The meeting between Lu Jian and Thomas Lee was not ideal.
Mainly due to the distribution of income and the amount of films arranged.
The best schedule Lu Tian expected was the New Year's Day schedule around Christmas. It would be half a year from now, enough time for his team to complete the film production and provide the master tape.
Moreover, Christmas is equivalent to the New Year for foreigners. There are many holidays during that time, and there are also a lot of moviegoers. In China, there will be a large number of viewers during the New Year's Day holiday.
But for foreign cinemas, this period of time is also very important. It may even be the most important schedule. It is similar to the domestic Spring Festival schedule, where the strongest movies are available. At this time, if you play a "
Movies made by "foreigners" are not quite justified, and movie theater shareholders may not agree.
After all, Lu Tan's fame is not enough.
As for the distribution of income, it is very intuitive.
After deducting certain special business taxes and special funds from the domestic movie box office, more than 50% of the remaining money must be given to movies and theater chains, and Thomas Lee just wants to increase the proportion of this part. They want to exceed 6
Ten, nearly 70% of the account.
Lu Tan originally had no interest in money, but this mission requires a revenue of 5 billion. If the domestic box office can get 5 billion, then the remaining half will have to be filled from abroad. According to the 40-60 split, he needs to
The box office in the overseas market was about 900 million U.S. dollars, which is already a large figure that far exceeds the previous record of domestic movies. If the score is divided between 30 and 70, Lu Jian will have to get a box office of 1.2 billion U.S. dollars.
The extra 300 million is more than the box office record of a domestic movie overseas.
Lu Jian is not an irrational and arrogant lunatic. On the contrary, he thinks that he is just an ordinary filmmaker without any exaggerated skills or genius-like camera sense. The movies he makes are not limited to the subject matter and the immersive feeling.
In addition to the power of his realm, he is not much superior to others.
Because of this, Lu Jian definitely wanted to lower his difficulty in order to complete the task safely.
Fortunately, this is the first contact, and it is not a final decision. Thomas Lee will stay in the country to negotiate with other companies. Lu Tiaodu is not in a hurry. He believes that if Thomas Lee is not a loser who can only talk nonsense,
He will definitely investigate and study Lu Jian's works, and after watching these works, he will definitely not let Lu Jian be released alone in other theaters.
at the same time.
Thomas Lee was also troubled.
As the domestic manager of AMC Cinemas, he is responsible for the introduction of Chinese-language films.
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 mainstream, including a series of kung fu actors going to Hollywood, setting off a wave of craze.
But with the decline of Hong Kong films and the rise of mainland films, the introduction of films has become much more difficult.
First of all, there are cultural differences. Many kung fu movies in the past had simple plots, and European and American audiences also liked them. Watching the flashy fights was enough.
But many domestic films later paid more attention to ideas and content. Contents such as hatred between the country and the family, historical changes, etc. became the themes of kung fu movies. Chinese people felt happy watching those martial arts masters beating foreigners, and foreigners felt happy watching them.
So a little subtle.
In fact, according to Thomas Lee's understanding, what European and American audiences actually want to see is the classical, simple, and backward world of the mysterious East, just like civilized people observing primitive tribesmen.
In the perception of European and American audiences, the East is backward. Therefore, most of those movies that show how modern and powerful the East is are not recognized by European and American audiences.
Not to mention that in recent years, there have been many popular movies in the movie market. Even Chinese people don’t like to watch such movies, and foreigners can’t even understand them.
The job of importing movies is getting harder and harder.
Thomas Lee has talked with several companies in the past few days, but he feels unsatisfied with them all.
Although there is still time, the talks have been unable to be concluded, and the achievements have not been completed.
In the evening, he returned to his home in Yannan.
Turning on the TV, he wanted to find some movies to watch.
At this time, Thomas Li thought of the disc Lu Tan had given him before.
He knows that Lu Jian, the director, is one of the top domestic horror films and the box office is very scary in the field of horror films. However, many Europeans and Americans are not good at Asian horror films.
However, Thomas Li cannot show too much importance to Lu Jian, he must be appropriately tough to lower the price.
According to the bottom line of Thomas Lee's previous work, he should keep the theater share at 60% and the film schedule at about 5%.
On a wonderful Christmas, horror movies are not that popular, but not necessarily for Halloween.
But the specifics still depend on the quality of the film.
Thinking of this, Thomas Lee, who had never seen Lu Jian's movie before, pulled out the disc of "The Cry" and put it into the projector.
He wanted to see why this movie was so popular.
Two hours later, Thomas Lee sat stiffly on the sofa, unable to move.
His expression was stiff and ferocious, with his eyes widened.
There was a mark on the armrest of the sofa, which was the result of his instinctive reaction due to excessive fright.
Thomas Lee has watched many horror movies, especially those from Asia, and he used to like zombie movies.
But now, the feeling this movie brings to him is no less than the fear he felt when he was forced to go to the hospital for injections as a child.
Thomas Legan was defeated.
When the production list ended and the movie ended, Thomas Lee finally recovered.
He found that since he had been in a tense state just now, after relaxing now, all the muscles in his body were relaxed.
Including some things that should not be relaxed in the first place.
“…F**K!”
Thomas Lee felt the moist and warm liquid on the sofa and couldn't help but swear.
He tried to stand up, but his weak legs no longer allowed him to move, and he failed.
The whole person sat back down again.
"..."
It took another ten minutes for Thomas Lee to finally get up, change his clothes, and finish cleaning the living room. He looked at the second box of CDs given to him by Lu Tiao and fell into deep thought.
"It's no wonder that a movie like this can get such a high box office in China."
Thomas Lee lamented.
Nowadays, as the audio-visual experience becomes more and more complex, it is already difficult for people to have such a horror movie experience.
After all, humans still like to seek excitement.
And this experience... is very special. Thomas Lee has only experienced it from Lu Jian's movies so far.
This unique experience is likely to be the key to the success of his films overseas.
"It's just that I don't know if this is the only one where he has such a level, or..."
There are many directors who exhausted their talents with the first film, then started to rest on their laurels with the second film, and finally disappeared from everyone. Lu Jian is about to release his third film, and it is difficult for Thomas Lee not to doubt it.
Of course, Thomas Lee now has the idea of introducing Lu Tian's two movies to be released abroad. Although the box office may not be too high due to timeliness, it may be able to pave the way for Lu Tian's third film.
Movies build momentum.
"Let's watch this second movie first."
Thomas Lee had already put the disc into the projector and looked at the sofa again.
He decided to change into a set of swimming trunks and take a look.