After unanimously accepting Lin Yuquan's cooperation conditions, Universal Pictures quickly launched communication and negotiations with Summit Entertainment, to be precise, with Lin Yuquan.

For a Hollywood film with a large amount of investment, the contract negotiation between film companies has never been decided in a moment, and it requires a long time of bargaining, and every detail of the contract is finalized one by one, so it often takes a month or two, and some large projects even have no results for a year or two.

However, this time the situation is different, on the one hand, Lin Yuquan really does not have the time and interest to negotiate slowly, on the other hand, Universal Pictures is also eager to finalize the cooperation with Lin Yuquan as soon as possible, so the negotiations between the two parties with the same purpose are progressing quickly, and soon a series of details such as the investment budget, investment ratio, Lin Yuquan's production remuneration, Lin Yuquan's production plan, and the rights of the two parties to produce and belong to the film were agreed.

In the end, Lin Yuquan's request was realized, and he obtained absolute control over the production, starting from writing the script and selecting the director, fully controlling the filming process of the film, and having the right to cut the final cut of the film, etc., and the investment in the film also climbed to $100 million on the basis of the first $85 million, and the later stage can be added as appropriate.

Compared with other details, the investment budget is the most difficult part of the negotiation between the two sides, and Universal Pictures' ability to control costs is the best among the six major studios, and the money-saving factor has been integrated into their blood, so it is more insistent on maintaining an investment of $85 million.

In this regard, Lin Yuquan understands Universal's business philosophy, but he also has his own views and attitudes, Universal Pictures' excellent cost control ability is indeed very important in today's film investment is getting bigger and bigger, but the shooting of movies is not like other projects or activities, and its cost is difficult to really control in the shooting, and too much pursuit of cost control will inevitably affect the quality of the film, and in today's Hollywood blockbusters sweeping the world, such a concept is not conducive to the development of the global box office market.

In recent years, Universal has released a series of popular comedies such as "Christmas Greak", "The Impostor", "American Pie", "Meet My Father-in-law", "Forty Years Old Virgin", "One Night Belly" and "The Grand Gay Wedding". But in other types of films, Universal's films are inevitably too small compared to other major film giants, and they are basically small businessmen, and they are good at making big deals with small ones.

However, it is difficult to reach the top with a small and big game, and there is no series within Universal that can compete with films such as "Spider-Man", "Harry Potter" and "Pirates of the Caribbean" in the global market. And it is also because of the pursuit of cost control, so the ability to attract money for the sequel of the global blockbuster movie is the worst among the six major film companies.

"Fast and Thrilling" is undoubtedly a hot-blooded drag racing movie that focuses on excitement and thrilling, and it is naturally difficult for such a movie to control the cost like a comedy movie, because of the popularity of the crash scene, its investment cost is also destined to be very high.

And Lin Yuquan has a detailed plan for the drag racing and crash scenes of "Fast and Thrill 4", since he is the producer, he naturally doesn't want to make a small fuss, cost control is important, but he hopes to create a bloody racing movie that satisfies him.

Of course, in order to stick to his ideas, Lin Yuquan naturally made concessions in other aspects, first of all, in terms of producer remuneration, he will receive 5 million US dollars plus 10 of the box office, DVD and other revenues, and secondly, he will serve as the producer of the next trilogy of the "Fast and Furious" series, and then the budget and his remuneration will be agreed upon depending on the popularity of "Fast and Furious * Emotional 4", and then in terms of investment ratio, the investment of "Fast and Exciting * Emotional 4" and "Fast and Exciting * Emotional 4" each account for 50%, followed by "Fast and Furious 5" and " Fast & Furious 6, Global occupies 60% of the investment, and Summit Entertainment 40.

For Lin Yuquan, such a concession did not have anything unacceptable except for affecting his income in a certain way, and after Universal promised to help Summit Entertainment release the movie, he naturally readily agreed, and for Universal, they achieved the general direction they wanted in accordance with the results, and there was no reason to refuse, so the two sides who hit it off ended the negotiation in only two days.

"Hello, Lin, I've been communicating with you on the phone, and we finally met today."

Because he was busy with the special effects of "Wild Age" and the preparation of "Spartan 300 Warriors", Lin Yuquan did not directly participate in the negotiations, but handed over the negotiation work to Chris. The team led by Anderson did not come to Universal Pictures until the details were thoroughly finalized for a formal cooperation signing.

"Hello, Mr. Meyer, I've heard your name for a long time." Lin Yuquan shook hands with the other party with a smile, and at the same time, he was also looking at the other party, snow-white hair and beard, thin and yellow cheeks, thick glasses, gray-white suit, just from the appearance, this is a very ordinary white old man in American society, if you don't know the identity of the other party clearly, no one would imagine that this is the actual helmsman of the dignified Universal Pictures.

Not only did he work with such good studios as Amblin and Morgan Stream to release blockbusters such as Jurassic A.D. and The Mummy, but he also continued Universal's proud tradition of working diligently in the field of comedy, producing popular comedies such as "American Pie" and "The Impostor" and "The Grinch of Christmas."

Although some of his strategies have kept Universal in the bottom two of the big six studios after the first two years of the new millennium, on the whole, it has been extremely successful in maintaining the position of the world's top six studios despite the ups and downs of the world's ownership turmoil and its own limited financial strength.

"Is it because I don't want to make progress, and I always have a big name for being small and broad? That's really my style. "Lang. Meyer smiled, and then pointed to a group of people in suits and leather shoes next to him, and said, "Lin, let me introduce you, this is our president of Universal Pictures, Jeff. Hill, this is the manager of the production department Horry. Wade"

"Hello, Lin, it's a pleasure to meet you, I hope our cooperation can be very pleasant." Jeff. Hill smiled and shook hands with Lin Yuquan, and Lang. Meyer is different, Jeff. Hill is an elegant old white man with a strong affinity on the smile on his face.

"Of course, this is also what I hope for, and I am sure that our cooperation will be successful." Lin Yuquan said with a smile.

After the pleasantries, the contract was signed soon after. Meyer and Horry. Wade led Lin Yuquan and others to visit the office building of Universal, and Lin Yuquan was also very interested in this.

"Oh, it's really worthy of the six major Hollywood studios, and when I saw the scene of Universal Pictures, I found that Summit Entertainment still has a long, long way to go in the future." Lin Yuquan praised, not to mention the spacious and bright office building for the time being, the orderly operation system formed by Universal Pictures in the past 100 years is indeed not comparable to his Summit Entertainment and Dawning Films.

"Lin, you are too modest, now the whole of Hollywood thinks that Summit Entertainment is the next new line and Dream Factory, and the most powerful challenger of the first-line production company, in comparison, our Universal shape is not very good, maybe one day it will be surpassed by Summit Entertainment." Bright. Meyer laughed.

"Really? But it is not so easy to become a first-line production company, and the new line production zuò has released a series of blockbuster films such as "Ace Spy", "The Lord of the Rings", "Rush Hour" and "Wedding Proud", isn't it also unsuccessful? DreamWorks ended its days as a major independent studio that produced and distributed live-action films, and although this was only temporary, they will jump out of the contract with Paramount and return to freedom, but it will be difficult to become a first-tier production company. ”

Lin Yuquan shook his head, to be among the film giants on a par with the six major Hollywood film companies, in addition to its own excellent film production results and perennial market share, it also has a huge production, distribution, and operation system like the six major film companies.

Not only that, the reason why the six major film companies are the six major film companies is that in addition to their own market value of tens of billions of dollars, each film giant has a behemoth-like backing behind it, Warner Bros. is backed by Time Warner, 20th Century Fox is backed by News Corporation, Universal Pictures is backed by General Motors, Paramount is backed by Viacom, Sony is backed by Sony of Japan, and Disney in the Big Six is only one of the five departments under the Walt Disney Company. Broadcast media groups and theme parks and resorts are the two pillars.

It is precisely because of the huge financial support that the six major film companies can have huge production capacity and risk resistance, produce and release dozens of films every year, and will not be on the verge of bankruptcy because of the loss of one or two films.

Without these, it is almost impossible to really compete with the six major film companies, taking DreamWorks as an example, from 1999 to 2001, the films produced by DreamWorks won the Oscar for Best Picture for three consecutive years, and in the years after 2000, the company's results can often be ranked in the top five in the annual company list, such results are unmatched by independent film companies, and Universal and Paramount are far from comparable at that time.

Unfortunately, the successful DreamWorks has two fatal weaknesses, the lack of a complete distribution system and its own financial resources are not strong enough, which makes many of DreamWorks' high-cost and high-profit films can only be filmed in cooperation with big Hollywood studios such as Universal and Paramount, such as the "Meet My Father-in-Law" series, "Pentium Age" and "Minority Report", so although they can release several blockbuster films every year, the profits they can obtain are far less than the outside world thinks, and because of the 2005 investment of $122 million in "" "Escape from Clone Island" failed miserably at the box office, almost fell into bankruptcy, and finally had to sell itself to Paramount to take a breather to adjust.

"Either way, Summit Entertainment with you is the most likely independent film company to succeed today, and if Summit Entertainment can't do it, then other independent film companies are even less likely." Bright. Meyer affirmed categorically that in addition to being a prolific director, Lin Yuquan is also a world-class billionaire. Lucas and Steven. Spielberg, the two directors with huge net worth, could have been possible, but Lucas's own production capacity was too low, and the pursuit of technology was significantly greater than the development of Lucasfilm. Although Spielberg has a high production capacity, he is not a person who risks his own money, only Lin Yuquan can, because he has come over like this.

"It looks like I'll have to work harder to live up to your expectations, Mr. Meyer." Lin Yuquan smiled.

After visiting Universal Pictures, in Lang. At Meyer's kind invitation, Lin Yuquan and others had dinner with a group of senior executives from Universal Pictures, and the atmosphere of the dinner was quite pleasant because they had achieved the desired projects.

"Mr. Meyer, I'm curious why you left CAA, which you founded, to work at Universal Pictures?" Lin Yuquan asked interestingly in the chat.

For Longmayer, Lin Yuquan was impressed by the fact that the other party was the actual helmsman of Universal Pictures and served the longest among the executives of major Hollywood studios, but also that the other party was the founder of CAA, yes, it is now the CAA of the No. 1 agency in the United States.

In 1975, before that, William. Morris's five high-spirited young men, Michael. Ovitz, Lang. Meyer, Martin. Baum, William. Hubble and Roland. Perkins, at breakfast one day, found that they all had the same idea: to open their own brokerage firm, and just as they were happily talking about their future visions, before they could find suitable investors and implement their business plans, their plans were replaced by William. Morris's boss found out, so the five good agents were fired, and CAA was founded with only $35,000 and $21,000 in bank loans.

Among them, Michael. Ovitz is one of the most well-known of the founders, and has become a Hollywood super-promoter while making CAA the king of the agency, and was voted the most influential person in Hollywood by Premiere Magazine for three consecutive years from 1990 to 1992.

And in 1995, when CAA was in full swing, the founders Michael Ovitz and Ron Meyer jumped ship to Disney and Universal one after another, the former served as the president of Disney, and the latter served as the chairman and chief operating officer of Universal Pictures. Paid $120 million, Ron Meyer became the longest-serving executive at a major studio, and his position within Universal.

"Well, in fact, it is not difficult for you to guess Lin, because no matter how big CAA is, it is just a nanny for artists, at most it is a more capable nanny, and in Hollywood, film and media tycoons are the real masters." Bright. Meyer said lightly.

Lin Yuquan nodded, indeed, CAA's huge resources of directors, actors, and screenwriters sometimes make film giants awe-inspired, but CAA is impossible to compete with film giants and media groups in terms of strength and influence.

True strength and the right to speak are always the embodiment of his own strength, and a trace of determination flashed in his eyes, in Hollywood, he wants to be the one who controls his own destiny.

Lin Yuquan returned to his work, Summit Entertainment went all out to prepare for "Spartan 300 Warriors", and Universal Pictures couldn't wait to announce the cooperation with Lin Yuquan. Jackson said excitedly in the face of the media: "After a pleasant negotiation, yesterday Universal Pictures and Summit Entertainment officially signed a cooperation agreement, the two sides will jointly invest in the production of the fourth, fifth and sixth parts of "Fast and Exciting * Love", in order to dedicate a wonderful racing movie to the audience, Kung Fu Lin will serve as the producer of the trilogy, fully responsible for the production of the film, so we can look forward to the summer of 2009!" ”

Immediately afterwards, the announcement on the official website of Summit Entertainment also confirmed that the news was indeed correct, "Wow! The announcement of the news immediately caused a great sensation among the media and fans, oh my God, Kung Fu Lin actually served as the producer of the "Fast and Thrilled" series, and Lin Yuquan's fans and fans of "Fast and Thrilled" were very excited.

If the audience is asked to choose what is the most impressive thing in the currently released "Hurricane Rescue", because of personal preferences, everyone's choice may be different, the most impressive may be Lin Yuquan's dazzling cooking skills, maybe Lin Yuquan's warm smile, maybe it is the bloody fight, or maybe it is the rebellious beautiful girl Christine. Stewart, it may be a magnificent luxury cruise ship, but there will definitely be a part of the people who firmly choose the fantastic and dazzling drag racing scenes, and if the selection is broadened, perhaps everyone who has seen the movie will think that the drag racing scenes are impressive.

In fact, because of the media and fans' admiration for the drag racing scene after watching the movie, countless fans of "Fast and Thrill" and young people who love racing have entered the theater and become the heroes who have boosted the continued box office strength of "Hurricane Rescue". And after watching the film, I don't know how many people think in their hearts what will happen if Kung Fu Lin directs a racing movie, and now this has really become a reality, well, he is just a producer, but even if he is not directed, how can a racing movie made by him be completely responsible for producing Zuò is bad, the four, five, and six trilogy of "Fast and Thrilling" must be very, very hot and exciting.

And for Lin Yuquan's upcoming production and filming of "Fast and Exciting * Emotions 4", there is also a heated discussion on the Internet, what is the investment budget of the film? Is it to continue the new cast of "Fast and Exciting * Love 3", or to make Fan Di in "Fast and Exciting * Love". Searle, Paul. Walker is back? Who will be the director of Lin Yuquan? The director of the first and second parts, Rob. Cohen? Lin Yibin, who is eye-catching in the third part? The scene is bound to be hot Michael. Seashell? Fans listed a lot of candidates, and some even shouted Lin Yuquan and James. Cameron's dream combination, although it has been a long time since he made an action movie, but the tyrant who made "The Terminator" and "True Lies" is naturally an excellent director candidate to direct "Fast and Passion", but this possibility is almost zero, Cameron's paranoia and money burner qì are not "Fast and Passion" can afford to burn.

Not to mention the excitement of movie fans, Warner Bros. and 20th Century Fox and other studios were taken aback, a "Fast and Furious * Love 4" is nothing, and it would be a terrible thing if Kung Fu Lin and Universal Pictures joined forces, and no one would doubt the impact it would have on the competitive situation of the six major studios.

When the whole United States was shocked by the news of Lin Yuquan's production of "Fast and Exciting * Love 4", Lin Yuquan's work and life were not affected, and the week of December 31, 2007 to January 6, 2008 came to an end.

The domestic Chinese New Year film market continues to be hot, in the new week, the ranking of the top four has not changed, "Assembly" received another 38.75 million this week to continue to top the list, compared to last week, the box office only fell by 19.6, with a cumulative box office of 139 million in three weeks, and "Hurricane Rescue", which ranked second, received another 29.17 million this week, with a cumulative box office of 297 million in five weeks.

"Love Call Transfer 2", which ranked third, has a good reputation, and the box office has risen by 53 this week, with a box office of 23.28 million and a cumulative box office of 38.48 million, and it has begun to achieve profitability, and this box office has been promoted to the 14th place in the domestic box office of the year, surpassing "The Secret That Can't Be Said", while becoming the top of the romantic comedy genre movie list, it has also become the top box office of love movies, and the first series of sequel movies of Shuguang Movies has been a great success.

"Casting the Name", which ranked fourth, with the support of Li Lianjie and Liu Dehua's huge fans, had a box office of 10.13 million this week, and the cumulative box office exceeded 100 million as desired, reaching 101 million, ranking tenth at the annual box office.

In the box office charts of the North American weekend from January 4th to January 6th, the situation in the box office rankings has not changed much because of the lack of heavyweight new films released this week, and "National Treasure 2: Raiders of the Lost Ark" topped the box office three times with a box office of $21.24 million, with a cumulative box office of $171 million, ranking among the top 10 of the annual box office list in North America.

"I Am Legend" rose one place in the rankings, collecting another $16.45 million this week, and the cumulative box office in three weeks was $229 million, surpassing $227 million, "Spy" ranked 7th in the annual North American box office list.

After the theaters continued to increase by 906, "Juno" once again handed in a beautiful report card, rising to the third place on the list with a box office of $16.33 million, with a cumulative box office of $53.04 million, leaving countless people stunned, well, this is no longer a copy of "Little Sunshine Beauty", according to the current trend of "Juno", the final North American box office of this teenage pregnancy movie is very likely to break 100 million.

"Hurricane Rescue" closed another $14.6 million with a drop of 37.36, ranking fourth this week, with a cumulative box office of $292 million in North America, and breaking the 300 million mark is close at hand.

Coming in at 5th to 10th are "Alvin and the Chipmunks" at $14.11 million, "Ghost Call" at $13.27 million, "Charlie's War" at $7.68 million, "P.S. I Love You" at $7.45 million, "Loch Ness Monster: Tales from Deep Water" at $5.87 million, and "Sweeney Todd" at $5.42 million.

"Hurricane Rescue", which was released in the fifth week of its release, continued to maintain a stable box office trend around the world, and finally closed another $60.22 million in a single week with a decline of 38.77, with a cumulative global box office of $751 million, and there is a great possibility of hitting $800 million, the key is to see if the next two weeks can maintain a normal decline of about 40.

"Wow, if Yuquan's movie reaches a box office of $800 million, hehe, and it seems that it won't be long before Yuquan breaks Cheng Long's record and becomes the highest-grossing Chinese actor starring in the movie." Far to the east, Wang Luodan said to Liu Yifei beside him with a smile.

"Of course, Brother Yuquan can definitely do it." Liu Yifei said brightly.

"Yes, yes, your Brother Yuquan is the most powerful, I don't know what that guy is doing now?" Jiang Yan on the side quipped. R1152