Chapter Ninety-Five
Although Shen Lin didn't see the faces of Warner's top management with his own eyes, he could make Jonathan so angry, and their original words should be even more ugly!
"Actually, Warners should be very optimistic about this subject, but they don't want other people to participate!"
Jonathan explained. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
"They are optimistic about the profitability of the project, and they don't want anyone to join in the pie. All these Hollywood bigwigs are misers!"
"They want me to get out of the way?"
Shen Lin immediately understood.
"That's how it should be. ”
"Aren't they worried that I'll give up on cooperation?" Shen Lin asked after thinking about it.
"Why worry? None of the other companies have come out with the news that they want to set up a project, and they have no competitors for the time being. Jonathan looked at Shen Lin.
The tone was flat, and he continued: "Don't forget, you've written nothing but books in Hollywood, and they're Warner Bros."
At this point, the topic is obviously a bit dull.
Neither spoke again.
"What's wrong? Looks like you weren't having a good conversation!"
Ying Bao followed Jonathan's wife, Lisa Joy, through the garden, and when she returned to the living room, she saw two silent men.
"It's a little depressing, Warner may not be very willing to let me be a director!"
"Oh!"
Zhao Liying didn't react much.
I'm going to go, 'oh' and it's over?
"Alas, this trip is estimated to be in vain! Lao Wang's side is estimated to be very disappointed!"
Shen Lin didn't expect Ying Bao to come up with any ideas, sighed, took out his mobile phone, and prepared to tell Da Lao Wang about the situation.
"Why do you have to work with Warner? Doesn't Hollywood have six studios? And you're a Lionsgate shareholder!"
Ying Bao looked at Shen Lin with some confusion and suddenly asked.
"I'm no longer a Lionsgate shareholder...... yes, I didn't think of that!"
"You're so cute!"
Shen Lin directly hugged the bun and kissed her on the face.
Probably the memory of his previous life is too deep, and Shen Lin has always wanted to rely on "Interstellar" to Warner!
Totally unnecessary!
"Jonathan, what if other companies are willing to invest in this project, such as Disney and Twentieth Century Fox?"
"What do you mean?"
Jonathan frowned.
"I don't work with Warner anymore, this project is mine, I have the funds, why do I have to work with Warner?"
Shen Linyue said excitedly: "You must know that I am Chinese, now everyone knows that China's box office is rising, I can guarantee that this "Interstellar" can get at least 200 million US dollars at the box office in China alone, I don't believe I will not find a collaborator!"
"But, Shen Lin, have you ever thought about it, Christopher is a shareholder of Warners. He won't agree to sell this project to another company!"
Jonathan was a little embarrassed.
"But this project doesn't belong to Christopher, does it?"
In any way, "Interstellar" belongs to Shen Lin's property, and he has already registered the copyright!
"You can try to contact other companies, and I will urge Warner to come up with a plan that we are both satisfied with as soon as possible. ”
……
Warner Bros. had too much time in the first decade of the new millennium.
In 2012, Warner Bros. produced films with a total box office of $4.27 billion, accounting for 11% of the world box office!
With a market capitalization of more than $60 billion, it has become the second largest film studio in Hollywood, second only to Disney, but Disney is not a dedicated film production company!
The parent company, Time Warner, is the world's No. 1 media group.
Movies with a global box office of more than a billion, Harry Potter 7 (below), The Dark Knight 2 and 3, and The Lord of the Rings 3 are all owned by Warner!
Warner Bros. insists on relying on empirical testing to guide practice, which means that if previous experience proves that the practice is effective, it should continue to work in the future.
Look through their films:
Batman (1989)
Batman Returns (1992)
Batman Forever (1995)
Batman & Robin (1997)
Batman: Mystery (2005)
Batman: The Dark Knight (2008)
Batman: The Dark Knight Rises (2012).
Similarly, Superman (1978) was followed by Superman 2 (1980), Superman 3 (1983), Superman 4 (1987), Superman Returns (2006) and Superman: Man of Steel (2013).
Is there a bad shot!
Also Nima grabbed these two characters!
So, naturally, they were overtaken by Disney.
After 2016, Disney occupied 7 seats for movies with a global box office of more than $1 billion: Avengers, Frozen, Toys 3, Caribbean 2 and 4, Alice, Iron Man 3!
Therefore, Shen Lin called Li Xiaoping and asked her to take her two-year directing experience and the project plan of "Interstellar" to go to Disney headquarters in person!
……
Not quite as Warner's arrogance, Disney places a high value on the visit in terms of light.
Therefore, when Li Xiaoping sent "Interstellar" to Disney, Robert Iger immediately pushed for the review process, and at the same time asked his subordinates to investigate Shen Lin's most detailed information.
The information was quickly sent, and someone was already reading it.
It's a director evaluation.
Hollywood's director appraisal process is different from that around the world.
They have a procedural, even rigid, assessment system.
The evaluation criteria are three data for the director's past three years: total box office, single screen, and single weekly box office.
In addition, they use color to distinguish the grade of directors, for example, blue indicates first-line directors, and red indicates directors who are not very good.
Therefore, it doesn't matter how much box office this director has had in the first ten years, just look at the box office in the last three years.
Although Li Press's "Lust and Caution" only earned $2.6 million at the box office, he has more than 10,000 yuan on a single screen in a single week, so he is still a first-line director.
The same goes for actors, who only look at the box office in the last three years.
Therefore, the salary of Hollywood actors has changed a lot, and now the highest salaries are young actors.
In general, Hollywood is no different from other commercial companies in North America, everything is told by data and business results.
Although Shen Lin's film has never been released in North America - "Veteran" is about to be released.
But this does not affect his achievements in Chinese mainland!
In fact, these Hollywood bigwigs have heard of him for a long time!
His impressive record in China fully proves that he is an extremely good commercial film director: he earned nearly 5.3 billion at a box office cost of 127 million yuan!
1:50 ROI!
It's a myth!
A few men who looked through the director's assessment couldn't help but exclaim, "Oh, My God!"
"This is a genius! Robert, we have to catch him!"
"I find it difficult, he's a Lionsgate shareholder!"