"Clint. Matthew sat in his chair and asked directly, "How much budget do you estimate you need for this film?"

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

This figure was far below Matthew's mental expectations, and he couldn't help but ask, "Is it enough?"

"Enough. "Clint Eastwood was never a big money director," and the main plot of the film is sniping, and there won't be much war scenes. ”

He thought for a moment 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 slightly, "No problem." ”

If filming starts in the second half of the year, it is estimated that it will be able to catch up with next year's schedule, and then it is time for Bella Anderson to contact the publisher, with his fame and appeal, it is very simple to find a publisher, depending on who offers the most favorable conditions.

Clint Eastwood admonished, "Matthew, I know you've played a lot of military roles, but the sniper itself is a special class, and I want you to take the time to train professionally from now on." ”

"I will. Matthew responded, "My bodyguard Brown Williams is a former member of the Delta Force, and I'll be over a lot on Chris Kyle's side as well. ”

In fact, from the beginning of his stake in Chris Kyle's military contracting company, he will play with sniper rifles when he has time, and he is also preparing for this film and this role.

"That's right, Matthew. Clint Eastwood wasn't going to be polite to Matthew, "Can you give Scott a role?"

Matthew knew a little about Clint Eastwood's family and asked, "Scott Eastwood?" Seeing Clint Eastwood nod, he smiled and said, "Which of these roles is right for Ryan Job or Weston? You're the director, and the audition is up to you." ”

Clint Eastwood nodded and said, "Thank you." ”

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

Frankly speaking, Clint Eastwood's director's salary is not very high, and the six million dollar director's salary 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 for being an actor as a soldier are very good.

In this film, in addition to him as the male lead, the female lead will be determined later, and Matthew completely gives the choice of the rest of the characters to Clint Eastwood.

After discussing some more details, Clint Eastwood quickly took his leave.

Looking at Clint Eastwood's old but still upright figure, Matthew was a little emotional.

Nowadays 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 when you're over 60, like Clint Eastwood.

The old cowboy is definitely the most handsome and coolest of the Hollywood practitioners over the age of sixty.

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

Matthew's "Fast and Furious 5" will be released this summer, because in recent years, almost every Independence Day schedule has his starring films, and all of them have been box office hits, at the beginning of the summer season occupied by Warner Bros. "Green Lantern", the distributor Disney Studios chose the North American opening date of "Fast and Furious 5" in late June before the Independence Day schedule.

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

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

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

Finally, it is also to allow "Fast and Furious 5" to be released in North America a week earlier on the other side of the Pacific Ocean, in order to avoid the real schedule protection problem without any provisions.

The traditional North American summer file is strictly calculated from the beginning of May to the end of July, and it has only been counted in the past two years that August has been included.

However, there is a big difference between the summer file on the other side of the Pacific Ocean and the time period in North America, and at the end of June and early July every year, the student army, which is the main force of movie consumption here, has taken off the summer vacation one after another, and the summer file has just kicked off.

From the end of June, the other side of the Pacific will restrict Hollywood commercial accounts from opening in theaters, and those that have already been released can continue to be screened, and they can also enjoy the schedule effect bonus of the summer season in July.

Therefore, after discussing 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 days of "Fast and Furious 5" will be in July, when students are on vacation.

It's not easy to win such a schedule, Matthew put the premiere on the other side of the Pacific, just to show attention and sincerity, Walt Disney also played an important role, without Bowei International as the distributor, it is difficult for "Fast and Furious 5" to be released in this time period, maybe it will be pushed back to September.

By then, the largest audience for the film has already started school, and I'm afraid that piracy is already flying all over the Internet, and it's hard to say how much we can gain.

This is definitely not what Matthew wants to see.

The other side of the Pacific is a huge market, but its quota and account-sharing issues have lowered its status, and Hollywood has not paid much attention to it in the past.

The situation improved two months ago, when Chinese and American bigwigs signed a historic film import agreement in February, which covers the number of Hollywood films imported each year on the other side of the Pacific, the release schedule and method of imported films, and the final share of the box office that Hollywood studios can receive on the other side of the Pacific.

In terms of quantity, the official account-sharing film has risen to 34, and the box office share has increased to 25%.

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

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

Although 25 percent is much lower than the international box office share of 40 percent of imported films, many Hollywood companies are also dissatisfied with this, and even executives of the Big Six companies say that "there is no valid reason not to keep up with international standards", but Matthew is already very content.

It's better than just shooting and not playing with you.

What kind of bicycle do you want?

Hollywood doesn't know enough about it, and the Big Six, for example, have been pushing Washington authorities to demand that Big Scissors across the Pacific promise not to use "gaps" to restrict imported films — to limit the release of big-budget Hollywood films during the peak demand for films there.

They also want to know in advance, and even directly control the release schedule of imported films in the Pacific, so that the big scissors don't have a habit of scheduling Hollywood blockbusters on weekdays with fewer moviegoers, or suddenly showing multiple Hollywood blockbusters at the same time, so that they compete with each other for the box office.

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

In the short term, it is estimated that the other side of the Pacific will not make too many concessions to Hollywood's big-budget films.

The current agreement is enough to open a golden age for Hollywood films in China.

The deal has not only brought about an increase in Hollywood film revenue, but also a flood of money from China pouring into Hollywood to get a piece of the Hollywood pie.

Matthew also has two companies from across the Pacific that want to invest in the Fast & Furious franchise and even want to buy a stake in Studio Thirteen.

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

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

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

A lot of Hollywood blockbusters are also adding elements to the side 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, such as his use of Daniel Wu and Nini as the main actors of the group instead of playing soy sauce, which is not something that other Hollywood big productions dare to do.

Most of them are looking for Chinese or actors from across the Pacific to make soy sauce, but they don't know that this is very likely to disgust the audience there.

Special and special editions like those made by non-big scissors don't please the audience over there.

Looking at Hollywood, Matthew is the clearest group of people in the treatment of the Pacific market, and the elements added at will in Hollywood films will become the highlight of the film, and most of them will become the "slots" that netizens complain about.

Many forcibly implanted "Chinese-style elements" are often the "Chinese-style elements" that Hollywood thinks, and in the eyes of the audience on the other side of the Pacific Ocean, they often seem ungrounded.

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 few sensitive points, as long as the plot can do the most basic echo before and after, the scene is big enough, and there are enough action scenes, 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 scene is even more set in Brazil, not to mention action scenes and big scenes.

He is confident that he will continue to win the hearts and minds of the audience over there.

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