Heads Up Hollywood

On April 2, Marvel Entertainment sent a professional negotiating team, led by Chief Operating Officer Dan Buckley, to 20th Century Fox to discuss with Tom Rothman about the return of some heroes.

Dunn didn't ask about this matter, he believed in Tom Rothman's IQ.

If he wanted to avoid the major conflicts in the past and switch to cooperation, he had to pay enough benefits, otherwise nothing would be discussed!

Tang En's headache now is the candidate for the president of Marvel Studios.

He made a bold statement at the beginning, saying that as long as he acquired Marvel, he would definitely improve the structure of Marvel Pictures, instead of being an empty shell.

Now, Tang En Pictures has borrowed 7 million US dollars from Tang En to complete the acquisition, and he will naturally fulfill this promise.

Tang En's biggest secret weapon is the sunglasses system.

However, in this system, there are only three professional attributes of "producer", "director", and "actor", and there is no introduction to the attributes of management talents.

So for candidates, Twain can only rely on contacts, headhunters and some memories of foresight.

The president of Marvel Pictures must be a filmmaker by birth, there is no doubt about it.

Several people quickly appeared in Tang En's mind - Grant Hill, David Heyman, Lionel Wigram, Rick McCollum.

Grant Hill, the producer of "Titanic", and Dunn had a very pleasant cooperation. The advantage is strong ability and solid relationship. The disadvantage is that he has no management experience, and he is Bill McNick's confidant, so it is not easy to pry the corner.

David Heyman is helping Twain acquire the copyright of the entire series of "Harry Potter" books. He has a unique vision, excellent management, and is good at public relations. Twain working?

Lionel Wigram, Warner's producer, is also a recommender of "Harry Potter", with excellent vision and production ability. Moreover, he is a cartoonist who has created such excellent comics as "Sherlock Holmes". He is a talent who combines comics and movies, and he is very suitable for the position of president of Marvel Pictures.

Rick McCollum, the producer of "Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace" and Tom Rothman's confidant, worked happily with Dunn. He has a rich imagination, is good at science fiction films, and has the ethics of a filmmaker. Disadvantages, seniority, age, difficult to control.

Tang En pondered for a long time, then shook his head and rejected Lionel Wigram.

It was foreseeable that because of Tang En's selfishness, Warner would definitely be very dissatisfied with the "Harry Potter" project. If you pry the corner like this, will Warner be pissed off?

Tang En felt a little headache, so he put on his sunglasses and searched for personnel in other positions.

Mainly the production department and screenwriting department.

As Tang En Pictures gradually grew larger, many departments needed to be filled with manpower, so Tang En recorded the names of many people and planned to truly expand the production departments of Tang En Pictures and Marvel Pictures.

Suddenly, his eyes lit up, and he saw a familiar yet unfamiliar name on the value of "81" in the production capacity - Nina Jacobson.

Tang En seemed to have remembered something, and quickly clicked on this person's value.

No director ability, no actor ability, mainly due to producer attributes——

Production 72, Market Judgment 91, Literary Aesthetics 67, Project Evaluation 89, Screenwriting 48, Casting 93, Field Control 87, Management 88 (this is studio management, not company management), PR 82...

She doesn't have an overly conspicuous value, so Tang En didn't notice it when she was selecting talents.

However, Tang En's previously selected team members were all highly "biased" talents, with individual attribute abilities that defied the sky, and comprehensive abilities that were extremely poor. It was impossible for them to stand alone.

However, this Nina Jacobson is different. She does not have the attributes against the sky, but she has a strong comprehensive strength, and she is an excellent producer who can monopolize one side.

More importantly, this name is like thunder!

She is one of the few female bosses in Hollywood!

Basically one of the five female moguls.

The first place is Shirley Lansing, the current head of Paramount;

The second place is Amy Pascal, the current president of Columbia Pictures, who will be the second head of Sony Entertainment in the future;

The third place is Gail Borman, the current president of Borman Digital Media, the future president of Paramount, and then the president of Fox Broadcasting Company;

The fourth place is this Nina Jacobson!

The fifth place, the highest-grossing female producer Katherine Kennedy, the future president of Lucasfilm.

For Nina Jacobson, the deepest memory is that in 2007, she was dismissed from the position of president of Disney production department and chairman of Bowei Group.

Because she and Nate Shyamalan had a serious disagreement, which led Nate Shyamalan to leave Disney with his original project "Water Banshee" and work with Warner instead.

Disappointed at losing the opportunity to work with such a big director, Disney fired Nina Jacobson.

Of course, there is also the reason that she is pregnant and expecting to give birth, and she is on a long vacation.

It is quite ironic that "Water Banshee", which was disliked by Nina Jacobson and produced by Warner, failed miserably at the box office!

After leaving Disney, Nina Jacobson founded her own production company, and then launched the famous movie series "The Hunger Games".

Prior to this, she even helped Disney launch blockbusters such as "The Sixth Sense", "Glory Days", "Princess Diaries", and "Pirates of the Caribbean".

Because of these achievements, Nina Jacobsen won the "Crystal Award" specially given to female filmmakers, and in 2005 was included in the "World's Top 100 Most Powerful Women" list.

Dunn didn't know Nina Jacobsen's current job position, so he called the secretary and immediately went to check her information.

That afternoon, Reese Witherspoon brought back the results.

Nina Jacobson was born in 1965. In 1987, graduated from the famous Brown University. After graduation, he successively worked in Silver Image Films, Macdonald Films, and then successfully entered Universal Pictures, one of the six major film companies, as the deputy director of production.

During her time at Universal Pictures, she supervised the production of "12 Monkeys", "Crazy and Confused" and many other films.

Later, she jumped to DreamWorks and became the head of the film production department of DreamWorks, developing the "Dangerous" project.

Because of conflicts with Spielberg and others, and the failure of the movie "Strategic Killer", she left DreamWorks last year and joined Disney, and her position declined, mainly responsible for the production of script supervision.

The job attribute is equivalent to Andrew O'Hare, a market analyst at Dunn Films.

However, compared to Tang En's trust in Andrew, Nina Jacobson, who has just joined Disney for less than a year, must be facing difficulties in her work.

After reading her information, Tang En's heart was surging, and he immediately became excited.

"Send charcoal in the snow, brother likes to send charcoal in the snow!"

Twain was almost certain that as long as he sent out an invitation to be the president of Marvel Studios, Nina Jacobson would definitely agree without hesitation!

The position Disney gave her was too low.

Even if Marvel Pictures is just an empty shell now, having such a golden signboard as Twain means unlimited potential.

Tang En called Reese Witherspoon back and handed her a list, "Call these people over for interviews immediately."

Reese felt a little dizzy when she saw the recruitment list of more than a dozen people. Where did this big boss get so much confidence? Don't even need an interview, just recruit directly and enter the probationary period?

Tang En ignored her hesitation, and handed her another note, "Immediately, in the name of Dunn Pictures and Marvel Pictures, invite these two people."

Reese glanced at Tang En in surprise, and saw two names written on the note——

"Nina Jacobson, president of Marvel Studios."

"Kevin Fitch, assistant to the president of Marvel Studios."

"Twain, isn't this too hasty?"

Tang En waved his hands, "Don't worry, I know it well!"

...

The next day, Tang En had two simple and lively talks with Nina Jacobson and Kevin Feige.

Subsequently, Marvel Pictures paid Disney $250,000 in liquidated damages and hired 34-year-old female producer Nina Jacobson as the president of Marvel Pictures.

A 26-year-old young man, Kevin Feige, was hired as assistant to the president and assistant producer to assist Nina Jacobson in the management of the company and the production of Marvel movies.

At the same time, good news came from Marvel Entertainment.

The negotiation team led by Dan Buckley had a very smooth negotiation with 20th Century Fox. Tom Rothman facilitated the negotiation with the utmost sincerity.

Marvel Entertainment took back the copyrights of the three superheroes Deadpool, Daredevil, and Erica for a total of 300,000 U.S. dollars.

And also reached a partial cooperation.

Because the story of Deadpool involves many "X-Men" characters, Fox agreed to share the copyright of Deadpool's main teammate "Cable" with Marvel Entertainment, but he was never allowed to mention his identity as an X-Men.

It's like Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver can appear in the Avengers, but they can't mention that their father is Magneto.

Although only the rights to three and a half heroes were recovered, it was enough to cheer Tang En up.

Needless to say, Deadpool is the most charismatic anti-hero, with a lowly personality that will bring a different kind of vitality to the huge Marvel universe that Twain will build in the future.

As for Daredevil...

This is related to Tang En's other major industrial layout.

Now, Marvel has taken back most of the superhero copyrights, and only the "X-Men" is left outside.

The situation where Sony, Fox, and Marvel are the three kingdoms of the previous life no longer appears.

Since this is the case, Tang En will naturally grab the section that once belonged to Sony, and by the way... grab the living space of DC comics.

Daredevil carries a glorious and important mission.

Marvel movies are bound to take off.

Moreover, under Tang En's leadership, he will definitely be more brilliant, more dazzling, and more... occupying Hollywood than his previous life!