Chapter 107 Muscle pain, division, fashion
Different from the 1991 summer file of "Terminator 2", the summer of 1992 was really a fight between gods and gods.
Even if there was a war in Los Angeles in early May, it could not hinder the determination of major studios to make money. Not only that, "The Nun is Crazy" starring black people, and "Love Killer" with an all-black team have received An unexpected group of fans.
This is actually the influence brought by the outlet of public opinion.
Black people want to have a voice, there are two means, sports and entertainment.
Only these two channels are the most accessible and accessible to them.
However, it is easy to grow big, but difficult to rise.
Because the people who play chess behind have nothing to do with them.
In addition to these two films, "Patriot Games" starring Harrison Ford, "Half Wife" starring the white-headed Steve Martin, Tim Burton's "Batman Returns", Tom Han Keith's "The League of Pink", Bruce Wesley and Meryl Streep's "Longevity", and Clint Eastwood's "Unforgiven" all want to be in this short sixty years. In the sky, a piece of the action, such a luxurious lineup, makes movie fans very happy, but their box office is not high enough.
No way, a strong confrontation means that no one can get enough of the special ones.
The market is so big, movie fans have so much money in their wallets, want them to watch all the movies once?
Dreams have everything.
In this way, it can better reflect the influence of Roland's works.
Two movies over one billion, the first person in film history.
Even Spielberg, who is the most profitable in Hollywood history, was not as fierce as him when he debuted.
And this, also caused a problem.
In the case of two consecutive years of showing works to the public, the summer vacation in 1992 did not include him?
When those eight to twelve-year-old children passed by the cinema, they searched for a long time, but turned and left after failing to find a poster belonging to Roland. This became the most common choice, because—they were not interested in other movies at all!
What is Hanks' "The League of Pink" talking about?
Women's baseball team?
boring...
Harrison's "Patriot Games" said what?
Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan "The Pursuit Trilogy" Part 2?
Isn’t that a master of military fiction? You can take a look.
Why is the poster of Meryl's "One Fly Over Longevity" so ugly?
And it's a PG-13 movie?
Sorry to bother you, goodbye!
Yes, for the children, the summer vacation in 1992 was extremely boring.
Because their entertainment is gone.
Although it has only been two years, Roland has already left an indelible impression in their hearts.
Since there are blockbuster movies starring guys their own age, why should they go to the adult world?
Children look at children and have a stronger sense of substitution!
Just like the future "Frozen", when Aisha opened her mouth, the parents panicked, why?
As soon as Aisha changes her dress, her purse suffers!
Can you imagine that Aisha’s dress of the same style costs 499 for a single piece?
If you buy a set that includes dress + leggings + magic cane + 3D sticker machine toy, seventy-four nine will be gone...
The most embarrassing thing is that this kind of golden blue and peacock blue skirt is a basic style! The Elsa castle toys above, eighty-nine-nine, if it is the Queen Charming set, it is even more expensive!
This **** is stealing money!
but…
Kids love it!
It's like the phrase 'Women and children earn the best money'.
After injecting the concept of "I am a blockbuster" into the hearts of children twice in a row, the children are not very interested in other children's movies other than Roland, and those movies that block them because of their ratings, It will not make them think of begging their parents, because they understand that this kind of opportunity must be reserved for Roland.
As a result, in the summer of 1992, there were only three movies with a box office of over 100 million in North America.
One is Hanks' "The League of Pink", the other is "The Nuns Are Crazy" which has been well received by public opinion, and the last one is DC's "Batman Returns", which is in charge of American comics.
To be honest, when Roland got the box office data on a weekly basis, he was in a daze.
Take "League of Pink" as an example, the name on the data sheet is "ALeagueofTheirOwn"...
A league of their own?
After Roland watched the movie introduction with big eyes and small eyes, he realized what the domestic name of this movie is.
No way, domestic **** translators and old Hollywood names have always been the main culprits hindering Roland's quick response.
But if there is no free translation, many titles will not be read at all.
If "The Revenant" is translated into "The Ghost Hunter", Naratos will become the protagonist.
And if "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them" is translated into "Monsters and Where They Come From", it will really become a hunting book!
As for the translation of "Forget Years Love Song" into "I Love Your Mom"...a good movie has become a curse.
But this is better than "Captain America". People who know it know that this is a comic book movie, but those who don't know think it is the American version of "Captain of the Five Stripes"!
So after being confused, Roland didn't struggle with the name anymore.
Roland was even more delighted when he found out that without his own participation, the children's box office in the summer vacation had plunged in a straight line.
In two and a half years, I have attracted a wave of children fans. Although I can only be named as the king of children, it is also very good!
Youdao said that 'children are the future of **', and your future is my fans, how happy this feeling is!
At the same time, Fox was not idle. Through FOX TV station, they released the news that "Home Alone 2" has finished filming and will meet with the public on Thanksgiving this year.
Universal didn't just stay in a daze, and posted the news that "Jurassic Park", which has continuously occupied the top of the best-seller list, has decided to make it into a film and television, and finalized the news that Roland and Mary will star in it, and posted it on various media that it cooperates with.
And when the sequel to "Home Alone" and the hottest dinosaur tide appeared—
The most popular Batman in American comics?
directly downgraded to the Green Winged Bat King Wei Yixiao!
Now is not the era of special effects. Due to technical limitations, superheroes cannot show the corresponding demeanor on the screen.
But Jurassic Park is different!
With "Terminator 2" as the beginning, no one doubts that Universal will fool itself with a freeze-frame picture like "The Lost World". Everyone is curious about how creatures like dinosaurs will be filmed, but no one doubts, Movies will suck.
Because the director's name is Spielberg, it's that simple.
And the younger sister of the Roland and Olsen sisters will star in "Jurassic Park"?
To the children, this news was like a magnitude 8 earthquake!
They were even more surprised than the news that "Home Alone 2" will be released this year!
Which child does not dream of being a hero? What kid hasn't fantasized about monsters?
And now, they can see it on the screen?
They finally don’t have to watch those adults beat up monsters and criminals on the screen!
Because of themselves, they can roll up their sleeves and do it!
In this way—
Those children who thought they would die of boredom this summer took out their pocket money directly from their pockets.
"DC on the left, Marvel on the right..."
"Excuse me, I want to buy Jurassic Park..."
"Jurassic Park?"
"Yeah, it's the original book of the movie that Roland Allen will star in, don't you have it?"
"Yes, go straight to the first shelf."
Although there is still a year before the release time announced by Universal, the children don't think so much.
Just pretend it's time to support Roland.
And when Roland learned that with the news that the filming project was approved, the sales of "Jurassic Park", which was already at the top of the "New York Times" bestseller list, increased by almost 30%...
His entire face was like Lin Zicong's ax gang tattoo, trembling three times...
painful…
My flesh hurts...
This is his box office!
Full special code cheap "Jurassic Park" author went!
"So, all kinds of copyrights are the most important..."
"If you stick to your salary and box office bonuses, then you can only reach such heights in your life..."
When Roland looked through various news helplessly and saw those capitalists using his fame to make money, he said he was not jealous, that would be a lie, but David was quite open to it, because he always felt that, Operating copyright is the way to get rich.
"Stop watching those things, how the box office of other movies is rising, how books are selling, it has nothing to do with us."
"Let's get to the point. Before you and Mary go to Hawaii, let's deal with this mess."
"First of all, your contract with Mary..."
...
Ever since he finished chatting with Spielberg about Nintendo and Sony that day, Roland put away his plan to personally train Ashley and Mary, and dragged them to Universal Studios every day.
Firstly, it was because Spielberg chose the girl himself to play the role, and secondly, because he thought staying at home was boring, he might as well go to Universal Studios to gain experience instead of staring at the difficult "Spider-Man" script with James.
Anyway, with just one face, he can open all the doors up and down Universal, such as the script library, the Green Light Committee, he is like a Mundo, he can go wherever he wants, as for other people's opinions?
They have no opinion.
Because of going back 20 years, Spielberg is also so shameless in Universal Studios...
However, Roland didn't mess around. After the other party confirmed that Mary would play the role of the little girl in the film, he resolutely took the two little loli drills back home. Of course, there was also a Attributable to his own profit-sharing contract, and Mary's box office bonus of up to five million.
Yes, Roland folded his salary into the final profit share of the film. Of course, he did this, but Spielberg managed it. In the words of the other party, that is: "This is the investor's There is nothing embarrassing about holding money."
""Home Alone 2" took 11 million, if you don't get 10 million here, what you lose is your own worth!"
"Besides, since we are going to fight dinosaurs, there is no way to save money for special effects."
"You sign a contract of 10 million yuan and then give up the cash. In this way, our production cost can be increased by 10 million yuan, and the money distributed to investors can also be reduced proportionally, about eight points."
"In the end you can share 8%, don't you want this money? Don't worry about financial issues, Universal dare not rely on me."
That's right, this is Hollywood's advanced gameplay...
What should I do if I lack money for special effects?
First ask for a high salary, and then reverse capital injection!
Of course, if you want to play this way, the most important thing is to be able to see Universal's accounts directly like Spielberg.
I can see the filming fee, publicity fee, and share ratio. Do you want to renege on it?
Don’t cooperate after that...
Roland really has no temper for this kind of gameplay with the map fully displayed. If he had known that the money would be so safe, he would not have plucked the bear's hair! Of course, he is not hypocritical. Anyway, Robin Williams, Dustin Hoffman, and Harrison Ford who have worked with Spielberg all made money in this way. If he has psychological pressure, then Are you sick?
...
As a result, when David asked, Roland immediately threw away the message file in his hand.
"There is no problem with the contract, what I get is the profit sharing."
"Besides, didn't you sign this contract for me? I waited for a while to avoid the CAA, and in order to avoid the 20% tax, it was still the company's account. You should know this better than me. ah…"
When the name of his own people is really put on, the vampire of CAA can be ignored.
These projects are not what they talked about, why give them a commission for no reason?
If the agent can take away millions of shares as long as the supervisor signs it, then this job is too easy to do!
Therefore, under the tacit understanding of the old and the young, the contract of "Jurassic Park" was negotiated on the stage after the brokerage contract signed in 1990 expired, and after the negotiation, Re-signed with CAA, but this time, there is only an annual agency fee of 500,000 yuan, without commission, and CAA will not actively help him negotiate other film and television dramas except for regularly providing him with project lists. Of course, Roland doesn't need it either. They take the initiative to negotiate.
And even if they really want to talk, CAA is definitely not as easy to use as the old man's real agent, Catherine Kennedy.
Let’s take profit sharing as an example, no matter how awesome the CAA is, no matter how powerful the packaging contract is—
They can't handle Universal either!
“Confidence is a good thing.”
“Of course I have no problem with profit sharing.”
"However, what I want to say is that profit-sharing contracts cannot be mortgaged."
"In this way, we will not be able to use the money in advance and invest it."
David sighed, obviously regretting that he couldn't use the contract to invest in mortgage loans.
However, his thoughts didn't make much sense to Roland.
10 million salary to operate in advance, there is no way to double it!
But 8% of the profit of "Jurassic Park" is a question of how many times it will be doubled!
Under the circumstances that Xiong Mao is not easy to masturbate, this kind of behavior of looking at the accounts of the giants, taking the investors' money, and taking the lead in dividing the dividends is the easiest way to make money that Roland can come into contact with at the moment!
"It's okay, if you can't mortgage it, you can't mortgage it. Anyway, I don't need money now." Roland shrugged.
"Really? You really don't want to vote for Ashley and Mary's company?" David looked at Roland with a toothache.
That's right, after finalizing "Sleepless in Seattle" and "Jurassic Park", David finally expressed his thoughts. His daughter entered the film industry? Then of course everything starts to sell!
Now that you have been promoted from a TV cafe to a movie cafe, you can prepare to invade the fashion circle!
The first thing to get started is naturally children's clothing and children's shoes.
Let her daughter appear in major movies wearing her own products, this is the best promotion...
And in the early 1990s, after "Home Alone" became popular, Roland, who had authorized a series of things such as portrait copyright, was naturally also in his plan. In David's words, that is: "The boy's business , we can do it too.”
But Roland is really not interested in these.
It is enough to get a profit share after authorization.
Let David and the others take care of the internal affairs of the company.
This may be the root of the Olsen sisters, so what if he voted 10% and 20%?
"Forget it, I really don't own a share."
Roland once again rejected David's proposal, "I don't understand fashion, and I don't have time to learn it."
"Just watch and do it, I'll just wait and collect the money."
"It's okay to let me be a product model. It's better to let the designer design some clothes for me according to my standards."
"The provincial James always said that I am low-key and not willing to spend money..."
"That's fine, I won't mention this to you in the future..." Seeing Roland's firm attitude, David didn't force it anymore.
After putting away the file, Roland also asked him a question in reverse, "David?"
"Um?"
"Is it not easy to do real estate business?"
"Difficult, but — ok..."
"Then your future focus will be their children's clothing company?"
"Oh, this is not called children's clothing, our final goal is fashion..."
"Okay, light luxury, I understand..."
"What, is there a problem?"
"No..." Roland shook his head, not thinking there was a big problem.
Isn’t it a very normal thing to change careers if you don’t do well in real estate?
As long as you don’t touch theaters foolishly and buy a film company with banknotes.
Note: ①Harrison Ford thanked Spielberg after getting $65 million for "Raiders of the Lost Ark 4". This is the most money he has ever seen in his life. What I like to do is that the lion asks for a salary, and then gives it up in exchange for profit, so that firstly, it will not occupy the production cost, and secondly, it can get more. Of course, investment is risky. These people dare to do this because they rely on themselves movies make money. ②Spielberg has absolute control over the "Jurassic" project, and his words are more effective than the president of Universal Pictures, because he voluntarily gave up the proceeds of "Schindler" (say it is blood money), so Universal Regardless of "Jurassic", from Universal's point of view, it's not a loss if you exchange one. ③Receiving endorsements is really a low-end game (of course, this low-end is for those guys whose net worth is more than one billion). All the actresses who worked with them had to wear dresses designed by his wife during that period, and Clooney, for example, implanted his own wine in his movies, and transferred one billion yuan to the account in four years. It is very profitable for them to build their own brand, because movies are their publicity channels. A global release is equivalent to tens of millions of promotion fees for nothing. , Drinking their own wine, the film companies generally turn a blind eye and close one eye, they are all cooperative big names, it is not necessary.
(end of this chapter)