"Clint." Matthew asked directly, sitting in the chair, "What is your estimated budget for this film?"

As a veteran director, Clint Eastwood has a lot of experience and has already made plans and estimates, saying, "It's about $80 million including your and my salaries."

This figure is far lower than Matthew's psychological expectations, and he can't help asking, "Is it enough?"

"Enough." Clint Eastwood has never been a big-budget director. "The main plot of the film is sniping, and there won't be too many war scenes."

He thought about it and said, "The preparation time may be longer, and the filming will not start until the second half of the year at the earliest."

Matthew nodded lightly, "No problem."

If the filming starts in the second half of the year, it is estimated that it will catch up with next year's schedule. Next, it is time for Bella Anderson to contact the publisher. With his reputation and appeal, it is very easy to find a publisher. conditions are the most favorable.

Clint Eastwood warned again, "Matthew, I know you have played a lot of military roles, but snipers are a special kind of service, and I hope you will take time out for professional training from now on. "

"I will." Matthew replied, "My bodyguard Brown Williams is a member of the former Delta Force, and I will often go to Chris Kyle's side."

In fact, since he took a stake in Chris Kyle's military contracting company, he has been playing sniper rifles when he has time, and is also preparing for this film and this role.

"By the way, Matthew." Clint Eastwood didn't intend to be polite to Matthew, "Can you give Scott a role?"

Knowing a little bit about Clint Eastwood's family, Matthew asked, "Scott Eastwood?" Seeing Clint Eastwood nod, he smiled and said, "Ryan- Which of the roles, Job or Weston, is suitable? You are the director, and you decide the audition."

Clint Eastwood nodded and said, "Thank you."

"You're too polite." Matthew didn't take it to heart.

Frankly speaking, the director's salary of Clint Eastwood is not very high, and the director's salary of $6 million is definitely a friendship price.

As for Scott Eastwood, Matthew has some impressions, a very strong and sturdy young man.

From this point of view, the basic conditions of being a soldier's actor are very good.

In this film, in addition to his role as the male lead and the female lead to be determined later, Matthew left the choice of the remaining roles entirely to Clint Eastwood.

After discussing some details, Clint Eastwood quickly left.

Looking at Clint Eastwood's old but still tall figure, Matthew was somewhat emotional.

Now there is a common saying in North America that many people want to look like Matthew Horner when they are 20 to 40 years old, and they want to look like George Clooney when they are 40 to 60 years old. And over 60, like Clint Eastwood.

Old Cowboy is definitely one of the coolest and coolest Hollywood professionals over the age of sixty.

"American Sniper" will not be released until next year at the earliest, but the next month is May, and the summer war of 2011 is about to start.

"The Fast and the Furious 5" starring Matthew will be released this summer. In recent years, almost every Independence Day period in recent years, he starred in the film, and the box office was a big hit. In the summer period, Warner Bros. With Green Lantern occupied, the distributor, Disney Pictures, chose the North American opening date of "Fast and the Furious 5" in late June, before the Independence Day schedule.

Overseas, many markets will be released in the morning and week, especially across the Pacific.

The world premiere of "Fast and Furious 5" was still on the other side of the Pacific Ocean, but the premiere was held in Magic City.

In doing so, Matthew wants to continue to expand the influence of the series; secondly, he received a strong invitation from the Magic City Film Festival, and "Fast and Furious 5" will premiere during the film festival; the Magic City Film Festival is a commercial atmosphere It is a very heavy film festival. Since "Fast and Furious 5" has its world premiere on the other side of the Pacific Ocean at this time, it is undoubtedly a very good choice to place it in the largest city over there.

Finally, "Fast and Furious 5" can be released on the other side of the Pacific in North America one week ahead of schedule, in order to avoid the issue of schedule protection that does not have any provisions but does exist.

The traditional summer vacation in North America starts from the beginning of May and ends at the end of July. Only in the past two years has anyone included August.

However, the summer season on the other side of the Pacific is very different from the time period in North America. Every year at the end of June and the beginning of July, the army of students who are the main force of film consumption here will continue their summer vacations, and the summer season will start with it.

Starting from the end of June, the other side of the Pacific Ocean will restrict Hollywood commercial split films from opening in theaters. Those that have already been released can continue to be shown, and they can also enjoy the schedule effect bonus of the summer season in July.

Therefore, after negotiating with Disney, Matthew specially chose this time period to go to the other side of the Pacific Ocean.

As a result, more than half of the 30-day screening time of "Fast and Furious 5" will be in July, when students are on vacation.

It is not easy to win such a schedule. Matthew put the premiere on the other side of the Pacific just to express his attention and sincerity. Walt Disney also played an important role. "It is very difficult to win the release of this time period, maybe it will be pushed back to September.

At that time, the largest audience of the film has already started school. I am afraid that pirated copies have already been flying all over the Internet. It is difficult to say how much they can gain.

This is definitely not what Matthew wants to see.

The other side of the Pacific Ocean is a huge market, but its quota and account sharing ratio have lowered its status, which has caused Hollywood to not pay much attention to that side in the past.

This situation improved two months ago, when Chinese and American leaders signed a historic film import agreement in February, which covers the number of Hollywood films imported across the Pacific each year, the release schedule of imported films and method, and the final share of the credit that Hollywood studios can get at the box office across the Pacific.

In terms of number, the number of official split films has risen to 34, and the box office share has increased to 25%.

"Fast and Furious 5" was introduced as an account-sharing film, which means that if it can get a box office of 1 billion RMB on the other side of the Pacific Ocean, it can be divided into 250 million.

Judging from the response of "Fast and Furious 4", at least 100 million RMB can be taken away.

Although 25% is much lower than the internationally accepted 40% box office share of imported films, many Hollywood companies are also very dissatisfied with this, and even executives of the six major companies said, "There is no such thing as a A valid reason not to keep up with international standards", but Matthew is already content.

It's better than not playing with you for a while.

What bike do you want?

After all, Hollywood doesn’t know enough about there. For example, the big six companies have been urging the Washington authorities to request that the scissors across the Pacific promise not to use the “gap period” method to restrict the import of movies - where the demand for movies is the highest. Exuberant times limit the release of big Hollywood movies.

They also hope that they can know in advance, or even directly control the release schedule of imported movies in the Pacific Ocean, so as to avoid the big scissors' habit of scheduling Hollywood blockbusters to be released on weekdays with fewer moviegoers, or suddenly showing multiple Hollywood blockbusters at the same time, letting them Compete with each other at the box office.

In this regard, Matthew can only say that he thinks too much.

In a short period of time, it is estimated that the other side of the Pacific will not make too many concessions to Hollywood's big productions.

The current agreement is enough to usher in a golden age for Hollywood movies in China.

The agreement brought not only an increase in Hollywood movie revenue, but also a large influx of money from China to Hollywood, wanting to take a piece of Hollywood.

Matthew's side also has two companies from across the Pacific that want to invest in the "Fast and the Furious" series, and even want to acquire shares in Studio Thirteen.

Now the real shareholders of Studio Thirteen are only him and David Ellison, and Matthew will not add a third major shareholder.

As for film investment from across the Pacific, he welcomes it with both hands.

Joining the ranks of Fast and Furious investors is not a problem at all, as long as they are willing to simply share a share of the film's box office profits.

Many Hollywood blockbusters are also adding elements there to share the huge market of 1.3 billion people.

But few people know better than Matthew that the elements over there are not added to please the audience, and many of them will have the opposite effect. For example, he uses Daniel-Wu and Nini as the main actors of the group instead of soy sauce, not other Hollywood majors. Make dare to do.

Most of them are looking for some Chinese actors or actors on the other side of the Pacific to play soy sauce, but they don't know that this is very likely to disgust the audience there.

Special offerings and special editions like non-big scissors ~lightnovelpub.net~ will not please the audience over there.

Looking at Hollywood, Matthew is the clearest group of people in the market on the other side of the Pacific Ocean. While elements added at will in Hollywood films become the highlights of the film, most of them will become "slots" that netizens complain about. .

Many "Chinese-style elements" that are forcibly implanted are often "Chinese-style elements" that Hollywood thinks. In the eyes of the audience on the other side of the Pacific, they often seem ungrounded. affect the video quality.

Objectively speaking, the audience on the other side of the Pacific Ocean in this era is probably the best movie audience in the world. Don’t treat them differently, don’t stimulate those sensitive points, as long as the plot can achieve the most basic echoes, the scene is big enough, and the action If there are enough plays, the box office will not be a problem.

Matthew's "Fast and Furious 5", there is no difference between the versions released in China and the United States, and the scenes are placed in Brazil, not to mention action scenes and big scenes.

He is confident that he will continue to win over the audience there.

Of course, before going across the Pacific, Matthew accepted an invitation from Warner Bros. to attend the premiere of Green Lantern.