Four Hundred and Twenty-Four - Wayne Is Smarter than Anyone Else

"Do you also think he is willfully crazy? Humph."

Jeff Robinov suddenly smiled, and you didn't need to look carefully to find that there was a deep sarcasm on the upturned corners of his mouth.

"Hat?" Bruce Rosenblum didn't understand what he meant. He took the cigar from his mouth and looked over doubtfully.

"Bruce, this is why I say Wayne is smart."

Jeff Robinov let out a long breath, relaxed his upper body, put away all expressions solemnly, and leaned back on the chair seriously. He crossed his hands on his chest, but looked out the window at the media capital under the bright sunshine.

After a full three or two minutes, his voice sounded leisurely. "On the surface, it seems that this time Wayne is retaliating against those companies that maliciously threw dirty water on him. I have to say that the effect of this is very good. Now everyone knows his character. This is an absolute fact. He's a crazy guy, so try not to mess with him if you have nothing to do.

In fact, the reason is not just that. As the majority shareholder of Warner Bros., Wayne also has a very high reputation within the company. Bruce, you have to understand that the reason why everyone respects him is because he can create things for everyone. Huge benefits, but what if one day he wants more benefits? "

The question from the Warner Bros. CEO made Lucius Rosenbloom fall into silence. In fact, no one wants more benefits. This is a commercial society, and capital itself is greedy.

Putting myself in another position, if I had everything that Wayne has now, I would definitely not be willing to just be a pure film director. Since my works can reap hundreds of millions of profits every time, why should I pay him every time? While others work, you only get the tens of millions of box office shares and remuneration?

Especially after testing the waters with "The Matrix", I believe no one will be tempted after seeing the real profits that a blockbuster movie can create. Compared with the income from omni-channel copyright operations, the profit from box office sharing is simply negligible.

Undoubtedly, in this situation once or twice, Warner Bros. could only hold its nose and agree. Not only did it agree, but it also fully supported Wayne in doing so, because he is too important to the current Warner Bros.

But what about too many times? No media giant composed of capital would be willing to let him take away the profits that belong to his own territory. The final result is nothing more than conflicts over money, and irreconcilable cracks in the relationship between the two parties. The final result can be As you can imagine, they parted ways.

"You mean"

When Bruce Rosenblum thought of this, he immediately put down the cigar in his hand. He couldn't care less about enjoying it for a moment and looked blankly across the desk.

"Yes, Wayne thought of this earlier than we all did."

Jeff Robinov nodded, with genuine appreciation in his voice. "So, going crazy is just a pretext. He simply made his promise first. No matter how big the market the DC series will be in the future, he will not covet the profits from it, and he will never participate in investment in any name."

After such an analysis, the distribution director of Warner Bros. also understood that the other party had undoubtedly controlled the main factor in future conflicts between the two parties in advance.

It has to be said that if Wayne doesn't want to get out of hand in the future and be tied together for a long time, he must give in. If this is done, at least all shareholders of Warner Bros. and Time Warner will breathe a sigh of relief early.

In fact, as long as the DC series, a universe that the company estimates has a market size of tens of billions, is not tainted, they can only hold their noses happily and support all other excessive behaviors of Wayne.

"Pity!"

This is the second time Bruce Rosenblum has said this this morning. Before, it was a pity that he did not sign an exclusive distribution agreement with the theater company, but this time it is because he feels pity for Wayne and wants to You know, no one knows how much future earnings that young man gave up this time.

"It's not a pity."

Jeff Robinov shook his head, smiling like a child. "You have to know that what Wayne gave up was just the opportunity to enter the DC series, but he did not promise that he would not cooperate with Warner Bros. in the future like "The Matrix"."

The two people looked at each other and saw the answer in each other's eyes.

With Wayne's production ability, even if he is only a project initiator or producer, the success rate of the film will not be low. This is the case for "The Matrix", and the same is true for "The Departed", which officially opens on a large scale today.

In fact, even if he does not invest in the huge profits of the DC series, he will not make much less money. As soon as they think of the last two parts of "The Matrix", both of them feel like they have seen a green city made of US dollars. of mountains.

"Shit, I'm just trying to tell you something." Bruce Rosenblum stubbed out the cigar and put it into the ashtray, as if he suddenly thought of something terrible.

The Warner Bros. CEO frowned and asked, "What?"

Bruce Rosenblum suddenly leaned forward, closed the distance between the two parties, and whispered, "As far as I know, Wayne's vampire agent Jimmy has been collecting various copyrights. I don't know anything else, but The film and television rights to the epic fantasy masterpieces "The Lord of the Rings" and "The Hobbit" are now in Wayne's name."

Seeing the other person's eyes widening, he continued without waiting for Jeff Robinov to ask, "This epic has been chased by the big fat guy Harvey, but Wayne never let go. Through his agent, We specially found a New Zealander who is adapting the script of this masterpiece and obviously has the intention to produce it.”

Speaking of the fat man Harvey Weinstein, he is indeed not liked by people in the industry. His arrogant and domineering character, who doesn't sell anyone's face, even the senior executives of the parent company Walt Disney are still not looked down upon by this fat man. Miramax and Disney Emperor Michael Eisner have always had conflicts. rumors.

But not only did this fat man not disappear because of his own style of acting, but he became more and more powerful. It was because of his sharp market insight. Just looking at his production ability, this fat man was definitely the top in the industry.

There is no doubt that Wayne has a vision for movies, and now the fat man has also set his sights on this magical masterpiece. It is a project that is valued by two top producers in the industry. It is hard not to look forward to how much market potential it has.

"This is only what we know. We have no way of knowing how many projects can be launched at any time." Bruce Rosenblum shook his head, completely impressed by the young man's vision. "As far as I know, Wayne's agent started collecting copyrights a few years ago."

In today's Hollywood, it seems that the market size is constantly expanding on a global scale, but in fact, everyone in the industry knows that production companies are becoming more conservative, because most of the truly profitable large-scale productions come from sequel movies or other movies. Adapted film.

The proportion of original films is constantly decreasing. This is determined by the market and will never be deflected by one person's will.

Now almost all major companies are aware of this. In the future theater market, sequel movies and adapted movies will be the mainstream. The popularity of these movies is by no means comparable to that of original movies.

The result of that is that everyone is paying more and more attention to copyright. For books on the North American bestseller list, almost as soon as a good work appears, major film companies will come to them as soon as possible to buy out the film and television rights, even if they are not available now. Take the photo and put it in the copyright library for later use.

Wayne's behavior of collecting copyrights several years in advance is destined to create immeasurable profits for him in the future. Both of them realized that this may be the main reason why the other party was willing to give up a share of the DC series.

"Bruce, I remember"

Jeff Robinoff recalled, and asked uncertainly, "Wayne almost started a science fiction project about gorillas climbing the Twin Towers, right? Also, after that party, I heard that there was another A script about a dog, ha! It seems that everyone will have a lot of busy work in the future!"

The two looked at each other, no one knew whether this was a good thing or a bad thing.

"He has already gotten up and rushed to New York to promote. It seems that we have to prepare a celebration party for the crew in advance. We will have to have a good chat with him then!" Bruce Rosenblum knows very well that the other party holds a large amount of copyrights. And the significance of the project, in terms of the current success rate, it is not an exaggeration to describe Wayne as a mobile money printing machine.

A successful and successful movie can generate huge profits. With the complete upstream and downstream channels operated by the six giants, the profit margin is definitely greater than going to Mexico next door to sell "contraband".

Speaking of which, now that major film companies are paying attention to copyrights in advance, it is still to blame Wayne for influencing Warner Brothers in advance. In the past few years, due to his invisible influence, Warner Brothers' big productions have almost all been sequels. and movie adaptations, all of which have achieved amazing results.

With large investments in sequels and film adaptations, as well as the success rate of projects directed by Wayne himself, Warner Bros.'s performance has ranked first among the six giants for three consecutive years. The second place may have been changing, but The first one has no intention of wavering.

Why did several other companies forcefully try to go to Black Wayne, knowing that it was impossible? It's because they know that as long as Warner Bros. loses this big tree that contributes half of its performance, the number one position will not be as unshakable as it is now.

Jeff Robinov glanced at the newspaper on the table and decided to consider the matter at hand first. "Bruce, the follow-up announcement of "The Departed" is mainly in the name of Wayne's last R-rated film, and the remaining resources are devoted to the three male protagonists. The audience of this film is inevitably polarized. Then we will focus on the emotion card!"

"Okay, I'll let you know as soon as I get back."