Ye Wei was not joking about buying "Half Nelson" for 1.5 million, and he could afford it.

In fact, his net worth is more than the outside world estimates, and there are three main sources: the royalties of the "Wedding Date is Coming", "Exorcist Video" and "Viy Says" columns.

The income of "The Little Sunshine Beauty" is still all accounts, and it is not as quick as possible to share the accounts and post them.

"The Marriage is Coming" has long been a family. Its North American box office has created a net profit after tax of more than 3.2 million yuan for the Ye family. The subsequent overseas copyright fees, video disc rental and sales, TV broadcast copyright fees, etc. have brought Weiduo Images a large amount of income. After tax payment, the Ye family's total profit has exceeded 10 million US dollars.

At first, Ye Wei took money from it, invested lms, tets and personal expenses, and spent 2 million yuan, but later he didn't get another cent. The financial power of "The Marriage is Coming" is returned to his parents.

In fact, their family has long had the conditions to buy a bigger and better house, and then a beach resort villa, just a little smaller or farther away.

But he has always maintained a frugal style. Ye Haogen and Gu Qiao are not people who have become extravagant after becoming rich, and they don’t want Ye Wei and Duoduo to be, especially Duoduo, who are children.

Born in distress and dying in happiness, Gu Qiao believes that the growth environment of middle-class families is the best. Children from rich families are prone to arrogant and corrupt, do not understand the sufferings of the world, and live in a dream bubble; children of poor people are prone to shallowness and humility, suffer from suffering every day, and run hard for daily needs.

Middle-class children are in between, neither humble nor arrogant, have superior but normal families and lives, and can grow up well.

Therefore, the whole family created a growing environment for Duoduo that was still middle-class, so they did not live in big villas, drive luxury cars, or anything else.

However, the money is not just stored in the bank for interest. Ye Haogen's dentist clinic is getting bigger and bigger. He loves work and has found a new life goal. He is the number one dentist in the United States. Gu Qiao is still the first child in the family and children. He did not start a business as Ye Wei said, but he did some financial investments and planned to start an education charity fund.

What to invest in? Movies are gamblings played by stupid people, lunatics and mobsters, of course they can’t. Under Ye Wei’s suggestion, the Ye family bought a lot of stocks, and the stupid ones knew to buy emerging high-techs such as Google and Apple. Whoever bought movie stocks such as DreamWorks is waiting to lose money.

Although the Internet bubble has only been a few years ago, everyone is desperate, and this is a good time to enter the market. The future will definitely belong to the Internet. If you invest in a good company, there is nothing to be afraid of. Facts have proved that these investments are making money.

This is not what Ye Wei does. The Ye family’s family account and his personal account have been separated.

It has been open in Lat's weekly column for nearly two years. Ye Wei was surprised that he was able to hold on for so long, so that he had the status of a media person, a film critic, and a always-known W-Japanese ter. More than one bookseller contacted him to discuss cooperation, published this column album, and even book novels.

There is not so much time. Sometimes he wants to stop the column, but he is born with a lot of talk, and this is a little bit of voice.

Of course, one article a week is not written for free, but it is still a popular column. His royalties have increased steadily over the past two years, and this money is enough to maintain his personal daily expenses.

In fact, he doesn't spend much money and has no desire for luxury goods. He buys most books, photography equipment, movie DVDs and various peripherals.

If it were before? It would cost millions a day, but it would be all scattered.

But some consumption is beyond the column, such as the coachmen RV with a capacity of more than 80,000 yuan.

The price of the Porsche 911 was more than 300,000 yuan. He didn't spend any money. His parents thought he bought it, but in fact he gave it to him. He only had to pay taxes.

These car manufacturers have always wanted to send a car to him. When he drives out, he will always be photographed by paparazzi. "What car does Viy drive" is an advertisement. He has never been interested until recently, and it was time to change a car. He asked for a sports car from Porsche. Try it. It's cool and girls like it.

Speaking of giving gifts, when she was in love with Nina, Ye Wei gave her no amount of gifts, but she wanted to send them back after breaking up. What's the point? She just loves blindness and is so strong that he didn't want them. If she wants to throw them away, throw them away, including the Land Rover car, which has long belonged to her.

Gifts, flight tickets, travel expenses, etc., as well as his private team’s salary, service fees for lawyer Salton, Leslie Dart, Rachel Zoe and others, and various etiquette and public relations fees.

There is also charity. He is keen on doing good deeds. Although he did not go to Africa, he donated millions of dollars in the South Asian tsunami, Katrina's great wind and other major disasters, as well as some usual charity activities in the past two years.

It does not include "Dance of Angels" or the recent expenses that helped the deceived girls. It cost more than 500,000 yuan and will continue to rise. He hopes it will rise, the more the better, which means that the girls will take more courses.

What is interesting is that the more than 500,000 yuan was basically earned back in a talent show, and there is no rating information yet.

Everyone in the outside world says that Viy is good at charity. He feels that the world has very low moral requirements, and there are really few people like his mother. A title of "good charity" can cover up a lot of willfulness and ugliness.

In any case, his total expenditure is really quite large. If it weren't for "Exorcist Video", not only would he not be able to pay back the financial power of "The Marriage Day is Coming", but with such money-spending, he would even be as famous as many celebrities, so he should be very rich, right?

No, I’m struggling to live. Just buying a gift is enough to support the team.

So it is not difficult to understand why filmmakers like to go towards production. Movie investment is gambling, but once you succeed, you can become rich. This uncertainty is always tempting. So is the box office miracle often? No, it’s not a few times.

Once in "The Witch Blair", those people did nothing after getting rich, and were busy spending money and enjoying themselves, and went to sue the distributor who had uneven accounts. It has been 7 years since then, and there is no new film yet.

"Exorcist Video" once, but the 142 million North American box office brought Ye Wei about $25 million in gross profit.

Just like thinking about "Half Nelson", the contract signed by Lionsgate and Tet was zero advance payment, and the gross profit share after deducting the total issuance fee was 55/45 (distributor/producer). This is more than 35/65 of Ifc and "The Wedding Time is Coming", the publisher can get more, and there is no connection + the result of a pseudo-documentary.

The Lion Gate and the theater signed a total agreement, 52/48; Tet's total publicity fee was 10 million, and the Lion Gate was unambiguous during the exorcism battle, and the issuance fee was 8.53 million. Ye Wei suspected that it was a bit too much, but because of the many cooperations with Lion Gate, this is an industry practice and he didn't have time to argue with Lion Gate, so he didn't care about it.

Now, maybe Jon and the others regretted taking that little extra little money.

1.44 million * 52% = 74.016 million, after deducting 18.53 million = 55.486 million, and then * 45% = 24.968 million, this is the pre-tax rent obtained by Cliff Movies.

This is the North American box office part, including copyrights from overseas Shanghai, sequel copyrights, TV broadcasts, DVD share, etc. Then Ye Wei couldn't remember how to pay taxes and tax benefits. The mess became a net profit of over 35 million yuan, and this number would continue to increase due to various share sharing.

The cost of tet is only 450,000! It is really the deadly magic of movie business.

35 million US dollars, many people will never make money in their entire lives. It takes a long time to lose everything when they hold parties every day, which is enough to make the people in "The Witch Blair" sink.

But Ye Wei has never spent much money or immersed himself in his life as an ordinary student. Most of the money is spent on team operations, public relations, charity, and distribution of bonuses to the tet crew, and 35 million has become 30 million.

Then there was the film investment. Not to mention his own three projects that had not yet been implemented, he spent 600,000 yuan to buy "Viy" and invested 300,000 yuan to Dalum's family comedy project "Dog's Christmas" (dog's-ch-daily movie, which holds 45% of the stake and is about to start filming), which is a commercial film with targeted DVDs and TV.

29 million is not his actual net worth. A lot of money has been used for stock investments and has risen very well. His available personal property has actually been nearly 40 million US dollars.

This is twice as much as the outside world estimates 15-20 million.

So Ye Wei spent 1.5 million to buy "Half Nelson", and Ye Wei was not under pressure, and at least 100 theaters he promised could do it.

This movie is really a good movie. He doesn't want to bargain, and he doesn't want to buy it for money. It's better to buy a house than to make money. It's such a good movie! But he doesn't think it's a loss. As long as you hold a film critic screening and go to the film festival for promotion, you will naturally become famous. What are you afraid of?

If you lose, you lose. If you make a movie, you will lose.

He would rather lose money on good movies than be confused by the increasing wealth. One of the uses of money is to make himself happy, and the movie will make him happy.

Now I am not sure how happy I am.

...

Whether to sell or not is Patrikov and others decided to discuss whether the transaction was successful or not. Ye Wei wanted to make friends with the Frek and his wife, and he liked their talents.

After leaving Starbucks, the three of them walked back to the Redstone Theater while chatting about filming. Although there was a film festival, the spacious streets still seemed quiet. The low-rise buildings on both sides had a classical atmosphere. The blue sky seemed to be connected to the top of their heads, and the hills in the distance were right in front of them.

"I filmed "Exorcist Video" very quickly, but to be honest, that's the way to do a B-level film. Just use the sky to shoot a feature film, you must have something to teach me."

Listening to Ye Wei's expectant words, Ryan Freke and Anna Bolton didn't know where to start. They were both 12 years older than him, but Ye Wei was the Golden Globe Awards, Directors' Union and other best director nominees, and he should be the ones who taught him.

"I think the key lies in the control of the number of shots." Freck tried his best to discuss with each other. "We have a limited budget and must be shot within a limited date. The planned number of shots cannot be more or less." His rosacea was red and he smiled bitterly: "We also want to take more materials, but we can't afford to take pictures."

Ye Wei nodded, "Yes, the life and death line of the budget is the biggest enemy, but my bigger problem now is the matter of time."

It is a very worthwhile to say this to them, but this is the fact that he has enough budget but not enough time. He may not spend enough overtime work every day within a month, and the crew of the iron-clad crew must rest and take a vacation. So it is not because they have no money to be able to afford filming, but because they have short time to be unable to film.

"What do you think?" he asked seriously.

The envy of the two was almost qualitative. Freck thought, "I will spend more money on the assembly of the crew and ask for better personnel." Bolton continued, "Add more people is also a way. If you have more camera teams and more cameras, the more likely you can shoot the more materials within a limited time."

Ye Wei also thought about it and pondered: "I'm making a choice..." "Soul Surfer" is about to start before starting. He has not made a decision yet, and it seems that he has a selective disorder. The director has a selective disorder, which is so interesting.

The three of them continued to talk while walking, talking about storyboards, digital shooting, time-saving tips, and were all happy for the other party's talent.

When he returned to the small square in front of the Redstone Theater and returned to the bustle, people were in and out at the entrance of the theater. At this time, Ye Wei saw a figure and was stunned. He said to the Frecks and his wife to meet again, and then walked with great interest.

The old white man was wearing a casual black jacket, tall and mighty figure, with no bald head left, a slightly old face seemed to be smiling, and his two nasolabial folds were very deep.

Hollywood superstar, Bruce Willis.

"Leader Dog" was first screened tonight. Although Willis is just a supporting actor, he is here to support his old friend Nick Kasowitz.

"Hey, Mr. Willis."

Hearing this call, Willis, accompanied by the three followers, turned his head and looked at the black-haired boy walking towards him, his eyes gathered, and his nasolabial folds became deeper, which was quite surprised.

It has been two years, and this is the first time that the two have met since a production meeting at the Cheyenne Corporate Headquarters in January 2004.

"I haven't seen you for a long time!" Ye Wei said with a smile, stretching out his right hand with black gloves.

"Boy, I haven't seen you for a long time." After shook hands with him, Willis waved his hand and let his followers walk away, smiling, "You have changed a lot."

"It's been changed a few times." Ye Wei shrugged, "Even I can't recognize it myself."

Two years ago, 16-year-old Ye Wei had not grown up yet, and was shorter than Willis. Now he was taller than Willis. He looked at each other completely straight. His energetic body was also more powerful than Lao Bu, who had no longer rumbled muscles, but had a slight belly.

The two walked to the southeast of the theater, and soon arrived at the open and deserted wilderness road, looking at the barren and continuous hills in the distance, walking and chatting.

"You know, sheriff, I have always thanked you for your initial appreciation, but I really hate your treacherous beliefs. I think you are a mean villain, but I have different opinions recently. Something happened to me. I can't say that everyone, but you and I have despicable times, and harm others and ourselves...

So, I forgive you, it’s okay if you care or not, on my side, we’re fine.”

Ye Wei no longer had to think about Willis's thoughts like he did in the past, and he said it casually, and he had nothing to worry about.

Now he is the only one who can make Ye Wei unable to make a movie, and no one else can.

"Boy." Willis was not angry when he said he was a despicable villain, but he was still smiling and tugging the corners of his mouth. "You can't say I don't care. This often makes me angry, not to you, to our people. I can tell you that I regret it."

Just like that, the two of them expressed their respective attitudes, unable to see through each other's thoughts, but could see the postures they were posing.

Ye Weiyi smiled, and Willis also smiled. There was no need to say anything about two men, one young and one old, although it was unlikely that they would become good friends, they wanted to reconcile, but they reconciled.

"I will not resist our cooperation opportunities." Ye Wei said.

"If you have a chance, you can." Willis nodded his bald head.

When talking about cooperation, the two talked about Ramo participating in the talent show. Ye Wei bluntly said that her acting skills were very bad. Willis suddenly said: "Don't mess with my daughter."

"No, absolutely not." Ye Wei couldn't help but clench his fist, remembering something, "She is the kind of girl I will never touch."

...

The news that Viy was going to buy "Half Nelson" for more than 1.5 million quickly spread, and Sundance was a little sensation.

"He's crazy." Miramax's current ceo Daniel Butsek shook his head, "Of course, it won't make money, and quality and impact awards season are also far away."

"Half Nelson" is good, not so good that it is worth 1.5 million to buy out." Harvey, the two giants of Weinstein Pictures, were not interested, either, nor now.

The Lion Gate was attracted by interest, but could not fight, and once they fought, they would lose the big one because of the small one.

Fox searchlight, focus, Warner, new line... 1 million can be considered, 1.5 million? 100 cinemas are guaranteed to be released?
Chapter completed!