I’m in Hollywood Chapter 820: Listen to destiny
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The day after the Golden Globe Award nominations were announced, it happened to be Friday.
With the large-scale upsizing of Sony "Mr. Sweetheart" and Paramount "Star Trek · First Contact", the hottest Christmas season at the end of the year is announced.
"Mission: Impossible2", which had a strong performance at the end of Metro Goldwyn Mayer at the end of the year, after 8more than 2 million USD's Box Office in the first week, the cumulative Box Office figure has reached 1.6500 million USD in three weeks. The sum of Box Office in 19 countries overseas has also exceeded the 100 million USD mark, and it has been unprecedented for a while.
With the strong performance of "Mission: Impossible2", Kevin · Costner planted a big head on "Waterworld" and returned to the ranks of Hollywood super first-line superstar. Although Metro Goldwyn Mayer talked about the filming of two sequels in the downturn period after the failure of Kevin · Costner "Waterworld", the start of "Mission: Impossible3" will not have much waves. However, because "Mission: Impossible" is the most eye-catching performance of Box Office in the three series of the agent movie universe, it is conceivable that in the future "Mission: Impossible4" and even further plots of the agent alliance, the Metro Goldwyn Mayer will inevitably again Kevin · Costner Produce some paycheck negotiations. Of course, strictly speaking, this should belong to the trouble of happiness. Any Film Studio of Hollywood is eagerly looking forward to similar troubles.
Firefly's new line Film Industry's "Rush Hour" drawn in the Thanksgiving period in the fourth week Box Office was 14.38 million USD, which reached 100 million zero 1.66 million USD, becoming the new line's second part Box Office over 100 million videos this year, according to the current Box Office trend , "Rush Hour" North America total Box Office can at least reach 140 million USD.
In the eyes of the outside world, compared with the relatively sluggish Box Office performance of Firefly headquarters this year, the new line featuring low-cost movies below 30 million USD is extremely eye-catching.
The new line will produce and distribute a total of 16 movies this year. If you do n’t count the "Bad Boys2" that was transferred from Eric to next summer, the average production cost of the remaining 15 movies released is only 16 million USD. It is calculated that the new line has only invested 240 million in film production throughout the year, which is not much different from the production cost of "Titanic".
In terms of rate of return, the new line of Box Office ’s four best-performing movies "Rush Hour", "Seven", "Final Destination" and "Rumble in the Bronx" this year, the total of North America Box Office is expected to reach 350 million USD, and the other 11 movies, although there is no shortage of Box Office There are only two failed works of 3 million, but the cumulative total of ten films Box Office also exceeds 120 million.
In general, low- and medium-cost movies often have strong local cultural characteristics, making it difficult to make a difference in overseas markets. However, with the help of 220 million USD Box Office, which has more than twice the overseas content of "Seven" overseas, the number of overseas Box Office films released by the new line throughout the year also reached 5.600 million USD.
Comprehensive statistics, the new line Film Industry1996, with the production budget of 240 million USD, obtained a total Box Office of 1billion 30 million USD within the scope of global, not counting the peripheral income such as video tapes and television broadcasting rights in the later period, just Box Office, directly brought profits for Firefly Group Just over 200 million USD.
"Titanic" won only an irrelevant best screenwriter nomination at the Golden Globe Award nomination conference. Although there have also been a lot of doubts, but in the media trend, because of the failure of the Golden Globe Award nomination, look at "Titanic" The declining voice is even more clamoring.
The news that "Rush Hour" North America Box Office broke 100 million appeared on the media on the same day as the Golden Globe Award nomination. As the producer and distributor of "Rush Hour", the new line Film Industry and "Titanic" have a very contrasting annual production budget. In the vision of the media.
The same is the production budget around 200 million USD. In 1996, 15 new low-cost movies created Box Office with global exceeding 1billion USD, and the desperate "Titanic" is uncertain at this time. In the eyes of most people, this movie It is almost inevitable that the film faces huge losses.
This strong contrast has undoubtedly poured cold water on the big investment and production boom that Hollywood has seen in recent years. A lot of reflections have quickly appeared in the media. The latest issue of "Hollywood Reporter" is on the front page The eye-catching position has made a large report specifically on this.
"Since the beginning of the 1990s, Hollywood seems to be more and more obsessed with blockbuster movies. It is undeniable that movies such as" Jurassic Park "," The Mummy ", and" Men in Black "have brought unusual richness to related production companies. Profit, but we ca n’t ignore the failure of big budget films like “Cutthroat Island”, “Waterworld”, “Cliffhanger”, and “Last Action Hero”, which has disastrous consequences for investors and production companies. The tragic failure of “Cutthroat Island” , Which directly led to Firefly Pictures, which is still very young, and merged like a snake in the Disney group. "
"And this year, Firefly Group, which was unfavorable in large-scale production films, seems to be accompanied by an unprecedented investment in" Titanic "215 million USD, and it has encountered an" epic disaster "as in 1912. New lines Film Industry, Miramax and other Film Studio produced at low cost, but relying on a cautious and stable production strategy, quietly develop and grow, eating away the market share of the film. "
"Especially the new line, this subsidiary of Firefly Group, with the full-year production budget comparable to" Titanic ", drove Box Office with global exceeding 1billion USD. As of the first week of December, North America1996 accumulated 5900 million USD In the Box Office, the Box Office share of the new line reached 7.8%, which is almost the same as the two old brands Film Studio, Sony Film Industry and Paramount Pictures. "
"As a creative industry, Hollywood must of course pass some high-budget investment projects to achieve innovation and exploration in film production techniques and special effects technologies, in order to provide the audience with more excellent film and television content. But at the same time, we also have to reflect on it. Perhaps, Hollywood needs to return to the tent pole theory strategy once proposed by Barry · Mr. Diller, with a small number of blockbuster movies as tent poles, to support a large number of tents. Low-budget films, this is the most orthodox way of survival of Hollywood Film Studio. On the contrary, if a Film Studio wants to rely on only a few 'tent poles' to survive, ignoring the existence of the 'curtain', you can imagine that when the 'wind and rain' strikes , How miserable the scene will be. "
After the publication of "Hollywood Reporter", a large number of media began to echo.
Eric people were in New York, but they saw this article for the first time.
Although he also recently thought about the development trajectory of Firefly in recent years, Eric still scoffs at the views expressed in this article.
The prevalence of big production movies is almost an inevitable trend for the development of Hollywood, because this type of movie not only has a natural strong influence, but also, such as "Jurassic Park" and other types of movies, not only can bring Box Office, video tapes and TV broadcasts The huge profits of the right can even form a whole profitable peripheral industry chain involving peripheral toys, computer games, franchise licenses, etc. This potential commercial return is unmatched by medium and low-cost movies.
Even if most medium and low-cost movies are successful on Box Office, their commercial interest mining often stops at the right of videotapes and television broadcasts, while medium-cost productions such as "Bad Boys" and "Rush Hour" have the potential for sequel development. After the success of first part, the production budget of the sequel will undoubtedly double and will inevitably enter the ranks of big production movies.
No matter how the external media commented, no matter how anxious the management of Firefly was, no matter how happily the other Film Studio of Hollywood, the release date of "Titanic" is still approaching day by day.
In the last week, "Titanic" opened a more intensive trailer bombing in TV Network of Firefly Group. The prominent landmarks of major cities in North America also began to erected huge posters of "Titanic", Cameron, Little Plum and Rachel · Weisz and other film creators have landed on the North America mainstream talk show. Although Eric did not directly participate in the final stage of "Titanic" publicity, it almost took two or three hours a day in Southampton, with Firefly management and distribution Communicate with the creative team in all aspects.
On December 19th, the Box Office data for the first week of the Christmas season was roughly calculated. Two new films released this week, "Star Trek · First Contact" and "Mr. Sweetheart", obtained the first week of 43 million USD and 24 million USD Box Office, according to the Box Office trend of the two films, will not have much impact on the next release of "Titanic". The comedy film "Martians Turning to Earth" that will be released at the same time as "Titanic" is also not a big threat. After all, although it is the Hollywood veteran acting superstar Jack · Nickel Sen starring, whether it is production budget, pre-screening reputation or publicity scale, Can not be compared with "Titanic".
Hollywood and other Film Studio, although they have the idea of attacking "Titanic", they still have a bit of fear and will not directly collide with the heavyweight film with "Titanic". The biggest enemy of "Titanic" is actually whether the film itself is as strongly welcomed by the market as the original time and space, creating the original Box Office miracle.
The final opening scale of "Titanic" is 2770 theaters. Although Firefly hopes to exceed 3,000, but because "Titanic" is more than three hours in length, and the industry's pessimistic view of this film, it makes many and The Firefly cooperation is not too close to the cinema line and refused to arrange for "Titanic".
At eight o'clock in the evening, Eric and Katzenberg discussed the publicity strategy for the first week of "Titanic" by telephone. When they hung up their phones, they no longer considered much about the film.
The personnel has been exhausted. Next, it is destiny.
Leave the phone on the coffee table in the living room. Eric reached out and hugged her daughter who was watching TV with her beautiful blue eyes blinking beside Joanna and said, "Xiaxia, it's not good to watch too much TV, Papa Read the bedtime story for you, OK? "
Hawaii struggled a little in the arms of Eric, his eyes still stared at the TV screen, and his tone was dissatisfied: "But, Papa, I am not sleepy."
"Kevin has already gone to sleep, you have to rest early, you will be sleepy after listening to the story for a while," Eric said, and Emma sitting next to Drew also got up and ran and said that he would listen to bedtime together The story, blinking his eyes and reaching out to hug Eric.
Emma is almost five years old now, but the little guy seems to have the tendency to repeat the previous life smaller man. Although he is two years older than Hawaii and Kevin, he is only a little taller than Hawaii at this time.
Eric easily hugged Emma and walked towards the little guy ’s bedroom one by one and asked, "So, what do you want to hear?"
The TV disappeared into sight. Seeing that the matter was irreversible, Hawaii turned to Eric reluctantly, and said: "Papa, the bedtime story is so boring. Can I read" Encyclopedia "?"
Eric said helplessly: "Baby, in that case, Papa is estimated to be asleep first."
After hearing this conversation between the father and the daughter, the Joanna on the sofa could not help but chuckled.
Eric has been under a lot of pressure in recent times, and they are not unaware, except for "Titanic", the prospect of Box Office is bleak, because Firefly's clover holding company has a sudden 1.5 billion USD against popular technology stocks in the NASDAQ market at the end of the three months A large investment, recently with the company's financial statistics at the end of the year, it was announced that Eric had a dispute with Manhattan and Firefly Group's Board of Directors member and one of the shareholders David · West a few days ago, and Buffett also expressed doubts and dissatisfaction through the phone.
At this time, listening to the easy conversation between Eric and her daughter, Joanna knew that Eric ’s mentality was not too affected by the recent series of events, and they all felt relieved.
I woke up very early the next day and looked at the watch on the bedside table. It was just after seven o'clock and the sky outside the window was still not bright.
No more sleepiness, Eric carefully left small girl snuggled in his arms, put on his clothes lightly and walked out of the bedroom.
The snow that fell last week has not completely cleared up, and today the weather has become gray again.
The maids in the manor have already started to prepare breakfast. Today ’s newspaper has been placed on the coffee table in the living room. Eric sits down on the sofa and looks in portions.
These days, about " Titanic The topic of "has experienced too much saliva, and the media seems to be a little tired. Although it was opened on a large scale last night, because it is in the middle of winter, plus" Titanic 》 The long three hours, many people will inevitably give up watching the midnight show. Nowadays newspaper About Titanic 》 There are not many movie reviews, the overall evaluation is almost the same as the stage of the mapping, and the detailed analysis of the media's wind direction must definitely wait Firefly Marketing department reports, Eric Only a few copies at this time newspaper , And no major trends can be seen.
At eight o'clock, the Joanna and Natasha twins also got up one after another. Eric had just put down newspaper and entered the gym, and the cell phone he was carrying rang.
The call was made by Katzenberg of Los Angeles, Los Angeles was only five o’clock in the morning, but this is not a problem for Katzenberg. There are two major workaholics in Firefly Group, one of them is Katzenberg. One, of course, is not Eric, but Robert · Eiger. Compared to the five-hour sleep time of Katzenberg, Robert · Eiger seems to be more ruthless. He gets up at 4:30 every day.
The two spent more than ten minutes talking on the phone. Eric temporarily put down the morning exercises and came to the study.
A huge white writing board habitually hangs on the entire wall of the study.
At this time, ‘Titanic’ is written on the top of the writing board, and below is a listed table.
Taking up the black fountain pen next to it, Eric calmly wrote down the midnight Box Office number of "Titanic" in the first grid: 1.56 million USD.
The waves are not alarming and tepid. (To be continued.)