Legendary Hollywood Producer

Since Western European Films has a complete North American distribution channel, offline home entertainment is naturally included.

Just like the four small distribution companies acquired before, they have maintained very good relationships with large video tape recording and sales companies such as Blockbuster and Hollywood Video. After all, they almost only participate in the video tape market, and the cooperation between the two parties is natural. Very close.

When cooperating with Blockbuster and Hollywood Video to distribute the video tapes or DVDs of movies, they can choose to give them all to Blockbuster and Hollywood Video to operate, which means that all the video tapes, DVD recording and sales of this movie are handed over to them. Although the profit will drop a little bit, but fortunately, it saves worry and effort. It accounts for about 3 to 7. That is, Blockbuster and Hollywood Video account for 7 shares, and production companies have to divide nearly 100% from these 3 The 40% of the profit is given to the film distribution company; the other option is for the production company to reproduce DVDs and video tapes, and then give them to Blockbuster and Hollywood Video for lease and sale. If this is done, the ratio will be close to 3.5 to 6.5. It’s not very high. This is why many production companies directly entrust all the offline copyrights of movies to Blockbuster and Hollywood Video. If you go to the factory for production, you need the company to bear the financial pressure. After all, you can produce one. DVDs or video tapes cost about US$2. If there are too many, the cost can be compressed to about US$1. However, after these DVDs and video tapes are filled, they also need to pay for shipping to Blockbuster and Hollywood Video. This is not only troublesome. , Profits can't increase much, so most of them are directly transferred to Blockbuster and Hollywood Video.

But the situation of Western European Film Industry is different. Because Roman has a very good relationship with mainland film production companies, it is entirely possible to leave the work of DVD and video tape recording to the mainland factory to do it. After all, the labor in the mainland is not known how much cheaper than the United States. This is considered to have squeezed out a fairly good profit margin. In addition, the production speed here in the mainland is faster, you can work overtime, etc., and it is almost completely exploded in the United States. factory.

Moreover, the filling factory that Roman asked Shulman to find this time was going to Yiwu to find it, which can squeeze out a little profit margin. After all, in Yiwu, because of the high pressure of competition, the production cost is generally low. In other places in the outside world, when you count this, at least one DVD or video tape can be rented and sold, and you can make about 7 yuan more. In this way, the profit is very considerable.

Shulman also naturally followed Roman's suggestion and went to Yiwu to find a suitable and long-term cooperation factory. After finding it, Schulman went to the capital to talk to the companies that had cooperated with China Film and Huayi, and asked them to take care of the DVD and video tape recording and export of Western European Films to North America. China Film , Huayi and other companies are naturally indispensable, and they readily agreed.

After finishing all these tasks, on October 12th, Shulman returned from the capital to Los Angeles.

During this period, Roman communicated with Paramount Pictures several times. So far, the crew and post-production staff of the film "The Devil Wearing Prada" have all been found. Of course, all the staff have not been found. This means that the film can be filmed. Not only has the director David Frankle’s shooting plan not been completed yet, but he also asked to organize several script reading sessions to facilitate the consensus among the crew and the actors. It is also conducive to the development of filming work.

The script-reading meeting was proceeding in an orderly manner. After Roman attended once, he turned to work on the movie "The Hangover".

The post-production of this film is almost finished. Yesterday, Lamy told Roman about this when he came back.

Roman did not delay, went to Warner Studios and found Steve Oldcock who was in post-production.

"How is the making of the movie, Steve." Roman asked Steve Oldcock, who was sitting in his seat busy editing the footage.

In the editing room, Steve Oldcock pointed to the movie "The Hangover" he was editing, and replied, "I have finished the second editing, and the movie is still 110 minutes long."

Editing is a large amount of material used to shoot a movie. After selection, selection and splicing, the movie is finally turned into a coherent, smooth and emotionally appealing work. It is a very important step in the art of film, and it is equivalent to a movie. His second creation is also a major factor that can directly determine the success or failure of the film.

Although Roman doesn't know much about movie editing, he also has something he knows. "Steve, try to compress the movie time between 85 minutes and 95 minutes, which is conducive to the release."

Steve listened and nodded, he obviously understood the truth. The length of a movie, too long or too short, is not good. The most reasonable thing is to be able to show the entire movie in about an hour and a half. After all, the audience is also suffering from visual fatigue. It is too long, and the general audience will not buy it. For example, the movie "Cleopatra" is close to 3 hours in length, and the investment in 1963 was US$44 million. As a result, the box office recovered only $26 million, and the producer Twentieth Century Fox almost went bankrupt on the spot because of the break of the capital chain. Of course, it does not mean that in order to ensure the best length of the film, it is necessary to destroy the narrative rhythm of the film. It is obviously wrong to do so. It is not impossible to achieve good results for a long movie. It is like "Gone with the Wind" and "Rescue." Among them, movies such as Private Ryan, The Lord of the Rings, and The Godfather have the least duration of two and a half hours, but their grades and status are also quite good. Therefore, a film must first ensure its storyliness and fluency. If the film is edited solely for the purpose of controlling the length of time, the chance of hitting the street is also very high. However, if you can control the length of time, it’s better to do it, because theater companies prefer movies that show less than 2 hours. This will not only arrange the movies better, but also have more screenings and make more profits. It also came up, which is obviously also an important factor.

Anyway, the master of the length of a movie needs to be considered by the producer. How to adjust the length of a movie so that it has both story and fluency, and can well cooperate with the theater and the audience. It is also a technology. 'S alive.