Chapter 230： legend

Michael Ovitz's statement reminded Dunn, that's true.

In fact, since 20 years ago, Wall Street has been involved in Hollywood. At that time, it was mainly in the form of stock holdings or financing. Although it is the film industry, in the final analysis it is still playing finance, and they are good at it.

In 2003, when the movie platter investment appeared for the first time, it was also the first time that Wall Street faced Hollywood studios directly.

When I came up, I ate a closed door.

This year, Merrill Lynch and Paramount reached a cooperation to establish a private equity fund called "Merrose", which plans to participate in Paramount's investment in 25 films in the next two years, with an investment share of 20%.

According to the contract agreement, Paramount Pictures will first take 10% of the total revenue as distribution expenses, and the rest will be distributed with private equity funds.

Everything was done according to the contract and looked flawless.

However, the Wall Street investment bank, which went deep into the operation of Hollywood movies for the first time, obviously did not understand the routine of Hollywood to kill foreign investors.

Through the operation in the industry, Paramount directly wiped out most of the income of a series of films invested by the platter, which directly led to the return of Merrill Lynch.

Sue Paramount?

I'm sorry, Hollywood has a tradition of killing investors through conventional means in the industry for more than ten years, and has already accumulated enough experience in dealing with it.

At least on the surface, Paramount's operation is reasonable, reasonable, and legal, and there is no false act of deliberate accounting.

With this experience and lessons, private equity funds and investment banks will find an "intermediary" as a guarantee when they make platter investments with Hollywood film companies.

This intermediary must be able to communicate with Hollywood and Wall Street, especially to understand the operation mode of Hollywood, and to supervise and manage the flow and use of funds.

Therefore, Wall Street no longer directly cooperates with Hollywood, and a large number of "intermediary" companies were born, such as Relativity Media, Legendary Pictures, Dune Entertainment, Kingdom Pictures and so on.

Michael Ovitz, as a Hollywood veteran, can certainly see the inside story. Moreover, the brokerage company is an intermediary service. He is responsible for completing the "intermediary" between Wall Street and Hollywood, which is also worthy of the name.

Tang En breathed a sigh of relief and said with a smile: "Well, in order to facilitate you to go to Wall Street to persuade those private equity funds and investment banks, Tang En Capital will invest 100 million US dollars, and we will cooperate to establish a company."

Michael Ovitz's eyes lit up.

Regardless of whether Dunn's reputation on Wall Street is true or false, Dunn's reputation in the film industry is absolutely reverberating. If investors on Wall Street were told that even Dunn was interested in investing in this industry, wouldn't they rush to it?

"If you can do this, then you'll get twice the result with half the effort!" Michael Ovitz paused for a moment and said boldly, "Well, I personally put up another $80 million, and the amg agency put up $20 million to make up for it. 200 million US dollars is enough for investors on Wall Street to see our sincerity!"

Since being kicked out of Disney, Michael Ovitz has held his breath and wants to restore glory!

Just like Jeffrey Katzenberg, when he left Disney, he was determined to surpass Michael Eisner and prove his ability, which is also the original intention of his creation of DreamWorks.

Dunn stood up, stepped forward and shook hands with Michael Ovitz heavily, "Okay, then I'll wait for your good news!"

Michael Ovitz said with a smile: "Don't worry, compared to a business as big as a platter investment, Disney's ban is a trick of the kindergarten, and it is guaranteed to be resolved within a week!"

"I believe you." Dunn paused for a while, then suddenly smiled, "By the way, since it's a new company, what's its name?"

Michael Ovitz looked at him jokingly, "It's impossible to call Dunn Media, or Dunn Fund Management Company, right?"

Tang En laughed and pondered for a while, "Since we are dealing with Hollywood, and our main business is investing in movies, we should call it a film company. In my opinion... or let's call it Legendary Pictures!"

"Legendary Pictures?" Michael Ovitz hesitated for a while, then nodded immediately, "Good name, platter investment, it really created a precedent for Hollywood financing, we are creating a legend!"

...

With the help of Michael Ovitz, Dunn's burden has been relieved a lot, and he can concentrate on the preparation of the "Beautiful Mind" crew instead of worrying about the mess.

Jack Nicholson successfully entered the group, with a salary of 1.5 million US dollars, played the role of "William Patcher".

Originally affected by Disney's ban, Ed Harris, who opened the lion's mouth, was removed directly.

What Dunn hates the most is this kind of people who fall into trouble.

After many days in a row, Dunn did not respond to Disney's ban. It seemed that everything showed signs, as if he had confessed in front of Michael Eisner.

Michael Eisner was naturally proud and thought Dunn was a character. Unexpectedly, he was just doing a little trick, and he was suppressed and breathless.

But er!

Dunn's uncharacteristic confession naturally caused a lot of repercussions at the core of Hollywood. The unsung prestige that Dunn has accumulated in the past six months, under the strong suppression of Michael Eisner, seems to be gradually shedding his holy halo.

However, there is an undercurrent that is quietly surging, and it is Michael Ovitz who is behind the scenes.

But everyone doesn't know it.

Dunn sat firmly on Mount Tarzan, and several of his good friends were very anxious. Mel Gibson even yelled on the phone, angrily scolding the Jewish guys as a bunch of bastards, they were controlling Hollywood and destroying movies.

Dunn scolded back unceremoniously, with a very cold tone, "Mel, you are racist! Do you know that if it spreads out, you will never be successful?"

Mel Gibson disapproved and said angrily, "Send it out? Are you going to spread my words out?"

Dunn said: "This is not a question of whether I will spread the word, your basic idea is completely wrong! Spielberg and Katzenberg are both Jews, as well as Bill McNick and Michael Ovey. Z, they are all my helpers, and they are also Jews! Mel, you must pay more attention in the future, this is very important to you!"

Mel Gibson said coldly: "Do you still care about me? You are about to be KO'd by that Jewish **** Michael Eisner!"

Dunn said angrily: "Mel, calm down! I'll warn you again, don't show any racist emotions, this is related to your career and your life! Don't forget, Nat is also Jewish!"

Mel Gibson's tone softened at the mention of Natalie Portman, "You know, I'm not targeting Natalie."

Dunn sighed, "Mel, when people are subconsciously, they always say something subconsciously, you must control yourself. If you lose your temper on a certain occasion and say some anti-Semitic remarks, then you are in Hollywood. The days are really over."

Mel Gibson was silent for a while, and suddenly laughed wildly, "I know it, as long as you don't tell the truth, no one will know!"

Tang En said in a deep voice, "Anyway, you have to pay more attention. Also, I heard... have you ever experienced domestic violence?"

"who said it?"

Mel Gibson's voice tightened.

"Don't care who said it, I'll ask you if you have it!"

"No!"

Tang En snorted coldly, "There is no best! You should know that it's not much better than the end of anti-Semitism!"

Mel Gibson said cursingly, "You brat, it's so boring. I had the best intentions to slap you, but instead I taught me a lesson. Okay, I won't tell you, long-winded!"

After speaking, he hung up the phone directly.

Dunn sighed helplessly, Mel Gibson's character... It may be that he has played too many tough guys and his temper is too tough.

I hope he can reflect on today's dialogue and not repeat the mistakes of his previous life.

...

By mid-August, the global box office of "Spider-Man" had broken through another hurdle. The North American box office was 470 million US dollars and the overseas box office was 650 million US dollars.

Judging from the current box office trend, it is impossible for the North American box office of "Spider-Man" to exceed the $580 million of "Star Wars Episode 1".

However, the data surpassing the global box office of "Star Wars Episode 1" of 1.18 billion is definitely a certainty!

Universal Pictures has already transferred all previous box office splits.

Among them, the North American share is 249 million US dollars, the overseas share is 266 million US dollars, and the total share is 515 million US dollarsUniversal Pictures’ distribution fee is 112 million US dollars. As for the 60 million publicity expenses and various expenses paid in Universal, All are included in the 10% distribution fee, so Dunn Pictures has a total of 400 million US dollars!

"Spider-Man" is still being released, and it is expected that there will be 120-150 million US dollars in box office revenue in the future, but Dunn's share of the account is not much.

Because of the split accounts of the American theater chain, as the release time is extended, the distribution to the distributor will decrease layer by layer.

The first two weeks are about 55%-58%, and then gradually decrease. After 10 weeks, the account sharing ratio will become 45%.

In later generations, many commercial blockbusters rely on the first week or two to earn the box office crazily, and then the box office revenue will be released in a waterfall, and it will be released three months later, and it will enter the window sales. This is also part of the reason.

When talking with Michael Ovitz, Dunn checked the data. It is a surprise that the average return rate of movies reaches 20% for major Hollywood film companies.

But what about Spider-Man?

As soon as the data came out, it was shocking!

Not counting family entertainment, not counting peripheral copyrights, even before "Spider-Man" was released, Dunn Pictures had already recovered $400 million at the box office!

What is the rate of return?

The budget of "Spider-Man" is 150 million US dollars, and Dunn Films paid an additional 40 million US dollars in publicity expenses, but the tax rebates of Germany and the United Kingdom also have 42 million US dollars.

After all, from the current point of view, the rate of return of "Spider-Man" has reached an astonishing... 170%!

This is the power of Dunn Pictures!

A mere block order can sanction Dunn Films and overwhelm Dunn?

dream!

Dunn, is bound to write a legend that belongs to him in this era!

(Sanqi Chinese)