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On September 10, the projection room of the Blue Butterfly Pictures Building.

The president of the Los Angeles branch of Emperor Cinemas greeted his acquaintances warmly as soon as he walked in.

Next to him, Liam was also chatting with these theater managements.

There are less than 10 most powerful theaters in Hollywood, and AMC, Royal Entertainment Group (Imperial Theaters), and Cinemark account for half of the screens.

Although these theater executives are their own leaders, they often jointly promote films. They are very familiar with each other, and they often negotiate whether it is worth investing resources.

So, today they are gathered together, of course it is also for the movie screening.

No, after the post-production of "Dead Silence" was completed, Liam immediately began preparations for the announcement. The pre-publicity has also started. More than 6.5 million have been thrown away. The schedule is set in mid-September. This trip invites theaters. , Just to finally determine the scale of the painting and the share of the film.

As we all know, if a movie makes money or not, it needs the cooperation of theaters to make money, otherwise even if it has the potential to sell like "Titanic", it will not make much money without enough screens.

After a while, Lyman, Wen Ziren, and Ray Warner also arrived.

After a polite meal, one of the theater presidents asked: "Mr. Luster, James Wynn, how much box office do you think this movie will have? Let's talk about it first, let us have a reference when we decide."

The scale of the movie's screening is not the bigger the better, but it is based on the potential audience of the movie. Otherwise, the number of screens will be huge, but the distribution of benefits and the income of the film will be detrimental to the studio. It would have been profitable. It will also lead to losses because of the cinema chain taking too much.

In addition, the total number of screens in the United States is more than 30,000, who can afford a movie.

Moreover, in many areas, they prefer to buy the second round of screenings - that is, works that are painted in mainstream cinemas are shown for long-term screenings in some areas with low passenger flow.

After all, the less prosperous the area, the less people have spare money to watch movies.

If the theaters there want to survive, they basically buy the second-round screening rights to solve the film source problem.

"Director Wen Ziren will answer in this regard. I can only say that as a horror movie, its quality is absolutely excellent. As for the market, it is not just the film itself that can tell. Everyone is high in theaters. Regardless, you should know that publicity and distribution can easily determine the market." Lehman said with a smile, and did not want to analyze it randomly.

If it’s right, it’s okay; if it’s wrong, it will definitely be a joke that will circulate. What's more, "Dead Silence" has deviated from the original work by more than half. It can only be said that some of the flaws and character flaws in the plot have been erased. The rhythm is smoother and the viewing experience is better.

Anyway, if there is no certainty, it is better not to talk about it in general, so as not to make wrong judgments by the theaters and Blue Butterfly Pictures.

After all, with the reputation that Lehman has accumulated and the vision that has been proven, what if the bragging is too much, and it is not as expected?

"Why, aren't you optimistic?" The president of AMC joked with a chuckle.

Over the past few years, Firefly's movie projects are still very profitable. As a member of the theater chain, they also face the problem of lack of popular film sources, and the usual relationship is naturally maintained.

"No, I'm very optimistic." Lehman smiled: "It's useless to talk about this now. You should decide how many screens you will allocate after watching the feature film. The trial film will begin immediately."

"Hope, it's another "Saw Fright"." Another cinema executive pointed out.

Shooting horror themes is exactly what Wen Ziren is good at, but this one has not directed a new work for two years, and the series of "Chain Saw" has been screened to the fourth part.

Although the audience was a bit tired due to the subject matter, and the box office was not very good, the latest one was only released for three and a half weeks and got 17.56 million at the box office, so I hurriedly closed the painting and rushed to release the DVD-this series started from the third one. At the box office alone, he was already at a loss. If it weren't for the prospect of the DVD market, Lehman would have stopped shooting.

Even so, it didn't make much money. Anyway, Firefly Pictures was packaged and thrown to Lionsgate to slowly develop the peripheral value, and only a small part of the profit was shared by them, allowing them to make this hard money.

After all, the Lionsgate of the previous life was a fierce man who took eight films of "Chain Saw", and they were willing to eat a little profit. Anyway, their company has a lot of people, and it is better to mess around and make some money instead of raising and not doing things.

When Lehmann took his seat, he quickly focused on the big screen.

"Dead Silence" is the second horror film directed by Wen Ziren, even if it is two years apart-after all, the output of Hollywood directors is generally not high. A new work in two years is already very powerful, and its shooting techniques are still skillful and the atmosphere of the film Comes with horror effects.

Moreover, after the script was improved, the main line became clearer.

The main thing is that a small town wronged a puppet performer. Later, the woman named Mary Shaw committed suicide at home. Her blood soaked in her favorite puppet, Billy, and she became an evil spirit. The residents of the town slaughtered indiscriminately. Legend has it that anyone who screams at night will lose their tongue and die.

Many people fled the town, but still couldn’t escape their lives. Then the protagonist appeared. One day his wife received a gift with a delicate doll inside. That night, the wife screamed to death and lost her tongue. , And then used the protagonist to investigate the matter, citing why the small town Mary Shaw committed suicide with a wrongdoing. Among them, the depiction of the murder scene is still very imaginative. As far as the movie is concerned, the basic climax is constant, almost every ten minutes. , The individual is about to die. Through a series of clues, the character of Mary Shaw is completely outlined, which can be regarded as standing the most impressive character in the film. In the end, the protagonist destroys the doll Billy, seemingly killing Mary Shaw’s soul body was lost, but Mary Shaw’s sequel production plan was buried.

In this regard, Lehman reminded Wen Ziren to add specially.

After all, if "Dead Silence" is a big hit, there will be a market for a sequel.

Don't expect to live as long as "Chain Saw", it may not be a problem to shoot one or two more movies.In addition, the later generation Wen Ziren also played a ghost universe-since the success of Marvel, all linked universes have appeared, and Wen Ziren is actually following the trend.

Now, there is no money to acquire Marvel Lehman, and the time is not too late, but the space development plan can be advanced, and Wen Ziren has this talent. What's wrong with being the first to eat crabs?

At this time, Warner only knew about the development of ace characters, what Superman and Batman made one after another, but other characters did not pay attention to it, and if they did not lay a good foundation, it is estimated that they will not be able to play Linkage Universe.

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