The Crown Prince of Huayu!

Chapter 86 Cooperation
Seeing the box office success of "300", Universal is obviously not the only one who wants to cooperate with Han Jiadong.

After the box office results came out on the first day, people kept contacting Han Jiadong on the phone, hoping to make an appointment to meet and chat.

But Han Jiadong ignored it.

It wasn't until the second week that "300" once again bravely defeated the newly released "Mr. and Mrs. Smith" and once again won the box office championship that week that he finally responded.

In the original time and space, since "Star Wars: Episode III" has been released for three weeks, and "Madagascar" and "The Longest Yard" have been released for two weeks, the box office has already shown a weak trend, and none of them can reach a box office of 3 in a single weekend. Wan, directly made "Mr. and Mrs. Smith", a movie that only received a C+ rating, a big bargain. It relied on the scandal to make a first-week box office of over million!

It even ended up with a box office of nearly 200 million!

It’s only 10 to 20 million less than blockbusters like “Madagascar” and “Batman”!
This is the advantage of not having competitors during popular periods.

Even if it is a piece of shit, as long as it is less difficult to swallow than other shit, it will still sell well.

But now, with "300", Pitt's sentence "The sex scenes between Julie and I basically cover everything" are simply vulnerable in front of the big muscles and Theron's naked body that fill the screen.

Not to mention, Theron's boyfriend Stewart cannot accept Theron's bold performance and has already broken up with Theron, which is currently being widely reported by the media.

Catalyzed by this, in just two weeks, the North American box office of "300" has approached 200 million!

Box office sales in other countries and regions are also booming.

Dreamworks.

After visiting all six Hollywood majors, Han Jiadong finally came to this company that carries the ambitions of Spielberg, Katzenberg, and David Geffen.

It's a pity that since its establishment, it has had brilliance, but more of it has stumbled.

There are already rumors that it is for sale.

And probably in order to get a better price, they also extended a cooperation invitation to Han Jiadong.

After Han Jiadong took a tour of DreamWorks under the guidance of the staff, Spielberg had also finished reading the script of "Inception".

"A genius idea, it will definitely become a classic that will go down in film history!"

Spielberg praised without hesitation.

Before he read the script, he was originally just amazed by Han Jiadong's sense of film business, but this script completely overturned his previous views.

Now even if he does not consider commercial interests, he still wants to cooperate with this young man from the East.

But when he heard that Universal had offered Han Jiadong a price to work together on "Fast and Furious 3" in order to continue their cooperation, he was embarrassed to find that his DreamWorks had been reduced to the point where it had no bargaining chips.

Unless, take out what has been stripped out...

Katzenberg, who was next to him, suddenly said: "Han, do you like pandas?"

He is the CEO of DreamWorks. Compared with Spielberg, who is more famous but focuses on film creation, he is obviously better at business.

Spielberg's heart moved, and he knew that the old man was going to make a fool of the young man.

Compared with the decline of the original film, DreamWorks Animation, which has been divested, is much more nourishing.

It has the already hugely successful Shrek series, and "Madagascar," which was just defeated by the young man in front of me, is also produced by DreamWorks Animation. Although the performance is not as good as the Shrek series, it can continue to be developed.

Of course, there are also movies such as "The Legend of Ant-Man", "Sinbad of the Seven Seas" and "My Little Pony King" that lost tens or even hundreds of millions of dollars.

It's just that the old guy didn't take the already successful series, but took a movie that hasn't started production yet and has an uncertain future...

Han Jiadong answered happily at this time: "Of course, there is no Chinese who doesn't like pandas."

Katzenberg was even more happy: "I heard that you have another kung fu movie coming out soon?"

Han Jiadong knew that he was talking about "Spring Knife". After Columbia Pictures bought the North American rights of "Spring Knife", it did not immediately arrange to release it. It has been delayed until now. It is obviously preparing to copy "The 300 Warriors" 》The popularity has increased.

"There is such a movie." "Do you like Kung Fu?"

"Of course, every Chinese boy has a kung fu dream."

"What if kung fu and pandas were combined?"

"You mean... Kung Fu Panda?"

"Yes, Kung Fu Panda!"

……

When leaving DreamWorks, both parties smiled with satisfaction.

DreamWorks needs this cooperation opportunity with Han Jiadong.

Dividing the investment share of "Kung Fu Panda" will not affect the value of DreamWorks. After all, DreamWorks Animation has been spun off and is not included in the sale.

The film's cost of up to 1.3 million also indicates that there will be great risks, and dividing part of the investment share can also reduce the risk.

At the same time, Han Jiadong has promised to serve as a consultant for the film. With his Chinese background and directorial ability, the quality of the film can be better guaranteed.

Han Jiadong is also very satisfied with the result.

After completing the six majors, he would come to a "small company" like DreamWorks. His initial goal was "Kung Fu Panda", a series of movies with strong Chinese elements.

The result was surprisingly smooth.

"Master Dong, do you still need to meet people from Marvel?"

Chen Zhisheng asked for instructions.

He is now temporarily serving as Han Jiadong's assistant.

He is also the manager of CP Company.

Before that, he was an executive at Shanghai Film Studio.

When I first came to CP from China, I was heartbroken when I saw that the company's office space was all rented.

My first thought at the time was: Invest in this with a valuation of one billion US dollars?
but now……

The global box office of one movie is almost 400 million US dollars, and there are so many companies begging for cooperation...

Not to mention one billion, even if it were doubled, it would definitely not be a loss!

Han Jiadong said without much hesitation: "See you!"

Marvel is in a difficult period of transformation at this time. It wants to move things on paper to the big screen, but it has no money, so it is definitely not possible to give itself money.

After Chen Zhisheng confirmed the time and place with the other party, he asked again: "In terms of copyright, has Marvel released any restrictions?"

He had asked people to ask about the copyright of Marvel's heroes as early as a year ago, but the fact that he sold the rights to film Spider-Man for 7 million has still made Marvel worried. Last month, the hit "Fantastic Four" 》Marvel sold it to Fox again...

It was probably because I had asked about the copyright of Marvel heroes that the other party approached me at this time.

The situation was indeed as he expected.

After meeting, the other party did not mention investing in "Inception" at all.

Instead, he wanted to cooperate with Han Jiadong, invite Han Jiadong to be the director, and jointly finance the filming of "The Incredible Hulk".

　Thanks to Yuexiajiu and JunJ for the monthly tickets!

　　
　
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