This year's May Day movies have almost all handed in good report cards, among which the comedy movie "The End of the Road" is definitely the biggest winner, with a cumulative box office of more than 550 million, the film cost is not high, and the profit is the most. The slow-burning "The Siege of the Kowloon Walled City" began to exert force in the middle and later stages, and the current box office of nearly 500 million should also start to make money.
Even the temporarily withdrawn "There is No Thing That Can't Be Solved by a Hot Pot", although it was criticized by netizens and the posture of escaping was a bit disgraceful, no one expected that the film party would have such a costly operation, and after the withdrawal, it will not be released on the big screen again, but sold directly to the video platform, which means that it should be sold at an ideal price, at least to ensure that it will not lose. But the one who suffers the most is Yang Mi! is a proper top actor and heroine, but the movie starring in the end became an Internet university, and I knew that today, Yang Mi would definitely not take this project at the beginning.
Let's focus on "Peacekeeping Riot Squad".
The producer, Wanda Films, revealed at the performance meeting that as of May 15, "Peacekeeping Anti-riot Team" has achieved profitability. As a film and television company, the words "film profitability" can be described as a good medicine to stimulate the rise of stock prices, from which it can be inferred that "Peacekeeping Anti-riot Team" has just begun to make a profit when it was released half a month ago on May 15.
Generally speaking, the producer often keeps the production cost of the movie and the actor's salary secret, as a movie with large-scale elements such as gunfights, car chases, and explosions, the cost of "Peacekeeping Anti-riot Team" will not be low, not to mention that there are first-line stars such as Huang Jingyu, Wang Yibo, and Zhong Chuxi.
However, Wanda's statement at the performance meeting was tantamount to indirectly revealing the production cost of "Peacekeeping Anti-riot Team", so Wang Yibo's salary also surfaced.
Speaking with data, by May 15, the cumulative box office of "Peacekeeping Anti-riot Squad" reached 479 million. This figure is not all for the filmmaker, because it has to share accounts with theaters and theaters, as well as pay taxes and fees, etc., and the filmmaker can get 165 million proportionally.
May Day, National Day, and Spring Festival are the three most important schedules every year, and when the film market was good in the early years, the publicity and distribution cost of movies released in large schedules would not be less than 100 million. But in recent years, the market has been poor, and the film side has gradually tightened its money bags, on the one hand, the publicity and distribution channels have changed, and the advertising of traditional channels such as stop signs and TV has become the marketing of short videos, which can save a sum of money, and film press conferences, roadshows around the country, and media invitations have also begun to tighten.
"Peacekeeping Anti-riot Team" has anchored the position of the May 1st box office champion early, and the publicity offensive is very fierce in several movies, and almost all fields have been launched, taking Shenzhen as an example, bus stop signs, subway windows can see promotional posters, and it is conservatively estimated that the total publicity cost will not be less than 60 million.
Excluding the publicity and distribution fee, the total production cost of "Peacekeeping Anti-riot Team" is 100 million. As early as 2017, many departments issued relevant regulations that the total remuneration of all actors should not exceed 40% of the total production cost, of which the main actors should not exceed 70% of the total remuneration, and the other actors should not be less than 30% of the total remuneration. As a typical main theme movie, I believe that "Peacekeeping Anti-riot Team" will not violate the rules, and from the overall quality of the movie, the cost of creating various vehicles, props, and large scenes is there, according to the specified percentage, the total salary of all actors in the movie will not exceed 40 million, and Huang Jingyu, Wang Yibo, Zhong Chuxi, and Ou Hao are the "main actors" of the movie, according to the proportion of 70%, the total salary of the four people will not exceed 28 million.
There is a wise saying that "do not suffer from widowhood but suffer from unevenness", there is nothing wrong with the actors' remuneration according to the coffee position and the fan position, but the difference will not be particularly outrageous, otherwise there will definitely be contradictions, Huang Jingyu is a fan, Wang Yibo did not have a big screen work when he took over this project, and the price will not be too high when he first enters this field, which means that the salary of the four leading actors is not too outrageous, Wang Yibo will be lower than Huang Jingyu, below 10 million.
It is worth mentioning that "Peacekeeping Anti-riot Team" and "No Name" will be launched around 2021, but for various reasons, "No Name" was released first. At that time, when director Cheng Er publicly announced the profitability of "No Name", the box office of the film was just 300 million, excluding the publicity and distribution costs of 100 million, and the total production cost was about 200 million yuan.
One is the long shooting time, and the other is that the equipment used is expensive, "No Name" used two Alley 65 cameras that are only rented but not sold, and the rent of a single unit costs 10,000 US dollars a day; The third is that the actor's salary is expensive, according to the salary ratio requirements, the total salary of the actors of "No Name" is about 80 million, and there are many big-name actors, according to the calculation of 70% of the total salary of the leading actors, Tony Leung and Wang Yibo's starring salary can reach 56 million (let's just count the two of them as the leading actors).
Tony Leung's salary is not a secret, the salary for starring in "Shangqi" is 60 million Hong Kong dollars, and the investment of 200 million in "When the Wind Rises Again", director Weng Ziguang revealed in an interview that Tony Leung and Aaron Kwok's salary is half of the cost, if the two people share 100 million equally, each person is 50 million, which once again proves Tony Leung's 50 million base salary.
Then apply the known conditions to "No Name", Tony Leung takes his share, and what is left to Wang Yibo is only six or seven million, which is very similar to "Peacekeeping Anti-riot Team".
There are many marketing accounts advocating that Wang Yibo's salary for "The Wind Chaser" is more than 30 million, and this kind of unfounded nonsense should be listened to casually as gossip!
It is undeniable that the salary of actors filming TV series is higher than that of movies, especially Wang Yibo, who is a good actor, must put the requirements of a good script and a good team on top of the salary, assuming that Zhang Yimou extends an olive branch, I believe that it is not impossible for Wang Yibo to further reduce the salary.
People have different values, some actors, acting is just a job; For some actors, acting is the pursuit of artistic creation and performance. Wang Yibo is definitely the latter, the salary should not be used to measure the value of the actor and the coffee position, the quality of the work is.