Legendary Hollywood Director

Frankfurt, Germany, Konstantin Pictures headquarters building.

As the fifth largest city in Germany, Frankfurt is the transportation and financial center of Hesse, located in the lower reaches of the Main River, a tributary of the central Rhine.

On December 7, in a business building not far from Frankfurt Cathedral.

Paul Anderson is sitting in the parlour waiting.

After a while, a middle-aged man in his 30s walked in with a surprised tone: Mr. Anderson has a plan to shoot a sequel?

It's about discussing this. Paul Anderson nodded.

Then why don't you see the heads of the other families? The middle-aged man was a little strange.

As one of the investors, Constantine Pictures has the largest share and the strongest strength.

Not only do they hold about 40% of the investment, Constantine is in charge of the distribution of the Resident Evil series in Germany, and they are also responsible for the bargaining power in certain areas of the international market - Constantine and other international publishers have nothing to do The difference, the distribution strength is also based on contacting theaters or cooperating with local distribution companies.

As for the fact that they can get these, it is also because Paul Anderson proposed the game adaptation movie plan, and Constantine Pictures contacted Capcom to get the adaptation rights.

Among them, Paul Anderson himself has the most profound relationship with Constantine - this guy is British, but he has close contacts with German film and television companies, which is also a strange thing. Of course, only Constantine had the vision to give Paul Anderson a lot of trust to shoot Resident Evil. Knowledge is the biggest factor.

To know his adaptation plan, the original British film company did not pay attention to it.

After all, at that time in 2002, there were game adaptations, one and the other, except for the Tomb Raider series.

The success rate is so low and the investment risk is so great, who would dare to make such a determination - Constantine Pictures did it, or else they would make a lot of money.

The relationship between the two of them is far closer than that of other investors. The others are all compromises made to break into Hollywood. Without the local network to pave the way, and the Wall Street Foundation as the back, how can Resident Evil be like this now? Can it develop slowly towards Hollywood?

The middle-aged man chatted with Paul Anderson.

After a while, Paul Anderson said thoughtfully: I heard that those companies want to increase their investment share and get more offline income?

The middle-aged man laughed: The market for Apocalypse in North America is larger than the entire European market combined, and they are responsible for the North American distribution. With such a profit, why can't it be used as a barrier? After all , We outsiders, who carefully planned and filmed from scratch, can’t compare to other people occupying the market and directly grabbing it. If you want to make a lot of money in movies, you have to look at Hollywood, then you have to look at people’s faces. Ha!”

The middle-aged man sneered twice and stopped talking.

This is also a headache for many film production companies.

Hollywood releases other places, only with cooperation; if movies from other places want to enter Hollywood, it depends on whether the local forces in the United States can help. Otherwise, it will be difficult to sell.

Think about it, the film industry in Japan, South Korea, Germany, France and other places is not weak, but why can't it break into Hollywood?

It's not just because the distribution channels of the six major and the middle and lower reaches are too perfect,

Hard to hack.

Occasionally, a film with good results is released, and most of the profits are eaten by the publishers, which makes outsiders reluctant to go to Hollywood.

On the contrary, there are frequent exchanges between the UK and Hollywood, and the way of cooperation is profound.

Impact Films is mainly responsible for this matter, and Davis in France is purely to be able to sell better in the international market for a profit.

Of course, this has little to do with Paul Anderson.

This kind of situation was manipulated by him, otherwise, he would be a screenwriter, how could he have the dominant position today.

If there is no contradiction, who will listen to him.

He had no money at the beginning, and he was able to invest in shares.

Paul Anderson listened and said hypocritically: Yeah, they take the least risk and can get more than 30% of the income. I wait for such a lot of pressure, but the foundation is the most unstable. Once lost, the worst loss is also Us. I went to Los Angeles two days ago and heard that Firefly Pictures has a new project to seek cooperation...

Firefly Pictures? The middle-aged man took a sip of his coffee and wondered, What project is it? Do you have a way?

Well, I happened to have a conversation with Mr. Lehman at the premiere of Ride to New York, and he was talking about the market operation of the zombie theme. He said at that time that he planned to make a spin-off TV series after Ride to New York. , ask me to be the screenwriter. Paul Anderson said lightly, trying to put gold on his face, anyway, no one can confirm this - Lyman has promised to run it by him.

Then, taking this to raise one's status is simply a normal means.

Derivatives?

In just a split second, the middle-aged man wanted to understand the market prospects of this project.

You must know that New York Trip is a hot work. If it is revealed that it is going to be a TV series, how many TV stations in the industry will be interested? Presumably not less.

So this trading risk has been compressed very little, but the profit prospects are huge.

The middle-aged man became interested and said deliberately, I don't know about seeking cooperation...

Oh. Paul Anderson nodded and said, He wants to invest in the Resident Evil series to heat up the zombie-themed market together. After all, when the market is hot, film and television works of the same theme will benefit. I guess that's what they planned.

Then, if we want, here...

For win-win cooperation, everyone will benefit. Can we make money together?

Is Mr. Anderson willing too?

I'm here to inquire about cooperation matters? We both have to advance and retreat together.

Good talk, good talk.

......

Paul Anderson moved quickly, and within a few days, he notified the remaining few.

They are all smart people, how can they not know the truth of win-win cooperation? But who gets the big bucks and how the benefits are distributed must still be negotiated.

However, Lehman's past achievements are there, and the keen market vision that he has never missed is still quite bluffing - isn't it the same for Warners and Lionsgate, so they are willing to maintain a long-term cooperative relationship with Firefly Pictures?

If it weren't for this, maybe the time for the division and collection of the cooperation income would not be shortened voluntarily - the more money slipping around in the account, there is also a demand for these large companies. No, the first advertisement for Prison Break has been divided into 15 million US dollars and has already hit the account of Firefly Pictures. Of course, the total amount of the six advertisers that put in is about 130 million, and it is not a special treatment to pay more than 15 million.

However, several capitals have expressed their willingness to make money together.

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