Chapter 2069: Chapter 2069

Barry Meyer was indeed a little frustrated, because this time he almost took all the opportunities, but finally missed Hugo's work.

Although Hugo still hasn't completed the adaptation of the script, in Barry's view, the guaranteed North American box office revenue of this work is 150 million—even the North American box office of "Death Row Walking" has reached 8,300. Wan, this time Hugo writes the biography of John Nash, which is bound to cause a bigger sensation. Even if the quality of the finished product is not satisfactory, relying on the golden signboard of Hugo is enough to attract audiences to flock to the cinema.

What's more, Barry himself has read the biography "A Beautiful Mind" written by Sylvia Nassar, and he immediately thinks of Hugo. Like Allen, Barry also clearly knows that "Death Row Walking" How far-reaching was the impact of the events during filming, until today, whenever people bring up the unreliable behavior of the uncrowned king, Michael Jackson's "child molestation case" and Hugo's "psychopathic case" will become people's negative teaching materials typical case. This time, Hugo's adaptation of John Nash's biography is obviously not just casual talk.

Barry understood Hugo's true thoughts at once, and his and Allen's thoughts were synchronized. Therefore, Barry can be 100% sure that the market effect of this work is simply inestimable. This is definitely a profitable business.

Therefore, the cooperation of "A Beautiful Mind" is what Barry is determined to win, but now he lost to DreamWorks. Even though Barry knew that between DreamWorks and Warner Bros., Hugo would definitely choose the former, but Barry still couldn't calm down his inner depression and anger.

He clenched his fists and closed his eyes on the sofa chair for a while, but the restlessness in his heart still couldn't calm down. Barry opened his eyes, picked up the phone receiver, pressed the secretary's call button, and quickly explained, "Help me Make an appointment for the golf course at 9 o'clock tomorrow morning, and the related meetings tomorrow morning will be temporarily moved to the afternoon."

After the explanation, Barry finally calmed down.

What really makes Barry angry is not just the missed opportunity of "A Beautiful Mind"-the profitability of this work is important to Warner Bros., but it has not yet reached the point of life and death; it is more because of Hugo and DreamWorks cooperation, which means too much.

Hugo did not choose Sony Columbia Pictures, which spent a lot of money, nor did he choose the sincere Warner Bros., but chose the ambitious DreamWorks. This incident itself already implies too many things.

What's more, although Barry did not find out the specific cost budget of "A Beautiful Mind", DreamWorks has been making frequent moves recently, and the company's internal mobile funds must not be much. Not long ago, "Saving Private Ryan" was the first officially released work after the establishment of DreamWorks' publishing department, and it achieved great success. It will definitely be stretched in a short time. So there's no way A Beautiful Mind's budget could exceed the $80 million Warner Bros. proposed, and he suspects it's even less than $50 million.

It can be seen from this small detail that Hugo's choice to cooperate with DreamWorks is more of a strategic move. This is another step for DreamWorks to declare its strong presence to the entire Hollywood after the establishment of the distribution department, "Saving Private Ryan" and "Prince of Egypt", and it is a crucial step.

In other words, DreamWorks is about to launch an impact on the film industry - and in the context of the current turmoil in the entire film market, DreamWorks' lethality has skyrocketed. However, as Warner Bros. as a top predator, the impact of DreamWorks must be limited. For Barry, he is more concerned about the combination of Hugo and DreamWorks' troika, which can almost be said to cover half of Hollywood. Every move of Warner Bros. in the future is bound to have an impact.

So, missing out on "A Beautiful Mind" made Barry so angry. Otherwise, with Barry's self-cultivation and wisdom in high positions for many years, there is no need to go to war when a work is missed-even if it is produced by Hugo, there is no need to be so angry.

After calming down, Barry began to organize his thoughts again. He knew that the cooperation between DreamWorks and Hugo could definitely be called the combination of two swords.

Before that, everyone was still waiting and watching—curious about what kind of changes Hugo could bring after he moved into DreamWorks, but before "A Beautiful Mind", people's attitudes were relatively conservative, because except for "Saving Private Ryan" "In addition, in the past year, DreamWorks has always been difficult to produce topical works. After Hugo moved into DreamWorks, he almost disappeared, making it difficult to detect Hugo's influence on DreamWorks.

But now, everything has changed. Hugo not only started to exert strength, but also full of confidence. Next, the influence of DreamWorks is bound to increase steadily with the advancement of time. Barry needs to readjust his strategy towards DreamWorks. Of course, Steven Spielberg and Hugo Lancaster are still the number one targets worthy of cooperation.

Compared with Barry Meyer, Mark Canton's reaction was obviously more direct. He called Hugo and strongly expressed his regret, "Hugo, I thought we could really cooperate this time. Yes." Just one sentence made Hugo feel a little guilty.

The last time Hugo cooperated with Sony Columbia Pictures was "Sleepless in Seattle". Later, because of the confrontation between "Speed" and "Wolf", Hugo completely missed the relationship with Sony Columbia Pictures. cooperated. Mark has been working tirelessly these years, so close to Hugo, yet so far away.

Even a businessman whose interests are paramount, inevitably owes debts of favor. What's more, Hugo's impression of Mark has really changed a lot. In the 1994 Los Angeles World Cup final, Hugo and Mark did not get along happily, but since then Mark's hard work, friendship and calm have successfully changed Hugo's opinion.

"Next time, I will absolutely give priority to your company for the next work." Hugo could only express his apology helplessly.

Missed "A Beautiful Mind" but won Hugo's favor and guilt. And who's to say Mark is really an "inexperienced impulsive person"? In this confrontation, only the parties themselves know who wins and who loses.

Not long after, Sony Columbia Pictures officially announced the cooperation with Endeavor Elite Agency to film "Patriot". All the characters in the film will be packaged and signed by Endeavor Elite Agency. -Crow served, the heroine was handed over to Sandra Bullock, in addition, Heath Ledger and Alexander Lorraine will also star.

In addition, they also signed cooperation agreements with DreamWorks on several works including "Almost Famous" and "An. Everlasting. Piece".

At the same time, Twentieth Century Fox and Disney, which have always been silent, also began to implement their plans in an orderly manner.

Twentieth Century Fox not only cooperated with DreamWorks on "The Rest of a Deserted Island", the two parties also signed a cooperation agreement on five works including "What. Lies. Beneath" and "Return to Glory". Outside of the industry, Universal Pictures, the film company that has the closest cooperation with DreamWorks, relies on the personal friendship between Lon Mayer and Steven, while Twentieth Century Fox relies on a keen sense of smell and real deals.

Disney did not show any weakness either. They worked with Endeavor Elite Brokerage Company to develop "The Insider (The. Insider)", "Three Kings of Prison Break (O. Brother, Where. Art. Thou?)", "The Glory Years ( Remember. The. Titans)" and other works, which make Endeavor Elite Brokerage Company truly become the fourth brokerage company in Hollywood that can independently complete the package agreement.

Endeavor Elite Brokerage Company surpassed United Elite Brokerage Company, and became the first company besides the three major brokerage companies that can complete the package agreement for a long time and multiple works. This not only means that the Endeavor Elite Brokerage Company has gradually gained a firm foothold, and has begun to make its debut.

At present, in terms of the number of brokers, Endeavor Elite Brokerage Company has reached 75, which is comparable to that of Innovative Artist Brokerage Company.

However, the number of agents has never been the standard for measuring the level of a brokerage company. In terms of the number of agents alone, International Innovation Management Company is the largest, with more than 170 agents under it, ranking first in Hollywood, and William- Morris Brokers also has more than 150 brokers. However, the innovative artist management company has become the current leader in the industry with a "mere" 100 managers. It can be seen from this that it is the level of its artists that really determines the ability of the management company.

The level of its artists determines the success rate of the brokerage company's packaging agreement. It can be seen from this that Endeavor Elite Brokerage Company has indeed become the top leader outside of the three major brokerage companies, there is no doubt about it.

It's hard to imagine that a single move by an actor can actually drive the movement of half of Hollywood. This was a picture that could not be constructed a year ago. At the peak of Steven Spielberg and George Lucas, they once had such abilities, and the production of "Raiders of the Lost Ark" caused a sensation in Hollywood, but then George gradually turned behind the scenes, and Steven Tiven began to concentrate on shooting war biographies, and the momentum that caused a thousand waves with one stone was gone forever.

But now, such momentum appeared again. Just a "Beautiful Mind", just a Hugo-Lancaster, let five of the eight major Hollywood film companies join the competition - except for MGM and Paramount, which are still standing still, and their own New Line Cinema, which boasts limited funds. This is also the most special phenomenon after the beginning of the era of blockbuster movies: not a $200 million investment, not James Cameron's grand plan, not a disaster movie, sci-fi movie or action movie—not even a commercial movie, but it still caused a lot of excitement. stormy sea.

In the world, there is only this one, and there is no semicolon.