I’m in Hollywood Chapter 1087: Conditions
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"The other party ’s initial condition is," Bill Michanick said: "Sony Film Industry can share 15% of all revenue from all channels including Box Office, audio-visual products, and peripheral broadcast authorization as the distribution fee. But we need to bear the announcement budget of the movie. "
Compared with what I only knew when staring at Box Office, Eric was just a listen. just knows got the new film of Adam **** by Hollywood veteran.
The Hollywood film production and announcement budget, the most imaginary is undoubtedly the announcement budget.
According to the rules, the major trade unions of Hollywood need to take a certain percentage of the net profit of Hollywood movies as their member benefits, plus some movie creators will also sign a net profit sharing contract with Film Studio, and some tax avoidance factors, In order to reduce or even avoid this part of the expenditure, Production Studio usually misrepresents the announcement budget and offsets all profits generated during the film distribution process, making the book appear to be in a state of loss. This is the so-called Hollywood ledger.
The producer of "Dad Rushing Forward" proposed that Columbia bear the announcement budget of the film, which directly avoids the big pit of the publishing company falsely reporting the announcement budget. You know, the announcement budget of Hollywood movies is basically only about half of the production cost, but the budget of announcement on many movies is even higher than the production cost.
Furthermore, the 15% issuance share of omni-channel revenue is clearly carefully considered.
The income here is naturally not the profit of the movie, nor the total sales revenue of the Box Office and DVD channels of the movie, but the revenue obtained by Film Studio after being divided from various terminal sellers, such as North America local and cinema providers 55% of the share, the average overseas share of about 35%, and the wholesale income of audio-visual products, etc.
The appeal of Adam **** ’s overseas Box Office is basically negligible, and the operating cycle around video and DVD audio and video is too long. For Columbia, the most real thing is the North America local Box Office.
15% of the Box Office revenue share, a little calculation, it is only equivalent to 8% of the total revenue of North America Box Office. In other words, if "Dad rushes forward" North America Box Office harvest 100 million USD, Columbia Film Studio can only get 8 million USD, although there are not many overseas Box Office, but it is no problem to collect 2 million USD.
In this way, Columbia can get 10 million USD from Box Office. According to the current Hollywood Box Office, audio and video, and licensing each account for one-third of the income ratio, after two years of omni-channel operation, Columbia's total income is about 30 million USD.
The new line's announcement budget for "The Wedding Singer" and "The Waterboy" are both 10 million USD. Of course, this will not be written on the book. If "Dad rushes forward" also follows this standard, Columbia can only get 20 million USD net profit after two years of busy work.
It is not difficult to guess that since Adam **** rejected the offer for the new line 15 million USD, then the reward given to him by this independent Production Studio is at least the bottom of 20 million USD.
Compared to Adam **** ’s easy entry, Columbia has been busy up and down for two years, and earns a lot of hard money.
Hard money.
A Film Studio, one of the Hollywood Seventh Congress, has fallen to the point of earning some hard money from the stars. It is better to go bankrupt.
Actually, the original Sony Film Industry in time and space, except for the "Spider-Man" series that is still entangled, can occasionally make the company ’s financial report look better. At other times, it is basically from Adam Sandler, Will · Smith The state of making “difficult money” in the hands of ultra-low cost-effective stars. Tom · Cruise gets the income of more than 70 million USD from each "Mission: Impossible", which has already turned Paramount up, but Will · Smith has frequently obtained a single up to 80 million USD from the cooperation with Sony Film Industry.
Cleared his thoughts, Eric said without hesitation to Bill · Michanick: "Reject them, we don't want the distribution rights of this movie, and we will not accept similar conditions in the future."
Bill · Michanik is hesitant, saying: "Eric, the 15% share is definitely negotiable."
"Bill, you must have done the film's profit expectations, right?" Eric asked, and did not wait for Bill · Michanick to answer, then continued: "I would rather Columbia's distribution channel remain idle, nor Will work for the stars. Columbia lacks production funds, I give you, you need announcement resources, Firefly system media network can provide, so, all you have to do is take your team to find a good movie project. You For two years, if Columbia hasn't improved in two years, I will lay off for the first time. If I can't save it later, I will lay off you, and then merge Columbia into Firefly. "
After Eric finished speaking, he no longer ignored them and got up and walked directly outside the restaurant.
Bill · Michanik digested what Eric had just said, and felt the pressure doubled.
Although Eric just said it was fierce, but think about it carefully, asking for money, asking for channels and channels. If you still do n’t do well, even if Eric does n’t speak, he will not stay in Columbia. However, as one of the most risky industries in the world, who dares to vote for the success or failure of a movie?
Looking at the side seems to be completely unaffected by what Eric just said, Kenneth Horne who drinks coffee and Bill Michanick suddenly flashed and tried to say: "Kenneth, I heard that "Ring", there are several good Japanese horror films script in the new line? "
Kenneth Horne did not wait for Bill Michanick to propose it, he just shook his head and smiled: "Don't think about it if you want it."
Bill Michanik took a sip of coffee depressively and said, "I found that Eric personally helped you pick so many projects, and even Metro Goldwyn Mayer's special agent movie universe, but there is nothing on Columbia. . "
"Really?" Kenneth Horne still has a smile on his face, saying: "If not, you give me 《Pirates of the Caribbean》, and you can pick the new line of script."
Although 《Pirates of the Caribbean》 was pressed by Eric, it did n’t mean anything to start, but just thinking about Eric buying Sony Film Industry directly for this script, you ca n’t imagine how much he valued this project.
At the request of Kenneth Horn, Bill Michanik immediately ‘returned his teeth’ and said, “Do n’t even think about it.”
Eric won Columbia, partly for 《Pirates of the Caribbean》, and more importantly, it continued to expand the Firefly system production and distribution platform.
Although many people inside and outside Hollywood are very optimistic about the prospect of declining Columbia, Eric is full of confidence in the recovery of Columbia. After all, for him, from Hollywood has been brewing in hundreds of thousands of film projects every moment. Picking some script with great selling potential for Columbia is a breeze.
The remarks just made were just a blow to Bill Michanick.
Kenneth Horne clearly sees this, and will only perform very easily. Bill · Michanik was beaten by Eric, so naturally he will be more attentive.
As for Adam **** ’s new film, even if Box Office will burst to 200 million or even higher in the future, Eric does not care, and the reform of Hollywood ’s profit distribution rules is definitely more important in Eric than momentary gains and losses.
Also, after leaving the Firefly system, there are three remaining, Warner Bros., Paramount, Universal Pictures, but none of them seem to be compatible.
As for the so-called "sudden entertainment" to issue alone, Hollywood has now completed the situation of the media industry's integration. The other party will definitely face the joint constraints of the seven major parties. Without sufficient advertising resources, they will not get Enough cinema platform, the original Box Office with 100 million USD potential, can be lucky to get 50 million.
After all, the number of viewers and the size of the ticket warehouses for each period are fixed. The entry of a single company is equivalent to cutting the meat from the seven major parties, who will be willing.
It can be said that after the new century, unless there is a fundamental change in the North America ’s policy on the media industry, otherwise, the number of Hollywood and Film Studio will only decrease, but will not increase.
Leaving the restaurant, Eric originally wanted to breathe on the top plywood, but found that Harvey · Weinstein, Robert · Radford and others were already standing here, and the crowd was still standing Julia. Seeing the appearance of Eric, his temperament changed abruptly, and he came over like a soft little daughter-in-law and held Eric's arm intimately.
Everyone can feel the abnormality of Julia's, but there is no strange expression on a person's face. Over the years, Julia has obviously no longer cared about these. Among the women of Eric, only Julia dare to carelessly put the ruby ring on his hands in any situation, and rarely took it off.
Feeling the slippery silk dress on Julia, Eric smiled and greeted everyone: "What are you talking about?"
"Sundance Film Festival," Robert Redford said: "Eric, are you interested in skiing in Park City, now is the right time?"
In addition to famous Hollywood director and Actor, Robert Redford is also the founder of the famous Sundance Film Festival.
Eric is not interested in skiing. Although he knew that Robert Redford meant to invite himself to the Sundance Film Festival, he still planned to shake his head and refuse.
Just, just about to start speaking, Julia gently twitched his sleeve, whispering expectantly: "Eric, I promised Bob to attend the opening ceremony of the Sundance Film Festival next week, you Would you like to go with me? "
Julia seldom made any requests to Eric. Hearing the girl ’s opening, Eric could n’t think of any refusal at all, so he looked at Robert Redford again and said, “So, Bob, what day will come Is it? "
"The opening ceremony is Thursday," although Robert Redford had heard about Julia and Eric, it was the first time he saw it, and he tried not to let his expression show anything different, he said: " The opening ceremony is held in the evening, you can just pass by that day. "
"Okay, then I will take Julia to see it," Eric nodded and continued this topic: "Is there any outstanding video this time?"
"This," Robert Redford laughed: "I think all films are very good, but it is up to you to see if you meet your taste."
The purpose of the Sundance Film Festival is to support independent films and newcomers. One of the biggest features of these films is low cost. As the most successful commercial film Director of Hollywood, Robert · Radford is difficult to judge whether Eric will be interested in these small production films.
Eric can also understand the subtext in Robert · Radford ’s discourse, saying: "Actually, the production cost of a movie is never the most important, but I prefer the kind of small and big movies." >
When Harvey · Weinstein heard the word Eric, he immediately shook his head and said: "Eric, you said, in fact everyone likes it."
Eric froze for a while, and laughed, said: "Yeah, actually everyone likes it."
After a few laughs, Eric took Julia off the deck and asked, "Where is Leeds?" while walking.
"She went to New York," walking in the corridor in the cabin, Julia put a little tighter on Eric, and added: "It seems that it was a fight."
When Eric heard it, there was interest, saying: "Why quarrel?"
Julia was confused, saying, "I don't know."
Although Murdoch is commercially smart and fierce, it can never be regarded as a stern father, otherwise the two sons will not grow into dudes. For the best Elizabeth among their children, old man is more preferred, and Eric has never seen Elizabeth quarreling with his father.
Then, if you go to New York to quarrel, the target can only be a strange woman.
Think about the tragic situation of Elizabeth and the girl who can be abused and crying. Eric is very worried about her quarreling trip.
Come to the lower main deck, Eric walked to the buffet table, picked up a dinner plate with Julia, planned to eat something, and asked again: "consider as finished, not to mention her, how is your new movie prepared? How is it? "
"I have talked to Soderbergh," Julia picked the food and said, "The filming starts in March and will be released at the end of the year."
Eric nodded and said with a smile: "Nicole's" Moulin Rouge "schedule will be pushed to next year, and no one will be with you this year."
As a big production song and dance film, Nicole's "Moulin Rouge" was originally expected to be released this summer, but due to various delays, the summer file could not be completed. The end of the year is too crowded, and will face Julia "Erin Brockovich" Direct competition, Fox simply pushed the schedule to next year.
The two picked up the food and walked to a table and chairs on the deck with a dinner plate. Julia said: "I don't care about the shadow, Eric, don't you care?"
Eric pretended to think about it and smiled: "It's better after the movie."
"Well, then I ’ll take a shadow," the Julia expression turned into a strange look again, and said: "Eric, if you ca n’t wait, there are a few shadows on the ship now."
Eric would like to knock on the forehead of Julia like knocking a girl, but there are many people around, so there is no movement.
Julia looked around and pointed with a small hand, said: "Nà," The Piano "behind the film, Holly Hunt, although she played a dumb in that movie, but her voice is actually very It's nice. "