Chapter 1044： come to an agreement

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June is sunny, Evan Bell leads the "Little Miss Sunshine" family on a run on Interstate 40, while Christopher Nolan leads "Batman: Mystery" at the box office It ran wildly all the way to the top of the list. The first week's $94 million box office was definitely a huge bomb for the summer. Then it won $50 million at the box office in the second week and won the championship in the North American box office rankings. It only took two weeks at the box office. Earnings of more than $150 million already made Christopher Nolan one of the top directors overnight.

The box office performance is one aspect, and more importantly, "Batman Prequel: Mystery of the Shadow" has received unprecedented praise in word of mouth, and many media have praised it as a new chapter in comic book hero movies. Because Christopher Nolan's digging of characters is fascinating, and he has proved with practical actions that even a comic book hero can dig out connotations and tell a good story.

Three years ago, "Batman in the Night" failed to get an explosive response at the box office because Christopher Nolan was bound by the script. This time, the script of "Batman Prequel: Mystery of the Shadow" was written by him himself. Yes, he immediately brought his talents into play.

In the summer of 2005, when Christopher Nolan was making waves, first-hand box office and first-hand word-of-mouth, and infinite popularity, Warner Bros. and Eleven Studios reached a cooperation agreement. In the future, Evan Bell will produce three films for Warner Bros. As the producer, the script, director, and actors will all be calculated by Evan Bell, and the funds will be paid in full by Warner Bros. The distribution is naturally also Warner Bros. work. To put it simply, Warner Bros. hired Evan Bell as the producer of their three works, but gave Evan Bell the greatest degree of freedom, because Barry Mayer knew that the constraints that bound Evan Bell Hands and feet are definitely the most unwise move.

Barry Mayer has previously mentioned that he is in talks with New Market Pictures for a script. It does exist. However, Evan Bell is now filming "Little Miss Sunshine", and Christopher Nolan is also promoting "Batman Prequel: Mystery of the Shadows", so the script is temporarily shelved and has not been read to them. Evan Bell promises. After the work at hand is done, then read the script again.

The negotiation of the cooperation agreement between Eleven Studio and Warner Bros. actually proceeded relatively quickly. After all, the two sides have had many good cooperation records. For Evan Bell, being able to choose his own script, set up his own crew, make his own movies, and at the same time be able to get box office dividends, why not do it.

Barry Mayer appears to be in a good mood after completing the partnership agreement with Warner Bros. Judging from the performance of the past three years, Evan Bell is basically equal to quality, either box office or word of mouth or awards. Even if these are not mentioned, Evan Bell's topicality is an absolute advantage. This is good news for Warner Bros.

However, what is surprising is that Eleven Studio's plan to acquire New Market Pictures did not end as neatly as expected. Instead, Teddy Bell and Thomas Lansing got into an awkward standoff.

Today is the third meeting between Teddy Bell and Thomas Lansing in half a month, and Thomas Lansing has discovered it keenly. Teddy Bell's aura was much calmer. When we met for the second time, Teddy Bell didn't look like anything, but in the negotiation process, there was always a sense of impatience. Thomas Lansing thought he was almost there. But unfortunately, Teddy Bell persisted, and from today's state, Thomas Lansing doesn't think he can shake Teddy Bell again.

Thomas Lansing knew he was negotiating with Teddy Bell. Teddy Bell has actually been in contact with several other companies. Among them, the most frequent one is Roadside Scenery Films. It can be felt that the negotiations between Teddy Bell and Roadside Scenery Films are relatively smooth. After all, Roadside Scenery Films has not been established for two years, and its foundation is indeed unstable. But who knows? Maybe it's a smoke bomb from Eleven Studios. Just to confuse Thomas Lansing.

Yesterday, Thomas Lansing heard from Barry Mayer that the negotiations between Teddy Bell and one of the companies were coming to an end and that Eleven Law's lead attorney Eden Hudson was in San Francisco working on a business called utu.

About the e website, I made a special trip to Los Angeles. It's a signal that Teddy Bell needs Eden Hudson to show up in person to get in touch with the acquisition-related legal practice. From Barry Mayer's judgment, this time it should not be a smoke bomb, but a real one. It's just, is it Roadside Landscape Films, Studio Studio, Conch Films, or other interceptors?

"Thomas, this is our offer." As soon as Teddy Bell came up, instead of going around in circles like the previous two times, he handed over an agreement directly.

Thomas Lansing knew it was an attitude and a signal. First, Eden Hudson has made specific changes to the agreement. It seems that Studio Eleven has indeed reached a consensus with a company; second, directly giving the agreement means: This is our final offer, no It will be revised; thirdly, this is Thomas Lansing's own speculation, which is a signal released by Evan Bell.

Thomas Lansing doesn't know how his third idea came up, but that's how he thought, and as soon as the idea came out, it couldn't be cut off as if it took root. Thomas Lansing has heard a lot about Evan Bell, see you

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Much more and more understanding, although he has never officially met, but he can clearly feel the key role of Evan Bell in Eleven Studio. Of course, the reason for David Greenblatt's departure was not a secret in the circle. Thomas Lansing was only now really feeling the invisible sense of oppression from Evan Bell.

It may be a novel experience to work under Evan Bell. Thomas Lansing was not impatient, but looked forward to it.

"Teddy, price has never been a problem, you know what I want." Thomas Lansing had a lot of thoughts in his mind, but he was not at all dissatisfied with what he said. He didn't open the agreement, but said it directly.

Teddy Bell laughed honestly, as if he heard a funny joke, "Thomas, I told you too, Eleven Studio is not listed, and there is no so-called share. At present, Eleven Studio Even if Evan is alone, I can only be regarded as a senior part-time worker. Therefore, if you join Eleven Studio, you can be in the same position as me, but it is impossible to ask for shares. "

That's why Thomas Lansing and Teddy Bell have been entangled. Thomas Lansing hopes that Eleven Studios will acquire New Market Pictures in the form of shares. He will become one of the company's shareholders and will also have the right to speak. But the problem is that Eleven Studio has no so-called shares at all. The legal representative is Evan Bell, and Teddy Bell, Eden Hudson, Katherine Bell, Sean Mayer, strictly counted , is a senior worker. Therefore, Thomas Lansing's conditions are destined to be impossible, which has become the focus of the two sides' entanglement.

Teddy Bell still had a smile on his face, "Of course, first of all, I would like to thank you for your affirmation of our Eleven Studio. Ten million dollars is only 3% of the shares, but unfortunately, our company has not been listed for the time being. plan."

Thomas Lansing shrugged, "This is not the result of my estimation, I just estimated it according to the market." Ten million for 3% of the shares, in other words, the market value of Eleven Studios now. The estimated value is 3 billion, which is indeed a high affirmation for a studio that has only been established for less than five years. No wonder Thomas Lansing is excited. But now it seems that Studio Eleven has no plans to back down on this point.

"Thomas, I'm very sorry. I have a meeting in a while. After you read the agreement, if you have any questions, you can call me at any time. I will look forward to your call." Teddy Bell did not continue to chat. , stood up and said goodbye directly. Thomas Lansing didn't stop him either. He is very sure now that Teddy Bell came here today to state the final offer of Studio Eleven, and he doesn't plan to continue the negotiation at all.

In fact, the biggest reason for Thomas Lansing's refusal to give in is of course interest But at the same time, he is also inspecting the management of Eleven Studio. Let's look at the level of the management of Studio Eleven, whose average age is not yet under 24 years old. If he wants to work in Studio Eleven in the future, this is a very important question. It seems that Studio Eleven has now decisively reached a cooperation agreement with Warner Bros., and the calm and decisiveness shown at the negotiating table is quite unexpected.

Only then did Thomas Lansing flip through the deal on the table, $15 million, which was $2 million more than when they first negotiated. Thomas Lansing closed the agreement with a smile on his lips. It seems that this young company is more cunning than he imagined.

Sure enough, within two days, the news of Eleven Studio's acquisition of Roadside Landscape Pictures came out, and the final transaction price was $6 million; after four days, Eleven Studio successfully acquired it for $4 million The news of Conch Pictures has also been confirmed.

Two days later, Teddy Bell and Thomas Lansing met for the fourth time in 20 days. On the same day, Eleven Studios announced that it had completed a $14 million film on New Market. acquisition of industrial companies. At the same time, Eleven Studio will formally set up a distribution department to be responsible for the distribution of the company's works.

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