On the day the results for Issue No. 19 of Series 15 were released, Su Yu had already arrived in the United States, invited this time to visit Disney's headquarters in California.
Besides Su Yu's work continuing to take first place in Issue 19, there was another change in the points standings.
Second place in this issue was taken by Carlo, the home team's representative, which brought Italy's total score to 24 points, tying for fifth place with France, who earned two points in this issue.
Third place was taken by Fischer of Germany, and fifth place by Lucia of Spain.
This resulted in England, Germany, and Spain all having 21 points, tying for seventh place.
In this issue, Chris of the United States and Ida Shoichiro of Japan did not score any points, but with 40 points and 32 points respectively, they have already secured their spots in the finals.
The last round of the regular season, which is the next match, will also see the most intense battle and struggle.
If the gap were much larger, perhaps there wouldn't be much tension.
However, apart from South Korea with six points, the other countries all have a chance to enter the finals!
At this point, perhaps only Jin Damin can relax?
Of course, in addition to their anticipation for the twentieth issue, audiences and netizens from various countries have recently been most focused on the news of the box office battle between Su Yu's and Stewart's two films.
This time, when Su Yu once again set foot on American soil, they initially didn't notice, until a reporter staking out outside Disney headquarters photographed Su Yu arriving there on the morning of the 16th!
It would have been impossible not to get a photo; with Allen, the President of the Asia Region, accompanying him, and Robert, the Chief Executive Officer, receiving him, the lineup was simply massive.
So, as soon as Su Yu and his entourage entered the Disney film company headquarters, the news had already spread online in various countries.
Dominating the headlines was a photo of Su Yu shaking hands with Robert, taken from an excellent angle, making it look completely staged!
But does that matter?
Is this genius screenwriter and director from China about to embark on deeper cooperation with Disney?
When Lionsgate Films and Stewart saw this news, their faces were extremely grim.
Lionsgate Films is only a second-tier Hollywood film company, and it's simply not on the same level as first-tier Walt Disney.
If Disney sides with Su Yu, they really will have shot themselves in the foot.
The reason Disney attaches so much importance to Su Yu, even having its Chief Executive Officer greet him, is nothing more than to seek further cooperation.
Indeed, profit moves hearts!
Su Yu is not only exceptionally talented, but his appeal in the Chinese film market is also absolutely not to be underestimated.
Some Chinese celebrity artists come to Hollywood to fawn over them, hoping to raise their status by appearing in Hollywood films.
But cooperating with Su Yu, they aim to better penetrate the Chinese market!
Tianxing Entertainment is currently the largest entertainment company in China, with a market value of 250 billion chinese yuan, making it a behemoth.
If Tianxing Entertainment hadn't rejected foreign investment, Disney would have wanted to hold some shares in Tianxing Entertainment.
This time, Su Yu's seemingly impulsive decision to go to war with Stewart seemed a bit unwise.
However, after watching the finished film of “this man comes from blue star,” Disney's senior management no longer thought so.
Because what they saw was a genius, freely displaying his heaven-defying talent!
They didn't know under what circumstances Su Yu wrote such an imaginative, incredible, and even chilling script.
According to Hollywood's project quality rating standards, “this man comes from blue star” has reached A-level!
However, its investment and production costs are not even D-level!
Disney's box office estimate for “this man comes from blue star” is 350 million US dollars!
My goodness, this is absolutely insane profit, isn't it?!
And the zootopia project that Su Yu offered them for distribution and support was also rated A+ by Disney!
A+ level! Something that only appears once or twice a year!
They even thought about how to naturally and stunningly incorporate zootopia's IP cartoon characters into their theme parks.
This made Disney very eager to build a good relationship with Su Yu.
This time, Su Yu gave them a 40% investment share and MGM 10%.
If it were anyone else who brought a project to these two companies and said, “I'm giving you 40% of the investment share, don't be ungrateful,”
they would probably be thrown out.
But for Su Yu's project, they only felt that 40% was too little!
Of course, for a project led by Su Yu, it's impossible for them to take the majority.
But what's with MGM? We can completely exclude them!
With a production and promotion cost of 150 million US dollars, can MGM, in its current financial state, afford a 10% investment share?
Is it only because MGM offered to exchange investment shares from the agent series?!
“Mr. Su Yu, after several collaborations, we can be considered very good friends, right? As a friend, I have a question that puzzles me: why do you insist on including MGM? They are already struggling! If you want to invest in Hollywood films, take a look at these three projects we are preparing to launch! I feel we can engage in deeper cooperation!”
After some mutual commercial flattery, Robert presented the outlines of three projects.
And this time, Disney truly bled, because they offered three major projects from their subsidiary Marvel: team america 3, Ant-Man, and doctor strange.
“As a thank you for your zootopia, you can invest in these three films, but for team america 3, we can only give you 10% because too many people are eyeing it, so we can't give more, but for the latter two, we can give you a 20% investment share.”
Robert smiled and looked at Su Yu, speaking generously.
In fact, among these three films, the only one he was confident about was team america 3; the other two were new heroes that the Marvel series was planning to film.
How would the market acceptance be? He wasn't sure either.
Offering guaranteed profitable films was a show of sincerity, while the two uncertain ones were about sharing risk.
If Su Yu invested in all three, then it would mean he was on the same boat as Disney.
When the films are promoted in China, wouldn't Su Yu and Tianxing Entertainment exert all their effort?
Of course, if Su Yu didn't mind, he could even make a cameo in the films, which would be even better.
Robert's little scheme was clicking perfectly.
And Allen, who was accompanying them, was also deeply shocked at this moment.
He hadn't expected the head office to be so generous this time!
He had thought Robert would at most offer some B-level projects to Su Yu.
But these three were all A-level!
“Then let's go with team america 3 and doctor strange, 10% for one and 20% for the other. Tianxing Entertainment can sign the contract at any time.”
Su Yu also smiled.
He is a man with a system! He just needs to ask the system to know the box office performance of these three films.
Although all three made money, Ant-Man was clearly the worst.