Yes, the production cycle of animated films is long and the investment is large, and it is impossible to use long-term screening to return to the cost, in fact, there are few films with an investment of about 70 million that will choose long-term screening, unless it is a masterpiece like "Titanic". In this case, it is an inevitable choice to recover the investment as soon as possible, and in order to do this, in addition to good enough quality and good enough publicity, the number of screening lines is also very important.

After all, according to Hollywood's tradition of encouraging more theaters to screen more, producers and distributors can get 90% of the box office in the first week, 3,000 theaters sell 60 million box office in the first week, and 4,000 theaters sell 70 million box office in the first week.

Here, only the seven major film companies can pull up three or four thousand theaters at one time, and those in the second gear, even when Miramax was at its peak, can only pull down 2,500. After all, the parent companies of those theater groups and the seven major studios have more or less those connections, such as Lei Shidong when he acquired Paramount, although he gave up his shares in the theater group, the head of the group is still surnamed Lei Shidong.

Therefore, it is impossible for Samsara Pictures to overcome this problem on its own, and the meaning of Vladimir's statement is already obvious.

"Which one?" Sean asked directly, he already had the answer in his heart.

Sure enough, the answer given by Vladimir was no different from what he thought: "Universal! ”

"But Universal's overseas distribution is the worst of the studios," Sean smiled, tempting to test it, "and, once these big guys join in, we'll be pushed aside soon." ”

"So we need some strategy," Vladimir was prepared, "Universal's overseas distribution, although not very good, is at least much better than ours, that's the first point; Among the major production companies, Universal is undoubtedly the most lacking in the series that can be handled, and if it is possible to explore new profit points, they will inevitably offer better terms than others, which is the second point; We're not going to engage with them right now, that's the third point. ”

"And when are you going to do it?" Sean raised an eyebrow.

"At least wait for the shelves to be set up and negotiate with Meredandre before we get in touch with Universal," Vladimir shrugged, "We're not greedy, as long as we can get a piece of the pie around the periphery, and with the Transformers cooperation base, they will seriously consider it." ”

"Okay, it looks like you're well prepared, so let's do it." Sean has the final word.

Anyway, an alliance has been reached with Marvel, the schedule of "Iron Man" has been scheduled for the end of this year, and the movie version of "Twilight" has basically been completed, and it is also waiting for the release at the end of the year, even if McRedandre loses money here. What's more, even if Universal finally squeezes them out, it will still be profitable.

Unconsciously, has reincarnation developed to this point? On the way back, Sean couldn't help but think that if this investment was really successful, then in the second-tier production company, reincarnation could be regarded as the peak.

Although he was not impressed by the name of Mairedandre, his intuition told him that the investment should be worth it, not to mention that Vladimir was well prepared. It's just that it's not beautiful, if you want to complete this investment, you have to dilute part of Sean's equity, even if it doesn't cost much, and you can pass on some of it, but it still weakens him after all.

This is also another willingness of Vladimir to invite Sean over for an interview, but he didn't say it explicitly, because even if Sean doesn't know much about it, he can deduce it with so many years of experience.

But he wasn't too worried, because Vladimir didn't know that the negotiations on YouTube's side were almost complete, and as Neil had planned, the major groups would share a 50% stake, and Sean and Neil were able to cash out $1 billion.

Here I have to thank Google again, their original premium offer of 1.6 billion made YouTube take a big advantage in the negotiations of several major groups, plus the continuous development during the negotiations, and also took the lead in reaching a cooperation agreement with Lionsgate and other second-tier production companies to start online on-demand services, and the value naturally rose step by step, and finally got such a result.

Of course, the $1 billion is not paid immediately, and although the major groups can still get this bit of liquidity, it cannot affect the plans and a series of operations. However, this is a huge income after all, and Sean, who is already living a very comfortable life, can also live more comfortably, such as large private jets can also be bought, so it is natural to invest part of it in the reincarnation film industry to increase his control and voice to a certain extent.

Just thinking about it, the mobile phone rang suddenly, and when he picked it up and looked at it, Sean suddenly sighed.

Rao answered the phone anyway and asked in a relaxed tone, "Hey, Haydn, what's the matter?" ”

More than ten minutes later, the driver took Sean to his villa in Malibu, and after he left, it took a few more minutes before Sean drove out on his own. First along the coastline to the west, then to the north, and finally to a small bar in Simi Valley, just stopped, before he could look, there was a knock on the window, and when he turned his head, he saw Haydn, who had bent down and removed the sunglasses from his face, winking at him.

"You've got a keen eye." After letting her up, Sean said teasingly.

Haydn didn't answer, just giggled and put his hand around his neck, wanting to kiss him.

"Wait, I don't even know what's going on here." Sean tried to stop her, and even though Simi Valley was only 30 miles from downtown Los Angeles, he was there for the first time.

"Give me a kiss first, Sean, give me one first." Haydn said coquettishly.

In desperation, Sean had to give her a kiss, and the girl almost swallowed his tongue.

"How else can I say you?" No matter how annoyed, Sean could only end up pinching her nose, and Haydn just laughed, his eyes curved like crescent moons.

"I don't look at the occasion either." Sean couldn't help but pinch a few more times.

"Alright." Haydn opened his hand in disgust, and at the same time stretched out his own in the air, the threat was quite obvious.

At this time, Sean didn't dare to say anything like "you try", but this girl really dared to lean down and grab his food at this time.

"Don't be so nervous, I'm watching, in a month at most, you can kiss me openly on the street." Haydn patted Sean on the shoulder and said in a "don't worry" tone.

Sean rolled his eyes, then asked strangely, "How did you get here?" ”

"It's summer break, and I don't have any other jobs, so I'm running around playing, and I just haven't been here before, and the security is very good, so I'll take a look." Haydn shrugged his shoulders, white shirt with jeans and little boots, as pure and lively as ever.

"Then how did you think of calling me?" Sean asked again.

"Sean!" Haydn suddenly pursed his lips and screamed.

"Well," Sean sighed, "how did you come up with the idea of calling me, little mushroom?" ”

Sean really doesn't want to use Haydn's nickname, little mushroom? It sounds so strange that Camilla doesn't need to be called that because of his influence. Haydn didn't care much at first, but after a long time, especially when Sean often called "Millie" and "Millie" non-stop, Haydn felt a little alienated, so he often pestered him and asked him to use this nickname.

Actually, it's okay to change the nickname for this matter, but as soon as her stubborn temper comes up, it doesn't matter so much. Sean guessed that this was somewhat related to her desire to compete with Camilla, even if the two girls were as good as honey, but Camilla had been eating Haydn to death, even if Haydn didn't care, but she must have been more or less competitive, which was undoubtedly revealed in bed.

So she's doing this now, in fact, she wants to...... Sean pinched his chin and thought about it, while Haydn continued with great interest: "Because I miss you, I'm tired of playing here, and I don't want to take someone else's car, and I don't want to notify my assistant, so I'll call you." ”

"And because Millie isn't here now, right?" Sean said so suddenly.

Haydn couldn't help but suffocate, turned his head to Ai Ai for a long time, and then turned around embarrassedly again, and then shook for a few seconds, followed by a chest straighten: "What does this have to do with Millie?" ”

Unfortunately, the previous look had betrayed her inner world, and now it was too late to remedy, so Sean laughed, and Haydn blushed because of it.

Because of the hot sale of "Transformers", Camilla has to follow the crew to promote all over the United States, and it is foreseeable that with the release of this movie around the world, she will also have to go around the world to do promotion, so she is not here at this time, so it is ......

"Millie wasn't without a presence before." The girl grunted.

"That's right, but ......," Sean dragged out, "but like this, it's been a long time, and I don't have much time to spare, so I'll just say anything." ”

Haydn coughed a few times and looked at him crampedly, obviously wanting to speak, but for some reason he was embarrassed to speak, which was very cute.

"Okay, let's talk about it," Sean reached out and rubbed her head, "Millie did gain a lot of popularity from Transformers, but this is just the beginning for her, and it will take a lot of work to maintain this popularity, and once the series is over, her popularity may decline." You are different, although the influence of "Super Heroes" is somewhat limited to the small screen, but it is better to last, think about it, is it more impressive to release a movie every few years, or is it impressive to see every day for a period of time? And the first season is of a very high standard, and the second season will definitely be more popular, and you, the cheerleader, will also be liked by more people, won't you? ”

"But it's still not as good as a movie." Haydn, who puffed out his cheeks, pushed back with a word.