After entering the new millennium, especially after the Internet technology bubble and 911, the film industry is also in a depression, Paramount is the oldest of the six Hollywood majors, however, in the early years of the 21st century, this quasi-century-old store is not very comfortable, from 2002 to 2004, it actually ranked seventh on the company's list for three consecutive years, and the box office revenue for several consecutive years was only more than 600 million US dollars, less than half of the champion of the year, and it looks like it is about to fall behind and fall into a medium-sized company.

This year, with "War of the Worlds" and "The Longest Yard" Paramount finally returned to the top six, but the alarm was not lifted, because the projects under development in its hands were not fully competitive, at this time, good fortune favored this old company in crisis, DreamWorks, which was originally ambitious to promote to a big studio, encountered big problems, they had good projects, but they were trapped in debt, and this year, Paramount signed a three-year merger agreement with DreamWorks.

This summer, Universal has become the laughing stock of Hollywood, because this company has created a miracle that cannot be replicated, that is, none of the summer films released can exceed 100 million at the box office, and this means that they will once again become the vice presidents of the six major studios after 05 years.

Universal is a middle school student in the Big Six, with only 160 films released in the past ten years, with a total box office of $9.6 billion, and at the beginning of the new century, relying on "Christmas Grock", "Meet My Father-in-law", "Fat Professor 2" and "The True Story of Elaine" ranked second among the big studios, and in the following 2001, Universal was also beautiful, releasing "The Mummy", "Jurassic Park 3" and "A Beautiful Mind" waited for five films of more than 100 million yuan to retain the second place, what Universal is good at is small and big, but this year it seems that it can't be played, and the total box office of Beimi is not as good as the newborn MM.

In the first five years of the 21st century, there are only two big studios that have not tasted the annual championship, that is, Universal and Twentieth Century Fox, in fact, even the runner-up, Fox has only won once, and most of the time, Fox can only rank four or five, in terms of overall results, Fox is also in the same disease as Universal, Fox is not without ace films, George Lucas's "Star Wars Prequels" series is distributed by Fox, X-Men It is also the treasure of Fox, in addition, Fox's Blue Sky Studio has gradually grown into an animation giant, and their "Ice Age" can almost compete with Pixar and DreamWorks Animation, but Fox's problem is this, that is, it relies too much on these films, so once there is no sequel to make, the results are immediately very ugly.

From 2,000 to 2003, Disney has been calling for wind and rain in Hollywood, and won two annual championships in four years, especially in 2003, which can be called the year of Disney, "Pirates of the Caribbean" and "Finding Nemo" have jumped over the 300 million mark, and the company's annual total box office is 1.5 billion US dollars, more than 300 million more than the second place Soni, it is not difficult to see Disney's way to win from these two films, that is, relying on Pixar and pirates to walk on two legs, and the overall stability, always ranked in the upper reaches of the six, and now this "Pixar" I've decided to leave, and my animation department hasn't grown up, so the future is worrying.

Warner is strong, since Barry Mayer came to power, he has always preferred blockbuster strategy, "The Matrix", "The Lord of the Rings", "Harry Potter", "Batman" and other successes have made them the boss in recent years.

In fact, in the second millennium, MGM began to fall behind, but Soni Columbia has risen strongly after ten years of dormancy, and the success of the "Spider-Man" and "Black Super Special Police" series has made them sit in the second place.

However, Sonica Columbia got a little carried away, in the process of merging MGM and ATV, was sniped by Wall Street capital, choked to death, in the stunned eyes of the world, the new MM took over, becoming a new generation of giants, MM has bankers, Wall Street support, has the world's largest film library, competitiveness should not be underestimated, after they lick the wounds, they will definitely return and join the ranks of the world.

said so much nonsense, because Mark finally found a suitable job for himself, as a large company at the helm, performance is the most important, the only criterion to prove strength is the box office, no one is interested in how you run and manage the company, among the six giants, the clapper produces hundreds of millions of big productions, which is the work of the president and the major shareholders behind the scenes.

Like Paramount, in order to get involved in the copyright of "Professional Secret Service", even Lei Shidong personally went down and slapped the table with Tom and scolded his mother.

From '94 to 2004, Paramount entered another prosperous period under the management of Shirley Lansing, producing "Braveheart", "Forrest Gump", "Titanic" (co-financed with Twentieth Century Fox), "Professional Secret Service", "Changing Face", "Truman's World" and "Saving Private Ryan", but Paramount is also the least good at developing series of movies among major Hollywood companies, only "Star Trek", "Professional Secret Service" and "Tomb Raider" There are only a few sets of movie series.

And the production rights of "Professional Secret Service" are still in the hands of Brother Tom, in the era of Shirley Lansing, Brother Tom was Paramount's most favored biological son, and now that Shirley Lansing is stepping down, the new president Gray is not happy with the production rights of "Professional Secret Service" in Brother Tom's hands, and has long tried to get it back.

Brother Tom has repeatedly refreshed the salary ceiling of the movie, taking "War of the Worlds" For example, 550 million in the world seems to be a big hit, of which the production cost plus the publicity cost is as high as 200 million, 40% of the box office is given to the cinema, and the rest is added to the DVD sales revenue, Brother Tom wants to take 25%, and the director Lao Si also takes away nearly 60 million According to media reports, Paramount has been busy for several years, and the profit is only tens of millions, and Brother Tom receives nearly 100 million, so Paramount wants to give Tom a salary cut, Tom doesn't do it, the two sides negotiate, if it is not for the "Professional Secret Service 3" that is being cooperated, it is possible to fight.

Hollywood has always only seen newcomers laughing, not seeing old people crying, and Shirley Lansing, a strong woman who has been at the helm of Paramount for more than ten years, stepped down, as her close comrade-in-arms, it is inevitable that Liangtang will be suppressed by the new president.

Mark took over the production of MM and was responsible for the selection of film projects, and the production personnel were handed back to the chief Zai Egger, who learned the lessons of Paramount, the salary can be negotiated, the box office share can also be discussed, the DVD share is better to ask less, and the copyright can never be discussed.

Among MM-led projects, Tom Hanks' The Da Vinci Code and Stiller's Night at the Museum (stolen from Twentieth Century Fox) are the only two projects that have a payroll, box office DVD share, and rights.

There is no way to do this, this is the project and production team that the other party has found, and MM is responsible for funding, publicity, and distribution, which is a cooperation between companies and companies.

But the internal Spider-Man, after the start of the project, tried to add DVD shares, which made people angry, as the highlight of MM's Columbia Pictures, the revival of the heroic work, was stuck, it was really infuriating, I don't know if the next step will be to pursue the copyright, and now Sam Raimi is angry to death, and Layton and Pascal are also annoyed by it.

The current Spider-Man, that can't be beaten, can't be scolded, his reputation is stinky, and it is not good for the Spider-Man project that is being launched, and even messes up the entire project, now they are experiencing Paramount's difficulties, the difference is that Maguire does not have a film company and production rights like Tom, but he can use Hollywood's rare chicken that lays golden eggs as a threat, this is the lifeblood of Colombia, no one dares to take it lightly, as the most popular Spider-Man, he is the most popular and indispensable, and Colombia dares to risk the series hitting the streets。

Sam Raimi didn't dare.

Pascal didn't dare.

Layton didn't dare.

Iger had a headache, and it was all discussed at the joint board meeting, which shows the seriousness of the problem.

It's not the first time that the relationship between Spider-Man and Columbia has been sorful, after "Spider-Man" was a big hit, the producers were only willing to offer $4 million when filming the second part, and they thought that a character with a face covered and waving his hands was only worth four million.

But Maguire quit, "Spider-Man 1" North Mi broke 400 million US dollars, this is the second North Mi to break 400 million US dollars in history, how many fans and popularity this brought him, this time he was direct, 17 million plus points, less than this number is not asked, the result was a great success, up to now, he is no longer satisfied with 25 million US dollars plus points, DVD sharing is the big head, he also thinks that he is enough to mention such conditions, he has thought about it, if successful, he will set up a company to operate this matter, because DVD sharing is a long-term thing.

Maguire also hopes to make "Spider-Man" his own business card and brand himself, like Harrison Ford's "Star Wars" series and "Raiders of the Lost Ark" series, Stallone's "First Blood" and "Rocky", Governor Arnold's "Terminator", Tom Tom's "Professional Secret Service" .......

Maguire is beautiful thinking, is there any other way for the producer to go except to compromise? Without Spider-Man, they will still make a fart "Spider-Man 3"! They are waiting for this movie to save their lives? Just like a sick person waiting for antibiotics.

However, he waited for a letter from a Colombian lawyer, who warned him that if he did not return to the set within 24 hours and fulfill his contractual obligations, he would face a lawsuit from Columbia Pictures in compensation of $100 million in economic damages.

Colombia's unexpectedly tough and even sent a lawyer's letter threatening to sue, which really made Maguire panic.

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