1450 Delicate Balance
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In 2000, Thomas Tour founded Legendary Pictures based on a private equity fund with a scale of about 50 million US dollars, and officially signed a long-term cooperation agreement with Warner Bros., and subsequently attracted many well-known investment banks and angel investors. Capital injection, and now the market value has exceeded two billion US dollars.
However, they are more of an investment platform than a film production company. They invest in Warner Bros. projects, provide flexible funds, and then wait for returns, but in many cases they will not be involved in the film production process, but it is up to Legendary Pictures to decide which projects to choose.
Legendary Pictures relies on Thomas' vision and mind. The company chooses who to cooperate with and what projects to produce. Wall Street bosses never intervene and give Thomas 100% trust.
Before, in fact, Warner Bros. had asked Legendary Pictures to cooperate with "Green Lantern", but Thomas refused directly, and expressed his opinion with malicious words, "If a random person walks in and throws me a script, When it comes to filming, I can only say, it's too far-fetched." Later, it was confirmed that Thomas's vision was vicious, and "Green Lantern" lost more than 150 million US dollars.
It was Thomas like this who also took advantage of the infighting of Warner Bros., hoping to gain more power and interests; and then quickly withdrew after his failure.
For Warner Bros., it's obviously making things worse.
In fact, Thomas has never concealed his ambitions and attempts. He not only wants to get more returns, but also tries to be "more talkative" in the projects he invests in, and to move up the Hollywood pyramid.
To put it simply, Thomas Tour and Kevin Tsujihara are the same kind of people who both want to keep power in their hands, not just for profit, but for control - Michael Ace, former CEO of Disney So is Na. One mountain cannot tolerate two tigers, so between Thomas and Tsujihara, one must leave.
A source familiar with the matter said that Thomas is not willing to be just an investor, and he wants to play more of the role of a producer and have more decision-making power over the film. Warner Bros. does rely on Legendary's venture capital, but Tsujihara doesn't need a chattering backer. Parting ways are inevitable.
This split is actually a microcosm of the game between Wall Street and Hollywood: Warner Bros. was the first partner to give up, but it definitely won't be the last.
Things got messy after that.
A brief description of the result is: Warner Bros. and Dune Entertainment reached a cooperation agreement. Dune Entertainment had previously cooperated with 20th Century Fox for a long time, and jointly created works such as "Avatar", "Prometheus" and "Wolverine 2"; then in July On the comic exhibition, Warner Bros. officially announced the establishment of the "Batman v Superman" project, and opened the official development plan of dc comics.
Rosenbaum, who was originally in charge of Warner Bros.' TV division, joined Legendary Pictures and created a new TV and digital division. Immediately after Legendary Pictures announced that it had joined forces with Universal Pictures and reached a formal cooperation, their first joint development The project is a reboot of "Jurassic Park."
Robinov, who was originally in charge of the film department, was not in a hurry to find a next home. According to rumors, he seems to be preparing his own production company. More than half a year later, Studio-8 was officially established and reached a cooperation agreement with Sony Columbia Pictures, targeting the Chinese/Chinese market.
So, came to the current chaos.
On the one hand, Warner Bros. is quickly sorting out the situation and developing the dc project in full swing. The conversation between Renly and Barry about "prompt action may have negative effects" has now come to nothing, and history is still moving fast according to the original trajectory. In the face of the entire Time Warner behemoth, the little butterfly Renly is still too insignificant.
By the way, Barry Mayer, who is 66 years old this year, has started to enjoy his retirement after stepping down as CEO. The major Hollywood studios have never mentioned this character again.
Universal, on the other hand, is catching up fast. In the turmoil, Diesel chose to bow his head and give in for Junjie, and "Fast & Furious 7" immediately went into filming; the "Jurassic Park" project encountered rolling up his sleeves and preparing for a big fight. Thomas Tour on the field was temporarily in a deadlock.
It can be simply considered that Legendary Pictures in the past was just an investment platform and a production company; but now it is truly transforming into a production company, and more cooperation with Universal Pictures is carried out.
A storm is sweeping across Hollywood, not just the Warner Bros. family, but 20th Century Fox, Disney, Universal Pictures, etc. are also involved, and even Paramount and Sony Columbia can't completely stand idly by. All powers are being reshuffled.
To Renly, he was a poker card in the game. In other words, a chess piece. Although it is too cruel and too cold-blooded to say this, the fact is that he is not enough to shake the whole Hollywood situation, Warner Bros. cannot change its strategy for him, and Universal Pictures cannot offend Legendary Pictures because of him. .
As a result, things were temporarily caught in a delicate balance amid the chaos—
The "Jurassic Park" restart project, Andy Rogers and Thomas Tour are still in a tug-of-war negotiation, and Steven Spielberg and Frank Marshall can only indirectly exert pressure and cannot directly intervene. Mayer instead took a stance of idly watching.
"Fast & Furious
"Project, Ron Mayer is neither forward nor backward, although the seventh film has started, but he also did not say, whether the rumor and the sequel will continue to cooperate with Renly, how to solve the problem of Vin Diesel, just This keeps the relationship close.
No wonder Andy found Renly himself, and his expression was unpredictable, neither optimistic nor pessimistic, neither positive nor negative.
After a brief understanding of the ins and outs, Renly closed his jaw slightly and asked earnestly, "So... does this mean that I may not be able to find a job recently?"
Although the content of the words expressed concern, the way of speaking was still understatement. After the question was over, Renly picked up the teacup unhurriedly and began to enjoy afternoon tea. He seemed to be slow and content. Is there any sign of concern?
Andy had expected it long ago, and couldn't help but chuckle, "To be honest, are you having fun? Now you can finally stop worrying about shooting opportunities for commercial films?"
"Of course not." Renly replied solemnly, "I have been waiting for the opportunity to appear in commercial films. It is necessary to maintain the rhythm of one film a year, and it has been a long time since 'Edge of Tomorrow'. , I'm looking forward to 'Gravity' becoming a commercial film, and I'm happy to participate in more commercial films."
If it was someone else, they might have believed in Renly, because Renly was so sincere that people couldn't help but want to believe it.
But Andy knew Renly, how could he be easily fooled, "How did you forget the dubbing job of 'Super Marines'?"
"Oh, is animation also a commercial movie? I don't know." Renly thought about it seriously, "I think the box office prospects of 'Super Marines' should be good, but obviously, Disney will not thank me. They also don't want to give me dividends. I'm very embarrassed."
The robotic answer made Andy laugh cheerfully, "If that's the case, it would be a pity, I was thinking that things will be turbulent for Warner Bros. and Universal Pictures recently, It is estimated that the progress of the relevant cooperation negotiations will not be too fast, and commercial films can only be put aside temporarily, so I found another black independent work for you, and I think you will definitely like it very, very much."
With that said, Andy took out a script from his briefcase and placed it on the coffee table.
"But now, aren't you interested anymore?" Andy looked at Renly confidently, as if he was certain that Renly would change his mind after reading the script.
But Renly was still not in a hurry, he put down the teacup in his hand, wiped the water stains on his fingers, and then picked up the script.
When he saw the title of the cover, Renly raised his eyebrows slightly, raised his head again to look at Andy, but found Andy cast a confident look, and gestured to the script with his eyes, as if When he said, "You read it first, we will talk in detail later." The confidence that burst out from the inside out, as well as the pride hidden in it, was fully revealed.
"night Stalker".
That's the title of the script that Andy brought up. Honestly, Renly can understand Andy's smugness, because it's truly a fantastic, smashing piece of work.
"Nightcrawler" tells about a real industry in Los Angeles. They are called "nightcrawlers". These freelance journalists and photographers go around filming the impact of violent crime and sell them to TV-related programs for high money. return.
In the era of entertainment to death and interests first, the media needs explosive points and gimmicks. Explosion, bloodshed and even murder, etc., all become their source of income, so this makes the nightcrawlers get the soil to thrive, gradually It started to lose control.
In fact, in a way, this is the same behavior as the paparazzi outside the Juilliard School not long ago-
This is the case with today's nightcrawlers. In order to find news, they enter the house without compromise, and finally go into trouble. As long as it is a crime or violence, they can smell the blood like hyenas. Even when they aim at bystanders and ordinary people, or even witness a crime such as murder, their first reaction is not to seek justice, but to seek justice. Record news material.
The bottom line of morality, the boundary between righteousness and evil, is crumbling little by little.
"Nightcrawler" tells such a story.
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