Meiyu: I don’t care about the cost when making movies

Chapter 153 Lucas' Awakening
If Sera hired her, it would be a good match for Hemera Pictures.

After all, Wayne will not treat the company's producers like the Big Seven, but treat them as independent producers and pay them.

Just like Susan being the producer of "Resident Evil 1 and 2", although unlike those top independent producers who can get a share of the box office, the combined salary for the two films was a full 200 ​​million US dollars.

Without the need for her to raise investment or find projects herself, the salary is really very high.

At least according to the original historical trajectory, Mary Parent would have to struggle until 2013, when she founded her own company for the second time and served as the producer of "Pacific Rim" before she could get such a high salary.

Now that she could get it right in one step, it was obviously impossible for Mary Parent to refuse.

It has to be said that the party culture here in Millikin is indeed very helpful in expanding contacts and seeking opportunities. It is no wonder that both ordinary people and the upper class like to attend parties so much.

"By the way, Lily's birthday is on the 18th, right? What gift should we prepare for her?" Mia asked.

"Well. How about giving her the script of "Dog Hotel" as a gift~"

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The three of them had lunch in a relaxed and pleasant atmosphere, and then Wayne first sent Mia back to the company, and after resting for a while, he and Sierra went there with the lawyer and financial team responsible for the acquisition. Industrial Light & Magic.

It's completely different from the ease on Wayne and Sierra's side.

Levon Brightman, the general manager of Industrial Light and Magic, was nervous and worried and had no appetite at all.

"I wonder if this new boss's temper is easy to get along with."

Levon Brightman thought to himself, looking out at the street outside through the large floor-to-ceiling windows of the general manager's office, and couldn't help but sigh.

He had been working under George Lucas for many years and was doing well. If possible, he didn't really want to change his boss.

But whether to change the boss or not is obviously not something that can be decided by him as a general manager, not to mention that Wayne gave too much.

If it were him, he would probably be unable to bear it when Wayne's offer reached 1 million US dollars.

This made him admire Wayne's generosity.

But for him sitting in the position of general manager, this is not good news.

Although Serra's representative, Wayne, has communicated with him in advance and assured him that he will continue to retain his position as general manager, and the company's existing executives will not change much, and will only add a deputy director and a general manager. Financial manager.

It is even stipulated in the contract that they cannot resign in the next three years.

But the problem is that he cannot leave his job voluntarily, but Hemera Pictures can fire him at any time!For a company as big as Industrial Light & Magic, if he were Wayne, he would definitely choose to let his cronies take charge of the company.

So after learning that George Lucas had accepted the acquisition plan, he was already prepared to be fired after working for half a year or a year and find a new job.But later he found out through his contacts that Avi Arad, the general manager of Marvel, who was also acquired by Hemera Pictures and became a subsidiary, has been for less than half a year, and there is still no sign of being replaced. This made him feel hopeful again.

Industrial Light and Magic is now the largest and most top special effects company in Hollywood, and he is almost 40 years old. He really doesn't want to leave here if he can.

Almost an hour later, the anxious Levon Brightman finally saw the motorcade coming quickly from the end of the street.

After seeing the extremely eye-catching and impressive Kaibaihe shield, he immediately felt nervous, took his coat and left the office immediately, preparing to go downstairs to meet Wayne, his new boss.

But what made him speechless was that he went down so fast, and George Lucas, who was much older than him, actually got ahead of him.

After he asked the front desk quietly, he found out that after arriving at the company after lunch, George Lucas had been drinking coffee and reading newspapers in the lounge area. No wonder he arrived before him. !
"Hello, Mr. Wayne, I'm George Lucas. Is this our first official meeting?" George Lucas greeted Wayne enthusiastically.

Obviously Wayne's full name is Wayne Anderson. According to custom, people who are not very familiar with him should call him 'Mr. Anderson'. But I don't know when it started. People in the circle who know his money-making ability gradually began to call him 'Mr. Anderson'. started to call him 'Mr. Wayne'. Obviously, there is definitely an element of 'Bruce Wayne', another currency holder.

"Hello, Mr. Lucas, although this is indeed the first time we have met, I have admired you for a long time!"

After hearing Wayne's sincere and completely non-hypocritical praise, George Lucas's face suddenly became much better, and then he greeted him enthusiastically.

There was no way around it. His experiences over the past ten years had made him deeply aware of two things. The first of which was that money is really not spent. It is a big mistake to think that you can retire early with two to three billion US dollars. , unless he is willing to give up such a superior life of a rich man.

As for the second thing, when soliciting investment, you really need to carefully select investment talents, otherwise you will be cheated.I worked so hard to make a movie, but in the end the majority of it was taken away by someone else. Just thinking about it makes me vomit blood.

To give a simple example, he made so many classic movies in his previous life, and his net worth in 2018 was only US$54 billion.

Seems like a lot?

But don’t forget, when he sold Industrial Light and Magic together with Lucasfilm in 2012, he sold it for more than 40 billion.

And as a replacement, most of them are Disney stocks, which are rising rapidly.

He was still able to have a net worth of 2018 billion in 54, which was entirely due to the rise of Disney's stock. As for the money he worked hard to make Star Wars and sell peripherals, it was not enough to maintain his extravagant life.

In his view, investors like Wayne who don't need the profits from later disc sales and peripheral derivatives, but only give priority to box office and the right to decide the heroine, are obviously the best investors.

As for online copyright?

Stop making trouble, who would watch movies on the Internet at this time? Not to mention the poor resolution and small size of the monitor, the transmission speed alone can scare people to death, okay?

"Hello, Mr. Wayne, I am Levon Brightman"

A full seven or eight minutes passed before Livan Brightman on the side finally found the opportunity to introduce himself.

(End of this chapter)