The 75th Oscars has come to an end, and the Oscar night hosted by Vanity Fair also ended with everyone's polite exchanges.

The media indeed rushed to report on the grand event of the awards. Suddenly, the Oscars became a hot topic among the people.

But it’s not necessarily true that winning the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film had a huge impact on Lehmann’s life.

He can say responsibly that the impact is really not big.

After all, life goes on, and life will not stop just because you won a so-called award.

Lehmann celebrated in the United States for two days, and also thanked people from CAA and Paramount to further build closer relations.

Then, Ryan, Thomas and George returned to France, preparing to take a break or start a new film project.

He has always been very happy to shoot new works, and this is hidden in his bones.

In the blink of an eye, the time has come to March, and "Fury" has been canceled in markets around the world, and the work on this film has also entered the final stage, waiting for theaters around the world to pass the film's box office revenue to the distributor Europa Pictures

When the money is in the account, the money-sharing meeting can also begin.

On March 3, Lehmann and Ryan rushed from Cannes to Paris, intending to settle part of their studio's profits first.

The box office share in North America has long been calculated and divided up by Paramount Pictures under the supervision of all parties, but it is not easy to get the profits from overseas regions.

That's why it's been delayed until now.

At nine o'clock in the morning, the two went directly to Luc Besson's office, exchanged a few words with each other, and then got down to business.

"This is your income statement. You can take a look at it first. If it is correct, wait until the finance department signs it, and the money will be transferred to your studio's account."

"Thank you, Mr. Luc Besson."

The two took it and, with the help of professional accounting team members hired on the side, checked the income.

Speaking of which, the details of overseas box office these days are really difficult to track. Even if the team hired by Lehmann was involved in the whole process, they can't say that this part of the income is completely real. They can only say that they have tried their best to control it.

In an atmosphere where the differences are not too big.

The account details in hand are very detailed, and even a person like Lyman who doesn't know much about finance can roughly understand them.

The total global box office of "Fury" was US$542.3 million. According to the distribution agreements signed by various regions and after deduction of fixed expenses such as taxes and other fixed expenses by local theaters, Europa Pictures received a total box office share of US$285.2 million.

Although Europa Pictures used its tax rebate quota on "Fury" and cashed out a total of US$3.5 million in tax rebates in Australia, one of the main filming locations, according to the agreement, this part of the money was not included in the film's divisible income.

In this way, from the film's box office revenue, Europa Pictures will deduct the corresponding distribution commission and deduct a total of 33 million U.S. dollars in publicity and distribution expenses. This part of the funds will still have 165.3 million U.S. dollars.

Among them, part of the remaining salary of the cast and crew and other industry association expenses must be paid, leaving a balance of US$152 million.

Because the production funds include 6 million U.S. dollars from Mann Studios to which Lehmann belongs, 20 million U.S. dollars from CAA and Paramount Pictures, and the rest is from Europa Pictures, so these three parties can all make their own decisions according to their respective requirements.

The proportion of capital invested shall be entitled to the due share.

According to the agreement, Mann Studio can receive nearly 18.24 million U.S. dollars from this box office revenue.

Although you still have to pay income tax and other messy taxes, I think the profit will be more than 15 million US dollars.

After the movie "Fury" was released from France and the United States, Europa Pictures teamed up with Paramount Pictures and began to negotiate with Blockbuster, the largest video tape chain in the Americas, about the basic transfer fee of video tape copyright and the sharing of rental sales.

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The former is cash, and the latter is long-term income, so the second half of the channel sales basically has little to do with Mann Studio, and the amount you can get is not much. However, after their negotiations, the former was worth 8 million US dollars.

There was agreement on the numbers.

Then there are the TV broadcast copyrights, secondary development of film copyrights and other peripheral applications. This is where Mann Studio, as an investor, can enjoy a share. The total basic licensing fee of 9 million US dollars is also in line with the value of the film.

Adding up these two aspects, Mann Studio received US$2 million.

Adding up all the income, the book figure that Mann Studio can get in this half year is more than 16 million US dollars, which has deducted the employment fees paid to the professional accountants of PricewaterhouseCoopers and the agent Johnson.

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As for the remaining long-term gains, we have to wait and think about it, none of them will be seen in a year or two.

After checking the film's income, Lyman felt relaxed, and Ryan didn't wait too much. He simply left and went to Europa Pictures' financial department to go through the formalities.

Watching Ryan leave, Lyman smiled and then thought of business again, "Mr. Luc Besson, I already have a general idea about the new movie, the script is already being perfected, and the shooting plan report has also been started.

Done."

Hearing this, Luc Besson's eyes lit up.

He has always believed that those who succeed will always be successful. Moreover, he has watched Lehmann come up step by step, so he is naturally very interested in his new film.

"What subject matter?"

"It should be a crime-oriented movie."

this......

Crime themes.

Lehmann's style is really diverse, and each film has a relatively large span.

However, Luc Besson didn't care. He was used to Lehmann's way of not limiting himself to one or two subjects. He became more interested when he heard this, "How much investment?"

"I really like live shooting, and Mr. Luc Besson must know this."

Luc Besson nodded. The three consecutive films were in a similar situation. Even the tank scenes were shot with real people as much as possible instead of just building models. This directing method must be his own style.

"So, this play will involve many scenes and a large number of extras, which will be a huge expense."

"Can you give me a rough estimate of the production cost?" Luc Besson was not deterred. The continuous success made him very optimistic about Lehmann.

"At least 100 million US dollars." Lyman said slowly.

It was as if the number he was talking about was really just a number. He was very calm, but that calmness also contained huge confidence.

"To achieve the effect I want, basically this number is almost the same." Lehmann added.

Luc Besson on the opposite side fell into silence. Although Europa Pictures had invested in similar large-scale productions, they were not responsible for most of the funds. They were looking for financing. Even if there was a risk of losing money, it was not them.

Take most of the pressure.

To put it bluntly, even if the project fails, it will only cost investors and overseas publishers money. It will not have much impact on them, and they may still make a profit.

But now, when Lehmann revealed this figure, even though Luc Besson had expected that the investment scale for the new film would not be too small, the large sum of US$100 million still made him doubtful.

Investment or financing of this scale requires careful measurement by Europa Pictures.

"Please prepare the relevant plan reports first, and I will ask the company's market analysis department to review the project." Luc Besson thought for a while and said this.

No matter what, let’s get Lehmann’s new film together first, and we’ll figure out the rest later.

After chatting for a while, the two officially decided on the "Bad Guy" project, which currently only has a code name.

Ryan then returned to the office and signaled to Lyman that the payment procedures were completed.

Thinking that his studio was just an empty shell, Lehmann said again: "Mr. Luc Besson, I want to buy some film shooting equipment. Can it be convenient?"

It's not a big deal to have to rent equipment for making movies. Even if the two of them don't have the time to take care of the studio, they still try to make it as good as possible.

What's more, the two of them had already made plans in this regard. It just so happened that they had the money to buy it after the profits from "Fury" came into their accounts.

"Is Lehmann planning to buy his own equipment?" Luc Besson asked.

"Well, I didn't have much money before, so I always borrowed your company's equipment. Now that the financial situation is better, I also want to make the studio's business more formal."

"This is a good thing." Luc Besson didn't care. Their company has been in contact with major European equipment manufacturers all year round, and similar purchases of shooting supplies are also common.

Buying goods from him is not only convenient but also saves money.

They are all old customers, so they can offer discounts, giveaways, etc., but it is very simple, and I can naturally understand what Lyman thinks.

Luc Besson said nothing more, because if you have money, buying equipment is more cost-effective than renting it.

"Do you have a list? Or any needs?"

Lyman was well prepared for this and took out a small notebook from his pocket, which contained densely packed shooting equipment.

Luc Besson made a phone call, and then a staff member from the logistics department took it to calculate.

Not long after, the corresponding quotation was released.

Lehmann took the order and looked at it carefully. If he went through the channel of Europa Pictures, the cost would be close to 2.3 million US dollars.

It's really expensive, but it's expensive for its own reasons. These are made by first-tier manufacturers, so maintenance is guaranteed.

"Okay, just click here to help me purchase. Thank you, Mr. Luc Besson."

"You don't have to be so polite." It's just a trivial matter, not worth mentioning compared to a new movie project.

"I hope we can come up with the project plan as soon as possible. Our company needs to advance the review." Luc Besson continued.
Chapter completed!