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Lanly and Drake left the hotel room. This is Harvey's room, the best hotel in Park City.

Relatively speaking, Ranley and Drake, who are shy in their pockets, live in Salt Lake City, because the hotel in Park City is too expensive during the Sundance Film Festival, and Salt Lake City is only a 30-minute drive away. On the contrary, it is more economical.

Standing outside the hotel room, Drake suddenly felt scared for a while, his feet were a little weak, and he almost fell directly on the ground. The embarrassed appearance made Lan Li couldn't help but laugh, "Would you like to sit down and rest? "

Drake waved his hand again and again. He had been sitting for twenty-five minutes just now, and his **** started to ache. What he needs now is not to sit down and rest, but to confirm and try, "We really rejected Weinstein?"

Lan Li nodded.

"We really rejected 4.5 million?"

Lan Li nodded again.

Drake felt that his blood sugar was a little low, and he was dizzy, and he quickly reached out to support the wall to avoid the danger of falling, "Then...how much do we need?"

"I don't know, eight million?" Lan Li shrugged, and then saw Drake take a deep breath. He was almost out of breath, so Lan Li just laughed out loud, "If If you regret it, we can still go back now. I believe Harvey is very willing to renegotiate with us and sign the contract."

Drake took a big breath and finally gasped, "Uh, I need to digest it. The amount of information today is a bit big."

How is the distribution copyright of a movie calculated? How should the buyout price be calculated? How did the proportion of share come from?

This is a very cumbersome calculation process, even if it is a real industry insider, it will not be clear for a while. After simplification, you can simply and crudely make a numerical analogy.

Generally speaking, movie income can be divided into two parts, box office income and peripheral income. The latter includes a wide range of titles such as video tape rental, TV broadcasting, network on-demand, peripheral products, theme parks, overseas copyrights, etc. The former is the movie box office that people are familiar with.

Peripheral income is a specialized product of large film companies. It is unrealistic to make a profit through movie box office alone. For companies like Disney and Warner Bros., peripheral income is actually the bulk.

But movie box office is the main source of income for others. After a movie wins the box office, it will be divided among the cinema, distribution and production.

For any work that is shown in the cinema, the theater will formulate two ways to achieve profitability. One is to negotiate a guaranteed reserve price. For example, the film will be shown on several screens for four weeks, and the theater will be paid $100,000 for production and distribution. This is fixed. Producers and distributors will lose more if they earn more, and lose if they earn less. However, North America now basically adopts the second method, which is divided.

Splitting is a very cumbersome calculation process. After careful calculations, the overall can be summarized as that 40% of the movie box office is taken away by the theaters, and the remaining 60% is paid by the distributor and producer. Carve up.

Under normal circumstances, the distributor’s dividend ratio fluctuates between 15 and 20 percent, while the producer takes the remaining 40 to 45 percent.

Among them, the producer’s dividend needs to be divided into two parts, one for the production company itself, and the other for the director, actors, screenwriters, producers and other crew members. Under normal circumstances, the producer keeps 15-20%, and the rest is obtained by the crew.

For example, after "Crazy Love" is released and it gets 10 million in the North American box office, the theater will take away 4 million, the distributor takes 1.5 million, and the producer takes 2.5 million. , The crew will share the remaining two million.

If it is a large film company that has both distribution and production, such as Warner Bros., then they will take away 4 million; if it is an independent film company, the production and crew members are the same team, such as "Love Is Crazy." Then they will take away all four and five million.

Of course, these percentages can only be approximate, and the specific percentages will still vary according to the different circumstances of each work.

Especially for the crew members, if you use a big name like Tom Cruise, the dividend ratio will naturally be higher. If you add a big director like Steven Spielberg, then only the part of the crew will pay dividends. It may be as high as 40%, or even 50%. As a result, the income of the other three parties will naturally have to be adjusted accordingly.

It can be seen from this that the producers hardly make money, because their dividends need to be deducted from promotional expenses, production costs, etc., not only do not make money, but even post money.

So in the industry, people will simply, if a movie wants to rely on the box office to make money for the producer, then the box office must reach three or four times the production cost, and this is possible. Relatively speaking, for producers, peripheral income is the fastest way to recover costs.

For the "Crazy Love" crew, they are the producers, that is, according to industry rules, they can divide up 40 to 45 percent of the box office. Although, in reality, independent crews like them may not have such a high box office share ratio. Generally, it fluctuates drastically between 25% and 45%. Detailed figures are still required. Look at the process of negotiation.

Then, you can simply take a fuzzy median value of 30%, and then calculate such an account. If the North American box office of "Crazy Love" is 10 million, then the crew can be allocated 3 million US dollars.

Harvey first offered a buyout price of 1.5 million, and then raised it to 4.5 million, an increase of 3 million in one breath, which is actually equivalent to when the box office of "Love Going Crazy" reached 10 million. , The dividends that the crew should have received. In other words, this is changing the soup without changing the medicine. Harvey only vomited the part that the crew of "Love Is Crazy" should get, but made a heart-wrenching expression. His acting skills are really perfect.

More importantly, Harvey uses a buy-out price, that is, if the North American box office of "Crazy Love" is higher than 10 million, the crew will not get any income, which belongs to their "3%." Ten" will all fall into Harvey's pocket.

But what if the North American box office of "Crazy Love" is less than 10 million?

Harvey will not suffer, because he only spent "4.5 million US dollars". Instead, he can reap a 60% box office dividend of "Love Crazy", that is, as long as "Love With a North American box office of more than 7.5 million, he will not lose money. Even if he does not reach this number, his loss will not be large.

Yes, this is almost a deal that will not fail.

Harvey is indeed a veteran and cunning. He has firmly grasped his advantages from beginning to end. Even in the face of Lan Li's sudden troubles, he still has not lost control. This is the true "Godfather" style.

However, Lan Li doesn't understand these inside details, and the principle of his judgment is very simple.

Andy gave two sets of numbers, one is the buyout price, seven million; the other is the share price, four million plus the percentage of the share. So how do these two sets of numbers come out?

Assuming that the box office of "Crazy Love" in North America is only 10 million, it means that their share of the share should be 30%. In this case, the box office share is 3 million, plus the copyright price of four. One million, that is, seven million is exactly equal to the buyout price.

Just now Harvey put forward a buyout price of 4.5 million yuan with a resolute expression on his face, but Lan Li knew that since Harvey was willing to raise this price, it was clear that Andy’s judgment was accurate, “Love is crazy. "The price of the share issuance rights is indeed hovering around 4 million, so if Harvey wants to buy out, 7 million is the most appropriate price.

Of course, the premise of all these discussions is that the North American box office of "Crazy Love" is 10 million. As to whether this standard can be reached, this is not a question that Lanly can answer. All are just hypothetical guesses. Maybe higher, maybe lower, everything is possible. Andy is estimating, Harvey is also estimating, and other issuing companies are also estimating.

What's more, Lan Li firmly believes that an old fox like Harvey can't quote the top price in one go, leaving no room for himself. Harvey is a businessman, not an artist, let alone a philanthropist, but a businessman of Chiguoguo, a businessman with the highest interests, at any time, he will leave a way for himself.

Therefore, even if Lan Li's judgment on numbers is not so accurate ~www.novelhall.com~, he will never be fooled easily.

As for the eight million that Drake just heard, it was just a joke.

"What should we do now?" Drake was finally relieved, and raised his head to look at Lan Li, the lingering heart in his expression that made people smile.

"Waiting?" Lan Li shrugged and gave the simplest but most true answer. Drake was stunned, then laughed.

For "Love is crazy", their wisest thing now is to wait. Because they are a seller’s market, waiting for buyers to come to buy. At present, two well-known companies, Paramount Advantage and Weinstein Pictures, have come to the door. Next, as the reputation of the film further ferments, it is bound to return. More competitors will join in.

All they need to do is wait for the price.

This year's Sundance seems to lack a bit of explosive power, and has not been able to reproduce the blowout of the past three years. At present, the high-profile "Another Earth" and "Double-faced Martha" have not been able to detonate the word of mouth, and the only one that can be compared with "Crazy Love" is "Seek Asylum".

This movie starring Jessica Chastain and Michael Shannon, and directed by Jeff Nichols, won a high score of 90 points in the official show, surpassing "Love Is Crazy", and temporarily stays high. Ranked first in the journal. However, "seeking asylum" failed to detonate a chain reaction among the audience, and the overall momentum was still slightly inferior.

Sure enough, after Renly and Drake left the hotel, they came to the door again less than one phone number. It seems that Weinstein Pictures' shots have leaked out the wind, and other bigwigs have also started to move. This time, it was Focus Films that came to the door. (.)()

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