Chapter 200: The rise of a new kingdom of independent film

Chapter 200 The Rise of the New Kingdom of Independent Film
Above the box office stations of films such as x, the top ten global box office films that have been released in 2 years are listed in the "Lord of the Rings: Two Towers", produced by the new line company, the second is Warner Bros. 8. The third is Sony / Colombia's 821 million "Spider-Man", these are the three movies with a global box office of more than 800 million in o2.
The fifth is the Fox / Lucas movie. The eighth is Sony / Colombia. The ninth MGM. The tenth is the movie's 368 million "My Grand Greek Wedding."
The seventh place was taken by the same independent film company, and was described by Fortune as a "swell" flame movie.
As the Golden Globes came to an end, and Oscar nominations were announced, "The Ninth District" was once again painted in less than one theater in North America, searching for some missing box office; and at the beginning of the year, it also appeared on the big screen of China's Big Six.
Although on the Internet, the clear and unclear piracy of "Ninth District" has long been nothing new, the 9th District of Street Vendors sent "Junuo", "" Hangover "+" Ghost Shadow Records " "A series of promotional CDs that make you laugh and scream", and even those who disturb the market order directly copied a "Wang Yang movie collection", also 5 pieces.
However, under the high popularity of "Chinese-American Magical Director", "The World Says Good", "Special Effects Blockbuster", etc., and Wang Yang's own high popularity, he was cut off by the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television. The king made the sacred king to kill the gods and seals the throne at night The throne seeks the evil, the world's strongest abandoning the Shaozhou Zhou royal family, the gods will kill the gods in the night, and the throne seeks the evil, the world's strongest abandoning the lens of "The Ninth Region," the ninth district in China. It's 10,000 dollars. "Spider-Man" was 4,983,000, and "Hero" was directed by Zhang Yimou.
Therefore, "Ninth District" now has a box office in North America increased to 100 million, the global box office is fourth. On January's "Film Weekly" annual top ten film list, its review stated: "Many people will hate the magical Yang, it will inevitably become the next ten, twenty years, a long period of time, Come to be a model of science fiction with equal emphasis on business and art, it is the kind of movie. "
The top ten movies of the year are a must-have list for many magazines, including magazines such as "Entertainment Weekly", "Empire", "Vanity Fair", "Time", etc., as well as the top ten selected by well-known film critics in various newspapers, such as Roger Albert of "Chicago Sun", these lists all have the figure of "Ninth District".
North American box office of 320 million, the sixth in the world, the highest comedy box office in the o2 year, the highest box office R-rated comedy in history; the seventh in the world, it is the highest box office netbsp in the o2 year; "The ninth district" box office The miracle benefited from the creation of new viral marketing, whether it was a virus station, a virus event, or a virus poster or a three-dimensional poster, which has become a new trend in the film industry. "The Return of People" opened the virus station, and "The Hulk" opened. Virus station ... Ying Mí's freshness on this is declining sharply. "-" Los Angeles Times ".
"In 2 years, Hollywood has smelled two gold mines. The great success of" Spider-Man "has caused many film companies to re-focus on the heroes. The era of special effects production is coming; while facing the cost of" My Grand Greek Wedding " , 368 million global box office, "hangover" million cost, 617 million global box office, many independent companies see hope, large companies see ways to reduce investment risks, scheduled o3 years of large-scale comedy films, there are already 6 Department. "-" Empire "magazine.
In the list of the top ten box office movies in o2, block producers and independent companies accounted for five of them respectively, three of which were from the flame film; and in the total of 9.25 billion North American box office from January 1st to December 31st, Sony / Colombia occupies the list with a market share of 700 million and 15.2%, the Disney brand "Bowei" accounts for 12%, Warner Bros. 7%, Universal 8.5%, and Flame Movies with 8.1 fifth.
After 8.5% of Fox, it was another independent film company, and the new line had a total of seventh film; followed by 19 films. The ninth was an independent company, and the tenth place was 19 films, 4%. Share MGM.
If only from the o2 side, Flame Film is already the leader among all independent film companies; in fact, there may still be many shortcomings, but there is no doubt that it is constantly growing and growing ...
Beautiful Santa Monica, a bright meeting room in the flame headquarters, a board meeting is in progress, the two sides of the meeting table are filled with company executives in suits and leather, Wang Yang in a black suit is sitting in the position of chairman, he looks at this I haven't been surprised by the financial statements and these figures.
Flame Group is currently mainly composed of 5 parts, FF Company, Fm Company, Flame Home Entertainment, Blue Sky Studio and Image Engine. The profit returned by Blue Sky Studio and the image engine is not much. After all, the investment cost is almost the salary of special effects artists and animators. At the same time, I ※ B department also needs to develop technology, and basically the parent company must invest money. This is why many companies can't afford animation companies and special effects companies.
The main business of the group is still the film market. The high cost of FF production has the confidence of high-quality products, and the small and medium cost of Fm. The home entertainment is responsible for the TV business. The former has a box office and various late-period income; the latter relies on small markets such as leasing, copyright taxation, and TV on demand, which is the "video library" plan.
"Sweetheart" 1. Ninth District, "hangover" ... "Mr. Hughes" 160 million ... dVd, soundtrack cd, copyright ... 175 million for the production of "Ice Age 2" and "Kung Fu Panda" for the blue sky , 22 episodes of "Prison Break" million production costs, "Rage" million production costs, "hangover 2" million production costs, "T-21-Team" million production costs ......
"Hmm ..." Wang Yang looked at the income and expenditure of an item. The company naturally had to pay taxes and administrative expenses. There was a shareholder dividend at the beginning of the year. The current cash in the company's account is more than 384.5 million. There are more than 100 million in the account. Earlier, he invested 100 million to set up a charity fund, which was left to someone to take care of. There is no specific target for assistance, but it is mainly out-of-school children and sudden disasters all over the world.
The Flame Group obviously has more than 384.5 million cash, 100 million worth of studios, all subsidiary assets and businesses, and movies being produced ... The entire group is worth about 100 million, and it has no debt and no listing.
However, today's meeting is not a financial reporting meeting, otherwise Wang Yang will not "specially" run back from Las Vegas. After half a month of filming before, the crew has ended their work in Boston and moved to Las Vegas. After nearly a week of filming, the time has also entered March. Wang Yang came back this time because the company had negotiated a big deal to buy and waited for him to make a final decision.
It is not the acquisition of 11ge, the project is still under negotiation; this time the acquisition target is the artisan film company, 160 million US dollars.
"Only if we nod and agree, we can get the art library of the artisan company, many." Mark Slante sat on the left seat, his face flashed with excitement, looking at the smiling colleagues and Wang Yang , And heavier and more authentic: "The Ministry plus our own ministry, the Warner Bros. only has the ministry, and the Universal Department ..."
In the past few years, Flame Movies has always adhered to the plan of the film and television library. The movie copyrights are bought everywhere in the world. Naturally, there are Chinese movies in Chinese University 6, Hong Kong and Taiwan. Infernal Affairs, which was called "the rescue of the market" last year North American copyright belongs to Flame, which also includes its adaptation rights.
"With this movie, it is expected that the annual" home DVD market "will generate 200-300 million in cash." Mark Srant paused, his eyes full of sense of accomplishment, and laughed: "This money is enough to meet the company Daily operations. "
The movie is like the big mushroom in "Mary Mary" and the fruit in "Pac-Man". After eating, the movie library plan will quickly get on the right track ... Wang Yang looked at the "artisan movie" in the file in hand "It was vaguely showing what happened five years ago. At that time, he took a deep breath and walked into the door of the artisan, Nicole Vivor, Stephen Thomas ...
"Buy it." Wang Yang nodded, glanced at everyone, and said, "Buy."
Although this was expected, otherwise the chairman would not have agreed to start the acquisition plan, but excited applause still sounded in the meeting room, everyone laughed and cheered, and Mark Srant, who proposed the plan, was particularly happy. He laughed loudly: "This is crazy, our company's exhibition is almost five years fast." Wang Yang smiled and raised his hands, shouting: "The rocket has been lifted off, everyone is steady, Let's-"
After the contract is signed, the 160 million acquisition can be immediately allocated to the past night to complete this acquisition; and the remaining 224.5 million in the Flame Movie account is also sufficient to prepare for this year's release plan. A large-scale release of 4 movies, including the "Saw of the Chainsaw", which was conspicuous at the Sundance Film Festival at the beginning of the year, will be released in April; FF is currently determined to release three films, "T-21" at the end of July -Team "," Dancing My Life "in the weak season in October, and" The Devil Wears Prada "during the Christmas season.
During this time, the author of "The Devil Wears Prada" Lauren Weissberg has reached an agreement with Flame to sell the adaptation rights. The preparation of the production of the Flame film is immediately started, and the heroine Ander is announced for the first time. Leah will be starred by Jessica Alba, and now there are rumors in the media that Miracle Yang will personally adapt and personally direct, but the flame official has not yet responded.
This is also a means of marketing. Let the market speculate and let fans of the movie curious and interested before definitively announcing this 99% positive thing. The attention gained is clearer than what was said at the beginning. high.
After the meeting, the senior executives laughed and talked about leaving the meeting room. Wang Yang walked to the chairman ’s office and said to Mark-Srante, "Mark, I'm going to start a music record company first. You know a TV station, how? You need some music, mV or something. You can also cooperate with the original CD business of Flame Movies. "He smiled and said," Robert Downey Jr. will sing. I told him and gave him the disc. "
Mark Srant knows that he means that he founded it personally, and it has nothing to do with Flame Finance. Furthermore, a music record company is very sparse and common for a person worth 100 million. Many movie stars and sports stars have their own record companies. And its singers, of course, only need to cooperate with large companies in the industry. So there is nothing to persuade or suggest, Mark laughed: "Yang, you can make your own disc, you sing very well, the sales must be good"
"Me? I can't sing with all the five notes, as if tǐng is interesting?" Wang Yang looked interested, and then waved his hand: "Now forget it, so busy my buttocks are rotten."
"Boss, to be honest, I really hope you make 12 movies a year." Mark Slante's face was about to drool with a smile, his glasses flashed, and he laughed while walking: "One every month, Then there is no need to consider this issue. "He said," After the initial completion of the film and television library plan, we can consider increasing production. "
Wang Yang thought about it, increasing production means that the snowball will roll more quickly, it also means increased risk, and financing borrowing. He thought about it: "Anyway, I do not agree that it is unwise to borrow money in order to increase production under financial health. We are now very fast, the most important thing is to stand firm, do n’t return or fall, One step at a time "
"I didn't say borrowing money to make movies. The interest rate is too high now, and the rate of return is difficult to guarantee." Mark Srant shrugged. Wang Yang said, why is it bad to borrow money? DreamWorks has always relied on a lot of financing to start filming, and the debt has accumulated more and more. With a little information in his mind, it will eventually be acquired by Paraméng. Proper financing can increase the pace, but over-reliance will only dig graves.
Mark continued: "However, borrowing money will allow us to continue to make large-scale acquisitions and mergers and expand the film and television library. The risk of this project is not high."
"Besides, we haven't acquired artisans yet." Wang Yang turned his head to look at this. The company's rapid exhibition in the past two years has something to do with the movie sale and the work of the company's senior executives. Say the thought that had been thinking for a long time: "Mark, when the end of this year, I am going to adjust the company's equity, everyone has a reward."
"Oh big surprise" Mark Srant suddenly smiled, and no one did not like rewards. This is very exciting. He sighed: "It seems that this year's Christmas is full of surprises." Wang Yang shot hard He shook his shoulders and smiled, "This is not a Christmas gift. By the way, do you really think I sing nicely?"
In less than two days, a movie business news was freshly released ~ EbookFREE.me ~ Flame Movies completed the acquisition of the artisan company for $ 160 million. Just like the original ax, this was a complete acquisition, and Flame got With all the artisan things, a broken chair at the company's headquarters is no exception. Flame Movies announced that it will cut and reorganize the original artisans 'employees. In addition, the artisans' movies will no longer use the original brand and all will use flames.
This means that it is not a salvaging acquisition, but an annexation. Many business media are puzzled. It is worthless to invest in a broken company, so what do you do if you annex it? The flame film did not explain it. This is a trade secret, and countless opponents have speculated on the flame film and the magical idea.
According to the inference, it is actually very easy to get the results. The flame is definitely not for the chair. They are fancy the copyright of the multiple movies, but in fact, those are basically "junk movies". The highest box office is o2 month The animated cartoon "Vegetable Baby Adventures" has a production cost of only RMB 10,000 at the global box office. Is Flame not satisfied with Ice Age?
In any case, the new acquisition of Flame Movies has once again seen its unstoppable pace and ambitions, and a new kingdom of independent movies is rising.
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