Extraordinary Genius

Chapter 1409: Mad Signature (6/10)

MGM Announces Signature of Heavy Gold Director Christopher? And this is a long, ten-year, ten-movie, minimum wage + box office dividend model.

For a while, everyone was stunned.

The most amazing thing about them is, who is this Nolan?

Nolan was still a small director of unknown origin, or a new and sharp director moving from cameras, writers and actors. Perhaps the only impression you have of him is "Memory Shards," a movie with a flat box office response, not like a commercial or a literary film.

In the near future, Nolan has a few other moves, such as being the director of the comic book Batman, which was invested by Times Warner this summer.

Even if McGomey signed the new director and gambled on his future, he shouldn't have given so many conditions. Anyone who gets a ticket office dividend, it's got to be a commercial director, like Spielberg, Cameron, right?

And 10 movies in 10 years, it's too high-end. Isn't MGM without a director? But Hollywood still has a lot of successful directors. How did you choose this one?

Nolan, a director that Feng Yu loved, stepped by step in his previous life and gradually climbed to the throne of one of the world's top directors. Most importantly, Nolan's film implants, without trace, are biased and very effective.

Movies want to make money, implantation is an effective way to do it. However, if the implantation is too severe, it can greatly affect the viewing experience.

And Nolan makes a very good hero movie. Although DC comics belong to Warner, they bite each other to death or not, Marvel doesn't say they don't necessarily sell them, and Marvel movies aren't as hot as they were before Feng Yu was reborn at this time. Maybe he can earn Marvel for less.

And Marvel earned more than just adapting the movie. Windstorm games, which can be converted into games, will certainly earn a lot of money. Comics republished, cartoons, cartoon dolls, costumes, etc. can also be developed around the periphery, these are money.

A lot of people think that some movie booths lose money at first glance, but why shoot sequels? Not that investors are stupid, not that producers are retarded, but that they make money back through the periphery.

Movies may lose tens of millions from the box office, but they make 100 million back from the periphery. And the sequel also has the advantage of driving more flames around, driving CD-ROM sales of the previous movies and generating another revenue.

So when many movie companies sign with actors, they sign three or four movie appointments all at once, allowing a person to represent a role image, so that they can avoid the actor running away, causing the sequel to be unacceptable to fans, or the actor's film payroll to skyrocket, affecting their production costs.

The reason why Feng Yu made MGM give Nolan such a rich treatment is because he feared that Nolan would be dug up and dug up by Warner. After all, at this time, the Batman that Nolan shot for Warner was about to be shown. If he had a good reputation after the show and the box office was high, Warner would surely ask Nolan to shoot a sequel.

Unfortunately, what Warner is giving Nolan at this point is a fixed salary, completely incomparable with McGomey's side. Although it is also risky to say that the box office dividend, Nolan can only take a dividend on net profits, that is, the box office minus three times the cost of production, and the rest of the money is the profits in the box office.

But this condition, at this time, was not given to a notorious director like Nolan.

Not to mention, before Nolan signed with McGomey, he got word that Cameron was going to fight another commercial film, and McGomey was the first to throw away the olive branch.

Cameron has been filming documentaries for several years, and many people have invited him to renew the terminator, which Cameron refused because he has a script in his heart, almost a decade old, and no one is willing to invest.

This is a script he wrote before the launch of the Titanic, and he thought with the Titanic's unparalleled box office, he should be able to get a huge investment.

But the companies were very dissatisfied with Cameron's speed of shooting and producing the film, because Cameron said it was going to take five to eight years to complete, and it was going to be a great movie history again.

In five to eight years, no one was willing to invest, especially at Cameron's cost of $300 million. How many boxes will it take to get the money back? Even if, on a five-year basis, $300 million is inflated, how much is it going to be? How much would it cost to invest $300 million in other films to make at least 35 big commercial films?

So despite his reputation, Cameron was one of the twenty greatest directors of the twenty-first century, with a box office record, and he didn't get the investment?

But this time, McGomey is not bad money, or Windstorm Holding Group is not bad money, willing to invest, isn't that right?

In particular, Cameron promised to make another Terminator while filming the film of his dreams, Avatar, and to use the film's profits to support it.

In particular, Cameron's desire to make Avatar into a series, like Terminator and Star Wars, was also endorsed by MGM.

If the first one succeeds, then becoming a series will make more money and serve the interests of MGM.

In fact, the people inside MGM were very opposed, but Ralph followed Feng Yu's advice and pressed down the opposition. The company was the wind and rain holding group's decision. We said investment, so investment!

Isn't that money? Bank loans can't go away and can be borrowed from Rain Holding Group at bank interest rates.

This is not only a monetary gain, but also a cultural influence on the United States, or counter-invasion, through the use of film companies.

For a long time, the US has used cultural products such as their films to export their values, or the values they want others to follow.

So why can't we reverse it and let culture invade backwards to influence the values of the Americans?

In the so-called commercial film on the US side, the focus is on visualization, the plot should be simple and straightforward, and there is a clear main line. This main line can be love, punishment can be good, vengeance, or confrontation between right and wrong.

Whatever happens, the plot should be simple and rough, making it easy for most people to understand. Just like the Xuan Fantasy novel Feng Yu read on the Internet in his previous life, it just makes people feel good.

And in this simple refreshment, it would be nice to highlight a universal value.

After signing these two directors, Feng Yu intends to meet them personally to correct some of their misconceptions so that they can make money for the company faster.

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