Legendary Hollywood Producer

After Roman returned to Los Angeles, he took a short day's rest and soon began to work.

He first communicated with Schulman to start the plan for the preparation of the offline DVD market, and allocated 120 million US dollars in advance to complete the work in the prosperous European film markets such as Britain, France, and Germany.

When the offline channels across Europe are well established, the next step is to enter the Asian market.

Follow the previously designed route all the way, anyway, there won't be any big problems. With capital, why worry that offline channels cannot be established? All it takes is time.

After all the specific matters were transferred to Schulman, the distribution work of Western European Films that he was in charge of was controlled by Chris Norman, the distribution director of the theater.

At present, the company's main energy is still on the next release of "The Hangover 2", the film has entered post-production, and the arrangement of theater trial and schedule arrangements are also proceeding in an orderly manner.

After several years of development, Manhai Entertainment has become familiar with the operation of movies, not to mention a comedy sequel to a very successful previous work, so there is no need to worry about it.

Therefore, in addition to dealing with some of the company's affairs, Roman is still trying to find new film investment projects these days.

Raised 450 million US dollars, always do something practical.

This amount still has a time limit. If there is no movement for three years, he will breach the contract.

"Rami, did you hear the news?" Roman asked in the president's office with a hint of urgency in his eyes.

"Inquired, Warner Bros. does intend to restart the Batman series."

Batman, this veteran DC comics superhero is also the target that Roman wants to intervene this time.

Speaking of his adaptation history, there have been glorious moments:

Since 1989, after the movie "Batman" of the same name was released and created good market revenue, Warner Bros. also hurriedly released the sequel "Batman Returns". Although the film was not as well-known as the first one, it still won Good movie box office.

It wasn't until the loss of the third "Batman and Robin" that the dream of the top Warner executives was shattered. The investment of 125 million was exchanged for a domestic box office of more than 30 million US dollars. Such a huge loss also made the Batman role. The adaptation plan was urgently closed. This superhero, well-known to the audience, disappeared on the big screen. It has been 8 years since then.

With the recovery of the superhero market, the "Spider-Man" series launched by Columbia Pictures next door is another big reward, and Warner executives are enthusiastic.

They remembered their own ace player-Batman.

In fact, Warner's move is correct, and their restart also represents the rebirth of Batman.

From the first "Batman: The Mystery of Shadows" to the sensation caused by "The Dark Knight", and then to the release of "The Dark Knight Rises", this series of trilogy can create too much revenue.

"How is the progress? Have you completed the preliminary preparations?" This is also a question that Roman is very concerned about. If the fund is established, it will be a little difficult to join again.

Lamy replied: "I heard that several senior Warner executives still have objections to Batman's restart, so this project is still in the preparatory stage."

In this case, it is completely feasible, and Roman is overjoyed.

There is just a lot of money on hand to invest, so such a high-quality project shouldn't be missed.

And Warner’s high-level suspicion is nothing more than a funding issue. You must know that the production cost of such a movie will definitely not be low. Look at the cost of shooting "Spider-Man". Warner's concerns are also reasonable.

What's more, they have already failed once on Batman, the huge loss, thinking about it makes their brain thinking sensible.

Roman is different. His optimism about this project is based entirely on the great success of his previous life, and of course he is more confident than Warner's senior management.

Especially the release of the second part of the series, "The Dark Knight", is hailed as the peak of all superhero comic adaptations.

The combination of business and art has also been the best. Many people commented on it as the ceiling of superhero movies and a classic masterpiece destined to leave a famous film history.

This film, which cost 185 million US dollars, has a global box office of 1 billion US dollars. At the same time, the income from offline DVD and peripheral copyright market also makes Warner's earning smile.

"The Dark Knight" has not only gained such high market revenue, but has also been recognized by many discerning critics after its launch. It won the best supporting actor at the 66th Golden Globe Awards and the best action movie at the 35th Saturn Awards. , The 81st Academy Awards for Best Supporting Actor and Best Sound Editing and many other influential film festival awards.

Heath Ledger, the actor who played the evil villain "Joker" in the movie, became famous all at once.

Even overshadowing the limelight of starring in a series of movies, it can be said that the on-screen image created is deeply moving.

And the creator of this trilogy-Christopher Nolan's director career also ushered in its peak, becoming one of the most expensive directors.

This cutting-edge director who directed excellent films such as "Memory Fragment" and "Fatal Magic", after completing the Batman trilogy, the new film "Dunkirk" directly received 20 million US dollars in filming costs and all subsequent profits 20% of the share of accounts, the benefit of this value is really terrible. Maybe after the film is released, the profit can be more than that of the production company.

Now, Warner executives still have many doubts about the restart plan, and it is also Roman's opportunity.

If things are like what Lamy said, the liquidity in Roman's hand can be said to be of great use.

Anyway, it is not the money he has earned so hard. As long as he can lower his profile and voluntarily sign the unequal conditions when negotiating the project, Warner is very willing to share this project with Roman.

Making a movie is a big risk, but if Roman is willing to take it all, how can Warner let go of the restart plan. For them, it is also quite happy.

"Lami, call Mie here, I have something to find her." After Roman cleared his thoughts, he naturally wanted to know the status of the funds.

"Ok."

Soon, Ms. Mie, the chief financial officer, came to Roman's office.

"How is the financing situation?"

"The person in charge of the Russian foundation hasn't come here yet. He has to wait for him to get to Los Angeles to get that amount of funds. On the Smecta side, 170 million has already been received, and there are still some funds that need to be raised for them. "

170 million is enough, Roman thought silently in his heart.