Chapter 785 785. Surprise

Chapter 785 785. Surprise

This time "League of Assassins" was released in the United States and was distributed by Disney.

In order to strive for a good number of screens, under Nie Wei's suggestion, Huayi Company chose to compromise on the final box office profit and offered 5 percentage points. The price was that it had only planned to release 1,300 screens. , upgraded to 2,000 screens.

Sacrificing the box office share in exchange for more screens is because Nie Wei is confident in his own movies and confident that he can increase the box office through more film schedules to make up for the loss in box office shares and at the same time win a More impressive results.

Because of this exchange, Disney was even divided into two groups, and they discussed it for a week before making a decision.

First of all, "League of Assassins" is released on Christmas Eve, which is only a foreign holiday in China and is not included in the national statutory holidays. Only businessmen who want to sell things and some young people who want to find an excuse to have fun will be interested. .

But abroad, these days are equivalent to the Chinese Spring Festival.

This is also the most golden few days of the year for movie theaters, so there are really many movies released at this time.

Therefore, the competition for the use of every screen is very fierce. Some film companies even quarreled on the Internet and in newspapers over a few tenths of a percent of the film schedule, and they wanted to tear each other apart.

In this case, even if Disney wants to get more screens for a movie, it will still have to pay a certain price.

Fortunately, Disney did not have any major works released for Christmas this year, which is the main reason why Nie Wei finally chose to cooperate with Disney.

Nie Wei's choice is undoubtedly the right one. After watching the samples, many Disney executives expressed interest in the film. Of course, some executives were not interested in the film because they felt that a group composed of mostly No matter how exciting the movies performed by Chinese people are, they will not get good box office results.

Soon, meetings to arrange the release of the film were officially held at Disney headquarters.

The most heated topic of discussion that day was how many screens should be obtained for this movie. Some executives who were very optimistic about this movie felt that this movie should have more than 2,000 screens according to the specifications of a blockbuster. However, this proposal has just been announced. When it was brought up, some people immediately objected.

"Thomas, stop joking, two thousand? Do you think that's a movie starring Julie and Leonardo?" an old man who was as fat as a ball retorted loudly.

"That's right, except for Mr. Nie, I don't know any of the actors in that movie." Another white man who looked to be forty years old and wore gold-rimmed glasses also spoke. After speaking, he suddenly smiled and said, He added: "Perhaps we can use Mr. Nie's fame to promote movies starring billionaires. I believe this topic can bring us some box office."

As the words fell, there were several chuckles in the conference room.

The joke told by the white man had a hint of sarcasm, and everyone present understood it.

It's just that he thinks that Nie Wei's fame is more in the financial circle, because the other party is a world-class rich man. If it were placed in Hollywood, Nie Wei's fame as an actor would not be enough.

Although this statement is sarcastic, it is true. In fact, except for "The Lonely Agent", Nie Wei has no other works in Hollywood that the audience can name, and "The Lonely Agent" itself , it’s just a movie with minor achievements.

However, many of Nie Wei's songs are very popular in the United States. If Nie Wei came to Disney to seek record cooperation instead of promoting movies, I believe there would not be such big differences in the conference room at this moment, and everyone here would welcome Nie Wei. Yui's arrival.

"Jace, your proposal may be good. It is indeed a publicity point, but what I want to say is that the quality of the film itself is very good!" Thomas, who had previously proposed to give "Assassin's League" two thousand screens, stood up. , pointed at the "League of Assassins" that had just finished playing in the conference room and said loudly.

"Ask yourselves, when you just watched this movie, didn't you applaud it in your heart? Big-name movie stars do have box office appeal, but what can really retain the audience is to return to the movie itself. I believe that as long as If the quality of the movie is good enough, it will definitely sell well, and the more screens we arrange, the biggest benefit will be for us at Disney!”

Thomas' words made many people present think deeply. They have to admit that the quality of this movie is indeed very high, at least as accurate as a major Hollywood production, whether it is special effects, explosions, or action design. Wait, coupled with the smooth plot and the superb acting skills of the actors, everything is above the standard.

Especially in terms of special effects, they were really surprised. They were curious as to when there was such a powerful film special effects company in the East. Its technical level has even surpassed most of the film special effects companies in Hollywood, and is comparable to top-notch film special effects companies such as Light \u0026 Magic and Weta. Movie special effects company.

For such a high-quality movie, if all the actors in it were replaced by their own people, even if only second-tier Hollywood stars were used as the male and female protagonists, Disney would dare to arrange at least 3,000 screens for it. But now this movie mainly The actors are all Chinese. In their view, this is indeed the biggest flaw of the movie.

"In short, I don't agree with the company's waste of resources on this movie. I think 600 screens are enough, and this number is already a very good number for Chinese movies that have been released in Hollywood in recent years. ”

"I disagree. An opportunity to make money is right in front of everyone. Why can't we take a gamble? Anyway, our company doesn't have any blockbuster movies released during the Christmas season this year. We might as well take a gamble on this movie. I firmly believe that it will not disappoint us."

"I agree..."

"I oppose..."

The meeting room was noisy again, but Iger, as the company's president, just sat there silently, without saying anything or stopping the quarrel. It was not until the quarrel lasted for a long time that the president said, "Be quiet."

With his words, the scene quickly fell silent. Even the two people who were arguing and about to fight seemed to calm down in an instant, sat back in their seats, and then glared at each other fiercely, but no sound was made.

As the meeting room quieted down, Iger tapped the conference table with the pen in his hand, making a light "bang" sound. With this light sound, everyone's attention was focused on Iger.

"Regarding the scheduling of "Assassin's Alliance", let's temporarily set it at 1,300 screens. In addition, Thomas, you can bring this news to Mr. Nie and ask him if he agrees or not. If there is nothing else, today's meeting will be disbanded."

As Iger left, the quiet conference room gradually began to discuss again. Of course, it would not be as serious as the quarrel just now. After all, Iger had already made a decision, and there was no point in arguing about it.

After leaving the conference room, Thomas called Nie Wei directly and informed Nie Wei of this matter.

"Mr. Nie, I have tried my best to help you fight for the number of screens at the meeting. Unfortunately, this matter was the final decision made by President Iger, and I have no choice." Thomas said to Nie Wei on the phone.

He privately received a benefit fee of 2 million US dollars from Nie Wei and promised to help Nie Wei fight for at least 1,500 screens to be released, but now Iger has made a decision, and in the end "Assassin's Alliance" only got 1,300 screens for the premiere, which made Thomas feel that he had messed up the matter.

He even thought about whether he should return part of Nie Wei's money, after all, he did not do what he should do. But when he thought about returning the money, Thomas felt distressed again.

After all, he was just an executive of Disney's film and television department and was paid. Although it was not a small amount a year, two million US dollars was not a small number for him. Moreover, in his opinion, this money did not require anything to get, but now it seemed that this money was really hard to get.

After Nie Wei received the call, he did not think about asking Thomas to return the money or anything, after all, he still needed him.

And this time Thomas did not do it, and he obviously owed him something, so next time if he asked him to do something, he would definitely try harder.

The last and most important thing was that Nie Wei did not think this was the final result, because Iger asked Thomas to ask for his opinion, which was originally a very interesting thing.

"Thomas, don't be sad, you have tried your best, I will not ask you more for this result, but I still have one thing to ask you." Nie Wei asked.

Hearing that Nie Wei had no intention of blaming him, and would not ask him for money, Thomas immediately replied, "Mr. Nie, please tell me if you have anything to say. I will do my best to do what I can."

"It's not a difficult thing. Do you know President Egger's phone number?" Nie Wei asked with a smile on the phone.

Three days passed unknowingly. Since telling Nie Wei Egger's private phone number, Thomas has always had a doubt in his heart. Why does Nie Wei want Egger's phone number?

Does he want to negotiate with Egger in person?

Thomas is really not optimistic about this matter. After all, he has worked with Egger for five or six years. Thomas knows what kind of person he is. He looks amiable on weekdays, and even goes to the cafeteria to eat with employees, and occasionally jokes with everyone, but he is domineering in his bones. It is difficult for others to oppose or change his mind when he makes a decision.

The key is that most of the decisions he has made over the years are correct. While bringing huge development to the company, the board of directors' support for him is also increasing, which also makes him more and more in control of the company.

Until now, although he has not been able to make all decisions in the company, he definitely has the power to make the final decision on the small matter of scheduling a movie.

"I don't know whether Nie Wei asked for the phone call or not. If he did, what did he talk to Iger about? I just hope it's a happy result." Thomas thought to himself. He didn't want Nie Wei and Iger to fall out because of different opinions during the communication.

After all, he still wanted to continue to cooperate with Nie Wei. If Nie Wei and Iger fell out, he would probably not choose to cooperate with Disney again, and then he would lose the opportunity to cooperate with Nie Wei. After all, the only thing he could do to help Nie Wei was his voice in Disney.

"At 9:30, all executives of the company's film and television department, please go to the conference room for a meeting." A notice suddenly appeared on the computer screen in front of Thomas. After seeing the content, Thomas suddenly felt that this meeting seemed to be related to Nie Wei.

Thomas looked at his watch again and it was already ten past nine. He quickly took out his cell phone and quietly sent a text message to Nie Wei, asking if Nie Wei and Egg had reached an agreement. Of course, it was also possible that the talks had failed.

Unfortunately, Nie Wei didn't reply to his text message until the meeting was about to begin, so Thomas had to put his thoughts aside for the time being and walk towards the conference room.

Entering the conference room, there were already many people sitting inside, all of whom were important figures in the Disney film and television department like him. Some of them greeted Thomas warmly when they saw him walking in. Of course, there were also some like Jess. The kind of person who shows disdain or hostility in his eyes.

Disney has never been monolithic. After all, where there are interests, there must be struggles. What's more, for a world-class gold-swallowing monster company like Disney, the internal struggles are even more intense.

Thomas found a group of friends who had the same goals as him. He sat down and heard everyone chatting. What was the purpose of this meeting? After all, there was no notice in the email or what they needed to prepare, so everyone was confused now. .

But before everyone could chat for a while, Iger walked into the conference room with his secretary.

"We are summoned to announce two main things." As soon as he entered the room, Iger sat in his exclusive seat and announced directly: "The first thing is that the publicity department recently helped me draft a plan about "Assassin's League" I want to see the results of the publicity plan on our channels, newspapers, and online platforms as soon as possible.”

"The second thing is that the last decision to give "League of Assassins" 1,300 screens was overturned. I thought about it and found that the quality of this movie is indeed very good. I decided to give this movie 2,000 screens. Thomas , you will be responsible for this matter, okay, let’s break up the meeting.”

After announcing the two things, Iger didn't ask the people present if they had any opinions. He stood up and left the conference room. When he left them, the group present recovered from the shock, and then there was a burst of There were noisy discussions, with many people shouting 'incredible'.

Thomas was also extremely surprised. He had never expected that Nie Wei actually did it and made Iger change his decision. At the same time, he also won the premiere of his movie on 2,000 screens.

Just how did Nie Wei do it? This matter was like a cat's paw in Thomas's heart, making him want to know the truth of the matter.

So after returning to the office, Thomas immediately found his mobile phone and checked that Nie Wei didn't reply to him.

Thanks to Fantasy Park and 0773 for their generous reward!