Millennium director

The release of "Time Travel" is in full swing, and the box office performance has steadily increased. Two weeks after the release, the total box office successfully broke 1 billion yuan, but such a box office performance has basically reached the limit of this movie.

The half-month release period has basically allowed the audience and fans who are interested in this movie to go to the cinema to watch this movie. In the remaining half-month release period, it will create a box office of 100-200 million at most.

For this box office performance, both Light and Shadow Times and Liu Yifei, Lei Datou and others are very satisfied.

Because Liu Yifei's salary is directly deducted from the investment, for Light and Shadow Times, the cost of this movie is not high. In fact, it only cost 20 million in cash. It is just adding Liu Yifei's salary. The investment announced to the outside world is 40 million, plus nearly 30 million in publicity costs. With a cost of less than 100 million, it has earned a box office of about 1.2 billion, which is already a lot of money.

Of course, this is only because Liu Yifei starred in the movie that Guangying Times dared to invest so much in publicity costs. Otherwise, the publicity costs of a low-cost comedy of this size would only be around 10 million.

But all this investment is worth it!

Liu Yifei was even happier because her salary was directly converted into investment. Although it was not calculated according to the normal ratio, she could also obtain 30% of the investor's interests.

That is, the income is about 100 million, which is much more than her current salary of "20 million".

That is, she is the boss lady of Guangying Times, so the company is so easy to talk to. Of course, Guangying Times did not expect that this movie could make so much money.

When Su Lun submitted the script for internal risk review, the company's data department only estimated the box office limit of this movie at 300-500 million. After Liu Yifei confirmed to join, it was only raised to 700-800 million.

This is still the most ideal situation, but I didn't expect that "Time Travel Cohabitation" would eventually achieve such a good box office result.

Liu Yifei, who is sure to earn 100 million, has been so proud and arrogant in front of Wu Yuan these days.

"100 million!" She blinked her big, bright eyes and said happily: "It's higher than my salary in Hollywood. I didn't expect that I could make so much money by acting in a movie!"

Liu Yifei's movie salary in Hollywood is about 8 million US dollars, which is close to the level of Hollywood's first-line actresses. In fact, it is a bit inflated. After all, her price includes the Chinese market, so she can get such a high price.

Otherwise, if she is a white American actress, according to her popularity in Hollywood, she can only get a salary of 5 million US dollars at most.

Don't think that Hollywood gives those super-star male actors a base salary of 20 million US dollars + box office share, and those male actors who star in commercial blockbusters can easily get tens of millions of dollars, but this is limited to superstars, and they have to be male actors.

The problem of unequal pay for equal work in Hollywood has long been deeply rooted. Unlike many actresses in the domestic entertainment industry who are paid more than male actors of the same level, actresses of the same level in Hollywood are paid only half of what male actors are paid.

Scarlett Johansson's Black Widow is famous enough, but her salary was only $400,000 when she first appeared in "Iron Man 2". Even in "Avengers 2", her total salary (basic salary + box office share) was only $20 million.

Robert Downey Jr. received $50 million in "Avengers 1" and $80 million in "Avengers 2" (basic salary plus box office share).

Even when Scarlett Johansson starred in "Lucy", her salary did not exceed $10 million, which was already the highest paid actress in Marvel.

As a leading actress in Hollywood commercial films, although Scarlett Johansson's status is certainly not as good as Robert Downey Jr.'s, nor as good as Chris Evans, who plays Captain America, the difference in pay is not so big, because Hollywood actors and actresses are paid differently for the same work.

But she and Chris Evans were paid the same in "Juno".

Well, Wu Yuan is a good director who pays actors the same for the same work. He paid the two leading actors the same amount.

This may be because he was still a pure "Chinese filmmaker" back then.

After all, his mind was full of the development of the Chinese entertainment industry in the next 20 years, and in the Chinese entertainment industry, especially the TV drama industry, it is very common for top actresses to receive the same or even higher pay than male actors of the same status.

Well, China's entertainment industry has indeed achieved gender equality in terms of pay.

The price of this equality is that the pay for both male and female actors is ridiculously high, so high that Wu Yuan can't even afford the top actors in the TV drama circle now.

"It's just 100 million." Wu Yuan's mouth twitched as he looked at Liu Yifei's boasting, and he said in a weird tone: "Do you know that many domestic entertainment actors can get more than 100 million for acting in a TV drama now?"

"And some actors, although the contract they signed shows only tens of millions on the books, they actually have yin-yang contracts, dividing the high pay into several contracts to execute, and finally get more than 100 million."

"For example, the contract book pay for "A Chinese Ghost Story" that they want to find you to star in is 48 million, but they have hinted to the company behind the scenes that they can help with the accounting, and they can actually give you 180 million in pay."

"This is mainly to evade taxes. After all, if the contract is written according to the actual number, at least half of the 180 million yuan salary will be used to pay taxes."

"There is such a thing?!" Liu Yifei's eyes widened, somewhat unbelievable. She really didn't pay attention to this aspect. Most of her film contracts were arranged by Wu Yuan.

"Yes, but I rejected it. We can't do such things. We must abide by the law." Wu Yuan shrugged.

The first target of the crew of "A Chinese Ghost Story" is indeed Liu Yifei. After all, she is the most fairy-like actress in the circle, and the only one who can reach the height of Wang Zuxian in the role of "Xiao Qian", so she was found at the first time.

But Wu Yuan knows too well how complicated the things behind this movie are, and this movie has achieved the sky-high price of "Yi Shuang = 2.08 million". Wu Yuan is not interested in letting Liu Yifei touch this big pit.

Let Mou Shuang fill this pit. Anyway, Mou Shuang is not a good person. Wu Yuan chooses to respect her fate.

However, thinking of Mou Shuang, Wu Yuan thought of another topic about Mou Shuang that he couldn't even talk about, and then thought of Liu Yifei.

"Xixi, you will be 32 years old after the Chinese New Year this year, right? Shouldn't we have a child?"

"Otherwise you will become an elderly mother!" (End of this chapter)