Burbank, where night falls, the lights converge into a beautiful view of the city that never sleeps, but for most businesses or senior executives, it is not worth spending time calculating their performance value at night.

Jon Feleme was one of them in the office of Lion Gate, but he seemed to have encountered some trouble, frowned, looked at the report, and looked so happy, and sighed from time to time.

If I don’t understand, I think Lions Gate has been living a miserable life recently and the project has failed frequently, so I am worried, but the reality is just the opposite. The cooperation with Fireflies, as well as "Crescent Moon" and "I Am Legend" are so good, people in the circle see it, and they are not a loss of money.

Only by using the cooperation analysis of "Cremlin", this film was painted on November 10, with a box office of 296.6 million yuan locally and an overseas box office of 413 million yuan, with a total global cumulative total of 709.6 million yuan, and the highest single-game museum once exceeded 35,000.

With such a record, Jon Felemay has been in the industry for more than 20 years and has never seen such a hit movie, but it happened to him. Moreover, the first movie is almost 400 million yuan worldwide, and the second movie is so much improved, which is rare.

Especially with the support of teenagers and women, for most studios, the money-making ability of the "Twilight" series is really too crazy.

So if you only talk about making money or not, even if Lions Gate only draws 10% of the channel commission, it can earn 41.3 million from the box office item, which is definitely a profit. For a movie, the big one has never been a box office. Based on the family entertainment market and licensing income under this result, Jon Felemay has initially estimated that he himself was also very moved.

If you operate it reasonably, Lions Gate can make no less than 90 million yuan in profits. This year, the most profitable project produced by Lions Gate independently is "The Black Wind Woman's Prison". After planning for more than half a year, it only earned nearly 100 million yuan, not to mention some projects that have worked hard and lost money.

Of course, Jon Felemay must not sigh for this. He just saw the rapid and healthy development of fireflies, and he really felt a little indescribable for the rise of his production business.

After all, they developed an overseas distribution network with such great efforts and invested their financial resources and energy just to do a big deal. As a result, they still lacked source of films until now, and their dependence on fireflies is really unsettling.

In the glamorous situation, what is covered is that more than two years have passed. Lions Gate has not yet found a foundation that can completely gain a foothold in the Hollywood crowded situation, and has its own ace series or sustainable development plan.

More importantly, the more Firefly shows extraordinary production abilities, the more he is afraid that one day the cooperation between the two parties will end, or that Lehman is greedy for too much and seeks greater strength, further lowering the interests of the publisher of Lions Gate. What should Lions Gate do then?

These worries can be regarded as manifestations of the lack of confidence in the Lions Gate. After all, if this happens, Lions Gate has basically no ability to resist. They are using price wars to fight the differentiated side, not to mention that after the stall is opened, they have not made any changes that should be made, which is beyond the expectations of the top leaders of the Lions Gate.

Do you want to say that they are not active? In addition to stabilizing Firefly's cooperation and maintaining good personal relationships with Firefly's senior management, they also vigorously develop their own production business and find other high-quality content providers. However, their results are not as powerful as Firefly's projects or do not take risks.

The report data spread out on the table clearly proves that—

As of 2009, 5 movies produced independently have made small profits, one barely guaranteed capital, lost the schedule, and the other movie could not even recover the funds invested, let alone the profit. After settlement, it was all the end of the year, and the operating income was only about 140 million yuan;

There are 8 projects participating in the production or issuance, with an average profit of about 30 million and a profit of more than 240 million. Among them, the part that cooperates with Fireflies accounts for 72% of the total value...

Yes, the proportion of Lion Gate's dependence on fireflies is so high that Jon Felemay is panicked. Looking at the many studios in Hollywood, no one has such a profit distribution. Even if DreamWorks team enters Paramount, Paramount's production business also relies heavily on DreamWorks, and there is no such a high proportion.

Just talking about performance participation, the issuing department of Lions Gate is almost becoming a subordinate unit of Firefly. It helps them to be responsible for the parts that cannot be completed, and the price is still cheap...

Of course, if you think so, Jon Felemay didn't show this feeling at all.

At the celebration party some time ago, he also personally received Liam.

Jon Felemay sighed, thinking about changing the situation through external forces. He also discovered that it would be better to let it go by just cultivating his own producers.

......

That night, on the other side of the sea, Rodriguez Perlman, who is responsible for the construction of overseas channel sites, also summarized his work in the office:

"...My team and I have been in South America for nearly four months. With the implementation of the response plan, we have eliminated basic difficulties and put the contact issuance roughly on the right track.

However, in order to avoid agency troubles, accelerate channel sinking, determine the issuance process, etc., the company should start as soon as possible and produce appropriate projects.

"However, in order to make the movies burst out with the market energy they deserve, we must consider issues such as unfamiliarity in audience and publicity, and incomplete delivery. Therefore, choosing movies with a narrow profit margin is the most suitable for the preparation of the early stage - overseas competitiveness must also take into account cultural differences and minimize the imposition of regional culture.

From the perspective of cultural barriers, dramas such as science fiction, action, adventure, and love will be more mainstream. Comedy, horror, and family dramas are relatively difficult, making it difficult for regional audiences to accept American slang culture.

Moreover, in the film market, especially for some less developed regions, their audiences have a great demand for special effects movies. If they do not pay attention to content, special effects are the most visually satisfying. They are less picky than American audiences. According to research on "The Legend of Loch Ness", "Dragon Knight" has the results of blooming outside the wall as support, so they do not lose too much."

"The results of using sites for testing and contact are very gratifying. Most local channel providers do not care about providing more film providers. They also need enough film sources to select and compete. In addition, the recruitment of regional personnel has been fully enriched. There are more than 130 employees in total. Please accept them as soon as possible."

"In terms of finance, the operation has consumed more than 73 million yuan by this month. The site laying and staff wages are the majority of the expenses. The remaining 12 million US dollars is temporarily enough for the next step of carrying out activities. Please prepare the headquarters to arrange for PwC's team to formulate funding procedures, reimbursement procedures and other regulations for these regional sites in order to regulate accounts."

Rodriguez Perlman wrote this and stretched his waist easily, feeling satisfied.
Chapter completed!