Hollywood legendary director

Unknowingly, two weeks have passed since the day when Lionsgate and Firefly sent people to negotiate.

During this period, "Tuner" was completed, "Alice in Wonderland" shined in the movie market, and Disney immediately held a press conference to announce the continuation of the project.

However, in the days when there was nothing moving and waiting, the shareholders of Summit Entertainment could not sit still. Perhaps they felt that they were so procrastinated and did not value the so-called acquisition that much. After all, Summit's asset value has not been very favorable.

But in fact, after "Tuner" was completed, even if Lehman devoted most of his energy to editing, he was also remotely directing the expansion of the film library——

Although there is no rush to promote the peak entertainment side, the money has not been spent less. I have bought a lot of old film rights from several studios in the UK and Germany, and the number of film sources has risen to more than 800. Is more than 87 million US dollars.

In addition, it is a matter of communicating with Lionsgate to reach a tacit agreement in advance.

The two of them didn't miss the value of Summit Entertainment, but they didn't want to compete with each other to be upset.

March 22, near noon.

Lyman and Ryan, who had changed their formal attire, came to a restaurant that specializes in Italian cuisine, waiting for the arrival of Lionsgate boss Gusta in a private room.

"Lyman, will they agree to our terms? In fact, if we raise some prices, Summit Entertainment will not disagree with the transfer of the library." Ryan questioned.

"There is no need to make others cheaper."

"But now we also need to develop overseas markets ourselves, Lionsgate..."

Lehman interrupted Ryan by raising his hand. He knew what his friend was trying to say, and replied with some sentiment: "Business is business. You can't just stop eating because they were friends and stop developing overseas channels just because they were friends. Besides, everyone is in a circle, and competition is unavoidable in any way. This is just commonplace, and it cannot be done solely by volition."

"Then why should we do this? It's an enemy or not a friend. This is a face-saving effort. If you don't do it, you can directly bid and compete, and there is no need to divide the copyright of those film libraries.

Lehman shook his head and whispered softly: "I can't say that. How can Lionsgate develop to this day is also a force that cannot be ignored among manufacturers. Today's Hollywood, in addition to the top five and the animation hegemony Disney, only talk about distribution and promotion, they are more than us. Experienced and more channels for distribution, let alone, in this world, can you distinguish between enemy and friend?

Today’s opponents may be tomorrow’s friends and merchants. Yesterday they cooperated closely, and today they may be torn apart because of their interests. So, ah, we have to leave room for everything. Is Summit Entertainment a big deal?No, our goal is to hoard copyrights. Our goal with Lionsgate is just a small conflict. Even if we suffer a little loss, we maintain our friendship. Let Lionsgate see our attitude.

Maybe we still have opportunities for cooperation in the future."

After coming here for so many years, Lehman's biggest feeling is that it is impossible to go alone. One less enemy means one more friend.

Think about it, if Lehman hadn't done this, had no cinema resources and no promotional resources, he would not be able to shoot mid-level or first-line projects in the early stage. He could only play small-cost horror movies with the early Lionsgate or the new line to save power. , Then he can’t quickly become famous and attract the attention of major studios;

If you didn't do this, the Oscar wouldn't even be able to touch the threshold, so why not compete for the Olympics?

If this is not done, Firefly is based overseas, the first thing it fears is the squeeze of the original circle, but because the profit of the project cooperation is enough to move people's hearts, Warner and Sony are the default attitude.

In other words, when dealing with upstream and downstream forces in film and television, who is unwilling to share profits and assume the responsibility of risk, who will take care of him?Can fireflies develop so fast?

Matching with the production ability, he has always been a means of gathering resources for mutually beneficial cooperation.

Lionsgate is, Sony is, China Film is also.

There are no eternal friends, but there are eternal interests.

Furthermore, in the past few years of cooperation, Lionsgate executives have demonstrated very good abilities and excellent methods. It is a good choice to maintain relationships with such manufacturers.Including Fellermae and Gusta, they are all capable people, but this time and space is almost lucky.

And just between Lehman's secret thoughts and outside the private room, the duty manager's crisp greeting sounded, and then he saw Mr. Gusta walk in with the kind face of President Felemer.

To be honest, Lehman still has a good impression of this film company that relies on bloody, rough, and tearing rules to establish itself in Hollywood and has not yet become a toy in the hands of capital.

If it were not for the overlapping development directions, it would certainly not come to this point.

The two parties are already familiar. After sitting down and eating and drinking, Gusta first congratulated him: "Your vision is still as good as always. "Avatar" has passed 2.6 billion, which is really amazing."

People in the movie market have always been keen to grasp the news of the movie market. Even at this time, some overseas regions including China are all down, but there is still room for growth in the box office performance of "Avatar". "iaxm cinema has also become a reality. A part of the screening link that cannot be ignored, not an optional part, presumably those theater owners are also very grateful to you, and did not let them do their work in vain."

Lehman couldn't help but laugh when he heard these words, "I have always admired director Cameron, who transferred the shares in the digital field to me."

"At that time, the digital field was already a mess for him. If you take the initiative, he also got rid of the burden..."

On the side, Fellermaid deliberately waited for the atmosphere of the conversation before introducing the topic appropriately and beneficially, "In retrospect, the success of "Twilight" is just like yesterday, but these days, our two families are getting more and more alienated." , Sighed.

This meaningful sigh caused Lehman to smile slightly and personally add wine to the two of them, "How can it be. The development of the "Twilight" series, our two have to work together."

"That is, I hope we will have a lot of opportunities to sit together in the future." Gusta didn't want to say anything more on this matter, and finally brought the topic to business. "The Summit Entertainment, your proposal, we I think it's feasible, but we also want the copyrights of works such as "Dancing My Life" and "The Hurt Locker"."

Gusta did not hide it, "If you agree to this, then the remaining copyright in the library and overseas copy factories will give priority to your choice."

Lionsgate didn’t realize the importance of these assets, or they didn’t have the idea of ​​streaming media. The development value of some bad film copyrights that can’t even be published on the theater chain is almost nothing. Nice.

"Then how much do we pay?" Ryan asked appropriately.

"165 million, we will trade to you after the acquisition."

"Row."