Hollywood Starts with Animation

Thanks to the relatively good box office of "Deadly Bend", the big Hollywood companies responded quickly.

In just one day, as many as 3 major companies called and contacted to purchase the overseas copyright of "Deadly Bend".

As for the hope of getting a share of the overseas box office, that is not to think about.

The fact is also true, the North American box office does not exceed 50 million US dollars, and the big companies will not mention the box office sharing agreement with you. This is the harsh reality. Of course, Zucker also understood. Thinking from another perspective, if Zhu Ke is the person in charge of a big company, he will not give you a share of the overseas box office.

But.

Zucker is not the head of a big company!

Therefore, facing the option of only selling overseas copyrights, Zucker was very upset. Of course, if you are not happy, you are not happy, and overseas copyrights still have to be sold.

"Zuke, my old friend, the overseas copyright of "Deadly Bend", if you don't sell it to Paramount, do you want to sell it to Warner? If you do, it will really break my heart! "

Jordan, the representative of Paramount's overseas distribution department, made a distressed look at this moment.

"Enough is enough, Jordan."

Zucker looked at him and scolded with a smile: "Jordan, it's true that we are old friends, but Warner and I are also friends. You are all my friends, and you are all big companies. I can't afford to offend anyone! In this case, how do you let me choose?"

The old fox, who looks wronged, who is pretending to be?

Jordan frowned slightly and said: "Zuck, we Paramount will definitely win the overseas copyright of "Deadly Bend", not to mention Warner and us, even if we add Fox, we will not give up."

Hearing this, Zucker nodded.

As one of Hollywood's six major Paramount, it does have this confidence!

"Okay, my old friend, I won't participate in the specific negotiations. I'll leave all these to Victor. You can talk to him later. I have something else to do, sorry!" Zucker said suddenly.

Excuse!

Naked excuses!

But in fact, there are many advantages. Let Victor come forward, no matter what the result is, there is a buffer.

In the first round of negotiations, Paramount offered $7.5 million.

Was rejected by Victor.

When Jordan was leaving, he passed by Zucker's office, looked at him and said quietly: "Zuck, the price of $7.5 million is not too low."

"Oh? I see. But buddy, you must also know that although I am the boss of the company, I can't say anything about the company, and I have to consider Victor's opinion, what do you think?" Zu Ke pretended to be helpless.

fraud!

Damn liar!

Your mother told me that you can't be the master? You go to the devil.

Saying so much, isn't it that the money is not in place?

bastard~!

Jordan had a smile on his face, MMP in his heart.

"Zuck, this first negotiation didn't work out, but you have to keep it for me, don't wait for me to apply for a higher price, then you sell the copyright."

........

Near noon.

In the conference room of Wald Pictures, there was another wave of guests.

- Sony Columbia!

"Mr. Wald, it's a pleasure to meet you. I'm Jiro Itai from the Sony Columbia Overseas Distribution Department! In the future, please give me more advice!"

Sakai Jiro, a little devil.

He is not tall, only about 1.65 meters, and the whole person looks very strong. Of course, the bowing ceremony when he meets him also makes Zu Ke feel more face.

"Mr. Itai, you are welcome, as well as everyone in Colombia." Reach out and don't slap the smiling faces, not to mention that they are still here to send money.

In the next negotiation, Zucker still did not come forward.

Full responsibility to Victor.

"Mr Jones,

I think the $8.5 million that we Sony Columbia offered is absolutely sincere. And I believe, from what I know about Paramount's stinginess, their bid is definitely no more than $8 million. "

At this moment, the little devil Sakai Jiro, where is the previous politeness?

The whole person seemed confident and cunning.

Victor nodded and said with a smile: "Of course I trust Mr. Itai's judgment, and I thank your company for your sincerity, but I can't make a decision too hastily, after all, this is a disrespect to our cooperation. dont you agree?"

"Of course, of course." The little devil Itai was not annoyed.

To be honest, big companies are black enough!

According to the situation of the North American film market and the overseas film market, the overseas box office of a movie is 1.5 times that of the North American movie box office. The analysis pointed out that the final box office of the movie "Deadly Bend" in North America is expected to be between 30 million and 32 million US dollars. In other words, the overseas box office is expected to be 45 million US dollars.

With an overseas box office of 45 million US dollars, large companies can also get about 1/3 of the box office share except for various costs such as copying, theatrical distribution, and distribution fees.

That's about $15 million.

And they asked for the overseas copyright of "Deadly Bend" from Wald Pictures, but they bid 8-9 million US dollars, which alone made millions of dollars.

What's more, what they are looking for is the complete overseas copyright of the movie, including but not limited to the overseas distribution copyright of the movie, as well as the overseas DVD, video tape, peripherals and other copyrights, which are also included.

This part of the profit is definitely not low.

At least it can bring millions of dollars in profits to large companies.

That's right, most of the profits are made by big companies!

"I know this is useless!"

"Large companies rely on perfect overseas distribution channels to exploit small and medium-sized companies openly. What can you do?"

"Unless you don't want to make this money and rot the film in your hands."

Zucker was helpless.

........

in the afternoon.

Wald Pictures welcomes another wave of guests.

- Time Warner Inc.!

The representative is the assistant to the top leader of the distribution department - Reid.

"Mr. Wald, Mr. Jones, we have to cooperate again." Reid said.

"Hope to continue working together."

Zucker and Victor Jones also warmly received Reid and others.

Reid continued: "You two, last time Warner bought the overseas copyright of your company's "Hard Candy", but it cost a full $2 million. As a result, compared to the two, we know that Warner has lost money."

Loss?

Lose the hell!

"Yes, just in terms of overseas box office distribution, you have lost hundreds of thousands of dollars, but there is also a DVD market around "Fruit Hard Candy". In the past two months, you have made more than 1 million yuan. Dollars." Zucker said with a smile.

"Hahaha~!"

Reid's embarrassed look lasted for only a second, then he changed the topic and said, "The two of you have passed, let's talk about the cooperation of "Deadly Bend"."

......

After three days.

The overseas copyright of "Deadly Bend 1" has finally settled on Time Warner!

To this end, Time Warner paid a full $10 million in funding!

It's not that Zucker doesn't want to continue the negotiation, it's just that they are all thieves, and they don't want to continue to add more.

Well, you said that the two film companies Paramount and Fox who gave up their bid for overseas copyrights, why didn't they continue to add more funds?

Yes, it stands to reason that they will not lose money even if they pay a price of 15 million US dollars.

Make more money!

However, they still choose to give up.

Because, there are too many movies produced in North America every year~!

For the same price, they can get other movies that are better and more profitable for them, so it's no surprise that they dropped the "Deadly Bend" movie.

You must know that of the so many movies produced by Hollywood every year, at least 75% of the movies that cannot be released overseas. Therefore, it is not easy to be able to sell overseas copyrights.

" "The second is sent.