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After Robert Lee returned to Los Angeles from New Hampshire, he did not give up the copyright of The Da Vinci Code. Kex himself was adamant.

In the end, both Ronan and Robert Lee had no choice but to give up.

You can't hang yourself on a project.

First, he missed Universal Pictures, then missed the Jurassic Park series, and then missed the copyright of The Da Vinci Code. Ronan is also a normal person. Although he will never show it, he is still somewhat disappointed. .

However, he quickly figured it out.

Having already used the advantage of foresight to obtain countless high-quality resources, it is impossible for Relativity Entertainment to grasp all the good things in its own hands.

In the future, more may be missed.

It is impossible for Ronan to remember all the movies he has seen, and he has tried his best to think of all the movies he can think of and obtain the conditional registration and copyright.

He will continue to search for high-quality resources in the future, and he must manage those that are already in his hands.

For example, first-line projects and plans that are already in progress or are being prepared.

It may not be a bad thing to pass by Universal Pictures, which allows Relativity Entertainment and Pacific Investment Foundation to maintain sufficient cash flow, which can be used for other work.

The acquisition team formed by Robert Iger has not been disbanded. According to the plan that was made when he and Hollywood Video won many rental and sales authorizations, he secretly began to evaluate Artisan Pictures Entertainment. Robert Iger plans to acquire as much as possible next year. Under Artisan Films.

This mid-sized studio has one of Relativity's most deficient titles.

Artisan Films Entertainment Company, which was translated by many people as Artison Entertainment, when mentioning Artisan, the first thing fans think of is The Blair Witch and Vanilla Sky starring Tom Cruise.

In addition, the film and television copyright of the street superhero Punisher under Marvel Comics is currently in the hands of Artisan Pictures.

Winning Artisan Pictures can also bring the copyright of The Punisher into the bag.

In 1974, The Punisher first appeared in The Amazing Spider-Man\

,"And soon entered popular culture, becoming the representative of anti-hero characters.

To be precise, this is also an alternative hero who has no superpowers and has bitter hatred. He wanders in the urban jungle like a lonely wolf.

It looks like the Punisher has also formed a League of Defenders with superheroes like Daredevil.

In the film library of Artisan Films, there are more than 6,000 complete copyrights of films.

In the office of Relativity Entertainment, Robert Iger told Ronan some basic statistics: There are many well-known works among them.

He handed a list to Ronan, and continued: The most well-known works in the film library, the First Blood trilogy, the Oscar-winning The Last Emperor, Arnold Schwarz Singer starred in Terminator and Total Recall, and Instinct was a hit in the early 1990s. There are also two well-known series, Seal Commando and Devil Roar.

Ronan has heard of or even watched these films. Films such as First Blood, Terminator and Instinct are basically known to anyone who understands Hollywood movies.

I remember the First Blood series was filmed and produced by Samsung Pictures, right? Ronan asked.

This Samsung Films has nothing to do with the sticky Samsung. It was one of the medium-sized film companies in Hollywood in the 1980s, but it had no distribution capabilities.

Robert Iger obviously did a detailed understanding and said: Samsung Pictures has experienced a period of turmoil. Some of its works were resold to Artisan Pictures. Later, Samsung Pictures was acquired by Sony Columbia, but the copyrights of these works remained with Artisan Pictures. Carpenter.

The copyright ownership of Hollywood movies is often very clear, but the resale situation is very complicated. The final copyright ownership of many works often has nothing to do with the producers and distributors of the year.

Companies in the industry encounter difficulties and cannot continue to operate. The most effective financial solution is to sell film libraries and sell copyrights.

Behind every established film company, there is a large-scale film library, including famous films as support.

Artisan Pictures is no exception.

This is different from the copyright acquired in cooperation with Hollywood Video Company last time. Those are the rental and sales copyright of the film. If you buy a fragment of the film library, all the film copyrights in it will belong to Relativity Entertainment.

Robert Iger half-jokingly said: If we can win the artisan film library, we can call Stallone and make First Blood 4.

Ronan nodded: It's just that Stallone is a little old.

Later, Stallone was known as a national father-in-law among fans on the other side of the Pacific Ocean, and his three daughters were all as beautiful as flowers.

Ronan asked again: What about the copyright of Terminator? What's going on?

Robert Iger simply explained: The copyright of the first Terminator is in the hands of Artisan Pictures. The first film was co-produced, which led to the split of the copyright. Later, Arnold Schwarzenegger and James Cameron In order to shoot the sequel, James Cameron's ex-wife Anne Heard integrated the copyright of The Terminator. The copyright of the first film was fully owned by Artisan Films, and the sequel copyrights all fell into the hands of Carlock Films. .”

Ronan understood: That is to say, no matter how many sequels of Terminator are made, it doesn't matter if they are given to Artisan Pictures.

Yes. Robert Iger turned, But we can do 'Basic Instinct 2.'

Ronan shook his head: Forget it, I don't like Sharon Stone. There are too many large-scale movies that can be seen in theaters now. A few people will be interested in an old woman in her fifties.

Robert Iger will not express too much opinion on the production of film projects.

Ronan quickly browsed the list of movies in the catalog, and most of the names were very unfamiliar. In fact, regardless of the six major companies or other film companies, the vast majority of movies with thousands or even tens of thousands of movies are unknown. There are very few truly famous works.

But the copyright of each film means that it can be operated profitably for a long time, and the profits brought by the huge film base can be aggregated into tens of millions of dollars in income.

And this part of copyright income is basically net profit.

The series of films on the list can continue to be filmed, like Navy Seal Commando, Ronan can't remember how many films he has filmed, it seems that the latter will be released directly to DVD.

In addition, Ronan also saw several familiar titles from the directory, such as the copyright of Black Man starring Jeter Lee, which is also in the film library of Artisan Pictures.

There is also Alice in Wonderland, which was directed by Nick Welling in 1999.

With this work in hand, it is completely possible to gather people to shoot a 3D version of Alice in Wonderland.

Ronan asked: What about the difficulties? You must have enough expectations for the difficulties.

We have designed a variety of filings. Robert Iger is in charge of this work: The difficulties mainly come from two aspects.

He said in detail: First, once the news of our acquisition of Artisan Pictures spreads, it is likely to attract competitors. The operating conditions of Artisan Pictures have not been good in the past two years. The management and shareholders have the idea of ​​selling the company. As long as we get in touch with them, Artisan Films will definitely release news in order to get more transfer money from them.

Ronan nodded slightly, which is similar to the sale of Universal Pictures by the Vivendi Group.

Robert Iger continued: The second aspect comes from the business of Artisan Films. What we need most is the film library of Artisan Films. However, Artisan Films, as an established Hollywood film company, has production and distribution capabilities. Of course, Yijiang Films has relatively weak production capabilities and relatively outstanding distribution capabilities. It can not only distribute movies in North America, but also has a wide range of distribution channels overseas.

Ronan understood what he meant, and continued, Relativity Entertainment doesn't need the production and distribution business of Artisan Pictures, right?

Yes. Robert Iger further said: After several years of development, our production and distribution business has become quite mature. If we integrate these two aspects of the business of Artisan Pictures, it will not only be difficult to bring in substitutes, but also Caused a lot of unnecessary trouble.

Ronan said slowly: This is an invalid business for us, but it is an important part of the assets of Artisan Pictures.

Robert Iger also said: These two businesses account for far more than half of the assets of Artisan Films. According to Hollywood's past acquisitions and our contact with Vivendi Group, we want Artisan to It is very difficult and almost impossible for the film industry to split up the film library and sell it separately. However, we have acquired Artisan Films in its entirety, and we have to split it up again, and then sell the invalid business.

Don't give up even if you have difficulties. The copyright of the film library will only become more and more valuable in the future. Robert Iger knows this, and Ronan also understands: Make more preparations, and when you contact Artisan Pictures, you can directly win it. The film library is the best, if it doesn’t work, buy them all, or split them up if it’s a big deal.”

Robert Iger said: That's the only way.

Ronan asked: You are responsible for all the affairs in this area, and you will run the specific operations. Bob, give me a time point, when the acquisition can be officially launched, so that I can ask Scott to help you with the foundation. Prepare funds.

In terms of acquisitions, Ronan is very clear about his positioning. He is far less professional than Robert Iger, and he will do his best to provide logistical support.

In the face of an acquisition that may cost hundreds of millions of dollars, Robert Iger is confident but also very cautious: The team has already started preparations. I need about three months to comprehensively evaluate the assets of Artisan Pictures. Depending on the timing and the situation of Artisan Films itself, it is expected to start early next year.

Knowing that he should not rush for success, Ronan said, I'll wait for your good news.