Chapter 610 If We Have Money or Not, God Will Not Forgive Us
Alexander is great.
In just a few days, he investigated the situation of New Line Cinema and figured out why Shay invited Zucker to participate in the "Lion, Witch, Wardrobe" project.
"Boss, this is the result of my investigation after sorting it out."
Alexander said.
A sorted New Line Cinema survey results were placed directly on Zuke's desk.
Zu Ke turned a few pages and said in surprise, "I didn't expect that the film and television copyright of the novel "The Lion, The Witch, The Wardrobe" is really in the hands of New Line Cinema?!"
Alexander nodded and said, "Furthermore, if the film and television copyright of the novel "The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe" cannot be launched at the end of 2001, then the ownership of this project will automatically be passed to Disney, which is also true."
Hearing this, Zu Ke frowned immediately and said, "No, Shay will be so honest?!"
No wonder Zucker didn't feel weird!
It's true that Shay's character is very poor, and it can be called the best!
His mouth is full of train-running temperament, and the entire Hollywood industry peers, one counts as one, who doesn't know?
In early 1998, Shay took a film project and took the initiative to find Fox Searchlight Pictures, a subsidiary of 20th Century Fox Pictures.
He took the initiative to come to the door to seek cooperation
Doflamingo of Fox Searchlight Pictures, seeing that the project was good, did not hesitate at the moment, and nodded in agreement.
But the result?
The end result is that Shay played Doflamingo hard!
Shay succeeded in pulling in film investments from Canada and Mexico under the names of Fox Searchlight and New Line Cinema. After the funds were quickly in place, he, Shea, kicked Fox Searchlight Pictures away without hesitation.
The movie project is called Rush Hour!
The film's production cost was only $35 million, but it made more than $1.4 billion at the North American box office and ranked sixth in the 1998 North American annual box office chart.
Followed by,
"Rush Hour 2" and "Rush Hour 3" also performed well at the box office.
New Line Pictures made a lot of money and dollars flowed.
Jackie Chan, one of the leading actors in the series, has also become one of the most well-known action actors in Hollywood, with a salary of tens of millions of dollars.
On the other hand, Doflamingo of Fox Searchlight Pictures was kicked away, and his nose was almost crooked.
He has repeatedly shouted in the media, "Shay from New Line Pictures is a complete liar!"
"He is a villain without any bottom line!"
"He deceived me and hurt me. He should be thankful that this is not the Middle Ages, otherwise I will find him a duel between men!"
There are many similar examples.
That's why Zu Ke said that Xie Yi's character was very bad, and he couldn't believe it.
"This time he actually told the truth?!"
Zhu Ke was a little surprised at the moment.
However, Alexander shook his head: "No, he only told half the truth."
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Zu Ke was stunned for a moment, and immediately turned to the following pages of the information again.
a long time.
Zhu Ke just sighed, "Sure enough, Xie Yi is not an honest person at all."
New Line Cinema.
"I'm not completely telling the truth, but I'm not completely deceiving either."
Shay looked at Jonathan, the right-hand man in front of him, and smiled, "Yes? From beginning to end, I actively sought to work with Zucker Wald? It has its own purpose, but he is involved with Zucker Wald? Yes Very likely to make money? This is also true!"
Vice President Jonathan smiled, "Boss is wise!"
1. The film and television copyright of the novel "The Lion, The Witch, The Wardrobe" is in the hands of New Line Cinema;
2. The film and television copyright of the novel "The Lion, The Witch, The Wardrobe"? If it cannot be launched at the end of 2001, the ownership of this project will be automatically passed to Disney;
3. The funds of New Line Pictures are all concentrated on the "Lord of the Rings" project? There is no extra funds to develop "The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe"? The success of "Harry Potter" can greatly guarantee the possibility of the success of the project.
All three of the above are true!
Shay also explained these three points to Zucker? From this point alone? He can be said to have not deceived Zucker.
but!
He also has a purpose, and he hides it from Zucker
"I want to completely get rid of Disney's influence on New Line Cinema, so this is the best chance!"
Shea said coldly, "Since 1991, for the survival and development of New Line Cinema, I accepted the Disney Group's shareholding; in 1993? We also accepted the shareholding of Warner; Survived better. However? Now that 10 years have passed, we have created a great movie for New Line Cinema.”
“Blade, Mulan, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Rush Hour, Powershot, and more? And of course the upcoming Lord of the Rings movies.”
"In ten years, we have created huge profits for Disney and Warner Bros."
"But? The profits that we created? The vast majority were also taken by Disney and Warner. We only took a fraction."
"Oh, of course I'm not reconciled!"
"So I found Wall Street investors!"
Up to now, since Warner was acquired by AOL, it has been deeply involved in the internal struggle between the old Warner faction and the new faction AOL. The two sides can be said to be incompatible;
Disney isn't much better either.
Disney's chairman, Michael Eisner, and Roy Disney of the Disney family are also at odds with each other;
This gave Shay an opportunity!
He saw an opportunity for New Line Cinema to get rid of Disney and Warner Bros.
As long as people have ambitions, no one is willing to keep bowing and sighing!
One of the top five investment banks on Wall Street, Goldman Sachs.
Wal Dren, a senior partner of Goldman Sachs investment bank and one of the senior vice presidents, said, "Shay has a lot of courage!"
"At a time when both Disney and Warner were deeply involved in a serious internal struggle, he found Zucker Wald and found us at Goldman Sachs. In this way, the "Lion, Witch and Wardrobe" film project has both "Lion, Witch and Wardrobe" The behind-the-scenes team and success of the Harry Potter films, and the huge funding we have at Goldman Sachs."
"Once this project is really successful, Shay can really make New Line Pictures independent!"
"Even if you can't completely get rid of the influence of Disney and Warner, it can greatly dampen the two movie giants' control over New Line Cinema, leaving him Shay alone in power."
"Tsk tsk tsk~"
"A cunning guy!"
The voice fell.
The assistant frowned and said, "Boss, shall we continue to participate?"
"Of course continue!"
Wal Dren joked, "As long as the "Lion, Witch, Wardrobe" movie project can make money, we can't miss it. If we don't make money, God will not forgive us."
Similarly, after figuring out the ins and outs, Zucker also decided to participate.
You say, will offend Disney and Warner?
Does Zucker need to care?
Zucker himself is a bit dirty with the two movie giants Disney and Warner. Now, there is nothing to say if he offends a little more. After all, there are too many lice and they don't bite.
"The Lion, The Witch, The Wardrobe" movie, um, the " Chronicles of Narnia" movie, it is a blockbuster movie with more than 7.8 billion US dollars worldwide, and its achievements in children's and teenagers' fantasy themes second only to the Harry Potter films.
"The Chronicles of Narnia" movie project, in which Zucker participated, the future benefits will not be limited to the box office.
Movie peripherals, offline DVD, TV platform broadcast, copyright income
On the whole, once Wald Pictures under Zucker's name participates, it will be able to obtain at least a profit of more than 200 million US dollars.
As Goldman Sachs' Wal Dren said, "God will not forgive us if we have money or not."
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