Chapter 325

After successive holidays, the working life of the public in North America is gradually back on track.

For Hollywood, the first full box office week of 1990 passed quietly. This week, "Batman: the moment of war" is still the focus of everyone's attention.

From January 5 to January 11, in the third week of release, "Batman: time for war" showed a significant drop in the box office, with a drop of 33% compared with last week.

However, because of the box office base of more than $80 million in the previous week, "Batman: the moment of war" fell 33% this week, and the box office revenue was still as high as $59.51 million.

In three weeks, the box office of this pioneering superhero movie quickly broke through the $200 million mark, reaching $230.69 million.

In the light of Batman: the moment of war, all the other movies in the same period are not worth mentioning.

Because the film and the box office are equally hot media attention, during this period, a lot of news related to the film has become the focus of the media.

First of all, naturally, there is the DC superhero universe project that was born with Batman: the moment of war.

According to various sources, Denise entertainment and Warner Bros. will jointly develop a number of superhero film projects of DC in the next few years, including Superman, Batman and wonder woman, and connect all the films through a complete story line to form a large-scale superhero film universe film series of DC.

After the news was officially released, not only the fans and fans were boiling, but also a large number of media began to find out more information about the DC movie universe plan. Time Warner and Denise's high-level officials have become the target of reporters these days.

Pay close attention to the progress of negotiations between the two companies on the implementation details of DC movie universe plan. Meanwhile, after the victory party of Batman: time for war last Saturday, another piece of gossip spread quickly.

At the beginning of the Batman: the moment of war project, Adam Baldwin, Valerie Gallino and other leading actors all signed a long-term film contract with Denise entertainment. This is no secret to the outside world. At the beginning, many people questioned whether Denise entertainment was necessary to do so.

With the box office explosion of the film, it is said that some of the creators who signed the long-term contract began to be dissatisfied with their pay, hoping to renegotiate the agreement.

In order to express dissatisfaction with this kind of behavior, danilisi entertainment directly cancelled the original plan to give "Batman: the moment of war" all crew members a total of tens of millions of dollars in additional cash reward plan.

This rumor is too topical, involving a huge amount of money, but also enough to attract public attention, so it was quickly hyped.

The first thing the media talked about was how much Denise entertainment and Time Warner could benefit from the release of Batman: the moment of war.

In three weeks, the box office of Batman: time for war in North America reached $400 million. There was no problem. The next step was overseas.

Batman can be said to be one of the cultural symbols of Americans. Although Batman is widely known all over the world, overseas audiences will not have the deep feelings accumulated by Americans in half a century. Before the release of the film, some media in the industry decided that the overseas box office of the film could not exceed the domestic box office.

However, things went beyond everyone's expectation.

Simon westero's phenomenal superhero movie is full of too much creativity. With a series of amazing film techniques and action design applications, even if Batman is replaced with other characters, it can be described as "amazing", which is enough to ensure that overseas audiences will not have cultural barriers.

As a result, the media are generally optimistic about Batman's overseas box office scale, which is at least equal to that of domestic box office.

According to the global box office of US $800 million, the producer and distributor can probably recover US $350 million of the box office share. According to the leaked distribution agreement information, the share belonging to danielis entertainment should be about US $250 million.

According to the release progress of a film in recent years, the money will probably be recovered in the next year.

According to the media's forecast of $2 billion in derivatives sales in the next year, daenerys entertainment should be able to earn about $300 million. Besides paying 10% of DC Comics, there is still $270 million left.

Combined with the above two, danielis entertainment will be able to recover $500 million in the next year with Batman: the moment of war.

Even if the film's production budget and promotion costs are directly counted as $100 million, Denise entertainment will make a net profit of $400 million from the project in the next year.

Next, one year later, in the revenue period of five years, the revenue from the follow-up derivative sales, video distribution and TV broadcasting of Batman: the moment of war will certainly be only higher than that of the first two items. You know, according to the latest statistics, with the further expansion of the video market, the average proportion of global video revenue of Hollywood movies in the total revenue has exceeded 45%, while the proportion of box office revenue in the total revenue has dropped to less than 30%.As a result, Batman: the moment of war's revenue in follow-up channels can at least equal that of Denise Entertainment's first year.

All in all, Denise entertainment will be able to earn at least $800 million from the distribution of Batman: the moment of war in the next five years. As the distributor, Time Warner's revenue will not be less than $200 million.

One billion dollars, which happens to be the total profit scale of Batman: the moment of war generally recognized by most media.

Danielis and time warner can make a billion dollars with Batman: the moment of war. What's the salary of the leading actor and heroine?

The media came out immediately.

Adam Baldwin, Batman, 300000 dollars. Valerie Gallino, the cat girl, 200000 dollars.

The two add up to only half a million dollars.

Compared with other supporting actors in the film, the pay is lower.

Adam Baldwin and Valerie Gallino have quickly amassed fans with the release of Batman: the moment of war.

Under the reports of the media, who are afraid that the world will not be in chaos, seeing that the idol can only get such a small amount of film payment, danielis and time warner can make a huge profit of $1 billion. Naturally, fans begin to be dissatisfied. Many fans begin to ask danielis entertainment and Time Warner to renegotiate the contract to raise their idol's salary by writing and calling.

The relevant news was originally released by danielis entertainment, and it was natural to quickly respond to this situation.

Although it has not been acquired by Time Warner, CNN channel of Turner Broadcasting Company, which has always maintained a close relationship with the company, made a special issue soon after the news broke out, visiting the status quo of the last few Hollywood actors who were shortlisted for Batman last year.

Compared with the famous Adam Baldwin, the last few shortlisted actors last year, the best developed one just got a permanent role in a TV series of ABC. Even more dramatic, some people have been reduced to some "movie" sets in the San Fernando Valley.

Later, "Hollywood Reporter" also exposed the details of Adam Baldwin's five film contract.

Besides the low salary of $300000 for the first song, the total value of Adam Baldwin's remaining four films is as high as $30 million, and the average salary of $7.5 million is completely the level of first-line stars. Compared with the pay Christopher Reeve received for three Superman films, danylis entertainment has been very generous.

Hollywood Reporter also pointed out that with the popularity of Batman Series, Adam Baldwin can not only receive other films at the level of first-line stars, but also get a lot of other well paid advertising revenue. All this adds up to a higher income than most Hollywood stars.

In addition, the same is true of other well-known actors in Batman: the moment of war.

Most of these people would not be known to the public without the opportunity of "Batman: the moment of war", and they would even fall into the position of those actors who were shortlisted for Batman but failed in the final election.

Because of the importance of the DC film universe plan to Time Warner, Warner Bros. CEO Terry Semel said in an interview with ABC's Good Morning America that Warner Bros. will never cooperate with filmmakers who lack the spirit of contract.

Hollywood film companies usually sign extra option contracts with actors, especially new actors, in their key projects, which actually represents the interests of the whole Hollywood studio class.

Therefore, with Terry Semel's statement, Hollywood studio executives such as Joe Roth of fox pictures and Shirley Lansing of mgm-u.s. have also voiced that they will boycott filmmakers who lack the spirit of contract.

Simple words are always lack of persuasion, followed by some seemingly unrelated small things, but let many Hollywood stars and filmmakers in mind.

Oliver Stone, who is preparing his new film "the gate" after finishing his "born on July 4" with Tom Cruise, has publicly indicated that he does not intend to invite Meg Ryan to be the heroine of his biographical film about the big band.

Later, John slinger, an old Hollywood director who directed "midnight Cowboy", also publicly clarified that his new film "midnight omen" has confirmed that Melanie Griffith will be used as the heroine. Previously, the rumor that Meg Ryan may play is totally absurd.

Then came the news that Barry sonanfeld, a famous Hollywood photographer who once worked as a famous film photographer such as "blood maze" and "flying over the future", was preparing for his first new film "the Adams family". He strongly expressed to Paramount's senior management that if paramount insisted on Meg Ryan as the heroine, he would quit Several other actors in this project, which has been confirmed by the famous TV series adaptation project, have also publicly indicated that they do not want to cooperate with Meg Ryan.

Things again and again, as long as the brain is not stupid, probably can see the problem.

Meg Ryan's holiday with danielis entertainment is almost public. The Hollywood actress, who quickly became a first-line star by "when Harry meets Sally", soon broke the remaining two movie option contracts with danielis entertainment after becoming famous.Danielis entertainment and CAA break out a conflict because of the Rain Man incident. In the end, Meg Ryan, who seems to have nothing to do with rain man, is terminated by CAA together with several creators of rain man.

Unlike Dustin Hoffman, Barry Levinson and Tom Cruise, who have been deeply rooted in Hollywood, Meg Ryan has just become famous and has not completely established herself in Hollywood.

Then, the actress first opened her mouth after she became famous, then broke her contract with danielis entertainment, and then took part in rocket expert, which Paramount Pictures stole from danielis entertainment.

Most importantly, the box office of rocket expert also failed.

In Hollywood, if you don't rely on the box office, you are nothing.

Coupled with the atmosphere of public opinion at this time.

Most people who pay attention to it have a saying in their mind: beat the dog before the lion.

Beat the dog in front of the lion.

To use more appropriate idioms in Chinese to describe, to set an example to others.

Even a year ago, danelis entertainment wanted to ban a first-line actress. It was just wishful thinking.

However, last year's 10 film plans directly linked most of Hollywood with Denise entertainment, and five of the traditional seven got the projects in the 10 film plans. For the remaining two, MGM also began to move closer to Denise entertainment due to the involvement of Australian capital.

In the end, paramount, because of the two scripts rocket expert and Firebird strike, did not get the project in the 10 film plan, so there was no need to give danelise entertainment face.

Although "rocket expert" project failed, but as long as Meg Ryan can significantly reduce the pay, relying on "when Harry meets Sally" popularity, paramount management is still happy to pick up a bargain.

However, Denise entertainment may not be able to influence Paramount's top decision, but it's easy to influence specific film projects. The fact that the creators of "the Adams family" openly boycotted the cooperation with Meg Ryan was the result of Amy's operation. Even though paramount didn't care about danilisi entertainment, these filmmakers are still looking forward to cooperating with danilisi entertainment.

Paramount can't force Meg Ryan against the will of all the other creators.

In addition to the big seven, as long as there are other options, there is no need for other second - and third tier film companies to make enemies for a Meg Ryan.

A front-line female star lost her foothold in Hollywood in the face of danielis entertainment. Many Hollywood stars were worried about danielis Entertainment's power. Adam Baldwin, the hero of Batman: the moment of war, who was not willing to give up all her thoughts, said in an interview with entertainment weekly Dong said that he was very honored to be able to take part in the shooting of Batman and would definitely try his best to play this role in the subsequent series.

After Adam Baldwin opened his mouth, whether he had some ideas or not, the other leaders also cleverly expressed their attitude publicly or privately.

As a result, the conflict that has not yet been brewing ends quietly in an atmosphere of gossip.

A stick always gives a sweet date.

Denise entertainment later announced that it would give an extra cash reward to all the crew members who took part in the shooting of "Batman: the moment of war" because of the box office sales.

It's just that the total bonus for everyone has been halved to $10 million.

Whether it's $10 million or $20 million, it's not worth mentioning the revenue that daenerys entertainment can get from Batman: the moment of war.

Half the bonus is actually Denise Entertainment's statement on the previous "rumor".