Ian patted Gawain on the shoulder and said in a calm and light tone, "Yes, Bret Favre's salary for five years, Lance earned it in just three weeks. ”

Gawain opened his mouth, made a simple math in his mind, and then shook his fist with a clenched fist, "Wall Street of all evils." But after thinking about it, he looked up at Lance with a bright smile on his face again, "Your intuition is so accurate, then you say, who has the best chance of winning the Super Bowl this season?" ”

Gawain didn't pursue why Lance would bet on Greece as if Ian hadn't looked into it. The small stone in Lance's heart slowly slid down, the corners of his mouth were light, and the arc was outlined, and he held his heart with both hands, "My heart will always follow the packer, but my brain will follow the patriot." ”

"Shh Gawain immediately threw his thumbs down and booed at Lance, "Peyton Manning despises you." ”

Ranstin accepted the taunt, and Ian, who was sitting next to him, also booed Lance, and teased, "You should be a psychic medium, maybe you can become famous overnight." ”

"Yes, yes," Lance nodded repeatedly, "maybe I can predict the eventual winner of this year's 'American Idol.'" ”

"So, the auditions have begun?" A little girl at the next table suddenly stood up and said with excitement on her face, which provoked the four Strello brothers to turn their heads and look over, and then Lance saw the little girl's eyes widened and looked at Lance expectantly, while the parents behind her smiled apologetically, and her mother stood up, "I'm sorry, she's completely obsessed with that show, I'm really sorry." ”

Lance couldn't help but laugh. chuckled and waved his hand, "It's okay, it's okay." Then Lance turned to the little girl and said kindly, "Sweetheart." The auditions are going to start next month, and if you will, it's your stage. "Lance has always been a little more tolerant of children.

The little girl had a big smile on her face, and then she turned back to her table contentedly, still shouting, "Mom, I'm going to race!" The mother gave Lance a friendly smile again before turning around and starting to talk to the child.

Turned his gaze back from the child. Lance saw Ian's disdainful eyes, and he shrugged, "What's wrong?" I am a person who supports dreams. As a result, this sentence made Ian and Gawain exchange glances, obviously putting on a posture of "you are kidding". However, Lance raised his eyebrows, ignoring the mocking expressions of the two men.

"So, do you want your next plan?" Ian smiled and took the initiative to change the subject, "How do you plan this fund?" That's the main topic Ian and Lance are going to talk about today. Chaos Pictures should make a rough blueprint for the future, otherwise there will be a sudden situation like "Sin City" next time. Ian still didn't have any preparation, which only made the company's development slower and slower.

"First of all, I need 40 million to make this project." Lance said crisply, and Ian shrugged his shoulders unsurprisingly and followed with a "Of course."

Since Sin City requires post-production throughout the film, all the footage is shot in front of a green screen. This means that 100 to 120 minutes of footage will require computer effects. During the filming of "The Day After Tomorrow", Lance had dealt with the digital field, and it was not a problem to get this group of tech nerds, but the cost was.

Lance roughly calculated that the entire movie would have nearly 2,000 special effects. If you cooperate with the digital field to create a "sin city", the quality will definitely be guaranteed, but the cost will need to be at least doubled. Don't say that Chaos Pictures doesn't have 80 million now, and even if it did, Lance wouldn't blindly throw money into it - because this is a cult work, and it is fortunate that the box office can break 100 million, and more needs to rely on the video rental market to make money, but the problem is that Chaos Pictures does not have a distribution channel for videotapes, and this part of the benefits can only get a small head. Therefore, it is absolutely impossible to overinvest.

Therefore, after consideration, Lance decided to find three different small VFX companies to carry out division of labor, with an average of more than 600 special effects per story, and these independent small companies often do not charge much, but their strength will not be compromised.

The sample shot that Lance made for Frank, the first prologue to the film, is a collaboration with the-orphanage. The special effects company, which had shared part of the work in the digital realm in the post-production of the "day after tomorrow", was not to be underestimated, and their fees were only one-third of that of the digital realm, and Lance decided to give them the stories "Yellow Bastard" and "The Customer is God".

The other two companies are also at the same level of strength as the orphanage company, but the part on the division of labor and cooperation is still being discussed.

Therefore, the investment cost of 40 million is already the lowest bottom line.

"The other part, I've been thinking about it lately, has two options, one is to develop the trailer soundtrack department, and the other is to create my own distribution department." Lance's words made the eyes of the other three people focus in unison, and Ian's expression was the most strange, "Although I don't know much about Hollywood, but ...... Trailer soundtrack? Ian clearly didn't follow Lance's train of thought.

After the production of the two works "The Day After Tomorrow" and "Killing with a Knife", Lance gradually realized that if Chaos Pictures wanted to develop, it must have its own peripheral department, which is what the film production company really makes money.

For example, Disney, the world's most powerful peripheral sector, theme parks, commemorative goods, distribution departments, copyrights, television cooperation, music rights, the Internet, and interactive products can all be regarded as peripherals. In 2011, this department only generated a net profit of 600 million yuan for Disney, accounting for only 7% of the net income of Disney's entertainment kingdom.

It was once said that "The Avengers" is not a movie, but an advertisement. Because the box office revenue generated by the film itself is very limited, but the peripheral benefits derived from the movie are increasing dozens or even hundreds of times. This is also the reason why the big production companies have always been reluctant to give up commercial films.

This is no joke.

If Chaos Pictures were just "making movies", then their pinnacle would be New Line Pictures, Miramax Films, or DreamWorks at most - and their endings are clear, with New Line merging into Warner Bros., Miramax being bought by Disney, and DreamWorks on the verge of being broken up.

Therefore, the development of the whole industry chain is an inevitable trend, otherwise it will always be an independent production company.

Lance seriously considered that it was imperative to establish a distribution department, because distribution is a big deal for box office dividends, and handing over the distribution initiative to outsiders would only make him more passive. Holding the distribution ability is the direct way to ensure that the box office profit is maximized after the success of the film. Regardless of whether Chaos Pictures will be able to create its own film empire in the future, if Chaos Pictures wants to make a breakthrough in film production, the distribution department is indispensable.

But having experienced the diligent and conscientious entrepreneurial process of Diora Pictures, Lance clearly knew that the establishment of a distribution department would take time, a film library, and a parallel in quantity and quality. Chaos Pictures wanted to repeat the pattern of Diorama Films, which brought independent European films to Hollywood, apparently too late. Therefore, in terms of Chaos Pictures' current assets and capabilities, the establishment of the distribution department will be very long, and at most it can only release some works like "City of God", and even "Sin City" may not be able to control it, let alone works such as "The Day After Tomorrow" and "Murder by a Knife", which are released on a large scale in the United States.

Except for the issuance department, all other peripheral industrial chains do not need a large amount of asset support - so it returned to the original topic of Wall Street capital injection, and for a time Lance's thinking also fell into a dead end. However, in the process of making zuò in the post-production of "Killing with a Knife", he made the first version of the trailer, but unfortunately the trailer soundtrack was always unsatisfactory, which reminded Lance of the production process of the "The Day After Tomorrow" trailer, and also encountered the same problem.

And so, the inspiration came.

"Indeed, I'm talking about the trailer soundtrack, the soundtrack made specifically for the trailer." The shallow smile on Lance's face revealed a strong confidence, "I guess I don't need to explain the issue of music copyright." Lance looked at his three older brothers and got an affirmative answer before he continued, "At present, the soundtrack of the trailer can be said to be almost the same on the market, and they have a huge library of music rights, which are not complete melodies, but more universal note fragments, which are called material music in the industry." The same stock music can appear in hundreds or thousands of trailers. ”

"It's no wonder that when I watch the trailer, I often think these melodies are familiar." Gawain nodded, "Most of them are symphonies, or drum beats, and they are more or less familiar. ”

Lance snapped his fingers, "Correct." "Those who care a little bit about movies can notice that there are many different types of trailers for a movie, the first version, the official version, the Super Bowl special version, the TV version, the drama version, and the extended version...... It's almost dazzling. And the music forms that match different types of trailers are also completely different and colorful. At this, Lance shrugged his shoulders with a smile, "Next, this is the math problem, and the multiplication is up to you." ”

In just a few words, Lance made Theo, Ian and Gawain fall into deep thought, and their minds were surging, and they didn't expect that there was something in a small trailer! (To be continued.) )

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