I’m in Hollywood Chapter 915: A new era
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On September 5th, with the release of a Warner Bros. action film starring Steven · Sieg, "Muzzle Down", the 1997 summer season officially came to an end.
Overall, the start of this summer is a terrible start, and it was crushed by the large-scale films of "Finding Nemo" and "Casino Royale" that both Box Office's potential exceeds 300 million USD. Paramount Pictures North America Box Office finally managed to break through "The Lion King2" of 200 million USD, and it was definitely not a success.
However, in July, the chaos in the movie market also began to subside. Fox's "Ice Age", Metro Goldwyn Mayer's "Scream2", Universal's "Air Force One" and other films have achieved very good Box Office results.
Among them, the performance of "Ice Age" is undoubtedly the most eye-catching.
This is not only because "Ice Age" finally harvested 100 million 7 more than 6 million USD Box Office in North America at the cost of 59 million USD, and this 3D animation movie is also an first part animation feature film of Blue Sky animation studio.
Although Blue Sky Studios is well-supported by Firefly in terms of technology, it is well known that as a neodymium producer, Box Office can receive a good reputation in North America and more than three times the production cost, which still greatly stimulates other Film Studio.
Besides, in addition to "Casino Royale", Box Office's most outstanding performance in this summer's season is "The Lion King2", "Finding Nemo" and "Ice Age" which are released one after another. Just for these three animated movies, the sum of the summer files Box Office is close to 600 million USD, which is almost a quarter of the total summer file Box Office.
Before "Ice Age", although Hollywood and Film Studio all started to establish their own animation film departments, due to the influence of the concept of 2D animation being monopolized by Disney, 3D animation being monopolized by Pixar, plus the long production cycle of animation movies These Film Studio feel that it is very difficult to make a successful animated movie.
But now, whether Blue Sky Studios breaks the traditional thinking influence or is driven by strong interests, the other major Film Studios of Hollywood are beginning to increase their investment in their own Animation Department.
On the other hand, the fierce fighting in June also made Hollywood realize that it is no longer possible to stick to the traditional practice of placing the key film before United States Independence Day on July 4, which will only cause very serious internal friction.
The performance of Box Office in overseas markets has further attracted the attention of Hollywood.
This year's two 1 billion Box Office seeds "Finding Nemo" and "Casino Royale", no matter which one, overseas Box Office is significantly more than United States local, when many media are still marveling at the "Casino Royale" North America Box Office once again breaking the first week Box Office record The Box Office of the film's overseas first week has easily reached the height of 13.6 billion USD.
In the 13th week of the release, North America Box Office surpassed 3.3 billion USD's "Finding Nemo", but overseas Box Office has also reached 3.9 billion USD. At the same time, many overseas markets have not yet been released. At least 200 million USD's Box Office potential can be tapped, which is far from North America has entered the tail-end period.
If you push it forward and enter September, you will start to completely downgrade "Titanic" within the scope of global. The overseas Box Office will eventually reach the breathtaking number of 1.6 billion 29 600,000 USD, and the movie global and the total Box Office will eventually break through. The unprecedented 200 million USD.
The Paramount Act of 1948 and the subsequent rise of the television industry completely ended the booming United States film industry in the golden age of Hollywood.
But in recent years, as Hollywood movies have frequently created Box Office miracles within the scope of global, the entire Hollywood has gradually realized that for the United States film industry, another brand new golden age is coming. Moreover, this is an era of rapid development accompanied by rapid development of high technology and economic global. If you cannot catch up with these changes, you are destined to face the fate of being eliminated again.
Among them, the biggest change is undoubtedly the rapid integration of the major media groups of North America.
I have to say that this is actually a very ironic thing.
The Paramount Act of the year was to avoid the single hegemony of the monopolistic giants from negatively affecting the entire industry. But the result of this move has hit the United States film industry. In recent years, the Paramount bill has existed in name only. Several major media giants have even extended their hands to the cinema industry that was originally banned, but Hollywood has shown a rapid recovery.
With the end of this summer period, Hollywood has once again started a major event related to the integration of the two major media groups.
Viacom acquired CBS TV Network, and Seagram acquired Europe music giant PolyGram.
The acquisition of CBS by Viacom is almost a well-known thing in Hollywood.
Summer · Redstone has been expanding the TV business of the Viacom group non-stop since the 1980s. Firefly and News Corp jointly suppressed announcement of "The Lion King 2", resulting in the 2D animated film with the potential of 300 million USD North America Box Office. Stopped in the early days of 200 million, and further stimulated Redstone, making the other party finally determined to start the acquisition of CBS.
For Viacom swallowing CBS, Eric is very happy.
North America's public TV Station has already shown signs of decay. In recent years, more and more cable TV Station has been robbing a lot of market share. At the same time, due to the impact of the new technology wave, the market value of CBS has also been inflated several times. It can be said that Viacom swallowed CBS at this time. Even without the memory of previous life, Eric can determine that this public TV Network will become the Viacom group. A big burden.
However, Seagram's acquisition of PolyGold was beyond Eric's expectations.
This incident was only revealed when a reporter from the Europe family of newspaper accidentally took photos of Seagram CEO Edgar · Bronfman meeting with the senior management of PolyGram.
Once acquired the parent company a of Universal, Seagram already had the very strong Universal record in North America. If it buys Europe ’s largest Record Company Polygram, the strength of Universal records will far exceed that of the world ’s forefront. Several other Record Company.
"Okay, I'll send a plane to Brisbane to pick you up, but don't let it be too public, and should I kiss it ... um, it's good, but it seems that I've kissed my feet, come again ... Haha, okay, no noise, "Eric's feet were tilted on the desk in the conference room of Firefly Studios, leaning on the Boss chair, talking with Miranda Kerr in Australia, the office door was Push away, Elizabeth walked in without knocking on the door: "Well, that's it, I'm here as a guest, hang up first, goodbye."
Elizabeth glanced suspiciously on the face of Eric who hung up the phone hurriedly, no abnormality was found, he pouted, and sat across from himself, holding a bunch of materials on the Eric desk into his arms Look over.
Place the phone on the desk, Eric sitting upright, looking at the Elizabeth of the large stack of documents on the opposite side: "Are you a blatant business spy?"
Elizabeth did n’t raise his head and said, "Well, I ’m not going to hold you and those little foxes to make phone porridge. You dare to be so straightforward."
"I'm planning to use integrity as my motto lately." Eric smiled and took a pencil out of the pen holder, correcting it on the script in front, and said.
The script in his hand is the "Desperate Housewives" he just remembered the other day. Eric took a few hours to write a simple script idea, and then threw it to "Desperate Housewives" original screenwriter Mark · Celi
The current Mark · Chelly is still a very unremarkable little person of Hollywood, naturally conscientious, and soon wrote the complete story outline of the first season and the first three episodes of script.
I just wrote a few lines on script of "Desperate Housewives", and the opposite Elizabeth burst into laughter.
Eric raised his head: "You are so scary, what if you scare me a horror movie script, you have to bother to write it."
Elizabeth threw a stack of documents back into his desk again, leaving only a folder, and raised it, his face still with an unstoppable smile, said: "This, 《Ted》 script, it's so vulgar , Who wrote it? "
Eric pointed to himself with a pencil: "Recently, my inspiration has burst out and I can't stop it."
Elizabeth rolled his eyes subconsciously, raised the folder in his hand, and said: "I want it."
"Come and lie on the table, I will give it to you."
"Ah, you bastard, you don't want anything good in your mind, no wonder writing such a vulgar script," Elizabeth picked up a small ornament next to the display and threw it towards Eric.
Eric reached out to catch the "Resident Evil" Ada Wang hand holding the crossbow, and put it carefully, saying: "This is out of print, if I break it, I can only put you on the table as compensation. "
Elizabeth snorted again, shaking 《Ted》 script in his hand, no longer asking for things, just saying: "tedddy bear is a plush toy that many children like very much, you just write like this, copyright is willing to Is it? "
"Generally copyright is unwilling for everyone, I think there are only two reasons, one is not enough money, and the other is still not enough money," Eric explained: "Anyway, Firefly has already been with them After signing the copyright agreement, how we want to write script has nothing to do with them. "
"Well, I do n’t need to think about it, they must have been cheated by you, thinking that you have to make 《Ted》 into a Disney style children ’s feature film. If they know in advance that script will be so vulgar, it is estimated that they will not sell it if they are killed. Of. "
Eric smiled and said: "That's not necessarily, you have to see if the money is enough. However, this is a movie, it must be R-rated. The children can't see it at all, so they won't be affected. Good By the way, what do you do, and I do n’t suddenly think that I thought I could n’t extricate myself and ran over, if I remember correctly, we just saw it the night before? ”
"Who would miss you guys," Elizabeth pouted, pulled out a file bag from his handbag and handed it over: "This is Chris · Wedge. They just finished" Shrek "script. Please help me look at it."
Eric reached over and took it, opened it and said, "Why not send it directly to my mailbox, how convenient is it?"
"Everyone is in a hurry. Who knows when you will send it by e-mail? When will you give the message? I won't be leaving this afternoon. You will help me read it and give me suggestions for modification. Well, that's it. "
"Okay," Eric nodded with a smile: "Then help me with a cup of coffee, add a piece of sugar, and put more milk."
Elizabeth grabbed the Ada Wangshouban again and stood up and walked out of the Eric office.
Soon after putting the coffee in front of Eric, she said: "Did not Seagram want to buy PolyGram recently? Do n’t you feel anything at all?"
Eric turned around with a pencil in his hand and asked casually, "What does it feel like?"
"I said yes, you never thought about snatching Polygram. Recently, there are more remarks about the irelyer player conniving at piracy?"
"I only know that Firefly Records's performance will rise by more than 50 this year. Although the digital music revenues account for only 10%, but they are smarter, they should know where the future trends are. For new technologies, force it Blocking will only lead to self-defeating. Siemens hopes to sell Polygon now, perhaps considering that digital music will rise in the next few years. "
"Then Seagram is a fool, can't they see these?"
"It's not a question of being stupid or not. Edgar · Bronfman can seize the position of Seagram CEO from his family. I wouldn't be too stupid to think about it. Of course, I also think he is not too clever. Just like Redstone, many people only You will see the short-term benefits in front of you, and you are not willing to think too long. "
Elizabeth nodded thoughtfully and smiled: "You think for a long time, Firefly has not expanded in the past two years, I am afraid that the annual growth rate will soon decline."
Eric approved another line on script in his hand and continued, "Even if Firefly Group's performance stops growing, it will be enough for Hollywood and other Film Studios to catch up for several years. What's more, it will not necessarily stop growing. You do n’t know about the economic bubble of the year, Firefly is not a listed company, and you ca n’t enjoy the dividends brought by too many bubbles, so it is unwise to expand now. After two years, the bubble burst, It ’s the moment when Firefly shows its strength. "
"So what do you think about the acquisition of Poly Gold by Seagram?"
Eric remembered the original time and space, the integration of the media group was completed, only the Universal group entered the new century and continued to change the owner ’s message, saying: "Well, I can only say that once Seagram completes the acquisition of Polygram, this will be the future A company will become a hot potato, whoever gets the bad luck. "(To be continued.)