Legendary Hollywood Director

On April 10, Fox delivered its first overseas box office profit of $15 million.

Prada has a total global box office of 350 million.

162 million in North America and 188 million overseas.

Among them, North American theaters took 40%, the remaining 97.2 million, and then deducted various taxes, and the production and distribution totaled 88 million, and then removed 20% of the joint distribution of Lionsgate and screen treasure, and Firefly expenses. The publicity cost of the project is 17 million, and the profit is 53.4 million. After deducting the production expenses, the net profit of the project in North America is 23.4 million;

Well, overseas, because the theater chain dealers take different fees from place to place - for example, the mainland only gives 13% of the box office revenue of the imported film, and the overall average plus tax is calculated as 50%, and there are 94 million left. Fox took away 30% and made a profit of 64.8 million. After deducting promotional expenses, copying, shipping, etc., the overseas net profit was 58 million.

Therefore, Prada can bring Firefly 81.4 million US dollars only from the box office, and some of this money will be used to reward important members of the cast, producers, artists, etc., and 78.7 million will be left.

Since the day when the film was painted, Firefly has only recorded about 30 million, and the remaining 48 million is in the stage of financial division, and the offline and copyright surrounding more than 80 million is far from harvesting time.

However, the stakeholders are very satisfied.

Needless to say, Lionsgate and Mubao can get more than 50 million yuan by providing theater chains and publicity resources—the bulk of them can be offline, Fox can also get more than 28 million yuan, and the theater chain has eaten 153.16 million yuan. Start with full profit.

However, he said that after two more projects were set that day, Little Miss Sunshine soon entered the preparatory stage, but Juno just completed the project.

Several aspects were launched at the same time, but the company has sufficient staff and increasingly skilled business production capabilities. A project with no risk of loss at all.

On this day, Lehmann read through a TV script carefully, feeling like a godsend.

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

But for a new TV project, who should I look for?

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

WB? Let's forget it, it can be guaranteed for a while but not for the rest of the life. Under the gradual slump in performance, Warner is ready to sell and reorganize. Speaking of which, Prison Break provided by Lehman also delayed this schedule for a year and a half. In fact, if he was rich, he would also like to buy TV stations to expand the media territory, but even if they were broken, their assets would still be valued at 1.8 billion. Unless they sold Firefly, they would have no money to compete.

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

How good is Fox, there is a huge News Corporation behind it, its studios and TV network businesses can be ranked in the middle and upper reaches, and they have only cooperated once before, just to deepen the relationship, prevent it from being squeezed in the future, and add an ally station. opportunity to come out.

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

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Looking back on the development history of Fox,

It's been a twist.

In 1935, Darryl Zanuck founded Twentieth Century Films, and a few years later, it merged with Fox Films, which had a certain foundation in the silent film era, to form 20th Century Fox Films, one of the eight giants at that time. Show Lan Temple, and hold a top director like Ernst Lubitsch.

But in the 1960s, a film with the highest investment in history (more than 40 million was cast for Cleopatra, and Elizabeth Taylor, the first actress at the time, was given a high price of one million dollars. 40 million is put into the new millennium, it is estimated that It can have more than 400 million investment.)

Then, as we all know, Cleopatra has become an example of the amount of loss in film history that can never be avoided. It directly made Fox, who was flourishing at the time, almost bankrupt, and all the studios under his hand were sold to repay the debt. Come here, he has lost his blood.

It was bought by oil merchant Ruth Davis in 1981.

Subsequently, Fox's soul, Darryl Zanuck, withdrew from the stage, but he still left a clear mark on the film company, which is to fight for his life to make a blockbuster.

Later leaders did almost the same.

In the shaky sixties and seventies, the Australian media magnate Rupert Murdoch reached out to take over Fox and supported George Lucas to make the first Star Wars, and later Cameron's Titanic. No. and X-Men, Fantastic Four, and Home Alone, one blockbuster after another that brought the giant back to life.

But Murdoch's News Corp brought in more than that. The biggest change should be the Fox network, which cost billions to build, and hired Barry Diller, the head of Paramount at the time, as chief executive. official.

Over the years, the development has been quite smooth.

Firefly's mention of the idea of ​​a TV project to collaborate with is also a big deal for Fox.

After all, the results of Prison Break and The Walking Dead are there, and who hasn't had an idea.

In the past, it was not that Fox did not invite projects to cooperate, but Firefly never agreed.

Now that the mind has faded, and everything has come so suddenly, it has made Fox TV executives feel that this April is extraordinarily comfortable.

——It can only be said that Lehman happened to encounter the suppression of Warner and Paramount, and he felt very resentful. He hoped to put more eggs in several baskets. It is best to have a good relationship with all powerful studios. Well, so, let's see who else will interfere with the firefly's rise. There is a saying that no matter how good the relationship is, it is better to deepen the interests.

If the betrayal of the relationship is related to the profits that cannot be underestimated, how many people will be relentless.

Here, after Warner learned the details - Firefly didn't hide it, but he was dumb and couldn't tell the pain of eating Coptis chinensis.

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 such a thing.

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

Now, it's just that Warner is replaced by Twentieth Century Fox - the same is still the Big Six.

——Anyway, no one can restrain the future development of Firefly. Lyman thought so.

General manager, what do you mean by firefly?

A bunch of Fox TV executives gathered in the conference room with puzzled expressions on their faces.

In order to compete for the overseas distribution rights of Prada, Fox made a small step back with careful calculation. In the end, although he achieved something, he occasionally thought that the conditions he offered were net profit, which was quite distressing. In other words, the minimum threshold for overseas to take away the total box office is 17%. With the performance of Prada, it is 31.96 million US dollars.

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

Unexpectedly, Firefly, who has always liked 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 you calm down and think about it, it makes these people more or less understand-to show goodwill, win over, no matter what it means, you must resist Warner's pressure.

This is not only an invitation, but also a split within the Big Six.

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

Without Firefly, Fox might not have any feud with Warner.

The studios have done what they do, and they have taken many frontal or private actions to compete, snatch, and smear each other on popular schedules.

On weekdays, I also do things like watching the fire and watching jokes from the other side.

For Fox, knowing that the project could be beneficial was enough to get them excited.

But after the heartbeat, what gave them a headache was that apart from these actions, Lehman never said how much he invested, the proportion of interests or even the project.

Just sending such an intention has made Warner, Paramount and other companies aware of it.

——Isn’t this just to let Fox attract firepower?

It stands to reason that if everyone cooperates, it is just cooperation, but there is no obligation to undertake anything else.

Make me an appointment with Lehman, I'll go see him.

Bill McNichol (President of Production) was amused at this tactic—the weak are always used to being a little clever.

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