Chapter 779 Collaboration From Broadway (Please Subscribe)

The Hollywood giant that cooperated with Wanbao to produce the "Lion King" movie is MGM, one of the eight major Hollywood film companies.

Their attitude is terrible.

The initial choice of the film music director for the "Lion King" project made them very unhappy, feeling that Wanbao disrespected its partners too much.

Later, during the film's release stage, Gu Miao proposed to increase the publicity budget. When they continued to increase the budget, they also disgusted Gu Miao once.

In general.

Since then, the two parties have basically determined the ending of the movie "breaking up upon release".

If nothing else happens, after the movie is released, the two parties can say that they will have an indefinite relationship, call each other stupid, and then go their separate ways.

Why does this happen?

Gu Miao also thought about this issue when he had nothing to do, and finally he came to a conclusion: Both parties are too proud!

As one of the eight major Hollywood film companies, MGM is extremely proud of movies and believes that the movies they produce are the best movies in the world, while Wanbao is just a small company from the "movie desert".

Therefore, the "Lion King" project should listen to them and Wanbao Anxin can be a foil.

In the same way, people like Wanbao Animation are also very proud of animation. They certainly think that they are the best animation company in the world.

MGM? !

A Hollywood company that has good results in live-action films, but is just an "animation idiot"...

"You don't understand movies!"

"No one knows animation better than me!"

Both parties have their own capital that they are proud of. MGM believed that Wanbao did not understand movies, and Wanbao also believed that MGM did not understand animation. So when they collaborated on the "Lion King" project, a huge conflict arose.

The way the conflict is handled naturally ends with Wanbao's victory.

After all, the ownership of the "Lion King" project, including the copyright, is in the hands of Wanbao. If there is a conflict with Wanbao, MGM is destined to have a bad end.

But MGM is also holding a fire.

They are preparing to wait for the news that the "Lion King" project failed at the box office, and then take the opportunity to reveal more content to ridicule or belittle Wanbao's "stupid" behavior.

If nothing else happens, the final result will be that Wanbao will be severely criticized and collectively ostracized by most Hollywood studios. Its reputation will plummet with the disastrous failure of "The Lion King".

But everyone knows it.

The unspoken subtext is that accidents are bound to happen! The movie "The Lion King" grossed 100 million in North American box office within 40 hours of its release, which became this "accident".

"Hey! What did I say?"

"Du is a genius, a true genius! I have always believed this, and the success of the movie "The Lion King" also proves this."

"...Yes, I have said it a long time ago, "The Lion King" will become one of the best animated films in film history!"

The so-called face-changing in Sichuan Opera is a very fitting way to describe the attitude change at MGM.

After the latest North American box office results were released, the head of MGM, which had previously been complaining about Wanbao, quickly praised Wanbao and Du Hao in interviews.

The rapid change of attitude not only surprised Gu Miao, but also made many North American media complain. This is not what you said two days ago...

All right!

Make money, not shabby.

The excellent box office performance of the movie "The Lion King" caused MGM's attitude towards Wanbao to undergo a 360° turn.

Not only in interviews or public statements, but also in private communications, they were extremely enthusiastic about Wanbao, saying, "Hey man, I can't wait to cooperate with you for the second time!"

Who wants to continue to cooperate with you?

Such unscrupulous words made Gu Miao really vomit. He had guessed MGM's attitude, but he never thought that these people were so thick-skinned, as thick-skinned as a city wall.

As if overnight, all the nastiness and contradictions of the past disappeared.

But is this possible?

Not to mention, at least from Gu Miao's point of view, there is still a thorn in his heart that has not been removed!

"The Lion King 2"?

A live-action version of "The Lion King"?

Get out of here! They said they would break up after the release, what? I learned that my ex-boyfriend’s house was going to be demolished, and I suddenly couldn’t bear to break up with him?

classic! So classic and spicy!

Others may miss old friendships or fall for MGM's flattery, but Gu Miao is different. He has no intention of "renewing their relationship" with MGM.

There may be a sequel to "The Lion King", there may be a live-action version, or there may even be other versions, but these have nothing to do with MGM.

The cooperation has been terminated!

Speaking of this, Gu Miao was actually very emotional. She didn't know who the bad guy was who spread the news. With the popularity of the movie "The Lion King", now the whole world knows about the love-hate relationship between Wanbao and MGM.

So...

Originally, those Hollywood giants who were envious of MGM and resented their good fortune immediately flocked to the project after learning that the "Lion King" project was still possible.

Gu Miao's phone was almost buzzing with calls.

None of the other giants in Hollywood are interested in the follow-up development of "The Lion King". Everyone wants to cooperate with Wanbao to produce "The Lion King 2", "The Lion King 3", and even a live-action version of "The Lion King". movie of.

Don't ask them why they are enthusiastic.

The question is, the box office performance of the "Lion King" movie is amazing. Based on the information collected from many parties and box office trend estimates, it is not difficult to deduce that "The Lion King" will be the first animated film in North America to have a box office of over 300 million US dollars.

The global box office is even expected to exceed 1 billion US dollars, ranking at the forefront of film history! Animated movies are among the top three at the box office, or even number one!

No one will despise a film that has a global box office of over 1 billion US dollars, and there is hope that the film will be made into a "series"...

Even if they are one of the eight major Hollywood studios, they only have so many IPs like "The Lion King" that they can be counted on one hand.

No one would object to a deal that is sure to make a profit without losing money. This is just like if Warner is willing to sell the "Harry Potter" series, other giants will definitely rush to grab it.

But it's a pity.

Gu Miao has no plans to produce a sequel to "The Lion King" or a live-action movie yet.

So cooperation is out of the question.

He declined the olive branch extended to Wanbao by other Hollywood giants and made it clear that he would not consider creating a movie series around "The Lion King" for the time being.

But among the many cooperation invitations, he kept one, which was a cooperation application for a "musical stage play" from Broadway.

This puzzled Du Hao.

Why did you reject all the invitations to cooperate in the film, but retain such an invitation to cooperate in a "stage musical"?

Are there any special considerations?

It shouldn’t be!

What's so special about a stage play? Mr. Gu doesn't expect to make big money with this thing, right?