"Hello Steven, I'm Walter Volt, just call me Walter, it's nice to meet you. ”

"Oh...... Steven Spielberg, nice to meet you, Walter!"

Probably because Walter did not immediately talk to V. Zelman, the head of MCA Universal, but communicated with himself, and the young Spielberg was a little surprised, and after some dull recollections, he quickly reached out to shake Walter and introduce each other.

This scene aroused Zelman's attention, and he seemed to guess something, and he asked with a little surprise, "Walter, do you know Steven?"

"I've heard, you know, that I value talented directors very much. Walter avoided answering perfunctorily, he couldn't say that he didn't know this DreamWorks giant anymore, he was so familiar with it that he couldn't be more familiar.

"Oh? really?"

"Of course, you said yes, Steven, don't you think you're talented?" Vought shrugged and replied, but in exchange for the suspicion of the head of MCA Universal in front of him, as if the other party suspected that he had some bad intentions, which made Walter himself a little nervous.

"Uh-huh...... At least it shouldn't be that bad. Spielberg was once again turned the topic around himself by Walter, and replied again in surprise, in exchange for everyone's smiles, obviously, the future director is still growing.

As for Zelman's doubts about himself, Walter guessed the answer after a little thought, is it nothing more than his own interception of Bruce Lee in the movie "Enter the Dragon"? After all, although the incident at that time did not cause a national sensation, in Hollywood, basically all film companies knew about it, and now they don't know what the box office will be, but Walter's reputation for being good at poaching people has been spread, and Spielberg is now a newcomer cultivated by Universal's main force, if he is poached by Walter, it will naturally make Zelman's gains outweigh the losses.

In fact, Zelman's heart is so worried at this moment. Although Spielberg only had one film at Universal, "The Duel," and it didn't do well at the box office, he relied on the film last year to win Best Sound Editing at the 24th Emmy Awards, and Spielberg's potential was shown.

Zelman knew that as long as he gave the rookie director time, Spielberg would definitely bring a surprise to MCA Universal's films. Thinking of this, Zelman looked at Lucas, who was joking with a good-natured smile because of Spielberg's panicked appearance just now, and the other people present, and sighed in his heart, how could he let the other party go in the first place.

At that time, Lucas was holding the script of "American Style Painting", not that he had not looked for Zelman, but at first Zelman was not interested in the content of the film's anti-Vietnam War life, but he didn't expect that now that the movie is broadcast, the box office will slap him in the face.

However, this matter is a foregone conclusion, and in history, MCA Universal has also been repeatedly, until Columbia no longer decided to invest in "American Painting" because of the problem of paying for the use of songs in the film, MCA Universal decided to shoot, but now it was cut off by Walter in advance.

If Zelman knew history, he would definitely have the urge to kill Walter now, after all, the films that MCA Universal rose to prominence in the 70s suddenly made Walter cut off the most profitable films, can he not jump his feet? At this time, Zelman was still thinking about letting his Universal company make more money-making movies, so that American music companies could get rid of Universal.

MCA Universal, in fact, is Universal Inc., because in 1962, MCA, an American music company, merged with Universal, and the merged Universal, its new company was called MCA Universal.

It's just that although this merger is because Universal has obtained a large number of customer resources from American music companies, including many well-known directors and stars, because it already belongs to one company, it can actually be used by Universal, but it still can't avoid the ups and downs of this film company, which has changed hands several times since then.

The reason is that Global, which has a long history, has grown from a small company to a time changing hands, and there is always a lack of funding for large companies. Therefore, although Universal has made many good movies, Universal has become a film company that mainly produces TV shows because of financial problems, under the premise of controlling costs by various owners.

It's hard to say whether Universal is good or not, anyway, after talking with Zelman and Spielberg, Walter knew that the purpose of the two was to come to Disney for cooperation, except for coming to the celebration reception of "American Painting".

As for why he sought cooperation, it was naturally because Universal, which has always liked to produce with a small investment and then get a large cost income, wanted to learn from Disney after seeing that Disney signed George Lucas, a rookie director, with a production cost of less than one million US dollars, and obtained a minimum box office of 100 million.

And how to learn from the experience, the easiest way is to work together to make a movie, such as this time, Spielberg at the cocktail party, the movie The Sugarland Express - "Rampage". A film based on a true news event, it tells the story of Crewe, a poor thief who is imprisoned for a theft.

Frankly speaking, Walter hadn't seen this movie in his previous life, and he, like many people, only watched Spielberg, a master of film, a few famous movies of the other party.

But. This does not mean that Walter does not know the potential of this movie, after all, he knows that Spielberg is Vought who became famous with "Jaws", so he can naturally guess what the box office of "Rampage" will be, and the box office should not be a big hit, if there is no box office, at least it will not be a loss.

Out of some consideration for the future, after Zelman explained his intentions, Walter chose to agree to cooperate with MCA Global in the eyes of Roy's inquiry. Of course, the amount of investment is not large, and after Zelman quoted three million dollars for the production cost, Walter only gave one million dollars, and obtained three percent of the box office after the film's release, so that even if the box office loses, it will not lose much.

A trivial verbal agreement was reached, and after Walter and Zelman exchanged a glass of celebratory wine, they looked at Spielberg, who was having a good conversation, and suddenly had an idea in their hearts, whether to buy the rights to "Jaws" in advance and then cooperate with Universal? After all, the box office of this movie is also very gratifying.

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