With December approaching, 2008 is about to end.

In Burbank and Firefly Building, the office employees were in a good mood, and the entire company was full of vitality and was not affected by the sluggish financial market at all.

After all, the company's revenue has risen sharply this year, and the bonuses at the end of the year will definitely not be small.

Although there is still one month to harvest the market, most of the works released in December are Olympic films, and the screening scale is not large. For example, the recently discussed "The Millionaire in the Slums" has exceeded 30,000 in a single museum, but that is because there are only 23 pre-screening theaters, and the audience can only watch them in advance by catching tickets. This looks amazing. The stall is spread out, but it cannot be exaggerated.

So if nothing unexpected happens, according to the annual data list summarized by the film market, Firefly's self-produced projects ranked in the top ten. Among them, "Iron Man" also locked in the North American champion, and the box office of over 100 million has reached 4. Not to mention surpassing a number of second-tier studios, Firefly's performance is outstanding - even if the output is still not high.

Not only that, in terms of TV series, relying on "Hell Kitchen", "Prison Break 5", "The Walking Dead 4", "Stranger Story 2", "Breaking Bad 3", and the slightly profitable "Roaring Squadron" and "Diaosi Men" with a surprising rating, apart from the size of the TV station, he has truly achieved first place in the film company.

This report card not only brings people to the company's hearts, including Marvel Entertainment, which has slowly changed after the acquisition, but also makes Lions Gate and Fox, whose performance is at the bottom of the five major struggles this year, are a little envious.

Who wouldn't take a look at such an efficient production level?

I just don't know if the fireflies can continue to maintain them.

......

After this week, on December 8, the cumulative global figure of "The Ninth District" which was screened for four weeks reached 454 million, of which 203 million were contributed to North America.

Now, no one is worried that movies will not make money, and they are even named by the media the 610 million "The Passion of Jesus" that is most likely to break the R-level movie record.

The reason why everyone is so optimistic is naturally that the trend of "Zone 9" is very stable, which is in line with the consistent expectations of popular works with high reputation.

"The decline in overseas screenings seems to be coming faster than expected, Mr. Feleme."

On the new day, Lehman took over the recent results report of the film, and called the chairman of Lions Gate. Judging from the current situation, North America's potential is almost the same. The rest of the time is basically to shrink the theaters and wait for the paintings. Therefore, whether "The Ninth District" can get a higher box office, break a record, etc., is more about looking at overseas regions.

"Of course we want to do better, but "Zone Ninth" is an original project after all. You can't make its promotion and promotion as simple as "Twilight". Even the topic of hype is not easy to find. And I personally think that it is already very good to have so much credit overseas and not encounter much cultural rejection. At least 500 million is not difficult to achieve."

Jon Felemay said relaxedly: "Don't worry, director. We will have a wonderful end of the year."

"That's all for you."

After the routine "urgency", Lehmann could not manage overseas business after all, and could only hope that Lions Gate's operating methods would be more powerful.

It doesn’t matter whether the record is broken or not. The box office is higher and the copyright value is greater? It’s about interests. It’s better to be higher or higher.

After a while, Lehman, who was sitting in the boss's chair and was still stopped by the sound of his assistant Metz knocking on the door and entering.

"Is there anything wrong?"

"Someone is looking for you. He is a director. Do you want to meet me?" After receiving a call from the front desk, Metz immediately registered and asked about the information.

"Who is it?"

"Todd Phillips, a director with some achievements."

"Let him come up, right in my office." Lehman waved.

As the company becomes stronger and stronger, its foundation becomes deeper and its capital chain becomes more and more stable, it can attract the attention of many filmmakers.

This can also be seen from the fact that Landie Film can receive more project releases.

In other words, in addition to independent businesses, cooperative businesses are also rising rapidly, which is a more reasonable composition for a studio.

However, most filmmakers at the bottom basically fail to review this level. It is not that easy to invest in Fireflies.

"What's going on with him?"

"I heard from the front desk that he seemed to have taken a script, probably looking for funds and issuance." Mess curled his lips.

......

Todd came to the Firefly Building and had been sitting on the sofa next to the front desk for half an hour.

It is not easy to meet Lehman or famous producers of Firefly, such as Garcia and Brian. Of course, you can take the opportunity to sell them at the cocktail party, but these people have been busy with things recently, and have reduced the banquet, forcing Todd to be so formal.

He is not a newcomer, and has been in Hollywood for almost 13 years. At the age of 38, he is one of the younger generation in the director circle. Of course, he is incomparable to those who are more "young and promising" like Wan Ziren and Lehman, but it is not a foundation.

In fact, although he is not the five major trainers, he has a good relationship with Warner. He has worked with him three times, and is the most frequently used studios he works with and is more familiar with. However, he did not reach an agreement with Warner for this project proposal. After considering it, he thought of going to Fireflies to try it.

The reason is that he naturally thinks that Firefly's production environment attaches great importance to the director, and Firefly is not as big as Warner's family, and has more creative projects, so he may be able to strive for better conditions.

The young lady in charge of the reception seriously entered his information, then conveyed it to the upper part, and then asked him to sit for a while with a smile.

This time I sat for half an hour. It was not that Fireflies were deliberately neglecting it. But since last year, many people have been to Fireflies to try their luck and use the script to fish. Lehman stipulated that they should first find out the information of the visitors and comment on the reliability of their directors before they could be invited to discuss in detail.

There is no way. If anyone can meet Lehman or the company's senior management, it will undoubtedly increase the workload and cannot be handled at all. This indirectly shows that it is difficult for a new director to spend time in Hollywood, because such people do not have any qualifications and are difficult to be trusted, and may not even have the hope of entering the studio to invest within the studio.
Chapter completed!