Hollywood legendary director

Warner is naturally happy with the good results of The Dark Knight.

In addition, it was Nolan.

After this battle, his value skyrocketed again, and studios of all sizes became more optimistic about his market, and they drew in.Very realistic.

Of course, these Lehman were all in his eyes, because he used to come here too, and then he opened a studio.

I want the horse to run and I want it not to eat grass.It must be impossible.

A person's sense of a company will gradually change. When his merits are not sufficiently matched with interests, no matter how good the relationship is, it is easy to break.

Nolan is of course very grateful to Lehman. Not only does he recognize his director ability, but also because Lehman handed over the Batman project to him, and Firefly doesn't interfere with his creation, and the cooperation has always been pleasant.

But how long can this tacit understanding be maintained?

Those temptations and enthusiasm, Rao Nolan is relatively calm, but also shocked by the price of the big dogs.

"As long as you make sure to direct, 20 million dollars is yours, and the story is yours."

He never thought that one day, the money is so good, the basic salary of a film contract is only.

Dizzy, he refused with difficulty because he felt that Lehman had not yet paid off his favor.

Then, Lehmann visited in person.

It gave him the motivation to stay in Firefly.

"The future cooperation plan can be changed. Are you ready to be the owner of a studio?"

Nolan settled down, a little embarrassed-although he wanted to get higher benefits, he couldn't speak up after all.It's all right now, Lehman puts forward first, he only needs to think about whether to agree or not, whether he wants to.

A thick stack of agreement templates was placed in front of him.

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After Lehman returned to the company, Joseph quickly found him.

He helped Lehman determine the new cooperation model with Director Nolan.

They all understand that with the amazing results shown in "The Dark Knight", Nolan is really popular. If he wants to bind, he will definitely not be able to do it with the previous conditions-even if they are willing, he will be uncomfortable after all. Because of some kind of pressure.

Of course, this is actually a good goal for other directors who are good with Firefly-as long as you have enough results, don't worry about not getting enough rewards.

For talent, Firefly has always valued.

Joseph came in.

Soon he knew the answer from Lyman's good mood.

Since then, the empty shell studio established by some of the behind-the-scenes team that Nolan has accumulated for the shooting project will formally become an independent studio under Mann Media.

The project Nolan himself provided will directly participate in the film's copyright and box office profit sharing.

In other words, from a unified point of view, the relationship between the two is quite similar, as well as the relationship between the new line of management power and Warner. It seems to be one, but in fact the status is relatively detached.

Even other studios invited him to make a movie, and he could cooperate if he wanted to. Nolan felt it was worth it.

Because the relationship between the two has risen from the film contract to the cooperative relationship between the studio and the studio.

After all, don't do it like this. It will be even more embarrassing when someone else proposes it one day. It's better to take the initiative to retain the sentiment.

As for the others, just do business.

You can never turn your benefactor into an enemy, like Spielberg, once broke with the world, the reason is not the distribution of benefits.

Lehman has a good mentality and doesn't think he can be more attractive than dollars.

In the afternoon, I talked with Wen Ziren, Zach Schneider, Mexico Sanjie and others on the phone, showing what Nolan had obtained from the side and showing fairness in terms of achievement.

Among them, Zha Dao is the second most likely to transform a higher level of cooperation, followed by Wen Ziren, and then the top...

the following few days.

The "Iron Man" crew is still in steady preparations.

With Ryan and Kevin Fitch staring, Lehman didn't need to worry too much.

On the "Dark Knight" side, Warner watched the box office rise step by step, constantly breaking records, and frantically building momentum through media channels.

The release of box office data can even more arouse passersby's herd mentality and make the market more popular.

"The fastest breaking through 100 million belongs to the success of The Dark Knight."

"The theater line fire line expanded, the largest number of 4400 screenings."

"A shock, 94 IMAX giant screen theaters have earned $6.21 million in a single day. Another record is born."

The schedule soon entered Sunday, and the attendance rate did not decrease at the same time as the number of games increased. When the results of the first weekend came out, Hollywood was boiling again.

18.489 million, 61.23 million, 73.08 million...

The first weekend totaled 152.8 million, surpassing the US$151 million set by "Spider-Man 3", refreshing Hollywood's highest premier weekend box office revenue in history.

The media was lively, and the audience followed, and the discussion about the film basically never stopped.

All kinds of analysis posts and popular science posts on the Internet make people who have watched this film couldn't help but join it.

Warner Pictures headquarters building.

The success of "The Dark Knight" made the management of the distribution department very excited.

"Okay, good job."

At the department meeting, the president was full of red and energetic, "The headquarters wants us to take advantage of the momentum of the film and cooperate with the market operation department to expand the copyright area. Everyone, it is not the time to relax.

"The conversion rate of "The Dark Knight" is much higher than that of previous movies, and higher than "Harry Potter". Nolan is really a wizard."

"Yes, I thought the results of "The Mystery of Xia Ying" were pretty good, but I didn't expect this one to be even stronger."

"If you want me to say that Lehman has the ability, Nolan is not recommended by him, this vision."

"Yes, yes, to continue to cooperate with Firefly, their production capabilities are just right to integrate our distribution channels."

"Hey, it depends on what the people above plan."

......

In later generations, the success of "The Dark Knight" made all the top Warner executives immersed in the joy of box office honey, and it did trigger a lot of discussions on the factors of the film's success.

To put it bluntly, I just want to copy.

Looking at it now, they will still embark on this path of no return, because a series of results that have refreshed various box office records make this accidental surprise work really hard to look away.

So much so that Marvel proved that very simple routines can also please the audience, but not enough to make Warner change his mind and pit DC.

Facts have proved that even Nolan himself repeating the same subject matter can not guarantee another film of the same excellent quality. Warner's insistence on dark style as the mainstream adaptation will certainly suffer.

After all, not all characters are like Bruce Wayne, not all directors are Nolan, and it is impossible to win blindly in the dark. The aesthetics presented by "The Dark Knight" has not been the mainstream of the market. It is just that the film is because of certain The collision between these inspirations and the main creation has made it unique.

But this is better. DC doesn't take the wrong path. How can it highlight Marvel's future status?

Marvel Dafa needs suitable opponents to set off. If everyone is good, the market is not easy to divide.

Of course, the box office market at this time is a phenomenal work, it is DC ace, Batman.

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Paramount Pictures Building.

Shirley Lansing only felt distressed looking at the data.

The better the performance of "The Dark Knight", the more it is squeezing the "Transformers" that might have been better in the market.

Following the 70.5 million US dollars in the first week, they internally expected the film’s box office for the next weekend to be around 60 million, because "Transformers" has a transitional period, and the market will certainly not decline too much.

Prior to this, Paramount had commissioned a statistical company to investigate the evaluation of the film by 3,000 viewers. Some adult viewers had a preconceived and inherent impression that "Transformers" was a younger work similar to "Toy Story" , So after watching it, I was surprised that the scene of the film was so hot.

In other words, if it hadn't been for the appearance of "The Dark Knight" that robbed them of the limelight, "Transformers" was the top spot in the box office market. Now, it has fallen to second place.

What makes Paramount even more depressing is that the next week only won less than 52 million US dollars, and the subsequent decline is expected to increase.

The quality of word-of-mouth is inferior, the satisfaction of the audience is incomparable, and the number of tendencies of the audience is still incomparable. It can be said that "The Dark Knight" has finished "Transformers"...

Although it was anticipated on the day of the premiere, I still couldn't let go of the result.

Originally, "Transformers" may have a higher box office.

"Ugh......"

Shirley Lansing sighed, because there is really no way. Fortunately, there is still room for profit in the film, and the concept of serialization can continue to be filmed.