Chapter 262 Busy, busy, busy, busy and busy(1/2)
This makes me a little busy every day, so sometimes I have to work overtime slowly.
The shooting progress of [Attack on Titan] is gradually becoming more complete.
The work on Cao Yu's side is almost done.
Now Cao Yu sits there every day, examining whether the shots taken by Wen Ziren and Lin Yishan are qualified, and then making a choice for the shots.
Then I will talk to the staff of the special effects company who produces the special effects in the later stages and talk about what special effects style I want.
The work day by day is very easy, and I even have time to walk around and take a walk.
Of course, the main reason why he can work so easily is that he is [Attack on Titan], who is slightly inclined to group scenes. Although he is the protagonist, his role is also very important.
But the plot of the entire movie is not driven by Cao Yu alone, but by others.
In addition, many shots were played by special effects for Cao Yu, which led to this situation.
The others are different. Even if the boss wife Liu Yifei and the quasi-superstar are connected to Li, they will have to stay on the set if they have any problems. They can't go there, and there is no slight slack of relaxation.
However, after being discovered by someone, especially by some people who are interested, it will naturally be destroyed.
At the end of November, [Harry Potter 4], which will pull [Spider-Man 3] down from theaters, will no longer be as aggressive and arrogant as before.
At this time, [Harry Potter 4] has become sluggish. With a small cost independent movie, you can use box office data to "bully" [Harry Potter 4] in the North American film market.
But saying that is the case, the words are a bit bad.
But in fact, the results of [Harry Potter 4] are already very good.
So far, the global cumulative box office of [Harry Potter 4] has exceeded 850 million US dollars.
This data can be said to be no less than the previous [Harry Potter] trilogy.
It can be said that Warner Bros. has already made a comeback in terms of cost, and even Warner Bros. can earn a unit of income of 100 million by relying on the box office share of the movie [Harry Potter 4].
You should know this result, but it is already very good if you just changed the series director.
Not to mention the surroundings of the [Harry Potter] series of movies, due to their themes, it is very easy to sell.
Every time a new movie in the Harry Potter series is released, it will cause crazy sales around the Harry Potter.
Especially the wand that looks a bit stupid and has no use (essentially wood or branch), Warner Bros.'s surrounding malls can always give it the power of magic, making a group of movie fans feel like they are being hit by a magic obstacle, just like the Muggles in the movie, only knowing how to buy.
Currently, the position of the magic wand in the Harry Potter series is almost catching up with the glow stick (laser sword) in the [Star Wars] series of movies.
It can bring considerable benefits to Warner Bros. every year.
But there is a saying that if you compare goods, you have to throw them away, and if you compare them, you will die. If you don’t compare some things, you can still be happy at home. Once you compare them with others, it will be really uncomfortable.
This year, other Hollywood giants have no outstanding projects, so the only target that Warner Bros. can compare is Sony Columbia's [Spider-Man 2].
But what kind of size is [Spider-Man 2]!
Not to mention anything else, the box office revenue alone will probably be worth all the revenue of [Harry Potter 4] this year.
Not to mention [Spider-Man 2], there are peripheral revenues, dolls, uniforms, brand authorization..., all kinds of harvesting peripheral operations, Sony Colombia is very smooth to play.
In this way, [Harry Potter 4] is a bit too much to watch.
And some rumors spread out, and everything was quadruple, but they could not beat other people's two-part drama. Is it embarrassing to lose it?
Such words have made Warner Bros., who has been in the top three positions in Hollywood over the years and has been in the top three.
After all, Warner Brothers has always felt that even if they are not the eldest brother among the six major Hollywood stars, they are at least the second brother, and the status of the third brother is definitely good.
The positions of the fourth brother, the fifth brother, the sixth brother and the like are definitely not acceptable to Warner Brothers.
But after being hit by Sony Columbia with such [Spider-Man 2], Warner Brothers feels that their status is worrying! If you keep this like this, it won’t take you for a few years and you don’t want to be your younger brother. It seems that you can’t do it anymore.
So Warner Bros. was a little anxious and was preparing to improve the company's future performance.
The main actions are in these two aspects.
On the one hand, it is a new series of pitfalls. No matter whether he is a money tree or not, he will plant it for me.
It doesn't matter if you fail. The success of [Harry Potter] and [The Matrix] have made Warner Bros.'s finances very strong.
If you succeed, it will naturally be better.
On the other hand, we are exploring the money-snack potential of the famous series, among which the first one to be tapped is the potential of the [Harry Potter] series.
How can the global box office be held at 800 million or 900 million?
Check out the [Spider-Man] series of Sony Columbia next door!
Every time it is not a billion-dollar gain, this time it has taken the top spot in the box office in film history.
Let’s look at Walt Disney, who was unable to survive in live-action movies before and could only gangsters in the animated film industry, has actually created a [Pirates of the Caribbean] series with a billion dollars in the past two years.
Comrades! Be nervous and act!
When Warner Bros.'s senior executives were so excited, they naturally took out the profit plan for how to improve the box office of the [Harry Potter] series.
The plan is not many words, and not even a page is full.
Or it is not a plan at all, it is just a "military order" issued by a director.
The content of the military order is as follows: Invite me Cao Yu, and I will also give you a "Harry Potter" series with a total box office of ten figures.
After seeing this plan, Warner Bros. President Kevin Victor fell into long-term contemplation.
Then he silently put the plan in his drawer, which recognized the plan.
Then I waited for the opportunity to meet Cao Yu.
The reason why he, the president of Warner Brothers, has to wait for the opportunity to meet Cao Yu is mainly because the situation Cao Yu is currently in charge is really too huge.
Kevin Victor, a major joint venture of the five major film and television companies, feels that if he doesn't have a good reason, he will pass it casually. If it causes any trouble, he feels that even if he is the president of Warner Bros., he will probably be torn apart by others by then.
Fortunately, by chance, Cao Yu did not let Kevin Victor wait too long - mainly because Cao Yu's essence is a salted fish, and he is really NO1 in the crew of [Attack on Titan], so no one can care about him, so after the work was finished, he didn't even cover up and just spread it there.
[Attack on Titan] is a project that most of Hollywood is particularly concerned about, once Cao Yu did this, he immediately attracted the attention of the five Hollywood players.
However, the others didn't care if Cao Yu was even a salty fish, so they didn't care.
Kevin Victor followed this opportunity to come to Cao Yu and talk about cooperation with Cao Yu.
After a little chat, Kevin Victor saw the bayonet and directly showed off his main purpose.
"How about it, Cao, are you interested in becoming the core character of the [Harry Potter] series? I can promise you that the script will definitely revolve around you." Kevin Victor said passionately.
If someone else heard that a president of the Sixth Hollywood president actually promised to play the core role in a well-known series, and that the core scripts would be written around him, I was so excited that I was so excited that I didn’t know that.
How could he be like Cao Yu? He looked like he was not so silly, and his calmness made Kevin Victor a little a little annoyed.
But there is no way, Cao Yu really didn't feel any interest in Kevin Victor's passionate proposal.
Although Cao Yu is not very old now, he was born in 1984 and is only twenty years old.
But he has really reached the extreme of a superstar and has achieved success.
What's more, Kevin Victor proposed the core attractive point, that is, the core role of the well-known series of movies.
Sorry, it is very attractive to others, even to Hollywood's 20 million-dollar pay clubs.
But Cao Yu looked at his film contract - [Spider-Man 3], [Pirates of the Caribbean 2.3], and the follow-up series of [Dragon Clan]. Currently, he still has a "Attack on Titan" five-part with a billion investment.
Really, Cao Yu just feels that he has too many film appointments. Even if these film appointments are mostly gambling agreements, Cao Yu wants to throw away some of them.
But opposite was Kevin Victor, the president of Warner Bros. This direct refusal was really a bit sad to express, so Cao Yu said politely:
"President Kevin, I think the core selling point of the [Harry Potter] series is mainly in the iron triangle. Changing this may have some bad impact on the movie.
Besides, you also know that I have more appointments for films and time is tight. Walt Disney [Pirates of the Caribbean 2] has been urging me. I really don’t have time recently!”
Such words are basically slightly obvious rejection.
Moreover, Kevin Victor also saw that Cao Yu said this to save face for him.
But Kevin Victor felt that the reason Cao Yu said was not the core reason to really reject him.
And Kevin Victor was also a little unwilling to give up. After all, whether it is Walt Disney's Pirates of the Caribbean series or Sony Columbia's Spider-Man series, they are all latecomers. They first established a cooperative relationship with Cao Yu, or his Warner Brothers' Harry Potter series!
It was clearly me who came first, but now I have become the fourth person in this "feeling".
Kevin Victor felt a little wronged.
But as the president of Warner Bros., if you have any grievances, you can only swallow it.
"Cao, all the problems you mentioned may exist, but I am very confident in you." Kevin Victor calmed down his emotions and continued to fool him.
Have confidence in me?
Nonsense, I have confidence in myself.
Even Cao Yu can directly say that as long as he determines himself as the protagonist of the [Harry Potter] series, with the help of the system, Cao Yu is definitely sure to bring the [Harry Potter] series to a higher peak.
But why do I do this?
Just to create an extra legendary series and money tree for you Warner Bros.?
You, Kevin Victor, have also seen himself and Warner Brothers too much!
If it were a few years ago, when he was just starting out and had nothing, Cao Yu would have been excited and agreed with tears in his eyes.
To be continued...