Chapter 296 Profit (1/5)
Pinfeng Entertainment is already a company that Hollywood cannot ignore.
Generally speaking, medium-sized Hollywood production companies produce five to six movies a year, and large studios will adopt the waterfall-style production model.
Large studios shoot and produce about ten movies every year and release more than ten movies. Although they are the best, they also have the gambling elements. As long as they succeed with one-third or even fewer films, the film company will be enough to make a profit.
Stephanie Mayer's Twilight has indeed helped a lot in its peak development, with three series released so far, winning nearly $2.6 billion in global box office.
Surrounding retail, subsequent window period revenue is more...
But Stephanie Mel also earned at least $300 million in the development of this project, and she has box office revenue...
Moreover, Dingfeng did not cheat her, and the account statement she received was definitely the most realistic financial statement.
It's too simple to cheat an outsider. Just do something on the bill. The two films of "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" have a global box office of up to 2.4 billion US dollars, but they are completely in the box office, and the books are indeed the case!
No professional accountant can find any problem...
Tsuna respects Stephanie Mel enough. You should know that the "Twilight" series was originally on Paramount's desk for 6 months, but they were not attracted to it. They all thought that the vampire theme was old-fashioned, and the story was mentally retarded. It was a bad project and no one was willing to do it.
Think about it, if anyone is interested in "Twilight", where will it be the top turn to film?
Even so, the peak still offered 15% of the box office profit to Stephanie Mayer.
Refer to Warner Bros. Treating J.K. Rowling...
Hollywood still respects the original author!
But, "Host"...
The 20% share of US$20 million is a bit high.
Unlike the "Twilight" series, "Host" is a short story. Even if Meyer intends to write two sequels for the novel, it will form a trilogy...
This price is a bit high...
I heard that Lions Mön took on this series happily and wish them good luck!
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"The total revenue of "Silent Land" is $381.2 million, the total revenue of "Human Purge Plan" is $338.2 million, and the total revenue of "Luxing" is $418.1 million..."
"Actually, we have a market for just making horror movies!"
Last year, Dingfeng Entertainment's overseas revenue reached US$3 billion. If channel revenue is added, this data may have doubled!
Of course, the profit is not that high. This is just total income. Excluding labor, taxes, operations, lawyer fees, accountant fees, channel fees represented by videotape stores, relativity of borrowing interest and overseas channel expansion and other expenses, the net profit is about 800 million US dollars...
These are just book numbers. As the producer, they are the main expenses of various expenses, such as the union expenses of the film, the post-production bonus of the main creators, market research expenses, etc.
"Last year, the peak profit was about $1.5 billion, and I think we can do theme parks."
"What theme park to do? Horror house?"
“…No?”
"It's not impossible...Freman, what do you think?"
Freman looked at Wan Ziren: "…If you can take back the copyright of "Saw", I think it's okay for us to build a theme park!"
“…Liongate cannot be sold to us!”
Zhang Junsheng suddenly felt blessed: "Then buy it!"
“…Who is acquiring? Lions Gate?”
"Yes! It now has a market value of $5 billion. Excluding the shares of Starz TV, the market value is about $1 billion. Freman, you find Universal or Disney, we will acquire it together, we want a film library, Starz TV will give them!"
“…Disney is pursuing Lucasfilm recently…”
“Universal is also interested in Lucasfilm…”
"Then look for Amazon or Apple, they definitely want to get involved in streaming!"
“…Why can’t we acquire it?”
Zhang Junsheng sighed: "Because I am Chinese, American law does not allow foreigners to obtain the operating qualifications of TV and TV networks!"
Freman looked at Wen Ziren and asked, "...Boss, you can burn it after reading it. What is your shares?"
"About 60% left...what happened?"
"…fine…"
He also wanted to persuade Zhang Junsheng to dilute his shares. Now it seems that it is impossible...
Sixty percent, it went public in March after reading, with a market value of at least US$40 billion - Google launched a $38 billion merger and acquisition, and was rejected...
Wan Ziren suggested: "John Malone has always planned to sell his shares, if we can contact him..."
"Who is John Malone?"
"The major shareholder of Lions Gate!"
"…Are you very familiar with him?"
"It's okay, he promoted my "Saw" back then!"
"You go talk to him, Freman, you go to Sally Redstone, as far as I know, Viacom has been trapped in being unable to create popular movies and TV shows, and they should be interested in Starz!"
"…That?"
"What else is there?"
"No, tonight's Oscar..."
Zhang Junsheng rolled his eyes: "Oscars are available every year. If you want to acquire the Lions Gate, you must not miss it, and you will never miss it again!"
“…OK!”
...
Oscars have bonuses for the box office of a movie!
The best film can increase the box office by an average of 18.1 million US dollars, and the dividends are more obvious today. Generally, the best film of the Oscar can enter the markets of many countries around the world. For example, "The Story of Water", a pure third-level film, a human-beast love, is it released in the mainland in a grand manner?
But films like "Out of the Access" have received nearly $800 million worldwide, and the effect brought by the Oscars is not so obvious...
This time, the Ao is mainly to stabilize Yuehua's stock price.
Mr. Ge and Zhou Xing left, Yuehua's stock price fell into a low tide. At that time, the company formulated two policies, one of which was to use the Oscars, and the other was to stimulate the box office of "Lost in Thailand"...
However, no one can guarantee that "Lost in Thailand" will succeed before it is officially released...
Then rushing to Ao is equivalent to double insurance.
After reading it, Zhang Junsheng earned as much as US$1.8 billion in dividends last year...
In addition to dividends, he has also had a lot of personal income in the past five years, especially last year. As the president of the two companies and the first producer of a series of movies and TV series, he has corresponding income, annual salary, screenwriter fees, producer salary, producer share, etc., totaling up to 300 million US dollars.
Not to mention anything else, this can also diminish the profit of the video.
In North America, a movie is profitable, and although there are not many taxes to be paid, it will not be less!
Zhang Junsheng really didn't expect that this investment project would be transferred to China...
Of course, half of the taxes are paid.
Various legal tax avoidance measures can be used, but measures that are too risky are not suitable for the time being.
Chapter completed!