The office building of the Lion Gate headquarters is brightly lit, and the employees work hard and no one slips away in advance as they get off work.

Since the acquisition banner has been raised, the management has changed a few days, let alone the employees below, and everyone is avoiding becoming the next resigner.

In the office, Jon Felemay sat in the boss's chair, without any attitude towards the executive. He held a market document and asked questions at several subordinates while looking. He would occasionally praise him to release his closeness, which made the atmosphere of the conversation still relatively harmonious.

The top leader outside the major shareholder of the board of directors has relaxed a lot of people sitting on the sofa on the right.

These are the managers who entered the Lions Gate system from the original company in the recent acquisition of the company's territory. They are still unfamiliar with the new environment, new colleagues, and new bosses, and they inevitably have many concerns.

It turned out that I was still thinking about how to get along with Jon Feelomem, but I didn't expect that my boss would express his opinion first, and I felt a little intimate before I knew it.

Of course, for Jon Felemay, this time, it doesn’t matter what to talk about, but more importantly, people.

After all, every acquisition, disbanding part of it and absorbing part of it, and it still takes some thought to settle the hearts of these newly joined people.

Is it a human being? It is a bit at a loss when changing a new company, and it is normal for him to be unsure. He wants to do it so that these people are very confident in the future of the company and do things steadily.

Lions Gate has a solid foundation. Although it is also because of the lack of cinema resources and some are subject to the market, they are not very brave to start high-investment projects with great risks, but the small cost of about 10 or 20 million is produced one after another.

In fact, they are also in a period of pain now, and in order to open up overseas channels, they are still hiding their ambitions.

Moreover, the Lions Gate now looks very loud, but it does not pose any threat to the Six Majors and does not pay attention to it at all.

Just like on September 1, Lion Gate's new work "Attack on the Heart" was released.

With an investment of 12 million US dollars, less than 1,300 screen canvases, typical B-level productions, directors Mark Navordhi and Brian Taylor are also screenwriters, with relatively low qualifications and little fame. The main creators of the entire crew seem to be the only male protagonist Jason Statham.

In today's era when action movies are no longer mainstream, it's clear that it's just a good thing to make a fortune when it comes out an action movie with no big scenes.

For the six major projects, B-level production is the most marginalized and has little resource tilt, but Lions Gate is the mainstream production. Who would pay special attention to it?

Of course, this project is a cost-effective work.

It is a film that reduces risks and grasps specific audiences.

If you have to summarize the plot, "Angry Attack" has a bit of a shadow of "Speed ​​of Life and Death".

However, "The Speed ​​of Life and Death" means that the car is loaded with a bomb, and "The Heart of Fury" means that the killer played by Jason Statham is poisoned. As long as the heart beats lower than expected, he will die - such a stupid setting.

That's right, the mobile "gunpowder depot" that automatically explodes into pieces once it is lower than the pre-determined speed. Now ten years have passed, but a madman whose structure has been changed by the deadly poison has taken over the speed baton. However, this time, compared to the lasting endurance of mechanical gasoline, the poison is exhausted at any time.

Therefore, Jason Statham can often be seen jumping up and down inexplicably in the film...

Therefore, as soon as such a trouble-free low-cost movie, the freshness of rotten tomatoes dropped to 61%. Of course, if the reason for passing the exam is thrown away from the unreasonable poison setting for the rationality of the plot, Jason Statham's cold humor is a plus.

The crew still chose a good actor - after the older generation of action movie stars either transformed or fell silent, Jason Statham has become a screen tough guy with a better audience.

And on the first weekend, "Aggression" won 10.46 million US dollars, which was also a small surprise for Lions Gate.

You should know that they invested less than 2 million US dollars in the early stage of the promotion of this film. They could be said to be letting them die by themselves. They only posted posters in the cinemas and nearby screenings, and they were too lazy to even cut the trailer, so they only had one version...

Of course, Jon Feelame, who held the report, was very satisfied with the performance of "The Heart of the Anger", but looking at the weekly rankings of 8.23 ​​million, the screening for three weeks and the fourth week, the "Sunny Little Beauty" was envious.

——Everyone is also a low-cost video. My family’s works are so popular that they only have a potential of 340 million if they die. You have 670 million. Thinking about it, it seems that they are not that happy...

In fact, this is also what industry insiders generally think of the work "The Little Sunshine Beauty".

If Disney's "Dances from My Life" seized the opportunity of the song and dance films rising again, and the plot was particularly catered to young audiences and achieved a dark horse-level market performance, then "The Little Sunshine Beauty" is a bit unpredictable.

Is the shooting good? The quality has indeed withstood the test of the market, but the subject matter is not the mainstream of the market - it is literary and artistic. It is rare to be able to sell at the box office without losing money. This is why Focus Pictures gave up the proposal to film "The Little Beauty of Sunshine" after thinking about it for a while, and was finally picked up by Fireflies.

When the first week of "The Little Sunshine Beauty" came out, the executives of Focus Pictures were complicated.

This is like "Breaking Bad" has been growing against the trend with its reputation and ratings. TV stations such as HBO and CBS that have rejected TV series also have a different experience...

After the conversation and communication purpose was almost the same, Jon Feleme signaled that there was still work, and the others would stand up and leave.

Alas, looking at the series of numbers on the report, Jon Felemay pinched his eyebrows in a little unbearable way.

He is in charge of such a big deal, and the company's production is not very good - it is naturally not good compared to Fireflies, but it is actually very good. In recent years, it has been making profits, and it is still spending money to deploy overseas.

......

At this moment, in Blue Butterfly Pictures' office, Lehman and Liam were also chatting.

It’s just that it’s not about personnel matters, but about schedules.

"The Deadly Magic" directed by Christopher Nolan was completed at the end of April this year. It was busy in the later period until mid-August, and it completely became a final film.

When Lehman went to try it out, he praised Nolan for a few words.

Of course, this film is not just a mainstream theme, it is a test piece, experiment, and exploration of the shooting style.

It can be said that the path of the second "Dark Knight" can be found in "The Deadly Magic".

Since the film was confirmed, the schedule issue quickly brought up the business arrangements of Landie Film.

In the original time and space, Nolan joined the Warner camp, so this film was arranged by Warner in the later period of October, mainly to cooperate with the harvest market on Christmas Eve to fill in the vacant theater resources during this period.

But for Fireflies, on Christmas Eve is the end of October, and in the early November, choosing a movie that can steadily squeeze into Christmas with the subsequent market trend. "Sparta" is more suitable than "Deadly Magic".

Because "Sparta" is more mainstream, "Deadly Magic" suspense plus more dark video imaging at night, and the plot also has various details that require patience to know. For the audience, it is a bit too brain-intensive and visually uncomfortable.

Why do most films like to use lenses with richer colors, such as soft yellow, bright red, and light blue... It is because the human visual system is more acceptable and can better establish an impression of these colors. On the contrary, during "The Mystery of the Shadow", some viewers were disliked by the large number of night scenes in the film.

Then, "The Deadly Magic" was Nolan who finished filming "The Mystery of the Shadow", and further explored this image style. It can be imagined that this movie will definitely be less accepted without Batman as the biggest suspense.

Of course, if someone likes the movie, some people are completely unacceptable. More mainstream recognition is the most stable commercial work.

Obviously, "The Deadly Magic" lost because it was not mainstream enough and not stable enough.

Therefore, Nolan is not so unacceptable to his work being given way to "Sparta".

After all, movies can sometimes be very popular, but sometimes they are very niche...
Chapter completed!