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Chapter 440: The First Meeting of the New Year
🕑 Added 2025-08-29 15:03:41 +0000 UTCAs everyone took their seats, Washimine Entertainment’s first meeting after the New Year began.
The participants in this meeting included not only Shion and her Washimine Entertainment management, but also the core members of [Erque Studio] represented by Nanaya, Ori and Shonan. Even Avi Arad and Kevin Feige, the top two executives of Marvel Studios in North America, participated in the meeting via a webcast.
All the people working here are core figures in various departments or project management of Washimine Entertainment, and are also representatives of various factions within Washimine Entertainment.
You can tell a thing or two from the seating arrangement.
The person sitting in the front row is Shion, and the person sitting on her right is Nanaya, and on the other side is Iioka, the basically invisible assistant, but both of them are the people Shion trusts the most.
Then, people from Erque Studio took their seats on Nanaya's side. They are not only the largest film producer of Washimine Entertainment, but also the provider of Washimine Entertainment's IP.
Following Iioka were the distribution and surrounding related departments of Washimine Entertainment. What they do is to monetize the IP in Washimine Entertainment and make money.
There were only two exceptions. Avi Arad and Kevin Feige joined the meeting via video, so they were both hung on the wall (screen).
[Is this considered framed and hung on the wall? ]
Nanaya thought unscrupulously that this was a way to kill time before the meeting started.
"I always feel like you're thinking bad things, Nanaya."
Kevin Feige noticed the strange look that Nanaya gave him at a glance.
"That's your illusion. I have dark circles under my eyes recently. You must have seen it wrong."
Nanaya answered calmly without blushing or getting nervous.
"Okay, stop talking nonsense. We have a lot to cover today, so you should take a look at the plan first. Arad, Fitch, I have already sent your materials to your email addresses."
Shion signaled to Iioka to distribute the materials in his hand to everyone present.
"I believe you already know the theme of the meeting. In addition to discussing Washimine Entertainment's work plan for 2007, it is also a summary of the past year's situation."
While Iioka was handing out meeting materials, Shion explained the main content of the meeting to everyone present.
However, while speaking, Shion's eyes scanned the people sitting at the long table in the conference room.
Finally, she turned her gaze to Lily and Gen Urobuchi, who were sitting at the end of the long table.
Logically speaking, these two people were not qualified to attend this private meeting.
After all, one of them is not even an employee of Washimine Entertainment, and the other can only be regarded as a small idol under Washimine Entertainment.
The reason why Lily and Kyon were able to appear here was entirely because of the recommendation made by Nanaya himself.
Although both of them joined in as observers, being able to participate in such a high-level meeting was in itself a recognition of their status.
The reason given by Nanaya was very simple. Kyon was the screenwriter of [Nique Studio]'s two biggest projects this year, FZ and HF. As a core figure of the project, it was natural for him to attend the meeting.
Shion also knew that Nanaya had been training Gen Urobuchi to become the core screenwriter of [Nique Studio].
You should know that before this, all the works of [Erque Studio] were written and directed by Nanaya himself. FZ is the first movie of Nanaya in which he was not listed as the first screenwriter.
Shion certainly believed in Nanaya's vision, but she was more curious about the fact that Nanaya had not yet brought Kyon into the [Nique Studio].
If you really want to count, Kyon can only be considered as someone Nanaya borrowed from Nitro+.
Of course, compared to Gen Urobuchi, Shion was more surprised by Lily's joining.
Although Shion has always known that Nanaya values her very much, he is also optimistic about Lily's economic value as a star.
The results brought by the two Fate series also proved this point, but letting Lily directly participate in such a meeting was something Shion did not expect.
You should know that even the current mainstay of Marvel (and the only one at present) Robert Downey Jr. was unable to attend this meeting.
[Nanaya, are you exaggerating this girl too much? Don't make it hard to control her in the future. ]
Shion had some complaints about Nanaya's behavior, but she didn't say them out loud.
As for Nanaya herself, she didn't have such awareness. Both Kyon and Lily would be very busy in 2007.
Attending this meeting can let them know in advance how busy they will be in the coming year.
And now, Nanaya's attention is on the documents distributed by Shion.
He flipped through the several-page document as quickly as possible. The meeting topics involved were not much different from what Nanaya had expected.
What surprised Nanaya a little was the two new Marvel movie projects marked at the end, namely "Thor" and "Captain America".
Brother-con and Political Commissar Law?
Nanaya pursed his lips and began to think.
It stands to reason that with the success of "Iron Man", it is understandable that Marvel has begun to expand its film universe and start a new personal film series.
But Nanaya noticed that the person who submitted this plan was not Avi Arad, the apparent head of Marvel, but Kevin Feige.
This is very interesting.
[Is it Kevin's own decision, or is it Shion's idea? ]
Nanaya looked up at the TV screen and found that Avi Arad was looking at Kevin with a very surprised look.
It seems that no matter which speculation is true, Avi Arad was definitely not aware of it beforehand.
Nanaya suddenly became interested in this meeting. He sat up straight and pretended to listen attentively.
However, at the beginning of the meeting, Shion did not directly talk about the Marvel project, after all, that was a later topic.
She first reported Washimine Entertainment's achievements over the past year to everyone present.
"In 2006, we released a total of 6 movies in North America. In addition to the two billion-dollar productions, UBW and Iron Man, we also released 4 low-budget movies, 3 of which were produced by other Hollywood companies and distributed by us. This shows that Washimine Entertainment has been recognized by some film production companies in North America."
"The most worthy of celebration is UBW, which won the annual box office championship in North America and the world with $460 million in North America and $1.1 billion worldwide. The profit of Fate's peripheral products reached $300 million last year. It can be said that Fate has become the most successful commercial IP of our company."
Although everyone already knew the data reported by Shion, everyone in the conference room still smiled happily after hearing this.
After all, who doesn't like a lot of money?
If the occasion wasn't so formal, Nanaya would probably just high-five and cheer with Ori and Shonan.
Shion also did not forget Marvel Studios in North America. She smiled and announced to the TV screen:
"Of course, Marvel has also worked very hard. Iron Man has been released in North America for two weeks and has earned $260 million. Not only did it win the North American Christmas box office championship, it also beat Night at the Museum and has a chance to challenge the third place in the 2006 box office chart. You guys are the main contributors to our Washimine's victory over Fox last year."
Both Avi Arad and Kevin Feige had smiles on their faces. You know, they were under too much pressure before the release of "Iron Man", and now they can finally laugh.
In fact, "Night at the Museum" did not lose badly. It earned 200 million yuan at the box office in two weeks.
According to current professional box office forecasts, "Iron Man" has a chance to earn $350 million in North America, while "Night at the Museum" is estimated to be between $270 million and $280 million.
If this speculation is correct, then the performance of "Night at the Museum" can be considered a glorious defeat.
At the same time, it is also the first movie that was influenced by the time traveler Nanaya and whose box office revenue increased instead of decreased.
You should know that before, whether it was "Fantastic Four" or "X-Men 3", the box office of the movies shrank a lot compared to the original time and space because of the seven nights.
However, the data of "Night at the Museum" is much higher than that in Nanaya's memory, which shows that the quality of the other party's film is still very high.
Of course, this is also related to the box office battle between the other party and "Iron Man", and the publicity is more powerful than the original time and space.
However, Nanaya felt that the people from Fox might not be very happy with this result, after all, they still lost to Washimine in the end.
But this matter has nothing to do with Nanaya. If Fox could learn from this to live in peace with Washimine, he and Shion would not continue to pursue him.
But if the old fox hasn't learned his lesson, Nanaya won't be polite.
"Well, no matter how glorious the past was, it's gone. We have to look forward positively."
When everyone's excitement had passed, Shion clapped her hands to signal everyone to listen to her continue speaking.
Everyone in the conference room looked up, even the two people on the screen stopped smiling, and everyone was waiting for Shion to explain in detail Washimine Entertainment's plans for 2007.
"Regarding the film distribution work this year, first of all, the company's own films are expected to increase to 5 this year, and the production scale will be 2 large and 3 small. The large productions are FZ Part 1 and The Incredible Hulk, and the other three are small productions, still mainly horror movies and comedy movies."
Nanaya had helped to discuss Shion's distribution layout a long time ago.
At present, Washimine Entertainment is still in a stage of rapid development. While ensuring the investment in 1-2 big-budget movies every year, it also releases some low-budget movies to fill the film library and increase the distribution experience of its employees.
Comedy and horror films are both genres where it is easy for small-scale hits to become big winners.
And even if you are unlucky and lose money, you won’t lose too much because of the low cost of investment.
I have no objection to this part of the content. After all, it is very consistent with the current development situation of Washimine Entertainment, and these film projects were finalized as early as last year, so there is nothing much to say.
People are more concerned about those uncertain projects.
Sure enough, Shion then mentioned: "Then it's about the works submitted by Marvel Pictures that will be released in 2008. First is the sequel "Iron Man 2", and then "Thor" and "Captain America"..."
"Please wait a moment."
As expected, Avi Arad interrupted Shion's speech.
"I don't remember submitting any plans for Thor or Captain America."
【Here it comes.】
The corners of Nanaya's mouth curled up, he straightened his back and waited for the show to begin.
