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The sun on the west coast always rises later than on the east coast. Early in the morning, when the sky was still dark, Lyman and George took a taxi out.

Last night, Paramount Pictures came to a notice, saying that it was announcing the situation during the screening of some films.

Its nature is equivalent to a regular meeting, which is convenient for communicating the opinions of both parties and making appropriate adjustments.

The two went into the conference room of Paramount Pictures one after another, and Lyman saw that there were not too many people.

In addition to two people who were slightly familiar when signing the issuance contract, there were also three people who did not know. Judging from the seats at the conference table, their positions in Paramount were not very high. It's still empty.

After saying hello to these people, Lyman sat next to George, and the old god was waiting for the start of the meeting.

"Mr. Slok is a small matter." A person from Paramount Pictures said softly, "Wait a while before we can come."

Lehman nodded slightly.

"Three Fools in Bollywood" is just one of Paramount Pictures' operational projects. It is not the kind that accounts for the bulk of the revenue. It is a "child of someone else's family". And focus on it.

Lehman and George both understood this, and sat in their seats and waited comfortably.

Judging from the initiative to invite meetings to be held, today is likely to be a regular meeting caused by the good performance of the film after the release.

Just as Lehmann was thinking about it, Tony Slok walked in. He saw that the representatives of Europa Pictures had arrived. He walked towards the top of the conference table and smiled and nodded at Lehman and George.

"This is the director of the Paramount Pictures Distribution Department." George turned his head, guessing that Lyman didn't know the identity of the other party, and explained softly.

"Ok."

At this time, another person hurriedly walked into the conference room. He apologized a little and said that something was delayed, and then sat down in the position of Tony Slock, director of the distribution department.

The meeting began.

The topic of discussion is naturally the movie "Three Fools Havoc in Bollywood", which has just started to be screened. After talking about some irrelevant and talkative scenes of Rory, Tony Slock turned the topic to the film these days The obtained market data analysis comes from here.

"After one day's screening yesterday, "Three Fools in Bollywood" on 21 screens in 21 theaters, won the box office of about 101,300 dollars, and the single-day performance reached 4,820 dollars!"

The high-level of Paramount Pictures is obviously in a good mood, and his voice is exceptionally clear. "More importantly, the data reported by the audience at the theater yesterday showed that the positive rate of the film was as high as 90%. The satisfaction rate is also 87%, and the number of viewers criticizing the film is very small."

"Next, I will ask Charles from the marketing department to provide you with specific data analysis."

As soon as Tony Slok's voice fell, it turned out that the last person to enter the venue stood up.

"This is a report document that the target audience that we entrusted the company to investigate yesterday learned from where the film came to buy tickets. The data included above shows that the people who came to watch the film in the morning learned about "Three Stupid Havoc in Bollywood" There are four main channels in the city. One is print media and newspaper news, which account for about one-third; the other is TV commercials and trailers in the square in downtown Los Angeles, which also account for one-third; Dans knows less than one-third of the information or the information on the Internet channels; fourthly, the people who came to the theater to see the posters were temporarily upset, and this group was the least."

"In the afternoon and evening, a part of the audience quickly became a part of the largest proportion, almost from a small proportion that was almost negligible. After hearing other people talk about this movie, they were affected and came to the theater. People who bought tickets to watch!"

"In other words, the audience not only has a high rate of praise for the film, but the revenue ratio of the target group in the converted channel market is also very high. My conclusion is complete."

It was not until Charles sat down that Lyman, who was confused, came to his senses, what he was talking about.

It means that audiences who have watched "Three Fools in Bollywood" are very willing to share this movie that he thinks is very good with others, which unknowingly becomes the most important publicity channel for this movie.

Is this the power of Amway and tap water?

Really!

Everyone in the conference room looked at Lehman. Although the film is still far away from the way to generate revenue, it is undoubtedly a good start. His director's strength is undoubtedly recognized by everyone.

With these data as the support behind it, Paramount Pictures is more optimistic about the prospects of "Three Fools in Bollywood".

Tony Slok continued: "Last night, I filed an application with the company, and the company approved it early in the morning. We will add another 500,000 US dollars to the promotion of the film."

Having said that, he turned his head to look at the person where Charles started, "Bob, immediately notify the printing factory to start washing the copy, I request that tomorrow morning, increase to 200 theaters."

The man nodded, "I'll make arrangements right away."

Lehman understood the meaning of this sentence, and knew that Paramount Pictures actually did not prepare many copies before the screening. They were thinking of a small-scale long-term screening plan, unlike Europa Pictures in other companies. The layout of the place was generous from the beginning.

The French mainland is even more open with the number of 1,500 cinemas.

But there is no way, Paramount Pictures has its own ideas, and they also bought the regional distribution rights, it is up to them to decide how to operate.

Fortunately, profit is really confusing!

Now, even the copy has to be prepared. It seems that the expansion of the screening is very safe.

Think about it, in fact, Lyman can also understand Paramount Pictures' cautiousness.

Before going through the market test, rushing to invest large-scale publicity funds is really a big risk.

Moreover, their idea is to redeem prizes, and they must learn to control the wind reviews. Once the blind expansion of the screenings results in a large number of audiences who do not buy it, and the word-of-mouth decline, then the plan to "win both fame and fortune" is naturally nonsense. Talk.

This circle is so practical. Before you see real-time market feedback, no matter how famous you are, no matter how great your work is, you can't put a lot of resources into operation. If you want this group of profitable businessmen, conscience finds it, is it possible?

In a company meeting like this, Lehman, a non-Paramount Pictures member, has no say at all. Even George is basically listening and rarely speaks.

Tony Slock seems to have a gentle work style, polite and polite, but in fact he has a great desire for power and a strong desire to control. He completely dominated the topic center of this conference. Most of the time, he was instructing others. Listening.

"Charles..." Tony Slock looked over. "Contact the local media in Boston. We want to expand there, communicate in advance to create momentum for the film, don't forget."

"I see." Charles said as briefly as possible: "I'll contact you later."

"Adams, keep in touch with the theaters at all times. The location of the theaters in Boston should be arranged as far as possible to areas with high traffic."

"I try my best."

"It's not to try, but to do it, understand?"

Hearing this, Adams hesitated but nodded vigorously.

Each item of work was arranged by Tony Slok, and it seemed only organized in the cumbersome.

At the end of the meeting, he finally remembered the position of Europa Films, and asked routinely: "Two, do you have anything to add?"

"No." George said, and Lyman nodded affirming the answer.

"Then, that's it for today." Tony Slok stood up first, "The meeting is over."

Others walked outside one after another, and when Lyman was about to leave, Tony Slok came over.

"Director Lyman."

He stood opposite Lyman and offered to extend his hand.

Lyman smiled and shook his hand. "Mr. Slok."

"Call me Tony." He politely let go, seeming to convey his kindness by address.

"Tony."

The two looked at each other and laughed at the same time, but their thoughts were different.

Tony Slock attaches great importance to him, undoubtedly because "Three Fools Haunted Bollywood" showed enough market potential, and his previous "Buried Alive" also made a lot of profits for Paramount Pictures , Of course, not as many as Europa Pictures.

Lehman knew this, and it was estimated that the other party had an idea to win him over.

But even so, he wouldn't be dazzled by the good attitude that the other party suddenly released. Apart from anything else, Europa Pictures has always treated him well, and there is no need to rush to change jobs.What's more, are you blind when you do this stuff in front of George?Or is it intentional?

He didn't understand, but he was still courteous of Xu and Snake Committee.

"You don't see many young directors like you," Tony Slock said, reaching out and patting Lyman on the shoulder. "Especially such talented person."

Lehman said modestly: "I just had better luck."

"When I finish this work, I invite you to have a drink." Tony Slock said quite sincerely.

Naturally, Lehman would not agree to such words, "Okay, I hope it will be a celebration wine after the film is successful."

The two laughed again.

......

Leaving Paramount Pictures headquarters with George and returning to the hotel.

Lehman became idle again. In addition to conceiving the plot and story design of the next new movie, most of the time, he used George’s news channel to pay close attention to the latest market dynamics of "Three Fools in Bollywood" Soon, a week passed...