After more than ten days of hard work, Yi Feiyang's Fantasy Film Company finally completed the filming of "Buried Alive", "Terror Cruise", and "Ghost Story" within the limited time.
In the past ten days, the person who has paid the most attention to the progress of these three dramas, besides Yi Feiyang himself, is Mr. Gusta, the president of Lionsgate Pictures.
As a former "good friend", Gusta has always been paying attention to the new trends of Fantasy Pictures.
The three dramas were filmed in more than half a month. This task, which many professionals thought was impossible, was easily solved by Yi Feiyang.
Needless to say, Yi Feiyang taught those guys who like to sneer at him another lesson, telling them what a "miracle" is.
Gusta was also stunned by the work efficiency of the monster Yi Feiyang.
After stroking his beautiful mustache and thinking about it, Gusta made a decision.
"Go, call China Yi and tell him that I have something to talk to him about," Gusta's boss ordered.
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Lionsgate Pictures.
Inside the office of President Gusta.
Yi Feiyang looked at the new decorations around him.
"It's pretty good, especially this oil painting. It must be Napoleon, riding a horse very mightily!" Yi Feiyang commented.
"Yes, it's Napoleon. He is my hero and my idol. After all, I think he is the most legendary emperor in France and even Europe!" Gusta poured a glass of wine and handed it to Yi Feiyang.
said.
"It's a pity that he lost in the end and lost in Waterloo." Yi Feiyang said.
"Yes, he was too careless. Just like me now, I am too careless about you." Gusta did not hide his emotions at all.
"Yi, I underestimated you, really. I didn't expect you to come up with a novel haunted house story. It is undeniable that Americans like this tone, weird and weird, the weirder and scarier the better. Even, from a certain
In a sense, the 3 million I spent on publicity is not as real as your little story."
"In other words, I have realized my mistakes, so I am ready to make up for it..." Gusta paused, "If you are willing, I can cooperate with your newly established Fantasy Pictures to help you distribute
Three movies, "Buried Alive", "Terror Cruise", and "The Ghost Story". Yes, as long as you are willing to nod your head and agree, then we will still be friends!"
"Friends?" Yi Feiyang took a sip from the wine glass, "Then can I ask, if we collaborate again, how will you help me arrange films during the Halloween schedule? Will you postpone "The Witch" or
Push back three of my dramas?"
Gusta smiled awkwardly and said: "Yi, you are making things difficult for me. You also know that even if we really sign a contract, we will only push your film to be scheduled after Halloween. After all, "The Witch" is
Our flagship video.”
This has been made very clear.
Fantasy Pictures, a subsidiary of Yi Feiyang, can only produce movies for the Halloween schedule, and Gusta will not dedicate his film schedule to him.
Facing Gusta's answer, Yi Feiyang smiled.
"I'm sorry, but I can't accept your decision. Yes, there is a gap in my understanding... My film must be released during the Halloween schedule. I like this schedule very much!"
"Hahaha," Gusta laughed, "Dear Yi, it's too difficult for me to say this! But then again..." Gusta touched his beautiful mustache, "It's Halloween now.
It’s already here, besides me, who else can help you distribute those three dramas?”
This is no longer a negotiation, it is a threat!
A naked threat!
Yes, besides us at Lionsgate, who else can help you release three movies on Halloween?!
It must be said that Gusta is very proud of this. As a new generation film company in Hollywood, he is fully aware of the rules of the game in this industry.
Especially a rookie like Yi Feiyang, who doesn't understand how important film distribution is in the entire industry.
Do you really think that by making public opinion hot and hyping your movie so much, you can win in the schedule? Wrong! Man! Big mistake!
In addition to film production, there is also promotion and distribution.
Undoubtedly, as a rookie, Yi Feiyang has already done a very good job, at least he has achieved the ultimate in production and publicity... making the best use of everything, and using the small and the big to the extreme.
But what about distribution?
Man, haven't you figured it out yet?
As long as the movie cannot be released, then everything you do will be in vain!
Faced with Gusta's disguised "blackmail" gesture, Yi Feiyang smiled, and then he said, "Thank you for your concern, dear friend, I have actually found a partner!"
"This is impossible!" Gusta blurted out, "Who would cooperate with a new company like yours?"
Seeing Gusta's surprised look, Yi Feiyang simply said, "Paramount!"
Immediately, Gusta was stunned.
Paramount?
how come?!
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Yes, how could it be?
How could Paramount partner with Fantasy Pictures?!
Not only did Gusta himself not think of it, in fact, after Yi Feiyang received the news, he was also a little dazed.
You know, Paramount is one of the seven major film companies in Hollywood. This company is well-known for its logo of stars surrounding snowy mountains. In fact, it is very appropriate to use mountains to compare Paramount’s position in the film industry. When it was founded
In the first thirty years, this company has been sitting on the throne of Hollywood dominance with its many stars, high-quality films and chain theaters across the United States. It has produced classic films such as "The Godfather" and "Saturday Night Fever"
, "Raiders of the Lost Ark" and "Transformers", etc., were both well-received and box office hits, and are known as "the giant peak that cannot be looked up to".
Of course, every big company will have ups and downs in its development, and Paramount is no different.
If Paramount's film development has reached the peak of its career before, then, precisely because it is too powerful, in recent years, Paramount has been targeted by the antitrust department of the U.S. government, so much so that the Federal Supreme Court
The Paramount case was promulgated, prohibiting major Hollywood companies from vertically operating production, distribution and exhibition businesses. Paramount had no choice but to sell a number of movie theaters, which greatly damaged the vitality of this old company.
To make matters worse, the "media tycoon" Murdoch from Australia stabbed Paramount in the back and poached Paramount's most awesome executive, Barry Diller, to work on his fourth television
Internet; subsequently, Michael Eisner and Jeffrey Katzenberg were also poached by Disney. After a period of time, Paramount officially entered a period of low ebb.
There is a saying in a previous life that says, what is most important in the 21st century? Talent!
Yes, now there is an avalanche in Paramount, a snow-capped mountain that once made people look up to them, an avalanche in terms of talent!
Without talent, Paramount is like a giant ship without a helmsman, lost in the vast ocean.
During this time, few of the movies produced by Paramount were blockbusters, and due to a lack of talent, none of the movies produced by Paramount were particularly outstanding.
Just at this time, its old friend Twenty-first Century Fox came over and said: "Hey, man, do you want us to work together and have a big game?!"
Mr. Lemmon, the boss of Paramount, who was worried about having no goals, no direction, and very confused about investment. After hearing Fox's plan, he was attracted. To be precise, he was attracted by the huge investment plan and the director of this drama.
Come on, this drama requires an investment of 100 million US dollars, and the director is the famous Hollywood director "James Cameron". As for the name of this drama, it is called - "Titanic"!
Mr. Raymond, who has just taken over Paramount, is excited that he finally has a movie project to show off his abilities. If this thing comes to pass, who will say that I am doing nothing and eating nothing in the future?!
What's more, we have a great director like James Cameron to protect us, and his golden signature is very good.
As a result, the newly promoted Paramount executive finalized a cooperation agreement with the Fox boss to jointly invest in the magnificent masterpiece "Titanic".
The investment plan begins...
One year has passed and 10 million has been invested...
Two years have passed and 20 million has been invested...
Three years have passed and 30 million has been invested...
But what about the ship that is said to be the greatest ship ever built?
It’s not even finished yet!
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Shit, this is too difficult!
As the great director of this drama, the first thing Mr. Cameron talked about when meeting him was no longer reporting on the filming progress, but "Do you have any money?"
At this time, Mr. Raymond of Paramount realized that he was not riding thousands of miles and sailing across the ocean, but had accidentally boarded a pirate ship!
Fox had no good intentions from the beginning. This was not a "brother-in-law", it was a "trick you without negotiation". It took five years to create a blockbuster, and the investment amount was increased from 100 million US dollars to 200 million US dollars, breaking the
The largest film investment record in history.
Mr. Raymond from Paramount began to vomit blood.
An investment of 200 million US dollars, what is this concept?!
Even if the film is released now, it is impossible to make money back immediately!
What's more, that money-burning director Cameron hasn't even finished filming yet!
God, I greet your mother!
someone shouts.
His mood at this moment, to use a popular term in his previous life, is... so deceiving!
Due to the excessive investment in "Titanic", the lustful senior executives worked so hard that their pockets were weak and they had no extra funds to invest in other film projects. They could only go hunting outside and buy some small companies to produce.
The films they shoot are distributed and released using their own theaters... Anyway, if your own theaters are idle, they will be idle, and you can make a little bit of money.
Just in time, Halloween is here.
It just so happens that the "ghost story" used by Yi Feiyang to promote "Ghost Story" is beautiful enough.
The newly promoted Mr. Raymond of Paramount is a complete "ghost story fan" and likes to listen to some novel stories.
So, naturally, Paramount, which was worried that there was no movie to release, found Fantasy Pictures. To put it lightly, it is called, a bitch meets a prostitute, and they hit it off. To put it nicely, it is, heroes cherish heroes and help each other.
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On behalf of Fantasy Pictures, Yi Feiyang signed a cooperation agreement with representatives of Paramount Pictures. The content is very simple, mainly to determine how the future box office will be divided.
In fact, in Hollywood, there are three models for box office sharing between film producers and theater distributors.
The first is the traditional fixed account sharing model.
Regarding the traditional model of "one-time" determination of the four-to-six share ratio of a movie's box office, there are two attitudes in the Hollywood industry. One is that only some small and micro-invested films and small film studios without much industry influence will give up adjusting the movie share ratio.
Opportunities, these studios are already very satisfied with the opportunity for their films to enter theaters, and will not take the initiative to ask for floating or changing the share ratio; the other group believes that this method is relatively safe and will still be accepted by most studios.
The second type is the box office tiered accounting model.
This model is actually suitable for some movies with high investment, excellent quality, audience expectations, and high confidence of the film studio.
The "box office tiered accounting model" represented by this year's "Saving Private Ryan" is to divide the accounting ratio into grades according to the expected box office performance of the movie. Usually the studio's share ratio will increase according to the increase in box office. For example, the movie box office
When the amount is within 200 million yuan, the issuer's share remains at 43%, the amount over 200 million yuan is divided into 45%, and the amount over 500 million yuan is divided into 47%.
"Box office performance is currently the only criterion for measuring whether a movie makes money in the United States. Only movies with truly high box office strength can have the strongest box office control. The 'box office tiered accounting model' is currently the most market-oriented floating movie box office accounting in Hollywood.
Pattern." A certain movie mogul said.
The third type is the declining distribution model.
The release time tiered account sharing model can not only extend the release time for the film side, but also give part of the box office share to the exhibitor. Therefore, it has always been considered by the industry as the most likely to achieve a win-win situation for the film side and the exhibitor.
At present, most Hollywood blockbusters in the United States are popular in this way to adjust the split ratio. The box office split between the distribution company and the theater chain is 7:3 in the first week, 6:4 in the second week, and so on. The longer the movie is shown, the more revenue the theater chain earns.
The higher the ratio.
However, when Yi Feiyang signed the account sharing agreement with representatives of Paramount Cinemas, he did not choose the above three models, but adopted a more novel or "weird" account sharing model, that is, the first week 25
% share, 35% share in the second week, 45% share in the third week, 55% share in the fourth week...
Seeing this profit sharing proposal, the Paramount representative laughed. Isn't this asking for death? You know, after a new movie is released, the box office is mostly concentrated in the first two weeks. As the release time is longer, the box office will gradually decrease.
No matter how much you split, it won't help if the box office doesn't help. What's more, the traditional split model is at least 40% or 60%, which is 40%. China Yi actually proposed that the split be 25% and 35% in the first two weeks... Haha, this is not
Do you think you have too much money?!
So, before Yi Feiyang, a Chinese idiot, could understand, Paramount representatives hurriedly signed a share agreement with him.
After signing, the Paramount representative shook hands with Yi Feiyang cordially and said to himself: "You fool!!"
Yi Feiyang also shook hands with him cordially and said to himself: "You idiot!"
