Hollywood Starts with Animation

Zucker, Shay, and Wal Dren are not indecisive people. Since all three parties are interested in cooperating, the "Lion, Witch, Wardrobe" movie project has been finalized in a very short period of time. matter.

The proportion of investment is as follows

Wald Pictures, under Zucker's name, invested $40 million;

New Line Cinema, invested $40 million;

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

As for the "Lion, Witch, Wardrobe" movie project, the total investment amount of the three parties is 1.5 billion US dollars, of which the wealthy and powerful Goldman Sachs is naturally the most powerful.

Of course, even if Goldman Sachs invests the most, the benefits it can share are definitely not the most.

Goldman Sachs, an outsider of the industry, can only enjoy a small portion of the revenue from the sales of DVDs and videotapes, licensing of movie peripherals, and broadcast on TV platforms, other than the box office.

Don't be too little.

You must know that according to past practice, investors outside the Hollywood industry are almost completely unable to enjoy unexpected copyright gains at the box office.

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

Of course, this is also the result of New Line Pictures boss Shay's efforts. After all, he hopes to rely on Goldman Sachs' funds to truly separate New Line Pictures from Warner and Disney.

especially Warner

Warner's stake in New Line Pictures has already surpassed Shay, who is the boss, and has become the largest shareholder of New Line Pictures.

If Shay does nothing, New Line Cinema will be completely taken over by Warner in a few years.

How could someone as ambitious as Shay bear it?

Cut through the mess!

Even though Warner is the largest shareholder of New Line Pictures, Shay united a group of shareholders of New Line Pictures, with a total shareholding of more than 51%, suppressing all the voices of opposition, and quickly contributed to this event. tripartite cooperation.

Warner Bros. Pictures' Barry Mayer was very angry and said, "Shay, you're playing with fire, do you really think Goldman Sachs, the Wall Street investment bank, is a philanthropist?"

Shay said coldly, "Even if you Warner are the largest shareholder of New Line Cinema,

But as long as I live, no one can take my company away from me, not even anyone! "

The contradiction between the two sides is substantive!

But now Shay can't handle that much anymore!

On this day, Wald Pictures, Goldman Sachs Investment Bank, and New Line Pictures officially signed a formal contract for the "Lion, Witch, Wardrobe" film project in the presence of a group of lawyers.

Among them, Wald Pictures, which is under Zucker's name, will also receive half of the film rights of "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe".

Movie rights are important!

2000? Zucker made a deal with Paramount to develop the Tomb Raider project together. After the film was released in 2001, "Tomb Raider" was a huge box office hit? Become a blockbuster film? As one of the investors, Wald Pictures, of course, made a lot of money.

But!

Wald Pictures under Zucker's name can only enjoy the related benefits of "Tomb Raider 1"? As for "Tomb Raider 2", it has nothing to do with Wald Pictures.

Paramount will independently develop "Tomb Raider 2", which directly kicked Zucker's Wald Pictures away.

It's because Wald Pictures doesn't have the copyright to "Tomb Raider"!

Lessons from the past~

So on this time the "Lion, Witch, Wardrobe" film project? Wald Pictures took half of the film's copyright.

Or is it that Xie Yi can't take care of that much anymore? He can only bite the bullet and agree.

"what?"

"who's that person?"

"I seem to have seen him there."

At this moment, at the scene of the contract signing ceremony, Zucker suddenly saw a familiar figure, and he was still standing on the side of Wald Pictures.

Hearing this? Kevin Feige nodded? He smiled and said, "Boss, have you forgotten the DreamWorks movie "Fight the Storm" that we attended not long ago?"

Zu Ke was stunned for a moment, and then suddenly realized, "I remembered, he is from DreamWorks, and he is also one of the screenwriters of the movie "Fight the Storm"? His name is Ai Ai"

"Ai Ren! Boss, his name is Ai Ren Kruger."

Kevin Feige said.

"How did he appear here? And still on the side of us at Wald Pictures?" Zucker asked.

"Ha ha!"

Kevin Feige immediately laughed and said, "The movie "Fight the Storm" failed at the box office, and a series of related creative members were severely scolded by Spielberg. The person behind the blame? Isn't that? He resigned? He joined us at Wald Pictures."

Hearing this, Zucker said in surprise, "But Aaron Kruger, I've heard of him, is not bad. He is one of several important screenwriters at DreamWorks. How could Spielberg let him go?"

The film company will hold the capable people, so Zu Ke is a little surprised at the moment.

Kevin Feige narrowed his eyes and whispered, "It's Graham Yost! He doesn't like Aaron Kruger, you say, who will Spielberg choose?"

Having said that, why doesn't Zhu Ke understand?

Graham Yost is one of the most well-known ace screenwriters in Hollywood today, and his representative works include "Life and Death", "Broken Arrow" and so on.

Spielberg is now representing DreamWorks Group, inviting Graham to join, and Graham has a break with Aaron Kruger

Choose one of the two, and of course Spielberg values ​​Graham, the ace screenwriter, more.

"Huh, so it's unlucky enough to say that Eren Kruger!"

Zucker sighed.

Kevin Feige smiled and said, "Who said no? However, Spielberg is a cold-blooded guy. Ai Ren has worked for DreamWorks for 5 years, no credit or hard work. He said that if he gave up, he gave up. Well, tsk tsk~"

this afternoon.

New screenwriter Aaron Kruger, who joined Wald Pictures, knocked on the door of Kevin Feige's office on his own initiative.

"Hey, it's you, man, come and come, sit down first."

Kevin Feige has great enthusiasm for Airen Kruger, who came forward. After all, he buys horse bones.

Allen Kruger "Mr. Fitch, I have a project in my eye, and I plan to adapt it, but I need to pay a certain copyright fee."

Kevin Feige said calmly, "Tell me about it."

"Mr. Feige, the script I plan to adapt is derived from a Japanese film released in 1998, called "Midnight", which has created a series of excellent records for horror films since its release in Asia, etc. The response has been great. I suggest that the company can buy the copyright of the adaptation, and we will shoot a "American Version Midnight Bell"."

Allen Kruger said solemnly.

Kevin Feige spread his hands and said solemnly, "Man, this is too sudden, I need to know more about it, you know."

Hearing this, Allen Kruger's expression darkened, but he also expressed understanding.

Where's the point of being able to finalize a project in just a few minutes?

Kevin Feige, as the president of Wald Pictures, must be accountable to the company, so the necessary prudence is essential.

This means that Zhu Ke is not here now, otherwise he will definitely agree!

"The American version of Midnight Bell"!

A decently profitable movie!

In the original time and space, DreamWorks purchased the adaptation copyright of "Midnight Bell", which cost 48 million US dollars to build, and won a global box office of more than 2.5 billion US dollars in one fell swoop. The offline market DVD and video tape also made DreamWorks big Make extra money.

"Midnight Bell" became the world's top-grossing horror movie in 2002, and it also became a life-saver for DreamWorks in a precarious situation.

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

In the original time and space, Allen Kruger was the initiator of "The American Version of Midnight Bell" and the first screenwriter of the film series.

DreamWorks inadvertently gave Wald Pictures a small gold mine.

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