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But in the Chinese area, Fa Ge's influence is absolutely huge, Wan Xiaohu tried to invite him over, and offered the highest salary of 500 million US dollars.

A few days later, Fa Ge himself called and said he agreed.

For the rest of the supporting actor, the buddy of the leading actor, the actor who played Adam in the original "Saw" was chosen, named Bob Smith.

Members of the League of Assassins have a relatively big lineup.

Cross is Sun Honglei, Gunslinger is Ren Dahua from Universal Movies, Terminator is Wan Xiaohu's old acquaintance Huang Haibo, Repairman is Flashing Star artist Huang Bo, Butcher is an unknown Hollywood actor David Petridge, Mr. X, the actor's father, was recommended by Huayi Brothers to play Chen Daoming.

In this way, the lineup of "Wanted Warrant" is complete.

Just wait for the boot!

0233【Film Information Station】

"Movie Information Station, I am the host Mosquito, and today we are mainly concerned with the latest movie of the great commercial director Wan Xiaohu."

Southeast Satellite TV's economic channel is showing an entertainment information program at ten o'clock.

"Wan Xiaohu, I believe everyone is familiar with it. In 2000, "The Wind", which was drawn not long ago, set a new box office record for domestic films. Not only did he enjoy numerous praises in Asia, he also won numerous awards in Hollywood. He is not an unknown person, a "Chain Saw" made him a director supernova in Hollywood..."

The host, Mosquito, is beautiful and charming in a short skirt and dress. Normally, wolf friends in front of the TV would hate to have to watch the entertainment news to see the graceful posture of Mosquito walking around on it.But this time was different, a certain wolf friend muttered very rudely: "Can you introduce "Wanted Warrant" quickly, there is so much nonsense."

There is really a lot of nonsense: "Just a while ago, Dandelion's official website released the news that Wan Xiaohu's seventh film "Wanted" has been approved. This time, beyond everyone's imagination, the investment in the film has reached 6000 million U.S. dollars, setting a record for a Chinese-language film, which is more than 5 million yuan!"

"We know that "The Promise" directed by Chen Kai has an investment of 3.5 million yuan, and Zhang Yimou's new blockbuster "House of Flying Daggers" has a total investment of almost 3 million yuan. In the next year or two, the audience will definitely be blessed. I can see so many domestic blockbusters."

"Closer to the story, after the establishment of the "Wanted" project, the cast selection was completed quickly. Chen Kun, a popular kid in the Mainland, was lucky to be selected as the male lead, and Hollywood actor Jessica Alba as the female lead. The famous Fa Ge will play the leading role. Male number two. As for more details about the movie, we only know that it is a movie adapted from an American comic of the same name."

"After reading the comics, I learned such a story. It is a very ordinary urban youth who was suddenly involved in an assassination conspiracy by the League of Assassins. In the end, he became a top assassin through hard work. Justice defeated evil... For Wan Why does Xiaohu want to make such a movie? With doubts, let us enter today's 'movie scene'."

After the Mosquito nonsense is over.The camera cuts to a studio, where countless reporters are holding microphones, while Wan Xiaohu is holding three microphones, smiling and talking in front of the camera.

The narration sounded: "Wednesday, February 2, Beijing time, Wan Xiaohu, the director of "Wanted" at the shooting base in Shanghai, was interviewed by reporters. He gave a detailed explanation of his new movie."

The audio on the screen seems to be a reporter asking a question: "Director Wan, "Wanted" is adapted from an American comic. Why did you film an American story and change it to a Chinese background?"

Wan Xiaohu leaned back on the chair, crossed his legs, and held three microphones in his hands.The expression is very casual: "I adapted this comic, not to adapt the story, but to appreciate the fighting scenes outlined in the comic. The story itself has been modified a lot by me, and it is placed in the city of Hong Kong. In general , the story is not important, what is important is that I want to show a very cool and exciting action scene in the movie."

"Apart from Fa Ge, is there any influential film in Hollywood? How do you think such a Chinese film will face American audiences?"

"Actually, it is very difficult for Chinese people to have much influence in Hollywood. Like Bruce Lee, it is almost impossible to replicate. So you ask me why I only invited Fa Ge instead of Jet Li, Long Ge, and Michelle Yeoh. I can only It’s not necessary. And I always think that stars are the icing on the cake... You are like a movie. If you don’t invite stars, you may get 3 million box office, if you invite stars, you may get 4 million, but a movie can only get 2000 5000 box office, no matter how many stars you invite, it will get [-] million at most, it is impossible to rely on stars to get hundreds of millions, otherwise everyone will fight for stars, who will tell stories."

What Wan Xiaohu said was still polite. In fact, his appeal to celebrities is not as exaggerated as the media hype.There are too many examples in later generations to prove that star appeal is false. "Avatar" does not have a star, but it is still the first in the world. US knife, not 30 million or 3000 million, but more than 300!

There is also the "captain" Johnny Depp, who was the world's highest paid filmmaker at the time, filming "The Lone Ranger" at a cost of 2.5 million US dollars, but he lost all his underwear in the end.

There are too many such examples.

The story is not good, and the stars really don't have much effect, especially the action movie "Wanted", which relies on turning corners as a gimmick. What sells is not the stars but the scenes.

The reporter asked again: "Can Chinese-language films be sold at a high price? The faces of Orientals in Hollywood seem to be blurred and difficult to recognize?"

Wan Xiaohu said with a smile: "This is an American co-produced film, and the story is very simple. There is no oriental subtlety and euphemism. The cost I spent will be on the action scenes and special effects. The audience does not come to see these oriental faces, but to watch the fights." A simple and clear story, some hot shots, this is a commercial film."

"Wan Dao, as far as I know, neither Dandelion nor Sasha Entertainment has a global distribution network, and they still need to rely on large companies to distribute. I remember that DreamWorks' "Saving Private Ryan" has a global box office of nearly 5 million, and DreamWorks only With a profit of 3000 million, how much box office does "Wanted" need to pay back?"

Wan Xiaohu was stunned, feeling that the question was inexplicable: "Well, I don't know where you got this data, I think you should check the distribution and production share ratio in Hollywood, in Hollywood, the distribution and production ratio, distribution The agency fee that the party gets is generally about 5% of the box office, while the share that the investor gets is 30%, especially according to the floating account split between the first week and the next week, the ratio can be as high as 50% to 60%, that is to say , Basically, I invested 6000 million US dollars and got two and a half times the box office. Only the box office share can protect the capital, and other audio-visual products and peripheral products are all profitable."

The share ratio of the global film market involves the share of imported films and the share of local films.

进口片各地分账各地有所不同，但是通用惯例是制片35：发行17：院线48，也就是该地区影院院线分帐48%、国外制片方和发行方分账35%、该地区发行方分账17%这个比例。

Its foreign producers (investors).A 5% agency fee must be paid to the foreign issuer.This is what Wan Xiaohu said, investors can get 30% of the box office in overseas regions.

There are still many countries and regions with underdeveloped films. In order to buy more foreign films, the share of the bill will be even higher. For example, the share of the bill in Taiwan is that foreign producers and distributors get more than 50%.At this time, the producer can even get 45% of the box office share.

The reason why many blockbuster films like to be released first from the small box office is because there are a lot of box office points, so it is natural to take care of it.

As for the distribution of local movies, in the mainland, the exploitation is more ruthless.I won’t talk about the previous account sharing ratio, after joining TO.Start to move closer to international practice.

First of all, the box office has to contribute 5% of the total national film development special fund, and 3.3% of business tax.For the rest, according to the upstream and downstream accounts, upstream distribution and production get 43%, and downstream theaters and theaters get 57%.

43% of its upstream, and then allocated 15% to the issuer.That is to say, the distributor gets 5% to 8% of the total share, and the producer gets about 35% to 38%. In fact, it may be lower, because distribution is more exploitative of the producer.

Beginning with "Hero" in 2002, the producers Zhang Weiping and Zhang Yimou teamed up to win an unprecedented 40% share of the account, and then Wan Xiaohu's "The Wind" also shared 40% of the account.This is the exclusive treatment of blockbusters.

As for the "Wanted Warrant", Wan Xiaohu has already greeted the above, and the share ratio will be increased to an unprecedented 45% share.In order to encourage blockbuster Chinese-language movies, the above has already begun to fight for "Wanted".

In North America, the account distribution method of "Wanted" has not yet been determined, after all, the publisher has not been selected yet.

Hollywood's account sharing is more interesting. It is a floating system (mentioned in "The Butterfly Effect" before), and there are three ways to negotiate a guaranteed reserve price, a buy-it-all price, and a share. The share is not fixed.It is adjusted according to the release time.Specifically, in the first week, the ratio of production and theaters is 9:1, and it may drop to 8:2 in the second week, and then as the release time gets longer.The more the theaters are divided into, the more the theaters will be able to extend the release cycle of a movie.

During the harvest period in the first few weeks, the producers can also share as much as possible.After all, the theaters here can earn a lot just by selling chips and soda, and the bills can naturally be reduced a little.

Rather than what the reporter said just now, "Saving Private Ryan" DreamWorks only got 3000 million U.S. dollars. First of all, its cost of 7000 million U.S. dollars must be paid back before it can talk about profits. will be less than [-] million.

Moreover, in Hollywood, the publisher is responsible for the publicity fee, and the producer just waits for the cut, without worrying about the publicity at all.Then make good preparations for audio-visual products and TV broadcasting rights to reap another round of profits.As long as the box office is two to three times the cost, none of the films will lose money.

These are all protections for the producers. After all, the Hollywood film industry is much more mature, unlike the country that exploits the producers too hard.That's why Wan Xiaohu wants to use co-productions instead of domestic films.

After figuring out how the box office is calculated, the reporter asked again: "The heroine, Jessica Alba, is not a big star in Hollywood. Why did you choose her?"

Wan Xiaohu rubbed his chin: "Did you know that Jessica Alba's mainland agent contract was signed in Flickering Star? And Jessica and I have worked together in "Chain Saw", although there are not many scenes, I still think she is a rising star. Moreover, she was also selected as one of the world's [-] sexy stars by European and American magazines, and her future development is very optimistic."

Jessica Alba is not a big star in film and television, but she has filmed a lot of commercials and TV series, and she is currently a little famous.

And her appearance is born to take everything from east to west.

She is Wan Xiaohu's goddess and has unlimited star potential. It would be unreasonable not to praise such an actor.

0234【Fa Ge】

"Wanted" was launched, and entertainment programs like "Movie Information Station" were crazy reports.

Now Wan Xiaohu's fame and the cost of the film have reached new heights in China.Perhaps in the eyes of professionals, Wan Xiaohu is not as famous as Zhang Yimou and the others, but in the eyes of the audience, Wan Xiaohu is a great director. The box office in the past few years has been outstanding, and he has a lot of fans.

Moreover, each movie has a good reputation and has attracted the attention of a large number of young people.

These people will be the main force of China's future movie viewing.

From the very beginning, the discussion on "Wanted Warrant" has not stopped, and Mmetime.com has not stopped reporting.

No, just a few days later, Mtime.com released a set of high-definition photos of the cast of "Wanted".

The first one is of Fa Ge, unshaven, with a big back comb, and holding a pistol in his hand. The painting is a little older, but the domineering still remains the same.

"Damn, Brother Fa is still so cool, come back if you don't do well in Hollywood!" Netizen [Poverty is an old monk] was the first to comment.