Reborn Action Star: Starting in Hollywood

Chapter 124 Do you know the joy of drawing cards?
Even by 2024, this result will be enough to rank tenth on Japan's annual movie box office list.

If you look at the Japanese movie box office chart in 2024, you will find that this is truly a two-dimensional country.

Of the top ten movies, nine are anime.

Among them, Mr. Hayao Miyazaki accounted for four films, and Star Ocean City accounted for two.

There is only one live-action movie.

Now Lin Yuan’s "Hero" is another exception, which shows how popular he is in Japan at the moment!

Lin Yuan's popularity in Japan is the result of multiple factors.

The fact that he accepted three kendo disciples and co-wrote manga with Akira Toriyama was one of the reasons, but there is another very important point:
Lin Yuan's mastery of Japanese has enabled him to be proficient in the language and have a deep understanding of Japanese culture.

This greatly reduced the Japanese market's rejection of him, and to some extent, treated him as half one of their own.

Thanks to its outstanding performance in the Japanese market, "Hero" will gross $3.5 million worldwide, nearly double the previous year's $1.77 million!
"We are going to make a fortune, right?" Lin Yuan asked with a smile.

The total cost of filming the movie "Hero" was 3000 million US dollars, and Linyuan Film Studio borne 2000 million US dollars of the cost.

As the overseas distribution agent, Linyuan Studio also bore $2000 million of the total cost of 1500 million.

Therefore, with a total cost of US$3500 million, Lin Yuan Studio can get about 50% of the total box office of "Hero", totaling US$1.7 million.

Earned 5 times the profit!
This also means that Linyuan Film Studio has more abundant cash flow.

There were already several hundred million dollars lying on the books without being spent, and now another $1.7 million needs to be recovered. The money is really being spent more and more.

It’s so annoying to have not enough money to spend!

Mr. Eisen nodded and said, "Thanks to the film 'Hero,' our studio has achieved its profit target for this year. After the year-end settlement, I will transfer 15% of the equity to you."

Lin Yuan nodded. "Our funds are growing stronger and stronger! Perhaps in the near future, it will be our turn to build our own platform."

Hearing this, Mr. Eisen smiled and did not answer, but his eyes were full of confidence.

Setting up your own platform means standing up and directly competing with the eight major film companies.

Previously, Linyuan Film Studio would join other film companies in co-productions.

The advantage is that it can reduce exclusion and resistance. After all, the table is so big, and if one more person comes to eat, others will have to eat less.

But the disadvantage is that most of the benefits must be given up. For example, when Lin Yuan participated in the filming of "Pirates of the Caribbean", he could only earn box office dividends, but the movie IP belonged to Disney.

If you want to truly become an influential giant in the industry, you will have to go it alone sooner or later. It is impossible to always rely on others to move forward.

Although the conditions are not yet ripe, it is necessary to prepare in advance.

Neither Lin Yuan nor Mr. Eisen said anything, but they could see from each other's eyes the confidence and courage to face the future storms.

"Did you know that the DVD market is also booming?" Mr. Eisen changed the subject.

"Of course. I heard that all the DVDs are sold out, whether for rent or sale. The factory is working overtime to meet customer demand," Lin Yuan replied.

"It sells even better than bread! When you told me to do this, I didn't expect it to be so popular!" Mr. Eisen exclaimed.

In 2002, renting movie DVDs was particularly popular in the North American market.

If a user particularly likes a movie, he or she may even buy a brand new DVD for collection.

In the previous life, the DVD sales revenue of "Hero" reached 2170 million US dollars, which is also a considerable income.

In this life, the DVD of "Hero" is selling like crazy.

At the beginning, it was only available in the film rental market and was hard to come by.

The rental company's DVD inventory was quickly rented out, which exceeded the rental company's expectations.

Normally, the majority of DVD rental users are those who don't go to the cinema to watch movies. However, this time, a large number of users who rented the "Hero" DVD disc were those who had purchased tickets to watch the movie in the cinema, and even watched it multiple times.

They were immersed in the gorgeous scenery and exciting fighting scenes of "Hero", watching it over and over again, so that the time interval between watching the film became very long.

Lin Yuan anticipated this phenomenon very early on. He even predicted that many users might not return the rented DVDs, and would keep them as their own collection after paying the loss fee.

This will make the rental CDs circulating on the market more popular.

But since the audience has such demands, how could Lin Yuan not satisfy them?

So, he and Mr. Eisen had already prepared the hardcover DVD disc and officially put it on the market.

In addition to the film itself, each hardcover DVD also comes with posters of beautiful scenes from the movie, postcards, and small character cards.

These peripherals are extremely attractive to movie fans.

What’s hateful is that these peripheral posters, postcards, character cards, etc. are actually distributed randomly in the form of blind boxes!
Is the person who designed this set a devil? !

So, movie fans, feeling both happy and sad, couldn't help but buy several more sets.

The exchange of what they have and what they don't have has become a major topic of discussion among fans on the forum:
"I have two Lin Yuan character cards. Anyone want to trade?"

"I want it, I want it! How do I change it?"

"One Lin Yuan card for two female character cards, or three other male character cards!"

"That makes perfect sense! Tell me the address and I'll send it to you right away!"

"I have a lot of Populus euphratica forest scenery posters here. Does anyone want to exchange them?"

"I have a picture of Guilin landscape. Would you like to exchange it?"

"Do you think I'm stupid? The posters of Populus euphratica have the lowest sales, unless you add a postcard of Jiuzhaigou!"

"make a deal!"

Lin Yuan had indeed expected the hot sales of the "Hero" DVD, but he was not sure how much sales it would achieve.

Mr. Eisen didn't keep him in suspense and gave a direct answer: "We expect sales of $7000 million."

Lin Yuan nodded. After deducting production costs, dealer commissions and other aspects, they would eventually have about 1300 million US dollars in their hands.

This is another considerable profit.

Lin Yuan feels that money has been flowing into his pocket a lot recently. Hollywood is indeed a world of fame and fortune!
At this point, the performance of "Hero" has basically been reviewed. As for awards, we will have to wait until next year.

Now we can put "Heroes" aside and focus on "Pirates of the Caribbean" which will be released next month.

"Mr. Eisen, I would like to ask you to make a prediction." Lin Yuan said.

"You said."

"Do you think, given the current level of success, that Pirates of the Caribbean can surpass The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers at the box office?"

Mr. Eisen thought carefully for a moment, then replied, "I'm afraid not. The cultural background and subject matter of The Lord of the Rings are too great."

Lin Yuan nodded: "It still doesn't work."

"Do you really have to beat 'The Lord of the Rings 2'? I don't think 'Pirates of the Caribbean' will lose much at the box office, and that's enough for us to make a killing."

Lin Yuan certainly knew that as long as it didn't lose too much to "The Lord of the Rings 2", "Pirates of the Caribbean" would already be a big hit.

But the system doesn't allow it. He still wants the exaggerated attribute rewards of the second ring task.

(End of this chapter)