Hollywood Director 1992

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【Rewards: 3.5x box office subsidy; Director experience +20%; Director physique +10%】

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After the movie screening ended, Scott Rudin, Brian Grazer, Robert Shaye, Harvey Weinstein, and others, representing their respective film companies, approached Link to propose cooperation, hoping to represent the distribution of the film.

Seeing everyone's recognition of the movie, Link breathed a sigh of relief.

In the early 1990s, art films were still mainstream, and people engaged in the film and television industry had a more serious attitude towards movies, treating them as a kind of artistic career.

This also led to filmmakers and the media having a more serious attitude towards movies. When judging whether a movie is good or bad, the standards were higher, requiring the movie to not only have artistry but also have viewing value and conform to the main theme, etc.

Although Link's first movie, 'Buried,' was relatively rough in production, its concept was profound, using the small to see the big, using personal destiny to criticize the Cold War that had not yet ended, advocating peace, and opposing war.

In addition, Link was relatively skilled in the use of lenses during filming, and the plot structure was also relatively mature, with a certain degree of artistry.

This is also the reason why 'Buried,' after its release, was met with a lot of criticism but was still accepted by the mainstream of the film industry.

However, this 'Paranormal Activity' is completely a movie that pretends to be mysterious, using horror and thriller as its selling points, belonging to the category of commercial films, with almost no artistry.

It is also not easy for such a movie to be recognized by most of the producers present.

However, after Link chatted with Scott Rudin, Brian Grazer, Steven Soderbergh, and others, he gradually understood the reason why they appreciated this movie—innovation and fun.

The original 'Paranormal Activity' was filmed in 2007 and released in 2009. It is a work that followed the trend of movies such as 'The Blair Witch Project' and 'REC'.

Before the release of 'Paranormal Activity,' this kind of mockumentary film was no longer new in the market, let alone any innovation.

Filming this movie fifteen years earlier, and appearing in theaters as a documentary-style movie, is undoubtedly an innovation, an exploration of film art.

Scott Rudin said that with the popularity of handheld camcorders, many people are thinking about whether they also have cameras and can become directors and make a qualified movie?

No one had tried this before, some because of technology, some because of funding.

Now Link has spent only $20,000 to make a movie with a very good plot, a horror movie that can make people scream.

This movie fully proves that ordinary people can also make good movies with unprofessional tools and a small amount of money.

This innovation has great enlightening significance for the development of the film industry, and perhaps the future era will become an era where 'everyone is a director'.

This is the greatest significance of this movie.

Hearing the praise from several people, Link was also elated.

It was only when it came to discussing the film distribution rights that these producers changed their gentle faces and were only willing to buy the film distribution rights with very little money, and even did not give him a box office split.

Among them, 20th Century Fox Film Corporation, which offered the highest price, gave two options.

One is to buy out the global distribution rights and video tape and peripheral copyrights for 3 million US dollars.

The second option is 1 million US dollars, a 10% global box office split, and buy out all the copyrights of the movie.

Warner Bros. Pictures, Paramount Pictures, Columbia Pictures, and other companies offered lower prices.

The reason why they are unwilling to offer a high price is.

The reason is that the shooting technique of this movie is too novel. It has not appeared in the market before, and I don't know whether the audience can accept it.

The distribution company is not clear about the box office situation. The higher the price, the greater the risk.

The second point is that if this movie wants to get a good box office result, the early publicity must be in place to arouse the audience's interest.

And doing publicity requires a lot of investment, several million or tens of millions.

The more investment, the greater the risk.

In order not to lose money, we can only suppress the price of acquiring the copyright.

During the negotiation, Link's condition was that he could waive the basic copyright fee, but the North American box office split must be above 25%, and the overseas box office split must not be lower than 15%.

Hearing his conditions, the representatives of the film companies shook their heads in unison, saying that it was unacceptable.

The first round of negotiations also ended in failure.

Afterwards, Robert Shaye and Harvey Weinstein approached him one after another.

They expressed their willingness to jointly distribute 'Paranormal Activity' with Guessing Game Pictures, and the box office split could also be allocated according to his requirements.

Their request was to obtain the sequel rights to 'Paranormal Activity' and co-produce 'Seven' and 'The Butterfly Effect' with Link. The investment share of the two film companies should not be less than 50%.

Link refused after considering it.

New Line Cinema and Miramax are independent film companies, and their distribution capabilities are much worse than the seven major film companies.

There is nothing wrong with a first hair, one inside, one capacity, one look!

When distributing movies, you also need to spend money to purchase channel resources from several major media groups, which is not cost-effective.

The only advantage of cooperating with the two companies is to get more publicity funds.

And Link currently does not lack money.

Cooperating with New Line and Miramax can get more publicity funds, but you will have to share a lot of box office revenue with them afterwards.

If Guessing Game Pictures independently produces and distributes, it is impossible to lose money, but it can earn more money.

Since the seven major film companies are not optimistic about this movie and are unwilling to give more splits, then let Guessing Game Pictures distribute it.

After sending Robert Shaye away, Link summoned Michael Leeson, Danny DeVito, and others to come to the office for a meeting to discuss the movie distribution matters.

Having Guessing Game Pictures distribute 'Paranormal Activity' is actually similar to the procedure he originally used to self-fund the distribution of 'Buried'.

It's just that he now has money and people, and the whole process will be smoother.

"Boss, something bad has happened."

Liu Xiaoli hurried into the office, her pretty face with a serious expression, with some anger.

"What's the matter? Don't worry, take your time. We are all here, and nothing can't be solved."

Link handed her a cup of tea.

"When we held the internal screening, a group of reporters ran to our company building for interviews.

Fred Olin, during the interview, cursed our movie as a bad movie that even a three-year-old could make. Other producers also gave negative responses, thinking that the movie was very bad and saying that you are not a professional director."

"Anything else?"

"Later, several producers were so scared that they left early after watching half of it. Although they did not accept interviews when they left, the reporters also thought that the movie was of poor quality when they saw them leaving midway.

The public relations department received news that many media have already prepared稿件 and plan to report these negative news tomorrow, hyping that our movie is very bad. The public relations department asked whether to inform the media and suppress these news."

Liu Xiaoli asked.

"First ask which media it is. For newspapers or TV stations with large sales, spend some money to do public relations to get rid of those news. For those tabloids, don't worry for now. There is still some time before the movie is released. The reports of the tabloids will not affect our movie."

"Okay, I'll go ask."

Liu Xiaoli took the folder and left the office in a hurry, her figure in OL professional attire very capable.