"Of course, I just want to make a TV series, how about it? Are you interested?"

"Of course I'm interested, but you should know my worth?"

20 million club...

Starring in a TV series must meet his value!

The most expensive actor in the TV series at this stage is Jim Parsons, whose single-episode pay is as high as $1 million, but "The Big Bang Theory" is a short film. If you count, it will cost more than $24 million in a single season...

The most expensive TV actors of all time are of course George Clooney and Charlie Sheen, both of whom earn more than $25 million in a single season

If Little Li Zi is invited, his price will not be less than 30 million US dollars!

In addition, the supporting actors cannot be too bad. The actors' payout is estimated to exceed 80 million US dollars. In addition to the production costs, it is estimated that the cost per season will exceed 200 million US dollars!

Zhang Junsheng smiled indifferently: "You should also know my worth!"

The production cost of "Pacific War" is $217 million, and HBO said it would be filmed!

"Friends" final season burned 180 million US dollars in 20 episodes;

Season 5 of "The Story of the Emergency Room" burned $270 million...

It’s not that you can’t afford to burn it after reading it!

Leonardo joins will definitely drive a lot of VIP members...

Thirty million US dollars, not too much!

However, after thinking for a few seconds, Leonardo shook his head: "I need to think about it again..."

“…Are you worried about the tendency of the project?”

"Of course, according to your statement, black people are responsible for the fall of Baltimore. I dare not act like this kind of TV series!"

"…I just state the facts, never said that black people should be responsible for a city. Besides, do you think they should not be responsible for the fall of Baltimore? Baltimore, where the American National Anthem was born!"

"I'll think about it again..."

It's like rejecting it in disguise...

This is normal. Like Leonardo, he must consider his own image. He can play a liar or a gangster movie, but he must not stand on the opposite side of political correctness!

Even "Wolf of Wall Street" was because anti-Wall Street was popular in the United States at that time...

...

Leonardo's refusal did not affect Zhang Junsheng. He told Wan Ziren his thoughts, and Wan Ziren helped him contact several screenwriters, and then the project was officially established.

Of course, political correctness is very important, so "Baltimore" is completely objective and has no subjective tendencies.

Media, black people, police stations, in short, there is no good thing!

Martin Scorsese is very good at such subjects.

Martin Scorsese is not a Hollywood business director in the traditional sense, he is very good at telling stories!

Hollywood does not need a director who is particularly good at telling stories. Most Hollywood movies are assembly-line products. Yes, Hollywood needs creativity, but everyone knows that creativity and stories are the least valuable. Hollywood-level movies have very simple stories. Many works such as "Titanic". In terms of the storyline of the script, at most, they are second-rate or even third-rate screenwriters.

Such stories have no creativity.

If a newcomer took this story to the film company, no one would pay any attention to it.

The important thing is to build a brand!

For example, James Cameron, Tom Cruise and Tom Hanks, etc.

Whether it is a producer, author, actor or director.

What Hollywood values ​​is not talent, but profit potential.

When a person's name has the ability to attract audiences, or to attract money in the audience's pocket, then he is the so-called "genius" that Hollywood is looking for.

This doesn't apply to American dramas!

TV series attach great importance to rhythm, logic and plot, especially after streaming media intervention...

A good idea can really affect the value of a work.

Of course, a good team is also needed. I believe Martin Scorsese will definitely make "Baltimore" so heart-stirring!

...

On February 25, Zhang Junsheng packed things and prepared to return to China.

Liu Sisi obviously hadn't had enough fun: "...Are you going back to China?"

"…Yes, go back to China to do something and receive an interview. Where are you? Still staying in Australia?"

"Well, Ye Qing and I will go to New Zealand tomorrow!"

"...Okay." Zhang Junsheng thought for a while: "I have a house in Orange. You can live there in Orange. There is a butler cleaning every day!"

"You still bought a house in New Zealand?"

"It's not me who bought it, it's my mother... She bought five sets two years ago and sold three sets..."

Liu Sisi's eyes lit up: "Have you made money?"

Zhang Junsheng replied casually: "It should be profitable. In recent years, New Zealand has immigrated a lot, and most of them have concentrated in Orange. House prices are said to have risen by two or three times..."

"Auntie really has investment vision!"

"…She has an investment team, Canada, New Zealand and Greece, and she has bought a lot of real estate...wait."

The phone rang...

"Hey, Frank?"

"Water? Netflix went bankrupt? Why?"

"Okay, I know... how much debt is? One hundred and four billion dollars...Damn!"

"…Amazon wants to take over? Let him accept it, what can we do?"

"Okay, I'll check..."

After hanging up the phone, Zhang Junsheng turned on his phone and found that there was an E-mile sent to him by Frank.

It introduces the bankruptcy of Netflix in detail. Simply put, they want to learn to burn it after reading it, do self-made dramas, and then lose money...

They invested in four works: "Hemlock Grove", "Marco Polo", "The Storm of the Holy City", and "A New Era of Prehistoric", and all failed!

Especially "The Storm of the Holy City", I want to create "Game of Thrones" belonging to Netflix, and I lost all my money with a $70 million investment;

"Marco Polo", an epic drama, a $90 million investment, a bad reputation...

"The New Era of Prehistoric" spent 20 million dollars to invite Spielberg to press the formation, which was useless;

The self-produced dramas did not become as popular as they were after reading them, and Netflix's paid members did not increase much.

For these four dramas, Netflix gave all his money and lost a big bet, and he could only declare bankruptcy...

Of course, Netflix is ​​still the largest DVD rental service provider in the United States. In addition, Netflix's market penetration rate in the United States' home video streaming service reached 24%, which is a very powerful historical legacy resource.

According to Netflix's current market value, $13 billion plus 14 billion in debt is close to 27 billion. If you want to swallow Netflix after reading it, you will have to spend at least one billion to build it...

Is this a good deal?

Moreover, the operating costs of burning after reading are getting higher and higher. For example, the authorization fee for films and TV series produced by HBO TV directly increased from 30 million US dollars to 300 million US dollars.

If you don't buy it, users will not be able to see HBO's works after reading it...

There are more than HBO in the US cable TV stations, and at least dozens of TV stations that have signed contracts after reading and burning them, which have significantly increased their licensing fees...
Chapter completed!