Hong Kong Entertainment's Life Simulator Text Volume Chapter 357 We have been calm and calm these past two days. A few days later, on January 15, the global box office performance continued its previous glory, with US$126 million in the third week in Europe, Canada and the United States, and a total of three weeks.

The data is already US$351 million, which is equivalent to HK$2.737 billion.

Zhao Donghuai was lamenting the lethality of this blockbuster when he heard Xiaoxian reporting that Sony's President Sakamoto was here.

Director Zhao was slightly surprised and said, "How much box office has the island country accumulated?"

Wang Zuxian smiled and nodded, "Three weeks are 3.9 billion yen, which is just over 32 million U.S. dollars, which is equivalent to 253 million Hong Kong dollars."

Quite a lot. At this stage, although the island country is no longer the largest vote base in Asia, the mainland is. After all, the island country only has a population of 120 million, while the mainland has more than one billion.

In three weeks, the mainland box office has exceeded 510 million yuan, which is 600 million Hong Kong dollars after conversion. The box office data of the island country is similar to that of Thailand and South Korea...Ten thousand theaters on both sides have more expensive ticket prices.

South Korea and Thailand do not have as many moviegoers as the island countries, but their total box office is in a stalemate.

Zhao Donghuai laughed and said, "Are you here to get a share? This is not the right time."

When he initially cheated on Sony's investment, what he said and the contract he signed was indeed that Sony would invest US$50 million in each of the trilogy, totaling US$150 million. Don't expect extravagant profits from the versions and peripherals.

But you can share Spider-Man's 10% box office share and video tape profits. Of course, this is definitely not a gross profit share, but a 10% share of the net profit.

As for letting people from Sony follow the crew to learn and observe the production process of movies with great special effects? Sony sent people, it was just a few people sent, they were treated too comfortably, and they drank three meals a day, but they never made it to the crew.

The actual filming period took half a year, and the learning results were zero...

Don’t think it’s a scam. Sony completely bought Columbia. Didn’t you feel like you were cheated? Yes, you bought it. The white management, including the production team, didn’t let Sony interfere with their operations at all.

On the contrary, Colombia can let Sony repay the huge debt it has borne. If it lacks funds for making movies, it can also ask Sony for it.

Compared with the huge pit in Columbia, Zhao Donghuai's place is much gentler. At least the people sent by Sony to the crew said after their return that they drank a lot of wine, ate a lot of food, and the people responsible for receiving them also spoke nicely.

It's completely different from Columbia, which only shows discrimination and suppression on its face. At this stage, Columbia is like Sony spending huge sums of money to buy a big man.

A moment later, President Sakamoto entered the office and bowed at a 90-degree angle in excitement, "Zhao Sheng, you are so great. Your first blockbuster really took the world by storm. It is an honor for us Eastern filmmakers."

Zhao Donghuai waved his hand to interrupt, "Okay, no need to say any polite words. If you come here just for the box office share, it's too early."

Sakamoto shook his head hurriedly, "No, Mr. Zhao, please don't get me wrong. Of course we know that it's still in theaters around the world. It's too early to talk about that. I'm here to ask, when will the filming start?"

"If filming starts, we would also like the director, photography and other teams to come to the set to observe. As long as they can get in, it is not impossible to raise funds."

It is precisely because they have witnessed the brilliant money-making power of blockbusters around the world that Sony jumped into it even though it knew there was a pitfall. Last time, they drank three meals a day and didn't understand it.

This time they arranged for a few more Dionysians... there is always a chance to learn, right?

Although Zhao's Pictures previously produced a trilogy together and wanted all the production fees of US$150 million in the contract to be spent as soon as possible, Sony was not really stupid and only invested US$80 million one after another.

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It's like Zhao's Pictures took Sony's 80 million U.S. dollars in production fees and spent tens of millions more on their own to produce this version of Spider-Man.

The total production cost is indeed more than 100 million U.S. dollars, close to 150 million U.S. dollars.

The final effect? ​​There is definitely a gap compared to the 2002 version, but at this time, the level of special effects is not weaker at all, or even better.

Talking about various model productions, among the many eighth-level engineering masters hired by the mainland, none of them are weak. The cameras are arrayed to shoot bullet time special effects, but they are expensive...

Expensive has its value, at least this version continues to show off the bullet time special effects to movie fans around the world.

Yuen Biao, Liu Dehua, and Li Saifeng are three super-powerful killers. When they snipe the Green Goblin gang and Spider-Man, the bullet special effects are so cool.

Precisely because the $150 million was not fully invested, and knowing that filming of Spider-Man 2 had not yet started, Sony wanted to continue learning, and lowered its profile to ask for help. Wasn't it already accustomed to the white-skinned ghost?

Now I just want a new father who masters the most advanced special effects shooting technology.

And on the surface, it seems that they can expect a share of the global box office of Spider-Man 1? 10% of the net box office profit is not a small amount of money.

Zhao Donghuai, "..."

After thinking about it, he said, "The schedules of Depp, Winona and others are still lined up, and the second part is also based on comics, so new villains are needed, and the production of special effects models is not a trivial matter."

"If we start preparations now on January 15, 1991, it will be good to start filming by the end of 1991."

Sakamoto looked excited, "Thank you, Mr. Zhao. Please let us know when you will start shooting. Our team has been waiting eagerly for a long time. Of course, you can always tell us if you are short of money."

"Then I won't disturb you. You are busy, Mr. Zhao."

When he walked backwards and left the office, Zhao Donghuai couldn't help complaining, "This attitude is really low enough."

Xiaoxian also said in shock, "Are you going to continue to trick them?"

Zhao Donghuai nodded, "It's a scam. Why don't you cheat when it comes to you? The first film ostensibly paid Depp 3 million U.S. dollars, Winona 2 million U.S. dollars, and Nicholas 3 million U.S. dollars, but Bruce Willis and

Yin Sabel Adjani is so expensive."

"On the surface, these two are getting 8 million and 10 million US dollars."

"Yuan Biao, Andy Lau, and Li Saifeng each received HK$10 million, HK$10 million and HK$6 million for their cameos."

"Tell me, the bigger the bill, the better."

In the actual process, everyone received very low remuneration. For the scenes filmed by Zhao Films, the guest star A Biao and the others each received HK$100,000.

Not to mention Adjani, she didn’t get paid for her friendly guest appearance, but she just talked to Zhao Donghuai a few more times about international import and export trade.

But when it comes to accounting, the remuneration account can be very large, and this is still the first film.

According to the current market conditions, the second film can bring the film's salary bill to more than 40 to 50 million US dollars.

Tax filing? Of course, the tax filing will give you real accounts, and the tax authorities will all give real accounts. After all, more than 90% of Spider-Man's scenes were filmed and produced in North America, and all the extras were hired in North America, as well as all the expenses.

When filing taxes, many people have to interact with A-mei. Even if there are Hydra members in the IRS, Zhao Donghuai doesn't want to deal with the trouble of playing Yin-Yang contract for the IRS.

If he makes his own movies, he doesn't need a Yin-Yang contract.

This account was made solely for Sony.

Do you think Sony will bribe the IRS to find the real bill? It's possible, as long as you spend enough money, the IRS won't be able to get in, but Hydra will stand on the front line and block a few waves.

Even if Sony finds the real bill and doesn't admit it, is it possible that the IRS members who issued them the bill can be invited to serve as witnesses in the lawsuit?

Remuneration is a kind of bill, such as props, etc. It is better to do it.

Let’s just say that the clothes worn by Yin Sabel Adjani are works of art. It’s not expensive to pay tens of thousands of dollars for any costume, right? That’s Adjani, the world’s number one female superstar and number one actress at this stage.

, French national treasure.

She plays Aunt Mei in the film, and the treatment must not be bad. For example, she must live in the presidential suite of a five-star hotel, drink mountain spring water flown from France every day, etc...

When it comes to meal plans for the entire crew, a meal per person rises from 20 knives to 50 knives. It doesn’t look like much, but there are so many people, and what about the six-month cycle? That’s not a small amount of money.

Another example is special effects production. If a supercomputer is turned on, how much will the software production cost? He didn’t say it himself.

The billing is very fancy, and there are many such talents in the film and television industry.

It’s true that Hollywood has no shortage of such talents. When Zhao Donghuai first entered the filming industry, the newly formed behind-the-scenes team, from the set staff to the lighting master, weren’t they all waiting to trick him? They were all treating him as a newcomer.

Eager to try, eagerly awaiting.

How could it be so easy to make a movie without crowdfunding supporters and enthusiastic citizens such as Xiaobawang and Hongscorpion and other acting teachers?

The original 2002 Hollywood film was said to have cost $139 million to produce. In fact, just listen to it. A mere $10 to $20 million is considered a small amount. With such a big crew and a large team, there will always be small experts at every level.

Money.

In the original track, Zou Wenhuai invested 100 million in animation production, and the global box office was 1 billion Hong Kong dollars, but he did not make much profit. He was also cheated by Hollywood. Zou Sheng invested in three movies in a row.

It's all about looking good on paper but actually not making any money, so I gave up on developing in the field of major animated films.

Generally, no one messes around in Zhao Donghuai's big movies. This is not only because of his high status, the production team does not dare to provoke him, but also because of his grand and open attitude of handing out red envelopes afterward.

His crew’s post-event red envelopes were for the leading actors, supporting actors, set lighting and props technicians, etc., who didn’t receive any red envelopes?

Nearly 150 million US dollars was invested in the production of this version, which is a real amount of money. He actually invested 150 million US dollars here, which can easily give Sony 300 million US dollars in production fees.

Of course, if you throw out 300 million, Hollywood will probably say "Great job", and they will also want to learn from it...

He doesn't lack this little money, he just wants to cause trouble.

Will his reputation be affected? If it weren't for the simulator and the mysterious power, he would have died countless times.

Since the first time in 1985, when he took his girlfriends alone to speculate on the appreciation of the Japanese yen's foreign exchange, some Hong Kong government officials wanted to freeze his money and move it away. Since the stock market crash in 1987, when he shorted the Nikkei, there were also times when related ghosts wanted to freeze his money and move it away.

Go, is it just because of the tens of thousands of Hong Kong's Haowan Big Brother Group that you don't dare to freeze?

After what happened, some reputations meant nothing at all.

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January 15th is already the 30th day of the 11th month of the lunar calendar, and tomorrow is the first day of the twelfth lunar month. Spider-Man is still very popular, but the announcement of the big movie has also begun.

It was scheduled to be released on the tenth day of the twelfth lunar month. When relevant posters were plastered all over the subway, bus bodies, and bus stops, Wu Zhenyu went out wearing a hat and a mask. When he arrived at the door of Ouyang Zhenhua's house, Lao Wu suddenly stopped.

At this moment, there were two or three hesitant passers-by standing in the corridor in front of Ahua's house, all looking at Ahua's house suspiciously.

When the people standing saw Lao Wu, someone said directly, "You were also attracted by the smell, right? Upstairs or downstairs?"

Wu Zhenyu was wearing a mask. It was not a professional medical mask. It was just an ordinary face covering to protect against cold weather. It could still provide a certain barrier function. He took a breath and smelled a stench??

Smells like shit?

Lao Wu's face immediately turned a little cruel!

The passerby who was the first to speak was also confused and said, "I remember, isn't this Yu Zai Chun Yu's home? I've met him several times before and even asked for his autograph. Why is the smell of rice fields so strong??"
To be continued...