Chapter 494: Just Writing a Song, How Much Do You Charge?

"It's really luck. I didn't care about the movie "Stone"..."

"Don't be so modest. I heard from Sister Hua that you were the one who suggested the actor..."

Shen Xudong picked up Boss Chen at the airport. After getting in the car, the two chatted about "Crazy Stone".

"Then I have to thank Brother Chen for his theater support. I heard that 15 shows were arranged directly on the first day?"

Boss Chen smiled: "I originally wanted to fill the schedule directly, but my theater manager said that two halls should be reserved for "The Da Vinci Code" and "Poseidon"..."

Shen Xudong expressed his understanding: "Hollywood blockbusters do have a large audience. Now I usually watch Hollywood blockbusters when I go to the cinema. Otherwise, I will feel that my box office money is wasted!"

"The Da Vinci Code" has exceeded 100 million in box office in mainland China, while "Poseidon" is a disaster movie, or a pure special effects movie.

"Poseidon", a large investment of 160 million U.S. dollars, is a remake of the 1972 classic disaster film "Poseidon". North America did not buy it, and it only reported a revenue of 62 million U.S. dollars. The overseas box office was okay, 120 million U.S. dollars, including the box office in mainland China. 69 million…

That is to say, it caught up with the explosion of "Stone", otherwise, it is very likely to exceed 100 million.

Boss Chen then asked: "How much did you earn?"

"…almost."

How much money did "The Stone" make?

The account is 41 million, minus the cost, it is 21 million, plus the copyright income, it is about 34 million...

The overseas copyright was directly given to Andy Lau’s Tianying Entertainment, and a share of 4 million was given...

It's very humane. In the initial contract signed, Celestial Entertainment only wanted overseas rights.

Boss Chen sighed: "You are still awesome. I heard that "The Promise" lost at least 100 million!"

"...Who did you hear that from?"

"It's been spreading in your circles... It's said that many places have refunded money!"

"..."The Promise" is really a scam. In the past, we took the movie overseas and sold the copyright just by watching the movie. Now, you have to watch the full version..."

"Did it affect you?"

Shen Xudong: "Me?"

""Glory of the Tang Dynasty" is also a blockbuster..."

"That's okay... Jackie Chan stars, and it's mainly action movies. Overseas copyrights are easy to sell..."

When Boss Chen heard this, he was immediately interested: "How much is Jackie Chan's salary?"

"He now does not receive remuneration for Chinese-language films, and directly converts the remuneration into costs... The production cost of "Glory of the Tang Dynasty" was 120 million, and his remuneration included 40% of the investment, and the film proceeds were given to him first..."

"40%...that much?"

"40% is already a big deal. This project is the result of his investment and overseas income."

Overseas copyright income was US$27 million, and Jackie Chan directly took 40%, which is US$10.8 million...

Now that Jackie Chan is taking over a movie, he can definitely take it as a reference to Chow Yun-fat and follow Hollywood standards - at least 20 million US dollars, or 15 million US dollars + 20% of the income...

But he didn't. He didn't charge any money and wanted 40% of the profits!

He did have the ability to sell overseas, so Emperor, Huayi and later Sparkle continued to cooperate with him.

Shen Xudong changed the subject: "By the way, where is Jing Tian?"

"She's at a dance academy... I'll call her, where are we going?"

"...Why don't we go to the Outland Club? It's quite quiet there."

Boss Chen had obviously heard of the Oulante Club - a club owned by Wang Jianlin's wife. He agreed and then said: "I thought you were going to take me to the China Club!"

"China Club is just a bit more famous, but the food is not delicious."

…

The so-called club... is actually just that. When you reach your status, these people will take the initiative to invite you to join...

As for personal connections, Shen Xudong didn't feel it for the time being - he rarely went there.

If he has that time, he still has to write a book!

After receiving the customized text for "Perfect World", Shen Xudong plans to publish 6 million words in 24 volumes, and it's just starting now...

Shen Haobo has already contacted the publishing house and is developing a comic version and a novel version at the same time. If possible, it will also be made into an animation.

IP development...

Shen Xudong didn't care. He was not allowed to write "Buddha Is the Tao". This time, "Perfect World" could finally "write" fantasy blatantly!

In the past few days, he has been thinking about the general plot, and then written an outline. After the beginning, the rest will be simple - Xiao Shitou's hard journey against the sky!

After pulling back, I took Boss Chen to the Outland Club, asked for a private room, and ordered food.

"Brother, order whatever you like to eat!"

"...Give me some of your specialties...and a bottle of red wine..."

Shen Xudong helped him and asked: "Is there any Sprite, please have two bottles!"

"OK…"

The waiter leaves…

"Brother, you also like to add Sprite to your red wine?"

Shen Xudong nodded: "Well, I can't stand the bitter taste of red wine!"

"You are still awesome and so calm. I have added Sprite before, and then I was ridiculed for being old-fashioned... and they said that Europeans spent hundreds of years getting the sugar out of wine, but the Chinese got all the Sprite back in a glass of Sprite..."

Shen Xudong shook his head: "Don't worry about them. Europeans still add sugar and milk to their tea... If you ask me, food has no definite taste, but the taste is delicious! You are not allowed to add Sprite to red wine. They are just a bunch of people who are full and have nothing to do, pretending to be aristocrats. Blind rules... Let me tell you, mix fermented glutinous rice with dry red wine, the taste is amazing, one sip will make you completely confused, even if I don’t drink much, I think it tastes great!”

When Boss Chen heard this, he immediately became greedy: "Really? Then I want to try..."

"...Then I'll ask the waiter to serve a pot of rice wine!"

"Well..." Boss Chen looked at Shen Xudong cheerfully: "It's better to have a free meal with my brother and learn something... If someone says that to me again next time, I will scold him like that!"

"That's right, I like to drink like this, do you care? If I have the chance, I will insert a special paragraph in the movie..."

After chatting for a while, Jing Tian came, a refreshing little girl, especially her eyes are very heroic, but... her nose is too big, her face is an inverted triangle, her facial lines are a bit hard, and she lacks affinity...

"Teacher Shen..."

"You'd better call me by my name...or you can call me brother!"

"Okay, brother," Jing Tian took out a few books from his bag: "I brought "Zhu Xian", please sign it for me!"

"...Hey, you've also watched "Zhu Xian". Which character do you like?"

"Baguio! I like Baguio so much!"

"...Okay, I thought you would say Lu Xueqi..."

"I also like Lu Xueqi, but in comparison, Baguio is more impressive."

He is also a fan, so it is easy for a book writer to get mixed up in the circle...

With the halo, it’s more casual to throw it away every month!

Boss Zhao interjected: "By the way, have you finished writing the song I told you before?"

"It's written, three songs."

Shen Xudong took out his laptop from his bag, clicked on it, and found the master tapes of three songs: "The Older I Get, the Lonelier I Get", "Last Summer" and "Summer Wind"...

"They are all suitable for a little girl of your age to sing... and it doesn't require any advanced singing skills..."

Boss Chen took a closer look: "...three songs...then according to industry rules, should I give you 1.5 million?"

"It's just writing a song, we're all on our own, how can we talk about money?"