Chapter 1126 Doubts

Cameron sent Yin Jun away with satisfaction.

At this time, he was far from being the invincible card god in the future, so he was very happy and felt very motivated to be praised by Yin Jun.

Yin Jun has already told him that he can write a script and shoot it himself, and the company will be responsible for all expenses. Just like this time, he still has the final editing rights.

This made Cameron even more happy and grateful to Yin Jun.

What he is grateful for is not that the company allowed him to write and direct the film, but the latter one - the final editing rights.

Nowadays, there are less than ten directors in Hollywood who have the final editing rights. If you pick one of them at random, which one is not a famous super director?

Only he, Cameron, as a fledgling director, had the final editing rights, and it was two films in a row. He was completely impressed by such generous treatment and such courage.

He knew who Yin Jun was. Cameron had gone to get to know Yin Jun carefully. He knew that the boss of a media giant started his career as a screenwriter, and he was not only the best script writer in the world, but also a good judge of people. He also has an extremely ruthless eye when looking at things. So far, those people he values ​​​​have achieved surprising achievements.

Cameron is not as conceited as he will be in the future, but he also feels that he is a very useful talent.

Now that the boss is discerning and has given him such an opportunity, Cameron has vowed to make a good movie and not let the boss down.

That is to say, Cameron only knows now. If he knew that in the next forty years, no more than ten directors would have the final editing rights for each self-made film, he would be even more proud.

This is not a big statement. You must know that even great directors such as David Fincher, Quentin Tarantino, Zack Snyder, and David Lynch do not have the final editing rights for every movie.

Even Nolan, the great master, only obtained the coveted final editing rights after several movies.

The same is true for Bombshell. Since he messed up "Pearl Harbor", half of his final editing rights have to be helped by Spielberg, even if the "Transformers" series is completely successful.

Now that "Terminator" has finally been successfully filmed, he has done what he can do, and now it is up to the market to test how successful Cameron's real debut will be.

The next step is for him to rest for a while and then consider making any movies.

It's rare to have such a good opportunity and let yourself have the final editing rights. Of course, Cameron must cherish it.

But it will definitely not be the "Terminator 2" script that I have already held in my hands, because the crucial special effects technology in it is still far from meeting the required standards.

Cameron has a particularly good habit.

That is, no matter how successful he is, his attitude towards movies is always the same piety, and he never gets carried away because of his pride.

So you can see that after he arrogantly shouted "I am the king of the world" at Titanic's Oscar special, he then worked hard for ten years and suddenly produced a super killer weapon with a transcendent significance like "Avatar".

Apart from the fact that he has shot too few movies, even Yin Jun cannot find his third flaw.

Well, apart from the second drawback of having too few movies, that is that he spends too much money. Every time he shoots a movie, he will definitely overspend.

When "Titanic" was made, he almost caused the collapse of Twentieth Century Fox and Paramount. The senior executives of Twentieth Century Fox and Paramount in charge of this project were also forced by him to have already completed "Titanic". After Titanic was released, they jumped off the Empire State Building to prepare for the end.

As for "Avatar", its production cost of 300 million US dollars is a record that can only be matched by those star-studded superhero movies many years later.

The biggest reason for the overspending is that Cameron is a person with perfect obsessive-compulsive disorder. He will not tolerate any flaws in his movies. Even in the middle of filming, as long as he feels something is wrong, he will still click everything and continue to restart. Take one shot, no matter how much manpower and material resources it will consume.

No, Cameron has just begun to truly control a movie, and he dared to spend 30 million to shoot "Terminator"!

In this era, what is the concept of a production cost of 30 million US dollars?

Basically equivalent to the later production cost of 200 million US dollars!

Even among the seven giants of Hollywood, any one of them must be careful when making such a movie, otherwise it will be very painful if it is not good - just like "Heaven's Gate" is for United Artists Film Company. If it doesn’t work well, it might almost go bankrupt!

In this regard, Cameron is much worse than Christopher Nolan.

Christopher Nolan also emphasizes details, has the same obsessive-compulsive disorder for perfection, and also likes to use special effects, but he does things more carefully than Cameron. When shooting expensive shots, he always prepares carefully, thus This reduces the chance of errors and greatly reduces costs.

But then again, if Cameron wasn't such a compulsive perfectionist, would he still be the stuck god? Can he still achieve that much?

I'm afraid not!

Therefore, Yin Jun understood him very well and just paid him back if he overspent.

Anyway, there are too few movies made by Cameron that failed. That is to say, the movie "The Abyss" lost money, and the rest all achieved greater or lesser success.

In the history of previous lives, Cameron's second movie should be "Alien 2", which took over from Ridley Scott and was very well done. It has been recognized and sought after by countless people, further cementing his status as a talented director.

But now it is obvious that Cameron can no longer produce "Alien 2" for 20th Century Fox. He belongs to United Artists Film Company, so naturally he will do it himself.

Even if Cameron made the only blockbuster movie "The Abyss" in his career a few years in advance, Yin Jun felt that it didn't matter.

In fact, if you take a closer look, the storyline of "The Abyss" is very similar to "Titanic", which made him the god of trouble.

"The Abyss" also tells a story of disaster and salvation, which is also interspersed with a sincere love story.

"Titanic", isn't this the same story?

There was no "The Abyss" because it was too gloomy and profound, and there was no "The Abyss" that failed because the storyline was protracted. Without learning these lessons, could Cameron have made "Titanic" so good?

Certainly not!

Therefore, all movie fans should be grateful to the movie "The Abyss", otherwise we would not be able to see the classic "Titanic".

This is also the most important reason why Yin Jun promised Cameron that no matter what movie he makes, the company will fully bear the cost and let him control all the power of the crew.

Some people deserve your trust.

However, after coming out, a group of people who returned to the office immediately began to exhort them.

"President, I think the risks of such a large-scale production are too great." Jason Tanya, general manager of the theater distribution department of United Artists Film Company, was the first to speak: "The production cost is 30 million US dollars, and the distribution cost is 20 million U.S. dollars suddenly becomes 50 million U.S. dollars. Such a cost requires at least a global box office of 150 million U.S. dollars to guarantee a return on investment. If you want to achieve good-looking profits, I think 200 million U.S. dollars is reliable.

But according to my estimation, unless this movie is fully released in IMAX theaters, its North American box office is likely to not exceed US$100 million, and whether the remaining US$100 million can be obtained is also a question. So please be sure to control the budgets of these people in the future and stop letting directors spend extravagantly! "

"Yes, for example, producers like Bruckheimer are good, and the two you brought from Xiangjiang can control costs very well and can bring enough benefits to the company." Disney's Academy Druid Londo, general manager of the Online Distribution Department, also agreed with this opinion, "We should produce more medium-sized movies with a cost of around 10 million US dollars, instead of this kind of movies that cost 30 to 50 million US dollars. Although, CEO, you are not short of money. , but if we lose money on several consecutive films, I’m afraid it will affect the theater chain’s confidence in us. If we don’t give us more films, it will be difficult.”

Although Americans can be tactful sometimes, they are more accustomed to talking about matters as they come to work. You may say they are stubborn or do not know how to adapt, but this is their habit.

The two are responsible for the distribution of all overseas films of Qilin Culture, especially in Europe and the United States. They have worked in this industry for more than ten or twenty years. They have rich experience and have suffered a lot, so they are very sensitive to this cost issue.

They dare not say that what Yin Jun is doing now is wrong. After all, Yin Jun has already made the decision. With a publicity cost of 20 million, they will follow suit. However, they hope that in the future, it is better to avoid such movies as much as possible.

Movies like "Beverly Hills Cop" and "Saw" are the best if they are produced at low cost and are huge hits at the box office.

You can't say that people's thinking is wrong, because they don't know that Yin Jun comes from the future.

Out of the most prudent company management considerations, make more low-budget or medium-budget movies, and then wait until one of them becomes a box office hit, and then make it into a series to make money and make it your own company. This is the most appropriate way to inherit classics.

The Big Seven in Hollywood also do this, such as the "Alien" series, "The Ghost Story", "Saw", "American Pie", etc.

The same is true for the "Fast and Furious" series. Don't look at the production costs of Super 7 and Super 8, which exceeded 100 or 200 million US dollars. But in fact, the people in front of them were really just making small and medium-cost films. I never thought about it. To go that far and that well.

Both Disney and United Artists Movies have gone through hard times, so the two distributors sincerely hope that they will never experience such days again, and their proposals are all out of public interest.

Including what they said about Yin Jun being rich, he shouldn't be so willful, which was also very insightful.

A normal business operation company can never rely solely on the boss's money to make up for its losses. If it does not have its own blood-forming ability, it will definitely be eliminated by society.

Not to mention that if you are a rich boss, you will not tolerate spending tens of millions of dollars every year to check and fix leaks. If you have this money, why not do anything else? You have to pay for the losses all the time?

If Disney and United Artists want to develop better and better and benefit their employees, of course they can only rely on their own continuous efforts to make money!

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