Chapter 1178： Dallas clubs and things big and small

"Morning Chairman."

"Morning boss."

"Oss is good."

I took time out of my busy schedule and continued to work after finishing the introduction of the border trade white-paper.

When I got to the office and sat down, Mess came in with the book in hand, and there were still many things to do: "oss, I have recorded all the phone calls to you during this time. Other invitations and project progress reports are all on your desk."

"Who is looking for it?"

"President of Universal, and Warner's side probably wants to talk to you about "The Dark Knight Rises", and there are also councillors from the city-government side who want to see you."

"Oh well."

After the assistant went out, he began to look through some documents.

Up front, most of the reports were given by various production teams. For example, "Iron Man 3" is expected to start the production at the end of February, as well as some financial reports. Another example is some greetings from director Li Press. He is now in Wanwan, and the main actor has been selected. , is building an artificial sea with wave machines.

Then, one of the directors of the screenwriting department, Runiel Guise, said that the script for the new season of "Stranger Things" was finished.

The company has a very clear responsibility for reviewing production. Runier is an old man of the company. According to the rules, he has enough power to guarantee proposals. Besides, he has always been a bit literary and likes humanism. I like this one. The book is not surprising.

According to his own words, the independent screenwriter of this book, Melissa Warrek, handed it out for many years, and was first handed out by Dennis Hope (an older generation of Hollywood actors, representative of "Blue Velvet", "Easy Rider", "Future Water World"), and planned to find Woody Harrelson to play Woodroffe, but because no one gave him investment and signed the screening terms (that is, the distributor guaranteed that the filming could enter the theater) nothing happened.

In May of 2010, Hope passed away due to prostate cancer, and the script was lost again. Wareck was unwilling to deliver it to the circle again. Large and small companies, well-known actors, producers, and directors were all his goals, and he was finally appreciated by Runier.

If it is the trajectory of the previous life, this book will have to go through the hands of Ryan Gosling and Craig director, and finally won by Focus Pictures and set up the project in 2013.

As we all know at Focus Pictures, James Shamos, one of the top executives, is Li Press's acquaintance and screenwriter partner, and the two also jointly established a studio.

In addition to arranging most of Li Zhao's literary and artistic films, Focus Films is most famous for focusing on independent works in the industry and supporting newcomers, such as Mira-Nair (the director of "The Eternal Sunshine of a Beautiful Mind") which they brought out. of.

Of course, the standard of "Dallas Buyers Club" is not low. It openly exposes the scandal of the Food and Drug Administration. Naturally, it has no influence. The most important thing is that it has a positive voice for comrades, and it is not lacking in humanistic openness and the sense of mission of the film. Therefore, no one was optimistic about it before, and it was also because it was too sharp and too cold. Such films are generally not loved by the public, and the box office is definitely not high, and investment is indeed risky.

But after Lehman turned over the book that Runier handed over, it was definitely going to be a shot.

After all, one of the leading actors in it, Matthew McConaughey also worked with him. At that time, he wanted to find this book, but the script was in Hope's hands and could not be found in the script library.

I wrote down the matter for a while, and then marked it as a separate review. I flipped through the following documents, and found that Andrew, the head of the site on the mainland, came to report, saying that China Film would like to ask whether this year's Marvel movies can take priority over mainland promotions. Hope the company will give you an answer.

Okay, some people are eager to change the introduction standard.

Lehman didn't have to think about it to know that there was definitely a Chinese film in it. After all, if the propaganda work could move closer to the mainland, it would be good for the guidance of public opinion there.

The proportion of the mainland market has increased in the company's box office structure, and his status as the president of China has risen. This is a plan that requires resources to be tilted.

But this is a good thing, Marvel can’t do without the mainland market, it’s accurate.

Following the turn to the end, the director of the red shirt also has a notice.

Quite simply, they really wanted Lehmann to evaluate his take on Game of Thrones, because they're about to follow up with Google Ventures, the Holdman Fund, and attach a copy of the initial contract...

Gee.

Redshirt really understands.

The amount has not changed much. It is said that the 13 billion A round is basically dead, but the traffic support from Google is a lot. If many of their businesses have port access, the share of Amber will definitely be higher. There is a lift.

This is equivalent to a long-term, high-traffic advertising space, which is displayed to users who visit the search engine.

As for the other Hodman Fund, it is an investment bank with a high-level background in the United States and the United States, which can give Amber political protection in some international and domestic places, so as not to be restricted or biased by local policies when expanding the business of powerful countries such as Britain and Germany. shelf.

In the streaming media business, not only American companies are playing, but there are also smart people in the UK and other places.

And this kind of thing is unavoidable. Just look at Facebook, Twitter, etc., which are fined every day by the EU, India and other governments for various reasons. When it comes to users in other countries, you always need to be careful.

Fortunately, Amber is only a long video platform, and it has relatively little collection of user pornography.

As for the evaluation mentioned by the red shirt, it is also because the performance of "Game of Thrones" seems to have exceeded expectations.

Although the drama has not been launched yet, the publicity has been warmed up for so long, and the number of downloads and visits has increased suddenly. Such a positive, even if the investment is very large, it may not be able to return the capital, but there are still few things in the Internet world that lose money and make a profit.

Facebook is still in a state of burning money and losing money, and its valuation has exceeded 50 billion. In this kind of thing, how to show the potential to the outside world is far more important than making money or not.

The meaning of the red shirt is that, according to such a situation, it is really possible to accumulate 1 million local loyal users with one drama, and it is more convenient to ask other investors for prices, resources, and influence.

This truth, Lehmann also understands, so he called to Metz.

"oss?" the assistant asked.

"First help me make an appointment with the people around the world, it will be tomorrow, and the specific time will see their arrangements."

"Call President Perlman on the 8th and go to Amber."

Mace took a quick note and asked, "Anything else?"

"Uh…"

Lehman thought for a while: "You contact Runier-Guise and ask him to talk to the Warrek screenwriter, and after buying it, write a production plan and send it to the production department."

"OK."

After arranging some itineraries, a lot of things are prioritized one by one.

The first was to have dinner with Director Wen at noon that day, and called Ryan, Thomas and others. It was because he joined the group.

Since the meeting that day, Wen Ziren himself has prepared a lot. His agent won a friendship salary of 2 million for his several scenes and after the camera effect was recognized by the world, the project of "Aquaman" was signed with his personal studio. For example, it involves tens of millions of income and has to be serious.

Although the official business is public, but Director Wen's own ability is there, it is not to say no, it is just a matter of experience and adaptation, plus Universal attaches great importance to the project, and has promised a lot of resources in the promotion, so the main reason is Get their support and approval.

In any case, if you don't go out at this step, Director Wen will always be in the impression of others as an excellent director who can only make horror movies and small productions, and is not very versatile.

In other words, the several scenes about Namor in "The Incredible Hulk 2" are the evaluation of him by Universal, which is also agreed by Universal. As long as the crew feedback is positive, the position of the chief director of "Aquaman" is basically a certainty, and immediately Can renew the contract.

Cooperation? It’s not good to be too assertive. According to Lehman’s idea, it doesn’t matter if “Aquaman” can start after the end of this summer. Anyway, we are fighting for next year’s schedule, so we will follow Universal’s intentions.

Then, I went to the Marvel Building, which is less than 200 meters away from the Firefly Building. Between the two independent office buildings, I found a construction team and planned to build a straight passage, which is expected to be completed in October this year.

A group of people gathered around the conference room, naturally talking about the crew of "Iron Man 3" and "Ultron Crisis".

"We contacted the schedule for "Iron Man 3" last year, and Warner's distribution department also said that there is no problem and will reserve space."

"So, in terms of specific shooting, the main trouble is the overlapping cast and crew, and the shooting time of their scenes should be well designed."

"Can."

"In the case of "Ultron", some paragraphs of the previous script had to be written together, such as Tony Stark's state of mind. He heard the Hulk runaway twice in "Iron Man 3", and the government regarded him as a dangerous person. , and the "Registration Act" was designed by the senior management of S.H.I.E.L.D. At that time, his mood was actually a little loose, but it was not obvious. What he showed was irritability, and he denied the draft regulations of the hero registration law. After experiencing the terrorist attack and the Little Pepper incident, I felt very insecure and had a deep-rooted understanding of the limited personal force, so I was eager to seek technological innovation... In these scenes, the character details must be in place. There is also "Iron Man 3" The role of Dr. Banner in prison should also be portrayed well, which is also the climax of the dramatic tension."

"Don't worry." Brother Russell nodded from time to time to show his understanding.

As executive directors of the Iron Man series after Ryman, the two are now focused on the Marvel project.

Not to mention other things, although I occasionally feel aggrieved and be controlled by this and that, the reputation in the industry, qualifications, salary of the same level, and audience recognition are also very good, unless they are too **** and want to play independently. Filmmakers, otherwise just treat this as a job, its conditions are not bad.

"Most of the actors are from the original cast, and some of the remaining supporting roles are still packaged by caa. If Vision is not cast, the voice actor Paul Bettany, Jarvis's voice actor, will play the real body.

In addition, Ultron was created by the second-generation ant-man in the comics, but for the sake of the plot, we planned to change it to be made by Tony, but in the process of self-growth, he was influenced by the second-generation Zemo and other high-level Hydra, and concluded that it was eliminated. The conclusion of hegemony, persecuting the Avengers, destroying the government-government order. "

"That's good." The executives of Marvel Entertainment nodded.

For them, to sell the image, of course, the character itself has justice.

Hydra is the villain, and it's better to throw the pot and create conflicts for them.

"Well, this is actually convenient to lead Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch. We didn't reach an agreement with Fox. The identities of the two cannot be mutants, they can only be vaguely dealt with." Speaking of this paragraph, Kevin felt a little helpless.

I can't help it, I'm blaming the fact that the copyright was sold too thoroughly at the beginning, and the derivative development of Fox's mutant project is not bad and is booming. Don't intertwine, otherwise the traffic profits created by the concept of mutants are not easy to divide, and everyone feels that they are at a disadvantage.

The same is true in past lives.

In Fox's view, the mutants are what they have carried forward, you can use it, and it is too pitiful if you don't give money;

On Marvel's side, it doesn't matter if you give some money, but Fox means that as long as these two characters are labeled as mutants, the profits should go to them, at most for the Marvel franchise, the two share the account, they big head.

The management of Marvel is not stupid. If Fox is willing to let Marvel share the Mutant Legion, the two can be as "close" as they cooperate with Universal, but the problem is not that Fox is not willing, then naturally we can only use the Avengers team. For the reason of the comic chapters of Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver, I created it myself, which is regarded as exploiting the loophole.

The meaning of the loophole is: Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver belong to the Avengers camp, not the mutant camp. They are not labeled as mutants, and Fox does not have any copyrights.

This is the same as using arbitration clauses in the past to make employees and customers not get adequate compensation after being exploited by companies, and let taxpayers make up for it. For example, Amazon used thousands of jobs as bait to announce that it would build second-tier cities in other cities. A headquarters, and let all cities "compete for bidding" (such as attracting Amazon to "settle" by reducing taxes, the consequences are of course borne by taxpayers).

Compared with such enterprises, smaller enterprises undoubtedly have a natural administrative cost disadvantage.

This way of playing, many industry giants do this, because it can indeed ensure the company's competitiveness and management advantages. Not to mention lobbying rights like the infamous Mickey Mouse Act.

In this case, even though Fox was dissatisfied, he had to pinch his nose to recognize it. When it comes to the final result, the same characters in two different universes play their own way.

And the reason why Marvel wants to do this is to pave the way for civil war.

Such an incident, involving so many characters and strong dramatic conflicts, can instantly increase the influence and substantial interests of the Marvel brand, and it has great prospects for brand diffusion. It is impossible to let go of all the new characters that can be used.

The process of the meeting was very fast. After all the links were fully explained, only the implementation was left.

…

Inside the cafe on Hollywood Walk.

Runier-Guise has been waiting for a while.

It was said that when the script was handed in and an accurate answer was obtained, he also had the intention to promote the implementation of the project.

The script of "Dallas Buyers Club" is very good, he likes it very much, and with the boss's nod, many things are not too complicated.

After all, the most important thing for a movie is the investment and the screening, and the rest are the execution links under these two guarantees.

After a while, the person he was waiting for arrived.

A 42-year-old, half-Latino-American man.

As described before, there is nothing arrogant about a down-and-out, little-known screenwriter. UU Reading

He kept apologizing for his lateness, because he was taking a taxi, but just when he received the call to go out, he waited for a taxi on the street for half an hour.

"It's okay, I just arrived."

Runier waved his hand.

"I'm here for the script..."

"Are you Fireflies willing to invest?" The man was very much looking forward to it.

From the 1990s to 2012, for many days, his proudest book still has no one to shoot, but he always feels that someone will appreciate it, but Bole has not yet arrived.

"Yes, our boss has agreed to set up the project. If it is possible, I mean that if your price is not expensive, I can decide to buy it now, and you can also work in our company..."

As one of the directors of the screenwriting department, Runier-Guise sincerely appreciates talented people, seeing that they are talented but living in embarrassment, thinking about providing a stable screenwriting job and writing TV series for the company , and polishing the episodes can also improve life, so I released a little more goodwill, and my tone of speech was not consciously sincere. "Such a script like this is generally tens of thousands of purchase prices in the industry... In my case, it can be sold for 80,000 yuan. , if you don't dislike the small place, we are recruiting people there, and I can help you introduce..."

"No, no... Of course I'm happy, I'm happy." Melissa Wareck was ecstatic at first, but then tentatively asked: "I just want to know if I can join the team after the script is approved, not the producer. , just wanted to watch it shoot out."

He laughed at himself, "I've waited a long time for it."

"It's a small matter, then it's settled."

The matter was settled, the other party was happy, and he was happy when he looked at it. He always felt that he had done something meaningful. The rest was to formally sign the contract and find the production department to plan the project...