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On April 10, Fox delivered the first overseas box office profit of 15 million US dollars.

"Prada" has a global box office of 350 million.

162 million in North America and 188 million overseas.

Among them, the North American theaters drew 40%, and the remaining 97.2 million, after deducting various taxes, there is a total of 88 million for production and distribution, and then 20% of the joint release of Lionsgate plus screen treasure and firefly expenditures The publicity cost of the project was 17 million, and the profit was 53.4 million. After deducting the production expenses, the project's North American net profit was 23.4 million;

So, overseas, because of the different rates of theater chains in different regions-for example, the mainland only gives 13% of the box office revenue of the imported films, and the overall average plus tax, counted as 50%, and there is still 94 million. Fox drew 30% and made a profit of 64.8 million. After deducting promotional expenses, copying, shipping, etc., overseas net profit was 58 million.

Therefore, "Prada" can bring Firefly US$81.4 million from the box office alone, and this money will be used to reward important members of the cast, production, art and other crews, leaving 78.7 million.

From the day when the movie was drawn, Firefly only accounted for about 30 million. The remaining more than 48 million are in the financial segmentation stage. The more than 80 million offline and copyright surroundings are far from being harvested.

However, the stakeholders are very satisfied.

Needless to say, Lionsgate and Mubao can start with more than 50 million yuan by providing theaters and publicity resources-the big head offline, Fox, can also harvest more than 28 million, and the theaters will eat 153.16 million. Start with full profits.

It was said that after two more projects were set that day, "Little Sunshine" soon entered the preparatory stage, but "Juneo" had just completed the project.

Several aspects were launched at the same time, but the company has sufficient manpower, coupled with increasingly proficient business production capabilities, and there is not much to worry about. After all, the reserves are sufficient, even if it is compensated, it will not be regarded as a problem, let alone the selected ones. This project has no risk of loss at all.

On this day, Lehman read through a TV script carefully, and he felt like heaven's help.

Looking back at the screenplay screening some time ago, I don't know how many treasures were found from the Hollywood script library.

But for new TV projects, which one should I look for?

HBO?I have already given "The Walking Dead", there is no need to grab resources from my own project.

WB?Forget it, it's not a lifetime guarantee, and the performance is gradually sluggish. Warner is ready to sell and reorganize. Speaking of it, the "Prison Break" provided by Lehman has delayed this schedule for a year and a half.In fact, if he has the money, he wants to buy TV stations to expand the media territory, but even if his assets are ruined, his assets still have a valuation of 1.8 billion. Unless he sells Firefly, he can't make money to compete.

After thinking about it, Lehman put his mind on Fox.

How good Fox is. There is a huge News Corporation behind it. Its studios and TV network businesses can be ranked in the upper middle and upper reaches, and they have only cooperated once before, which just deepens the relationship and prevents them from being squeezed in the future, adding an ally station. Opportunity coming out.

In this way, when the cooperation invitation was passed, it also caused a lot of discussion.

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Looking back on the development history of Fox, it can be said that it has gone through many twists and turns.

In 1935, Darryl-Zanuk founded the 20th Century Film Industry. After a few years, it merged with the Fox Film Industry, which had a certain foundation in the silent film era, to form the 20th Century Fox Film Company, one of the eight giants at the time. Out of Shirley Temple, and holds top directors like Ernst Liu Bieqian.

But in the 1960s, a movie with the highest investment in history (more than 40 million shots of "Cleopatra", gave the first actress Elizabeth Taylor a astronomical remuneration of 1 million US dollars. 40 million put into the new millennium, estimated There can be more than 400 million investment.)

Then, as everyone knows, "Cleopatra" has become an example of the loss of film history that will never be able to bypass. It directly made Fox almost bankrupt at the time, and all the studios under his hands were sold to repay the debt. After coming over, he also lost his blood.

In 1981 it was bought by oil merchant Ruth Davis.

Subsequently, Fox's soul character Darryl Zanuk retired from the stage, but still deeply imprinted the film company with a distinctive mark, that is, to make a huge film.

The subsequent leaders did almost the same.

After the crumbling 1960s and 1970s, Australian media giant Rupert Murdoch reached out to take over Fox and supported George Lucas in filming the first "Star Wars" and later Cameron's "Titanic" "X-Men" and "X-Men", "Fantastic Four", "Home Alone", a blockbuster movie gave the giant a new life.

But Murdoch’s News Corp. has brought more than that. The biggest change should be the Fox Television Network, which was built at a cost of billions, and the head of Paramount Barry Diller was hired as the chief executive. official.

Over the years, development has been fairly smooth.

Firefly mentioned the idea of ​​inviting cooperation on a TV project, which is also very important to Fox.

After all, the results of "Prison Break" and "The Walking Dead" are there. Who has no idea yet.

In the past, Fox did not invite projects to cooperate, but Firefly never said yes.

Now my mind has faded, and everything has come so suddenly, so that the executives of Fox Television Network feel that this April is particularly refreshing.

——It can only be said that Lehman happened to be suppressed by Warner and Paramount, and he was uneasy, and hoped to put more eggs in a few baskets. It is best to have a good relationship with all capable studios. That's it, let's see who else will intervene in the rise of fireflies.The truth is, no matter how good the relationship is, it is better to deepen the interests.

If the betrayal is about profit that cannot be underestimated, how many people will be cruel.

Here, after Warner learned the details-Firefly didn't hide it, but it was a dumb who ate Huanglian and could not tell.

Obviously, the original intention was just a warning, how did it develop into this result?

But with that bastard's character, it seems that he can do this kind of thing.

At the beginning, the cooperation with Paramount broke down, didn't he also switch to Warner.

It's just that Warner has been replaced by Twentieth Century Fox-the same is still the Big Six.

——Anyway, let people not hold back the future development of Firefly.Lehman thought so.

"General manager, what do you mean by Firefly?"

A bunch of high-level Fox TV stations gathered in the conference room, all faces puzzled.

In order to compete for the overseas distribution copyright of "Prada", Fox has made careful calculations and backed down a small step. In the end, although it has been rewarded, it occasionally thinks of the condition of the net profit, which is quite distressed-generally. In other words, the minimum threshold for taking away the total box office overseas is 17%. With the score of "Prada", that is 31.96 million US dollars.

But in the end, they took away the 29.2 million overseas distribution commission.

Unexpectedly, Firefly, which always likes to take advantage of it, will send a cooperation invitation after a few days.

At first glance, this is simply not in line with their usual style.

But once he calmed down and thought about it, he made these people more or less clear-showing goodwill, drawing in, no matter what it means, but also resisting Warner's pressure.

This is not only an invitation, but also a split within the Sixth National Congress.

Of course, this is Lyman's careful thinking, but for Fox, it doesn't matter.

Without the fireflies, Fox does not necessarily have any feud with Warner.

The studios have done their job, and they have taken a lot of direct or private actions against the competition, snatching, and mutual smear of popular schedules.

On weekdays, I don’t do things like watching jokes from the other side.

For Fox, knowing that this project can be beneficial is enough to make them move.

But after the heartbeat, what gave them a headache is that apart from these actions, Lehman did not say how much money, the proportion of benefits, or even the project was.

After sending such an intention, Warner, Paramount and other companies were all aware of it.

——Is this unclear, is it to make Fox attract firepower?

It stands to reason that if everyone cooperates, it is just a cooperation, but they are not obliged to undertake anything else.

"Help me make an appointment with Lyman and I will meet him."

Bill McNico (CEO of Production) is amused by this kind of sub-strategy-the weak are always used to being smart.