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Lyman was awakened by his own biological clock. When he opened his eyes, a few rays of sunlight were thrown in front of the large French windows, making people unavoidably sleepy.

Dressed and washed, thought for a moment, and found a stack of manuscript paper from the table, and continued to write the outline of the new drama that I started last night.

Regarding Paramount’s cooperation, it can still be pushed forward.

In contrast to the memory in his mind, Lyman lowered his head to paint.

The sound of Shasha's pen touches the paper, like a natural sound, but it alarmed the beauty on the bed.

Eva turned her head for a while, changed her clothes, walked to the balcony, and greeted lazily: "Good morning..."

"Morning, Eva."

Eva leaned over and watched for a while, then washed herself and went downstairs to prepare breakfast.

As for the script, Lehman said that the characters in it were not suitable for her, so she didn't care.

Gradually, the outline was gradually improved. Lehman sorted it out and signed the name-"Smiths."

Yes, in the original time and space, this work should have been produced by Summit Entertainment-later acquired by Lionsgate. As for now, although it is still not good, it can barely be regarded as a second-tier studio.

Speaking of the starting point of the project, it should be the original work written by the original screenwriter Simon Kimberg after graduating from the Columbia University Film School-this guy really likes the Xiangjiang action film, and later wrote the "Xtreme Agent" series, which is considered an action fan.

Then, after the first draft of the script was completed, Kimberg went to the producer, Aqiwa Gossman. Generally speaking, screenwriters with too little qualifications need noble support. It just so happens that Gossman and Kimberg talked very much. Come, and the former won the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay for "Beautiful Mind".It's a boiled one.

After going through the script, Gaussman told Kimberg that I would help you to facilitate this project and adapt it into a movie, so I asked him if he wanted the copyright to be adapted-without this step, Gaussman would not have the capital to intervene, Kimberg. Newcomers have nothing to do with themselves.

After getting the copyright, Gaussman used the network to find relationships everywhere, and finally he was photographed by Summit Entertainment.

Of course, in this life, they have not been so fast yet. Lehman filed the script in advance. This is also because the movie is an original script, so there will be no conflicts.

And since meeting with Shirley the day before yesterday, this partner has been publicizing it, both overtly and secretly to create momentum for this cooperation-their family also has huge media resources, which suddenly made Lehman very passive.

Of course, Lyman also knew that Paramount had revealed the news, but had two plans.

One is to quickly finalize the matter, increase the confidence of investment institutions and shareholders, and relieve her pressure on the company-anyway, the studio's failure to achieve results means that the position of the executives is unstable;

The second is to propagate the hype in advance, and to fulfill the command of the big boss of Redstone.

But so, Lehman had to really push the project as soon as possible.

After all, Firefly still wants to continue to grow. It is impossible to have only an ideal partner. Even if it wants to be among the top six, it cannot be completely against the top six - in other words, draw one faction, suppress one faction, and unite according to Taizu's secret technique of slaying the dragon. The more friends you have, the fewer enemies will naturally decrease, which is called internal division.

And "Smiths" is obviously a very suitable project to ease the relationship, because this movie is very publicized, but the worst thing about Blue Butterfly Pictures is publicity, even if it is given to it, it will not work, it is better to take it out with Pella Mongolian cooperation.

Just like DreamWorks also has North American distribution channels, but the masterpiece will still be handed over to the six major distributors-Spielberg is also a sensible person. With his own resources, he forced to do it. It should have been sold at the box office and can recover the cost. That's pretty good.

Naturally, Lehman knew this too well. Liam hadn’t told him how much food Blue Butterfly Pictures should eat. Whether he wanted it or not, if he invested more than US$70 million, he had to give out most of it. The benefits go to six major areas.

Only when the six major media channels have the right to speak, can they have enough publicity resources to release the market potential of a high-investment and high-risk work.

Afterwards, Lehman took the script outline while looking for his own screenwriting department to improve it-lines or something, Lehman was not an authentic American, and couldn't deepen oral communication at all.

On the one hand, notify Paramount of the project review news-review is to contact Allianz Fire Fighting Foundation to do third-party guarantees, including crew accident insurance and film completion guarantees.

During this period, Lyman also discussed with Liam how to use this cooperation to rub Paramount’s distribution channel network.

Liam also thought about this, he said, don’t we have to pay half of the publicity cost, just transfer the team to show cooperation, I personally feel the way, and Paramount is very likely to agree.

"Last year, Paramount's films made money together, but compared to several competitors, the data is not so good. Do you think those shareholders will be willing to reduce profits year by year?"

The past few years have been the period of weakness for Paramount, and the previous life also blamed Shirley Lansing for the layoff, so they are obviously unwilling-the competition between the six majors is under great pressure, cooperation is there, and more It's still the kind of tumbling each other and killing them when they find an opportunity.

It stands to reason that Paramount has a lot of heritage, and it should be rejuvenated-the best publicity resources combined with qualified production capabilities shouldn't be the bottom.

But after entering the new millennium, Paramount lacked a very crucial link-the series of films.

Yes, among the Big Six, Paramount has the worst ability to produce a series of movies-first Universal, 20th Century Fox Pearl Jade, Sony Columbia’s Spider-Man series emerged, and then Warner successively developed " Harry Potter, "The Matrix", and dc books, Disney all come up with "Pirates of the Caribbean", even MGM is down, and there is "007" backing up, shooting one from time to time, you can eat everything Profit is full.

What about Paramount, what does Paramount have?

"Mission Impossible"?

Without Tom Cruise, the "Mission Impossible" project could not be launched unilaterally.

In other words, the series of movies is the trump card that can ease the pressure of production, but Paramount has missed the tide of this era. In fact, even Xinxian, United States and Firefly Pictures can't match it. The film series has the least risk, and the market returns are superimposed.

For example, "The Matrix", if it weren't for a series of products, could it be sold at such a high box office with the concept of a somewhat unfinished script for the third part?

Don't even think about it.

Ever since, everyone has Kings and Kings in their hands, and they don't panic when they really fight, which makes Paramount embarrassed.

So, cooperating with Firefly Pictures, naturally, you may hold your nose and make concessions. The distribution of benefits is not good. Participation in the publicity and distribution cannot be strictly rejected. In the final analysis, Blue Butterfly Pictures is sneaking over the relationship under the banner of help...

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