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The live-action film department of DreamWorks, later Spielberg's DreamWorks Pictures, has the greatest value in the past few years, and their future series of commercial films with the greatest value have long been directed by Ronan, and Robert Rhode Island negotiated film rights.

Toy-based movies are also a development direction in the future, and their value is far greater than game-based movies.

According to Ronan's idea, Robert successfully won the movie copyright of two series of toys, and the two series are related to each other. If they work well, they can be linked in the movie.

Ever since he realized that Spielberg and Katzenberg wanted to win the overseas distribution network of Embassy Pictures, Ronan's consideration of DreamWorks has not stopped.

Joining DreamWorks is definitely not in his consideration, unless Spielberg and other major shareholders are willing to give up their absolute controlling stake.

This is obviously impossible.

Without an absolute controlling stake, do you enter DreamWorks and Spielberg to fight internally?

The old man seemed like a nice guy, but he was definitely not to be trifled with.

It won't take long for Spielberg's DreamWorks to become a liability, but it's been looking good for a few years now, so Ronan's intention is to win the overseas rights to a few DreamWorks films.

Of course, it doesn't matter if you can't get it.

Because the now humble DreamWorks Animation Studio is his main target.

DreamWorks Pictures can only be regarded as the present, but DreamWorks Animation Studios represents the future, a future with unlimited potential.

Among them, Shrek is a part of great value.

Among the concurrent projects of DreamWorks Animation Studio, Shrek is not the primary focus, and Little Pony King with a larger investment is the key project that Jeff Katzenberg pays attention to.

Moreover, Little Pony King is more in line with the traditional Hollywood animation film aesthetics, subverting and spoofing various classic Shrek, even DreamWorks Animation Studio did not expect to have a great success later.

It is also the success of Shrek that DreamWorks Animation Studio has truly determined its own style, which is the kind of spoof truth, goodness and beauty summarized by Ronan.

The animated feature films of DreamWorks Animation Studios later have a similar style.

This can be regarded as the right way, let DreamWorks Animation Studio learn the sweet and a little cloying truth, goodness and beauty of Disney and the tearful smile of Pixar Animation Studios, maybe it will end up being completely different.

The most typical example is Blue Sky Studios, which has never determined its own style. The animated feature films other than Ice Age sometimes learn from DreamWorks and sometimes Pixar, and finally become obsolete.

A few days after talking with Katzenberg, Ronan received a call from Tom Cruise, who officially signed the actor contract of Minority Report and became the leading actor and director of the film. One of the producers, and after Tom Cruise signed the contract, he had a detailed discussion with Spielberg. During this period, he mentioned the overseas distribution of Minority Report and suggested that Embassy Pictures should be the overseas distributor of the film.

Spielberg only said to think about it, and then there was no news.

After all, Tom Cruise is a nominal producer, so he has very limited say in distribution, and it is impossible for Ronan to ask his friends to do more.

this matter,

That's all for now.

Compared with Jeff Katzenberg, who was kicked out by Walt Disney, Steven Spielberg has a deeper relationship with the Big Six.

If the live-action film department of DreamWorks does not intend to cooperate with the embassy film industry, Ronan cannot force it, and will not make more efforts.

He's been eyeing DreamWorks Animation Studios.

On the second weekend after Ronan chatted with Jeff Katzenberg, Jeff Katzenberg invited Ronan into the DreamWorks Animation Studio for a tour, and let him see that the soundtrack has not yet been added, Shrek with subtitles and partial scene renderings.

After watching this film, Ronan let go of his last worries. This Shrek may be an unfinished relationship, which is somewhat different from the one in his impression, but the main plot and main characters have not changed. Basically the same as in memory.

Shrek, the princess, the donkey and the fire-breathing dragon have not changed.

There is also a series of spoofs and subversions of famous fairy-tale characters.

The original plot settings of many fairy tales are not the ones shown by Disney or after numerous beautifications. For example, most of the fairy tales of the Grimm are not original by the Brothers Grimm. something on a large scale.

Ronan remembered reading a professional literary academic paper. It is said that when the first edition of Grimm's fairy tales was published, the stories written on it were very different from those that were circulated later.

In the original version of Sleeping Beauty, Talia died after being stabbed with a spindle, causing the silver twine to go through all of her nails. Faced with Talia's death, instead of burying her, the heartbroken father built her a house in the forest and laid her body in a large bed inside, where a king would later hunt Discovered the house and found Talia's body inside, but he thought Talia was just asleep, so he defiled her...

And Snow White.

It is said that in published stories and early folklore, Baixue and the queen are mother and daughter. Because the king fell in love with his daughter, the queen was extremely jealous, and eventually turned into a tragedy of mother and daughter killing each other.

After Bai Xue ate the poisoned apple, the encounter with the prince was even more unbearable. Why did the prince take a fancy to Bai Xue who died of poisoning? Still in love with Bai Xue? Eat and sleep with me

Accompany Bai Xue? Because the prince is a corpse lover, when he did some indescribable things to the corpse, the action was too violent, causing Baixue to spit out a poisoned apple...

Of course, Shrek couldn't be so subversive and spoof, otherwise it wouldn't even have the chance to be released in theaters.

After Ronan watched the movie, he chatted with Jeff Katzenberg again. Although Jeff Katzenberg was still hesitating, Ronan could tell that Jeff Katzenberg already biased.

He got another piece of information from Jeff Katzenberg that DreamWorks' legal team is reviewing Shrek very carefully, because they are worried about the film's spoofs and satires on Disney movies, classic images, and theme parks Will annoy the other party and get sued.

Copyright has never been a small issue.

This reminded Ronan of one thing. In his previous life, he had read a piece of gossip somewhere, saying that the character of Lord Farquid, the villain in the film, was based on Disney CEO Michael Eisner.

Given the relationship between Jeff Katzenberg and Michael Eisner, it's not an exaggeration to do this.

Big people sometimes have a childish side.

If this is true, Katzenberg's psychology is not difficult to understand. As a loser, he has nothing to do with Michael Eisner, and there is always a channel to pour out his anger.

This movie is very exciting and suitable for all ages. The cute cartoon animation images make children very happy to watch, and the adult humor hidden in it can also make adults smile knowingly.

Including Jeff Katzenberg, no one would have thought that such a spoof and subversive film would explode so much at the box office after its release, and finally became the signature of DreamWorks Animation Studio.

The unequal information is Ronan's biggest opportunity.

But Katzenberg is still hesitating and considering. After all, although the investment of 60 million US dollars is not comparable to the scale of 150 million US dollars for a feature film of Pixar Studio, it is not a small number.

On the second day after visiting DreamWorks Animation Studios, Ronan made a special trip to visit Spielberg at DreamWorks headquarters in Glendale, and asked again about the possibility of overseas distribution cooperation between Embassy Pictures and DreamWorks Pictures.

This time, Spielberg did not hesitate or hesitate. He had obviously considered it clearly and directly rejected Ronan's cooperation proposal.

Perhaps just as the movies he shoots are becoming more conservative, Spielberg has become more conservative as he gets older. He would rather accept the exploitation of the six major companies of his competitors in order to maintain a stable income with less risk than Cooperate with new forces rising in the circle.

With the strength of DreamWorks Pictures and Spielberg's identity and status, Ronan couldn't force him to cooperate with Embassy Pictures.

Business cooperation requires your love and my willingness, otherwise let alone a win-win situation, it may end up hurting each other.

Fortunately, DreamWorks Animation is still forging ahead, and Katzenberg is also ambitious.

Spielberg did not achieve his goal here, and Ronan was not discouraged, and continued to contact DreamWorks Animation Studios. As the overseas box office of Human Clear Project 2 continues to rise, Katzenberg will also increase his interest in Embassy Pictures. Confidence.

And it won't be long before Human Purge 2 will be released offline in many overseas markets.

DreamWorks Animation Studios also received news one after another. Katzenberg and Spielberg had a serious disagreement in an internal meeting, but DreamWorks Animation Studios belonged to Katzenberg's sphere of authority. Pierberg couldn't intervene for a while.

From the beginning of its establishment, this model of the juxtaposition of the three giants has had great hidden dangers, and people's desire for money and power will gradually magnify the hidden dangers.

Before Thanksgiving, Ronan got the news that DreamWorks Animation Studio and Universal Pictures started to contact again, but the content of the negotiation was only the animated feature film My Little Pony King, not including Shrek.

This is undoubtedly good news, and Jeff Katzenberg is already considering Ronan's proposal.

Although it is only possible to obtain overseas distribution rights, this is Shrek!

Having said that, we can also find a way to distribute copyrights in North America. After all, DreamWorks will split up soon.

Ronan has been paying attention to this aspect, and the contact with Katzenberg has never been broken, but other aspects of work must also be carried out. , officially published and listed.