Legendary Hollywood Producer

Now that Roman has agreed with David Frankle as the director of the film, Peter Heggis can only leave the show regrettably. However, like Peter Heggis who likes to shoot according to the script, it is more conventional. The director of this type of director, and his own experience in this area is also very rich. After all, is he a screenwriter? Roman still left a private phone number for him. When he thinks about any suitable projects that require a director of this type, he can go to he. Peter Heggis did not reject the offer, and left his phone to Roman.

After the director is selected, the next step is to discuss the value of David Frankel for the film. But, after all, David Frankl is a TV drama director, so the price will not be too high. This matter, Roman directly threw it to Joel, asking him to negotiate the price with David Frankel's agent, and he has something else to do.

Shulman came back a day earlier than Roman, and the pre-publicity work for those Chinese films that received North American copyrights started long ago. Just yesterday, the movie "My 1919", a history starring Uncle Daoming, was released first. Film, Roman hasn’t gone to Western Europe Film Industry to learn about the situation.

In the afternoon, Roman drove to Western European Films in Hollywood.

"How's it going?" Roman asked Shulman as soon as they met. He still values ​​the release of these movies. If it is profitable, even if the profit is small, it is still very good, which means that this situation will continue to be mass-produced in the future. A region with a prosperous film market produces a lot of films every year. Even if most of them are not suitable for North American distribution, that small part is enough for Western European film industry to operate.

Shulman smiled and said to Roman, "Only three days ago, we started to promote. Outdoor hard advertising was all concentrated in the communities where Asians lived, and we also bought TV commercials in many Chinatowns. , These costs all add up to no more than 100,000 US dollars, and this is our publicity support for this film, and we will not invest any more money to promote it in the future." Shulman finished the publicity, and went on to say , "We have communicated with the four major theater companies, and they are also willing to show us those movie theaters that live close to Asians, and the scale of the show has reached 100."

Roman was quite satisfied when he heard that there were 100 theaters. After all, this is a Chinese film, which is of course incomparable with those Hollywood movies. The scale of 100 is not bad.

Shulman continues to report on the situation, "When it comes to filming, it is mostly in the morning and noon, and only one is at the prime time around 7pm." Shulman shrugged and said, "Our people have done their best to arrange the film. Although it is a bit unfriendly, it is the result of our very hard discussions."

Roman didn't mean to blame Schulman. The theaters also wanted to make money. They were not optimistic about the film "My Nineteen Nineteen", so what can be done if it is given a bad time to show it.

"Has the premiere box office come out?" Roman asked about the topic he cared most about today.

Shulman listened to Roman's words and said with a smile, "It's coming out. The premiere box office is $200,000."

No wonder Schulman is in a good mood today. Roman thought in his heart that if the box office at the premiere is 200,000, even if the box office does not rise but falls, as long as it is not a cliff-like fall, it will be enough to ensure that the North American box office can pay back. , After all, the film’s buyout and announcement cost almost 300,000 US dollars, not to mention that after entering the DVD and video tape market, it can bring profits to the Western European film industry every day, although this profit will be very small. , But is it a tower? As long as there are enough Chinese-language movies released, it can be regarded as a lot of income.

"Very good results, Schulman, I will negotiate with the theater companies next, first, try to increase the scale of "My Nineteen Nineteen", and second, discuss with them, can you Adjust the show time of this movie."

"Okay, I will discuss it with them."

"Also, when discussing with them, we can reveal that we still have a lot of similar film resources in our hands. It would be better to use this as a condition to fight for."

Shulman nodded, and the stable large number of new movie resources is considered a relatively good partner for those theater companies. Then, Shulman thought of one more thing. It was his thoughts on the release time of these Chinese-language films. There are off-season and peak seasons for movie screenings all over the world. But in North America, such as summer vacation, Christmas, Halloween, etc., these days are peak seasons and prime time for movie screenings, while those like early September, April, May, etc., these time periods are not so much in comparison. It’s hot, which is commonly known as the off-season. In this off-season, the theater life is actually not easy, and if Western European Films releases these Chinese-language movies in the future, if they focus on these off-seasons, they will not only avoid major commercial productions, and the competition will not be so severe, but also It is easier to cooperate with these theater companies. Is it the off-season after all? There are not many movies released, and there are few opportunities to choose from. The feasibility of this idea is very high, and Shulman is also here to discuss with Roman.

There is nothing wrong with this idea. After hearing this, Roman nodded in agreement.

The movie "My 1919" is still in theaters, with US$220,000 on the second day and US$180,000 on the third day...

A week after the release, the North American box office also successfully exceeded 1 million U.S. dollars to reach 1.08 million U.S. dollars. So far, the box office performance alone has guaranteed that Western European Films can recover its investment and generate profits.

"Schulman, you need to go to Yiwu, mainland China to discuss the production of DVDs and video tapes, and the movie will be off the stage soon." The movie "My 1919" has been in theaters for 8 days, and now the box office has been reduced to Only 50,000 US dollars have been gained. After all, this movie is a Chinese film. Although it has English subtitles, most of the movie box office is provided by Asians.

Western European Films hired a research company in the industry. After they sent staff to the theater to investigate, the analysis found that more than 80% of the film’s box office was provided by Asians, of which Chinese accounted for 60%, and the rest Twenty percent of the TV show is provided by people who appreciate the customs of the mainland, and when they come out for interviews, most of them say they don’t understand, or they just fell asleep watching the movie.