How China Entertainment was developed

Chapter 138 It's All Routines
Everyone present, when they heard the mention of [Titanic] in Clive Sound's words, their eyes lit up.

Why did they invest in this $[-] million project?
Wasn't it because of the astonishing box office of "Titanic" and the situation of [-]th Century Fox and Paramount eating meat so much that they couldn't sit still.

So watching Zhang Nan, New Line, DreamWorks, George Lucasfilm, Columbia... all paying money one by one, they entered the venue as soon as their brains became hot.

But as time went by, each one's brains cooled down, and I felt that this project was a bit stuck.

Because the investment of [-] million yuan is really too big.

But fortunately, each of them only contributed 5000 million U.S. dollars, which is just an investment in a small and medium-sized project.

What if it fails?They can afford to lose.

So for the release of "Survival at the End of the Day", everyone has a somewhat indifferent attitude.

Universal proposed to put it in the summer vacation file, and many people thought it was good.

Columbia proposed to take a chance on the [Titanic], and everyone thought it was okay.

Then... Zhang Nan spoke.

"It's indeed a bit too long to put it in next year's summer vacation. But I also think it's a bit inappropriate to put it in December to catch the popularity of [Titanic]. Why not put it in October!"

Everyone present: "..." If it's not right, why don't you just say it's not right?

And those who can participate in today's meeting, none of them are fools, all of them are the best of the best.

From Zhang Nan's words, they could hear Zhang Nan's desire to release the movie earlier, but they couldn't figure out why Zhang Nan was in such a hurry.

"Zhang, are you a little anxious to put it in October? Even if it's at the end of October, there's only more than a month left. The publicity work will be a little rushed, and the project is so big." The representative of MGM tried Then asked a sentence.

Zhang Nan glanced at the other party, "What does MGM mean?"

The representative of MGM shrank his head when he heard this.

Although he was granted the right to be a plenipotentiary representative by MGM when he came this time.

But when it comes to such a big event, he still doesn't want to be the first bird.

After all, if the project goes awry, his out-of-the-box behavior this time will be a stain at that time, and there are many people in MGM staring at his position.

Seeing that the representative of MGM fell silent, Zhang Nan looked around for a week, met eyes with several people, and said, "Well, the old rules, the vote is decided, and if you agree to release in October, please raise your hand."

After speaking, Zhang Nan was the first to raise his hand.

Then representatives from DreamWorks and Lucasfilm raised their hands.

Because before the two came, they were ordered by Spielberg and George Lucas.

Don't have any opinions, just follow Zhang Nan's idea.

Then came Alan Toby, president of New Line Pictures.

After all, [-] million U.S. dollars is willing to spend. With such a small release time, how can there be any reason not to support it?

Then Columbia's president, Clive Sander, raised his hand after hesitating for a while. After all, whether it's December or October, as long as it's released before the end of this year, it's all the same to him.

There are a total of nine investors, and five of them have already agreed. Among them, Zhang Nan personally invested [-] million US dollars, and one vote equals two.

So it doesn't matter if the people behind raise their hands or not.

Now that the matter has come to an end, Disney's representative, Old Luke's brother-in-law Robert Watt, also slowly raised his hand after seeing the situation clearly.

Very well, the scene became six to three.

Seeing this, the remaining three people were speechless, and they did not raise their hands or speak completely.

After that, Zhang Nan talked a little bit about the old-fashioned way of publicity, announced the adjournment of the meeting, and left directly.

Then Dreamworks, New Line, Lucasfilm, old Luke and his brother-in-law and the president of Columbia, followed behind Zhang Nan, surrounded Zhang Nan enthusiastically, and exited together.

In the entire conference room, only representatives from Warner, Universal and MGM remained.

After seeing a group of people leaving behind Zhang Nan.

The faces of the three were full of puzzlement, but the atmosphere was very silent.

The representative of Universal took the lead to break the silence, "This project will not be set up by Zhang Nan and these three companies! Otherwise, why not choose the best summer vacation time, which has the greatest box office potential, and have to choose this year October?"

The representatives of MGM and Warner heard the first half of the sentence, but their faces were full of disbelief.

But after listening to the second half of the sentence, there was some hesitation, but there was still a look of disbelief on his face.

Because if you want to unite to cheat people, you need to have mutual trust.

And is there trust among Hollywood titans?

The answer to this is obviously no. After all, how many times have they cheated on each other, such things as trust have long since ceased to exist.

Since Universal's representative dared to say that, there was a logic to it.

"Look, Spielberg, the founder behind DreamWorks, has a good relationship with Zhang Nan; George Lucas has also cooperated with Zhang Nan, and has a good relationship with Spielberg;

New Line Films recently collaborated with Zhang Nan on "Rush Hour";
Not to mention Disney, Zhang Nan's old club and his agent's brother-in-law is Robert Watt who just attended the meeting; and Columbia and Zhang Nan have cooperated countless times. "

Being reminded by Universal, the representatives of MGM and Warner suddenly reacted.

If you think about it this way... With Zhang Nan, there seems to be such a thing as trust among Hollywood giants!
The most important thing is that this kind of operation is a routine operation they often cheat Wall Street and other international capitals after they come to Hollywood!

Blow out the project first, and wait for the investment to be in place.

It is directly a [-]-[-] split-[-]% of the funds are used for filming, and [-]% of the funds are tried to get rid of the accounts.

So why do Hollywood giants have a lot of bad movies that explode at the box office every year, but they still keep launching various projects every year?

It is because these projects of theirs basically do not rely on box office to make money, but rely on money from investors.

As for thirty-seven, that is a very particular ratio.

What's more, it is directly a ratio of [-] to [-].

There is a saying that if you don't do something wrong, you are not afraid of knocking on the door.

On the contrary, if you do something bad, you are really afraid of knocking on the door in the middle of the night.

Therefore, the representatives of Warner and MGM were a little flustered by the representative of Universal Pictures.

"Don't believe me? Then I don't know if Warner and MGM are interested in taking over our share of Universal's 5000 million US dollars. The two companies don't share much, and one family only has 500 million US dollars." The representative of Universal continued to fight.

Warner Pictures and MGM Pictures waved their hands hastily when they heard the words, then pushed the door and left with serious thoughts on their faces, leaving only the representatives of Universal Pictures sitting where they were.

After a long time, the door was pushed open again.

Walking in was Alan Toby, the president of New Line Pictures.

"How?" Alan Toby asked expectantly.

The representative of Universal Pictures raised his eyebrows when he heard the words, "They are all human beings. They are so easy to talk about. It can only be said that a seed of doubt has been planted, but... Alan, you are so optimistic about this one." project?"

"Otherwise? Waiting for Warner to slowly annex the new line that I worked so hard to create? I can only gamble!" New Line President Alan Toby said sincerely.

Representative of Universal Pictures: "..."

The two of us just played tricks together to mess with others, and you are still the fucking initiator, now you are playing with me sincerely, don’t you think it’s a bit nonsense?

(End of this chapter)