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

Chapter 175
"What about the producer?" Serra asked.

"Let Kathryn Bigelow, Nina Jackson, and Mary Parent be the producers of one film. As for which one to be responsible for, it's up to you."

"Okay, I will make arrangements." Then Sierra asked proactively: "By the way, won't you come back for the viewing of "The Notebook" the day after tomorrow?"

"Well, I'm too lazy to run away. You and Mia can just be responsible for the film party."

After a few more instructions, Wayne hung up the phone.

Then, one by one, he picked up Hannah and Charlize Theron, who had been waiting for a long time, and walked towards the huge bathtub that could be used by four or five people.

In the next three days, "Mean Girls" achieved North American box office of 1361 million, 1205 million, and 698 million, as well as global box office of 1232 million, 1189 million, and 955 million. The total global box office reached 1.2 million.

Although word-of-mouth has inevitably declined, the "Mean Girls" group with super good looks has become unexpectedly popular.

Widow, Anne, Meghan, Martina, Amanda Seyfried and Sarah Michelle Gellar, all of them are young and beautiful, making LSPs want to lick the screen.

And relying on the super good looks of the "Mean Girls" and the theme of beautiful girls fucking, which is still novel in this era, the box office curve of "Mean Girls" is also very beautiful. Although it has declined a bit, it has But it was also much better than expected.

It has to be said that the LSP group is not only very large in number, but its consumption power is not weak at all.

According to the investigation, because the Internet is underdeveloped and Widow Sister and others are still newcomers and have not released any posters, some LSPs went to the theater three or four times to see them.

In addition, "The Bourne Supremacy", which has just been released in North America, has already achieved a North American box office of 1 million and an overseas box office of 3.21 million.

There is still a week left until the overseas release, and the global box office is almost certain to exceed 6 million.

The Big Seven are naturally more determined to win the copyright of "The Notebook". Although Harvey doesn't want to give up, it's a pity that if he really wants to fight for it, even if he looks for a bank loan, he won't be able to fight against the Big Seven who are serious about it.

The Big Seven, in order to increase their competitiveness, have also resorted to off-the-books tactics. For example, MGM, after knowing that Wayne was staying in its hotel, directly arranged for the hotel manager to take four people with him. A bunny girl came to visit with $200 million in chips.

Warner also directly arranged for several female stars to visit the crew of "Ocean's Eleven".

But the most ruthless one is Sony, who has already tasted the benefits.

Not only did Howard Stringer, the president, personally take action, but he also brought eight familiar faces to him.

"Masami Nagasawa, Haruka Ayase, Yu Aoi, Erika Sawajiri." Wayne glanced around quickly.

That's it for these four. Now they are all just newcomers who have just debuted. Although they are beautiful, they don't have much fame.

But the other four are different.

"Nakamori Akina. Ozawa Makoto Hamasaki Ayumi. Amuro Namie."

"hiss--"

"Howard Stringer is really generous!"

To be honest, this is the first time that Howard Stringer, the president of Sony Colombia and the most powerful person in Sony Entertainment in North America, has personally come to do such a thing.

But today's Sony Columbia really needs to improve its performance and influence.

What's more, Sony's revenue from "The Bourne Supremacy" is expected to exceed 1 million U.S. dollars. After such a comparison, what does it mean to come to give a girl away?
The only troublesome thing is that these eight women were originally prepared for the "Bourne Supremacy" celebration party on the 8th.

Now that I sent it in advance in order to get "The Notebook", I will have to find a new one later.

But looking at Wayne's surprised look, Howard Stringer suddenly felt that this trouble was nothing.

Even if Neon doesn’t have a suitable candidate for the time being, they can still look for it elsewhere. With Sony Music’s global influence, are they still worried that they won’t be able to find one?
It is worth mentioning that all eight members of Nagasawa Masami were carefully selected by him after recruiting a large number of talent scouts and agents from Sony Entertainment to speculate on Wayne's preferences based on their looks and preferences.

Otherwise, according to his own aesthetics, the person who was sent over might have the kind of 'Asian supermodel face'.

It has to be said that Howard Stringer really worked hard to vote for Wayne.

"I will ask Sera and Mia about selling the copyright of "The Notebook"." Wayne took a deep breath and showed his elegant smile again.

And such a reply has already satisfied Howard Stringer.

"Then I won't bother you."

Howard Stringer stood up and left happily. As for Nakamori Akina and eight others, they naturally stayed.

"Tsk, tsk, one VS eight! Do you want me to adjust my limit? I wonder if I can squeeze it in the bathtub."

After sending Howard Stringer away, Wayne turned around and looked at the eight people again. Without hiding his true nature, he directly put his arms around Masami Nagasawa and Haruka Ayase, the tallest among the eight.

Hannah on the side couldn't help rolling her eyes when she saw this, and decisively turned around and walked to another bedroom.

Apparently, she'll be sharing a room with Charlize Theron tonight.

Afterwards, Wayne directly opened the curtains and dialed Sierra's number while enjoying the service of eight people.

This time, all members of the Big Seven, including DreamWorks, Lionsgate, and Miramax, were still present for this screening.

Except for MGM, which has been losing money for many years, the other six giants have all chosen a one-time buyout offer, and the buyout prices have all exceeded [-] million.

Among them, Disney has the highest price. After the first round of negotiations, the quotation has reached 1.46 million U.S. dollars. It is obvious that the film has assembled the three front-line actors of Wayne, Jessica, and Nicolas Cage, plus the actor Dustin. Hoffman and actress Susan Sarandon's film is super promising.

According to this price, the global box office of "The Notebook" must reach at least 3 million US dollars before they can make back their money through the box office.

That's a high number for any movie.

However, referring to the results of "The Bourne Supremacy" and "Mean Girls", it seems that it is not difficult for "The Notebook" to exceed US$1 million at the box office.

The second-highest bidder was Sony Colombia, which also had deep pockets and urgently needed to improve its performance and influence.In fact, when Sony bought Columbia and entered Hollywood, making money was secondary. Producing more excellent films and increasing Neon's influence in North America and even the world were the deeper strategic goals.

So after the first round of negotiations, they made an offer of 1.42 million US dollars for "The Notebook", which was only 400 million US dollars lower than Disney.

Next, Sony Columbia's senior executives, headed by Howard Stringer, were willing to continue to increase their offer.

But if you are not afraid of [-], you are afraid of the worst. What if Sony or other giants also increase the price and exceed their quotation?

In addition, DreamWorks, Lionsgate and Miramax have all chosen a guaranteed plus profit model, and each company's guaranteed guarantee is no less than 6500 million.

Among them, Miramax and Lionsgate Pictures even went to banks for loans.

According to the quotation they gave, as long as the global box office of "The Notebook" exceeds 3 million, Hemera Pictures, as the producer, will be able to earn more money than a one-time buyout.

Comprehensive comparison, Sony's competitiveness in this is not very high.That's why Howard Stringer ran over eagerly.

"Sierra, you can contact Sony President Howard Stringer tomorrow according to the current Disney offer, but in exchange, I need Sony to use its influence in Neon to help us complete the acquisition of Kyoto Animation, Sunrise Corporation or One or more of the three animation production companies Production IG."

Compared with film production, animation production is no less expensive in terms of money consumption, or even more expensive.

However, today’s 3D animated movies are completely dominated by Disney, DreamWorks and Pixar Animation.And in a short period of time, both DreamWorks and Pixar Animation have seen an obvious upward trend and are unlikely to be sold.

So if he wanted to enter the animation field, he had to find another way, bypass Hollywood, and start with Neon Animation Company.

Although Neon's animation company is mainly good at two-dimensional animation, it actually burns no less money than 3D movies.

In addition, these neon animation production companies are very cheap at this time, so they naturally become his best choice.

"Of course, I will let Marissa Mayer and Li Ying be responsible for the specific acquisition work."

"As for funding, just use the buyout proceeds from "The Notebook" and the post-production proceeds from "Mean Girls."

"Okay, Wayne." Serra didn't ask why he wanted to acquire Neon Animation Company.

Because the company's development strategy has always been decided by Wayne alone, and she just needs to do her job as an executor.

As for the fact that the copyright buyout for "The Notebook" only sold 1.46 million, she actually doesn't feel it's a big loss.

Although there have been box office miracles such as "Titanic" among romance films, the box office space is generally not as good as that of science fiction films and action films.

"The Notebook" can sell 1.46 million yuan. Even if it is not announced, it will still need nearly 3 million box office to make back the price. She is actually quite satisfied.

After those issuing companies buy it, there is still the possibility of making huge profits.

Just like Sony spent 1.1 million to buy the overseas copyright and disc sales rights of "The Bourne Supremacy", they still made a profit of about 1 million, but they also took a lot of risks, didn't they?

Hemera Pictures can achieve a return rate of more than 230% without risk, which is already very good.

After confirming that Wayne had no other instructions, Sierra hung up the phone and started getting busy.

On Wayne's side, after contacting Li Ying and Marissa Mayer and explaining the acquisition of the animation production company, he couldn't wait to have in-depth exchanges with Nagasawa Masami and the others.

I have to say that even though Sister Zhongmori is 36 years old, she still takes good care of herself.As for Masami Nagasawa, Haruka Ayase, and Erika Sawajiri, they were so moist that they were almost dripping with water.

The only pity is that among these people, only the youngest Masami Nagasawa and Erika Sawajiri still have First Blood.

Others, even the newly 16-year-old Ayase Haruka and Aoi Yu, First blood are no longer here.

But considering that before the change in Neon, the legal age was only 13, this doesn’t seem surprising.

As expected, the fighting ability of the eight people is far worse than that of the widowed sister and Anne who are about the same age as them, even the famous Nakamori.

Even if eight people join forces, they are far from Wayne's opponent. This makes Wayne, who originally planned to challenge his own limits, suddenly feel disappointed.

On the other side, as soon as Howard Stringer left the hotel, the news reached the president of MGM, and then quickly reached the ears of the other CEOs of the Big Seven.

They were all very disdainful of the fact that Howard Stringer actually flew to Las Vegas to see off his daughter. They all laughed out loud, feeling that Howard Stringer was too cheap.

However, when Serra took the initiative to schedule an interview with Howard Stringer the next morning, and finalized the cooperation within an hour, and then completed the signing that afternoon, these people could no longer laugh.

"Fake!"

"That guy actually chose Sony like this?"

"Isn't my $200 million in chips great?! Or are the four bunny girls carefully selected in my casino not pretty enough?"

The president of MGM couldn't help but throw down his cigar and started swearing.

The same goes for Warner Bros., which sent several second- and third-tier female stars to visit the studio. Could it be that the female stars they sent were not beautiful enough?Why did Wayne choose Sony?
Well, judging from Wayne's aesthetics, the female stars Warner hired are really average-looking.

As for the four bunny girls prepared by MGM, I can only say that they are too vulgar.

In addition, after getting used to seeing tall and long-legged ocean horses, Wayne occasionally wants to change his taste, right?
Although the remaining Big Four did not do this, they were still dissatisfied with Wayne for succumbing to beauty, but after the dissatisfaction passed, they finally knew how to 'handle' Wayne.

After all, Harvey and Howard Stringer had given them a successful example.

"The first is to find women that interest Wayne, and the second is to be able to provide his women with some resources that he does not have at hand. Wayne did not accept the beauties from MGM and Warner. I think it is because he has seen too many women from Millikin. , has lost its novelty, right? But it’s no wonder, not to mention other things, Charlize Theron alone is enough to outshine all Hollywood female stars, and he also has an affair with Nicole Kidman.”

CEOs of various companies took out small notebooks to write down this valuable experience.

After all, if "The Notebook" is gone, there will still be "Dog Hotel", "The Rescue" and "Resident Evil 1 and 2".

(End of this chapter)