Legendary Hollywood Director

On September 7th, while the crew was on vacation, Lehmann still had to work hard to attend the Golden Globe Awards ceremony.

In the car, Lyman sat next to Eva Green, along with Morgan Freeman and Clint Eastwood.

All four were nominated for the Golden Globes, but not for the same play.

In other words, Clint Eastwood was nominated for the award as the director of Mystic River, with best director and best picture, while Lyman was nominated for the best director because of Bad Guy. , Best Picture, etc.

As for Morgan Freeman, he was nominated for Best Supporting Actor for his role as a police officer in Bad Guy, and Eva Green was also nominated for Best Newcomer.

But Ryan and Thomas didn't come along, which disappointed Lyman. Besides, Thomas was nominated for best photography as a photographer, but he wanted to go out with Ryan. If he won the award, he wanted to let him He took it for him.

Although this is also common at the Golden Globes, such as animation awards, as long as there is Pixar, they are almost covered, and they often send one or two people to deal with it.

But still contempt.

When we got to the city by car, we went back to our respective homes.

Lyman and Eva are back in their Beverly Hills mansion.

When I was tired and rested, Chainsaw was also announced in the last overseas market. Although the Japanese/Japanese film market is a kind of wide-open door for Hollywood films, they have a heavy local protection policy. , that is to say, the screening is allowed to be shown, but when it is shown, it is up to them to decide.

This also caused Chainsaw to be released in other overseas markets for more than half a month before it ended here.

However, it is worth mentioning that due to the quality of the film itself, or the fact that Japanese/Japanese audiences are quite accepting of horror-type themes, in short, Chainsaw earned 762 million yen in Japan/Japan, equivalent to US$690 More than 10,000, so far, the total box office totaled 346 million US dollars, with a perfect ending.

You must know that with the huge box office appeal like Tom Cruise, and the Last Samurai that is very pleasing to Japanese/Japanese fans, it only got a box office of 1.072 billion yen in Japan/Japan. Lehman's Bad Guy Not to mention, it was not the favorite of Japanese/Japanese fans, and only got 536 million yen.

Firefly Pictures originally had more than 100 million funds on its books, because more than 27 million was spent on the filming of Chainsaw 2 and Million Dollar Baby.

The company spent more than 3 million for internal operations, purchasing, and renting a commercial building to expand the office department. The money from Mann Studio was remitted later, and the company still had more than 460 million US dollars on its books.

However, looking at it now, the overseas sub-accounts of Chainsaw will be remitted after a period of time, and then there will be more than 20 million box office revenue.

With such a calculation, the company's working capital on the book is more than 480 million.

Dear, you have made so much money before you know it.

It seems that the profit margin of making movies is indeed higher than that of stocks, and it is no wonder that Wall Street tycoons want to enter the Hollywood film and television production circle.

What's more, as long as a movie is popular in the United States, Franklin is really flowing in from everywhere.

for example.

In 2012, Disney acquired Lucasfilm for $4 billion, just to get its many movie rights, the most important of which is Star Wars.

And Star Wars 7, Star Wars 8 and Star Wars Story: Rogue One earned more than $1.5 billion in profits, which means that not counting the company's other value, the follow-up development of just one movie Earn 40% of the purchase price.

Then let's talk about Star Wars 8 in detail, and the data list is more intuitive.

The film grossed $620 million in North America, $710 million overseas, and $1.3325 billion worldwide.

Among them, the revenue of the theater line is almost 600 million, and then the income of the global home entertainment (DVD, TV broadcast rights, etc.) is 389 million.

After deducting production costs and publicity expenses, it is 385 million.

Copy transportation and loss, deducted more than 90 million, interest and management expenses of more than 30 million, and a total expenditure of 578.3 million.

The film's net profit was US$417.5 million, and the rate of return was as high as 1.72 (income/expense).

That is to say, Disney relied on this movie, and not counting the licensing fees such as toys (this can't be found, it is not a Disney company), it is worth the results of two years of hard work by Lehman.

Of course, this is also because Lehmann is an investor, and he did not really participate in the distribution.

Think about it, he relies on the total global box office of 4 movies to accumulate close to 1 billion, and the peripheral operations can be almost 600 million. In addition to character authorization and so on, the total harvest should be around 1.9 billion, even after deducting labor costs, The production cost, loss, and the cinema chain should also be divided into 1 billion.

However, this money, he really got less than 300 million. Profits from investments in Chainsaw and Very Human Traffickers do not count towards this section.

In other words, after two years, the company's 480 million on the book is still relying on simple financial operations (so much money in the bank, investment that will make a steady profit without loss will definitely be made, and there is a special bank to actively guarantee it. What is the profit turnover rate, however, it must be much less than making a movie), and the Chainsaw that really takes the lead.

If you really want to work part-time, if you really work hard to the death, you may not have the value of a series of movies.

It seems that if you want to really rise, you still have to establish your own distribution channels and eat more meat.

For example, DreamWorks, working hard enough, can produce a blockbuster a year, and there are many small-profit movies, and even domestic distribution channels have been successfully improved by buying distribution companies, but they are still no match for Hollywood's six major blockades. , was directly killed and split.

The six Hollywood giants, each of which is supported by a profound media platform, is indeed not able to break through the line of defense by making a small fuss.

However, I still can't give up the determination to want to eat meat.

Even if overseas channels cannot be established, distribution in North America must be done.

At that time, you can also cut less meat, and you can rush to the upstream of the industry a little, without being exploited so much.

Film distribution sounds esoteric, but in fact the most important thing is to be able to spread the film.

Just like doing retail, one store (cinema) can be arranged.

This means that each state must have a relevant office responsible for communicating with local theaters. The recruitment and establishment of offices and personnel is the difficult part. As long as this is solved, it is still easy to distribute movies in the United States.