Lehman sent off the gyro, Alfonso, went back to the office and picked up the work arrangements on the table, and compared them one by one to see how the production progress of several projects was carried out.

Take a sip of coffee occasionally, stand up and move, and do a few slowly lifting movements to maintain your body.

As a director, it is easy to overdraft your health because you are always careful in shooting and often delaying all kinds of trivial matters.

In his previous life, he entered the film and television industry less than three years ago. Because of his work, he suffered from poor shoulders and spine. He walked smoother throughout his life and made some money. Of course, he did not want his body to collapse early.

Assistant Metz walked to the door and knocked on the office door to get a response. Only then did he report it neatly: "Boss, Mr. Feleme from the Lion Gate has an invitation."

Lehman put down the report in his hand and asked in confusion: "Did he say what's going on?"

Mess carefully considered his words and looked at Lehman and said, "He called just now and said it was related to project cooperation."

"Where is he having an appointment?"

There is nothing particularly worth paying attention to around, and Lehmann is planning to go there.

“In the country club.”

"Okay, tell him I'll come soon." Leman thought to himself: Project cooperation? The big dog player of Lion Gate is not short of money. What advantages does Firefly have that he can like? Then, he thought that the special effects work in the digital field could also be developed, so that they might be able to prioritize the digital field when they need to use special effects technology when filming in the future.

Nowadays, the special effects business is strong. If high-end and core technologies are not involved, many companies can complete the work required by general levels. Therefore, if you choose not to choose who you basically depend on the quotation and friendship.

For example, Fox likes to cooperate with Industrial Light and Magic, and Vita can often cooperate with New Line and Warner.

Moreover, Lions Gate has not entered the special effects field, and there is a demand for this aspect - the competition in the special effects industry is fierce and professional. Large studios like Warner are thinking about deciding the outcome in the future or the time is ripe, so they can just spend money to acquire one, so they have not devoted their energy to development.

This is like raising a Gu. When the battle situation is unclear at the beginning, who knows who will win and who will end up in a sad way. In the field of such a strong professionalism, the risk control is too high and it does not meet the actual prospects of capital pursuit.

Moreover, many studios have this kind of thinking, which is why most of the special effects field are supported and developed by directors or independent filmmakers, because they have the most urgent need, which is to improve shooting technology and make the picture more shocking.

Lehman said again: "Import Scott Rose and let him go with me."

"Okay, boss." The assistant went down and quickly passed the message.

I found the digital field of funders again, because I no longer lacked R&D funds, and the special effects work obtained with the help of Fireflies is much easier than before. Therefore, Scott Ross's attitude as executive officer is very positive.

The shareholders and investors who supported him behind him saw the performance in the digital field becoming more and more good, and were also happy that the investment was not wasted, thus increasing support for the digital field.

No one asked to sell shares anymore.

You know, although Lehman is the largest individual shareholder in the digital field, he has never given up on continuing to absorb the remaining 33% of the shares. Unfortunately, no one takes action.

After a while, Scott Ross drove over and Lehman got into his car, so he didn't choose to drive by himself.

The car started and headed down the direction of Beverly Hills, all the way to the Country Club.

In the rest area next to the golf course, the cool breeze makes people lazy.

Jon Felemay and Lehman and Scott politely started to talk about the important things.

The purpose of this trip to Lion Gate is to allow Fireflies to transfer the copyright of adapting the novel "Twilight".

The reason is that in recent times, Stepinfen Meier's novels have dominated the top three in several months with absolute single-book sales in the New York Daily's best-selling novels.

Yes, the novel "Twilight" became popular, and it attracted the attention of many studios.

Among them, the Lion Gate is one of the people who are pursuing it.

As mentioned earlier, movies adapted to best-selling novels are now popular adaptations in Hollywood, and they are almost at the point of crushing original scripts.

Because it broke the record of the number of moviegoers on the first day, it is proof of the market case of the Harry Potter series plundering global film and television wealth, and also the success of Disney's first film "Narnia Magic Kingdom" as a guide. The magical film focusing on teenage audiences has become the most sought after subjects.

In fact, Hollywood also likes to follow the trend. Epic movies are popular. Everyone shoots epics all the time. Epics are not good, magic seems to be very popular, and everyone is looking for magic projects.

"Twilight" did not enter the public's attention at the beginning because the book had just come out and had a two or three months of reputation fermentation period. At that time, the sales were not outstanding, so naturally no one paid special attention. Now that the sales volume is high, it will attract studios.

After that, many studios knew that the copyright of the novel was sold, and the buyer was still a firefly, and then gave up. After all, before the movie was released, who knew whether "Twilight" could succeed? Without this choice, there would be no copyright of the same type of magic novel, so there was no need to waste any effort.

But after learning about "Twilight" in detail, several executives at Lions Gate felt that there was a lot of potential - this kind of thing depends on the perspective. When "Harry Potter" was not popular, who knew that it would be so popular?

Moreover, more importantly, this is in line with Lions Gate’s plan for its future transformation.

Now Lionsgate is still a studio that focuses on thriller themes and sharp works. When you look at its resume, such as "American Mental Patient", "Fahrenheit 911", and "Mortal Haunted Incident", the similar feature is that it has no major productions.

There is no one with an investment of more than US$60 million.

Logically speaking, since its inception, Lions Gate has implemented a US dollar strategy, buying, buying, buying studios, buying equipment, buying distribution channels, and buying independent studios. How could it be that there is no $60 million to make a movie?

But the problem is that at that time, the Lion Gate was the same as the Fireflies today. Even if they were shot in large-scale productions, they had no resources to promote and had to seek help from the Six Majors. However, the Lion Gate was unwilling to become the Six Majors. Therefore, they would rather not invest in large-scale productions and always focus on the niche field.

But, after so many years of development, Lions Gate feels that it has the ability to challenge high-investment projects, but there are no suitable works for development in hand.

Now, they are eyeing "Twilight".

First of all, the theme is the hottest magic, and the main focus is also on the youth market;

Secondly, the novel is very popular and has a great effect on publicity.

In the original time and space, the copyright robbery about "Twilight" was taken over by Dingfeng Entertainment, because their offer was the most touching novelist Stephen Mel. After the first part was successful, Lions Gate saw the improvement of its own territory, and acquired Dingfeng Entertainment with equity exchange and a large amount of money, and still mastered the "Twilight" series of projects.

But in this time and space, after Leman intervened first, Dingfeng Entertainment believed that it could not get the copyright back from Fireflies, so naturally there was no action. Instead, Lion Gate felt that the two had cooperated repeatedly, and he had never heard of Fireflies to establish a project, so it might be just buying a copyright to hoard it, and came to ask for transfer with similar thoughts.

They offered a price with sincerity. Lehman bought "Twilight" and "Crescent Moon" and signed an additional priority right of copyright, which cost less than 14 million yuan. Lions Gate directly offered a price of 30 million yuan.

In other words, if Lehman intends to transfer, he will not do anything about it this time because of the increase in sales of a optimistic novel.

What does it mean to pay for your vision?

Of course, it is impossible for Lehman to sell it for more than one billion projects.

Lehman had to explain vaguely, saying that he had bought the copyrights of these two novels with certain intentions, and it was not simply to expand the copyright library.
Chapter completed!