Hollywood legendary director

The development of things quickly changed: the focus of planning changed from the choice of schedule and autonomy to the choice and autonomy of distribution.

Of course, the core points have not changed, and they all require further uncontrollable, that is, "freedom."

The independent studios have deliberately contacted each other. After all, everyone's purpose is the same, and they are not satisfied with the six monopolies for a long time, but their choices are different.

Now, Firefly intends to form a joint distribution alliance, and everyone mobilizes resources to promote their films. As a result, the combined size of the several companies will have greater influence on the theater and publicity.

Liam lives in the president's office of Blue Butterfly Pictures and keeps answering calls.After receiving the news, identify them one by one, summarize and classify them, and then hand them to Joseph.

Finally, through Joseph's hand, came to Lehman's hand to summarize.

With these two communicating for him, even if Lehman's personal energy is limited, he can understand the entire contact plan.

This made him even more convinced that the way of grouping will definitely relieve the pressure on distribution. After all, Blue Butterfly Pictures now has a certain foundation in online public relations, and it has a lot of energy for propaganda and momentum, although this energy is still doing It is not easy to choose the schedule, but it can give people a sufficient sense of security.

It also allows Lehman to continue to focus most of his energy on the construction of the crew of "Old Nowhere" without any worries.

Under Ryan's very effective and experienced control, a mature behind-the-scenes production team was ready less than a week after the starring was selected.

And most of them are the elderly who often cooperate, with more synergy and tacit understanding.

In this way, Lehman held an internal crew meeting before filming.

At the meeting, there were crew management seats for Ryan, Thomas, costumes, art, etc., and Lehmann personally hosted it.

Looking at the production team of four or five people below, Thomas is still tired and lazy, which is also a headache.

Lehman sighed secretly, and then said: "The work of the "Old Nowhere" crew needs to be carefully managed by you. My idea is to end the filming at the end of February and finish the later stage in May. Time is still a bit nervous, and the filming is even more sloppy. No. So today’s discussion is about film production. You can discuss a charter and listen to it."

Everyone quickly looked at each other a few times. Ryan was the second-highest player here, and he was also the producer and the chief logistics steward of the crew. Of course, he should answer first.

Ryan got up slightly, coughing a dry cough before turning around in his head: "The crew now has 47 staff, and the props and costumes are almost ready, but the specific setting has not yet begun?"

"Director, I would like to take someone to set the scene in Texas first, so as to save time during the transition." It was the art director who shared his concerns.

"My time is very tight and the requirements are high, what are your plans?" Lehman said calmly.

"The drama group is divided into two teams, big and small, and both sides are preparing to build together."

After the meeting ended, the drama group acted in two groups.

In just three days, the shooting location in Texas has taken shape.

In these few days, Lyman has not been idle either.

While leading several leading actors to read through the script and familiarize themselves with the roles, they also began to have close contacts with several studios.

Paramount headquarters, inside the chairman's office.

Shirley Lansing completed the approval of the report on her hand and asked her assistant, "How about Firefly?"

"I haven't heard of anyone taking over the publishing job?"

"Really? Lehman hasn't shown signs of being soft?"

The assistant shook his head, "I haven't contacted us yet, and the others don't know. But they should understand that a good work with a box office of over 100 million yuan may still be at risk of loss if it doesn't meet the good schedule. Will continue to discuss."

Shirley Lansing nodded with a smile. She didn't actually want to squeeze the fireflies, she just wanted them to rest.

The movie market is growing year by year, and no one can eat it. It's not that it can't accommodate people, but if it can let Lehman see the reality and spit out some of the shares, it would be even better.

As for which one of the top six will take over in this regard, it is not very important. The important thing is to maintain such rules and patterns.

The assistant suddenly remembered something strange, and said: "I heard that Blue Butterfly Pictures is contacting several other studios to establish a common publicity channel. Does he still want to bypass us?"

Shirley Lansing smiled indifferently, "How can they unite? A summer file can account for one-fifth of the annual box office revenue. Wouldn't they bear it?"

In the theater, in addition to the schedule, the location of the theater is also very important. A large theater with multiple theaters in a prosperous area has a stronger ability to attract money than the 6 or 7 theaters in remote areas.

Those small movie theaters are already at a disadvantage in the competition of this kind of location. It is good to make a small amount of money, but it is even more difficult to make a big box office. However, Lionsgate, Mubao and other studios can do it. The thing is to attract these small theater operators to provide schedules and screens.

Even if you enter in a hurry, once the box office is unsatisfactory, the fragile custodial alliance is dissolved instantly-there is no benefit, who will play with you.

This is something that anyone with a discerning eye can see clearly. In comparison, the Big Six are obviously more secure. It's just a blood draw and the treatment is unfair. Compared to the total box office, it seems that these are not counted. What, they do it anyway.

Of course, the truth is such a truth.

However, there is another condition that is most easily overlooked in movies, that is, the production charm of audience fans and directors.

The latter two are obviously uncontrollable factors, otherwise every year there will be no niche dark horses or big moves.

Compared with this, Shirley Lansing is still a little bit unconfident, because she really can't understand Lehman.

In terms of market perspective, this man who can lay a huge business site in three or four years is the fact that this fancy movie project has repeatedly made profits.

This is a terrible thing.

Think about it, the projects that Warner operates in a year only make money, but there is no loss. According to its size, it is small if it does not make 6 billion in a year, but there are losses and profits. Warner’s annual income is only based on the production. In terms of business, the ability to generate 1 billion in revenue is great, and the bulk of it is in supporting copyright promotion and image authorization.

Paramount's production business can break even if it is an improvement.

After thinking about it, Shirley Lansing said to herself: Lehman is a natural rebellious guy, and he is never reconciled to others. It is bound to be not so easy to suppress.

However, the moves have been played, let's see the opponent accept the move.

......

Liam strode into Lehman's office and said with some joy: "Prada is in post-production. According to Director David, it will definitely be in time for Valentine's Day."

"Yeah." Lehman asked, "What did those people say?"

"Lionsgate very much agrees to cooperate with us. As for Mubao and Summit Entertainment, we still have some concerns. Apart from these, we can mobilize at least 3,000 screens. It's just that the theater line is a bit inferior and not the core area."

"It's okay, it's pretty good to be able to do this. As long as you play aggressively, do you think those big theater-line chambers of commerce will sit and watch the box office be eaten by other small fish?"

"Haha, those vampires have always been unprofitable and can't afford it early. As long as they make a profit, they will take the initiative to contact the film copy without reminding us."

In fact, this is Lehman's confidence in relying on. He is unwilling to provide schedules and most resources, so he will become famous and wait for someone to welcome him to cooperate.

In the future, the "Twilight" series that will allow Lionsgate to establish its status in one fell swoop is played like this. The first and second installments are released in November near the Christmas period, but the third is aggressively at the core of the summer file. What time period does it rely on?

It's not that the movie is so profitable that people have to cooperate.

As one of the most popular studios in Hollywood, the resources of second-tier studios such as Firefly plus Lionsgate are also enough to make those theaters tempted and put down their bodies.

Of course, the prerequisite for all this is that the marketability of the movie itself must be sufficiently popular, otherwise it is equivalent to not saying it.

Informed that the plan was still progressing smoothly, Liam left the company.

at the same time.

On January 14, the long-prepared "Old Nowhere" officially started shooting.

Lehman spent two days setting up the scenes, establishing costumes and props.

In the first scene after that, a very simple shot was taken, which is the origin of all events, and the human ambition aroused by that piece of gold.

From an overhead viewing angle, the sun is shining, reflecting the dazzling light on the head gold...