At the beginning of February, "Batman" was released in North America with 250 million offline units, and at the same time, it was released overseas under the operation of Warner Bros.

Because of the high box office of "Batman" in North America, the title of director Lester removed the word potential and became one of Hollywood's commercial cutting-edge directors, and his status in the film industry has risen a lot.

The dazzling results were even reported by reporters, calling him one of the cutting-edge directors in Hollywood who has the potential to become a famous director in addition to those high-grossing directors.

Although the commercial cutting-edge director is good-sounding and favored by many film companies in Hollywood, there is also a lot of controversy.

No matter what era commercial directors are, there will be controversy, and they will be badly praised by some people in Europe and North America.

Leicester also became famous in the entire circle again because of the three words of commercial films, and was welcomed by many people.

At the same time as the status of the Hollywood film industry has improved, there have also been reports dedicated to Black Leicester, criticizing Leicester with the shortcomings in commercial films.

The high reputation of "Chaplin" and the filming technique of "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" have made Lester praised by directors who specialize in literary films.

But because of commercial films, I think that another potential literary film director has fallen into the eyes of money, and he will not shoot new stories and break through his own shooting techniques.

Leicester didn't care much about the newspaper reports that criticized him, both white and black, like Spielberg and Robert Zemeckis, who were not criticized.

Their criticism can't shake Lester's promotion in Hollywood, even if he wants to hit the Oscars, as long as the quality of the film is good, the Academy Academy will not reject his rush because of those criticisms.

After all, Leicester did not offend the Oscar Academy, on the contrary, he would send some gifts to the Oscar judges every year.

In the conference room where he watched Asuka Films, Lester sat in the main seat and watched the criticism of him in the newspaper in his hand.

In the entire conference room, Townsend and the others did not disturb Lester to read the newspaper, and each whispered to the people next to him, talking about the reports that criticized Lester.

From their ugly faces, it can be seen that they are very disgusted by the newspaper article criticizing Lester.

Halfway through the meeting, they were somewhat surprised to receive reports critical of Lester's article.

For four years, I didn't see any material specifically about Leicester, even if David Moriah's revelations at that time were aimed at "Top Gun", wanting to make Leicester's first commercial film fail.

Newspaper criticism doesn't have much impact on Leicester, but some unsuspecting viewers will use the newspaper report to mark a person.

After a while, Lester finished reading the criticism article in his hand and put him on the table, and Dimes saw this, and hurriedly said: "In view of these situations, we feel that we should not sit idly by. ”

"No need, let them say go!"

Lester rejected Deams' offer.

Dimes was a little puzzled for a while, but the experienced Frank Marshall explained with a smile, "This in itself does not have much impact, it can bring Leicester popularity to the audience, people are curious, and if they have an impression of him, they will collect information about Leicester." ”

After hearing this, Tang Lide's eyes lit up, "Isn't this a platform for the boss?"

Lester hasn't starred in a movie for two years and has been working behind the scenes, and in the '80s, when only stars were remembered, audiences now remember him as the author.

Looking at the newspaper on the table, Lester frowned and loosened, although a look of doubt flashed in his heart, he buried him in the depths of his heart, looked at them and said, "Let's turn the page on this matter, talk about the performance of this year." ”

Dimes and the others stopped the topic one after another, and talked about the affairs they managed one by one.

On the side of Asuka TV, Frank Marshall is very well managed, with two phenomenal American dramas "Emergency Room Story" and "Beach Ambulance" broadcasting.

Although its ratings and revenue could not be compared with NBC's "Friends", it became a brand work of Asuka TV, attracting many commercials and increasing the sales of videotapes, bringing profits.

Frank Marshall finished talking about the Bird TV incident, and Dimes and others reported one after another.

From their report, Leicester has basically learned about the company.

Especially in terms of finance, according to the Rosedale report, in addition to Leicester's own income, the total funding of Bird Film and Television has reached $5 billion.

As the company's treasurer, Rosedale not only controls the flow of money within the company, but also calculates Lester's share of revenue in companies such as Times Tower and Autodesk.

In addition to the company's total funds, Leicester's own revenue reached $50 million.

Rosdale even joked, "If the boss exposes his own income, the top of the celebrity list on Forbes will definitely be yours." ”

"Haha!"

Rosedale's words drew laughter from Dimes and the others.

Seeing that everyone had finished explaining the matter, Lester knocked on the table, "Now let's start talking about important things!"

Dimes and Townred looked at Leicester, waiting for Lester to make arrangements.

Among them, Chris Weich and Frank Marshall did not need Lester's arrangement, they had already arranged the development of the TV station and Blue Sky Animation Studio in 1988.

Under the gaze of several people, Lester looked at Dimes and said, "We are going to set up an independent film department to invest in those who don't have the funds." ”

Frank Marshall's eyes lit up, and without waiting for Dimes to speak, he praised: ~ Not a bad idea. ”

Dimes was surprised to see that Marshall was so optimistic about independent films, and hurriedly said: "The value that independent films can bring seems to be very low, and Mr. Marshall is optimistic about independent films." ”

"A film that specifically rejects the producer is not promising. Marshall shook his head, "I just think that some independent films can still bring in profits." ”

Independent cinema belongs to a kind of personal expression, a film system that has emerged since the forties and fifties, they believe that the shooting of films should reject the interference of producers and distributors, reject film censorship, break the myth of high-cost films, and advocate low-cost operation.

This kind of rule-based film system has never been very popular with Hollywood producers, and some people have even ridiculed independent films as underground films, but they have to rely on film companies to help them distribute them.

This kind of movie with no appealing actors and low cost basically rarely has big hits.

In the past four decades, independent films have produced some eye-catching works, and there are still some film companies that will release the films they produce.

After listening to Marshall's words, Dimes nodded and said, "Later, I will set up an independent film department to invest." ”