Hollywood: Great Directors Starting with Saw

The executives couldn't help but cheer.

Companies make money, they have more bonuses and dividends, and there is no performance pressure.

Everyone is a peer, and Warner's current internal work status can be known by inquiring.

That feeling, there is no performance pressure, just do things step by step every day.

The bonus is even more top-notch.

They twentieth century fox, last year with the true lie filmed by James Cameron, the performance is not bad.

But this year, they have high hopes for brave hearts, because of the collision with the Dark Knight of Batman.

As a result, the box office was not satisfactory.

The North American box office has just exceeded 100 million, and other English-speaking regions, although they are still being released, are also unsatisfactory at the box office because of Batman.

According to the team's estimates, the probability is 50 million US dollars.

In other words, the global box office of Braveheart will stop at about 150 million.

And with Braveheart's $75 million production cost, the loss on the books is already a certainty.

If you want to return your money and make money, you have to rely on DVDs.

Fox is also internally prepared to PR Braveheart in terms of awards, preferably to win an Oscar.

In this way, it will contribute more to its hot sale in the DVD market.

Otherwise, this year's Fox is really something that has not been taken.

That's why they're so excited about Steve Kevin's arrival.

The parent company behind Fox is a KPI.

Once the Focus does not run well, it is indispensable to deduct bonuses and performance.

In this regard, in this era, the old beauty of the capital society is comparable to the future continent.

"But..."

"Steve Kevin, there is one condition, and that's why I called the meeting."

Marvin Davis was sitting at the front of the room, waiting for them to be happy before he spoke up.

Hear Davis' words.

Everyone went quiet.

Look at him.

Davis continued:

"He wants us to sell him, the X-Men and Fantastic Four that we acquired from Marvel Pictures last year."

"I also want to give opinions on this aspect, whether to sell the film rights of these two comics to Steve Kevin."

With that, Davis quieted down and waited for executives to give their opinions.

In fact, Marvin Davis himself is certainly willing to enter into this cooperation.

The X-Men and the Fantastic Four, they only paid a few million dollars to buy these two rights, and they bought them.

It was just that I saw the animated version of the X-Men, which had good ratings on TV, so I bought the copyright in advance and used it later.

Now, they certainly don't have plans for this adaptation.

Otherwise, it would not have been in the original history, until 2000.

The X-Men were just brought to the big screen.

The Fantastic Four was not released until 2005.

Later, it was even more because Marvel was ruthless.

Directly in the comics, all the Fantastic Four were villains, resulting in the big IP of the Fantastic Four, which was almost scrapped.

This led to Fox softening, Sony compromised, and agreed to share the copyright later.

In the end, in fact, it was Fox at this time who did not understand the power of these two IPs, but regarded it as the same as the copyright of the novel adaptation.

It's just two themes with a certain degree of popularity.

"Give it to him if he wants, as long as we can get a bigger share of his new film."

"Or simply, using the copyright of those two films he wanted, we let him only get paid."

"You are an idiot, he only gets paid, do you dare to let him shoot? Or use copyright to blackmail him to shoot, really not afraid that he will shoot indiscriminately.

"Only by investing yourself, will you be more attentive, otherwise, he will pat casually, we Fox can not withstand this loss."

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Among the executives, some proposed to use the copyright that Kevin wanted as a condition to make Kevin only make movies with a salary.

As soon as this proposal came out, it was immediately rejected by others.

Film directors make movies is a very subjective thing, really offended ruthlessly, others fight for fame and don't want it, pit a wave of Fox.

That's a huge cost in the billions.

This kind of brain-dead thing that offends the director, it's better not to do it.

There are also people who are reluctant to copyright, thinking that Steve Kevin is so optimistic about these two copyrights, they shoot the best themselves, and want to refuse to cooperate with Steve Kevin.

Unfortunately, it immediately stopped at other high-level levels.

Looking at the chaotic conference room, Marvin Davis knocked on the table and said

, "In that case, raise your hands and vote!"

"Hands up to agree to sell the copyright to Steve Kevin!"

As soon as the words fell, Marvin Davis was the first to raise his hand.

At the same time, six of the eight executives present raised their hands.

The meeting, with an absolute ratio of seven to two, passed the conditions for selling the copyright to Kevin and cooperating with Kevin.

....

Three o'clock in the afternoon.

Kevin slept well in Fox's office until three o'clock when he woke up.

The body was intimately covered with a blanket by the female secretary.

Only guests of Kevin's level can enjoy this kind of service.

On the table in front of him, there were several kinds of snacks, and Kevin ate a little with interest.

But soon he frowned and drank water.

The food was fine, it was just too sweet.

Perhaps because of race, Americans are too receptive to sweetness.

And also very sweet lovers, which is why American fat people often weigh hundreds of pounds.

And he may be the influence of his past life and cannot accept this high-sugar food.

...

The door was pushed open and Marvin Davis walked in, conveying Fox's opinion to Kevin.

"Director Kevin, after discussion, we agreed to your request."

"As long as we reach a cooperation, the X-Men and Fantastic Four movies can be sold to you at the price we buy."

Kevin, who was eating sweets and tasting little by little, swallowed the food in one bite.

The joy in my heart still rose.

At this point, all of Marvel's copyrights are back in Marvel's hands.

His Marvel plan can begin right away.

But until then, he's going to give Fox a movie plan to make the deal.

As for what movie...

Kevin suddenly thought of a very suitable movie.

In particular, being able to complete the film he agreed with Nicolas Cage.

It seems that the Ghost Knight is going to be put in the back.

"Happy cooperation, President Davis!"

Kevin replied with a smile.

After reaching a consensus on this aspect, the two began in-depth discussions on the issue of investment shares.

In the end, the proportion of investment of five to five was reached, and the copyright parties were equally divided.

As Kevin's concession in copyright, the operation of copyright is all entrusted to Fox, and Kevin's side can send financial supervision to supervise.

It can also use the salary of the three professions of screenwriter, director, and producer to cover part of the investment amount.

Do the biggest with the smallest cash.

Of course, these are only general plans, and there will be a professional team behind the specific contract to compete for every point in the contract.

So as to reach a consensus...