Chapter 1451

In 2000, based on a private equity fund with a scale of about 50 million US dollars, Thomas Toure founded legendary pictures, and formally signed a long-term cooperation agreement with Warner Bros., which later attracted many well-known investment banks and angel investors to inject capital. Now, the market value has exceeded 2 billion US dollars.

However, they are more of an investment platform than a film production company. They invest in Warner Bros. projects, provide flexible funds, and then wait for returns. But most of the time, they will not participate in the film production process. However, it is up to legend pictures to decide which project to choose.

Legendary film industry relies on Thomas's vision and brain. The company chooses who to cooperate with and what projects to produce. Wall Street tycoons never interfere and give Thomas 100% trust.

Before, in fact, Warner Brothers asked legendary film company to cooperate with "green light man", but Thomas refused directly, and expressed his own point of view with vicious words, "if you just walk in and throw me a script, you say you want to shoot it, I can only say, it's too far fetched." Later, it was confirmed that Thomas had a vicious eye, and the "Green Lantern" lost more than 150 million dollars.

It is such Thomas who, at the time of Warner Brothers' infighting, also takes advantage of the situation, hoping to grasp more power and interests; Then, after the failure, he quickly left.

For Warner Bros., it's obviously adding insult to injury.

As a matter of fact, Thomas never disguised his ambition and intention. He not only wanted to get more returns, but also tried to "speak more eloquently" in the projects he invested in and go up to a higher level in the pyramid of Hollywood.

To put it simply, Thomas tour and Kevin Sawara are the same kind of people who want to control power, not just for profit, but also for control - as is Michael Eisner, Disney's former chief executive. There are no two tigers in one mountain, so there must be a man left between Thomas and Fuyuan.

A person familiar with the matter revealed that Thomas was not willing to be just an investor. He wanted to play more roles as a producer and have more decision-making power over the film. Warner Brothers does rely on legendary film's venture capital, but he doesn't need a chattering investor. Going our separate ways is inevitable.

This split is actually the epitome of the game between Wall Street and Hollywood: Warner is the first partner that the film industry gave up, but it will never be the last.

After that, things became a mess.

The results are as follows: Warner Brothers and dune entertainment have reached a cooperation agreement. Prior to that, dune entertainment cooperated with 20th Century Fox for a long time to create "Avatar", "Prometheus", "Wolverine 2" and other works; Then, in July, Warner Bros. officially announced the establishment of the "Batman vs. Superman" project, starting the official development plan of DC Comics.

Rosenbaum, who was originally in charge of Warner Bros. TV, joined legend pictures and founded a new TV and digital department. Then legend pictures announced that it had joined hands with universal pictures and reached a formal cooperation. Their first joint development project was the restart of "Jurassic Park".

Robinov, who was originally in charge of the film department, was not in a hurry to find his next home. It seems that he is preparing for his own production company. More than half a year later, studio-8 was officially established and reached a cooperation agreement with Sony Columbia Pictures, aiming at the Chinese market.

Thus, it came to the present chaos.

On the one hand, Warner Bros. is rapidly sorting out the situation and developing the DC project in full swing. At the beginning, lanli and Barry's talk about "too hasty may bring negative effects" has now come to nothing. History still follows the original track at a high speed. In the face of Warner's behemoths in the whole era, lanli is still too small a butterfly.

By the way, Barry Meyer, who is 66 years old this year, has begun to enjoy his retirement life since he stepped down as chief executive. The major film companies in the Hollywood industry have never mentioned this figure again.

Universal Pictures, on the other hand, is catching up. In the turmoil, diesel knew the current affairs and chose to bow down for the outstanding. "Speed and passion 7" immediately put into shooting“ "Jurassic Park" project met Thomas tour, who rolled up his sleeves for a big fight, and got into a temporary deadlock.

It can be simply said that the legendary film industry in the past was just an investment platform and a nominal production company; But now it's really transforming into a production company, and it's doing more business with Universal Pictures in the form of cooperation.

A storm is sweeping across Hollywood, not only Warner Brothers, but also 20th century fox, Disney, Universal Pictures and so on. Even paramount and Sony Columbia can't stand by completely, and the power of all parties is being reshuffled.

For Langley, he was a card in the game. Or, a chess piece. Although it is too cruel and cold-blooded to say so, the fact is that he is not enough to shake the whole situation of Hollywood. Warner brothers can not change its strategy for him, and universal pictures can not offend legendary pictures for him.

As a result, things in a mess, temporarily into a delicate balance——

"Jurassic Park" restart the project, the negotiations between Andy Rogers and Thomas tour are still in a tug of war, Steven Spielberg and Frank Marshall can only indirectly exert pressure, can not directly intervene, Lang Meyer instead put on a stand by posture.

"Speed and passion" project, Lang Meyer does not move forward or backward. Although the seventh film has been filmed, he does not say whether he wants to continue to cooperate with lenley in the biography and sequel, and how to solve van diesel's problem, thus maintaining a close relationship.

No wonder Andy finds lanli himself. His expression is unpredictable, neither optimistic nor pessimistic, neither positive nor negative.

After a brief understanding of the whole story, Lan Li gently closed his jaw and asked seriously, "so... Does this mean that I may not be able to find a job recently?"

Although the content of the speech expressed concern, the way of speaking was still understated. After the question, Lan Li picked up his tea cup and began to enjoy afternoon tea. He was slow and contented. Where was there any sign of worry?

But Andy had already expected it, so he chuckled, "to be honest, are you having fun? Now we can finally not worry about the shooting opportunities of commercial films? "

"Of course not." "I've been waiting for the chance to be in a commercial movie," he replied solemnly. It's necessary to keep the rhythm of one movie a year. It's a long time since the edge of tomorrow. I'm looking forward to gravity becoming a commercial movie. In addition, I'm willing to participate in more commercial movie performances. "

If it's someone else, you may believe in lanli, because lanli is so sincere that people can't help but want to believe it.

But Andy is to understand the blue Li, how can easily deceived, "how do you forget the 'super Marine Corps' dubbing work?"

"Oh, is animation a commercial movie? I don't know. " Lanli thought seriously, "I think the box office prospects of the super marine corps should be good, but obviously, Disney will not thank me, and they are not willing to give me dividends. I'm very pinching. "

The robot style routine made Andy laugh happily. "If so, it would be a pity. I thought that the recent incident between Warner Bros. and universal pictures would be turbulent for some time. It is estimated that the progress of relevant cooperation negotiations will not be too fast. Commercial films can only be put aside for a while, so, I've found another black independent work for you. I think you will like it very much. "

With that, Andy took out a script from his briefcase and put it on the coffee table.

"But now, aren't you interested?" Andy looks at lanli confidently, as if he is sure that lanli will change his mind after reading the script.

But Lan Li was still not worried. He put down the teacup and wiped the water stains on his fingers. Then he picked up the script.

When he saw the title of the cover, lanli raised his eyebrow and looked up at Andy again. However, he found that Andy gave a confident look and indicated the script with his eyes, as if to say, "you read it first, and then we'll have a detailed conversation." The self-confidence burst out from the inside out, and the pride hidden in it, all show.

Night Walker.

That's the title of the play Andy brought. To be honest, Langley can understand Andy's complacency, because it's really a wonderful work.

"Nightwalker" tells the story of a real industry in Los Angeles, which is called "nightcrawler". These freelance journalists and photographers shoot the impact of violent crime everywhere, and sell them to relevant TV programs to earn high returns.

In the age of entertainment to death and interest first, the media needs to make some big points and gimmicks. Explosions, blood and even murder all become their source of income. As a result, night walkers have gained the soil to thrive and gradually lose control.

In fact, in a way, it's the same behavior that paparazzi did outside the Juilliard conservatory not long ago——

Today's night walkers are just like this. In order to find the news, they go into the room without breaking the means, and finally go crazy. As long as it is a crime or violence, they can smell the blood like hyenas, and even aim at the bystanders and ordinary people. When they witness crimes such as murder, their first reaction is not to uphold justice, but to record news materials.

The bottom line of morality, the boundary between justice and evil, is collapsing little by little.

"Night Walker" tells such a story.