Chapter Seventy-Five: Hollywood's Film Companies (Part II)

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Except for MGM, the former boss, Li Mingbao and their partners are only five. The reality is that there will actually be fewer Hollywood giants who can really cooperate with Li Mingbao and them.

Under Jiang Zhiqiang's explanation, Li Mingbao knew that even if it was cooperation, the film giants on the Hollywood side might not be willing to negotiate with companies like Li Mingbao and others. A film company like MGM is definitely not the only one among the Hollywood movie giants.

Now the actual boss of Hollywood, Paramount, at this time, will definitely not cooperate with Li Mingbao and them. This is not only Jiang Zhiqiang's judgment, but he has contacted the people on Paramount's side before, and even the little people who sell old movies know Paramount's style, so Jiang Zhiqiang on Paramount's side doesn't have to think about it.

To say that Paramount at this time, it was a real boom, and countless directors contributed to it, although Paramount lost some theaters because of the antitrust bill decades ago, but the recovery of these decades has allowed Paramount to sit firmly on the throne. It not only has high-quality films, but also the most high-quality cinemas.

In such a situation, Paramount can't even show its own movie, so how can it be possible to cooperate outside? Maybe a few years later, when Murdoch poached Paramount's people, during that period of Paramount's downturn, he would be able to consider cooperation, but it would take two or three years for Murdoch to do it, and now, Paramount is still booming.

Paramount can't do it, there are actually only a few big Hollywood companies left, Twentieth Century Fox, Universal Pictures, Columbia, and the last Warner Bros., and the last company is the most familiar to everyone.

Of course, there is actually another company that can be called a Hollywood giant in these days, and that is Disney. But this company, not to mention that Jiang Zhiqiang doesn't think about it, even Li Mingbao has no intention of cooperating with Disney.

Disney's main business direction is cartoons, and Li Mingbao's movie is not a cartoon, so it has nothing to do with it at all. Cooperating with Disney is simply lowering the IQ of both parties. Therefore, Jiang Zhiqiang did not propose the direction of cooperation at all, and Li Mingbao did not ask stupidly.

For the remaining four Hollywood giants, Li Mingbao is most familiar with Warner Bros. Of course, this familiar feeling is not Li Mingbao's current memory, but the memory of that big guy. I think that the big guy was very popular in the big 6, and Warner Bros., called Time Warner in those years, had a good cooperation several times, and the relationship between the two sides was very good.

But the memory of this cooperation is completely useless now. The story of the characters thirty years later, when it comes to showing off thirty years ago, it is simply showing the lower limit of IQ, and it has no meaning at all. Of course, with this good memory, Li Mingbao is still very concerned about Warner.

Because Warner's investment direction has not changed, they will also invest abroad in this year, although it still can't change the nature of capitalists, but the premise of cooperation is still there, not like MGM and Paramount, even the idea of cooperation will not arise, and it is a waste of effort.

But Jiang Zhiqiang did not give a good evaluation of Li Mingbao's idea. If you want to talk about understanding Warner, at least in Hollywood now, Jiang Zhiqiang is definitely better than Li Mingbao. Warners do seem to be a good partner because they work with people on the outside, invest and don't have the same discriminatory views as MGM.

But the truth is not as good as imagined, indeed, Warner will cooperate and invest, but their investment direction is now, that is to invest in the big production, such as adapting the heroes in the Marvel Comics as a movie, such a big investment will make Warner appreciate.

Even in the future, Warner's investment direction is also moving closer to big investment, after all, for Warner Bros., big investment will have a big return, and they also have money, can afford to toss, and luck has always been good, and they have made a lot of profits in this regard, and they also invested in Harry Potter in the future.

In such a situation, Li Mingbao's small-budget movie is really not Warner's investment direction, because they have been filled with appetite with large investment, and Li Mingbao's small fight is not eye-catching.

So even if Warner has a non-discriminatory vision that Hollywood film giants rarely have, it is not a good partner for Li Mingbao's cooperation, at least before Li Mingbao made a blockbuster, Warner's cooperation does not need to be considered at all.

Of course, it's not that Warner doesn't give face to outsiders at all, just like Chen Long's movie "Killer Trench", which was released in Hollywood last October, was made by Warner. Boss Zou also has a good cooperative relationship with them.

But the premise for Boss Zou to be able to cooperate with them is that Boss Zou is willing to throw money. As I said before, Warner's appetite has always been on the big system, and Boss Zou can cooperate well with them, so he is naturally also a big family, and the cost is full. In '79, Boss Zou made a statement in Hollywood, saying that he would use 60 million US dollars to bring Chen Long into Hollywood.

It is precisely because of Boss Zou's remarks that Warner is so good at talking and making movies for Chen Long. What they value is not whether Chen Long can succeed in Hollywood, which is not very important to them, what they value is actually the $60 million thrown out by Boss Zou.

For the sake of the dollar, Warner is naturally easy to speak, but if Boss Zou says 60 million Hong Kong dollars, maybe Warner won't even open the door for Boss Zou. Although 60 million US dollars is not too much for Warner's other investments, it is even less when it is distributed to each movie, and it is not a real big production.

But no matter how small the mosquito legs are, that's money. The total number of transactions is 60 million US dollars, which is actually quite good, if Boss Zou did not start to say the total amount, but said the shooting price of each movie, maybe Warner may not be so concerned.

Boss Zou is rich and easy to do, although Li Mingbao also has tens of millions of dollars in his hands at this time, but the cost of investing in the filming is actually less than one million dollars. Even if Boss Zou is on Warner's side, at most it is equivalent to a wronged boss, if you really want to say that there is any special friendship, it is nonsense.

Excluding Warner, in fact, Columbia is not so suitable. Colombian films, at this time, are basically investing in filmmaking. What can make Colombia look at it are the films made by some of the most famous directors in Hollywood.

If this is all there is, it is not impossible for Li Mingbao to cooperate, because Colombia is doing this for the quality of the film and the appropriate content. And the quality of "Home Alone" will not be too bad under the supervision of Li Mingbao, and the content is also very good, in line with the mainstream of Hollywood.

But Columbia, as a company, is not really focused on cooperating with those directors to make films, the point is that basically every film they cooperate with is invested by Columbia itself. And at this point, Li Mingbao's film does not meet the requirements of Colombia in any way.

Even if Colombia reluctantly agreed, but when Li Mingbao's movies and their biological son competed for the screening time, they knew with their butts that Li Mingbao would not have any advantages, even if Li Mingbao's movie would make Colombia see the hope of making money, the matter of his biological son being robbed of his place by outsiders, even in the United States, is rarely born, and Li Mingbao wants to expect such a situation, then there is only luxury.

In the end, after Jiang Zhiqiang's explanation and Li Mingbao's own analysis, if Li Mingbao's new film wants to get a good schedule and can cooperate well, there are actually only two choices among Hollywood film giants, one is Twentieth Century Fox, and the other is Universal.

You must know that grabbing the schedule in Hollywood and Hong Kong are completely two different concepts. On the Hollywood side, there have long been two terms for summer and Christmas. In Hong Kong, Li Mingbao can still take advantage of loopholes, but on the Hollywood side, it is better to dispel such thoughts as soon as possible.

There are two options left, one of the two answers, when such a situation is placed in front of Li Mingbao, Li Mingbao is distressed. Because of these two companies, the situation is not very different from Li Mingbao.

Both Universal and Twentieth Century Fox have a good foundation for cooperation, and these two companies, in general, are very tolerant of foreign films. This inclusion is not just talking.

Just like Golden Harvest entered Hollywood and wanted to break Chen Long into the Hollywood market, Boss Zou has asked these two companies for help, whether it is Twentieth Century Fox or Universal, they have all done Hong Kong films. Not only do it, but you can also make a system, as long as you give money, their service attitude is very good.

Being able to look at his own movies with a normal eye is very important to Li Mingbao. So these two film companies, Li Mingbao has considered it. To say that about this film, Li Mingbao is actually more inclined to let Twentieth Century Fox do it.

After all, the movie "Home Alone" was originally a work of Twentieth Century Fox, but that was nine years later. But it can't be denied that they already like this type of movie, otherwise they wouldn't have made this series of movies in the future.

And Twentieth Century Fox has always been very stable in Hollywood, and the potential significance of stable dìng is equivalent to people who are optimistic about this type of movie nine years later, and may be in Twentieth Century Fox now. In such a natural bonus situation, Li Mingbao is naturally more inclined to Twentieth Century Fox.