Although Disney does not have a theater chain, it has a cooperative theater chain that has a very close relationship with itself, but it is never as convenient as it is that it has a theater chain.

Now Linda actually said that it was because Disney did not have its own theater chain that she would find Disney, which naturally meant to expose Disney in her words.

At this time, Eisner was already a little displeased, "Linda, if you're here to ridicule Disney, I don't think there's any need for us to talk about it!"

Linda smiled slightly, and now the negotiations between the two sides have slowly returned to an equal position.

"I think Eisner should know that when "Ghost Love" was released, our Phantom sold the follow-up rights of our company's "Home Alone" in order to get the support of Time Warner!"

Although she personally does not agree to sell the sequel copyright of "Speed of Life and Death", but now that Wu Jianye has decided, she has no choice.

Eisner's eyes lit up, although many people say that the value of "Home Alone" has been squeezed by Phantom Entertainment, but Eisner knows that the series "Home Alone" has at least tens of millions of dollars worth to be mined, which is already a lot of income.

Now that Linda has deliberately brought up this matter, does it mean that the Phantom is ready to repeat the old trick and choose to sell his company's film rights?

At this time, Eisner was spinning quickly in his mind, thinking about what series of movies the Phantom still had in his hands and had the greatest value.

"Terminator" series, "Die Hard" series, these two series are the series that Phantom has announced to be filming, as well as the "Jurassic Park" series, but for this series, Eisner doesn't think Linda will sell it, after all, the Phantom clashed with Jews in Hollywood because of this series, and the current situation can be said to have a reason for this series.

In fact, Eisner wants the sequel copyright of the movie "Life and Death" more, but the box office of this year's movie has simply blinded the eyes of all the studio executives, in their opinion, this is a hen that will lay golden eggs, Linda will never sell the sequel copyright of this movie, then only the "Terminator" series and the "Die Hard" series are left, these two movies are left.

But these two series, now that the Phantom is already in production, are there any others?

"What do you mean?" Eisner didn't expect Linda to come up with the rights to the sequel to that movie.

Linda sat there, watching her gradually turn against the customer, and a smile appeared in her heart, maybe even Eisner herself didn't notice, and now Linda has gradually begun to take the initiative in this negotiation.

Although she is reluctant to give up the copyright of this movie, she is still very happy to see Eisner like this.

"What other movie can compare to the box office of "Speed of Life and Death" this summer?" Linda threw out her first bait!

Rub!

Even Eisner, who prided himself on being steady, couldn't help but stand up at this time, and looked at Linda with some excitement: "Are you serious?"

Linda smiled, "Of course, we Phantoms would never joke about this kind of thing!"

Eisner looked at Linda's smile condescendingly, and only then did he react, his reaction was a little excessive, which is a big taboo in negotiations!

However, he still sighed: "Your company is really generous, and you are willing to take out the copyright of the sequel to "Speed of Life and Death", which I didn't expect!"

Linda always said with a smile on her face: "We Phantom have always been very sincere towards our partners, Mr. Eisner, do you think we still need to negotiate now?"

Although Eisner didn't want to admit it, he couldn't help but nodded, it's not that Eisner is not reserved enough, it's really the income brought by the movie "Speed of Life and Death" is too eye-catching!

"The Speed of Life and Death" cost $18 million to make, $18 million to publicize, $156 million at the U.S. box office, and $250 million at the overseas box office!

A movie brought in nearly $200 million for Phantom Entertainment at the box office alone, which is an income that no one can ignore!

If you add merchandise and videotapes, you can increase your income by at least two-thirds!

"How much copyright fee is the Phantom going to want?" At this time, Eisner did not refuse, but directly asked about the copyright fee for the sequel to "Life and Death"!

"Three million dollars!" Linda said, a number.

"This can't be!" Eisner immediately retorted: "The copyright of "Home Alone" was not so expensive at the beginning, and if we Disney were ready to produce a sequel to "Life and Death", it would not be possible to put it into production in the next two years, and no one knows what will happen to the sequel to "Life and Death" in the future!"

"That is to say, even if we buy "Life and Death", we will not be able to start this project until two years later, and if we add production costs, the production cost of this film will be too high, and it is still a question whether we can recover the cost at that time!"

Eisner raised his concerns.

It's not that he's deliberately lowering the price, but the current Hollywood sequel production has not had much success, plus "Back to the Future 3" lost in the PK with "Ghost Love".

All the production companies think that the best plan for this series is to release a sequel movie in two or three years.

Linda said, "We can continue to negotiate whether this price is right or not, but Disney also needs to listen to our terms!"

Eisner only remembered at this time that he was not without initiative, and now because of the news of Phantom Entertainment's acquisition of Oceanwide Cinemas, several major studios have made Phantom Entertainment the most threatening film production company.

Because of the agreement signed between Time Warner and Oceanwide Cinemas, although Oceanwide Cinemas has no shortage of movies to be released, everyone now knows that Time Warner and Phantom Entertainment have played a game of picking words, except for Phantom Entertainment's movies, Oceanwide Cinemas has almost no possibility of releasing A-level productions.

This is the reason why Linda took the initiative to come to Disney today to seek cooperation, and even did not hesitate to take out the sequel copyright of "Speed of Life and Death"!

Thinking of this, Eisner's mood calmed down: "Linda, if we cooperate with you Phantoms, it means that we Disney will betray our own allies, which is a big sacrifice!"

Linda smiled as she watched Eisner sit there, thinking she had regained the initiative.

"Eisner, I think you may have misunderstood one thing, now the Phantom produces between 12 and 15 movies a year, even if it is our own movie, Oceanwide Cinemas has no shortage of film sources, and then you don't forget that in Hollywood, in addition to the seven major production companies, there are countless independent production companies, if Oceanwide Cinemas relaxes its release restrictions, do you think Oceanwide Cinemas will lack films to be released?"

Eisner's face changed again, and before he could reply, Linda continued.

"I can calculate for you, there are only a few popular schedules in North America, and our Phantom's own movies can be filled, and next year Phantom will launch two blockbusters, "Jurassic Park" and "Terminator 2", as well as Cheng Long, Bruce Willis, Arnold Schwarzenegger's movies, for our Phantom, it's not that there are no cinemas at all, but that we have too many big productions!" Linda said.

In fact, at this time, Linda still gave Eisner a set, whether it is "Jurassic Park" or "Terminator 2", movies like are series movies, and they are definitely not launched every year, but now Eisner may not be able to see all this.

Eisner said in a deep voice: "Although the words are true, but you and I both know that the opponent of "Jurassic Park" is Spielberg's "Captain Hook", when the time comes, whether this movie can succeed or not, everyone still knows, as for "Terminator 2", the investment in this movie is too big, and it is still a matter of saying whether it can recover the cost at that time!"

Although Linda herself had doubted Wu Jianye, she would definitely not say that now.

"When "Ghost Love" was released, wasn't everyone optimistic about it? But as a result, "Ghost Love" is still the highest-grossing movie in the world!"

Seeing that Eisner fell silent, Linda took out the second bait that she had prepared.

"If you and I can cooperate, we have already discussed with Director Wu, and Director Wu will be the screenwriter and come up with a script for an animated film, and then the Phantom and Disney can each account for 50% of the investment share!"

If the previous bait had loosened Eisner's heart, then when Linda took out the second bait, Eisner's inner insistence was completely gone.

No matter how optimistic these people are about the fight between Wu Jianye and Spielberg this time, no one doubts Wu Jianye's ability to write a screenplay at this time.

Wu Jianye's ability to write a screenplay is equivalent to Spielberg's ability to direct!

After "The Love of Ghosts" came out, how many production companies waved checks, trying to find Wu Jianye in the hope of buying a movie written by him, but the cooperation between Wu Jianye and the Phantom was too close, and no one succeeded at all.

Now the Phantom has persuaded Wu Jianye to come up with a script, which will be jointly invested by Disney and the Phantom!

What's more, this time it's the script of the cartoon that came out!

One of the important cores of Disney movies is their animated films, for other studios, a successful animated film may only bring box office, videotapes and peripheral toys and other revenues, but for Disney is different.

A successful cartoon can also bring more highlights to their Disneyland!

"What you said is true?" Eisner asked seriously, looking at Linda.

Linda nodded and said, "As I said just now, the Phantom has always been very sincere to her partners!"

"When will the script for the animated film be available?" asked Eisner.

In Linda's opinion, this is actually a sign that Eisner agrees to Disney's cooperation with the Phantom, but he is still more careful, he needs to see the script of the animated film before he can determine whether to cooperate with the Phantom.

Disney, like other production companies, has its own script review department, and if they get a script from Wu Jianye, they will review it immediately.......

Linda laughed, "Right now!"

After speaking, she took out the script of the animated film that had been prepared a long time ago, which was handed to her by Wu Jianye before she came to meet Eisner!

The script has been registered with the Hollywood union, so she is naturally not worried about Eisner's plagiarism!

The Phantom's legal department is not a joke with a high salary every year!

In North America, a company can lack many departments, but there are two departments that must exist, one is the finance department, and the other is the legal department!

Eisner's script turned out to be Linda, looking at the front page above, and it said "Toy Story"!

What Wu Jianye took out was the cartoon "Toy Story" cooperated by Pixar and Disney in another time and space!

This is also one of the reasons why Wu Jianye wants to cooperate with Disney, although the story and box office of this animated film are very objective, but the copyrights of many animated characters in the movie are actually Disney's, and if you want to shoot this movie, you must cooperate with Disney!

As the helmsman of Disney, Eisner naturally has the ability to appreciate the script, and he didn't say anything at this time, and immediately opened the script and read it.

At this time, the more he watched it, the more excited he became, and from his own eyes, this was a very good animated movie script, but there were also many problems.

For example, technical issues!

"This movie is very computer demanding!" said Eisner as he watched it.

Linda smiled: "You don't have to worry about this, our Athena animation technology is enough to handle the filming of this movie!"

Eisner flipped the script's hand and paused slightly, but then continued to read the script, but a feeling of jealousy also rose in his heart.

Before that, everyone knew that Athena Animation made the most successful animated film of all time in North America, "The Lion King", but then they also made two animated films, which can only be said to be decent at the box office, and there is nothing too brilliant.

But now it seems that maybe in terms of animated film works, they have not yet come up with a movie that can be comparable to "The Lion King", but in terms of technology, Athena animation has been at the forefront of Hollywood!

It seems that Disney is going to step up its expansion in technology, and at this time he thought of Jobs's Pixar, as a technology maniac, Jobs's Pixar has always been the vanguard of Hollywood animated films in terms of technology.......

"I need Disney's review team to review this script before I can give you an answer!" said Eisner after reading the script for "Toy Story."