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Chapter 675 Toy Story (4000+ chapters, please subscribe~)

Although Disney does not have a theater chain, it has a very close cooperative theater chain with itself, but it is still not as convenient as if it has its own theater chain.

Now Linda actually said that it was because Disney did not have its own theater chain that she found Disney. Naturally, there was some meaning in her words to expose Disney.

At this time, Eisner was already a little unhappy, "Linda, if you are here to ridicule Disney, I don't think we need to talk anymore!"

Linda smiled slightly, and now the negotiations between the two parties have slowly returned to an equal status.

"I think Eisner, you should know that when "Ghost Love" was released, we Phantom sold the follow-up copyright of our company "Home Alone" in order to get Time Warner's support!" At this time, Linda Going to bait Eisner.

Although she personally does not agree to sell the copyright of the sequel of "Speed", but now that Wu Jianye has made a decision, there is nothing she can do about it.

Eisner's eyes lighted up. Although many people said that the value of "Home Alone" has been squeezed out by Phantom Entertainment, Eisner knew that the "Home Alone" series still had at least tens of millions of value. Well, this is already quite a fortune.

Now that Linda specifically brought up this matter, does it mean that Phantom is going to repeat the same trick and choose to sell its own company's film copyright?

At this time, Eisner was spinning rapidly in his mind, thinking about which series of movie copyrights Phantom still had, and which had the greatest value.

The "Terminator" series and the "Die Hard" series, these two series are the series that Phantom has announced to be filming, as well as the "Jurassic Park" series, but for this series, Eisner does not think Lin Dahui will sell it. After all, it was because of this series that the Phantom had conflicts with Jewish people in Hollywood. The current situation can also be said to be due to this series.

In fact, what Eisner wants more is the sequel copyright of the movie "Speed", but this year's box office of this movie has blinded the eyes of all the executives of the studio. As the hen that lays golden eggs, Linda will never sell the rights to the sequel of this movie, so there are only two movies left in the "Terminator" series and "Die Hard" series.

But these two series, Phantom is already in production, are there others?

"What do you mean?" Eisner didn't expect Linda to come up with the sequel copyright of that movie.

Sitting there, Linda watched herself gradually turning into a client, with a smile in her heart. Maybe even Eisner didn't notice it. Now Linda has gradually begun to take the initiative in this negotiation.

Although she was reluctant to part with the copyright of this movie, she was still very happy seeing Eisner like this.

"Is there any movie this summer whose box office can compare with "Speed"?" Linda threw out her first bait!
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Even Eisner, who prided himself on being prudent, couldn't help standing up at this moment, and looked at Linda with some excitement: "Are you serious?"

Linda laughed and said, "Of course, we Phantom never joke about such things!"

Eisner looked down at Linda's smile and realized at this moment that his reaction was a little too extreme. This is a big taboo in negotiations!

However, he still sighed: "Your company is really generous, and you are willing to take out the copyright of the sequel of "Speed", which I did not expect!"

Linda always said with a smile on her face: "Our Phantom has always been very sincere when dealing with our partners. Mr. Eisner, do you think we still need to negotiate now?"

Although Eisner didn't want to admit it, he still couldn't help nodding his head. It wasn't that Eisner wasn't reserved enough, it was because the benefits brought by the movie "Speed" were too enviable!
The production cost of "Speed" was 1800 million US dollars, the promotional cost was 1800 million US dollars, the national box office was 1.56 million US dollars, and the overseas box office was expected to be 2.5 million US dollars!
A single movie brought Phantom Entertainment nearly [-] million dollars in revenue at the box office alone, which is an income that no one can ignore!

If you add peripherals and video tapes, at least two-thirds of the income can be increased!

"How much is the copyright fee for Phantom?" At this time, Eisner did not refuse, but directly asked about the copyright fee for the sequel of "Speed"!
"3000 million dollars!" Linda said a figure.

"This is impossible!" Eisner immediately retorted: "The copyright of "Home Alone" was not so expensive at the beginning. If we Disney were going to make a sequel to "Speed", it would be impossible to start production in the past two years. No one knows what will happen to the sequel of "Speed"!"

"That is to say, even if Disney buys "Speed", it will take two years to start the project. If the production cost is added by then, the production cost of this film will be too high. Can it be recovered by then? Cost is still an issue!"

Eisner raised his concerns.

It's not that he is deliberately lowering the price, but that there are not many successes in the production of sequels in Hollywood. In addition, "Back to the Future 3" was defeated in the PK with "Ghost Love".

All production companies believe that launching a sequel movie in two or three years is the best plan for this series.

Linda said: "Whether this price is suitable, we can continue to negotiate, but Disney also has to listen to our conditions!"

Only then did Eisner realize that he did not have the initiative. Now that the news of Phantom Entertainment's acquisition of Oceanwide Theaters has made several major studios regard Phantom Entertainment as the most threatening film production company up.

Because of the agreement signed between Time Warner and Oceanwide Cinemas, Oceanwide Cinemas has no shortage of movies to release, but now everyone knows that Time Warner and Phantom Entertainment have played a word-cutting game. Except for the movies of Phantom Entertainment, Oceanwide There is little chance that theaters will want to show A-level productions.

This is the reason why Linda took the initiative to come to Disney to seek cooperation today, even the reason why she did not hesitate to take out the copyright of the sequel of "Speed"!

Thinking of this, Eisner calmed down: "Linda, if we cooperate with you Phantom, it means that Disney will betray our own allies. This is not a small sacrifice!"

Linda looked at Eisner sitting there, thinking that she had regained the initiative, and smiled inwardly.

"Eisner, I think you may have misunderstood one thing. Now Phantom produces between 12 and 15 movies a year. Even if we release our own movies, Oceanwide Theaters has no shortage of sources. Then you Don’t forget that in Hollywood, apart from the seven major production companies, there are countless independent production companies, if Oceanwide Cinemas relaxes its own screening restrictions, do you think Oceanwide Cinemas will be short of films to be screened?”

Eisner's expression changed again, Linda continued without waiting for his reply.

"I can do the math for you. There are only a few popular schedules in North America. Our Phantom's own movies can fully fill in. Next year, Phantom will release two blockbusters, "Jurassic Park" and "Terminator 2". There are Cheng Long, Bruce Willis, Arnold Schwarzenegger's movies, for us Phantom, it's not that there are no movie sources in theaters, but that we have too many big productions!" Linda said.

In fact, at this time, Linda still set a trap for Eisner. Movies like "Jurassic Park" and "Terminator 2" are all series movies, and they are definitely not released every year, but now Ace Narrative doesn't necessarily see it all.

Eisner said in a deep voice: "Although the words are correct, you and I both know that the opponent of "Jurassic Park" is Spielberg's "Captain Hook". It's still unknown, as for "Terminator 2", the investment in this movie is really too big, whether it can recover the cost or not is another question!"

Although Linda herself once doubted Wu Jianye, she definitely wouldn't say that now.

"Didn't everyone dislike "Ghost Love" when it was released? But as a result, "Ghost Love" is still the highest-grossing movie in the world!"

Seeing that Eisner fell silent, Linda took out the second bait that had been prepared.

"If you and I can cooperate, we have already discussed with Director Wu. Director Wu will be the screenwriter and come up with a script for an animation. At that time, Phantom and Disney will each have a 50% investment share. !"

If the previous bait made Eisner's heart loose, then when Linda took out the second bait, Eisner's inner persistence was completely gone.

No matter how these people are not optimistic about Wu Jianye's fight with Spielberg this time, no one doubts Wu Jianye's screenwriting ability at this time.

Wu Jianye's ability as a screenwriter is equivalent to Spielberg's ability as a director!

After "The Love of Ghosts" came out, how many production companies waved checks, wanting to find Wu Jianye and hoping to buy a movie written by him, but the cooperation between Wu Jianye and Phantom is too much. Close up, no one made it at all.

Now Phantom actually persuaded Wu Jianye to come up with a script, jointly invested by Disney and Phantom!
More importantly, this time it was the script of the cartoon!
One of the most important cores of Disney films is their animated films. For other film companies, a successful animated film may only bring in revenue such as box office, video tapes, and peripheral toys, but for Disney, it does not. Same.

A successful cartoon can also bring more attractions to their Disneyland!
"What you said is true?" Eisner looked at Linda and asked seriously.

Linda nodded and said, "As I said just now, Phantom has always been very sincere to its partners!"

"When will the script for the animated film be available?" Eisner asked.

In Linda's opinion, this is actually a sign that Eisner agreed to cooperate with Disney and Phantom, but he is still more cautious. He needs to see the script of the animated film before he can confirm whether he wants to cooperate with Phantom.

Disney, like other production companies, has its own script review department. If they get Wu Jianye's script, they will review it immediately.
Linda smiled and said, "You can do it now!"

After she finished speaking, she took out the script of the animated film that she had already prepared, which was given to her by someone sent by Wu Jianye before she came to see Eisner!

The script had already been registered with the Hollywood labor union, so she was naturally not worried about Eisner plagiarizing it!

Phantom's legal department gets a high salary every year, it's no joke!

In North America, a company can lack many departments, but there are two departments that must exist, one is the financial department, and the other is the legal department!
Eisner found Linda's script, looked at the front page above, it said "Toy Story"!
What Wu Jianye brought out was the cartoon "Toy Story", which was a collaboration between Pixar and Disney in another time and space!
This is also one of the reasons why Wu Jianye wanted to cooperate with Disney. Although the story and box office of this animated film are very objective, the copyrights of many animated characters in the film are actually owned by Disney. He wants to make this film , you must cooperate with Disney!

As the helm of Disney, Eisner naturally has the ability to appreciate the script. At this time, he didn't say much, and immediately opened the script and read it.

At this time, the more he watched, the more excited he became. From his own point of view, this is a very good animation script, but there are many problems in it.

Such as technical issues!
"This movie requires a lot of computer technology!" Eisner said while watching.

Linda smiled and said, "You don't have to worry about this, our Athena animation technology is good enough for the filming of this movie!"

Eisner flicked the hand of the script, paused for a while, but then continued to read the script, but also felt a sense of dread in his heart.

Before that, everyone knew that Athena Animation produced the most successful animated film "The Lion King" in North American history, but then they also produced two animated films, which can only be said to be quite satisfactory at the box office. Where it shines.

But now it seems that maybe they haven't come up with a movie comparable to "The Lion King" in terms of animated film works, but technically, Athena Animation is already at the forefront of Hollywood!
It seems that Disney is going to step up its technical expansion. At this time, he thought of Jobs' Pixar. As a technology madman, Jobs' Pixar has always been the vanguard of Hollywood animation films in terms of technology.
"This script, I need Disney's review team to review it before I can give you an answer!" After flipping through the script of "Toy Story", Eisner said.

(End of this chapter)