Chapter Thirty-Seven Preparations for Public Screening
The box wrapped in black hard paper is filled with a layer of oil paper. The oil paper is revealed to be a large bag of West Lake Longjing with a tightly packed packaging!
Looking at the upright tea leaves and thinking about the words Leni said just now that I was paying attention to my body, my heart felt as if I was gently shocked, numb and extremely sweet.
"Boss, what did Miss Lenny give you?!"
"Yes, yes, let's take a look."
When I got into the car, the fat man and Gans rushed over and grabbed the tea box.
"The cake seller! Isn't this Longjing?! Boss, hehehehe, he said he was fine with Miss Lenny, he was leaking this time! This Longjing is the evidence!" Gansby was even more excited after smoking marijuana.
"Gans, what is this? This is called a token of love! Boss, I admire you so much. Other people's token of love are diamond rings, necklaces, etc. You are elegant and so elegant. It turns out to be a box of China's top-quality Longjing! Brothers admire it! Admiration!" The fat man also smiled stunningly, patted the driver's shoulder, and said heroically: "Driver, drive! Target, Harvey Street Dream Factory!"
Lenny put us in a suitcase of $44,638. James and Julie were there when we were counting money in the office. They were both puzzled and couldn't figure out where we got so much money in one night, and there were zero or nothing.
The fat man told them seriously that we were going to rob the bank at night. James naturally didn't believe it, but Julie took it seriously and cried violently. When Gans told her the truth, the fat man was in trouble. He was spitting hard by the little girl and apologizing.
After this little twists and turns, early the next morning, I took Fatty, Gans and James to take their mother films to Vitagraf Film Production to get a copy.
This company has already said before that it was acquired by Warner, and it mainly operates cinemas and some equipment, copying and film making businesses. At this time, Hollywood, when it comes to copying masterbing, they are the ones with the best quality.
There are four copy companies in Vitagraf, and none of them are very large in scale. The one we went to is in the cinema concentration area in Hollywood, and it is the largest of the four copy companies.
The company manager warmly welcomed us and personally accompanied us into the copy room. I handed the master to their staff. Gans and the others kept standing in front of the copy machine. They immediately took over a copy. Even if they brought some copies out for repair, I would send someone to watch them. There was only one reason for this, that is, before the movie was released, except for us, the content of the movie must not be leaked.
Copying is a simple technical job, and the process is not very cumbersome. All 40 copies will be completed until 1:00 pm.
I put $32,000 into their manager's hands and directed Gans and the others to pack the copy into the car they called.
"Andre! Why are you here?" Just as I was busy, someone took a photo of me from behind.
I wiped my sweat and turned my head to look at it. It turned out to be Vettegraf's head, the Wallace with a mustache.
"Nothing is wrong, I just move a copy of the movie from your company." I continued to work and left him aside.
I don’t have any good feelings for Wallace, because the reason is very simple: he came to our house and said he wanted to take back our cinema.
"Young man is not simple. You found a job so soon? Haha, which film company to do things? Trust, Royal, or Lightning?" Wallace narrowed his eyes into a line and smiled extremely evilly.
The Trust Film Company he mentioned is the two film companies under the "Mutual Aid Company". This "Mutual Aid Company" and Lemmer's Global Company were originally subordinate to a film distribution company called "Sales Company". Later, after the "Sales Company" was classified as "Global" and "Mutual Aid Company", the Mutual Aid Company was divided into two major groups. The former group was Aitken's Trust Film Company and Floyle's Royal Film Company, and the other group was Kessel's "Pisson No. 101" and Baoman's Qidongs Company.
Mutual Aid Company was originally comparable to Universal's company in terms of company size and assets, but Universal was integrated into an inseparable whole by Carl Lemmer, while Mutual Aid Company had a loose structure. In this way, Mutual Aid Company gradually became at a disadvantage in the competition, and its four companies were not developing very well.
As for Lightning Film Company, Chani Barra is now taking over, and the situation is getting worse than before. There are five or six movies a year, and the profit is very small, so you can only survive.
Wallace said this to me, obviously he looked down on me.
"We are from DreamWorks Film Company." said the fat man.
"Dreamworks? Why haven't I heard of it?" Wallace looked confused and his expression was even more disdainful.
"You'll hear it soon." I smiled at him, and then took the fat man, Gans got into the car.
The next week, I was busy with the release of "Lust and Caution", busy inspecting the venue, arranging supervisors, and sending letters to the film committee to invite them to attend the premiere. I was busy with many trivial matters. On June 20, in the courtyard of DreamWorks Film Company, we held a simple press conference. I basically invited the newspapers and radio stations in Los Angeles to the scene. The press conference was held in a very friendly atmosphere. I answered their questions about the planning, shooting and the content of the film itself. At this point, the content of "Lust and Caution" originally made people guess the tip of the iceberg. But naturally I didn't reveal too much, and told them that it would not be able to sway their appetite.
At the press conference, I announced that DreamWorks' "Lust and Caution" will be released at the same time in 200 cinemas in Los Angeles on June 22. Among these cinemas, Burbank's DreamWorks' Cinema will be screened half an hour in advance, and all the main creators will attend.
After the press conference, when I was changing my clothes in the office, Malskolov walked in with a smile outside.
"Andre, I haven't been away for a long time, and you have made rapid progress. If I hadn't heard the radio, I wouldn't have known that the movie would have been released on the 22nd." Lao Ma was exhausted and seemed to have not even returned home.
"Lao Ma, I'm just looking for you. I've contacted more than 70 movie theaters in Fox, and they have made corresponding preparations. I can wait for your 140 stores." I put on a white suit prepared by Julie and made a gesture to Lao Ma. Lao Ma was not polite and sat on my sofa.
"I had already greeted them before I left. Don't worry, just take the copy over at that time." Lao Ma looked around and saw that there were no other people in the room and whispered to me: "Do you want to know why I went to San Francisco?"
"If you have something to say."
Lao Ma took a sip of the cigar, sprayed a cloud of smoke, and said carelessly: "Mutual Aid Company is now suppressed by Chuck's Paramount and can't hold on. They want to reconcile with Lemmer's Universal and resist Paramount together. I'm also called by them. Aitken wants us three to unite."
I frowned and said I knew that there was no such thing in history of mutual aid companies. They fought with Global to the end, so how could they take the initiative to join forces with Lemmer?
"What's the result?" I asked.
"As a result, Lemmer Lions spoke up and said that the alliance could be done, but the mutual aid company must hand over the 'Pisson No. 101 Company' to Global. Of course, Aitken didn't do it, and it finally collapsed." Lao Ma shook his head.
In any case, this is in line with the real process of history. Aitken was originally fond of money, so how could he be willing to give Pissondi to Lemmer for free?
"This matter has nothing to do with me, why do you tell me?" I clumsyly wore my tie.
Chapter completed!