I’m in Hollywood Chapter 617: Boss
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Eric heard small girl say this, raised his arm as usual and knocked on the door of her mind. With so many recent events, he has no mind to deal with women, let alone two identical women.
It was already past eight o'clock in the evening. We went back to the villa and sent twins to prepare dinner. Eric checked fax and took out the Firefly Headquarters. The press release and several other materials that had been prepared for tomorrow were prepared.
Although the confidence shown in the conference room Eric is full, it is impossible for him to have no worries in his heart. The two heavyweight films Paramount and Universal were chosen to be released before "Saving Private Ryan" at the same time. The purpose is to give Firefly a head start this summer. Once "Saving Private Ryan" is defeated, under the guidance of interested people, the subsequent two films must also be Will be greatly affected.
Eric put the press release aside, first looked at the Box Office data of the first two parts of the Paramount "Beverly Hills Cop" series. "Beverly Hills Cop" launched in 1984 at the time obtained the North America Box Office of 230 million USD at the cost of 15 million USD, and won After winning the Box Office championship that year, the subsequent "Beverly Hills Cop 2" also won the local Box Office of 150 million USD. The latest "Beverly Hills Cop 3" can be described as the ambition of Viacom after the acquisition of Paramount. Although it is a black comedy without special effects and big scenes, Paramount still spends the production cost of 50 million USD, and the investment amount is equivalent to the same type of film. More than twice. According to the more informative second part sequel Box Office curve and the growth rate of Hollywood Box Office in recent years, the internal data analysis department of Firefly expects that the total Box Office for the premiere of "Beverly Hills Cop 3" on Wednesday, Thursday and the first three weekends will exceed 50 million USD.
At the same time, Universal's "The Mummy" is only higher than Beverly Hills Cop 3 in announcement momentum. This adventure film similar to the 《Indiana Jones》 series although the total investment is only 60 million USD, but this is mainly due to the Nicole adopts the form of paid shares and The crew went to Morocco shoots in North Africa to save a lot of money. Without these two cost reduction measures, the production cost of "The Mummy" will not be lower than 80 million. Based on Universal's announcement model, trailers and pre-screening accumulated word of mouth, it is predicted that the Box Office will reach 50 million USD in the first three days of the first weekend given by the department.
Although both of them use the saturation issue strategy with generally larger second-week declines, they are calculated according to the 40% declines of "Beverly Hills Cop 3" and "The Mummy" the following week. If there is not much change in the data in hand, the Box Office for the first three days of "Saving Private Ryan" is only about 35 million at most, and the Box Office for the first seven days of the first week is probably only 50 million USD.
At the same time, after the release of "True Lies" on June 10. The assembly of four heavyweight movies, plus the sharing of a Box Office cannon fodder film, although a single week of Box Office will hit a new high, but the four films will be shared, and the first week of "True Lies" Box Office will likely be limited to 50 million USD.
The next two weeks are Paramount's "Star Trek Generations", Warner's "JAG" and Firefly's "The Lion King".
"Star Trek Generations" and "JAG" are both big variables. Eric has a sporadic impression of "Star Trek Generations". Since there is no special memory, it means that the film is not a threat.
Warner Film Industry was stimulated by the double harvest of the Clint Eastwood 《No Mercy》 Box Office awards. This summer, regardless of the overall weakness of the western film, launched two major western films. In addition to "JAG", the other is the opening work of this year's summer file. "Maverick", starring two big coffee Mel Gibson and Jodie Foster.
However, after the film was released on May 20, only the Box Office of 13 million USD was obtained in the first weekend. Far lower than Warner Film Industry's expectations, but also withdrew from the summer competition for Box Office.
"JAG" is also a western film of Kevin Costner last year's shoots. With Kevin Costner's word of mouth accumulated in "Dances with Wolves", no one can be sure what the result of "JAG" will be.
Eric does not have any memory of this film at all, so there are only two possibilities. One is that the film has been silently thrown in the original time and space, and the other is that it was produced by the effect of the butterfly. Brand new video. Eric really hopes that the result is the former, but looking at the production budget of "JAG" 63 million USD and the golden schedule of June 24 given by Warner, Eric feels again. The latter may be more likely.
After all, after years of experience, Film Studio can make a detailed assessment of the quality of the film and the prospects of Box Office before the film is released. Although often look away. But this kind of assessment is just like a weather forecast. There is no guarantee of accuracy, but the chance of deviation in the general direction is also small.
If the Box Office score of "JAG" really matches its production cost and schedule, then the Box Office of "The Lion King" will also be affected unpredictably.
With the platform given by Eric in recent years, even if the original Drew did not have nine tails, there must be seven or eight. It's just that the girl is less and less showing her savvy side around Eric. As for the current situation, of course she knew what she was looking at, and looked at Eric's frowning and contemplative appearance, small girl gently rubbed over and said, "Eric, or should I put the right to issue" Mission: Impossible "and" Night at the Museum "and those copyright Give it back to Firefly? "
Drew ’s voice broke Eric ’s contemplation and looked at the data analysis data in his hand. Eric smiled at himself just now, he had so many 'good cards' in his hand, even if this game really lost , It is impossible to affect too much, just make a comeback. Bringing small girl over to kiss the white and tender face, Eric smiled and said: "Of course not, these are our small vaults, no one will give them. By the way, how is" Forrest Gump "prepared?"
small girl shrunk in the arms of Eric and said: "The pay for Hanks has been negotiated, 8 million USD, but he hopes that we can provide enough Oscar PR resources in the future. In addition, The Godfather also likes this script. Visited his home with Amy, he specially invited Robert Zemeckis, Robert has agreed to take over the project. "
Tom Hanks signed "Saving Private Ryan" for 10 million. Eric knew that the reason why he resigned from the film was probably because of "Forrest Gump" as an Olympic film. Hanks was immediately forty years old, and he became even more eager for the Oscar film emperor. If it weren't "Saving Private Ryan", Hanks estimated that it would continue to shoot "Philadelphia" just like the original time and space. Although there have been deviations in history. But with his outstanding performance in "Saving Private Ryan", and the next "Forrest Gump", it is not impossible to repeat the miracle of winning the Oscar film actor for two consecutive times.
I heard that Director Robert Zemeckis was Spielberg to help matchmaking, and Eric was also curious and asked, "What movie is Steven preparing for recently?"
"No. The Godfather only served as the Producer of several films. I heard that he and David Geffen planned to set up a new Film Studio. Like the United Artists led by Chaplin, it was only responsible for the production and did not involve distribution," Drew said. Here, I shook my head and said: "But I don't think this plan will work at all. If you don't do it yourself, you still have to be constrained by the Seventh Congress."
Eric thought this time and space "Jurassic Park" fell into their own hands, and Katzenberg was honestly staying in Disney. Spielberg should n’t want to be a self-supporting portal anymore. He did n’t listen to Drew. He realized that this matter should be dominated by rich David Geffen. David Geffen owns its own record and production company, with a net worth of more than 2billion USD. Time Warner, Eric rejected him to join Firefly, it is estimated that David Geffen then came up with the idea of establishing a big Film Studio.
Thinking of the last few words of small girl, Eric asked: "You would n’t say that in front of Steven?"
Drew shook his head gigglingly. Dao: "I'm not a fool, The Godfather is eager to do a lot of work. I'm not interested in saying this.",
Eric smiled, although small girl has been close to Spielberg's in recent years. But it really has not reached the point where such words are spoken.
Although I made up for a while in the car, Eric ate a dinner prepared by the twins, but I quickly rested.
The next day, before dawn, Eric was awakened by a rush of phone bells.
Deeply touched the microphone and placed it in the ear. The excited voice of Katzenberg immediately came over: "Eric. Can you imagine the news that the company just got there, 1.72 million USD, only 1.72 million USD, haha."
Eric looked at his watch, and it was less than four o'clock. He secretly sighed the madman Katzenberg. Do workaholics not need to sleep? So spirited.
He went to bed lightly and lightly, helped small girl in his sleep pull a thin blanket, and Eric walked out of the bedroom with a cordless phone. Although he realized what he was, Eric asked again: "What 1.72 million USD?"
"Of course it is the first day of" Beverly Hills Cop 3 "Box Office, only 1.72 million USD, only 30% of the estimated first day of 6 million USD, Paramount originally hoped that this sequel could impact 200 million Box Office, and now it seems that the total Box Office does not necessarily have 50 million USD, as long as "The Mummy" can't get out of the Box Office curve of "Jurassic Park", and our 'Ryan' Box Office potential will not be suppressed. "
After hearing Katzenberg's confirmation, Eric instantly fell asleep, and also understood why Katzenberg was so spiritual, and heard the faint voice on the other end of the phone, Eric asked: "Jeffrey, you will not Is it at the company? "
"Of course, Michael is also on the way. I just inform you that you have other jobs today, so you do n’t have to come over. I will call you as soon as possible," Katzenberg said. And again: "Paramount originally wanted to cover up this news. It took more than two hours for the data department on duty Manager to get the exact data. We are now contacting the media to further expand the influence of this news, although the morning newspaper has already It ’s a little late, but ABC ’s morning news will focus on this message, and today ’s evening newspapers in major cities will also have special film review articles. Even if “Beverly Hills Cop 3” is only a temporary loss, we have to let it not have any overturns. Opportunity. "
Hang up the phone, Eric's mood suddenly relaxed, as Katzenberg just said, even if "Beverly Hills Cop 3" is only a temporary Box Office defeat, the subsequent one-sided review will make the movie completely without any chance to turn over, Although Universal and Paramount have the intention of jointly targeting Firefly, Eric believes that Universal must be doing the same work. After dawn, there will be a lot of negative news of "Beverly Hills Cop 3" in the media, and the bleak Box Office of 1.72 million USD on the first day of "Beverly Hills Cop 3", so that Paramount has no excuses to refute.
As soon as United States loses in China, as a black comedy with a reputation, the overseas Box Office should not even look forward to it. Although Hollywood's current comprehensive statistics show that the Box Office revenue of the movie only accounts for 30% of the total revenue, and other surroundings are as high as 70%, but that is also in the case of a good movie quality. Once the "Beverly Hills Cop 3" Box Office word of mouth doubles the street, forming a domino effect , Then this movie will be no one in the video and television broadcast market. According to North America Box Office of "Beverly Hills Cop 3" 50 million USD, this comedy film whose production and distribution cost is close to 100 million USD may eventually bring losses to Paramount no less than 50 million USD. For Redstone, who is ambitious to show his strength in Hollywood, this defeat has been enough for old man to hurt for a while.
Next is only "The Mummy", only this movie, even if "The Mummy" bursts a little, it will no longer be used for the production of "Saving Private Ryan", as long as "Saving Private Ryan" will play the normal Box Office level, Under the guidance of Firefly, it will be able to form a benign competitive relationship with the subsequent "True Lies" on word of mouth and Box Office. The loss of "Beverly Hills Cop 3" is like an opponent who suddenly lost an important piece in the same game. Firefly immediately gained the initiative again.
I was so excited that I did n’t have any thoughts of going back to sleep. Eric got dressed and went downstairs ahead of time. I came to my underground study and processed some emails accumulated yesterday. After the window was white, Leaving the study, intending to exercise.
The automatic door of the study just opened, and Eric saw the twins walking down the stairs side by side.
The two sisters wore identical black tank tops and shorts, which were more reflective of the Slav girl's unique whiteness of slim waists and long legs, blonde hair was ponytailed, and the goose egg face was delicate and round. The blue eyes were very large even without eye shadow The nose and mouth are very petite, with a different kind of purity between the thin eyebrows and thin lips.
Seeing the Eric that appeared suddenly after the opening of the automatic door, the twins stopped in unison and shouted in unison: "Boss." (To be continued.)