In the previous and last few "Star Wars Prequel", if you consider who is the one who benefits the most, it must be George Lucas and his Lucasfilm, and the publisher Twentieth Century Fox, they can extract 15% of the box office as the distribution fee. The main actors who participated in this series also have their value increased...

For example, when Natalie took on the first Star Wars film, her salary was only 500,000 US dollars, while by the third part, her salary had reached 7 million US dollars.

Although there are many reasons for Ryan, this series still has a huge driving force for increasing the value of actors.

Of course, an actress with the same reputation can never be compared with a male actor's pay.

As the actor with the most reputable and appealing role in the last two plots, although Ryan offered a friendly price - a $20 million salary plus a 5% box office share - this series will inevitably bring him huge pay.

As for the Hollywood 20 million club, he was a member of it as early as the late 1990s. This name has no substantial significance to him, just like Nicole's first female member of the Hollywood 20 million club.

Even though "Star Wars Prequel 3: Revenge of the Sith" has not been offline yet, and with the previous "Clone Offense", Lucasfilm paid him up to $100 million, and this is the income after deducting taxes.

Just as George Lucas said, the Star Wars Prequel series is impossible to expect box office profitability, at most it is to recover costs, and the real money is still around.

A movie that can sell nearly $26 billion by relying solely on the peripherals is now only "Star Wars Series". Although the peripheral benefits generated by "Harry Potter" are close to $15 billion, it will take time to surpass the Star Wars Series.

Nowadays, a film pays more and more to well-known actors and directors, and sometimes even accounts for more than half of the producer's box office share. The rising pay for big-name stars has become one of the most troublesome problems for many producers.

Walt Disney also faces this problem.

This is also a conflict between the producers' alliance. It is never resolved with other Hollywood associations. The strikes initiated by other associations are often targeted at the producers' alliance.

From what position you stand, you must consider the issue from your own standpoint. This is a common rule all over the world.

In the commercial masterpieces led by Ryan, they try to avoid using first-line stars. Even if they use them, they will give priority to their own people. Most successful commercial productions in their previous lives, even if they change to other actors, actually have little impact.

For example, if Shia LaBeouf and Megan Fox in "Transformers" pull out two handsome, beautiful and somewhat basic acting people from Hollywood third-tier and even the bottom-level actors. Will there be a difference?

There are also those amazing superheroes, which are completely the roles that give the actors special meaning.

"Since capital has come to the world, every pore from head to toe has dripped with blood and dirty things." Karl Marx's words must be a famous saying.

Capital is profit-seeking, and capitalists, as capitalists representing capital, are of course profit-seeking. This is also Ryan's starting point for handling Disney affairs.

In addition to a series of big productions, Disney has also released several typical youth idol movies this year. Among them, "Mean Girl" was released in April, and when it was down, it exchanged a total investment of more than $20 million from North America for a box office of $86.5 million, and the global box office also exceeded $100 million.

Lindsay Lohan instantly became the most popular youth idol.

So, when she was discussing the next movie with Disney, she offered a pay of up to $8 million, plus a 10% share of the total box office.

You know, her salary in "Mean Girl" is only $1 million.

Disney would definitely not agree. After Ryan learned the news, he directly canceled the preparation plan for "Mean Girls 2". After the contract with Lindsay Lohan expired, he would give up this young idol star who was about to transform.

Then, use the copyright "Summer of Jeans", which has long been acquired, to recreate several young and beautiful actresses.

Disney has never lacked youth idols. For young stars who have been squeezed out of fuel, they will throw them into the big dyeing tank in Hollywood and let them fend for themselves without hesitation.

As for how many people can struggle out of it and truly gain a foothold in Hollywood, it has nothing to do with Disney.

Although Disney's strategy has been implemented for decades and many people can understand it, every youth selection competition held by Disney always causes a sensation. Hollywood's temptation is huge, and countless people want to become famous. How many people can get rid of the attraction of fame and fortune?

After lacking Disney's support and concealment, Lindsay Lohan's bad side was directly exposed to the camera of the reporter's paparazzi, and many scandals such as alcoholism, drug use and one-night stands were quickly revealed, and began to slide in the direction of his previous life.

The Hollywood industry is tacitly aware of this, and this is another idol star who has been abandoned by Disney.

Similarly, Disney's star-making activities will not stop. Miley Cyrus, Zach Efron and Vanessa Huggins are all undergoing relevant training to prepare for the preparations of "Hannah Montana" and "Singing and Dance Youth".

The latter is still a TV movie and will not enter theaters. There is a huge difference between TV movies and real movies. This kind of movie that does not accumulate fans and does not undergo preheating will only fail to enter theaters.

The decline of singing and dancing films is not just about saying.

The box office battle in the summer season is still continuing, and some Hollywood producers are happy and some are lonely. These are the results of the ups and downs of the box office of the movies under their name.

The box office accounts for only 20 to 30% of a commercial movie's revenue, but if even the most basic box office and audience cannot be guaranteed, the sales around the movie will definitely not be much higher.

Can you expect the TV copyright and DVD video tape copyright of a movie with a box office of only $30 to $40 million respectively to sell for more than $10 million?

That is certainly unrealistic.

On July 7, North American theaters ushered in another super masterpiece, "Spider-Man 2", which has a production cost of up to 200 million US dollars, made a grand debut. In view of the huge success of the first film, theater dealers have joined the ranks of screenings. The film's first week of theaters reached its highest this year - 4,152!

The film lived up to expectations and did not become the Waterloo that some people hoped for. It swept away $115.81 million from North America four days on the first four days, once again showing the great power of the joining forces of Peter Parker and Mary Jane.

Hollywood is also lamenting that Disney's big productions were released and then sold at the box office, and achieved great success in commercial activities, which almost became a fixed model after Ryan took over Disney.

Of course, Disney is not without money-lossing movies. For example, "The Legend of the Border Town Heroes" produced by Touchstone Pictures in April and released by Bowei International, with a total investment of up to $117 million, but it only earned $24.21 million in North American box office, and even no one cared about the copyright of overseas screenings.

However, everyone understands that the film has nothing to do with Ryan, and when he took over Disney, the film had already started filming.

In the second week, the North American box office of "Spider-Man 2" fell to $78.56 million, and the box office continued to fall in the third week. Just when everyone was relieved, another major Disney production was released. This movie was no longer a rescue, but frozen most of North America with a destruction. From Philadelphia to Boston, from New York to Washington, it all turned into ice and snow.

That's right, Roland Emmeric's disaster blockbuster "The Day Afternoon" was released. Although it brought a cold feeling in the hot summer, the box office performance was not frozen!

With $85.8 million in the first three days, "The Day Afternoon" squeezed "Spider-Man 2" out of the box office championship, attracting a lot of US dollars with the ice and snow scenes, and the latter's box office cumulative amount reached more than $250 million.

After the first week of "The Day After" was released, Roland Emmerich flew back to Los Angeles from the premiere of New York, and made a special trip to Disney to find Ryan, and to sell his ideas for the next new movie.

"This is an adventure story about a hero..."

Sitting opposite the desk, Roland Emmerich was talking endlessly, "...The barren desert, dense forest, mysterious tribes, groups of saber-toothed tigers, mammoths and other prehistoric giants, coupled with the thrilling human-beast hand-to-hand combat, and the shocking audio-visual sound effects will definitely bring a dreamy world."

"Believe me, Ryan!" The other person's face was full of confidence after success.

"Roland, don't you think you're more suitable for disaster films?" Ryan tapped his desk gently and specifically reminded him, "Independence Day and "The Day Afternoon" are both science fiction disaster films."

"No, no, no." Roland Emmerich shook his head repeatedly, "I think I should change the subject and idea."

Although Roland Emmerich had just talked about the idea just now, Ryan had already thought about which movie it was. It could be said that it was Roland Emmerich's most failed work, and it was basically hopeless.

"Roland, the prehistoric era is too far away from us." Ryan didn't go around in circles and refused directly, "Unless it was an animated feature film, Disney would not invest in such a movie."

After saying this, Roland Emmerich was obviously stunned, obviously not expecting that such a result would be waiting for the end.

According to Hollywood convention, his last movie just sold out, so it should be easy to find an investment next time.

"Roland, both of our cooperations were very pleasant."

The fact is as Ryan said, the cooperation between the two sides is a typical strong alliance, "You just destroyed North America this time..."

Ryan spread his hands and said, "Why don't we go to destroy the whole world together?" (To be continued...)
Chapter completed!