Chapter 641

What’s even more interesting is that since this company gave up its originality, can you believe that they haven’t done a single loss-making business?

In the future, director Jack Perez has filmed the 3D movie"Shark Chirp vs. Squid Girl" for The Asylum.

After the filming of the movie, Jack Perez was confused. He said in an interview:

"They give you a title, a poster, a lineup and a formula, and then we shot it in 12 days"

"According to the schedule, we shoot 11 or 12 pages of script every day"

"From idea to movie release in less than two months! I have friends who work in big studios on blockbusters, and they might shoot a page of scripts all day long"

"They were like this. Throughout the whole day, we just filmed two people chatting on the beach. I’m like, who are you kidding me, today I’ll be on a torpedo boat, and then I’ll be in a submarine, and then I’m going to blow up Mount Rushmore!"

Since making"Li Gui Film" in 2004 until now, they have insisted that the cost of the film should be far less than 1 million US dollars.

Now, they have bought the small gray building they once rented for 390, and also took over the warehouse across the street. The reason It's obvious: business is booming.

In the original timeline, TheAsylum made a lot of copycat movies that were similar to blockbusters, such as"One Piece" (yes, that's the name), which was similar to"Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Treasure", and"Daphne" which was similar to"Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Treasure""The Da Vinci Treasure" oiled by"The Secret Code", and"Sunday High School Musical" at the same time as"High School Musical: Graduation".

Compared with"Li Kui's film", their"Li Gui's film" has more violent and violent scenes. More"passionate""

《The New York Times once commented on their"Transformers" copycat of"Transformers"》："Unrecognizable actors, unpromoted tie-ins, and poor and confusing post-mixing, the content is not like"Transformers", and some are cheap and outdated special effects and heavy plots."

Some people accuse them of plagiarism.

In the words of David Michael Larter, one of the founders, we are not plagiarizing, we are"tying in". Although we imitated the original film in posters, side effects, etc., when our content They are all original.

This is true.

The content of their movies all use the character names of the original film, imitate the costumes of the original film, and match them with the content they made up, and even add a little bit of blood and color. , actually sold very well.

It even formed a small fan group.

Now, they have set their sights on"Batman: The Dark Knight".

But what they don't know is that Meyers Pictures actually I had noticed them for a long time.

When David Larter and David Rimavey, one of the three founders, were enthusiastically discussing how to let everyone see their copycat Batman video tape, they subconsciously thought that this was"Batman: Darkness"."Knight" video, the door to the conference room was pushed open from the outside.

"Didn't you see we were in a meeting? go out."David Limavi thought that some ignorant staff member had barged in, and scolded him casually.

Unexpectedly, the visitor not only did not leave, but instead said:"Hello, everyone, I have some ideas about the content of your meeting. I'm interested, can you listen in?"

Huh?

Six pairs of eyes looked at the door of the conference room and saw a plump beauty standing there, looking at them with a smile.

"Drew Barrymore?!"David Limavi was surprised, and then he thought he was dazzled and rubbed his eyes.

"Yes, you read that right, it's me."

Drew Barrymore was amused by the other party's actions. She walked to a chair in the conference room and sat down. Behind her were two middle-aged white men in suits and ties.

"Don’t worry, I’m not here to file a lawsuit with you. I’m here to invest. These two lawyers from Meyers Films are here to help me sign the investment agreement (bged)."

"invest? What investment?"

Drew Barrymore's words made David Rimavey confused, and he looked at the other founder, David Larter. (To read exciting novels, go to Feilu Novel Network!)

David Larter also shook his head,"I Don't know what to invest in.

Then he suddenly thought of a question and said in surprise:"How did you get in?""

At this time, the other founder Shirley Strand, who had been silent, suddenly said:"I invited Ms. Drew to come over."

"What?"

David Larter and David Rimavi both looked at their"partners."

Shirley Strand nodded and emphasized again,"Yes, I asked Ms. Drew to come over."

"Shirley, why did you do that?"

"Hi, Mr. David, please listen to my conditions first. Drew said with a smile.

In fact, she has been eyeing TheAsylum's company for more than half a year.

Yes, she was eyeing it, not Martin.

It was the other party's copycat of"Happy Death Day" that made a"Happy Death Day" Happy Death Day?" and started selling 80,000 copies in the video tape market.

Drew suddenly discovered that there was a company like this in the corner of Hollywood, which was surviving in this way, and was surviving very well.

She found an experienced accountant to calculate the company's annual income, and it turned out to be no less than $8 million. This figure is higher than many medium-sized Hollywood film and television companies.

Take Weinstein Pictures as an example. Last year’s annual income was just over US$7 million, not as good as this little copycat company called TheAsylum.[]

Of course, in terms of influence, Weinstein Films wants to get rid of The Asylum.

After half a year of investigation, Drew decided to take action. She wanted to turn the company into a subsidiary of Meyers Films as a supplement to Meyers Films.

Then she found Shirley Strand.

Because among the three founders, only this one still retains some of his original dream of making original movies. The other two have long been immersed in the benefits brought by copycats and cannot extricate themselves.

Just three days ago, Drew secretly acquired 22% of Shirley Strain's shares for $4 million and promised to give her a producer position at Meyers Films.

Today, she made a strong debut in order to acquire more shares from the remaining two founders.

I won’t go into details here about how to talk about it specifically.

Anyway, Drew Barrymore left with satisfaction.

When she left, Meyers Films already owned 58% of The Asylum, with three founders, David Michael Larter 20%, David Rimavey 19%, and Shirley Strain 3%.

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