Hollywood legendary director

When everyone turned their attention to the main competition unit awards, no one noticed that the non-competition units were also splitting the cake.

In other words, filmmakers from France, Britain, Italy and other countries were encouraged by the votes of judges such as Lehmann.

It's just that they are very conscientious and don't give it wholesale, so they have a little bit of skinny.

Of course, this is actually the non-competitive unit that is not very formal, and the gold content is just like that. It is only helpful to newcomers, and it seems that the award is very reasonable.

Among them, a director is very grateful to Lyman.

That is Huang Chao, who won the "A Kind of Concern" award, his work: "Jiangcheng Summer".

Huang Chao, born in 1963, graduated from the Performance Department of the Central Academy of Drama.

In his early years, he was shooting film and television dramas as an actor, and later he became interested in the director.

Taking "Summer in the River City" to the Cannes Film Festival is not his first official feature film, but it is the first time he has participated in this kind of international screening platform.

In fact, film festivals such as Cannes and Venice like to bring Asian filmmakers to play. Directors such as Akira Kurosawa, Sunglasses King, and Zhang Guoshi are all famous here, and then they get resources to go smoother.

One thing that is understandable is that similar platforms have a great effect on filmmakers.

After "Jiangcheng Summer" received a kind of attention, not many people from overseas paid attention, but the mainland media was still willing to report and actively spent resources to promote it.

why?

Long face, sense of identity.

For the director himself, this is a huge increase in his worth.

Huang Chao is not very familiar with the King of Sunglasses, but they are all Chinese, so the King of Sunglasses also raised a mouth, and Lehman directly rewarded it with some benefits.

For this reason, the King of Sunglasses also feels able to associate with Lyman.

Moreover, they can be regarded as a local snake in this place...

The King of Sunglasses is wearing a short shirt with a square face and a wide face. His figure is still slightly fatter, and he also wears sunglasses that he often wears.

After seeing Lyman, he greeted him enthusiastically.

"How are you doing? I see your film's public performance is very good, congratulations."

The closeness in the words basically sets the tone of today's small talk.

Lehman smiled and replied some kind words.

Regarding the results of "Old Nowhere", there is actually nothing to say. If you say too much, it becomes a show off...

After catching up here, Lyman rushed to the studio.

Several of them were human spirits, and took the seat in a modest manner. Luc Besson took the lead to say: "The results of "Old Nowhere" are really good. In just 6 days, he won 73.42 million euros and won another box office victory."

"Thanks to everyone's spare no effort in publicity and distribution, this achievement is everyone's common credit." Lehman laughed.

Sure enough, Luc Besson didn't want to say anything about the box office and not the box office. Seeing Lehmann said this, the topic immediately changed, "When the film is released, how should the offline market be arranged? Lehmann, you must stay here. Soon, there will be a big mess in Hollywood waiting for you to go back to deal with it. In this way, it will be bad if you delay the offline, right?"

"I also have concerns in this regard, I wonder what you mean?"

"The three of us plan to help the film develop this business together. We will buy out directly so that you won't be too distracted."

Lyman was lost in thought.

The so-called help is just an excuse. It is really worry-free to hand over the copyright operation, but it is estimated that the bulk of the profit should not be considered.

For the distribution of this piece, buyout and share are both feasible methods, but the former has always been a slight loss for the producers, and the exchange is the quick entry of funds. Generally speaking, it is the first choice for film companies with insufficient fund reserves.

But after Firefly paid off its foreign debts, it was actually not short of money in the account—100 million funds could still be easily transferred out, biting the teeth, short-term loans, and getting 200 million from the bank was easy.

Therefore, Firefly's cash flow is still healthy.

Gaomeng, EMI, and Europa made this request because on the one hand, it is indeed for the sake of Lehman (to avoid trouble, this kind of overseas collection is very normal for procrastination), and on the other hand, it is natural to fancy the performance of "Old Nowhere" The potential of word-of-mouth come out, the offline market is promising.

Any studio that still has a relatively complete French distribution channel basically plans to do so.

After all, this time Lehmann did not deliver the overseas issuance work to the Big Six. Instead, in order to seize the heat, he split up with the French market in advance, which gave them more confidence in their demands-no matter who came, they To use them, it's just who is in the leading position.

Moreover, Lehman does not have the ability to distribute overseas. Even if he refuses, he will have to hand over this part of the business to outsiders. He still has to divide the profits. If he doesn't lose this hand, he can undoubtedly eat more for several studios. .

But for Lehman, it is not so comfortable. It is handed over to the Sixth National Congress and the people take a percentage of the total overseas profits. In fact, in a strict sense, it is a bit more convenient and the accounting is better.

But finally there was an excuse to mention, and several of them didn't want to let it go.

Negotiations are not always carried out in a tough manner.

Lehman couldn't help but sigh, this is the release.

Don't miss the momentary gains and losses, there is no fuel-efficient lamp.

——Well, I even scolded myself, but Liam is also a very shrewd one. The price is not much worse than these few, and he is the kind of bite who takes the opportunity.

This is the status brought by the channel resources controlled by the issuance.

Helpless, people under the eaves cannot help but bow their heads.

If it weren't for Lehman's grades and qualifications, he didn't have much choice. The fact that these few people can personally invite to talk with each other on the pretext of "avoiding trouble" is already somewhat important.

If it is a general film distribution, you may not even talk about it, and love it or not.

"It works, but is this offer..."

After all, the next step is to talk about the cooperation of "Untouchable". This benefit is given. As long as the latter one can still receive strong support and publicity, it will be worthwhile.

French audiences are still very strong in expressing the possible market for a light comedy featuring French culture.

But all this also requires space for local theaters...

Lehman pondered for a moment, and then said: "The buyout fee for the DVD will be paid to the higher price, and a hidden mark will be adopted."

Although I made up my mind to give up a portion of the offline income in exchange for the resource tilt of the next movie, I couldn't give it too much, and I was easily started by these guys.

——Do you really think that Lehman doesn't fight?Labor and management turned their faces quickly, so the most valuable DVD distribution can't be bad.

As we all know, in the offline area, except for certain animations or live-action movies, which can be sold at high prices in the toy licensing area, the largest offline share of most works is always DVD.

Selling DVDs is so cool. Many viewers are willing to buy a copy for collection and watch, and the profit of DVD is not worse than the profit of theater screenings-the cost of copying is too low, even if you add transportation and distribution. A company like Blockbuster draws one and sells it for more than ten dollars, and there are still some $5 or $6 for each.

Like "Chain Saw 4", the net profit at the box office was less than 2 million, more than 900,000 DVDs were sold, and the profit was more than 5 million, which is more valuable than the show-no wonder the vitality of the series is so tenacious and sufficient. I made 8 films, and when I filmed it, I really depended on DVD sales.

"This this......"

Several bosses glanced at each other and felt the pressure.

Although I wanted to oppress it again, everyone said that they were willing to accept the buyout. Now that we are in the bidding stage, I can't say anything is cheaper. Then this business will not be done.

"It can only be a DVD," Gao Meng said quickly.

Beforehand, the three of them specifically divided their interests, in order to prevent the Lehman fisherman from benefiting, and they started to kill them first.

Now, Lehman made a request and made it clear that he could not let him do anything.

Otherwise, don't talk about buying out, let's honestly take the share, and work together to expand the benefits of the film, and divide the points separately.

Lyman nodded amusingly.

"Oh, that's it." Although Luc Besson regrets that the best piece of meat is a bit difficult to spit, but other parts can be obtained, he has not torn his skin and the relationship is stiff, which is considered satisfactory.

After all, it really irritated Lehman. People patted their butt and left. They stopped playing and set up the stall. It was not that there was nothing to eat.