Chapter 573: give up

Along a long corridor, Shirley Lansing walked towards the conference room with several negotiators from the publishing department, and saw a lot of DreamWorks staff on the way. These people passed by in a hurry and seemed very busy.
Shirley Lansing always felt that something was wrong. The South Korean side replied yesterday and cancelled the meeting a few days later.
So, she came here today to participate in the release negotiations of "World War", wanting to see what happened to Spielberg and DreamWorks.
But at the beginning of the negotiations, Spielberg directly released an amazing news.
"This negotiation is no longer necessary."
Faced with Paramount Pictures staff including Shirley Lansing, Spielberg changed his appearance and declared directly: "The DreamWorks Board of Directors has made a decision that "World War" will not be handed over to Paramount. Film release."
Being forced by Paramount Pictures, even Shirley Lansing is almost riding on her head, no matter how good her temper is, she will get angry.
Shirley Lansing almost couldn't help standing up, but after all she sat on her chair and looked at Spielberg and asked: "Steven, what do you mean? Don't forget, you promised ..."
Spielberg raised his hand to interrupt Shirley Lansing's words, his attitude was unprecedentedly tough: "Yes, I promised, but since last year I talked about it now, why there has been no result? Shirley, you are more than me. It is clear that DreamWorks cannot accept Paramount Pictures’ conditions."
Without waiting for Shirley Lansing to speak, Spielberg added: "Cooperation must be based on mutual respect. Paramount Pictures has ever respected DreamWorks."
Shirley Lansing didn't look good, and said, "Steven, you have been in contact with other companies. Does anyone have better conditions than Paramount Pictures?"
Small and medium-sized companies have limited issuance capabilities, and the Big Six and their subsidiaries have a tacit understanding.
Spielberg knew this too, pushed down the round glasses, and said: "DreamWorks does not need anyone. DreamWorks does the distribution of the film itself."
"DreamWorks does its own distribution?" Shirley Lansing didn't believe it, then frowned: "Do you have the ability to distribute?"
Spielberg didn't answer at all. He raised his hand and glanced at his watch, and said, "The release negotiations between DreamWorks and Paramount Pictures have ended. I have other jobs. Shirley, that's it."
This is DreamWorks, and Shirley Lansing can only watch Spielberg leave.
"Ms. Lansing?" the assistant next to him asked.
Shirley Lansing stood up slowly: "Let's go."
She went out of the conference room first, and the others hurriedly followed up. No one expected that the outcome would be discussed in the end.
Getting in the car, Shirley Lansing asked: "DreamWorks wants to do its own distribution, but they can barely do it in North America, but can they do it overseas?"
The assistant said softly: "There must be something we don't understand."
Shirley Lansing took out her cell phone and made calls one after another. She put down her cell phone and waited patiently until the car drove out of the DreamWorks Park.
Back at the Paramount Studios in Hollywood, Shirley Lansing received a call.
As the head of Paramount Pictures, you may have overlooked certain things before, and once you pay attention to it, it is not difficult to find out.
The assistant was an old man who had followed Shirley Lansing for many years. He saw Shirley Lansing put down her phone and asked, "What happened?"
Shirley Lansing looked a little ugly, and whispered: "After Ronan Anderson’s Relativity Entertainment acquired Artisan Pictures, it transferred all other businesses after the film library and script library to DreamWorks, including art. The global distribution channel of Artisan Pictures!"
The assistant was surprised: "How could this happen? Ronan Anderson and Spielberg have never been in harmony."
Shirley Lansing didn't speak any more, thinking and entering the office, at the same time letting the assistant in.
Sitting in a chair and thinking for a while, Shirley Lansing gradually figured it out, and said: "Ronan Anderson and Spielberg are not in harmony, but they are not enemies. It is my carelessness. DreamWorks and Relativity Entertainment have mutual benefit."
I don’t understand that the two companies don’t have any cooperation projects. Where do we talk about common interests? If Ronan Anderson and DreamWorks Animation Studio have common interests, he believes that, but DreamWorks...
Shirley Lansing thinks more clearly, why is Relativity Entertainment willing to sell the business of Artisan Pictures to DreamWorks? Probably because of Paramount Pictures.
"Common enemies can also bring common benefits." Shirley Lansing said coldly: "Ronan Anderson is targeting Paramount Pictures."
Hearing this, the assistant suddenly realized that in Paramount Pictures' plan, these two companies are both on the list.
And not only staying on the plan, many measures are being implemented.
Shirley Lansing sighed slightly: "Originally, we are already very clear about DreamWorks' situation. At most two years, DreamWorks will switch to Paramount Pictures, and Ronan Anderson will sell the artisan film to DreamWorks. , The situation went into chaos in an instant. Almost all of the plans and advantages we have made for DreamWorks will be invalidated."
The assistant also wanted to understand, wiped his sweat, Ronan Anderson did too hard, this blow is hitting the most critical place.
Once DreamWorks has a relatively complete distribution channel, it will not be as easy as it is now if it wants to get stuck.
Why is Relativity Entertainment a headache? It’s not that the Big Six companies have no intention of relativistic entertainment, but that when Relativity Entertainment really attracted the attention of the Big Six companies, it has already established a very complete industrial chain. With the concentration of equity, it’s okay to hit the edge, but it’s a bit of a bite. No opportunity found.
Shirley Lansing considered it for a long time and said, "The difficulty of DreamWorks has increased. Don't worry about Relativity Entertainment. Use all your power on DreamWorks."
The assistant said quickly: "Okay."
Shirley Lansing added: "Our goal is still to eat DreamWorks. As for Relativity Entertainment, let the parent company Viacom handle it."
The assistant was surprised. Did these words raise the relativity entertainment? Relativity entertainment is on par with Viacom?
Shirley Lansing is determined to focus only on DreamWorks for the time being. Only what is eaten is delicious. If you can't eat it, it may hurt your mouth.
In Relativity Entertainment, Ronan just got a phone call from George Clint. He made contact with the property owner of the Death Star Building. The property owner did not intend to refuse the sale. The two parties have already started talking.
If nothing else, we can talk about it this month.
After getting the film library of Artisan Pictures, it is natural to hand it over to Embassy Pictures to distribute and operate on the whole platform. Ronan does not need to worry too much about this aspect, and mainly focuses on Artisan Pictures' script library.
A total of thousands of scripts and nearly 7,000 film copyrights, all of which are logged into the management database of Relativity Entertainment, are also conducive to checking at any time.
Ronan first checked the detailed list of film copyrights. For those well-known films that he knew before, it is impossible to start a sequel or remake in the short term, so he can only put it aside for now.
The copyright of "First Blood" is in hand. It is not that Ronan has not considered shooting "First Blood 4", but he shouldn't be anxious. At the very least, he must have a suitable script.
Traditional action movies have declined. This is an indisputable fact. Even if "First Blood 4" is launched, controlling the scale of investment is inevitable.
From this, Ronan also thought of a group of veteran action stars selling "The Expendables". This series does not have much online market, and its profit depends entirely on offline operations.
Those veteran celebrities paid a lot of money, and apart from the prosperous beauty, other people had no friendship with Ronan.
Besides, this is a typical commercial film, and it is not the kind of "Infernal Walker" that is clearly aimed at the Oscars, and there is no reason for stars to appear in friendly prices.
"First Blood 4" and "The Expendables" are included in Ronan's future list. The specific situation depends on the future market to determine.
"Terminator", Artisan Pictures only has the copyright of the first part, so don't think about the sequel.
Shooting a sequel to "Instinct"? Nowadays, the scale of R-rated films is getting bigger and bigger, and there are too many stars who dare to escape and miss, even if the sequel is filmed, there is not much to watch.
"Total Memories" has been remake, but unfortunately the director didn't find it well. The director is the dazzling wife Madron Wiseman who directed the "Underworld" series. Not only did he find Kate Beckin who had almost no box office appeal Purcell acted as the heroine, and also invited Colin Farrell, who is always on the street in any movie, to play the leading role.
Can there be any reason for such a movie if it doesn't hit the street?
If you want to make a remake, it depends on the future.
There is also the Punisher, the copyright of this Marvel comics superhero lies in the copyright library of Artisan Pictures.
Then there is "Alice in Wonderland". The film made by Artisan Pictures in 1999 can only be said to be ordinary, but Ronan is going to write an outline of the script himself and transfer it to Shahai Entertainment to write it, and then note the copyright.
This film alone may fail, and we must keep up with the situation.
James Cameron is still on the sea, Ronan has been following him, since the last time I met, UU reading www.uukanshu. com also maintains a certain degree of contact, see if it can be mixed in the future.
When working with "Titanic" that year, James Cameron and Twentieth Century Fox were very unhappy because of the budget. The Fox executives complained in front of the media that James Cameron requested an additional budget and forced them to almost jump off the building.
Even Fox in the twentieth century almost changed director.
Later, the film sold at the box office and the relationship between the two parties was restored, but the investment style of the 20th century Fox may have left a deep impression on James Cameron.
Let the king of the world who spend money like water enjoy a certain amount of budgetary freedom, which is probably somewhat attractive.
In addition to these previously known movies, Ronan also found other movies he has seen in the film library. Artisan Pictures previously bought the North American copyright and remake of the Hong Kong-produced horror film "Damn".
Relativity Entertainment can remake the English version of "Damn".
Afterwards, Ronan read the script library in detail and also gained something.