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"Twentieth Century Fox did I distribute this film? It's true? Isn't there a lot of restrictions on how your company can work with them? Hearing Li Mingbao's words, Cameron was truly convinced. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

When he was still struggling to find investment, Li Mingbao not only solved his own investment problem, but also turned the distribution company of his film into Twentieth Century Fox, which is definitely not something that ordinary people can do.

Even if Cameron knew before that the boss of DreamWorks or Li Mingbao had a good relationship with Twentieth Century Fox, after all, Li Mingbao had given Twentieth Century Fox a big gift, and there was no reason not to express it.

But in any case, Cameron couldn't have imagined that even a movie like himself could be released by Twentieth Century Fox. It is difficult to change his own connections, let alone Twentieth Century Fox, even if it is an ordinary large film company to distribute himself.

Cameron was infinitely glad that he had really checked it carefully after hearing Li Mingbao's phone call before, instead of being disdainful of Li Mingbao. And the fruits of labor now are the encouragement of oneself to be careful. Although Cameron is a very short-tempered and proud person, he is quite careful in his work, and this carefulness is the key to his success.

With Twentieth Century Fox doing its own distribution, Li Mingbao's dream factory, the grade went down all of a sudden. So for Mary, a woman who opposes Li Mingbao's investment in the name of DreamWorks, Cameron has a good impression, if she doesn't oppose it, then her film can't reach the threshold of Twentieth Century Fox anyway, and her opposition has great benefits for her own movie.

"Of course, there can't be any restrictions, to be honest, our relationship is closer than you think, our DreamWorks films, the European distribution side, will be solved by Twentieth Century Fox in the future. What's so strange about doing your film distribution in such a situation? Even if it's a bad movie, John won't say anything for my sake. Not to mention a movie like yours, if it is operated well and has an excellent box office, it is not impossible. Of course, even if the operation is not good, with the novelty of this movie, it will attract a loyal audience. Li Mingbao said.

In this regard, Li Mingbao feels that the possibility of operation is very high. In history, "The Terminator", a film of far-reaching significance to the American film industry, the box office of his first and current one, is actually not very ideal, and the total box office in North America is only more than 30 million and less than 40 million, and the global box office is not more than 80 million.

Such a box office is obviously not in line with the quality of the film itself. So before Li Mingbao looked for Cameron, he also made a special trip to find some information. After seeing the information, Li Mingbao understood why the box office of this movie was so low, completely because the release of this movie before its release was quite bad.

Although in history, the production company of this film is Warner, and the distribution company is also Twentieth Century Fox. But in fact, although the brands of these companies are large, they are not the best.

This is not to say that their strength is not enough, but these companies do not pay enough attention to the movie Terminator, and their attention to him is not high enough, so when they produce and distribute, they do not give too much publicity budget. On the Hollywood side, not all the movies produced by big companies have a pretty good box office, after all, such a large company, they produce a lot of movies every year, and it is impossible to refine every movie, it is a big investment.

The release of the movie here, the most important factor affecting the box office, one is the quality of the movie itself, and the other depends on publicity and film scheduling. For the same movie, if his publicity funds and scheduling time are different, his box office will also have an obvious change, and this situation is not affected by the quality of the film itself.

Although the problem of publicity and film scheduling will make the cost of the film rise, under normal circumstances, the film distribution company will not make more concessions to some films that are not taken seriously. Obviously, this was the case in the movie Terminator, so Li Mingbao saw the space for copying.

To say that the hype of the most successful movie has even brought a movie back to life at the box office. In Li Mingbao's view, except for "Titanic", there is no other movie that can meet this requirement. Although the box office of "Titanic" stunned everyone, it is undeniable that "Titanic" would not have reached that height if those companies did not increase the promotion funds for the film at the beginning.

Although the total global box office of this movie exceeds 1.8 billion US dollars, in the eyes of Li Mingbao, an insider, those film companies have not actually made anything at the box office in the United States, and they can only say that they have just returned to their original costs, and the real place to make money is still in the overseas box office. In fact, the box office profits in the United States have been completely pushed away by the publicity expenses of those film companies and theaters, and the main place to make money is still at the overseas box office. And the results of this movie are also quite demonic, and when you get a 3D version again, the same content, that is, the technologically innovative bird thing, can be sold for another 2.1 billion dollars, which is simply the rhythm of the bombardment.

"Titanic" has room for hype, and the movie "Terminator" also has room for hype. After preparing to invest in this movie, Li Mingbao decided to increase the publicity funds for this movie, even if Twentieth Century Fox was unwilling, he would pay this money himself, after all, such a little box office, completely sorry for the quality of this movie. Without a box office of 100 million US dollars, Li Mingbao thinks that the hype is not passable.

Li Mingbao's strong support can be regarded as a reassurance to Cameron, a newcomer, and then Cameron began to talk about what needs to be prepared for this movie, the most important thing is that the actor of this movie, Cameron has not been found yet.

It's not that Cameron is procrastinating, but before meeting Li Mingbao, he couldn't even find investors, and the crew was just a grass stage team, in this case, how could he bother to find the protagonist of the movie?

And after meeting Li Mingbao, the progress of Cameron's film has accelerated a lot, not only the implementation of investment, but also the implementation of the distribution company, by this time, as long as he shoots the movie, then there is nothing to do with him. So Cameron began to be anxious, and he also wanted to get his movie out as soon as possible, so that he could stand his place in Hollywood.

"In your movie, the protagonist is actually that robot, such a robot, the first thing that must be strong is to give people a very powerful feeling, and you also need a heroine, quite a powerful hero, in terms of heroine, I can't give you too much advice, but in terms of the male lead, I think there is a person who is quite suitable for your role." Speaking of this, Li Mingbao took out a magazine, and then pointed to the cover character on the magazine.

This cover character is none other than the future governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, which can be regarded as a prop prepared by Li Mingbao in advance. The governor of this year is not famous at all, although he entered Hollywood in the 70s, but he has not played any famous roles before. In Hong Kong parlance, it's curry coffee.

So the money he makes in movies is not enough for him to live in the United States, movies are just a part-time job for him, and his real main career now is actually bodybuilding. But because he has played a lot of roles in movies, it is not a big problem for the filming of movies.

Li Mingbao wants to find the governor, it is difficult to see him in movie magazines, but in bodybuilding magazines, it doesn't take much effort, many magazines have his covers, which can be called a model of philosophers of this year, anyway, Billy does not have a market for him.

And Cameron saw that Li Mingbao gave the actor at once, and showed himself the photo of the actor, and he realized that Li Mingbao was really well prepared for his script. Although a director doesn't even have the power to set his own actor, it is a kind of trampling for a person like Cameron who has a strong control, but Cameron also knows that he is not qualified to negotiate conditions with Li Mingbao now.

So what Cameron hopes most at this time is that the actor recommended by Li Mingbao should not be too inconsistent with his impression, so that this movie will be prone to problems. But after all, it is the role chosen by investors, and Cameron looks at the protagonist recommended by Li Mingbao with colored glasses.

But I didn't expect that after seeing this actor candidate, Cameron felt that it was quite suitable, whether it was the size or appearance, or even the expression, it was quite in line with his own selection requirements, if such a person played the leading actor in his own movie, it didn't seem to be too uncomfortable, and he had to feel that Li Mingbao didn't choose people randomly, at least in line with his own thoughts.

When Cameron saw this magazine, although he thought it was a good person, he still had a question: "The people in this magazine are indeed quite in line with the identity of the protagonist of the movie, especially his appearance and expression, and his interpretation of the robot is quite good." But the question is, this magazine seems to be a bodybuilding magazine, right? Mr. Lee: Do you think a bodybuilder is suitable as a movie actor? The gap is not small, can he pass the performance? ”

"Regarding this issue, it's actually very simple, I've read this guy's information, he is not only Mr. Bodybuilding, but also an actor, and his acting time is not short, he entered this industry in 70 years, if you want to talk about acting, I think he has no problem at all." Li Mingbao said...