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It is already late October when Lehman and others have initially dealt with the copyright of the adaptation of "The Devil Wearing Prada".

"Dead Silence" has also been screened overseas for nearly two months. With the constant attention of the distribution department of Blue Butterfly Pictures, it has climbed step by step.

200 million, 220 million, 230 million...

Until the end.

In the end, "Dead Silence" ended perfectly with a total of 122 million in North America, 115 million overseas, and a global box office of 237 million.

This is another piece of Wen Ziren's work with a small and broad scale. Although it has a long and tenacious series of life without "Chain Saw", the energy continues to create profits, but it still brings a lot of shock to Hollywood.

Of course, momentum is nothing, and even many viewers won't watch it from start to finish, but this movie makes money.

Production costs + announcement and distribution not exceeding 45 million US dollars, of which 48.8 million in North American theaters, 57.5 million in overseas theaters, 17.25 million in overseas distribution expenses, total expenditure of 168.5 million US dollars, and net profit of 68.45 million (Announcement by Blue Butterfly Pictures It doesn’t matter if you draw achievements, generally 15% in North America, internal price).

And this 68.45 million box office profit is entirely attributable to the producer’s income. Of course, 13.69 million Wen Ziren’s studio has to be deducted. Therefore, the net income of Firefly Pictures on this project is 36.76 million.

It seems to be very small, especially in comparison with the 200 million volume, but before Lehman did not have a North American distribution channel, the 36 million could not be earned.

And as we all know, the most profitable Hollywood movies are offline and around copyright.

Take Disney Group as an example, the annual box office revenue is less than 2.5% of the company's annual profit.

Of course, no one in Firefly Pictures has such a profound copyright development method, real estate and dolls, but it can basically reap twice the box office profits of movies offline.

As for Disney, the source of profit for a film, if the box office revenue accounts for 14 of offline + copyright, it is considered a mistake.

After "Dead Silence" was fully finished, it began to release DVDs, and it was on the sales list in the first week, ranking second, with a total of 110,000 copies sold;

After the CD is released, there will be TV stations, paid on-demand, or sold off a round of broadcast rights;

After the TV station, there are peripheral sales. In this part, Firefly Pictures is authorized and sold to toy companies such as Mattel. It is worth mentioning that Billy's doll of the same name sells well. Generally speaking, The surroundings of horror movies have no potential, which is a surprise.

Roughly speaking, the "Dead Silence" project can bring at least $84.548 million to Firefly Pictures, and it still excludes the 20% copyright income of Wen Ziren's studio, and Wen Ziren will also take 34.19 million US dollars from this movie. , Deducting production expenses, the profit was 27.69 million.

Everyone says that Hollywood is industrialized, and the streamlined profit method is certainly one of them, which ensures that the risk of Hollywood's development of blockbusters is reduced.

On this day, Lehmann made a call to his agent Johnson, and in addition to instructing him to continue to win over Lauren Weisberg, he also asked him to urge overseas accounts.

Blockbuster movies are very profitable, but usually within one to two years, the problem of splitting accounts is a kind of trouble. Taking money from theaters, everyone likes to drag it. After all, with so much money in hand, the interest is a lump sum. Profit, there is no need to share.

But now, the worst thing about Firefly Pictures is cash flow. Leaving aside debt, you have to take money to develop new projects.

Therefore, during this period of time, he followed the management around to deal with the accounting matters, staring at the profit recovery of the company.

Taking this income as an example, offline is a long-term accounting model, usually once a month or two, and the income comes in, and tax is paid. Because of the help of PwC, all kinds of tax avoidance methods are available, and it is impossible to do it. High-tech Internet companies are so shameless that they have to pay about 10% of their total revenue, which is 8.45 million U.S. dollars, and if they don’t avoid tax, at least 37% of their profits have to be paid—the federal income tax is true. high.

There is no doubt that no one dare to rely on the U.S. Revenue Service for money.

Of course, this is first of all, the money from the overseas split is first entered into the account.

The domestic dividend was distributed to Wen Ziren's studio, and another ten million was returned to Gusta.

Afterwards, I spent more than a week on the box office splitting problem. In the end, Firefly Pictures only recovered 41.55 million, and the second offline account has not been recovered, and its profit is at least 20 million.

What you get is that the debt is paid off.All relaxed.

......

Two days later, on October 27th.

The company began to prepare the project "The Devil Wearing Prada".

Later, on the issue of adaptation, Lauren did not want outsiders to intervene, and made the image of the editor-in-chief of the magazine a little more positive-a well-known woman in the fashion circle could not tolerate her subordinates. Is this funny?

It is related to the logic of the script creation and the IQ of the characters, and even the quality of the plot of the movie. Lehman directly ignored Lauren and asked the editorial department to borrow a shell to recreate a more reasonable workplace story.

Although it is stated in the contract that Lauren can participate in the screenwriting, it does not mean that Firefly Pictures cannot be adapted. Participation and decision-making rights are two different things.

Soon, Lauren found out that he had been cheated.

What Fox, what fireflies, are all raccoon dogs.

Fortunately, after being perfunctory for the first time, I was fooled again.

But it's useless to make noise. Although Lauren is cheated, she is not stupid-how could a fool use Marisu's novel to disgust his boss?And the full text is all insinuating, no name is given, but readers know that it is Anna Wintour.

The most important thing is that Anna couldn't let the court come forward because the novel is fictitious.

Of course, adapting such a thing usually does not satisfy the author himself.

For example, the author of "Forrest Gump" publicly cursed the producer, saying that it was making a mistake, but it did not prevent the film from becoming a classic.

In other words, the act of adaptation itself is a kind of re-creation, which contains different personal thoughts.

Just like Lauren likes to belittle his boss, Lehman wants to turn this role into a career woman, and the settings are completely different.

As a film that focuses on the female market, the original "Prada" is very good, and the various looks of the heroine Anne Hathaway even became a popular item that year.Popular among all kinds of girls.

This movie is also the atmosphere of the main fashion circle, not a plot, the story is very simple, and "the ugly duckling becomes a white swan" can be generalized.

In the end, the resignation of the heroine also became a "white swan" in spirit.

All in all, if the characters are beautiful and stylish enough, this movie is an initial success.

Although simple, it is not easy.

There are not many directors who can shoot women in the industry, and Lyman himself does not plan to shoot this work.

It's boring and not interested.