Chapter 264： preparatory crew

After "American Idol" settled on Fox TV, the matter of the talent show in the United States was settled. Evan Bell knew that this also started the decade-long reign of "American Idol" over American variety shows. Fortunately, Studio Eleven got a big piece of the cake in this transaction process, although the process was very difficult.

After the United States became the thirteenth country where talent shows successfully introduced talent shows, another 20 countries have successively purchased the production and broadcasting rights of "Pop Idol" in their own countries, and "Canadian Idol" and "Belgian Idol" have appeared successively. Wait.

In this process, the main negotiation work was still handed over to Fremantle Media. After all, as the producer of the program, they still had a certain advantage. These 20 countries have once again contributed 700 million US dollars in copyright fees: not every country has such potential as the United States. 80 million is not only a symbol of the wealth of American TV stations, but also because of Fox TV's confidence in the American market. Evaluate numbers. So, there is definitely no way to sell the same numbers in other countries as in the US.

Of the $700 million, Fremantle Media voluntarily set the copyright dividend at seven to three, and Eleven Studios received $490 million. Facing the favor of the Fremantle media, Evan Bell and Teddy Bell, after consultation, ceded all other interests to the Fremantle media, just like the previous British "pop idols".

It's not that they are too generous, nor that they don't pay attention to other interests. It's just that they will cooperate with Fremantle Media in the future. , In addition to the United States, there are 32 countries in the world that are producing talent shows.

Therefore, giving up peripheral interests is the return of Eleven Studio to Fremantle Media, and it is also a signal of shaking hands.

This move is obviously wise, and it also relieved Fremantle Media. The unpleasantness between the two sides in the negotiations in the US market will have a great impact on future cooperation. It would be better to be able to disregard the past now.

After the competition in the first year of the draft ended, the excitement outside the arena continued. Will Yiyang's single was released under the operation of the concave entertainment company, and it really formed a sweeping trend: the tour of the top ten "pop idol" players The concert made a lot of money in the UK: and most importantly, there was a talent craze all over the world, and Eleven Studio became the fastest-growing brokerage company since entering 2002.

First there was a royalty fee of $240 million, then $56 million for "American Idol" and finally $490 million. This is just the copyright income of the talent show, and Eleven Studio has won a full income of nearly 790 million US dollars. In addition, the "American Idol" advertising, concerts and peripheral income will continue to create benefits for Eleven Studio after the "American Idol" kicks off.

Of course, none of this money will arrive at the moment. As far as Evan Bell knows, the fastest amount of money will have to wait until May, and most countries will have to wait until the audition starts in July and August. The first payment is received, and the final payment will not be received until the show officially starts broadcasting.

Therefore, if Eleven Studios wants to see all the money, it is estimated that 2002 will almost pass.

Sitting in his room at No. 11 Princes Street, Evan Yibel rubbed the aching sun. He had just earned a lot of money. The contract was written in black and white, but it didn't arrive so soon. Now Eleven Studio is preparing to shoot "Deadly Identity" again, so what if there is not so much money on the books. Evan-Bell really didn't know whether to laugh or cry.

However, although Evan-Bell knew that the talent show's plan could make money, he never imagined that it would have such potential. Now it seems that the digital music commercialization model is not as profitable as it was originally envisaged. Aside from the time it takes to accept new things, digital music industryization will inevitably hinder the development of programs to prevent illegal downloads without results.

Thinking of this, Evan-Bell instead remembered that Apple's dividends from last year should have arrived now. Although his shares are pitiful, it is better than nothing. Maybe it can solve the urgent need for insufficient funds to shoot "Deadly Identity". .

After moving to 11 Princes Street, the Bell brothers had their own room, and since childhood

Because of the difficult family situation, the two brothers have always shared a room, and they have their own rooms for a while, but they are not used to it.

Evan-Bell's room is less than 300 square feet. As soon as you walk into the room, you can see the heavy wooden table in front of the window, with a white Apple computer on it, and the wall by the door. There is a small bookcase, which contains only some simple toy models and a few books that I am reading recently, including a few tomes of French original books on architectural design, and on the top of the bookcase is a pot of green yù Chlorophytum.

In the center is a blanket, which is placed directly on the ground without a shelf, but a blanket is still made, with a blanket of light blue, sky blue, azure, and purple staggered plaids. The head is generous and quiet. There is an original riding-shaped floor lamp on each side, and the dim yellow halo emitted at this time is quite sentimental.

On the inner wall, there is a long beige sofa with a pile of pillows and a guitar on it.

Right in front of the chuáng mat, that is, on the wall to the left of the entrance, there is a whole wardrobe. When the wooden sliding door is opened, the gods can see the neat clothes. On the left is a hanger, which is used to hang anti-wrinkle clothes: on the right is a grid, where all the clothes are classified according to the season. All kinds of colors are intertwined together, which is truly spectacular. At the waist, there is a layer of drawers that can be pulled out by the gods. Inside are the grids for placing socks and inner kù; the next layer is the tie grid; the third layer is the accessories drawer. There is an empty dàngdàng space under the compartment where some quilts are placed.

The whole room is simple and elegant, mainly made of logs, and incorporates some modern designs, which is full of youthful atmosphere everywhere.

"What are you thinking? Tomorrow's magazine shoot?, ... Teddy Bell saw that Evan Bell's room was open, and stood at the door with warm water and asked. Recently, he has been working day and night into the design, Catherine-Bell finally completed a series of costume design, which also made the cover shooting of "Gentleman" magazine go smoothly. Tomorrow is the day of shooting.

Evan-Bell sat in front of the desk, without looking back, his left hand circled leisurely on the index finger of his right hand, as if there was a ring on it. "Magazine shooting, it's not a big deal. Now everything is ready, just need to take pictures. As for whether the title of Eleven Design can go further on the cover of this "Gentleman" magazine, it is beyond Evan Bell's control.

Teddy Bell couldn't help laughing when he saw what Evan Bell was thinking about." "That meeting a few days ago was really too thrilling. It's a real surprise that things went so well in the end. "Teddy Bell is naturally talking about the meeting where the four TV stations gathered together. If he didn't see Evan Bell also doing the habit of thinking, he almost thought that his younger brother was the winner.

But in fact, after the meeting, Evan-Bell also called him lucky, and finally was able to overwhelm the Fremantle media and successfully reached an agreement with Fox TV, which was also very dangerous in Evan-Bell's view. In fact, they had a lot of chips in their hands that day, but there were too many accidents, and every response required countless brainpower. Brain duels always consume more energy than physical duels.

"In comparison, today's meeting with Mangold, everything went too smoothly." Teddy Bell went on to say, then walked to Evan Bell's bed, and the whole person lay down.

Hearing this, Evan-Bell also turned his head, and did not hide his surprise on his face. "I didn't expect that Mangold would be willing to take up the script without our persuasion, and he voluntarily lowered the price. It's good news for us."

Today, Evan Bell and Teddy Bell finally met with James Mangold, and the director's union was more reliable. They successfully contacted James Mangold, and there was still some time lag in between. After reading the script, James Mangold came to the door immediately.

Evan Bell didn't even need to be persuaded to marry, James Mangold offered to direct the film.

James Mangold didn't mind at all that he did not write the script himself, and was completely convinced by the script. Not only that, James Mangold also knew the situation of Eleven Studio. He also believed that this film should not be handed over to a big company to shoot. Too much commercial flavor would ruin the film, so he was willing to cut the price to take charge of the director. .

"Then what are you worried about? Isn't the matter of confirming that Mangold is the director the film is half-prepared?" After Teddy Bell finished speaking, without waiting for Evan Bell to answer, he I patted my own big tuǐ "Are you worried about the actors?,...

The two brothers discussed it before, and with the current situation of Eleven Studio, the funds are still insufficient. Even if James-Mangold is willing to lower the price, he also shoulders the responsibility of forming the crew, including the matter of finding actors, he will pay attention, but the ten main actors still cannot reduce the cost of the movie "Deadly Identity" to a certain extent. level. Therefore, the matter of actors has become the latest topic of "deadly identity".

Teddy Bell naturally knew about this, but there were too many things in the past few days, and he didn't ring for a while.

"Otherwise, we'd go to the Screen Actors Guild to find them all, just like Kelly did when he filmed "Death Illusion." You know, there are definitely a lot of rookie actors who are willing to act as long as they are paid 100,000 yuan. "

Teddy Bell came up with a feasible plan, "It's just that we will spend a lot of time in Los Angeles. After all, this is not looking for a bottle, and acting skills are also very important."

Here's the problem, not all actors with good quality and low price are everywhere. ! .