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Lehmann sent away the spinning top and Alfonso, and went back to the office to pick up the work schedule on the table, and compare them one by one to see how the progress of several advancing projects was.

Take a sip of coffee occasionally, stand up for activities, and slowly do a few lifting movements to maintain your body.

In the career of a director, because I always focus on shooting, and often because of all kinds of trivial delays, the anger rises, and it is easy to overdraw health.

In his previous life, he had only entered the film and television industry for less than 3 years, but his shoulders and spine were not good because of his work. In this life, he walked more smoothly and made some money. Of course, he did not want his body to collapse early.

Assistant Mayes walked to the door and tapped on the office door to get a response. This was a neat report: "Boss, Mr. Fellermay from Lionsgate has an invitation."

Lehman put down the report he was holding and asked in doubt, "Did he say anything about it?"

Metz carefully considered his words and looked at Lehman and said: "He just called and said it was related to project cooperation."

"Where is he dating?"

There is nothing particularly worthy of attention on the left and right, Lehman is planning to go there.

"At the country club."

"Well, tell him I will come right away." Lehman thought to himself: Project cooperation?Lionsgate is not short of money. What advantages does Firefly have?Immediately, I thought that special effects work in the digital field could also develop Lionsgate, so that they might give priority to the digital field when they need to use special effects technology when filming.

In recent years, the special effects business is strong in the production side. If high-end and core technologies are not involved, many companies can complete the work required at a general level. Therefore, whoever chooses or not depends on the quotation and friendship.

For example, Fox likes to cooperate with Industrial Light & Magic very much, and Weta can often cooperate with Xinxian and Warner.

Moreover, Lionsgate does not want to enter the field of special effects, there is a need in this area-the current special effects industry is very competitive and highly professional. Major studios such as Warner want to win in the future. Or when the time is right, you can just spend money to buy a family, so there is no dedicated energy for development.

This is like raising Gu. In the unclear situation at the beginning of the battle, who knows who will win and who will end sadly, it is plain to invest in such a professional field, the risk control is too great, and it does not meet the actual prospects of capital pursuit.

Moreover, many studios have this kind of thinking, which is why most of the special effects field is supported and developed by directors or independent filmmakers, because they have the most urgent need to improve shooting technology to make the picture more shocking.

Lehman said again: "Notify Scott Rose and let him come with me."

"Okay, boss." The assistant went down and passed the message quickly.

Re-finding the digital domain of the sponsor, because there is no longer a shortage of research and development funds, and the special effects work obtained with the help of fireflies is much easier than before. Therefore, Scott Rose's work attitude as an executive officer is very positive.

The shareholder investors who support him behind him see the performance of the digital field getting better and better, and they are also pleased that this investment is not wasted, thus increasing their support for the digital field.

No one has offered to sell shares anymore.

You know, even though Lehmann is the largest individual shareholder in the digital field, he has not given up to continue to absorb the remaining 33% of the shares, but unfortunately, no one will sell anymore.

After a while, Scott Rose drove over, and Lehman got in his car and didn't choose to drive himself.

The car started and moved in the direction of Beverly Hills, all the way to the country club.

In the rest area next to the golf course, the cool breeze made people lazy.

Jon Fellermeet was polite with Lehman and Scott, and they talked about business.

The purpose of Lionsgate’s trip is to allow Firefly to transfer the copyright of the adaptation of the "Twilight" novel.

The reason? It's because recently, Stephen Meyer's novels have been in the top three of the New York Daily's novel bestseller list with absolute single-volume sales for several months.

Yes, the "Twilight" novel became popular, and it normally attracted the attention of many studios.

Among them, Lionsgate is one of them.

As mentioned earlier, movies adapted from best-selling novels are now popular adaptations in Hollywood, almost to the point of crushing original scripts.

And because it broke the record of first-day movie viewership, as evidenced by the market case of the "Harry Potter" series searching for global film and television wealth, there is also a lesson from the success of Disney's "Magic Kingdom of Narnia", which focuses on the magic of young audiences The film has become the most sought after subject.

In fact, Hollywood also likes to follow suit. Epic movies are popular. Everyone is thinking about making epics. Epic is not good. Magic seems to be a hit, and everyone is looking for magic projects.

However, "Twilight" did not enter the attention of everyone at the beginning, because the book just came out and there was a two or three months of word-of-mouth fermentation period. At that time, the sales were not outstanding, and naturally no one paid special attention. Now the high sales volume will attract It is also common to come to the studio.

After that, many studios knew that the copyright of the novel had been sold, and the buyer was Firefly, and then gave up. After all, before the movie is released, who knows whether "Twilight" will succeed.Without this choice, there would be no copyright of the same type of magic novel, and there is no need to spend extra energy.

However, several executives at Lionsgate felt they could do something after they learned about "Twilight"-this kind of thing all depends on the eyes. When "Harry Potter" is not popular, who knows how to be so popular.

And, more importantly, this is in line with Lionsgate’s production plan for its future transformation.

Lionsgate is still a studio focusing on horror themes and cutting-edge works. Turning to its resume, "American Psychiatric", "Fahrenheit 9/11", and "Morguet Haunted Incident" have similar characteristics except that there is no big picture. Make.

No one has invested more than 60 million US dollars.

It stands to reason that Lionsgate has implemented a dollar strategy since its inception, buying and buying everywhere, buying studios, buying equipment, buying distribution channels, and buying independent studios. How can there be no 60 million US dollars to make a movie?

But the problem is that at that time, Lionsgate was the same as the current Firefly. Even if a large-scale production was made, it did not have the resources to publicize it. It had to ask the Big Six for help. Lionsgate was not willing to become a vassal of the Big Six, so they would rather not For large-scale productions, you can always focus on niche areas.

But, after so many years of development, Lionsgate feels that it has the ability to challenge high-investment projects, but there is nothing suitable for development at the moment.

No, they are eyeing "Twilight".

Firstly, the subject matter is the most popular fantasy, and the main focus is also on the youth market;

Secondly, novels are very popular and have a great effect on publicity.

In the original time and space, the copyright grab for "Twilight" was taken by Summit Entertainment, because they offered a price that most impressed the novel author Stephen Meyer.After the success of the first film, Lionsgate saw this series improve its own territory, acquired Summit Entertainment with a share swap and a large sum of money, and still mastered the "Twilight" series of projects.

But in this time and space, after Lehman stepped in first, Summit Entertainment believed that it could not take back the copyright from Firefly, so naturally there was no action. On the contrary, Lionsgate felt that the relationship between the two has been cooperating many times, and it has not heard of Firefly. The establishment of the project may be to buy a copyright hoarding, and come over with similar thoughts to ask for transfer.

They offered the price sincerely. Lehman bought "Twilight" and "New Moon" and signed an additional follow-up copyright pre-emption right, which cost less than 14 million yuan, and Lionsgate directly offered 30 million yuan.

That is to say, if Lehman intends to transfer, this time, the fart did not do it because the sales of a promising novel increased 16 million.

What does it mean to pay for vision?

Of course, it is impossible for Lehman to sell 30 million for a project worth more than one billion.

Lehman had to explain vaguely, saying that he bought the copyright of these two novels with a certain intention to shoot, not simply expanding the copyright library.

Jon Fellermei looked solemnly, "I know that Firefly may have plans to shoot, but is there no room for negotiation? Co-development is also OK, you authorize, Lionsgate investment, it can also reduce production risks and make profits together. ,what do you think?"