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In Burbank at night, the lights converge to create a beautiful view of the city that never sleeps, but for most businesses or company executives, the night is a time to calculate the value of their performance, and it is not worth paying attention to the so-called beauty.

In Lionsgate’s office, Jon Fellermae is one of them, but he looks like he is in trouble, his brows are frowning, his expression is not so happy looking at the report, and he sends out from time to time. A sigh.

If you don’t understand it, you think that Lionsgate’s recent days have been miserable and the project has frequently failed, so I am worried, but the real situation is just the opposite. The cooperation with Firefly, as well as the "New Moon" and "I Am Legend" Everyone in the circle can see how good the market efficiency is, and they are not losing money.

Just take the analysis of the cooperation of "New Moon", this film was released on November 10, the local box office of 296.6 million + overseas box office of 413 million, the total global total of 709.6 million, the highest single library has exceeded 35,000.

With such a record, Jon Fellermei has been in the industry for more than 20 years. It is not that he has never seen such a hit movie, but it happened to him, and the first one is worth 400 million in the world, and the second one has improved so much. See you.

Especially with the support of teenagers and female groups, for most studios, the money-making ability of the "Twilight" series is too crazy.

So if you just talk about making money or not, even if Lionsgate only draws 10% of the channel commission, it can earn 41.3 million from the box office, which is definitely a profit, and a movie is never the box office. Click this The home entertainment market and authorized revenue under this kind of performance, Jon Fellermae initially estimated that he was also very moved.

If it is operated reasonably, Lionsgate can make no less than 90 million in profits. The most profitable project independently produced by Lionsgate this year is nothing but "Black Wind Lady in Prison". It only earned more than half a year after planning. Nearly 100 million, not to mention some projects that have been working hard and have lost money.

Of course, Jon-Ferremer was definitely not sighing for this. He just saw the rapid and healthy development of fireflies, and he was really worried about the rise of his own production business.

After all, they have worked so hard to develop overseas distribution networks, and invested money and energy to do a big job. As a result, they still lack film sources until now, and their dependence on fireflies is really disturbing.

Under the glamour, what is concealed is that more than two years have passed. Lionsgate has not yet found the foundation that can completely gain a foothold in the domineering situation in Hollywood, and has its own ace series or sustainable development plan.

More importantly, the more Firefly demonstrated his extraordinary production ability, the more he feared that one day the cooperative relationship between the two parties would end, or that Lehman would be more greedy, further depressing Lionsgate’s interest. What should Lionsgate do?

These worries can also be regarded as the dilemma of Lionsgate’s lack of confidence. After all, this kind of thing really happened. Lionsgate basically has no resistance. They used price wars to fight the differentiation side, not to mention that after the stall was spread, they did not get the Some changes, this is also beyond the expectations of the Lionsgate executives.

Do you want to say that they are not active? In addition to stabilizing the cooperation with Firefly, they maintain a good personal relationship with the top management of Firefly, they are also vigorously developing their own production business and looking for other high-quality content providers, but the effect is not as good as Firefly The project is so powerful or not risky.

The report data spread out on the table is impressively supporting——

As of the end of 2009, there have been 5 movies produced independently, 2 of which are small profits, one barely breaks even money, and one loses the schedule, and one can not receive the funds directly invested, let alone profit. It's the end of the year, but the operating income is only about 140 million yuan;

There are 8 projects involved in the production or distribution, with an average profit of about 30 million and a profit of more than 240 million, of which the part that cooperates with Firefly accounts for 72% of the total value...

Yes, Lionsgate’s reliance on fireflies is so high, so high that Jon Fellermare is flustered. Looking at so many studios in Hollywood, no one has such a profit distribution, even if the DreamWorks team is stationed. Paramount, Paramount's production business also relies heavily on DreamWorks, and it does not have such a high proportion.

Just talk about performance participation, Lionsgate’s issuance department is about to become a subsidiary of Firefly, helping them to be responsible for the parts that cannot be completed, and the price is cheap...

Of course, thinking about it this way, Jon Fellermei didn't show this feeling at all in the face.

At the celebration reception some time ago, he personally received Liam.

Jon Fellermei sighed, thinking that this situation has been changed through external forces, and he also discovered that it is completely overtaken by cultivating his own production talents, so forget it.

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That night, on the other side of the sea, Rodríguez Perlman, who is responsible for the construction of overseas channel sites, also summarized his work in the office:

"...My team and I have been in South America for more than 4 months. Under the implementation of the response plan, basic difficulties have been eliminated, and the liaison and distribution are generally on the right track.

However, in order to avoid agency troubles, speed up channel sinking, and determine the issuance process, the company should start as soon as possible and make suitable projects.

"However, if we want the film to burst into market power, we must consider the unfamiliarity of the audience and publicity, and the insufficient level of delivery for our overseas projects. Therefore, we choose films with a narrower profit range. The most suitable foreshadowing is that the competitiveness of overseas should also take into account cultural differences, and try to minimize the exertion of regional culture.

From the perspective of cultural barriers, science fiction, action, adventure, and romance dramas will be more mainstream, while comedy, horror, and family dramas are relatively difficult, and it is difficult for regional audiences to accept American slang culture.

Moreover, in the movie market, especially for some less developed regions, their audiences have a great demand for special effects movies. If they don’t pay attention to content, special effects are the most satisfying visual. They are less picky than American audiences. According to the research, "Legend of Loch Ness" and "Dragon Knight" both had achievements outside the wall as support, so they did not lose too much."

"The results of using the site for probing and contacting are very gratifying. Most local distributors don't care about more film providers. They also need enough film sources to select and compete. In addition, the recruitment of regional personnel has been enriched with experienced distributors. , There are more than 130 employees in total, please accept them as soon as possible."

"In terms of finance, the operation has accumulated to this month and has consumed more than 73 million. The site construction and staff salaries are the bulk of the expenditure. The remaining 12 million US dollars is temporarily enough as the cost of the next step. Please prepare for the headquarters Yongdao’s team formulates rules for the use of funds and reimbursement procedures for these regional sites in order to standardize accounting."

Rodriguez Perlman wrote here, stretched out easily, full of satisfaction.

For this distribution network, he didn't know how many roads he ran, how much energy and effort he spent, thinking about the scene of his appearance in the circle in the future and his upcoming rise, he couldn't help but send emails neatly...