Hollywood Starts with Animation

Late August 1998.

For the "Spider-Man 1" movie, Zucker has dispatched several teams to South Korea, Japan, Thailand, India, the Great Celestial Dynasty and other places to seek investors for the project.

Wald Pictures is no small role now either!

After several years of development, it has successively launched many hot-selling films, and has perfect distribution channels in North America. It is a leader among Hollywood's second-tier film companies.

However, a famous film company like Wald Pictures has been treated coldly overseas!

India.

Mountain Capital, as one of the largest funds in India, has invested heavily in European and American markets in recent years.

As an iconic product of the United States, Hollywood is naturally favored by Mountain Capital. Since 1996, they have signed a $500 million investment plan for film projects with DreamWorks.

But.......

They were miserable by the sly Spielberg!

Spielberg's DreamWorks has frantically violated the interests of Mountain Capital by means of various means, such as extraction, transfer, tax reporting, or additional production costs.

Now more than two years have passed, and Mountain Capital has invested $500 million and lost at least $100 million.

"Yes, we don't trust you!"

A person in charge of the investment department of Mountain Capital looked at the representative of Wald Pictures and said coldly: "You Hollywood people are too immoral, and use various means to infringe on the interests of our investors."

"Spielberg, famous enough."

"But look what he did?!"

"He's a businessman vampire, better than a movie director!"

"According to our accounting department's calculations, the US$500 million we invested will only be settled after two years, with an estimated loss of US$200 million."

The person in charge said coldly: "With the DreamWorks case listed first, how do you think I can trust your company now?"

"......"

The representative of Wald Pictures was suddenly dumbfounded.

Well, DreamWorks and Spielberg have given Hollywood a very bad image as a whole.

Loss of credibility!

It's no wonder that Andre, president of the American Film Institute, will scold Spielberg in the future.

He said: "Spielberg is a good director. He used a film work to contribute at least 10 points to Hollywood's globalization strategy; however, he is not a good businessman. He is immoral, And the behavior of deliberately infringing on the interests of investors has contributed a negative 10 points."

The overseas investors who have been miserable by Spielberg are not only Mountain Capital.

......

South Korea.

Samsung Group Overseas Investment Department.

"Dude, don't mention Hollywood to me!"

"Who can believe the promises you are making now? How can I guarantee that you are not the next DreamWorks?!"

"The Asian financial crisis has already hurt our group and suffered heavy losses. Where can we still have money to invest in your film projects?"

"Do not!"

"Even if our group still has a lot of liquidity, we will not easily invest in Hollywood movies. We are hurt too deeply by Spielberg."

The head of Samsung Group, in front of a representative of Wald Pictures, directly and loudly complained about DreamWorks and Spielberg himself.

Spielberg's cheating behavior also laid the foundation for the future!

After 2004, DreamWorks struggled to operate,

The capital chain was broken, the debt was heavy, and he wanted to seek overseas investment funds, but no one trusted him anymore, which directly led to the fate of DreamWorks being acquired by Paramount Pictures.

It's cool for a while, and crematorium afterwards!

The two films "Memento" and "Spartan 300 Warriors" produced by Zucker's film company have investments from the Mexican Carlos family. Well, although Zhu Ke also pitted them a little, he was more particular about it. He was mainly using means to make profits, at least not making the Carlos family lose money.

In this regard alone, Zuckerberg is much more sophisticated than DreamWorks.

But now!

In the process of seeking overseas investors, Zucker was inevitably influenced by DreamWorks!

......

Japan.

Sumitomo Mitsui Investment Group, a subsidiary of Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation.

"Invest in your Wald Films' film project, yes, no problem." The little devil smiled and looked at the Wald representative.

"but!"

The little devil changed the subject and said, "We can invest in your movies, but let's forget about the superhero movie "Spider-Man". Even the famous "Batman" series has been smashed. I don't think "Spider-Man" How much can "Xia Xia" do."

He meant it very well!

It's okay to invest in your Wald movies, but superheroes, absolutely not!

......

a few days later.

The representatives who went to overseas countries and regions all returned to Wald Pictures and informed Zucker of the news one by one.

"boom!"

Zucker slapped the table angrily: "The pit that Spielberg buried, and now we have to pay for it, you say, what is this called?!"

Overseas investors have opinions on DreamWorks, and Zucker now has an opinion.

Nothing to do!

DreamWorks has made it clear that a stroke is a stroke!

Old Bill said solemnly: "Zuck, now it seems that we need to think of other ways for the production funds of "Spider-Man" and "Harry Potter"."

Kevin Feige said: "Maybe we can put "Spider-Man" aside first and prepare for "Harry Potter" first. After all, the market is very disapproving of superheroes now."

The words fell, and other executives of Wald Pictures also nodded.

And another executive said: "We can wait for the release of "Spartan 300 Warriors" to see how investors react."

Zhu Ke shook his head firmly, but he planned to prepare two movies at the same time, and definitely not one first.

Moreover, Zucker didn't want to wait that long.

"Do not!"

Suddenly, Zhu Ke had a flash of inspiration and said excitedly, "Guys, things may turn around."

Transfer?

For a while, Old Bill and the others stared at Zu Ke with a burning gaze.

"Guys, don't forget, tomorrow is August 21st, and "Blade Warrior", adapted from Marvel's comics, will be released tomorrow!" Zhu Kelang said.

"Boss, you mean..." Kevin Feige's eyes flashed.

Zucker nodded and said: "Yes. The market has lost confidence in the superhero theme, mainly due to the failure of Warner and DC's "Superman" and "Batman". However, once the "Blade" box office is hot, then the whole superhero Heroic themes are bound to be revitalized."

"I have confidence in this "Blade Runner" produced by New Line Cinema, and I think it will become a milestone in the superhero genre of Marvel Comics!"

Having said this, everyone suddenly realized.

Once "Blade Runner" has achieved a good box office profit, then this will have a huge promotion effect on the entire superhero theme.

At that time, are you still afraid that investors will not be optimistic about "Spider-Man"?

To know the fame of Spider-Man, it is much bigger than the Blade Warrior.

........

In the blink of an eye, "Blade Warrior" was released!

On the first day of the painting on Friday, it broke the box office of 13 million US dollars!

That number doesn't sound like much, but it's already the best-performing superhero movie in recent years since Batman and Robin suffered Waterloo.

And the most important thing is that "Blade Runner" is highly rated by movie audiences, critics and media.

The North American box office is over 100 million, just around the corner!

" "The second is sent.