Behind the production cost of the film, there is often the same huge or even far more than the production cost, such as those well-known small-budget blockbuster movies.

For example, in the previous life, "Blair the Witch", not to mention a series of distribution costs such as making a copy, this film, which cost only tens of thousands of dollars, threw away 25 million US dollars in publicity alone!

For example, "Supernatural" or "Ghost Record", which was released this year, cost more than $6.5 million on a copy of Paramount Pictures alone, and more than $40 million on publicity......

Walt Disney billed $300 million in marketing expenses for "Avatar" that exceeded the cost of production, and the board was willing to throw out the money. Cameron's last success with the team was so great that Disney would own all of the film's revenue, excluding the royalties paid to Cameron.

In other words, Disney owns the entire copyright of the film, which is Disney's own son.

Similarly, the copyrights of "Blair the Witch" and "Supernatural" also belong to their respective companies, otherwise companies such as Paramount Pictures would never invest such a huge amount of money in this kind of project, and if someone joins it and wants to share half or even more than half of the profits, these mercenary Hollywood companies will not hesitate to cut the project.

After all, these two films can be described as 'super bad' from creativity to content to shooting techniques, and it is not difficult for Hollywood, which has a strong follow-up, to copy similar films that do not touch the copyright minefield.

"Avatar" has its irreproducibility, although there is no one in Hollywood who is irreplaceable, but there is only one James in the world? Cameron.

Although the investment in the film is huge and the profit prospects are not particularly clear, many people want to join in and get a piece of the pie.

Twentieth Century Fox would have been one of them, if not for Ryan's appearance. Will they be James? Cameron's biggest partner, but since "Titanic", Ryan has completely recruited James with generous investment and co-investment in 3D and IMAX businesses? Cameron, the trucker on this project, also did not consider investors other than Disney at all.

Twentieth Century Fox couldn't give up, and from the day the film began shooting, they were in frequent contact with Disney's management to win the distribution rights of the film, even if they couldn't get it all. It is also necessary to win one of the distribution rights in North America or overseas.

Even if the distribution cost can be compressed to the lowest point of seven or even five percent of the box office, Ryan doesn't want to divide the pie, what is five percent of the more than two billion dollars? Even if Twentieth Century Fox doesn't get the full box office share, it's still a terrifying number.

Ryan wouldn't mind giving his partner a small piece of cake to try if it were another project, but this is Avatar!

"Ryan, we've been a great friend to work together over the past 10 years."

A middle-aged man with glasses, apparently Jewish, looked at Ryan seriously.

This is a seaside villa in Malibu. As Sandy gets older, she becomes more and more curious about the outside world, and the Beverly Hills paparazzi run rampant, and Nicole simply moves here with her.

What Ryan didn't expect was. Not long after they moved, Twentieth Century Fox's co-chairman and CEO, Tom ? Rothman came to the door to visit, and the matter was naturally related to film affairs such as "Avatar".

"Disney and News Corp. have always been partners ......"

Casually talking, Ryan waited for Elsa to come over and pour coffee. Remind her with a gesture and ask her to tell Nicole and Sandy, who were walking on the beach, to come back later.

The people who came weren't friends at all. There is no need for Nicole to come forward.

"Avatar ......"

Hearing the other party take the initiative to mention this film, Ryan stretched out his hand to interrupt him, "Tom, Disney will not give up the distribution rights of this film, if it is for this matter, then I can only say sorry, I can't change the decision of the Disney board of directors alone." ”

Naturally, the other party won't believe this kind of nonsense, and Ryan is just showing his attitude.

"Well, Twentieth Century Fox gave up Avatar."

Tom? Rothman didn't seem to want to stick to it either, and took the initiative to move on to the other side, "I heard that most of the later stages of "The Avengers" have been completed? ”

"That's right." Raising his eyes and looking at the other party, Ryan's eyes narrowed slightly, and he instantly returned to normal, "Disney Studios has a complete publicity and distribution plan. ”

His meaning is very clear, Disney will never allow outsiders to share the revenue brought by "The Avengers".

Although he was a little unhappy with the lion opening of Twentieth Century Fox, Ryan didn't say much, made a gesture of please to the coffee cup, and lazily continued the discussion.

Every company has a series that outsiders are not allowed to touch, Warner, Universal, Paramount, Twentieth Century Fox, and Disney also have it.

The only difference is that there are too many series that Disney will not take out to share the benefits, and it is too eye-catching.

"Pirates of the Caribbean", "Transformers", "The Hobbit", "Toy Story", "Spy", "Harry Potter", "Shrek", "Cars" and many more......

These series of movies can bring extremely solid income, and even a fool will not let people come into their mouths to share food.

Of course, the Marvel superhero series is also in the ranks.

Sure enough, Tom? Rothman also mentions the surprising superhero series, and Ryan only thinks about it for a moment and rejects his request for cooperation, just as Twentieth Century Fox won't allow other companies to interfere in the release of the Star Wars series, Disney has its own no-go zone.

Even if the other party mentioned the cooperative relationship for many years, Ryan was still unmoved, this kind of head can't be opened, otherwise it will bring a series of chain reactions.

It's just Twentieth Century Fox today, and if they can get a piece of the Disney box, what will the other Big Six members of Universal, Warner, and Paramount think?

In fact, in Ryan's heart, it is not completely impossible to talk about it, if the other party is willing to transfer the copyright of part of the "Star Wars series" in his hand, Disney does not mind letting them become the distributor of several superhero movies, if such a purpose can really be achieved, then if Lucasfilm is successfully acquired in the future, Disney will have the copyright of the complete "Star Wars series" in his hands.

Unfortunately, Ryan is well aware that there is no room for negotiation in this matter.

See nothing is going on, Tom? Rothman quickly offered to take his leave, Ryan didn't care, and now Walt Disney is not afraid of competition or challenges from any media group.

Out of the reception room, Ryan took the special elevator and went directly down the cliff where the villa was located, and found Nicole and Sandy on a piece of silver sand, and the two were piling sand.

"Daddy......"

Probably seeing Ryan, the little one, who was already more than three years old, waved to this side.

"Hi dear." Ryan strode over, pointed to the pile of sand next to her, where she couldn't tell what it was, and asked, "What is this?" ”

"Castle." Sandy looked at Nicole and said, "In Mommy's story, the princess always lives in the castle, why don't I?" ”

"Because you're not a princess." Ryan bent down and gently pinched the little guy's face, "You're our angel. ”

"That'...... It's a winged ......," Sandy made a flying gesture, "and it can fly...... Birdman? ”

"Sunny ......" Nicole's voice dragged on for a long time, and the little guy who gradually became fluent in language quickly lowered his head, "I'm sorry, Mommy." ”

"This is what Taylor taught you?" Ryan asked.

Sandy put her hands behind her back and kept her mouth shut, refusing to betray her sister.

"Okay......" Ryan crouched beside Nicole, "when I didn't say hello." ”

"Hmm......" Sandy said happily, nodding his little head hard, "Taylor said, you can't be a traitor." ”

Hearing this fairy tale, Ryan and Nicole looked at each other and laughed at the same time.

Sandy, who had unknowingly become a little traitor, looked at her father curiously, then at her mother, and continued to play her own game of stacking sand.

"Twentieth Century Fox's appetite is too great."

Hear Ryan talk about Tom? The reason for Rothman's visit, Nicole was equally unimpressed, "Although it is customary for the six major companies to distribute each other's films, no one will hand over their ace series." ”

"So......" Ryan shrugged, "I turned them down." ”

"Who?" Sandy suddenly interjected curiously.

"A bunch of badasses."

Ryan stood up and looked out at the sea in the distance, the blue sky and the deep blue water were connected at the end of the line of sight, and the sun, hiding in the clouds, appeared when it was about to fall into the sea, dyeing the sea and the sky red.

"Honey." Nicole's voice came from the side, she pointed to the sea and asked Sandy, "Look over there, is it pretty?" ”

"It's beautiful." Sandy walked over and stood next to Ryan, tugging at his slacks, "Daddy...... I love it here. ”

"I love the sea!" She shouted again, "Love Daddy and Mommy!" ”

"Then you like Daddy more," Nicole picked up Sandy with the sand off her hands, "or Mommy?" ”

Turning his head, Ryan deliberately looked at his daughter very seriously.

Sandy stuck out her tongue at him and said mischievously, "Mommy, of course." ”

This was almost the answer to any question that did not exist in Zài, Ryan walked over and nodded her small forehead, took her daughter from Nicole's hand, put it on her shoulder, and walked towards the way she came.

Nicole caught up from behind and grabbed his free arm.

"You are all my angels." Ryan said to her. (To be continued......)