Hollywood legendary director

Rodriguez Perlman went as far as Maine for copyright matters.

It is a pity that the entertainment culture over there is not that strong, and even the attendance rate of the movie theater can't rise.

Of course, no matter how small a mosquito is, it is meat. If you can find out the market in one place, you can basically complete the mission of this trip.

I think he has been running around with his team since the beginning of the job, and I feel that he is worthy of the job.

Rodriguez followed Blockbuster's distribution network to secretly collect data and research, and went to the field to investigate. After two or three months, he went all the way to the west. The staff and Blue Butterfly Pictures left behind. The North American distribution network stationed personnel exchanged and summarized, and when they returned to Los Angeles, they would roughly understand the offline market, and even the workload was exceeded.

After all, Lehman's original idea was to know that DVD sales and paid-on-demand, two businesses that are easy to be manipulated, are also very good.

Of course, if his employees can have such a subjective initiative, Lehman is naturally encouraged.

When the form was handed in, Liam took it to negotiate with Blockbuster and other offline merchants, and Lehman immediately let Rodriguez act as the director of offline copyright promotion.

——Right now it is the occasion of employing people, who can do their job well, Lehman does not hesitate to reward.

Not only his authority, but also his annual salary has basically doubled. He also asked him to continue to recruit people to expand the team and continue to refine the research team.

Rodriguez could have rested for a few days, because Lyman granted him a leave to relax him, but he couldn't stay idle, so he followed Blue Butterfly Pictures and watched them work.

You know, Blue Butterfly Pictures has the largest number of employees under Lehman. In terms of distribution, just liaising with various theaters and laying hard-broadcasts, there are more than 150 people in charge of state affairs.

And because the company's performance is good and the treatment is good, the employees are very motivated to do things, and basically there will be no problems with the company's project announcements.

In comparison, publishing can be seen as an industry dominated by teamwork, which is very cooperative.

Looking at the world, if you want so many theaters to work together without problems, it will test the coordination ability of the issuing company.

Rodriguez thought to himself.

......

Lehman had just walked into the door of the private club. Bill McNico’s accompanying assistant had already waited aside, and immediately said, "Mr. Rust, please come with me."

Lehman is following this person, thinking about how to negotiate and cooperate better.

Because he no longer wants to be ill with any movie giant, especially Fox, which is backed by News Corp. You must know that if you want to destroy a public figure first, you must start with public opinion.

Working hard and holding a lot of wealth, such as Michael Jackson, old enough, or Jewish background, such as Harvey Weinstein, all fell into the trenches because of the scandal.

Public opinion not only kills people, but also condemns the heart, but also makes people unable to open the mouth-the unnecessarily "** case" has not been finalized until now. The sexual assault scandal, Harvey is not the first time that women have sex. Even the girl star is self-initiated, but what can be done?

In fact, in a legitimate business competition, everyone is restrained from using the powerful weapon of inciting public opinion. Even the many lace news that is usually exposed, they are also very restrained against the celebrities who have an accident, and they did not say that they should use newspapers casually. The speech ruined a person-it was also that Lehman didn't collect Weinstein to "force" the female sex, and then bring him down.If you do this, everyone in the circle will alienate you and trample you down.

It can only be said that many things in this world have their own set of rules.

Suddenly changing from competition to fighting for life, it is really a small fate, as for whose fate, who knows.

Lehman only knew that who wanted to weigh the fireflies first to see if he could bear enough damage.

Let alone suppress Miramax, isn't it simple, remove Miramax from the Oscar board, and Harvey will naturally lose power.

Furthermore, neither of them are of the same level, so who would change their lives to a weak person, cerebral palsy?

Similarly, Warner stopped suppressing, and also didn't want to cross the line and became a desperate fight.

-It is not a madman or a fool to harm others or harm yourself.

For a fool, it is impossible to gain a foothold in Hollywood.

"Mr. Rust, please wait a moment." Barry Diller's assistant took Lyman to a box and knocked on the door first.

Wait until someone responds before opening the door and entering.

Inside, burning a light incense, a small coffee table is placed among several sofas.

Smell it carefully, with the smell of cigarettes—the ashtray in front of Bill McNico had already piled up several cigarette butts.

"Sorry to keep you waiting."

"It's only a few minutes. I came early." Bill McNico waited for Lehman's coffee, and said: "Firefly has made another good movie. The results of "Prada" are really good."

Lehman said modestly: "It has nothing to do with me. As long as the director David shoots well, I'm just the one who pays the money."

"Haha, even if you pay money, you have to choose the right one. This money is not easy to pay." Bill McNico laughed: "He has been in Hollywood for four years, but Mr. Luster is very popular in the film industry. People have to admire the rising water."

"It's just a fluke. Maybe, if you work on the project seriously, the result will not be too bad. Mr. McNico, last year several Fox films were in the top 20. This is also a place I admire very much, especially the release of "Star "War 3", but refreshed all the screening records along the way."

The two talked about each other's business and talked about a lot of things, and then Bill McNico talked about the TV drama project.

In the field of television stations today, the three major television networks abc, nbc, and cbs have been dominating the North American wireless television market at first. Later, Fox invested heavily, and the management was also very capable. The business has also developed, I have to say, it is also very powerful.

Speaking of business affairs, Lehman said straightforwardly: "Firefly production, Fox broadcasts, and the funds for buying out the trial broadcast rights are paid according to the rules, but I want Fox to give a reasonable price for the subsequent advertising revenue."

"Oh? What kind of reasonable price do you want?"

The word "reasonable" was spoken very heavily by Bill McNico, who seemed to think that Lehman would open his mouth and pay a sky-high share.

But he actually thinks too much.

If you treat film and television projects as a business, the money you make in the market will inevitably be inseparable from the platform and the producer. The importance of the platform is absolutely not bad, and even the establishment of the platform requires more money and energy. Investment accounted for more.

Lehman never thought of replacing the platform status with production, and Fox didn't just rely on the TV series produced by the Firefly family to survive.

"This time I won't talk about buyouts, I will talk about stepped accounting."

"How is the ladder method?" Bill McNico asked with a smile.

"The audience rating breaks 2.5. After the trial broadcast, the broadcast copyright fee for each episode will be increased by 0.5% on the basis of the production cost, and 10% of the advertising revenue will break through 3 on average. An additional 0.5 broadcast fee will be added, and the advertising share will increase by 0.3... ...After breaking 6, Firefly will cost 40% of all advertising revenue generated by the episode, and no matter how high the ratings, this will not change, how about?"

"Good vision, bold enough." Bill McNico praised.

There are only two aspects of this agreement that need attention.

One is that the upper limit is raised. After breaking 6, Firefly's profit sharing is close to 40% of its revenue; the other is that the lower limit is lowered, not high ratings. The profit that Firefly gets is a little bit worse than the average TV station buying drama collection.

For example, for boutique dramas, the probability of the split between the producer and the TV station is close to 2:8. After breaking 3, the ratings will continue to increase the proportion of the producer’s revenue, but rarely get a 4.

Lehman wanted the highest standard of accounting.

Of course, the premise is that the TV series can really explode in ratings.

From this point of view, the broadcast of a big hit TV series can effectively attract the audience and transform it into a simultaneous audience retention rate, and the TV station will not suffer.

Therefore, Bill McNico said that Lyman is very bold.

——Neither the asking price makes people unwilling, nor does it take advantage of the TV station. Instead, it is obvious to bet on the future prospects of the TV series with confidence.