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The news that Firefly is preparing for a new project spread among the actors through several agencies, but no one knows what type of movie it is, and the confidentiality work is done quite well.

Subsequently, the agency first screened a group of actors who met the audition requirements and gathered in the Firefly audition room.

Although I don't know what to perform, the chance to get a performance is very important to these people.

Director Li Zheng is not there. This audition is only for small characters with few scenes in "Invincible Hulk". He doesn't have to stare at all the time. In addition to checking the preparations for costumes and props, his recent itinerary is related to photography, lighting, and art. To guide the discussion on imaging, or to discuss special effects with Scott Rose, the president of the digital field.

This year, the business increment in the digital field has improved to a certain extent. First, Firefly can provide more special effects projects, and secondly, there are special effects businesses in the second-line film industry such as Lionsgate and Mubao, which will also be entrusted to the digital field. Sometimes it will cooperate with Weta Digital to complete some more budget movies, such as "Dragon Knight", which is taken over by the digital field together with Weta Digital.

If you really want to calculate the market share distribution occupied by special effects companies on the market, the leader is still Industrial Light and Magic, because they have the largest number of practitioners, and they are cheap, and they are loved by major studios;

Followed by Weta Digital, and the lesser digital field, 3 companies can eat up 70% of the special effects business, and the others are captured by more than a dozen studios and special effects companies like Robert Zemigis, such as The business only focuses on the combination of real people and animation.

Beverly Hills.

Keira Knightley received a call from her agent.

She has three plays this year, "Pirates of the Caribbean 3: At World's End", and "Atonement", which is co-starred with Joe White, the director of "Pride and Prejudice", and James McAvoy. In addition, she also Acted in an independent work called "Su".

Of course, all three are released, so she is now in a relatively idle state.

The agent mentioned in the phone call is naturally a new work prepared by Firefly. The company has helped her inquire about some situations. The character positioning of the script is normal, not a villain, but a female protagonist who has an emotional relationship with the protagonist. There is no role type. conflict.

In the last sentence on the phone, the agent’s advice to her was to let her think about it, and if she agreed, she would immediately contact the crew for further negotiations.

At this time, Keira Knightley is only the best group of actors in the same age in terms of fame and rising space. A "Pirates of the Caribbean" series has already made her famous, and there is room for choice.

When the phone was hung up, Keira Knightley didn’t have any particular emotions. She was not ecstatic because it was a project of Firefly Pictures, because the so-called emotional drama basically meant that the project was a vase to the character. .

In the living room, Suki Waterhouse, who was sitting next to her, asked, "Who called?"

"Agent, a script."

"What scene are you filming?"

"I don't know, I only know that there are emotional scenes." She sighed as she said, "Why can't I meet a good project like "The Devil Wearing Prada", which is not a vase or a vase. It’s an independent work."

Suki Waterhouse nodded in sympathy.

Throughout Hollywood, the core of the heroine like "The Devil Wearing Prada" is ultimately a minority among the few, let alone mainstream commercial films.

Which actress doesn't want to have a protagonist addiction, always foils, too restrictive development.

"Then do you want to pick it up?"

"Some hesitation, the project director heard from the agent that it was confirmed that it was Li Zheng." Keira Knightley replied.

Suki Waterhouse frowned, "This one, I have also heard from friends in the circle. I still have a lot of ideas and talents. The drama is more popular, but there are still some risks."

When actors have the status of choosing a script, they are actually betting their eyes.

After all, no one knows whether the film will have a good effect or what negative effect it will have on one's own career.

Li Zheng himself definitely had a reliable time, and he also had an occasional failure in the past. Keira Knightley knew it.

"I was afraid of playing an unimportant role, but it was affected by the bad box office. But I plan to get in touch first."

"good luck."

The next day, Keira Knightley, accompanied by her agent, met with Director Li Zheng in the reception room of the digital field.

To be honest, Li Jiao has a great vision of an actor.

When meeting with real people, I only feel that Keira’s intellectual temperament is more prominent, more than that of photos and DVD DV, which fits Betty’s personality.

After all, the actress chosen to play Betty in "The Hulk" is Jennifer Connelly-the softly dancing scene in "Once Upon a Time in America" ​​is an absolute classic on screen, but this one is already old, acting Not a girl anymore.After all, time is not forgiving, and actresses are not as valuable as male actors.

The three chatted for a while, because the Hulk’s filming work had to be kept confidential. Facing Kayla’s request to read the script first, Li Zheng could only say that the character positioning is not bad, there is room for development, and the character is more intellectual. In this project, the male protagonist is the guardian knight of the female protagonist. There is only a kiss scene, no other extreme scenes.

As he said, Li recalled something and reminded him as a bargaining chip: "By the way, this project is jointly produced by Firefly and Universal. The screening schedule is likely to be next summer, and the budget is more than 150 million."

Before signing the contract, the actors should not mention too much to prevent leakage, but it is okay to talk about other topics.

Sure enough, when he heard that there was a global joining, it was a proper first-line masterpiece, Kayla was not tempted to know, her agent's attitude became more eager.

Let's not talk about anything else, commercial films are good for high salaries.

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Blue Butterfly Pictures.

Liam's work at this time is still focusing on promoting "Twilight" with various partners, and he is full of energy.

The reason is that the surroundings of "Twilight" are so popular that they are the easiest and best-developed movie he has taken over so many projects.

This also had to make him sigh with emotion what kind of purchasing power the female fans who have a young girlish heart will explode once they put their emotions on.

Even if the box office of the film was carried to 172 million (North America), offline DVD sales are also very popular, and the idea of ​​collecting one can be reasonably estimated, but why the original soundtrack is obviously old songs and some new arrangements , Are so popular-Yuan Shikong, "Twilight Series" has always been a case of market research, because it has more than the potential of profitability that major studios could not imagine.

The market positioning is so single, only students, some female white-collar workers and housewives are the main client targets. As a result, the appeals are comparable to many popular movie-watchers' extensive series.

Women's money is so good?It's so profitable.

Although through market research, Liam knows that this film has a very good reputation in the eyes of most female audiences-regardless of the fact that the ratings of IMDB, Yahoo, Rotten Tomatoes and other sites seem to be poor, it is because too many men give low scores , It's totally inspiring.

In the women's market, this super god-don't ask, ask is romance, love, and love.

Therefore, the rating of "Twilight" is prone to extremes because some female and male netizens scolded each other on the Internet for this work. Isn't it polarized?

The reality is that the female audience of "Twilight" seems to be a bit irrational to consume.

Because according to the data sent back by various partners, the DVD hardcover version of the movie has a high sales volume, just because the hardcover version has a boutique photo poster with the starring role. Fans love to buy this. The purpose is not like ordinary fans just for repeatability. Watching the content of the movie, besides, I bought all the DVDs, don't I buy a collection of the original soundtrack?

Do you not buy the same bracelet and clothing?

Don't buy customized hair accessories?

Is it true love fans must buy? What's more awesome is that they don't just buy one set...

This kind of combat power and desire to buy has made Liam's negotiations with more than a dozen surrounding partners such as Sony Records a good deal, which is more active than the promotion of previous films.

Although they still took the big head, because of the hot sales performance, can you talk more about the proportion of shares? After all, Firefly only paid the copyright use rights. Other aspects are other channels and sources of goods, but the copyright value is a bargaining chip.