Please give me a monthly ticket and a recommendation ticket!

In early April, "National Treasure" officially withdrew from the North American theater market. Although Matthew did not attend the Golden Plum Awards before the Oscars like Halle Berry, the professional reputation of this film has been declining.

As of the time of the film's downstream, Rotten Tomatoes websites that specialize in collecting reviews as the basis for film critics, Rotten Tomatoes' freshness has dropped to 45%. If you only see the critics' ratings, "National Treasure" is definitely a bad movie with a huge box office failure.

The fact is just the opposite. This Family Entertainment film with a good reputation in the audience ranked seventh in the 2004 North American box office with a North American box office of $225.6 million, surpassing the 20th Century Fox's "The Day After Day" and the 172.64 million US dollars of "Spy Shadows 2".

"National Treasure" can be described as a great success in exchange for a production cost of 100 million US dollars in return for a North American box office of 225.6 million US dollars.

Moreover, the film's overseas box office performance is also quite good. So far, it has appeared in the film markets in nearly 100 countries and regions, and the cumulative overseas box office has exceeded US$200 million, with a total of US$243.2 million.

So far, the global box office of "National Treasure" has accumulated a total of US$468.2 million.

Although the film has not been released in some overseas countries, the remaining ones are still being screened, such as the Faroe Islands and Haiti, and the box office they can get is better than nothing.

The final global box office of this film cannot exceed $500 million.

But the $468.2 million figure is enough to make every aspect of participating in the film laugh from ear to ear.

Even though "National Treasure" has a poor professional reputation and cannot change the fact that its commercial success is successful, Matthew once again proves his market value in action films.

Disney Pictures is also a little chaotic because of Walt Disney's relationship, so they don't have to worry about the sequel for the time being. However, Jerry Brookheimer Film Company, one of the producers of the film, put the sequel to "National Treasure" on the agenda, and a dedicated person has initially contacted Helen Herman.

Helen Hermann was not polite at all. Given Matthew's successive box office successes and the sequel's pay bonus rules, he directly told Jerry Brookheimer's representative that without a 20 million dollar pay, Matthew's sequel actor contract does not need to be discussed.

Then, there was no news from Jerry Brookheimer Film Company. According to Matthew's guess, he probably had to wait for Disney Pictures' attitude to make plans.

"National Treasure" achieved a global box office of nearly $500 million, which is definitely good news for Matthew, and another good news also spread.

Zach Schneider, who was far away in New York, called Matthew, and the trial clip he made finally won the recognition of Frank Miller. With the lobbying of public relations experts hired by Helen Hermann, and the promised box office hit by the previous film of the male lead, Frank Miller agreed in principle to negotiate the authorization of "The Three Hundred Warriors" with Zach Schneider and Matthew.

“The negotiations will not go immediately.”

In the office of Angel Brokerage, Helen Hermann held up black-edged glasses and said, "I heard from my people that Frank Miller would not start negotiations with us until the end of April at the earliest."

Matthew was a little surprised, "Why is this?"

"Have you put all your energy into Charlize Theron recently?" Helen Herman reminded, "Sin City was just released on April 1 and has a huge reputation. When the box office and reputation of this film continue to rise, Frank Miller will be able to get a higher price."

Matthew patted his head, "I ignored "City of Sin."

Helen Hermann glanced at him, "You and Charlize Theron should be protected, otherwise it will be troublesome if there is a situation."

"Don't worry," Matthew said directly, "She is more safe than me."

He brought the deflected topic back on track and asked, "How much do you think the copyright fee will be?"

"It's hard to say." Helen Hermann thought for a while and said, "Now in Hollywood commercial films, original genres have succeeded less and less, and adapted movies are increasingly valued by major companies. The copyright fees for popular novels, comics or other themes suitable for adaptation have increased by at least twice as much as before 2000."

"Yes." Matthew nodded, "We cannot change the environment."

In today's Hollywood, if a screenwriter who has not made a Mingtang finds a film company with an original commercial script, the chance of being activated is negligible.

Like Simon Kimberg, if there were no recommendations and recommendations from producer Aziva Gossman and those who won the Oscar Screenwriter Award, Pinfeng Entertainment would only accept scripts like "Mr. and Mrs. Smith" unless they were crazy.

But with Aziva Gossman's recommendation, the situation is completely different.

Helen Hermann said at this time, "It's really a headache to see the increase in adaptation costs." She sighed softly, "My people have tried Frank Miller. His bottom line is $8 million, twice as high as we expected."

Matthew frowned, it was definitely not a small number.

Helen Hermann's words are not finished yet. "According to the current situation in the Hollywood industry, Frank Miller will also ask for a later share."

"We still need to share the money in the later stage?" Matthew suddenly felt that he and Zach Schneider were going to be sacked.

"Don't be surprised, nor do you surprise." Helen Hermann was very calm. "City of Sin is currently very well-known, and it is not a professional reputation. The fans also have a good reputation. In the past, the circle believed that Frank Miller's works were too strong and were not suitable for film adaptation. Therefore, "City of Sin" and "The Three Hundred Warriors of Sparta" are very famous, but there has been no adaptation of the film company."

Matthew understood what she meant, "The situation has changed now. "City of Sin" can basically be confirmed to be successful. With the style of major Hollywood companies, someone will definitely like Frank Miller's other works."

He suddenly thought of something, "Zach Schneider had already come to Frank Miller with the trial clip. It was not until now that Frank Miller made a statement. Frank Miller should have been deliberately delaying it?"

"It must be intentional." Helen Hermann confirmed this very much. "Even if Frank Miller himself could not have imagined, his agent would ask him to do so."

But Matthew stood up, walked back and forth, frowned and said, "Frank Miller has the initiative, and this cannot be changed."

Helen Hermann nodded slightly, "It's true."

"It's okay to share the profit later." Matthew paced back and forth, and his thoughts gradually became clear. "The increased adaptation license fee is the trouble."

Speaking of this, Matthew realized that he and Zach Schneider had no experience in operating movies at all. Even Helen Hermann had very little experience in this area, and ignored many important issues.

Especially in terms of funding, they only planned a quota of four million US dollars.

He turned to look at Helen Hermann, "As far as I know, Zach Schneider doesn't have that much money. His salary for directing "Dawn of the Living Dead" is only a few hundred thousand dollars, all of which are thrown into the production of trial clips. Most of the salary earned by advertising and MV directors before has become fixed assets."

Zach Schneider specifically mentioned this matter when discussing the production of a trial clip with him.

Matthew stretched out his finger and pointed at himself, "I don't have that much money, and most of the money I earned has become fixed assets. Our initial vision was that the adaptation fee of three million to four million was enough, and now..."

He shook his head, unless he sold the Apple stock in his hand, but at this time, he would know that it would be extremely stupid to cash in on Apple stocks even if he didn't understand investment and financial markets.

Apple stocks are one of his future guarantees. Even if he becomes the king of bad movies like Nicholas Cage, he can still live a free and easy life.

Helen Hermann also stood up, walked back and forth like Matthew, and said, "In fact, there is a way."

"Hmm?" Matthew looked at her and asked, "What's the solution? Don't keep it aside."

"We'll bring in a film production company and negotiate with Frank Miller together," Helen Herman said slowly, "Let the film company invest in buying the copyright of "The Three Hundred Warriors of Sparta."

After hearing this, Matthew was happy first, then he felt something was wrong and asked, "The film production company took the initiative when it got the copyright. If they opposed the directing of Zach Schneider and did not agree to the starring of me, it would be bad..."

Helen Hermann continued, "It's not that there is no possibility." She thought about it and said, "It's not that there is no way to check and balance. For example, we first negotiate the conditions with Frank Miller and reach an agreement to make it stipulate in the authorization transfer agreement that the director must be Zach Schneider and the hero must be you."

Matthew thought for a while and said, "Is this difficult?"

Helen Herman nodded, "It should be very difficult. If Frank Miller knew that Zach Schneider and you didn't have enough funds at all, it's very likely that he would skip us and negotiate directly with the film company."

According to Helen Herman's strategy, Matthew is confident that with the box office results of the films he has starred recently, it is not very likely that the production company and Frank Miller will be eliminated, but Zach Schneider is hard to say, after all, he has only directed one movie.

The personal style of "The Three Hundred Warriors of Sparta" is so strong that without Zach Schneider, Matthew really doesn't have the courage to try.

Helen Hermann said at this time, "There is another way! If we can find an investor, not a film company, as long as they are willing to pay, the problem of lack of funds will be solved, and even the production costs can be solved."

"Investor?" Matthew immediately remembered the one who invested in the filming of "Legend of the Night", but the other party didn't seem to be particularly rich.

Then, he thought of another candidate and came to Helen Hermann's ear and muttered.
Chapter completed!