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On September 7, while the crew was on vacation, Lehman still had to work hard to attend the Golden Globe Awards ceremony.

In the car, Lyman and Eva Green sat next to each other, along with Morgan Freeman and Clint Eastwood.

All four were nominated for the Golden Globe Awards, but they are not the same play.

In other words, Clint Eastwood was nominated as the director of "Mystic River", with best director and best film, and Lyman was nominated for the best director because of the excellent "Bad Guy". , Best Picture and other awards.

As for Morgan Freeman not only as an award-giving guest, but also the best actor nominated for the role of a police officer in "Bad Guy", and Eva Green is also nominated as the best newcomer.

Ryan and Thomas did not follow, which disappointed Lehman. Moreover, as a photographer, Thomas was nominated for the best photography, but he wanted to go wandering with Ryan. If he wins the award, he still wants to let him He took it for him.

Although this is also common in the Golden Globe Awards, such as the award of animation, as long as there is Pixar, almost all of them are rounded up, and they often send one or two people to deal with it.

But still despise.

After arriving in the city by car, each went back to each house.

Lyman and Eva returned to their mansion in Beverly Hills.

When I was exhausted to rest, "Chain Saw" was also announced in the last overseas market. Although the Japanese film market is open to Hollywood movies, they have a heavy local protection policy. In other words, the screening is allowed to be shown, but when it is shown, it is up to them.

This also resulted in "Chain Saw" being drawn in other overseas markets for more than half a month before it ended here.

However, it is worth mentioning that due to the quality of the movie itself, or the Japanese audience's acceptance of horror-type themes, in short, "Chain Saw" earned 762 million yen in Japan, which is equivalent to more than 6.9 million US dollars. , The total box office totaled 346 million U.S. dollars, with a perfect ending.

You know that with Tom Cruise's huge box office appeal and the "Last Samurai" which is very pleasing to Japanese fans, it only got 1.072 billion yen in box office in Japan, not to mention Lyman's "Bad Guy". Having said that, it was not the favorite of Japanese movie fans, and only got 536 million yen.

Firefly Pictures originally had more than 100 million funds on its books, because it spent more than 27 million on the investment in the filming of "Chain Saw 2" and "Million Dollar Baby", the company's internal operations, purchases, and the expansion of a commercial building The office department spent more than 3 million, and the money from Mann's studio was remitted, and the company still has more than 460 million US dollars on its books.

However, if we look at it now, the overseas accounts of "Chain Saw" will be remitted after a period of time, and at that time, there will be more than 20 million box office revenue.

With this calculation, the company has more than 480 million working capital on its books.

Hey, unknowingly, he has made so much money.

It seems that the profit margin of making movies is indeed higher than that of stocks. No wonder Wall Street tycoons want to enter the Hollywood film and television production circle.

What's more, as long as a movie is popular in the United States, Franklin is really streaming in from everywhere.

for example.

In 2012, Disney acquired Lucasfilm for a transaction price of 4 billion U.S. dollars, just to obtain the rights to many of its films, the most important of which is "Star Wars."

The profits of the three films "Star Wars 7", "Star Wars 8" and "Star Wars Gaiden: Rogue One" exceeded US$1.5 billion, which means that the company's other value is not counted, and the subsequent development of just one movie Earn 40% of the purchase price.

Then let's talk about "Star Wars 8" in detail, the data is more intuitive to list.

The film's North American box office was 620 million, overseas box office was 710 million, and the global box office totaled $1.3325 billion.

Among them, the cinema share account is almost 600 million, and then the global home entertainment (DVD, TV broadcasting copyright, etc.) is 389 million.

After deducting production costs and publicity costs, it is 385 million.

For copy transportation and loss, more than 90 million yuan was deducted, interest and management expenses gained more than 30 million yuan, and the total expenditure was 578.3 million yuan.

The net profit of the film party is 417.5 million US dollars, and the return rate is as high as 1.72 (income and expenditure).

In other words, Disney relied on this movie and has not calculated licensing fees such as toys (this is not available, not Disney's company), it is worthy of Lehman's two years of hard work.

Of course, this is also because Lehman is an investor and did not really participate in the release. The biggest piece of fat was not eaten at all, so Europa Pictures and Paramount Pictures were separated.

Think about it, he relied on 4 movies with a total global box office of close to 1 billion, and his peripheral operations can also have almost 600 million. Adding role authorization and the like, the total gain should be around 1.9 billion, even if labor costs are deducted, Production costs, losses, and the distribution of the theater chain should also be 1 billion.

However, he really got less than 300 million of this money.Profits from investing in "Chain Saw" and "Very Human Trafficker" are not included in this part.

In other words, after two years, the 480 million on the company's books still relies on simple financial operations (so much money is deposited in the bank, and investment that is stable and uncompensable will definitely be done, and there is a special bank actively guaranteeing it. What is the profit turnover rate, but it must be much less than making a movie), and really hold the big head of "Chain Saw".

If you really want to work purely, it may not have much value in a series of movies if you really work to death.

It seems that if you want to truly rise, you still have to establish your own distribution channels and eat more meat.

For example, DreamWorks, working hard enough, can produce a hit a year, there are many small-profit movies, and even domestic distribution channels have been smoothly improved by buying distribution companies, but they are still no match for the six major blockades of Hollywood , Was directly played to death, split.

Each of the six Hollywood giants is backed by a well-established media platform, and it is true that it is not possible to break through the line of defense with a little trouble.

But, still can't give up the determination to eat meat.

Even if overseas channels cannot be established, the distribution in North America will always be done.

At that time, you will be able to cut a little less meat and rush to the upstream of the industry a little bit without being exploited so much.

Film distribution is esoteric, but the most important thing is to get the film out.

Just like doing retail, stores (cinema) can be arranged one by one.

This means that every state has to have a relevant office responsible for communicating with local theaters. The recruitment and establishment of offices and personnel is difficult. As long as this is solved, it is easy to distribute movies in the United States.