Hollywood Hunter

Chapter 325 Killing Chickens and Monkeys

After consecutive holidays, the working life of the North American public gradually returned to the right track.

For Hollywood, the first complete box office week in 1990 also passed quietly, and this week, "Batman: The War Time" is still the focus of everyone's attention.

From January 5th to January 11th, in the third week of the release, the single-week box office of "Batman: Moment of War" showed a clear fall, a 33% drop from the previous week.

However, because of the box office base of more than 80 million US dollars last week, "Batman: Moment of War" this week's drop of 33%, box office receipts are still as high as 59.51 million US dollars.In three weeks, the cumulative box office of this pioneering superhero movie quickly broke through the $200 million mark to reach $23.09 million.

In the light of "Batman: Moments of War", all other movies of the same period seem worthless.

Because the film has the same hot media attention as the box office, during this time, a lot of news related to this movie has become the focus of media speculation.

The first is naturally the dc superhero universe plan that accompanied the birth of "Batman: Moment of War."

According to various sources, Daenerys Entertainment and Warner Bros. Pictures will jointly develop multiple dc superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman movie projects in the next few years, and will complete all through the complete story line. The films are connected in series to form a huge dc superhero movie universe series.

After the news was officially released, not only fans and fans were boiling, but a large number of media also began to find ways to dig up more information about the dc film universe plan. Time Warner and Daenerys's high-level leaders have become reporters these days. Object.

Paying close attention to the progress of the negotiations between the two companies on the details of the implementation of the DC movie universe plan. At the same time, after the celebration party of "Batman: Moments of War" last Saturday, another very topical gossip quickly spread.

At the beginning of the "Batman: Moment of War" project, Adam Baldwin, Valerie Galino, and other leading actors all signed a long-term film contract with Daenerys Entertainment. This matter is not a secret to the outside world. Many people question whether Daenerys Entertainment is necessary to do so.

As the box office of the film exploded, some of the creators who signed the long-term contract began to be dissatisfied with the remuneration they received, hoping to renegotiate the agreement.

In order to express its dissatisfaction with this behavior, Daenerys Entertainment directly canceled the extra cash reward plan originally planned to give Batman: The Moment of War all crew members with a total count of ten million US dollars.

This rumor was too topical, and enough to attract public attention, so it was quickly hyped.

The media first talked about how much revenue Daenerys Entertainment and Time Warner could get from the release of Batman: Moments of War.

In three weeks, the local box office quickly rushed to 230 million US dollars. The total box office in Batman: Moment of War reached 400 million US dollars. There is no problem. The next step is overseas.

Batman can be described as one of the cultural symbols of Americans. Although it is widely known worldwide, overseas audiences will not have the deep feelings accumulated by Americans in half a century.Before the film was released, some industry media determined that the movie's overseas box office must not exceed the local box office.

However, the development of things is beyond everyone's expectations.

This phenomenal superhero movie created by Simon Westero is really too groundbreaking, with a series of breathtaking movie techniques and action design details, even if Batman is replaced by other characters, It can definitely be described as'amazing', which is enough to ensure that overseas audiences will not have obstacles to cultural acceptance.

Therefore, the media is generally optimistic that the overseas box office of "Batman: Moment of War" is sufficiently flat with the local box office.

According to the global 800 million dollar box office calculation, the producer and issuer can probably recover 350 million dollar box office share. According to the leaked distribution agreement information, which belongs to Daenerys Entertainment should be about 250 million dollars.

According to the progress of the release of a movie in recent years, this money will probably be recovered within the next year.

Also able to reap most of the revenue received in a year is the sales revenue of film derivatives. According to the media’s forecast of 2 billion US dollars in derivative sales in the next year, Daenerys Entertainment should be able to receive about 300 million US dollars, except for the need to pay DC 10% of the comics company has $270 million left.

Adding the two together, Daenerys Entertainment will be able to recoup US$500 million in funding in the next year with "Batman: Moment of War."

Even if the cost of producing and distributing the film is directly counted as $100 million, Daenerys Entertainment’s net profit from this project can reach $400 million in the next year.

Next, one year later, within a five-year revenue period, Batman: Moment of War's follow-up derivative sales, video distribution, and TV broadcast revenue will definitely be higher than the previous two.You should know that according to the latest statistics, with the further expansion of the videotape market, the average Hollywood videotape revenue has accounted for more than 45% of total revenue, and box office revenue has fallen to less than 30% of total revenue.

Therefore, the revenue of Batman: Moment of War in the follow-up channels can be at least the same as the revenue of Daenerys Entertainment in the first year.

Taken together, Daenerys Entertainment will be able to receive at least US$800 million from the release of various channels of "Batman: Moments of War" in the next five years.As an issuer, Time Warner’s revenue share in all aspects will not be less than $200 million.

One billion US dollars, which happens to be the total profit scale of Batman: Moments of War, which is generally recognized by most media.

Daenerys and Time Warner can make $1 billion with Batman: Moments of War. What is the pay for the protagonist?

The media was immediately exposed.

Adam Baldwin, Batman, $300,000.Valerie Galino, Catwoman, $200,000.

The sum of the two is only half a million dollars.

Compared with other supporting roles in the film, the pay is even cheaper.

Because of the release of "Batman: Moments of War", Adam Baldwin and Valerie Galino have quickly accumulated a group of fans.

In the fear of unscathed media reports, Idols can only get so little compensation, but Daenerys and Time Warner can earn 1 billion US dollars. Naturally, they began to be dissatisfied, and many fans began to write letters and fight. Telephone calls required Daenerys Entertainment and Time Warner to renegotiate a contract to raise their idol salary.

The relevant news was originally released by Daenerys Entertainment, and naturally responded quickly to this situation.

Although it has not yet been acquired by Time Warner but has maintained a close relationship with the company, the n channel of Turner Broadcasting has made a special issue soon after the news fermented, visiting Hollywood last year’s last shortlist of Batman plays. Actor status quo.

Compared to Adam Baldwin, who has become famous, the last few finalists last year, the best development is just to get a resident role in a TV series of abc, more dramatic, and even some people have fallen into the San Fernando Valley. Some'movie' sets.

Subsequently, "Hollywood Reporter" also exposed the details of Adam Baldwin's five films.

In addition to the low salary of $300,000 in the first song, Adam Baldwin’s remaining four films are worth up to $30 million, and the average pay of $7.5 million is entirely the first-line star level.Compared to the remuneration Christopher Reeve got from three "Superman", Daenerys Entertainment is already very generous.

"Hollywood Reporter" also pointed out that relying on the popularity of participating in the "Batman" series, Adam Baldwin can not only perform other films at the first-line star's remuneration level, but also get many other well-paid advertising endorsement income, these Accumulated, it is definitely higher than the income of most Hollywood stars.

In addition, the same is true of other famous actors in Batman: Moments of War.

Without the chance of "Batman: Moment of War", most of these people will not be known to the public, and will even be reduced to the actors who were shortlisted on the Batman list before.

Because of the importance of the DC movie universe plan to Time Warner, Warner Bros. Films ceo Terry Semel directly stated in an interview with ABC "Good Morning America" ​​that Warner Bros. Films will never be with filmmakers who lack a contractual spirit. Cooperation.

Hollywood film companies usually sign additional option contracts with actors in their key projects, especially newcomers, which actually represents the interests of the entire Hollywood studio class.

Therefore, with Terry Semel’s statement, Hollywood studio executives such as Fox Studios’ Joros, MGM-Lianmei’s Shirley Lansing and others also voiced their voices, saying they would boycott films that lack a contractual spirit. people.

Simple words are always lacking in persuasive power, and a seemingly unrelated little thing that happened next to it has made many Hollywood movie stars stunned.

After finishing "Born on July 4th" in collaboration with Tom Cruise, Oliver Stone, who is preparing his new film "Gate", has publicly stated that he does not intend to invite Meg Ryan as his own story telling the gate band. The heroine of a biopic.

Subsequently, the veteran Hollywood director Johns Lessinger who directed "Midnight Cowboy" also publicly clarified that his new film "Midnight Omen" has confirmed that Melanie Griffith will be used as the heroine. The news that Eun might appear is completely nonsense.

Immediately afterwards, there was news that the famous Hollywood photographer Barrison Southfield, who once worked as a famous film photographer such as "Blood Labyrinth" and "Flying Over the Future", was preparing his first director's new film "The Adams". Speaking to Paramount executives, if Paramount insists on requesting Megrian to be the heroine, he will withdraw from the project himself. Other opportunities for actors who have already confirmed this famous TV drama adaptation project have also publicly stated that they do not want to cooperate with Megray En cooperation.

Things have happened again and again, as long as the brain is not stupid, you can probably see the problem.

The holiday between Meg Ryan and Daenerys Entertainment was almost completely public. The Hollywood actress who quickly relied on "When Harry Meets Sally" was quickly released from Daenerys Entertainment after becoming famous. The remaining two film option contracts.

Daenerys Entertainment and Caa clashed because of the "Rainman" incident. Eventually, seemingly irrelevant Meg Ryan and "Rainman" were cancelled by caa.

Unlike Dustin Hoffman, Barry Levinson, and Tom Cruise, who are already entrenched in Hollywood, Meg Ryan has just become famous and has not completely established a foothold in Hollywood.

Then, after the actress became famous, the lion opened her mouth, and then canceled the contract with Daenerys Entertainment. She also participated in the "Rocket Expert" stolen from Daenerys Entertainment by Paramount Pictures. Coming deeper.

Most importantly, "Rocket Expert"'s box office also ended in failure. In Hollywood, there is no box office to rely on, then you are nothing.

Plus the atmosphere of public opinion at this time.

A proverb flashes in the minds of most people who are concerned about this matter.

Hit the dog in front of the lion.

Use the more appropriate idiom in Chinese to describe the killing of chickens and monkeys.

Even if it was a year ago, Daenerys Entertainment wanted to block a front-line actress, it was simply a delusion.

However, last year’s 10 movie plans directly linked more than half of Hollywood to Daenerys Entertainment. Five of the traditional seven major universities received the projects in the 10 movie plans.The remaining two, MGM, began to move closer to Daenerys because of the intervention of Australian capital.

The last Paramount, because of the two scripts of "Rocket Expert" and "Firebird Attack", did not get the projects in the 10 movie plans, so it did not need to give Daenerys a face.

Although the "Rocket Expert" project failed, as long as Meg Ryanken drastically reduced the pay, relying on the popularity of "When Harry Meets Sally", Paramount's management is still happy to pick up a bargain.

However, Daenerys Entertainment may not be able to influence the decision of Paramount executives, but it is still easy to exert influence on specific movie projects.The creators of "The Adams" publicly boycotted the cooperation with Meg Ryan as a result of Amy’s efforts. Even if Paramount didn’t care about Daenerys Entertainment, these filmmakers are still looking forward to working with Daenerys Entertainment. of.

After all, Paramount cannot force Megrian against the will of all other creators.

Outside of the Seventh Party, under the cutting edge of Daenerys Entertainment, as long as there are other options, the other second- and third-line film companies simply cannot make themselves an enemy for Meg Ryan.

A front-line actress suddenly lost her place in Hollywood before the power of Daenerys Entertainment. Many Hollywood stars lamented the power of Daenerys Entertainment when they were still a little unwilling. : The Warrior Moment wisely dismissed all the ideas, and in an interview with Entertainment Weekly, he actively expressed that he was very honored to be able to participate in the filming of Batman and would definitely try his best to play this role in the subsequent series. .

After Adam Baldwin spoke, whether or not he had some ideas, the other top creators were smart enough to openly or privately express their attitudes.

As a result, this conflict that has not yet been brought to a close ends quietly in a gossip atmosphere.

A stick is always given to a sweet date.

Daenerys Entertainment subsequently announced that because of the big box office sale of the film, an additional cash reward will be given to all the crew members who participated in the filming of "Batman: The Moment of War".

It's just that the total bonus for everyone is halved directly to $10 million.

10 million US dollars, 20 million US dollars, compared to the benefits that Daenerys Entertainment can get from the project "Batman: Moments of War", the bonus is halved, which is also an attitude.2k fiction reading network