I'm almost a Muggle

"Disney seems to be restarting an animated film from 1998 and planning to make a live-action version." An Qian had already filled her stomach.

But she still gave her face and picked up a fan to eat slowly.

After getting Lin Dong's weight loss tea, she found that her weight would always hover at the standard position.

This standard is the standard for female celebrities.

"Disney movies are pretty good." Lin Dong must admit this.

Last year's "Zootopia" sold very well and was filmed very well. Lin Dong went to watch it himself.

This year, Qin Beier represented their "Dream Searching for a Bible".

Alas, her wings are hard, and she can't stop her from continuing to work with Disney.

"But what they have to do this time is "Mulan". I hesitated and felt that it would be difficult for them to make Mulan that conforms to our values. They actually don't understand our culture very much." An Qian said with concern.

"They really don't understand. Many of the cultures we present there cater to their appetites. They are all distorted and twisted. They are distorted and sent back again... You should stop acting in this movie." Lin Dong was not optimistic about such a movie.

If he was asked to invest, he would be more happy.

His dislike of being optimistic is to evaluate whether it is good or not, and from the perspective of actors' performance.

"Then let's not act anymore." An Qian nodded.

I used to think Hollywood was very tall and outstanding, and most Chinese-speaking actors thought so, but the Cat Factory acquired MGM, which made people feel that Hollywood was just like this.

So what if you are coquettish?

We in China can also acquire you, including Legend Pictures in front and MGM in the back. Maybe one day the capital will take you Disney with all your efforts.

The picture turns back to Klester.

Gary Barber and Mary Palent were inspired to discuss with the senior executives of the Cat Factory how to run MGM's business in the future.

Or, how to spend these more than three billion dollars.

"007!" Du Qixi said impatiently. In his opinion, the biggest advantage of acquiring MGM is that it can access the copyright of "007".

Hollywood tough guy movies, such as the muscular man Arnold Schwarzenegger, Dwayne Johnson, Vin Diesel, etc., are very popular.

However, the agile and quick-minded agent movies are also very popular with audiences.

"007" is the code name of Agent James Bond, and the film was born in 1962.

When many people take stock of the Agent series, they will inevitably put it first, followed by "Mission: Impossible", "Spy Shadow", "Extreme Agent", "Hurricane Rescue", "Red Flame Battlefield", "Agent Bean", "Ace Agent", etc.

The 007 series, 24 regular series, and two extras, are mostly classics among classics.

Later agent films were deeply affected.

To put it more exaggeratedly, at least half of MGM's acquisition price of US$6.2 billion comes from "007".

"Mr. Barber, our understanding of Hollywood is far less than that of you and Ms. Palente, so we want to ask you what you think about the 007 series, how do you plan to start the new 007 movie?" Pei Qianlong asked.

"If there was no such acquisition, we were actually ready to take out the movies in this series and cooperate with other companies because we could not afford the surge in production costs now. If we want to make a hit, it would cost at least more than $200 million. "The Ghost Party" spent nearly $250 million, and the next one cannot be lower than this one."

"Money is not a problem. We need to regain this IP. Even if the next one doesn't make money or even lose money, it doesn't matter." Pei Qianlong said.

Gary Barber and Mary Palent were startled.

We are just such a money-making thing, but it doesn’t matter whether you make money or not.

"How much budget can you do?" asked Mary Palent.

"Mission Impossible Five is a cost of $150 million. We can achieve $300 million. Don't exceed it too much. Mr. Daniel Craig should still act, right?" Pei Qianlong asked.

"Three hundred million!" Mary Palent was stunned for a moment, and then replied: "That's so much. You can ask Daniel Craig. I think as long as you give enough, he shouldn't mind making two more movies."

"Bon girl, I like the Scarlet Witch." Du Qixi clamored.

He once bragged that when he had a chance, he must let Elizabeth Olson act in his film.

"Do you a favor and satisfy our Mr. Du, although her pay may be a little higher." Pei Qianlong must give Du Qixi such a face, even if he suspected that Du Qixi was just greedy for others.

In fact, he thought Elizabeth Olsen was indeed pretty, but in front of some people, he had to pretend that he didn't even know who Elizabeth Olsen was.

I don't know where it looks good.

"In addition, we hope that Chinese actors can appear, so there is no requirement for a lot of scenes, but the image must be positive." Shi Shanshan added.

"Of course." Neither Gary Barber nor Mary Palent objected.

Once, if someone bought MGM, it would be impossible to keep Chinese actors out again.

Secondly, with the backing of Cat Factory, China will definitely be MGM's most important overseas market in the future, and everything will be closer to this aspect.

"By the way, if you consider it from the perspective of the Chinese film market, I personally recommend buying the film copyright from Blizzard to make it." Mary Palent expressed his opinion.

"Warcraft, do you mean to specialize in the Chinese market?" Pei Qianlong asked.

"Yes, I think if we do the monster, we can start from the following aspects..."

Mary Palent believes that the first reason why Warcraft failed in North America was the cast issue. Basically, they were all second-tier actors, and Legend Pictures was too petty.

In the second part, you can completely make part of the budget pay.

Klester's budget of 3.8 billion gave her enough confidence, which made her eager to restart the project.

Second, reuse Hollywood gold medal screenwriter for adaptation.

The key to the reason why games can become classics is gameplay, and movies are used to tell stories. It is very difficult to adapt a game's plot into a movie.

Because the plot of the game is the best, many places are not as rigorous as the comics. Moreover, the plot of the first part of "Warcraft" is really inexplicable. Even players and fans are not excited, so how can they ask non-player viewing groups?

Third, Mary Palent believes that she once served as the producer of The Hobbit.

She herself has many understandings of such fantasy masterpieces that ordinary Hollywood producers cannot understand. After seeing the movie "Warcraft" after it was released, she had a lot of things to express.

"The reason is very good, Ms. Palente, how do you convince Legend Pictures to give up this IP?" Pei Qianlong could understand Mary Palente.

She and Gary Barber have a cooperative relationship, but there is also competition between each other, and this competition can be benign.

Gary Barber will undoubtedly host the overall situation of "007".

So what should she do?

Start the fight?

She was not very interested, so she had to find an opportunity of her own.

In the end, she chose an epic fantasy blockbuster that she was good at.

The Warcraft series, which has a similar worldview to "The Hobbit", if she could make "The Hobbit" as classic as "The Hobbit", her name would inevitably be praised by the whole Hollywood.

"Actually, Blizzard is very dissatisfied with Legend Pictures and has planned to get their copyright back from Legend Pictures. We can talk to Blizzard directly. I think I am sure to convince them." Mary Palent said.

"Since that's the case, let go and do it." Pei Qianlong expressed his support.

"I have another suggestion." Gary Barber spoke. Perhaps he felt some pressure, so he took the initiative to say: "I'm a bit thin in Hollywood. We can participate in those big IPs, such as Marvel, DC, and other things."

Pei Qianlong and Concubine Han looked at each other and were both a little proud.

This old man's greatest value is here.

As mentioned before, when China Capital enters Hollywood, it can only eat some leftovers, and the IP that makes real money won’t take you to play.

Even any company will share the risks by attracting some allies to participate in investment, production and issuance.

But they just won't take you outsiders.

After MGM was acquired, it was very easy to be isolated, especially after changing to the lion's head.

Gary Barber’s role is to ease contradictions, and even actively resolve them. Through his existence, MGM can be completely integrated into Hollywood.

More than three billion US dollars, MGM, who is waving money, can make more.