Chapter 131 (1/2)
”Terminator is owned by helmdale, a British tax avoidance capital backed film company with a distribution agreement with Orion. John Dali, President of helmdale, refused to sell the rights to terminator, but said he could work with Denise pictures. I think this plan is feasible. If we make a sequel, the money from helmdale can help us share the risk. ”
”Tolkien's Middle Earth series, the Lord of the rings, is copyrighted by Saul zaenz, the producer who produced two best picture Oscars,” flying over the madhouse ”and” the story of Mozart. ”. The copyright of ”Hobbit” is owned by United States. The other party bought the permanent copyright of ”Hobbit” and ”the Lord of the rings” for 10000 pounds in 1969, and Saul zaenz also obtained the copyright from United States. As for the fairy diamond, the copyright is in the hands of the Tolkien Heritage Foundation. I have contacted the three parties, and they all said that they could talk about it, but they did not accept our offer. I think that in the absence of a specific production plan, it is very difficult to win the film and television copyright of these three books, and we have to offer sky high prices. ”
”Dave Stevens, the creator of the cartoon rocket expert, doesn't accept my offer. He hopes to talk to you in person. I have inquired that this cartoonist has been looking for opportunities to cooperate with film companies since last year. He hopes to adapt this cartoon into a high budget film. ”After the box office failure of the summer season's mangrove film the giant of the universe, several companies that were originally in contact with them have shrunk back.”
”Baby thunderbolt, originally produced by Ronald Goldberg's production company, is owned by Columbia Pictures. Before becoming Fox's president, Ronald Goldberg sold the company to Colombia for $40 million. From the end of the series in 1981 to now, the profits of syndication distribution and video sales of ”Thunderbolt baby” have been basically drained. However, if we want to buy out the full copyright of the TV series, Columbia Pictures will offer us $10 million. The price is too high. Although the TV series lasts for six seasons, there is not much replay value now, and there is little profit left from the sale of video tapes. We can only buy the film and television adaptation rights of TV series. ”
”Mission impossible, produced by Paramount TV, has been trying to develop a movie version. Sydney Ganis says paramount can consider working with Daniels pictures if you want to direct it yourself.”
”Espionage. Warner Bros. also bought the copyright. I made a special call to talk with Terry Semel. His reply is similar to Sidney Ganis. By the way, Semel also said that he would call you when he was free this afternoon. ”
”Beyond that, there's good news.”
”I got the copyright of” Spider Man ”from Canon pictures, which is 200000 US dollars. This is the original price when Canon obtained the copyright from marvel. After the box office failure of” Superman 4 ”invested by Canon pictures in the summer season, coupled with the company's own business difficulties, Canon has completely abandoned the plan of” Spider Man ”. However, there are only three years left in the original five-year copyright period. If we don't make movies within three years, the copyright will automatically return to marvel. ”
”Mirage studio's offer for the film and television copyright of Ninja Turtle is $300000. The TV animation version of this cartoon has a very good response this year, but it's very difficult to make it real. I talked about $200000, a five-year contract similar to spider man.”
”The death poetry society, the price of the script is $80000.”
”Steel magnolia, I watched the video of Broadway stage play. It was very touching. The price of the agreed adaptation right was $100000.”
”Speed and passion. Oh, I don't know how you saw this movie, Simon. It's a 1955 movie or a B-class movie by Roger Koman. According to your request, for 200000 dollars, Roger Coman sold us all the copyright of the film. I haggled with him for a long time, and he was a smart man who never lost money. ”Speed and passion” had a budget of just over $60000. I watched the video, and then I didn't have any interest in watching it again. ”
”As for the others, they are still in contact.”
In the conference room of Denise pictures.
Amy Pascal counted the results of the recent copyright negotiations one by one, then pointed to the thick pile of scripts on her desk and said, ”in addition, this week, I received 60 screenplays from major agencies, and selected 19 of them that I think are OK. They are all here. You can have a look at them at the weekend.”
On the other side of the conference table, Simon listened to Amy's report, but he was reading the contract of spider man.
Spiderman!
This is spider man!
You can start a spider man movie with a global harvest of $700 million!