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Chapter 895 Marvel's Chinese Heroes

Cheng Yu'an is going to take a long trip, he will fly to the United States, and he has already negotiated a licensing agreement with Universal.

The "Despicable Me" series and its derivative "Minions" series will be licensed to Universal Theme Park.

Another animation copyright of a major film company is also under further negotiation.

Cheng Mufan wanted to go with his father, and when Liu Yifei was packing Cheng Yu'an's luggage, he also dragged out his own small bag and asked his mother to pack two pieces of clothes and toys for him.

Liu Yifei smiled and said, "I'm too embarrassed to point you out. Do you want to accompany Dad? You just don't want to go to school. Go as you go."

Cheng Mufan was not ashamed when his thoughts were punctured, but instead said to Liu Yifei, "I hate you."

"I like you." Liu Yifei smiled, "Hurry up and pack up your toy, I'll check it later."

Cheng Mufan left angrily.

Cheng Yu'an said, "What date are you flying to Vienna?"

Tangtang and Luo Jin's wedding is scheduled to be held in Vienna on the 28th.

Liu Yifei said: "Leave on the 25th, you have to come here quickly."

Cheng Yu'an counted the time and said, "I'll try to be there on the night of the 27th. There are a lot of things going on in the United States."

Tangtang is the first batch of artists signed by the company, and he has a good relationship with Liu Yifei, so the two of them will naturally go to support Tangtang in this field.

"Farewell to Dad." The mother and daughter sent Cheng Yu'an to the car.

"You really don't want to go with Dad." Cheng Yu'an didn't forget to tease his daughter before leaving.

"Tell me again that I really stuffed her in your car." Liu Yifei said.

Cheng Yu'an kissed her daughter, and Liu Yifei leaned in: "I want it too."

Unexpectedly, the daughter disagreed: "I don't kiss my mother."

Cheng Yu'an smiled and said, "Okay, then I won't kiss my mother. I'm leaving, you are obedient at home."

After Cheng Yu'an left, Liu Yifei was jealous of her daughter and said, "Don't let father kiss mother, bad baby."

Cheng Mufan protested, "My father."

"my husband."

"My father, a little bit."

"My husband, just a little bit." Liu Yifei followed suit.

After two quarrels with her daughter, Liu Yifei arranged for her to take a nap.

The development of a major film company has indeed been hindered in the past two years.

After "Jurassic World" became popular, Universal took back the copyright and filmed the second part, which earned a global box office of 13 billion US dollars.

So far this year, the company has released 4 movies. Although they didn't hit big, they were all profitable.

Among them, the best result is "A Quiet Place" with Emily Blunt, which leveraged a global box office of 1700 million US dollars at a very low cost of 3.5 million US dollars.

Compared with "Revenge Behemoth", which the company cooperated with Johnson for the second time, although the film won a box office of 4 million US dollars, it still cannot compare with "A Quiet Place" in terms of return on investment.

The animation company has no films released this year.

In the following Christmas file, a major film company will also be absent.

Looking at the box office list, it was almost dominated by super-English movies and blockbuster sequels. Even Cheng Yu'an couldn't help cursing: "I've been unlucky for eight lifetimes to make original movies."

Colleagues in the same industry also said: "We often say that what is fighting now is the ability to tell stories, and it is clear whose copyright is more."

"I have a lot of IP, so I dug it out and used special effects to make a movie, and then went public to collect money. If the box office is good, I will continue to make a sequel next year. If the box office is not good, I will change to another IP. There are always times when a blind cat meets a dead mouse and blows up a movie. .

"Especially the player Spielberg this year."

"Ready Player One."

"Yes, "Ready Player One". From the script, the story of this movie is extremely simple. The action-adventure movie was shot like this 30 years ago. He changed it to a sci-fi skin and added a lot of colorful special effects before it was released. Then show all kinds of classic movie IPs in the movie for decades, which can make the audience climax. I don’t understand this kind of movie.”

"So the box office performance of this movie is not good." Cheng Yu'an said, "It's only 5 million US dollars."

Cheng Yu'an understands old Martin more and more. He also doesn't like the current movie market. Although a hundred flowers are blooming, the special effects blockbusters that play the leading roles, represented by super-English movies, are less and less like movies.

Cheng Yu'an prefers to call it "the annual light and firework show".

But that's his opinion as a film creator, if he's a producer or a business executive, they love these films so much.

Cheng Yu'an led the team to the Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles. After a day's rest, they negotiated the final details and signed a contract with Universal.

Although it is a pity that Disney did not win the copyright of a major animation company, it did not care too much. After all, its own IP is enough to support an amusement park. Buying other copyrights will not shake Disney's position as the industry leader.

Cheng Yu'an is still Disney's most important partner, so after Disney knew that Cheng Yu'an had arrived in Los Angeles, CEO Robert Iger specially hosted a banquet for Cheng Yu'an and his team.

Cheng Yu'an happily went.

"Do you know why he invited us?" Cheng Yu'an asked Cheng Lingfeng.

"How do I know?" Cheng Lingfeng was also kept in the dark.A legendary CEO like Robert Iger will not invite people to dinner for no reason.

"Aren't you happy to be invited to dinner? Soldiers come to cover up the water and soil, and we will catch him whatever he does."

At the banquet, Robert Iger praised Cheng Yu'an's achievements: "Whether as a director or as an entrepreneur, Cheng, you are the best in Hollywood."

Of course Cheng Yu'an paid back his flattery, and also praised Robert Iger.

Foreigners like to talk about their travel experiences at the dinner table. Cheng Yu'an did as the Romans did, and told everyone in Disney the fun stories about his family's summer vacation.

Robert Iger smiled and said, "Cheng, I'm very envious of you being able to travel with your family. I haven't been able to take a full vacation for several years."

Robert Iger went on to praise how pleasant the previous cooperation with Cheng Yu'an was: ""The Jungle Book" is very popular, and it is Disney's best-known live-action movie in the past five years." Then he did not forget to add: "Of course, this title will be released next year." It’s about to give up to Mulan. I saw the dailies and it’s so cool. Crystal was born for Mulan.”

"I'm very confident right now about next year's 'Aladdin' and 'The Lion King'."

Next year can be said to be a big year for Disney. Excluding Marvel works, Disney will have films such as "Mulan", "Dumbo", "Aladdin", "The Lion King" and "Toy Story 4".

Disney fans can feast their eyes next year, so be prepared to pay for tickets.

Until the end of the banquet, the two parties were still chatting about gossip and interesting things, without any specific business involved.

After eating, Robert Iger invited Cheng Yu'an and Cheng Lingfeng into the small reception room to "talk about something".

Robert Iger was not too wordy, and said bluntly: "Marvel intends to shoot a Chinese superhero movie, and I hope we can cooperate."

Cheng Lingfeng was very happy to hear that, but Cheng Yuan's heart skipped a beat: "Oh? I don't know what Chinese hero Marvel is going to film."

(End of this chapter)