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- North American box office for the week
?B month 2-month 2, 204
————Movie————Name——-Release weeks——Number of theaters/change————Average——This week’s box office——Total box office
"The Exorcist Prequel" - No. 1 - - Week 1 - 203 - - B59B - -, 666 -, 66,69
"Napoleon the Great" - No. 14 - Week 1 - 77 (14) - 615B - 297299B - 2,2670l
"The Notebook" - No. 17 - Week 9 - - 6l home - - -, 03B - - I2279 - 76,/422
"Wedding Day is Coming"——No. 2——-Week 14——-3 Houses (3)————I60————6,60————752617
On the night of February 28th, Phil Collins' singing ignited the packed Staples Center, including "'11-B-T-M-eat" and many other classic songs, which detonated the City of Angels, a huge success. Concert.
Ye Wei continued to live in the wilderness in the Laurel River Reserve, fishing, digging wild vegetables, and gnawing weeds. He played until the afternoon of the 2nd when it was time to go back. The box of compressed cakes did not even open the wrapping paper. Five days of fun, A's score.
As he did at the end of every camping trip, he carved "VI" on a big tree in the camp, packed his things on his back and left, leaving behind a lot of firewood and ashes.
When Ye Wei returned to Dubov's house in Scarborough in the evening, she met Nina who was playing football on the front lawn.
Seeing his dusty appearance, as if he hadn’t taken a shower for several days, and smelling like a boy’s sweat, Nina pinched her nose and said with confusion and fun: “Someone has been abused by a relative.”
"Me? No." Ye Wei walked up to her, his mood was completely different, "I have a gift for you, and I made it myself."
"Don't talk to me, Unique Hawking." Nina turned around and strode away. She said she would boycott him.
Ye Wei shrugged and made a face. When he saw the football rolling down at his feet, he kicked it toward her and used the best kicks of the top scorer, hitting her back with a bang. Nina over there shrank her shoulders and held her head in surprise, then she realized what she was doing and looked back stupidly, "Do you want to die?"
“Well, isn’t this the Bulgarian way of saying goodbye?”
"no"
Nina turned around and walked away angrily, unable to see Ye Wei's playful smile.
On Monday, February 3rd, many schools across North America began the new school year, and students who were nostalgic for summer returned to campus life.
This was the first day for Ye Wei and Nina to go to school in Wexford. Mihaela drove a tenth grader and a ninth grader. Nina was very unhappy to be in the car with Gu You and asked to go there. I got off the bus a block before the school and walked there by myself to show my contempt for him.
This situation will probably not be resolved until Ye Wei drives his own car.
Naturally, there is an opening ceremony on the first day of school. Compared to Harvard-Westlake, it is a simple affair. More than 100 students gathered on the school's track and field. Principal Tom Salo gave a speech, and student representatives gave speeches to welcome the new students. Looking ahead to the new school year.
The excitement and anticipation of the freshmen are written on their faces, and the high school is full of youth.
Ye Wei was also very happy. For him, tenth grade was the beginning of high school, and the good news was that no one recognized him yet. At most, they looked at him with confusion. There were more whites and South Asians in the school, and Asians, Blacks and other ethnic groups are average, while Asian families still prefer academic high schools.
"From now on, I am not only a wolverine, but also a Viking, and I will be rewarded for my merits."
"AImaQutaut1Erat)" is Wexford's school motto, which is also the school motto of the University of Southern California, so he likes it very much.
Los Angeles, Harvard-Westlake Junior High School and High School are also ushering in the first day of school, and the junior high school’s Saperstein Theater is holding an opening assembly.
On the stage, the principal of the junior high school, Jenny Hebrechts, was delivering the opening speech, and there was a lively undercurrent in the silence under the stage.
The seventh-grade freshmen are so new to everything. Many of them have already heard about the legend of VIYR Spoon. For example, last year in this theater, he embarrassed Principal Hudnut. I feel excited just thinking about it. Joining a club is another exciting topic, and the Dream Chaser League is undoubtedly one of the most popular, but now you have to go through a lot of tests to get in.
As one of the examiners, Babu, who is already an eighth grader, has his head raised. How else would he be admired by the freshmen?
The Dream-Chasing League was also established in the high school. It was such a great event. Lev and Bud were thinking about how to set off firecrackers to celebrate, but at the same time, in this spacious and elegant campus, a loud bang sounded. A female voice screamed: "You are really in hell, that bitch"
"Master Gia, don't you think you have a lot of time to play? Hehe.", "Yes, yes."
After listening to what Lev and the others said, Gia almost fainted, butThere is no way to refute it. The high school has classes five days a week, and each academic class only meets four times a week. This means that there is more time than the junior high school, allowing students to do more community services and go beyond academics. design and develop areas of interest.
Not only do your T-scores need to be good, but your resume when applying for college should also be beautiful. It’s more difficult than just reading a test, but it’s also more fun, isn’t it?
"Then you have to complete the academic requirements first. T average score is 2100what a bitch" Gia's screams continued, "I also want to go to art school."
Compared with Harvard-Westlake, which is one of the top T2 high schools in the United States, Ye Wei personally feels that it is so great to go to school in Wexford
Academic courses on the curriculum can only be sidelined. Performance theory, physical movement, voice, drama theory, drama rehearsal, etc. are the protagonists. And the style of study is so different, relaxed, artistic, and not showing off wealth. At Harvard-Westlake, everyone seems to be in a hurry, but here, in the corridors everywhere, there are students sitting against the wall, doing their own thing.
There will be no teachers scolding, and no one will feel bad. Things related to art can be seen everywhere, and the sound of acting and music is floating in the air.
There is also Chinese food in the cafeteria, so you don’t have to worry about arguing with the school, although the food is just average. Ye Wei's favorite thing is the gym. This is one of the few facilities that is better than Harvard-Westlake because performance students need to shape their bodies and exercise. This is a course.
During the lunch break, Ye Wei just left the cafeteria and came to the corridor outside. Students were coming and going. This was something he didn't like, it was too crowded.
At this time, he saw an acquaintance. Nina and three girls came over talking and laughing. He didn't know if they were her new friends or old classmates. He thought that with her temperament, it would be easy to meet new friends. In the crowd, Ye Wei raised his hand to say hello, "Hey, Ni"
Nina also saw him, her eyes immediately moved away, and she hurried past with her friends, ignoring him, as if she didn't know him at all.
"OK." Ye Wei smiled helplessly and walked forward.
A white boy with flat curly hair approached beside him, "That girl is really hot. Hot girls are always so arrogant. I am Damian Rush, grade 11, visual and media arts." Ye Wei stretched out his hand to fist bump with him, "Yunique Gu, tenth grade, performing arts."
"First of all, let me explain, I am gay." Damian said in a serious tone, not afraid of being heard by the people around him.
"Oh." Ye Wei was startled. Sexual orientation was not a joke. This was the first time he had seen a high school student who came out openly like this. Maybe it is common in art schools? After all, there are many, many gay people working in the art industry. He was not a homophobe and nodded: "It doesn't matter. I am an enlightened person who supports the legalization of gay marriage."
"Is it possible for us?" Damian stared expectantly.
"No, I only like girls." Ye Wei said seriously. Damian suddenly looked disappointed, and Ye Wei said again: "We can be friends." Damian quickly said: "I do."
In Los Angeles, the Sagittarius Girls School has also started school.
Emma Roberts entered the eighth grade. She was dazed in the English class. The girls around her were chattering. She took out the book "Outlaws" and opened it. Thinking of that day, she couldn't help but use her hands. He cupped his cheeks and took a breath. How is the bad guy doing in Toronto?
Weekly North American box office
?B month 2nd month 2nd, 204
————Movie————Name——-Release weeks——Number of theaters/change————Average——This week’s box office——Total box office
"Heroes"————-lth place——-lth week————2-l home————lI60————B226B—2,226-
"Napoleon the Great" - No. 14 - Week 2 - 706 (20-4476——fd,1561——*345668
"Wedding Day is Coming" - No. 2 - Week 14 - - 17 (18) - - I174 - 2,15B - - B24776
There are also bright spots in the film market during the first week of school. "Hero", which was released nearly two years later in China, won the championship this week. It is another victory for Chinese-language films after "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon". The release of Miramax is quite controversial. If However, it was released while it was hot in 2020 when it was nominated for the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, and the box office should be higher.
"Napoleon" continues its miracle. This comedy with a production fee of only 400,000 yuan has become a phenomenon. It is very popular among young people and has overshadowed many blockbusters.
It also obscures a lot of the light of "Wedding Day is Coming". In the media, the Hess couple are heroic geniuses, while Ye Wei is a corrupted bad genius. However, "Wedding Day is Coming" has done well at the box office. Riding on Ye Wei's rising popularity, it is only less than two million short of the box office target of 40 million. It is not an unattainable dream.
Time has also entered September, and NP Company announced the Q-score statistics for the third period of 204, which is the latest situation in the past four months.
Over the summer, many new celebrities entered the scope of the investigation, including Ye Wei, who had a positive Q score of 2 points.
This score made Brian and Leslie cheer for joy. Compared with their other client, Ye Wei, who ranked first with 57 points, was nothing. People like Jin Xu, Bruce Willis, and Tom -Cruise: Only those with a score of 6 or above can be called superstars. A score of 2 is not enough to be a first-line TV star, but it is so surprising.
The original minimum idea was to score 10 points within one year and 2 points within three years. The most optimistic idea was to wait for the success of "Little Miss Sunshine" to achieve 2 points. As a result, less than half a year after its debut, it already scored 2 points. This is definitely the fastest. One of the soaring speeds.
When Brian happily informed Ye Wei, he got a lazy reply from the other party, "Only 2 points? No wonder no one here has recognized me yet."
Of course, with 2 points, everyone wouldn’t know everyone when walking on the street, but people would mistakenly think, “You are that, that… the one who acted in “Pig Head Walking the Streets”?” If it weren’t for Ye Wei being much younger and more handsome than John Zhao. , this will definitely happen.
"When will I score 3 points and look like a popular soap opera star? Brian, I'll be happy again."
"Wei, I'm convinced, you're just a newcomer, and many Disney kids don't have this score."
Another pointYe Wei's negative Q score also far exceeded expectations: 15 points.
This is a very dangerous, starting to stink score, and it's not so much "I don't know him" but "he's a shitty guy" and I hate him maybe because of his recent scandals and scandals, maybe something else reason.
??The total score is the sum of the positive and negative scores. In fact, there are many people who know YR spoons. Popular soap opera stars may not have this total score, unless they are a member of "Sex and the City".
Ye Wei is also dissatisfied with the negative Q score: "Only 15 points? I thought there would be 2 points anyway."
Brian was speechless. It was the first time he heard that a client wanted his negative Q score to be high. How many brokerage teams and public relations teams were fired because a client's negative Q score was too high, even if they were dedicated to sensationalizing and attracting attention. Those reality show stars only want their positive Q scores to be high.
"Don't do stupid things on purpose to increase negative Q points." Brian had to remind him. Thinking about that public statement, he was really scared.
"No time, no interest."
Brian thought that VIY running to Canada would be good and bad.
The bad thing is that he has left the spotlight and his exposure continues to decline. Since he went to Toronto, there have been no street photos of him in the media, and there is no news about his participation in activities. If it were not for the weekly article in the "VIY Said" column , In the eyes of the public, Ye Wei seemed to have disappeared.
This is fatal for a rising star. Before everyone remembers you, you will be silent.
He now truly regrets that Ye Wei and Lily Collins have ended their relationship. Originally, if Ye Wei had attended Phil Collins' Los Angeles concert a few days ago, it would have been exposed again, and the relationship would have been naturally announced. But now there is nothing.
The good thing is that Toronto is a quiet place away from all kinds of temptations. For the six-year-old boy who suddenly became famous, and for whom "Little Miss Daylight" is the top priority of the plan, there is no better place than there. You must know that VIY is not only famous now, but also has money. It is no problem to throw a party, drive a sports car, smoke marijuana and so on.
Money can make people happy, but money can also destroy people.
What he can do depends on Ye Wei himself, this bad boy who some people love and others hate.
Three months after its release, the North American box office of "Wedding Day is Coming" is almost settled, and settlements are also being carried out one after another.
It often happens: an independent film is distributed by a well-known or unknown distribution company, makes a lot of money, everyone is happy at first, and finally turns against each other.
The reason may be that the distributor falsely reports the box office, or it may be that it does not abide by the agreement, defaults on payment various problems. A fresh and hot example is "The Passion of the Christ", a hugely controversial film. Producer Mel Gibson has just taken distributor Newmarket to court over Newmarket's actual split ratio and agreement. The proportions are inconsistent.
Fortunately, this kind of thing has never happened to IPE. They are neither the six major studios that are big enough to bully others, nor are they small film producers that no one cared about before and will still care about in the future. They have many concerns. With Hanks’ reputation, why would he do something that’s not worth the gain?
The current box office revenue of "Wedding Day is Coming" is US$320,000, which is divided among three parties: exhibitors, distributors and producers.
How to divide it? It had been decided as early as the contract formulation stage, and Attorney Salton also received a legal fee for this.
To figure out the box office division, we must first understand the first step, how to divide it between exhibitors and distributors.
In technical terms, the fee a movie theater pays a distributor to release a filmIt is called the "rent" of the film. The reason why this term is used is because there is a time limit for cinemas to use the copyright of the film, and the rent at different times can account for different proportions of box office revenue, and the settlement time is also different, depending on the agreement. Certainly.
Normally, mainstream distributors get 6 dollars, and exhibitors get the remaining 47
Independent distributors do not have the strength of mainstream distributors, and generally can only get 406. If they are distributed in art theaters, it is even lower, only 340%, because art films from independent film producers often do not do much publicity, resulting in theaters themselves having to Bear a lot of publicity costs.
So making literary films is thankless, everything is difficult, and you can’t make any money, but some films have to be made by someone.
The calculation of this percentage also involves two mainstream sharing agreements: standard agreement and total agreement.
There are several different types of standard agreements. The most mainstream one is 3/10Iaa170 Plan A, which has "house rental fees (operating costs and venue fees of the theater)", and the account will be divided on 3/10 (distributor/exhibitor) for the first 24 weeks. , followed by a weekly decrease of 60,604,060¨The plan has no house rent, directly 70-0 in the first 24 weeks to about 60 in the end
This kind of agreement is very complicated. There is a lot of wrestling between the two parties in order to maximize profits. Films that are released on a large scale at the opening will take the majority of the box office in the first few weeks. The distributor likes 3 and then finishes it later. The distributor's share is already small. If it is still If you have to pay house rent, it's basically a waste of time, and you'll still lose labor costs at any time.
So another completely different and simpler way of dividing accounts came into being: total agreement.
All box office income is allocated according to the initial proportion, and there is no housing rental fee. From the first to the last week of the week, it is so popular that 55
Whether to use a standard or a total depends on the situation of the film itself. For a blockbuster like "Spider-Man 2", of course, 3/10 is used. Its North American box office in the first two weeks (including the two days before the opening weekend) is. 7.7 billion, now in the 9th week. 600 million, if you use the total, the exhibitors will laugh crazy.
But for independent films with a very long release cycle, it is completely opposite. For example, "My Big Fat Greek Wedding" has a release cycle of 61 weeks. If you use the traditional 9010, after the 10th week, the film will be sent to the exhibitors; and like "Napoleon the Great" didn't start sprinting until the second week.
It’s like "Wedding Day is Coming", it only has l theaters in the lth week, so what’s the use of 3/10?
So IPE Cinema Line signed a total agreement of 649, which is already IPC’s greatest capability. Fortunately, its parent company is AN Broadcasting Network.
Calculated based on 649, of the $320,000 box office, 19.442 million in rent goes to the distributor and 1.866 million belongs to the exhibitor.
This rent will be divided between the distributor and the producer. How to divide it depends on the copyright ownership of the film. Has the distributor bought it out? Or divided? What is the share ratio?
"Wedding Day Is Coming" is not a buyout, but a share-sharing cooperation. The ratio initially set by both parties was to deduct the total distribution costs (first, publicity fees; second, distribution costs, including copy fees, transportation, printing, legal fees, etc., generally The total rental is 0), and then 366 points (distributor and film company), which is a fair percentage that both parties are satisfied with.
There can be a lot of trouble with distribution costs, but Playtone and IP have been around for a while, so even if IPC wants to take advantage, it won't be excessive.
The total publicity fee before and after is 1.5 million, and the distribution cost is 660,000. After deducting the -150,000, the total rent becomes about 630,000, IPC takes away 57.06 million, and the other 10.596 million is given to the producer, and according to the agreement The IP also needs to compensate for Pretone's 60,000 promotional fee, so Pretone will receive about 1.109 million.
Next, there is the internal division of accounts among the producers, which involves shareholding ratios and whether there is any sponsorship investment.
In the case of "Wedding Day", there were only two companies that had to split the money, Vido Pictures and Playtone. Although Playtone only paid 100,000 out of the 200,000 production fee, it still had a lot to do with the remake. The efforts it has made, such as assembling the crew, providing the footage of "My Big Fat Greek Wedding", and contacting distribution, etc., give it reason to hold more shares.
The original agreement was 70-0 (Weiduo Image/Platon). If Goetzman and Hanks had predicted that "Wedding Day is Coming" would sell so well, would they have asked for an increase in their dividend ratio?
There are no what-ifs in the world. After paying about 80,000 yuan in deferred salary and bonuses to the crew, Pretone received 390,000 yuan from the 1.03 million yuan and Weiduo Image received 21,000 yuan.
210,000 is just the result of a simple calculation. Don’t forget to pay taxes. Lawyer Salton talked about various taxes. Ye Wei became impatient and said to him, "If you can avoid taxes, avoid taxes. Yes, I'm a tax avoider and a good guy who doesn't support the Bush administration."
Regardless of the discounts and tax avoidance, Lawyer Salton calculated that he would still have to pay 152 yuan to get nearly 600,000 US dollars from the box office cake.
Compared with the production fee of 200,000 and the box office of 320,000, is it a lot? This is one of the reasons why it is becoming increasingly difficult for studios to make money at the box office and there are more and more series films.
Of course, every movie has a sequelThe problem is that the peripheral products in the first period failed at the box office, but the peripheral products in the later period will be successful? It's not that there are none, it's just very few. Typically, the winner takes all and the loser gets nothing.
"Wedding Day is Coming" is the winner. Weiduo Pictures will not only earn 600,000 yuan in net profit, including DVD rental and sales, TV broadcast copyright fees, overseas distribution, etc. In the future, checks will come one after another. If it is good, Can bring tens of millions of net profits.
The money will not all be deposited into the company account of Weiduo Image immediately. The settlement will take time, but it is just this number.
Finally, there is the division of accounts within the company, with the Ye family accounting for /% and other investors accounting for a total of 2. Boss Schwartz and the others are laughing so hard now that they have made a lot of money.
The Ye family can take away about 4.7 million from the 600,000. After the 1.5 million debt is settled, there will theoretically be another 300,000. This amount is the approximate net profit of the Ye family from the North American box office of "Wedding Day is Coming". Not a lot, but definitely a lot, more than enough to buy a beachfront vacation home in Malibu.
From a huge loss to a profit of millions, and the foreseeable tens of millions, the key person is of course Ye Wei.
No one would say anything bad about giving him all 300,000 yuan. Except for Ye Haogen and Gu Qiao, how did VIY spend money in the past? They are the people in the world who are most afraid of Ye Wei's destruction and love him the most. Naturally, they strictly monitor the company's accounts and as a reward, they transferred 60,000 to him.
But every time a single expenditure exceeds 10,000 yuan, you must get their consent before you get the money.
So although Ye Wei's wallet has grown, it is still firmly under the control of his parents. He is only 6 years old, they have the right to do so, and he also likes to be controlled by them.
??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????—Little Miss Sunshine" doesn't need that much, it's silly to leave it in the bank, and the film industry is very risky.
Ye Wei had an idea early on and persuaded his father to spend a sum of money to expand the dental clinic and invite a few old dentist friends to join in a partnership to build a large clinic. He can introduce customers. There are too many people in the entertainment industry who need to take care of their teeth. With these celebrities patronizing, are you afraid that there will be no other ordinary customers? Something to do
Ye Haogen is quite interested. This matter is his business and Ye Wei doesn't care.
From her mother’s side, she said that family comes first, but Ye Wei felt that she could also have a career. After all, Duoduo went to school and she had a lot of free time. What business do you want to start? Nowadays, more and more people are learning Chinese. It would be good to open a Chinese training class or something. Gu Qiao is also interested. This is his mother's business and he doesn't care.
Everything is getting better and the whole family is full of vitality.
"Brother, brother, when will you come back?" Duoduo asked on the phone. She had already enrolled in the kindergarten class at Berkeley Hall. No one dared to bully her and she was very happy.
"How many days are left until your birthday?"
"48 days"
Wexford Art School, this afternoon, Ye Wei met Nina and her group again in the corridor outside the art center.
The two haven't spoken a word to each other for several days. Every time they meet in school since the beginning of the term, Ye Wei will greet him with a smile, while Nina completely treats him as air. In front of Standing and Mihaela, they said a few words of um, um, and hehe.
This time it was like this again. Ye Wei smiled and nodded to her. Nina and her two female friends walked directly past. He was used to it and didn't care.
But the two girls glanced at him a few more times. When he walked away, the blond white girl among them asked in shock: "Nina, do you know him? That guy with glasses?"
"Well" Nina didn't know how to answer for a while, "I don't count him as an acquaintance. He is an international boarder from my neighbor's house. What's wrong?"
"The day before yesterday, I saw him picking some grass outside on the grass and putting it into his mouth to eat. I saw him chew it for a while and then swallow it." The blonde girl had a weird face, and another black-haired South Asian girl suddenly said in shock: "Really? It's terrible, Nina, you can't make friends with this kind of person, otherwise we will all be embarrassed"
Art school doesn’t mean you don’t admire cool kids, and being friends with weirdos is not okay.
Nina’s mouth trembled, “He eats grass?” Is he a cow? He's just a cattle herder.
"It's definitely him. He was wearing this suit. He ate one stick after another. I was stunned."
"Isn't he eating weeds as snacks?"
They all stopped talking, and the situation became clear. There were only a few sets of clothes to change, and the poor freak was eating weeds as snacks.
“Who knows.” Nina smiled forcefully, feeling confused in her heart - Didn't finish reading? Add this book to your favoritesI'm a member and bookmarked this chapterCopy the address of this book and recommend it to your friends for pointsChapter error? Click here to report
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