Legendary Hollywood Director

Contact with Top Entertainment is still going on, but just like the previous investigation, they encountered a financial crisis, and their attitude is not firm. At least for the bottom-level employees, they cannot pay full salaries, let alone incentive bonus days. I didn't think so.

Although bound by unions, capitalists have to abide by many policies and bills on employee benefits and benefits, which protects their rights and interests, but in fact, unions are also partners of studios to a certain extent, and no union would want to A fairly powerful studio is on the verge of collapse.

The bigwigs are arguing every day, some people don’t want to play, but no one wants to eat it, some people yell at them, complaining that the stalls are too open and too fast, which greatly increases the operating cost and affects the business that is still making money. As soon as the incident occurs, the motivation of the employees will be gone.

Even if The Hurt Locker won the Oscar, it actually has a lot of operating capital. As long as the slogan of the Olympic Awards is used, it can attract some audiences to actively enter the theater, but if the money earned cannot make up the gap, the meaning That's it, obviously, a literary film can't do this, it can't be Avatar, and it won't be The Dark Knight.

The conditions they put forward are a bit too many.

In the Tuner crew, Johnson rushed over to report: Retain the label, hold certain powers, and more specifically, it's all on this.

Lehman frowned as he took over the outcome of the negotiations after the initial contact.

He suddenly discovered that the demands of investors and management are completely different. The former is better, just for the money, and wants to sell Summit Entertainment at a good price. It is best to become a sub-label of Mann Media and enjoy similar treatment as Firefly and Marvel.

In other words, this is a big departure from Lehman's vision. He never thought of accepting so many people. If Summit Entertainment enters by retaining the label, it will definitely have a certain impact on the existing personnel structure. This is also troublesome.

Is there any possibility of continuing? Retaining the label is not in my plan.

Of course there is, but, Johnson talked about another matter, when we contacted Summit Entertainment, we found out that there are other manufacturers who are trying to make it.

Who?

Lion Gate.

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As the first independent manufacturer to break the existing pattern and establish itself overseas, at the end of last year, it led the release of several projects with a total value of more than 1 billion US dollars. Lionsgate, which was praised as the eighth brand by Variety, has encountered many trouble.

Their ambitious layout overseas, and successive acquisitions of several studios to re-split and integrate all the labels have improved the efficiency of distribution and production, hoping to gain a firm foothold.

But it is a pity that a firm foothold is a firm footing, but it is not on one's own. In terms of content, it relies too much on the cooperation projects of Firefly. As a result, overseas distributors do not buy Lionsgate's account very much. The fundamental reason is that they produce independently. On the other hand, there are few achievements that can be proved.

Again, if you don't have convincing and reliable interests, why would anyone be willing to pay for it?

But the stalls have been spread out. For the return of project operation, they can only choose to improve the competitiveness of content. Especially when Mann Media began to develop overseas markets, the resources of the two overlapped quite a bit, and they couldn’t even play different cards. , and more depend on yourself.

From this point of view, the situation of Lionsgate is indeed not good.

And eager to change, otherwise it would be embarrassing.

There is a news circulating in the industry now that Lionsgate plans to spend a lot of money to build a new production system. It is very likely that it wants to integrate strong foreign aid like Paramount in 2005.

Johnson said: Maybe they themselves have discovered that relying only on the original production team, at most they also produce the Black Woman series or some horror, thriller and other types of film projects. They have played this set for many years and have a lot of experience. It is rich and rarely loses money, but the problem is that overseas audiences can’t be moved by only relying on these topics with a small audience.”

Lionsgate's management is capable and financially secure. Why is the output so single?

It's actually very simple. In the film industry, everyone instinctively chooses the works with the most success rate. Like Universal, their comedy production is higher than the other studios. Compared with Lionsgate, they are used to thrillers, The horror genre is more biased than Universal. This subconscious training has made many studios have similar resource tilts. Look at Disney, no matter how much it develops live-action movies, it often has a youthful style and family fun. production experience.”

This is also true. After the audience has an inherent impression, is it not restricting the changes of the studio?

Lionsgate does not play thriller and horror themes, who would buy it? No wonder they need to bring in foreign aid, but the question is, how is Summit Entertainment? Lehman thought and asked, What do they want from Summit Entertainment?

The genre that Summit is best at is teen-oriented. Don't be fooled by their 'The Hurt Locker', sir, the studio's focus is similar to the 'Twilight' series you developed, The representative works of their company, such as Las Vegas Style Painting and Dancing Out of My Life, all target the youth market.

That is to say, Lionsgate is certain that there will be a role in the future of the film market for teenagers? Ryman concluded.

Who knows, Hollywood will have a change in the wind in a few years. The most popular magic epics in the past will not be bought by the audience now because of their aesthetic fatigue.

Lehman stopped talking. If it's true, Lionsgate has entered the top three for the first time on the subject of teenagers, and has accomplished a feat that most studios do not have.

At that time, Lionsgate, which held the copyrights of The Hunger Games and Twilight, was very popular.

However, Lehman had already held the adaptation rights of The Hunger Games -- the book was published in January 2010, and was taken into the bag by Lehman, who had been paying attention, before the sales became famous.

It only took 10 million to book the priority of the first and future adaptations...

So, Lionsgate also wants to compete with us for the copyright in the film library?

Looks like yes, they desperately need content, and, in the case of Lionsgate, they might agree to terms of keeping the label.

Bad, Lionsgate and Summit Entertainment have a bigger chance of winning.

But from another angle, why can't the two separate Peak Entertainment? Lionsgate definitely doesn't want that part of the copyright that has no realizable value.

Yes, just do it. Lyman had a few words for Johnson...

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