After buying Marvel, I became the king of Hollywood

"However, if you are like this, will Director Steve Kevin really choose you later?"

"Who knows, but if you do it, you might choose me. If you don't do it, you will definitely not be able to choose me, right?"

This quite reasonable remark made Tobey Maguire nod again and again.

Then, after discovering that there was not much fried chicken left on the table, he wailed:

"Damn it, save some for me."

After all, he snatched a big chicken leg from Leonardo's hand.

The ones you eat are always the most delicious.

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On the other side, Kevin, who rejected Leonardo, is still filming.

However, Leonardo's appearance somewhat moved him.

After thinking carefully about the movies suitable for Leonardo, Kevin suddenly discovered that he had missed several big IPs.

Marvel is a comic IP.

Harry Potter is a novel IP.

But in addition to this, there is animation IP.

Among them, the most famous ones are Pokemon, Transformers, and Special Forces.

Thinking of this, Kevin immediately called Dawson to arrange someone to investigate some relevant information.

Chapter 258 Titanic Released

It only took half a day, and Dawson sorted out these materials and arranged for someone to send them over.

In his big tent, Kevin spread out the information and watched it carefully.

According to the information, the copyrights of Pokémon toys, Transformers, and special forces all belong to the same company.

That is, Hasbro Toys, one of the largest toy companies in the United States.

The companies that work most closely with Hasbro are Paramount and Disney.

If Kevin wants to win these copyrights, Paramount and Disney are two mountains that cannot be avoided. Thinking of this, Kevin can't help but have a headache.

However, these two copyrights are not worth mentioning compared with Pokémon.

As the biggest IP in the future, the copyright of Pokémon is still in the hands of Nintendo.

Kevin knew that he was going to book a trip to Japan.

For such a long time, it is impossible that no one wants to buy the copyright of Pokémon, so no one has adapted it until now, which can only show that Nintendo has no plan to sell movie copyrights at all.

Of course, it is also possible that others did not impress him.

Still, anything is possible if Steve Kevin goes.

This is Kevin's confidence in himself and his status in Hollywood.

As the boss of MGM, Dawn Films, and Marvel, plus his status as a top Hollywood director, Kevin is confident that he can win the film copyright of Pokémon from Nintendo.

Keeping this matter in mind, Kevin called Dawson and asked him to find a way to communicate with the Japanese side.

Make a charter to go to Japan to negotiate the Pokémon rights after Harry Potter filming is over.

Of course, the main target is Pokémon, and the secondary targets are some other copyrights.

Throughout the world, in terms of IP influence, Japan is a country that cannot be avoided.

The details in the middle are not pursued for the time being.

Kevin only knows that the price of IP at this time is actually not high. For many people, it is an honor to sell their copyrights to Hollywood.

With this mindset, Kevin only needs to pay a small price to reap a large number of excellent IPs.

By the way, Netflix has been acquired by him.

At a price of 3000 million US dollars, a premium was acquired for all the shares of Netflix.

Subsequently, 30.00% of the shares were distributed as dividends, and were given to Netflix executives free of charge, and they signed a harsh clause that once they leave the company, they will not be engaged in the same industry for 15 years.

To put it simply, for the boss of Netflix, this wave of acquisitions by Kevin has actually set him free.

During this period, more than 1000 million US dollars was enough for him to eat and drink for a lifetime.

The president of Netflix really couldn't find any reason to refuse.

Before the advent of the Internet era, Kevin does not intend to vigorously develop Netflix.

He is just constantly accumulating various IPs.

Strive to let Netflix, in the Internet age, get the most market directly as soon as it goes on stage.

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Time continued to pass, and in a blink of an eye, it came to May.

This is May 1998.

The Titanic set many new records.

Longest-running movies, top-grossing movies in North America, movies with the most consistent attendance, and more.

With everyone dumbfounded, Titanic, after half a year of release, successfully won a box office of [-] million U.S. dollars and was released.

This achievement has surprised countless film companies.

Originally, they had already blacklisted James Cameron.

Who dares to use a director who can defraud a film company of [-] million US dollars in investment.

After half a year, everyone was shocked to find out.

In terms of the North American box office alone, Titanic has already paid back its capital and earned [-] million US dollars.

At the same time, the movie Titanic was being released one after another around the world.

It also achieved astonishing box office results.

In mainland China, where Hollywood doesn't care much about movie tickets.

Titanic has actually achieved more than Steve Kevin's movies. In more than a month, it has achieved a box office amount of nearly [-] million yuan.

Even a Steve Kevin movie is nothing more than that.

The Titanic seems to have more stamina.

[-] million yuan is far from the end of it.

Along with this movie, James Cameron's name resounded all over the world for the first time.

It also let countless people know that there is such a great director in Hollywood.

At the same time, other film companies have removed James Cameron from the blacklist.

Fox reacted even more quickly, and made an early promise to James Cameron of unlimited investment in the next film.

Facts have proved that although investing in James Cameron will make people regret, but not investing will be even more regretful.

Fox already regrets letting Paramount participate in this investment.

According to the current data, if Titanic is added to the box office of [-] million US dollars in the United States.

That's a total of $15 billion at the box office.

Sadly, the Titanic didn't end there.

In other words, $15 billion is not the end of it.

Meanwhile, in this May.

A superhero movie invested by Chenxi Films and supervised by Steve Kevin will be released soon.

That's right, this movie is Zack Snyder's independent movie, Ghost Rider.

Nicolas Cage, the collision of superhero movies.

Just a little publicity has attracted the attention of countless people.

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Inside Dawn Film Company.

The three directors entered a short period of rest.

Looking at Zach and Mitt in front of him, Kevin couldn't help but feel a little headache.

Originally, he planned to use three films to directly rule the 1998 summer vacation.

Let other film companies feel what pressure is.

Unexpectedly, it was himself who lost the chain.

Of course, except for the special effects, other aspects of the film have already been filmed.

The biggest problem is that the Hogwarts amusement park...or the Hogwarts theme park, has not yet been built.

As long as Harry Potter sells well, the theme park is bound to welcome a large number of tourists.

It's all real money.

It is impossible for Kevin to just give up this great opportunity.

For this reason, after some thinking, Kevin, who was not in a hurry to recover the cost, decided to release the Harry Potter movie on the Christmas file.

The summer file is given to the two movies of Ghost Rider and Iron Man.

He also wants to see if superhero movies can still be so popular without his director.

In Kevin's heart, he believes in the charm of superhero movies themselves.

Chapter 259 Ghost Rider Released

"Schneider, Ghost Rider will be released in a few days. You should pay more attention to promoting it with Cage on a few TV shows, and try to be foolproof."

Schneider patted his chest and said confidently:

"Don't worry, Kevin, Cage and I have been on all the talk shows and talk shows."

"Now as long as you are an American, you know the movie Ghost Rider. I have great confidence in this movie."

"That's good. I don't think many places will be able to release this movie. I don't have high requirements for the box office."

After all, Kevin looked at Mitt again.

"Mite, your Iron Man, pay attention."

"As soon as Ghost Rider comes out, you take over and make sure there is no gap between the two."

"In this way, Iron Man can borrow the heat of Ghost Rider."

These two films, no surprise, cameo each other.

Ghost Rider, among Iron Man, has a brief few-second shot.

Among the Ghost Riders, it was no surprise that Iron Man appeared.

Kevin has seen Snyder's Ghost Rider.

I have to say, it was well shot.

Much better than the original Ghost Rider.

The original Ghost Rider, what dissatisfied Kevin the most was undoubtedly the dark scene behind him.

This kind of lens greatly affects the senses of the audience.

He can understand that the flame skull would be more handsome running in the middle of the night.

But can't the director use less of the underworld filter?

Use a dark tone to let the audience know that this is a story that happened at night.

In this regard, Schneider is obviously much better.