Chapter 467： Conservative and cautious

In front of Burbank ABC TV in Los Angeles, Matt Damon was surrounded by countless fans almost frantically as soon as he got out of the car.

"Bourne!"

"Bourne is here!"

One by one, the autographs appeared near Matt Damon. Although the bodyguards tried to stop them, many people still handed the autographs to Matt Damon.

"Bourne!" A female fan was almost fanatical: "Sign us!"

Matt Damon took the autograph pen and signed her name on her notebook. The female fan looked at it and seemed very dissatisfied, and said loudly, "Born! Sign another Bourne's name!"

Hearing this, Matt Damon couldn’t help but feel a little embarrassed, but he has a very good personality and knows that no matter what happens, he can’t bother with his **** fans. In the autograph book, he wrote "Jason Bo Well" name.

Matt Damon signed a few more fans. With the help of bodyguards, he slowly walked out of the crowd and entered the ABC TV station.

The agent was already waiting here, hurriedly greeted him and said, "Matt, you are the hottest star this month."

Even Keanu Reeves, who played "The Matrix 2", has less exposure than Matt Damon.

Hearing what the agent said, Matt Damon smiled and said, "This is not entirely a good thing."

Inexplicably, the agent asked, "What's the matter?"

Matt Damon lowered his voice and said, "I just signed seven names, and three of them asked me to sign Jason Byrne."

The agent's expression gradually became serious: "Has this point been reached?"

Matt Damon said: "I am going to be solidified by the image of Jason Byrne, right?"

"We need to pay attention." The agent accompanied Matt Damon to the TV station and said as he walked: "Matt, I suggest that you finish filming the third part and suspend the role of Jason Byrne."

The agent is very clever, and Matt Damon is not a fool who only looks at the benefits in front of him, saying: "I will not continue to play Jason Byrne after filming the third part."

"Your play style and image are very broad." The agent agreed: "You can't be limited to one role."

As soon as he finished his words, he saw George Clint of Shahai Entertainment walking towards him and hurriedly said hello: "Hi, George, are you here in person?"

Matt Damon participated in the recording of the ABC TV program. Although there are factors to promote "The Bourne Shadow 2", it is not necessary for the executive officer of Shahai Entertainment to come in person?

George Clint greeted Matt Damon first, and then said to his agent: "The company has an episode business with ABC TV."

The agent was well-informed and asked, "The second season of "Grey's Anatomy"?"

George Clint nodded slightly: "The second season has already started filming, and the fall season will be broadcast, but I'm here this time, mainly to talk about the broadcast of animated series."

"Animated series?" The agent was a little surprised.

""Peppa Pig"." George Clint said simply: "The one that won the best animated short film at the Oscars, we made it into an animated series, ready to be broadcast on ABC TV."

The agent admired a little: "Shahai Entertainment's business is getting more and more."

George Clint smiled confidently and said: "There will be more in the future, "Peppa Pig" is just the beginning."

After chatting, George Clint left here with other things to do.

Matt Damon looked over there and said: "Maintain a good relationship with Relativity Entertainment, even if they don't cooperate with "The Bourne Shadow", they also have other movie projects."

The agent solemnly said: "I understand."

George Grint just negotiated with ABC TV about the broadcast of "Peppa Pig".

Although it won the Oscar for Best Animated Short Film, this animation series has also entered the attention of various TV stations, but Shahai Entertainment’s animation work has not had any commercially successful animation production. "Little Pig Page" There is only a token dollar for the first broadcast authorization of a season.

This 10,000 US dollars is of course only the copyright fee for the first broadcast, and does not involve any other copyrights, especially the surroundings.

George Clint knows very well that if this kind of animated series is only broadcast on TV, it will almost lose money. The real profit lies in the surrounding areas.

For example, "Transformers" and "Special Department", which Shahai Entertainment has long obtained the rights to film and television adaptation, and related animated series produced by Hasbro, in the early stage are paid for TV stations to broadcast, and the recovery of costs and profit depends entirely on toys and other peripherals. .

It is no exaggeration to say that the animated series that have been filmed for many seasons are just promotional films for toys.

The situation in "Little Pig Page" is different from "Transformers", but it is somewhat similar.

The most important role of the first season is to promote and open up visibility.

George Clint knows that ABC TV is not the best platform. The most suitable platform for super naive cartoons like Peppa Pig should be Disney Children's Channel.

However, it is basically impossible to cooperate with Disney Children's Channel. On the one hand, Disney Children's Channel basically only broadcasts works produced by Disney.

On the other hand, if foreign works want to be broadcast on Disney Children's Channel, they must sell the copyright to Disney.

This is unacceptable by the theory of relativity and Shahai Entertainment anyway.

Back at Shahai Entertainment, George Clint went directly to the animation studio, chatted with the person in charge, Chris Leonard, about the animation business, and then checked the progress of the new animation work.

This is the ideas and materials provided by Ronan. The animation studio is making a short film called "Little Yellow Man".

According to the plan, after the "Minions" short film finally joined forces, the animation studio will start the production of the first animated feature film, which is also the animation film "Despicable Me" featuring Minions.

Originally, George Clint was still a little worried about the budget. If, like Pixar Studios, an animated feature film requires a budget of 150 million US dollars, the risk may be too great.

After all, this is the studio's first animated feature film. Before considering success, one must first consider the risks and consequences of failure.

But the plans submitted by the animation studio and Chris Leonard made George Clint a little relieved that the animation studio only needed 60 million dollars in budget to complete "Despicable Me".

In this way, the risk is immediately reduced by more than half.

Don’t worry about funding. The Pacific Film Foundation and Shahai Entertainment have been cooperating for a long time.

Scott Swift of the Pacific Film Foundation just met him last week. The second phase of financing from South Korea and island countries will soon be in place. Germany is said to have no less than 100 million euros this year. For investment, several foundations in India will also have financing in place.

In addition, Scott Swift has been doing Jewish work, and negotiations with some investment institutions have come to an end. It will not take too long for the Pacific Film Foundation to obtain investment from the Jewish people.

There is no problem with financing, so there is no need to worry about the production budget, and Shahai Entertainment's various film projects can proceed smoothly.

After dealing with the work at hand in the afternoon, George Clint met with Brian Lord of CAA again in the evening. Sandsea Entertainment is preparing a new film to cooperate with Will Smith. According to the legendary stockbroker and the real US Dream Chris Gardner's experience is adapted from "When Happiness Knocks on the Door".

Initially, Brian Lord wanted to facilitate the cooperation between Spielberg, CAA's number one director client, and Relativity Entertainment, but both sides refused at the same time.

CAA then recommended an Italian director named Gabriel Mugino, who won the Audience Choice Award at the Saint Denis Film Festival. He was a director signed by the International Department of CAA last year. He is very powerful in directing feature films.

George Clint came over and discussed the possibility of Gabriel Muccino with Brian Lord.

The Italian director has directed four feature films before, and is quite qualified, and is considered a good candidate.

In addition, George Clint needs to synthesize Will Smith's opinions.

Not only will the superstar Will Smith serve as a producer, but also Will Smith's vision of selecting films and watching directors, judging from his success in recent years, seems to be good.

The talk with Brian Lord went smoothly. The next day, we routinely informed Will Smith, and dealt with many sequel movie projects that were either in preparation or had already started shooting.

This year, Shahai Entertainment has four or five sequel films produced. George Clint has always implemented Ronan's philosophy. The sequel must be appropriately innovated based on the successful model.

The company's successively successful sequel movies have proved the correctness of this one time and time again.

As for the sequel to overthrow the previous success model with huge risks and comprehensive innovation? A fool would do that.

The previous movie finally attracted a large audience and added a lot of new content without taking the inherent fans seriously.

Instead of making disruptive innovations in the sequel, it is better to shoot a new movie with innovative content.

George Clint is the operator of Shahai Entertainment and must guarantee the company's performance.

Others don’t say that the Paul Greengrass he knows is actually a disruptive director who pays great attention to innovation, but "The Bournemouth 2" has followed the successful model of "The Bournemouth 1", even though Ronan gave a great With his trust, he led the production of the sequel, and Paul Greengrass is still very conservative and cautious in his creation.

Facts have proved that Paul Greengrass's conservativeness is successful.

"The Bourne Duty 2" has maintained a relatively stable box office trend since its release. Just entering June, the box office in North America has reached $231.2 million, and the global box office is close to $350 million.

Thinking of this, George Clint received a call, and the team that went to the copyright office to register encountered an unexpected situation.