Chapter 518 Passing on Risks

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"But that's a far cry from the matrix. Howard Stringer followed.

"It's normal for Hollywood studios to have their box office ups and downs every year. ”

"That's true. However, with the "Pirates of the Caribbean" series, the "National Treasure" series, the "Harry Potter" series, and the matrix of the Marvel series in hand, the box office brilliance will last a long time in Hollywood. ”

"It is indeed a pleasure to have Mr. Stringer's approval. But your Excellency isn't just here to talk to me, right?"

"Chatting is only part of the story. I do have some cooperation matters that I would like to discuss with Mr. Guo. ”

"I want to hear about it!"

"I know that the film and television rights to Tolkien's posthumous work 'The Hobbit' are in the hands of Matrix, and I hope that Sony can work with Matrix on this film. I believe that with the copyright exchange of "Spider-Man" and "The Da Vinci Code", Mr. Guo will not refuse?!"

Guo Shouyun, who missed "The Lord of the Rings", naturally would not let go of "The Hobbit", so as early as three years ago, also before the release of "The Lord of the Rings", he asked Buddy Morris to buy the film and television and peripheral rights of "The Hobbit" from the Tolkien Heritage Foundation.

Now that the Lord of the Rings trilogy has only just been released, the combined results are close to $1.6 billion, and even a fool can realize the value of Tolkien's other works. But "The Hobbit" is clearly more suitable for film and television adaptation than "Elf Diamond", and it's no wonder that Howard Stringer has his eye on it.

Guo Shouyun smiled faintly, "The copyright exchange between "Spider-Man" and "The Da Vinci Code" has made us both satisfied returns.... ”

The corners of Howard Stringer's eyes jumped, and he always felt that Guo Shouyun's words seemed to be sarcastic. But now that I have a request for others, even if I feel a little unhappy, I can only endure it.

"So, I'm really looking forward to working with Sony again, but We've got the Hobbit already in place. ”

After a pause, before Howard Stringer could speak, Guo Shouyun continued: "If Mr. Stringer doesn't mind, we can use another movie to work with Sony." ”

"Another movie?"

Next year, we plan to make a fantasy film "Van Helsing" set in vampires, werewolves and papal knights, which is also a trilogy with an investment of more than 100 million. Soon the film will enter the preparatory period, and Sony can join if it is interested. ”

After Howard Stringer pondered for a moment, "Is this Van Helsing a masterpiece by Mr. Guo?"

"Not really. It is a new script for "The Mummy" director and screenwriter Stephen Mossos, which Universal bought and made certain modifications. ”

"Can I read the script first?"

"Of course, but not today. ”

Guo Shouyun spread his hands.

This is the scene of the 75th Academy Awards, and no one would bring a script to such an occasion.

"If I can, I will personally visit Mr. Guo at the headquarters of the matrix tomorrow morning. ”

"Mr. Stringer was resolute. After a pause, "OK, no problem." Tomorrow at 10 a.m., I'll be waiting for Mr. Stringer to arrive at Matrix HQ. ”

"In that case, then I'll take my leave. With that, Howard Stringer stood up.

"I'll send Mr. Stringer. ”

"By the way, if I want to know the Matrix's plan for the filming of "The Hobbit", can Mr. Guo tell me?" Howard Stringer suddenly stopped as he walked to the door.

"We want to keep it for ourselves!"

Guo Shouyun said indifferently after thinking about it briefly.

Howard smiled, "As I expected, Mr. Guo is still so shrewd. ”

"I suppose this matter is left to Mr. Stringer, and you will make the same choice as me. ”

Everyone is not stupid, it is obvious to make money, in the absence of an exchange of interests, who wants to hand it over for nothing? Just like the "Harry Potter" and "Pirates of the Caribbean" series, Time Warner sold Warner Records, C TV and TNT TV to the matrix to get half of the cooperation rights. Although there are reasons why Time Warner was dragged down by AOL and needed to fire off assets to save the company's finances, if it weren't for the high box office and bright 'money scene' of the two films, Time Warner would have more options.

"Tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock, I will visit on time!"

Howard smiled and did not respond to Guo Shouyun.

Looking at his departing back, Buddy Morris spoke: "Boss, does the filming of "Van Helsing" really have to cooperate with Sony?"

"Any questions?"

"I think Universal has a lot of money, and we can do Van Helsing on our own. ”

"Buddy, even though we bought Universal, is already a Hollywood film and television giant. But we are surrounded by Sony Columbia, Time Warner, Disney, Twentieth Century Fox and Paramount. In the case that our performance is dazzling enough, it is easy to be besieged by 'eating alone'!"

Of course, this sentence is just a pretext to fool Buddy Morris. The real reason is that Guo Shouyun has no bottom about the box office of "Van Helsing".

"Van Helsing" is different from "Pirates of the Caribbean", "National Treasure", "Transformers" and other movies. Guo Shouyun, who has seen the original works, as long as the filming is completed, compared with the original works in his mind, he knows that their box office will definitely not be bad in the future.

But Van Helsing clearly doesn't have that advantage. With his magic change and Christopher Nolan, the future of "Van Helsing" is still unknown.

If next year's 'production + publicity', "Van Helsing", which has invested more than 200 million US dollars, really loses, and it is much better to have a Sony share, than to bear the result entirely by the matrix.

On the contrary, if it is earned, it can only be said that Sony is lucky. God wants to send money, and no one can stop it.

In addition, Guo Shouyun has already planned that in the future, "The Hobbit", "Transformers", "2012", "Inception", "Twilight" and other movies that are sure to make a lot of money will be filmed by the matrix itself.

The rest of the branch films of the Universal 'Dark Universe' that he plans to create, such as "Van Helsing", "The Invisible Man", "Dracula", "Werewolf", "The Mummy", "Frankenstein" and other films that he is not sure about will be taken out to cooperate.

In this way, it not only diversifies the investment risk, but also avoids the situation of always eating alone and being attacked by a group. Moreover, Guo Shouyun doesn't believe that there are so many movies, and he can still accompany them all? As long as a few of them make money, they can stop the mouths of other Hollywood giants and prove that they are not cheating on them, but really cooperating. The ones who lost money, it's just that we were unlucky.

After patting Buddy Morris on the shoulder, Guo Shouyun beckoned to Eva Green, and after the latter walked over, "Let's go." ”

"Boss, aren't you looking?"

"I don't look at it. Nothing interesting. ”

Although the feeling of the scene is indeed more intuitive and shocking than on TV. But at the 2003 Oscars, in addition to those stars, the stage effects were really bad for Guo Shouyun, who had endured the gorgeous and shocking stage baptism more than ten years later. As soon as the freshness of watching the Oscars on the spot passed, Guo Shouyun became excited.