Chapter 797： The fighting power of girls

The news that Firefly is preparing for a new project has spread among the actors through several brokerage companies, but no one knows what kind of movie it is, and the confidentiality work is done quite well.

Subsequently, the brokerage company first screened a group of actors who met the audition conditions and gathered in the Firefly Audition Room.

Although I don't know what to play, it is very important for these people to get the opportunity to perform.

Director Li Zhang is not here, this audition is just for some small roles in The Incredible Hulk who don't have much roles, and he doesn't have to keep an eye on it. In addition to checking the preparation of costumes and props, his recent trip is to discuss with photography, lighting, and art directors. Imaging, or negotiating special effects work with Scott Ross, president of digital.

This year, the business growth in the digital field has changed to a certain extent. First, Firefly can provide more special effects projects, and second, the second-tier film companies such as Lionsgate and Mubao have any special effects business, which will also be entrusted to the digital field. Sometimes it will cooperate with Weta Digital to complete some more budget movies, such as Dragon Knight, which was taken over by Digital Domain and Weta Digital.

If you really want to calculate the market share distribution of special effects companies on the market, the leader is still Industrial Light and Magic, because they have the largest number of practitioners, and they are cheap, and they are loved by major studios;

Followed by Weta Digital, and the slightly worse digital field, the three companies together can eat 70% of the special effects business, and the rest are captured by more than a dozen studios and special effects companies like Robert Zemeckis, such as business Only focus on the combination of live action and animation.

Beverly Hills.

Keira Knightley gets a call from her agent.

She has three films this year, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, and a reunion with Pride and Prejudice director Joe White, Atonement with James McAvoy, and a film called Silk. Independent work.

Of course, all three have been released, so she's in a relatively idle state right now.

The agent mentioned on the phone is naturally a new work prepared by Firefly. The company has helped her to inquire about some situations. The character positioning of the script is very normal, not the villain, but the heroine who has a relationship with the hero. There is no role type. conflict.

In the last sentence on the phone, the agent's advice to her was to ask her to think more about it, and she should not miss the opportunity. If she agreed, she would immediately contact the crew for further negotiations.

At this time, Keira Knightley is only one of the better actors in her age group in terms of fame and rising space. A Pirates of the Caribbean series has made her famous, and there is room for choice. Qiqi's novels are first published on the whole network

Hanging up the phone, Keira Knightley didn't have any particularly excited emotions. It wasn't because it was a Firefly Films project that she was ecstatic or anything, because the so-called emotional drama basically meant that the project was a vase to the character.

In the living room, Suki Waterhouse, a good friend who was sitting next to her, asked, "Who is calling?"

"Agent, a script."

"What kind of play are you looking for?"

"I don't know, I only know that there are emotional scenes." She said with a sigh: "Why can't I meet a good project like the devil wearing prada, either a vase or a vase, I want to play a little bit, and they are all independent work."

Suki Waterhouse nodded sympathetically.

In the whole of Hollywood, after all, it is a minority of the minority who can focus on the female protagonist like the devil wearing prada, let alone mainstream commercial films.

Which actress doesn't want to have a protagonist addiction, always a foil, too restrictive.

"Then do you want to pick it up?"

"There was some hesitation. The project director heard from the agent that it was confirmed that it was Li Press." Keira Knightley replied.

Suki Waterhouse frowned, "I have also heard from friends in the circle. I still have ideas and talents, and the show is more flattering, but it's still a bit risky."

When an actor has the status of choosing a script, he is actually betting on his vision.

After all, no one knows whether the movie will have a good impact or a negative impact on their career after the movie is released.

Li Press himself must have reliable times and occasional failures in the past, and Keira Knightley herself knows it.

"I'm afraid of playing a role with an unimportant role, but it turns out to be affected by the bad box office. But I'm going to get in touch first."

"good luck."

The next day, Keira Knightley, accompanied by her agent, met with Director Li Press in the reception room of the digital realm.

To be honest, Li Press has a very good eye for picking actors.

When we meet in person, I only feel that Keira's intellectual temperament is more prominent, which is more felt than photos and DVDs, which is in line with Betty's character.

After all, this guy chose the actress who played Betty in the Hulk Hulk, but Jennifer Connelly's soft dancing scene in America's Past is an absolute screen classic, but this guy is too old to play a girl. After all, the years are not forgiving, and actresses do not preserve their value as much as male actors. The fastest update of Qiqi novel https://

The three chatted for a while, because the filming of the Hulk had to cooperate with publicity and confidentiality. Facing Kayla's request to read the script first, Li Zhang could only say that the character positioning was not bad, there was room for development, and the role was more intellectual, while In this project, the male protagonist is the guardian knight of the female protagonist. There are only kiss scenes, and no other extreme scenes appear.

Speaking, Li Press remembered something and reminded him as a bargaining chip: "By the way, this project is jointly produced by Firefly and Universal. The screening schedule is likely to be next summer, and the budget is more than 150 million."

Before the actors sign the contract, they can't talk about it too much to prevent leaks, but it's okay to talk about other topics.

Sure enough, when she heard that Universal was joining, and it was a proper first-line masterpiece, Kayla didn't know it, but her agent's attitude became more eager.

Not to mention anything else, commercial movies are good for high pay.

......

Blue Butterfly Pictures.

Liam's work at this time is still promoting the Twilight surroundings with various partners, and his heart is full of energy.

The reason is that Twilight's peripherals are so sold, it is the easiest and best movie to develop among so many projects he has taken over.

This also has to make him feel that the female fans who have the hearts of young girls will have a burst of purchasing power once their emotions are pinned.

Even if the film's box office was raised to 172 million in North America, offline DVDs are also selling well, and it can be reasonably estimated by the idea of ​​​​collecting one, but why the original soundtrack is obviously old songs and some new arrangements. The Twilight series has always been a case study of the market, because it has more potential for profit than the major studios could have imagined. UU reading

With such a single market positioning, only students, some female white-collar workers and housewives are the main customer targets. As a result, the appeal is comparable to that of many popular movie-watching audiences in a wide range of series.

Women's money is so easy to make? Also very profitable.

Although through market research, Liam knows that this film has a very good reputation in the eyes of most female audiences. Don't care about imdb, Yahoo, Rotten Tomatoes and other sites. It's a matter of will.

In the women's market, don't ask about this superhero, asking is romance, love, and liking.

So Twilight's score is easy to be extreme because some female and male netizens scolded each other online for this work. Isn't this polarized.

The reality is that Twilight's female audience seems to be a little irrational in consumption.

Because according to the data sent back by various partners, the sales of the DVD hardcover version of the movie are very high, just because the hardcover version has a high-quality photo poster of the starring, fans love to buy this, the purpose is not like ordinary fans just for repeatable Watching the video content, in addition, bought the DVD, don't you buy a collection of the original soundtrack?

Don't buy the same bracelet and clothing?

Don't buy customized hair accessories?

Do true fans definitely have to buy it? What's more awesome is that they don't just buy one set...

Such combat power and desire to buy made Liam negotiate with more than a dozen peripheral partners such as Sony Records, and he was more active than the promotion of the previous film.

Although the big head was still taken away by them, because of the hot sales performance, can we talk more about the share ratio? After all, Firefly only paid for the copyright use rights, and other aspects are other people's channels and sources of goods, but the copyright is valuable, it is a bargaining chip.