Chapter 622： Perlman's drive

Rodriguez Perlman went as far as Maine for matters surrounding copyright.

It's a pity that the entertainment culture there is not so strong, and even the attendance rate of the movie theater is not high.

Of course, no matter how small a mosquito is, it is still meat. If you can find out the market of a place and know the market, you will basically complete the mission of this trip.

Thinking that since he joined the company, he has brought his team and traveled everywhere, feeling that he is worthy of the job.

Rodriguez secretly collected data and research along the distribution network of Blockbuster, and then went to the field to investigate. After two or three months of work, he returned all the way to the west. Along the way, he stayed with the scattered staff and Blue Butterfly Pictures. The North American distribution network stationed personnel communicated and summarized, and when they returned to Los Angeles, they could roughly understand the offline market, and even the workload was exceeded.

After all, Lehman's original idea was to know that DVD sales and pay-on-demand, two easily manipulated businesses, would be very good.

Of course, if his employees can have such subjective initiative, Lehman naturally focuses on encouragement.

When the form was handed in, Liam took it to negotiate with Blockbuster and other offline merchants, and Lehman immediately made Rodriguez the director of offline copyright promotion.

——Right now is the time to hire people, and Layman doesn’t hesitate to reward those who can do their jobs well.

Not only the authority, but also the annual salary has basically doubled, and he has also been asked to continue recruiting people to expand the team and continue to refine the research team.

Rodriguez could have rested for a few days, because Lyman gave him a leave to relax, but he was a restless man, so he followed Blue Butterfly Pictures and watched them work.

You must know that Blue Butterfly Pictures has the largest number of employees under Lehmann. In terms of distribution, there are more than 150 people responsible for various state affairs just by contacting various theaters and laying out hard and wide.

And because the company's performance is good, the treatment is good, and the employees are very motivated, there is basically no problem with the company's projects in terms of publicity.

In comparison, publishing can be seen as an industry based on teamwork, which is very cooperative.

Looking at the world, if you want so many theaters to work together without problems, it will test the coordination ability of the publishing company.

Rodriguez thought to himself.

......

Ryman had just walked into the door of the private club. Bill McNico's accompanying assistant was already waiting, and immediately said, "Mr. Rust, please come with me."

Lehmann followed behind this person, thinking about how to negotiate and cooperate more appropriately.

Because he no longer wants to have bad relations with any movie giant, especially Fox, which is backed by News Corporation. You must know that if you want to destroy a public figure first, you must start with public opinion.

Those who work hard and hold a lot of wealth, such as Michael Jackson, are old enough, and the bigwigs with Jewish backgrounds such as Harvey Weinstein are all planted in the trenches because of scandals.

Public opinion not only kills people, but also punishes people's hearts, and it can make people speechless-the unwarranted "prostitution case" has not been concluded until now, and the sexual assault scandal, Harvey is not the first time to let a woman ***, Even many female stars take the initiative by themselves, but so what?

In fact, in legitimate business competition, everyone refrains from using the powerful weapon of inciting public opinion. Even if there are many lace news that are usually exposed, they are very restrained towards celebrities and celebrities who have an accident. Speech destroys a person - that's why Lehmann doesn't collect Weinstein "forced" female *** and then bring him down. If you do, everyone in the circle will alienate you and stomp you down.

It can only be said that many things in this world have their own set of rules, otherwise you have done the first year of the first year, so don't blame others for doing the fifth.

Suddenly changing from competition to life-threatening, it is really hard to save one's life. As for whose life, who knows.

Lyman only knows that whoever wants to weigh the fireflies first, see if he can bear the loss that is enough to hurt his bones.

Not to mention suppressing Miramax, isn't it easy? If Miramax is removed from Oscar's chessboard, Harvey will naturally lose his power.

Besides, both of them are no longer of the same level. Who would change the life of a weak person, cerebral palsy?

Similarly, Warner stopped suppressing, and also did not want to cross the line and become a life-threatening.

——It's not a madman or a fool to hurt others or not.

And a fool cannot have a foothold in Hollywood.

"Mr. Rust, please wait a moment." Barry Diller's assistant took Lyman to a box and knocked on the door first.

Wait until someone responds, then open the door and enter.

Inside, a faint incense was burning, and a small coffee table was placed in the middle of several sofas.

On closer inspection, there was a smell of cigarettes - there were already several cigarette butts piled up in the ashtray in front of Bill McNico.

"Sorry to keep you waiting."

"It's only a few minutes, I came early." Bill McNico waited for Lyman's coffee, and then said: "Firefly has made another good movie, and the performance of "Prada" is really good."

Lehmann said modestly: "It has nothing to do with me. As long as the director David shoots well, I'm just the one who is responsible for the money."

"Haha, even if you pay, you have to be able to choose the right one. It's not easy to pay." Bill McNichol said with a smile: "After coming to Hollywood for four years, Mr. Rust is very popular in the film industry. From the water, people have to admire it.”

"It's just a fluke, maybe, if you work on the project seriously, the result will not be too bad. Mr. McNichol, several Fox movies entered the top 20 on the list last year, which is what I admire very much, especially the release of "Star" "Battle 3", but set all the screening records along the way."

The two talked about business with each other, and they talked about a lot of things, and Bill McNichol talked about the TV series project.

In today's TV station field, the three major TV networks, abc, nbc and cbs, have always dominated the North American wireless TV market. Later, Fox invested heavily, and the management was also very capable. The business has also developed, and I have to say, it is also very powerful.

Speaking of business, Lehman said straight to the point: "Firefly production, Fox broadcast, and the funds to buy out the pilot rights are according to the rules, but I want Fox to give a reasonable price for the advertising revenue in the subsequent schedule."

"Oh? What kind of reasonable price do you want?"

The word "reasonable" was said very heavily by Bill McNico, who seemed to think that Lehman would open his mouth and ask for a sky-high share.

But in fact, he thought too much.

If the film and television project is regarded as a business, and the money earned from the market will inevitably be inseparable from the platform and the producer, the importance of the platform is absolutely not bad, and even the establishment of the platform requires more money and energy. Invest more.

Lehman never thought of replacing the platform with production, and Fox didn't just rely on the TV series produced by the Firefly family to survive.

"This time, I won't talk about buyouts, but about step-by-step account sharing."

"What kind of ladder method?" Bill McNichol asked with a smile.

"The audience rating exceeds 2.5. After the trial broadcast, the broadcast copyright fee for each episode will be increased by 0.5% on the basis of the production cost, and 10% of the advertising revenue will be broken by 3 on average. The broadcast fee will be increased by 0.5, and the advertising account will be increased by 0.3... ...After breaking the 6th all the advertising revenue generated by the episode, Firefly will be 40%, and after that, no matter how high the ratings are, this will not change, how?"

"Good vision, enough courage." Bill McNico praised.

There are only two aspects to this agreement that need attention.

One is that the upper limit is raised. After breaking 6, Firefly's profit is close to 40% of its income; the other is that the lower limit is lowered, not high ratings.

For example, in a boutique drama, the split between the producer and the TV station is likely to be close to 2:8. After breaking 3, the viewership rating will continue to increase the proportion of the producer's revenue, but it is rare to get a 4.

Lehman, on the other hand, wanted the highest standard of accounting.

Of course, the premise is that the TV series can really explode in ratings.

From this point of view, broadcasting a blockbuster TV series can effectively attract audiences and turn it into an audience retention rate at the same time period, and the TV station will not suffer.

So, Bill McNico was saying that Lyman was very daring.

——There is no asking price to make people feel reluctant, and it does not take advantage of the TV station. Instead, it is obvious to bet on the future prospects of TV dramas with confidence.

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