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"Terminator is owned by helmdale, a British tax avoidance capital backed film company with a distribution agreement with Orion. John Dali, President of helmdale, refused to sell the rights to terminator, but said he could work with Denise pictures. I think this plan is feasible. If we make a sequel, the money from helmdale can help us share the risk. "

"Tolkien's Middle Earth series, the Lord of the rings, is copyrighted by Saul zaenz, the producer who produced two best picture Oscars," flying over the madhouse "and" the story of Mozart. ". The copyright of "Hobbit" is owned by United States. The other party bought the permanent copyright of "Hobbit" and "the Lord of the rings" for 10000 pounds in 1969, and Saul zaenz also obtained the copyright from United States. As for the fairy diamond, the copyright is in the hands of the Tolkien Heritage Foundation. I have contacted the three parties, and they all said that they could talk about it, but they did not accept our offer. I think that in the absence of a specific production plan, it is very difficult to win the film and television copyright of these three books, and we have to offer sky high prices. "

"Dave Stevens, the creator of the cartoon rocket expert, doesn't accept my offer. He hopes to talk to you in person. I have inquired that this cartoonist has been looking for opportunities to cooperate with film companies since last year. He hopes to adapt this cartoon into a high budget film. "After the box office failure of the summer season's mangrove film the giant of the universe, several companies that were originally in contact with them have shrunk back."

"Baby thunderbolt, originally produced by Ronald Goldberg's production company, is owned by Columbia Pictures. Before becoming Fox's president, Ronald Goldberg sold the company to Colombia for $40 million. From the end of the series in 1981 to now, the profits of syndication distribution and video sales of "Thunderbolt baby" have been basically drained. However, if we want to buy out the full copyright of the TV series, Columbia Pictures will offer us $10 million. The price is too high. Although the TV series lasts for six seasons, there is not much replay value now, and there is little profit left from the sale of video tapes. We can only buy the film and television adaptation rights of TV series. "

"Mission impossible, produced by Paramount TV, has been trying to develop a movie version. Sydney Ganis says paramount can consider working with Daniels pictures if you want to direct it yourself."

"Espionage. Warner Bros. also bought the copyright. I made a special call to talk with Terry Semel. His reply is similar to Sidney Ganis. By the way, Semel also said that he would call you when he was free this afternoon. "

"Beyond that, there's good news."

"I got the copyright of" Spider Man "from Canon pictures, which is 200000 US dollars. This is the original price when Canon obtained the copyright from marvel. After the box office failure of" Superman 4 "invested by Canon pictures in the summer season, coupled with the company's own business difficulties, Canon has completely abandoned the plan of" Spider Man ". However, there are only three years left in the original five-year copyright period. If we don't make movies within three years, the copyright will automatically return to marvel. "

"Mirage studio's offer for the film and television copyright of Ninja Turtle is $300000. The TV animation version of this cartoon has a very good response this year, but it's very difficult to make it real. I talked about $200000, a five-year contract similar to spider man."

"The death poetry society, the price of the script is $80000."

"Steel magnolia, I watched the video of Broadway stage play. It was very touching. The price of the agreed adaptation right was $100000."

"Speed and passion. Oh, I don't know how you saw this movie, Simon. It's a 1955 movie or a B-class movie by Roger Koman. According to your request, for 200000 dollars, Roger Coman sold us all the copyright of the film. I haggled with him for a long time, and he was a smart man who never lost money. "Speed and passion" had a budget of just over $60000. I watched the video, and then I didn't have any interest in watching it again. "

"As for the others, they are still in contact."

In the conference room of Denise pictures.

Amy Pascal counted the results of the recent copyright negotiations one by one, then pointed to the thick pile of scripts on her desk and said, "in addition, this week, I received 60 screenplays from major agencies, and selected 19 of them that I think are OK. They are all here. You can have a look at them at the weekend."

On the other side of the conference table, Simon listened to Amy's report, but he was reading the contract of spider man.

Spiderman!

This is spider man!

You can start a spider man movie with a global harvest of $700 million!

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In the era before his rebirth, let alone spider man, even some second - and third tier superheroes, marvel could not easily transfer them. Now, with only $200000, Simon has obtained the copyright of Marvel's most popular superhero. It's even incredible to think about it.

But this is reality.

Restricted by special effects technology, in this era, the superhero version right, which is very difficult to film and television, is far less popular than later. Although the new world entertainment from the hands of the whole Marvel have ambitions, but Simon or decisive ahead of time to buy the "Spider Man" copyright.At the same time, she secretly made up her mind that in the future, no matter whether she could win marvel or not, Denise pictures would hold the copyright of spider man firmly in her hands.

As for the remaining three years, there is no problem. It's a big deal to learn and remember Constantine pictures' means of protecting the copyright of the magic four by spending a million dollars to make a B-class film, so that the contract term can be extended for another five years.

So thinking, when Amy's voice fell, Simon soon pulled his mind back.

Through the operation of the stock index futures market, Simon earned more than one billion US dollars. During this period, Simon began to search for copyright again, and he was no longer so secretive. After all, this is Simon's best chance to buy a lot of copyright easily.

Many people are very willing to sell him some copyrights at a high price. But then, if danilisi pictures continues to produce more blockbuster works, any project Simon likes may cause competition. At that time, it will be very difficult for him to obtain some copyright.

The copyright that Amy just got in the report, "Spider Man" and "speed and passion", needless to say, "Ninja Turtle", "death Poetry Society" and "steel magnolia flower" are all box office blockbusters in the original space-time in the next few years, and the "rocket expert" that Simon has not yet got is a "sand" that Simon has mixed in.

After the exposure of his huge wealth, Simon did not deliberately do this kind of thing. Anyway, most of the copyrights he saw were very popular projects, and it was only natural that the box office would sell well in the future.

After closing the previous Spiderman copyright agreement, Simon said to Amy, "let's talk about terminator and Tolkien's works. As long as they ask for a price, we'll buy them. As for rocket expert, I'll take time to talk to the cartoonist. If you try to lower the price of the copyright of "Thunderbolt baby", 10 million dollars is too high, but make sure you get it. Now that paramount and Warner have been developing the final "mission impossible" and "the shadow of espionage", it's not going to work for the time being. "

To win spider man and speed and passion, it's a step away from thunderbolt, Simon is already very satisfied. For the terminator and Tolkien's China series, we can only grind them slowly. Both of them are well-known, and copyright holders will not let them go easily.

As for "mission impossible" and "espionage", the writers' Union will launch the longest strike in Hollywood history next year. Even if the development has started now, these two projects are likely to run aground because of the strike, and eventually they will be delayed for ten years as in the original time and space.

Although the longer the delay, the more unfavorable to Simon, but he still has a lot of opportunities.

Amy wrote down Simon's instructions in the memo and said, "well, what are we going to do with the copyrights we've got?"

"Dead poets society" and "steel Magnolia" are included in the company's production list, and the others are temporarily shelved, "Simon rubbed the copyright contract of" Spider Man "in front of him, suddenly remembered one thing, and asked:" Amy, DC's Superman and Batman, do you think we can win them? "

"The copyright of Superman is in the hands of European producer Alexander Sargent. I happen to know this. Alexander Sargent bought the 15 year film and television copyright of Superman series at that time, and he also had automatic renewal terms. However, after the box office failures of Superman 3 in 1983 and Superman woman in 1984, Sargent has stopped Superman 》The production of the series, but still the copyright in hand, Canon pictures had just got the shooting license. From the first Superman in 1978, there should be about five years left in the copyright period. If you want to shoot it, just like Canon, we should also be able to get the license, "Amy said while thinking, and then said," as for Batman, the copyright is still in DC's hands. Warner seems to have been brewing this project. At the beginning of the year, I heard that they were planning to make a TV In the drama version, Bill Murray will play Bruce Wayne. I don't know the latest news. "

Simon imagines that Bill Murray, who is good at comedy, plays Batman. It's funny.

As a result of later memory, Simon instinctively felt a natural sense of distance from the superhero copyright. But now, hearing that the copyright of Superman is not in DC's hands, Warner also plans to make Batman into a TV comedy. Soon, he was moved. He looked at his female executive across the conference table again and said, "Amy, do you think it's possible for me to buy DC from Warner?"

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