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"Then we first make a buyout contract."

"Oh, yes, but "Untouchable" still has some trivial matters that have not been resolved. In terms of publicity..."-This is also a troublesome matter. If you don't get it first, you don't need to sign urgently. If it can be done, then It's not a matter.

"We are also aware of the "Untouchable" project. So, no matter what, at least it will not be lower than the screening scale of "Old Nowhere". How about?"

"Pump the ingredients..."

The three glanced at each other, and Luc Besson resolutely said: "It is still 18%, but the copyright is still bought out. Can it work?"-Given so many offers and promises, no more delays.

Therefore, when Lehman left and returned home, the verbal agreement was granted. By the next day, the legal staff of Blue Butterfly Pictures personally drafted the contract and handed it over to several people for verification, and then the parties formally signed it.

In this transaction, Lehman paid a part of the project profits in exchange for a certain range of resource tilt and promotion given by several studios.

Among them, the DVD market of "Old Nowhere" was finally taken by EMI, with a buyout price of US$12 million.

If the movie "Untouchable" starts to be screened in the future, only then will the offline buyout of this film be discussed.

Is it issued? Under the negotiation rules, what cannot be concealed is the bloody and cruel law of the weak.

......

Entering June, several new films have joined the battlefield.

However, apart from "Break Up Men and Women" produced by Universal, the other movies will not pose any threat to "Old Nowhere".

But "Break Up Men and Women"...

In the original time and space, this movie won a global box office of 210 million U.S. dollars, and North America is also over 100 million.

In terms of starring, the combination of Jennifer-Aniston Gavins-Vaughan has a very good audience relationship. Perhaps this is one of the reasons why a love comedy with an old theme can achieve such results.

Or because after Brad Pitt divorced her, she showed off her love with Angelina Jolie every day, which caused the audience to feel more sympathy and comfort for her.

Moreover, Universal is clearly prepared, and the focus of publicity is almost all on Jennifer Aniston. The huge fan base accumulated by "Friends" is also the best way to monetize. Therefore, the latest weekly North American box office list ushered in Shuffle the cards once.

The first place is the airborne new film "Break Up Men and Women" with 38.05 million;

The second place is "X-Men 3: The Last Stronghold" with 34.35 million (a decrease of more than 50%, but most of the movies in the series are like this, and the box office potential of most fans is almost consumed in the first week);

The third place is "Old Nowhere", 23.15 million;

The fourth place is "Outside the Fence" 20.65 million;

The fifth place is "The Da Vinci Code" 19.3 million (after entering the third week, the market potential is obviously insufficient);

The sixth place is "Mission Impossible 3" 4.68 million...

If you carefully analyze the box office data of the above-mentioned works, you will obviously find that the schedule is so competitive that almost no movie can hold the top spot all the time.

Of course, with such fierce competition, "Old Nowhere" barely maintained a normal decline, but it still quickly consumed the film's screening potential.

However, this is basically the case for the North American theater chain. It can exceed 100 million but not 200 million. The approximate drop is estimated at about 140 million. However, the performance of the film in the overseas market is good, and the local market is highly rated.

Of course, compared with domestic issuances, overseas issuances have a lot of dividends. In fact, it may not be as much as North America earned. This time, leaving the French market aside, overseas business continues to cooperate with Fox and borrow their overseas Web Promotion.

Firefly paid roughly 30% of overseas profits.

Such conditions are not harsh.

In the final analysis, most of the studios are drawn by the Big Six in this way, and this is a discount for myself.

......

As Lehman continues to prepare for "Untouchable", Hollywood has not been calm recently.

Of course, it's not a blood scandal or celebrity's daily derailment, but Paramount and Tom Cruise's bad debts have escalated.

In a small talk on the phone, even Joseph talked about it.

The cause of the incident was the unsuccessful screening of "Mission Impossible 3".

Speaking of it, the birth of this drama is full of twists and turns.

Because Tom Cruise holds the copyright of the "Mission Impossible" series, he has always been strong in the production and shooting of this project.

At the beginning, Paramount took the initiative to find Tom to discuss the project launch. Tom agreed after thinking about it, and then invited David Fincher to direct, but then David Fincher quit halfway and ran to tinker with "Dog Town" "Congressman", the directorship was taken over by Joe Kanna again, but the director Tom was very dissatisfied, and the adapted screenplay was rejected, and Joe Kanna naturally couldn't stay...

Anyway, the script was changed several times, and eventually they gave in to each other and found the TV drama director JJ Abrams who had never made a movie.

As a result, when it was released on May 5, the first weekend box office of "Mission Impossible 3" was only 48 million U.S. dollars, which was much lower than "Mission Impossible 2"'s 78.8 million U.S. dollars first weekend. Not only did it fail to achieve the expected growth. Also regressed significantly.

You know, the production cost of this film alone is 150 million. The first weekend box office of a similar high-cost movie is so unsatisfactory, it is estimated that it can be traced back to the previous year's "Kings of Heaven"-note that it is not ideal, not a big loss.

Then, a production executive from Paramount in the middle couldn’t help but gossiping in front of the media, saying that Tom Cruise and his current girlfriend were bewitching every day, which caused a bad public impression and dragged down the Spy 3".

Of course, Brother Tom is also a temperament.

It means that you didn’t have this attitude when you came to discuss with me before. Now the box office is not ideal. Just talk about my private life. Isn’t it bullying?

Ever since, before the film was painted, the two sides began to turn back and pinch each other.

Actually, the reason why Paramount is so angry is that the most important point is the film revenue of the "Mission Impossible" series. Atango took too much, and the box office was not ideal. Paramount was even more profitable. Less, my heart is not balanced.

But imbalance is imbalance. Paramount, you didn’t catch it too much. Brother Tom was not used to it, and used a big killer move. Come on, let’s stop playing. The sequel of the project will be stranded indefinitely.

As a result, Paramount's head almost exploded.

It can be said that the "Mission Impossible" series is the history of grievances between Tom and Paramount.

Since the second part, there has been no trouble.

In the end, it was either Brother Tom who was soft, or Paramount gave in first.

In short, in the eyes of other studio executives, it was just a joke.

Don't tell me, the joke is really good.

Brother Tom, who made his idol debut, was miserable by the studio in his early years. He couldn't do it for the sake of his image, and he couldn't do it, which made him feel uncomfortable.

Later, his career developed to a certain level and he had capital to compete, which made him very contradictory when facing the studio. He appeared very arrogant and liked to point fingers at the project, in order to satisfy his desire to control, but also in his heart. Unwilling to engage with the studio, yearning for himself to be a member of the production and distribution.

To this end, he also founded a production studio with his agent, and spends a lot of time every year looking for project investment.

So every time Paramount released his kindness, he nodded happily and agreed to cooperate.

But after all, his background is too poor. As an actor, of course he does a good job, but even if he has tried hard to rely on and learn in this aspect when he encounters a film, it is just a half bucket of water, which is very important for shooting, scheduling, and film distribution. Wait, there is not a very clear understanding.

Under his intervention, "Mission Impossible 3" vacillated left and right, and retired from the two directors halfway through, but in the end it was not very good.

After more than a month of screening, the box office in North America was less than 125 million, and the global box office was only 337 million. It is estimated that the box office alone will not be able to pay back. After all, Paramount has invested enough in the promotion of this film.

In other words, if nothing else, the failure of "Mission Impossible 3" in the past two years is not to rely on this project to make any money.

This is also the reason for Paramount's complaint-labor and management have paid so much and haven't made enough profits yet, and the schedule resources have been wasted.

Of course, Brother Tom is also very upset, the box office is not ideal, why only blame me?

In this regard, Abrams is also troubled.

The black pot was thrown around, but part of it fell on him.