Legendary Hollywood Director

Lyman was woken up by his own biological clock. When he opened his eyes, a few rays of sunlight poured in in front of the large French windows, which made people feel drowsy.

After getting dressed and washing, thinking for a moment, I found a stack of manuscript papers from the table, and continued to write the outline of the new play I started last night.

Regarding the cooperation with Paramount, it can still be promoted.

Compared with the memory in his mind, Lyman lowered his head to describe.

The sound of rustling's stroke touching the paper was like the sound of nature, but it alarmed the beauty on the bed.

Eva tilted her head to look at it for a while, changed her clothes, walked to the balcony, and greeted lazily, Good morning...

Morning, Eva.

Eva leaned over and watched for a moment, then washed herself and went downstairs to prepare breakfast.

As for the script, Lyman said that the characters in it were not suitable for her, so she didn't care.

Gradually, the outline was gradually improved, and Lyman sorted it out, and signed the name in detail - Mr. and Mrs. Smith.

Yes, in the original time and space, this work should have been produced by Pinnacle Entertainment - it was later acquired by Lionsgate. As for the people who are still not very mixed, it is barely a second-tier studio brand.

As for the starting point of the project, it should be the entry work written by the original screenwriter Simon Kinberg after graduating from the Columbia University Film School - this guy likes Hong Kong action movies very much, and later wrote the Extreme Agent series, which is considered an action. fan.

Then, after the first draft of the script was completed, Kinberg went to the producer, Akiva Goldsman. Generally speaking, screenwriters with too little experience in the industry need the help of nobles. It just so happened that Goldberg and Kinberg talked very much. Come, and the former won the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay for A Beautiful Mind. It's over.

After Goldsman read the script, he told Kinberg that I was willing to help you facilitate this project and adapt it into a movie, and asked him to adapt the copyright - without this step, Goldsman would not have the capital to intervene, Kinberg alone Newbies, nothing is impossible.

After getting the copyright, Gaussman used his personal network to find relationships everywhere, and was finally photographed by Pinnacle Entertainment and filmed together.

Of course, in this life, they haven't been so fast yet, and Lehman has filed the script in advance. This is also because this movie is an original script, so there will be no conflict.

And since meeting with Shirley the day before yesterday, this guy has been promoting it all over the place, openly and secretly for this cooperation - their family also has huge media resources, which makes Lehman very passive all of a sudden.

Of course, Lehman also knew that Paramount had revealed the news, and there were only two plans.

One is to quickly finalize the matter, boost the confidence of investment institutions and shareholders, and ease her pressure in the company - anyway, if the studio has no achievements, it means that the positions of executives are unstable;

The second is to promote the hype in advance, and also to complete the orders of the big boss Lei Shidong.

But this also forced Lehman to really push the project as soon as possible.

After all, Firefly still wants to continue to grow, it is impossible to have only one ideal partner, even if you want to be among the six majors, you cannot completely fight against the six majors - or, in other words, win over one faction, suppress one faction, and unite according to Taizu's secret dragon slaying technique. The more friends you have, the fewer enemies you have. This is called internal differentiation.

And Mrs. Smith is obviously a very good project to ease the relationship and very suitable, because this movie eats a lot of publicity, but the worst thing about Blue Butterfly Pictures is publicity. Mongolia cooperation.

Just like DreamWorks also has distribution channels in North America, but its masterpieces will still be handed over to the six major distributors - Spielberg is also a man who understands, and with his own resources, forcibly do it, it should have been a big box office sale, and it can recover the cost Just fine.

Naturally, Lehman is also well aware of how much Blue Butterfly Pictures should eat,

It's not that Liam has not explained to him, whether he wants to or not, if he invests more than 70 million US dollars, he must give away most of the income to the six major parties.

Only the six majors that have the right to speak in media channels early will have enough publicity resources to release a high-investment and high-risk work to its proper market potential.

Afterwards, Lehman took the script outline and went to his own screenwriting department to complete it - lines and so on, Lehman is not an authentic American, and he can't go deep into oral communication at all.

On the one hand, the news of the project approval was notified to Paramount - the approval was to contact the Allianz Fire Foundation for third-party guarantees, including crew accident insurance and film completion guarantees.

During this period, Lehman also discussed with Liam how to use this cooperation to rub off on Paramount's distribution channel network.

Liam also thought about this, he said, don’t we have to pay half of the publicity expenses, just transfer the team to show cooperation, and I personally go to find the way, and Paramount is very likely to agree.

The movies made by Paramount last year also made money together, but compared with several competitors, the data is not so good. Do you think those shareholders will be willing to reduce profits year by year?

The past few years were originally a period of weakness for Paramount, and they blamed Shirley Lansing for dismissing Shirley Lansing in the previous life, so they were obviously unwilling - the competition between the Big Six is ​​very stressful, there is cooperation, and more They are still fighting each other, killing each other when they find an opportunity.

It stands to reason that Paramount has a lot of heritage and should be full of vitality - the best publicity resources and qualified production capabilities should not be at the bottom of the year.

But Paramount, after entering the new millennium, is missing a key link - the series of movies.

Yes, among the six majors, Paramount has the worst ability to produce series of movies - first Universal, 20th Century Fox Pearl and Jade, followed by Sony Columbia's Spider-Man series, and then Warner's successive development of Spider-Man series. Harry Potter, The Matrix, and dc as the book, Disney has come up with Pirates of the Caribbean, even MGM is down, and 007 is backed up. Full of profit.

And what about Paramount, what does Paramount have?

Mission Impossible?

Without Tom Cruise, the Mission: Impossible project would not have started unilaterally.

In other words, a series of movies is the best trump card that can relieve the pressure of production, but Paramount has not caught up with this trend of the times. To be honest, even New Line, United Artists and Firefly Pictures are not comparable. The series of films have the least risk, and the market benefits are superimposed.

For example, The Matrix, if it weren't for a series product, could it have sold such a high box office based on the idea of ​​the third script, which was somewhat unfinished and regrettable?

Don't even think about it.

Since then, everyone has big and small kings in their hands, and they really don't panic when they fight, which doesn't make Paramount feel embarrassed.

Then, cooperating with Firefly Pictures, it is natural to pinch the nose and make more concessions - the distribution of benefits is not good, and participation in publicity cannot be strictly refused. In the final analysis, Blue Butterfly Pictures came to sneak in under the banner of helping...

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