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After the presentation came to an end, Lehman confirmed the details of cooperation with Columbia and Cameron.

As in the previous life, Cameron still gave up his high salary in order to shoot "Avatar" and only seized the copyright to prevent Firefly from leaving him. According to the agreement, it was 28%. Firefly invested 420 million yuan and paid 80 million to Weta Digital Occupy 80%.

Although the overall expenditure budget of the project is around 500 million, in fact, the actual expenditure for the crew is almost 350 million.

Of course, for the 350 million miles, Cameron Studios will still take 30 million, which belongs to the production salary of Jon Landau and Cameron. The director only enjoys 20% of the box office net profit. Take extra money.

In summary, it can be regarded as an alternative 2+2 model, with 20% net profit of copyright income (home entertainment part + TV broadcast + streaming media on-demand + authorized peripheral + derivatives) + 20% profit at the box office. For a world-class director, similar conditions are still the stalls that he and his studio personally set up from beginning to end. They are not very greedy, and Lehman gave them willingly.

Although this guy always overspends his budget and has a hard-tempered temper that makes the investors skip the feet, he has always been very angry about the division of interests.

As for the largest issuer, Colombia, they have nothing more than adding the project's renewal priority issuance right to the signed contract and participating in the profit sharing as the issuer.

Anyway, after the tripartite talks, Lehman quickly credited the first 200 million yuan of funds to the supervised crew account, and paid for the documentary filming to board the ship but repeatedly settled Disney settlements.

Everything went according to plan, and Lehman was always in a good mood.

From a utilitarian point of view, this wave not only hit the competitor Fox, but also relied on the success of "Avatar" to deepen the bargaining chip to Warner, who is in bad luck, and Columbia, who is beginning to hesitate.

Before leaving the studio, Cameron walked over and raised his mouth in thought, "Lyman, you can come to visit the class and be familiar with the technology, but you can't interfere with my shooting. Also, it's best not to be in a bad mood. When I interrupted, I don’t want to affect the friendship between us. By the way, don’t contact the media reporter to visit "Avatar" to attract traffic. I don’t like it. I need privacy. I will talk about everything after the movie is finished..."

"Don't worry, sir, we will try our best to meet any needs. The crew will definitely leave it to you..."

Nonsense, Cameron, who entered the set tyrant mode, has a sharp language that can make people jump off the building. Even if Lehman is the biggest sponsor, it is estimated that he will not give much face, and he does not want to interfere.In other words, the usual Cameron and Cameron on the set are basically two people, and Lehman didn't want to enter the territory of a lion as a director.

"That's good." Cameron smiled with satisfaction. "We are very busy at work. If nothing else, I won't greet you."

Then, Jon Landau sent Lyman to the parking lot...

Back to the company.

Kevin Fitch is leading a group of people to hold a preparatory meeting for "Iron Man 2" to determine the location, sponsor advertising placement, actors' makeup and costume props.

The cast of this play is similar to the previous life: Robert Downey Jr. (Tony Stark), Gwyneth Paltrow (Pepper), Don Chandel replaces Terrence Howard in the first film Acting as Colonel Rod, Mickey Locke, who became famous in "Betta" and "Sin City", played the whip.

It is worth noting that the awkward scene of whiplash, which involved revenge on the technical patents of the fathers, has been changed to the thug and villain cultivated by the Hydra tissue? It is still a work that is prominently shaped by the flawed and grounded protagonist of Iron Man. Some don't get it, making the plot not smooth.

Scarlett Johansson (Black Widow), Sam Rockwell (Justin, the arms dealer supported by Hydra, whose whip is his hand), the chief is still played by Samuel Jackson for a short time, and a short paragraph is added. Dr. Banna, played by Mark Ruffalo, continues to study the Hulk’s will and tries to search for the Universe Cube to pave the way for the New York war.

Because of the change in order, some plot changes will appear more reasonable, with a fuller world view and filling settings.

At this point, "Iron Man 2" has also entered the final period of preparation. The actors should exercise and the interior should continue to build. According to Kevin Fitch's plan, the crew will definitely be officially launched at the end of June. Very abundant.

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Early the next morning, the major media newspapers had abandoned the old king and embraced the new work, and the discussion about "Transformers 2" was extremely loud.

The second part of this series opened with a gorgeous figure of about 109 million U.S. dollars and topped the weekly ranking of North American votes. It surpassed the June opening result set by "Robot Walle" in the same period last year and set a new record.

You know, the first week of 109 million and the audience's reputation is better than the first one, which is really higher than the industry's expectations, even the two camps of Paramount Hasbro are pleasantly surprised.

I have to say that the Autobots are really popular with audiences all over the world. During the schedule, "Transformers 2" directly accounted for 56.4% of the top 12 box office volume this week.

Driven by it, the North American film market soared 33.2% compared to last week, reaching 193 million U.S. dollars. It also defeated the first week of June 2004 led by Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. It became the hottest weekend in all dynasties in June, and the single hall (4234 theaters) scored 25,743 dollars, which is also the highest number so far this year.

From the above data, it is not difficult to see that the second movie has increased too much compared to the first movie. Everyone is surprised why so many viewers can support it, because the overseas market for simultaneous screenings directly won 220 million in the first week, which is even more exaggerated. The mainland accounted for 60 million yuan (equivalent to more than 8 million US dollars), but Lehman analyzed some of the reasons.

First of all, "Transformers 1" hit the "Dark Knight", one of Nolan's peak works during the screening, and because it was a toy adaptation, the stereotype felt that it was younger.

However, this impression has been rewritten after the first set of preparations and channels such as DVD and TV broadcasting. Furthermore, the combination of Spielberg + Michael Bay, "Transformers", is said to be "Jurassic Park". "Machine version" is no different-

Both the Decepticon camp persecuting the earth and the Tyrannosaurus chasing and killing humans are the same. Movie fans buy this kind of big visual effects movies because there is no cultural barrier.

CG technology has given the audience a sense of mechanical fun. After the results are achieved, Paramount should also thank Sony-Columbia for removing the "2012", which has the highest overlap with the audience of the film, and the remaining masterpieces that have gone downhill. , Of course, could not stop the pace of Autobots, after all, "Captain America" ​​fell to tenth, and "Star Trek" also ranked eighth.

Putting away the newspaper, Lyman looked at Eva again.

Since the completion of "New Moon" and the transition to the later stage, she has also had a good time and can have a good rest, but she seems to be listless when she takes a lot of rest. Last night...the interest is not high.

He suddenly remembered the role theory in "Avatar" that day, and it felt right, but he had to find out what he meant.

"Director Cameron has a movie that our company has invested in. Do you want to try it?"

Eva was slowly drinking oatmeal, after hearing the words, Meimu looked over...