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Chapter 1050 A Strong Attitude
The reason why Zhou Xia was not sure about "Fantastic Four 2015" was mainly because the film was officially released in two days, but this film was kept tightly hidden by 20th Century Fox, and no premiere ceremony was held. , and I haven't seen any movie reviews on the Internet.

This situation is unpredictable.

Either the premiere was not held and the media was invited to watch the movie, so no movie reviews appeared, or the movie critics were notified, and movie reviews were issued after the movie was released, which may be holding back a big move.

When this movie is released, there will be as many as 3995 theaters, which is only 50 theaters less than "Descendants of Yanhuang".

Such a high ranking is the treatment of super blockbusters, Zhou Xia and Xia Hua studio8's executives also feel pressured by it.

Fighting in North America, they have a local advantage. If they compete with two Hollywood giants at the same time, it will definitely put the film at a disadvantage in North America.

Zhou Xia tried her best to recall the information about "Fantastic Four 2015".

This movie should not have been released in the mainland, otherwise he would not have no impression.

As for the movies in the North American market, except for the big hits, or the ones with unfathomable reputations, he would not have any impression of them.

Since he can't remember the superhero movie "Fantastic Four 2015", there is only one possibility.

The performance of this movie is very bad, otherwise the few domestic film companies that have the qualifications to import movies will definitely import this movie to make money.

Thinking of these things, Zhou Xia was relieved a lot. Seeing that the time was past eleven o'clock, she stopped surfing the Internet, turned off the computer and went back to the bedroom.

The repeated battles just now had consumed a lot of energy. Yu Fei had already fallen asleep from exhaustion, and so did Zhou Xia, so she hurried to bed and rested.

The next day, she got up early, finished her morning exercises, and had breakfast with Yufei. Zhou Xia went to Xiahua studio8 to get busy with today's affairs.

After all, Warner is a big company, so they arranged a meeting, and the two sides coordinated at two o'clock in the afternoon.

But Legendary Pictures is different, not to mention a small company, the president Thomas Tull has a request for Zhou Xia, he received a call from Zhou Xia yesterday, and agreed to come to the company to meet Zhou Xia in the morning.

When Zhou Xia arrived at the company, it was 10 minutes before nine o'clock, and Thomas Tull arrived early.

The two parties were also acquaintances, so Zhou Xia stopped putting on airs and invited the other party to meet directly.

Gao Qunyao, head of the company's Asia Pacific region, was brought by Thomas Tull.

Zhou Xia was accompanied by Jeff and Peter, the president and vice president of Xiahua studio.

In addition, Zhou Xia's assistant, Xiaobai, and Jeff's assistant were taking notes.

After the two sides exchanged simple greetings, they entered the topic and started a formal conversation.

Gao Qunyao directly put the revised "Great Wall" script in front of Zhou Xia and introduced it: "Director Zhou, this is the revised script, the story has been adapted, and the routine you mentioned before is too obvious, so now the story is more reasonable. "

Zhou Xia smiled slightly, and briefly flipped through the script.

In fact, the script of "The Great Wall" is so obvious that even ordinary viewers who have watched a lot of movies will think about how the plot will progress. In fact, it is not that the scriptwriting team is poor, and they don't know about this situation.

In fact, there is a very important reason because co-productions have to take into account the domestic and foreign markets, so I want to make the story as simple and popular as possible so that people can understand it.

As a result, it fell into a cliché, making people feel that the story was clichéd, not as good as an online novel ten years ago.

Zhou Xia flipped through it briefly. He had read the script before, so he mainly read the parts marked with revisions.

I found that there are not many changes, but the process of stealing gunpowder, the male protagonist changed his position and decided to help the people of the Song Dynasty. After the boss was finally eliminated, those minions did not die, but all escaped.

Moreover, the settings about monster bosses have also changed. Every few hundred years, when the weather turns cold, monsters give birth to a boss that will attack humans.

Zhou Xia looked at it and found that it was indeed reasonable. Compared with the original movie, after killing the boss directly, the other little monsters and the robot that lost the signal all died much better.

It's just that the story wasn't what he wanted.

Zhou Xia put the script aside, looked at Thomas Tull and Gao Qun, and stopped talking nonsense, and said directly: "I don't like this story, it's too different from the "Great Wall" story I want, I won't consider it." For the movie, let’s talk about something else, about corporate mergers and acquisitions.”

Hearing what Zhou Xia said, Thomas Tull and Gao Qun looked at each other, and then Thomas said directly in English: "What is the story of "The Great Wall" in Director Zhou's mind?"

"Hehe, this is of course more Chinese. Like my other films, I first consider the domestic market, and then tell a wonderful story from a global perspective."

Zhou Xia heard Thomas Tull's fear, and said with a smile.

Obviously, for Legendary Pictures, there is no worse thing for Xia Hua Film and Television and Zhou Xia to make a movie related to the Great Wall.

If there is one more movie with the same theme on the market, will Legendary Pictures' "The Great Wall" still have a first-mover advantage?
"Director Zhou, now that your company is the second largest shareholder of Legendary, why do you insist on buying our company? The existence of our company is not a bad thing for Xia Hua or studio8. Everyone can cooperate in multiple ways, so that Only then will there be more outstanding projects.”

Gao Qunyao looked at Zhou Xia and continued.

"I don't want to say more about this issue. The North American market is now dominated by major production companies. DreamWorks has had enough, Paramount has become a shareholder, and Focus Pictures, Marvel Pictures, and DC Films have all been controlled by six companies. Large companies may buy shares or acquire them, and Legendary Pictures cannot avoid the result.

Choosing a good buyer in time now is more conducive to future development. If you wait until later, you may be able to sell at a higher price, but there may not be any development prospects. Perhaps several founders and managers may not be able to do it for a long time. . "

Negotiations with Legendary Films have been going on for more than two years, there is really no need for both parties to beat around the bush, Zhou Xia said forcefully.

What he meant was very clear. He knew that Legendary Films was in contact with Wanda.

But in comparison, Wanda is a layman, just a big real estate owner, and has no experience in the field of culture and entertainment.

Maybe it is true that Xia Hua's bid for Legendary is higher, but when there is an ignorant parent company, that is the biggest tragedy for Legendary Pictures.

In fact, in the original time and space, after Wanda acquired Legendary Films, although they didn't do anything to point fingers, they still interfered with many creations in the process of arranging the films.

For example, the main actors of "The Great Wall" and "Pacific Rim 2" are manipulated by Wanda Capital, and many trends have been made to take into account the domestic market. The continuous starring roles of Big Sweet and Little Princess, including "King Kong: Skull Island" is related to this.

(End of this chapter)