Millennium director

82nd Emery

"So, this time "Bruce Lee" does not require our own financing?"

In the general manager's office of Light and Shadow Era, Li Xiaoping was making an overseas phone call.

The person communicating with her on the phone was naturally Wu Yuan who was far away in Los Angeles.

"Well, we don't need to spend any money." Wu Yuan said with an obvious smile on the phone: "As soon as Hollywood heard that I was going to make a new movie or a biopic, they came to my door waving banknotes. ”

"I didn't even read the script, so I just patted my chest and promised to cover all the production costs."

"And he is also willing to give me 10% of the box office share."

"In other words, Director Wu, you don't have to spend a penny and you can still get 10% of the box office after the movie is released?" Li Xiaoping asked in surprise.

Although the number 10% may seem small, it is already a very scary number.

Because Wu Yuan does not need to bear any production costs.

In other words, he doesn't take any risks. Even if the movie only has a box office of 1 million in the end, he can still take away 100,000 box office without any burden, and then let the producer lose all his money.

Of course, this is a situation no one wants to see.

"Yes, this is the condition given by Disney, and I can't help but be moved." Wu Yuan said with emotion: "Disney has not had any outstanding live-action movies in recent years, and it has made no achievements in terms of awards. Now it is really anxious. "

"Before, they wanted to make a live-action movie of "Mulan" and asked Sissi to star in it. As a result, the talks went on and on, but they were not willing to back down at all. The director they found and the script they produced were very different from the original plot. In the end, they failed Didn’t talk about it.”

"Now that Sissi is pregnant, it is even more impossible to make this movie in the short term."

"I heard that they finally found a Chinese actor from Hollywood to play the role. His name is Wang Keying. He has acted in Marvel's "S.H.I.E.L.D." TV series. He is considered to be Disney's own family member."

"But she is of mixed Chinese and American descent, and her appearance is more European and American. Even if she dyes her hair black, she will definitely look great."

"Except for this movie, Disney has made no achievements in art films in recent years. It has not won an Academy Award for many years."

"No wonder they are so generous." Li Xiaoping suddenly realized: "If your new film, Director Wu, can be labeled as produced by Disney, let alone 10% of the box office, even 20%, Disney can do it with gritted teeth."

"After all, this is a literary film, and the cost itself is not very high. Disney is rich and can afford to lose money. As long as it can gain something in terms of awards, it will be worth it."

From the perspective of company operations, Li Xiaoping strongly agrees with Disney's decisiveness.

For the world's top film production companies like Disney, a movie that invests tens of millions of dollars is not a lot of money to them.

Disney's revenue from movies alone is billions of dollars a year, and there are a lot of movies that have lost money on investment.

Disney has never been short of money, only good scripts.

For Disney, if it can spend tens of millions of dollars in exchange for an Oscar for Best Picture, it is definitely worth it.

Not to mention that Wu Yuan's movies actually have a very low chance of losing money. Even if they are art films, they can basically maintain their profits.

As long as Disney can win this movie and become the producer, even if it gives Wu Yuan 10% of the box office revenue, it will be nothing. At most, it will be a little less profit or a small loss of 10 to 20 million US dollars.

Not to mention Disney, the Light and Shadow Era can afford to lose this little money!

If the age of light and shadow could spend 10 to 20 million US dollars in exchange for an Academy Award for Best Picture trophy, then Li Xiaoping would do it without hesitation!

Unfortunately, Light and Shadow Era is not an American film company. If a film produced by Light and Shadow Era is not shortlisted for the Oscar main competition, it can only compete for the International Best Picture Award.

This is also the reason why Wu Yuan is excited to cooperate with Disney.

Disney also promised that it would do its best to help Wu Yuan's new film win the Oscar for Best Picture. In other words, it would spend a lot of money on public relations and the judges.

Originally, Wu Yuan was a little hesitant about whether "Bruce Lee" should participate in the three major European awards or the Oscar.

At first, his idea was to use this movie to hit the Oscars. After all, Bruce Lee himself is a legendary Chinese movie star in Hollywood.

But there were a lot of twists and turns in the process, and now Wu Yuan has even sold his company in Hollywood, and for a time he gave up on winning an Oscar.

But this time Disney's promise made him feel like he could give it a try.

Oscars and everything else come second. The main thing is that a person is willing to bear all the production costs, bear the public relations expenses for the awards, and give 10% of the box office share. It is really rare!

"I've basically agreed to Disney's conditions." Wu Yuan said easily, "Just leave the promotion of this movie to Disney."

"We don't need to worry about the follow-up matters."

"I think it's good to spend other people's money and make your own movie."

This movie was not originally aimed at the commercial box office, and Wu Yuan did not expect the movie to get much box office. It is conservatively estimated that it could earn 30 to 40 million US dollars in North America, and 400 to 500 million yuan in the mainland. .

The shooting cost of this movie is estimated to be between 30 and 40 million US dollars. After all, it is shot in the United States, and the cost should be in line with Hollywood.

After all this calculation, in fact, this movie can only maintain capital or make a small profit of 100 million yuan at most.

If he only takes 10% of the box office share, the profit is actually about the same.

And the Light and Shadow Times does not need to use the money on the books, which is really comfortable.

"But after Disney knew that the biographical film I was going to shoot was "Bruce Lee", they made a request."

On the phone, Wu Yuan said again: "Disney hopes that Emma Stone will play the heroine, that is, Bruce Lee's wife Linda Emery."

"But I originally wanted to contact Gwyneth Paltrow to play this role."

"I think her temperament is more in line with Linda Emery, and her image is also gentle, and she is a typical blonde wife beauty."

Not to mention anything else, just Gwyneth Paltrow's role as Pepper, who doesn't say that she is full of wife flavor?

And this is also an Oscar-winning actress, and her acting skills are not much worse than Emma Stone.

But if Disney becomes the sponsor, Wu Yuan still has to consider their request.

After all, although Linda Emery is the heroine, in a male biographical film, this heroine is not that important.

Li Xiaoping could not give any advice to Wu Yuan's complaint. After all, she never participated in the company's film casting work and was only responsible for overall planning.

"It depends on how you choose, Director Wu." She even had the mind to tease Wu Yuan on the phone, "It depends on whether you want Disney to be a sucker or a heroine that you are satisfied with."