Rebirth In Hollywood

Every big-selling film needs excellent marketing. Behind the production cost of the film, there are often promotional and marketing expenses that are equally huge or even far exceed the production cost, such as those well-known low-cost big-selling movies.

For example, "The Blair Witch" in the previous life, not to mention a series of distribution costs such as making copies, this film cost only tens of thousands of dollars, and 25 million dollars was thrown away in terms of publicity alone!

For example, "Supernatural Phenomena" or "Ghost Story", which was released this year, cost Paramount Pictures more than 6.5 million US dollars just for copying, and more than 40 million US dollars was spent on publicity...

Walt Disney paid $300 million in publicity and marketing expenses for "Avatar" that exceeded the production cost. The board of directors is willing to throw this money away. In addition to the remuneration paid to Cameron, all income from the film will go to Disney.

In other words, Disney owns all the copyrights of the film, and this is Disney's own son.

Similarly, the copyrights of "The Blair Witch" and "Supernatural Phenomena" also belong to their respective companies. Otherwise, companies such as Paramount Pictures would never invest such a huge amount of money in such projects. With more than half of the profits, these profit-seeking Hollywood companies will cut off the project without hesitation.

After all, these two films can be described as 'super bad' in terms of creativity, content, and shooting techniques. For Hollywood, which has a strong follower, it is not difficult to copy similar films that will not touch the copyright minefield.

"Avatar" has its irreproducibility. Although there is no one irreplaceable in Hollywood, there is only one James Cameron in the world.

Although the investment in the film is huge and the profit prospect is not particularly clear, many people want to join in and get a share of the action.

Twentieth Century Fox would be one of them, were it not for Ryan's presence. They will be James Cameron's biggest partner, but since "Titanic", Ryan has used generous investment and co-invested in 3D and imax business to completely attract James Cameron, the truck driver in this In terms of the project, investors other than Disney were not considered at all.

These cannot make Twentieth Century Fox give up. From the day the film started to be filmed, they have been in frequent contact with Disney's management, wanting to win the distribution rights of the film, even if they cannot get all of it. One of the North American or overseas distribution rights must also be obtained.

Even if the distribution fee can be reduced to the lowest point of 7% or even 5% of the box office, Ryan does not want to share this piece of cake. How much is 5% of more than two billion US dollars? Even if 20th Century Fox cannot enjoy all of the box office share, it will still be a terrifying figure.

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Ryan wouldn't mind giving his collaborators a slice of cake, but this is Avatar!

"Ryan, we've had a great time working together for the past ten years."

A middle-aged man with glasses, apparently Jewish, looked at Ryan seriously.

This is a beach house in Malibu. As Sandy got older, she became more and more curious about the outside world, and the paparazzi in Beverly Hills were rampant, so Nicole simply took her to move here again.

What Ryan didn't expect was. Not long after they moved, Tom Rothman, co-chairman and CEO of 20th Century Fox, came to visit. The matter was naturally related to "Avatar" and other film affairs.

"Disney and News Corp have been partners..."

Talking casually, Ryan waited for Elsa to come over to pour coffee. Remind her with gestures to tell Nicole and Sandy, who were walking on the beach, to come back later.

The people who came were not friends at all. There is no need for Nicole to come forward to entertain.

""Avatar"..."

Hearing the other party's initiative to mention this film, Ryan reached out and interrupted him, "Tom, Disney will not give up the distribution rights of this film. If it is for this matter, then I can only say sorry, I alone cannot change the decision of the Disney board."

Naturally, the other party would not believe this kind of nonsense, and Ryan was just expressing his attitude.

"Okay, 20th Century Fox dropped 'Avatar.'"

Tom Rothman didn't seem to want to stick to it, and turned to the other side, "I heard that most of the later stages of "The Avengers" have been completed?"

"That's right." Looking up at the other party, Ryan narrowed his eyes slightly, and returned to normal in an instant, "Disney Pictures has formulated a complete promotional release plan."

His meaning is very clear, Disney will never allow outsiders to share the benefits of "The Avengers".

Although he was a little displeased with the 20th Century Fox's lion's big mouth, Ryan didn't say much, made a gesture of invitation to the coffee cup, and continued the discussion lazily.

Every company has series that are not allowed to be touched by outsiders. Warner has it, Universal has it, Paramount has it, 20th Century Fox has it, and Disney has it too.

The only difference is that there are too many series that Disney will not take out to share benefits, and it is too enviable.

"Pirates of the Caribbean", "Transformers", "The Hobbit", "Toy Story", "The Bourne Shadow", "Harry Potter", "Shrek", "Cars", etc...

These series of movies can bring extremely stable income, even if it is a fool, it will not let people come to their mouths to share food.

Of course, Marvel's superhero franchise is also in the mix.

Sure enough, Tom Rothman mentioned the Marvel superhero series again, and Ryan only thought about it for a while before rejecting his cooperation request, just like 20th Century Fox would not allow other companies to intervene in the "Star Wars series" Like distribution, Disney also has its own restricted areas.

Even if the other party mentioned the cooperation relationship for many years, Ryan still remained unmoved. This kind of head can't be opened, otherwise it will bring a series of chain reactions.

Today is only 20th Century Fox. If they can get a share of Disney's restricted area, what will the other six members such as Universal, Warner and Paramount think?

In fact, in Ryan's mind, it's not impossible to talk about it at all. If the other party is willing to transfer some of the copyrights of the "Star Wars Series" in his hand, Disney doesn't mind letting them become the distributor of several superhero movies. If this goal can be achieved, then if Lucasfilm is successfully acquired in the future, Disney will have the complete copyright of the "Star Wars series".

Unfortunately, Ryan knew very well that there was no room for negotiation in this matter.

Seeing that the matter did not make any progress, Tom Rothman quickly offered to leave, but Ryan didn't care. Now Walt Disney is not afraid of any competition or challenge from any media group.

After leaving the reception room, Ryan went directly down the cliff where the villa is located through the special elevator. On a silver beach, he found Nicole and Sandy, who were piled up with sand.

"dad……"

Probably seeing Ryan, the little guy who was over three years old beckoned to this side.

"Hi, dear." Ryan strode over, pointed to the pile of sand next to her, and asked, "What is this?"

"The castle." Sandy looked at Nicole and said, "In Mommy's story, the princess always lives in the castle, why don't I?"

"Because you're not a princess." Ryan bent down and gently pinched the little guy's face, "You are our angel."

"Then...the one with wings..." Sandy made a flying posture, "The one that can fly... is it a birdman?"

"Sonny..." Nicole's voice dragged on for a long time, and the little guy who was gradually fluent in his language quickly lowered his head, "I'm sorry, Mommy."

"That's what Tyler taught you?" Ryan asked.

Sandy put her hands behind her back and tightly shut her mouth, refusing to betray her sister.

"Okay..." Ryan squatted beside Nicole, "Just pretend I didn't ask."

"Hmm..." Sandy nodded her head vigorously, and said happily, "Taylor said, you can't be a traitor."

Hearing the childish words, Ryan and Nicole looked at each other and laughed at the same time.

Unknowingly, Sandy, who has become a little traitor, looked at his father curiously, then at his mother, and continued to play his sand-piling game.

"Twentieth Century Fox has a huge appetite."

Hearing Ryan talk about the reason for Tom Rothman's visit, Nicole also didn't take it seriously, "Although it is common practice for the six major companies to release each other's films, no one will hand over their ace series."

"So..." Ryan shrugged, "I turned them down."

"Who is it?" Sandy suddenly interjected curiously.

"A bunch of bad guys."

Ryan stood up and looked at the sea in the distance. The blue sky and the deep blue sea were connected at the end of his sight. The sun hiding in the clouds appeared when he was about to fall into the sea. The sea and sky are dyed red.

"Honey." Nicole's voice came from the side, she pointed to the sea and asked Sandy, "Look over there, isn't it beautiful?"

"It's beautiful." Sandy came over and stood beside Ryan, pulling his slacks, "Dad...I like it here."

"I like the sea!" she cried again, "I like Papa and Mammy!"

"Then do you like Dad more?" Nicole brushed off the sand from her hands, and picked Sandy up, "Or do you like Mommy more?"

Turning his head, Ryan looked at his daughter deliberately and seriously.

Sandy stuck out her tongue at him and said mischievously, "Of course it's Mommy."

This was almost an answer without any doubts. Ryan walked over and nodded her small forehead, took her daughter from Nicole, carried her on her shoulders, and walked towards the way she came.

Nicole came up from behind and took his free arm.

"You are all my angels," Ryan told her. (To be continued..)

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