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"enough."

Greg Silverman smiled, "Warner Bros. has good cooperation with MGM and Sony Pictures, and Universal Pictures will focus on Polygram in a short time."

"It is enough to ensure that the films produced by Orion Films will receive notarized treatment."

Ryan came to understand a little bit. The three film companies of 20th Century Fox, Paramount, and Disney are considered to be a loose alliance, and Warner Bros., Sony Pictures, and MGM are considered to be a loose alliance.

As for Universal Pictures, it has been vacillating.

In other words, the relationship with 20th Century Fox, Paramount, and Disney is better.

"The Matrix" produced by Warner Brothers in the previous life suffered a serious setback in terms of film classification.

A movie with no violent or scary plots, yet it has become an R-rated movie.

"Yes." Ryan thought for a while, and finally agreed.

There has been no movement on Paramount's side, and there can't be any delay.

What's more, the original "Harry Potter" series was operated by Warner Bros.

"Good cooperation." Greg Silverman secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

Finally, Ryan Gosling agreed.

"First of all, I need to clarify the general terms of cooperation."

Ryan said frankly: "The two parties can share the film investment equally, but in terms of film distribution, Orion Films needs to be responsible for the North American distribution of the film, while Warner Bros. is responsible for the overseas distribution of the film."

The premise of cooperation is that Orion Films must obtain the North American distribution rights of the "Harry-Potter" series of films.

This is also a common way of cooperation between several major Hollywood film companies.

Greg Silverman frowned, but soon relaxed, "I don't think this should be a problem."

If it were another second-tier film company, Greg Silverman would definitely refuse without hesitation.

But Orion Pictures also has overseas distribution channels, which has been able to arouse enough respect from Warner Bros.

Not to mention, the copyright of "Harry Potter" is still in the hands of Orion Pictures.

Even, this condition has long been expected by Warner Bros.

"Besides, there is one more thing."

Ryan said a little helplessly: "The author of "Harry Potter", Rowling, hopes that future films can be shot in the UK."

what!

U.K!

"Is she joking?"

Greg Silverman rubbed his forehead, and almost didn't object directly, "There is no tax rebate subsidy in the UK, and the labor cost is too expensive, which will increase the investment budget of the film."

Another thing he didn't say is that the work efficiency of the British guy is notoriously slow in the entire Western world.

Choosing the UK as the crew's overseas shooting location was simply a nightmare.

Not as good as New Zealand right now, not even Germany.

"In return, Rowling is willing to give up a part of the film's post-production share." Ryan continued.

He admired Rowling's actions very much. Not every author can give up a large amount of income and choose to keep his work in his own country for shooting.

People like Rowling and Peter Jackson deserve respect.

Greg Silverman was stunned for a moment, never expecting that someone would voluntarily give up a part of the later share.

This is not a small amount. Once the film is successfully operated, this part of the post-production share in the future will be a huge fortune.

Immediately, he said with sincere admiration: "Rowling is a great author, and I will try my best to convince other senior executives of the company."

As long as they don't lose their own interests, Warner Bros. is not unable to accept that the crew will go to the UK to cast and shoot in the future.

As for previous media reports, Rowling had great power in the crew, forcing Warner Bros. to compromise and go to the UK to cast and shoot.

It's just nonsense.

At present, the British government does not have tax rebates and subsidies for Hollywood crews, and labor costs are still expensive. Warner Bros. has to pay an extra million or tens of millions of dollars for this.

This is only the first Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone.

If it is changed to New Zealand or Canada and other countries and regions, not only will the crew not increase investment, but it can also save some funds.

About 30% to 40% tax rebate.

Unless Rowling can give up enough benefits, Warner Bros. will definitely not choose British casting.

After the conversation between the two ended, Greg Silverman flew back to the United States immediately and explained the matter to Warner Bros. executives and the board of directors in person.

Next, the two sides will formally start negotiations.

With common interests, the negotiations went smoothly without much disagreement.

This is only a preliminary cooperation intention agreement, and it will take some time before the two parties actually sign the contract.

Every clause in the formal contract needs to be checked and checked by a professional lawyer one by one.

Ryan did not pay too much attention to the cooperation with Warner Bros. Orion Pictures has a special management responsibility, and he devoted himself to the crew of "Inception" that day.

Orion Films, far away in Los Angeles, once again began large-scale recruitment. While expanding the company's scale, it also plans to recruit some newcomers to join overseas distribution companies.

What is different from before is that the influence of Orion Films is far greater than before, even stronger than at the peak of the year. A large number of people came to apply for the job, and they were almost blocked at the entrance of the building.

Due to the limited number of recruits, Orion Films can only select from the best, almost all of them are experienced Hollywood practitioners. In addition, they also recruited a group of interns from the University of Southern California.

Considering that Ryan donates a sum of money to the University of Southern California every year, he already has a hint of the trend of famous alumni.

In addition to recruiting personnel, Orion Films' focus is all on the upcoming "Ice Age", and even has a promotional budget of up to 30 million US dollars.

Even if the film cannot recover the investment cost from the North American box office, as long as "Ice Age" is released with great success.

Next, Blue Sky Studio will be listed on Nakodas. As the largest shareholder of the studio, Ryan can easily recover several times the benefits from the stock market.

What's more, the box office of the original "Ice Age" is enough to recover the investment cost of the film from the North American box office market.

The main income of a 3D animated feature film has never been box office, but derivative products.

As the time approaches the beginning of May, not only "Ice Age" is about to be released, but the crew of "Inception" is also on the right track.

The only thing that makes people speechless is that every time Leonardo DiCaprio comes to the studio, he will be surrounded by female staff and ask for autographed photos.

Even Sofia Coppola asked for several autographed photos for her friends.

"It's a good idea not to disturb other actors' training."

Ryan glanced at the signed photo in Sofia Coppola's hand, "Unexpectedly, Miss Sofia, who came from the famous Coppola family, would one day ask for an autographed photo."

Sofia Coppola put the signed photo in her hand into her carry-on bag, and said helplessly: "There are always some people who like to pursue these, such as some friends I knew before."

Sofia Coppola grew up in a film crew. Her father is a first-line director in Hollywood, her cousin is also a top Hollywood movie star, and she herself is one of the top executives of Orion Films. Naturally, she has no interest in chasing stars.

However, not everyone can refuse the charm of Leonardo DiCaprio.

From time to time, some friends asked her to ask for autographed photos.

"By the way, Mr. Swift, a document has just been sent."

As she spoke, she took out a document from her lady's bag and handed it to Ryan, "A letter of intent for an Internet search engine."

search engine!

Ryan immediately became interested, took the information and looked at it, a search engine software developed by two Stanford college students, his heart was overjoyed.

"Tell Mr. Swift that I'm interested in this search engine and get as many shares as possible."

"It's best to separate the investment in the name of Orion Films and my own."

Although Ryan can't remember the name of the founder of Google, the letter of intent for investment in front of him should undoubtedly be Google.

A search engine software developed by two Stanford students, duly Google.

There aren't that many coincidences in the world, and he's almost certainly Google.

In addition to future earnings, investing in Google is also a kind of industrial layout.

Except for MGM, almost all of the other seven major Hollywood film companies have the support of the media group. If Orion Pictures wants to really develop, it must change towards the direction of the media group.

However, with the scale of Orion Pictures, it is almost impossible to learn from Disney and become a media group.

Then we can only abandon traditional media, focus our future development on emerging media such as the Internet, and build a network publicity link. Google is the most critical part of it.

Manro Park area, California, USA.

Inside a narrow garage.

It is said to be a garage, but there are several computers and an old-fashioned landline phone inside. It looks like a temporary office.

"Hey Hey hey."

"Guys, stop!"

"I just got two good news!"

Larry Page, one of the founders of Google, ran in excitedly, "We will get investment right away."

"What did you say!" Another founder, Sergey Brin, stood up abruptly, unable to believe his ears.

The only employee, Craig Silverstein, looked at Larry Page with his mouth open, someone really invested!

"Are you sure you're not joking?" He also couldn't believe it.

Larry Page took a deep breath and said excitedly: "Someone has agreed to our investment request, one of which is from Orion Films, and the other is a private investment."

Orion Pictures!

"real or fake?!"

"The famous Orion Films will invest in us!" Sergey Brinten had a weird expression on his face. A film company from Hollywood actually invested in a search engine.

"Orion Pictures pays great attention to the publicity channel of the Internet." Craig-Silverstein suddenly interjected.

As long as anyone who goes online regularly, there is no one who doesn't know about Orion Films, a blockbuster work, and almost every well-known forum, you can see Orion Films' promotional slogans.

"Don't care about Orion Pictures, we should think about how to persuade the other party to get the maximum investment." Larry Page didn't care why Orion Pictures invested.

The most important thing is to get the funds quickly.