"Despicable Me" is not a co-production.

At the beginning, when it acquired Lighting Entertainment, it was said that since 2010, Lighting Entertainment has provided one or two films a year.

Even after being acquired, Illumination Entertainment has always had independent creative rights that control the film's core creativity, while Summit holds exclusive distribution rights.

In other words, Zhang Junsheng has no power to interfere with the creation of lighting entertainment, a bit like the relationship between Disney and Pixar...

You play yours, no matter what you accomplish, Lao Tzu will help with the release, and of course, you also have to make some contributions, such as Pixar's "Cars".

"Cars" can become the second Pixar animation to develop a sequel series after "Toy Story", not because it is as loved as "Toy", but because the series based on cars is easy to develop merchandise, so Disney, which acquired Pixar, hopes that the series will continue to release new sequels after a gap of several years to keep the merchandise hot and provide characters for new toys - all in all, the existence of the entire series can be seen as a high-budget advertisement created by Disney for its toys.

"Minions" will also become Pixar's "Cars" in the future - definitely a few more!

Back to the topic, Summit Entertainment has already taken the share of three films this year: "Twilight 3", "Red Flame Battlefield", "Resident Evil 4: God of War Rebirth"...

Occupying nearly one-sixth of the places, China Film is enough to take care of the top - there are only twenty places per year!

"Despicable Me" is an original anime after all, Yuehua has released four anime movies this year, and it is time to make way for the negotiation of Guoman, so "Despicable Me" is not on the list of Chinese film releases...

It's good to make batches of films now!

For batch films, Yuehua can take 45% of the share, China Film will take 10%, and there will be 33% left.

Even if Yuehua gets 20% of this 33%, Summit Entertainment can also get 13%, this is the proportion of Hollywood's account-sharing blockbusters!

"Okay, you're up to the cracks!"

Wen Ziren nodded.

After waiting for a long time, Wen Ziren did not continue to speak, and Zhang Junsheng asked, "... What's wrong? There's something wrong with your expression?"

"Lin Yibin, do you know?"

"You know, the director of "Fast and Furious"!"

"He wanted to work with us and direct 'Dororo'..."

"'Dororo'?

"Osamu Tezuka's manga, don't you like manga very much?"

“… I'm a post-80s generation, and the era when Osamu Tezuka was all the rage was in the 60s!"

After a pause, Zhang Junsheng continued: "Moreover, I can clearly tell you that most of the Chinese audience is about the same age as me, and Osamu Tezuka is also a little strange to them!"

“… So, you're not optimistic about Lin Yibin?"

"If the investment is less than $60 million, I would consider..."

"Forget it, he still wants to play an epic blockbuster, I looked at his plan, without 200 million US dollars, it is estimated that it will be difficult to achieve!"

After all, Lin Yibin is Wen Ziren's friend, after thinking about it, Zhang Junsheng said: "In this way, you let Lin Yibin go back to China next year, preferably when "Fast and Furious 5" is released, I will ask him to connect with Tower Bridge, and there will definitely be people in the mainland who are willing to ask him to direct a blockbuster!"

“… Who? $200 million!"

"Then you don't care, just leave it to us when the time comes!"

Find a middleman and introduce Lin Yibin to Wanda or Fuji Xun, presumably Lao Wang and Xiaoma are willing to pay this money!

"There are two more parts of "Twilight", should we start working on "The Hunger Games"?"

Zhang Junsheng didn't answer directly, but asked another question: "How much does Stephanie Mayer bid for "Host"?"

Stephanie Mayer, author of "Twilight", "The Host" is another of her works, which is well suited to be developed into a series...

“… She wants a share of the box office!"

"How much?"

"Twenty percent!"

“… Yes, give it to her!"

"Not only a share, but also a $20 million adaptation fee!"

“… I'm a little greedy!"

"Host" is not the same as "Twilight", it tells the mystery of things, aliens from another world, called "souls", came to Earth, took over our bodies, replaced our personality and emotions, the setting is very awesome, but the story is rubbish, "Falling in Love with Aliens"...

To be honest, if it weren't for wanting to maintain cooperation with Stephanie Mayer, Zhang Junsheng would not have mentioned this series at all...

“… Forget it, pause negotiations and go all out on The Hunger Games!"

The adaptation rights of the four works of "The Hunger Games", "Twilight", "Moving Labyrinth" and "Divergent" are all in the hands of Peak!

For the time being, there is no shortage of series adaptation rights!

The most lucrative thing in Hollywood is undoubtedly the serialized movies!

But the first work is related to the development that follows.

Wen Ziren became serious: "Got it... Who do you want to use for the heroine? Scarlett Johansson or Jennifer Aniston?"

“… Get out!"

Not to mention age, can you afford the salary?

"The Hunger Games" is going to be the same as "Twilight", and the production cost is compressed to about $40 million - except for the last one...

"Twilight" has signed four film contracts with the main actors, and the salary of the last one will definitely be more than 20 million...

"'Moving Maze' can also be developed at the same time!"

"Hmm..."

"Try to reduce the cost as much as possible, and you can enable new people. ”

"I know..."

……

The Hunger Games... Well, it's probably the reality movie version!

Survival in the Wild Live Show!

Of course, as a movie, it has a very story-like setting: in ancient times, a city-state that had experienced the baptism of war, the capital was used as a centralized center to control the twelve districts, and the rules were set for establishing authority and punishing the people for rebelling and tyrannical rulers of the capital, and these 12 districts should provide a total of 24 contestants from one man and one woman every year to participate in the "Hunger Games" in the capital as a "tribute" In the game, the players not only have to fight against various beasts in the forest, but also have to kill other players, and in the end, only one of them can survive and get the huge prize offered by the capital.

As in a regular TV show, the actions of the 24 "tribute" contestants in "The Hunger Games" during the "game" are transmitted in real time to the ruling class of the capital, as well as the people of the 12 districts, through the TV screen.

There's even a director who "creatives" all aspects of the game and controls the whole process.

But the advantage of the movie is that it can use its own virtuality to set the "mission" to "kill all the other players".

The life-and-death game, and the dark side of humanity and the love it inspires, are undoubtedly more tragic and attractive.

It can be seen that the reality TV movie is still very interesting!

"Moving Maze"... It's similar to "The Hunger Games", except that one is about the heroine's movie, and the other is 'Running Men's Group'...

"Moving Maze" has much less investment than "The Hunger Games", although it is not as famous as "The Hunger Games", but the former is also a very profitable series, and the global box office of three series broke one billion dollars...