mousepad-d2 Chapter 196 Universal's Unexpected Joy
Chapter 196 Universal's Unexpected Joy
Now that the so-called "Marvel Ultimate Universe Plan" has been known from Sally Redstone, there is no point in keeping it secret.When Disney made the Marvel Ultimate Universe plan, the reason why they hid it and only dared to put Easter eggs behind a few movies to preview it was because Disney had no confidence in the Marvel Ultimate Universe plan.But Jed is different. He knows very well that the box office results of "The Avengers" and related movies are very good.Since I am very confident in the box office, it is better to let the wind out early so that everyone can keep paying attention to Marvel's ultimate universe plan, which will also be very helpful for future movie releases.
So just after Galaxy Films announced that it had taken over the adaptation rights of "Thor", "Iron Man" and "Captain America" from Paramount, a piece of news was circulating in Hollywood.The reason why Galaxy Films acquired Marvel Entertainment is not only the huge copyright library of Marvel comics, but also the film and television adaptation rights of related works.Moreover, Galaxy Movies is very bold. In addition to shooting individual movies of various classic heroes, it will also shoot the superhero group "Avengers" for the first time.
A few days after this news spread, it was recognized by Marvel Entertainment and Galaxy Film Entertainment respectively, and said that two production companies, Marvel Film Production Company and Marvel Film Studio, have been established to be responsible for the "Marvel Ultimate Universe Project" "The production of the "Avengers" and "Peripheral Superheroes" films.
When movie fans and comic fans in the United States got the official confirmation, it immediately triggered a huge discussion in their respective circles.You know, American children grew up with the superheroes in Marvel Comics and DC Comics, and it has been going on for several generations.After Marvel announced that it would launch the "Marvel Ultimate Universe Project", countless people began to ask Warner, which acquired DC Comics, whether they had plans to film "Justice League"?
"Justice League" is a more popular combination of anime superheroes than "Avengers". Whether it is Superman, Batman, Wonder Girl, etc., they are all first-class superheroes in the United States.But Warner Corporation is very painful. Of course they know how profitable it is to film the Justice League, but DC Comics does not have a parallel universe plan to store the Justice League and take risks together.Although DC Comics officially announced the organization "Justice League", many stories of this organization are hidden under the main story of each hero.Therefore, Warner needs a lot of time and labor to clarify the timeline, and then construct a world view or something.Therefore, DC Comics fans had to watch Marvel fans chanting "Long live" first, and then privately asked Warner to speed up.
As a result, this incident caused the president of Warner Bros. to call Jed to complain that Jed was promoting too quickly.In fact, Warner originally planned to cooperate with Galaxy on superheroes, just like Marvel and DC back then. Although the two companies are fighting fiercely, as long as there is a third company that can threaten their position, they will join hands to strangle them.Warner's superhero project was originally planned to start after 2010, and the Justice League project is estimated to not be filmed until around 2020.In order to boost the reputation of the Justice League, Warner also specifically asked the galaxy to produce a spin-off of the Avengers, and the Justice League will be added at that time.Jed didn't object. Now he already understands the reason for having one more friend and one more way, not to mention that now Galaxy and Warner are as good as good friends, and it is still necessary to help them pick up soap and so on.
"This Jed Sherman is really a character." At this time, the top conference room of the NBC Universal Group headquarters did not dare to make a sound, because the chairman and president of the parent company of the NBC Universal Group - Vivendi Group Arrived at nbc universal group to inspect the work.And Jean Renault Forto, the official chairman of the Vivendi Group who just spoke.He paused for a while, and then added, "I remember that he first cooperated with our nbc, why is he now playing hot with cbs and fox? I heard that the we TV network he formed also vaguely has a 'second The five major TV networks' momentum?"
Vivendi is the world's largest environmental service company headquartered in France. The main business of the head office is public utilities.Vivendi owns the world's largest water treatment company - Vivendi Water Company; it also owns the No. [-] waste disposal company, power company and transportation company in Europe.Although Vivendi claims that it is losing money in public utilities, these industries are supported by the state, which is equivalent to losing some money to let the state support you, so many people say that Vivendi is "getting cheap and selling well".
In addition to public utilities, Vivendi is also an international media company. It owns the largest Internet and cable TV service provider in Europe, and also monopolizes the wireless TV business in France.Although Vivendi's roots are in Europe, it does not mean that they do not pay attention to the business in the United States. On the contrary, they are still very concerned about whether the business in the United States can make money for them.But the current problem is that Universal Pictures Group has dropped to No.6 in the Big Seven, which is slightly better than MGM, which is on the verge of bankruptcy.
Although nbc is ranked No. 1 in the annual comprehensive ratings in the United States because of its large number of sports broadcasting rights, its performance in prime time ratings, late night ratings and daytime program ratings is very worrying.Fortunately, the late-night talk shows under nbc are still doing well, barely keeping the late-night ratings between No.1 and No.2.But the lack of TV dramas has made nbc network miserable in terms of prime-time and daytime ratings, completely missing the dominance it had in the 90s.
With the full support of Galaxy TV Production Company and Galaxy TV Entertainment Company, cbs not only dominates drama dramas, but also vaguely has the dominance of nbc in comedy dramas. Fox took a different approach and reached many cooperation agreements with Galaxy TV Studio. On the one hand, it cooperated with some fringe dramas to attract the attention of ethnic minorities in the United States, and on the other hand, it created various luxurious reality shows.The current trend of the five major TV networks in the United States is that, except for sports programs on weekends that make NBC stand out, the prime time period from Monday to Friday is basically the period when CBS and Fox compete with each other. The current status of abc is not very comfortable, the newly established we TV network suppresses abc everywhere.If it weren't for the fact that the franchised stations of the we TV network have not been fully established, resulting in a natural disadvantage in ratings, the we TV network can now completely replace ABC as the fourth largest TV network in the United States.
"So, the Galaxy is the key." François Dubos, president of the Vivendi Group, said with a final word. "I don't know if any unpleasant things have happened to NBCUniversal Group and Sherman Film and Television Entertainment Group, but our Vivendi Group hopes that this unpleasant experience will pass quickly. It can even be said that if they are unwilling to take the initiative, We can also take the initiative to associate with them. Everyone is making a living in this industry, as long as there is no deep hatred, what's the big deal?"
Hearing his parent company's positioning in this way, Steven Bocco, president of NBC Universal Group, suddenly became excited.I don't know which company got the start, but what is popular in Hollywood now is the combination of film companies and TV companies to form a media group. Although there was a positive effect of mutual promotion at first, various contradictions have occurred now.For example, abc is actually very willing to cooperate with Galaxy, but Disney movies are not. The same is true for NBC Universal Group. NBC doesn't care that Yinhe has a younger brother of the We TV network. As long as Yinhe doesn't mind cooperating with him, it doesn't matter if Yinhe has another younger sister.Since NBC is the TV network with the highest overall ratings in the United States, is it still afraid of a TV network that has just been established?And nbc is now jealous that cbs and fox's ratings have reached the point of starvation, so they won't mind the relationship between galaxy and we TV network.
However, Universal Pictures cares about the relationship between Galaxy TV and Galaxy Movies. In their view, the cooperation between NBC and Universal TV is simply an act of capitalizing on Galaxy Movies and poaching Universal Pictures!Therefore, under internal pressure, Steven Boko had no choice but to bear it. He believed that the decline in ratings of NBC would inevitably attract the attention of the parent company, and that was his chance to turn around.
But before he opened his mouth, Ronald Mayer, CEO of Universal Pictures, retorted: "Is the head office planning to sacrifice our Universal interests to please Galaxy? The current Sherman Film and Television Entertainment Group is not only interested in Universal Pictures It poses a great threat, and their newly formed Sherman Music Entertainment Group is also one of our biggest rivals to Universal Music. At this time, we must join forces with Sony and other companies to suppress them, and I even think we can sell them Part of NBC's shares."
"It's not your turn to worry about the company's shareholders!" Steven Boko coldly rejected Meyer.In fact, what Meyer proposed is also a solution, but Steven Brocade will never allow other media companies besides NBC Universal Group to be included in the share composition of NBC Corporation. "If they both uphold the belief that they cannot cooperate with their opponents, then how can Warner and Galaxy establish the we TV network? Viacom Group will enter the Asian market through the Asian Broadcasting Group. This is a cooperation that makes our heart beat!"
"Okay, Universal Pictures and Universal Music want to continue to boycott Sherman's company is your subordinate company's freedom, and our head office will not interfere. But in order for nbc to continue to cooperate with Sherman, you must sacrifice some Benefits. I know that Universal Pictures has the right to adapt "Hulk", Ronald, you find a way to use this in exchange for some conditions that are beneficial to us." Renault Forto, the chairman of Vivendi, made the final decision.
This meeting within the NBC Universal Group was not known to Jed. Jed received a very wonderful script, which was also a story about spies.After the "Mission: Impossible" series was shot by John Woo, it was sold to Tom Cruise. Although there will be extra copyright income every year, John Woo is always a little entangled.In fact, Wu Yusen still likes this kind of espionage shootout movies in his heart, because some shootout shots can be shot beautifully and delicately, and at the same time, there are enough literary and drama shots, which is conducive to expressing some of the director's ideas.Therefore, John Woo has been lobbying Jade to make another spy series, but Jade tricked Woo into filming "Charlie's Angels".Thinking of this, Jade decided to buy the script and future adaptation rights and hand it over to John Woo to shoot.Then he also gave this script a name, called "The Bourne Shadow".