Ning Shu felt a little uncomfortable, and her pretty face turned a little red.
She noticed that Chen Dongcheng was smiling but not smiling, and couldn't help stroking his hanging hair.
"It's nothing. I didn't expect Mr. Ning to value Fat Di so much. I'll thank Mr. Ning for her first."
After Chen Dongcheng suppressed a smile, he noticed that the shame on Ning Shu's face was getting stronger and stronger, so he quickly put it down.
"I think we should first look for a professional manager, preferably one who is good at film and television production in Hollywood."
"Legendary Pictures will still have to follow the self-made route from now on, and just compete with others to get the best results."
"The film market is now in the IP era, especially in the United States. Big IP movies are rampant, and we can't get involved at all."
When Ning Shu heard Chen Dongcheng mentioning business, he couldn't help but have a look of helplessness on his face.
In the United States, the six major film companies firmly control 80% of the movie box office share.
The remaining companies can only follow them and drink soup.
For example, Legendary Pictures used to be behind Warner Bros. If there was a project that Warner Bros. deemed risky, it would bring Legendary Pictures together to produce it and give Legendary Pictures a certain investment ratio.
As for whether you will lose money or make money, it all depends on fate.
"Legendary Pictures still has some IP, otherwise Lao Wang wouldn't be clinging to it."
Chen Dongcheng casually took the information in front of Ning Shu.
A circle was drawn on one of the movie plans for "Detective Pikachu".
"Detective Pikachu?"
Ning Shu came over to take a look and said in surprise: "Is the movie adapted from the game reliable?"
"Don't underestimate the charm of Pikachu. Do you believe that even Avengers can't make this movie in China?"
Chen Dongcheng smiled and marked an important symbol, then thought about it and wrote another line.
"Focus on elf battles and collection, redesign the plot, and focus on creating the elf universe."
"Elven universe?"
Ning Shu was dumbfounded and couldn't help but comforted her: "I know the Marvel Universe is quite stressful, but I don't think it's reliable to adapt the game IP, let alone create an elf universe."
"What else can we do?"
Chen Dongcheng helplessly spread his hands: "We entered the market at this time, it is already very late. The reason why Disney acquired Fox is to take back all the heroes of Marvel."
"We can't get involved at all. Fortunately, Legendary Pictures has won the rights to adapt Pokemon movies before. We might as well build a huge Pokemon alliance."
Ning Shu nodded thoughtfully.
As Chen Dongcheng said, several major Hollywood giants are focusing on developing IP.
Needless to say, Disney has enough to support them for more than ten years with the Marvel Alliance.
Sony is taking advantage of the Spider-Man it acquired earlier to launch Spider-Man Alliance.
Other giants are also vigorously developing IP.
Legendary Pictures' financial background is good or bad, and giant beast IPs such as King Kong and Godzilla are the only ones Legendary Pictures can produce.
However, this behemoth IP has a fatal flaw.
That is, the cost of filming is too high and it is difficult to recover the cost.
In contrast, adapting games into movies is undoubtedly a way out.
Ning Shu asked again: "Then we want to film "Pacific Rim 3"? Wanda hopes that we can continue to praise Da Tiantian."
"Forget it, whoever you like will make the Pacific Rim series of movies. Ask Warner Bros. if they're interested. If so, I'll make a swap with them."
Chen Dongcheng shook his head. He was not interested in a project that he knew would definitely result in losses.
"I guess Warner Bros. would also be interested, but adding a category to the IP library is also possible."
Ning Shu wasn't sure who told her that she had only been exposed to domestic film and television projects before.
I am still a little unfamiliar with these animation IPs.
"There's no rush. Your first priority recently is to win the rights to adapt this IP."
Chen Dongcheng pulled out a piece of information, with the English word "joker" written on the top.
"clown?"
Ning Shu wondered: "Isn't this a DC comic character?"
"Yes, I want to exchange the movie adaptation rights of Pacific Rim for the movie adaptation rights of Joker."
Chen Dongcheng nodded, this was his plan from the beginning.
As the king of rewards in R-rated movies, I would be sorry for myself if I didn't win the film adaptation rights of Joker.
If Sony hadn't been so tight on Spider-Man spin-offs, they would have wanted to get involved in "Venom".
"Well, I'll ask when the time comes, but it shouldn't be a big problem."
It’s not like Ning Shu didn’t do any homework.
She knew that although DC comics were good, they were far behind Marvel.
The Avengers simply beat DC.
If it weren't for the huge hits of Wonder Woman and Aquaman released last year, the box office would have been pretty good.
DC can't even save its final face.
In contrast, the character of the Joker has little to do with the Justice League that DC is building.
On the contrary, it is like a character independent from the comic system.
"Are you planning to make Joker an R-rated movie?"
Ning Shu also gradually figured out Chen Dongcheng's meaning and was a little surprised.
The so-called R-rated movies are just alternative, extreme, and synonymous with strong sensory stimulation. They are not the kind of explicit movies.
"I have a hunch that if we want to take a piece of the North American film market away from the Big Six in the future, R-rated films must become our top priority."
"The Joker is the first card we play. From now on, Legendary Pictures will focus on producing R-rated films, supplemented by movie adaptations of games."
Even if Legendary Pictures suffers such serious losses, Mr. Wang is not very interested in taking action, not because there are so many giants in Hollywood.
The six major film companies control the entire film market.
Even second-rate film and television production companies, such as Lionsgate and Legendary Pictures, cannot easily win over them.
Although Legendary Pictures is in such a miserable state now, its foundation is very stable.
Since 2013, Legendary Pictures has intentionally transformed into an independent production company.
To put it bluntly, I am not satisfied with just drinking soup, I also want to eat meat.
Warner Bros., which originally brought Legendary Pictures to play, suddenly became vigilant and never gave Legendary Pictures any investment opportunities again.
But now Chen Dongcheng is sure that Warner Bros. will never care too much about the role of the Joker.
After all, the spring of R-rated films in North America has not yet arrived, and no one dares to say that R-rated films will have great prospects.
This is exactly the opportunity for Chen Dongcheng and Legendary Pictures.
Historically, the Joker was not taken seriously by Warner Bros. and was only given a production budget of less than $60 million.
Even the character of the Joker is not adapted from the comics, but a completely new character conceived by the screenwriter who was divorced from the comics.
Warner Bros. is committed to making the Justice League and intends to fight against the Marvel Universe.
Thinking about Joker's box office revenue of over one billion US dollars, if it could win it, Legendary Pictures would immediately take off!
Ning Shu would never question Chen Dongcheng's decision.
Even Ning Shu is very skeptical about the prospects of game adaptations and R-rated movies, but he still regards these two movies as top priorities.
Chen Dongcheng didn't bother to explain more. When the two movies are released, Ning Shu will know how wise his decision is.