Chapter 426 The Transcript of Phantom Entertainment
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Lao Mouzi has reason to be happy!
"Red Sorghum" has been shortlisted for the official competition section of this year's Berlin Film Festival. As Lao Mouzi's first film, he can achieve such an achievement, so he is naturally happy.
"When are you planning to leave for Berlin?" Wu Jianye asked.
"In two days, the opening of the Berlin Film Festival will be on February 12. I discussed it with Brother Wu Tianming and planned to go there a week early!" Lao Mouzi said with a smile.
The Berlin Film Festival actually opened in June, but later in 1978, in order to compete with the Cannes Film Festival, it was held in February every year.
"Then I wish you in advance to win the Golden Bear Award!" Wu Jianye said with a smile.
Why is it said that Zhang Yimou reached his peak when he debuted? Because Zhang Yimou's first movie "Red Sorghum" won the Golden Bear Award at the Berlin Film Festival, which is almost the same as Wu Jianye.
Lao Mouzi smiled reservedly: "It's not that easy!"
Wu Jianye: "It's better to put away that hypocritical smile of yours and go to the film festival. You're not there to win awards."
Others may be deceived by Lao Mouzi's dull personality, but as an old classmate for many years, Wu Jianye clearly knows how proud Lao Mouzi is.
Even though he never said it, Lao Mouzi must be secretly competing. Wu Jianye won the Golden Lion Award in Venice, Chen Kaige won the Silver Leopard Award at the Locarno International Film Festival, and Zhang Yimou naturally
It's in my heart.
Naturally, he hopes to achieve something by participating in the Berlin Film Festival this time!
The two chatted for a while, and Wu Jianye told Zhang Yimou that he would see Zhang Yimou off when he left, and Zhang Yimou took his leave.
Then Xia Xiaohong came to Wu Jianye's office and what she delivered was Phantom Entertainment's report for last year.
In 1987, Phantom Entertainment delivered an answer to the entire Hollywood that was the envy of all production companies.
The first is Phantom Entertainment's flagship movie series "Home Alone 4". This movie has a box office of US$146 million in North America and a global box office of US$213 million!
This movie is still jointly invested by Phantom Entertainment and Universal Pictures. Universal Entertainment invested US$1.5 million, while Phantom Entertainment invested US$2.45 million. According to the film’s investment producer, it will receive a 45% box office return rate.
, Phantom Entertainment will receive a North American box office revenue of US$45.99 million. After deducting the production cost of US$24.5 million, Phantom Entertainment will make a profit of US$21.9 million!
Coupled with the global revenue of US$31.95 million, Phantom Entertainment's box office profit was US$53.85 million!
At the same time, videotapes also need to add income from videotapes, TV broadcast rights, and peripheral products. This type of income has not declined since the fourth installment of the "Home Alone" series has been filmed, and it still remains at 85 million.
It’s about US dollars, and the most important thing is, there is no Universal share in it!
The total profit was US$138.85 million!
The money-attracting ability of "Home Alone" once again attracted the attention of all production companies, which directly led to Linda's final decision to continue to develop the value of this drama. Wu Jianye also had no objection to this, with an annual production of more than 100 million US dollars.
Wu Jianye was a little reluctant to let go if he didn't want to earn profits.
Therefore, the filming of "Home Alone 5" started last year, and it was also scheduled to be broadcast on last year's Christmas season. In other words, last year, two "Home Alone" series were released directly.
However, it is precisely because of this reason, and the fact that the screenwriters of the "Home Alone" series have lost their creative enthusiasm and are just reusing previous memes repeatedly, that directly led to the fifth "Home Alone" box office in North America being only 1.
o300 million US dollars, just passing the passing line of 100 million US dollars!
Looking at the box office in North America, the global box office has also shrunk significantly, only 115 million U.S. dollars, and peripheral income has also shrunk significantly, with only 5 million U.S. dollars.
The income was US$86.34 million, falling out of the 100 million yuan income category for the first time!
Last year, Phantom Entertainment earned US$225.19 million from the "Home Alone" series, which was enough to make Hollywood's Big Seven envious, but this is just the beginning of Phantom Entertainment.
Because last year Phantom Entertainment also released Arnold Schwarzenegger's new film "Predator". The investment in this film was only US$1.8 million, but it grossed US$59.75 million at the box office in North America.
Excluding the North American market, the global box office revenue was US$43.25 million.
However, since Arnold Schwarzenegger has become famous in North America, when the filming of this movie started, it was no longer unrecognized by other film companies as before. Therefore, the seven major companies also approached Phantom Entertainment one after another, hoping that
able to cooperate with it.
In order to expand its demand, Phantom Entertainment did not choose to cooperate with Universal Pictures this time. Instead, it chose 21st Century Fox, with an investment of 18 million, and 21st Century Fox took away an investment share of 5.4 million!
Therefore, in terms of box office revenue, Phantom Entertainment received US$26.19 million.
Compared with the box office revenue, Arnold Schwarzenegger's movies have always been very popular in the video market, so the revenue from the entire peripheral industry exceeded the box office revenue and reached 33 million US dollars.
"Predator" grossed $59.19 million!
These two profits were actually within the expectations of the Hollywood Seven. The other three projects that really surprised the Seven were "Three Dads and a Baby" invested and filmed by Phantom!
This movie, with an investment of only US$35 million, has a box office of US$167 million in North America and a global box office of US$138 million. Such a small-cost movie has brought a box office revenue of US$98.61 million to Phantom Entertainment.
, and surrounding income of US$7.2 million!
The total revenue reached a terrifying US$170.61 million, surpassing the US$138.85 million of Phantom Entertainment's flagship movie "Home Alone 4"!
The second project is the new star Bruce Willis signed by Phantom Entertainment. Last year, Phantom Entertainment launched the first movie "Die Hard" starring Bruce Willis!
The film invested US$28 million and grossed US$83 million in box office in North America and US$57.75 million in overseas box office, bringing Phantom a box office income of US$19 million. Although it may not seem like much, it is the most popular movie in North America and around the world in this era.
Market, video tape revenue is particularly important, and the video tape and peripheral revenue of this movie reached 4.7 million US dollars.
In other words, this movie brought revenue of US$66 million to Phantom Entertainment!
What really surprises Hollywood production companies is that Phantom Entertainment has announced that this will be a series of movies.
Although the "Die Hard" movie series seems incomparable to "Home Alone", the revenue of one movie can reach more than 6 million US dollars, which is enough to make all production companies the envy of it.
If the above projects are cruise missiles dropped by Phantom Entertainment on the North American and even global markets, then the animated film "The Lion King" produced by Phantom Entertainment's Athena Animation during New Year's Day this year is at the level of a nuclear bomb!
After several years of production, "The Lion King" is finally released in North America! The release date is January 1, 1988, North American time!
As soon as this animated film was released, it immediately detonated the entire North American box office market.
As of today, "The Lion King" has still not been taken off the shelves, but its box office in North America has exceeded US$300 million, and its overseas box office has also exceeded US$600 million!
Nowadays, the most discussed movie in North America and even the world is "The Lion King". Although in North America, 1988 has only been a month, some media have already asserted that "The Lion King" will win the highest box office in North America this year.
, the highest-grossing movie in the world!
How much was the investment for this movie?
$45 million!
At the same time, this movie is also a movie fully invested and produced by Athena Animation, a subsidiary of Phantom Entertainment!
A movie stirred up the global film market!
As for the revenue, since the movie has not yet been officially released, it has not been officially calculated. All this will not be officially calculated until the movie is released.
It is precisely because of the appearance of "The Lion King" that Phantom Entertainment officially became the eighth largest production company in Hollywood this year!
No one doubts the strength of Phantom Entertainment anymore!
It is precisely because of this that Linda has officially begun to negotiate with theater chains in North America and Europe to form her own network. At this time, the development of Phantom Entertainment can no longer be blocked by anyone who wants to.
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Excluding "The Lion King", Phantom Entertainment's revenue last year exceeded US$500 million, reaching US$550 million!
This also includes profits from movies that Phantom Entertainment has cooperated with other movie companies and movies that Linda herself decided to invest in.
After reading Phantom Entertainment's report, Wu Jianye personally called Linda to encourage and affirm Linda's work achievements this year.
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"Old Wu, the work on "Desire" has been completed, and now it is waiting to be broadcast on CCTV!"
On this day, Zhao Baogang and Zheng Xiaolong came to Tangting Culture.
Wu Jianye asked: "What is the arrangement at CCTV?"
Zheng Xiaolong smiled and said: "It is ranked behind "Journey to the West"."
"Journey to the West" has been scheduled to be broadcast during the New Year. Because of the simulcast of several episodes in 1986, "Journey to the West" has already had a strong audience base in China. In the past two years, Tangting Culture has produced two shows every year.
The fifth episode of "Journey to the West" is out to satisfy the audience's cravings.
It can be said that it piqued the curiosity of the audience.
In fact, the official broadcast of "Journey to the West" in another time and space was also in 1988. The reason why it was later called the 1986 version of "Journey to the West" was actually because a few episodes were broadcast in 1986.
statement.
Especially this time "Journey to the West" was officially broadcast, Tangting Culture began to promote it in major domestic media and newspapers early. Of course, the propaganda of this era cannot be like the propaganda of later generations, speculating on IP and insider information. If Tangting Culture
If he dared to do this, the order would probably have been issued long ago.
"What are the work arrangements next?" Wu Jianye asked.
Zhao Baogang laughed and said: "I'm going to take a break for a while. During this time, I feel a little exhausted in order to catch up on the filming of "Desire"."
"Exhausted?" Wu Jianye looked at Zhao Baogang teasingly.
At this time, Wu Jianye really wanted to recommend Huiren Shenbao to Zhao Baogang...
Zhao Baogang's face turned red: "I'm talking about feeling tired."
"Yes, we know!" Wu Jianye's smile became more and more meaningful.
When Zhao Baogang saw this, he refused to explain.
This year is also an important year for Tangting culture.
During the New Year, the two major dramas "Journey to the West" and "Desire" will be broadcast. At the same time, two TV series "The Legend of the Gods" and "The Legend of the White Snake" will also be filmed this year.
After entering 1988, the domestic film market will enter an era of rapid shrinkage, and the rise of TV series is already irresistible.