Who are you calling "little fresh meat"? I'm the king.

Chapter 448 March (34)

For "American Dreams in China," Shen Yan's personal salary was 500 million yuan plus a 20% cut of the profits...

Why is it so high?

It's very simple. He's the one who got the project, he found the investors, and he even put together the cast…

To put it bluntly, even if he took 50%, none of the investors would say anything!
Because the return on investment for "American Dreams in China" exceeded 1:20...

The major investors, including Cool Whale Culture, have all received more than 2000 million!
Why did Paramount fall out with Tom Cruise after Mission: Impossible III?
Mission: Impossible III's global box office of $3.93 million seems like a huge success, but its production and marketing costs totaled $250 million. Half of the box office revenue went to theaters, and of the remainder, including DVD sales, Tom Cruise took 2.5%. According to media reports, Paramount worked for several years but only made a profit of $800,000, while Cruise pocketed nearly $100 million…

Paramount wanted to cut Tom Cruise's salary, but he refused.

The two sides have fallen out!
However, Tom Cruise's fixed salary for "Mission: Impossible 4" was $1200 million, and his share of the profits was reduced to 15%. But "Mission: Impossible 4" was a box office and critical success, and Tom Cruise earned $7500 million!
Paramount didn't say anything...

Because they profited too!
Then with Mission: Impossible 5, Tom Cruise's fixed salary rose to $2500 million, and with Mission: Impossible 6, it rose again to nearly $2800 million!
Of course, it doesn't compare to Robert Downey Jr.'s offer of over $8000 million for his return to the two Avengers 5 films. That's not all; it also included various benefits such as private jet travel, dedicated security personnel, and a complete "trailer camp" on set…

Oh, back to "American Dreams in China," the film has been in theaters for 16 days and has grossed over 13 billion yuan, with daily box office still exceeding 3000 million yuan, and it has successfully surpassed "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey"...

However, next week will see the release of *Les Misérables*, followed by *Upside Down*, *The Heist*, *Die Hard 5*, and *Resident Evil: Retribution*, including Wang Jing's *Kung Fu Hustle* and Herman Yau's *Ip Man: The Final Fight*…

Therefore, everyone's estimate for "American Dreams in China" to gross between 16.5 billion and 17 billion yuan...

It's quite accurate.

Shi Shi played a little trick; instead of directly stating how much money Shen Yan could earn, she replied, "Shen Yan doesn't know exactly how much he'll get, but he did receive a share... We'll have to wait six months to find out the exact amount..."

Zhao Liying asked in confusion, "Doesn't he care?"

Yang Mi chimed in: "What does he care about... He's making at least 1000 million a year on endorsements these days... I heard at least fifty brands are contacting him!"

"Isn't that an exaggeration? There can't be that many!"

"Exaggerated?" Yang Mi immediately wrote, "I was in contact with a luxury brand, and we were about to finalize a collaboration... Guess what happened next?"

"What happened?"

What brand?

"LV, Nini stole it! I'm not having it! In 'American Dreams in China,' she didn't even have 5 minutes of screen time in total! Why?"

"She's a Zhang Yimou girl!"

"I don't accept any of these actresses... I heard she only got 50 yuan for filming 'American Dreams'!"

"How do you know it?"

"Zeng Jia told me..."

Shi Shi thought for a moment and wrote: "Your movie 'Finding Mr. Right' will be released next month, you'll definitely get a few endorsements!"

Yang Mi immediately replied, "You also acted in that movie... I heard you got a share of the profits?"

"Hmm, 8% of the revenue... They said it's inappropriate to pay me a salary since I'm only doing a supporting role..."

Yang Tianbao interjected, "So, what's the box office prediction for this movie?"

"Shen Yan said it would be either over 500 million or 80 million... Let's see how well the publicity goes. I feel it could be over 500 million!"

"Well... a cost of 3000 million, wow, you've made a killing this time!"

"Who knows... the movie hasn't been released yet."

"If it really exceeds 500 million, wouldn't you be able to get more than 18 million?"

"This is hypothetical..."

Yang Tianbao: "Wow, that's amazing. One movie is worth more than my entire year last year..." Zhao Liying replied: "Isn't 'Blind Detective' also going to be released in April?"

"Pretty much, it'll be released on April 3rd... They say they're going to go head-to-head with 'Drug War'!"

"Drug War... Johnnie To's Drug War... You guys are amazing!"

The group chatted for a while before noticing that Yang Mi hadn't said a word...

Uh, I guess he's become withdrawn!

After all, she didn't receive a single penny in salary for "Finding Mr. Right"...

This film was one of the five film contracts signed at the time!

……

The promotional campaign for "American Dreams in China" has basically ended...

As of March 4th, after 23 days in theaters, the film had grossed 14.87 billion yuan, setting a new record for the highest-grossing film in mainland China—breaking the record previously held by *Avatar* on its 19th day of release…

It's still showing in theaters and remains the top-grossing film of the day, although its daily box office has dropped to around 1500 million.

It's clear that the market has entered a downward trend...

However, recently, the news in the entertainment industry, or rather the trending topics on Weibo, have become "Hainan Rendezvous" and "Wang Dazhi's sex scandal"!
Tsk tsk…

Thanks to Wang Sicong's popular science explanation—he directly posted on Weibo that "Haitian Shengyan" was "a time for nouveau riche and sluts to gather," implying that the event involved illicit transactions.

This sparked public attention to the "escort circle," and subsequent media reports further exposed the industry chain in which "escort girls" like Sun Jingya profited immensely from such activities...

Oh, and there's also a lot of information about other games, like 'depth charge,' 'Russian roulette,' and 'eel start, eel end'...

Many websites have also added the keyword 'Haitianshengyan' to their domestic product sections!
Yes, Si Cong has done it again.

As for the Wang Dazhi sexual harassment incident, it was revealed by Zhuo Wei.

It seems Dong Jie's agent, Ren Jiaying, was showing off by saying something like, "Pan Yueming hired Zhuo Wei to follow him for two months, and they found nothing!"

Zhuo Wei was furious. On one hand, he had never even met Pan Yueming; on the other hand, he felt that Ren Jiaying was mocking him. So, he followed her for four months and captured the passionate love scene on camera…

Shen Yan was speechless about this. He asked Ji Xiang, "I really don't understand. If you're not compatible, just get a divorce. Why ruin Pan Yueming's life?"

"How can you build a pure and innocent image if you don't ruin Pan Yueming's reputation? You need to understand that she cheated on you first. How can you prove your innocence if you don't turn the tables on her?"

"...No, she's already had a baby. She was really close to Liang Chaowei before, who would believe she's so innocent?"

"There will always be someone who believes it!"

Shen Yan shook his head: "Anyway, I don't believe... such insane logic!"

"Are we really not going to have a victory celebration banquet?"

"No way... there's no point in making this happen... I reckon it'll be recorded in a movie this year... or next year!"

What movie?

"Transformers 4... it'll easily gross at least 20 billion at the box office!"

Oh, Shen Yan is back in Beijing. He's preparing to record his third album...

The album is called "Time Thief"...

(End of this chapter)