Chapter 1403

The project of the American version of Infernal Affairs was launched smoothly. DreamWorks and Ben Affleck agreed to the invitation of the film in advance before they saw the script. They also played the role of police undercover Liu Jianming in the film. Leonardo, Ben Affleck and Tom Hanks were also recognized by Martin Scorsese The rest of the characters, Li Mu, are completely handed over to Martin Scorsese from the Lord.

After the director and the leading actor have been determined, Muye image and DreamWorks immediately signed the relevant cooperation agreement, and started the relevant work of script creation.

As the flying tigers is expected to be finished in early September, the US version of Infernal Affairs is tentatively scheduled to start preparation in August and officially start shooting at the end of October.

"Infernal Affairs" is a thorough urban film. All of its stories are built in a spatial dimension and only happen in one city. So it's not difficult to shoot. The shooting time is expected to be about two to three months. If there's no accident, it can be finished at the beginning of next year.

According to this rhythm, it is impossible to compete for next year's Oscar. The film will be released in the first half of next year or in summer, and then participate in the Oscar in February and March of next year. The time is just right.

In Li Mu's view, with the US version of Infernal Affairs + Martin Scorsese + Leonardo, Tom Hanks' lineup, coupled with their own strong resource support, it's no problem to win several Oscars.

While the project of the American version of Infernal Affairs has basically taken shape, the total box office of zombie master in North America has exceeded 200 million US dollars, and it only took an amazing seven and a half days for it to achieve this amount.

Although the subsequent box office is slightly weaker than before, the decline is very stable. According to this estimate, it is not a problem to win another 100 million box office in the remaining release time.

Hollywood and Hong Kong film industry have been shocked to be numb by the amazing achievements of the film. The direct impact on Hollywood and Hong Kong film industry is that Hong Kong has recently launched several zombie themed films. Hollywood has already had companies to talk with Huanya about the North American remake right, adaptation right and continuation right of Zombie master.

Huanya tries hard to sell Infernal Affairs at a high price, but it still hasn't sold it. Now the news that Li Mu is going to remake it comes out that Hollywood's interest in the original Infernal Affairs is even weaker.

The way the movie is handled and narrated doesn't suit the taste of the North American audience. If the Hollywood film company takes it away, it's hard to push it up in North America. Now, the film company of the Hollywood film company can guess that the film company of the Hollywood film company can also guess that the film company of the Hollywood film company is going to invest in the remake instead of Huanya Asia's relationship is not very good, or even a little tense. As a result, they have to worry a little bit more about whether they will find something strange for the release of the original film in North America after mastering the pastoral image of the pastoral film ticketing system? Even if it just weakens the layout, it's enough for the distribution company to drink a pot.

Mr. zombie lost a large amount of revenue, and Infernal Affairs failed to realize it, which made Huanya's anger at the image of Makino reach a peak. So when several Hollywood companies want to buy all the English copyright and derivative copyright of Mr. zombie, Huanya is ready to take this opportunity to make a big profit, and then find some for the image of Makino Trouble.

Huanya is very clear that there are many zombie movies with overseas distribution rights in Makino image, which means that the big profits of zombie master in North America are just the beginning of Makino image's making money. Next, the movie will be released all over the world, and the players of "plant vs. zombie online" around the world will pay for it, and so on After the gold absorption, Muye image can launch other zombie films and earn another round of copyright. In this way, Muye image will surely earn a lot of money.

What makes Huanya angry is that most of the copyrights of high-quality zombie movies are from their own hands, which means that they have to bear the pain to watch the Muye image make more money with their copyrights.

So, Huanya decided to make a barrier for Makino image, sell a series of derivative rights and interests such as remake, adaptation and continuation of Mr. zombie to Hollywood, and let Hollywood make a big deal. In this way, not only can they make a big profit through copyright authorization, but also let these Hollywood film companies encircle Makino image and reduce Makino image profit as much as possible Profits from zombie movies.

Packing and selling these copyrights means that all the rights and interests of Mr. zombie IP have been transferred. If Hollywood gets these copyrights, it can not only remake the movie, but also adapt and make various sequels, and even refine the characters to create more new stories. After selling, Huanya will never be able to sell Mr. Zombie itself 》Adapted into any English version.

Others are fishing with all their efforts. Huanya wants to pack and sell the whole fish pond.

However, the proceeds from the package sale are still very considerable. Hollywood film companies offer more than $6 million, while Huanya mediates among several film and television companies, and the price has gradually exceeded $10 million.When Huanya finally reached an agreement with a Hollywood film company to sell the exclusive English remake right, adaptation right and remake right of Mr. zombie for us $12 million, the news came out and shocked the whole Hong Kong.

Hollywood companies are willing to buy the English remake rights and remake rights of "Mr. zombie" for 12 million dollars? It's almost impossible! 12 million dollars, which is almost 100 million Hong Kong dollars! Can't Hollywood movie companies have a long brain?!

The price seems to be outrageous, but in the eyes of Hollywood companies, it's still very profitable. Now, zombie master has become a hot IP in the North American market. If you can get the rights of remake, adaptation and continuation, Hollywood companies can make a big contribution to the story structure of this hot IP. You can remake movies, make new sequels, or Make North American style comics and animes, even imitate marvel to create a new superhero, and then make this superhero into its own IP.

Marvel's success lies in that it has a large number of popular superheroes. Spiderman is very popular, wolverine is also very popular, the captain of the United States and Raytheon, iron man, Hulk are very popular, each of these superheroes can support a huge industrial chain, from comics to animation to movies and TV series, peripheral products, image licensing, among which the profit is empty A superhero can even change a company's operation for 70-80 years. For example, the American captain was born in 1941. It is estimated that he will be active on the big screen in 2041.

What's more, when these popular heroes are on fire, companies like Marvel can make money by lying down. It can let all the heroes play their own games, or get them together to make a shield Bureau and Avenger alliance.

Hollywood companies are good at this kind of long-term brand building, so it costs 12 million yuan to buy a Chinese "superhero" image, and it is a superhero image that has a strong fan base in the United States. This account is very cost-effective. As long as we remake an original, we can create a "Mr. Zombie deal with the ultimate zombie and seal with the ultimate zombie together." One hundred years later, the image of "Mr. zombie" will be able to make a big deal in the modern background.

This setting sounds far fetched, but there has been a successful precedent, that is, the famous captain of the United States.

The American team leader has been frozen for decades, resurrected after decades, and then went to work with a shield. This setting has been accepted by the audience. Since the American team leader can, why can't Mr. zombie?

Moreover, for Hollywood people, they have countless ways to localize overseas culture. In their opinion, zombie master is too easy to take root in the United States, because there are a large number of ghost legends in the United States, which are huge in size and no worse than Chinese ghost legends. Both eastern and Western cultures fear ghosts and supernatural forces. Chinese people like to look for them People are fortune tellers and doctors. Westerners also like to find diviners and psychics to solve problems. Now the image and brand of zombie master, a Chinese Taoist, is on fire. By then, a transitional plot will enable him to live in the 21st century America. Then, he can let the zombie master, who comes from the East and has a wide range of supernatural powers, deal with the ghosts and gods in American legends.

If the copyright of this IP is finally bought by marvel, it is likely that some time later, the Taoists from China will deal with the Nazi Zombies together with the captain of the United States in the movie. Then the captain of the United States will become a dog by waving a shield in front of thousands of Nazi Zombies. When he can't stand it, the Chinese Taoists in yellow robes will come out and hold a peach wood sword. He is calm Compared to a sentence: "those who are fighting in front of the soldiers will march forward in an array", "it's too old to be too urgent as a rule". When the time comes, Fu Zhuan, handprint and array will fly all over the sky. That picture is too beautiful to imagine

It is because they have figured out how to dig deep into this industrial chain that Hollywood film companies are extremely interested in the remake and adaptation rights of this film.

When Li Mu heard that Huanya was talking with Hollywood film companies about the overseas copyright of Mr. zombie, including remake, adaptation and sequel, Li Mu only let Muye technology release a statement on YY. The statement was very simple:

Muye image recognized Huanya as the owner of the film Mr. zombie and its related intellectual property rights, while Muye image recognized Huanya as the owner of the film Mr. zombie and its related intellectual property rights Xiang is also very pleased that Huanya can export this intellectual property right to the whole world. However, Makino image needs to make a kind reminder: Although Huanya is the intellectual property owner of Mr. zombie, Makino image is the exclusive owner of the English brand name zombie master. This English brand has been registered in the world and protected by the global intellectual property right I hope that Huanya and Hollywood film companies will know about it.

The announcement woke up the dreams of Huanya and Hollywood.

Mr. zombie is the copyright of Huanya. Yes, Muye image has only the distribution right of the film overseas, but there is no right to adapt or continue shooting. In other words, if all countries in the world want to release the original version of Mr. zombie, the copyright needs to be discussed with Muye image. It has nothing to do with Huanya, but if all countries in the world want to remake zombie first Sheng, this copyright needs to be discussed with Huanya, and the image of Makino has no right to interfere.However, the original English name of Mr. zombie is Mr. stiff corpse, that is, Mr. stiff corpse. Zombie master should be the exact meaning of zombie master, and the name is taken by Makino image. Although it is used in Mr. zombie of Huanya, it does not mean that the copyright of this English name belongs to Huanya.

To be frank, Huanya can license derivative copyright of Mr. zombie with any film company around the world, but neither Huanya nor these copyright partners have the right to use the name "zombie master".

It's like Marvel has the intellectual property rights of "Captain America". This is protected by intellectual property laws all over the world. If you're not marvel, you can't use this name. You can call it "Secretary of the United States brigade", "Secretary of the United States branch", "American political commissar", "director of American women" and so on, but not "Captain America".

This is the lifeblood! What the audience remembers is "Captain America", not any other name except "Captain America"!

Zombie master is the same! Now "Mr. zombie" is popular in the United States, but American audiences all know that the name of the movie is "zombie master", and the Taoist in it is a "zombie master". Suddenly one day, Hollywood made a film "Mr. stiff corpse", which means "Mr. stiff corpse". What do ghosts know? It's strange that the North American audience will accept such an egg name!

Besides, Mr. zombie is a very bad thing for Huanya. Master Lin, who is starring in the movie, has gone to the cinema. So no matter who makes the sequel, master Lin can't be allowed to reappear. In this way, whether Hollywood buys its own copyright or Hollywood directly invents a new way to fight zombies Long, there's no way to make sure that it's a sequel to zombie master, unless its name is zombie master.

So, for Hollywood companies that were willing to spend $12 million to buy a series of copyrights for Mr. zombie, how much would the movie's copyright be worth if the brand name "zombie master" could not be used? No one buys a million! Because the images and settings of Chinese zombies and Taoists are derived from Chinese folklore, which has no copyright.

In this way, instead of spending a lot of money to buy the copyright of Mr. zombie from Huanya, it's better to build a new Taoist image according to the Chinese zombie legend, or simply go to Makino image to take the right to use the brand of "zombie master". At least once the brand of "Zombie master" is lit up, the audience will know how it is!

Seeing that all Hollywood enterprises intending to buy copyrights have exited, the high-level people around Asia are almost going to die. They did not expect that Li Mu would still keep such a hand. Zombie master is popular in North America, but the name of zombie master is owned by Mu Ye image