How China Entertainment was developed

Chapter 520 Hollywood giants began to unite to resist Zhang Nan

The time came to mid-February.

Zhang Nan's role in "Harry Potter 8: The Deathly Hallows (Part [-])" has been progressing steadily. It is estimated that in another month, he will be finished around mid-March.

But maybe he has been too smooth in the past few years, and now all kinds of troubles have followed.

For example, it was hard to come to North America, and this year’s schedules were all available, so Zhang Nan wanted to talk about other projects.

The [Jurassic World] and [Transformers] series have just been filmed, so Zhang Nan didn’t think about it, but set his sights on [Pirates of the Caribbean 4], [The Lord of the Rings - Legend of Sauron 3] and [Harry Potter]. -These three projects of Voldemort 2] are on.

After all, the previous works of these projects, including [Pirates of the Caribbean 3] and [Lord of the Rings: Sauron 2], were both released in 2009.

Among them, [Harry Potter - Voldemort 1] was released in 2008. It has been three years since then, and it is already too late to prepare a sequel on the spot.

Then Zhang Nan asked Old Luke to discuss it in detail with New Line, Disney and Warner Pictures.

But when Old Luke came back, the result was completely different from what Zhang Nan thought.

Old Luke did not bring back the starring contract with either high pay, high profit margin, or both high pay and high profit margin, but instead brought back a series of procrastinating terms.

"Don't you want to talk about it?" Zhang Nan concluded after listening to Old Luke's narration.

After hearing this, Old Luke hurriedly corrected Zhang Nan's statement, "It's New Line Cinema and Warner Pictures that don't want to talk about it. Disney is still very enthusiastic about the preparations for [Pirates of the Caribbean 4]."

"So enthusiastic that you want to take away my starring role and let Johnny Depp take over? It's better than New Line and Warner." Zhang Nan said with some yin and yang.

Old Luke shrugged and said nothing.

Seeing this, Zhang Nan had no choice but to put away his anger and asked: "Warner Pictures is holding back [Harry Potter - Voldemort 2] and doesn't want to film it. I can understand it. After all, Warner has a big business now, and this year there is another [Harry Potter]." 8], there is no shortage of this one [Voldemort 2];

Disney wants to replace me with Johnny Depp. It’s easy to guess. Seeing that I made too much money in the [Pirates of the Caribbean] trilogy, I want to change it to a cheaper one after the [Pirates of the Caribbean] trilogy is over. starring.

But New Line Cinema…

But they don’t have any decent projects in hand. If they don’t film [Lord of the Rings - Legend of Sauron 3], what will a company as big as theirs do? With no movie released, why not watch your company's stock price drop?

Go and ask around. "

Old Luke nodded upon hearing this.

……

It has to be said that Old Luke has followed Zhang Nan over the years and has gained a lot of momentum, and he is also very good at mixing in circles.

In three or two days, I had a thorough understanding of New Line Cinema's situation and came back to report to Zhang Nan.

"I got it."

Old Luke held a piece of information he had obtained in his hand and read it to Zhang Nan: "Warner Pictures and Peter Jackson have joined forces to create a derivative novel by the author of [Lord of the Rings] - [The Hobbit] ]'s film and television project.

This project was originally a sole proprietorship of Warner Pictures, but then Warner Pictures' capital chain was a bit tight, and then New Line Pictures caused trouble for Warner in terms of copyright. Finally, after the mediation between Warner and New Line's parent company, New Line Pictures Invested a portion of [The Hobbit]. "

Zhang Nan had heard about the preparations for the [Hobbit] project, but he didn't pay much attention to it.

He just wanted to wait until the filming of the movie was almost done, and use his relationship with Peter Jackson and his reputation as a box office mascot to gain some box office appeal.

But now Zhang Nan can't help but care, because this wave of New Line Cinema's operations has directly broken Zhang Nan's previous layout.

Zhang Nan had never thought about this situation before.

After all, his price was indeed a bit too harsh.

Maybe the Hollywood giants will join forces to boycott him.

Then New Line Cinema's "Lord of the Rings - Legend of Sauron" series will be a way for him to fight against the Hollywood giants.

Because the giants have many projects and strong capabilities, they can temporarily suppress the projects they cooperate with Zhang Nan. Not New Line Cinema.

Under the influence of Zhang Nan, New Line Cinema followed the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy with the "Lord of the Rings - Legend of Sauron" series.

Then he can use the continued box office success of the "Lord of the Rings - Legend of Sauron" series to break the alliance between Hollywood giants.

After all, when the six countries united to fight against the Qin Dynasty in order not to subjugate the country and destroy the nation, they couldn't even come together, let alone the six Hollywood giants who were capital-oriented.

And Zhang Nan has no intention of resisting the Big Six in Hollywood on her own.

Because in a few years, the Marvel Cinematic Universe will be launched.

At that time, the Marvel Cinematic Universe was overwhelming the entire Hollywood. Not to mention resisting Zhang Nan, the Big Six in Hollywood had to rely on Zhang Nan to fight against the Marvel Cinematic Universe and protect their own company's stock price.

But now... something went wrong.

However, the current situation is not very dangerous for Zhang Nan.

The worst he can do is return to the mainland and live in obscurity for a few years. When Marvel Studios takes off, he will still be invited back by Hollywood giants.

"If it doesn't work... let's continue filming [Transformers 3] and [Jurassic Park 3]?" Old Luke suggested seeing Zhang Nan's expression changing.

Zhang Nan shook his head when he heard this, "Don't think too much of Paramount and Universal Pictures, they are all the same.

If you go talk to Paramount and Universal about [Transformers 3] and [Jurassic Park 3] right now, the results you'll get won't be much better, so don't make a fool of yourself. "

"Then... let's take a break. Anyway, you have [Inception] released this year. Maybe the situation will change next year." Old Luke comforted Zhang Nan.

Zhang Nanxin accepted Old Luke's kindness, but he didn't want to easily back down under the price reduction of Hollywood giants.

"Go and talk to Sony Columbia. I heard that they are recently restarting the [Spider-Man] series and making an [Amazing Spider-Man]. I want to ask if they are willing to give me a role.

Then I will go to MGM and ask them what they said before about the new agent digital series that I can choose. Is it still available?

But don't lower your attitude, and raise the asking price.

Without Zhang Butcher, we have to eat pigs with hair on them?

Unfortunately, my surname is also Zhang, and I am also good at killing people. "

A series of instructions immediately made Zhang Nan's momentum rise again.

The reason why it was originally among the six major Hollywood studios was that MGM and Sony Columbia Pictures did not cooperate on the series.

On the one hand, these two Hollywood giants really don’t have any projects suitable for them.

On the other hand, it is also to prevent the current situation from happening.

Combine vertically and horizontally.

That is based on a situation where everyone's interests are similar.

We, Universal, Disney, Paramount, 1.2th Century Fox and Warner, rely on [Jurassic World 1.2.3], [Pirates of the Caribbean 1.2], [Transformers 1], [Avatar] and [Voldemort [-]], Made a lot of money.

Now he suddenly wants to boycott Zhang Nan, and he wants us to join him.

sure!

Let’s wait until we collaborate with Zhang Nan on a few series and make a serious profit.

"If you raise the price, don't scare people away! Now our box office share is so high that the producers have no profit. We all rely on the success of the movie at the box office, which indirectly increases the company's stock price to make money. "Old Luke was a little worried.

"Who asked you to raise your share? Just increase the fixed remuneration a little, just tens of thousands. The main thing is to show a non-cowardly attitude." Zhang Nan explained.

(End of this chapter)