Chapter 815： Toho

When the box office market of "Death Penalty" fell by 27% in the next week, Firefly found several media to issue a notice that "Director Lehmann's new work is determined to be a science fiction theme, and will be starred by Edward Norton and Hilary Swank. ."

The financial market is still brewing, and a small number of people's carnival has begun, but for ordinary movie fans, they care more about Lehman's new work than the fall of Bear Stearns, because no one was affected, they were united by **** The Fed handled it perfectly.

New Line Studios.

The interior scene of the ninth district in "The Ninth District" is being arranged, but Ryman began to plan for the film's schedule and released the cooperation news, and soon received active contact from many studios.

Anyway, since joining hands with Lionsgate to open up overseas markets, Firefly has received more and more attention, especially Lehman's project is more qualified to offer more conditions.

One of them is that this year's Christmas must not be less than 5 weeks.

Originally, Lehman wanted to work with Fox, but they may have already planned the schedule and were a little hesitant.

Lehman didn't want to delay, so he directly found the private number of Universal executive Nassim Ellison and called it.

"Hi Nassim, is it convenient for you now, I'm Lyman?"

"Well, what?"

"I have a sci-fi work with a budget of 130 million that I would like to cooperate with you. Do you want the distribution rights of the project?"

"Cough cough..." Nassim Ellison didn't go well in one breath. He was confused by the news. Under normal circumstances, who would know that Lehman called for a new project. He still wanted to Talking about the Hulk, because that's what the previous calls were.

It's mid-March now, and summer is not far away.

As for new projects, of course, Universal knows about the news released by Firefly before. Although the specific content of "District 9" is kept secret, the main creators of Lyman + Edward + Hillary are enough to make people look forward to it. After all, the science fiction directed by Lyman The last thriller was "The Fog", with more than 400 million global results, is there any guarantee?

"Of course, do you want me to come?"

"Can you spare Christmas this year?" Lyman reminded.

"I'm not afraid to tell you that our company really doesn't have any plans for Christmas. It's okay to set aside the only announcement period of 5 weeks."

Universal's production pressure this year is quite high, because Universal is a studio that prefers to produce low-cost comedies, and it does not shoot many blockbusters independently every year. It is far less powerful and bold than Warner and Paramount.

Coupled with the success of Lionsgate's breakthrough, Firefly's situation has become more detached - the two big-selling projects have laid a network of overseas interests, and Universal's attitude towards Lehman is also mainly to win over, and it is still very enthusiastic to hear this.

Lehman snorted and said, "It's not easy to talk on the phone. I think we should make an appointment for a formal talk. What do you mean?"

Nasim replied excitedly: "Can you see tomorrow?"

If it is a formal negotiation, he has to communicate with the board of directors and other department executives.

"Okay, let's meet tomorrow morning in the production building of Universal Pictures."

......

For Wen Ziren, the recent days have been very comfortable, busy and happy.

After the release of "The Death Penalty", he was either interviewing or writing drafts every day, or he went to major cities to run the theater line, promote it on the platform, and then watched the box office performance gradually increase.

Perlman, who is thousands of miles away, also deeply understands this kind of accumulation.

Since he took over the task of contacting overseas publishers to establish a global distribution network, his workload has also been huge, but his salary and treatment have also been increasing rapidly, including company status and voice.

He knows that when he completes these, he will become the general manager of the film and television copyright department. This is the boss's commitment to him, so he is very passionate, and this is also the accumulation of his career.

Island Country, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Toho Co., Ltd.

The media company is now Japan's largest film company with the largest number of cinemas and box office revenue.

Dongbao also makes full use of its own distribution and projection system (with a total of 350 theaters) to show works produced by other companies and independent producers, reducing its own investment in filmmaking.

Among them, in terms of overseas business, most of the films released by Dongbao are foreign films, especially American films, and at the same time focus on co-production with foreign countries.

Well, Lionsgate cooperated with this company, so Perlman also came to Tokyo after spending half a year getting distribution sites in China, South Korea, Singapore and other regions.

Then there is the process of pacing, renting a business floor, recruiting local film talent registration companies in Japan, hiding Firefly Capital, and then contacting local strong distributors, such as Toho Club.

In doing so, it is similar to Lionsgate's routine. It does not reveal its intentions at all until the distribution network is completely formed.

With so many film companies set up every year, who would have thought so much.

Anyway, in the early stage, I just invested money, organized a promotion team, and got in touch with the publishers to get acquainted with them.

In the temporary office, Perlman quickly received several resumes.

There are also many film practitioners in Japan. They don’t need to poach people. They can directly publish recruitment information and choose from them. Anyway, the local personnel in these areas are just communication tools. The person in charge of the site will still be transferred internally by the parent company. Those team configurations are all like this, unless they prove that they have the ability to rise, and they will not harm the interests of the company.

But now there is not even a specific project, and it seems that there is no benefit or no benefit.

Outside the door, Ida Yuichiro looked at the somewhat "shabby" interior scene, and he hesitated for a while whether to go in or not.

Wouldn't it be a liar, the kind who would run away with a single hit? he thinks.

The Japanese film industry also has a lot of troubles. Like this kind of leather bag production company, there are still many liars who run away when it is time to shoot a plausible movie script.

However, the salary conditions on the recruitment information are quite attractive900,000 yen per month. The requirement is that he has been engaged in film distribution and related business for more than 5 years, and he has achieved it.

With the mentality of coming here to see the situation, Ida Yuichiro knocked on the door and stepped into the office.

Inside, Perlman was looking through Dongbao's personnel information. When he saw someone else applying for the job, he pointed to the seat in front of him. After he was seated, he said, "Have you brought your resume?"

"Bring it." Ida Yuichiro handed it over respectfully.

Perlman took it, looked at it carefully, and asked again, "Why did you leave after 8 years at Nikko Co., Ltd.?"

"Because of some family affairs, I voluntarily resigned."

After some chat, Perlman politely let people leave, and after sorting out the job applicants he received for the past three days, he picked two of the best impressions, one of which was Yuichiro Ida.

The rest is to get acquainted with Dongbao's distribution department, and then wait until the sites in other regions are established one by one...