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"Boss, these are the quotes put forward by seven distribution companies, take a look!"

A few days later, Producer Walton Minnie walked into the office, took out a folder and said.

"How did they react after watching the movie?"

Duca opened the folder and asked.

“Very enthusiastic and sincere in the conditions given.”

Producer Minnie laughed.

Duca smiled and looked at the conditions of several Discovery companies, including Warner, Universal Pictures, 20th Century Fox Film Company, Columbia TriStar Pictures, Paramount Pictures, etc.

The conditions offered by several major issuing companies are not bad.

The minimum North American box office share is 40%.

The number of screening theaters is no less than 2,000.

The investment in the film promotion plan is at least tens of millions of dollars.

Among them, Colombia Three Stars has the best conditions, with a share of 55% of the North American box office, 20% of overseas distribution, and 15% of DVD video distribution.

It's not worse than "Mexican", which the two companies collaborated with at the beginning of the year.

Under these conditions, unless "Immoral Deal" has a box office of over 100 million in North America, they won't be able to make much money.

"Why does Colombia seem to be doing business at a loss?"

Duca touched his chin and asked.

"It's a bit risky. This is mainly related to the operating conditions of Columbia Pictures. In 1989, Sony Entertainment Group spent US$6 billion to acquire Columbia TriStar Pictures.

As outsiders, they are not well-received, and the films they invest in are not adapted to the climate. Only a few of the films they invested in and shot were profitable, and they lost a lot of money. However, the films we cooperated with and distributed made a lot of money.

They took a fancy to our production capabilities and film quality, so they tried every means to get the distribution rights for the film."

Waltermini explained slowly.

Columbia Pictures was founded in 1924. It became one of the five major Hollywood studios in the 1930s and 1940s, and became one of the eight major studios in the 1950s and 1960s.

In the 1980s, it was acquired by the Coca-Cola Group, but its management was poor. In 1989, it was sold to the Sony Group and became a subsidiary of Sony Pictures Entertainment.

Although Columbia Pictures employs all American employees and uses Hollywood producers to manage the company, it cannot fully achieve localization.

In recent years, it has suffered annual losses of hundreds of millions and has become the backbone of the seven major film companies, only slightly better than MGM.

Competition in the North American film market is fierce. The seven major film companies are fighting openly and covertly to gain more market share. The strong ones get stronger and the weak ones get weaker.

Columbia Tristar did not want to give up the film market, but the films produced by the company were not strong, so they had no choice but to cooperate with independent production companies and act as film distributors.

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For example, it has released "A Few Good Men" produced by Castle Rolling Stone Entertainment, Carlock Pictures' "The Greatest Heroes" and "Terminator 2", Amblin Pictures' "Captain Hook", and LV Pictures' "Unruly Skies"

"Mexican Killer" and so on.

They don't produce movies, they only act as distributors of movies. Although they don't make as much money as self-produced movies, they are still making money anyway.

Which independent production company is the most profitable in the industry right now?

It’s LV Pictures!

Last year, "Unruly Skies" earned LV Pictures nearly 20 million, "Basic Instinct" earned LV Pictures 55 million US dollars overseas in North America, and this year's "Mexico" earned LV Pictures nearly 80 million.

In just over a year, he made 150 million from making movies with less than 30 million invested. Such brilliant results cannot be matched by New Line, Miramax, or even MGM-United Artists, which is still in the adjustment period.

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Seeing the continuous operations of LV Pictures, Sony Entertainment, the parent company of Columbia Pictures, sent a message asking the Colombian distribution department to pay close attention to the actions of LV Pictures.

If it is a good movie, use the best conditions to win it. Even if it is a bad movie, try to win it.

After all, a B-level movie like "The Killer" can earn more than 100 million at the box office. Who can say for sure about other movies?

And this time, the quality of "Immoral Deal" produced by LV Pictures is many times better than "Exican" and not worse than "Basic Instinct".

So will it replicate the success of "Basic Instinct"?

The producer of Columbia Pictures commented that it is very possible.

Therefore, after consulting the headquarters, the president of Columbia Pictures came up with this extremely sincere clause.

"Okay, let's hand it over to Columbia Pictures for distribution. We have worked together twice, and we have a basis for cooperation."

Duca took a pen and made comments on the document.

"Okay boss, I'll contact the people at Columbia Pictures right away."

Walton Meaney took the folder and left the office.

Duka took the game console and continued to play the game. After playing for a while, he suddenly felt that this was not good.

Since the end of the Olympic Games, I have been playing game consoles more and more often, for longer and longer periods of time, and even my usual training has become less and less.

We can't continue, we can't be complacent and complacent just because we have money, have a girl, or become a sports star.

If you are willing to degenerate like this, you will probably never be able to resist being a billionaire, opening a small film company, and being cut off by several giants.

He slapped his forehead and got up to go for a run and exercise.

Just seeing the sun setting outside the window, he thought for a while and decided to wait until tomorrow. He would finish it today and picked up the fallen game console again.

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At around five o'clock the next morning, before dawn, he used great perseverance to let go of his limp body in his arms, put on his sports equipment, and ran five kilometers on the boulevards of Bellaire District. Thinking of his previous

I was too playful, so I was given an additional ten kilometers penalty.

I ran from after five o'clock to seven o'clock, from when the sky was dim to when the sun was rising, I was sweating profusely.

When she returned to the villa, Monica had just gotten up. She was still wearing a silver suspender nightgown. She was twisting her butt and stretching on the second floor balcony, her sexy curves dazzling.

"My dear, why did you suddenly get up and run again today?"

Monica leaned on the railing and smiled.

"I'm an athlete, so of course I can't give up on exercise. Not only today, but every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday from now on, I will run ten kilometers as before, then do physical training and fighting, and continue to practice shooting on weekends."

Duka took the skipping rope from the servant and said.

"Then I also need to exercise. During this period of time, I was influenced by you and became lazy. My weight increased to 131 pounds. I found that your influence on me was getting bigger and bigger, especially the negative influence."

Monica said dissatisfied.

Duca smiled, 130 pounds is 60KG, Monica is 173 centimeters tall, this weight is just right.

"This is a good thing. It means that we are getting more and more in tune with each other. Let's come down for a run and do yoga together after the run."

"Okay, I'll go change clothes."

Monica smiled slightly and walked back to the bedroom.

After exercising in the morning, Duca and Monica went to the company first.

Considering that he had nothing to do at the company today, he drove to the set of "Pulp Fiction" again to see how Quentin wasted his hard-earned money.

"Pulp Fiction" has an investment of 8 million, and the crew is much larger than that of "Reservoir Dogs". Lawrence Band is still the producer, and there are as many as eight co-producers and production assistants.

The screenwriters are Roger Avery and Quentin, and the cameraman is still Andrei Secula, a Polish cameraman.

I have been collaborating with Quentin since "Reservoir Dogs". His shooting style is sharp and imaginative, and he matches Quentin very well, so this time, Quentin still chose Andre.

The starring cast is mostly familiar, with Tim Roth and Samuel L. Jackson playing important supporting roles, Mr. White Harvey Keitel also playing a small role, as well as Uma Thurman, Bruce Willis, dancers

King John Travolta and more.

The other actors in the cast are either beautiful or handsome, but the actors in Quentin's cast are all weird, and none of them are handsome or beautiful in the mainstream aesthetic.

"Duka, do you have time recently? Do you want to play a small role? It's Vincent's friend Jimmy."

Quentin took off the headset and asked.

"The henpecked character?"

"Yes!"

"Just leave it to yourself. I'm not very interested in acting."

That role was originally played by Quentin.

"Well, what a pity. Originally, I wanted to coach you in acting."

Quentin shrugged.

Duka chuckled, not wanting to give him the chance to act as the boss.

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