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Chapter 369 [Harry Potter 4] Premiere
11 month 18 day.

Learning from the experience of "Harry Potter 3" after its slight failure at the box office during the summer holiday season, Warner Pictures has moved "Harry Potter 4" back to the Christmas season.

The main trilogy of "The Lord of the Rings" has ended, and the spin-off film "The Lord of the Rings - The Legend of Sauron 1" was only released in December last year. Currently, "The Lord of the Rings - The Legend of Sauron 2" has not been officially prepared by New Line Cinema. , let alone a theatrical release.

Therefore, this wave of [Harry Potter 4] is well-deserved NO.1 in terms of reputation in the Christmas season.

It can be regarded as enjoying the treatment of [Lord of the Rings 3].

Based on this situation, Warner Pictures held a quite grand premiere for [Harry Potter 4].

Of course, the reason why Warner Pictures spent such a high price is that it secretly wants to make [Harry Potter 4] hit the global box office of one billion US dollars.

After all, Hollywood in this period is under the influence of Zhang Nan.

Universal Pictures has successfully rebooted the "Jurassic" series, with "Jurassic World 16.5" grossing US$1 billion at the box office.

Twentieth Century Fox and George Lucas collaborated on the prequel trilogy of the Star Wars series.

Although not all of them have exceeded one billion U.S. dollars at the box office, only "Star Wars: Episode 1" has exceeded one billion U.S. dollars, but the other two "Star Wars: Episode I" series together have a box office of [-] billion U.S. dollars, not counting Low.

Needless to say, Disney's main business is real estate, but even so, it also produced a movie "Pirates of the Caribbean 6" worth more than 1 million US dollars.

And its sequel [Pirates of the Caribbean 2] has been filmed and is in post-production.

Although the movie has not yet been released, there is a billion-dollar global box office betting agreement signed with Zhang Nan. This "Pirates of the Caribbean 2" can also be regarded as a billion-dollar box office movie.

In addition, during this period of time, there have been faint rumors in Hollywood gossip channels that Paramount Pictures has been trying to please Zhang Nan for many years, and finally let Zhang Nan relent recently, and the two parties will collaborate on a new series.

Judging from Zhang Nan's current celebrity status, it goes without saying that this new series will definitely be a project with a global box office of one billion US dollars. Even if the movie box office is less than one billion US dollars, the entire series will definitely have a one billion US dollar box office bet. protocol.

Warner Pictures takes a look back at the remaining Hollywood Big Six.

Good guy.

Universal, Paramount, [-]th Century Fox, and Disney have all launched series with a box office of billions of dollars. Only Warner, MGM, and Columbia Pictures are lagging behind.

But what the hell is MGM?
A guy who just went bankrupt and completed restructuring. When did Warner Pictures end up side by side with this kind of garbage?
What the hell is Columbia Pictures?
Just a neon upstart.

It is precisely this situation that Warner Pictures is particularly interested in [Harry Potter 4].

……

Zhang Nan finished walking the red carpet as usual, and then walked towards the screening room, preparing to sit in his seat.

However, as soon as Zhang Nan raised his leg, he felt his hand being grabbed suddenly.

Of course, Zhang Nan is already used to this situation where he attends movie premieres and is grabbed by someone before he has even taken two steps into the screening room.

Because this happens too often.

Zhang Nan wanted to yell at the person who pulled him: Don’t you all have time on a daily basis?Why did you choose this time to come to see me?

But seeing that it was David Morris, the president of Warner Pictures, who pulled him away, Zhang Nan hesitated for a moment, but still did not say what was in his heart. Instead, he took a breath, calmed down, and said: "President David, you Is something wrong?"

David Morris felt Zhang Nan's mood swings and was a little confused, so he did not answer directly, but nodded.Seeing David Morris's reaction, Zhang Nan couldn't do anything else. He could only sigh and secretly explained the reasons for his mood swings in casual words, saying: "David, if you have anything, you can contact me through my elders." When Gong's agency talks to me, it's always in the screening room - this environment is not a good place to talk."

Always in the screening room?

This is my first time this year.

However, David Morris is also a good person, and he immediately figured out what Zhang Nan actually meant. He knew that Zhang Nan was tired of being intercepted in the screening room.

So David Morris randomly found a place to talk and said, "Would it be more sincere to talk in person?"

Zhang Nan curled his lips speechlessly upon hearing this.

You said this as if you would never see my face again.

"So...what's the matter?" Zhang Nan was a little impatient to listen to David Morris's convoluted words and asked straight to the point.

David Morris also predicted Zhang Nan's reaction, and responded readily: "What could it be? It's the [Harry Potter] spin-off project we talked about the last two times, from my side..."

Zhang Nan directly interrupted David Morris's words and said: "David, you said it yourself. We have talked about it twice before. There is a right thing to do, and about [Harry] Porter] Regarding the spin-off project, I think it would be better for Warner Pictures to think about it before talking to me.

I can't stand the temptations that go back and forth like this all the time. If you're not tired, I can't bear it.

I currently have on hand the [Jurassic World] series in cooperation with Universal Pictures, the [Lord of the Rings - Legend of Sauron] series in cooperation with New Line Cinema, and the [Pirates of the Caribbean] series in cooperation with Disney Pictures.

Moreover, we are currently discussing a series of cooperation with Paramount, and Sony Columbia Pictures has been teasing me to complete "Venom" with them.

Even MGM wants me to create a number series that I like based on "007". I really don't have the energy to work with Warner Pictures on a mere "Harry Potter" spin-off. Grind it down on the piece of project. "

Zhang Nan's words were not polite, and his attitude was very arrogant.

But it was what it was, and there was nothing David Morris could say.

Seeing that David Morris was silent, Zhang Nan continued: "David, we have been friends for a long time, so I will tell you something that comes from my heart.

Since the [Harry Potter] spin-off project has been delayed until now, it might as well be delayed a little longer.

After all, [Harry Potter 4] has already premiered. If the box office of [Harry Potter 4] exceeds [-] billion, you Warner Pictures still want to talk to me about the spin-off of the [Harry Potter] series. film, I feel more confident when negotiating terms! "

Zhang Nan didn't finish this sentence. The content of the second half of the sentence was: If [Harry Potter 4] does not exceed one billion at the box office, then if Warner Pictures still wants to complete [Harry Potter] derivatives, Then you have to accept my lion's big mouth.

However, Zhang Nan didn't finish his words, but David Morris could hear it.

So David Morris was silent for a while after hearing this, gave Zhang Nan a complicated look, and left lonely.

At this time, old Luke also appeared at the right time.

"Zhang, if you talk like this, if the global box office of [Harry Potter 4] exceeds [-] billion, it will be difficult for Warner Pictures to talk to us about spin-offs." Old Luke was a little worried. said.

"Not easy?"

Zhang Nan asked back and continued: "The box office of [Lord of the Rings 3] has reached 11.4 billion US dollars. When New Line Cinema talked to me about [Lord of the Rings - Legend of Sauron 1], were we ever in trouble?"

(End of this chapter)