After buying Marvel, I became the king of Hollywood

After the conductor checked the queue, he asked with a troubled expression.

The man hesitated for a moment, turned his head to look at his child, and was about to say something.

The little boy suddenly said loudly:

"I'm going to watch Pirates of the Caribbean, and I'm going to watch it later."

A look of doting suddenly appeared on the man's face.

Forget it, it's a rest day anyway, so let's take the children to play in this mall for a day, and watch a movie in the evening.

After making up his mind, the man turned his head and said:

"Give me three tickets, please."

The conductor then took the credit card handed over by the man. After swiping the three tickets for Pirates of the Caribbean, he took out three evening tickets and handed them to the man.

...

It's not just this family that has this situation.

All over the United States, in all the large theaters, countless families are arguing over which movie to watch, but among them, families with children, without exception, finally choose Pirates of the Caribbean.

As for The Lion King, although the box office rose very fiercely in the first week of its release, it has been two weeks since The Lion King was released.

Most of its audience, those who like to watch it, have already watched it.

Most of the remaining viewers are actually between watching and not watching.

Compared with Pirates of the Caribbean, The Lion King is an animated movie, and the other is a live-action fantasy movie, which is not at the same level of competitiveness at all.

Chapter 83 Limiting Depp's Paycheck

Under such two choices, Pirates of the Caribbean bloodthirsty took away part of the next box office of The Lion King, and won some key indicators for his own box office top.

Knowing the popularity of Pirates of the Caribbean, Kevin and Hayek had no choice but to give up their plans to watch the movie in person.

Even they can only buy evening tickets. Kevin doesn't have the patience to wait a whole day just to watch a movie. As a director, the plot of Pirates of the Caribbean is all in his heart.

It is actually the most boring thing for a director to watch his own film.

In order to make up for not being able to accompany Hayek to watch movies, Kevin had to act as a humanoid cash machine and take Hayek on a shopping spree.

This can be regarded as making up for her plan to not be able to watch a movie with Kevin.

Of course, it works as a cash machine during the day, and at night, Kevin turns into a human-shaped planter, subduing Hayek.

Touching Hayek's skin, Kevin couldn't let it go.

As a white Mexican, Hayek's skin is not as rough as the average white American woman, probably because of her eating habits.

Compared with Jolie and Milla Jovovich, her skin appears smoother and more delicate.

The two were lying on the bed, Tom Hayek was lying on Kevin's chest with a satisfied expression, and after resting for a while, he asked:

"Kevin, there are only three plays for Elizabeth?"

Kevin has already told her that among the Pirates of the Caribbean, Elizabeth, the woman with the most roles, only exists in three parts.

After that, a whole new story begins.

Seeing the popularity of Pirates of the Caribbean, Hayek was somewhat unwilling.

Lying on the bed, stroking Hayek's back, Kevin said in a relaxed tone:

"Pirates of the Caribbean is destined to be Captain Jack Sparrow's one-man show. Although you are the heroine in name, in fact, in the movie, your role is not important."

"Even if you stay in this movie for a longer period of time, it's actually too meaningful. You need a big heroine, or a real big-budget movie with equal roles between men and women."

Kevin's words immediately caused Hayek to fall into deep thought.

He was quite right.

In the current Hollywood, the status of female actors is far inferior to that of male actors.

Leaving aside, let’s just talk about the number of stars whose salaries exceed 1000 million US dollars. There are many more male actors than female actors.

Pirates of the Caribbean, in fact, is not very useful for improving her status in Hollywood.

From the previous salary of 300 million US dollars, it will increase by 200 million, 300 million.

For her next movie, she can try asking for a salary of 800 million US dollars. Of course, the specific salary must still be negotiated, and it may not be able to reach this amount.

As for Captain Jack Sparrow...

Hayek couldn't help feeling a little jealous.

Kevin signed a contract with Johnny Depp. The first film paid $1000 million, the second $1500 million, and the third $2000 million. Since then, Pirates of the Caribbean, each sequel has increased by 500 million dollar contract.

This is literally making Johnny Depp a superstar in Hollywood.

You know, in Hollywood, the gap between stars and superstars lies in the 2000 million salary.

If you get a salary of 2000 million, you are a superstar recognized by Hollywood. If you can't get it, no matter how much the company behind it blows it up and how hard the fans praise it, you won't be recognized by Hollywood.

Kevin naturally didn't know that Hayek in his arms was jealous of Johnny Depp's salary.

The reason why he gave such a high price is actually to use the contract to tie Johnny Depp reasonably and reasonably.

Although the film company is the absolute upper class force in Hollywood, sometimes even the film company has to make concessions in the face of these superstars.

Kevin used this huge increase to successfully get Depp to sign this fixed-pay contract, which is actually a big advantage.

Although the first three movies may not have taken advantage of Kevin.

But when the trilogy is released and the influence of Pirates of the Caribbean is completely spread all over the world, Kevin can take advantage of it.

You must know that in the original trajectory, Johnny Depp's salary has skyrocketed since the fourth film.

For example, in the original Pirates of the Caribbean 4, Johnny Depp received a salary of 5500 million yuan. In this way, it was unanimously believed by the Disney executives at the time that he took advantage of it.

Compared with the $2000 million salary of the third part, it has tripled.

For the fifth Pirates of the Caribbean, Johnny Depp actually quoted a salary of 9000 million US dollars, which is enough to know how exaggerated it is later.

This is why Disney had to replace Johnny Depp, the cost was too high.

If it makes money, most of the income goes to Depp.

Once a loss occurs, the investor will suffer greatly.

It is precisely based on this consideration that Pirates of the Caribbean 5 has not been able to be born, because the investors were undecided, and Depp was unwilling to reduce the salary at the time, and at the same time, there was a scandal.

Make investors more hesitant.

And through the constraints of Kevin's salary contract, suppressing the growth rate of Johnny Depp's salary is the greatest benefit to Pirates of the Caribbean.

In this way, Kevin can make 5, 6, 7··9 sequels.

It will not be because of Johnny Depp's salary that the movie cannot be shot.

As for not allowing his salary to increase so much, Kevin can only say that it is still too young.

The value of an actor can be evaluated with various data. If Kevin does too much, the actor union is not joking.

But before the Pirates of the Caribbean exploded, Kevin directly signed a contract with Johnny Depp with such a superior contract, and no one could say no to this contract.

If Depp defaults, the consequences will be more serious, in addition to losing money.

Not to mention that there will be no big productions looking for him, everyone will know that once the movie hits a big hit, he will make very excessive demands, which will only ruin his own stardom in Hollywood.

In short, Kevin still pays great attention to this aspect of the contract.

Of course, Mission: Impossible is an exception, which he deliberately did in order to cheat Paramount.

When two more Mission: Impossible movies are made, Paramount wants to invite Cruise to make a film. In addition to the high salary, the box office share should not be missed.

According to the treatment of superstars, the minimum is 10% and the maximum is 20%.

These revenues are enough to compress Paramount's profits to a very tight level.

Thinking of this, Kevin couldn't help laughing.

Hayek in the smiling arms moved for no apparent reason, and Kevin couldn't help turning over again and pressing Hayek under him...

Chapter 84 First Day Box Office (Pirates of the Caribbean)

The next day, when it was early summer, the scorching sun shone on Kevin's face from outside the curtains.

Only then did Kevin wake up from the room Hayek bought in a daze.

First, he closed his eyes and meditated for a few seconds, and after he regained consciousness, Kevin said softly to Hayek beside him:

"Honey, today I'm going to MGM to see how the box office is doing on the first day, so you can rest at home for a day."

"I'll prepare breakfast for you."

After looking at Hayek who was in a daze, he moaned on the bed to show his agreement, and then Kevin got up to get dressed and tidied up his personal hygiene.

After preparing a simple breakfast for Hayek, Kevin went out and directly got into the car driven by Chen Zhiwen.

I have to say that being Kevin's bodyguard and part-time driver is really hard work.

When Kevin is not in the villa area, he often has to guard the neighborhood all night.

Of course, Kevin's salary is enough.

Chen Zhiwen really couldn't complain, and could only follow his duty honestly.

...

MGM, inside the president's office.

Leiter is anxiously waiting for his statistician to convey to him the box office of Pirates of the Caribbean in every state in the United States.

As a well-established film company, since Kevin joined MGM, the value of MGM's shares has increased by 20%.

And this value has a higher possibility of rising at any time.

People in the market are waiting for the box office results of Kevin's latest work, Pirates of the Caribbean, so as to choose whether to snap up MGM's circulating shares in the market.

In other words, MGM is too much influenced by Kevin now.

As the president of MGM, Leiter was very uneasy about this.

Although Kevin's joining is definitely a good thing for MGM, but if it has too much influence, it is not a good thing.

After all, Kevin is only the third shareholder after all, with only 10.5% of the shares.

Under this premise, Leiter is also actively pursuing other directors and projects.

But so far, there are some who make small money, but compared with Kevin, it is undoubtedly a world of difference...

...

Stepping into MGM, Kevin walked towards the president's office full of energy.

As the major shareholder of MGM, and at the same time showing his face at the Oscars, he can be said to be unimpeded in the company.

"Director Kevin."

"···"

People who saw Kevin greeted him one after another. Everyone knew that he was one of the most powerful people in MGM.

Regardless of Leiter being the president, Kevin is the major shareholder of MGM and the strongest supporter of MGM's current performance.

Kevin said that in MGM, Bilet is more powerful.

Facing the greetings of these staff, Kevin responded kindly.

A few minutes later, Kevin came to the president's office.

Looking at Leiter who kept pacing, Kevin asked directly:

"Is Pirates of the Caribbean's first-day box office out?"

June 6th is Saturday.

Warner and MGM specially arranged the schedule for this holiday.

And today is the time to harvest.

With a production cost of 2000 million yuan and an announcement of [-] million yuan, this is a masterpiece with a higher production cost than the original Pirates of the Caribbean.