I Created the Myth of the Old Ruler

The meeting between Lu Yi and Thomas Lee was not ideal.

Mainly due to the distribution of income and the amount of films scheduled.

The best time Lu Yi envisioned was New Year's Day around Christmas, which is half a year away from now, enough for his own team to complete the film production and provide the master tape.

Moreover, Christmas is equivalent to the New Year for foreigners. During that time, there are many holidays and a large number of moviegoers. In China, there will be a large number of viewers during the New Year's Day holiday.

But for foreign theaters, this period of time is also very important, and may even be the most important schedule, similar to the domestic Spring Festival schedule, which is the strongest movie. At this time, if a " Movies made by "foreigners" are not justified, and shareholders of movie theaters may not agree.

After all, Lu Jian's reputation is not enough.

As for the distribution of income, it is very intuitive.

After deducting a certain amount of special business tax and special funds from the box office of domestic movies, more than 50% of the remaining money should be given to movies and theaters, and Thomas Lee just wanted to increase the proportion of this part. They wanted to exceed 60%. Ten, close to 70% of the accounts.

Lu Yi had no interest in money at first, but this time the task required five billion in income. If the domestic box office can get five billion, then the remaining half must be filled by foreign countries. The box office of overseas markets is about 900 million US dollars, which is already a large figure far exceeding the previous record of domestic movies, and if the account is divided between 30 and 70, Lu Yi will have to get a box office of 1.2 billion US dollars.

The extra 300 million in the middle is higher than the overseas box office record of a domestic film.

Lu Juan is not some irrational and arrogant lunatic, on the contrary, he thinks that he is just an ordinary filmmaker, without any exaggerated skills and genius-like lens sense, the films he makes are not only the subject matter, but also the immersive In addition to the power of its environment, it is not much better than others.

Because of this, in order to be able to complete the task safely, Lu Jian must want to reduce his difficulty.

Fortunately, this is the first contact, and it is not a final decision. Thomas Lee will stay in the country to talk with several other companies. There is no rush for Lu to stumble. He believes that if Thomas Lee is not a waste who can only talk about it, He will definitely investigate and study Lu Jian's works, and after seeing these works, he will definitely not let Lu Jian go to other theaters to show them alone.

at the same time.

Thomas Lee was also quite distressed.

As the domestic manager of AMC Cinemas, he is responsible for the introduction of Chinese films.

In the past, in the 1980s and 1990s, Hong Kong movies were mainly introduced, including some gangster movies, zombie movies, etc. Later, kung fu movies became the mainstream, including a series of kung fu actors going to Hollywood, which set off a boom.

However, with the decline of Hong Kong films and the rise of mainland films, the work of importing has become much more difficult.

First of all, there are cultural differences. Many kung fu movies in the past have simple plots, and European and American audiences also like them. Watching fancy fights is enough.

However, in many domestic films later, the emphasis on ideas and content has increased. National hatred, family hatred, historical changes and other content have become the themes of Kung Fu movies. So a little subtle.

In fact, according to Thomas Lee's understanding, what European and American audiences want to see is the classical, simple, and backward world of the mysterious East, just like civilized people observing primitive tribes.

In the cognition of those European and American audiences, the East is backward. Therefore, most of the movies that show how modern and powerful the East is are not recognized by European and American audiences.

Not to mention that over the years, there have been a lot of traffic movies in the movie market. Even Chinese people don't like to watch this kind of movie, and foreigners can't even understand it.

The job of importing films is getting harder and harder.

Thomas Lee has talked to several companies these days, but he feels unsatisfied.

Although there is still time, the negotiations have not come to an end, and the results cannot be completed.

In the evening, he returned to his home in Yannan.

Turning on the TV, he wanted to find some movies to watch.

At this time, Thomas Lee thought of the disc that Lu Yi gave him before.

As the director Lu Jian, he knows that the number one domestic horror film box office is very scary in the field of horror films, and Asian horror films, many Europeans and Americans also like this.

It's just that Thomas Lee can't show too much importance to Lu Lian, he must be quite tough to lower the price.

According to the bottom line of Thomas Lee's previous work, he should keep the cinema division at 60% and the film production at about 5%.

It's a beautiful Christmas, and horror movies are not so popular. It may not be so if it's Halloween.

But the specifics still depend on the quality of the film.

Thinking of this, Thomas Lee, who had never watched Lu Yi's movie before, pulled out the disc of "Crying" and put it into the projector.

He wanted to see why the movie was so popular.

Two hours later, Thomas Lee sat stiffly on the sofa, unable to move.

His expression was stiff and ferocious, keeping his eyes wide open.

The armrest of the sofa had already been scratched, which was the result of his instinctive reaction caused by excessive fright.

Thomas Lee has seen a lot of horror movies, especially Asian ones, and he used to like zombie movies.

But now, the feeling this movie brought to him is no less than the fear he felt when he was forced to go to the hospital for an injection when he was a child.

Thomas Lee Gan bowed out.

When the production list ended and the movie ended, Thomas Lee finally regained his senses.

He found that he had been in a tense state just now, so after relaxing now, all the muscles in his body relaxed.

Including some that should not be relaxed.

"...f**k!"

Thomas Lee felt the wet and warm liquid on the sofa, and couldn't help but swear.

He tried to stand up, but his weak legs did not allow him to move, and he failed.

The whole person sat back again.

"..."

It took another ten minutes for Thomas Lee to finally get up, changed his clothes, and finished cleaning the living room. He looked at the second box of CDs that Lu Jian gave him, and fell into deep thought.

"It's no wonder that such a movie can get such a high box office in China."

Thomas Lee said with emotion.

Now that the audio-visual experience is becoming more and more complicated, it is already difficult for people to have such a horror movie experience.

Humans are thrill seekers after all.

And this experience...is very special, Thomas Lee has only experienced it from Lu Jian's movies so far.

This unique experience is likely to become the key to the overseas sales of his films.

"It's just that I don't know if he is the only one with such a level, or..."

There are many directors who have exhausted their talents in the first film, started to eat their money in the second film, and finally disappeared from everyone. It is difficult for Thomas Lee not to doubt that Lu Jian is going to release the third work.

Of course, now Thomas Lee already has the idea of ​​introducing the two films of Lu Lian to be released abroad. Although due to timeliness, the box office may not be too high, but it may be used as a foreshadowing for Lu Lian's third movie. Movie momentum.

"Let's watch this second movie first."

Thomas Lee had already put the CD into the projector and looked at the sofa again.

He decided to change into a pair of swimming trunks.