Chapter 531
On the way to Los Angeles from Irvine to the bus, Uvey Ball couldn't help asking: "Robert, how are you talking to Blizzard?"
Robert Lee touched his nose and said with a smile: "It's okay, Mike Mohuaimi's attitude is a little loose, but it's hard to say what's going on in fact."
The so-called consideration may also be in the consideration stage in the past ten years.
Uvi Ball shook his head: "Hey, these guys are like stones on the mountain, one by one who is stubborn and doesn't know how to adapt."
It’s not that they don’t know how to adapt, but they are full of doubts about you, the director! Robert Lee murmured, saying: “Only when Blizzard Entertainment’s attitude is loose and starting to measure whether cooperation with Relativity Entertainment can bring benefits, we may have the opportunity to go further, but the initiative is with Blizzard.”
Compared to Uvy Ball, a film director who only knows how to be stubborn, Robert Lee has obtained too many adaptations for the Theory of Relativity Entertainment, and has a lot of experience in this area.
Uvi Ball said: "I really hope I can get it quickly, and I will start preparing for the movie adaptation of Warcraft or Diablo next month."
Although he didn't think Uvi Ball was very capable, Robert Lee was quite impressed by Uvi Ball's work attitude and professionalism, reminding him: "It's hard to say whether he can get the authorization, so why not run other projects first."
Uvi Ball nodded: "You said that, I've been bashing Blizzard for two years, and I don't care about waiting for a while."
Robert Lee smiled: "Good things get worse."
"I hope it can accomplish good things." Uvi Ball said again: "Tell me about Ronan, you must keep it for me after getting the adaptation license for Blizzard Games."
"These copyrights are for you," said Robert Lee.
Ronan had carefully talked with him before that he wanted to portray Uvi Ball as a star director, to be precise, he is an alternative Internet celebrity star director. As of now, a series of operations have already achieved the initial goal.
Speaking of which, it is really incredible. Times have become too fast. Ten years ago, directors like Uvy Ball could not become popular no matter how popular they were, but in the Internet era, they can become alternative celebrity directors. Even those seriously unqualified movies they directed have support, and those people shouted and said they did beautifully. What is this?
Even though I knew it was a super bad movie, I had to go and see how bad it was. After watching it, I shouted so bad that it was terrible, and I also said it was so delicious...
Robert Lee knew that he was a little behind and the film market was changing too quickly.
In the future, if he wants not to be eliminated by the market or by the times, he, a person in his forties, must also study hard and adapt to the trends and changes of the times.
Let’s go back and register a Netflix account first and play with the most popular Netflix sharing nowadays.
An Internet disc company that was about to go bankrupt had become one of the hot emerging Internet industry companies in Ronan's hands. It is said that several investment banks have expressed their investment interest one after another.
Perhaps in the near future, I can also witness the emergence of an Internet giant with my own eyes.
Uvey Ball thought of another thing at this time: "Robert, I have applied to Ronan for the copyright of the movie adaptation of another game. If he approves it, please help me. Can you please come and have someone negotiate? During the period of waiting for Blizzard, I can't be idle, it's enough to shoot this film."
Of course, Robert Lee would not refuse. This is his department's job, saying: "As long as Ronan approves me, I will immediately ask someone to discuss authorization with the copyright holder."
"Thank you." Uvi Ball smiled and his face was full of flesh.
Robert Lee smiled and said, "You don't have to be polite to me."
Just on the way back to Los Angeles between Uvy Ball and Robert Lee from Irvine, Ronan has seen a latest application report submitted by Uvy Ball.
In addition to having a special liking for his beloved Blizzard, Brother Bao also has a good taste in other games.
This time, Brother Bao took a fancy to the game "Bloodss Ryan" of Terminal Reality Company and wanted to win the copyright of the movie adaptation, and then strive to complete the filming next year.
Ronan has some impression of many films that Uvey Ball has filmed, such as the heroine of the vampire movie is starring the actress of the female Terminator in "Terminator 3".
The specific name of the actor Ronan has forgotten.
However, in this kind of film, you must find an actress who is sexy and beautiful enough, which is one of the selling points.
Ronan holds the approval power of all film projects of Relativity Entertainment, so he naturally needs to take a closer look at the relevant situation of the project.
He asked Connie to search for relevant information specifically.
At the same time, Ronan also bought a game CD of "Bloodsucking Ryan" and installed it on the computer and played it for a while.
"Bloodsucking Ryan" is an action game released in 2002. The background story takes place in the 1930s and 1940s, and the enemy is mainly a soldier.
The protagonist of the game is a sexy redhead Ryan, a half-human and half-vampire, so she has the ability to be a vampire.
Once excessive blood loss occurs in the game, all the player has to do is to direct Ryan to pounce on the enemy and then suck their blood, so that the lost health value will naturally recover.
Ryan's main weapon is two long swords. When using the long sword to attack the enemy, Ryan will also use kicks and other graceful movements as auxiliary attacks.
At the same time, during the game, players can also pick up weapons discarded by the enemy, such as pistols, shotguns, machine guns, etc. to arm themselves.
In addition, it also has a variety of special abilities: time acceleration can detect enemies at high speed; index vision can detect the target location; sniper perspective can accurately shoot enemies in distant places; rage attacks can double the attack power, attack angle, and attack speed in a short period of time.
The game is average, and its sales are not as good as "Dungeon Siege", and its influence is not very large.
Since Ronan wants to create Uvi Ball to become an alternative star director, he naturally will not refuse such an excellent film project and will be approved soon.
Of course, the scale of investment in the movie must still be controlled well, and in principle, it cannot exceed "Dungeon Siege".
If he could get the copyright of the "Warcraft" series from Blizzard Entertainment, Ronan would definitely give Uvi Ball more investment.
It is very, very difficult to achieve the goal. After all, Blizzard is now paying great attention to the brand, not like in the future.
Judging from what Robert Lee said, Blizzard's consideration will probably remain in the consideration stage for a long time.
Walking the Blizzard alone is very likely to be a dead end, so Vivendi is an option to consider.
Vivendi's sole purpose of acquiring these game companies is to make profits and to obtain the maximum profit in the shortest possible time.
Ronan personally called Vivendi Group. After the last acquisition, the relationship between the two parties was quite good. Vivendi also said that he would seriously consider the request of Relativity Entertainment to purchase the copyright of its game movie adaptation.
Blizzard Entertainment maintains a certain degree of independence, but it is a subsidiary of Vivendi after all. Moreover, Vivendi Group has a bad reputation in the gaming industry and likes to directly and hardly interfere in the operation of acquired game companies.
The Vivendi Group has always been famous for its hard-working skills in the gaming circle.
In the mid-to-late 1990s, Vivendi Group acquired the game company Xueleshan, who thought he had hugged a rich father.
Unexpectedly, after just one year, Vivendi was exposed and began a terrible "domestic violence". He first closed all development studios under Xueleshan and laid off a large number of employees. Then Vivendi reorganized his game department and dissolved Xueleshan.
From then on, Xuele Mountain was in name only.
In fact, there is no difference between Vivendi and Ronan's Relativity Entertainment and the six major Hollywood companies. They are just snobbish businessmen who are full of minds and want to make money.
It never pursues how many good games it can bring to players, but only considers how to squeeze out commercial value in the shortest time.
In 1998, Blizzard was "adopted" by Vivendi Group. Vivendi also directly intervened in Blizzard, resulting in the large-scale departure of Blizzard employees, including the "Big Four of the Darks".
In order to gain greater benefits, Vivendi forcibly incorporated Blizzard into Vivendi's game.
It can be said that if Vivendi Group wants to sell the movie rights of Blizzard's games, Blizzard can't stop it.
Because if you really want to buy the copyright, you don’t buy it from Blizzard, but from Vivendi Games.
If there were any other ways, Ronan would not take Vivendi's move.
What if Blizzard Entertainment gets nervous and eats books crazy after getting the copyright? What if "The Lich King Again" and "The Legion Again" will leave a huge pit on the ground?
Ronan simply believes in Blizzard Entertainment's moral integrity, because in order to protect its own interests, Blizzard even fears Blizzard himself when eating books.
Which is the best book in games? Blizzard Wave, California, USA!
The copyright holder has the willful capital and power. For example, the Marvel Comics once had a big fight with Twentieth Century Fox because of the copyright and income of "Fantasy Four", so they simply killed the Fantasy Four in the comics, and then the comics were suspended for updates indefinitely.
These two are just typical examples of losing both sides. Marvel Comics stopped updating comics. In order not to violate the contract regulations, 20th Century Fox filmed the new "Fantastic Four" with time and budget stuck.
Compared with that superhero movie, Uvy Ball's film can be regarded as a masterpiece of conscience!
Robert Lee was very fast. The week when Ronan approved Uvi Ball's application. Before the weekend, professionals from the copyright and legal department negotiated with Terminal Reality Company to adapt the film "Bloodsucking Ryan", and the two parties quickly signed a formal authorization transfer agreement.
Because of the box office success of "Dungeon Siege", Terminal Reality Company initially offered a high price, with a symbolic transfer fee of only one dollar, but required a 5% North American box office share.
This is definitely unacceptable. After several days of negotiations, the two sides reached an agreement on the $500,000 basic transfer fee plus two percent North American box office profit sharing.
As the relativity entertainment becomes more and more famous, more and more successful movies are adapted, and it is also becoming more and more difficult to get the copyright of adapting various works at a low price.
For example, an author or a small company without a reputation is easier to talk about, but anyone with a little capital will often offer high prices.
Chapter completed!