274 [Pengci "Star Wars"]
The script Ye Jin is writing now is the "Star Wars" series.
Ye Jin is not a fan of Star Wars. He first came into contact with Star Wars because he watched "Star Wars Legend: Rogue One". He felt pretty good after watching it. So he later looked for the prequel and poster.
To be honest, in the 1970s, Hollywood was able to make such a magnificent universe opera movie, which was really awesome in Ye Jin's opinion.
He also heard that Star Wars is very profitable. He made 40 billion US dollars by selling toys, models, games, comics, etc., and is the most valuable IP in film history.
So he naturally had to grab this movie.
However, he was also worried about colliding with George Lucas. Because the first movie of "Star Wars" was released in 1977, according to the preparation time of the Hollywood movie, people may have been writing scripts now.
Therefore, if the writing is too similar, such as even the names of the characters, it will be troublesome.
It is easy to crash creatively in the film and television industry. For example, "Prison Education" and "Prison Heroes" are both about a pampered and upscale person. Before being sentenced to prison, please train yourself and learn various skills to deal with troubles in prison. For example, "The Peerless Heavenly Tribulation" and "The Great Collision of Heaven" are both about stories about aliens rushing to the earth and how the earth deals with crisis.
But if it is not just a creative collision, a story collision, and even the actor's name is the same, it would be too terrifying and would definitely be included in the [x archive], and maybe he would have to be taken to a research institution to slice it.
Therefore, when Ye Jin was writing "Star Wars", he made corresponding changes. All character names, geographical names, proprietary names, etc. were changed, and the story also made certain changes.
For example, Starwars was renamed Starcraft, Jedi was changed to Space Knight, [may force with you] (The Force is with you) was changed to [may the power watch you] (May the power over you] (May
And his main purpose of doing this is to hit the bullet.
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Ye Jin went to WGA (American Screenwriters Association) to check it out. George Lucas's "Star Wars" script has not been registered yet, so he registered in advance.
When George Lucas wants to shoot this movie, the insurance company will definitely review the copyright of his script in advance. This is a necessary process, otherwise, the script infringement will cost a lot of money.
At that time, Ye Jin's "StarCraft" will definitely be noticed by insurance companies because of the same story elements. At that time, George Lucas will either push the script back or have to negotiate with Ye Jin.
If the script is pushed back, it will not be possible in one or two years. In the early preparations of Hollywood, the script alone will have to be revised three or four times, and it will take one or two years to be a little bit of a matter of fact. James Cameron's "Titanic" has been written for five years.
George Lucas can't afford to delay such a long time.
Because Hollywood directors are a hurdle for three years. The production company will conduct research based on his achievements over the past three years. If he has not made a hit movie in three years and has poor performance, it will be difficult to get investment again.
Lucas' last blockbuster movie was "American Style Painting" launched in 1973. The production cost was $770,000 and the box office in North America was $110 million, two years ago.
That movie established his position as a top Hollywood director so that he could get the investment to launch "Star Wars". If there were another two years of delay, the dividends of "American Style Painting" would be gone.
At that time, it will be difficult for Lucas to find investment, so his best way is to negotiate with Ye Jin. At that time, even if Ye Jin wants one-tenth of the dividends of Star Wars IP, it will be worth hundreds of millions of dollars.
And what he wants to do is just to play with his pen. It can be said to be a huge profit!
It is precisely because of such a big business that he rejected the invitations from those girls.
When he earns hundreds of millions of dollars, let alone these vulgar fans, even the Victoria's Secret Angels with slender waists, raised necks and long legs will kneel in front of him and sing to conquer.
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After Ye Jin finished writing the script, he quickly took it to WGA to register.
Registering in WGA is easy, you only need to pay twenty dollars to register successfully.
At that time, if there is any copyright dispute, just look at the registration time. Those who register first win, and those who register later lose, there is no dispute. Even if neither party has seen each other, it will not work even if they happen to want to go together.
After registering, Ye Jin was waiting for George Lucas to come.
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Two days later, Roland Berkins replied to Ye Jin that after discussion by the five founders of Caa, he allowed him to invest 100,000 US dollars.
Ye Jin fought for a while, and finally got 15% of the shares of Caa for US$200,000. He handed over the shares to Zhao Yazhi and Lin Qingxia, each of whom accounted for 7.5%.
"Brother Jin, what does this caa company do? What's the use of my shares?" Zhao Yazhi asked in confusion after receiving Ye Jin's call.
"This is a brokerage company that I just founded. I think it has a future, so I bought some shares. However, according to the laws of America, I, as a producer, do not allow me to enter the brokerage industry, so I handed over this part of the equity to you." Ye Jin smiled, "You wait, this company will make a profit sooner or later."
"Well, since you say there is a future, there must be a future." Zhao Yazhi smiled and said, "Okay, I will keep this equity for you first, and I will return it to you if you want it."
"No, what you give to you is yours." Ye Jin smiled.
No matter how strong the future development of Caa is, it will be just an intermediary company. What makes Hollywood really profitable is the producer. Disney's revenue in 18 years is nearly 60 billion US dollars and its net profit is 12.6 billion US dollars. This is the real giant.
Just like Lianjia, the largest real estate agency in the mainland, has a market value of 42 billion yuan; while Vanke, the largest real estate company in the mainland, has a market value of 400 billion yuan.
Ye Jin has many opportunities to make money. Giving this amount of equity to them is actually just pocket money.
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After investing in caa, Ye Jin also officially joined caa and became its most promising star.
After signing the contract with Caa, Ye Jin took the time to visit the Caa headquarters.
After that, he suddenly felt fooled.
It turns out that the headquarters of Caa is located in a small house less than 30 square meters, which is much worse than his Mythical Pictures.
There are only seven employees, namely General Manager Michael Orwiz, Long Mayer, William Harper, Michael Rosenfield, Roland Berkins, William Harper's wife Julie, and Michael Rosenfield's wife Amy.
Chapter completed!