Hollywood starts with a broker

Although it's the early 1990s, and there are increasingly more works about homosexuality, which has developed into a new type of art film, with the Sundance Film Festival playing a significant role in promoting it, Neil Jordan's self-written and directed "The Crying Game" is a breath of fresh air!

Burbank, in the conference room of Dawnlight Pictures.

"Before 'The Crying Game' was released in the UK, I wrote letters to almost all the well-known film critics in the UK, asking them not to mention the story twist that Dil is a man in their reviews after the preview!"

Neil Jordan spread his hands, with a helpless expression on his face, "The end result was that they did not mention this twist at all, but almost all the film critics panned the film."

"The Crying Game" was met with a cold reception in the UK and received widespread negative reviews, making Neil Jordan doubt himself.

Aaron Anderson and Brad Grey exchanged glances and smiled: "You've also seen the word-of-mouth for 'The Crying Game' in the United States. The twist in the story is indeed very attractive."

The biggest highlight is still the actor Jaye Davidson, who plays Dil, who is too feminine.

A transvestite man who appears in women's clothing and appearance is the highlight of this work!

"Don't worry, Dawnlight will increase publicity for 'The Crying Game' to lobby for the Oscars next."

Not only is it famous, but it is also profitable, and Aaron will not be stingy.

Then he asked Brad Grey and Neil Jordan to continue discussing the next plan. As for the "Interview with the Vampire" project, they would discuss it after the word-of-mouth for "The Crying Game" spread.

Otherwise, with Neil Jordan's current reputation, he might not be able to make Tom Cruise obedient.

As the MPAA sent back news, European countries successively established the Pan-European Film Industry Alliance to revitalize the European film industry, which had been continuously depressed due to the Gulf War.

At the same time, the European Union also proposed to stop preferential import policies for American films and to adopt import quota systems to resist the strong invasion of American films!

"The market share of local films in various European countries is generally below 35%, except for France, which has the strictest protection of local films, exceeding this ratio."

"No wonder European countries want to boycott Hollywood movies?"

Aislinn Beckett came to Aaron's office and reported the news.

"By the way, how is Marvel doing? Do they still have the adaptation rights to Spider-Man in their hands?"

"Marvel Comics? I'll check it out!"

In 1985, Cannon Films acquired the 5-year filming rights for Spider-Man from Marvel Comics. Unfortunately, Cannon Films later withdrew a large amount of funds due to investing in two high-cost films, "Superman IV" and "Masters of the Universe."

As a result, it was proposed to drastically reduce the filming budget of the "Spider-Man" movie to less than 10 million US dollars, which led to the project being discontinued.

In mid-1990, Cannon Films' Spider-Man license expired, and Cannon Films was acquired by Pathé Films of France.

Golan, the former president of Cannon Films, founded a shell company called 21st Century Film and negotiated with Marvel to obtain the Spider-Man license for another two years!

"The 'Spider-Man' script prepared by Golan was not approved by Stan Lee, right?"

"Yes, Stan Lee is now the Chief Creative Officer of Marvel Comics."

Hearing Aislinn Beckett's introduction, Aaron understood that the current Marvel belongs to Ronald Perelman, the former owner of Gillette.

Moreover, the current Marvel is not just a comic book company. Last year, under the operation of Ronald Perelman, Marvel went public and acquired card companies, sticker companies, toy companies, and postcard companies, etc.

Marvel's current total business volume, comic book publishing accounts for about a quarter. Ronald Perelman, as a mergers and acquisitions giant, never thought about running Marvel well, but just wanted to gain something in the financial market!

"A few years ago, when Cannon Films' license for the Fantastic Four expired, they rushed out a crudely made "Fantastic Four."

"This made Marvel angry at the time, worried that the release of this movie would affect the sales of Fantastic Four comics and peripherals, and spent millions of dollars to buy the movie copies for destruction."

"Spider-Man, this is Marvel Comics' absolute trump card, the only one that can compete with DC's Superman and Batman. Of course, Marvel doesn't want to randomly change it!"

Aaron leaned back in his chair, completely understanding Stan Lee's thoughts.

"Golan recommended the 'Spider-Man' script to Columbia Pictures, but unfortunately, it was also rejected by the other party."

Aislinn Beckett explained.

"This 21st Century company?"

Aaron pondered and tapped the table, "Just buy it directly, and then talk to Marvel about extending the Spider-Man license period!"

"Boss, are you going to film 'Spider-Man'?"

Aislinn Beckett's eyes lit up. This is one of the national heroes, whose popularity and influence can be compared with Superman and Batman!

Good, this year Warner Bros.'s sequel "Batman Returns" seems to be less profitable than expected, but it is still profitable, and there will definitely be a third film.

Aaron smiled slightly, "Regardless of whether we film it or not, let's get the Spider-Man license first. With Dawnlight's current reserves, it won't be a big problem to develop it."

"Understood…"

Soon, Dawnlight Pictures acquired 21st Century Company from Golan. The main assets are several Spider-Man scripts related to Marvel.

After all, the current 21st Century Company was created specifically for filming the "Spider-Man" movie. It is just a shell company, with the Spider-Man filming rights licensed by Marvel. It is very simple to acquire, and the copyright is about to expire.

At the same time, they also negotiated with Marvel that after the Spider-Man license expires this year, Marvel will authorize Dawnlight with a 5-year filming period. Marvel will enjoy 5% of the box office revenue of the "Spider-Man" movie in the future.

As for the others, such as comics, toys, etc., the copyright still belongs to Marvel. After all, Marvel seeks film companies to shoot their superheroes in order to promote them and promote sales of derivatives such as toys.

As the US election approaches, the federal senator elections in various states that need to be re-elected have ended, and only next month's voting election is left.

Republican representative, incumbent George Bush, Democratic representative, Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton, and independent elector representative, Texas tycoon Ross Perot!

On the rooftop of the Bradbury Building in downtown Los Angeles, Aaron Anderson and Jack Wells looked together in the direction of Koreatown, "Clinton is here in Los Angeles again during the final period to inspect the disaster area?"

Jack Wells smiled, "We bet on him to win. The race issue can bring him a lot of votes."

"Well, that's right!"