Hollywood legendary director

On March 2, Lyman went to the headquarters of Paramount Pictures because of the schedule of "Micro Love."

The atmosphere in Shirley Lansing's office is a bit weird.

Now everyone knows that the honeymoon period between Lyman and Paramount is over. With the establishment of Firefly Pictures and the news of the cooperation between Lyman and Warner, the relationship between the two is gone.

However, this does not affect the existing cooperation between the two parties.

As for what the Miramax people said, Shirley Lansing simply ignored it.

She's not stupid. Moreover, if she buys DreamWorks, she will be able to make up for the lack of production. Why should she hit Lehman?

To avenge his independence?

This is a business, not a playhouse.Perhaps Harvey and the others are too high on themselves, and they cooperate with Paramount to suppress the Firefly project, they are also worthy?

Although she herself is a little unhappy, she cannot rise to the level of corporate strategy.

Shirley Lansing asked the assistant to pour a cup of coffee, glanced at Lehman, and said another topic, "Saw Cry 2 is about to be finished, do you have any ideas?"

"No hurry, wait until the post-production is finished."

She nodded, and then suddenly came out, "We Paramount want the follow-up copyright of Chainsaw, can we make a price?"

After the release of "Chain Saw 1", the offline DVD market became very hot, which allowed Shirley Lansing to fully see the potential of this project. She found that compared to theater screenings, thriller movies are also very popular in the rental market. popular.

But at present, the development leadership of this project is not in Paramount's hands. They don't want to launch many of the promotion plans, otherwise it would be too cheap for Firefly Pictures, so after they discussed it, they wanted to buy out the follow-up directly. The copyright of the movie is completely controlled by Paramount.

However, Lehman is also clear about this.He has always known the value of the series "Chain Saw".

Nonsense, can the project that can make 8 sequel movies be great?

He can't let it go. This is the company's trump card, but people can't offend it too hard. After all, Paramount is also a good partner.

Lehman declined: "I don't count this alone. Ryan is also a shareholder of the company and needs his approval."

The idea fell through, and Shirley Lansing said: "The project that Mr. Lehman cooperated with Warner, I don't know how the revenue between you is divided?"

Speaking of this, she was still a bit stuck.

Even more dissatisfied with Lehman, such a big thing was hidden from Paramount, and in the end, the so-called partner got the news from Warner.

Lehman said: "Almost 46%, they give priority to 15% of the box office revenue in terms of distribution. What, if "Chain Saw 2" is released, can the distribution contract be reduced?"

Shirley Lansing shook her head and said, "15% is already pretty good, and Paramount's publicity resources are not bad, right?"

Unless it is self-produced and sold, the issuance terms will be set too high or too low, otherwise it will fluctuate between 10% and 25%.Look at their respective negotiation skills.

"Forget it, let's talk about "Micro Love". Regarding the schedule, how does Paramount arrange it?"

Seeing that the other party couldn't offer a better offer, Lehman didn't want to continue talking, anyway, it was impossible for him to return to the previous situation.Talking more is not helpful.

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"We are tentatively scheduled to release it on March 16."

In Paramount’s conference room, a group of executives from the distribution department gathered together. One of the middle-aged white men said there: “This is the time for the weekend after Valentine’s Day. Film competition, and other fixed-file works will not pose too much threat to us."

"Then why not choose Valentine's Day?"

"Because of The Passion, it is too strong, we need to avoid it."

Well, this work with religious borders relied on crazy publicity and received more than 33 million U.S. dollars in just one week after it was released. At the same time, it halted everything.

In other words, every Christian believer is willing to go into the theater and contribute a box office.

Moreover, this is the famous spring off-season, not summer vacation or Christmas. It is really amazing to have this result.

"Any other movies that need attention?"

"Not too much. Columbia's "Fifty First Love" is a movie genre similar to ours. Warner's action movie "Cops and Heroes" has little to do with our target audience, and Warner Animation's "Scooke "Compared to 2", there is no competitive pressure, and there is still a Touchstone Films' "The Horse of Madness". Just listen to the name and you will know what it is."

"So, if we are ranked on March 16, the only thing we need to pay attention to is "Fifty First Loves"?" an executive asked.

"Yes, we deliberately avoided "The Passion of the Christ", which was ranked after Valentine's Day. Colombia also planned this way. As a result, we collided with us. The current situation is likely to evolve into the relationship between our two families. In the fight, the winner maximizes the box office, and the loser drinks the rest of the soup."

"What about the theater?"

"We are in contact with major theaters to strive for the number of screens to be arranged and drawn as much as possible. Because of the popularity of "The Passion of the Christ", there are not many choices on the market at present, and we need to wait for its popularity to drop. Only by squeezing out its row of films can we have a large-scale screening."

"The Passion of the Christ" premiered on February 25, and it has only been a little over a week ago. It was the time when the momentum was at its peak, and the theaters were certainly more optimistic about them.

"Then Columbia?"

"Don't worry, we will definitely not have fewer films than theirs."

The competition among the Big Six in Hollywood has long maintained a good balance for the theater chain.

"Tomorrow a movie watching will be held, and representatives from the cinema will be invited to come over, and then the number of film arrangements and screen screenings will be determined."

"Is there anything else?" Shirley Lansing, who was sitting in the first place, asked when the discussion was almost done.

Lyman had been sitting next to him and listening quietly.

He didn't have much contact with this issue, so he didn't have much say.

What's more, as a veteran film company in the industry, Paramount is very familiar with the whole process, and Lehman is no better than them, so there is no opinion.

"Then the meeting will be over."

Shirley Lansing stood up and said to Lehman again: "I have something to do, so I won't be with you. See you tomorrow."

"See you tomorrow." Lyman smiled politely, watching Shirley Lansing exit the door of the conference room.

He stopped staying any longer and went back to his company.