Millennium director

Chapter 505: True recording!

"Prometheus"

Wu Yuan did not expect that after Light Times signed a cooperation agreement with 20th Century Fox, the first cooperation project sent by 20th Century Fox would be this!

According to the project document sent by Fox, the film's production budget is as high as US$130 million, excluding publicity and distribution costs.

Fox plans to do the promotion and distribution of "Prometheus" itself, which means that it will be responsible for the production, production, and distribution by itself. It is expected to invest US$20 million in promotion and distribution.

In other words, the total cost of the movie is $150 million.

Perhaps for Fox, which has been operating well in the past few years, a mere US$150 million is just a small amount of money.

But in the past few years when the company has been in poor operating condition, US$150 million is not a small amount of money for Fox.

Now Fox already owes billions of dollars to the bank, and in order to maintain its "Big Six" lineup, the number of movies it plans to produce each year has not decreased much.

No wonder they are willing to take out the "Alien" IP and share it with Light Times.

Although this will be a brand new sub-series, it will not be directly related to the previous films such as "Alien" and "Alien vs. Predator". Instead, the story line will be aimed at the decades before the start of "Alien 1". It is a The risk of a brand new prequel movie is definitely much higher than making a direct sequel to "Alien".

But Wu Yuan knew that this "Prometheus" performed very well at the box office.

The global box office exceeded 400 million US dollars!

Coupled with this is the DVD distribution market where Alien IP has always been very popular.

There is no doubt that "Prometheus" brought huge profits to Fox. Later, Fox also pursued the victory and filmed the sequel "Alien: Covenant".

Without any hesitation, he just took a quick look at the script and determined that the script was similar to his impression of "Prometheus". Wu Yuan wrote back to John and asked him to agree to cooperate in this movie.

Light Times will invest half of the money, but it will only be able to get 40% of the box office share after deducting publicity and distribution, and theater chain shares. It will not be able to get the 50% share that is common sense.

There is no way, after all, the IP of "Alien" belongs to Fox. Even if Light Times can participate in the platter, there is no way to really enjoy the dividends according to the proportion of investment.

In fact, the cooperation between the Hollywood Big Six and other small and medium-sized companies is basically like this.

Small and medium-sized independent film and television companies such as Legendary, New Line, and the former Lions Alliance often contribute 10% or 20% of the investment in some film projects with the Big Six, but only receive 5% or 10% of the profits. There is no way to enjoy dividends according to the proportion of capital contribution.

After all, their cooperation with the Big Six of Hollywood is an advantage in itself. They have better distribution channels, better resources, and even the Big Six's own IP, which is a capital that needs to be discounted into the cooperation. .

That's all. Mainland film companies will suffer even greater losses if they want to cooperate with Hollywood film and television companies to go overseas.

In the past two years, many mainland film and television companies have wanted to make Sino-US co-productions, or simply invest in Hollywood movies. However, companies such as Huayi and Bona, and small and medium-sized Hollywood film companies, have not been able to negotiate specific cooperation. Often we can only talk about half of the investment, but only account for 20% or 30%!

This is just cooperation with small and medium-sized companies in Hollywood. For example, the big six Hollywood companies don’t even open the window for cooperation with mainland film and television companies. If you want to give money to the big six, they won’t take it.

It is already a very good situation that Light Times can invest 50% but get 40% of the market.

Of course, if Wu Yuan is more sinister enough, he can also outsource contracting, find several mainland film and television companies, contract out 50% of the investment amount to them, and then give them 30% of the share. Then there will definitely be people competing for it. They were rushing to get it, especially Huayi who thought about going to sea every day.

In this way, Light Times can enjoy 10% of the profit share of "Prometheus" without investing a penny.

All Wu Yuan had to pay was to make a few phone calls and ask for some money from the bosses of mainland film and television companies.

However, after this idea went through his mind, Wu Yuan gave up.

The project "Prometheus" is quite good and worth investing in.

When Fox has no good project options in the future, he can borrow domestic capital to share the deal with Fox.

Anyway, Light Times has signed a cooperation agreement with Fox for a total of 20 movies, so there will be plenty of opportunities in the future.

Even Wu Yuan felt that when Fox was acquired by Disney, their cooperation agreement would not be fulfilled.

Half a month passed in the blink of an eye while Wu Yuan was busy handling company affairs and in the post-production stage of "Love Letter".

Liu Yifei, who had gone home to rest with Wu Yuan for half a month, also set off for Hangzhou, the provincial capital of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, with Wu Yuan personally seeing her off.

"Actors Please Take Your Place", jointly produced by Light and Shadow Times and Light and Shadow Kuaibo, is the first domestic actor competition program. After two months of preparation, the recording officially started in Hangzhou.

The program team rented a large-scale recording studio recently opened by Jiangsu and Zhejiang Satellite TV. They also rented an entire building in the suburbs where the recording studio is located and near the Hangzhou Film and Television Base. dormitory.

At this time, 50 first-time contestants who passed the audition were arriving in this dormitory building one after another.

The photography team from South Korea has already set up a camera position under the dormitory building, and there are many camera teachers carrying cameras and recording.

One by one, the youthful young people pulled their suitcases and walked downstairs to the dormitory.

Because nearly two-thirds of the 50 first-time contestants selected are current students in majors, many of them know each other and even came to Hangzhou together.

Therefore, unlike other talent shows, the recording of "Actors Please Take Your Place" was filled with a fun atmosphere from the beginning. At least for most of the contestants, it was an acquaintance round from the beginning!

"Li Xian, you're here too, and you were selected in your freshman year?"

"Hello, senior. Isn't Senior Dou Xiao here?"

"Dou Xiao does not comply with the audition rules of the show!"

Zhang Yunlong, who graduated from the Beijing Film Academy in 2009, just arrived downstairs in the dormitory when he bumped into Li Xian, who had also just arrived.

Zhang Yunlong, who has an outgoing, cheerful and enthusiastic personality, has become familiar with the 2010 freshmen not long after they first entered school. Of course, he knew Li Xian, a popular figure in the 2010 class who was selected by the school's film studio for filming right after he entered school.

He held the suitcase with one hand and put his other hand familiarly on Li Xian's shoulder, jokingly saying to him: "I saw on the way here just now that there are many beautiful women who have passed the audition."

"People from the Chinese Opera, the Academy of Chinese Opera, people from the theater, and I even saw a beauty who looked like she was from Xinjiang Province."

"Hey, I'm already looking forward to this competition."

"If nothing else, being able to live under the same roof with so many beauties for two months is such a beautiful thing!"