screenwriter mystery

Chapter 166 Selling Copyright

"There is nothing wrong with the content of this agreement, sir."

New York, Universal Pictures.

The lawyer in charge of the negotiations of the Screenwriters Union nodded to Zhao Yuan who was on the side after repeatedly confirming the details of the contract.

"Then, happy cooperation, Mr. Ron."

After getting the lawyer's hint, Zhao Yuan grinned and stretched out his hand to Ron Meyer, the vice president of Universal Pictures' film and television distribution department in front of him.

"Happy cooperation, Zhao."

He exchanged glances with Universal's lawyer, and after confirming that it was correct, Ron Meyer also put on a hypocritical smile and shook Zhao Yuan's hand tightly.

After a period of fierce negotiations between you and me, Universal is finally willing to pay 480 million US dollars to win the filming rights and overseas distribution rights of the sequel of "The Blair Witch". Compared with the investment cost of 15 for the first film, The copyright price of the second film is undoubtedly expensive. However, compared with the box office revenue of 5000 million U.S. dollars for the previous film, Universal even has an illusion that it has made a profit.

Of course, this idea of ​​taking advantage will be maintained until the release of "The Blair Witch 2".

At that time, Universal will know what a blood loss is.

"Universal, when do you plan to shoot the sequel to The Witch?"

Under the lawyer's instructions, Zhao Yuan asked Ron Meyer casually after signing the contract.

"After resuming work, Universal has been looking for a suitable screenwriter to create a sequel to the film..."

Reaching out to accept the contract handed over by Zhao Yuan, Ron Meyer also signed his name on it, and at the same time looked at Zhao Yuan in front of him and issued another invitation: "Zhao, do you really have no plans to create a sequel to The Witch? "

Theoretically speaking, the sequel of a movie is often created by the screenwriter of the previous film, because it will be closer to the previous film in terms of plot, and there will not be too many changes.

"Never mind."

Shaking his head, he rejected Ron Meyer's proposal again.

Zhao Yuan gave the reason he had already said before: "The story of "The Blair Witch" was over for me in the first part, and the new movie will be released soon..."

Hearing Zhao Yuan mention the new movie, the expression on Ron Meyer's face also changed slightly.

If you were an ordinary screenwriter and made a low-budget movie like "Spiritual Ghost Story", Universal would not take it too seriously.

However, changing to Zhao Yuan is different.

After all, whether it is "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" or "The Blair Witch", they have broken through from low-budget movies that were not expected to become dark horses in the box office of horror movies. Or luck to explain it, but if two consecutive movies have achieved high box office, it is not just luck.

In particular, "The Texas Chain Saw Massacre 2" was released not long ago. Although word-of-mouth has declined slightly, the box office has met the global expectations. Enough to cheer the world up.

In fact, this is why Universal suddenly changed its original delay in negotiations on the copyright of the sequel to "The Blair Witch" and accelerated the purchase.

It has vaguely known that some film producers have begun to contact Zhao Yuan, intending to buy the sequel filming rights of "The Blair Witch". Among them, Lionsgate has been the most active, revealing that it intends to spend 400 million to purchase the sequel rights from Zhao Yuan. And announced the investment of 500 million yuan, wanting to replicate the box office miracle of "The Blair Witch 1".

"The promotion of "Spirit: Ghost Story" has officially started, but on the specific promotion issues, there is still a certain degree of disagreement within Universal..."

After completing the signing of the copyright contract for the sequel to "The Blair Witch", the lawyer tacitly left the office and gave up the space to Zhao Yuan and Ron.

Looking away from the leaving figures of the two lawyers, Ron Meyer immediately told Zhao Yuan about Universal's hesitation.

"Originally, we planned to directly copy the witch's propaganda method and use viral marketing as a means. However, some people think that this kind of propaganda method is enough once. If we do it again, the audience will obviously not buy it easily."

Viral marketing, such a publicity method is innovative, but it is also impossible to replicate. It is impossible for you to use the same routine to trick the audience into the movie theater again.

Speaking of this, the expression on Ron Meyer's face could not help showing regret.

If possible, he certainly hopes that this viral marketing method will continue to be effective, because in this case, it will save a lot of trouble for the film production company.

"Although the witch cannot be copied, this does not mean that we cannot use the same method to attract the audience to the theater again."

If Zhao Yuan remembers correctly, there is nothing novel about the promotional method of "Spirituality: Ghost Story".

This point, since he chose an unknown actor to play the leading role, has already determined the direction of the film's publicity.

"you sure?"

Facing Zhao Yuan's opinion, Ron Meyer hesitated.

He still believes that it is impossible for audiences to be fooled a second time by the same kind of 'pseudo-documentary' propaganda.

However, it turns out.

Viewers aren't just fooled twice, they're willingly fooled multiple times afterwards.

This point can be proved from the successful films that were also called "pseudo-documentaries" later.

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"In Hollywood, there are thousands of screenwriters. They are called behind-the-scenes heroes. You can't name them, but you have definitely seen the movies they wrote. Of course, I personally like screenwriting very much. I think they are the core of Hollywood, the soul of movies and shows, without them, the whole of Hollywood is like a pool of stagnant water, there is no..."

BBC TV, "Late Late Show" program recording site.

Host David Letterman, after reading a long line, suddenly showed a confused expression on his face and looked down at the camera position off the stage.

"Kate, you changed your lines secretly again. Don't just boast about yourself just because you are the screenwriter of the show."

After finishing his lines, David Letterman looked at the audience on the show and suddenly spoke again.

"In fact, the latter sentence was also written by Kate."

With David Letterman's explanation, the scene burst into laughter.

And David Letterman also changed the subject and returned to the guests on stage this time.

　Thanks to Yuwen Yizhen for the 1500 starting coin reward, Yuemian illusion for the 3000 starting coin reward, Arithmetic Genius, Three Fen Hot Water, and Regel Chen for the 100 starting coin reward.

　　
　
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