Hollywood Hunter

Time Warner's headquarters in Midtown Manhattan, New York.

The time is December 16.

In the conference room, Time Warner Group's board of directors, core management and important shareholders gathered together, and the dispute has continued for an entire afternoon.

When Terry Semel opposed Gerald Levin's request to immediately take over the Time Warner Group, Levin immediately pointed at Semel.

"About DC, Terry, this is definitely one of the biggest mistakes made by the movie department. We could have owned the entire DC movie universe, because your personal stupidity, the copyrights of Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman are all by Daenerys Entertainment is in our hands, we don’t even have the initiative to intervene in production."

Terry Semel is the chairman and CEO of Warner Bros. Pictures and has no direct jurisdiction over DC Comics.

After careful consideration, sharing the DC movie universe with Daenerys Entertainment, in addition to Superman who was bought in advance by the other party at a high price, the other is the group leader of Rose himself.However, Terry Semel could not push the responsibility to Steve Rose at this time. At the moment, the blow to the prestige of Ross is equivalent to weakening the power of these Roses executives to take over the power of Time Warner. possibility.

"Gyre, I can’t agree with you at all. The DC company has been established for more than half a century. If the DC movie universe is so easy to build, why hasn’t anyone had a similar idea in the past few decades? So, with Daenerys Entertainment in The cooperation on the DC Film Universe project is one of the most savvy decisions made by our film department, and it is by no means a mistake. In recent years, the DC Film Universe project has contributed almost half of Warner’s film industry profits.

Gerald Levin made no concession and stared at Terry Semel: "But we could have gotten more, didn't we?"

Terry Semel greeted Levin's gaze with a cold expression: "If you are going to mess around, I have nothing to say."

"Did I know if I'm fooling?" Gerald Levin said, glancing around for a week, turning his eyes back to Semel, saying: "If you lose the three Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman The copyright of the hero is excusable, but what did you do afterwards? If I remember correctly, in the original plan, the DC movie universe should be the production rhythm of two parts a year, now? It is completely Simon Wei Straw says what you do, and you do it. And, in order to cater to Daenerys Entertainment, you also deliberately suppress the development of other superhero movies. If I were to control the movie department, this kind of thing would never happen. Not only In this way, after the success of the DC movie universe, Green Lantern, Neptune, Shazan, Martian Hunter, etc., these projects can actually start preparations, and the copyright is entirely in our hands. As a result, you have nothing to do with this."

After Gerald Levine's remarks, many people in the meeting room couldn't help but nod.

Simon readjusted the development rhythm of the DC movie universe, delaying the development plan of two parts a year to three parts a year or even one part a year, which has made many senior executives inside Time Warner unhappy, even if it is history Tiff Rose didn't agree with him at the time.

It was only because Daenerys Entertainment had too much initiative in the DC movie universe plan, plus Simon's strength, things were finalized.

Gerald Levin suddenly recalled the old things at this time, and also mentioned a large number of other DC projects whose copyrights were completely in the hands of Time Warner but could not be developed. It immediately resonated with the hate of the high-level.

Terry Semel noticed the expressions of the people around him and thought slightly, and said to Gerald Levin: "I think you should understand that over-exploitation of copyright will only cause viewers to get bored quickly, Gyor. Moreover, the DC Film Universe project involves our contract with Daenerys Entertainment. I don’t think it’s just you that these few words will make Simon Westero make a concession."

"The five superhero movies that have been developed,

The fact that big studios delay the division of the box office of Duli Film Company is just like falsely reporting the distribution cost. It is a long-standing practice in Hollywood, and this practice is often used as a'weapon' for movie giants to suppress competitors.

The five superhero movie series involved in the DC movie universe, Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Flash and Steel Bone, except for the release of the "Wonder Woman" series by Daenerys Entertainment, all other projects have distribution work. Warner Bros. Pictures is responsible.

If you want to enter the neck of Cardanes, Warner can indeed take such measures as'giving garbage schedule','using the Hollywood books to falsely report the budget','delaying the box office and other channels of revenue sharing settlement'.

It's just, can this make Simon Westero compromise?

Almost immediately, Terry Semel thought of the original "Bouncer" two years ago.

Because Alistar Records, which is responsible for the release of the "Bouncer" soundtrack, tried to devour the revenue of the record, Daenerys Entertainment directly stopped the release of the original sound record, completely disregarding a record that is expected to reach tens of millions of sales and was suddenly removed from the market. A huge potential loss.

The benefits involved in the DC movie universe are certainly far more than the original soundtrack of "Bodyguard". However, with Terry Semel's knowledge of Simon, he feels that if Warner dares to play with his wrist on the DC movie universe project, it is likely to still be Will greet Daenerys Entertainment's toughest counterattack.

The thought that Terry Semel just started is to guide Gerald Levin to say what he just said.

Since his goal was achieved, he was too lazy to talk too much nonsense with the other party.

Anyway, this meeting today is doomed to have no results.

Gerald Levin saw that Terry Semel no longer refuted himself, but did not stop there. He continued: "As long as everyone agrees to me to take care of this company, I will immediately start with Daenerys Entertainment. Re-negotiations. The movie department may be very dependent on the DC movie universe, and Daenerys Entertainment is actually the same. And, even if the worst result occurs, the two sides temporarily stalemate, we only lose Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman. It’s just a superhero. Without these three superheroes, DC can still develop superheroes like Flash, Steel Bone, and Green Lantern."

In the conference room, Robert Daly, another senior executive of the Warner department who was in the same camp as Terry Semel, looked down and ridiculed: "Gerald, you don’t even know that losing the Big Three means DC what."

Gerald Levin was suddenly interrupted, somewhat displeased: "Of course I understand that I'm just saying that Time Warner can take more initiative and share more interests in this matter, rather than always being The grip of a hairy boy in his twenties."

Time Warner executives in the conference room of the East Coast Headquarters continued a full afternoon of quarrels without results. Today, the West Coast of the United States happens to be another blockbuster movie "Jurassic Park" at the end of Daenerys Entertainment. Of the premiere.

Hollywood Walk of Fame.

In the afternoon on the West Coast, a large number of fans have gathered near the Chinese Theater. Daenerys Entertainment has not been stingy in the promulgation of "Jurassic Park", and a long red carpet is spread outside the theater.

At six o'clock, guests began to appear one after another.

Fans on both sides of the road are calling the names of Robert Redford, Julia Roberts, Robert De Niro, Nicole Kidman, Bruce Willis, Demi Moore and so on.

When the time was close to seven o'clock, the main creators of "Jurassic Park" such as Steven Spielberg, Sam Neal, Renee Russell and so on appeared again, causing the fans' commotion and screaming again.

The red carpet ceremony ended and the film premiere officially opened.

In addition to a large number of star guests and media reporters, hundreds of lucky fans were invited to watch this special effects dinosaur blockbuster tonight.

When many people in this city spent a normal night as usual, the audience in the Chinese theater experienced a wonderful visual journey lasting two hours.

Even though the DC movie universe project in recent years has made many audiences feel the great charm of the movie CG special effects, when the ancient creatures that could only exist in the book album or imagination appeared on the big screen, everyone still feels Very shocking.

The next day was Thursday. Out of confidence in Jurassic Park, Daenerys Entertainment routinely lifted the ban on media critics the day before the film was released.

"Hollywood Reporter" praised "Jurassic Park" as a "monster" movie in a monster movie, and the film once again made people appreciate the powerful charm of film technology."

"Los Angeles Times" also praised'Spierberg once again created a monster movie milestone after "The Great White Shark", and the resurrected dinosaurs in "Jurassic Park" are shocking and awe-inspiring, and exciting."

In addition to "The Hollywood Reporter" and "Los Angeles Times", other mainstream media such as "Variety", "New York Times", "Washington Post", etc., almost all gave "Jurassic Park" unanimous praise, preliminary statistics of the film The comprehensive media score reached 9.3.

After several months of intensive publicity by Daenerys Entertainment, word of mouth was determined, and the audience's expectations for "Jurassic Park" also reached the highest.

On the same day, along with a large amount of news about Jurassic Park in the media, there was another news in Hollywood that caught the attention of Hollywood.

The headline of the news is "Time Warner may renegotiate the DC movie universe contract with Daenerys."

The article begins with the usual "internal sources" news story about Time Warner's vice chairman Gerald Levin at a high-level meeting yesterday, stating that Time Warner is working with Daenerys on the DC movie universe. The above has been too passive, and to take over this company, Levin will re-negotiate the cooperation of DC movie universe with Daenerys Entertainment.

Moreover, if Daenerys Entertainment does not agree to make enough concessions, Time Warner would rather abandon the development of the three giant projects of "Superman", "Batman" and "Wonder Woman", and leave Daenerys Entertainment free. There are superhero copyrights to create a DC movie universe exclusive to Time Warner.

As of the summer game of "Wonder Woman", DC Movie Universe has only released four films, but these four films have already generated more than $10 billion in total revenue at the box office, video tapes, peripheral products and other channels.It is conceivable that the full implementation of the whole plan will bring huge profits to the two companies.

Therefore, the article in the New York Times almost immediately detonated public opinion. A large number of media reporters have called the senior executives of the two companies to explore more insider stories. Countless DC movie universe fans have also used phone calls, letters, and emerging Internet platforms to confront This incident expressed strong concern.

In the face of the unexpected articles of the New York Times and the influx of media inquiries, and of course the downward volatility of Time Warner’s stock price after the opening day, Gerald Levin can only try to explain that he has not been stranded The intention of the Big Three project, and accused the "New York Times" of misinterpreting his remarks.

However, this is equivalent to acknowledging the fact that the other party intends to resume negotiations with Daenerys Entertainment.

On the other hand, Igrid Portal posted the personal response of Daenerys Entertainment CEO Amy Pascal in the headlines that morning. Pascal said that he did not know the details of the matter, but Daenerys Entertainment Regrets Gerald Levin's remarks trying to undermine the good relationship between the two companies.

However, under this very official response on the Igreat portal, there is another piece of news next to it, regarding the latest video tape sales data for the Spider-Man animated movie in the first half of the year.

The 2D superhero animated movie released during Easter in April, as of December, global video tape sales have exceeded 8 million boxes. In the next few years, it is only a matter of time to achieve 10 million sales through long-tail sales.

As long as he is not a fool, he can realize Daenerys's attitude of entertainment when he sees these two close news.

Daenerys Entertainment is not afraid of stalemate with Time Warner.

Losing the DC movie universe, Daenerys Entertainment can develop the Marvel movie universe in a flash.

However, if the three giants of DC superheroes such as Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman are lost, can the DC movie universe be called the DC movie universe?

Because of the sudden article in the New York Times, this day is destined to be very lively.

After the Igrid portal responded, some other online media on the same network platform also expressed their opinions on this matter.

Many media think that Daenerys is more likely to entertain bluffs.

Just looking at the huge profits of the DC movie universe projects that have been released in the past, Simon Westero should not be upset with Warner as long as he is a little sensible.

The DC movie universe is very important to Warner, as is Daenerys Entertainment.

After all, who can guarantee that starting the Marvel Cinematic Universe will surely achieve such success as the DC Cinematic Universe?

Moreover, the DC movie universe is undoubtedly also the longest series with the lowest risk and the most stable return of Daenerys Entertainment. In addition to this plan, Daenerys Entertainment has no other similar heavyweight super blockbuster.

There are only two kinds of movies in Hollywood, DC movie universe movie and other movies. This kind of saying is not just talking.

Although Daenerys Entertainment has not lacked blockbuster movies in recent years, none of them can reach the DC movie universe project in terms of revenue volume.Even the series "Home Alone" is far from enough to compete with the DC film universe.

In the discussion of the outside world, on Friday, December 18th, "Jurassic Park" officially entered the North American theater with the opening scale of 3153 screens.