Chapter 565： occasional income

On October 15th, the early morning sun shines into the large bedroom through the floor-to-ceiling windows.

The slightly awake Lyman opened his eyes, then hugged Eva's soft body tightly again, smelling the fragrance of the faint shampoo in his nose, he couldn't help being lazy and refused to get up.

After lingering for a few minutes, Eva said, "Get up."

"Ok."

Lyman agreed and sat up from the bed.

"Are you going out tomorrow? What other characters are looking for you besides the "007" project?"

"Johnson is still busy communicating with MGM about "Casino Royale", and probably made preparations this year, but it couldn't be turned on, so I picked up another movie, which is an independent work, and the salary is not much. But the role is very interesting, there is a lot of room to play, just to sharpen the performance."

"This is a good thing, but this kind of project is very insecure. Most of them are three-day tours of the cinema, and there is no market prospect."

"It's okay, there is no pressure to act in an independent work."

After the two washed up and had breakfast, they went to the hotel together to participate in the celebration reception of "Dead Silence".

After the film was released in North America, although it continued to harvest the box office overseas, this did not affect Firefly Pictures' desire to encourage the main creative staff of the crew, and to pay attention.

Around ten o'clock in the morning, the reception began.

Because it is an internal gathering, the scale of the event is actually small, but the atmosphere is lively.

After all, all the filming staff got the incentive bonus for "Dead Silence".

In the midst of the excitement, Lyman saw the spinning top again.

He came to find Lyman for the new movie "Pan's Labyrinth".

"In just two or three days, are you ready for the shooting mission?" Lehmann picked up the planning preparation table above and looked at the top in surprise.

Well, it was he who underestimated this guy's drive, or in other words, he was very excited to be able to direct a project he was fascinated with.

"It's just the preparatory stage, and the actor only sent news to Ron Perlman, but in order to start shooting as soon as possible, it's better not to delay." Top looked in good spirits and replied with a smile.

"This project is produced by Alfonso Cuaron? Will he do it himself?"

At this time, the name of the so-called "Mexico Three Heroes" was not mentioned at all, and in Hollywood at this time, the most important and most basic Mexican director was undoubtedly Alfonso Cuaron.

Just as Gonzalez was still polishing small literary and artistic productions, none of them became famous internationally; Top has just realized the direction of future shooting from the bad taste B-level film, but Alfonso has already directed "Harry Poetry". The director of "The Prisoner of Azkaban".

"He's been idle recently, and he's very interested in this project. Don't worry about the salary, he's here to help, and I'll pay for it personally." Top seemed to think of something, and quickly explained.

"That's not what I meant. Since he is willing to help you, he will pay from the project budget, and the production business will follow the rules."

With Alfonso Cuaron's status, the salary of a producer is not that high, and Lehmann doesn't care about this expense.

After the reception, Lehmann instructed Joseph to connect the budget with the new project prepared by the spinning top as soon as possible.

This fellow's current director salary will increase by 30% compared with that of "Hellboy", and the approximate salary is 6.5 million plus his own studio bears 5 million production costs.

To sum up, only from the perspective of the interests of the co-producers, it is estimated that the studio of the gyro can account for 10% of the total box office revenue of the film (without deducting the cinema line), and most of the copyright belongs to Firefly Pictures, but the sequel and even offline There is also a copy of the gyro studio around.

Then, just after the "Pan's Labyrinth" project was established, while Top was busy preparing for the crew, Lyman saw the possibility of a good project adaptation from Random House's quarterly sales list.

Speaking of which, the popular adaptation into a film and television drama is a very popular project development method in the circle.

But Firefly Pictures actually doesn't have much experience in this area. This is something that is quite surprising to stakeholders such as Warners and Lionsgate. Most of Firefly's projects are original scripts, which is too rare.

On this day, after seeing a certain film, Lehman turned out the phone and called his agent Johnson, "Help me pay attention to the adaptation rights of a film."

Lehmann glanced at the newspaper and continued, "It's called The Devil Wears Prada."

Hanging up the phone, Ryman thought.

And this work may be better known by another translation: "The Queen Wearing Prada".

...

When Johnson received the call, he immediately set off for Ohio. On the way, the content of the movie appeared in his mind.

From the editor-in-chief of Random House, he quickly got the address of the original author and went to try it out in person.

Johnson has been with Lyman for so many years, and he still has a certain understanding of this person. Generally speaking, he does not like someone interfering in his private affairs, but if it is not a private matter and he is an author, then it may mean that this will happen. The next film project of Firefly Pictures, and a fashion work for the female market - "The Devil Wears Prada" is about a female college student who enters a top fashion magazine as an editor-in-chief.

Well, it's quite yy. It is estimated that for female readers, getting close to the secrets of the fashion circle is their most fresh and curious topic.

After all, listening to the editor-in-chief, this is very popular among readers who are mainly housewives, and it has occupied the sales list for 50 consecutive weeks before, and it seems that there is still market potential to be tapped. Random House editors mean something.

However, after reading the original book in a hurry, Johnson found that the writing was rubbish, and it was not a very introductory or innovative work. However, this was what Ryman asked him to do, and he seemed quite interested.

Johnson naturally raised his energy and was ready to plan.

But can't imagine...

"What, the adaptation rights have been sold?"

After finally finding the author Lauren Weisberg, after explaining the intention, this is the situation again.

Lauren Weisberg was also confused.

She is 28 years old this year. In 2003, she released the book "The Devil Wearing Prada" based on her workplace experience.

But in fact, it was only in the middle of 2004 that the fire suddenly became popular, but in 2003, when she did not understand the market, she met a staff member of Fox who came to discuss the rights of adaptation. She was very happy and gave it to www.novelhall.com~ However, he was told that the movie still needs to see Fox's plan.

Yes, two years have passed, and the total sales are getting higher and higher, but the adaptation is still a long way off.

Lauren Weisberger was annoyed by this, because not making a film would not only mean the loss of copyright revenue, but also mean that he could not see his own work on the movie screen.

She is so aggrieved, but she has nothing to do with Fox.

Because such top studios are used to spending a little money to stock up on the more popular books on the market as company reserves.

As for whether to shoot or not, let's talk about it.

Of course, Lauren, as a film and television novice, doesn't understand this at all, and the result is completely different from what she imagined. It's a shame that Fox also promised her that she could play the role in the movie and show her face.

"Can you show me the signed adaptation contract?" Johnson didn't give up.

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