Meiyu: I don’t care about the cost when making movies

Chapter 81 Do you call this a lion’s mouth?
It wasn't until a week later that Wayne had all the fun for the time being, and she reluctantly took the plane back to Los Angeles, preparing to receive military training from the personal trainer Mike had contacted for her, and start preparing for the next audition.

Unsurprisingly, Wayne was criticized by Hannah again.

"My God, is that Chinese woman so charming? You actually stayed at her place for a week!"

Wayne smiled and didn't explain.

To be honest, Zhang Ziyi is far worse than Hannah and the other three in terms of figure and appearance.But who would let this big star, who was just out of reach for him in his previous life, come to his door on his own initiative?
However, after a week, Zhang's past life filter has basically been broken. The only slight regret is that it is too cold in Europe this season. Otherwise, he can learn from the Jewish rich man. I took Zhang to the beach for an outdoor game.

"By the way, these are some documents that Sierra just faxed over today. She said that you asked her to help check them." As she said that, Hannah lowered the thirty or forty pages of documents in her hand to him.

"It's not urgent, it's important to do business first."

After a few hours of fierce fighting, on a messy big bed, the exhausted Hannah and the three fell asleep with satisfied smiles, while Wayne refreshed and picked up the documents sent by Sierra. Checked it out.

"Sure enough, a big project like Pirates of the Caribbean has been started so early." After a moment, Wayne frowned unconsciously.

There are a total of five documents in these dozens of pages, and they are all projects that he is optimistic about next. The first of them is the famous "Pirates of the Caribbean" in the previous life. With only five films in the series, the cumulative global box office has reached an astonishing 45 [-] million US dollars, needless to say how magnificent this achievement is.

According to the information he learned in his previous life, Disney was originally not optimistic about the outdated genre of pirate themes. Two years later, Jerry Bruckheimer, who became the number one gold medal producer in Hollywood and is now famous, worked on it. This push led to the birth of this series of movies.

"Bad Boys", "Top Gun", "The Island" and "Public Enemy" are all his works.

Only with this kind of influence can Disney be persuaded to start this project.

But he didn't expect that at the end of 2000, Jerry Bruckheimer already had a plan to produce Pirates of the Caribbean and began to solicit investment for the production of the book.

But think about it.

The production cost of "Pirates of the Caribbean 1" was claimed to be US$1.4 million, but the actual cost should not be less than US$8000 million, and the risk of losing money is still not small today.

So no matter how rich Disney is, it’s impossible for them to invest in it all. They will definitely find someone to share the investment and risks. This is the most reasonable approach.

As for what happens if the movie becomes a hit at the box office?
Don’t forget that there are still publicity fees that can be manipulated!
When the time comes to report more issuance costs, won’t the money go into their pockets?

Not much profit will be lost, but the risk can be greatly reduced. This is why Hollywood production companies like platters so much when making movies.

But this would not be very friendly to investors like Wayne.

Originally, he planned to buy the film adaptation rights for "Pirates of the Caribbean" before it was even approved.

Don't think that Disney can't sell copyrights. Disney is not as big as it was a dozen years ago. As long as the money is in place, copyrights can still be sold.

But now that Jerry Bruckheimer has begun to promote this project, he can only participate in investment, and he can only participate in the investment of the first film.

After all, after the first one became a hit, the chances of success for subsequent series increased significantly, so Disney would be stupid to share the cake.Of course, this investment is certainly good for ordinary people. With a capital of 2000 to [-] million, the income will double after two years. This has exceeded the rate of return of many high-quality projects.

But two years was too long for him.

With the foresight brought by the memory of his past life, he can buy real estate or acquire stocks of technology companies. Isn't this more profitable than investing in "Pirates of the Caribbean"?

No matter what happens, he can still buy Marvel!

Wayne threw the document aside casually, and then checked the second document, which was the copyright quotation given by Marvel, including more than 30 superheroes and supervillains such as Captain America, Thor, and Doctor Strange. And Serra asked professionals to prepare a plan to acquire Marvel.

Although superheroes such as Thor, Captain America, and Doctor Strange have become so popular in later generations, in fact, in this era, they are just third-rate superheroes.

Marvel's most popular superhero is undoubtedly Spider-Man, but unfortunately it was bought by Sony Columbia very early.

The second-rate superheroes are not the characters in the movie version of the Avengers, but the X-Men, the Fantastic Four and the Hulk.

Yes, they are all mutated guys.

Among them, the X-Men were bought by Fox, the Fantastic Four were bought by the German company Constantine, and the copyright of the Hulk fell into the hands of Universal.

In addition, when Marvel went bankrupt in 96, Iron Man, a superhero between the second and third rates, was also bought by Fox, and was later bought back by Marvel.

As for third-rate superheroes such as Thor and Doctor Strange, they were actually left over by a few giants and no one wanted them.

Before July this year, the package price of the more than 30 superheroes and supervillains he was interested in would not exceed 200 million at most. However, the box office success of the first "X-Men" released in July changed slightly. This situation caused Marvel's "The Lion's Mouth" to increase the price to 1000 million.

That's right, the total price of more than 30 characters is only 1000 million. Superheroes are so cheap nowadays.

In addition, after Marvel's current owner Avi Arad took over Marvel Comics from his former boss Ron Perelman, although he has always wanted to develop the company, there is a very real problem. No money, no copyright.

In addition, the rise of the Internet has had some impact on traditional comic magazines, so there has been no improvement.

At this time, before Spider-Man becomes popular, and to bring great confidence to Avi Arad and Marvel Comics, the possibility of acquiring Marvel is still very high, and the price is not expensive, only 4000 million. Just US dollars.

After all, the only valuable assets of Marvel today are the dozens of third-rate or lower superheroes and some cartoonists.

You know, when Disney acquired Marvel in 09, it spent a total of US$42.4 billion!

If he spends 4000 million to buy Marvel now and make "Iron Man 1", he will be able to make a hundred times the profit when he changes hands in a few years!
But the problem is, he doesn’t have 4000 million in hand right now!

(End of this chapter)