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The film was finished, and the crew was disbanded, but Lyman and Thomas still couldn't take time off and had to devote themselves to the post-production of the film.

The competition for this year’s Christmas stalls must be fierce. Counting from July, although there is a lot of time left for the later period of "Water Monster in the Lake", it cannot be delayed.

In the days that followed, the work of scoring and editing was carried out one by one.

Lehman stays in the editing room every day, in addition to exhausting energy, in fact, this feeling is not bad.

Watching the movie a little bit of perfection, there is a unique high mood.

In addition to his important work, Lehman also often reads newspapers to learn about all kinds of information in Hollywood.

Since the beginning of July, the box office of "Batman: The Mystery of the Shadow" has fallen sharply, from 8 to 900 box offices per day to less than 5 million daily box office, and the decline is still there.

However, the total box office of the film in North America has exceeded 150 million, and the global total is 230 million. Compared with the cost of shooting and the announced cost of 130 million US dollars, the profit prospects are very clear.

Not to mention that the performance of the dc comics department has increased a lot because of the "Batman" screening and the positive reports of various media. Many passers-by are also attracted by the movie and become dc comics. Warner’s management is all Happy in my heart-after all, before "The Mystery of Xia Ying" appeared, Bruce Wayne's character value development rarely made money like this.

This is actually the future trend of why comic movies are prevalent-after eating at the box office and eating peripherals, there is more profit margin than ordinary masterpieces, so even if the investment is high, once successful, it is still very cost-effective.

At least, making a movie is a risk, so why not choose a more profitable one.

On the market, the focus of other media is on the role of Lehman’s Firefly Pictures in this project, and the news that it may get up to 130 million box office shares.

It's hard for Hollywood to hide secrets. I don't know where the media obtained first-hand information. Anyway, the "New York Daily" made a fortune.

Among them, it was clearly reported that Firefly Pictures undertook nearly 110 million filming expenses for "The Mystery of Chivalrous Shadow", and according to the agreement signed by both parties, based on the global box office drop of at least 370 million, it was deducted Warner’s share of the issuance rake, as the largest investor, Firefly Pictures relied on the box office to receive the least $130 million, and the higher the ceiling, the higher the return.

However, if you calculate the investment of Firefly Pictures, then the box office will only pay back, and the profit will not exceed 20 million.

Comparing Warner Pictures' investment of less than 40 million yuan (announcement expenditure), but reaping all the peripheral benefits of 74 million yuan plus copyright, it seems that Firefly Pictures is working for free?

If you have this kind of thinking, you are wrong.

In fact, this newspaper was also mocking Warner, thinking that they did not dare to take any small risks, and instead gave their own money-sucking series to others to share, which plainly caused unnecessary losses-this is like Lucasfilm's own The ace project "Star Wars" is all given to others to invest.

You know, with the strength of Warner, you can be completely self-sufficient. Whether it is production or publicity, you don't need to rely on outsiders. Why don't you dare to invest in the "Batman" project?

In terms of profit, Firefly Pictures paid a lot but couldn’t get the big head. But this is a project that Warner can develop. Firefly’s behavior is cutting Warner’s own cake. No matter how much it cuts, it should be regarded as Warner's loss.

The argument of this newspaper is based on this.

After all, a project earns 20 million, not including the follow-up content income of DVD burning and distribution. With Warner's volume, there are no seven projects that can be developed in a year.

At this point, Warner is also a little depressed.

People? I always don't like to find mistakes in myself.

The results that were originally acceptable seem to have become less acceptable. If the "Batman" series can become a gold mine of "Harry Potter", wouldn't Warner's performance be even better?

They even held a small meeting to figure out some ways they thought they could get rid of Firefly Pictures through legal means.

Unfortunately, it doesn't work at all.

Because Lehman kept a guard in the investment agreement.

His hand is actually the legendary film industry of his previous life.

Although Thomas Tour doesn't know how to make movies, the first one of the investment philosophy he learned from his Wall Street background is to never believe that business partners will abide by ethics in the face of huge distribution of benefits.

Therefore, when he cooperated with Warner, what he played was the investment of the platter, which was to bind the 30 parts of the future Warner production project in 5 years as a whole.

In this way, investment risks can be spread to multiple movies, even if many of them are loss-making, as long as the overall harvest is positive, for Legend Pictures, this means stable investment.

Of course, Warner is actually very bad, like some sequel projects that have sold out, they never let Legendary Pictures intervene, such as the "Harry Potter" series. In the investment line, the name of Legendary Pictures is not seen at all.

But Legendary Pictures also has its own small ninety-nine, that is, the project they invest in, whether it is a loss or a profit, the sequel to Warner must be unavoidable unless everyone stops playing.

This is also the reason why after the success of "The Mystery of Xia Ying", the latter two Warners did not kick off Legendary Pictures and did it alone-not that they did not want to kick, but they could not kick off from legal means, unless the "Batman" project continued to be shelved. No development.

Back to the present, Firefly Pictures is also playing like this.

Of course, they are not as big as Legendary Pictures. Lehman just packaged and calculated the "Batman" trilogy as a whole. The premise that they can promise not to occupy the copyright is Warner's assurance of the rationality of Firefly Pictures' investment.

Otherwise, after finally making money, he was kicked off, and Lehmann was stupid before paying the Warner Incubation Project.

Therefore, Warner had to obediently continue to develop the sequel to "Batman" with Firefly Pictures.

This is also the reason they were teased-although they don't know who disclosed the specific contract details, everyone is willing to watch Warner's jokes.

On July 14, after two weeks of rough editing, the general feature film of "The Monster in the Lake" has been released.

The duration of the film is about 114 minutes, plus the opening and ending credits, it is controlled within 120 minutes.

After all, it’s a special effects movie. You must pay attention to the length of time. Once the tempo is too slow, the movie will appear "windy" and the visual comfort it can give the audience will also be affected.

In other words, special effects films shouldn’t be thinking about other people’s plot films, and they are not taking the same path at all.

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