Four Hundred and Sixty-Are You Sure He Has This Habit? !

"Honey, does that girl look particularly hot?"

It wasn't just Nina who looked in the direction of Wayne's gaze. Naomi Watts also spotted the woman not far away.

"The car is here, let's go."

Wayne, who was thick-skinned enough, skipped the topic and took the lead towards the tram driven by Sergey. He shook his head and shook away the shadow of the woman just now.

Here they had just got on the tram and headed towards the entrance of the studio. Two people not far from the studio also spotted them at the same time.

The agent, who was dressed in a well-fitting suit, suddenly whistled, looked at the beautiful woman beside him, and said, "If you read correctly, that's Wayne Greenberg. Monica, it's easy to stay in Hollywood. Find an opportunity to get to know him, this is a very useful shortcut."

When Monica Bellucci heard her agent's teasing, she stared at the back of the quickly leaving train, as if she was seriously considering the shortcut the agent said, and then shook her head. It was too difficult to get close to the other party.

"Just a heads up, Monica."

The agent seemed to suddenly remember something, put away the other expressions on his face, and said seriously. "We are currently auditioning for "The Matrix". Wayne Greenberg is not only one of the producers and screenwriters, he is also an investor in the film. To be more precise, he is one of the bosses and can easily make many decisions. It’s something that seems extremely difficult to us!”

Both of them understand that this is Hollywood, not Italy. If you want to stay, you must make more efforts. Even if Monica Bellucci is already quite famous, it will be useless here. For example, those who want to join the cast of "The Matrix" still have to audition like newbies.

This is already Monica Bellucci's second visit to Hollywood. Of course she is unwilling to leave this world's movie factory. There are more opportunities here, but it also means more fierce competition. Beautiful girls from all over the world are constantly coming to the City of Angels to pursue their dreams, but only a small number can survive in this center of fame and fortune.

"Ellen, I need you to help me create an opportunity."

Taking one last look at the disappearing tram, Monica Bellucci turned back to look into her agent's eyes and said: "An opportunity to get to know Wayne Greenberg will at least help us with the audition we are participating in." , will be of great help, won’t it?”

"It's not impossible..."

Agent Alan Wilson crossed his arms across his chest and stroked his chin with one hand, slowly considering the feasibility of the matter. "I haven't heard of any events at Warner Bros. that he will participate in recently, but if you want to get to know him, you have to do it as soon as possible. The crew of "The Dark Knight" may fly to New York at any time to start filming the movie."

"What should I do?"

Monica Bellucci frowned. "Do I need to just walk up to him and say, Hey, Mr. Greenberg, I need your help to get me a role. Can you say hello to Zack Snyder!?"

"It's not a bad idea to do this..."

The manager rolled his eyes, feeling that it would be more satisfying to go to the other party and say hello instead of trying so hard to get close to him. He didn't even want to know what price his customers would pay in exchange for the promise.

According to rumors in the industry, Wayne Greenberg is almost always willing to accept unique beauties who come to his door. The premise is that you are pretty enough. I heard that this man’s aesthetics are different from the general public. It may not be impossible to start in this area.

Suddenly, he remembered some previous reports and said hesitantly: "Monica, I have heard some rumors. If you are willing to give it a try, maybe..."

As his voice gradually lowered, some gossip about women began to reach Monica Bellucci's ears.

"Are you sure he has this habit?"

"Maybe, who knows?"

The agent shrugged. "At least that's what's said in the circle, Monica. Facts often prove it in the end. Ninety percent of the rumors in the circle are true."

"I see."

Wayne, who was leaving, didn't know that the beautiful woman he had been observing just now was also interested in him. At this moment, the speeding car was heading towards Beverly.

The spacious carriage at the back of the Rolls-Royce Phantom provides very convenient conditions for working on the way. At this time, Nina was on the table in the middle, fiddling with some information, pointing it out to her boss, and explaining it.

"The current total North American box office of "The Departed" is 156 million US dollars. The part of the theater alliance's allocation to Warner Bros. is the box office share of the previous month. 65 million US dollars has been paid to Warner Bros.'s account. The subsequent part will be Divide the accounts several times and within the time stipulated in the contract. The overseas part is still waiting..."

While listening to the assistant lady's explanation, Wayne nodded slowly. The share of overseas box office has never been something that can be obtained in a short time. Since information and communication are not as fast as they would be more than ten years ago, statistics, calculations, etc. are all extremely complicated tasks.

Moreover, the share ratios of various regions are very different. The problems involved will give normal people a headache. This is one of the reasons why those six companies with complete distribution channels around the world have always been .

Not to mention the share of overseas box office, even the share of North American box office is an extremely complicated and difficult to calculate task. If the distribution company wants to do something fishy in it, it is almost impossible to find out if they want to.

Fortunately, there are only two main investors in "The Departed", and he has never relaxed his supervision on accounting issues. Warner Brothers is unlikely to cheat him, so the problems he has to face in this regard are relatively simple. . The theater chain company has already transferred the first US$65 million into the account of Warner Bros. responsible for the distribution of "The Departed". It seems that this money is not a lot, but this money is not the final income of investors. , Hollywood has perfect rules, and everything will share the profits according to the rules.

The first thing to bear the brunt is distribution. Warner Bros.'s distribution department will give priority to deducting 15% of the lowest standard distribution fee in the industry, which is approximately US$9.75 million. Then the promotional funds advanced in the early stage will be deducted, which is about 19 million US dollars.

At this point, Warner Bros. has actually taken away a small half of the first share of the funds. However, the subsequent theater share will not involve the advance distribution, marketing and public relations. The distribution company will always be in the industry. This is also the reason why the upper reaches of the chain will always be invincible.

65 million US dollars, after deducting the 28.75 million US dollars that Warner Bros. took first, the remaining 36.25 million US dollars is the gross profit shared by the producers this time.

According to normal procedures, the remaining US$36.25 million will be transferred to the studio jointly established by both parties after the accountants of both parties have verified that there are no errors, but this money is not considered the income of the investors.

It should be noted that it will also involve the salary balance of some members of the crew, which can be said to be not much, but Wayne's personal box office share is the majority, because the contract he signed stipulated that 20% of the global box office , based on the first share of US$65 million, he will still have to take away US$13 million of it.

The remaining US$23.25 million after that is considered the income of both parties who invested in the film. It seems that this amount of money is not much, but in fact this is even if Warner Bros. does not keep accounts. Of course, the calculation rules are not that simple and involve all aspects of the problem. This is just a rough process.

In the future, the box office accounts recovered by Warner Bros. will probably follow this process, except that there is no need to deduct the advance promotion expenses.

Therefore, Hollywood's box office profits have been accounting for a smaller and smaller proportion of total profits as time goes by. In fact, the bulk of the profit comes from peripheral sales, omni-channel copyright operations and sales after the film is released, and the essential video rental and sales.

The costs of the above-mentioned profit channels are very low, and what can be obtained is almost pure profit. When comparing the box office profit figures among them, it is actually nothing.

Wayne knows very well that how much money this film can make in the end depends on how well it does at the Oscars. If all goes well and it can win one or more important statuettes, both the theater alliance and Warner Bros. will inevitably win. It will allow the film to return to theaters again and make a lot of money through the marketing effect of the Oscars.

With the bonus of the Oscar statuette, it will also have a huge bonus to the copyright sale after the film is completely released. For example, the price of the first round of TV premiere rights and the second round of TV premiere rights will increase significantly.

"Haney, tell me, if the video tape market goes down one day, will the production company continue to invest as much money in making movies as they do now?"

Listening to Nina constantly explaining the process of dividing the spoils to Wayne, Naomi Watts suddenly thought of this problem. As we all know, production companies continue to increase production costs, and in the past two years they have even been in the hundreds of millions. The biggest source of confidence for them is the video tape market, which has a terrifying income.

Blockbuster stores have also been rapidly expanding in North America in recent years, and the profits generated therein are far higher than the box office profits of a blockbuster movie.

"Nami, don't worry, the production company's investment in films will only get higher and higher in the future."

Wayne was not worried at all about this matter. Video tapes will indeed be eliminated by the times, but DVDs, which are even cheaper and almost negligible, will replace video tapes and surpass the media of video tapes, once again saving the marketing revenue of Hollywood film companies.

Before the advent of streaming media, DVDs had always been the largest source of profit for all companies, completely surpassing the current proportion of revenue brought by video tapes.

"Streaming, streaming, groove, nye..."

"What's wrong, honey?"

Hearing Wayne's mutterings that gradually sank, and then immediately tensed up again, Naomi Watts and Nina looked at him in surprise.

"F**k! Nami, I'm sure now, you are my destined lucky star!"

Under the surprised gazes of the two women, Wayne pulled the Australian actress into his arms and kissed her hard on the cheek.