Chapter 329: Fixed schedule, quota
The industry has already defaulted to the copyright transaction amount of "Star Luck" being 20 million US dollars.
For most of the film and television companies in the industry, not to mention the net profit for a year, even the revenue may not be as much as the copyright income of this movie.
Even the revenue of small companies in two or three years cannot keep up with this amount.
The more important point is that "The Fault in Our Stars" has not yet been released in China!
Just imagine, when the movie is released, those guest actors can be ignored. With the appeal of Lin Nan and Liu Yifei alone, the box office will definitely not be low...
"This is too profitable, right? ? ”
“It’s just a film that won a grand prize at an international film festival, and it can be sold at such a high price, which is beyond the reach of ordinary people.” 》Copyright profit.
As an artist of Shanhai Media, Yang Mi was inevitably asked about this topic on the set.
"I heard that the filming of this movie only cost 10 million, and Liu Yifei paid for it. Is it true?"
Feng Shaofeng asked Yang Mi curiously.
The latter hesitated and nodded: "I heard that it is like this. Both she and Director Lin are paid zero, and each takes half of the investment..."
"No wonder those first-line stars They are all opening studios, making film and television investments, and becoming producers and producers!
If I bet on a movie, wouldn’t I make a lot of money?
Of course, in terms of low risk and high profit, it cannot be compared with the works of great directors like Director Lin..."
Feng Shaofeng's words are indeed correct.
Now More and more A-list celebrities are opening studios.
The most famous ones are Fan Bingbing, Li Bingbing, and Huang Xiaoming, who are all investing in movies and TV series.
They all have multiple roles. Several positions, actor, producer, producer, film and television company boss...
"Perhaps, this is the general trend of the industry!"
Zeng Jia said something unexpectedly, making everyone at the scene thoughtful.
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Having not paid attention to the domestic film market for half a month, Lin Nan took the time to take a look.
How to describe it?
The May movie schedule is overwhelmed by imported films!
First, "Fast and Furious 5" and "Thor" entered the market at the beginning of the month, sweeping domestic films in the first half of the month.
Wang Baoqiang, Ye Xuan and Wu Mengda's "Cai Li Fu Fist" is the only domestic film with a decent name and a bit of a gimmick.
Just like this, he could not escape the fate of cannon fodder and was run over!
Less than a week later, "Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides" and "Kung Fu Panda 2" were also released.
Several imported blockbusters took advantage of the situation and started the "massacre".
Although Gu Changwei's "The Favorite" has already made twice as much money in Cannes, the domestic box office data is so ugly, how ugly it is. It grossed just over 40 million and was canceled.
A lot of domestic films have no power to fight back, and they don’t even do much promotion.
“It’s so miserable!”
Lin Nan couldn’t stand it anymore.
Many domestically produced movies are just flops, with a box office of less than one million in one week of release. This is the case with Liu Ye's "No Longer Let You Be Lonely" and Li Xuejian's "A Hundred Years of Love Letters".
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Liu Yifei started again.
“Hurry up, take a picture for me.”
Miss Liu gave Lin Nan the camera, and she ran back to the sofa and sat cross-legged, with a sly and naughty smile on her face .
In his arms are two smaller solid gold olive branch trophies and two certificates.
A snow-white kitten was lying on her lap, looking directly at Lin Nan with its heterochromatic pupils, looking a little dazed.
Press the shutter and a photo will be taken.
"Let me take a look..."
After a while, Liu Yifei's Weibo was updated.
A freshly released photo with a sentence:
“These are all mine!”
Many fans quickly started leaving messages and forwarding them, and then actors and actresses in the circle... …
“I want it too, please tell Director Lin.”
It seems that Zhou Xun has not answered the notice in the past two days and is still resting. That’s why I’m so free and commenting so quickly.
Lin Nan watched Liu Yifei chatting enthusiastically and did not disturb her.
He saw another news, from the Tang Dynasty.
"After "Fairy Sword One" and "Fairy Sword Three", another Tang Dynasty game adaptation drama "Xuanyuan Sword" was held today at the Hengdian Film and Television City."
"Hu Ge will collaborate with Tang Yan for the fourth time, playing an unusual couple.”
“Nazha, a contracted artist with Tang Dynasty and a freshman at Nortel University, will play the role of Queen Nuwa in “Xuanyuan Sword”. People, challenge Tang Yan’s Zixuan and Liu Yifei’s Zhao Linger!”
...
Lin Nan had a hunch that Cai Yinong would bring Liu Yifei along with him during promotions, but he actually guessed it.
Promote the newcomers and recruit Liu Yifei, who has also played the role of a descendant of Nuwa. This routine feels very familiar, and it was definitely Cai Yinong’s idea!
Lin Nan's cell phone was vibrating, and a text message came in.
He glanced at it and saw that it was Han Sanping.
It’s time to decide on the schedule for “The Star”.
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The atmosphere at China Film Group is not very good these days.
As the leader in the industry, the state-owned film group, which holds the monopoly on imported films, has made major mistakes in scheduling films.
The market was sluggish in the past two months, and this month the imported films were in a state of indiscriminate production. Many film companies complained, which put a lot of pressure on Han Sanping.
When Lin Nan arrived at China Film Academy, he didn't expect Yu Dong to be there.
The latter didn't look very good and didn't know what happened.
"Director Lin, Director Han is waiting for you, so I'll leave first."
"Dong Yu, walk slowly."
Having said hello casually, Lin Nan I didn’t care anymore. In the office, Han Sanping had a gloomy face and was obviously in a bad mood.
Seeing Lin Nan come in, the other party nodded and pointed to the sofa.
"Sit down and help yourself with what you want to drink."
Lin Nan was not polite and decisively walked to the tea cabinet on the side and opened the innermost drawer.
On the other side, Han Sanping couldn't help but twitch the corner of his mouth when he saw Lin Nan's behavior.
Then he turned his head in a different direction, out of sight!
After making tea, Lin Nan started to talk.
"I see that Yu Dong's face looks very bad. What's wrong?"
It's okay that Lin Nan didn't mention it. When he mentioned it, Han Sanping's eyes immediately widened.
“He still looks bad? Give him shame!”
Lin Nan became even more curious, "Director Han, what happened?"
Han Sanping glared at Lin Nan angrily and then started to speak.
Yu Dong is a man who does big things. He thought that Han Sanping, an old leader, was behind the scenes and did something that was to be killed first and reported later.
He bought the rights to five films at the Cannes Film Festival, and now he came to Han Sanping to ask for a quota.
Speaking of quotas, they are actually a gray area in the film industry.
Only China Film Group has the right to import foreign language films.
The domestic distribution rights of foreign language films are in the hands of China Film and China Film.
Imported films can be divided into divided films and approved films.
Most of the time, both film groups are too busy, let alone when there are more quotas for film batches.
So the two groups will hand over some film batches to private film companies for a fee.
However, due to policy reasons, the name was changed to say that private film companies are assisting the distribution work of the two groups.
This "paid" price is not low, it is about 25% of the domestic box office of the approved films.
Yu Dong never communicated with Han Sanping and bought the copyright of a foreign language film without permission. When he came back to ask Han Sanping for a quota, he discovered that something had happened.
China Film Group has no quota anymore. It keeps enough for the group itself, and the other quotas have been "paid".
Yu Dong hopes that the old leader can help and take out a little bit of what is left in China Film Studio...
It was a bit embarrassing for Yu Dong to let Han Sanping do something that was obviously a mistake!
The result was that he was scolded by Han Sanping.
“A fat-headed guy was fascinated by a woman...”
Lin Nan admired Yu Dong, he really dared to make any request.
“He didn’t go to China Film Group?”
As soon as he asked this question, Lin Nan knew that he was being reckless.
The shareholders there are all major state-owned film giants, and the competition with each other is even more serious.
Yu Dong is obviously from Han Sanping, Shangying and the others will definitely not agree...
To be honest, Lin Nan is also a little tempted by the quota thing, but he didn't do it much before. Think about it.
Thinking about it now, he can definitely take back the films from Crystal Pictures in the form of quotas and find Enlight to help him distribute them!
You only need to pay a "paid" fee, and the cost is almost zero!
"How about Director Han leave one or two quotas for me next year? I will definitely not think about the quota for imported films..."
Han Sanping squinted his eyes and looked at Lin Nan , nodded after a long time, "Okay."
Lin Nan didn't expect that if he came today, he would get an unexpected harvest, which was very good.
"Thank you very much, Director Han. Don't forget it then, haha..."
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The next thing to talk about is the schedule of "Star Luck".
Han Sanping looked at Lin Nan with a smile and asked:
"Tell me, how much did it cost? I don't believe the number reported online."
< br>“$28.6 million.”
Lin Nan said it bluntly. Han Sanping If you really want to know, it's not difficult. You can find out from the tax department in minutes.
"Hey, good guy! When I retire, will I go work for you?"
"Haha, Director Han is joking..."
Han Sanping shook his head, He smiled and pointed at Lin Nan.
“Which schedule?”
"August 6th."
Hearing this time, Han Sanping nodded first, "Well, summer time, not bad..."
Before he finished speaking, he raised his head again , "Is this Chinese Valentine's Day?"
Lin Nan nodded, thinking that Han Sanping's reaction was too fast? !
“You have some ideas. Chinese Valentine’s Day is a good day. It just so happens that “The Fault in Our Stars” is also a romance movie.”
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While talking, Han Shuo asked about Lin Nan's new film plan.
“We have an idea, but it will take a while to finalize it.”
While in Cannes, Lin Nan had thought about a new movie plan. There are several options currently available, and during this period, you need to consider them carefully.
"Okay, if you need help then, just ask. Now that the market has slowly picked up, try not to make small fuss..."
Hearing this, Lin Nan was speechless.
Han Sanping has said this so many times. Every time Lin Nan started a new movie, he would always talk about it.
"Of course, if I make a commercial film, there is a high probability that I won't make a fuss. This can be guaranteed."
Lin Nan replied.
He will probably never touch small to medium-cost commercial films in the future.
(End of this chapter)