Chapter 519： The Smiths

Lyman was awakened by his own biological clock. When he opened his eyes, a few rays of sunlight poured in in front of the large floor-to-ceiling windows, making people feel sleepy at all.

Dressed and washed, thought for a moment, then found a stack of manuscript papers from the table, and continued to write the outline of the new play that was written last night.

Regarding the cooperation with Paramount, it can still be pushed forward.

Comparing the memories in his mind, Lyman lowered his head to describe.

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

Eva turned 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 while, 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. 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 now, although people are still not very good, 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. As it happened, Goldberg and Kinberg were very chatty. 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, Goldsman used his personal network to find relationships everywhere, and was finally photographed by Summit Entertainment and cast 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 the movie is an original script, so there will be no conflict.

And since they met Shirley the day before yesterday, this guy has been publicizing it all over the place, openly and secretly building momentum for this collaboration—their family has huge media resources, which made Lehman very passive all of a sudden.

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

The first 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 the 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 Lehmann to really push the project forward 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 the other 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 person who understands, just forcibly do it with his own resources, it should have been a big box office sale, can recover the cost Just fine.

Naturally, Lehman is well aware of this. It’s not that Liam has not explained to him how much food Blue Butterfly Pictures should eat. Whether he wants to or not, if he wants to invest more than 70 million US dollars, he must give away most of it. The benefits are given to six areas.

Only when the six major media channels have the right to speak out early, can there be 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 - the lines and so on, Lehman is not an authentic American, and he can't communicate in depth at all.

On the other 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? We just transferred the team to show our cooperation, I went to find out the way, and Paramount is very likely to agree.

"Last year, the films made by Paramount 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 rejuvenated - the best publicity resources are matched with qualified production capabilities It should not be at the bottom of the year.

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

Yes, among the six majors, Paramount has the worst ability to make a series of movies - first Universal, 20th Century Fox Pearl and Jade, and then Sony Columbia's "Spider-Man" series has sprung up, and then Warner has successively developed "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 also backed up. Full of profit.

And what about Paramount, what does Paramount have?

"Mission Impossible"?

Without Tom Cruise, the "Mission Impossible" project could 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. This doesn't make Paramount feel embarrassed.

Then, to cooperate with Firefly Pictures, it is naturally possible to pinch the nose and make concessions - the distribution of benefits is not good, and participation in publicity cannot be strictly refused. After all, Blue Butterfly Pictures came to sneak up on the relationship under the banner of helping...

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