Hollywood legendary director

With the coming of December, 2008 is coming to an end.

In Burbank, in the Firefly Building, the office employees are all in a beautiful and busy mood. The entire company is full of anger, and is completely unaffected by the sluggish financial market.

After all, the company's earnings have risen in a blowout this year, and the year-end bonus will certainly not be small.

Although there is still a month to harvest the market, in fact most of the works released in December are Olympic films, and the screening scale is not large. For example, the recently discussed "Slumdog Millionaire", the single gallery broke 3 Wan, but that's because there are only 23 cinemas in their spotlights, and the audience can only get a glimpse in advance only by grabbing tickets. This looks amazing. The stalls are spread out, but they can't be exaggerated.

So if nothing else, according to the annual data list summarized by the movie market, a total of two films produced by Firefly have ranked in the top ten. Among them, "Iron Man" also locked the North American championship, and the box office single The number of those with more than 100 million yuan has reached 4, not to mention overwhelming second-tier studios. Counting the top five, Firefly's performance is very outstanding-that is, the output is still not high.

Not only that, in terms of TV series, relying on "Hell's Kitchen", "Prison Break 5", "The Walking Dead 4", "Stranger Things 2", "Breaking Bad 3" and the slightly profitable "Squadron Squadron" and the ratings are more surprising "Men's Cock", apart from the size of the TV station, really achieved the first place in the film supply side.

This report card not only brought the company's hearts and minds together, including Marvel Entertainment, which was slowly changing after the acquisition, but also made Lionsgate and Fox, who had the lowest performance in the five major battles this year, a little envious.

Who wouldn't take a look at such an efficient production level?

I just don't know whether the firefly can continue to survive.

......

After this week, on December 8, the global cumulative number of "Zone Nine" screened for four weeks reached 454 million, of which North America alone contributed 203 million.

Now, no one is worried that the movie will not make money, and even the media has been named the most likely to break the R-rated movie record-610 million "The Passion of the Christ".

The reason everyone is so optimistic is that the trend of "The Ninth District" is naturally very stable, which is in line with the consistent expectation of high reputation and popular works.

"The decline of overseas screenings seems to be coming sooner than expected, Mr. Fellermay."

On a new day, Lehman took over the film’s recent performance report, made a call and contacted the chairman of Lionsgate. Judging from the current situation, the potential of North America is almost reached, and the rest of the time is basically to continuously reduce theaters. Waiting for the next picture, so whether "District Nine" can get a higher box office, break a record or something, it depends more on overseas regions.

"Of course we want to do better, but "District Nine" is an original project after all. You can't make its publicity as simple as "Twilight". Even the topic of hype is not easy to find, and I personally think It’s not bad to be able to account for so much overseas without experiencing much cultural exclusion. At least 500 million in the world is not difficult."

Jon Fellermei said relaxedly: "Don't worry, director. We will have a very good end of the year."

"Thank you then."

After the routine "urging", Lehman couldn't manage overseas business after all, so he could only hope that Lionsgate's operating methods would be stronger.

It doesn't matter whether the record is broken or not, the box office is higher, and the copyright value is higher? It is a matter of interest. It is better to be higher or higher.

After a while, Lehmann, who was sitting quietly in the boss chair, was still prevented from continuing to fish by the sound of assistant Mays knocking on the door.

"Is there a problem?"

"Someone is looking for you, it's a director, do you want to see?" After receiving a call from the front desk, Mays immediately asked for registration information.

"who is it?"

"Todd Phillips, a director with some achievements."

"Let him come up, right in my office." Lyman waved.

As the company becomes stronger, deeper and deeper, and the capital chain becomes more stable, it has attracted the attention of many filmmakers.

This can also be seen from the fact that Blue Butterfly Pictures has received more project releases.

In other words, in addition to independent business, cooperative business is also rising rapidly, this is a more reasonable composition of a studio.

It's just that most of the low-level filmmakers have basically fallen through the review. It is not that easy to get the investment of Firefly.

"What's the situation with him?"

"I heard from the front desk that he seemed to have taken a script. It should be seeking funding and distribution." Metz curled his lips.

......

Todd came to the Firefly Building and had been sitting on the sofa next to the front desk for half an hour.

It’s not easy to meet Lehman, or the famous producers of Firefly such as Garcia and Brian. Of course, they can take the opportunity to sell at the reception, but these people have been busy recently and reduced the banquet, and forced Todd to be so formal. .

He is not a newcomer. He has been in Hollywood for almost 13 years. At the age of 38, he belongs to the younger group in the director circle. Of course, he is more "young and promising" with Wen Ziren and Lehman. It can't be compared, but it's not without foundation.

In fact, although he is not one of the top five trainees, he has a good relationship with Warner. He has cooperated three times. It is the most frequent among the studios he has worked with, and he is more familiar with it. However, he has no relationship with Warner on this project. Reached an agreement, after much consideration, I thought of going to Firefly to try.

The reason? Naturally, he thinks that the production environment of Firefly attaches great importance to the director, and that Firefly is no bigger than the Warner family, and there are more creative projects. Maybe you can strive for better conditions.

The young lady in charge of the reception seriously entered his message, then conveyed it upward, and then let him sit for a while with a smile.

This sitting lasted for half an hour. It was not that Firefly was deliberately neglecting it, but since last year, many people went to Firefly to try their luck and fish with scripts. Lehman stipulated that he must first find out the information of the visitor and comment on his actions. The reliability of the director is likely to be invited up to talk in detail.

There is no way. If anyone can meet Lehman or the company's top executives, it will undoubtedly increase a lot of work and cannot handle it at all. This also indirectly explains the difficulty of new directors mixing Hollywood, because such people have no qualifications at all. , It is difficult to be trusted, and there may be no hope of entering the studio to increase investment.

Fortunately, Todd is not a newcomer. He has made 6 movies, 2 of which have lost money, 1 of which is guaranteed, and 1 of which is profitable by the film festival. The only real proof of the commercial potential is the collaboration with Billy-Bob, "The King of Stunt" The success rate of "Police Two Heroes" with Ben Stiller is still guaranteed.