Escalade drove out of the DreamWorks Animation campus, and Martin made a few calls, getting the latest situation in the theater through the people at DreamWorks.
Bruce asked, "The film rights were sold?"
"No, the price wasn't right," Martin put away his phone and said, "The people from the big companies have left, and at the end, some unknown company offered only 30 million US Dollars."
Bruce said, "A production that cost 150 million US Dollars, 30 million, honestly, is indeed too little."
Martin said, "The distribution side has to buy it, then promote and push it through distribution channels, they won't think of a wide release without putting in another 30 million US Dollars."
Bruce, puzzled, asked, "You still want to buy it?"
Martin simply explained, "When I told you to come up with 30 million US Dollars, I was planning to mark it up by 10 million US Dollars and resell it to Netflix."
Bruce couldn't help but say, "You think of Netflix as a garbage dump?"
