Chapter 457

In fact, during the negotiations, 20th Century Fox even revealed their idea of simply giving the whole project to Jia Yapeng for investment, because in their view, the Titanic is a business that will definitely lose money. Only when the box office sells more than $400 million can the film be returned to the capital.

But how is that possible? A movie of shipwreck + love is impossible.

Therefore, during the negotiation, 20th Century Fox strongly advised our boss Jia to simply contract the whole project, but boss Jia refused.

The reason is very simple. Boss Jia's entertainment company in the United States can't afford such a huge film shooting, and Daqian entertainment doesn't have any distributors and channels in the United States. If these are really handed over to Daqian entertainment, the 135 million will really be wasted.

Therefore, boss Jia still forcibly left 20th century fox on the ship and left the whole film production and preparation work to them. This is the right way.

However, boss Jia will not always be kind and generous, because the American branch of Daqian entertainment will not do nothing, and everyone in the whole company will actually participate in the preparation and shooting process of this masterpiece.

As long as the whole film is finished, Daqian entertainment will evolve into a complete film company, and then they will have the ability to prepare a film independently.

In addition to the cooperation between the two sides on the Titanic, the cooperation on the first Pokemon film has also been discussed.

From here on, the road of Pokemon movies and Pokemon movies in history have undergone earth shaking changes.

In fact, the Pokemon movie in history is just a simple 2D animated film. At most, the picture quality is higher than that of the TV Version, and then it is launched at the rate of one film per year. By 2020, there are already 23 theater versions of animation.

However, such theater version animation is not of great significance to Pokemon, nor does it have much promotion value. The box office is to maintain a balance of revenue and expenditure.

In short, this is just a theater film to meet the feelings of fans. There can be no real waves in the film market, which boss Jia doesn't want to see.

Such a theatrical version really doesn't make much sense.

This time, since 20th Century Fox offered to buy the movie copyright of Pokemon, boss Jia simply decided to play a big game.

The negotiations between the two sides around the Titanic lasted a total of one day.

But the negotiations around the Pokemon movie version lasted three days.

Fox means to buy the copyright of Pokemon movie version, and then fox will make a movie. Boss Jia will earn a little copyright fee. It's so simple.

But boss Jia quit. Pokemon is still a newborn child. Every IP needs careful maintenance, and fox is just a filmmaker. If boss Jia doesn't have the right to watch this film, God knows what these guys will do.

Therefore, boss Jia also asked the Pokemon film version to be shot in a joint venture according to the model of Titanic, of which boss Jia accounted for 60% and 20th Century Fox accounted for 40% of the control.

In this regard, 20th Century Fox showed strong opposition. Like boss Jia, they did not agree to transfer the control of the film to others. After all negotiations, boss Jia finally lost. After all, 20th century fox is professional and boss Jia is not.

The two sides agreed that boss Jia will invest US $20 million and 20th century fox will invest US $15 million. Then fox will occupy 51% of the film shares and boss Jia will occupy 49% of the shares.

However, boss Jia has control over the script, which is the bottom line that boss Jia adheres to. When other rights are not under control, the control of the script must be in boss Jia's hand, otherwise the film will become the next big detective Pikachu.

Another key point is the production of films.

The original meaning of 20th century fox was to make an ordinary 2D animated film, and then it was rejected by boss Jia. Boss Jia meant to give the film to Pixar studio and make it into a 3D animated film.

20th century fox had doubts about this, but boss Jia strongly demanded that 20th Century Fox agree. However, when they handed over the business to Pixar studio, Pixar studio refused.

Because Pixar studio was producing toy story, the first animated feature film in the history of Pixar studio, and they also had a contract with Disney for two animated feature films, they refused the request of 20th century fox.

Boss Jia didn't expect to be rejected by Pixar. 20th century fox took the opportunity to make 2D animation, which could save more than half of the cost.

But how can boss Jia admit defeat? It is the general trend to use 3D production for animated films in the future. He can't lose at the starting line.

So after a night's hard thinking, boss Jia made an amazing decision, that is, he successively opened American branches in Daqian Yizhi and Daqian entertainment, and imperial animation will also establish imperial studio in the United States, which will be responsible for designing and making 3D animated films, and then hand over the Pokemon movie to Imperial studio for production.

In the 20th century, fox was completely shocked by boss Jia's idea. They almost wanted to give up the Pokemon film. A Chinese animation studio even drew a 2D animation film. Now they actually want to make a 3D animation film directly. How is this possible?

However, how could boss Jia give up fox like this? After difficult negotiations, boss Jia and fox finally reached an agreement.

The Pokemon animation film is handed over to the American imperial animation studio. However, boss Jia promised that after the Pokemon animation is released, the profits will be given priority to 20th century fox. Only when Fox's $15 million investment is fully repaid can the remaining profits be returned to the imperial dynasty.

In short, if the Pokemon movie version makes a profit of $20 million in the future, then $15 million should be given priority to fox to recover the capital. The remaining $5 million belongs to boss Jia, and boss Jia will lose $15 million.

This is an unequal treaty, and as the price of accepting this treaty, 20th Century Fox must be responsible for helping the imperial dynasty recruit relevant 3D animation talents in the United States.

The so-called recruitment is to dig people directly from Pixar Animation Studio. After all, Pixar is the only professional 3D animation studio in the United States. If you don't dig here, where to dig people!

At this time, Pixar's working salary is still quite bad, because Pixar has not made a profit so far. Basically, all members of the studio are in the state of using love to generate electricity, and their monthly salary is only about $2000, which is about the same as that of an ordinary worker.

Boss Jia directly offered three times the price, hired people from Pixar studio with a monthly salary of US $6000, and hired the technical director of Pixar studio with an annual salary of US $300000. However, under the temptation of boss Jia's money, a large number of professionals in Pixar studio were dug. When jobs reacted, Nearly 13 people have been dug up in the whole Pixar.

At the same time, the imperial dynasty also directly transferred 100 backbone young talents from China to the United States to join the imperial studio of the United States. While playing with those professionals, the imperial dynasty learned advanced 3D animation production skills, so as to begin to cultivate its own special effects team.

After all, a bird in the hand is better than a flock of birds in the forest.

On the other hand, Pixar's was dug up, which made boss Joe scold the imperial dynasty angrily and almost go to court, but there was nothing to sue, and it ended up in the end.

This also directly led to the paralysis of Pixar's just started toy story. It took more than half a year for Pixar's studio to return to normal, and the toy story originally scheduled to be released in 1995 was postponed to 1996.

However, this also led boss Qiao to deeply hate our boss Jia. One of them is the son of destiny and the other is the son of crossing. They can fight in the future.