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

Chapter 88 Harvey’s Proposal

"Okay, Betty, just enough is enough, okay? By the way, do you know what the word 'enough is enough' means?"

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Obviously, Betty didn't know what the word meant, so she could only put on a bad face and was helplessly sent to the school bus by Lawrence.

This interesting scene made many people present smile.

However, those movie buying experts are still recording and analyzing carefully, such as 'the heroine is very good-looking', 'the actor who plays the little girl is very cute and should be very lovable' and so on.

The small swishing sound made Susan, who had been paying attention to their movements, unconsciously become nervous again.

Objectively speaking, the story of "Girl Genius" is definitely not as novel, exciting and fascinating as "Admission" and "Happy Death Day", even if the script is written by a famous screenwriter like Alan Ball.

At its core, it tells a heartwarming family story.

Even if the current version of "Girl Genius" is already very good in all aspects, it is easy for it to be poorly received.

Therefore, Wayne deliberately asked Bauer to add more moderate comedy elements to the script, moving it slightly closer to a 'family comedy'.

But even so, this type of film is flawed in terms of audience size. Strictly speaking, it is even more niche than horror films.

Susan, Gus, and Sierra are very aware of this, and this will become a key factor affecting the price of the film's rights.

Soon the [-]-minute video ended. This time, unlike before, the representatives of these distribution companies did not exchange too many pleasantries, and hurried back to make reports with a tangled mood.

That's right, it's tangled.

Judging from the quality of the film alone, with Gus, Ball, and Sarandon, plus the support of Naomi and Dakota Fanning, who have equally good acting skills, this film is really outstanding.

Although there is no chance of winning an award, there is still a chance of getting an Oscar nomination.

It is like a cup of light tea. If the audience comes to the screening room, sits down, and watches this movie, they will definitely be attracted by this movie. In the end, they will be moved and feel that it is worth the price of admission.

However, the aroma of tea is not as strong as wine or coffee. How to attract people to taste it is a very vexing problem.

For example, "I Am Sam" and "Girl Genius" are both about family ties. Although the former has a score of 9.0 on Douban, the latter is not bad either, with a score of 8.3.

Moreover, "Girl Genius" was released in 2017. If it had been placed in the same year as "I Am Sam" in 2001, the score might have increased by a few tenths.

However, the global box office of "I Am Sam" is as high as 2.08 million U.S. dollars, while the global box office of "Girls" is only 4300 million U.S. dollars, even with the blessing of "Captain America" ​​popularity.

If it were placed in 2001, it would be equivalent to about 2800 million. This gap is really too big.

Among them, the quality of the film is definitely not the key to such a big gap in the box office. The popularity of "Captain America" ​​and Mckenna Grace is obviously higher than that of Sean Penn, who was only famous in Europe at the time, and Sean Penn, who had just starred in the first film The film's Dakota Fanning is higher, so the key to the box office gap lies in the promotion.

The distribution company of "I Am Sam" is Warner, while the distribution company of "Girl Genius" is Fox Searchlight, a subsidiary of Fox. There is not a big gap between the two parties in terms of size, so the key lies in the specific promotion strategy.Unfortunately, there are only 20 days left before Christmas, which is really stressful.

Therefore, in the opinion of these distribution company representatives, this upgraded version of "Girl Genius" is definitely worth buying, but at what price it should be paid for, that is a question worthy of careful consideration.

"Is that so? Universal quoted 2600 million, Warner quoted 2750 million, and DreamWorks' highest price was only 2800 million."

"Honestly, it's a little bit different from what I expected, but it's almost there."

"What? Harvey Weinstein made an interesting offer? 2000 million, plus an extra 7000 million for every 1000 million we make over 300 million?"

"This is a good suggestion."

That night, Wayne received a call from Serra.

Just as Susan and Sierra were worried, the first-round bids from more than a dozen distribution companies, including the Big Seven, for the rights to "Girl Genius" were not very high.

It can also be seen from this that they generally believe that the global box office of "Girl Genius" should not exceed [-] million US dollars.

Of course, even if the global box office of "Girl Genius" is only 60 million, if they buy it back at such a price, they can still make a small profit through the box office. Coupled with the income from the disc sales market, the return rate can be at least more than [-]%. It is still It's a pretty high-quality project.

"Try to get the price to more than 3000 million. Of course, it must be paid in cash all at once. If that doesn't work, you can also try Harvey Weinstein's proposal. To be honest, I don't like this fat man very much, so the conditions Let’s try to get as high as possible.”

Wayne said after thinking for a moment.

To be honest, he doesn't like Harvey Weinstein, a guy who doesn't keep his word and likes free tickets. If the upper-class people in Hollywood are like him who like to use force and like free tickets, it will only destroy the hard-earned establishment of today. clear rules.

However, as a qualified new capitalist, he also needs to learn to occasionally compromise his interests.

According to the method given by Harvey Weinstein, as long as the box office of "Girls" can exceed [-] million US dollars, the income he can obtain will be higher than selling it to other distribution companies.

In this case, there was no reason for him to refuse.

In addition, if Harvey develops well, he will definitely want to go out independently with Miramax. When the time comes, it will also affect the development of Disney to a certain extent, which will be very important for him and Hemera Pictures. Somewhat is a good thing.

In the next few days, due to Serra's strong efforts, the quotations given by various issuing companies continued to change upward little by little.

It is worth mentioning that Serra’s contact with Marvel is very secretive, and Marvel is still just a half-dead comic company that repeatedly jumps on the edge of bankruptcy.

Because the valuable copyrights have been sold, these top Hollywood production companies usually don't pay attention to Marvel at all, and there is no way to know that Wayne and Hemera Pictures are in urgent need of funds to acquire Marvel. .

So they thought that Hemera Pictures still had a final trump card that they could distribute in North America themselves and then sell the overseas rights to overseas distribution companies.

(End of this chapter)