MTL - After Buying Marvel, I Became the King of Hollywood-Chapter 236

The corresponding actors' worth will naturally skyrocket, which means a great increase in production costs.

And if two films are successful in a row, when it comes to the third film, once the film fails to sell well, it is easy to lose money due to the high cost.

The reason why Johnny Depp was abandoned by Disney in the fifth film, in addition to his reputation, is actually related to the cost of nearly $100 million.

In the original history, Johnny Depp took $55 million in Pirates of the Caribbean 4, and in Pirates of the Caribbean 5, he took 95 million through salary and box office share. profit.

Investors have spent a huge amount of money to make profits.

And the protagonist takes 100 million US dollars while lying down, which can't stand it.

From an actor's point of view, he played a classic role that deserves so much.

But investors certainly don't think so.

This is the point of conflict between the two sides.

As copyright owners, if they don't consider the backlash from the audience brought about by the substitution, they can actually change roles.

However, generally speaking, it is a taboo to switch roles easily in a movie sequel.

The copyright owner of Pirates of the Caribbean has been afraid to do this until Johnny Depp's own reputation collapsed, and many viewers voted unanimously to change the copyright owner.

Only then did the copyright owner push the boat and chose to switch sides.

It is difficult to say whether the copyright owner has contributed to this.

But after all, Johnny Depp is not perfect, and there is nothing to say when the problem is caught.

In conclusion, trilogy is generally the most common situation in Hollywood.

Most of Kevin's films are only trilogy.

However, the worldview constructed by the trilogy and the IP influence brought by it are obviously not enough.

Just like Lord of the Rings.

The Lord of the Rings trilogy is actually a typical IP that fails to operate.

In addition to the movie itself, other aspects, the hidden income is really not much.

Of course, this is compared to what it has achieved.

It's a pity that the film copyright of The Lord of the Rings has already been taken by someone, and Kevin has also talked to someone, and others have no interest in selling the copyright.

Peter Jackson, the director, sees Lord of the Rings as his lifelong career.

This is not really motivated by money.

Although, if Kevin really took out a huge amount of money, it can be done, but Kevin must buy the copyright to make money.

The more money you spend, the more meaningless it is.

The film is being shot step by step.

At the same time, the time outside is also in progress.

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Time flies to October.

During these two months, the industries centered on Chenxi Films were operating normally.

With the end of the popularity of Harry Potter movies, half a year later, the number of visitors to Hogwarts has dropped significantly. Although Marvel IP has joined, the overall situation is still declining.

But Kevin is not worried, because the second part of Harry Potter is about to continue.

As for the project, Kevin asked Dawson to contact director Chris Columbus, who made a name for himself in the industry with the Home Alone movie.

A movie called The Machine Butler is currently being filmed.

Expect to relax in November.

At that time, I will come to Dawn Movie and Kevin to talk about Harry Potter in detail.

This director, in the future history, is the director of the Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone film, and he will continue to shoot the second film.

But after the third installment, it was replaced.

I don't know if it was the director's problem or Warners replaced him.

Kevin didn't know the specific inside story.

After all, he was not in Hollywood before, and he could only learn from media reports.

In this era, news from the mainland and the outside world is still relatively closed, and he has no way of knowing about it.

But judging from the achievements of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, and Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Chris Columbus is clearly capable.

Any sequel movie, the first two, the director has the most credit.

Just like the Batman Dark Knight series shot by Kevin, the first two films had good reputation, and the third film had a bad reputation, but with the blessing of the first two films, it was still barely guaranteed.

This does not fully reflect the ability of the director of the third film.

On the contrary, the sequel to this hit movie can only barely break the bank, which is undoubtedly a mockery of the director.

Therefore, in the circle, as long as the famous director is successful, few will pick up other people's sequel movies.

Except for the sequel to the film he directed.

Otherwise, it may be thankless.

Of course, this sequel is clearly a great opportunity for directors who lack the opportunity.

Chris Columbus is currently taking over the movies, all of which are medium-scale productions, and he also wants to take over a big production.

And a sequel to a movie like Harry Potter is obviously a good fit.

As long as he follows the tone set by Steve Kevin, such a well-known IP, he can't think of any reason for failure.

And with this kind of experience, he will have enough qualifications to take over the production of those big investments in the future.

This is a normal director, a step-by-step path.

The movies made by Chris Columbus are generally profitable, but obviously, they are not as profitable as Steve Kevin's movies.

Chapter 347 Companies with Steady Development

Therefore, the film company has been afraid to let him direct the film of his big production.

Film production costs are also gradually increasing.

Now able to improve a lot in one go, Chris Columbus certainly wouldn't miss this opportunity.

Facing the decline in the number of visitors to Hogwarts theme parks, Kevin is not worried.

It's just that the first Harry Potter movie was released, and audiences haven't been able to get into the habit of playing once or twice a year.

Wait for the Harry Potter movies, and then release two more movies, with various Harry Potter related festivals and so on, when a Hogwarts culture similar to the Star Wars culture is formed in the United States.

This was the beginning of the enduring end of Hogwarts theme parks.

In this regard, the three giants involved in the investment are not in a hurry.

The current profit is not bad, the prospect of this project is obvious, and naturally no one is in a mess.

In a group of this level, there are many talents, and naturally no one is a fool. Everyone can see the future of Hogwarts theme park, and naturally they can wait.

This is the development of Dawn Entertainment. In short, the current profit is good, and there are eight words in the future.

Immediately afterwards, there was a company, P, which Kevin hadn't mentioned for a long time.

P agency, after obtaining the funding and copyright support of Chenxi Films, relies on ultra-high-quality restricted-level movies and rental and sales services, plus Netflix's new concept.

It has successfully become a well-deserved giant in the film rental and sales industry.

It has become a giant in the field of normal film rental and sales, as well as in the field of restricted film rental and sales.

However, the rental and sales industry itself is a small industry. Even if it becomes a giant, it does not have much money after removing the operating costs in a year.

Kevin doesn't give it much attention at the moment.

Its future is on the Internet, and don't expect much development in the past ten years.

In short, stabilize the profit and loss, and the future can be expected.

Immediately after that, there are two studios, Dawn Films and MGM.

As Kevin's main business, Chenxi Film has become a well-deserved movie giant with one highly profitable movie after another.

Of course, it doesn't really live up to the name.

The real movie giant has mastered the distribution channels and has its own theater chain, and cannot be sanctioned.

The current morning movie, neither of these two.

MGM, on the other hand, has distribution channels, but does not have its own theater chain.

This has opened the gap between MGM and several other giants.

And this gap, in fact, does not blame MGM.

In the era when the movie was just created, capital had not yet intervened.

MGM in that era was an infinite scene.

Then, around the 1960s, various capitals took a fancy to the media attributes of film companies and settled in Hollywood one after another.

Since this time, MGM has gradually moved towards a path of weakness.

Other capitals, which are highly valued, will increase investment in various ways.

And the capital behind MGM, do not do good deeds, professional blood draw.

In the 1980s, it was sold to casino tycoons.

After the casino tycoon took over, there was no idea of ​​increasing investment at all, leaving MGM to be responsible for its own profits and losses.

In this case, it is strange that MGM can develop.

In order to make Dawn Movies a real giant, Kevin has made the decision to merge MGM and Dawn Movies.

Of course, before that, acquiring or building a theater chain by yourself became a must.

No matter how many, at least a complete theater line that will not be stuck in the neck is a must.

Unlike the mainland in this regard.

In the United States, the theater chain company and the theater management company are one.

A cinema chain has at least dozens of cinemas to be able to count as a complete cinema chain.

There are more details in this regard, but in the final analysis, it is a matter of money.

Chenxi Film Company currently has ample capital flow on its accounts.

In this case, doing business is actually a very good choice.

Especially in the case of a movie theater, which is basically a profitable business.

The details of this, Kevin handed over to Dawson.

His goal was to acquire or build 100 movie theaters, requiring them to be located in prosperous areas.

This will take three years to complete.

When it's done, that's when Dawn Movies and MGM come together.

Then there's Marvel.

Marvel Entertainment, whose main business is comics, has gradually expanded its business at the request of Kevin.

In the direction of writing, that is, the novel industry has developed.

Readers of comics and readers of novels overlap to some extent.

But also as the entertainment industry, the correlation between the two is very high.

Marvel's graphic novelization has also begun.

It is worth mentioning that Marvel also held a prize-winning event for fanfiction novels, and collected some of the more exciting ones from these Marvel movie novels and comic novels and released them on the paper media.

This move has greatly expanded Marvel's reputation.

This is Kevin's vision ahead of this era and the decision he made.