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In the office building of Lionsgate Headquarters, the lights were brightly lit, the employees worked hard, and no one slipped away early when they were close to get off work.

Since the acquisition banner was raised high, the management has changed in a few days, not to mention the employees below, everyone is avoiding becoming the next leaver.

In the office, Jon Fellermae sat in the boss chair, did not know anything about the style of an executive, held a market document, and asked questions to several subordinates while watching, and occasionally praised and released Get close, which makes the conversation atmosphere more harmonious.

The attitude of leaders outside the major shareholders of the board of directors relaxed a lot of the people sitting on the sofa on the right.

These are all managers who entered the Lionsgate system from the original company during the recent acquisitions to expand the company's territory. They are still new to the new environment, new colleagues, and new bosses, and they inevitably have many scruples.

Originally, I was still thinking about how to get along with Jon Fellermae. I didn't expect the boss to express his position first, and unknowingly he felt some kindness.

Of course, for Jon Fellermei, in this conversation, it doesn't matter what we talk about, but people are more important.

After all, every acquisition, dissolution of a part, and absorption of a part, it is still necessary to think about how to settle the hearts of these newcomers.

People? It's a little overwhelming to change to a new company, and it's normal to feel unsure. What he has to do is to make these people have confidence in the company's future and work steadily.

Lionsgate’s foundation is still very solid. Although it is also due to the fact that there are not so many theater resources and some are restricted by the market, it is not daring to start risky high investment projects rashly, but the small cost of about 10 to 20 million is produced one after another. .

Actually, they are also in a period of pain, and they are still hiding their ambitions in order to open up overseas channels.

Moreover, the current Lionsgate seems to be very loud, but for the Big Six, it is not a threat, and it does not pay attention to it at all.

Just like on September 1, Lionsgate’s new work "The Heart Attack" was released.

12 million US dollars investment, less than 1,300 screen canvases, typical B-level productions, directors Mark Neveld and Brian Taylor are also screenwriters, relatively junior, and not well-known. The entire crew is the main creator and can get it. It seems that only the male protagonist Jason Statham was shot.

In today's era when action movies are no longer mainstream, it's wise to make a fortune if you come up with an action movie with no big scenes.

For the Big Six, B-level production is the most marginalized project with little resource tilt within them, but it is the mainstream production in Lionsgate. Who will pay special attention to it?

Of course, this project is cost-effective.

It is a film that reduces risks and catches specific audiences.

If you have to summarize the plot, "Rage Attacks the Heart" is a bit of the shadow of "Life and Death".

It’s just that “Life and Death Hour” is a car that was bombed, and “Fire Attacks the Heart” is a killer played by Jason Statham who was poisoned. As long as his heart beats faster than expected, he will die. set.

That's right, the mobile "powder magazine" that automatically explodes into fragments once it falls below the predetermined speed.Now that ten years have passed, a madman whose structure has been altered by a deadly poison has taken the baton. Only this time, compared with the endurance of mechanical gasoline, this poison has the upper body and is always exhausted.

Therefore, in the film, you can often see Jason Statham jumping up and down inexplicably...

Therefore, the freshness of Rotten Tomatoes dropped to 61% as soon as the film was opened for such a trouble-free, low-cost movie. Of course, if the reason for passing is to throw away the unreasonable poison setting for the rationality of the plot, Jason Statham The cold humor is a plus.

The crew chose a good actor-after the older generation of action stars either transformed or fell silent, Jason Statham has become a screen tough guy with a good audience.

In the first weekend, the fact that "Rage Against the Heart" scored 10.46 million US dollars was also a small surprise for Lionsgate.

You know, about the announcement of this film, they invested less than 2 million US dollars in the early stage. It can be said that it is an attitude of letting it go. They only posted posters in the movie theater and nearby, and even the trailer was too lazy to cut. There is only one edition...

Of course, Jon Fellermei, who is holding the report, is very satisfied with the performance of "Raging Heart", but looking at the weekly ranking of 8.23 ​​million, it has been screened for three weeks, and it can still be ranked third in the fourth week. "Little Sunshine" is the envy of my heart.

——Everyone is also a low-cost movie. My family’s works exploded, and the potential of 30 to 40 million is dead. You have 60 to 70 million. Think about it, it seems that you are not so happy... ...

In fact, this is also what the industry generally thinks of the work "Little Sunshine".

If Disney’s "Dancing Out of My Life" is a chance to seize the re-emergence of musicals, and the plot specifically caters to young audiences and has achieved a dark horse-level market performance, then "Little Sunshine" is a bit unpredictable. Up.

Is it good?The quality has indeed withstood the test of the market, but the subject matter is not mainstream-it is literary and artistic. It is very rare to be able to sell at the box office without losing money. This is why Focus Films gave up shooting "Little Sunshine" after several thoughts The proposal was finally missed by Firefly.

When the results of "Little Sunshine" came out in the first week, the executives of Focus Pictures were not even more complicated.

This is just like "Breaking Bad" has been growing against the trend by word of mouth. TV stations that have rejected dramas such as HBO and CBS also have a different taste...

After the purpose of the conversation and communication was about the same, Jon Fellermei slightly signaled that there was still work, and the others would take the initiative to get up and leave.

Alas, looking at the series of numbers on the report, Jon Fellermae squeezed his eyebrows unbearably.

He is in charge of such a big deal, and the company's production is not very good-it is not good compared with Firefly, but it is actually very good. The past few years have been profitable, and it is still spending money to expand overseas.

......

At this moment, Lyman and Liam were chatting in Blue Butterfly Pictures' office.

It's just not for personnel matters, but for scheduling.

"Deadly Magic" directed by Christopher Nolan was finished at the end of April this year, and the late stage was busy until mid-August, and it was completely finalized.

When Lyman went to try it, he also praised Nolan a few words.

Of course, this film doesn't have any mainstream themes, it's a test product, experimenting and exploring the shooting style.

It can be said that the path of the second "Dark Knight" can be found in "Deadly Magic" in many places.

From the time the film was finalized, the schedule issue was quickly brought to the business arrangement of Blue Butterfly Pictures.

In the original time and space, Nolan joined the Warner camp, so this film was also arranged by Warner in the later part of October, mainly to cooperate with the Christmas Eve harvesting market to fill up the vacant theater resources during this period.

But for Firefly, Christmas Eve is the end of October, and before November, choose one that can steadily squeeze into Christmas by relying on the follow-up market trend. "Sparta" is more suitable than "Deadly Magic".

Because "Sparta" is more mainstream, "Fatal Magic" is suspenseful and more nightly dark film imaging, and the plot is filled with magical details that require patience to know. It is a bit too brainstorming for the audience and not visually. Will be comfortable,

Why do most films like to use lenses with richer colors, such as soft yellow, brilliant red, and light blue...It is because the human visual system is more acceptable and able to hold the impression of these colors. In "The Mystery of Xia Ying", some viewers were disliked by the large number of night scenes in the film.

Then, "Fatal Magic" was Nolan's filming of "The Mystery of the Shadow" and further explored this image style. It is conceivable that this movie does not have Batman as the biggest attraction of suspense and audience acceptance. It will definitely be lower.

Of course, movies? Some people like them very much, while others are totally unacceptable. The most stable commercial works are those that can be recognized and passed.

Obviously, "Fatal Magic" was not enough mainstream and not stable enough.

Therefore, Nolan gave way to "Sparta" for his work, but he was not so unacceptable.

After all, movies can sometimes be popular, sometimes they are very small...