After buying Marvel, I became the king of Hollywood

The corresponding actor's worth will naturally skyrocket, which means that the production cost will increase greatly.

And if the film is successful for two consecutive films, once the film fails to sell well when it comes to the third film, it is easy to lose money at such a high cost.

The reason why Johnny Depp was given up by Disney in the fifth part, apart from his reputation, is actually related to the cost of nearly [-] million US dollars.

In the original history, Johnny Depp took away 500 million US dollars in Pirates of the Caribbean 500, and in Pirates of the Caribbean [-], he even took [-] million US dollars in profits through remuneration and box office sharing .

The investor has spent a huge amount of money to gain profits.

And the protagonist took away [-] million US dollars while lying down, how could it be worth it.

From an actor's point of view, he played a classic role and deserves so much.

But investors certainly don't think so.

This is the point of contradiction between the two sides.

As copyright owners, if they don't consider the backlash from the audience brought about by the replacement, they can actually change roles.

However, generally speaking, it is a taboo to easily change roles in a movie sequel.

The copyright owner of Pirates of the Caribbean has been afraid to do this until Johnny Depp's own reputation collapsed, and many viewers unanimously voted for the copyright owner to change.

Only then did the copyright owner follow suit and chose to change roles.

It's hard to say whether the copyright owner has contributed to this behind the scenes.

But after all, Johnny Depp is not perfect, and there is nothing to say if the problem is caught.

In conclusion, trilogy is generally the most common situation in Hollywood.

Some of Kevin's movies, most of them are only trilogy.

However, the world view built by the trilogy and the IP influence brought by it are obviously not enough.

Just like Lord of the Rings.

The Lord of the Rings trilogy is actually a typical failed IP.

In addition to the movie itself, in other aspects, the hidden income is really not much.

Of course, this is compared to what it has achieved.

It's a pity that the film copyright of Lord of the Rings has long been held by someone, and Kevin has also talked to someone, but others have no interest in selling the copyright.

Peter Jackson, the director, regards The Lord of the Rings as his life's work.

This is really not moved by money.

Although, if Kevin really spends a huge amount of money, it can be done, but Kevin must buy the copyright to make money.

If you spend more money, it doesn't make sense.

The movie is shooting step by step.

At the same time, the outside world is also progressing one after another.

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Fast forward to October.

During these two months, the industry with Chenxi Films as its core was operating normally.

With the end of the popularity of the Harry Potter movies, after half a year, the number of visitors to Hogwarts has dropped significantly. Although Marvel IP has joined, the overall trend is still showing a decline.

But Kevin is not worried, because the second part of Harry Potter will be continued soon.

As for the project, Kevin asked Dawson to contact director Chris Columbus, who had made a name for himself in the industry with Home Alone.

A movie called Robot Butler is currently being filmed.

It is expected to be able to relax in November.

At that time, I will come to Chenxi Movies and Kevin to talk about Harry Potter in detail.

This director, in the future history, is the director of the Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone movie, and he continued to shoot the second one.

But after the third part, it was replaced.

I don't know if it's the director's problem, or Warner replaced him.

Kevin didn't know the details about this.

After all, he didn't hang out in Hollywood before, so he could only know about it from media reports.

But in this era, news from the mainland and the outside world is still relatively closed, and he has no way of knowing about it.

However, judging from the achievements of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, as well as Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Chris Columbus is clearly capable.

For any sequel movie, the director has the most credit for the first two.

Just like the Batman Dark Knight series shot by Kevin, the first two films had good reputations, and the third one had a bad reputation.

This does not reflect at all, the ability of the director of the third part.

On the contrary, the sequel of this hit movie can only barely keep its capital, which is undoubtedly a mockery of the director.

Therefore, in the industry, few well-known and famous directors would take on other people's sequel movies.

Except for the sequels to the movies he directed himself.

Otherwise, it may be thankless.

Of course, for those directors who lack the opportunity, this kind of sequel is obviously a good opportunity for them to show their talents.

The movies that Chris Columbus is currently taking over are all medium-scale productions, and he also wants to take over a big production.

And the sequel to a movie like Harry Potter is obviously very suitable.

As long as he follows the tone set by Steve Kevin, he can't think of any reason for failure of such a well-known IP.

And with this kind of experience, he will have enough qualifications to take on those big investment productions later.

This is a normal director's path, step by step.

The movies made by Chris Columbus are generally profitable, but obviously, they are not as profitable as Steve Kevin's movies.

Chapter 347 Steadily Developing Companies

Therefore, film companies have been afraid to let him direct big-budget films.

The production cost of the film is also gradually increasing.

Now that he can improve a lot at one time, Chris Columbus certainly will not miss this opportunity.

Facing the decrease in the number of visitors to the Hogwarts theme park, Kevin was not worried.

It's just that the first Harry Potter movie was released, and the audience hasn't been able to develop the habit of playing it once or twice a year.

Wait for the Harry Potter movie, and then release two more, with various Harry Potter-related festivals and other things, when a Hogwarts culture similar to Star Wars culture is formed in the United States.

This is the beginning of the long-lasting Hogwarts theme park.

At this point, the three giants participating in the investment are not in a hurry.

The current profit is not bad, and the prospect of this project can be seen, so naturally no one is confused.

In a group of this level, there are many talents, so naturally no one is a fool. Everyone can see the future of Hogwarts theme park, so naturally they can afford to wait.

This is the development of Lixiao Entertainment. In short, the current profit is good, and the future can be expected.

Immediately afterwards, there was a company called P, which Kevin hadn't mentioned for a long time.

After obtaining the funds and copyright support from Chenxi Films, P Agency relied on the ultra-high-quality restricted-rated movies and rental services, plus Netflix's new concept.

He has successfully become a well-deserved giant in the film rental and sales industry.

It has become a giant in both the normal movie rental and sales field, as well as the restricted movie rental and sales field.

However, the rental and sales industry itself is a small industry. Even if it becomes a giant, it doesn't have much money after removing operating costs for a year.

At present, Kevin has not paid too much attention to it.

Its future is on the Internet, and it is unlikely to have much development in the past ten years.

In short, to stabilize the profit and loss, the future can be expected.

Immediately afterwards, there were two film companies, Chenxi Films and MGM.

As Kevin's main business, Chenxi Films has become a well-deserved film giant with one high-profit film after another.

Of course, the name does not live up to the reality.

A real film giant has mastered distribution channels and owns its own theater chain, so it cannot be sanctioned.

The current Dawn movie has neither of these.

MGM, on the other hand, has distribution channels, but does not have its own cinema chain.

This has widened the gap between MGM and several other giants.

And this gap, in fact, does not blame MGM.

In the era when movies were just created, capital had not yet intervened.

MGM in that era can be described as infinite scenery.

Immediately afterwards, around the 60s, various capitals took a fancy to the media attributes of film companies, and settled in Hollywood one after another.

From this time on, MGM has gradually gone down the road of decline.

For other capital, which is highly valued, all kinds of investment will be increased.

And the capital behind MGM doesn't do good things, it's a professional blood draw.

In the 80s, it was sold to a casino tycoon.

After the casino tycoon took over, he had no intention of increasing investment at all, and let MGM be responsible for its own profits and losses.

Under such circumstances, it is no wonder that MGM can develop.

In order to make Sunrise Films a real giant, Kevin has made a decision to merge MGM and Sunrise Films.

Of course, before that, it became necessary to acquire or build theaters yourself.

Not to mention how many, at least a complete theater line that won't get stuck is a must.

It is different from the mainland in this regard.

In the United States, theater companies and theater management companies are integrated.

A theater chain has at least dozens of movie theaters under its umbrella, and it can be counted as a complete theater chain.

There are more details in this regard, but in the final analysis, it is a matter of money.

Chenxi Film Company currently has ample funds in its accounts.

In this case, doing business is actually a very good choice.

Especially in a business like movie theaters that is basically profitable.

Kevin will leave the details to Dawson.

His set goal is to acquire or build [-] movie theaters, and the requirement is to be in a prosperous area.

This matter will take three years to complete.

After the completion, it will be the time for Dawn Films and MGM to come together.

After that, it was Marvel.

Marvel Entertainment, whose main business is comics, gradually expanded its business at Kevin's request.

Towards writing, that is, the novel industry has developed.

Readers of comics and readers of novels overlap to some extent with only a small amount.

But also as the entertainment industry, the correlation between the two is very high.

The novelization of Marvel comics has also begun.

It is worth mentioning that Marvel also held a prize-winning activity for fanfiction novels, and collected some of the more exciting ones from these Marvel movie novel fanfiction and comic novel fanfiction, and published them on paper media.

This move greatly expanded Marvel's reputation.

This is the decision made by Kevin with his eyes ahead of the times.