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Wayne's attitude towards the newborn Netflix was actually doubtful. He was not sure if it was a better time to take action. After all, the Netflix president had already been disappointed in Hollywood and still made this model.

"Boss, I think it's better to invest in this videotape rental website that you have kept me watching than investing in that IMDB."

After leaving the lounge, the two did not continue to stay at the party. They greeted Jeff Robinoff and the busy Peter Jackson, and kept a low profile and left the hotel. On the way back to the manor, Nina couldn't help but whisper.

Judging from Reed Hastings' narratives, this is obviously another Internet company that sells concepts. Using a concept to attract investment and draw big pie is also the specialty of Silicon Valley's technology elites.

"Talk with him slowly first. It is certain to invest in his company, but I am still not sure about the investment opportunity now." Wayne smoked silently, looked at the night view of the street that was constantly retreating outside the car window, and frowned and responded.

What he is most concerned about now is that he took action at the beginning, giving the other party the funds needed for development and more importantly, the platform resources of the film and television giant Warner Bros., will this future streaming overlord change his original process and cause unpredictable situations in the process of development.

On the contrary, he did not give up his plan to join Netflix at all. Outside the film industry, he was sure that there were not many rides to ride. He would not easily give up such a streaming giant with a market value of more than US$300 billion in the future.

And as long as there is no big accident, Netflix will become the most favorable channel for Warner Bros. Of course, these things will take many years to develop, but it cannot be denied that this is a company that can compete with the six major players on the other road after it develops.

"My suggestion is better not to be the first investor now, we are waiting and seeing."

After confirming his boss's meaning, Nina immediately changed her mindset and began to measure gains and losses from Wayne's perspective. "Reed Hastings's model, no matter how it is packaged, it still cannot be separated from the scope of an Internet company. In the early stage of an Internet company's business, it was completely burning money for development. As long as you want, Greenberg Studio's next projects require a lot of money."

"Let's do it first."

This time Wayne will be willing to stay at the cocktail party after the media meeting, completely trying to take the initiative to meet the legendary founder of Netflix, but what Reed Hastings did not expect was that this would be the last time they met in a short time.

It will be two days after the end, the tech tycoon collected relevant information and wanted to meet Wayne again, but every time he answered the phone and talked about these things, Nina was basically doing it, and the answer he got was always Mr. Greenberg was busy with work.

Reed Hasting had a clear feeling that the young Hollywood boss was indeed interested in his company, but he was always hesitant. Since the other party's assistant kept in touch with him and was asking about the company's development from time to time, it proved that the other party's eyes were always on him and never left.

In fact, his demand for funds is not the first priority. If you want to attract investment, Wall Street has a lot of opportunities. Now the market is full of the myths of creating wealth on the Internet. Wall Street has never lacked people who are willing to pay for a story or a concept.

What Reed Hastings values ​​more is actually the identity of Wayne and Warner Bros. If the freshman Netflix can be promoted by a large platform like Warner Bros., the situation he will get will be completely different. What's more, the moment he meets Wayne, he is already thinking about Warner Bros.'s huge film library authorization.

Time is slowly advancing. With the arrival of September, the hottest summer season in North America, which was once the hottest in the annual media, ended with the turmoil of media. The North American theater market once again returned to a stable period, ending that at least two major investment films were released in large numbers after each weekend.

The preparations for "The Flash" were in an orderly manner, and most of Wayne's energy has been put here for a while. As the preparations for "The Flash" come to an end, he also slowed down his work and turned his attention to the upcoming trip across the Pacific.

"Wayne, I've read the script you built for "The Flash" carefully, and I have watched more than once the predecessors of the DC series you filmed."

With the assistant directors Gilmore and Sofia Coppola, Wayne went around the studio that was about to be built. During the preparations in the crew, Joe Kubert, the father of DC, who has always maintained a low-key and transparent image, quietly came to him and said: "I don't have any good suggestions for the DC series of movies, but I found that in the movie, other DC comic characters have not shown much ability in the movie..."

With his pace, Wayne nodded silently at the studio that was about to be completed, turned to look at Joe Coopert. He knew what the other party said. Many characters in DC comics were created by this old man. I definitely hope that each of them could shine on the big screen.

"Joe, the two communication carriers of comics and movies are different after all. A movie is only that long, and we cannot give too many shots to small characters. Everything can only be done around the protagonist."

Several people slowly walked out of the studio, and Wayne was slowly explaining the difference between the two to the father of DC superheroes. "And, Joe, for DC superhero movies, it is still a stage of laying the foundation. The first thing we need to ensure is to leave a deep enough impression of the protagonist on the audience. As for those small characters who also have the ability, when the DC universe is successfully built, they will naturally gradually be displayed on the big screen."

"Your plan is too big and the timeline is too long."

Joe Coopert smiled, reached out and patted Wayne on the arm, sighed: "I don't know, can you see the DC Justice League gather on the big screen, can you see the Justice League be popular all over the world. My health has become worse and worse in the past two years."

As the creator of most well-known heroes in DC Comics, Joe Kubert certainly hopes that more and more heroes will be brought to the big screen, and he also hopes to see the Justice League described by Wayne.

"Yes, you'll see it soon."

After taking a deep look at the father of DC superheroes around him, Wayne took the lead in entering the preparatory studio. He knew that the reason why this old guy said this and was willing to come to the crew to participate in the preparation was purely because he liked it, and it was not mixed with other interests.

You should know that Joe Kubert is completely different from the father of Marvel, Stan Lee, who is in his memory. Every movie, TV series, animation, etc. that Marvel shoots, according to the contract, Stan Lee can get a large share of the copyright of the characters.

This part of the revenue is very objective. He still remembers that the media once reported that Stan Lee was able to collect more than 8% of the profits from every Marvel movie. Putting aside other things, how much can he get in just the terrifying box office of "Avengers"?

But everyone knows what kind of virtue is that when Marvel movies began to form a magic trick that swept the world, Stan Lee also had a quarrel with the company at the same time. The reason was nothing more than the issue of interest distribution. In the end, it was in court, and the matter was not solved successfully.

But there is no similar copyright contract between Joe Kubert and DC Comics, or Warner Bros. The reason why this usually unknown father of DC superhero did this was entirely out of simple love.

"Boss, look at this."

As soon as several people entered the studio, prop director Wicks Hart and Brooks Carter, the head of Industrial Light and Magic, held a set of Flash suits together and waved to Wayne and others.

Since Wayne's movies require a lot of special effects, Industrial Light and Magic has become his partner. The group led by Brooks Carter will join directly whenever his new project begins preparation, and the same is true this time.

Although computer special effects technology will be used more in this film, in his vision, computer special effects technology combined with realistic prop modeling is the most reliable way more in line with this era, and Industrial Light and Magic is also good at this point.

"According to the drawings you designed, this is the last version of the Flash suit." Wix Hart patted the suit in his hand. "James Franco has tried it, and there is no problem at all."

Not only the one in his hand, but there are three same ones hanging on the prop stand behind them. Compared with the thinness that was more in line with the settings in the comics, the ones they made now have a more technological sense. It looks much more bloated than the previous version.

The overall color is still mainly dark red, and two lightning-touched logos are specially added to the chest. What’s more important is that the helmet of the battle suit has a more futuristic sense than other parts. Overall, it looks like a metallic armor more like a battle suit.

"Are you sure you want to do this? Will it be boycotted by comic fans."

Deputy Director Gilmo reached out to touch the suit. It looked like these things were very metal, but when you touched it, you could find that the whole suit was still not out of the category of props, and was actually much lighter than metal. "The current version has completely deviated from the settings of the comics."

“It was done very well.”

Wayne nodded to Wicks Hart and Brooks Kat. He carefully stroked several finished products and looked at them with both hands on his chest with satisfaction. At least on the surface, these war suits looked very well-made, completely like they were from future technology products, which were completely in line with his vision.

"Gilmore, to a certain extent, our videos don't need to deliberately please comic fans."

Wayne was in a very good mood when he confirmed the version of the suit needed for the shooting. He didn't care about the deputy director's concerns at all. He turned to look at Brooks Carter of Industrial Light and Magic and asked, "How much does it cost to only make one suit like this?"

"If you make a single piece by hand, the cost of this set exceeds $5,500. Be careful, this fee does not include labor costs."

Due to the filming requirements for excellence in props, these movie props must strive for perfection during the production process, and also take into account the actors' feelings after wearing them, the impact of the action, etc., and the cost is basically impossible to be much lower.

However, after finishing his words, Brooks Carter thought for a while and then said: "But if some of the expensive materials are replaced, from handmade to mechanical assembly line processing, and finally assembled, the cost can be reduced to less than $1,800, or even lower. You know, it depends on the production scale."

"Ok, no problem."

Wayne nodded with satisfaction, turned around and walked towards the director's office with several people. The works required for shooting under the movie cameras were completely in line with his requirements. What he is more concerned about now is the cost of mass production of this suit.

You know, he is not just a simple film director. As a shareholder of Warner Bros., this is naturally determined by his position.

The popularity of "Batman: The Dark Knight" has the best peripheral props, but surprisingly, the whole set of one-to-one Batman armor. Based on this, Charles Rowan conveyed the request of Warner Bros. senior executives as early as after the preparations for "The Flash" began.

It can be predicted that as long as there is no big accident, this Flash will be destined to cause a carnival among DC fans again after the release of next summer, and the Flash suit that appears in the movie will inevitably become the target of fans' pursuit again.

This time Warner Bros.'s strategy is very clear. After the film is released, the Flash suit will be the focus of the operation of the movie. There are examples of the hot sales of Batman armor before. Warner Bros. is confident that this suit, which is destined to be unfamiliar, will once again become the focus of the sales around the movie.

After the issue of the suit was confirmed, the preparations for "The Flash" gradually came to an end. After a meeting with the core team members, Wayne immediately announced that the crew would be disbanded on the spot for one week of vacation, and the film officially started filming a week later.

On the second day after the crew was disbanded, he took Nina and Sergei on a chartered flight from Warner Bros., and set off in a low-key manner to the country across the Pacific. Facing the first time in so many years, Wayne was in a very complicated mood.

For "Batman: The Dark Knight", which has been out of the market in most theaters around the world, his main purpose in the past was to participate in the premiere of this film there and lay the foundation for the film that Warner Bros. will release later.

This film has slowed down significantly since August in North America. Whether it is the scale of screenings or the number of screenings, it has withdrawn from the mainstream sight in the theater market. From August to the beginning of September, the total box office in North America has accumulated 5.58 US dollars.

The overseas box office trend of this film has always been a little higher than that of North American box office. To this day, it has been lower than most of the global theater markets, but the overseas box office has also reached US$630 million, with a total global box office of US$1.188 billion.

As for whether this film can exceed $1.2 billion before it was completely downgraded worldwide, no one can tell it clearly now, but Wayne's itinerary was highly expected by Warner Bros. That market has not yet been released "Batman: The Dark Knight". With its terrifying population base, there is no reason not to be favored by Warner Bros.