In a mansion in Hollywood's Billy Hills, the living room is filled with smoke, and several men are smoking cigarettes, playing poker, and occasionally sipping beer.

If you were to change the environment, such as in a slum, you would think that these are drunken and gambling lazy people, and you would never guess that they are Hollywood celebrities.

The guy sitting in it was the youngest, named Steespierberg, and he was squinting and smiling with a good deck of cards. His friend Julie Phillips once commented that Spielberg was an incomprehensible man, who spent his days hanging out with people much older than him, gambling, drinking, and watching football games with them on Sundays, all of whom were studio operators or agents.

Spielberg's next old man was Gui Mike Ax, followed by Alain Ryder Jr., followed by Joy Waltz and David Gilaire and others.

The group centers on Alain Ryder Jr., the head of 20th Century Fox. Ten years ago, when 20th Century Fox was in crisis, Alain Ryder Jr. was appointed to rise from production manager to head of the company, immediately changing his style to target the company's audience at young people, producing a series of blockbuster films such as "Star Wars" and "General Patton", which brought Fox back to life.

It was noon, Spielberg had a drink with a few old fellows, everyone threw away their cards and prepared to go to dinner, and they had to go to a ball game in the afternoon.

Alain Ryder's assistant walked in, fanned the smoke in the air, walked up to Alain Ryder Jr., and said, "Mr. Ryder, Andiel from the distribution department has called you to ask for instructions, that Asian wants 18% of the base box office, and on the basis of 5 million box office, it will increase by 1% for every 3 million additional box office." It's too high for Andil to call the shots. ”

Alain Ryder Jr. smoked a cigar. Said unhappily: "Please, today is the weekend, tell that guy Andil not to disturb me." The film distribution actually asked me for an idea, what do you want his distribution department to do? ”

The assistant explained: "Andiel said that the film had already sold well in several southern states, and if we didn't distribute it as an agent, there would definitely be other companies willing to take over. ”

"Andiel wants to agree to that Asian's terms and call me to approve it?" Alain Ryder Jr. asked.

The assistant nodded: "Yes, because he can promise the producer a box office share of less than 20%, and no matter how high it is, it will require your approval." ”

Alain Ryder Jr. asked, "Is that Asian movie very jīngcai?" ”

The assistant said: "I heard Andil say that it is like this. The film sold well in several southern states. Due to the lack of distribution capacity of the previous distribution company, it was not sold to the west, but I heard that there was a release in Chinatown. ”

"What movie are you talking about?" Spielberg interjected next to him, he has been busy preparing for new films recently, and drinking with these old guys is also attracting investment in new films. There is no clear information from the outside world.

The assistant replied: "Royal Warriors, a film from Hong Kong. ”

Spielberg smiled and asked: "From Hong Kong, is it a kung fu movie again?" ”

"A modern action movie, to be exact, a box office dark horse in the states around Georgia," said Alain Ryder Jr., as he instructed his assistants. "You ask that Hong Kong guy to bring the film here, and I'm going to see it for myself."

"Good, Mr. Ryder." The assistant hurriedly went out to make a phone call.

More than twenty minutes later, Alain Ryder Jr. and the others were enjoying lunch. Kang Jianfei, Zeng Bolin, and Liu Hongsheng came with a copy of the movie.

The reason why Kang Jianfei was able to meet the distribution manager of 20th Century Fox smoothly was also the result of Liu Hongsheng asking a friend to help him match. When Zeng Bolin was looking for a distribution company alone, he could only see the small corner of the distribution department.

"Gentlemen, it seems that I have come very unfortunately. I'm sorry to disturb your meal. Kang Jianfei said with a smile. Because of the box office results of "Royal Senior Sister", he is in a very good mood now.

Wait for Kang Jianfei to finish speaking. Zeng Bolin hurriedly helped translate.

"Sit down." Little Alain Ryder wiped his mouth and said, "Fiji, take these gentlemen to my screening room." ”

"It's good," the assistant turned to Kang Jianfei and smiled at the others, "Please follow me." ”

Alain Ryder Jr. said to a few poker friends, "Let's go and have a look." ”

Joy Walsh laughed, "Don't miss the three o'clock football stopper." ”

Spielberg looked at Kang Jianfei and the three of them curiously, and then smiled: "What we have is time." ”

Little Alain Ryder's private screening room is excellent, not only are the seats all leather, but the projectors and audio equipment are of the lowest quality.

After the old guys were seated, Alain Ryder's assistant became a projectionist.

After more than an hour, several old fellows looked at each other.

David Gilaire shrugged and said, "Good movie, no wonder it will become a box office dark horse." ”

Spielberg asked Kang Jianfei and the trio: "Excuse me, who is the director of this movie?" ”

Zeng Bolin pointed to Kang Jianfei and introduced: "This is the boss of our Oriental DreamWorks Company, and Mr. Kang Jianfei, the director, screenwriter and starring of "Royal Senior Sister". ”

"Oh, I see. Hello Mr. Kang! Spielberg said in surprise. The reason why he asked who the director of "Royal Sister" was, was just a little curious that Asian films could be made so modernly, and the shooting techniques were quite advanced. didn't expect Kang Jianfei to be the director of this movie, and he was also the boss of the production company.

Perhaps, this Kang Jianfei studied at a film school in the United States, and his company is also a family company.

Spielberg can only think so, because Kang Jianfei is too young, if it weren't for the family company, he wouldn't have thought of being a director.

Spielberg also became a director at a young age, and that was because he was lucky that George Lucas introduced him to Alain Ryder Jr. Alain Ryder Jr. and George Lucas have been old friends for more than ten years, and they couldn't erase their hair before they supported Spielberg to make a movie, and the resulting film became an instant hit......

After a while, the other idlers and others all went out, and only Kang Jianfei and Little Alain Ryder were left in the screening room, as well as Zeng Bolin as a translator, and even Liu Hongsheng followed out.

"Young man, what are your psychological expectations for the box office of this movie?" Little Alain Ryder stared at Kang Jianfei's eyes and asked.

Kang Jianfei looked at him without embarrassment and said: "The box office is naturally the more the better." It depends on how far your company can go. ”

Alain Ryder Jr. said, "If you want too much of it, it will break the rules." ”

Kang Jianfei said with a smile: "My buddy asked your company to help with the distribution a month ago, and the price they gave me at that time was 10%. It seems to be a break in the rules to give so low, and I've heard that the distribution practice in the United States is to charge a 30% fee. ”

Little Alain Ryder's face is a little unsightly, if what Kang Jianfei said is true, then some employees in the distribution department are indeed breaking the rules. And the price difference in it will be swallowed up by some employees of the distribution department and the theater chain, and 20th Century Fox will not make a penny more.

If Kang Jianfei is an American production company. The employees of the distribution department would never dare to be so bold, but they would not be afraid if it was an Asian studio. For example, when Feng Xiaogang and Chen Kaige went to the United States to contact the distribution, they were cheated by the Yankees, and they were very miserable, and they could only receive some fraction of the money after selling the screening rights. Because there are loopholes in the contract, you can't sue for it.

Alain Ryder Jr. thought for a moment and said, "I'll give you a fixed 19% box office share." ”

"Mr. Ryder, you are so generous." Kang Jianfei was overjoyed and hurriedly praised him. What Alain Ryder Jr. said just now is that under the operation of 20th Century Fox, the box office of "Royal Sister" will be at least 11 million.

Little Alain Ryder said: "I know both Shao Yifu and Zou Wenhuai, and Mr. Kang's movies are more interesting than theirs. ”

Kang Jianfei laughed and said: "I heard that the "Killer Trench" cooperated by 20th Century Fox and Golden Harvest lost money? ”

Little Alain Ryder nodded and said, "It seems that we have to accompany a little, if we were working together on this "Royal Senior Sister" at the beginning." It's sure to make a lot of money at the box office. The merits of your film are very obvious, because no Chinese director has made a kung fu film like this, and it will bring a new movie-watching experience to Western audiences, which is why "Royal Sister" sold so well in Georgia. ”

Kang Jianfei didn't think that people like Little Alain Delai would praise him for no reason. "What does Mr. Ryder mean?" ”

Little Alain Ryder took a puff on his cigar and said with a smile: "If Mr. Kang agrees, I will have the release of "Royal Sister" in Canada, Central and South America and Europe." ”

"Ahem, cough, cough ......" Zeng Bolin, who was the translator, suddenly coughed continuously, and was so excited by Alain Ryder's words that he couldn't speak normally.

Kang Jianfei was very curious about what the little old man was talking about. He asked, "What did he say that you were so excited about?" ”

It took Zeng Bolin a while to recover, and said excitedly: "Mr. Ryder means." 20th Century Fox was responsible for the distribution of "The Royal Sister" in the Americas and Europe. ”

Kang Jianfei asked: "How to collect the issuance fee?" ”

Alain Ryder Jr. said: "Traditionally, Canada and the United Kingdom are 35%, Central and South America are 30%, and European countries such as France and Italy are 40%. ”

Kang Jianfei was naturally very happy and asked curiously: "Mr. Ryder is so confident in "Royal Senior Sister"? ”

Alain Ryder Jr. said: "I said that this movie has a pioneering experience, which has not been made like this in previous kung fu films. It perfectly combines Western action elements with Eastern kung fu elements, and there are breakthroughs and innovations in many places. The distribution company you hired before was so bad that if it was 20th Century Fox, it would have to triple the box office now. ”

Alain Ryder Jr. is not bragging, and Kalpatrick can mix in several southern states and counties in the United States, and the distribution ability in other places is not good. Not so with 20th Century Fox, a Hollywood giant that had more than 500 theaters of its own a few decades ago. Although the theater chain had to be abandoned later because of the "Anti-Monopoly Law", there were countermeasures under the policy, and a series of dazzling equity distributions were carried out, and the 20th Century Fox had a broken relationship with several large theater chains.

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In other words, Lao Wang also owes 11 chapters, is it because the chapters are not good-looking that he dropped the subscription?