Chapter 104

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"Sorry,"

in a cafe in Century City, Jones Butler found the seats where Murphy and bill rosis were sitting. "There's a traffic jam. I'm late."

Murphy said with a smile, "it doesn't matter."

Jones Butler said to the attendant, "a latte, thank you."

"What have you been up to lately?" Bill - rosis timely opening, "long time no see you, last time I went to Miramax, want to talk to you, you are not."

"What can I do?" Jones Butler adjusted his chair and said, "run around looking for valuable films."

"What you're doing is very meaningful." Murphy said, "it's with you that a lot of little-known independent films with small cost can be seen."

Jones Butler smiles. "Thank you."

Murphy went on to get to the point, "do you have time recently? My new movie is finished. I hope you can give me some advice. "

The waiter brought coffee, and Jones Butler waited for him to leave before he said, "what type?"

She remembers very well that the other party took a million dollars from Miramax, and the cost of making the film was at that level at most.

"Horror movie, the electric saw." Murphy confidently said, "a very interesting horror film."

Bill - Rossi is also on the side to help, "it's so much better than" fruit candy ". To be exact, I haven't seen a better horror film in recent years."

Hearing this, Jones Butler nodded. "I'll be in Los Angeles for the next half month. You can call me any time."

Although the profits brought by "fruit hard candy" are only one million US dollars, far less than the company's revenue of some outstanding projects, this part of profits is completely unexpected, which has brought many surprises to the senior management of Miramax, and she has also been praised by the Weinstein brothers.

And the revenue from hard candy is still growing.

These are real data. There is nothing more convincing than this. Although there are not no directors who go to the street after a successful film, there are enough reasons for her to continue to pay attention to each other's films.

Hollywood has always believed that winners will continue to succeed.

This is a common phenomenon in Hollywood, not only Miramax's Jones Butler, but also Fox Searchlight's Tony gusman.

One sunny afternoon, hiding in his office, he just refused an invitation from a small production company to watch movies. Suddenly, he received a call from a strange number.

"Hello, this is Tony Goodman from Fox Searchlight." He heard some strange names on the phone and thought, "Murphy Stanton?"

Who is this? You don't seem to have dealt with him?

"Fruit candy, park city."

Hearing the other party's reminder, Tony gusman immediately rings out who Murphy Stanton is. He laughs and says politely, "director Stanton, congratulations. The first film is a big sale."

He had some regrets in his heart. At the beginning, he failed to win "unexpected edge" and lost the project which he was also optimistic about. The whole Saint Denis Film Festival, he got nothing at all.

Tony gusman was thinking and chatting with the phone. After hearing the invitation from the opposite party, he immediately concentrated on, "your new movie? It's done? OK, I have time. You must let me know when and where you decide. "

He missed one, and he didn't want to miss the second.

It's true that the other party may be lucky for the first time, and he will make a super bad film for the second time. However, he has been successful once. It's better to go to see his film than to see the works of those directors whose native place is unknown.

After hanging up, Tony gusman thought about it for a while, and told his assistant to go to the market research department to see if he could find the latest market statistics of hard candy.

He is a senior person of Fox Searchlight and has a certain position in the company. The assistant went there for a while and then came back with a piece of information. It was the company's research department that just asked for him.

"Get out." Tony gusman waved to his assistant and said, "there's nothing important. Don't disturb me."

Waiting for the assistant to close the door from the outside, Tony gusman opened the thin statistics, and after browsing it, he felt more regret.

Although he has worked on projects with a profit of tens of millions of dollars, it's often possible but not desirable. In the independent film industry, professional film watchers and buyers like him, who can meet once in a few years, have been kissed by God. The profit of millions of dollars is absolutely not small.

The last company of Fox Searchlight, 20th century fox, made only $100 million a year, not to mention the subsidiary of Fox Searchlight, an independent film with hairstyle.

They can't even match Miramax in this respect.According to the grapevine news Tony gusman got, he was not satisfied with the poor performance of Fox Searchlight in the past two years, especially in the first quarter of this year, which put great pressure on the company's top management. If there is no improvement by the end of the year, the management will surely change a lot.

And these buyers who are responsible for looking for the source of the film will inevitably be affected, and it is not impossible that they will be dismissed.

He doesn't think that he will be spared if he is the elder of Fox Searchlight. What can they count in front of capital?

With a shake of his head, Tony gusman carefully browsed the data. Hard candy has been released from North America, and has appeared in some overseas markets.

"North American box office - $1.48 million!"

"UK box office - $1.86 million, not yet off the shelf."

"Argentina box office - $970000, not yet off the shelf."

"Australia box office - 870000 dollars, has been offline."

"German box office - $690000, not yet off the shelf."

"Spain box office - 550000 dollars, not yet off the shelf."

"French box office..."

Although in many countries and regions, because of the sensitive subject matter and large-scale content of the film, no distribution company has bought the copyright from Miramax, but in the overseas market that has appeared, "fruit candy" has won more than 4 million US dollars at the box office.

According to Stanton studio, the production cost of the film is only $300000.

Miramax has undoubtedly made a very good deal!

Tony gusman continued to look down. Miramax also sold the North American TV and video rights to hard candy. The former received $150000, while the latter received $200000 without video sharing.

These are all profits!

Combined with the statistics, Tony gusman is determined to see the director's new film. (to be continued). )