Hollywood Starts with Animation

Chapter 616

Zucker, Shay and wall Dylan are not indecisive people. Since all three parties intend to cooperate, the project of "the lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe" has been finalized in a very short time.

The proportion of investment is as follows:

Vold pictures, under the name of Zhuke, contributed 40 million US dollars;

New line pictures, with a capital contribution of 40 million US dollars;

Goldman Sachs, one of the five largest investment banks on Wall Street, contributed $70 million;

As for the movie project "lion, witch and Wardrobe", the total investment amount of the three parties is 150 million US dollars, of which, naturally, Goldman Sachs is the most powerful one.

Of course, even if Goldman Sachs contributed the most, it could not share the most benefits.

In addition to box office revenue, Goldman Sachs, as an outside industry, can only enjoy a small part of the revenue from DVD and video sales, film peripheral licensing and TV platform broadcasting.

Don't be too little.

You know, according to the past practice, investors outside the Hollywood industry can hardly enjoy the unexpected copyright revenue at the box office.

This time, it is a rare situation that Goldman Sachs can enjoy a small part of the copyright income.

Of course, this is also the result of Shay, the boss of new line pictures. After all, he hopes to rely on the funds of Goldman Sachs to make new line pictures really separate from Warner and Disney.

Warner in particular

Warner has more shares in new line than Shay, the boss, and has become the largest shareholder of new line.

If Shay doesn't do anything, Warner will take over the new line in a few years.

How can an ambitious guy like Xie be tolerated?

make a lightning decision!

Even though Warner is the largest shareholder of new line pictures, Xie combined with a number of shareholders of new line pictures, holding more than 51% of the total shares, suppressed all opposition voices, and quickly promoted the tripartite cooperation.

Barry Mayer, CEO of Warner Bros., was very angry and said, "Shea, you are playing with fire. Do you really think that Wall Street investment bank Goldman Sachs is good?"

"Even if Warner is the biggest shareholder of new line pictures, no one can take my company away from me as long as I'm here for one day," Xie said coldly

The contradiction between the two sides is materialized!

But now Shea can't manage so much!

On October 25, Wald pictures, Goldman Sachs investment bank and new line pictures signed a formal contract on the movie project "lion, witch and Wardrobe" in the presence of lawyers.

Among them, vold pictures, under the name of Zhuke, will also obtain half of the film copyright of "lion, witch and Wardrobe".

Film copyright is very important!

In 2000, Zhuke and paramount reached an agreement to jointly develop the Tomb Raider project. After the release of the film in 2001, Tomb Raider hit the box office and became a blockbuster film. As one of the investors, Wald film made a lot of money.

But!

As for Tomb Raider 2, it has nothing to do with Wald pictures.

Paramount will independently develop Tomb Raider 2, which directly kicks off Zucker's Wald pictures.

It's because Wald pictures doesn't have the copyright of Tomb Raider!

Lessons from the past~

So in this time's "the lion, the witch, the Wardrobe" film project, Wald pictures won half of the film's copyright.

Or that sentence: Shea can't care so much, so she has to agree.

......

"Why?"

"Who is that man?"

"I seem to have met him there."

At the moment, at the scene of the contract signing ceremony, Zhuke suddenly caught sight of a familiar figure, and still stood on the side of Wald pictures.

Hearing the speech, Kevin Fitch nodded and said with a smile, "boss, have you forgotten the DreamWorks movie" the storm of confrontation "that we attended not long ago

When he was stunned, he suddenly realized: "I remember that he is from DreamWorks, and he is also one of the screenwriters of the movie" storm against each other ". His name is AI... AI..."

"Ai Ren! Boss, his name is Irene Kruger

Said Kevin Fitch.

"How can he be here and still be on the side of Wald pictures?" Asked Zhuke.

"Ha ha!"

Kevin Fitch immediately said with a smile: "the box office failure of the film" storm against each other ", a series of relevant creators were severely scolded by Spielberg, and Irene Kruger became a backer because he didn't have a backing. No, he resigned voluntarily and joined our Wald film industry."

Hearing the words, Zhuke was surprised and said, "but Irene Kruger, I've heard, is not poor in ability. He's one of the most important screenwriters in DreamWorks. How could Spielberg let him go?"

Capable people, film companies will hold, so Zhuke at the moment some surprise.

Kevin Fitch squinted and whispered, "it's Graham Jost! He doesn't like Irene Kruger. Who would Spielberg choose

So far, where doesn't Zhuke understand?

Graham Jost is one of the most famous aces in Hollywood. His masterpieces include speed of life and death, broken arrow and so on.

Spielberg is now inviting Graham to join on behalf of DreamWorks, and Graham has a gap with Irene Kruger

Either way, Spielberg, of course, values Graham more than anything else.

"Oh, that's bad luck for Irene Kruger!"

He sighed.

Kevin Fitch laughed and said, "who said no? However, Spielberg is cold-blooded enough. AI Ren has worked for DreamWorks for five years, and he has no credit. He said that if he gave up, he would give up. Tut tut ~ "

......

That afternoon, at.

Irene Kruger, a new screenwriter who joined Wald pictures, knocked on the door of Kevin Fitch's office.

"Well, it's you, man. Come on, sit down first."

Kevin Fitch has great enthusiasm for Irene Kruger, who came here on his own initiative. After all, a lot of money can buy horse bones.

Irene Kruger: "Mr. Fitch, one of my favorite projects is to adapt it, but it needs to pay a certain copyright fee."

Kevin Fitch said quietly, "tell me about it."

"Mr. Fitch, the script that I plan to adapt comes from a Japanese film released in 1998, which is called" the bell at midnight ". Since it was released, it has set a series of excellent records for horror films and has received great repercussions in Asia and other places. I suggest that the company can buy the copyright of the adaptation, and we can shoot a movie "the American version of midnight bell."

Irene Kruger said solemnly.

Kevin Fitch spread his hands and said in a deep voice, "man, it's so sudden. I need to know more about it, you know."

Hearing the speech, Irene Kruger's face darkened, but he also expressed his understanding.

Where is the reason that a project can be finalized in just a few minutes?

As the president of Wald pictures, Kevin Fitch must be responsible for the company, so the necessary caution is essential.

That is to say, Zhuke is not here now, otherwise... Absolutely agree!

"The American version of midnight bell" ah!

A profitable movie!

In the original time and space, DreamWorks purchased the adaptation copyright of the American version of midnight bell, which cost US $48 million to build, and won more than US $250 million at the global box office. The DVD and video tapes in the offline market also made DreamWorks a big profit.

"Midnight bell" has become the most popular horror film in the world in 2002, and also a life-saving straw in DreamWorks.

The most important thing is that DreamWorks turned "midnight bell" into a sequel series, and made a lot of money in the follow-up.

In the original time and space, Irene Kruger is the originator of the American version of midnight bell and the first screenwriter of the film series.

DreamWorks inadvertently brought a small gold mine to Wald pictures.

"The first watch" is presented.