Legendary Hollywood Producer

In 2002, Zhang Guoshi's "Hero" opened the era of blockbuster films in the interior. Before that, the mainland had been making small-scale films, preferring to make literary and artistic films. Of course, this is not to say how bad it is to make a literary film, but that films need different categories and different to enrich the market. The audience doesn't care about what you are shooting. As long as it is not good-looking, they will not go to the cinema to watch. If things go on like this, the movie will have no audience base and the market will inevitably die.

Zhang Guoshi has also become a hero in the film industry just like the movies he made.

In today's film market, commercial films with large investments and large productions are very common, but in that era, Zhang Guoshi was still under a lot of pressure. "Hero" did not disappoint. The film was very successful and laid a good foundation.

Movies need pioneers, no matter Chinese or foreign, you can always see these people.

On the second day after the dinner, Roman also gave the investors the detailed capital and profit accounts for review.

According to the contract, China Film, Huayi, Orange Sky, and Guangming shared a profit of about 120 million US dollars, each with 40 million US dollars.

After checking the accounts with the accountant, in the meeting room, everyone chatted about the next cooperation.

"This is the outline of the movie script, you can take a look at it first." Lamy handed out the information to everyone.

"Given that we have had a great time working together, the budget for this movie is about 15 million U.S. dollars, and the five of us can pay 3 million U.S. dollars, and the box office profits are evenly distributed."

"Is this a comedy?" It was President Wang of Huayi who raised the question. He flipped through the script and found that it was not a zombie film.

"Yes, comedy movies are also the subject of Manhai Entertainment's next filming. Now there are many zombie movies in North America, which are filming this type. The gain is not worth the loss." Roman explained, after all, Manhai Entertainment has been shooting before. They are all zombies.

"Is the investment so small?" Wang Guangguang didn't see the film's shooting budget plan, so he asked.

"There is nothing too expensive for a comedy movie. Maybe we can't spend the US$15 million. I will tell you how much the production cost has been spent at that time." Roman answered Mr. Wang's doubts.

Mr. Wang nodded when he heard it. After working together twice, he still believed in Roman very much.

"Do you still need actors?" It was Huayi’s President Wang. Their Li Bingbing received so many benefits, and indirectly Huayi also gained a lot. Many actors and artists have actively joined Huayi. They are now There is also an urgent need in this regard.

"This is a movie in which actors drive the development of the plot. It is still a comedy, and it is not easy to use Chinese." Roman also thought about this problem, and vaguely stated the meaning of inappropriateness. It is still not good for comedies to incorporate Chinese actors. If it becomes a poisonous point, maybe the movie will be cold. Roman is also very cautious. He doesn't want to fail.

"Oh." Although Mr. Wang was a bit regretful, he didn't say anything. Think about it carefully. In a farce film, it is really not good to use Chinese actors. If it is a passerby character, it will be a bit risky. When it gets older, the American people are still very exclusive.

When the first two movies were released, some people complained about the nationality of the actors in them. However, because the movie was a zombie movie, the characters were promoted by the plot, and the protagonist was white, it did not become a poisonous spot, but the box office was still affected. It’s a weak influence, but Roman doesn’t care about it at all. It’s just a small amount of money. He really wants to make money. Roman won’t keep investing in movies. Isn’t it good to invest all the money in the stock market? Just stare at Internet companies such as Apple, Microsoft, and Amazon. , Wealth is simply at your fingertips. Roman is reluctant to do this, he has to live his life again, of course he has to do something interesting, at least for now, Roman thinks it is very good.

After discussing the cooperation matters, Roman said to everyone present, "I want to ask, if I want to set up a film investment fund to support new directors in mainland China and provide funds to help them shoot movies, can it?" This is Roman's previous paragraph. Time has always been thinking about things, the mainland is the same as Hollywood, it is difficult for new directors to have a chance to get ahead. This is a circle that pays attention to qualifications. Roman wants to help new directors and at least give them a chance to try.

The first thing that came to light was Mr. Wang, "Why do you think that?" No wonder Mr. Wang couldn't guess Roman's thoughts. He was still discussing cooperation, and now he has to spend a sum of money to support the new director, or Continental.

Romain didn’t know how to explain it, so he started to talk nonsense, “Although I don’t have the appearance of an Asian, but I have half Chinese ancestry, my mother is a Chinese, and she taught me since I was a child... . I have the best relationship with her. "The above is all bullshit. After Romain re-lived this body, he learned about his family situation. His father is American and his mother is British. They are all only children.

It turns out that there are Chinese ancestry. No wonder they are so concerned about the spirit of contract when working with us. It is not that they have not dealt with Hollywood people before. Miramax’s Harvey Weinstein came to China to buy "Heroes". ", "Infernal Affairs", "Shaolin Football" North American copyright, but well, the price is not the same as the promised, the most overwhelming is the overseas copyright of "Hero". At that time, filmmakers from many countries came to discuss cooperation. Harvey-Weinstein deliberately reported a high price and forced back other competitors. After everyone else returned, when the contract was about to be signed, the price was directly reduced by ten times, but it must be signed because there are no competitors. Either you choose to be rotten in your hand, or you can only cooperate with Miramax. The producer New Picture Films at that time had to take advantage of this loss and sold the copyright to Miramax. As a result, just this year The US$53.71 million at the box office in North America was a big profit for Miramax Films. There was no large-scale publicity, and it didn't cost much to buy out the copyright, but it won such a high box office.

This move also stimulated the mainland film and television circles. Since then, no company has cooperated with industry rascals like Miramax Films.

Miramax is also considered to have lost such a large market on the mainland, so I don't know if they are happy or worried.

After everyone here knows Roman's another identity, they trust his eyes even more. Everyone was thinking in their hearts, it turned out to be half of their own, no wonder they have always been willing to cooperate and are so open and bright that they can't think of you as a blond, half Chinese, and stained.