Chapter 504 "Actors Please Take Your Place" Begins Recording!

The completion of "Love Letter" does not mean that Wu Yuan is liberated. On the contrary, after returning to Beijing, he is even busier.

He has been in Shanghai for almost two months to shoot a movie. Some documents and things accumulated by the company need him to sign the documents.

Electronic signatures have not yet been developed. Although Wu Yuan can nod his head to agree to many things over the phone, specific documents still need to be signed in person to have legal effect.

Not only his company affairs in China, but also the Guangshidai on the other side of the ocean.

Since the release of "Interstellar", Wu Yuan has not been to the United States for a long time after returning to China. Some documents from the United States have also been sent to China across the ocean for Wu Yuan to sign and then send back.

This kind of thing has to be done.

Therefore, as his companies in China and the United States grow bigger and bigger, he has to spend a lot of personal time on handling company affairs.

Of course, this situation can also be solved. He only needs to upgrade the company, set up a board of directors, or establish a full-power representative. In this way, as long as he nods his head, the full-power representative has the right to sign various documents on his behalf.

John has this right, but Wu Yuan still signed a more detailed rights and interests division contract with him. Some very important documents still need his personal signature to take effect.

For example, the contract about the cooperation between Light Era and 20th Century Fox that has just been delivered.

This contract is very important.

After a long negotiation, Light Era and 20th Century Fox reached an important cooperation agreement.

This is a 10-year cooperation agreement, which stipulates that the two parties will jointly invest and produce 20 film and television works in the next 7 years.

Specifically, the situation is similar to the cooperation between Legendary Pictures and Warner Bros.

In 2005, Legendary Pictures and Warner Bros. signed a 7-year cooperation agreement, and they will cooperate to produce 40 film and television works in the next seven years.

And this cooperation has been basically completed this year.

Warner Bros.' "Superman Returns", "Batman Begins", "300", "Batman: The Dark Knight", "Inception" and "Batman: The Dark Knight Rises" and "Man of Steel" which have been completed but not yet released are all among the cooperative products of the two companies.

Of course, this is only the profitable ones.

In fact, among the 40 cooperations, only less than 10 have achieved profits, and the remaining 30 are all loss-making or break-even film and television works.

Through this cooperation, it can be seen that the reason why Warner Bros. signed such a cooperation agreement with Legendary is to cooperate with Legendary on some projects with high risks and easy losses, but if the bet is successful, it may make a lot of money, and share the risk of losses.

Warner's IP that can really make a lot of money has never been shared with Legendary Pictures.

For example, the magic cash cow "Harry Potter", such as the Middle-earth world including the series "Lord of the Rings" and "The Hobbit".

But overall, Legendary is not at a loss, because Warner and Legendary have cooperated to create a monster universe and share the DC universe with Legendary.

Among the 40 cooperative films, if 10 can make money or even sell well, it is actually enough for the film company to make a profit. This is the cruel fact of the film industry.

This is also why large companies like Warner have to find other small and medium-sized film companies to cooperate and bear the production risks.

Among the thousands of films produced in Hollywood every year, there are really too few movies that can really make money.

Speaking of which, if it weren't for Wu Yuan's appearance, the "Hangover" series would also be a model of successful cooperation between Legendary and Warner.

Therefore, the in-depth cooperation between Legendary Pictures and Warner Bros. did not end because the agreement was about to expire, and there would even be a honeymoon period.

This can be regarded as a typical example of cooperation in Hollywood.

After all, there are too many major film companies in the United States that jointly invest and distribute, which is too normal.

The Big Six in Hollywood still likes to cooperate with small film companies. Warner has long-term cooperation with at least eight well-known small film companies in Hollywood.

In fact, independent film companies like Light Age that have made a name for themselves but have not yet had any long-term cooperation agreements with the Big Six in Hollywood are rare in Hollywood.

Since its debut, Light Age has only worked with New Line to create the "Kingsman" series and cooperated with 20th Century Fox on the "Night at the Museum" series.

It is a miracle that the Big Six have come to Light Era to seek long-term cooperation only now.

Wu Yuan did not refuse the cooperation intention from 20th Century Fox, and even took the initiative to let John go to talk.

For others, cooperating with the Big Six to invest in film production may be a very risky thing. If you are not careful, you may be killed by the high-risk projects of the Big Six.

But Wu Yuan is different. He may not know how many bad movies the Big Six have produced every year, and how many of the Big Six's movies have lost a lot of money, but he knows which movies can make money or not lose money!

Letting Light Era enter Fox's cooperation list is like putting a mouse in a rice warehouse.

Therefore, Wu Yuan is very positive, but he has a bottom line requirement for this cooperation, that is, Light Era must have the right to refuse.

They can freely choose which movies to cooperate with from the projects produced by Fox every year.

Of course, Fox can also refuse to cooperate with Light Era on some projects that Fox itself thinks are "sure to make money".

But they cannot force Light Era to invest in a certain movie.

Only in this way can there be truly fair cooperation.

In this regard, Fox was unwilling to agree at first.

Since when did small and medium-sized companies have the right to say no to Fox?

However, Fox's operating status has not been very good in recent years, and the company's capital chain has been a bit tight, which is why they have to seek cooperation.

And Light Era should be the richest among the small and medium-sized film companies in Hollywood.

Because Light Era's investment loss ratio is too low, the "Twilight" series has brought Light Era a lot of returns at a very low cost.

Fox needs this money to help them get through the difficult time of tight capital chain.

So, after several negotiations, Fox agreed to Wu Yuan's request, making this cooperation much fairer for both parties.

After Wu Yuan signed the cooperation agreement, the first project of the two companies' cooperation was sent to Wu Yuan's mailbox.

With strong capital injection, Fox is ambitious to restart its important IP "Alien".

This time they plan to play big and make a trilogy of movies about the birth of Alien.

The script for the first part is ready, tentatively named "Alien Prequel".

But after reading the script, Wu Yuan knew the final name of the movie - "Prometheus"! (End of this chapter)