Chapter 1451 Crazy Signing (Six/Ten)

MGM announced that it has signed director Christopher Nolan with a large sum of money. ,The latest chapter visit: ШШШ..СоМ. And this is a long contract, ten years, ten movies, using the basic salary + box office dividend model.

For a moment, everyone was stunned.

What surprised them most was, who is this Nolan?

At this time, Nolan was still a little-known director, or a cutting-edge director who turned from camera, screenwriter, and actor. Everyone's impression of him may only be "Memento", which is a film with a mediocre box office response, neither like a commercial film nor a literary film.

To say that in the near future, Nolan still has some other actions. For example, he is the director of the comic film "Batman", and this film, scheduled for this summer, was invested by Time Warner.

Ordinarily, even if MGM signed this up-and-coming director and bet on his future, it should not have given such generous conditions. Those who can get box office dividends must be big commercial directors, like Spielberg and Cameron, right?

And ten films in ten years, this is too prolific. MGM has no directors, but there are still many successful directors in Hollywood, why did they choose such a director?

Nolan is a director that Feng Yu likes very much. In his previous life, Nolan gradually climbed the throne of the world's top directors step by step. The most important point is that Nolan's film implants are invisible, but they are very effective.

If the movie wants to make money, implantation is an effective method. However, if the implantation marks are too serious, it will greatly affect the viewing experience.

And Nolan's hero movies are very good. Although DC comics belong to Warner, the other party won't sell them if they die, but Marvel didn't say that they won't sell them, and the Marvel movies at this time are not as popular as Feng Yu's previous life before the rebirth. , maybe you can spend less money, you can get Marvel's income.

And Marvel's income is not just the benefit of adapting movies. The wind and rain game, which can be adapted into a game, will definitely have a lot of income. The re-publishing of comics, cartoons, cartoon dolls, clothing and other peripherals can also be developed, these are all money.

Many people think that it is obvious that some movies lose money at the box office, but why are they still shooting a sequel? It's not that the investors are stupid, or that the production company is insane, but that they made money back through their peripherals.

Maybe the movie lost tens of millions from the box office, but from the surrounding area, it could make back 100 million. And the sequel has another advantage, that is, it can drive the surrounding area to become more popular, and it can also drive the CD sales of the previous movies, and get another income.

Therefore, when many film companies sign contracts with actors, they sign contracts for three or four films at once, and let one person represent a 'character' image, so that they can prevent the actor from leaving and the sequel will not be accepted by fans. In other words, the actor's salary has skyrocketed, affecting their production costs.

The reason why Feng Yu asked MGM to give Nolan such generous treatment is because he was afraid that Nolan would be poached and poached by Warner. After all, Nolan's Batman for Warner was about to be released at this time. If the public praise after the release is good, The box office is high, then Warners will inevitably ask Nolan to shoot a sequel.

It's a pity that Warner gave Nolan a fixed salary at this time, which is completely incomparable with MGM. Although box office dividends are also risky, Nolan can only take the dividends of pure profits, which is three times the box office minus the production cost, and the remaining money is the profit at the box office.

But this condition, no one gave Nolan such an unknown director at this time.

What's more, before Nolan signed with MGM, he also got news that Cameron was going to fight commercial movies again, and MGM was the first to throw away the olive branch.

Cameron has been shooting documentaries in the past few years. Many people invited him to continue filming The Terminator, but Cameron refused because he had a script in his heart. It has been almost ten years, and no one is willing to invest.

This is a script he wrote before the release of Titanic, and he originally thought that with the unparalleled box office of Titanic, he should be able to get a huge investment.

But those companies were very dissatisfied with Cameron's shooting and production speed, because Cameron said that he planned to complete the film in five to eight years, and it would be a masterpiece that once again created film history.

In five to eight years, no one wants to invest, especially Cameron's $300 million fee. How much box office will it take to get the money back? Even if it is calculated on a five-year basis, how much will 300 million US dollars become after inflation? If the $300 million is invested in other films, at least three or five large-scale commercial films can be made, how much money will it make?

So despite Cameron's reputation, he is regarded as one of the twenty most outstanding directors of the 21st century, with box office records, or he can't get investment?

But this time is different. MGM is not short of money, or Fengyu Holding Group is not short of money, and is willing to invest. Isn't this a hit and miss?

In particular, Cameron promised that he would make another "Terminator" while filming his dream movie "Avatar," and use the profits from the movie to support the production of "Avatar."

In particular, Cameron hopes to shoot "Avatar" into a series, like Terminator, Star Wars, into a series of movies, which has also been approved by MGM.

As long as the first one is successful, it will be in MGM's interest to make more money as a series.

In fact, people inside MGM are very opposed to it, but Ralph followed Feng Yu's advice and strongly suppressed the opposition. The company is the wind and rain holding group. We say investment, then investment!

Isn't it just money, bank loans can't go away, you can borrow from Fengyu Holding Group at the bank interest rate.

This is not only to gain financial benefits, but also to use the film company to influence the United States culturally, or to say it is anti-invasion.

For a long time, the United States has used their films and other cultural products to export their values, or the values ​​they want others to abide by.

So why can't it be reversed and the culture reversed to influence the values ​​of the American people?

The so-called commercial films in the United States focus on visual effects, the plot should be simple and straightforward, and there should be a clear main line. This main line can be love, it can be punishing evil and promoting good, it can be revenge, or it can be the opposition between good and evil.

In any case, the plot should be simple and crude, so that most people can easily understand it. Just like the fantasy novels Feng Yu read on the Internet in his previous life, it is enough to make people feel good.

And in this simple cool, it is good to highlight a universal value.

After signing the two directors, Feng Yu plans to meet the two in person to correct some of their wrong ideas, so that they can make money for the company faster.

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