Although she is not too interested in literary films, her impression of Austrian films is also intermittent - for example, she remembers very clearly the Oscar of "Avatar", it should be "Bomb Disposal Unit" won the award, and "Avatar" won several technical awards, mainly because she likes "Avatar", if you push the time forward a little, Jenny can't even remember the best picture and the best actor and actress clearly, but she still watched "Slumdog Millionaire", Because this film was a big winner of the Oscars back then, and it also had a lot of social influence, even the domestic media made some reports. It seems that in her impression, Best Picture, Best Director and some miscellaneous awards were won by it, and after the Oscars, some more controversial news broke out, such as the director made a fortune because of this film, while several young actors still live in poverty.

According to the time calculation, the award of "Millionaire" should be a matter of these two years - since "Bomb Disposal Unit" is next year's award, it is easy to deduce that "Millionaire" should win the Oscar in 09. Although it is a little strange that the Oscars of '09 were still in the library until May, Jenny does not plan to delve into it, and Warner Independent is now interested in selling its rights, which is the most important thing.

After watching the simple plot introduction a few times, Jenny also fell into deep thought: judging from the space occupied in the materials, Warner Independent obviously does not attach great importance to this movie, and their marketing focus is still on "Wu Ji", of course, the price is not particularly expensive. Because after "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", the DVD sales of martial arts films from Chinese mainland in the North American continent have risen, and "Hero" as a foreign language art film, the box office is not very popular, so Warner Independent believes that for film companies, "Wuji" still has a certain attraction. As for the rest of the additions, they don't care too much, and if they can't sell them, they will be included in Warner's own film library, that is, they can't generate any income from now on, and it is inconsequential for a behemoth like Warner.

And for Jenny, this matter is a little tricky, because she has seen "Slumdog Millionaire", and in her current vision, of course she knows how much this film has an appetite for the Oscar judges: exotic, inspirational core similar to the American Dream, love and touching, after a twisted and comic ending, this movie is like 1995's "Forrest Gump", any good film collides with it head-on, and it will be defeated, and of course this includes "A Week with Monroe" - Although she has no ambition to win the film for Best Picture or Best Actress, and simply wants to make a good film, as a producer, it is almost instinctive to help her strong film achieve a dominant position in the awards season.

Of course, she hasn't seen "A Week with Monroe" yet, and Jenny isn't sure if she's qualified to compete for the Oscars, but if that's the case, then she should win "Millionaire" - any Oscar for Best Picture will definitely not lose money, Warners Independent's lowest offer for "Millionaire" is six million dollars (North American rights), Jenny must be able to easily recoup the cost - if they can win the film smoothly.

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"If we can win this film." Jenny emphatically said, "It's definitely not going to make us lose money, and now I'm worried about whether we'll be able to take it well." ”

“hmm。” Cesare said he happily sat in Jenny's office — sitting in 'her' office chair and spinning around for half a circle," Cesare said. ”

Jeanne gave him a half-complaining look, but didn't go against Cesare, but continued to analyze as he wished, "It's like what you gave me yesterday, although it seems shameless for me to say it - but we've obviously become a target, and there's no reason why Pepper's lighthouse effect shouldn't spread to our investment films, and even if other companies don't think so, Warner Independent might use this to hype up any project we have our eye on, like Millionaire The gold mine will be in the spotlight and we'll have a much smaller chance of picking up the bargain — or worse, Warner won't sell any project we crush on, after all, it's a drop in the bucket for them, and they're just too lazy to take the time to run the films. ”

"Very valuable view." Cesare nodded, "Of course, from a strategic point of view, maybe that's a good thing for Disney — if Warners does, we should have Robert's full support." ”

Among the six major Hollywood companies, there have been so many stories that have happened that they are even a hundred times more exciting than the most bloody American dramas - like Jack. Producers like Bruckheimer, or actors like Jenny, still rely on technology to eat, and the senior executives of the six headquarters are more relying on their own wrists. Eisner would not have collapsed so quickly and so bleakly, and in order to satisfy the shareholders, the struggle and cooperation between the six parties never stopped. On the premise of profit-oriented, major companies want to be able to stuff some glamorous slogans into their year-end reports, so this also makes them very willing to cooperate with each other from time to time.

In recent years, the rivalry between Warner and Disney has become more obvious. Warner, who is Porter and Batman, and Disney, who owns Pirates of the Caribbean, are fighting for the No. 1 box office share of the year. For Disney, who sit on the sidelines, if Warners spend their energy on Warner Independent's small-budget films, trying to find profit points from these junk films, and even waste distribution costs, then of course they are happy to see it happen - but for Warner, if Disney's big dream has a strong interest in some of Warner's independent films, they are likely to stop selling them, preferring to dust them up rather than risk letting Big Dream have the opportunity to find a big blockbuster.

Of course, this is also because Big Dream and Jennifer's current results are too strange for people not to believe in evil, if small-budget film distribution companies such as Fox Searchlight and Paramount Advantage come to the door, then Warner will negotiate business with them normally. Since the creation of Big Dream, it has not made a loss-making film, and it can even be said that it has not made a film that has not exploded. It's incredible that Jefferson himself hasn't acted in a loss-making film - for Big Dream and Jennifer, the law that only 10% of Hollywood's films can achieve box office profitability does not exist at all, and the movies she looks at are sure that they don't lose money, probably the question is how many hits.

"Sure, maybe it's going to make Disney happy, but what's in it for us?" Jenny said disappreciatively that she doesn't think she is Disney's direct 'loyal servant', and the relationship between the two sides is more like taking what they need, of course, they have relied on Disney's power in many ways, but this is also because Disney unceremoniously grabbed half of the profits - Jenny is now thinking about how to raise the salaries of their managers, otherwise she really feels that Disney's share of the money makes her feel so painful. "I still want 'Millionaire' — and I can see that you want it even more now."

Although this classic Olympic masterpiece somehow escaped the attention of Warner's bureaucrats, for Cesare, who could judge the future of the film from the outline of the script, was a finished film, how could he not judge the value of the film? Of Warner's three unreleased films, he was the only one that took a fancy to him, and now that he is supported by Jenny's 'intuition', his confidence is certainly even stronger.

"If we can get a quote before Iron Man is released, maybe we can talk about it." Cesare did not deny Jenny's statement, but said, "However, now that the box office of "Iron Man" proves once again your investment vision, as far as I know, there are people who are really studying your 'intuition' now, and there are quite a few crews who sell themselves under the guise of 'your gut choice', I think, we use the conventional method, it may be difficult to talk about "Millionaire" from Warner, but it should not be a problem to buy the movies they have already released, such as "Good Night, Good Luck" that I fancied." ”

A movie that has been released, and then it is a very unlikely event to be released at the box office, and the three unreleased movies such as "Millionaire" are different, in exchange for her being a Warner executive, in the case of Big Dream expressing interest in any unreleased film, of course, she will not immediately nod and sell it, no matter whether Big Dream is at a high price or a low price, as long as she expresses a certain interest, then Jenny asks herself, as an executive with a little basic business wisdom and also understands market trends, The first thing to do is definitely to organize an internal viewing meeting, hire experts to measure the distribution value of these films, and only after confirming that they will not be a big hit, will they be sold with confidence. - Take 10,000 steps back and say, even if the first-hand executives who are connected are more paralyzed, and the person in charge of the review should be a chairman-level figure, the possibility of "Millionaire" being able to pass the test twice in a row is really small and negligible. After all, this is an Oscar-level movie, and it is already ridiculous to be buried once, and it is even more difficult to be buried a second or third time than winning the lottery.

"Ordinary tactics are definitely useless," she said approvingly, "and they can even alarm Warner, but of course because there are really no well-known films in Warner's independent library, and we can't even find a proper cover." ”

Jenny's first idea was, of course, to find a chicken rib film to inquire and test Warner's attitude, but she doubted that Warner would be careless now after the explosion of "Iron Man", she felt that it was very likely that Warner would see through their tentative attitude, and guessed that there was a film in the company's film library that Dameng was very interested in and would not hesitate to win it - and then what would happen next was needless to say. Therefore, on the premise that everyone is not stupid, if she must buy "Millionaire" before the "Iron Man" craze passes, then the conventional strategy will definitely not work.

"We can probably wait a while, and two months would be a reasonable time." Cesare continued her train of thought, as if he could read the thoughts in her head. "At that time, people's attention to you and Big Dream will fade a lot, after all, this is Hollywood, big things happen every day, and no one will think about you."

yes, if she wasn't so sure what Millionaire would achieve, she would have thought the same...... Jenny sighed helplessly: She now knows that if you want to rush to the Olympics, then you have to take out the finished film to play a film festival copy in the summer at the latest, and counting some pre-operation events, if in this timeline, "Millionaire" still won the best film in 09, then in July, its copyright must have a clear ownership. So they really couldn't afford to wait these two months, and what was even more annoying was that, as always, she still couldn't come up with a favorable reason to explain why she had to be in such a hurry.

"I'm afraid that within two months, other buyers will snatch it away." She has no other way, as her understanding of the film and television industry grows, Jenny's reliance on 'intuitionism' is now increasing, because the more she learns about some of the basic ideas and rules in the industry, the more she realizes that some of her decisions are not justified at all, and can only use 'intuition' to fool the past - even she wonders if Cesare believes in 'intuition', or if she has some speculations of her own in private, but she just doesn't say it explicitly - Jeanne generally doesn't let herself think much about it," But we've got to take it, Cesare, that's my gut feeling – it's going to be a very successful film. ”

When it comes to intuition, Cesare's expression has some indescribable changes, and to outsiders, he may still be the handsome face with no expression, but for Jenny, there are many signals worth analyzing: the change in her eyes, the subtle curvature of the corners of her lips - after their first argument over intuition, every time Jeanne gave this excuse, Cesare would look at her so meaningfully -

"Okay." "Then we're going to have to try to get it within the month," he said. ”

Yes, and then he will always give in.

Jenny was a little uncomfortable, she coughed, and she didn't intend to say 'you'll understand later', "Iron Man" and several big dream movies have proven her vision - she instead offered her own ideas, "Can we use the excuse of expanding the film library to negotiate a package price with Warner?" It's up to you or Jim to come forward and say it's a collective decision for Big Dreams, and I haven't seen their library. ”

"It's likely to spur Warners on hold and screen their own library." Cesare shook his head, and he pondered for a moment, "To get them to give up the library, you have to add a more exciting and tempting one to the scales. The bewildering chips made Warner feel that even if there were profit points in the film library that they had overlooked, they could not compare to the huge benefits that Big Dream could bring to them. ”

"You mean?" Jenny was hesitant, as if she had captured Cesare's train of thought, but she was a little unsure.

Cesare pointed the tip of his pen at her, "We'll have to add you." ”

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"Ah, Carrey, you're here." In Time Warner's spacious and bright office, Jeff. Robinov said absentmindedly, "Come, sit, coffee or tea?" ”

"Just give me a soda." Kerry. Oronte. said, he was a little nervous — though with "Michael. The success of Clayton, his status at Warner Pictures has risen, but he has not been with Jeff Brown before. Robinoff had one-on-one meetings, which usually means he would be promoted, but Kerry wasn't so sure because he really didn't know where Jeff would be able to promote him, because there weren't many vacancies inside right now, unless there was a big guy leaving, and he hadn't heard the news yet. However, it is still difficult to explain Jeff's behavior, because Carrey is not his direct subordinate, he belongs to another Warner boss, Kevin. Tsujiwara, Jeff's probability of actively increasing him is close to zero.

"Mia, give Kerry a glass of soda." Jeff pressed the inside line and ordered, "Wait a minute, let me finish signing these papers." ”

"Of course, no problem." Kerry said busily.

Jeff's second secretary quickly brought Carey a glass of soda, Carey sipped it nervously, and the office fell silent again, and after a while, Jeff dropped his pen and tossed the papers aside, he stretched and sighed pleasantly, "So-"

Kerry hurriedly straightened up, indicating that he was listening.

"Last year's Michael. Clayton, you're doing a great job," Jeff said, "I've seen the reports, and he's made us hundreds of millions of dollars so far — well done, and it should be going to make us that much by this time next year." ”

Without waiting for Carey to give in, Jeff threw another question, "In this collaboration, you have a good relationship with Jennifer. What was Jefferson's impression? ”

Kerry was a little taken aback, but then relaxed—it was a safe question, at least for him.

"Very professional actor, very capable producer." He said without hesitation, "If there is an opportunity to work together again, I don't think we should miss it - of course, what I'm saying is nonsense, and now Hollywood, I don't think there is anyone who doesn't want to work with her." ”

"Hmm," Jeff raised an eyebrow, looking interested in Kerry's opinion, "there's no one who doesn't work with her, are you sure?" ”

Carey thought it was a very simple question, and he replied without thinking, "Even George. Clooney – I don't think anyone hates her more in Hollywood these days, but even he wouldn't have spared his money and connections if he had the opportunity to work with Jefferson. Jennifer. Jefferson makes money on anything, sir, we all say that even she can make money laughing at the camera for 90 minutes. "Iron Man" is a good example of this—"

He suddenly realized that he was saying something stupid, and quickly shut his mouth, but Jeff didn't seem to mind his gaffe, and nodded thoughtfully.

"Indeed," he muttered, "none of us had seen Iron Man last year, but now of course we know how wrong we are, Jennifer. Jefferson really didn't look away, this second-tier hero is right to the audience's appetite......"

In Carrey's view, the "Iron Man" series is even more promising than "Batman", because it reveals a new mode of filming comic films, which is more advantageous than Warner's favorite dark reality comic adaptation, not only is the box office easy to explode, but the requirements for the director and script are not too high, but of course he will not say this in front of Nolan's best friend and Jeff, who is also the main supporter of "Batman", just nodded resignedly, At the same time, there was a certain curiosity about Jeff's intentions: what exactly did he ask about bringing him in?

"Well, since this girl was born to work miracles, it seems that we can expect her to work another miracle as well." As if realizing that he was confusing Kerry, Jeff smiled a little self-deprecatingly, and also uncovered his hole cards, he picked up a document and threw it in front of Kerry, "This is an invitation from Big Dream to cooperate with us...... Tell me your opinion. ”

Carrey hurriedly flipped through the simple draft contract, "—work with us on a new superheroine movie...... The premise is that the two parties will share the global distribution rights equally...... Warner can inject up to 30% of the capital, and if you want to enter the game, you must pay for Warner's independent library rights. ”

The request was a bit odd, and Kerry—of course, thought almost immediately of the Dream's possible purpose.

"Big Dream has taken a fancy to a certain Warner independent movie." "It's likely that it's a project that's still in development, or hasn't been released in North America yet—"

"Yes," Jeff's tone of voice showed that he was not stupid, and such a simple reasoning could certainly be done in an instant, "and I think it seems strange to me that Big Dream also has a fancy to DC's comic book rights - if she wants to play a heroine, doesn't Marvel have the right movie for her to choose?" ”

Jeff only needs to raise his head, and the other thought process Kerry himself can complete it in a few seconds, after all, this kind of intrigue is also Warner's special specialty, and he exclaimed, "It looks like the rumors are true, Marvel tyrant Kevin. Feige and Jennifer really don't get along! ”

Although he has long been accustomed to 'joy and anger', Carrey's tone is still full of surprise: for top actresses like Jennifer, if they are interested in starring in action special effects blockbusters, the producers definitely can't ask for them, and Pepper is not without superpowers in the comics, and even Carrey has read the comic story of her putting on armor and starting to fight. If he is a senior Marvel executive, and Jennifer is interested in starring in a female superhero movie, he can think of several ways to give "Iron Man" a side story with his eyes closed, and no one can stop him from quickly making this project the top priority of the year - isn't it stupid to not pick up the money when it arrives? The reason why Marvel did not look for Jennifer, or why Jennifer did not find Marvel, there may only be one reason, that is, the cooperation between the two sides was not very pleasant, and it can even be said that it is extremely reluctant...... And this is certainly DC's chance!

Carrey's thinking didn't stop there, he quickly thought of the investment share that Big Dream offered to Warner - 30%, which should give some room for bargaining, and maybe at most inject 40% of the share, although it is only half, but in terms of Jennifer's consistent return on investment, this is already a very good share. In fact, he can't think of any reason why Jennifer will extend an olive branch to Warner, instead of choosing Disney, Disney will definitely not hesitate to pay for the big dream, after all, this is Jennifer. Jefferson's Movie!

"Jeff." He had forgotten about the honorific title and instead raised his voice, "Maybe, maybe it also means another thing, and that is that Jennifer's relationship with Disney is also getting colder...... They may have already started looking for a home for their big dreams. ”

"It's hard to say," Jeff shook his head, much calmer than his subordinates, "At least the existing indications don't fully prove this conjecture, and that's why I came to you - Warner's independent film library, it's not a problem, and the maximum package value will not exceed 20 million, even if one or two of these projects have good potential, they can't surpass investing in Jennifer. The benefits that Jefferson can bring. ”

Carrey nodded approvingly, and he also agreed with Jeff's judgment: Warner's most profitable art film is "Good Night, Good Luck", and the total profit is more than 20 million. Jefferson's blockbuster films are a fraction of the total, even if it is "Michael. Clayton", Warner can finally get the money in his hand and enough to kill it in seconds. Even if there are some underrated projects in the library, so what, Jennifer. Jefferson's special effects blockbusters, the global box office is almost 800 million, plus DVD and peripheral development, copyright sales, Warner can get hundreds of millions of dollars according to 40% of the share, even if Warner's independent film library is also included in the investment cost, the investment is 100 million, and the profit of these hundreds of millions of dollars is still far better than the turnover that may be underestimated by the project. And it's more likely that Big Dream just wants to fill the film library - this is what every independent film company is doing, and they don't think that Warner's film library is worth much, but just pull some chips into it in the spirit of seeking more profits. After all, Warner Independent mostly buys the North American rights of art films, which have a term, and the reason why Jeff said that the packaging value of the entire film library will not exceed 20 million is also because the copyrights of some highlight projects are about to expire.

Although this calculation is a lot of projects, it is not too complicated for Carey and Jeff, and Jeff did not explain much, so he continued, "But I want to know, Jennifer. Why did Jefferson find Warner to invest in this film, why not Disney, that would determine the strategy that we upheld in the negotiations, Carrey, I think you know what I mean, that is going to determine the bottom line of the interests that we want to fight for Warner......"

Looking at Kerry, who suddenly came to his senses, Jeff said meaningfully, "That's what I want you to figure out - of course, if you're going to be in charge of this project, then I think you should figure it out too, shouldn't you?" ”

If you can put Jennifer. Jefferson and her big dream pulled under the Warner banner, if they can take some credit in this matter......

Kerry didn't let himself think about it, he was afraid that if he thought about it again, he would even laugh out loud, he collected the expression on his face, looked at Jeff, and promised sincerely, "I see what you mean, Jeff - I know who I should remember in this matter." ”

With Jeff's satisfied smile, he took out his mobile phone and couldn't wait to dial Big Dream's number on the spot......

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"Warner's heart is inspired." Cesare hung up the phone and said to Jenny on the other end of the desk, he looked at his watch and showed a slightly smug wolf smile, "Two hours and twenty minutes, and the reaction time is quite fast...... They have promised to suspend offers for the library, but fortunately, as of now, the library has not completed a single deal, and "Millionaire" has not yet been inquired about. ”

He paused, his smile widening, "And as we expected, Warner was suspicious, Kerry. Oronte just gave me a good side knock, and his attitude was even more affectionate than when "Michael" first won the Oscar. ”

Jenny can indeed appreciate the speed of the sea boat ride now. She couldn't help but smile with satisfaction, but before she could speak, Cesare's cell phone rang again.

"Yes, Kevin, okay......"

After a short call, Cesare hung up the phone, and he stared at it for a while—and Jenny, who pricked up her ears when she heard the word 'Kevin', couldn't help but say in horror, "It's Kevin. Feige? - Although Warner's management chaos is famous, he hasn't received the news after only two hours, right? ”

"It's Feige, that's right." Cesare seemed to have figured out what was going on, and he looked up and said in an amused tone, "He's not here to question our plans for a partnership with Warners, though...... He wanted to talk to us about the development of Iron Man 2 – guess what, what did he want? ”

Jenny didn't think about it, and immediately blurted out, "He wants to buy back the sequel development rights to "Iron Man"!" ”

Cesare didn't speak, but from the smile in his eyes, Jenny could tell that she had guessed Marvel's intentions.