The success of "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets" finally succeeded in establishing the serialization of "Harry Potter" films, which of course excited both Fire Lion Pictures and Sony Pictures.

This not only proves the value of the "Harry Potter" series of films, but also proves that Lion Pictures can still successfully continue the route drawn by Sid after separating from Sid's director, which is undoubtedly a milestone for the commercial development of Lion Pictures.

If the success of the "Ghost Shadow" series and the "Youth Musical" series only proves the ability of Fire Lion Pictures to control small-budget, youth film projects, then the successful serialization of "Harry Potter" has really laid a solid step towards a blockbuster studio.

Because everyone in Hollywood knows that only a film company that can play an A-level big production with a cost of 100 million can be regarded as a "game" that has truly entered Hollywood.

Although Sid's directing ability in large-scale commercial films has been recognized by the industry, the development of a film company obviously cannot be supported by just one or two star directors.

None of Spielberg's DreamWorks can do it, let alone anyone else, and it is even more remarkable that "Harry Potter" can continue to be commercially and word-of-mouth success after it is separated from Sid's directorship.

And the discerning people in the circle can see that in addition to "Harry Potter" in cooperation with Sony, Sid's record-breaking "Spider-Man" this summer will obviously be the next completely independent A-level blockbuster of Fire Lion.

If you count Sid's ongoing "Pirates of the Caribbean", you can see the amazing progress of Fire Lion Pictures on the A-grade series.

Although for big-name directors, series of movies have never been popular with them, only those second-rate commercial directors who have no pursuit will make a series of commercial films one by one, like a certain explosive shell.

But for studios, the opposite is true, and only companies with a stable commercial series can be considered to have a solid and predictable income for the next few years.

Whether it is "historical" or current Hollywood, how many high-quality series of commercial films it has determines the future development of the film company to a large extent.

MGM, Paramount, and Universal, which are perennially crane tails in the Big Seven, are all series that lack success and "historically". Whether it was Warner, which was the king in the first decade of 2000, or Disney, which dominated the decade after 2000, it was because of the series of movies that had a large number of successes.

When the former Warner was in its heyday, it had the three aces of "The Matrix", "The Lord of the Rings" and "Harry Potter", and Disney's Baba, which later entered the buy-buy-buy mode, swept the world with the Marvel Cinematic Universe and the Star Wars Universe.

From such examples, we can see how important a "strategic resource" is for a Hollywood film company to have a successful series of films.

"Then, on behalf of Mr. Leon, I welcome further cooperation from Sony Pictures. Shirley Sandberg, COO of the Fire Lion Group, smiled across the table to Columbia Pictures co-chairmen Michael Layton and Amy Pascal after signing her name on the paper.

"Of course, Amy and Mr. Stringer both welcome the in-depth cooperation with the Fire Lion. Michael Layton and Amy Pascal also signed their names on the paper.

With the success of new films such as "Breaking Bad", the previous CEO of Sony Pictures, John Cali, also officially retired in the middle of the year due to his age.

Sony Pictures was handed over to co-chairs Michael Layton and Amy Pascal, and this time they re-signed a partnership agreement with the Fire Lion for the Harry Potter series.

After the box office success of "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets", the Fire Lion offered to make a new profit distribution with Sony Pictures, and this request to send money on the initiative did surprise Sony.

In the original agreement, Sony was responsible for the overseas distribution of the Harry Potter series, and at the same time, on the basis of aggregating the North American box office and the overseas box office, the box office profit was fully scored.

In fact, under "normal" circumstances, this clause is easy to have problems, because of the existence of the famous "Hollywood ledger", if the fire lion as the producer wants to play tricks and play a few shell company transfer tricks,

Even if Sony Pictures is beginning to understand the rules of the game in Hollywood, it is difficult to prevent it, and, as we all know, with the diversification of film profit channels, the proportion of movie box office in it is getting smaller and smaller.

In particular, children's fantasy movies such as "Harry Potter" have greatly increased the profitability of Fire Lion Pictures with their peripheral products, and are even expected to be comparable to Fire Lion TV.

This situation has continued since the end of last year, when "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" successfully broke the $1 billion box office.

And of course, this makes Sony red-eyed, of course, not only Sony's eyes, but other big film companies are also red-eyed, in this case, whether it is Sid or Shirley, they all know that the key now is Sony.

If Sony can continue to be brought to his side, then whether it is the channels on the theater line or the resources for publicity, Fire Lion will at least not face the joint monopoly suppression of large studios.

Don't look at the fact that the Fire Lion Group is smooth sailing now, opening plug-ins all the way, in which Sid leveraged Sony, the "traitor", a blockbuster studio in advance, to save himself from the dilemma of resource monopoly of the entire Hollywood blockbuster that DreamWorks once faced, which definitely played a vital role.

Without Sony's ally, even with the partnership of AMC Cinemas, it would be difficult for the films produced and produced by Fire Lion to compete with the six major theater resources, especially popular schedules such as summer vacation and Christmas.

Although Sony will not give any theatrical release help to Fire Lion on projects other than "Harry Potter", as long as they do not participate in the operation to contain Fire Lion, then the A-level blockbuster led by Sid himself, after the success of the first one, it is not difficult to obtain theatrical resources for the sequel of the follow-up movie.

Just like "Historical" "Twilight" and "The Hunger Games", although they are both from small companies like Summit and Lionsgate, after the success of the first film, the theater operators who tasted the sweetness are not fools, of course, they know that the successful series of movies is the guarantee of their jobs.

As for the commercial films led by Sid, whether it is "Spider-Man" in this summer's file or "Pirates of the Caribbean" in filming, in terms of Sid's current directorial position, as long as Sid's film has not failed in the precedent, then even theater operators will not refuse to put more than 3,000 premiere theaters for Sid's film in the summer.