American Fortune Life

"Adam, has the work at the film company been straightened out?"

In the conference room, Andy set his sights on Adam Ferguson, who has already become the president of Universal Pictures.

"Boss, everything is back on track and running normally."

Andy nodded, mastering the power of public opinion has always been his established goal, and he has basically completed this plan until now, and has his own media kingdom, even if it is not as large as Murdoch's News Corporation, but at least In the United States, he already has the ability to influence and guide the public and public opinion.

Similarly, he has always attached great importance to the entertainment industry. In his opinion, this is an important part of his future career map. Whether it is doves occupying the magpie's nest and winning Summit Entertainment, or acquiring Marvel Group, swallowing NBC Universal, It's all about grabbing the entertainment market share.

In the previous life, after going through n times of changing owners, Universal Pictures was able to advance to the number one again without a large number of adaptation resources such as Marvel and DC, and achieved impressive results. People admired it.

In Andy's view, the reason why Universal Pictures can achieve such results is that marketing means are very important, but it is only a small part of the reason, because it is important, and all film companies will not relax in this regard.

What's more, there are few adaptations and insisting on originality. This is a major feature of Universal Pictures. Of course, this is mainly because most of the available adaptation resources have been acquired by competitors. . .

Playing cards not according to common sense is the style of Universal Pictures, and Universal Pictures is well aware of its own advantages. Despite changing owners many times, this advantage has always been maintained and not lost. At this point, a complete set of mature systems has been formed and has become the corporate culture of Universal Pictures.

Although its small-budget films were not as premium as those of its competitors, it persisted and won.

Why? Because it is hard enough for itself!

He is ruthless to the point of being stingy, one of the Big Six in Hollywood, but takes the small-film strategy as the focus of the company's operations, and only focuses on making a fuss about the small and big.

"Before discussing the future development plan of Universal Pictures, let me introduce to you. I believe many people are familiar with him. Summit Entertainment CEO Robert Frey, the group will officially appoint him as the CEO of Universal Pictures..."

After finishing speaking, Andy took the lead in applauding. Amidst the applause of the audience, the red-faced Robert Frey stood up and nodded to everyone. For Robert Frey, this day is of great significance. After being kicked out, he returned to the power core of the Hollywood Six.

"Well, upon hearing this appointment, I believe many people have guessed it, that's right, in one step, Summit Entertainment will be merged into Universal Pictures and become its subsidiary.

For a long time, Universal Pictures has not had a strong global distribution network, so they have always had great concerns about the strategy of relying on blockbuster films to hit the world. Although Summit Entertainment is a new film company, its biggest advantage is its Mature global distribution network.

After the merger, it just made up for the last shortcoming of Universal Pictures. "

Everyone in the conference room is undoubtedly very happy that Summit Entertainment, which has made a big splash at the box office this year, has merged into Universal Pictures. After all, Summit Entertainment's development momentum is too strong.

More importantly, the IP resources held by this new company are so rich that almost all of nbc universal can deduct some resources from Summit Entertainment for cooperation.

"Adam, some time ago, I heard that Legendary Pictures hopes to sign a cooperation agreement with Universal Pictures in the future?" Andy looked at Adam Ferguson and asked.

"Yes, a five-year cooperation agreement. They promised to cooperate with us after the cooperation period with Warner is over. We Universal can participate in the investment and be responsible for the distribution of their films." Adam replied.

"What about the conditions?" Andy squinted his eyes slightly. For this film production company that operates as a Wall Street private equity fund, he didn't think that the other party was so kind that he would bring Universal Pictures to make money.

"Some ip adaptation copyrights, and so on..."

"Hehe, reject them, we don't sell ip copyright!" Andy directly interrupted Adam's commentary with his hand upturned, with a sneer on his face, he is not a fool, the future king of content is not just talk, ip money Don't be too easy.

In the future, superhero movies will emerge in endlessly, and the dominance of the box office will become more and more difficult to shake. The value of this kind of IP remake is really too great.

"The Marvel Cinematic Universe I proposed should be no secret. I have been looking at all the past film materials of Universal Pictures for the past few days, so I came up with a new plan.

Belongs to Universal Pictures' unique cinematic universe Dark Monster Universe.

A large number of classic screen monster images such as Dracula, Frankenstein, Werewolf, Van Helsing, The Mummy, Scorpion King, etc. can be systematically merged into a movie universe, and then launched one by one to form a complete story structure.

And King Kong, I like this big guy, the 2005 version is very good, King Kong vs. Tyrannosaurus Rex, but it’s not enjoyable enough, you say, if King Kong is bigger and its opponents are stronger and more ferocious, will it be okay? Will it be more attractive?

. . . . . . How about Godzilla?

King Kong vs. Godzilla! Gosh, I love the idea of ​​the two of them going head-to-head, the battle of the century for the "best monster in movie history" is still debated by monster lovers, and this time we're giving them their wish! "

Andy was completely caught in the fantasy of talking to himself. He had this idea in his previous life, and let King Kong and Godzilla fight in New York, tearing down buildings and tearing each other up.

Put a bunch of freaks and monsters together and fight each other, the kobolds of the Reaper fight against the werewolves and vampires, the Hunchback of Notre Dame explodes the mummies, the Bride of Frankenstein and the Bride of Vampires have a big fight of the century. . .

Anyway, with so many copyright IPs, it's a waste to let them go. They really can't get them together, so they just play infinite horror.

Tsk tsk, I'm such a genius!

As Andy opened his mind, everyone in the conference room was dumbfounded, but Universal Pictures' Adam and the new CEO Robert's eyes lit up, and excitedly began to record what **oss said Every brainstorming idea that came up.

"By the way, who owns the copyright of Godzilla?" Andy asked suddenly.

"It should still be in the hands of the foot basin man." Robert Frey replied.

"Go buy it, at least 20 years of copyright, and buy a few more monster copyrights from them by the way, we will build a monster movie universe with King Kong and Godzilla as the protagonists!"

The more Andy thought about it, the more he felt that he had something to do. Whether it was the Marvel Universe he copied or the later DC Universe, the idea of ​​rearranging and chronologically re-arranging all the IPs and putting them together will definitely become the IP of future movies. mainstream.

Making movies in the form of series, I believe that even if the audience has more taste, they can satisfy their curiosity.

Astonishment, admiration, shock, everyone in the conference room had different expressions on their faces, but they all looked at **oss with almost the same gaze.

They can be regarded as really seeing the genius brain of the boss who is widely rumored in the outside world. They have a wide-open mind, innovative ideas, and indeed have the ability to turn stones into gold.

Let **oss say this, those old monster movies of the 1920s and 1930s really need to be dug up and remade, and they are very exciting, especially as the old man of Universal Pictures, Adam Ferguson, who is very excited, They finally have a money-making series ip that they can take out.

Think of Warner's DC series, MGM's 007, and Disney's Caribbean. . . Adam Ferguson is really envious, jealous, and hated. Now not only the return of the series, but also these two movie universes that can basically be formed. It is only a matter of time before Universal Pictures returns to its peak!