Chapter 69: Meetings

"Back to the Future" has been on the show in North America for a long time, and theaters have begun to reduce the number of "Back to the Future".

Overseas distribution, Universal Pictures officially put "Back to the Future" in overseas theaters.

With the decline of North America, the box office of "Back to the Future" in North America is as high as 210.61 million US dollars, relying on the North American box office alone, Universal Pictures and Bird Pictures can make a lot of money, not counting the overseas box office, the box office of more than 200 million in North America was transmitted back to Hollywood, which was widely reported by reporters.

The directors of companies such as Disney and Columbia, which had rejected Robert Zemeckis, saw the news and regretted on the spot that they had not agreed to their request.

Privately, some studios wanted Robert Zemeckis to work with them on the series after "Back to the Future", but they were refused.

Regardless of what they say, the series that followed Back to the Future were produced and distributed by Asuka Pictures and Universal Pictures.

Robert Zemeckis has become well-known in the Hollywood film industry by relying on the high box office results of "Emerald" and "Back to the Future", and stars will come up to greet him warmly when they see him.

Among them, it is not only Robert Zemeckis who is well-known in the film industry by virtue of "Back to the Future", but also the short Michael J Fox is also well-known by more people, and the bird film and television logo at the beginning of the film began to spread in North America, and the blue bird in it won the love of more audiences.

No matter how much box office "Back to the Future" reaches, the money to be received is still early, Leicester recruited important personnel for a meeting in Bird Film and Television early, in addition to important people such as Fields and Emmanuel, Paula Wagner, who became Leicester's agent team, also sat in the conference room and listened to Lester's instructions.

"Chris, this is my new drawing of the characters and storylines of 'Watchmen' and 'V for Vendtle', you guys will draw them for me to publish as soon as possible. Lester pulled out two A4 drawings and placed them in front of Chris.

Chris took the two character drawings and storylines and opened them and looked at them.

"Watchmen depicts a fictional history of the United States between the 40s and 80s of the 20th century, where one of the masked heroes is murdered, and there is a huge conspiracy behind it, and who is the next target? The end is approaching, the Cold War is about to escalate into a nuclear war, who can turn the tide? Are superheroes a blessing or a curse for the world? Watchmen supervise the world, and who will supervise the watchmen......

And "V for Vendetta" is about a man who wears a cape, a top hat, and a hypocritical smile that transforms into a vengeance messenger called V......

After reading it, Chris was a little incredibly shocked by the story inside, raised his head and said: "These two are different from the traditional superhero plots. ”

"Yes, it's really different from traditional superhero plots. Lester began to dig into the corners of DC Comics, and both superhero comics were not in the slightest connection to the superhero plots published by DC Comics, which was just right for Asuka Comics publishing.

I'll take a look. Tang Reed took the two copies of the storyline in Chris's hand and read it, and was attracted by the content, and after reading it, it was very different from previous superheroes, and returned it to Chris.

Finishing the paper, Chris put it aside and continued to listen to what Lester had to say.

Handing over the plots of the two comics to Chris, Lester looked at Tom Reid and said, "I want you to go overseas to develop our company's distribution channels and negotiate things as soon as possible." ”

"Yes, Mr. Lester. Hearing his mission, Tomrid replied;

"Then what am I doing, I'm getting rusty after staying in the company. Fields knew that Lester had summoned them to make a big move, and asked with excitement on his face;

Lester felt that Asuka Film and Television should have its own TV station, and said: "You and the Wells Fargo team will help me buy TV stations in North America that have not yet been acquired, and establish Asuka Broadcasting." ”

"TV station, good idea, I heard that 20th Century Fox also opened a TV station, I will do it. Fields said energetically:

"What about me!" Emmanuel waved his hand, and Lester turned to him and said, "Help me buy the film adaptations of "Disc in Sauce" and "The Lord of the Rings."

When no one noticed the value of the Disc in Saucer and The Lord of the Rings adaptations, Lester decided to let Emmanuel take him as soon as possible.

As the company's production manager, Dimes needs to follow Lester to prepare for "Top Gun", and he was not told to do anything else.

Lester picked up three photos and put them in front of Paula Wagner and said, "You go and help me sign Meg Ryan and George Cruise and Johnny Depp." ”

Hearing Lester's words, Paula Wagner picked up three photos and looked at them.

The person in the first photo is a sweet girl with blonde hair and blue eyes, the person in the second photo is a somewhat handsome young man, and in the third photo is a boy with a rebellious temperament.

Paula Wagner searched for these three people in his mind, and found that he had not seen and outstanding works, and wondered: "I haven't seen these three people, they should be very famous stars, do they have any characteristics?"

Lester then remembered that the three of them are not well-known in Hollywood now, and said: "You can go to the TV audition place to find this Meg Ryan and George Cruise, they should be there, I think these two are quite talented, and Johnny Depp, you can try to find it, or ask Director Oliver Stone, maybe he will know." ”

One of the two is a sweetheart actress in later generations, and the other is known as a heartthrob, Johnny Depp is no less important than Tom Cruise in later generations, and now Meg Ryan and George Cruise are still struggling in TV movies, and have not yet got the opportunity to become famous, and Johnny Depp entered two films to play roles on the recommendation of friends, whether he was signed by other agents, Lester cannot guarantee that he can take him.

"I'll take notice. Paula Wagner kindly kept the photo in his pocket.

Lester finished telling him what he was going to do, and Allen, the head of the finance department, began to report on the company's finances.

The first is the Times Building, which Leicester asked Dimes to follow up with last year, which has been renovated and can start running promotional ads.

After last year to now, Bird Film and Television has made a profit of $1.5 billion, and if you add Leicester's share and book share, the dollar figure will reach 1.7 billion.

As an independent private film company, Leicester has a lot of power to decide how to distribute the money.

For the future development, Leicester put 1.5 billion yuan into the company as the operating capital to avoid the company's funds from being broken.

"Adjournment!"

After listening to the report from the finance department and Dimes, Lester told everyone to go down and do things.

A few people immediately started to get busy with what Lester had ordered.

"Boss, there's a call from the Pentagon's Hollywood liaison room. Lester walked out of the conference room towards his office, passing the assistant desk and being stopped by a female assistant.

Lester was overjoyed, walked over, took the phone in the female assistant's hand, and a rough and loud voice sounded in his ears: "Mr. Lesterlore, your "Top Gun" has been given the green light all the way through our Navy, and your new script can be filmed by us through our request." ”