Chapter 357 Hollywood Picks Up (Daily Update 12,000~)
Phantom Entertainment's development plan and financial statements were sealed in brown paper bags. Even if Wu Jianye told them, Linda knew that some of Phantom Entertainment's development secrets were involved, so she sealed them.
In fact, Linda wanted to send it back, but Wu Jianye thought about it and asked Zhao Lei to bring it back. He didn't want it to be sent to Singapore, and then the other party would complain about a work mistake...
"You sit down first!" Wu Jianye opened the brown paper bag and pointed to the seat opposite him.
The first thing Wu Jianye looked at was the financial status of Phantom Entertainment this year. This year, Phantom Entertainment has invested in three Universal Pictures movies, namely "French Condor" with US$3 million, "Horror Inn" with US$5 million, and US$6 million.
10,000 US Dollars "The Gods Fallen from Heaven".
As for the income?......
It seems that the goal of repayment has not yet been achieved. It is estimated that if we want to break even, we will have to wait until these three movies are released on video tapes.
In the past two years, the cooperation between Phantom Entertainment and Universal Pictures has become increasingly close, and both parties are still in the honeymoon period.
As for the "Home Alone" series that Phantom Entertainment invested in and produced itself, it is still the "Home Alone" series that has a very high influence in North America. Now "Home Alone" has filmed the fourth part. Almost every one of the first three parts is a North American New Year's Eve series.
However, no matter what, movie fans still have some movie-watching fatigue, so the third part no longer has the explosive power of the previous two parts. Now that the fourth part has not been released, I hope that the box office in North America can be maintained to a certain level.
One hundred and fifty million dollars is already very good.
But one thing that makes other Hollywood studios extremely envious is the investment in "Home Alone".
The third film in this series of movies has the highest investment. With the performance of the leading male child actor in "Home Alone", he has become the most popular child actor in the United States and even the world. By the time of the third film, it has become even more popular.
He raised his salary to US$15 million, which is already the highest salary for a top male movie star in North America.
There is no 20 million club in Hollywood today.
When it came time to shoot the fourth part, Linda asked Wu Jianye for permission and decisively gave up the original starring role. Then the fourth part of "Home Alone" held auditions and recruitment across the United States.
Among more than 10,000 children of the right age, Leonardo DiCaprio, who was only 12 years old when his parents came to the audition, was chosen!
This also caused the budget of the fourth "Home Alone" to drop directly from the initial US$50 million to US$35 million!
When he learned that the star of "Home Alone 4" was Leonardo DiCaprio, Wu Jianye immediately informed Linda that he had signed a ten-year contract with him...
At the same time, Phantom Entertainment also started filming a movie for the company's contracted artist Arnold Schwarzenegger, "The Devil Commander"!
This movie has been released in North America with a production cost of 10 million US dollars, but the box office has reached 58 million US dollars, once again proving Arnold Schwarzenegger's box office appeal, which also made Arnold Schwarzenegger a
Another action star in North America after Stallone!
However, this is not the biggest expenditure of Phantom Entertainment this year. The biggest expenditure of Phantom Entertainment this year is the establishment of a production company called Athena Animation. The initial investment of this production company is as high as 50 million U.S. dollars, of which 1,000
Ten thousand US dollars was used to purchase various machines and recruit talents, and the remaining US$40 million was invested in the production of an animated film.
Although Linda knew that Wu Jianye had been preparing for an animated film, when she learned that the investment in this animated film was as high as 40 million US dollars, she still couldn't help but hesitate, but in the end she still chose
I believe Wu Jianye.
The most important thing is that if she disagrees, her shares in Phantom Entertainment will be diluted with the establishment of Athena Animation...
This cartoon has now entered the production period, but if it is to be completed, it will have to wait until the end of next year or the beginning of the year after that.
This is also a good choice for Phantom Entertainment. If the box office of "Home Alone" this year is not satisfactory, Phantom Entertainment is likely to choose to refrigerate this series first and wait a few years before taking it out for the second round.
money behavior.
The two biggest projects of Phantom Entertainment this year are "Home Alone 3", which was released on New Year's Day in 2086. The investment in this movie was US$50 million, of which Universal Pictures, as a partner company of Phantom Entertainment, took away US$15 million.
Investment share, and the box office record of this movie in North America is US$162 million, and the global box office outside North America is US$218 million, which is less than the previous two films.
Based on the share calculation, Phantom Entertainment recovered US$62.37 million from the North American box office alone. After deducting Phantom's investment of US$35 million, the profit was US$27.37 million. The global box office revenue, deducting the share with Universal Pictures, will be US$61.04 million.
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At the same time, income from video tapes, TV broadcast rights, and peripheral products must be added. This type of income is almost the same as box office income, reaching 86 million US dollars, and there is no share with Universal Pictures.
In other words, this year's "Home Alone 3" alone brought US$174.41 million to Phantom Entertainment.
This is why "Home Alone" is the most profitable movie series in Hollywood today.
The income of another Phantom Entertainment movie "The Devil Commander" is equally objective. This movie was independently invested and filmed by Phantom Entertainment. Universal Pictures has been in financial crisis in the past two years. For Schwarzenegger, who has only succeeded in one movie
, and considering that this movie is not a sequel to "Terminator", we did not invest in it.
In other words, this movie's box office revenue in North America reached 31.9 million US dollars. In terms of revenue alone, it even surpassed "Home Alone 3". However, in terms of global box office revenue, this movie cannot compete with "Home Alone 3"
Comparable.
The movie's box office in the United States only reached about 70 million U.S. dollars, and its revenue was only 28 million U.S. dollars.
However, Arnold Schwarzenegger's movies are now very popular in the video market due to "Terminator", so the income from this area has also brought Phantom Entertainment nearly 30 million US dollars in revenue.
The entire "Devil Commander" brought total revenue to Phantom Entertainment of US$89.9 million!
Just from the two movies "Home Alone 3" and "The Devil", Phantom Entertainment earned a total of US$264.31 million. This not only made Phantom Entertainment the most profitable independent production company in Hollywood, but also surpassed the seven major Hollywood companies.
China, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, and Columbia Pictures.
It has become a force that cannot be underestimated in Hollywood.
If Phantom Entertainment's distribution capabilities were not enough, the eight major Hollywood film companies would be mentioned again.
But even so, some Hollywood media have pointed out that in less than three years, Phantom Entertainment will become one of the top eight companies in Hollywood!
In fact, Linda is also involved in this. Up to now, all external connections of Phantom Entertainment have been handled by Linda, so the impression given externally is that this company belongs to Linda. As a pure Hollywood person
, Phantom Entertainment under the leadership of Linda has prevented Phantom Entertainment from being too squeezed out by other companies.
After looking at Phantom Entertainment's financial situation, Wu Jianye looked at Linda's plans for Phantom Entertainment next year.
As predicted by the Hollywood media, Phantom Entertainment will focus its main work on distribution next year, which means that Phantom Entertainment will officially enter the ranks of distribution. This is a long way to go, but
Something that had to be done.
Only by truly controlling distribution can Phantom Entertainment truly have its own voice in Hollywood, without having to be controlled by Universal Pictures or other film companies that want to get a piece of the pie.
For example, Universal Pictures is in financial crisis this year. Even though Universal Pictures itself has not released any blockbuster movies in the past few years, relying on its strong distribution capabilities, it still surpasses Phantom Entertainment in terms of revenue, and a large part of this is
All the income is earned from Phantom Entertainment’s movies.
If it weren't for Hollywood's antitrust laws, Wu Jianye would have wanted to acquire theater chains in the United States. Unfortunately, Hollywood's monopoly laws have made this idea impossible to realize. But it doesn't mean that there are no other operability, it just has to be
Just figure it out slowly.
As for filmmaking plans, the most important thing for Phantom Entertainment next year is Arnold Schwarzenegger's new film plan. Now Phantom Entertainment has screened movie scripts suitable for Arnold Schwarzenegger throughout Hollywood. The scripts that Hollywood seals up every year
There are thousands of them, and there are not many scripts among them that are not favored by everyone.
Some are due to insufficient skills, and some are due to the lack of suitable actors. Maybe when suitable actors are available in the future, or the technology matures, these scripts will be produced again.
So there is no need to worry about Schwarzenegger not being able to find a suitable script, not to mention Wu Jianye’s recommendation.
Schwarzenegger, who relies on Phantom Entertainment, can only achieve better development in the film and television industry than in his original time and space.
As for the "Home Alone" series, we have just said that we will tentatively decide whether to film the fourth part based on the situation.
At the same time, Phantom Entertainment will also prepare for the release of the new animation based on its production status.
Of course, there will also be Linda's own film investment as the general manager of Phantom Entertainment. However, Wu Jianye once told her that if she invests more than 10 million US dollars, she must ask Wu Jianye about his intentions. This is also for
To prevent Phantom Entertainment from suffering large losses.
After Wu Jianye read the entire 1987 plan, he thought about it and made an overseas phone call to Linda.
When Linda received the call from Wu Jianye, she had just arrived at the company. Wu Jianye did not talk too much nonsense, but gave Linda a task.
She was asked to find Bruce Willis, who starred in the TV series "Blue Moonlight Detective Agency" last year, and ask the company to sign him, and said that she would be given a movie script starring Bruce Willis at the beginning of next year!
From the late 1980s to the 1990s, many action stars emerged in Hollywood, the most famous of which are of course Stallone, Schwarzenegger and Bruce Willis.
Now that Stallone has made a name for himself in Hollywood with "First Blood", it is no longer realistic to sign him, but there is still no problem with Bruce Willis. Bruce Willis is still a little transparent in Hollywood.
I just made a name for myself on the small screen.
If we had Schwarzenegger and Bruce Willis as two powerful weapons throughout the 1980s, we would no longer have to worry about the box office performance of movies produced by Phantom Entertainment.
As for the script Wu Jianye came up with, it was also Bruce Willis's famous work "Die Hard". The most important thing is that this movie will also be a series of movies. When the popularity of "Home Alone" is gradually declining, "
"Die Hard" can be a good sequel to this series!
After hearing about this task, Linda said she understood. As for why Wu Jianye knew such an actor, Linda had given up asking. She had been reading books about China recently, including "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms"
In her opinion, Wu Jianye is Zhuge Liang in the book.
You can know the world without going out!
But then Linda casually said that a screenwriter came to Phantom Entertainment with a movie script and wanted to get investment.
Linda herself liked the script very much, but the investment exceeded 10 million US dollars, close to 35 million dollars, and the screenwriter was just a new screenwriter who had just written a movie script.
Wu Jianye asked curiously: "What is the name of this screenwriter? What is the name of the script? What story is it about?"
Linda said: "The screenwriter is called James Orr, and the script is called Three Dads and a Baby. It actually tells the story of three people from different professions who accidentally received a newborn baby and their lives changed.
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Wu Jianye held the phone, his eyes lit up, and he said with a smile: "I just have time now, please tell me the content of this story in detail!"
Linda: "Okay..."
After listening to Linda's narration, Wu Jianye smiled. It was indeed the movie he remembered: "Invest in him!"
After hearing this, Linda didn't think much about it. It was only 35 million US dollars. For Phantom Entertainment, it was not a problem at all!
Then Linda said some other things before hanging up the phone.
The movie "Three Dads and a Baby" is actually not very famous in the long history of Hollywood movies, but it won the first place at the box office in North America the next year, in 1987!
The screenwriter of this movie is none other than James Orr. After he wrote the script, he almost searched all Hollywood film companies, but no one was optimistic about the prospects of this movie.
In desperation, James Orr even found a record company and jointly invested with several unknown film companies at this time to make this movie, and his remuneration was also extremely low...
But when the movie was released, it immediately detonated the North American box office. When it was finally released, the North American box office was as high as 167 million US dollars.