Chapter 569： "Dead Silence" Earnings

It will be late October when Lehman and others have initially dealt with the copyright of the adaptation of "The Devil Wears Prada".

"Dead Silence" was also screened overseas for nearly two months. Under the constant attention of the distribution department of Blue Butterfly Pictures, it climbed up step by step.

200 million, 220 million, 230 million...

until the end.

In the end, "Dead Silence" ended perfectly with 122 million in North America, 115 million overseas, and a total global box office of 237 million.

This is another work by Wen Ziren with a small and broad sense. Although it does not have a long and tenacious series life without "The Chainsaw", and the energy is constantly creating profits, it still brings a lot of shock to Hollywood.

Of course, it's not a big deal in terms of momentum, and many viewers won't even watch it from beginning to end, but this movie makes money.

Production cost + publicity does not exceed US$45 million, of which 48.8 million for North American theaters, 57.5 million for overseas theaters, 17.25 million for overseas distribution, a total cost of 168.55 million US dollars, and a net profit of 68.45 million (Blue Butterfly Pictures’ advertising and distribution The raffle achievement does not count, generally speaking, it is 15% in North America, the internal price).

And the box office profit of 68.45 million is entirely the income of the producer, of course, the 13.69 million of Wen Ziren's studio has to be deducted. Therefore, the net income of Firefly Pictures in this project is 36.76 million.

It seems very little, especially compared to the 200 million volume, but before Lehman had no North American distribution channels, the more than 36 million could not be earned.

And as we all know, the most profitable Hollywood movies are offline and copyright peripherals.

Taking the Disney Group as an example, the annual box office revenue is less than 2.5% of the company's annual profit.

Of course, Firefly Pictures doesn't have such a profound means of copyright development. It is also a real estate and a doll, but it can basically reap twice the box office profit of the film offline.

As for Disney, if the source of profit for a film, if the box office revenue accounts for 1/4 of offline + copyright, then it is a mistake.

And after "Dead Silence" was fully painted, it began to release DVD, and it was on the sales list in the first week, ranking second, with a total of 110,000 copies sold;

After the CD is released, there are still TV stations that pay for on-demand, or sell out a round of broadcasting rights;

After the TV station, there are also peripheral sales. In this part, Firefly Pictures is authorized to sell the characters to Mattel and other toy companies. It is worth mentioning here that the puppet Billy's doll with the same name sold well. Generally speaking, The surrounding of horror movies has quite no potential, which is a pleasant surprise.

Roughly calculated, the "Dead Silence" project can bring at least US$84.548 million to Firefly Pictures, and it is still the total ledger of 20% of the copyright income of Wen Ziren's studio, and Wen Ziren will also take US$34.19 million from this film. , after deducting production expenses, the profit was 27.69 million.

Everyone says that Hollywood is industrialized, and of course, the streamlined profit-making method is one of them, which ensures that the risk of Hollywood developing blockbusters is reduced.

On this day, Lehman called his agent Johnson, and in addition to instructing him to continue to win over Lauren Weisberg, he also asked him to urge overseas to split the account.

A blockbuster movie is very profitable, but usually within one to two years, the problem of splitting accounts is a problem. Everyone likes to drag the money from the theater chain. After all, with so much money in hand, the interest is a sum of money. Profits do not have to be shared.

And now, the worst thing about Firefly Pictures is cash flow. Let's not talk about debt, and you have to get money to develop new projects.

Therefore, during this period of time, he followed the management around to deal with the division of accounts, staring at the profits of each pen to recover the company.

Take this income as an example, offline is a long-term account sharing model. Generally, the delivery is once a month or two. When the income comes in, you have to pay taxes. With the help of PricewaterhouseCoopers, all kinds of tax avoidance methods are available, but it cannot be done. A shameless high-tech Internet company has to pay about 10% of its total revenue, which is $8.45 million, and if it does not avoid taxes, at least 37% of its profits must be paid - the federal income tax is really high .

There is no doubt that no one dares to rely on the IRS for their money.

Of course, first of all, the money from overseas accounts is first deposited into the account.

The domestic dividend will be distributed to Wen Ziren's studio, and then 10 million will be given to Gusta and it will be gone.

Subsequently, the issue of splitting the box office accounts continued to linger for more than a week. In the end, Firefly Pictures only recovered 41.55 million yuan. In addition, the second offline account has not been recovered, and its profit was at least about 20 million yuan.

Instead, all the debts were paid off. Easy.

......

Two days later, on October 27th.

The company began to prepare the project "The Devil Wears Prada".

Later, when it came to the adaptation, Lauren really didn't want outsiders to intervene, and made the image of the editor-in-chief of the magazine a little more positive - a woman who is famous in the fashion circle can't tolerate her subordinates. Is this funny?

Concerning the logic of the script creation, the IQ of the characters, and even the quality of the movie's plot, Lehman directly put aside Lauren and asked the editorial department to borrow a shell to re-create a more reasonable workplace story.

Although it is written in the contract that Lauren can participate in the screenwriting, it does not mean that Firefly Pictures cannot adapt. Participation and decision-making rights are two different things.

Soon, Lauren found out that she had been deceived.

The Fox and the Firefly are all the same raccoon dog.

Fortunately, after being perfunctory for the first time, I was fooled again.

But making noise is useless. Although Lauren was deceived, she is not stupid. How could a fool use Mary Sue novels to disgust his boss? And the whole text is allusive, no name is named, but readers know that it is Anna Wintour.

The most important thing is that Anna can't even want the court to come forward, because the novel is fictional.

Of course, UU reading www. uukanshu.com adapts this kind of thing, usually not to the satisfaction of the author himself.

For example, the author of "Forrest Gump" publicly scolded the producer, saying that it was a blind change, but it did not prevent the movie from becoming a classic.

In other words, the act of adaptation itself is a kind of re-creation, which contains different personal thoughts.

Just like Lauren likes to belittle her boss, Lehman wants to turn this character into a career woman, and the settings are completely different.

As a movie mainly targeting the female market, the original "Prada" was very good, and the various styles of the heroine Anne Hathaway even became popular that year. Popular with all kinds of girls.

This movie also focuses on the atmosphere of the fashion circle, rather than a plot. The story is very simple, and can be summed up by "the ugly duckling becomes a white swan".

In the end, when the heroine resigned, she also became a "white swan" spiritually.

All in all, the characters are beautiful and the outfits are fashionable enough, and the film is a preliminary success.

Although it is simple, it is not very easy.

There are not many directors in the industry who can shoot women, and Lehmann himself does not plan to make this work.

It doesn't mean anything, and I'm not interested.

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