Millennium director

Packaged and sold for US$3 billion, this price is really beyond Disney’s bottom line.

Disney is not incompetent. After a little calculation, they can roughly guess that the current cash flow in the Light Times account should be around 700 to 800 million.

Taking into account that the follow-up box office accounts of movies such as "The Twilight Saga Part 2" and "Kingsman 2" in the Light Age have not been accounted for, and "World War Z" has not been released, it is equivalent to about 300 million US dollars.

Considering that these movies will continue to bring in later harvests in the next year or two, the package price of 2.5 billion is considered reasonable by Disney, and it is even a discounted price of 100 to 200 million US dollars.

From an internal perspective at Disney, Wu Yuan should be very happy to receive such an offer and agree without hesitation.

As for "The Martian" which is still in the later stages and is not expected to be released until the end of the year?

The cost of this movie is less than 200 million US dollars. Even if it can get more than 500 million US dollars in global box office, the net profit will not exceed 100 million US dollars. This package price already includes the interests of this movie.

To be honest, Disney took risks by doing this, because both "World War Z" and "The Martian" are movies that have not been released yet. No one dares to say that these two movies will definitely be profitable, let alone I can’t say that both movies will be hits.

Even if the person leading these two film projects is Wu Yuan, it cannot be said to be 100% risk-free.

The acquisition price given by Disney is a tacit understanding that these two movies will not lose money, or even make a small profit.

If "World War Z" and "The Martian" do not perform well and lose money later, the extra US$200-300 million given by Disney will be wasted.

An offer of US$2.5 billion is really fair. Disney is willing to take such a risk solely because of Wu Yuan's face.

If it were a Chinese capitalist who was just a movie company in Hollywood, instead of an influential director like Wu Yuan, Disney wouldn't even be willing to pay $1.5 billion.

However, Wu Yuan was unwilling to accept Disney's sincere offer and raised a price of US$3 billion.

It's not that Wu Yuan is talking loudly in the lion, he also knows that Disney has already given him a lot of face.

But Disney didn’t know that “World War Z” and “The Martian” would be huge hits!

The guaranteed box office of "World War Z" is US$500 million worldwide. If you are lucky, it may reach US$780 million.

"The Martian" has the blessing of Wu Yuan's personal fame. The quality of the film itself and his reputation as a great science fiction director. Although it is unlikely that there will be another science fiction blockbuster with a box office of more than 1 billion, but the same is true for 7.8 billion US dollars. It's possible.

The box office profits of these two movies alone, plus peripheral, DVD, and copyright sales, can bring at least US$500 million in net profits to Light Times in the short term.

Wu Yuan is not willing to give this money to Disney for nothing!

He offered a fixed price of US$3 billion, which was really a fair price. He also gave away all the subsequent profits from "The Martian" and "World War Z" to Disney for several years.

From the perspective of both parties, the "bottom price" given by both parties is a price at which they have made great concessions and given many benefits to the other party.

However, neither party could agree on such a price, so they had no choice but to take a step back.

"That's all we can do, US$1.2 billion, and the acquisition will be completed in September next year."

"Before this, Daniel, you are free to handle everything in the company, but Light Times can no longer start any new movie projects. The one and a half year buffer time we gave you is to allow you to finish the unreleased movies at hand, but I’m not asking you to make new movies.”

"If Light Times releases new movies privately, then after the contract is executed, the follow-up of these movies will have nothing to do with you, and you will not be able to enjoy any benefits from them."

"OK, OK, it's up to you." Wu Yuan shrugged indifferently. He didn't want to work for Disney in vain.

Seeing Wu Yuan so happy, Lao En's expression became much more relaxed.

In fact, the primary purpose of Disney and its representatives, Utai Capital, in acquiring Light Times was to make this independent film company that did not belong to the white circle disappear, so that Wu Yuan would no longer be the boss of a Hollywood film and television production company. , active in Hollywood.

The most important thing is that he can no longer make movies independently.

Want to make a movie?

No problem at all!

But he must take the script and go to the Big Six or other Hollywood film companies to seek cooperation. After they review the script and confirm that there is no problem, they can cooperate together.

Instead of starting a new one, setting up a film company to make your own movies!

So when Wu Yuan agreed without hesitation that Light Times would not produce any movies during the buffer period, Lawn's goal was achieved.

He smiled with satisfaction, fearing that Wu Yuan would be dissatisfied, and said kindly: "Of course, Daniel, if you have any good ideas or good scripts that you want to film, you can definitely cooperate with us at Disney."

"You know, Disney is your most supportive partner. We have worked closely side by side to make the "Pirates of the Caribbean" series the best pirate movie in the world."

“I very much hope we can work together again in the future.”

"Oh, by the way, I heard that Warner originally planned to invite you to direct the new Superman project. Has it been pestering you for several years?"

"I have to say that you made a very right decision. Warner's superhero movies are simply a piece of shit and you must not get involved."

"Only a director like Zack Snyder, who can only be considered a second-tier director in Hollywood, would be willing to take over."

"But Marvel's superhero movies are pretty good."

"Although we promised not to interfere with Marvel's movie plans when we first acquired Marvel, I talked to Marvel's executives before coming here and they are very willing to invite you to join the Marvel Cinematic Universe."

"Marvel is preparing a new series - Guardians of the Galaxy!"

"Have you heard of the Guardians of the Galaxy? This is a very interesting cosmic superhero group in Marvel comics. It is a group parallel to the Avengers. Their stories mainly take place in the universe."

"If you'd like, Marvel would love to have you directing 'Guardians of the Galaxy' and its sequels."

"You are one of the top science fiction directors in Hollywood, and "Guardians of the Galaxy" is also a very science fiction superhero IP. The movie will have a gorgeous alien world and countless brilliant alien civilizations and technologies. I believe Haolai There are few directors in Hollywood who know how to make a movie like this better than you."

"How about it, Daniel, do you want to give it a try?" (End of Chapter)