Chatty Hollywood

No matter what Robert Iger thinks, the abc TV broadcast has caused a short period of Quidditch fever in North America.

Thanks to the "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" that has just been screened and the second "The Chamber of Secrets" has been published, the popularity is not small.

Even many people who were not originally fans of the "Harry Potter" series have also been drawn into the pit.

Although in reality, everyone can't fly into the sky on a broomstick, but many people discuss it.

Even among startups in Silicon Valley, some people use Quidditch to explain the special purpose of personal flying devices.

——Even if you are proficient in nonsense, I have to say that this really adds to the ppt of entrepreneurs.

The most intuitive consequence of this game is that when the DVDs of "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" were on the market, sales soared.

Especially after joining this Quidditch competition, and a collection of two parts of the movie version and the TV animation version of the DVD Deluxe Collector's Edition-that is, the version that is several times more expensive than the ordinary DVD-sales are also very popular.

It can be said that since DVDs gradually overwhelmed video tapes and became the mainstream of the market, the popularity of DVD sales in "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" is rare.

It can even catch up with "Titanic" as a box office miracle.

And the income from these DVDs, except for the low cost and a small amount of part that is distributed to retailers, most of them belong to the Ghost Party Studio or Charlotte.

This is much more refreshing than the income at the box office.

You must know that even in North America, only about 1/3 of the box office revenue can figure out the pockets of the film square, and most of the rest will be eaten by other parts of the industry chain such as theater chains.

If it is an overseas market, this ratio will be further reduced——

Like movies released in China, Hollywood studios may not even get a quarter of the box office revenue.

What's more, in the box office income obtained, the producer also makes a large part of the profit to go out to the director and other investors.

——It can be said that the box office revenue of Hollywood movies, if it is not for the more explosive movies, generally does not bring too much profit to the producers.

After all, there are too many people who want to divide this cake.

As for the peripheral DVD income, most of it will belong to the producer.

This is the reason why Hollywood production companies are paying more and more attention to the peripheral revenue of DVDs.

Warner Pictures is also on this list.

It was just after seeing the amazing sales of "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" DVDs that they made the decision to acquire related resources and copyrights from Charlotte.

——Isn't it just spending more money!

Backed by Time Warner Group, Warner Pictures, which has money-making capabilities, is least afraid of this.

Of course, although the determination to throw money has been made, the people at Warner are not pure triumphs. They naturally don't mind if they can find a way to save some money.

Especially as a representative of Warner, David Heyman, who followed up the entire preparation and production process of "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", is very clear about Charlotte's important role in the production of this movie.

He felt that it might be okay to take the relevant resources and copyrights from Charlotte purely by spending money, but without the support and guidance of a talented director like Charlotte, the subsequent movie proceeds of the "Harry Potter" series, Whether it can still reach the current height is really unclear.

Therefore, David Heyman even hopes that by throwing money, he can get the leading right of the adaptation copyright and series from Charlotte, but still reserve a certain share or proportion for Charlotte.

This way, on the one hand, it can save money, and on the other hand, it can continue to get Charlotte's help in the future.

Although this means that Warner still has to give Charlotte a part of the subsequent benefits of the "Harry Potter" series, but considering the role that the other party can play, David Heyman feels that the price is worth it.

He has even persuaded Warner's management to agree with his opinion, and on this premise, he has started preliminary negotiations with the Ghost Party Studio.

When Charlotte returned to London from Morocco, the negotiation between the two parties was stuck on two disputed points-

One, it is naturally a specific issue of the proportion of shares;

Every cent here means a large sum of U.S. dollars, and the two sides must compare each other;

The other one is David Heyman, who is in charge of negotiations at Warner, who hopes that Charlotte can continue to direct this series;

In his opinion, if Charlotte can really be the director of the "Harry Potter" series of movies, then the prospects of this series are simply too stable.

To this end, he even proposed that even if Warner completed the acquisition of copyright and related resources, Charlotte could still be the first producer and lead the series.

This sincerity should be said to be sufficient.

Unfortunately, Charlotte is not very interested.

He was willing to direct this "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone". In addition to putting pressure on Warner, his purpose was more for the Sage's Stone.

Now that both goals have been achieved, he really doesn't bother to be the kid king in this children's fantasy movie.

Even if David Heyman got the original author j.k. Rowling to lobby him, he would not be moved.

In turn, Charlotte took the opportunity to pull up Alexis~www.readwn.com~ and chatted with Rowling about Quidditch——

The Quidditch rules and tactical system that Alexis used the dreams of British generals to deduced would be too wasteful if only used for a Quidditch match.

Charlotte hopes to organize it into a book, and then publish it as a peripheral derivative of the "Harry Potter" series under the name of Rowling.

——Just like Rowling is preparing and just made the opening "Where are the Fantastic Beasts".

Rowling welcomes this very much.

In fact, she had always felt that the Ghost Party Studio was able to produce a decent Quidditch game, and even a complete game rule and tactical system, which was very amazing.

Do you know magic?

Magic mother asked exaggeratedly.

Regarding this, neither Charlotte nor Alexis laughed.

It was Charlotte, and then came up with an idea that stunned Rowling——

Do you want to commission Electronic Arts (ea) to open a game about Quidditch?

Charlotte nodded.

Yes. Joanna, don't you think that since we have developed a set of feasible Quidditch rules and tactics system, we should try our best to use it?

It just so happens that ea, the company that bought the copyright of the "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" before, once opened the "fifa" series of football games.

We cooperated, using the rules and tactics we deduced, as well as the various 3D model resources in our hands, combined with the ea's improved program technology based on the "fifa" series, it should be possible to create a good virtual sports game— —

I even plan to build a virtual Quidditch league based on this game!

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