"Hello, this is Lionsgate."

Los Angeles, Santa Monica, Lionsgate's headquarters, and the downsizing offices are busy, and the theater department is no exception.

In April, there will be three films, and Lionsgate's "State-owned Property 2" ranked first, with 22 theaters opening; bought the second place in "Heartbreak Past", 2 companies; The third place in the Exorcism Video of the Collaboration is also 2.

Basically, no one is busy with TPT, because for its box office, Lionsgate has zero expectations, and it is thanks to God that it can earn back 20,000 line fees.

It doesn't even have a critics' preview screening, and it's not a waste of money to do it.It's the same two openings of "Once Upon a Broken Heart" for the simple reason that it's a film starring David Duchouni, the writer and director of "The X-Files", and it has some attention.

Oh yes, that pseudo-documentary......"

In a bright, medium-sized conference room, a presentation meeting is taking place, and the table is full of senior executives.Jon Fellheimer, the company's CEO, is looking at the April line document and is about to forget about it, he has seen the movie before, it is very exciting, but unfortunately it is only a pseudo-documentary.

"Its producer, Cliff Films, had a strange request a few days ago to change the director's signature." Line Director Tom Odenberg said.

Peter Bullock, the director of the buying department, laughed suddenly, he already knew the joke, and the others were puzzled and curious, what was going on? I heard Odenberg talk about this interesting story, the mysterious person u11v-ku, now u11ver, the rest of the information remains the same, only know that it is male, age, nationality, ethnicity, resume, etc. are all blank.

Everyone couldn't help but smile when they heard this, this thing is like a boy who is about to go to the prom and keeps choosing clothes, but he hasn't found a dance partner yet, who cares if it's ku or a.

"This friend of ours can't be Doctor Who (c?). Jon Philheimer was silent.

"Haha." The room was filled with chuckles, but I was a little curious, what was Yunik Kuller's origin, how old was it, what ethnicity?

This curiosity flashed by the fact that TPT was not the point of any conference table.

The company has more than a dozen such projects every year, and this year there are also "Black Street Myths", "Hunting the Living Dead", etc., all of which are positioned to test the waters. Either you bought an independent film that did a video disc store before, and it was good in the video market, so you can try it on the big screen.

The number of their opening theaters will not exceed 1o at most, a little investment to buy a chance, sometimes lucky, gradually expand the scale of screenings, you can make a lot of money, most of the time it is a week or two to stop loss, lose a small penny.

There are more than a dozen films a year, and there are 20,000 in each part, which is quite a lot.So it's not that they are biased against the "Exorcism Video", it's just that it's positioned like this.

Odenberg said with a little emotion: "Cliff Movies really made a lot of messing around, and two days ago I opened a viral marketing website, and some ideas are really good." Judging from his line of quality and experience, if it were not an uncertain pseudo-documentary, the effect would not be worse than that of "The Trembling Ocean" if he invested funds.

"Hmm." Jon nodded, this meeting had given enough time to the Exorcism Video, and his eyes were on "Crash", which will be released on June 6 after TPT, with 18 opening theaters.

Since the end of last year at the Toronto International Film Festival to buy its rights for 60,000, "Crash" has become the treasure of Lionsgate, although it is not as large as the scale arranged for "Saw 2", but on the whole, "Crash" is the most important.

As long as the Oscars have nominations or awards, Lionsgate's popularity will greatly increase its appeal to filmmakers and independent films, opening up further space

Therefore, doing a good job in "Crash" is Lionsgate's biggest goal this year, but it has not been scheduled to the end of the year.

And the independent company Lionsgate can't compete with those powerful mainstream studios, so Lionsgate has developed an unusual strategy, first release the literary film in the desert summer, after making a name for itself to maintain a certain degree of exposure, if there is really an Oscar nomination, at the end of the year to spend money on public relations, and strive to rely on it to let the company enter the Kodak theater.

The first step is so important to make a name for yourself, the more critics praise it, the more influential people give it, the more beneficial it is.

Thinking of something, Jon asked Oldenberg, "How did the invitation to Ye Wei write a film review for "Crash" going?"

This is a film about the social contradictions of various ethnic groups, of course, Asians are indispensable, and as the prodigy of the light of Asian, viy, his film reviews are very valuable. Ye Wei had attended the screening of "Crash" at the Toronto Film Festival before, and Lionsgate had not yet bought its rights at that time.

"His agent said he knew, but whether he would write it depends on the mood. [,!]."

Odenberg smiled wryly, Ye Wei is not a professional film critic, his column film reviews are not many, and the subjects of film critics have always been casual and individual, sometimes even commenting on some old films, and then talking about a certain topic.

"Hmm......" Jon's middle-aged face looked thoughtful, and it looked like he was going to call to invite him personally...... If Lionsgate had the opportunity to invest in this talented young man, how good would it be, why didn't he come to Lionsgate to invest? He thought and reminded everyone: "No matter what Ye Wei's attitude is towards us, our attitude is that Lionsgate and him can only be good friends."

Oldenberg, Bullock and others all nodded their heads, clearly understanding this, VIY must be an important big man in the future, and he must be a creative genius, and establishing a friendly relationship with him is what any film company will pay attention to.

Just like the Warner Bros. in the 8th century, in order to get Spielberg's friendship, at that time, Warner CP Tieve Ross can be said to have done his best, needless to say about the communication with Spielberg and his wife, and even gave Warner's CPO plane to Spielberg's mother to travel, in order to make her happy, the interior of the plane was redecorated to her liking.

Ross told his friends that in the entertainment industry, the friendships of people like Spielberg and Eastwood are his "talisman", and he put together why he spent money for them into a copy for every shareholder who could support him, saying, "If Steven Pierberg is your friend, you can be considered a lucky man."

This was true in the 8 years, and even more so in the 21st century when "the star is the boss".

Yego won't be the next Spielberg? It's an unknown, but it's so important to have a good relationship with him.

Lionsgate has not been idle, giving Ye Wei an invitation to the screening of "Crash", giving Ye Wei a beautiful PB and bringing some small gifts to his liking, like the courtside tickets for the Lakers' home games, he didn't have time to watch it, but his family was free, his friends were free, he tore up the tickets, just be happy.

Jon Philheimer was thinking, Tom Odenberg and the others were also thinking.

VIY is not a Yonick Kuller comparable figure.

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"Yes, I love your gifts, thank you.Jon, to be honest, I'm not sure I'm going to write a review for "Crash", I watched it half a year ago, I haven't forgotten the plot, but the feeling of writing a review has faded.And I really don't have time to attend its screening now, I'm nervous about time to watch PDR spoon, you know this is ...... making a movie."

"Hehe, it's okay, watch it when you have time, take care of your body, we are waiting for your movie review."

"I'll take my time, as much as I can. By the way, I had a movie called "Exorcism Video" on the Internet, and that's your movie, right. The trailer is very attractive, the girl is so beautiful, and she acts very well. I might write a review of it, haha."

In the evening in Los Angeles, in the CPO office of Lionsgate's headquarters, Jon was startled, and the mobile phone in his hand almost fell to the ground, and the exorcism video ......?

"Has it ever held a critics' screening, and what are the reviews?" Ye Wei said again.

"We didn't have a screening for it." Jon told the truth in confusion, why did VI get interested in this movie?

"Oh, that's a pity, I think it's great to see the trailer.

Jon suddenly understood, Ye Wei mentioned it for the first time and he didn't understand it, and when he mentioned it again, he immediately understood it completely, "It's so beautiful", "just rush at her", viy wants to meet the girl who is dating If this makes him happy, Jon really doesn't mind being a matchmaker.

Sure enough, vi continued to hint a lot, what happened to her and the ending touched people's hearts, telling him not to spoil, did he want to spoil the girl?

Young man, how can you be so subtle if you want to meet a girl of the same age.Jon laughed, and after ending the call, he hurriedly sent someone to contact Andrew Grande, who had been acting on behalf of Cliff Movies, to ask for information about the girl who played "Maggie", and told her that Viy wanted to know her and asked her if she could give him his phone number.

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[Exorcism video" The girl who played "Maggie" Nina is your fan, she is very happy to know that you appreciate her, and hopes to meet you, this is her mobile phone number]

Ye Wei sent a text message from Jon on the screen of his mobile phone, he didn't have to think about it to know that Grande and Nina took the opportunity to joke with him, and the number was his Yunic number, what a surprise.

He muttered silently: Hell's surprise...... Jon, what the hell are you misleading, I want a film critic's test screening