Chapter 1230

It's another ordinary morning. Even for Hollywood, which is full of countless miracles and unlimited possibilities, the office life is boring day after day and year after year. It's buried in countless boring paperwork, and the passion and enthusiasm are gradually exhausted.

Miracles exist, but they are not normal after all.

According to the Convention, Barry Meyer arrived at the office at 10 a.m., spread out the newspaper on his desk, and began to browse the industry news every day in his spare time with a cup of coffee, to grasp all the trends in the industry, and to dig out potential connections and trends in the vast ocean of information.

After reading the newspaper, Barry began to open his letters.

Now is the 21st century, e-mail has become the mainstream, all the information exchange and dialogue are completed through the network channel; However, the traditional mode of letters still remains, especially the frequent use of printed and handwritten characters in professional magazines such as "Hollywood report" and "variety show the precipitation of cultural heritage.

At the same time, the traditional mail mode is retained, which also makes the tradition of the mail room remain.

In the 1970s and 1980s, the mail room was a stage that every new employee had to go through, from a brokerage company to a film company. After a long period of polishing here, the newcomers were able to gain a higher level of space. On the one hand, they wanted to grind their hearts, on the other hand, they wanted to be familiar with the industrial rules; Of course, it is more to distinguish the gap between qualifications and grades.

Now this tradition has gradually disappeared, but large production companies still keep the mailroom, partly because of polishing new people or being in the cold, and partly because of opening up the majority of amateur writers and producers to post manuscripts and expand their data repository in another form.

Of course, the letter can finally appear on Barry's desktop, obviously has gone through layers of screening, spam will certainly not appear here.

Opened a thick brown paper envelope in front of him, and Barry pulled it out. It was a USB flash drive and a script. His brow was frowning: Why did the script come to his desk? This should be pushed to the production department, where there are professionals responsible for browsing scripts and screening projects. This is not his strong point or his job.

Heavily, Barry left the script on the desk, habitually picked up the phone, connected to the Secretary's inside line, and said in a blunt and irascible voice, "what's the matter with the script on my desk? This shouldn't be on my desktop. Such mistakes, you must review, I don't want to waste time on such boring things. Do your job

"Sir. That's the script that Andy Rogers sent to you in person. He told you that it was the project that Langley was interested in The Secretary's voice was a little tense. She could feel her tension. She waited for a moment, but didn't wait for Barry's response. She didn't know whether she should continue.

"What else?"

Barry's voice finally came over from the other end of the phone, and the secretary was a little relieved, "and Andy not only came to us, he also went to Universal Pictures."

Universal pictures?

As everyone knows, Lang Meyer never let go of his position and refused to compromise with Langley, so the relationship between the two sides became embarrassed and stuck in a position. Then Andy took the initiative to send him to the door at this time. What is the reason? I carefully recalled everything that happened on Oscar night, but there were so many details that I couldn't clear up for a moment.

The fingertips tapped gently on the desk for a while, and Barry hung up after making sure the Secretary had nothing else to say.

Now there are too many potential possibilities, and there are too few puzzle clues, which can't be figured out in a short time. Therefore, Barry temporarily put down all his thoughts, inserted the U disk into the computer, and began to play the short video; At the same time, he also opened the script and began to browse it.

In just a few minutes, the video clip has been played, and only a few pages of the original script have been read, so we have a general understanding of the framework. Barry is not interested in the artistic attainments and theme of "pop drummer" because he is not an artist; As for the commercial interests of this work, Barry made a judgment early——

Obviously, this is not a profitable work.

Strictly speaking, even if you can make money, you can earn millions of dollars at most. After all, it's just an independent art project, and you can't make a lot of money; As for the Impact Award season, Barry does not have the ability to appreciate, that is another way of thinking, not in his radar range.

For Warner Brothers, they have a certain amount of money every year for such a small project. They are bound to invest in a few films to ensure that they will not disappear in the award season. Then they go to major film festivals to buy the distribution rights of some independent works of art and further participate in the competition for the award season.

But in the final analysis, this is not the main line of Warner Brothers development, and Barry will not spend a lot of energy.

Universal Pictures' focus films, 20th Century Fox's Fox Searchlight, Disney's Miramax films, Paramount's classic films, and so on, all of them are committed to digging out more independent art films and creating their own brands.

Warner Brothers is different. Although they also have subsidiaries such as new line pictures and Warner independent pictures, the company's policies have never spent too much energy on independent art films, which can only be regarded as a small branch at most.

At other times, Barry would not be interested in such projects, even those of the Cohen brothers or Langley. Barry is very willing to cooperate. He is willing to hand over the project to professional departments, and generously support the funding to ensure the stability of the network, but he will not spend more energy on the details of the project.

On the whole, super projects are the focus of their development, especially now that the company is standing at a crossroads of development, which is likely to affect the development plan for the next ten years. But on the other hand, it is also because of this that Barry has to think more carefully about the Langley proposal.

Barry's intuition tells him that the whole project appears on his desk, and timing is obviously an important factor. Even if it's not Langley's idea, it's Andy's idea - otherwise, Andy won't come to Warner Bros. to leave the script.

It's a simple thing to agree to invest in an independent project. For a project like "pop drummer", 10 million US dollars is enough. For Warner Bros., it's not difficult at all.

The point is that this is the first time that lanli has worked as an independent producer. What is the position of the project weight in lanli's mind, and what is the height of lanli's expectation for the project?

What's more, winning the cooperation of "pop drummer" means that in the long run, the possibility of cooperation with other works of lanli in the future will also rise?

Or to put it another way, as an actor, Langley has proved his value, which may need further proof. As a producer, is Langley's vision also a guarantee of success? In addition, in terms of screenwriting and production, whether the word-of-mouth guarantee of lanli is also trustworthy.

In short, is Langley hall as worthy of long-term investment as Christopher Nolan?

Not long ago, on the night of the Oscars, Barry was still glad that the relationship between Warner Brothers and Langley was on the right track, from "tomorrow's edge" to "gravity", and the cooperative relationship was in a harmonious virtuous circle. In this respect, they were ahead of other film companies.

Now, the opportunity of in-depth cooperation has really come. It is not a profitable commercial project, but an independent project of art. In a certain sense, it is a choice that conforms to the style of blue rite, but not that of Warner Brothers.

If the long-term cooperation goes on, can lenley give Warner Bros the expected commercial attribute bonus? In other words, is lenley big enough to take Warner Brothers one step further?

In addition, Barry knows that Andy left a clue, Warner Brothers is not the only choice. This is a kind of scheming. It's a kind of scheming that is clearly waiting to be sold, but it's also a kind of scheming that makes people helpless.

So, how should he decide?

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After the closing of the Oscar night, the noise of the awarding season has officially come to an end. Major film companies are busy for the new film production cycle in an orderly manner. Cannes Film Festival is coming and the summer season is coming. There are still many things they need to be busy with. However, March and April are still relatively quiet and busy for the time being.

In this process, the name of "Langley hall" is like a pebble thrown into the calm lake, rippling, and gradually becoming more and more intense, finally setting off a storm.

According to the internal information of the innovative artist agency, lanli is preparing an independent work of art. This will be the first time that lanli has really participated in the whole process of making a work as a producer!

Before that, lanli appeared in the producer list of "tomorrow's edge" and "gravity" as a nominal producer. However, people in the industry all know that lanli did not really participate in the production process of the project, but only participated in the role creation and script polishing, and more importantly, he traveled his duties as an actor.

So, whether it's Paul Greengrass or Alfonso Caron, they are all full of praise for Langley.

This time, however, it was different. From the beginning of the project initiation stage, lanli had already participated in it, actively prepared funds for the project, and obviously took on the responsibility of producer more actively. So, what does it mean?