Chapter 835 Acquire...acquire?

Hollywood's profit-sharing model can generally be called "waterfall profit-sharing".

When the film's revenue is slowly coming back, as one of the profit-sharing people, is your profit-sharing priority ranked first or last?

Can you participate in the profit-sharing as soon as the film company gets the money, or do you have to wait until the relevant shooting and publicity costs are deducted before you can participate in the profit-sharing?

Many times, the water of the waterfall may have dried up halfway before it flows to the foot of the mountain.

In other words, if your profit-sharing priority is very low, such as at the bottom of the waterfall, then it is very likely that there will be no "oil and water" to share when the profit-sharing is done.

For a box office hit movie, they can give you a bill of a loss of hundreds of millions of dollars.

How to ensure that you can occupy the upper position under the "waterfall profit-sharing", Hao Yun and his team still need to explore a lot of things.

Since you have to contact it sooner or later, it is inevitable to pay tuition.

However, Hao Yun has not yet communicated with Paramount.

Michael Bay called and asked impatiently, "Paramount has contacted you. Have you agreed?"

"Yes, but I haven't agreed yet. What's wrong?" Hao Yun was like someone who was sleepy and someone sent him a pillow. He was just looking for a professional in Hollywood to inquire about the issue of profit sharing.

He just didn't know whether Michael Bay, who had a deep cooperation with Paramount, was willing to help him.

"How much did they give you?" Michael Bay asked.

"Three million to buy out. If we want to share the profit, I guess we need to discuss some details. Can Brother Bay help me check it?"

Hao Yun asked without any hope.

Maybe he could find Ryan Reynolds and ask him to help introduce a professional.

"What do you need to check? Just reject them directly. Three million is a way to get rid of beggars, right?" Michael Bay said bluntly.

"I only spent three million to shoot "Buried" before."

It's not the first time that he was treated like a beggar, but last time it was Hao Yun who offered three million.

"How much did you make from "Buried"?" Michael Bay asked.

"200,000 US dollars for director and screenwriter fees..." Hao Yun was helpless, after all, the total cost was only three million.

"I got 300,000 as a producer." Michael Bay said.

"Fuck!" The two of them had revealed each other's secrets. Hao Yun didn't expect that he was both a director and a screenwriter, but he didn't get as much as Michael Bay, who was just a figurehead.

"You don't have to ask Paramount to distribute, we can distribute it ourselves!" Michael Bay said his remuneration to stimulate Hao Yun and let him "stand up".

"What? You mean? How can we distribute it?" Hao Yun was confused.

The film industry is useless, just a shell company, even the office location is a temporary group, how can it have the ability to distribute.

Hao Yun's plan is to let the film industry produce "Manchester by the Sea" from scratch, and then try to get involved in the distribution after it becomes famous.

"Simple, just acquire a distribution company." Michael Bay said as a matter of course.

"Acquire...acquire?" It's even more outrageous.

"Yes!" Michael Bay was very sure and certain.

"Do we have money?" Hao Yun had not yet injected funds into the film industry, and Michael Bay had not taken any money.

"Who the hell would use their own money to buy a company? What is the bank for? Doing business in Miguo..." Michael Bay began to explain to Hao Yun the business philosophy of Miguo people.

The implication was that the two of them took out loans to do things.

As for whether they could get a loan or how much they could get, there was no need to worry.

Hao Yun's future movies could be used as collateral.

The bank never worried that you couldn't pay back the money.

When you can't pay back the money, they have plenty of ways to take away your company, your savings, your house, your wife...

Oh, they won't take your wife.

"Brother Bei, do you have a goal?" Hao Yun didn't really trust Michael Bay that much.

But he always felt that Michael Bay didn't need to cheat him.

Because he couldn't cheat much money.

And Michael Bay's career was so good, he didn't need to live by cheating.

"There are a few. I'll send you the information later. I'll have someone take care of it in the next few days." Michael Bay also decided to acquire a distribution company to build Feichai Pictures after some investigation.

"Buried" made him see the infinite potential of Hao Yun.

If "Buried" was just an accident and a benefit for Hao Yun as a novice director in Hollywood, then Hao Yun's "20 Again" was able to crush Wu Yushen, which made Michael Bay look at him with more respect.

Wu Yushen is a well-known figure in Hollywood.

The box office of "Face/Off" directed by him was 246 million US dollars, and it became one of the "Top Ten Best Films of the Year".

He also showed his skills in the big IP "Mission Impossible 2" and became the annual box office champion of the year.

This "Red Cliff" cost 80 million US dollars. Even if it was taken to Hollywood, it would be an A-level big production. Unexpectedly, it lost to the movie made by Hao Yun with less than 5 million US dollars.

This made Michael Bay determined to be with Hao Yun "forever".

If he doesn't get on the train, it will be too late.

So, he quickly found Hao Yun and discussed how to make it bigger and stronger together and create more glory.

He didn't even have time to prepare his own new movie.

"Brother Bei, it's up to you!" Hao Yun chose to believe in Michael Bay.

Since splitting the profits with Paramount is an attempt, and cooperating with Michael Bay to start a company is also an attempt, why can't we be a little crazy.

However, when rejecting Paramount, Hao Yun was still very polite.

There was no such thing as a falling out, as he and Paramount had no grudges.

Paramount ranked first among the six major Hollywood studios last year, and there might be a possibility of cooperation in the future.

A movie, especially one with a cost of over 100 million US dollars, must be made by several companies working together.

Going it alone will kill you fast.

Just like MGM, which was killed by Wu Yushen's "Windtalkers".

Of course, MGM was almost finished at that time, and its decline was a foregone conclusion. Wu Baige just blocked MGM's chance of a comeback.

Hao Yun always likes to take steady steps, and the film industry cannot just eat alone.

A few days after the movie was released, J Entertainment on the Bangbang side showed enough sincerity.

J Group was established in 1995.

In just over 10 years, it has built an industrial chain including multi-screen cinemas, film production and distribution, cable TV networks, audio-visual distribution, and mobile entertainment.

It has famous directors and actors such as Park Chan-wook, Kim Ki-duk, and Lee Joon-ki.

This time they offered a high price of 3.5 million US dollars.

In fact, with the film market in Bang-bang, 3.5 million US dollars is enough to make a movie.

In 2007, the average production cost of a Bang-bang movie was 4.2 billion won (1 US dollar is about 980 won), of which the pure production cost was 3.7 billion won, which is exactly 3.77 million US dollars.

Just buying the copyright will cost the money to make a movie.

J Entertainment can be said to have burned its boats.

They actually have no choice.

In the past two years, the local film industry in Bang-bang has fallen into crisis. Two consecutive years of recession have caused the Bang-bang film market to experience negative growth for the first time in 11 years in 2007.

Among the 112 Bang-bang films released, only 13 films were profitable or broke even.

Moreover, blockbusters from Hollywood have divided up most of the box office of Bang-bang cinemas.

Among the top ten movies in the Bangbang box office rankings in 2007, only "Dragon Wars", "Gorgeous Vacation" and "Ugly Girl's Turnaround" were Bangbang movies, and the rest were imported movies.

It is becoming increasingly difficult to get a hit movie review.

No director can do it anymore.

Now that there is hope, J Entertainment feels it is necessary to take it even if the cost is higher.

After all, the production cost of a movie like "20 Again" is not high.

Hao Yun spent 30 million to make it, while they only spent 20 million in Bangbang.

What's more, if J Entertainment does not buy it and it falls into the hands of competitors, they will feel even more uncomfortable when they see their competitors making money.

According to the current exchange rate (1 US dollar = 6.94 RMB), 3.5 million US dollars is 24.29 million RMB.

The adaptation rights alone almost paid back the investment.

Taking advantage of this incident, the official blog of "20 Again" hyped it up again.

Awesome or not? Awesome or not?

After the official blog released this news, several major actors reposted it, and it seems that the celebration banquet is guaranteed.

I heard that if the box office reaches 300 million, a big red envelope will be given out for the celebration.

The main actors all reduced their pay to perform, which saved the major producers a lot of money.

But now that the movie is profitable, it is naturally impossible for the producers to get all the benefits.

So the actors and the backstage must share the benefits.

Hao Yun is the screenwriter, director, and leading actor, so he must also make some money. Otherwise, with the little investment from Heidou Media and Anhao Film and Television, most of the money earned by this movie has nothing to do with him.

As for whether the major producers agree or not...

It is impossible for them to disagree. Although there is no "betting agreement", if anyone dares to object, they will not be included next time.