Hollywood Drawing - ~： Six hundred and ninetieth - let me make conditions? I want venom!

At tonight's reception, there were hardly any invited celebrities, so Paul, who was waiting not far from the elevator door, became very conspicuous.

The media representatives in the banquet hall were all wondering why this Sony Columbia executive came. But even Bruce Rosenblum didn't set out the other party's purpose in the chat.

Everyone knows that he is waiting for Wayne, and everyone knows that there is basically no cooperation between Sony Columbia and the young man, which is what makes people puzzled.

As long as the Hollywood dark movie master wants to cooperate with other companies besides Warner Bros., the first choice will definitely be 20th Century Fox. Since he entered Hollywood, he has only cooperated with these two movies. The company has cooperated.

"Good evening, Wayne."

The moment the elevator door opened, under the watchful eyes of countless people in the banquet hall, Paul walked up to him with a smile on his face.

"Hi, Paul."

Wayne strode out of the elevator, also with a sincere smile, stretched out his right hand, and carefully observed the other side.

The moment the two shook hands, they were actually looking at each other. In Wayne's eyes, this is the image of a typical local middle-aged executive in North America, with a meticulous high-end suit, neatly groomed hair, and a slightly fat stomach that is indispensable.

"I wish you "Charlie's Angels" a big box office hit in advance."

"Hey, Paul." Seemingly joking, Wayne said, "This sentence came from the mouth of you, the executive of Columbia Pictures, which makes me a little uncomfortable."

Hearing his teasing, Paul shrugged slightly, raised the champagne he had been holding in his hand, and took a sip with his head up.

It can be seen that he has been waiting for Wayne as if something really happened. "Can you find a place to talk alone?"

"Is something wrong? Can't we talk here?"

Seemingly unintentional, Wayne used the corner of his eye to glance at Bruce Rosenblum who was staring at him not far away. It's just that his actions were not concealed at all, and they were all seen by the middle-aged white executives in front of him.

"I think we'd better talk alone."

Paul also glanced at the Warner Bros. executives in the distance, with an undiminished smile on his face. "I swear, you will never regret it."

Hearing this, Wayne's eyes flashed thoughtfully, he waved a waiter and asked for a separate lounge in a low voice.

Led by the waiter, the two turned out of the banquet hall along the corridor and came to a VIP lounge. Nina took the initiative to tip the waiter, and after personally making sure that there was no one else at the door, she closed the door of the lounge, looked at her boss who had already sat down, and nodded.

"Wayne, you are the most marketable genre director I have ever seen in my career in Hollywood."

No one knew what Paul wanted to say, but he had a sincere face, and it was indeed not an exaggeration to put such an evaluation on Wayne.

"Strictly speaking, the road you have traveled is a road that cannot be replicated at all. I have seen many directors with strong artistic styles, but usually a strong personal style will inevitably lead to the niche of the work. To the wide range of fans. You are on the contrary, not only retaining your own strong dark style, but also taking into account the love of the public..."

Nina and Wayne sat quietly on the sofa together, listening to the other party complimenting them. In fact, both sides understand very well that the things they are talking about now have nothing to do with what the other party wants to say, but it is undeniable that in the face of his generous praise, it can indeed bring the praised person closer. 's favor.

Human nature is so simple sometimes, it's as simple as disgusting someone who greets you with a smile.

"Come on, Paul."

Seeing that the other party didn't mean to stop at all, Wayne and the assistant looked at each other, but couldn't help but interrupt each other. "What's the matter with you looking for me tonight?"

"I don't know if you noticed. When "The Flash" was just released, someone supported the little reporter to cause you trouble."

Seeing a trace of impatience flashing on Wayne's face, Paul immediately stopped the praise that had nothing to do with the plan, with a mysterious tone in his tone. "And all the constant coverage of James Franco's black stuff, it's fair to say that all the trouble with The Flash came from Paramount Pictures..."

"Huh?!" Hearing this, Wayne tilted his head and said, "It's over, Paul, isn't Hollywood always like this? Besides, don't say there's no Sony Columbia in it. Handwriting, I'm not a fool."

Among the six major Hollywood giants, it was a complicated relationship that they wanted to stab others, and then turned their heads and smiled and cooperated with each other. Not to mention the competition between "The Flash" and "Godzilla", similar things can be said to be happening all the time.

The overt or covert means will basically only stay in the period of film competition. Once the two sides have decided the winner, it is almost impossible to hold on to it. The survival logic of the Sixth Congress over the years is just like this. If you hold on to it, it will only allow other companies to take advantage.

"No, no, no, listen to me..."

Even if he was interrupted, Paul didn't get angry at all, he just waved his hand with a smile, and continued: "Paramount and Columbia do have some kind of tacit understanding, but those bad things against you are all from Ben's son, ceo Dahexiong. The command.

This morning, at the Sony Columbia board of directors, the majority of shareholders have cast a vote of no confidence in Oga Oga. That said, his career at Sony Columbia is over, and if nothing else, I'll be the next CEO. "

"Ha, congratulations." Now that he had gotten the news in advance, Wayne didn't put on any pretense, but just said congratulations without any saltiness.

Seeing that he didn't have any special reaction to the news that could shake Hollywood, Paul was a little surprised, and then he said, "The era of Dagaxiong is over, Wayne, maybe we can talk, Sony Colombia has the possibility of working with you."

"Cooperation?"

"Cooperation!"

Speaking of which, Wayne immediately thought of the little spider. If nothing else, the two sides could cooperate on projects with only this little spider.

"No, Paul."

Unexpectedly, before Paul wanted to impress him, Wayne shook his head firmly. "Let's put it this way, Paul. I can't find any other time to work on projects with Columbia. There's no need to lie to you about this. My work plan has long been scheduled for the millennium."

Seeing his first refusal, Paul immediately sped up his speech and said, "Listen to me, Wayne, the conditions that Sony Columbia offered you will definitely not be lower than 20th Century Fox's "X-Men" project. The treatment given above, the work you have to do is also similar to the "X-Men" project.

We need you, the superhero master, to construct a complete series development outline for Spider-Man, and even the script, you just need to give enough successful ideas. Trust me, Wayne, this project from Sony Columbia will definitely not take too much of your work energy, all you have to do is control the general direction of the first film..."

"Wow even."

Although Paul's sincerity was quite good, Wayne still looked unhurried. Even under the gaze of the other party, he took the cigarette and fire from the assistant lady, tilted his head and lit one.

"Do you think I'll be short of money? Paul." Along with a large cloud of blue smoke being spit out, there was also his voice containing the lake.

"Uh......"

In fact, the biggest capital that Sony Columbia wants to impress him is nothing more than a salary far exceeding the market price, and even a sky-high share of projects similar to "X-Men". No one does not love money. If there is, it must be that the price is not high enough. This is the truth that Paul has always believed in.

You can think of the other party's net worth and the fact that there is no shortage of projects that make a lot of money, so his previous confidence immediately became less enough.

As an executive of one of the six major Hollywood giants, of course, he can calculate the other party's income from the movie project. Even aside from the dc series, which makes each other hundreds of millions of dollars, the Greenberg Studios under it also holds the copyright of popular series such as "The Matrix".

Everyone knows that no matter how much salary a director or producer can get, it's just a one-shot deal. However, as the owner of a 100% holding film company, the benefits that can be earned from successful film series will be endless.

From this aspect, not only is the other party not short of money, but he may still be worried about the large cash flow in his hand, how to invest it to preserve its value.

As long as he thinks of the terrifying wealth behind Wayne, Paul feels a little helpless. He is now beginning to wonder if he is taking this confident invitation to cooperate too much for granted.

"Paul, you just said, I just need to work on a project like "X-Men"?"

Just as he was racking his brains to find a way to increase the persuasiveness of his conditions, he didn't expect Wayne, who silently smoked half a cigarette, to suddenly ask such a question.

Paul was stunned for a moment, then nodded immediately. "Yes, Sony Columbia needs a copy, which can guarantee the success rate of "Spider-Man" at the beginning, and also needs a perfect development outline, which will not take up too much work energy from you."

With the cigarette between his fingers, he flicked the ashtray on the coffee table beside him. Wayne raised his eyebrows, and there was an imperceptible distortion in his voice, and asked, "Can I open any conditions?"

"certainly."

Although he couldn't figure out why the other party changed, Paul didn't have the time to figure it out, nodded again and said, "I can assure you that you will not only get the top salary package, but also gain the friendship of Columbia Pictures.. …”

"I want venom!"

"What?!"

With just one simple sentence, Wayne slowly solidified the atmosphere in the entire lounge.

Seeing this future Colombian ceo's face full of surprise and an expression of deep thought, he didn't care what the other party was thinking, and continued to say in a seductive voice: "Paul, I want the film and television copyright of the characters of Venom, Money doesn't mean much to me, but I like to collect superheroes with those special attributes.

You have time to think about it, or you can wait and see the box office results of "X-Men" before making a decision. My condition is Venom, and I can even help Sony Columbia Pictures make a film development plan for free without taking a penny of revenue from "Spider-Man". The reward is Venom's film and television copyright. "

"No, you misunderstood."

Paul shook his head. "Even if I become CEO of Sony Columbia, I don't have the right to give you the rights to a certain movie character."

In fact, in his heart, he felt that the business was not a loss. Venom was just one of the characters that came with Spider-Man. Even if he sold it, how could someone spend hundreds of millions of dollars to buy it?

That's right, in Paul's mind, as long as the first "Spider-Man" movie can be a success, he is willing to push forward this plan, even if he has to pay Wayne hundreds of millions of dollars for it. Don't look at this price and say it can scare people to death, but from another angle, which successful movie of DC paid him less than this amount?

"That's your business."

Shaking his head regretfully, Wayne stood up with a cigarette in his mouth, nodding his head while buttoning his suit jacket with both hands. "You can think about it carefully. If you can give me the video copyright of Venom's characters, you can call me at any time."

Nina put down a personal business card of her boss on the coffee table at the right time, and finally glanced at Paul, who frowned, and followed her boss out of the lounge.

For Wayne, this is more like a dispensable test. Taking the copyright of the superhero Venom, of course he will be happy to get it, but even if he can't get it, it will not lose anything, because Venom It wasn't in his plan at all.

But for Paul, this condition made him very uncomfortable.

Painfully digging a hole, making his old boss fall into trouble, and then taking the post of CEO of Sony Columbia with the achievements of his work over the years, all of which have been carried out quite perfectly.

Now there is only one result left that can make him secure the position of CEO. Is there anything more convincing at a studio than a successful franchise? Obviously, his idea is "Spider-Man".

I prefer the whole circle of Laydo. All the superheroes who have gone to success and glory are all related to Wayne to a greater or lesser extent, and there is no second person who can be replaced at all.

Warner Bros.' dc movie series, with the offline revenue capability that is not inferior to Disney's animated feature films, has been in the top position of Hollywood studios in revenue year after year. Not only does 20th Century Fox look greedy, but other movie companies are also greedy. be envious.

There are always people who can't help but want to try to copy, but the results are not so gratifying.

Twentieth Century Fox is smarter, no matter what the reason is, they used interests and favors to successfully bind Wayne to their chariot. This is what Paul wants to replicate. He hopes to temporarily bind Wayne to the Colombian chariot with a huge benefit that is hard to refuse.

Who knows, as long as the first "Spider-Man" can be recognized by the market, the follow-up work will be much simpler. On the premise of not changing the style of the film, just follow it and shoot it down. This can be said to be the best sequel money-making model that Hollywood studios are good at.

"Venom, venom..."

In the empty hotel lounge, Paul murmured the name softly, not only thinking about whether Wayne saw the characteristics of this hero, but also the possibility of meeting his conditions.

However, he kept denying every idea one by one. No way, the six major Hollywood film companies are all a virtue, and that is the copyright vault. There have always been only six movie copyrights swallowed by the big mouths. Once they enter their mouths, it is basically difficult to spit them out.

The same is true for Sony Columbia. He didn't lie. Even if he really became the new CEO, he was just a professional manager who had reached the top, and he had no right to give the rights to movie characters at all.

Paul needs "Spider-Man" to create a series that continues to be successful and brings a lot of revenue to Sony Columbia. This is a shortcut to his position as CEO in a short period of time. The safest way is undoubtedly to meet Wayne's conditions.

"As long as it is a movie copyright that has entered the six major copyright libraries, basically don't want to be spit out again. Honey, it is too difficult to expect Sony Columbia to agree to your conditions."

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When Wayne took Nina back to the banquet hall, Naomi Watts and others also ended the premiere conference, because he didn't have any hope, he just said this as a joke .

The same is true for the Australian actress. After listening to the meeting process described by the assistant, she deliberately stretched out her white fingers, patted the man on the shoulder, and said in a pretentious manner: "Boy, don't be too greedy, the movie in your hand. There are already a lot of copyrights, do you really like to collect those third-rate superheroes?"

As far as she knows, Greenberg Studio now holds the film and television copyrights of Iron Man and Black Widow, and she vaguely heard about Black Panther a few days ago. According to normal people's thinking, these are all second- and third-rate superheroes, and their popularity is completely incomparable to Superman and Spider-Man.

But if you want to make these heroes into movies, the investment required is not much worse than that of first-class heroes. After all, from the perspective of the movie, at least the investment in special effects and manpower is the same price, which is completely worth the loss.

"Nami, a few heroes, it depends on who makes them."

Wayne shrugged his shoulders, shook Naomi Watts's hand away, and tapped her forehead with his fingers. "If Paul really has a way to give me venom, then I don't mind, and squeeze some more working time."

If he didn't mention "Spider-Man", he really couldn't remember the Venom thing. As early as many years ago, Marvel Comics, which was on the verge of bankruptcy, had to sell the copyright of its most popular Spider-Man movie to Sony Columbia due to the recession of the entire comics industry.

You must know that it is not only a single Spider-Man who sells his body, but also more than 900 heroic characters associated with Spider-Man comics such as Venom and Spider-Woman. This is a huge amount of wealth, of course people in this day and age don't understand, but Wayne knows it better than anyone else.

In his memory, basically, for superheroes with a little reputation, the copyright transactions are sky-high prices. There is a saying he is not wrong, no matter how popular a superhero is, it depends on who can make money.

If these heroes of Sony Columbia are in the hands of Walt Disney in memory, it must be another story.

More than ten years later, Sony Columbia made a desperate investment of 200 million US dollars to film "The Amazing Spider-Man 2", but it did not bring enough surprises at the box office. The investment of 200 million US dollars was only exchanged for 700 million US dollars worldwide. The box office, and even more deadly, is the great collapse of the reputation of the "Batman" movie. It can be said that it has been criticized by fans, film critics, and the media.

What's more deadly is that because of Sony Columbia's desperate attempt, it also plunged itself into the vortex of the financial crisis. Under the internal and external troubles, it had no choice but to cooperate with Disney's Marvel Studios, nodding and agreeing with the little spider to join the Avengers.

However, things were so unpredictable. At that time, the whole Hollywood felt that Sony Columbia had no hope of superheroes, but they tinkered with "Venom".

"Venom" not only sold well at the box office, but also received an unexpectedly high reputation among fans. It can be said that this film has once again pulled Sony Columbia back from the dead end. This superhero, who was used as a life-saving straw, has also become the only remaining weapon for Sony Columbia to resist Disney.

"Listen, Wayne."

Since tomorrow morning, the main creative team of "Charlie's Angels" will start a promotional tour, so the reception did not last too long. Naomi Watts' eyes have never left her two "good sisters" in the movie. When the two women were holding wine glasses and looking at them frequently, she reached out her hand covertly. There was a twist on the man's waist.

"If you dare to invite those two b***hs back to the manor to fool around, then I'll take Little Fendi and move out overnight."

"You misunderstood me, Nami."

Regrettably took another look at Angelina Jolie's towering, Wayne helpless, UU reading www. uukanshu.com put aside some perverted thoughts in his head. Turning his head and looking seriously into Naomi Watts' eyes, he said, "How could I do that, what do you think of me? Darling."

"Take it as a beast that is always in love!"

The actions of the man were all seen by the Australian actresses. The two had known each other for nearly ten years. She knew too much about the man's thoughts around her.

Without waiting for Wayne to say anything, Angelina Jolie walked directly in their direction with a glass of champagne. Naomi Watts narrowed her eyes slowly, just watching the other side come to her.

"Wayne, the reception is coming to an end, can you take me back?"

Angelina Jolie didn't even look at the Australian actress. She didn't hide her purpose. She raised her chest and raised her head to show her plump figure under a low-cut evening dress, and at the same time issued an invitation that adults can understand.

Especially when she saw a man's gaze wandering on her body for the first time, the corners of Angelina Jolie's mouth began to slowly lift up involuntarily. Not caring about the gazes of the people around her, instead of avoiding, she tugged a few strands of hair behind her ears, revealing her entire face.

At the same time, taking this action, he took another step forward, not only pulling in the distance between the two sides, but also shrugging the part of his low-cut evening dress that was not covered by the man in front of him.

"Uh......"