landed in New York, exited the customs, and raised his eyes to see David who picked up the airport.

David knew that Lu Ping'an was coming to Lao Mei, so he took the initiative to pick up the airport.

Today's David is dressed in a straight suit, which is very different from his previous appearance, and now he looks like a Wall Street elite.

"Boss, here, haha, meet again!"

David smiled happily when he saw Lu Ping'an.

"I heard that you became famous at the film festival, how did it feel to be famous?"

Lu Ping'an asked him with a smile.

David was very happy when he heard this, and then silently stretched out three fingers: "They all took the initiative." ”

"Beware of getting sick."

"Boss, don't worry, my career has just started, and I will never do anything stupid!"

David looked confident, and after so many years, he still had some numbers in his heart.

Then got into the car, and David talked about the film festival vividly:

"Lu, few people watched our movies at the beginning, but on the second day, you know what, from the second day, every one of our movies was the most crowded!"

"Do you know what I like to watch the most, that is, some viewers who don't know the truth go in, sit down, the movie starts, and then the mouth slowly grows, and the timid popcorn is scattered all over the ground in fright, hahaha..."

David's excitement was extremely high.

Lu Ping'an is also very happy, the movie has a good prospect and can make money again.

The two then flew to Utah.

The St. Denis Film Festival is held in Park City, Utah, and tomorrow is the closing ceremony and the awards ceremony.

After a while, the two got on the plane.

A few hours later, Lu Ping'an dropped off his luggage at the hotel and arrived at the film festival.

I didn't see Watzberg because he was talking to the organizers and some publishers.

"Chainsaw" received a very good response at the film festival, and the release of the film should naturally be stepped up.

In this way, Lu Ping'an can visit the film festival.

"Boss, let's go to the theater to have a look, there should be a screening now, I promise, you will be very happy after seeing the audience's reaction."

David suggested on the sidelines.

Lu Ping'an nodded in agreement, he also likes to watch this kind of thing.

But before he could take a few steps, a white man recognized him and came up to talk.

"You're Lu, hello, I'm William from Lionsgate."

William handed out his business card as he spoke.

Lu Ping'an's eyes lit up, Lionsgate is very famous, and he will be the boss of an independent film company for a long time in the future.

"Hello William."

Lu Ping'an took the business card and responded politely.

William smiled and continued, "Lu, we invite you to join our Lionsgate, if you are interested, you can come to our company to chat, our strength is not big, but it is still much better than the peak, we can connect with your unexpected resources, if your "Source Code" was handed over to us before, the box office would definitely not be only as little as it is now." ”

"Okay, let's talk about it later."

Lu Ping'an did not refuse.

It's a good opportunity to make an offer.

"Chainsaw" is a Hollywood film, and "Source" was released before.

At this time, money is already deeply involved.

Future plans for Hollywood films will certainly not be the only ones.

So it's time to decide whether or not to take Watzberg into your pocket.

And whether to accept Watzberg or not, Lu Ping'an has already made a plan, that is, to see more suitable candidates.

Now with the arrival of Lionsgate, it is an opportunity to probe.

This company is good.

If you really take people under your command, it will indeed be more appropriate than taking Watts to use the pinnacle.

Of course, the premise is to investigate first, if William is a little minion, it won't be interesting.

Then it seemed that William of Lionsgate was here, and he saw him chatting with Lu Ping'an, a yellow race, so soon someone recognized that this was Lu Ping'an, and then the bosses of other film companies and film and television companies came to talk to Lu Ping'an, including the eight majors, such as Sony.

And the topic is inevitably mentioning "Source Code" and now "Chainsaw".

Obviously, Lu Ping'an, as a director, has now become a piece of sweetness after coming up with good works and good results.

Lu Ping'an did not refuse this, accepted the business cards one by one, and began to test the situation after he went back.

After chatting for a while, I received more than two dozen business cards and watched another movie.

After seeing the audience's reaction in David's mouth, Lu Ping'an met with Watzberg.

Watzberg is also full of red light now, and when he saw Lu Ping'an, he said: "Lu, this movie is more popular than I imagined." ”

Lu Ping'an smiled: "It looks like you can make money again." ”

"Oh lu, this topic hurts my heart."

"Watts, if you think like this, if you only give out 200,000, you may earn millions, which is equivalent to picking up for nothing, so the mood will be much better."

"You're right, but I can't convince myself."

"Then I'll earn it back when the series comes."

"That's what you said."

"Of course, if the film is successful."

"You can rest assured, I have already been contacted by a number of theaters and distributors, and as long as we want, we can get on at least 1,500 big screens in the first step."

Watts said, and began to introduce the release plan.

Through the two films "Tune" and "Source", Watzberg was already convinced that he could be bold with Lu Ping'an's films.

And now that "Chainsaw" has received a good response, it is indeed worth betting on the opening large-scale release to maximize profits.

After the release, Watts moved on to something else.

"Lu, you're definitely going to be in Hollywood in the future, right?"

"Almost, I will indeed continue to make movies in Hollywood in the future."

Lu Ping'an nodded frankly.

After hearing this, Watts asked: "Come to our company, Lu, I formally invite you to join, and the conditions can be discussed." ”

Wooing Lu Ping'an to become the company's director is Watts' next plan.

He was sure that no one in Hollywood could open higher conditions than him.

Lu Ping'an did not refuse: "Okay, let's talk in detail when we go back." ”

Whether you join or not, it will not affect the use of the offer, no matter who is locked by the offer, it will be his dark line in the future, so Lu Ping'an agreed quickly.

"Good!"

Watts was delighted.

Things went more smoothly than he had imagined.

It seems that Lu is indeed standard Chinese, nostalgic for the old.

Then the two went shopping again, and in the evening, after making an appointment with Watts for the award ceremony and talking about all the business, Lu Ping'an returned to the hotel.

That night, the organizers of the St. Denis Film Festival called and invited them to attend tomorrow's awards ceremony.

This is expected.

It's just that the St. Denis Film Festival can learn from the three major European ones?

Or is it like this in foreign countries?

In the midst of doubt, Lu Ping'an fell asleep.

The next night, as the host of the film festival called out the name of Lu Ping'an.

Chainsaw 1 won the Special Jury Prize.

It's not a jackpot, but it's not bad.

Lu Ping'an took the stage amid applause.

The scale of the audience is not comparable to the three major in Europe.

After all, the St. Denis Film Festival is not a large-scale film festival, but a local film festival in the United States.

But Lu Ping'an is still happy.

After all, this is the first time his feature film has won an award.

After receiving the trophy, Lu Ping'an stood still in front of the microphone, looked at the audience and said slowly: "I want to say sorry to the cleaning staff of the film festival theater, I saw many viewers being scared to the ground by popcorn watching the movie, sorry, it has added to the burden of your work." ”

Hahaha.

The guests at the scene let out a cooperative laughter.

Lu Ping'an continued: "I will give feedback to the film festival and give you some salary increase, if you don't agree, then he will be tortured as he passes each level (chainsaw line)." ”

The laughter was louder this time.

The effect is good, it looks like everyone has seen it.

And in the laughter, many people also showed a look of surprise in their eyes.

The road on the stage is safe, and it seems that it is not the same as the impression of Chinese.

No, it seems to be about the same.

Because the big guy who came to play in the United States seems to have such a sense of humor.

Are all Chinese like this?

It's interesting.

"Thank you, thank you St. Denis Film Festival, thank you for your enjoyment!"

Lu Ping'an also accepts it when he sees it.

Then he left the stage with warm applause.

At the end of the film festival, Lu Ping'an received a lot of business cards.

After some interviews, Lu Ping'an and Watzberg sat down to get down to business.

First of all, the revenue from Source Code this time.

"Source Code" actually took five weeks to act.

There were only 100 screens in the first week.

The back four sides are 1000 blocks.

In the first four weeks, "Yuan" scored $42 million at the box office.

In the last week, it won another 8.5 million, so the total box office of "Source Code" in North America reached 50.5 million.

In terms of account sharing, it is a ladder account sharing model.

The first two weeks will be 70%, the third week 40%, and the fourth week 20%.

So in the end, the $8.5 million, what Lu Ping'an could get was negligible.

So calculated that all the accounts of "Source Code", minus the publicity and distribution share of the peak, the final figure is: 14.62 million US dollars before tax.

After tax, Lao Mei will pay half of it, and he will have to pay lawyer fees and regulatory fees.

The final tax total is $6.8 million.

In addition to this, as stipulated in the contract.

At the box office of more than $50 million, Watzberg automatically gave up the right to adapt.

In addition, with a box office of more than 30 million US dollars, Watzberg will pay Lu Ping'an 5 million for the disc copyright, which is also before tax, and after tax will be less, because it is an overseas copyright transaction.

So that's a total of about $10 million.

"I will pay you the royalty first, I will pay half of the money first, and I will pay the final balance after the first payment."

Watzberg said.

Lu Ping'an smiled and sighed: "It's so crisp, it's a bit beyond my expectations." ”

Watzberg also smiled: "I can play Hollywood games, but not now, not for you." ”

"You're very sincere."

"Thank you."

"Okay, so let's talk about Chainsaw."

"No problem."

After "Chainsaw" won the award at the film festival, the process was the same, that is, the distribution rights transaction.

That's good on Lao Mei's side, first talk about account sharing, and then talk about selling out.

The say is very strong.

"Chainsaw", of course, has to split the accounts.

Of course, there are some places that can't avoid selling out.

There is also the fact that "Chainsaw" is an R-rated film, and many countries cannot be screened, so the scope of sales will be smaller than that of ordinary movies.

In the end, "Chainsaw" first determined the account distribution of 12 countries and regions, and then negotiated the issuance and buyout with 11 countries and regions.

The buyout price totaled $800,000.

Not high, but not bad.

The important thing is to divide the accounts.

Then the time for setting the file was also set, and it was placed on February 22.

There are no blockbusters in this period, and the space is relatively large, which is suitable for hitting high damage.

As for the summer file or any other popular file, it must be able to be determined, but as a low-cost film, there is no capital to negotiate with the theater chain.

Blockbusters, high costs, large lineups, or works of famous directors, even if the actual quality of the finished film is poor, it has the right to speak first, at most, it is just a film that is not in a good situation after release.

It's realistic, but that's how the game works.

Things are settled.

Watzberg said with a firm face: "This time, I must make "Chainsaw" popular!" ”

"I wish us success!"

The two clinked cups of coffee.

Finally, there is the issue of Lu Ping'an's work.

It's easy to talk about.

Lu Ping'an and Dingfeng signed a brokerage contract, and their respective works have a two-way priority option, and Lu Ping'an wants to produce at least two films within three years, and the copyright is shared according to the investment ratio, which is as simple and relaxed as that.

The most sensitive thing is that it involves copyright, but there is no problem for Lu Ping'an.

He can make works with low copyright value.

And if he uses an offer to win Watzberg, or later takes a stake in the top, these will not be a problem at all.

If the article does not match the title, there is no need to be surprised, because it is corrected and does not affect the reading.

(End of chapter)