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Firefly Building, Editing Room No. 2.

As the final chapter of the "Twilight" series, the material for the second episode of "Breaking Dawn" has long been filmed, and the main part is still action scenes.

If the story in the first episode mainly revolves around the marriage and married life of Bella and Edward, then the second episode will have a lot of big scenes. The crisis caused by the conflict with the Volturi family may not be very popular among the girls. The main story of the novel, but without this, the original novel has no elements that can be filmed.

To put it harder to say, the first and second episodes really merge into a movie. It is not impossible to speed up the rhythm, but it is definitely more conducive to making money to shoot separately.This is the last opportunity to reap the fans’ wallets in a fair and fair manner.

The editing is almost over, with the opening and ending credits, it stayed at about 110 minutes.

With the hard work of Chris Weitz as the producer, compared with the constant replacement of directors in the original version, although the salary of the renewed director will increase, the advantage is that the uniformity of the mirror style can bring more to the fans. A lot of familiarity.

"110 minutes is no more, no less, just set this time."

"can?"

"There will definitely be no loss."

"I feel good too."

The editing room was crowded with people. In addition to director Weitz, Lehmann who came to inspect the results, and a group of behind-the-scenes personnel responsible for the later stage, there were also the hired soundtrack team, Lionsgate President Jon Fellermei, and a member of Blue Butterfly. Senior executives and artist representatives from CAA, UTA and other brokerage companies.

"Lyman, what do you mean?"

Everyone looked at him.

To decide on the theater version, everyone in the room must agree with his judgment the most.

"OK." Lehman followed the content several times, but he didn't pick out any thorns anyway, or he didn't like this kind of story at all because of his own aesthetics. It was only a 100 million investment, and the big head was still The salary increase of the leading actors and directors is compared horizontally with the previous movies with an average box office of 600 million and the dependence of the core audience. Everyone has never thought that this film will lose, it is nothing more than earning more and less.

"What do you think?" Lyman looked at Director Weitz.

"I must be fine." Chris Weitz shrugged coolly.

He is now included under the banner of Firefly, and his own studio has also joined in. Because of the success of "Twilight", the previous suspicion of "Golden Compass" will not have any negative impact on him.

Of course, Lehman does appreciate the brothers' talents for shooting youth, sex, light comedy and other subjects. As long as they don't play in depth, the Witz brothers really haven't failed too much in business.The reason for the poor box office of "Golden Compass" is that Warner and Xinxian misestimated the market audience.

It was decided that cheers in the editing room came mainly from the late team members who worked hard.

"Don't worry, I will stare at the copy."

The people at Lionsgate looked over here, and the executives of Blue Butterfly Pictures nodded.

"Will it be in November?" The representatives of Lionsgate and the brokerage company are very concerned about this issue.

"October and November can be arranged. To be specific, look at the schedules of other manufacturers. Which time period has less competition for the same type of subject matter, and which time period we want."

"it is good."

"For publicity, it's still the same thing. Let the main creator appear in the major ticket warehouses..." Lehman said, "You should be responsible for all the starring schedules. As long as the files are set, I need them one month in advance. follow up."

"No problem." CAA, UTA, etc. are all very easy to talk about. After all, it is a profitable business, and everyone can get what they want.

Everyone talked about the release next year, and they all separated.

Lehman had just returned to the office. Assistant Mayes walked over with a mobile phone. "A call from Gareth, President of Columbia Distribution."

After the call was connected, Lehmann quickly shook his head and replied: "I won't show up, just let them run more."

However, the box office performance of "Avengers" was very good, and people from Universal and Colombia came up with an idea to let Lehman take the initiative to promote it.

"Just two days of promotion, okay? Just a few interviews." Gareth pleaded: "We all think that the film can break the record of the comic genre. If you can step up the fans, this may be even higher. ."

On the second day of the show, there were still long lines in theaters in many prosperous areas, and the venues were full. According to past experience, even this kind of traffic masterpiece showed a curve trend of "Friday>Saturday>Sunday", but in the middle The gap will not be large, at least breaking 200 million in the first week is stable.

But with this result, the people from Universal and Sony definitely want to raise the starting point higher, hoping to make a fuss with a solid weekly box office height, continue to speculate, and attract more passers-by to maintain subsequent buying.

"Forget it, I'm a director and I won't join in this excitement."

Lehman was not moved by words, but firmly refused.

It’s not that he is unwilling to make this effort, but that he has long discovered that the core groups who prefer him as a director rather than a role actor do not overlap with this super-British commercial film. Moreover, the change of identity is also Let him repel the spotlight.He does not need too much exposure.

After refusing, the other side didn't persuade him much. In other words, if I could please try to move, since they refused, they naturally put the propaganda goal elsewhere.

In the afternoon, Perlman also called.

He is here to report some good news about derivatives and copyright.

"Although I haven't summarized the more specific sales situation here, according to Hasbro and HotToys's distribution situation, "Relink" is an all-round improvement of the IP value of the character."

"How much do you estimate year-on-year growth?"

"At least doubled. The image products in the show like the Hulk, Iron Man, and American Team are even more popular. If only the first day is counted, these are as high as 400%. By the way, those we cooperated with Channel vendors are preparing to continue to mobilize the enthusiasm for buying in the market and launch some cost-effective packages, such as buying a complete set of multi-joint packages, which is more than 200 dollars cheaper than a single purchase, which is about 8.9% off." Perlman’s cheerful voice came, " Toys of Eagle Eye and Chief Nick are not sold, so it is easier to ship with them."

"You are professional, so I just want to know, has our performance in the licensing market improved a lot?"

"Yes, the boss, no matter from which point of view, the situation is very optimistic, and the masses are very enthusiastic about this set. What is happening is that in deepening the depth of public opinion and the IP index, and expanding the brand influence, "Fu Lian" has played a role. A vital role. Before this, the audience always had a bias, but when the characters were operated as a whole, the sense of camp among fans gradually disappeared a lot, or that they did not reject this kind of grouping."

"That's good..." Lehman was satisfied.