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Lehman watched Warner's plan of stepping on the pit went well.

The trend of "Superman Returns" is also developing in a bad direction. As a result, Warner's attitude towards Batman is more complicated.

But, now the two sides are still at a stalemate, and it depends on who gets softer first.

Well, fireflies don’t matter anyway.

In the office, Lehman finished processing some appropriations for progress reports, and then picked up a recent newspaper to look through it.

The recent movie market has become a special show of "Pirates of the Caribbean 2: Gathering Soul Coffin", which premiered on July 7 and won over US$135.6 million in the first weekend-this is the right way to open movies with large investment flows .

The 145-minute feature film pirate, under the leadership of the captain Johnny Depp, frantically strangled the 150-minute-long "Superman Returns", which made the traffic of Superman, who was already cold in the market, even more ugly, and the year-on-year decline directly exceeded 60%.

Some media said with a smile, ""Superman Returns" is a movie with a strong North American box office that can only maintain a week."

Not to mention, the pirates are trending very steadily. They stayed at the top of the box office for three weeks. After breaking 200 million, they still could not stop them from plundering the market.

Seeing the advocacy of Depp and others in the newspaper, Lehman couldn't help but shook his head and smiled.

Depp made Depp a pirate, how could the pirate not make Depp?

You know, Depp's pay is still a lot from Disney, and the entanglement of interests between them is also a bunch of bad things.

In the final analysis, it is still too easy for the creators of the series to justify high-paying, or the studio will do a good job in the substitution of the protagonist, which will cause the audience to abuse and resist the audience.

Lehman put down the newspaper and continued to read the work schedule. When he was leisurely and relaxed, the assistant Maes knocked on the door and walked in to report: "Boss, Alfonso-Caron is here. See you?"

"Of course, let him go to the reception room." Lyman put down the papers on hand and said.

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Alfonso Cuarón was born in Mexico City in 1961.

The dream of this guy since childhood was to be a director or an astronaut, but because he didn't want to join the army, the dream of an astronaut was withered.

But he is still full of passion for being a director.

In 1973, Alfonso received a camera as a gift on his 12th birthday and came into contact with photography.

After graduating from high school, because of the opposition of his parents, Alfonso began to use his spare time to get in touch with the formal director teaching and listened to CUEC...

In 1983, at the age of 22, he made a short film "The End of Time Quartet" and officially embarked on the path of director;

In 1991, a black humorous comedy about AIDS, "Love in Hysteria", received the attention of some Hollywood publishers and entered the development of Hollywood...

In a blink of an eye, many years have passed. From the little director who was not taken seriously at that time to the director celebrity who has taken over the production of the "Harry Potter" series, the changes in his career are all due to his accumulated achievements and qualifications in the past. In other words, if you don't have a good job after reincarnation, and you don't have a wealthy family with director connections, most of the directors rely on the work step by step.

To be able to mix to this day, they must have the ability and always have a solid foundation. Under the influence of a good friend, the top, and optimistic about the development of the firefly and admiration for Lehman himself, Alfonso-Caron moved closer to the firefly and finished the production. "Pan Shen's Labyrinth" brought one of his project ideas.

After waiting for a while at the front desk, Lehmann's assistant Metz came to meet him in person.

When I went to the reception room and saw Lyman, his closeness also made Alfonso's inner senses uncomfortable.

"Director Caron, are there any good stories that require investment?"

To be polite, Lehman asked.

Alfonso didn’t bother. After all, he came here for a more free filming environment. “Yes, my new work was inspired by some ideas during the production of "Pan’s Labyrinth." It’s been a few months. perfect."

After that, take out the script and the general idea of ​​the project shooting plan from the bag.

Lehman took the script, called "Social Edge", and was taken aback.

Looking through the content again, I was even more stunned.

Because Lehmann knows very well that Alfonso Cuarón in the original space-time has never made a similar movie. Obviously it is caused by the change of life trajectory, or that he has had similar shooting ideas, but he has not received investment or production. The studio’s approval was not shot.

But the possibility of the latter is less, because what the script says, there is still market space, the investment cost is not high, and the hope for profit is great.

Therefore, it should be the butterfly effect caused by trajectory deviation.

Because at this time, Alfonso-Curon will indeed "break up" with Warner, because the box office of "Prisoner of Azkaban" did not meet expectations. Although the original novel is the most original and the story is stronger, it has a heavier style and The theme did not meet the tastes of the younger audiences, and the box office was a little bit worse, and then the Warner executives became indifferent to him.

If there were no fireflies to intervene, Alfonso Cuarón should have collaborated with Universal once, and the filming was "Son of Man".

"Son of Man" is a long-established project in the world, and there was a production trend in 2002. As a result, it was shelved halfway due to a director problem, which was taken over by Alfonso Cuarón.

You know, "Son of Man" is adapted from a novel by PD James. This female writer is a very prolific and influential mystery novelist, and many works have been put on the big screen.Therefore, the copyright of her novels is very sought-after, and has long been taken away by major studios...

Lehman read the script carefully, and curiously asked: "Why do you want to shoot this subject?"

Alfonso-Caron thought for a while before he replied: "I talked a lot with him when I was shooting "Pan's Labyrinth" some time ago. I got the idea from the chat. Now the problem of immigration is very serious. , Especially for this place, you know, I am a Mexican, I can understand some things about smugglers from the U.S.-Mexico border. Later, I investigated in depth and got a lot of material. That’s why this movie reflects the smuggling of immigrants. project."

Well, Lehman almost forgot that besides his expertise in science fiction, he is also a director with a literary atmosphere.

And this "Edge of Society" tells the story of Mexican smugglers hiding in the United States and being despised. The theme is heavy, but the story is very plain and relaxed, without the sense of depression that makes people breathless.

In other words, a repressive subject, Alfonso Cuarón wanted to be calmer.

This is also in line with his style. The interpretation of maternal love in "Rome" is also quite calm. Perhaps science fiction has had too much influence on him. He has always had a sense of onlookers when he makes art films.

I have to say that Alfonso Cuarón still has a very personal stigma as far as this style of directing is concerned.

And this subject suits him very well.

"Please sit down." Lehman waved.

When Alfonso-Caron sat lightly on the sofa, Lehmann asked again: "How much investment?"

Alfonso-Caron was taken aback, and then he was overjoyed-so simple, as the top said, as long as Lehman himself approved, the project can be prepared for shooting immediately, without the intervention of many complicated people.

"I made a project budget, roughly 18 million. I want to make two imaging styles of black and white plus color. This requires more money." Alfonso explained.

"No problem. Your director's salary is included in the investment to participate in the box office share. Well, 3 million takes 30% of the box office net profit and 10% of the copyright, how about?"

In this regard, it is almost the same as before. The box office is profitable, and Firefly does not hesitate to share the rewards. If the box office loses, the next project will take less.

In fact, Alfonso Cuarón is very satisfied with this kind of cooperation.

In the past, he used to get a fixed salary, occasionally selling at the box office and taking some bonuses. It is like the current salary is linked to the box office. The better the score, the more aggressive the filming-generally only the first-line directors have to follow the production Alfonso Cuarón doesn't have much confidence in the bargaining chip that the factory talks about.

As for Lehman, he also understood that Firefly is definitely much worse than the Big Six. The preferential conditions he can win over, except for little intervention in the creation, is to change the treatment from the superior to the profit partner.

In addition, Firefly does not have much bargaining chips to win over talents.

It’s just that many of the directors he’s made have joined Firefly without even being successful...