Shirley Lansing was prepared for the detailed discussion of this meeting.

It has to be said that the reasons and conditions she gave were very touching Lehman.

Why?

Lehmann had never thought about which studio to rely on. If he had dependencies, how could he climb up?

Furthermore, as Shirley said, if schedule conflicts, outsiders will never be as good as their own family.

Moreover, a studio has limited resources.

Take Mann Entertainment for example. Firefly Pictures has only seven or eight projects in a year. No matter how many, it can’t be filmed, even if it’s enough funds, it’s even worse. As for Blue Die Pictures, it’s even worse. At a certain period of time, it can only release one movie in theaters. No matter how many, it’s inevitable that it’s not enough...

Take the six major examples. The output of others is basically more than fifteen movies a year, and more movies are released, but half of the projects will lose money. Otherwise, making movies is like gambling. What you can do is to minimize risks, rather than confirming that there is profit. In other words, if you lose ten works to theaters, half of them can make money, and the performance is very good. This is the profit model of this industry. As long as one big hit, you can make a profit in a year - Take the "Twilight" series as an example. Lion Gate relies on these movies to truly break through the six major blockades and go overseas distribution. Just talk about the importance of high-quality content to the film and television industry.

"Director Lehman, what are you thinking about? As long as you take out the project and invest in it, we will give it half the offline market to Landie Film. The theater promotion will not cause you to suffer any losses. It is definitely the same as Warner's conditions. 60% of the copyright belongs to Firefly Film. How about it?"

Lehman is still hesitating. It’s not that the cooperation between the past has broken down and no longer cooperates.

Is it business? Can enemies bow their heads and talk about the distribution of interests, not to mention that he and Paramount are not yet hostile to each other.

Moreover, it would be a pity if Paramount didn't catch this kind of show of goodwill, but the problem was that he was thinking about any front-line projects that could be produced - low-cost movies don't need to cooperate with the Six Majors. What Lehman is interested in is Murdoch News Group's strong publicity capabilities and saving money.

Lehman sighed: "I don't have any idea about planning the movie project." - I don't have a suitable project.

Shirley Lansing felt a little unhappy and thought she was just perfunctory.

After all, Firefly Pictures’ production output is not low. How can I take it out one by one with Warner? It’s my turn to bow my head, but there is no one? - Which studio does not have a backlog of 17 or 8 film projects? I can only say whether I want to shoot or not, and whether it is suitable for shooting.

But after all, Lehman has a very accurate vision of the market. If there are really suitable script projects submitted by independent filmmakers or screenwriters, he has already established the project, so there is nothing left.

Of course, it is difficult to say this.

Other studios rely on analyzing the market and movie fans to decide whether to shoot the project. As for Firefly Pictures, it was after Lehman who could decide whether to invest or not after reading the script.

Shirley Lansing said unwillingly: "Do you have no idea about shooting a project?"

This man was so persistent that Lehman had to carefully search the memory bank.

After a long time, he really thought of a very popular work.

He smiled and said, "We are certainly willing to cooperate with your company, but can we wait for a while?"

Seeing that Lehman finally gave up, Shirley Lansing gave a clear reply and smiled again, "Of course, Paramount is always waiting for Mr. Lehman's arrival."

"Well, I'll talk about the movie project in the future, so I'd better go out to attend the cocktail party first." As he said that, Lehman was still thinking about co-op scripts in his mind.

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The cocktail party ended about an hour later.

Many people present left one after another, while Lehman and Liam smiled and gave away their faces.

Since people in the entertainment industry often hold cocktail parties, there are paparazzi nearby for many years.

Shirley Lansing returned to the car and said to the assistant: "Another ambitious person will rise up, and I don't know what the result will be."

The one who can be an assistant next to the executive Paramount is naturally not a simple little character. The assistant obviously understands what his boss is sighing. After all, the so-called ambitious people are still living in Hollywood, and they should all be eager to stand at the highest point.

But the highest point is full, so who should go down?

"Firefly Pictures is developing too fast, why not suppress it?"

"Why should I suppress it? Doing business is not a fight. Don't say I refuse. Even if I persuade the board of directors to put pressure on Firefly Pictures, will the others not cooperate if their projects are beneficial? Besides, this Lehman is a smart person. You see, every step he takes will inevitably be very steady and will not eat alone. Who doesn't like a director who doesn't eat alone and knows how to cultivate relationships?"

Sherry Lansing was not stupid either. She was just angry that Lehman had too high demands and was very decisive. After knowing that Paramount could not bring him the greatest benefits, he turned around and ran to Warner, but it did not mean that the two families would cut off contact from then on. Otherwise, the benefits of Lehmann not eating alone, even if Warner didn't like it, the Lions Gate always had ambitions, but the Sixth National Congress had not seen the little lion's intentions.

The next morning, the media reported the news about the participants in the cocktail party.

Among them, I don’t know who revealed to the media that Lehman and Shirley had a great conversation.

For a time, many media were analyzing it.

"Hollywood Reporter" said: "Maybe the two companies need to rebuild and shake hands and make peace..."

The Los Angeles Times said: "If Firefly Pictures re-entered Paramount's arms, then is it a dirty deal with Warner and dissatisfied with the conditions for cooperation? What conflicts are there in terms of interest distribution."

As a result, Paramount's stock rose by 3% on the stock market that day - good news to promote the confidence of investment institutions, isn't it normal?

Of course, this makes Warner Pictures so disgusting.

When several executives woke up, they saw such news - you are so unauthentic, you hooked up with Paramount without saying a word.

For this reason, Warner also held a senior executive meeting.

After discussing and discussing, we still don’t understand what Lehman and Paramount have achieved.

But one thing is clear: the cooperation between the two companies will definitely be beneficial to Lehman - if it is a combination, it will only benefit both.

Then, Barry Mayer spoke, meaning that it would be useless to say so much. Firefly Pictures is just like DreamWorks. Warner doesn't care who he works with - who is the independent studio working with, not how to cooperate?

Moreover, Lehmann may not have been completely on Paramount's big ship. Perhaps it was just a simple project development. It happened to be a pleasant interview, so he decided.

Furthermore, isn’t Lehman still involved in the Batman project? He will not get into a feud with Warner at all, so there is no need to think about it.

Actually, it’s useless to think too much.

As Shirley Lansing analyzed, as long as Lehman still has his brain to continue to maintain the current situation and is willing to give in, he will never completely get involved with anyone...
Chapter completed!