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While Firefly was responding equally darkly to the change of director, satirizing Little Red Riding Hood's inability to find its position, in the far east, Comrade Wang Jianlin made an unprecedented move to ask about the yard line in between his laborious real estate business runs.

"So, Superbody is well liked by the audience?"

"Yes, the opening amount of $110 million in box office receipts in the first week is an excellent performance for this level of investment."

"The movies that Firefly was introduced to always seemed to sell out?"

The general manager of Wan D Cinema Line thought about it and nodded, "Their box office output is very stable and efficient, and they have basically never lost in the mainland film market."

Hearing the more positive answer, Wang Jianlin pondered for a moment.

It is normal for imported films to be productive, especially for an overseas studio, because CFI itself strictly selects works that have proven themselves in the market, but it does not mean that the imported works will necessarily meet the taste of the mainland audience, and it is not very common for the output to be very efficient, especially when additional factors such as international distribution and cultural and geographical thresholds are involved.

But if such an uncommon thing happens to Firefly and becomes common, it will inevitably make people think more about it.

For a long time, Comrade Wang Jianlin talked about another matter, "The acquisition of AMC is on the right track, and the cooperation between Wan Ying and Firefly should also have a specific regulation. --The acquisition of AMC by Wan D, in addition to becoming an international cinema operator and getting a larger share of the market, is also a sideways effort to loosen the door that only China Film and Huaxia studios have access to import targets (I've been to Hollywood, I can't release American movies, but the mainland has no import decisions).

"...... It's still being studied."

"Continue to make efforts, in addition, co-production into the downstream of the industry, also need to speed up."

The yard manager nodded and said he understood.

After all, how the original Paramount Act provided for them to work in that direction.

Capital? monopoly, custom industry rules, is the most profitable.

Moreover, using the siphoning effect of the film and television industry to upgrade the added value of the real estate landscape is also a major benefit.

In this regard, the evaluation of AMC's assets, acquisition negotiation, policy support, as well as the complementary incubation of content through the investment in Firefly, thus enhancing Wan D's own content production capacity, are the two parallel cores, one of which is indispensable.

Of course, in this process, the content is not easy to obtain through capital operation, and they can't be so good as to wear the same pants with Firefly, but at most, they are just strategic cooperation "partners", and don't worry that Firefly will not treat them well.

The cinema line all understand that they need a good source of film to attract the audience, do not the studios need a good time slot, screen resources? Especially in Europe and the United States, the existence of anti-monopoly laws, as well as Paramount's original forced separation of the cinema power, all warned the remaining studios, to attract the later.

In general, Firefly has an urgent need, and this need is in line with the interests of Wan D. "You should go there.

"You go over there, and keep an eye on the financing matters by the way."

"I'll order some work, and I can leave tomorrow."

Wang Jianlin nodded and waved him out.

......

"Lyman's private phone could not be reached, but his assistant said he was on a plane to Washington to visit the movie shooting.

The next day, Los Angeles.

A former Universal distribution executive, a native white man, put down his cell phone with a helpless look on his face, "Unfortunately, he's not at Firefly's headquarters.

The general manager of Wan D Cinema, who had rushed to the United States, could only say, "That can't be helped, Louis, we'll have to go to Washington tomorrow."

"Uh ...... I can understand, it's an urgent matter."

The manager laughed bitterly, "After the meeting, we don't know whether the other party will talk or not, we must be more careful."

"Don't worry."

"By the way, what's the status of The Supersoul over here?"

"It's over $100 million, but the box office acquisition has slowed down a lot."

"Have you seen Supernatural?"

The manager casually asked to find out what the film had to say to these distribution staff.

"I've seen it, the narrative is tightly paced, and it feels okay."

"More or less, Johnson Scarlett's portrayal suits her current course."

"I have the questionnaire for Superbody here, want to see it?" Louis cautioned, "The audience for this film is pretty polarized, and the fact that it looks so good has to do with their low investment. I think Firefly has shown the same sensitivity to pre-market assessment as always in this project."

"Yeah? Bring it to me."

"Uh, one moment, please."

A moment later, the manager flipped it over and understood what was meant by market sensitivity.

"Seventeen years old, male, rating A+."

"16 years old, male, grade A."

"20 years old, male, rating B+."

"32 years old, male, rating B."

Just by looking at the age distribution of the previous questionnaires, we can see that the more mature ones are, the more likely they are to behave rationally rather than emotionally.

And in the later, more comprehensive distribution of the viewing audience - the

"20 years old, female, rating C, what the hell, the camera deliberately uses soft porn as a selling point, but also keeps giving close-ups, disgusting."

"36 years old, male, rated B. The 80 minutes or so felt like it went by in a flash, but I wasn't impressed after seeing it." ...... Let's just say, good for passing time, not boring, but nothing worth going back to repeat viewings."

"The soundtrack is also comfortable. It would have been more interesting if there were fewer violent scenes and more displays of super powers."

"17 years old, female, rated D, bad movie. Boyfriend says something nice about Scarlett the whole time, inexplicable."

And hardcore fans-.

"19 years old, male, rated A. God, I want a girlfriend who is as good looking as Scarlett."

"17 years old, male, A+ rating, when will the HD CD be released, I can watch that bathrobe clip forever."

"18 years old, female, A rating, the woman is pretty cool and independent, I want to be like her too."

He roughly went through the questionnaire and found that the majority of the audience was poorly rated if it was a combination of couples, but if it was an individual viewer, the older ratings were relatively objective, even so, the average score of "Super Body" was around B, which was very good for a pure commercial film with medium investment.

The manager looked at the words "Superbody" on the cover of the questionnaire, but in his heart he thought: "All the more reason to meet Lyman, a talented and sensible filmmaker is really rare, but not at all floating, arrogant and conceited.

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Day Two.

"How's the filming of 'Team America 2' going?"

On the set, Lyman looks at the busy crew and asks.

Kevin pulled together the production team, one of whom responded, "The daily shooting schedule was completed, and the Columbia people were very cooperative."

Since the start of production at the end of February, a team of hundreds of people has been assembled on an ad hoc basis, splitting up into several teams to shoot different scenes, while the special effects work in the digital area has also been outsourced to studios both at home and abroad, working almost simultaneously...

They had people, money, a clear goal, and two senior producers keeping an eye on the overall management, and when the filming work gradually became tacit, even if they belonged to different places, they finished the S.H.I.E.L.D. indoor scenes in nearly half a month, and came to the big scene of the U.S. team and the Winter Soldier's love and death.

In addition to shooting on location, there were always crowds of people who would deliberately come in and interfere, and the filmmakers felt that they had everything under control.

After all, the Washington government is also very supportive of the filming of the crew, without too much influence on the city, the coordination of time, the Lincoln Memorial part of the shooting will probably be completed in just these two days, and transferred to Cleveland, England and other places.

It can be said that Lyman cared about the key plan, in Kevin carefully combed through the system of forces once, but also with the Russell brothers every day on the set of hard work to pay, even if the workload is not small, but also always in the steady implementation.

In addition, the preliminary idea of the screening schedule of "Team America 2" will be followed by two months after the "Thor 2", from the point of view of the schedule, it is not rushed.

According to the production team's estimation based on the current situation, if we are optimistic and no surprises, the shooting phase will probably be completed in early May, and in the post-production stage, editing, soundtrack, subtitles, opening and closing credits are all jobs that we can find people to take turns working overnight, and basically when the rendering is completed, the film will be ready.

No matter what, you don't miss the summer season.

"We've got a temporary studio in Cleveland, and we'll be ready to go immediately." The producer in charge of location communication assured confidently, "It will only take a month to get there, and when it's finished, all the material that cost money and time for the whole film will have been shot, and the rest will be very simple shots."

Lyman nodded his head in satisfaction and care, "Thank you very much."

As he was about to go greet the actors, a staff member suddenly came over and said, "Boss, there are two people outside the blockade who claim to be Wan Ying looking for you."

"Oh, are they here so soon. You'll take them over there to the shade awning later."