 million is not a small amount of money for Fox.

Now that Fox owes the bank billions of dollars, and in order to maintain its "Big Six" ranking, the number of films planned to be produced each year has not decreased much.

It's no wonder that they are willing to take out the IP of "alien" and share it with the light era.

Although, this will be a brand new sub-series, it is not directly related to previous works such as "Alien" and "Alien vs. Predator", but the story line is aimed at the first few decades of "Alien 1", which is a new prequel movie, and the risk is definitely much higher than directly doing a sequel to "Alien".

But Wu Yuan knows that the box office performance of this "Prometheus" is very good.

The global box office exceeds 400 million US dollars!

In addition, the DVD distribution market has always been very popular for special-shaped IPs.

There is no doubt that "Prometheus" brought a lot of benefits to Fawkes, and later Fawkes took advantage of the victory to pursue and shoot the sequel "Alien: Covenant".

Without the slightest hesitation, he just took a cursory look at it, and after confirming that the script was similar to the "Prometheus" in his impression, Wu Yuan wrote back to John and asked him to agree to the cooperation of this movie.

Light Times will contribute half of the capital, but it can only occupy 40% of the box office share after deducting the publicity and theater share, and there is no way to get the 50% share in common sense.

There is no way, after all, the IP of "Alien" is Fox's, even if Light Times can participate in the platter, there is no way to really enjoy dividends according to the proportion of capital contribution.

In fact, the cooperation between Hollywood's six major and other small and medium-sized companies is basically like this.

Small and medium-sized independent film and television companies such as Legend, New Line, and the former Lion League, when cooperating with the Big Six in some film projects, often contribute 10% or 20% but can only get 5% or 10% of the revenue, and there is no way to enjoy dividends according to the proportion of investment.

After all, their cooperation with the six major Hollywood Docks is a matter of taking advantage of it, with better distribution channels, better resources, and even the IP of the six major ones, which is a capital that needs to be discounted into the cooperation.

That's it, the mainland film companies want to cooperate with Hollywood Film and Television Company to go overseas, and they will suffer a greater loss.

In the past two years, many mainland film and television companies want to engage in Sino-US co-productions, or simply invest in Hollywood Films, but companies such as Huayi and Bona, as well as small and medium-sized film companies in Hollywood, can often only talk about half of the investment in specific cooperation negotiations, but can only account for 20% or 30%!

This is just to cooperate with small and medium-sized companies in Hollywood, like the six major companies in Hollywood, and even the window for cooperation is not open to mainland film and television companies, if you want to send money to the six majors, the six don't want it.

It is already a very good situation that Light Times can invest 50% but get 40% of the market.

Of course, if Wu Yuan is a little black-hearted enough, he can also contract outward, find a few mainland film and television companies, contract the 50% of the capital contribution to them, and then give them a 30% share, then there will definitely be people vying for it, especially Huayi, who thinks about going to sea every day.

In this way, you don't have to invest a penny in the light era, and you can enjoy 10% of the "Prometheus" share of income.

And all Wu Yuan needs to pay is a few phone calls and a few sums of money from the boss of a mainland film and television company.

However, after this thought went through his mind, Wu Yuan gave up.

The project "Prometheus" is still very good, and it is worth investing in the light era itself.

When there are no good projects to choose from on Fox's side in the future, he will borrow domestic capital to platter with Fox.

Anyway, Light Times has signed a cooperation agreement with Fox for a full 20 films, and there will be opportunities in the future.

Even Wu Yuan felt that when Fox was acquired by Disney, their cooperation agreement would not be fulfilled.

Half a month, while Wu Yuan was busy dealing with company affairs and the later stage of the production of "Love Letter", it passed in the blink of an eye.

Liu Yifei, who went home to accompany Wu Yuan to rest for half a month, also set off for Hangzhou, the provincial capital of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, under the personal send-off of Wu Yuan.

"Actors, Please Be in Place", the first domestic actor competition program jointly produced by the Light and Shadow Era and Light and Shadow Express, finally officially began recording in Hangzhou after 2 months of preparation.

The program team rented a large video studio newly opened by Jiangsu and Zhejiang Satellite TV, and also rented a whole building on the outskirts of the city where the recording studio is located, which is also near the Hangzhou Film and Television Base, and after redecorating, it was used as a dormitory for the contestants during the recording.

At this time, 50 first-time contestants who passed the audition are coming to this dormitory building one after another.

The camera team from South Korea has already set up a camera under the dormitory, and there are many camera teachers carrying cameras and recording.

A young man full of youth, pulling his suitcase, walked downstairs to the dormitory.

Because nearly two-thirds of the 50 debutants selected are students in the undergraduate class, many of them know each other and come to Hangzhou together.

So unlike ordinary talent shows, the recording of "Actors Please Be in Place" was full of a happy atmosphere at the beginning, at least for most of the contestants, this beginning was a bureau of acquaintances!

"Li Xian, you're here too, you were selected as a freshman?"

"Hello senior, didn't Senior Dou Xiao come?"

"Dou Xiao doesn't meet the rules of the show!"

Zhang Yunlong, from the 2009 class of Beijing Film Academy, just arrived downstairs in the dormitory and bumped into Li Xian, who had just arrived.

Zhang Yunlong, who is outgoing, cheerful and very enthusiastic, has already been familiar with the 2010 freshmen not long after they entered the school, of course, he knows Li Xian, a 2010 person who was selected by the school film studio to have a film scene just after entering the school.

He pulled the suitcase with one hand, put the other hand on Li Xian's shoulder, and said to him with a grin: "I saw it on the way just now, there are many beautiful women who have also passed the audition." ”

"Chinese opera, opera academy, opera, and even I saw a beautiful woman from Xinjiang Province at first glance."

"Hey, I'm already looking forward to this fight."

"Not to mention anything else, it is a beautiful thing to be able to live under the same roof with so many beautiful women for two months!"

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