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Brian Cranston sat aside, listening to the agent's efforts to make his actor contract more convenient.

Based on his performance in the film and television industry, as the male lead of "Breaking Bad", the salary is almost 120,000 episodes, which is enough to match his worth.

After signing the long contract, Brian and his agent left with the script.

On the other side, Black and Mark Tetotu are sitting together in an office and discussing the filming plan of the show.

For a long time, Mark Tetotu broke his silence and said: "As for the actors, most of them have been selected. The leading role is Lao Bai. Mr. Luster also gave the candidate. The image is quite suitable. Therefore, the most important thing is to put the air on first. Stand up."

Mark came to him to discuss the preparations of the crew.

For this project, Lehmann gave most of the workload to these two people, and although Mark made the film under the name, it is convenient to do things, he still has to spend a lot of energy on the shooting and determining the actors.

"The location was chosen in New Mexico. I went there the last time I filmed "Old Nowhere". The terrain and environment there are in line with the scene selection of the script. In this way, I will go to build the studio tomorrow, and you stay here. The props and costumes are set, and the shooting should start next week."

Mark nodded and agreed.

Let him say that the shooting of "Breaking Bad" is definitely the biggest opportunity in his life. Whether he can change the status quo and stand out in the future will fall into this project.

Therefore, his creative passion is extremely high and his desire to shoot is urgent.

As for Lyman, he was not a distrustful person. He was given a lot of autonomy, which also made him excited.

After confirming the shooting date, Lehman met Mark Tetotu and Black again in the office, and encouraged them to go to the Finance Department to mobilize the second 3 million shooting budget.

On April 17, the crew of "Breaking Bad" went to New Mexico for filming.

At the same time, the 59th Cannes Film Festival, which is about to open next month, will successively announce the finalists of the main competition unit, and "Old Nowhere" and "Tongtian Tower" have successfully become the 21 selected films.

In this regard, Lehman and Liam have repeatedly discussed the schedule of "Old Nowhere". If you want to use the influence of the film festival to expand the power of publicity and distribution, it will be 6 days after the opening of Cannes, which is May. The best show on Wednesday the 24th.

First, Cannes needs to type out the reputation of the film first, which takes time;

Secondly, to cooperate with propaganda and build momentum, we must also allow a certain amount of time for the distributors of Blue Butterfly Pictures.

Even this series of screenings can maximize the heat to guide the North American cinema and audience fans.

In this regard, Liam's consideration is not unattractive. Lehman also agrees to release "Old Nowhere" according to this method, and at the same time ventilate with the theater dealers in advance to determine the schedule and arrange the number of screens.

Because "Old Nowhere" does not need to take a large-scale screening, but a long-term word-of-mouth screening, so this time, relying on Blue Butterfly Pictures' increasingly mature online public relations promotion and certain advertising layout can complete the release work well. , Does not need to use joint publicity.

After all, although joint publicity can concentrate more theaters and publicity resources, it will help increase the total box office, but because it needs to share profits, it may not all be good for Firefly.

In other words, some films that can be released on their own do not need to be distributed to others.This is easy to understand.

The next morning, the day after the announcement of the finalists for the Cannes main competition, Lehman called Liam, Joseph, Ryan, Thomas and Alessandro to have a meeting with his partner Guillermo Ariga .

Guillermo Ariga is the screenwriter and producer of Alessandro's films and one of the core members of their small group.

This meeting, of course, discussed how to take advantage of the situation.

And taking advantage of the situation, or the Cannes Film Festival, it is naturally the issue of winning.

As long as you get a significant award, many media will spontaneously promote it, and if you use it well, it will be the best hot report.

But here comes the question, which public relations award is easier to win?

Among the few people sitting around a table in the middle, Lehman must be sitting at the top, with Guillermo Ariga at the bottom.

First discuss the awards.

Palme d’Or, the heaviest weight, but it’s also the hardest to win.Off-site factors can interfere with the least energy (the organizing committee is still a bit stance, a film festival is based on justice, even if it can't be done all, it can't be done all).

This option requires a certain amount of luck. After removing it first, Liam said with a piece of information: "I think it would be good to give priority to the public relations actor award. The subject matter of "Old Nowhere" is limited, and the performances of several actors are indeed brilliant. If any of these can get the Cannes actor, there will be a lot of topics for coverage and a wider range of publicity."

"Well, it works." Joseph was the first to agree.

To take the long-term screening of word-of-mouth, it is a good starting point to start with the enthusiasm of the actors' acting.

Liam continued: "The "Tong Tian Pagoda" will not be shown on traditional theaters. If it can win the jury award or the best screenwriter, the best golden camera (similar to the best director, but the weight is almost too much. It is mainly to encourage rookies), any of these types can sell very good copyright fees on the trading platform."

When Alessandro heard everyone discussing his work, he also said that he might win a significant award, and suddenly felt an inexplicable sense of vanity.

Of course, for these literary and artistic directors, it is not a bad thing to pursue similar vanity. If there is no similar fame and fortune, who would still shoot literary and artistic works with heart.I'm afraid it will not be replaced by commercial movies immediately.

The film festival is the last piece of pure land for literary and artistic movies.

"The best screenwriter may be very difficult." Guillermo, who was sitting in the last seat, said: "I have won the last Cannes Film Festival, and I owe a little favor. The organizing committee should not choose to be re-elected."

Okay, everyone in the room except Alessandro knows it well, they were all taken aback by this sentence.

No one thought that Guillermo had been quietly, and when he opened his mouth, he was violent.

However, Guillermo did win the best screenwriter last year with "Three Funerals in Escada", which starred Luc Besson.

Then, the best screenwriter can only be excluded.

Everyone knows that even the difficulty of Zhuang Zhuang is higher than the first time he won. Instead of looking forward to this, it is better to find a way to use it elsewhere.

For a while, everyone's talk faded.

There are only a few weighty awards to choose from, just focus on the public relations to determine the target.

Moreover, it's up to people to make things happen. It's not that you can get it after you have public relations. It's just that you work hard in this area. If you don't succeed, you always need some luck or something.

After waiting for another moment, Lyman saw that the discussion was almost done, and declared the meeting to be dissolved.

After a business talk was over, everyone went back to work on their own affairs.

Lehman also went to the office and picked up the latest report for approval.

Nowadays, both "Little Beauty in the Sunshine" and "Breaking Bad" have entered the filming stage. In the "Sparta" directed by Zha, the macho has not finished training yet. I heard that many actors have complained about the intensity of exercise. , But complained, but no one quit. Except because they have persisted for so long, it is not a silly panic to quit when it is over. More importantly, there is compensation in the signed contract.

You will lose a lot of money if you delay filming.

There is also "Deadly Magic", with Nolan here, it has been going well...

However, another project "Juneo" that was set early has not been put on the schedule because the director that Lyman fancy has no schedule for the time being and needs to wait-there is no director, naturally, the progress is not fast.

In addition, it was Akiva Gossman who agreed to jointly develop the project "Legend of the End".

But this one needs to wait until the sequel to "A New York Trip" is released first. Aqiwa doesn't mind waiting, anyway, he doesn't have the money to shoot such a big production.

As for the sequel to "New York Trip", Lehman preliminarily decided to be "I am a Hero" (from the name of "I am a Legend"). The story follows the setting of the New York trip, telling the story of a man living in Brooklyn, New York. An ordinary office worker, because of the problem of zombies, was running around, highlighting in the middle, falling in despair, and finally did not die in the hands of the zombies, such a general plot of death in the hands of survivors.

Reference cases, the Japanese zombie movie "Please call me a hero", the Thai zombie movie "Ghost 5 Abuse Desperate Backpacker", and the "Zombie World War"...