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Chapter 400 Deafening Silence (Earth)
After all, Adam couldn't hide the script changes for too long.

Because Time Warner has already started contacting Denzel Washington, in the first version of the script, there is a very important character who is one of the protagonists. Time Warner hopes to recommend an actor to play in order to increase the superstar weight in the script .

According to Hollywood's "salary cap" level for a movie, a super production with an investment of 4 million yuan can accommodate 3 A cafes and a group of B cafes. Truman, a new A cafe, occupies a spot, and Two, Time Warner even wanted Denzel Washington to pair with Brad Pitt and Truman.

And Denzel Washington and Brad Pitt are also very interested in this script.

After all, there have been no big companies and big directors in Hollywood who want to make war movies for a long time. The only war-related movies are "Top Gun" and "Disc in Disc" in the hands of Tom Crusu, and "Disc Shadow" Binding with Mada Damon, "007" will not choose them A cafes.

Especially Brad Pitt, he likes war films very much. His last war film "Fury" invested 6800 million US dollars, and the global box office was 2.1 million US dollars, making a small profit. This time, "Blood on the Vulture" reached 4 million investment Dollar, the scene must be unparalleled grandeur.

Not only these two A-listers, other Hollywood stars are also famous and moving. Shia LaBeouf, Wesley Snipes, Long Ma, Anna Hathaway, etc. who have worked with Truman have all passed various Contact Truman through various channels, hoping to get a role in the script.

Adam predicted that a $4 million war movie would cause a sensation in Hollywood, but he didn't expect the stars to flock to it so much. Therefore, in order to avoid more liability for breach of contract, Adam seized the time to submit a new version of the script to Time Warner.

Time Warner's silence after receiving the new version of the script was also a bit deafening.

According to Henry, an insider executive who eats fish, CEO John Stankey even dropped the phone, thinking that "this is an insult to him", because the investment in this movie is too huge, so John personally supervises its progress, and Henry can only knock He beat the side drums, but couldn't ease the CEO's mood. John was indeed very angry.

But John Stankey is a business elite after all, and he quickly asked, "to have a face-to-face meeting with CH."

The meeting was held at the Time Warner headquarters. In order to apologize, Truman came to the headquarters in person to explain the project.

At the meeting, he talked eloquently... of course that is impossible. The one who talked eloquently was John Stankey, an American who had just taken over as the president and chief operating officer. For the group, "Blood Battle on Eagle Peak" is his first film project.

"CH, that's a nearly perfect screenplay, why overturn it?" John Stankey asked.

"Mr. John, you are too polite." Truman said.

Um?John Stankey didn't understand.

Adam understood that Truman was dealing with receiving the first layer of meaning in John Stankey's words, boasting that the script was perfect, so he was humbled.

The entire crew of Eat Fish is bad at communicating with others. Their strengths are artistic creations related to filming. In Adam's memory, the only person around Truman who is good at communicating is Shen Yining, the dean of CHIYU. With frequent appearances on various TV programs, he has gradually become an influential religious figure.

"Mr. John." Adam began to explain for Truman, "Actually, after our research and judgment, the individual heroism highlighted in traditional war movies has been difficult to win the favor of the audience, so..."

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after an hour.

Truman, Adam and Ting Jun left the Time Warner headquarters.

"CH, I don't think the situation is optimistic." Adam said to Truman in the driver's seat.

"But that Mr. John's attitude is very polite." Ting Jun was puzzled.

After two years in Hollywood, Ting Jun's oral English has also improved a lot, and he can communicate in daily life, so it can be heard that there is no obvious rejection in the tone of Time Warner's president.

"Businessmen will always maintain the most basic courtesy," Adam said, "but if you refuse their conditions, they will kick you out of the door without ceremony."

Sure enough, before Adam sent Truman and Ting Jun back to Beverly Hills, he had already received an email from Time Warner. Revise".

Further down, Time Warner listed a series of fine print.

For example, "the protagonist in the first version of the script must exist", "the background of the times cannot be overstated in the movie", "the US military can be used as the villain, but there must be relatively righteous characters among the villains", "there can be more protagonists, but The sole protagonist must play a decisive role” and so on and so forth.

A full list of 23 items shows that Time Warner has long planned for the negotiation of this meeting.

When Adam told Truman these 23 items, Truman did not immediately express an attitude of acceptance or rejection. He just asked Adam: "Do we really need Time Warner?"

"Yes. We need it." Adam gave an affirmative answer.

"But "Spawn" and "Heavenly Visitor" were also independently produced and released by us." Ting Jun was a little puzzled.

"These two films have brought us almost no profit," Adam said. "If a major studio released it, it would have brought in at least 2 million to 3 million US dollars in profit, but we alone promoted this movie. It takes too much cost to lubricate it in production and distribution, and those costs are our lost profits."

That's right.The value of the existence of large Hollywood film companies is to integrate resources, create profits, and reduce risks, such as "Spawn" and "Heavenly Visitor". Under their ingenious operating strategies, they should be a cost, which is nearly 2.5 million US dollars, but In fact, it cost nearly 3 million, so in the end, although the box office was high, there was no profit.

What is even more difficult is to verify the actual income of hundreds of theaters in North America, Europe, and mainland China, to monitor the real cost of publicity and CG production companies, or to avoid the need reasonably in accordance with government tax requirements around the world. For the taxes paid, major film studios have mature systems and staff, but Truman and his friends need to re-integrate these resources.

In the release process of "Spawn", CAA played a huge role, but CAA can only make it work, not maximize its profit.

And, is CAA a paradise of incorruptibility?Of course not, Adam couldn't tell how many moths ate their stomachs on the "Spawn" project.

So they need a major film studio that can help them share costs and provide a system.

Truman nodded, "Then let's revise the script."

Now, looking at Truman, Adam was even a little moved.Inexplicably, there is a feeling that the child has finally grown up and sensible.

(End of this chapter)