I’m in Hollywood Chapter 822: Set sail
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"" Titanic "Box Office failed disastrously, the first weekend reported 29180,000 USD, North America total Box Office may not break 100 million."
"The magic of the Eric Williams movie fails, and the epic masterpiece has a bleak start."
"Firefly Pictures suffered the biggest Box Office loss in the history of Hollywood, and the cumulative loss will be close to 200 million USD."
"Word of mouth turns hard to stop Box Office down," Titanic "North America first weekend Box Office lost to" Star Trek: First Contact "over the same period, the production cost of the two sides differed by five times.
"James · Cameron led the" Titanic "team to participate in the London publicity event. The press conference looked haggard and suspected of mental breakdown."
"Firefly GroupCEOJeffrey · Katzenberg issued a statement that Firefly Pictures will not dismiss the creators of" Titanic "Jon · Randall, William · Stewart, etc. and will continue to cooperate with Director James · Cameron.
"Eric Williams has not appeared in public for many days, and the work of" Casino Royale "may have been suspended in the later period, and the film may be following in the footsteps of" Titanic. "
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On December 23, the day before Christmas, with the release of Box Office data for the first three days of the first weekend of "Titanic", North America entertainment media launched a new round of mad bombing on film-related topics.
If it is another movie, the first three days of the weekend 29180,000, in any case can not be considered a failure, but it is "Titanic", a total investment of 2.6500 million USD, global Box Office 800 million to achieve the most cost-effective movie in the history of breakeven.
But at this time, the first weekend of "Titanic" Box Office is only 29180,000 USD, which is even less than the "Star Trek: First Contact" released in the previous week, "Star Trek: First Contact" produced by Paramount Pictures, the production cost For 45 million USD, Box Office30.71 million USD for the first weekend, Box Office for the next weekend fell only 42%, and then closed 17.8 million USD. At the same time, the cumulative Box Office has reached 60 million USD in ten days of release.
Most media have published predictions. Although the reputation of the movie "Titanic" has improved compared with that before the release, but because the long three-hour film length caused most viewers to lose the motivation to watch movies, the Box Office of "Titanic" fell the following week It is likely to exceed "Star Trek: First Contact" and reach more than 50%.
According to this Box Office trend, "Titanic" North America total Box Office may only be 80 million to 90 million USD. As we all know, the overseas distribution of "Titanic" is also hampered. There are only 9 overseas countries that were released in the same period, less than half of the number of overseas synchronized countries of "Mission: Impossible2" less than a month ago. The failure of "Titanic" North America Box Office will also affect the trend of the film's overseas Box Office. As the enthusiasm of publishers and theater dealers in unreleased countries decreases, the global Box Office of "Titanic" may stop within 200 million USD.
global Box Office 200 million and Firefly can only recover 70 million USD. The future revenue of video tapes / DVDs and TV broadcasting rights is impossible to talk about. The media predicts that Firefly will lose 200 million USD in this movie, and there is no exaggeration, even Even within Firefly Group, most management has reluctantly accepted this 'reality'.
If it is Hollywood other big Film Studio, after the release of Box Office in the first week of "Titanic", in the face of the huge loss expected to reach 200 million USD, the relevant person in charge may have been swept out at this time, and even the entire Film Studio may face bankruptcy and reorganization. However, this is certainly not possible inside Firefly Group. After all, "Titanic" is a project that Eric has forced to push, and it seems too difficult to fire this kind of thing from his own Boss.
Although there is no need to account to Wall Street or the company ’s shareholders like other Film Studios, in the face of the imminent huge loss, the company ’s senior management still has to make some adjustments and aftermath to avoid repeating the same mistakes as Titanic in the future.
Just after Christmas, although the holiday has not passed yet, Katzenberg began to gather the group ’s film department executives to discuss the company ’s future production and distribution strategies.
It can be said that after the release of Box Office on the first weekend, most people have already labeled "Titanic" as a doomed failure, plus the reason that it is immediately after Christmas. Few people pay special attention to the single-day Box Office of this movie, even if it is It is the distribution department responsible for Box Office statistics within Firefly Group, and it is quite puzzled that Eric insists that they report the summary of Box Office as soon as possible on a single day every day. Is it impossible? Is Boss still looking forward to the miracle?
Although it is very puzzling, no one dares to pervert the requirements of Eric. Every morning, the Box Office statistical report of the previous day will appear in the email of Eric.
Maybe considering the mood of Eric, women are no longer mentioning any movies in front of him these days. In addition to the regular holiday greetings, Firefly Group executives did not unwittingly mention "Titanic" to Eric, Therefore, the holiday Christmas is also lively and warm.
In a blink of an eye, the time has come to December 27, the third day of Christmas.
Eric got up early in the morning as usual, and came to the study after washing.
Today is Friday, the first day of the week following the release of "Titanic".
Turn on the computer on the desk and wait for the moment to turn on. Eric looks at the white writing board on the study wall.
At this time, seven sets of data including midnight have appeared above.
Last weekend, needless to say, this week begins.
On December 23, 5.57 million USD.
Because it is Monday, there is a 40% decline compared to the previous day ’s 9300,000 USD, which echoes the trend of Box Office in most movies.
December 24, 3500,000 USD.
On Christmas Eve, basically no one went out to watch the film, and it was not surprising that Box Office fell sharply again in a single day.
Then, on December 25, the day of Christmas, a single day Box Office703 million USD.
Compared with Box Office on December 23, there was a significant increase. When I saw this number yesterday morning, Eric has been a little irritable recently and has suddenly relaxed a lot, but he is not too much Excited, just as people do n’t go out to watch movies on Christmas Eve, Christmas day is usually a great time for people to eat, drink, and play. On this day, the movie Box Office appears on a single day. It is difficult to say that the film itself is still stimulated by the festive atmosphere.
Therefore, on December 26, that is yesterday, the Box Office data on the last day of the first week of "Titanic" is particularly important. The Box Office on this day will also prove that "Titanic" has been fermented by word of mouth for a week. Able to reproduce the former glory.
If the single-day Box Office on this day falls again, which is equivalent to the single-day Box Office of 5.75 million USD on Monday, then all expectations will be lost. If the Box Office rises in a single day, even if it is the same as Christmas Day, then it will also indicate that the original ship that created the unprecedented Box Office miracle in time and space will set sail again.
Eric looked at the writing board on the wall for a moment, and the computer on the desktop was turned on. During the process of entering the password to open Yahoo Mail, although Eric consciously adjusted his mentality these days, he only found out After all, he couldn't take it lightly. He even felt his fingers tremble with excitement because of the advent of some kind of 'trial moment'.
The page opens, and the eye-catching unread mail from the Firefly distribution department lies quietly in the mailbox.
Eric moved the mouse and tapped lightly to expand the content of the email.
The first thing that appeared in front of me was the sum of Box Office in the first week released by the distribution department. Eric directly skipped the summary number of 54.33 million USD and looked down.
Staring quietly at the page for a few seconds, Eric took a deep breath, got up and walked to the writing board, picked up the fountain pen and quickly wrote the last number of "Titanic" on the first week.
9050,000 USD.
This Thursday ’s Box Office number is 4% higher than the first day of Titanic, 11% higher than Christmas Day, and 38% higher than the most comparable Monday!
Eric couldn't help scanning the Box Office numbers again for the first seven days of the week.
8650,000 USD, 9670,000 USD, 9300,000 USD, 5.57 million USD, 3500,000 USD, 7.03 million USD, 9050,000 USD.
The single-day Box Office of 3500,000 USD seems to be a freezing point, but in the eyes of Eric, it is more like a spring compressed to the extreme, accumulating all the strength, a movie destined to represent a miracle, Struggling to throw to the sky.
"Titanic", officially set sail!
Throwing the pen into the pen holder, Eric walked out of the study room, thinking, then, maybe there is no need to record the daily Box Office anymore.
How tired it will be.
A new day, for Hollywood, although it is Friday, it is also a new week.
Many people wake up from their sleep and look at today ’s newspaper inadvertently, maybe they will notice the Box Office number of the first week of “Titanic” appearing above, but for this film that has been characterized as a failure by most media In addition to more and more fans who are moved by the film, most people don't think that the number of 54.33 million USD is a big deal. After all, last month's "Mission: Impossible2", the first week of Box Office was more than 80 million USD.
Los Angeles, although it is three hours later than New York, but Katzenberg saw the Box Office statistics of the first week of "Titanic" almost at the same time as Eric. Of course, he also noticed that the last day of the first week was surprising. Some puzzled 9050,000 USD's Box Office, Katzenberg at first even thought that the distribution department counted the numbers wrong. After all, there is a movie whose working day Box Office is higher than the first day of the release. Although it is on the Christmas holiday, most people think The shadow habit is still maintained on the weekend for three days.
Called the staff on duty responsible for Box Office statistics to confirm one side, and listened to the voice of the person in charge of the distribution department on the phone before Katzenberg confirmed that this number was not wrong.
However, Katzenberg did not think in a more optimistic way. Instead, it used this number as the result of the Christmas holiday effect again. After all, December 26 is also the second day of Christmas.
Some later, Hollywood and other Film Studio executives who also keep a close eye on "Titanic" also noticed the Box Office abnormality of this movie on December 26, most people also have no deep meaning, Even some media with keen attention are also thinking about one aspect with Katzenberg.
Although I thought it was just an accident, Katzenberg was on the phone with Eric in New York for the first time, and reported that this was good news. After all, the North America Box Office predicted by the Box Office agency for this film is 80 million to 90 million USD, but the first week unexpectedly harvested 54.33 million USD. The original forecast number will definitely rise, and the North America broken 100 million is almost certain. Katzenberg feels that it is always good to lose less.
Eric did n’t tell Katzenberg his judgment, so I thought it would be a surprise for everyone. If God didn't make a joke with him, then the surprise might come, maybe it's just tomorrow.
Through a phone call with Eric, Katzenberg said goodbye to his wife and twin sons, and drove to Burbank Firefly Headquarters. He met with the new line Film Industry Chairman Kenneth · Horn this morning and planned to discuss the production and distribution plan of the new line next year.
This year, the new line has almost achieved Box Office performance comparable to the two major Film Studios of Firefly Pictures and Disney Film Industry of the headquarters, plus the failure of Box Office of "Titanic". Starting next year, the group will definitely need to increase support for the new line Film Industry. In the discussions over the past few days, Katzenberg and Frank · Wells and other high-level executives have determined a plan to increase the average annual film production budget of the new line to 500 million USD in the next three years. Eric also initially agreed to the plan on the phone. Today They have to discuss the details in more detail.
As for the two major Production Studios in this department, Katzenberg and Frank · Wells mean to reduce the budget for large-scale production of films, in fact, it is to compress the production scale of Firefly Pictures, and at the same time re-emphasize the production of Disney family live movies. After all, Disney from the surrounding stores to The entire industry chain of Disneyland requires a large number of family celebration movies to provide enough peripheral products and copyright image, which is not just cartoons, Live-Action Film is equally important.
Eric is not as busy as Katzenberg. After having breakfast, he left the manor with a book and walked towards a cafe on the edge of the community.
There were no guests in the cafe in the morning. Eric and the counter behind were also bored. They looked at newspaper's old man and said hello, and sat down where they used to sit.
A waitress brought coffee to Eric and retreated quietly.
Eric took a sip of warm coffee and leisurely opened the book "Financial Alchemy".
The unremarkable old man behind the counter took the initiative this time, saying: "Eric, it looks like Box Office in the first week of" Titanic "is not bad."
This man in his sixties looks like Matthew Braga, and is the Boss of this cafe. However, Eric knows that the other party is not far from their own home and also has a manor of considerable size. This old man is originally from Brazil and is a very famous local entrepreneur. The family runs a large natural rubber business in northeastern Brazil. At that time, he had already handed over the family business to his children. He retired and took care of his wife at United States. Opening such a coffee shop was more of a pastime.
After all, the two are not familiar, and Eric ca n’t reveal anything to him, and he smiled and replied: "If it is another movie, it is certainly good, but this is" Titanic ". I may lose a big one I ’ve written it, otherwise I wo n’t be hiding here and do n’t dare to see anyone. ”
Matthew Braga haha smiled, but with a bit of shrewdness in his eyes, said: "I have never seen you miss it yet."
"I hope so."
After finishing this sentence, the two sides were quiet again. Eric continued to read this boring book on finance. Matthew · Braga still looked at his newspaper.
About an hour later, a blonde white girl wearing a white down jacket hurriedly pushed in the door and walked in. Seeing that Eric was already sitting here, she hurried over and apologized: "I ’m sorry, Mr. Williams, I 'S car broke down and I had to ask my classmates to send me over. "
"It's okay, Sabrina, please sit down. I happen to have some doubts and need you to explain it to me."
"Oh, of course," Sabrina Rand sat opposite Eric, took out the "Financial Alchemy" exactly like Eric from her carry bag, and also had a notebook, and then patiently answered Eric A lot of seemingly simple financial problems arise.
Of course, these questions are only simple for her graduate student of Columbia Finance Department.
Because of the upset mood in the recent period, Eric has no intention of combing the Marvel comic universe plot. Instead, it chooses a boring book on finance to spend leisure time, and the cold theory of finance is also easier to calm down. Down.
However, if it is a Chinese book, it ’s just that, based on the literal meaning, you can understand something through repeated reading. But for professional English finance books, if you want to read it, you must know all kinds of professional and even rare English words in finance.
Eric has at most some basic financial knowledge. In order to understand this book, a senior financial student was hired specifically from Columbia University, that is, Sabrina Rand in front of her, a tall and slender face. Nice blonde girl. The most indispensable thing around Eric is the beauty. Of course, he does not have any intentions for the girl in front of him. The reason why he chose Sabrina from the candidates recommended by Columbia is purely thinking of 'red sleeves. , An eye-catching beautiful girl who accompanies her reading must be more comfortable than a homosexual.
As for the "financial alchemy" that Eric is interested in recently, it has a famous author named George · 索 Ross. (To be continued.) 29