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Chapter 177 Grade Report (35)

Tiangong Yicai is headed by Liu Song, who is the visual effects director of Tiangong Yicai.

This time I came to the United States mainly to supervise the later stage of "The Martian" and to learn from Hollywood experience, so I came with money!
After placing Tiangong Yicai and his group of five in a villa in Beverly Hills, Cheng Yuan went to a big film company.

He has not appeared in the company this year.

Bob was surprised by Cheng Yu'an's appearance.

"Cheng, I thought you forgot about us."

Wan Ziren is very busy this year. He has three films to be released, "Dead Silence" and "Death Penalty" as the director, and "Saw 4" as the producer.

"Dead Silence" cost 2000 million. It was released in March this year. It opened high and low.

Pay back?Big loss!

Another "Death Penalty" was even worse, with a cost of 2000 million US dollars, North America received 950 million, and the world only received 1700 million.

Fox hit the street with two films that it cooperated with a big film company, and Daniel was going to scold him!

Fortunately, there is "Chain Saw 4" to hold the respect.

It was released on October 10, U.S. time, and opened 26 million in the first week. Now the global box office has exceeded 3200 million US dollars, and breaking 5000 million is a foregone conclusion.

The "Chain Saw" series has maintained a stable gold-absorbing ability.

Wen Ziren retains 30% of the copyright of the entire series, which also makes him a lot of money, and he is firmly tied to the car of "Chain Saw".

When Cheng Yu'an first arrived in the United States, the company was planning to release "The Man From Earth".

The film was bought out from Richard Scheinkman.

The price is to give "Buried Alive" to him, an independent director who has been looking for opportunities to shoot.

The topic of "Buried Alive" is relatively sensitive, and its release is a bit troublesome. Dachang refused to accept it, so it gave it to Lions Gate, and it is scheduled to be released next year.

It was said before that the great Russian director Timo Bekmambetov came to Hollywood to look for opportunities. Cheng Yuan wrote him a crime movie script "Killer No Holiday". He could see that it was a good script, but it was a little different from his way. I didn't deal with it, so I didn't answer it.

Bob bought him the rights to adapt a comic, British cartoonist Mark Miller's "Wanted".

Working with Universal, Morgan Freeman and Angelina Jolie were invited.

With a budget of $7500 million, the show is the most expensive movie a major studio has ever made.

In this film, a major film company paid 4700 million US dollars, accounting for 75%, and Universal covered all the remaining investment and was responsible for distribution.

The leading actor was James McAvoy, and he was also found in "Atonement". A big film company has very close contacts with British filmmakers.

"Killer Has No Holidays" was given to the British director Martin McDonagh. It has been filmed and is ready to be sent to the Sundance Film Festival
Many things happened this year, and Cheng Yu'an listened to Bob's report one by one, interjecting from time to time.

The key lies in Cheng Yu'an's personal investments.

One is the investment in "Kung Fu Panda". This film is extremely difficult. With Cheng Yu'an's capital injection, it is finally coming to an end.Paramount has already set a worldwide release next year.

Katzenberg, an old boy, will not change his nature. He sees that a big film company has money, so he wants to make money from Cheng Yu'an.

Said that as long as 2 million US dollars, you can get the friendship of DreamWorks Animation.

Cheng Yu'an believed him a ghost!
The cheated Samsung ran away overnight, and the global investors saw him as if they had seen a ghost. They wanted to cheat Cheng Yu'an's money, but there was no way.

Cheng Yu'an already has the priority investment rights for the follow-up of "Kung Fu Panda" and more than 35% of the income of the whole series, so he has little interest in DreamWorks Animation.

But still very envious of his project.

So I made a simple agreement with Katzenberg. Cheng Yuan will not invest in DreamWorks Animation, but has the priority investment rights in the next 10 animation films of DreamWorks Animation (except "Kung Fu Panda" and its follow-up), but Kason Berg requires that each investment should not be less than 6000 million US dollars.

This is already the most money Katzenberg could "cheat" from Cheng Yu'an.

After drawing up the agreement, Cheng Yuan immediately set his sights on the ongoing production of "Madagascar 2", but was rejected.

Want to eat fart!

Do you need money for the sequel destined to be a hit?DreamWorks would be so stupid?

The second investment is Marvel and its "Iron Man".

Under the authorization of Cheng Yu'an, Bob intends to inject 1.3 million US dollars into Marvel. Marvel is very excited, but encounters great resistance.

After months of dragging on, the deal never came through.

In the end, Bob said to Cheng Yu'an: "Boss, Marvel's acquisition case has already been on the desks of the CEOs of major companies. We invest in Marvel at this time, and they will definitely not sit idly by."

When Bob said this, Cheng Yu'an understood that it was really unrealistic to try to squeeze Marvel before Disney made a move.

"But Marvel allows us to invest in their films, and such an investment studio will not intervene." Bob was originally not optimistic about Marvel, but now that the investment failed, he was a little secretly happy.

In the end, Cheng Yu'an settled for the next best thing, and reached an investment of 5000 million US dollars in "Iron Man" with Marvel.

Cheng Yu'an wanted to transfer DreamWorks' set of priority investment rights to Marvel, but now Marvel didn't know whether it would survive, and coupled with the secret obstruction of the big factory, this method also died.

"Gou Ri's attack is really fast!" Cheng Yu'an cursed inwardly.

It's really too late for him to make a move. If he has money in 02 and 03, he is confident that he will give Marvel all over.

But being able to eat "Iron Man" is enough to make Cheng Yu'an happy, but the follow-up of Marvel has nothing to do with him.

After the explosion of "Iron Man", Disney will acquire Marvel at the speed of light, no longer giving anyone a chance, fully owned!
It has been three days since the matter of a big film company has been dealt with, and Tiangong Yicai and his team have also recovered from the jet lag and started to devote themselves to work.

Some of the special effects for "The Martian" were handed over to Industrial Light and Magic.

Cheng Yu'an packed everyone from Los Angeles to the industrial light and magic headquarters in San Francisco.

The special effects that Cheng Yu'an wanted were not difficult to do, and the main reason for Industrial Light & Magic was their quality and speed.

Also because the difficulty is not high, ILM's fees are fairly generous.

But in order to stuff Tiangong Yicai and his group in to steal the teacher, Cheng Yu'an also spent a lot of money.

Industrial Light & Magic does not mind other people visiting their company, and warmly received Liu Song and his party.

Nonsense, a group of five people, 2000 US dollars per person per day, five people have to stay at Industrial Light and Magic for at least two months, which is 60 yuan, and nothing is earned.

But there is no way. Domestic special effects started late, so if you want to learn from others, you have to be willing to pay.

Cheng Yu'an had to pay for this money.

(End of this chapter)