Hollywood legendary director

I have been with Eva for a long time, tried all positions, and the two bodies became more familiar.

Early in the morning.

Lyman woke up with Eva in his arms.

Eva asked lazily: "What time is it?"

"It's ten past seven." Lehman picked up the phone.

"Are you going to the company?"

"Well, there is a new project."

"Ok."

Eva propped herself up, crawled over the bare Lyman, dressed and washed, and went for breakfast.

When Lehmann is ready, there are already two blueberry jam toast and two glasses of milk on the table.

After eating, it was around 7:45 to go out.

The two went to Lincoln Business. Lehman first sent Eva to CAA. She had several advertising platforms these days, and then drove to Firefly.

A few days ago, after several rounds of discussions, Netflix successfully got the support of some content providers, including Firefly.

At this stage, all parties except Lehman have not realized how big an impact the streaming media business can bring to the existing pattern of Hollywood, and they just feel that they can get benefits by providing their own film sources.

In order for Netflix to obtain film and television content and engage in online viewing, the broadcast volume of those paying members is a measure of the distribution of benefits converted into copyright purchases.

Therefore, the content providers really feel that it is good, and they are happy to open up a way of making money. In the future, the cinema can draw offline, and after offline channels, they can also broadcast online to collect money.

But Lehman was too aware of Netflix's potential. Knowing that this barrier was over, it was not until Disney-based content providers discovered the huge streaming media market that they later realized that they wanted to sanction Netflix, but it was too late.

At this time, nobody really thought what Netflix could do.

At this time, its main revenue is online DVD leasing, and Netflix bears operating costs and express delivery services. The profit from the sale is roughly seven-thirds-seven for content providers.

In addition, they don’t have as many paying people as they subscribe to TV channels like HBO.

No one can see that he has enough strength.

It's not on the table.

Of course, whether Netflix is ​​strong or not is a later thing, and Firefly is not qualified to participate.

It's useless to think more, just keep paying attention.

After a short period of thought, the work continued.

In the development of the "Twilight" series, Jon Fellerme is more enthusiastic than Firefly.

Mainly, this project Firefly can be shot or not, and at most it has less performance, but Lionsgate really wants to completely establish overseas channels through the release of this series, so that those people know that it is also a big profit to cooperate with Lionsgate. of.

Therefore, Lionsgate appears to be more urgent for negotiations between the two parties.

Even Jon Fellermei took the initiative to come to the Firefly headquarters to chat with Lehman.

In the office.

Lehman smiled and said: "Joseph has already told me the details of cooperation. I believe this will be a win-win situation."

Jon Fellermay also laughed.

If he can, he still wants to buy the adaptation rights of the "Twilight" series at a high price, but unfortunately, Firefly has no intention of selling it.

After chatting with Joseph for a while, both of them held the attitude of reaching cooperation, and occasionally there were some disputes, and the entanglement was also the issue of profit distribution, not the issue of not joining together.

"Lyman, don't worry. As long as the cooperation goes smoothly, Firefly will be Lionsgate's most reliable partner." Jon Fellermei pledged.

This time chatting is even more enjoyable.

The cooperative development plan was set, and the two parties found a time to sign the contract.

Among them, there are two main points.

First, the copyright ownership is Firefly, but Lionsgate has rights to participate in the operation of the copyright income, and after deducting other aspects of the profit, Lionsgate holds 30%;

The second is the box office profits at home and abroad. The North American market is owned by Firefly and Lionsgate assists in the distribution. For overseas, Lionsgate takes 25% of the total revenue.

In addition, Firefly needs to ensure that in the next 5 years, at least two "Twilight" will be operated, and no less than 10 movie projects will be handed over to Lionsgate for operation.

In other words, in the past five years, in addition to the "Twilight" project, other overseas distribution businesses are allocated each year, and Firefly will also provide two film sources.Because Lionsgate needs to establish more film sources.

To this end, the price paid by Lionsgate is to bear the publicity expenses and give up all the North American box office proceeds.

The content of the negotiation will be kept confidential after the parties have decided.

The main reason is that they have their own scruples, even if they don't want to speak out, they cooperate in silence.

Time enters April.

"Juneo", which has been screened to the fourth week, has a cumulative global box office of 160 million, of which North America contributed more than 90 million US dollars.

Of course, some regions are not interested in "Juneo" because this film does not have the elements of global popularity, but roughly speaking, so many overseas regions combined can still be equal to North America.

Early in the morning, Firefly Pictures convened a small meeting.

There is a good saying, "For performance, meet first."

Clear thinking is indeed necessary for the operation of the company.

If you don't know anything, it's definitely reckless and unreasonable.

A team has a unified mind.

Meeting business is to let everyone know the goals and specific implementation.

For example, the "Twilight Saga: Twilight" project, which is now coming to Firefly, is scheduled to be directed by Catherine Hardwick.

This artist is born, and it is rare to see a woman transformed into a director in the circle. Even if she is 52 years old, she still has a girlish fantasy and romance.

Lehman found her because of her control over teen-themed movies, because the use of the lens in the director’s debut film "Age of Love 13" (2003) is already very similar to Mary Su, with warm colors, short shots, Use side shots for close-ups, not focusing on narrative innovation, focusing on the beauty of the lens...

Of course, Catherine Hardwick is still a little transparent, and her debut work did not arouse any waves in the circle. The main reason is that Hollywood not only treats actresses differently, but also female directors.

Catherine, unlike Sophia, has a big director dad, so naturally it goes harder.

"Twilight Saga: Twilight" has been the only project she has received with high investment for so many years, with a total of 40 million US dollars-this movie has not many special effects, few scenes, full filter + whitening, so that men and women are beautiful Bubbling and letting teenagers fantasize about love will almost succeed.

To be honest, it is almost the style of Qiong Yao's drama. The difference may be that the author Stephanie Meyer has no minor three complexes, but the same is that the plot is terrible. Without the chaotic magic background, it is more similar.

However, Catherine was very satisfied with the project, which was in line with her appetite.

Does the old aunt feel girlish too?

After receiving the invitation, the attitude is still very eager.

"how do you feel?"

Catherine was holding a script that had been slightly modified according to her requirements. Lyman on the side looked at her expression. It might work well, but she still asked.

Catherine nodded repeatedly, trying to calm down her excitement, "Really... the plot is better... I am very satisfied with the changes... great..."

The studio that respects the director so much, loves it.

Originally it was just a fight, but Firefly actually removed the unnecessary plot in the original work according to her thoughts and speeded up the rhythm.

So for a while, Catherine didn't respond with any appropriate words to respond.

Lyman smiled, and didn't want to say that this movie series has completely inherited the style of your pioneering work.

"Wait is a discussion meeting, you are the project director, listen to it together."

......

The theme type of the "Twilight" series itself is the representative of the project that does not cost much but is very cost-effective.

Like "Summer of Jeans", which focused on the youth love market in 2005, the original novel of this movie is very popular with girls, with a box office of 39 million U.S. dollars. Needless to say, "Harry Potter" has a wider influence.

In the original time and space, "Twilight" used 37 million US dollars in production expenditure to beat the US$192.8 million and the global box office of 392 million US dollars of "super-cost performance", bringing spring to the previously non-mainstream "Mary Su" movie theme.

To say why "Twilight" is so successful, maybe it is more romantic and more in line with the expectations of the girls, or the magical background has a lot of bonus points, which conceals the dog-blood plot that is still very routine in nature.

Such success can only be said that in recent years, the traffic market in the magic direction of Hollywood is large enough, and movies related to werewolves and vampires have a considerable audience base in the United States.

Conference room.

Lehman looked at Qi's production staff, and said first: "Continue to contact Dave Myers and pay close attention to the remake of "The Hitchhiker."

This is a suggestion made by an employee of the screenwriting department, and he also wrote a new version of the script. The original was remade from the classic thriller movie of the same name in 1986. Of course, the box office of this movie is not high, and it only paid 1.2 million US dollars. For the remake of the copyright, the investment budget is only 3.5 million US dollars. The intention of the filming is to not waste the distribution resources of Blue Butterfly Pictures, and there is not much expectation for the box office.

Anyway, the original is not good.