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Chapter 396 Negotiations

Buyout and sharing are two choices between producers and theaters, each has its own advantages and disadvantages. Among the sharing, it is divided into guaranteed share and non-guaranteed share.

Obviously, what Han Yi said was that there is no guaranteed share, and now he wants to see how far his movie can go.

Tom Oldenburg is more aware of the pros and cons of guaranteed share, and he recognizes the quality of this film, but the quality and box office are not necessarily word-of-mouth, especially for this type of film: "How to share?"

The distribution manager Jon Filtimer stood aside and looked at Han Yi. The share is also the share method chosen by the producers and theaters today.

The producer often negotiates with the theaters on the proportion of the share before the release, and then calculates the actual box office revenue after deducting the fixed expenses from the box office during the entire release period, and then divides it according to the different ratios in different periods of the release.

Jon Feltimer really wanted to know whether Han Yi had confidence in his film, or he wanted to gamble on his luck before proposing the idea of ​​sharing, because now more people will propose a guaranteed share, and a simple share is very difficult. rare.

Guaranteed share, the proportion of the share is definitely not as good as the bottomless share, but it will be relatively stable. Looking at the confident young man in front of him, Jon Fairtimer thinks that he should be very confident in his film .

But the actual situation is that Han Yi was just gambling, he just wanted to gamble on his luck, and he was very dissatisfied with the buyout price.

Han Yi thought about it. Generally, the global box office of Hollywood movies only accounts for about one-third of the movie's revenue, and some don't even reach this ratio.

This is also the main reason why many Hollywood blockbusters have such a high investment, and the final box office is not ideal but they can still make a profit, because the DVD audio-visual sales are the big ones, and the box office revenue is followed by the TV revenue after nine months.

Generally, DVDs, box office, and TV will account for the vast majority of movie revenue, while movies with popular peripheral products do not belong to this category, such as Harry Potter and some animation blockbusters.

This movie obviously doesn't have any peripherals to sell, that is, according to Han Yi's calculations, the final income of this movie may reach [-] million.

Han Yi doesn't know the specific share of the film and these various incomes, but based on the normal situation he knows, combined with the net income ratio of Lionsgate at the end of the last movie "Buried Alive", this movie may bring Lionsgate a lot of money. To more than 2 million in income.

This calculation may not be accurate, but Han Yi feels that there should not be too much difference.

With this calculation, Han Yi has a low price in his heart, not to mention that he can do more work on the advertisement now!

"The box office is worth tens of millions of dollars!"

Tom Oldenburg didn't speak but motioned Han Yi to continue, and Han Yi smiled:
“如果最终电影全球票房过1000万就再分成百分之十；如果能过了2000万15.00%。在2000万的基础上每增加1000万我就多分成百分之三，直到一亿美元，如果票房超过一亿美元那么超过的部分再按40.00%的分成比例。”

Jon Filtimer, who had been looking at Han Yi, sneered, and he already had the idea of ​​driving out Han Yi, an Asian who didn't know what to do: "Didn't anyone tell you that being too greedy is not a good habit? The box office is directly divided, Han, do you think our Lionsgate is a charity for you?"

As Jon Feltimer said, Han Yiti's share ratio is too exaggerated. If Lionsgate gets the box office share and then divides it, then they will consider it.

"No, no, you obviously didn't wait for me to finish."

"What else do you want to say, although we admit that this is an excellent work, it does not mean that we must buy it." Tom Oldenburg said coldly.

"I only want box office revenue, and I don't want any peripheral revenue such as DVDs, TV, and soundtracks. I think you three also know the percentage of box office revenue. Tens of millions of income. Now I give up this part of the income, as long as the box office is divided, if you still can't agree, sorry!"

Han Yi shrugged, he didn't want to hand over the initiative to Lions Gate.

Compared with the final box office, the specific net income is that Han Yi, an Asian, can't grasp the specific situation at all. Even if Lionsgate promised him 50.00% of the net income, Han Yi would not want it.

Because net income is just a vague concept in Hollywood, where interests are paramount. When you see the final net income, more than 90.00% are not real net income.

Han Yi has seen too many examples like this, and these examples gradually became the norm and eventually became the famous law of accounting losses in Hollywood.

The Law of Loss appears the most is the blockbuster films released by large companies. Although these Hollywood blockbusters can generate considerable profits, these films are usually loss-making on the books.

They often set up a "shell" company for each film they produce, and this company is specially designed to "lose money", and the profits generated by the film will be collected by the major studios under various names.

Under such an accounting system, a movie that was originally a big seller may also be counted as a loss.

It is difficult for the main creators who have signed a movie profit sharing agreement to get any income from it. This is the famous law of accounting losses in Hollywood.

For example, "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix" in Han Yi's impression earned US$6.12 million in revenue in North America alone, but such a super-best-selling film suffered a book loss of US$1.67 million.

The reason lies in the emergence of the law of losses, from which Warner Bros. Pictures deducted as much as 2.12 million US dollars in distribution fees, and this fee is the service fee Warner paid itself.

In addition, Warner's report shows that the film's advertising expenses were as high as 1.3 million US dollars, at least half of which were also paid by Warner Bros.

Warner Bros. can earn at least 3.5 million U.S. dollars from these items, but after deducting expenses as expenses, and then deducting 3.16 million U.S. dollars in production costs, it has produced a huge loss from an accounting point of view.

Under such circumstances, those main creators who have signed a net revenue sharing agreement with the film studio don't even think about getting even a penny.

Where there is oppression, there will be resistance, this is an eternal law.

After the emergence of the law of loss, some stars and big directors who have the right to speak, in order to avoid this trick of the big Hollywood studios, proposed to share in other forms or like Han Yi proposed to share before the net income, but not all All the stars and main creators have such a right to speak.

Obviously, several people were a little moved by Han Yi's proposal!

(End of this chapter)