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"You're welcome, Tang."

Entering the banquet hall of the Waldorf Assistant Hotel, Ryan shook hands with Don Logan who was coming. When we met last time, the other party was the president of Time Warner, and now he has become the chairman of the board of directors.

This is a celebration party held by Time Warner. First, after Time Warner officially merged with American Online, it became the world's number one media group today. Second, after the disastrous defeat of "Catwoman" and the tepid popularity of "Troy", "Wonder Woman", jointly created by DC Comics and Warner Bros., has achieved far exceeding expectations.

"Wonder Woman" was released in North America for more than a month, winning more than 260 million US dollars in box office. The final North American box office is very likely to be close to or exceed 300 million US dollars. Moreover, in overseas regions where it was released, the cumulative box office of the film has also reached nearly 200 million US dollars, and now it has achieved a record of 450 million US dollars worldwide, far exceeding "Troy", which was released more than two months earlier.

This is also the highest-grossing movies produced by Warner in recent years.

"I saw an acquaintance, go and say hello."

Charlize, holding him, whispered and walked towards the other side. Ryan and Warner people continued the topic just now. Gerald, who came from Los Angeles, was still talking to him about "Wonder Woman".

"Based on our estimates, the global box office of this movie will be close to $600 million."

The box office hit of "Wonder Woman" has greatly alleviated the huge pressure Gerald faces, "If we can really reach this number, we can recover the cost of the movie through the box office."

"Then congratulations." Ryan raised his glass to him, and Gerald, who was standing opposite, picked up the glass and drank it all, and then smiled, "We should congratulate you, Ryan, Disney is the biggest winner in the summer season."

Ryan just smiled, but said nothing.

Don Logan took the initiative to take over the topic and said in a rather emotional tone, "The Superman Family is $300 million, Spider-Man 2 is $370 million, and The Day Afternoon, $200 million, this is just the North American box office! Do you know, Ryan? After seeing these, I want to change positions with you."

"If you take out the same amount of shares, I have no objection." Ryan touched his cup and joked casually. "Time Warner is the world's number one media group."

Drinking the soda from the cup, Ryan continued, "Warner has many profit points, and it is not like Disney. It requires sufficiently good film and television works to drive the overall business."

Warner's executives did not accept Ryan's words and cleverly changed the topic. Only these executives knew that Time Warner, after swallowing up the American Online, was actually far from as beautiful as the world's No. 1 media group.

"Ryan, I heard that Disney is preparing to cooperate with a Chinese group company to invest in China's theater market?" Don Logan turned to Disney's recent investment moves, "Have you reached an intention?"

“The agreement was signed just last week.”

The news was released on purpose by him, and it is not surprising that others know. "Disney is just a shareholder."

He can only be a shareholder, which is related to the media market, and the opposite side will not allow the international group to obtain actual ownership and operation rights, just like the theater chain he worked in his previous life. He also has investments from international aspects, but he cannot get any right to speak.

"Warner also has investment considerations in this regard, right?" Ryan asked tentatively.

"It's true." Don Logan nodded and saw Ryan handing over the empty cup to the waiter passing by. He waved to someone to send a cup of soda and continued, "The film market in China has developed at an amazing speed in recent years. We have also reached an agreement with a company that they will accept the capital injection from Warner."

"That's great." Ryan took the soda handed over by the waiter. "The insufficient number of screens on the opposite side is a barrier to the high box office of our movies. If they can promote the speed of their theater construction, it won't take long, and China will become the second largest film market after North America."

"Don't forget their population base." Gerald added.

"I suggest..." Don Logan glanced around and raised his glass, "Cherry to us for more profits from the Chinese market!"

"cheers!"

Everyone raised their wine glasses at the same time, and they had common interests in this matter.

In recent years, even Hollywood's slowest film companies have seen the huge potential of the Chinese market. All those with ability want to make profits there. In addition to pioneers like Paramount and Disney, other major companies have also established Chinese branches. Even DreamWorks Animation Studio, which wants to place its Far East branch in Hong Kong, is now planning to change it to Shanghai or Beijing.

When enough benefits are revealed, Hollywood, which is commercially first, will flock to it like a shark smelling blood.

As one of the earliest pioneers, Disney took over the foundation built by Jenkins Pictures, and was at the forefront of Hollywood in terms of introduction of its films or related copyright sales and transfers.

The most typical example is that in 1998, Jenkins Film, the DVD copyright of "Titanic", sold only 3 million rmb. At the copyright auction held by "The Lord of the Rings 3: Return of the King", the price was 20 million rmb, which is not counted as the authorization fee for TV stations and other aspects.

Despite facing many impacts and restrictions such as piracy, Disney's profits from China in the film and television industry are growing almost double every year.

The topic has been circling around the movie. When Tim Burton came over, several senior Warner executives had some small disputes over whether to continue the "Wonder Woman" series or restart "Batman".

After all, this was Warner's internal affairs. Ryan waved to them and simply left there.

There were many acquaintances at the party. Before they could go far, Ryan met Brian Singer, and he just nodded to the other party.

Brian Singer has fulfilled the contract for three movies with Marvel. "X-Men 3: Battle of the Wave" completed all the post-production work in July, but the movie was pushed to be released in May next year by Marvel.

A melodious waltz sounded on the stage of the banquet hall. Ryan refused the invitation from several ladies. When he was about to find Charlize, a white palm was handed to him.

"Is that OK, Ryan?"

Faced with Gale Gado's invitation, Ryan slowly shook his head, "Forget it, have you forgotten that I stepped on your feet at Arnold's party?"

Although dancing is part of social etiquette, he is indeed not very good at it.

"Oh well."

Gale Gado took two glasses of juice from the passing waiter and handed over one, "Remember you don't drink."

"Thank you." Ryan took it.

"I should thank you and Nat." The long-legged girl was obviously a sensible person.

"You're welcome." Ryan smiled and shook his head, "Actually we did nothing."

"But there are no words for you." Gale Gado touched his cup, "I definitely can't get the role of Princess Diana."

"Become famous overnight!" She looked exaggerated, "I never dared to think about this feeling before."

"Then congratulate you," Ryan said after taking a sip of the juice.

The first part of the series was successful, and if nothing unexpected happened, Natalie's Jewish friend almost got a long-term meal ticket.

"I and Nat were on the phone a few days ago."

Gale Gado is a smart person, and understands that Ryan takes care of her more because of Natalie's affection. "She said that after filming "The Hunger Games", she is preparing to prepare her new work? Or as a director?"

"Yeah~" Ryan nodded, and heard the familiar sound of high heels falling to the ground from beside him, and he speeded up his speech, "It's a personal biopic."

After saying that, he turned his head and met Charlize who was walking over, and said with a smile, "Is the talk finished?"

Raising his eyebrows and holding Ryan's arm, Charlize looked at Gale Gado, "Will you introduce it?"

"Hello, Miss Theron, I am Gale Gadot from Israel."

"Hello, Miss Gado."

After gently snatching the other party's hand that was stretched out, Charlize nodded to her again.

Although he was curious about some rumors, Gale Gado knew that he should say goodbye, and after saying something to Ryan and the others, he turned around and left.

"Is this the new Wonder Woman?" Charlize's eyes fell on the other party's slender back. "It's really beautiful, no wonder he can win so many boys and girls' likes."

"This shows that the market completely accepts movies with women as the main character." Ryan thought of the other side.

Successful movies are often the result of the superposition of multiple factors, and failure movies are enough to be a little unpopular. Although the novel "The Hunger Games" is so popular, he still has some concerns, after all, the movies have been several years in advance.

"What were you doing just now?" Ryan took Charlize to the rest area, chose a table casually, and sat down next to him, "It seems that he was having a great time talking?"

"I met director Oliver Stone." Charlize reached out and helped Ryan sort out his crooked bow tie. "He wanted to invite me to star in his new movie, a female paramedic who died in the 9/11 incident."

"Female ambulance?"

I remember that Oliver Stone was lucky after entering the new century. It seemed that no movie had achieved corresponding good results. Ryan couldn't help frowning, "911 Incident? Could it be that he wanted to adapt the movie?"

"Um."
Chapter completed!