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"The production cost is 130 million, and Firefly can promise to use another 30 million for pre-publicity. However, in North America, Universal only accounts for 13% of the offline market revenue and does not involve the box office. In addition, the copyright belongs to Firefly, and Universal only has three years. Authorized use of ."

"The publicity must go through the advertising channels of Conscatel, so we agree."

Lehman stated his first requirement. Several senior executives at Global knew that Firefly could not let the North American box office market. They also gave up this idea. Simply put, it is the relationship between supply and demand. Firefly still has a choice. Global Relatively speaking, it is a little weaker, so now that they have decided to cooperate, it is better to earn benefits for the company in other aspects.

Like advertising business, undertaking hard broadcasting, laying out, helping to contact TV stations to show trailers, etc., Firefly always spends so much money, and the world can make a little bit. Anyway, there are so many advertisers on the market. It is better to find another place. "Oneself" is divided.

Of course, as long as the effect is consistent, Lehman doesn’t care where the money is going. Anyway, it’s going to be invested. He waved his hand, and then said: "At that time, I will let Liam connect with you. In addition, Christmas Yard The number of openings of the line is guaranteed not to be less than 4,000, and the film can be tested several times in-house. We guarantee the project and you guarantee a sufficient share of the film."

The scale of joint screenings in 4,000 theaters is not too much today, because the number of screens has increased, and the number of film openings will only rise rapidly. This resource is still available to Universal.

Seeing that the other party had no objection, Lehman added: “Universal must not interfere with project shooting, but can monitor capital expenditures-Firefly did spend so much money on filming; if the advertising business is docked by you, it must provide traffic promotion support with matching funds. , The specific requirement is that the TV network’s preview screening must be posted at the end of the hit drama, and the hard-broadcasting must be a land boundary with a large number of people in each state and city..."

Similar requirements are all reasonable.

When the money is spent, the grade has to be raised, and the publicity treatment of 30 million can not be the same as that of 5 million.

Firefly has cooperated with so many studios, and many things are clear. Universal didn't want to pit it. It's just that with this kind of service, if you make some business money, it will be used to generate income for other departments.

Finally, Lehman mentioned one more point, that is, the box office profit must be settled within one month after the first share of the film is drawn. This is a bit unreasonable and not as normal as the previous conditions.

Because the splitting of accounts is slow on the theater side, after a while after it is handed over to the distributor, it will basically be delayed for a while, and such a large amount of money can be used to generate income in the account. It is better to slow down, so in general, the film industry is At the end of March, you may be more active if you want to cooperate more.

This feeling is as if the issuer of the project's proceeds didn't get all the profits, and the issuer had to pay for the producer's share first.

Lehman also knew that this was a bit too much in the end, but there is no way. The global family has a big business, but the firefly is in a period of rapid development. Many places have to spend money, not to mention that he wants to buy a wave of buildings in the second half of the year. Of cash.

Many people only recognize this after the collapse in property prices.

In addition, he also raises Marvel, a big blood-sucking household. Without projects to generate income, many assets are unhealthy. Usually Firefly has to continue to set up movies, engage in publicity, and occasionally be kind, environmental protection, refugee issues, etc. Donate money to enhance the brand's image, don't you have to spend money?

In a word, there are too many places to spend big money in the second half of the year. In order to protect the capital chain, this year's movie, we have to quickly recoup the cost and get the profit, and we can no longer divide the accounts slowly as before.

Not only Universal, but also Warner's side, Firefly will be more urging.

Fortunately, it's just dividing the money in advance. As long as there is money to make, Universal doesn't care who takes the money first, so it just ridiculed Firefly's eager accounting mode and agreed.

After finalizing the rules, the two parties signed a screening contract.

The rest is even simpler. It is nothing more than signing a film completion guarantee with the Fire Foundation, and Universal will send several financial personnel to supervise the capital expenditures during the crew period to prevent fireflies from fooling around-for example, 130 million, we Only given so many resources, in the end, you only spent 8 to 9 million, which is a deception, because the plan is not benchmarked.

After spending two days discussing the cooperation with Universal, Lyman called Johnson again to ask Andy Serkis if there was a schedule. If so, only the intelligent alien prawns in "Ninth District" need it. He came to provide facial expression capture and reduce the stiffness of pure post-production effects.

In the original film, Lyman didn't see how different the wise prawns are from other similar ones. The only thing is that they are different in body shape, but they can actually do better, such as rich expressions.

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Entering April, the North American film market still did not show much dazzling performance. Compared with previous years, the market was only due to a slight increase in film production.

By the end of the third week, the total number of "Death Penalty" in North America has reached 28.58 million, with 17.68 million in overseas accounts, and 46.26 million in the world. According to this screening situation, the global 70 million should not be a problem. The magic profession was successfully introduced.

Similarly, Lehman has not been idle these days.

New line studio.

The crew is setting up the shooting scene. Lehman frowned slightly while looking at the round table and the concept drawing of alien weapons, and then called the head of the props group Arman, "It's too small, what I want is rough The style, a weapon similar to the appearance and temperament of the prawn."

How should I put it, the current concept image feels a bit like the big-headed alien laser guns in "Independence Day", but holding it in the hands of the big shrimp, just imagine that picture is inconsistent, too delicate, and not suitable for him. The conception of the alien race in "The Ninth District".

Lehman thinks that the original style of painting is good, but the premise is to follow suit, and don't make things made of plastic.

Arman nodded, turned and redesigned.

The work of the prop group is like this. It is common to be rejected, especially in science fiction movies. What you think of in your mind may not be consistent with the director. Even if you understand a similar style, it may not quickly satisfy the director.

In short, it is slowly pieced together from the constantly overthrown and trivial inspiration, a process of interpretation that is easy to make people crazy.

Because the prop master never knows what novel ideas the crew director will have, but fortunately, Lehman is not easy to change his mind. He is still rough today, but tomorrow he will be small and torturing his prop group.

Outside, in fact, inside the studio, the set team built the laboratory of the MNU headquarters, as well as the Wiggs home, and the interior of the spaceship cabin. These scenes will be solved in this way.

After a few days, the actors were in place, and the crew started silently.