Chapter 329 Schedule, Quota

The industry has already tacitly accepted that the copyright transaction amount of "The Fault in Our Stars" is 20 million dollars.

Most film and television companies in the industry, not to mention the net profit of one year, even the revenue may not be as much as the copyright income of this movie.

Even the revenue of a small company in two or three years cannot catch up with this number.

More importantly, "The Fault in Our Stars" has not been released in China yet!

Just imagine, when the movie is released, those guest actors can be ignored. With the appeal of Lin Nan and Liu Yifei alone, the box office will definitely not be low...

"Isn't this too profitable?"

"Only films that won awards at international film festivals can be sold at such a sky-high price. Ordinary people can't play with it."

Now the circle is hotly discussing the copyright profit of "The Fault in Our Stars".

As an artist of Shanhai Media, Yang Mi was inevitably asked about this topic in the crew.

"I heard that this movie only cost 10 million to shoot, and it was paid by Liu Yifei. Is it true?"

Feng Shaofeng asked Yang Mi curiously.

The latter hesitated and nodded: "I heard that it is like this. She and Director Lin both have no salary, and each of them has half of the investment..."

"No wonder those first-line stars are opening studios, investing in film and television, and being producers and producers!

If they bet on the right movie, wouldn't they make a fortune?

Of course, in terms of low risk and high profit, it is definitely not comparable to the works of big directors like Director Lin..."

Feng Shaofeng's words are really right.

Now more and more first-line stars are opening studios.

The most famous ones are Fan Bingbing, Li Bingbing, Huang Xiaoming, etc., all of whom are investing in movies and TV series.

One by one, they have multiple positions, actors, producers, producers, film and television company bosses...

"Maybe, this is the general trend of the industry!"

Zeng Jia said suddenly, which made everyone at the scene think about it.

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After not paying attention to the domestic film market for half a month, Lin Nan took the time to take a special look.

How to describe it?

The movie schedule in May was killed by imported films!

First, "Fast and Furious 5" and "Thor" entered the market at the beginning of the month, sweeping the domestic films in the first half of the month.

"Choy Li Fot Fist" by Wang Baoqiang, Ye Xuan, and Wu Mengda is the only domestic film that is well-known and has some gimmicks.

Even so, it could not escape the fate of cannon fodder and was crushed!

Less than a week later, "Pirates of the Caribbean: Strange Tides" and "Kung Fu Panda 2" also entered the market.

Several imported blockbusters took advantage of the situation and started the "slaughter".

Although Gu Changwei's "The Best Friend" has doubled its profits in Cannes, its domestic box office data is still as bad as it can be, closing at just over 40 million, and was withdrawn from the theaters.

A group of domestic films have no power to fight back, and they don't even do much publicity.

"It's so miserable!"

Lin Nan couldn't stand it anymore.

Many domestic films are just rotten, and the box office is only one million after one week of release. Like Liu Ye's "No Longer Let You Be Alone" and Li Xuejian's "A Hundred Years of Love Letters", they are all in this situation.

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Liu Yifei started again.

"Hurry up, take a photo for me."

Miss Liu handed the camera to Lin Nan, and she ran back to the sofa and sat cross-legged, with a sly and naughty smile on her face.

In her arms were two smaller pure gold olive branch trophies and two certificates.

A snow-white kitten, lying on her legs, staring at Lin Nan with heterochromatic pupils, a little innocent.

The shutter was pressed, and a photo was taken.

"Let me see..."

After a while, Liu Yifei's Weibo was updated.

A freshly baked photo, with a sentence:

"These are all mine!"

Many fans quickly began to leave messages and forward, and then actors and artists in the circle...

"I want it too, please tell Director Lin."

It seems that Zhou Xun has not received any notices these two days and is still resting. That's why she is so idle and comments so quickly.

Lin Nan watched Liu Yifei chatting there with great interest, so he didn't disturb her.

He saw another news from Tangren.

"After "The Legend of Sword and Fairy 1" and "The Legend of Sword and Fairy 3", Tangren has another game-adapted drama "Xuan-Yuan Sword". The launch conference was held today at Hengdian World Studios."

"Hu Ge will work with Tang Yan for the fourth time, playing an extraordinary couple."

"Tangren's contracted artist, Beijing Film Academy freshman Nazha, will play the descendant of Nuwa in "Xuan-Yuan Sword", challenging Tang Yan's Zi Xuan and Liu Yifei's Zhao Linger!"

...

Lin Nan had a hunch that Cai Yinong would bring Liu Yifei along during the promotion, but he didn't expect to guess it right.

To promote newcomers, he brought in Liu Yifei, who also played the descendant of Nuwa. This routine makes people feel very familiar, it must be Cai Yinong's idea!

Lin Nan's phone was vibrating, and a text message came in.

He glanced at it and saw that it was from Han Sanping.

It's time to set the schedule for "Star Luck".

...

The atmosphere at China Film Group has not been very good recently.

As the industry leader, the state-owned film group that holds the monopoly on imported films has made a major mistake in scheduling.

The market was sluggish in the first two months, and this month imported films are being sold out. Many film companies have complained, and Han Sanping has been under a lot of pressure.

When Lin Nan arrived at China Film, he didn't expect Yu Dong to be there.

The latter didn't look very good, and he didn't know what happened.

"Director Lin, Director Han is waiting for you, I'll leave first."

"Director Yu, take care."

After saying hello casually, Lin Nan didn't care.

In the office, Han Sanping had a gloomy face and was obviously in a bad mood.

Seeing Lin Nan come in, the other party nodded and pointed to the sofa.

"Sit down and help yourself to whatever you want to drink."

Lin Nan was not polite, walked decisively to the tea cabinet on the side, and opened the small drawer at the bottom.

On the other side, Han Sanping couldn't help but twitch the corner of his mouth when he saw Lin Nan's behavior.

Then he turned his head in a different direction, out of sight!

After making tea, Lin Nan started to talk.

"I see that Yu Dong's face looks very bad. What's going on?"

It was a good thing that Lin Nan didn't mention it. When he mentioned it, Han Sanping's eyes widened immediately.

"He still has a bad look on his face? Give him a bad look!"

Lin Nan became even more curious, "Director Han, what happened?"

Han Sanping glared at Lin Nan angrily and then started to speak.

Yu Dong was a man who did big things, so he thought that Han Sanping, an old leader, was behind the scenes and did something that was to be executed first and reported later.

He bought the rights to five films at the Cannes Film Festival, and now he came to Han Sanping to ask for a quota.

Speaking of quotas, they are actually a gray area in the film industry.

Only China Film Group has the right to import foreign language films.

The domestic distribution rights of foreign language films are in the hands of China Film and China Film.

Imported films are divided into divided films and batch films.

Most of the time, both film groups are too busy, let alone having more quotas to batch films.

Therefore, the two groups will hand over some film batches to private film companies for a fee.

However, due to policy reasons, the name was changed to say that private film companies are assisting the distribution work of the two groups.

This "paid" price is not low, it is about 25% of the domestic box office of the approved films.

Yu Dong just didn't communicate with Han Sanping and bought the copyright of the foreign language film without permission. When he came back to ask Han Sanping for the quota, he found something unexpected.

China Film Group has no more quotas. It keeps enough for the group itself, and the other quotas have been "paid".

Yu Dong hoped that the old leader could help and extract some of what he had left from Zhongying...

It was a bit embarrassing for Yu Dong to let Han Sanping do something that was obviously a mistake!

The result was that he was scolded by Han Sanping.

"The fat-brained thing was fascinated by a woman..."

Lin Nan admired Yu Dong, he really dared to ask for anything.

"He didn't go to China Film Group?"

As soon as he asked this question, Lin Nan knew that he was being reckless.

The shareholders there are all major state-owned film giants, and the competition with each other is even more serious.

Yu Dong is obviously from Han Sanping, so Shangying and the others will definitely not agree...

To be honest, Lin Nan was a little tempted by the quota thing, but he didn't think much about it before.

Thinking about it now, he could definitely take back the films from Crystal Pictures in the form of quotas and find Enlight to help him distribute them!

You only need to pay a "paid" fee, and the cost is almost zero!

"How about Director Han leaving one or two quotas for me next year? I will definitely not think about the quota for imported films..."

Han Sanping squinted his eyes, looked at Lin Nan, and nodded after a long time, "Okay."

Lin Nan didn't expect that there would be unexpected gains when he came here today, which was very good.

"Thank you very much, Director Han. Don't forget it then, haha..."

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The next thing to talk about is the schedule of "Star".

Han Sanping looked at Lin Nan with a smile and asked:

"Tell me, how much did it cost? I don't believe the number reported online."

"$28.6 million."

Lin Nan said it bluntly. Han Sanping If you really want to know, it's not difficult. You can find out from the tax department in minutes.

"Hey, good guy! When I retire, can I go work for you?"

"Haha, Director Han is joking..."

Han Sanping shook his head and pointed at Lin Nan with a smile.

"Which schedule?"

"August 6th."

Hearing this time, Han Sanping nodded first, "Well, summer time, not bad..."

Before he finished speaking, he raised his head again, "Is this Chinese Valentine's Day?"

Lin Nan nodded, thinking that Han Sanping's reaction was too quick, right? !

"You do have some ideas. Chinese Valentine's Day is a good day. It just so happens that "The Fault in Our Stars" is also a romance movie."

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While talking, Han Shuo asked about Lin Nan's new film plans.

"We have an idea, but it will take a while to finalize it."

While in Cannes, Lin Nan had thought about a new movie plan. There are several options currently available, and during this period, you need to consider them carefully.

"Okay, if you need help then, just ask. Now that the market has slowly picked up, try not to make small fuss..."

Hearing this, Lin Nan was speechless.

Han Sanping had said this so many times. Every time Lin Nan started a new movie, he would always talk about it.

"Of course, if I make a commercial film, there is a high probability that I won't make small fuss. This can still be guaranteed."

Lin Nan replied.

He will probably never touch small to medium-budget commercial films in the future.