Legendary Hollywood Director

Lehmann sent the spinning top and Alfonso away, and went back to the office to pick up the work schedule on the table, and compare them one by one to see how the production progress of several advancing projects was.

Occasionally take a sip of coffee, stand up and move around, and slowly do a few pull-ups to maintain your body.

As a director, it is easy to overdraft your health because you are always thinking about shooting, and you often get angry because of delays in various trivial matters.

In his previous life, he had only been in the film and television industry for less than 3 years, and because of his work, he had a bad shoulder and spine. In this life, he walked smoother and made more money. Of course, he didn't want his body to collapse early.

Assistant Mace walked to the door and tapped on the door of the office to get a response, and then the report was neat and tidy: Boss, Mr. Flemish from Lionsgate has an invitation.

Lehman put down the report he was holding and asked in confusion, Did he say anything?

Mace carefully considered his words, looked at Lehman and said, He called just now and said it was related to the project cooperation.

Where is he dating?

There is nothing particularly worthy of attention left and right, and Lehman intends to go there.

At the country club.

Okay, tell him I'll be there right away. Lehmann thought to himself: project cooperation? Lions Gate is a big dog owner and has no shortage of money. What advantages does Firefly have that he can like? Immediately, I thought of the special effects work in the digital field. It seems that Lionsgate can also be developed, so that they may be able to give priority to the digital field when they need to use special effects technology when making films in the future.

These days, the special effects business is dominated by the producers. If it does not involve high-end and core technologies, many companies can complete the work required by the general level. Therefore, the choice of who is not selected basically depends on the quotation and friendship.

For example, Fox likes to cooperate with Industrial Light and Magic, and Weta often cooperates with New Line and Warner.

Moreover, Lionsgate did not want to enter the field of special effects. There is a need for this. The competition in the special effects industry is fierce now, and it is very professional. Big studios like Warner are thinking about winning and losing in the future. Or when the time is right, you can directly spend money to acquire one, so there is no dedicated effort to develop.

This is like raising a gu. At the beginning, when the situation of the battle is unclear, who knows who will win and who will end sadly. In a field with such a strong professionalism, the risk control is too great and does not meet the actual prospect of capital pursuit.

Moreover, many studios have this kind of thinking, which is why most of the special effects fields are supported and developed by directors or independent filmmakers, because their most urgent need is to improve the shooting technology and make the picture more shocking.

Lyman added: Notify Scott Ross and let him come with me.

Okay, boss. The assistant went down and quickly passed the message.

Re-find the digital field of the gold master, because there is no longer a shortage of research and development funds, and the special effects work obtained with the help of Firefly is much easier than before. Therefore, Scott Ross's work attitude as an executive officer is very positive.

The shareholders and investors who supported him behind him saw that the performance of the digital field was getting better and better, and they were also glad that the investment was not wasted, thus increasing their support for the digital field.

No one has offered to sell the shares.

You know, although Lehman is the largest individual shareholder in the digital field,

But he did not give up to continue to absorb the remaining 33% of the shares, but unfortunately, no one shot again.

After a while, Scott Ross drove over, and Lyman got into his car and didn't choose to drive by himself.

The car started and drove in the direction of Beverly Hills, all the way to the Country Club.

In the lounge area next to the golf course, the cool breeze blows people to laziness.

Jon Feilermei was polite with Lehmann and Scott, and they chatted about business.

The purpose of Lionsgate's trip is to let Firefly transfer the copyright of the adaptation of the novel Twilight.

The reason is that recently, Stephen Mayer's novels have been in the top three for several months in the New York Daily's best-selling novels list with absolute single-book sales.

Yes, the Twilight novel took off, and then, quite normally, it caught the attention of many studios.

Among them, Lionsgate is one of them.

As mentioned earlier, the adaptation of a best-selling novel into a movie is now a popular adaptation direction in Hollywood, almost to the point of crushing the original script.

And because it broke the record of the number of people watching the movie on the first day, it is evidenced by the market case of the Harry Potter series of searching for global film and television wealth, as well as the success of Disney's The Magic Kingdom of Narnia, which focuses on the magic of young audiences. The film has become the most sought after subject.

In fact, Hollywood also likes to follow suit. Epic movies are popular. Everyone is making epics. Epics are not good. Magic seems to be very popular, and everyone is looking for magic projects.

And Twilight did not enter the attention of everyone at first, because the book just came out, and it had a period of two or three months of word-of-mouth fermentation. At that time, the sales were not outstanding, and naturally no one paid special attention to it. Now that the sales are high, it will attract attention. It's also unusual to come to a studio.

After that, many studios knew that the copyright of the novel had been sold, and the buyer was still Firefly, and then gave up. After all, before the movie was released, who knew whether Twilight would succeed. Without this choice, it is not that there is no copyright of the same type of fantasy novels, and there is no need to spend special energy.

But several Lionsgate executives felt that there was a lot to do after learning about Twilight in detail. This kind of thing depends on the eyes. When Harry Potter was not popular, who knew that it would be so sought after.

And, more importantly, it fits well with Lionsgate's production plans for its own future transformation.

Now Lionsgate is still a studio specializing in thriller themes and cutting-edge works. Looking at its resume, American Psycho, Fahrenheit 911, The Haunting of the Mortuary, its similar features are that there is no major make.

Not one that has invested more than $60 million.

It stands to reason that Lionsgate has implemented a dollar strategy since its inception, buying and selling everywhere, buying studios, buying equipment, buying distribution channels, and buying independent studios. How can there not be 60 million US dollars to make movies?

But the problem is, Lionsgate at that time was the same as Firefly now. Even if they made a big production, they didn't have the resources to announce it. They had to ask for help from the Big Six, and Lionsgate didn't want to be a vassal of the Big Six, so they would rather not You can make large productions, and always focus on niche areas.

However, after so many years of development, Lionsgate feels that it has the ability to challenge high-investment projects, but there are no works suitable for development at the moment.

No, they are eyeing Twilight.

First, the theme is the most popular magic, and the main target is the youth market;

Second, the novel is very popular and has a great effect on publicity.

In the original time and space, the copyright snatch for Twilight was won by Summit Entertainment, because their offer most impressed the novelist Stephen Meyer. After the success of the first film, Lionsgate saw that this series had perfected its own territory, acquired Summit Entertainment with equity swap and a large sum of money, and still mastered the Twilight series of projects.

But in this time and space, after Lehman stepped in first, Summit Entertainment believed that it could not get the copyright back from Firefly, so naturally there was no action. Instead, Lionsgate felt that they had cooperated many times, and they had not heard that Firefly wanted to When setting up a project, it may be to buy a copyright hoard, and come over with similar thoughts for transfer.

Their price was also quite sincere. Lyman bought Twilight, Crescent Moon and signed an additional right of first refusal for the follow-up copyright, which cost less than 14 million, and Lionsgate directly asked for 30 million.

In other words, if Lehman intends to transfer, this time and again, he will earn 16 million because of the increase in sales of a novel he is optimistic about.

What is paying for the vision?

Of course, it is impossible for Lehmann to sell 30 million for a project of more than one billion yuan.

Ryman had to explain vaguely, saying that he bought the copyright of these two novels with a certain intention to shoot, not simply to expand the copyright library.

Jon Feilermei looked solemn, I know that Firefly may have plans to shoot, but is there no room for negotiation? Cooperative development is also possible. You authorize, Lionsgate invests, and it can also reduce production risks and make profits together. ,what do you think?

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