Chapter 677: Apple Pie
Teacher Xu crossed the ocean, in fact, he brought a lot of people.
There is a team in finance and law, and a team in security, from their own security company, in the name of study and investigation.
These people were scattered in various dwellings, and they were also provided by the friend who "had a good year and a great snow, and pearls were like earth and gold like iron." Xiao Mo is just close to the water, and he has become Teacher Xu's forbidden early, so he can serve with him.
At the end of December, "American Pie" was launched.
This film is a typical American youth culture, with a campus group portrait and many characters. Several high school life and death parties, all virgins, saw that the graduation prom was approaching, and vowed to become adults before saying goodbye to their high school careers.
The protagonist is ordinary, eager and ignorant of sex, and finally after trying it once, he found that it was just like that, and he suddenly became enlightened.
A sportsman, a theorist love saint, joins the choir in pursuit of a girl and successfully finds a girlfriend.
One has a girlfriend, and his girlfriend always wants to have a perfect bang, but nothing is perfect in the world. The two ate the forbidden fruit on the day of the dance and went their separate ways.
One is a weird coffee, super clean, never pooping in the school toilet, and has to go home to poop. I like a mature woman, and I fell on the mother of a classmate.
Although it is a sex comedy, pay attention to the prefix "youth", everything with these two words is about growth. A group of teenagers have completed the coming-of-age ceremony and are about to run to their respective universities to start a new life.
Teacher Xu went to take a look from time to time, and he was low-key when he went, and he thought it was a staff member without knowing it.
At the moment, the interior is built in the villa.
The crew was filming a party scene, and the Weeds brothers were not very skilled and a little nervous. Fortunately, Jerry is experienced enough to keep things running.
Xu Fei stood on the periphery, his eyes following the two actresses he chose.
Brettney Murphy, born in '77, is not too famous and not very popular. played Eminem's girlfriend in "8 Mile" and a waitress in "Sin City".
In 2009, he died suddenly at home due to improper medication.
Jessica Alba doesn't need to be introduced, the hardest-hit area of beauty and entertainment. In other words, the heroine of the entertainment text, the harem, there are so many people back and forth.
China Entertainment's big power, Yaya, Liu Tianxian, Reba.
Hong Kong Entertainment's Lao Wang, Zhou Huimin, Lin Qingxia, Zhao Yazhi.
Korean entertainment's girl groups, Son Ye-jin, and Han Jiaren.
There are relatively few Japanese entertainment texts, Sakai spring water, AKB48 Yunyun.
"Alas......"
Teacher Xu shook his head, it's still good at home.
"Click!"
Filmed for a while, took a lunch break, and served dinner.
The service of the big Hollywood crew is quite considerate, the actors are equipped with RVs, their own chefs, barbecue ice cream and so on. The small crew doesn't have this benefit, but it's not bad.
At least there's a seat.
Jerry came over with the food and said, "Boss, we are making good progress and will not delay the construction period." โ
"Well, I see. What about those two actresses?"
"Oh, that's amazing!"
If it is written in the old way, it should be "Jerry shows a smile that all men understand", and says: "It's sweet and hot, it makes people feel happy, and I feel like the set is full of pink bubbles."
Especially that Jessica, her work efficiency will improve after staying with her for a long time. โ
The white fat man is very satisfied, and he accepts this boss a little bit, and he is a professional. However, he paused, and suddenly said, "There is something I want to talk to you about." โ
"What?"
"About the ...... of the film distribution"
He was a little depressed and said: "Cactus has made two movies, one could not find a distributor, and the other was too low, which led to the bankruptcy of the company."
You may not know how important it is for Hollywood to have distribution channels. โ
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As early as the 20s, Hollywood implemented split distribution and gave birth to five giants: Paramount, Warner Bros., MGM, 20th Century Fox, and Thunderbolt.
Oligopoly, production, distribution, and screening, wantonly crowding out independent productions and independent theaters. He was later prosecuted by the U.S. Department of Justice, also known as the Paramount Act.
Since then, the cinema chain has been spun off from the production company, but the big studio still controls the distribution network. Then television rose, and Hollywood changed its model to adopt a two-tiered "fast and slow" distribution.
Fast, refers to a large piece.
Large-scale screening, advertising overwhelming. The premiere can reach the scale of thousands of screens, and then it will be released simultaneously around the world, grabbing profits as quickly as possible.
Slow, refers to low to medium cost.
Start in New York or Los Angeles, and if the reviews are good, expand the number of screens. The cost of publicity and distribution will be very economical.
The entire distribution network is divided into several levels:
For the first cinema chain, the distributor should negotiate with the cinema chain which theaters to launch, when to launch, and in what mode.
Second audio-visual production.
Third pay TV channel.
Fourth ordinary channel.
The fifth is the screening of airplanes, hotels, hospitals, schools, etc.
The sixth is peripheral derivatives.
A film can peel off six layers of skin.
Qidaquan has its own publishing company, accounting for more than 75% of the market share. It's not that others can't issue it, but it means that large factories have strong resources and can spread to six levels.
Other small and medium-sized publishers may only reach the first and second tiers.
And what about independent films?
You can only hand over the distribution rights to others, or negotiate in advance, or participate in some film festivals, in the hope of being favored.
This is different from China, where domestic producers can still make money, but Hollywood is the distributor who occupies the core, and there are countless dirty things to do.
Big studios will set up a shell company for each film, which will be used to design and lose money.
For example, "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix" had a box office of $612 million in North America, but it lost $167 million on the books. Take a look at Warner Bros. calculations:
Deduct the issuance fee of 212 million first - you are the publisher yourself.
Another 130 million advertising fees will be deducted - at least half of it will be for yourself.
There is another 57 million in interest - also left hand borrowing right hand.
deduct another 316 million production fees and so on...... Everything is very reasonable, it is a loss, and the producers who signed the sharing contract will not get a penny.
"My previous boss was inexperienced and went bankrupt. American Pie is a good movie, and we'd love to see the day it comes out. โ
Jerry was genuinely emotional, and said, "So I suggest that it is better to go to a few film festivals...... Well, as you know, we're all at the bottom and we don't have any publisher friends. โ
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"Thank you for the reminder, I'll keep an eye on it. โ
"No, no, not to pay attention, but to take it as the most important thing. โ
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"Okay, I understand, you go get busy. โ
Seeing that he was perfunctory, Jerry sighed and got up. Xu Fei turned his head and scolded: "What are you eating?"
"Whoa!"
Xiao Mo pushed through the box, and there was an apple pie lying inside.
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Teacher Xu looked strange and asked, "How does it taste?"
"It's fluffy, it's warm, it's slimy, and it will come out if you're not careful. โ
Xiao Mo was very satisfied and asked: "This thing is quite delicious, hey, why haven't others seen it, don't you like it?"
"This should be called a prop. โ
"What are the props for?"
The innocent young man was very curious, and Xu Fei asked Jerry to order another apple pie in order to satisfy him.
In the afternoon, the filming started, and I saw the actor staring at this apple pie sneakily, poking and poking with his finger first, and poking a hole in the middle.
Then he took off his pants......
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