Chapter 457: Appreciation
"Okay, the awards PR for the movie is mostly focused on the best picture, best director and actor parts."
Barry Mayer waved his hand and said in an unquestionable tone: "Whether or not you can win the award in the end, let's get the nomination first. Build momentum."
"Is there anything I need to cooperate with?" Lyman asked.
"Let's talk about it after the Golden Globes, there's no need to win over the judges yet." Barry Mayer finished, looked at his watch and said, "If everyone agrees, I'll go first if I have something else to do."
Everyone was polite, and he hurriedly nodded and left.
In all, it took less than an hour for a conversation to set the charter.
Joseph on the side just watched, and several Warner executives also walked out of the reception room one after another.
With a relaxed look on his face, Lehman pulled Joseph and said in a low voice, "I'll leave it to you to contact Warner in the future. You need to get to know the executives of Warner first."
Joseph nodded yes.
Now the internal affairs of the company are well managed by Joseph, and some rules have been established.
Lehman also recognized his ability more and more, and took the initiative to put more burdens on him.
You must know that the cooperative network established by Lehman and Warner is a network that Joseph could not match when he was a Colombian executive.
Joseph is also a smart man. Hearing what Lehman said, he knew that his position in the company was about to rise again.
Although his expression didn't change much at the moment, he was still happy in his heart.
As a senior wage earner, who doesn't want their treatment to go up?
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After negotiating the operation of "Million Dollar Baby", Laiman and Joseph did not stay in the Warner Building for a long time. Just after noon, they found a few familiar people to eat outside and introduced them to Joseph. , then went back to the company.
Top and Ryan are still busy with the TV series The Walking Dead.
So, Lehman arranged Thomas to help prepare the film crew of The Mist.
The total budget of this project is about 58 million US dollars, which is three times higher than that of the previous version. After all, the director of the original version can't get much investment, and everything is saved, and the cast is not that attractive in the market. Kind of, the money is made entirely by the quality of the movie.
Like starring Thomas Jane and Marcia, they are not the backbone of second-tier actors due to their image limitations.
Then don't mention the special effects and the scenery, and it's not a bonus item. It's almost meaningless.
Therefore, raising the budget to nearly $60 million is the ideal production budget for this work.
And the actor is the hardest hit area for replacement.
It has been confirmed that Cage will play the protagonist David, a painter; Eva will play Amanda, a religious fanatic; the black uncle can be played by Samuel L Jackson.
Well, the future director of S.H.I.E.L.D. is a supporting actor, and the effect of acting is very good.
And the rest of the roles are not so heavy, you can save some money and pick some third-rate actors to star in... Well, there is both traffic and acting responsibility, and the combination is very reasonable.
28, night.
There was a screening of "Million Dollar Baby" this morning.
Warners strictly adhered to a strategy of controlling word-of-mouth with a small number of theatrical releases.
It has only taken less than 15 theaters from a few major chain theater chains, and the number of films is not high.
Not only that, but not many passers-by and viewers can pay attention to the fact that the movie has been released, because there is not even a newsworthy promotion in the newspaper.
It's so peaceful.
Of course, several other Olympic-oriented works follow a similar strategy.
Everyone needs to control word-of-mouth, and can't publish them indiscriminately.
Moreover, "Million Dollar Baby" officially debuted in the North American market for the first time, and Warner did not hold any premieres or the like.
Just let the theater release tickets to the outside world.
Starting at nine o'clock, within an hour, the tickets were snapped up by fans of the long-awaited director Lehmann's work.
For this phenomenon, Lehmann actually thinks it is very reasonable.
After all, with the reputation he has accumulated in the previous works, he still has a bit of appeal. And as early as the middle of this year, the scene of "Million Dollar Baby" being screened in Cannes had already spread to North America, and many people were waiting.
So when Warners told him the tickets had been emptied, Lyman remained calm.
...
"Huh? Lehman's new work has landed in theaters?"
"Just a spot?"
"The morning ticket."
"Okay, leave the review of the new movie to me."
"Okay, that's it."
"Dudu...dudu..."
The phone was hung up, but Bella began to look forward.
As a film critic and a patent writer for the "Chicago Daily", Bella is very willing to make a movie in the early hours of the morning, as long as it is made by Lyman.
However, the waiting time is excruciating.
Entering from a handful of theaters, Bella watched the seats slowly fill as she waited for the feature film to show.
At this time, such a movie, with very little publicity, still has so many audiences and fans to support?
Bella doesn't think this is the case with her theater alone.
Well, director Lehmann's reputation isn't bad.
Bella thought with some joy.
...
"I heard that this film won the Palme d'Or?"
"Director Lehman's works are all pretty good, and I can read them several times over and over."
"I also bought a CD of Bad Guys, and I want to watch it again when I have free time."
"Are you like that too? Me too."
"I don't know what kind of viewing experience this movie will have..."
Fans gradually entered the venue, and the not-so-big movie hall suddenly became lively.
Not to mention that many viewers themselves are very concerned about the dynamics of Lehman's new work, only to realize the fact that the screening has been opened.
Bella listened to the discussions of the people around her, and unconsciously changed to a comfortable position and sat on the seat.
Very comfortable.
If you can watch a good movie, that's how it should be.
The headlights on the top of the head went out one by one, but the dark big screen came out with light...
The movie begins.
"Hopefully it will be a good movie again."
At the beginning of the scene, the bleak camera texture was pulled into the story of Maggie, a thirty-year-old female boxer...
Frankie, the owner and coach of a boxing gym with a bad family relationship, has abandoned him even the boxer he trained after encountering various setbacks in his life...
When Frankie could only watch his apprentice get the gold belt on TV, he realized that what his old friend said also made sense - life is hard, we have to be harder!
Behind this, Frankie is also afraid of boxer injury and overprotection of boxer.
...
Bella also had a hard time imagining that such a simple story could be so smoothly controlled by director Lyman.
She considers herself to be fairly familiar with Ryman's style.
But when Lehman gave up lighting in warm colors, and gave up fancy camera editing and transitions, there were no handsome and beautiful actors, or even shocking scenes and props. It is bland compared to his previous works.
The only thing that remains is the detailed characterization of the characters and the eloquent narrative technique.
sharp!
After watching most of the movie, Bella is not only immersed in the plot of the work, but also appreciates the changes in Lehmann's shooting techniques...
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