Chapter 485 This Legendary Movie!

Spielberg came earlier than Yin Jun imagined.

Before Yin Jun returned to the hotel at noon, the front desk of the hotel here said that a Mr. Spielberg came to him according to the number Yin Jun left, and asked if he would answer the phone.

The front desk of the hotel must know Spielberg, but Americans are often very polite. When they are not sure whether he knows Yin Jun, they generally do not disclose the privacy of the guests.

It's not like in Huaguo in the future, when they see idols, they don't even know their surnames, and they dare to share any news.

The current Huaguo is more disciplined than the United States, and the secrecy is stronger.

Yin Jun naturally asked Spielberg to answer the phone, and then told him his location. Not long after, the dusty Spielberg sat beside Yin Jun.

He greeted Huo Jianning first, and then concentrated on dealing with Yin Jun.

"Jun, I plan to start planning and preparing "E.T." in June at the latest. Look, can we talk about the contract now?" Spielberg asked straight to the point.

"good."

Yin Jun didn't shirk, "Stephen, what do you want?"

The script is Yin Jun's, so he naturally takes the initiative.

Spielberg was not surprised by Yin Jun's question, and nodded: "First, I hope to have full power on the set; second, I hope that I can be present to provide opinions during the final editing; third, I hope to let George's special effects studio do the special effects. My agent will discuss the rest of my work contract with you."

Americans are straightforward in doing things, and they don't know that negotiating prices like this will hurt the hearts of Chinese people.

Chinese people generally hope to bow to them when they see them, and they don't want to be paid for anything, they just want to work for themselves.

Yin Jun heard the words, "There is no problem with the first two, and the work contract will definitely satisfy you. For the third special effects studio, I hope you will hand it over to Stan Winston's studio."

Stan Winston began to do various special effects in Hollywood in the late 1960s, but the special effects at that time were still very shallow.

After more than ten years of hard work, Stan Weston and his Stan Weston digital studio have become well-known in the industry.

Not as famous as Lucas's Industrial Light and Magic, but many movies also like to find this special effects master to do some special effects.

Spielberg knew Stan Winston, and even 5 years ago, he wanted to find Stan Winston to be the model of the great white shark that made him famous all over the world, so he was very interested in Stan Winston Dun's ability is also well known.

Hearing that Yin Jun and Stan Winston also knew each other, Spielberg sighed, "Unexpectedly, your understanding of Hollywood is so profound. If Stan Winston did it, I think I have no other opinion."

The most important thing was settled, and Spielberg felt more at ease.

His most important purpose today is naturally the power of the final edit.

Spielberg is very smart. He will not ask himself to have the final editing power alone, but chooses to have the right to participate, which usually does not arouse the resentment of investment companies.

Speaking of the final edit, it is actually the master film that is edited into a finished film and then taken to a film copy factory.

Simply put, it is the version that the audience sees.

Why production companies usually don't let the director who knows the film's shooting and meaning best to edit, in fact, this can be traced back to the beginning of the film development for decades.

At that time, the production company chose to let the director do the final editing, because how to shoot, which shots are the most classic, what is the main line... etc., the director is the person who knows best, how can he be worthy of not letting them do the editing? So much filming costs?

As a result, the movie was edited by the directors, and when it was released in the theater, it immediately brought immediate results—the number of audiences was reduced by more than half!

The studios were dumbfounded by this.

Nima, what's the situation! ?

They hurriedly did a questionnaire survey, only to find out that the movies edited by the directors are rarely understood by normal people!

Because what directors pursue is not the happy feeling of watching movies, but the art in their hearts, the deepest pursuit of movie stories.

Think about it.

How many people understand art?

So the movie naturally hit the street.

For this reason, the major film giants in Hollywood have decided that how to shoot is up to you as the director, but how to edit, how to make a film, and how to meet the audience, then leave it to you. Our film company directly organizes a group of people to do it , according to the preferences of the audience to edit.

In this way, although the directors were extremely unhappy, a miracle still happened. The audience returned in large numbers, and the movie became better and better. This made the film companies ecstatic, and the directors had nothing to say .

Of course, there are not without exceptions, and there are many examples of the final editing being bad.

Film directors felt, look, I didn't edit this, but in the end it was blamed on me, how wronged I was! No, I have to do it myself!

And even now, the competition between directors and film companies for the final editing rights has not stopped at all.

When the truck driver was filming his first movie, the film company didn’t allow him to make the final edit after the filming was over. In the end, the truck driver gave him his own key, sneaked into the editing room and edited it himself?

Then, when he sold the rights to his famous work - "Terminator" to the owner of the film company, who later became his first wife, he made it clear that I don't want any remuneration, no script fee, I only have one request , that is to let me control everything, and I have the final editing rights.

In the end, Cameron's future wife agreed, and then he opened the road of the god of commercial movies that the truck driver Niubi coaxed!

Similarly, Spielberg is also a person with a strong desire to control. He wants to control everything about filming by himself.

And Spielberg has this capital, "Jaws" with an investment of 9 million US dollars, the global box office broke through 400 million US dollars, and it was still an era of low prices and low currency in 1975!

Such a high input-output ratio made him a world-renowned director all of a sudden, and he has a lot of autonomy in Universal, but Universal still does not give him the final editing rights.

Paramount, which paid for "Raiders of the Lost Ark" in the previous life, did not give him the final editing rights.

Spielberg won't have the final editing rights at Universal until this "Raiders of the Lost Ark" is successful again, starting with the next "E.T."

And when "E.T." was successful again, from then on, no one dared to say that Spielberg would not be given the final editing rights-if you did not give this right, no matter how much you paid, people would not look at you.

The current Spielberg is not yet the top three super directors in the world in the future. Although a "Jaws" made him famous, it is far from enough to consolidate his position.

Therefore, he just tried to talk to Yin Jun, but he didn't expect Yin Jun to readily agree, which made him feel better for a while.

Then he asked another very important question by the way, "Should we use the movie "E.T." to show the script to major companies, or should you seek investment, or what?"

"You don't need to find someone else to make the film, we will do it ourselves." Yin Jun said leisurely: "I will give you a production fee of 15 million US dollars first, and if you need to add more, the total amount can be up to 25 million US dollars."

"good!"

Spielberg nodded in satisfaction.

He originally expected that the filming funds of 10 million US dollars would be able to handle it, but he did not expect that Yin Jun could give up to 25 million US dollars. In this way, he can make movies with more excellence.

All directors are very satisfied with the generous boss. Spielberg suddenly had the idea of ​​often collaborating with Yin Jun, which seemed to be a good idea.

As everyone knows, in fact, right now, it should be said that Yin Jun is the happiest.

People from later generations, who doesn't know the super scary return on investment ratio of "E.T."?

The original version of "E.T." cost 12 million U.S. dollars to shoot, and about 5 million U.S. dollars to promote and sell, but the global box office was 792.91 million U.S. dollars! !

A full 46.6 times the input-output ratio! !

Even after excluding all distribution, theater fees, etc., the box office profit of "E.T." exceeded 300 million US dollars.

This does not include the numerous peripheral derivative benefits of "E.T."

For example, the game copyright that almost brought down Atari, the largest game company in the world, was sold for 25 million US dollars!

But this amount is enough to offset all production costs.

Then the income from toys, books, video tapes, etc., accumulated over the past few decades, 300 million US dollars is absolutely indispensable!

Even in 2002, the United States, Germany, Argentina, Italy and other countries released the remade "E.T." again, and the DVD became a bestseller again.

Calculated in total for about 30 years, the net profit of "E.T." will not be less than 800 million U.S. dollars! !

The original version of "E.T.", in many respects, is somewhat imperfect, which is why Yin Jun is willing to invest more money in it.

Spielberg's ability, coupled with a large amount of filming and production costs, post-production special effects work, etc., "E.T." in this life will definitely shine brighter than the previous life!

And this movie, which is destined to be famous in film history, has become a good start for Yin Jun to set up a film company!

There is no need to wait for the cumulative income of ten or twenty years. Everyone will be crazy about it when it is released!

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