Director’s Legend

() "Aww!"

The happy time is always short. The story of "Old Boy" has just begun. The actors may have to cooperate with the promotion, but the crew and most of the supporting actors will leave from today. In the big restaurant, everyone laughed and yelled and ate a meal.

The next day, the person left cleanly.

Behind every movie is a story of parting and parting.

After resting for a whole day, Shao Shuaijun raised his spirits and edited all the copies into a sample. Tomorrow, he will take the sample to America for post-production. Although this is not a blockbuster with special effects, there are still some places that need to be corrected, especially the images of Shao Shuaijun and Huang Bo in the two eras. On the basis of makeup, a certain degree of modification is required to perfectly present different images.

In fact, he originally planned to conduct post-production in China. The establishment of the New Electronic Technology Research Institute brought a large number of top Hollywood special effects engineers. Now not only Summit Entertainment has a digital matte company, but Dream Chasing Golden Harvest has also established a digital matte company, which specializes in the special effects production of domestic movies.

The two special effects companies cooperate with each other and often conduct internal exchanges among employees, and their skills are similar. And now Summit Entertainment and Dream Chasing Golden Harvest have come up with the idea of ​​a top special effects company, digital-domain company, referred to as d2, which is the famous digital domain.

Hollywood's top special effects company founded by James Cameron, participated in the production of "Titanic" and "Dreams Come True", and won the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects and Academy Award for Technical Achievement twice. "Transformers", "Pirates of the Caribbean" and so on, d2 participated in the production of almost most Hollywood blockbusters.

In 2007, Paramount paid "Transformers" director Michael Bay to acquire d2. I thought that d2 would rise again with the strength of the new owner, but who knew that the financial crisis came suddenly, the special effects industry was devastated, and d2 had not made a profit for two years.

In addition, Paramount's income has been sluggish in recent years, and the movie's unintentional hits made it almost impossible for d2 to sustain it. There was news that Paramount was going to sell d2, but unfortunately the entire Hollywood special effects industry was impacted and fell into recession with no one to take over.

Backed by China's big market, Dream Chaser Entertainment, whose movies are all blockbusters, obviously came up with the idea of ​​d2 under the instruction of Shao Shuaijun. According to the history of the previous life, d2 was eventually jointly acquired by China's Galloping Horse and an Indian company. Now that Shao Shuaijun is in place, it's not up to these two families to call the shots.

Of course, d2 is only worth tens of millions of dollars, so it is not worthy of too much attention.

Shao Shuaijun did not produce in China this time, but came to the United States for two reasons. One is that after the small-scale release of "Slumdog Millionaire", the response was fierce and there was a lot of praise. The box office of a single theater reached 40,000 US dollars. Heaven-defying results.

For this reason, some people in the company supported large-scale releases, but Shao Shuaijun gave different opinions. He wanted to slow down the release of "Slumdog Millionaire" so that the film would have a longer screening life and prepare for next year's Oscars! Because of him, "Slumdog Millionaire" missed out on last year's Oscars, and this year it will compete with "The Hurt Locker". The chances of winning are unknown, so we can only make more preparations to make the film appear in the eyes of the judges. Increase.

With both external and internal skills done, Shao Shuaijun believes that this year will still be the year of "Slumdog Millionaire"!

For this reason, he has to come over to persuade Mitchell Bruce. Another reason is that the negotiations with Marvel Comics have reached the final stage. In the competition with Walt Disney, Summit Entertainment took the lead. The cosmic project, and the promise to Kevin Feige, hastened the fall of Marvel Comics to Summit Entertainment.

Falling to a film company with a Chinese background.

Shao Shuaijun came to give the final promise, and then completed the signing ceremony, officially announcing that Summit Entertainment had acquired Marvel Comics. The superheroes are about to fall into the arms of Shao Shuaijun, how can they still sit still in China.

September 11, Santa Monica.

Convinced the board of directors of Summit Entertainment to extend the release of "Slumdog Millionaire" and hand over the post-production of "Oldboy". Shao Shuaijun took the special plane A380 and took a huge team to New York. Four days later, it was the most exciting moment.

Marvel Comics is about to change its flag and change its surname to Dream Chaser!

The huge team on the plane, in addition to the board members and executives of Summit Entertainment, also has a team of professional lawyers and accountants. This time, the final handover is required, so the most accurate review must be done. In the past, there were also professional teams conducting this acquisition, and this time it is an inspection.

On the same day, Shao Shuaijun met with the executives of Marvel Comics and promised the following aspects.

First, Marvel Comics has independent management rights.

Second, the Ultimate Universe Project is a cooperative project, and Summit Entertainment is responsible for the film copyright.

Third, the management of Marvel Comics will exchange equivalent shares for the basic shares of Summit Entertainment.

Fourth, Summit Entertainment and Marvel Comics are equal, and they only need to be responsible to the parent company Dream Chasing Entertainment Group.

Fifth, Kevin Feige will serve as the deputy general manager of Dream Chasing Entertainment Group.

Sixth, the group company does not interfere with the personnel structure of Marvel Comics, but at the same time, the high-level personnel adjustment of Marvel Comics needs to be authorized by the group company. \u003cics name, but the Chinese name can be drawn up by the group company.

The executives of Marvel Comics were very satisfied with Shao Shuaijun's promise. After checking the accounts and reviewing the financial and legal documents, the Double Enforcement Agency signed dozens of documents on the ownership of the company's shares. Notarized by the U.S. Notary Public, legal and valid.

"Shao Dong, happy cooperation." Kevin Feiji stretched out his hand, "We will be your subordinates from now on."

Shao Shuaijun shook his head and said with a smile: "Wrong, we will be partners in the future, and we have a happy cooperation."

On a sunny Friday, September 15, Marvel Comics stock officially ceased trading. On the same day, Summit Entertainment and Marvel Comics held a grand press conference.

It is officially announced that Summit Entertainment has acquired all non-tradable shares of Marvel Comics, as well as bonds and options, for US$4.5 billion, becoming the parent company of Marvel Comics. As soon as the news came out, it shocked the United States and China as well. As one of the two major comic book giants in the United States, it has existed for nearly 70 years and has accompanied several generations of Americans to grow up, giving many people a joy. In the same year, Marvel Comics was acquired.

Acquired by a film company with a Chinese background, a summit entertainment company that has just become one of the six largest film companies in Hollywood.

During the shock, two voices kept appearing, support and opposition. Previously, there was news that Summit Entertainment and Walt Disney were competing for Marvel Comics, but no one paid much attention to it.

They thought it was another topic of superhero hype, and from their point of view, Summit Entertainment seemed to be an American company, and it didn't matter whoever bought it. Isn't DC Comics just acquired by Warner Bros., and it still operates very well. But the news was confirmed. Everyone searched online, only to find that Summit Entertainment is a subsidiary of a Chinese company.

Americans' self-esteem was troubled, and waves were also set off.

Opponents are mainly middle-aged Americans. This group of people grew up watching Marvel comics, coupled with prejudice against China, the opposition is particularly fierce.

"The Chinese robbed our jobs, and now our cartoons are also robbed!"

"The top executives of Marvel comics are all pigs, and they even took refuge in the Chinese, and they will never read Marvel comics again!"

"The U.S. government should suspend the acquisition. Our comics cannot be touched by the Chinese!"

"Walt Disney is so useless that it lost to a Chinese company. It's a shame!"

"The Chinese get out of our comic company!"

At the same time, there are also some financial professionals and people in the film industry. Most of them believe that this is a blind acquisition. With the strength of Summit Entertainment, it is impossible to digest the assets of Marvel Comics. Marvel Comics is bound to be in crisis.

Most of the supporters are young people in the United States. They are more avant-garde and open, and they have no concept of China or the United States. The films of Summit Entertainment in the past few years have successfully conquered them. For them, Summit Entertainment is a big company, and it is enough to give Marvel Comics more help and make more superhero movies!

It has to be said that Summit Entertainment focuses on the development of youth-themed movies, which brings great convenience. In the future, these teenagers are the main force in the film market.

More people are taking a wait-and-see attitude and carefully analyzing Summit Entertainment's moves. Especially the financial experts on Wall Street. A deal involving billions of dollars, involving a comic giant, they would never think of China and the United States for such a behavior. For them, they have to consider the far-reaching impact of doing so.

Summit Entertainment and Marvel Comics seem to have nothing to do with them, but in fact they are the work of a group of financial people to make money. For these two companies, they can design thousands of ways to make money. But at the end of the day, planning and forecasting are required for the future of both companies.

Opponents shouted to stop, teenagers don't care, and financial people wait and see cautiously.

Nothing can be changed. Marvel Comics has become the ending of the third listed company under the Dream Chasing Entertainment Group. It can't change the crazy pursuit of the media.

"Time Magazine" fired the first shot: "Summit Entertainment is not satisfied with the status of the new king at the beginning of the seven characters. After annexing Marvel Comics, it will become another super movie company. With the status of the parent company Dream Chasing Entertainment Group in China, The future Summit Entertainment is not just the new king, it already has the qualifications to challenge Warner Brothers!" (To be continued.)