On September 10, the screening room of Blue Butterfly Pictures Building.

As soon as the president of the Los Angeles branch of Emperor Cinema entered, he warmly greeted his acquaintances around him.

Next to him, Liam was also chatting with the management of these theaters.

There are less than 10 most powerful theater companies in Hollywood, and among them, AMC, Royal Entertainment Group (Emperor Cinema), and emark account for half of the screens.

Although these theater executives are their own, they often jointly promote films, and they are very familiar with each other, and they even often discuss whether it is worth investing in resources.

So, today they gathered together, of course, for the film screening.

Now that the post-production of "Dead Silence" was completed, Liam immediately began to prepare for the promotion and promotion. The early publicity had already begun, and more than 6.5 million were thrown away, and the schedule was scheduled for mid-September. This trip invited theaters to the final decision to determine the scale of the painting and the share of the screening.

As we all know, whether a movie is profitable or not, how much money it is, requires the cooperation of theaters. Otherwise, even if it has the potential to sell the title like "Titanic", it will not make much money without enough screens.

After a while, Lehman, Wan Ziren and Ray Wernal were also present.

After a polite remark, one of the theater presidents asked: "Mr. Rust, James Win, how much box office do you think this movie will be? Let's talk about it first, so we can also have a reference when we decide."

The larger the screening scale of the movie, the better, but based on the potential audience of the movie. Otherwise, the number of screens is huge, but the distribution of interests and the income of the movie will be detrimental to the studio. Those who could have made money will also suffer losses because the theaters get too much.

Furthermore, the total amount of more than 30,000 screens in the United States is worth more than 30,000. Who can eat a movie?

Moreover, many regions like to buy screenings after the second round - that is, works drawn by mainstream theaters are displayed in long-term screenings in some areas with small passenger flow.

After all, the less prosperous the area, the fewer people have free money to watch movies.

If the theaters there want to survive, they basically buy the second round of screening rights to solve the film source problem.

"If you want to answer this aspect, Director Wan Ziren will answer. I can only say that as a horror movie, its quality is absolutely excellent. As for the market, it is not just the film itself. Everyone is a theater executive, and you should know that publicity and distribution can easily determine the market." Lehman said with a smile, not wanting to analyze it randomly.

If it is correct, there is no problem; if it is wrong, it will definitely be a joke that will spread. What's more, "Dead Silence" has deviated from the original work. It can only be said that some of the flaws in the plot and the flaws in the character have been erased, the rhythm is smoother and the movie viewing experience is better.

Anyway, if you are not sure, it is better not to talk about it in general, so as not to make wrong judgments in theaters and Landie Pictures.

After all, with the reputation accumulated by Lehman and his proven vision, what if he brags too much and becomes worse than expected?

"Why, aren't you optimistic?" AMC's president chuckled.

In recent years, Firefly's film projects have still made a lot of profitability. As a member of the theater chain, he also faces the problem of lack of hits and his relationships are naturally well maintained.

"No, I'm very optimistic." Lehman smiled and said, "It's useless to talk about these things now. You'll better decide how many screens you have seen the movie yourself before deciding how many screens you allocate. The test film will start soon."

"Hope, it's another movie "Saw." Another theater executive said something.

The filming of horror themes is Wan Ziren's specialty, but this guy has not directed a new work for two years, and the "Saw" series has been screened in the fourth part.

Although the audience was a little aesthetically exhausted due to the subject matter and the box office was not very good, the latest one was released for only three and a half weeks and got 17.56 million yuan, and it quickly fell into the painting and went to the DVD release - this series started with the third part, and by box office alone, it would have been in a loss. If it weren't for the prospects of the DVD market, Lehman would have stopped filming.

Even so, they can't make much money. Anyway, Firefly Film has packaged it and threw it to Lions Gate to slowly develop its surrounding value. It only distributes a small part of the money, so that they can make such hard-earned money.

After all, Lions Gate in his previous life was a fierce man who filmed eight movies "Saw" and was willing to eat up a little profit. Anyway, their company has a lot of people, so instead of raising them to not do anything, it is better to make some money.

When Lehman sat down, he would soon focus on the big screen.

"Dead Silence" is the second horror movie directed by Wan Ziren, even if it is two years apart - after all, the production of Hollywood directors is generally not high. A new work is already very powerful in two years. The shooting techniques are still skillful, and the atmosphere of the film has its own thriller effect.

Moreover, after the script is improved, the main line is clearer.

The main thing is that a small town wrongly accused a doll performer. Later, the woman named Mary Shaw committed suicide at home. Her blood soaked her favorite doll, Billy, and became an evil ghost. She killed the residents of the town. Legend has it that people who screamed at night would lose their tongues and die.

Many people fled the town, but still couldn't escape the wronged soul and demanded their lives. Then the protagonist appeared. One day his wife received a gift containing an exquisite doll. That night, his wife screamed and died, but she lost her tongue. Then the protagonist investigated the matter and pointed out why Mary Xiao committed suicide injustice. In this, the portrayal of the murder scene is still very imaginative. As for watching the movie, there are basically no climaxes. Almost every ten minutes, one person will die. Through a series of clues, Mary Xiao's character is completely outlined, which is the most impressive character in the film. Until the end, the protagonist destroys the doll Billy, which seems to kill Mary Xiao's soul body, but also buried the sequel production plan that Mary Xiao has not dissipated.

In this regard, Leman reminded Wen Ziren to add it specifically.

After all, if "Dead Silence" is a big hit, there will be a market for sequels.

If you don’t want to live as long as "Saw", it may not be a problem to shoot one or two more movies. Furthermore, later generations of Wan Ziren also played a ghost universe - since Marvel's success, all kinds of linkage universes have appeared, and Wan Ziren actually followed the trend.

Now, there is no money to acquire Marvel Lehman and the time is not right, but the universe development plan can be advanced. Wan Ziren actually has this talent. What's wrong with being the first to eat?

At this time, Warner only knew how to develop ace characters, Superman, Batman made one after another, but other characters did not pay attention to it. If they didn't set a good foundation, they would probably still not play the linkage universe later.
Chapter completed!