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February 7.

The patter of light rain began to fall in the morning.

The sky is gloomy, and there is no meaning to stop.

After a brief preparatory meeting that day, Warner continued to be active, bringing in Tom Hardy for 6 million and Anne Hathaway for 4.5 million.

Once the starring role was confirmed, the special training began immediately, while the crew was busy setting up the scenes, making corresponding props and costumes.

Like Warner's No. 3 studio, it is full of things needed.

Bat chariot, several sets of bat tights, cloaks, as well as a special catwoman night suit that measured Annie's figure and imitation firearms...

Of course, Lehman didn't pay attention to these, he went to supervise the preparation of the "Rise of the Apes" project after setting up the team.

In the afternoon, I just made an appointment with Fox’s production department to meet tomorrow to deconstruct the script and make a casting. Assistant Mays knocked on the door and reminded him that Lionsgate President Jon Fellermay sent a notice: "Breaking Dawn: ( Top)" financial sub-accounts.

Well, "Breaking Dawn" has been drawn for several months, and the overseas box office revenue has finally been calculated clearly, and the producer should share the profit.

During this period of time, the company has been spending money to expand departmental staff, expand its advertising network, sink sales channels, establish transit warehousing, establish project film funds, and a large monthly salary expenditure for employees, with more deposits and less input , Can only look at the reduced figures in the financial report.

So when he got the news of the split, Lehman, who was fine, immediately took the accounting team to the US headquarters in Santa Monica Lionsgate.

Familiar building, familiar corridor.

Before entering the office, Lehman also saw the managers appointed by the novelist Stephanie Meyer.

Seeing him coming, the other party greeted him eagerly.

Although the relationship between Firefly and Stephanie was not very good when buying and selling the adaptation rights, but with the success of the "Twilight" series of movies, the novel has also been sold well, and it has set off a lot in the world. With momentum, the sales of various translations in other regions have also created lucrative financial resources for the author.Coupled with the fact that Firefly never defaults, conceals, or deducts the benefits that belong to the author, so all kinds of channels to obtain information, Stephanie's perception of Firefly has eased again.

A deliberate greeting without affection.

Lehman waved his hand: "Let's go in together."

A group of people walked into the Lionsgate conference room. Inside, Jon Fellermei and the financial staff were all ready.

"Why are you here? I still want to talk to you about the "Escape The Golden Cicada" project in a few days."

Jon got up, walked over to Lehman, took him to sit down, "We have set up a scene at NASA, and it has been a long time since we started it. You are also one of the investors in this movie. Hope to help us. Lala relations, get a positive answer as soon as possible. I have sent the materials to China Film, and then when the shooting is over, the film will be edited to know whether it meets the requirements of that side. If not, we will recover the risk of investment. It’s just a bit big..."

He was worried: "The Chronicles of Narnia 3 and Tron: The Chronicles of War have already been pushed over there. Just yesterday, bad films like the Green Hornet were also introduced. If nothing else, release it early. The next work of the "Harry Potter" finale, the project of "Mission Impossible 4" has been approved...14 titles, even the spring is not over, there is no one third, I am afraid of six If there is any action on the big side, it will give up our medium investment projects for them to invest in more works. If it is delayed until next year or the next year, the longer it is, the more difficult it is to implement the promotional schedule signed with the main creator." Joe Eun said while looking at Lyman.

Well, in fact, he also wanted to say that Marvel has a few more films about to decide to release this year, because it is no surprise that under the condition that politics and grading are correct, China Film will give priority to introducing wider films in the box office market and create more profit.

"My influence is like that, otherwise "Breaking Dawn" will not be censored for multiple rounds or be eliminated." Lehman spread his hands, indicating that he is not that important.

"This is different. It is a matter of subject matter. The content involves vampires. They must have concerns, but "Escape from the Golden Cicada" is only an action-oriented genre, and there will be no bloody scenes."

"I try my best."

Lionsgate is worried that this should be the case. The only business dealings between the two sides is that Lionsgate has been introduced to a handful of times. In addition, for 11 years, each family has indeed been working hard--

There are too many threats in the schedule that has been revealed.

As for "The Green Hornet" mentioned by Jon, it is a production joke in the industry:

One day, Colombian production executives had a whim to re-interpret "The Green Hornet" (in fact, they wanted to consume Bruce Lee), and then they hired Jaylen and Seth Rogen to form the actor Cast.

It’s just that this kind of unimproved work was placed in the film market in January 2011, and it was naturally left out. Even if its budget cost is high and the publicity specifications are not low, when curious audiences join forces to contribute 33.52 million After the opening of the box office in the first week, the word of mouth fell badly, and the next week it plummeted 47.5%, and continued to decline.

In the face of the lack of improvement in the screening market, Colombia already knows that the resources and money they have invested in can not be saved by North America or the English cultural circle alone. If you think about it with your ass, you will know that some people will be behind when the film fails. The 120 million investment has been damaged, and there is nothing to expect from Sony.

The person in charge of the project was forced to be helpless, and could only involve in the areas where the law was expected to be strong, that is, Asian countries.As for China Film, I don’t know what to think. It may be that Jay is in it. I think his fans will buy it, so I happily introduced it and gave it to many screens.

Then, it was a good start, and it fell all the way. So far, it has not created 8 million dollars in income. Although Colombia is disappointed, someone must bear the responsibility for failure.

The six management models are like this. It is not unusual for executives to lose their jobs due to KPI issues.

At present, the two executives of the Colombian production department have taken the blame and resigned.

......

Exchanged some private words.

Jon Fellermei put several thick financial documents in front of everyone.

Then, the accounting teams from several parties gathered around the table to make calculations.

Lehman flipped through it roughly. This is Lionsgate’s 430,918,723 US dollars created overseas for "Breaking Dawn", which has a fragmented amount of regional box office settlement.

Since the standards for fares, events, publicity, investment, and accounting for products produced in various overseas locations vary from place to place, each has its own deviations, and the entire accounts after mixing them up are confusing.

Of course, the accounting team only checked the accounts, whether the deviation from the estimated target value was minimal.