Chapter 185

The industry has already defaulted that 'Stars' copyright transaction amount is 20 million dollars.

The vast majority of film and television companies in the circle, not to mention the pure profit of a year, even the revenue might not be as much as the copyright revenue of this film.

Even the revenue of small companies for two or three years can't catch up to this number.

An even more important point is that 'The Fault in Our Stars' hasn't even been released domestically yet!

Just imagine, when the film is released, those guest actors can be ignored; just with the appeal of Lin Nan and Liu Yifei alone, the box office definitely won't be low...

"This is too profitable, right?"

"Only films that have won major awards at international film festivals can sell for such a sky-high price; ordinary people can't play with it."

Now the circle is hotly discussing the copyright profitability of 'Stars'.

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

"I heard that this film only cost 10 million to shoot, and it was Liu Yifei who paid for it; is it true?"

Feng Shaofeng asked Yang Mi curiously.

The latter hesitated for a moment and nodded: "Heard it's like this, she and Lin Dao were both zero-remuneration, each holding half the investment..."

"No wonder those first-line stars are all opening studios, doing film and television investment, being producers and presenters!

If this is a bet on a play, wouldn't it be a huge profit?

Of course, when it comes to low risk and high profitability, it definitely can't be compared with the works of major directors like Lin Dao..."

Feng Shaofeng's words were really not wrong.

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

The most famous are Fan Bingbing, Li Bingbing, Huang Xiaoming, and these people, all investing in films and TV dramas.

Each one holds multiple positions, actor, producer, presenter, film and television company boss...

"Perhaps, this is the major trend of the industry!"

Zeng Jia said unexpectedly, making everyone at the scene thoughtful.

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Having not paid attention to the domestic film market for half a month, Lin Nan took time to specifically take a look.

How to describe it?

The May film release schedule was slaughtered by imported films!

First, 'Fast & Furious 5' and 'Thor' entered the market at the beginning of the month, sweeping away domestic films in the first ten days.

Wang Baoqiang, Ye Xuan, and Wu Mengda's 'Cai Li Fo' was the only domestic film that could be named and had a bit of a gimmick.

Even so, it couldn't escape the fate of being cannon fodder and was crushed!

Immediately after, in less than a week, 'Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides' and 'Kung Fu Panda 2' also entered the market.

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

Gu Changwei's 'Life is Hot', although it had already earned double in Cannes, the domestic box office data was as ugly as it could be, closing at just over 40 million, and was taken off the screen.

A host of domestic films had no power to fight back, and didn't even do much promotion.

"Truly miserable!"

Lin Nan couldn't bear to look at it.

Many domestic films just gave up, released for a week, with box office not even reaching a million. Like Liu Ye's 'Beginning of the Great Revival', Li Xuejian's 'Centennial Love Letter', all were in this situation.

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Liu Yifei started again.

"Quickly, help me take a photo."

Liu stuffed the camera to Lin Nan, and she ran back to the sofa and sat cross-legged, a cunning and mischievous smile on her face.

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

A snow-white kitten lay on her lap, its heterochromatic pupils staring straight at Lin Nan, a bit naturally silly.

The shutter was pressed, and a photo was had.

"Quickly let me see..."

Before long, Liu Yifei's Weibo was updated.

A freshly baked photo, paired with a sentence:

"These are all mine!"

Many fans quickly started leaving comments and forwarding, followed by actors and artists in the circle...

"I want one too, trouble telling Lin Dao."

Looking at it, Zhou Xun hasn't accepted any announcements these two days and is still resting. That's why she is so free and commented so quickly.

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

He saw another piece of news, from Tang Ren.

"After 'Chinese Paladin' and 'Chinese Paladin 3', Tang Ren's another game-adapted drama 'Xuan-Yuan Sword'. Held a launch press conference at Hengdian World Studios today."

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

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

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Lin Nan had a premonition that Cai Yinong would bring up Liu Yifei during promotion; didn't expect it was really guessed right.

Promoting a newcomer, pulling in Liu Yifei who also played a descendant of Nuwa. This routine makes people feel very familiar; it's definitely Cai Yinong's idea!

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

He scanned it; it was Han Sanping.

The release date of 'Stars' should be set.

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The atmosphere at China Film Group during this period is not very good.

As the leader of the industry, holding the monopoly on imported films, the state-owned film group actually made a major mistake in scheduling.

The market was sluggish in the first two months, and imported films were in a state of slaughter this month; there were quite a few film companies complaining, and the higher-ups gave Han Sanping quite a bit of pressure.

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

The latter's face was not very good, and he didn't know what had happened.

"Lin Dao, Chairman Han is waiting for you, I'll go first."

"Chairman Yu, walk slowly."

Casually greeted, Lin Nan didn't care.

In the office, Han Sanping had a dark face, and his mood was clearly very bad.

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

"Sit, do it yourself if you want to drink something."

Lin Nan didn't stand on ceremony either, decisively walking toward the tea cabinet on the side, opening the small drawer at the very inside.

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

Immediately turned his head in another direction, out of sight, out of mind!

After brewing the tea, Lin Nan started to talk about the matter.

"I saw Chairman Yu's face was not very good, what's this about?"

Lin Nan shouldn't have mentioned it; as soon as he did, Han Sanping immediately widened his eyes.

"He still has a bad face? Gave him face!"

Lin Nan was even more curious, "Chairman Han, what happened?"

Han Sanping glared at Lin Nan irritably, and only then started to talk about it.

Yu Dong is a man who does big things, thinking he had an old leader like Han Sanping to cover him, he did something first and reported later.

He bought the copyrights to five films at the Cannes Film Festival and came to find Han Sanping for a quota at this moment.

Speaking of this quota matter, it actually counts as a gray area in the film industry.

The import rights for foreign films are only held by China Film Group.

The distribution rights for foreign films domestically are in the hands of China Film Group and Huaxia Film.

Imported films have a distinction between revenue-sharing films and flat-fee films.

Most of the time, both group companies are too busy to handle revenue-sharing films, not to mention the flat-fee films with more quotas.

So both group companies would "compensatorily" hand over some flat-fee quotas to private film companies.

But due to policy, nominally it was changed to another way of saying it, i. e., private film companies are assisting the distribution work of the two group companies.

This "compensatory" price is not low, about 25% of the flat-fee film's domestic box office.

Yu Dong didn't communicate with Han Sanping, bought foreign film copyrights on his own, and as a result, when he came back to find Han Sanping for a quota, he found an accident.

China Film Group had no quotas left; after reserving enough for the group itself, the other quotas had already been "compensatorily" handed out.

Yu Dong hoped the old leader could help, and deduct a bit from what China Film Group reserved for itself...

Yu Dong asking Han Sanping to do this kind of obviously wrong thing was a bit looking for a beating!

The result was being scolded by Han Sanping.

"Fat and greasy thing, obsessed by a woman..."

Lin Nan admired Yu Dong; he really dared to make any request.

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

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

The shareholders over there are all major state-owned film giants, and the mutual wrestling is even more serious.

Yu Dong is clearly Han Sanping's man; Shanghai Film Group would definitely not agree...

To be honest, regarding this quota thing, Lin Nan was also a bit tempted; he hadn't thought about this aspect before.

Thinking about it now, he could completely take back the films from Crystal Film Industry in the form of a quota, and find Enlight Media to help him distribute them!

Only need to pay the "compensatory" fee, the cost is almost zero!

"How about, Chairman Han leaves me one or two quotas next year? I definitely won't think about imported film quotas..."

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

Lin Nan didn't expect that coming over today would have an unexpected harvest; very good.

"Then many thanks to Chairman Han, don't forget when the time comes, hehe..."

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What was discussed next was the release date of 'Stars'.

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

"Tell me, how much did it actually sell for? I don't believe the number revealed on the internet."

"28.6 million dollars."

Lin Nan spoke frankly. If Han Sanping really wanted to know, it wouldn't be difficult; he could find out from the tax side in minutes.

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

"Haha, Chairman Han is joking..."

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

"Which release date?"

"August 6th."

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

Before he finished speaking, he looked up again, "This is Qixi?"

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

"You really have ideas; Qixi is a good day. Just right, 'The Fault in Our Stars' is also a romance film."

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While talking, Han also asked about Lin Nan's new film plan.

"There's a clue, but to settle it, still need to wait a while."

When in Cannes, Lin Nan thought about the new film plan. Currently, there are a few choices; during this period, still need to carefully consider.

"Good, when the time comes if there's anything needing help, just speak up. Now the market has slowly picked up, try not to dabble..."

Hearing this, Lin Nan was instantly speechless.

These words, Han Sanping has said how many times. Every time Lin Nan starts a new film, he has to nag once.

"Of course, if I shoot a commercial film, the probability of not dabbling is high. This point, still can be guaranteed."

Lin Nan answered.

Small and medium-cost commercial films, he probably won't touch them in the future.