"The time is just right!"

At this time, the audience who turned on the TV to watch "Daily Show" would have this idea. Today's guest is Ye Wei. He has been waiting for it for a long time. His last visit was a year and a half ago. The classic interview video clips were circulated on the Internet. Fans and fans believed it to be a god. What will he do this time?

Just watching the two of them sitting there, the audience couldn't help but smile.

"What should I call you?" On the TV screen, Jon shook his signature pen in a daze, "Wiger Ye, Yunik Kule? Or your nickname, Doctor Who?"

"It's as you like." Ye Wei shrugged slightly, "This is a democratic country, although many institutions refute my point of view."

The studio suddenly burst into laughter, and the audience would think that he was mocking MPAA, and maybe there was something else.

"Do you still believe it?" Jon looked at the audience in surprise, "What a fool. Forgive him, the news of minorities always lag behind."

The audience inside and outside the TV laughed and their interest became even higher. Jon attacked! He would not let Viy go! Ye Wei was stunned for a moment, "What a white white man." In the audience burst into laughter, Jon whispered with a vicious face: "I am a Jew."

As the audience shouted, both of them couldn't help laughing. Jon continued to ask, "Why did you have this idea? Dual identity?"

"Nothing surprising, you know we all have dual identities." Ye Wei's face returned to his calmness seemed serious, and also calm. "Jennifer Garner used a dual identities to be a spy, you used a dual identities to attend makeup sex-love parties, and I used a dual identities to make movies."

This time, the audience laughed again when they just went down, and the TV audience laughed, just knowing that Viy won’t make Jon look good!

Jon suddenly felt horrified, and swung his hands up, and the pen flew away, "How did you know!? You are there too!?"

The audience couldn't stop laughing, and Ye Wei made a helpless expression, "Goggle tabloid Jon! They even reported that you are playing the Flash."

The meaning of "Flash" makes the audience laugh completely, and there are also applause and shouts.

"Oh..." Jon let out a sigh, his expression fell down, and his tone was still scared: "I'm so scared, I thought it was you..." The hilarious thrilling sound could not stop!

"I don't go to that kind of place, I'm making a movie." Ye Wei's calm answer made the audience applause. Jon asked with a brow, ""The Eye Opening Ring"?" Ye Wei said disgustedly: "The movie is just a disaster, a daydream-like sexual fantasy. I prefer "Ice Storm", oh no... I didn't say Spider-Man is me."

The audience laughed and shouted, but most people were just making excuses and couldn't fully understand the jokes of this. Both movies discussed the theme of sexual liberation in the 1960s and 1970s. Toby Maguire, one of the stars of "Ice Storm", was later Spider-Man.

Jon also smiled, showing his teeth slightly, and he patted the desktop and talked about the theme of tonight: "Your new movie "The Little Sunshine Beauty" is about to be released. I've watched it. It's such a good movie. Tell me about your performance?"

Ye Wei said seriously: "I play an exorcist, continuing to work for God, a huge new challenge." Jon was stunned when he felt bad: "There is an exorcist?" Ye Wei shook his head and said: "Come on, Jon, you have never watched "The Little Beauty of Sunshine". You didn't even see the story summary we gave clearly. I didn't star in it!"

As the audience burst into laughter, Jon sat straight, his hands on the table, looking expressionless, "I can explain..."

"You can't actually not even watch "The Wedding Day is Coming", right?" Ye Wei was surprised, "dang-it, you watched "The Eye Opening Ring", but you didn't even watch the movies of the guest of the show."

With a few beeps, Jon said everything that was depressed was silenced, and the audience laughed continuously. Jon suddenly said loudly: "But I know there are really many celebrity actors in this movie, Tom Hanks, Julia Roberts, Meryl Streep... They are all on the same set. What does that feel like? Attend the Oscars every day?"

Ye Wei smiled, laughed for the second time tonight, and said: "It's not every day. We don't start work on weekends. After all, we still have to participate in the Oscars." The audience burst into laughter.

"Do they think you are the director?" Jon asked with a smile.

"Of course! They are really professional, and I try to do my best to do my best, believe it or not, I even read a few parenting books, and when Julia Roberts was upset, I said to her, 'Do you want some parenting experience from me?' She was happy, 'Why not?'"

After the audience laughed, Ye Wei said seriously: "All our goals are to make the movies well. They are all reasonable people. Except for the occasional creative differences, I can handle them by reasoning. I am very lucky."

"The Little Beauty of Sunshine" has a legendary production process. The scripts bought by more than 100 middle school students in crowdfunding, and you also released a documentary because of this." Jon said as he suddenly gritted his teeth and pressed his voice, very jealous, "I don't even have a documentary, he has one!"

"162, 560,000." Ye Wei said, and the audience's praise was immediately heard.

Ye Wei didn't mean to joke on this topic, but smiled seriously: "Each of us worked hard at the beginning, and we didn't think about the difficulty of making a movie after buying a script. We just decided that nothing was impossible. This is also the reason why we dared to start. Many things happened later, which were completely different from the plan, but we survived and completed it."

The audience praised and applauded even louder, and Jon didn't joke about this and said the next topic: "You have a lot of controversy now. If you allow me to ask controversial questions, it seems that you are not afraid."

"What are you afraid of?" Ye Wei was a little funny. Jon laughed a little sarcastically: "Do you have any expectations for the box office of this movie? Ten million people hear it..." He laughed and endured it.

"You are talking about the North American box office of $100 million, right?" Ye Wei shrugged and frowned, "I was wrong about that matter, I was really wrong."

Oh!!! The audience was exclaiming, and the audience in front of the TV were exclaiming, what's going on?!viy said that he was wrong?! Impossible!

Jon was stunned, and Ye Wei immediately raised his eyebrows and said, "The expectation of $100 million is wrong, too little. Given that I am very confident, I am now seriously correcting it. Anyone who wants it can get it. My expectation for "The Little Sunshine Beauty" in North America is $130 million!"

"Ahhhhhh!" The audience was already in full swing, as if they were about to overturn the studio, this is viy!

Not only the 100 million interpreted by others, but the 130 million spoken by themselves! North American box office!

It's really wrong!

"You haven't drunk?" Jon seemed to be frightened and leaned back on the TV screen.

"No, every nerve of my heart is very clear." Ye Wei smiled indifferently, "If I can't achieve it, I will come next time. Even if you call me an idiot, you will be too."

The audience was even more excited. At this time, the program time limit was up. Jon suddenly looked at the camera and laughed and shouted: "Thank you Ye Wei, Yunik Kule's guest! "The Little Sunshine Beauty" will be released on Friday, November 11! Everyone remember to watch it. It's such a good movie!"

The smiling Ye Wei stood up and shook hands with Jon. The two were still laughing and talking, but the camera was farther away, and the TV audience only heard the sound effects at the end of the show and the shouts of the audience.

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excited!

Viy's box office statement is so exciting! 130 million in North America!

Just on the eve of the release of LMS, another even greater controversy!

Is it hype? Not necessarily. If you do it in the end, it will be cool and handsome. If you can't do it, you will become Tom Cruise, who danced on the sofa in "Opra Talk Show" in May this year. Even now, it really gives the media that are not good at lying to make fun of it. Ye Wei finally went crazy and said that he was arrogant and frivolous. Is he convinced now? Too arrogant!

But after just experiencing the Yunik Kuller trap incident, the media's wording is a bit conservative. Could this be another trap?

In fact, the DreamWorks Distribution Department was shocked. What declaration is really not in the publicity plan. Ye Wei once again shocked everyone, including himself. Fortunately, there will be no bad influence on LMS, because "Daily Show" is mainly influential to young people. This group will like to be young and frivolous, and it is about to be released, so success or failure can not be affected in this way.

So this matter basically only concerns whether Ye Wei himself will become a laughing stock.

Speaking of box office expectations, for LMS's North American box office, there are voices shouting from 50 million to 90 million. But the question is, DreamWorks, Pretong, what are the expectations of big names? How much box office is needed to be considered commercial success? Only when everyone can make money?

To figure out these issues, we must first understand the two concepts of Hollywood interest cake sharing, "no net income" and "no one can share the share from total income".

Simply put, "no net income" means that no net income is made or not, big-name members can share a portion of the profit from the film's gross income (a contract that shares the gross profit after reaching the "cash break-even point"), while most other creators can get a portion of the net profit, that is, the "net profit point".

But in fact, no matter how profitable the film seems, these "net profit-sharing people" usually never get a share of a fairy, especially in large studio film projects.

This is because after deducting costs and sharing gross profit, even the money-making video will lose a lot of money on the books. The so-called net profit sharing only becomes a kind of spiritual comfort and a symbol of identity: "At least I can share net profit, the next step is to share gross profit."

Take a look at the case of "Speed ​​60 Seconds". This 2000 action film was described as a "sensation" in the annual report of the producer and distributor Disney (Disney ranked third in North America and 22nd in the year), with a production fee of 90 million yuan, 101 million yuan in North America/237 million yuan global box office.

This box office cannot have net profit. Of the 237 million yuan, the world's theaters and dealers took away 139 million yuan, which is about 60%, so the powerful Disney only got about 100 million yuan, 40%. From the 100 million yuan, 90.6 million yuan of global issuance fees (including 67.4 million yuan of publicity fees, 13 million yuan of copy fees, 10.2 million yuan of insurance, transportation, tariffs and other fees), and in the end, only about 9.4 million yuan of adjusted gross income remained.

At this time, the money can be divided. Bowei (Disney) took away 30% of the issuance fee, 2.82 million yuan; project gold medal producer Jerry Brookheimer and superstar Nicholas Cage shared a total of 30%, which was 2.82 million yuan, and that was only 3.76 million yuan left. There was a loss of 86.24 million yuan on the books. Where was the net profit?

Later, "Speed ​​60 Seconds" sold 198 million yuan on DVD, but only 39.6 million yuan of it belonged to the film, because it could only get 20% of the copyright fees for all audio-visual and DVD revenue of Bowei Family Entertainment, and the other 158.4 million yuan belonged to Disney. This income has to be deducted from 19.7 million yuan (about 50%). Cage, who has a gross profit dividend, took away 3.9 million yuan. In the end, its audio-visual revenue was only 16 million yuan, and it still lost 70.24 million yuan.

Its premiere copyright of its TV paid channel sold 18 million yuan, and after deducting 2.7 million yuan to the actors and the union, the cost fee of 149,000 yuan, about 50,000 yuan is the film. Even if the gross profit share arrears and the 10% annual interest rate are excluded, it still lost 55.09 million yuan!

Although the film generates 450 million gross income, those who share the net profit can only curse people.

Did "Speed ​​60 Seconds" really lose money? Of course not, Disney Group, which integrates production and distribution, actually divided a lot of money from it, but it was distributed on the books to its subsidiaries, Bowei, Bowei Family Entertainment, etc.

Brookheimer and Cage also made great profits in terms of fixed salary and gross profit sharing. Those who share net profits also received fixed salary, so they were all happy, but don’t be foolish and believe that you can really share money.

But when the global box office of 90 million yuan/237 million yuan occurs on independent film companies, it is very difficult, unless the distribution fee is very small. Because independent companies do not have group distribution channels, they cannot eat the cake by themselves, and in the end they are deducted, they really cannot make money. This is the main reason why independent companies are difficult to survive. One busy day is to work for celebrities.

"Have we dragged down several film companies?" Brad Pitt and George Clooney often joked with each other.

Precisely because there is usually no net income, when the film has net income, and even bonuses! How valuable that is, this is the most popular way for film companies and filmmakers to make everyone happy to get the money.

"No one can share the share from the total income" means no matter how famous you are, Spielberg, Brookheimer, Hanks, Cruise... No one can make profits from unadjusted gross income, box office, audio-visual, and all surroundings.

Only when certain conditions are met can you share it, such as the film earns back its fixed salary expenses, or the mainstream has reached the cash break-even point stipulated in the contract.

If the balance point is set at 1 USD, it means that as long as the film collects the distribution fee, you can start to split the money. But this is a dream. The balance point is often set very high, which is enough for the producer to recover most of the production fees. Moreover, not only the balance points of different videos are different, but the balance points of different people in the same video are also different.

It is not based on finance or anything, but based on a Hollywood dogma: "People with power have the right to make rules."

So the most powerful person gets the lowest balance point, Tom Hanks's can be $1, while Tom Skehan's's costs $100 million. This allows the person who creates the most powerful to get the share first, and this part of the money has to be counted on the cost of others, making it more difficult for others to reach a higher balance point.

Therefore, the smaller the power, the less likely it is to get the gross profit share, because the conditions will never be met. The terms of gross profit share have become spiritual comfort and a symbol of identity: "At least I have a balance point, the next step is the lowest balance point."

In Woody Allen's comedy "The Hollywood Finale", the balance point of his protagonist Waxman is four times that of a big star, which makes fun of the difference between a director and a superstar.

Waxman is four times more likely, and Ye Wei has no balance point of his own because his contract does not have any clauses for gross profit dividends.

In the crew of "The Little Beauty of Sunshine", only Hanks and Roberts, and both are 1 USD. As long as there is a cash profit of 1 USD after adjustment, they can share 30% of them, 15% each. This is only the global box office part, and other audio and video parts have other calculations.

Gary Gotzman, Allen Akin, Tim Rose, Meryl Streep, and Hans Jimo are the ones who share the net profit, but the amount is not too much, which is equivalent to a possible bonus. Ye Wei personally scored nothing, the fixed pay was a symbolic $1, and there was no delay in his salary. He wanted the opportunity to avoid money.

Other crew members also only have fixed remuneration, union commission, and possible bonuses after high profits.

How much does lms need to charge for North American box office to see net profit? A rough calculation, [x(1-60%)-15 million]*(1-60%)-6 million>0

Calculate the 40% box office share, DreamWorks 30% release commission, 30% gross profit share of big brands, 6 million is the production fee (Preton 51%, DreamWorks 25%, DreamWorks 16%, Super Machine 5%, Heller Peak Video 3%), and 15 million is the promotional distribution fee (12 million publicity fee, 3 million distribution fee). This is DreamWorks' greatest ability today.

The result of the formula is … $75 million.

It is precisely the evaluation expectations of many professional institutions that Wall Street is looking to 90 million to make more money.

If it is 75 million, it will only have a gross profit of 15 million. DreamWorks can earn 4.5 million in distribution share, and Hanks and Roberts can each get a 2.25 million share share. What the producers get is zero. Those who are waiting to share net profits and those who give bonuses are zero.

But don't forget that this is only the box office part of North America. If the global box office is good, you can double the profit on this basis. Then take into account the benefits of audio-visual, TV copyright, etc. The two superstars can get a pay of tens of millions. Although this is far from their value, Preton is the principal producer, and Roberts has other interests.

There is also a premise that LMS is not a commercial blockbuster such as "Speed ​​60 Seconds", but an art film that aims to award the awards season. It is no longer easy to do this with this distribution fee.

If 75 million is a common agreement, if this is true, everyone will not be too excited, but they are satisfied with receiving the goods. Ye Wei did not mess it up, he is really a movie genius.

Then when the North American box office is 100 million, the producers will have a net profit of 4 million, and the people who share the gross profit will get more, and others will also see the hope of dividing money, and they will definitely share it! Of course everyone is excited. Ye Wei is simply a gold mine and has made a lot of money!

If Ye Wei shouted the crazy 130 million yuan, the producer would have a net profit of 8.8 million yuan, and those who could share the money could share the money. The two superstars each had a box office in North America alone, and the total income could also be seen as 20 million yuan, making money and having a huge increase in value.

In the current world, an independent art film makes a lot of money by relying solely on the box office of North America, and also shows the huge profit potential of other markets, and hope of winning awards... How many people will laugh out loud! Ye Wei? This time it is a $1 salary, and next time it is a $1 balance point, from the smallest power to the greatest power.

The senior executives of a large studio immediately admitted their mistakes and apologized to treat guests to dinner, invited the whole family to travel together, sign a video contract, sign a video contract, and sign a video contract!

Actors flock to you, genius, let’s work together! I heard that acting in your movies has a reputation and net profit.
Chapter completed!