67 Chapter 67 Specific Benefits (Recommended Collection) (1/2)
In the second week of April, after the ”Oprah Talk Show” was recorded and aired, Paramount Pictures and Harp Television both released relevant news feeds. Under the baptism of this heat, it was originally at the box office. The slightly declining rise of ”Three Fools in Bollywood” made a mid-range effort. It won US$8.8456 million in three days over the weekend and finally defended the weekly box office ranking champion this week with a result of US$12,234,200.
At this time, the film has as many as 1,320 theaters in North America, and the market performance of ”Three Fools in Bollywood” nearly a month later made the premiere of ”Hart's War” held this week. Can not help but ashamed.
By the third week, as other new works entered the theater one after another, ”Three Fools in Bollywood” only received $5.3212 million in a single week, and the number of weekly box office champions ended in 3 weeks, ranking 9th.
According to the trend of this percentage decline in the box office, the potential of ”Three Fools in Bollywood” in North America is almost exhausted, and Paramount Pictures has gradually begun to reduce the number of theaters showing it.
The media's attention to Lehman has also begun to fade, and his unwillingness to cooperate is also an important reason.
For example, ”Vanity Fair” magazine wanted to invite him to shoot a group of photos, used as a cover and also as a small interview, but Lehman refused.
He would rather stay in the hotel to watch old movies, copy shooting techniques, or think about new movie ideas than to shoot photos.
Firstly, he didn't want to devote his energy to such indifferent things; secondly, taking photos and accepting interviews did not give much impetus to his career.
The latter is one of the most important factors.
He is a director, not an actor, and he does not need to rely on his face to eat, nor does he need a spotlight to enhance the potential value of his image.
Any magazine interviews, celebrity parties...you can’t indulge in these.
What he needs is to maintain his professionalism and to maintain progress, not to get lost in the temptation of success, and to wake up until the end of his life.
That's silly.
So Lehmann happily rejected the request of Vanity Fair and rejected many party invitations.He knows that the success of a movie is not determined by how many celebrity parties or magazine covers you have attended, but by the film itself.
By the time the film was finally drawn, the box office of ”Three Fools in Bollywood” in North America was $97.26 million.
Only this place, Lehman can get dividends from it is likely to reach 2.95 million US dollars.
As the film went down, and under the strong request of Europa Pictures, the production, investment, distribution, and theaters of ”Three Fools in Bollywood” were all prepared to share their own cakes.
According to relevant regulations in North America, if a film is shown for a long period of time, the theater will pay the distributor the first share in about a month, and the subsequent share will also vary with the agreement and the release time. , But most of them can achieve that the distributor can get all the box office share within the next week of the movie.
However, when this money is in the hands of the distributor, it is unknown when he will pay the producer and other beneficiaries.
Especially those independent filmmakers, distributors who have been dragging for a year and a half are not called procrastination at all. Even the six major Hollywood film studios with excellent reputation, debts and delays in payment are endless, and they have been brought to the Delaware Commercial Chancery Court. There are countless cases.
In other words, never overestimate the moral standards of Hollywood studios.
This is why Lehmann must first find Europa Pictures to find out. Just like Paramount Pictures, when facing such a film company with strong strength in France, they will never do it for these tens of millions. U.S. dollars lost big because of small losses.
In the end of April, an accounting firm entrusted by Lehman also participated in the whole process of splitting the accounts, and started close economic business dealings with Paramount Pictures and Europa Pictures, and checked the dense accounts of large and small. File and box office data of various regions are divided into calculations.
Lehman can't get involved in this kind of thing at all. His presence will have no effect except to add to the chaos. Although the professional accountants of PricewaterhouseCoopers charge high fees, they are worthy of entrustment in terms of their business capabilities and the company's reputation.
Besides, he also invited a law firm to represent Lehmann's Mann studio to supervise the whole process.
Double insurance is not too much.
After all, there are so many exchanges of interests involved, it is always right to be more careful.
Paramount Pictures signed the most conventional split account with the theaters. After the theaters deduct fixed expenses, they are divided into different proportions with the issuer during different periods of the screening, and after deducting miscellaneous payments such as taxes and fees. , Paramount Pictures got a little more than 52 million US dollars.
This part of the money, Europa Pictures does not have the right to use the first manual, as a real channel distributor, Paramount can first draw 31.2 million US dollars of it.
Fortunately, the costs of publicity and public relations and film copying do not need to be recalculated. The remaining 20.8 million US dollars were successfully delivered to Europa Pictures.
Looking at it this way, Paramount Pictures only spent about 12 million in costs, and achieved a return of 19.2 million US dollars.
Issuing companies have broad publicity channels and powerful distribution capabilities. It is not without reason that they can stand at the top of the industry. Such easy money making is really eye-catching.