I’m in Hollywood Chapter 726: There is no hole card

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After three days of record-breaking 100 million zero 600,000 USD Box Office on the first weekend, entering the working day, the single-day Box Office of "The Lost World: Jurassic Park" slipped to tens of millions. Although the Box Office fell by 60% relative to the weekend, the first week of the film Box Office It will break through the historical high point of 140 million USD without any suspense and easily climb to the top position of the Box Office ranking of the released film in 1995. Moreover, most Box Office organizations predict that "The Lost World: Jurassic Park" has basically locked the throne of the annual Box Office championship.

Under the dazzling brilliance of "The Lost World: Jurassic Park", few people noticed that a partial art film called "Forrest Gump" will be quietly released on June 9. Although "Forrest Gump" ​​was unanimously praised by film critic during the pre-screening, this compliment made the few media that paid attention to the film pessimistic about the film Box Office. After all, the more film critic likes the film, the more artistic it is Strong, Box Office tends to be more bleak.

In addition, if there is any expectation for Box Office of "Forrest Gump", Eric Williams will never let Flower Films set the film's schedule on June 9th. In the media's view, this is equivalent to placing a small animal with no resistance at all under the Tyrannosaurus Rex's foot, and the end can only be crushed.

You should know that in order to avoid the edge of "The Lost World: Jurassic Park", the other major Film Studio all put the main film of this summer's summer file at the end of June and July. Time Warner even gave up the release of the summer file at the end of May. Strategy, only lost a Box Office bleak "fair game" as cannon fodder.

After the release of Box Office on the first day of "The Lost World: Jurassic Park". Eric put most of his energy in dealing with the company affairs accumulated during his time away from Los Angeles. but. Although the release of "Forrest Gump" has always been on the sidelines. Let Drew and Amy? Pascal be operated, but in this world, perhaps he alone is full of confidence in Box Office of "Forrest Gump".

Although the film has accumulated a lot of favorable comments in the early stage of publicity, Amy? Pascal only prepared 1500 screens for "Forrest Gump". There is no objection to Eric. As long as "Forrest Gump" is as sensational as previous life, Box Office is destined to go long-term, and the screen will be smaller in the first week, and it can even play the role of hungry marketing.

Because the sense of presence is not strong. Although Drew pulls both Eric and Spielberg as the premiere platform, Director Robert of "Forrest Gump"? Zemigis is also a famous Director that once produced "Back to the Future", 《Who Framed Roger Rabbit》 and other big-selling movies, but "Forrest Gump" is still not tepid. Silently paint in the atmosphere of fire.

Fortunately, the actor Tom? Hanks and Director Robert? Zemidis has accumulated word-of-mouth of many excellent films, and the appeal of Box Office is still very good.

Therefore, "Forrest Gump" North America 1500 theaters on the first day of painting, achieved a good score of 6.7 million USD.

When reporting this number to Eric, the tone of Amy? Pascal is full of lightness. On the first day, 6.7 million USD, then, there is no big problem in the first week of "Forrest Gump" when Box Office reaches 25 million USD. With the excellent reputation of the film, take a long-term screening strategy. Before the final painting, the movie Box Office is likely to be close to 80 million USD.

The production of "Forrest Gump" and the total cost of announcement cost 70 million, North America Box Office can reach 80 million, and Flower Films can already recover most of the cost.

The film ’s positioning is a prize-winning film. With the current film critic word of mouth, you can even hit the best Oscar film. As long as you can get a few heavyweight Oscar little gold men, then, the later overseas distribution and video sales revenue It will be more abundant. Although the cycle of returning funds will be longer, Flower Films can still recover well from this project.

Amy? Pascal's tone when analyzing the profit prospects of "Forrest Gump" is like a budgetary housewife. The reason for her thinking is not difficult to understand. Although "Forrest Gump" was personally promoted by Eric, although he has created a series of Box Office miracles, the Hollywood executives ’fear of film risk has penetrated into Basic Instinct." Forrest Gump "total The cost of 70 million USD, in the eyes of most people, has far exceeded its commercial potential as an art film.

However, the dramatic development of things is far beyond the expectations of most people.

After the large-scale release on the first day, most of the media that originally planned to introduce the new film in a brief news were surprised to find that "Forrest Gump" far exceeded their expectations.

"The film takes the perspective of a fool with an IQ of only 75, and through the special effects means that makes people make a perfect shot, it perfectly shows the development process of the United States society in 30 after the war."

"The three main characters in the film are like the incarnation of the three mainstream United States spiritual tendencies 20 years ago. Forrest Gump represents the roots of the United States spirit, simple, hardworking, sincere and persistent, Jenny represents the rebellion of the sixties For a generation, they tried to break the stereotypes and pursue themselves, but in fact they were heading towards the lost The Abyss. Captain Dan belongs to the group of people who doubted society. They have their own persistence, but they are still confused and unable to find the value of persistence. In the end, the displaced Jenny finally chose to return to the family. Captain Dan also chose to follow the footsteps of A-Gump, allowing us to see that the three United States spirits are united again and returned to their origins. "

"Truely, this is a non-intellectually anti-intellectual movie at first glance, but the two-hour and twenty-minute movie watching process puts the author into a sense of inexplicable emotion. I ca n’t help myself. I think that this country's strength is recovering, the economy is developing, and technology is even more rapid, but we claim to be smart people, but we are increasingly indulging in the great richness of materials, completely ignoring the spiritual level of persistence. "

"The place that" Forrest Gump "touched me the most was the rainy night. Jenny brought the silly A-Gump back to his dormitory. He looked forward to his dream of becoming a celebrity. Then ask him. You What kind of person do you dream to be in the future? A-Gump answered doubtfully, why should I be someone else, can I not be myself in the future? In the end, Jenny's dream shattered and left this world in regret, And insisting on being his own forrest, reaps everything that ordinary people dream of. "

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After the turbulence of the sixties and the free indulgence of the seventies, starting in the eighties. United States's trend of conservatism began to return and reached its peak in the 1990s.

At the same time, the extreme development of material has also made people's spiritual level empty, and the situation of moral corruption and weak human relations is becoming more and more serious. Therefore, the United States conservative image represented by Forrest Gump and his own kindness and sincerity The simple character completely caters to the desire of more and more United States people for spiritual life.

With the spontaneous publicity of the media, more and more people began to notice this film and walked into the cinema.

Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what the next one will taste.

This classic line destined to be included in the history of world cinema has also quickly spread among the crowd.

In fact, most people don't know what profound meaning this sentence contains. They just inexplicably moved and satisfied after watching the movie. Repeat this sentence a few times in the bottom of my heart, and then memorize it silently, it will never be forgotten again.

The explosive attention of "Forrest Gump" is most intuitively reflected in Box Office.

After the first day of 6.7 million USD, Box Office showed a significant increase of more than 20% in a single day for the next two days. Eventually, Box Office reached 22.9 million USD in the first three days of the film.

Compared to "The Lost World: Jurassic Park", this Box Office number seems to be worthless, but as a literary film, this Box Office data representing the upcoming explosion of Box Office makes everyone excited, after all, the production cost two weeks ago Equivalent to "Forrest Gump" "fair game", the first three days of the weekend Box Office also has a poor 6800,000 USD.

Entering the working day, the Box Office momentum of "Forrest Gump" has not decreased at all, and it has slipped compared to Sunday, and it still remains around 6 million USD in a single day.

Finally, the Box Office data of 4more than 7 million USD in the first week of "Forrest Gump" once again caused a media exclamation, which is almost twice or even more than three times the media's previous expectation for this film week Box Office. However, after the emotion, many people couldn't help but feel that under the condition that "Forrest Gump" has almost become a United States cultural symbol, this Box Office data seems so natural.

Venice Beach.

In a Italy seafood restaurant, Amy? Pascal smiled and looked at the Drew grinning on the opposite side of Eric, holding a coffee cup in his hand and taking a sip from time to time.

After the outbreak of "Forrest Gump" Box Office and word of mouth, Amy was in an uncontrollable excitement these days. She was finally 100% sure that she had given up the position of Columbia Vice Chairman and moved to Flower Films as a small workshop. If the meeting goes well, she will also become the second female head of the Hollywood seven Film Studio after Sherry? Lansing.

I do n’t know what Drew said. Eric reached out and squeezed her small ear, pushed the girl away in a coquettish voice, and smiled at Amy: "Yes, Peter? Jackson, how did you deal with it? How is it? "

Amy said: "Although he has no experience in directing large-scale films, his talents are unquestionable. Moreover, we have seen in detail his complete conception plan for the" The Lord of the Rings "series, including script, storyboards, and characters The design and the shoots location he found in New Zealand. It can be said that it is absolutely impossible for us to find the second Director with so much affection for the "The Lord of the Rings" series in Hollywood. It is very suitable for him to direct this magic epic series. Eric, do you have time to talk to him again? "

"No need for the time being, you first let him direct one or two movies and get familiar with the operation rules of Hollywood. When the time is right, you can start the production of this series."

Amy nodded, and she knew when Eric said the time was right, so she was not in a hurry. Flower Films's current project has been enough for her and Drew to work for a long time.

The words of the two fell, and Drew said happily again: "In the photos taken by Eric and Jackson, New Zealand is so beautiful, shall we take the time to go there for a holiday?"

"Okay, buy another big farm when the time comes. Keep a few horses."

"Oh. I don't believe you are interested in horse breeding." Drew said with a grin: "Maybe you can put some disliked small professional model there and put it on the farm as a pet Oh. "

Do n’t mention Drew, Eric has forgotten about it. He has n’t heard anything about Heidi? Klum in the past six months. I asked: "How are the two films" Mean Girls "and 《Scream》 prepared?"

Drew said: "It ’s already started, Wes? Craven that guy does n’t want to go to Canada. 《Scream》 is selected at Santa Rosa City High School on the back of California. I will also go to the part where shoots starts sometime later. , The crew of "Mean Girls" went to Vancouver, and the more than 1 million budget was saved at Canada, and Tina also followed. "

When Eric left Los Angeles last time, the two films are still in preparation. Although it has been more than a month, Eric still feels that it is in a hurry.

Amy seems to be aware of the idea of ​​Eric and proactively explained: "Eric, both of these movies involve a lot of campus scenes. These scenes are all filmed before the end of the summer vacation, so we will put the schedule card Is so tight. "

Long time on campus. Eric's concept of student holidays has become very vague. Although he has a very clear concept of summer gear in his mind, this concept is more inclined to commercial terms. Therefore, Eric suddenly realized this point after hearing the explanation of Amy. If you do not catch up with shoots in the summer, waiting for students to start school and wanting to take another shoots school lens will become very troublesome.

The three of them were chatting. The waitress led a middle-aged man in his fifties, and it was Metro Goldwyn Mayer ’s current CEO Frank? Makasso.

"Sorry, Eric, I'm late," Frank? Makasso reached out to Eric with some regret.

Eric got up and shook hands with each other, laughing: "Of course not, Frank, but we have arrived early. These two must not have introduced me."

"Of course," Frank? Makasso shook hands at Drew and Amy respectively, complimenting: "I recently watched" Forrest Gump "specially, it is really an excellent and memorable film."

"Thank you for your approval, Mr. Makasso," Amy nodded with a smile.

Frank? Makasso sat down in the chair pulled by the waiter, and did not forget to add: "Call me Frank, Amy, we are also acquaintances, aren't we?"

Amy nodded and said, "Of course."

"Let ’s order first, Frank. I have eaten lunch a few times here. The fried sea bass is good here, you can try it." Eric took the menu from the waiter and recommended it to Frank? Makasso, but I remembered it for two years. The first time I ate here here, that time he and Nicole had a green waitress who made him feel furry.

After finishing the meal and waiting for the waiter to leave, Eric opened the door and asked: "So, did Frank and Kerkorian make an offer for Metro Goldwyn Mayer?"

Frank? Makasso nodded and said: "1.5 billion USD, and Kerkorian seems to be very eager to even complete the transaction before July, but there is no response from Crédit Lyonnais, they are also waiting for July" "GoldenEye" and "Night at the Museum" will be released after the release, and I heard that the French Vivendi Group also has contact with Crédit Lyonnais, but their quotation, I do not know. "

Although Crédit Lyonnais S.A. is a versatile bank in France, it has no intention to get involved in the entertainment industry from beginning to end. A few years ago, he became a major shareholder of Metro Goldwyn Mayer by mistake. It was also due to financial fraud by the Italy consortium. The shares of Metro Goldwyn Mayer were confiscated by the court to offset the huge debt owed by the Italy consortium.

Crédit Lyonnais was once the largest bank of Europe because of the bubble expansion that began in the late 1980s, but in recent years, after the financial bubble caused by the crazy expansion burst, a large number of bad debts of Crédit Lyonnais caused a huge loss of 10 billion USD , And even once went to the brink of bankruptcy.

Under the pressure of French Government and shareholders, although the situation of Metro Goldwyn Mayer has begun to improve, Crédit Lyonnais is still eager to remove the Metro Goldwyn Mayer shares in hand and exchange cash for the cash shortage.

Eric guessed that the price of 1.5 billion USD should be higher than the price of Metro Goldwyn Mayer bought back by previous life Kerkorian, but this price is still reasonable.

Although Metro Goldwyn Mayer is now showing signs of a recovery, everyone with a discerning eye can see it. Except for the 007 series. Other blockbuster films such as 《Charlie's Angels》, "Resident Evil", and the upcoming "Night at the Museum". The control is not in the hands of Metro Goldwyn Mayer. Moreover, although the operating status of Metro Goldwyn Mayer has stabilized in the past two years, the huge debt that Kerkorian left for the company did not decrease much.

"Frank, you can contact the relevant person in charge of Crédit Lyonnais when you go back. We also offer 1.5 billion USD here, let them send someone to talk about it. I know that Crédit Lyonnais is in urgent need of funds now, and we can pay all the purchases in a short time. . "

Frank? Makasso looked at Amy and Drew. Tao: "Eric, is it Firefly?"

Eric shook his head and smiled: "No, it is Flower Films, Firefly will not have equity disputes with Metro Goldwyn Mayer."

Eric ’s simple sentence surprised Frank? Makasso. Eric did not allow Firefly and Metro Goldwyn Mayer to have equity disputes, and he intended to make a good guess. He did not want Flower Films to encounter monopoly obstacles due to Firefly Group holdings in the future expansion process. .

According to the current scale of Flower Films and Metro Goldwyn Mayer, want to reach the level of monopoly involved, under normal circumstances. Rapid development without ten years or eight years is impossible, but there is never a shortage of miracles in the world. At that time, the little ‘Firefly’ developed into the present Big Mac. It only took seven years.

Considering the following wording, Frank? Makasso asked: "So, after Eric and Flower Films acquire Metro Goldwyn Mayer, how do you plan to operate?"

Eric gestured to Amy.

Amy smiled. She knows that Frank? Makasso cares about the arrangement of the original management after Flower Films merged Metro Goldwyn Mayer, saying: "Frank, after the merger of the two parties, I hope you can continue to stay, mainly responsible for the company's film North America And global release work. "

Frank? Makasso is now mainly responsible for the release of the film, because apart from 007, Metro Goldwyn Mayer has not produced any decent films in recent years, and he does not expect to replace Amy as the new company ’s CEO. The arrangement is quite satisfactory, nodded, and said to Eric: "Although the quotations of Eric, 1.5 billion USD are not low, if Vivendi and Kerkorian join the competition together, I think that the final price may be raised to 1.8 billion USD. In principle , Crédit Lyonnais will definitely sell Metro Goldwyn Mayer to the one with the highest price. "

Eric smiled and shook his head, saying: "Frank, I do n’t think Crédit Lyonnais has any principles, they do n’t have any cards, they can only choose to accept or not. If they insist on selling Metro Goldwyn Mayer to others, I will immediately Cut off all cooperation between Flower Films and DreamWorks and Metro Goldwyn Mayer, without the distribution rights of 《Charlie's Angels》, "Resident Evil", "Night at the Museum" and other films, Metro Goldwyn Mayer will immediately become an empty shelf a few years ago. Quote for 1.5 billion USD. "

I just imagined this kind of scene in my mind, Frank? Makasso produced a strong feeling of powerlessness. He is very clear that this situation is definitely not Crédit Lyonnais can bear. Although Metro Goldwyn Mayer has signed issuing contracts with DreamWorks and Flower Films, in Hollywood and Firefly there are countless ways to achieve their goals without violating the contract.

Frank? Makasso absolutely do not like Kerkorian and get control of Metro Goldwyn Mayer. This casino tycoon is just a vampire. He has no idea of ​​making a movie, just like the Ron? Perelman of Wall Street, the operating conditions on Metro Goldwyn Mayer surface have improved At that time, a large number of bonds were issued for financing, and then the funds were put into their own pockets. When the Metro Goldwyn Mayer was on the verge of bankruptcy again, it was sold to the next house without hesitation. The heavy debt that Metro Goldwyn Mayer now bears is the mess left by Kerkorian repeatedly doing this in the 1980s, and the huge debt is only overwhelming Metro Goldwyn Mayer.

At the moment, he is not clear about the situation of the French Vivendi group that is interested in Metro Goldwyn Mayer, but he knows that choosing to cooperate with Firefly should be the only way out for Metro Goldwyn Mayer. Once merged with Flower Films, he believes that Eric will definitely put DreamWorks in the new company. By then, he will have a large number of profitable super blockbuster series such as "Mission: Impossible", 《Charlie's Angels》, "Night at the Museum", "Resident Evil", "007", etc. Metro Goldwyn Mayer will soon regain its vitality and become a powerful Film Studio again.

Thinking of being able to personally participate in the recovery of Metro Goldwyn Mayer, Frank? Makasso was a little excited and said to Eric: "Eric, I will bring your words to Crédit Lyonnais."

Eric nodded in satisfaction, followed by a pleasant meal time.

An hour later, Frank? Makasso left the restaurant, but Eric and Amy and Drew did not leave, but talked about Eric's detailed arrangements for Flower Films in the future.

It ’s been an afternoon without me knowing the time. The beach in the distance has been reddened by the setting sun. Eric is about to leave with the two of them. The mobile phone that has been placed on the desktop rang.

"I am Williams," Eric picked up the phone and chatted with each other, nodding from time to time. After a while, Eric looked at Amy and Drew with a strange smile on his face, saying: Do you know Godzilla? "

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