Hollywood legendary director

Legendary Pictures is no stranger to everyone.

It is the creator of the so-called "monster universe"-"Godzilla", "King Kong: Skull Island", "Godzilla 2".

Before that, it was just a newly established production company.

The founder of the company Thomas Tour did not know how to make movies.

This guy was originally a financier in the field of private equity finance. Before he opened a film company, he was the CEO of Convex, a venture capital company focused on media and entertainment.

Occasionally, at a dinner party, an executive of MGM complained to him about the difficulties of film financing. The sensitive trust-tour has thus developed the idea of ​​using private equity to intervene in film investment.

After several years of preparation, Thomas Tour persuaded the vampires on Wall Street with his excellent eloquence. After raising 500 million US dollars from the private equity company behind them, he established Legend Entertainment Pictures-which is also among similar companies. The first film production company to be directly backed by Wall Street private shareholders and hedge fund investors.

Therefore, he is not short of money, and he has a large amount of circulating funds.

But what's wrong with him, a project that makes money make money.

As I said earlier, he doesn't know how to make movies, and he hasn't thought about independent production.

He is playing capital, and whether he has the ability to produce is actually not bad.

According to his idea, he only needs to cooperate with some excellent production companies, he invests, and the other party produces films, and the two parties divide their interests.Can't everyone make money?Mutually beneficial and win-win.

And he really did it.

If Firefly Pictures does not appear in this time and space, Thomas Tour will catch up with Warner Pictures, and the two parties will sign a 7-year cooperation agreement. The agreement stipulates that in the next 7 years, the two parties will jointly fund and Produce 40 film and television works.

After the two sides joined forces, the first masterpiece that they chose to cooperate was "Batman: Hour of War".

Speaking of it, Barry Meyer is also an old fox. He understands that the board of directors is always worried and unwilling to set up projects, so he simply finds a bully to come over and let people invest money in it and bear the biggest production risk, and they just have to lie down and make money. That's it.In this way, the board did not stop the development of the Batman project.

After the two parties agreed, Legend Films was responsible for most of the filming funds, but the distribution rights and film copyrights were completely in the hands of Warner. Except for a part of the box office and offline proceeds go to Legend Pictures, they had nothing. Got it.

According to incomplete statistics, the profit income of "Batman: Hour of War" is almost more than 400 million (all the peripheral income is added up), Warner directly ate more than 300 million, and the profit is full, and the legend, It also made nearly 100 million, but if you really want to compare it, you pay the most, take the most risk, and take the least.

But Thomas Tour didn't say anything, he chose to continue to cooperate-after all, the contract was signed.

After that, in cooperation with Warner for so many years, a series of products such as "Spartan 300 Warriors", "The Hangover", "Watchmen" and "Inception" have made more than 100 million US dollars in box office in North America. Movies, but they have not lost money. Production such as "Water Spirit" and "Don't mess with the ants" also suffered a lot.

What's more, what makes Thomas Turr always dissatisfied is that Warner's attitude towards Legendary Pictures has always been very harsh-not only the list of cooperating films is only given after the other party's screening, the absolutely high-quality and risk-free projects are being held by Warner. No chance at all, such as "Harry Potter".And Warner is still unwilling to help Legendary Pictures establish its own production department.

From then on, Thomas Tour knew that, as the veteran Six Warner, they didn't want Legendary Pictures to become their competitor. They hoped that Legendary Pictures would remain silent forever and just throw out the money.

As a result, the conflict between the two parties was accumulated from the beginning, and then gradually deteriorated.

After the contract expired, Legendary Pictures immediately invested in Universal Pictures.

But the crows in the world are generally black, and Universal is not a serious bird.

After Thomas Turr gave up his heart, he turned around and was acquired by Wanda Group (yes, it is Lao Wang.) for 3.5 billion US dollars (cooperating with Global, losing money every year, Wall Street investors are very dissatisfied), and can only cash out.

but.

"He wants to see me? Why?"

Lyman frowned slightly after receiving the call.Of course he knew Legendary Pictures, but he didn't know who Thomas Tour was.

Also, who would care about the president of a certain film company?

"I'm not sure, I'm just in charge of spreading the word. He has made no less than three phone calls to invite appointments." Johnson replied on the phone.

Lehman thought for a long time, but couldn't figure out what he had to chat with the boss of Legendary Pictures, but still did not refuse.

In the afternoon, after the two parties agreed, Lyman drove to a private club by the beach in Santa Monica.

This meeting was still very grand.

"Mr. Lyman, please here, Mr. Tour is already waiting for you inside."

Only after entering the clubhouse, a beautiful blonde girl in a foreman's professional suit greeted her.

Lyman followed her, turned left and right, and came to a brown door.

The girl knocked on the door, and the two went in.

"Mr. Tour, the guest is here."

A small wooden table is placed in the room, surrounded by sofas.

Thomas Turr smiled at Lyman and nodded again.The foreman's sister retired.

"Mr. Lyman, hello."

Thomas Tour stood up and reached out his hand.

Lyman shook his hand and responded.

The two sides sat down again facing each other.

"This is one of the most authentic French restaurants in Los Angeles. Even the ingredients are delivered by air from France. You can taste it later."

"Mr. Tour is interested."

Lehman said something bluntly.

Thomas Tour probably knew what he wanted, and the other party didn't appreciate it.

But he didn't mind, and let the waiter outside take a box of cigars.

Holding the scissors, cut it down along the jacket, and handed it to Lehman, "Do you want one?"

This time, Lehman did not refuse. For him, food is good, but his pursuit of food has always been low. It can fill his stomach and the taste is not bad.

In fact, most of the directors are like this. After all, what can be delicious during the filming of the crew, he will also feel good if he eats fast food.

The smoke gradually rises, and the mellow aroma of the cigar is further released.

To be honest, Lehman is now a little curious about why the other party is looking for him.

If you say that the other party is just here for friendship, this is not necessary.

It's strange that the posture is so low that there is nothing to look for.