Legendary Hollywood Director

The film was completed and the crew disbanded, but Lyman and Thomas couldn't sit still and had to immediately devote themselves to the post-production of the film.

The competition for this year's Christmas season is definitely fierce. Starting from July, although there is a lot of time left for the later stage of "Monster in the Lake", it cannot be delayed.

In the following days, the music, editing and other work were carried out one by one.

Lyman was in the editing room every day, and besides being exhausting, it was actually a good feeling.

There's a unique high-spirited mood watching the movie being perfected a little bit.

In addition to his important work, Lehmann also often reads newspapers and understands all kinds of information about Hollywood.

From the beginning of July, the box office of "Batman: Mystery of the Shadow" began to decline sharply, from the daily box office of 800 to 900 to less than 5 million, and the decline is still the same.

However, the total box office of the film in North America has exceeded 150 million, and the global total has reached 230 million. Compared with the cost of filming and the cost of publicity of US$130 million, the profit prospects are very clear.

Not to mention that because of the screening momentum of "Batman" and the positive reports from various media, the performance of the DC comics department has grown a lot, and many passers-by have also been attracted by the movie to become DC comic fans. Rejoice in my heart - after all, before the appearance of "Mystery of the Shadow", Bruce Wayne's character value development rarely made such money.

In fact, this is also the future trend of why manga-modified movies will prevail. After eating at the box office, there is more profit margin than ordinary masterpieces. Therefore, even if the investment is high, once it is successful, it will make a lot of money, which is still very cost-effective.

At least, filmmaking is inherently risky, so why not choose something more profitable.

In the market, other media focus is on the role of Lyman's Firefly Pictures in the project, and the news that it may get as much as 130 million box office shares.

It's hard for Hollywood to hide secrets, and I don't know where the media got first-hand information. Anyway, the New York Daily made an account for it.

Among them, Firefly Pictures' commitment to the filming of "The Mystery of the Shadow" of nearly 110 million was clearly reported. According to the agreement signed by the two parties, based on the global box office of at least 370 million, it is deducted. As the largest investor, Firefly Pictures can earn a minimum of 130 million US dollars at the box office, and the higher the upper limit, the higher the income.

However, if the investment of Firefly Pictures is calculated again, then the box office will only make a return, and the amount that can be earned will not exceed 20 million.

Compared with Warner Pictures’ investment of less than 40 million (announcement and distribution expenses), but reaping 74 million plus all the peripheral benefits of copyright, it seems that Firefly Pictures is working for free?

It would be wrong to think so.

In fact, this newspaper is also satirizing Warner, believing that they dare not take a little risk, but instead hand over their own gold-absorbing series to others to share, causing unnecessary losses in vain - this is like Lucasfilm taking their own money The ace project "Star Wars" is all invested by others.

You must know that with Warner's strength, it is completely self-sufficient. Whether it is production or publicity, there is no need to rely on outsiders. Why don't you dare to invest in the "Batman" project?

From the point of view of profit, Firefly Pictures paid a lot, but couldn't get the bulk of it, but this is a project that Warner can develop itself. Firefly's behavior is cutting Warner's own cake. No matter how much is cut, it should be regarded as a Warner's loss.

The paper's argument is based on this.

After all, a project earns 20 million, not including the follow-up content revenue from DVD recording and distribution. With Warner's size, among the projects that can be developed in one year, there are not 7 projects that make such money.

Speaking of which, Warner is also a little depressed.

People don't always like to find faults in themselves.

The originally acceptable results seem to have become less acceptable. If the "Batman" series can become a gold mine like "Harry Potter", won't Warner's performance be even better?

They even held a small meeting, figuring out some ways they thought they could get rid of Firefly Pictures legally.

Sadly, it doesn't work at all.

Because Lehman kept a guard in the investment agreement.

He actually learned from the legendary film industry of the previous life.

Although Thomas Tull can't make movies, the first investment philosophy he learned from Wall Street is to never trust business partners to abide by any ethics in the face of huge distribution of benefits.

Therefore, when he cooperated with Warner, he was playing a platter investment, which was to bind the 5 years and 30 of the future Warner production projects as a whole.

In this way, investment risks can be spread over multiple films, even if many of them are loss-making, as long as the overall gain is positive, for Legendary Pictures, this means stable investment.

Of course, Warner Bros. is actually very bad. For example, some sequel projects that have already sold well have never let Legendary Pictures intervene, such as the "Harry Potter" series. In the investment industry, the name of Legendary Pictures is not visible at all.

But Legendary Pictures also has its own Xiao Jiujiu, which is the project they invested in. No matter whether it is a loss or a profit, its sequel production Warner will definitely not be able to avoid it, unless everyone stops playing.

This is also the reason why after the success of "Mystery of the Shadow", the latter two Warners did not kick Legendary Pictures and went it alone - not because they didn't want to kick them, but because they couldn't kick them out through legal means, unless the "Batman" project continued to be put on hold, who is everyone? Not developed either.

Going back to the present, Firefly Pictures also played the same way.

Of course, they are not as big as Legendary Pictures, and Lehmann just packs the "Batman" trilogy as a whole to calculate the premise that Warner can promise not to occupy the copyright, and it is Warner who guarantees the investment of Firefly Pictures. rationality.

Otherwise, after finally making money, he was kicked away with one kick, and Lehman was stupid to pay for the Warner incubation project.

Therefore, Warner had to obediently continue to develop the sequel to "Batman" with Firefly Pictures.

This is also the reason why they are ridiculed - although we don't know who disclosed the specific contract details, everyone is willing to watch Warner's jokes.

On July 14, after two weeks of rough cuts, the general content of the main feature of "Monster in the Lake" has been released.

The length of the whole film is about a minute, plus the opening and ending, it is controlled within 120 minutes.

After all, it is a special effects movie, so we must pay attention to the length of the movie. Once the rhythm is too slow, the movie will appear "long-winded", and the visual refreshment that can be given to the audience will also be affected.

In other words, special effects films should not learn from other people's plot films to play and think, and they are not the same way at all.

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