Legendary Hollywood Producer

There were a lot of people sitting in the conference room, and Mr. George, the executive director of Paramount Pictures' Distribution Department, looked a little erratic. He looked at the familiar people around him for a while, then looked at the potted plants in the corner, and the green radish that had been watered looked very charming.

Last year's Paramount Pictures didn't do well in publishing, especially his director, who was under great pressure. They are definitely making money. After all, they have overseas distribution channels, but it depends on who they are compared with. Compared with those second-rate production companies, Paramount naturally cannot catch up with them when they shoot horses, but they compare themselves with people in the same class. , Paramount's distribution department's performance is not so good.

And this year, the production department of Paramount Pictures has no plans to prepare, so George is even more uncomfortable as the executive of the distribution department. And this time he came here with great expectations, but with so many competitors and so strong, it is estimated that it will not be easy to get the rights to distribute the film. This year, life is not easy, George is feeling in his heart, Roman has entered.

"Welcome everyone here, I am the president of Manhai Entertainment, Roman Dolph." Roman looked around the meeting room, and then said, "Presumably everyone knows the purpose of this meeting, and I don't talk too much nonsense. Now, let's look at the information first." The company staff on the side took the information that had been prepared a long time ago and sent it down.

George took the information and looked at it, and found that it was the qualifications of the main creator of "Infected", the project investment funds and the general background introduction of the script.

Seeing that everyone had obtained the information, Roman introduced: "This movie is a postscript of "Zombies in a Small Town". It is about a zombie virus outbreak that occurred on a moving train on the Central Railway Station in New York.. ...."

George looked at the background design in the material, combined with Roman's speech, and he had sketched a picture in his mind.

In a quiet morning, a train is moving. A single father is taking his daughter in the seat and talking. Later, the father fell asleep because of being too tired, and the daughter did not disturb his father’s rest by himself. Go to the bathroom. At this moment, a woman who hurriedly got into the car fainted. When the flight attendant went to check the situation, the woman instantly crawled to her back and bit her throat. The flight attendant who was bitten in an instant spread the virus to his body and became a brutal infected person. And the passengers in the carriage who witnessed all this were in a mess, rushing to flee for their lives...

"Finally, the police suppressed all traffic routes leading to New York. Everyone on the train except the little girl was infected and eventually killed by the police." After Roman finished the story, he felt that the last train in Busan The ending is not shocking enough. After the male protagonist becomes a zombie, there should be no humanity, so after the male protagonist becomes a zombie, he bit the pregnant woman and was dragged off the train by the pregnant woman. Only the little girl survived. .

"The release of "The Infected" can be communicated with me within this week. Manhai Entertainment plans to confirm the collaborators within this week. Thank you for your support. Of course, Roman will not let them directly quote the price. Everyone will not do that. Manhai Entertainment is just a small company. Inviting them to come here is just to release a message-"The Infected" seeks distribution partners. As for the actual negotiation of conditions, it still has to be done in private.

George greeted Roman with the information and left here. He needs to go back and think about how to get the release of this movie. After listening to what Roman said, combined with the information, George can be sure that this movie has the potential to explode. He has been in the business for so many years, and he has already had his own. A set of criteria for judgment.

A sequel to a movie with a good box office record, with good seniority of the creators, plus a good script story.

Combining so many factors, the investment is only 20 million, and the chance of earning is too great.

The next day, the people from Warner Bros. first met with Roman and gave their terms.

30% of the box office in North America, 40% of the overseas box office revenue, and Warner’s promotional expenses. Other derivatives can be discussed in detail, but not less than 30%. In addition, Warner also requires a sequel to the film. Works copyright.

Hearing these conditions, Romain certainly disagrees and wants to continue the negotiation, but Warner killed himself and wanted a part of the copyright for the sequel, which made Romain helpless. Although the conditions are much better than the last film Romain sought to distribute, but only owned The copyright of the film sequel is enough to pass Warner Bros. Pictures, after contacting Warner.

Various other interested companies have also put forward their own quotations, but most of them are similar to the conditions given by Warner, but they do not need to release the sequel. After all, not everyone is as strong as Warner Bros. Pictures. Based on everyone's quotations, although the conditions given by Sony/Colombia are not the best, they have an advantage over those who have given good conditions. After all, Sony has strong publicity resources and complete global distribution channels.

Sony’s conditions are 30% of the box office profit in North America (except for the theater share, not the total box office.), 40% overseas, plus a promotion fee of no less than 10 million, and the promotion fee is included in the box office. The share and derivative copyright are only 30%.

If there is no better condition than Sony, Roman will cooperate with Sony again this time.

George has not contacted Roman these days, but has been collecting competitor’s quotes for "Infected". Although everyone will definitely not tell him the bottom line, he knows a little bit about the misunderstanding. After making sufficient preparations, George made an appointment with Roman to discuss the release.

"Mr. Roman, you are really young and promising." When they met, George first complimented.

"Thank you." Roman was praised by George as soon as they met, and he was also stunned. "Thank you for the praise, Mr. George."

"I think the film is very good. I want to cooperate and release "Infected"." George turned directly to the topic, "Our company is very sincere."

"So what about your company's conditions?" Roman did not accept his sincerity theory, and directly stated that his views should be subject to conditions.

"May I know what offer other companies gave to Mr. Roman?" George asked in turn.

"I'm sorry, Mr. George, I can't disclose business secrets casually." Roman must not be able to say it, you will know the enemy if you say it, and when the conditions you give are not suitable, I will choose Sony. Where are there so many trials. .

Hearing Roman's refusal, George didn't feel embarrassed, but seriously stated the terms Paramount Pictures could give.