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Chapter 533 Partners

On Monday morning, at the Warner Bros. headquarters building, distribution head Solomon accepted congratulations from his colleagues.

The movie "Batman Begins", which he fully led and was responsible for, was a huge success in its first weekend, and the Batman IP came back to life.

After a brief celebration, Solomon and Warner Pictures CEO Doug Walter discussed matters alone.

"Gilbert Jr. has already taken the crew on a nationwide promotional tour. After he takes part in this week's promotions, he will be busy with other projects," said Doug Walter.

Solomon tasted the Longjing tea that Gilbert Jr. gave to Doug Walter. Although he didn't think it was as delicious as coffee, Gilbert Jr., who was the most important to Warner Bros. Pictures, loved it.

In order to share the same hobby with Gilbert Jr., many senior executives of Warner Bros. would follow his example and drink tea with him.

If someone received a can of tea from little Gilbert, that guy would probably be very happy for a long time.

Hearing Doug Walter's words, Solomon quickly put down his teacup and said, "The new series has just started, and Gilbert Jr. should quickly produce the second part.

What project is he going to work on at this time?"

Doug Walter laughed and said, "Little Gilbert said that it would be more appropriate to let the movie settle for two years before launching a new one. Besides, Disney also has objections. Little Gilbert does not only belong to Warner."

Solomon was not in a hurry. "Yes, if we urge little Gilbert to start the second part, Mr. Egger will probably be unhappy."

"Okay, let's not talk about this for now." Doug Walter said, "The North American box office is doing well, I think we can prepare for overseas release soon.

Your work in the issuance department must be well coordinated. "

"Don't worry," Solomon said confidently, "Next weekend, Batman Begins will be released in 87 countries and regions around the world.

I think the film's first weekend in North America was pretty good, so it will definitely do well overseas."

"of course."

Both of them are looking forward to the overseas performance of "Batman Begins". As long as the box office in North America is more than 2 million US dollars and the global box office is more than 5 million US dollars, the Batman IP can continue.

After the box office performance of the first weekend, Warner internal analysts believe that the film's North American box office will reach $2.5 million, which is exactly the global total box office figure of the previous "Batman & Robin".

Warner is excited, but Disney is not happy.

This year, the movie that Gilbert Jr. made alone for Warner Bros. was released, which made the number of movies produced by Disney feel a bit empty.

In addition to "Mystery of the Spell" produced in cooperation with Warner in July, and "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" released in November, there is also "The Chronicles of Narnia" released by its subsidiary Buena Vista Pictures.

Although they all seem to be popular projects, there is no need to worry about profitability.

But as Robert Egger said, without the movie directed by Gilbert Jr. himself, the entire summer season seems to be lacking in flavor.

Looking at the reports about "Batman Begins" in the newspaper, Robert Iger seemed a little unhappy.

The assistant immediately understood what was going on. He served tea and said to Robert Egger, "President, didn't Director Gilbert Jr. talk to you before?

As promotion wraps up this week, he will shift his focus to his first Marvel Studios film, while also planning new projects.”

"Yeah!" Robert Iger said, "I'm just a little depressed. I knew that the Batman series would be successful.

It’s ridiculous that I still had the illusion that if the movie failed, Warner Bros. would break up with Gilbert Jr.

Robert Iger also thought about using Disney's power to do bad things and block the movie "Batman Begins".

The purpose is to make the movie fail and make Warner Bros. lose trust in Gilbert Jr. In this way, Disney can take the opportunity to acquire Warner Bros.' shares in Cantaloupe Studios and take full control of Cantaloupe Studios, and Gilbert Jr. will also be completely on Disney's ship.

But after thinking about it, Robert Iger gave up this unrealistic idea.

The reason is simple. According to Robert Egger's understanding of Little Gilbert, he would not board the ship. Instead, he might blow up the ship.

It would be fine to stick to the current model, as the films produced by Cantaloupe Studios will each account for half of the profits.

Warner Bros.' invitation to Gilbert Jr. to direct the Batman movie also serves as a reminder to Disney. In the future, they can also ask Gilbert Jr. to direct any project, bypassing the current complicated system of Cantaloupe Studios.

However, how to convince Gilbert Jr. is a problem. As a recognized super director with the most talented screenwriter and director in Hollywood, Gilbert Jr. writes most of the film scripts himself.

If we rashly find a script and invite Gilbert Jr. to make a movie, I'm afraid he won't agree.

So many times these ideas are just ideas, and Robert Iger does not put them into practice.

But facing the popularity of superhero movies, Robert Iger still has some other ideas.

He asked his assistant, "What are the results of the current negotiations with Marvel Studios?"

The assistant replied: "Marvel Pictures has basically agreed with our North American and overseas distributors, but President, Marvel Pictures lacks experience in film production, and I am worried..."

"What are you worried about?" Robert Egger waved his hand and said, "There's nothing to worry about. Gilbert Jr. is still the producer of the film.

I heard that Marvel Studios has made a long-term plan, and the entire plan came from Gilbert Jr.'s idea.

This is a testament to Gilbert’s confidence in the Marvel Studios film, and it’s an opportunity for us.”

It is indeed an opportunity, seeing that DC is about to survive with the huge sales of "Batman Begins". Other series such as "Spider-Man" and "X-Men" have also achieved good results.

This year, "Fantastic Four" will be released, and there are many superhero movies under construction, announcing the arrival of a new era.

Disney does not have suitable superhero copyrights, so it is very important to obtain the distribution rights for Marvel Studios' first film.

On the Marvel Studios side, Kevin Feige served as the first producer of the movie "Iron Man" and Cameron Diaz served as the second producer.

In order to prevent the novice producer Kevin Feige from not understanding the crew business, Gilbert Jr. specially asked Cameron Diaz to be the second producer of "Iron Man".

The two of them, together with producer Gilbert Jr., constitute the three most powerful people in the "Iron Man" crew.

Of course, if it really comes to making a decision, only little Gilbert can do it.

Kevin Feige and Cameron Diaz had just assembled the crew for a quick prep meeting.

After the meeting, Kevin Feige stopped Jon Favreau and Cameron Diaz and said, "How about the final audition time being in mid-June?"

Cameron Diaz calculated the time and found that Gilbert Jr. should be back from Europe by then.

“Okay,” Cameron Diaz agreed, and turned to Jon Favreau and said, “The preliminary auditions can begin now, and let the casting director audition each role one by one.

The main roles must be unanimously approved by the three of us before we can have Little Gilbert review them."

Jon Favreau was a novice director, and he nodded quickly to show that he understood.

(End of this chapter)