The Best Entertainment Era

Leaving Blizzard and returning to Los Angeles by car from Irvine, Uwe Ball couldn't help but ask, Robert, how did you talk with Blizzard?

Robert Lee touched his nose and said with a smile: It's okay, Mike Morhaime's attitude is somewhat loose, but it's hard to say how it actually is.

The so-called consideration may still be in the consideration stage in the past ten years.

Uwe Ball shook his head: Hey, these guys are like rocks on a mountain, all of them are stubborn and don't know how to work around.

It's not that they don't know how to adapt, but they are full of doubts about you as a director! Robert Lee slandered, saying: Only when Blizzard Entertainment loosens its attitude and starts to measure whether cooperation with Relativity Entertainment can bring benefits, we may have the opportunity to go further, but the initiative is on Blizzard's side.

Compared with Uwe Ball, a film director who only knows how to stalk, Robert Lee has obtained too many adaptation copyrights for Relativity Entertainment, and he has very rich experience in this area.

Uwe Ball said: I really hope to get it soon, and I can start preparing for the film adaptation of Warcraft or Diablo next month.

Although he doesn't think Uwe Ball is very capable, Robert Lee admires Uwe Ball's work attitude and professionalism. He reminded: It's hard to say whether you can get the authorization. work on other projects.

Uwe Ball nodded: You're right, I've been with Blizzard for two years, and I don't mind waiting a little longer.

Robert Lee smiled: Good things take time.

I hope good things can come true. Uwe Ball said again: You tell Ronan, if you get the authorization for the adaptation of Blizzard games, you must keep it for me.

Robert Lee said: These copyrights are meant for you.

Ronan had discussed with him in detail before that he wanted to mold Uwe Ball into a star director, to be precise, an alternative star director of the Internet celebrity type. As far as the current situation is concerned, a series of operations have been completed. Initially achieved the goal.

Speaking of it, it is really unbelievable, the times are changing too fast, ten years ago, a director like Uwe Ball would not be popular, but in the Internet age, he can become an alternative star director, even Those seriously unqualified films directed by them are supported by people, and those people say that they are bad while saying that they are beautiful, what is this?

Knowing that it is a super bad movie, I insisted on going to see how bad it is. After watching it, I shouted that it was terrible, and at the same time said it was really delicious...

Robert Lee knew that he was a bit behind the times, and the film market was changing too fast.

In the future, if he wants not to be eliminated by the market or the times, he, who is in his forties, must step up his studies and adapt to the trends and changes of the times.

Go back and register a Netflix account first, and play the most fashionable Netflix sharing.

An Internet disc company that was about to go bankrupt at the beginning has become one of the hottest Internet emerging industry companies in Ronan's hands. It is said that several investment banks have expressed their investment interest.

Perhaps in the near future, I can also witness the emergence of an Internet giant.

Uwe Ball thought of another thing at this time: Robert, I have already applied to Ronan to buy the film adaptation copyright of another game. If he approves it, please help me and let someone talk about it quickly. Is it? I can’t be idle while waiting for Blizzard, it’s enough to make this film.”

Of course, Robert Lee would not refuse. This is the job of his department. He said: As long as Ronan approves, I will immediately send someone to discuss authorization with the copyright owner.

Thank you. Uwe Ball smiled all over his face.

Robert Lee said with a smile: My own people, you don't need to be polite.

On the way Uwe Ball and Robert Lee returned to Los Angeles from Irvine, Ronan had already seen the latest application report submitted by Uwe Ball.

In addition to his love for his beloved Blizzard, Brother Bao also has a good taste for other games.

this time,

Brother Bao took a fancy to Terminal Reality's game Vampire Ryan, and wanted to win the film adaptation copyright, and then strive to complete the filming next year.

Ronan has some impressions of many films shot by Uwe Ball. For example, the heroine of the vampire movie is played by the female Terminator actor of Terminator 3.

The actor's specific name, Ronan, has been forgotten.

But this kind of film must find a sufficiently sexy and beautiful actress, which is one of the selling points.

Ronan holds the approval power for all film projects of Relativity Entertainment, so he naturally has to take a closer look at the relevant situation of the projects.

He asked Connie to search for relevant information.

At the same time, Ronan also bought a game disc of Vampire Ryan, installed it on the computer and played it for a while.

Vampire Ryan is an action game released in 2002. The background story happened in the 1930s and 1940s. The enemies are mainly Japanese soldiers.

The main character of the game is Ryan, a sexy redhead who is half-human, half-vampire, so she has vampiric abilities.

Once there is excessive blood loss in the game, all the player has to do is to command Ryan to pounce on the enemy and then suck their blood, so that the lost health value will naturally recover.

Ryan's main weapons are two long knives. When using the long knives to attack the enemy, Ryan will also use kicks and other graceful movements as auxiliary attacks.

At the same time, during the game, players can also pick up weapons discarded by the enemy, such as pistols, shotguns, machine guns, etc. to arm themselves.

In addition, it also has a variety of special abilities: time acceleration can find enemies at high speed; index vision can find the location of the target; Attack angle, attack speed doubled.

The sales of the game are average, the sales volume is not as good as that of Dungeon Siege, and the influence is not too big.

Since Ronan wanted to build Uwe Ball into an alternative star director, he naturally would not refuse such an excellent film project, and he approved it soon.

Of course, the investment scale of the film still needs to be well controlled, and in principle it cannot exceed Dungeon Siege.

If he can get the copyright of the Warcraft series from Blizzard Entertainment, Ronan will definitely give Uwe Ball more investment.

It is very, very difficult to achieve the goal. After all, Blizzard pays great attention to the brand now, and it is not like it will be in the future.

Judging from what Robert Lee said, Blizzard's consideration may remain in the consideration stage for a long time.

Taking the road of Blizzard alone is very likely to be a dead end, so Vivendi is an option that can be considered.

The only purpose of Vivendi to acquire these game companies is to make a profit, and to obtain the maximum profit in the shortest possible time.

Ronan personally called the Vivendi Group. After the last acquisition, the relationship between the two parties was not bad. Vivendi also said that it would seriously consider Relativity Entertainment's request to purchase the copyright of its game film adaptation.

Blizzard Entertainment maintains a certain degree of independence, but it is a subsidiary of Vivendi after all, and the reputation of Vivendi Group in the game industry is not very good, and it likes to directly and forcefully intervene in the operation of the acquired game company.

In the game circle, Vivendi Group has always been known for its tricky hands.

In the mid-to-late 1990s, the Vivendi Group acquired the game company Xueleshan. Xueleshan thought it was hugging a wealthy father.

Unexpectedly, after only one year, Vivendi showed its viciousness and started a terrible domestic violence. First, it closed all the development studios under Sierra Mountain, laid off a large number of employees, and then Vivendi reorganized its own games department, and disbanded Sierra.

Since then, Xuele Mountain has existed in name only.

In fact, there is no difference between Vivendi and Ronan's Relativity Entertainment, and the six major Hollywood companies. They are just a snobbish businessman who is full of money.

It never pursues how many good games it can bring to players, but only considers how to squeeze out commercial value in the shortest possible time.

In 1998, Blizzard was adopted by the Vivendi Group, and Vivendi also directly intervened in Blizzard, resulting in a large-scale exodus of Blizzard employees, including the Dark Four.

In order to obtain greater benefits, Vivendi forcibly merged Blizzard into Vivendi Games.

It can be said that if the Vivendi Group wants to sell the film copyright of Blizzard's games, Blizzard can't stop it at all.

Because if you really want to buy the copyright, you don't buy it from Blizzard, but from Vivendi Game Company.

If there is another way, Ronan will not take Vivendi's move.

What if after getting the copyright, Blizzard Entertainment goes crazy and eats books like crazy? At that time, The Wrath of the Lich King and Legion Again will leave big holes all over the ground?

Ronan believed in the ethics of Blizzard Entertainment at all, because in order to protect its own interests, Blizzard was afraid of eating books.

Which game is better at eating books, California Blizzard Waves!

The copyright owner has willful capital and power. For example, Marvel Comics used to have a quarrel with 20th Century Fox because of the copyright and income of Fantastic Four. period stop.

These two are just typical examples of mutual losses. Marvel Comics stopped updating comics, and 20th Century Fox filmed a new Fantastic Four in order not to violate the contract regulations, with time and budget stuck.

Compared with that superhero movie, Uwe Ball's movie can be regarded as a masterpiece of conscience!

Robert Lee moved very quickly. In the week that Ronan approved Uwe Ball's application, before the weekend came, professionals from the copyright and legal department negotiated with Terminal Reality about the film adaptation of Vampire Lane Authorization, the two parties are quickly signing a formal authorization transfer agreement.

Because of the box office success of Dungeon Siege, Terminal Reality initially offered a high price, only a symbolic transfer fee of one dollar, but asked for a 5% share of the North American box office.

This is definitely unacceptable. After a few days of negotiations, the two parties reached an agreement on a basic transfer fee of US$500,000 plus 2% of North American box office profits.

As the entertainment reputation of Theory of Relativity grows and more and more successful film adaptations are made, it becomes more and more difficult to obtain the copyrights of adaptations of various works at a low price.

For an unknown author or a small company, it is easier to talk about, but anyone with a little capital will often charge a high price.

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