Chapter 286 Chapter 285. Willing to worship the wind

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

   mainly lies in the distribution of income and the amount of slices.

  The best schedule Lu Zin envisioned is the New Year's Day around Christmas, half a year from now, enough for his team to complete the film production and provide mastering.

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

But for foreign theater chains, this period of time is also very important, and it may even be the most important schedule. Similar to the domestic Spring Festival, they are all the strongest movies. At this time, if you play a " The films made by "foreigners" are not justified, and the shareholders of the cinema may not be able to agree.

  Lu Zie is not well-known after all.

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

After deducting certain special business tax and special funds at the domestic movie box office, more than 50% of the remaining money will be given to movies and theaters. Thomas Lee wants to increase the proportion of this part. They want to exceed six. Ten, close to 70% of the accounts.

Lu Zan was originally not interested in money, but this mission required 5 billion yuan in revenue. If the domestic box office can get 5 billion yuan, then the remaining half will be filled in from abroad. The overseas market got a box office of around US$900 million, which is already a large number that far exceeded the previous record of domestic movies, and if the account was divided between three and seven, Lu Zan would have to get a box office of US$1.2 billion.

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

Lu Yi is not an arrogant lunatic without reason. On the contrary, he considers himself just an ordinary filmmaker, without any exaggerated skills and genius lens. Besides the subject matter, and the immersive film he makes. Outside of the power of its environment, it is not much beyond others.

  Because of this, in order to be able to safely complete the task, Lu Zie definitely wants to reduce his difficulty.

Fortunately, this is the first contact, and it is not a final word. Thomas Lee will stay in the country and talk to other companies. Lu is not in a hurry to stumble. He believes that if Thomas Lee is not a waste of talk only, He would definitely investigate and study Lu Zin's works, and after seeing these works, he would definitely not let Lu Zin go to other theaters to be shown alone.

at the same time.

  Thomas Lee was also quite distressed.

  As the domestic manager of the AMC cinema chain, he is responsible for the introduction of Chinese-language movies.

  In the past, in the 1980s and 1990s, Hong Kong films were mainly introduced, including some police and gangster films, zombie films, etc. Later, Kung Fu films became the mainstream, including a series of Kung Fu actors going to Hollywood, which caused a wave of enthusiasm.

  But with the decline of Hong Kong movies and the rise of mainland movies, the introduction of movies has become a lot more difficult.

  First of all, there are cultural differences. Many Kung Fu movies in the past have simple plots, and European and American audiences like to hear them. It is enough to watch the fancy fights.

However, many domestic movies later paid more attention to ideas and content. Contents such as national hatred and historical changes became the themes of Kung Fu movies. Chinese people feel refreshed when watching those martial arts masters sling foreigners, and foreigners just watch it. So a little bit subtle.

  Actually, 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 perception of European and American audiences, the East is lagging behind. Therefore, most of the movies that show how modern and powerful the East are, are not recognized by European and American audiences.

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

  The work of introducing movies is getting harder and harder.

  Thomas Lee has talked about several companies these days, but none of them feel satisfied.

  Although there is still time, I can’t talk about it and I can’t finish my performance.

  At night, he returned to his home in Yannan.

  Turn on the TV, he wants to find some movies to watch.

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

  The director Lu Yi knows that the domestic horror film, the box office is very scary in the field of horror films, and the Asian horror films are good for many Europeans and Americans.

  It’s just that Thomas Lee can’t act too seriously, he must be appropriately tough to keep the price down.

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

  Good Christmas, horror movies are not so popular, but not necessarily Halloween.

  However, it depends on the quality of the film.

  Thinking of this, Thomas Lee, who had not seen Lu Zin’s movie before, took out the disc of "Cry" and put it in the projector.

  He wants to see why this movie is so popular.

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

  His expression is stiff and hideous, keeping his eyes wide open.

  The armrest of the sofa has been caught with a mark, which is the result of his instinctive reaction caused by excessive fright.

  Thomas Lee has watched many horror movies, especially those in Asia. He used to like zombie movies very much.

  But now, the feeling this movie brings to him is no less than the fear he had when he was forced to be taken to the hospital for injections as a child.

  Thomas Ligan bows down.

  Wait until the production list is over and the movie is over, Thomas Lee finally came to his senses.

  He found that he had been in a tight state just now, so now that he relaxes, all the muscles in his body are relaxed.

  Includes some things that shouldn’t be relaxed.

  ".F**K!"

  Thomas Lee felt the damp and warm liquid on the sofa and couldn't help but explode.

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

  The whole person sat back again.

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  It took another ten minutes for Thomas Lee to finally get up, change his clothes, and after cleaning the living room, he was lost in thought when he saw the second CD-ROM that Lu Zan gave him.

  "This kind of movie, no wonder it 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 complex, it is already difficult for people to have such a horror movie experience.

  Humans still like to seek excitement after all.

  And this kind of experience is very special, Thomas Lee has only experienced it from Lu Yi’s movies at present.

  This unique experience is likely to become the key to his film’s overseas sales.

  "Just, I don’t know if he is the only one with this level, or"

  There are many directors. The first movie exhausted his talents, and the second one began to eat his own money. In the end, everyone was confused. Lu Yi was going to release the third movie, and it was difficult for Thomas Lee to doubt it.

Of course, now Thomas Lee already has the idea of ​​introducing Lu Yi’s two films to foreign releases. Although the box office may not be too high due to timeliness, it may be able to serve as a pavement for Lu Yi’s third film. The movie creates momentum.

   "Let’s watch this second movie first."

  Thomas Lee had already put the disc in the projector and looked at the sofa again.

  He decided to change to a set of swimming trunks.

  (End of this chapter)