Hollywood Domination Chapter 416: Refuting rumors
""Black Swan" won another Golden Globe nomination, will Natalie Portman be the second post-80s Oscar queen?"
"The post-90s generation is fierce. Jennifer Lawrence's "Winter's Bone" was nominated for a Golden Globe Award. If she is nominated for an Oscar, she will become a leading figure of the post-90s generation."
"The Social Network has been well received again, the perfect collaboration between David Fincher and Aaron Sorkin, will this year's Oscar choose it? Or the more traditional "The King's Speech"?"
"If we follow the taste of Oscars in previous years, there is no doubt that the biography of historical figures "The King's Speech" will be favored, but last year's Oscar's choice was surprising. "The Social Network" is far more popular among young people than "The King's Speech" in terms of popularity, box office, and trendiness. It seems unjustifiable if this year's Olympic awards fail."
"There is no doubt that Natalie Portman is the most popular candidate for the Oscar queen. , the only variable is that the Oscar was awarded to Jennifer Jefferson's "The Fifth Sally" only a few years ago, and Jennifer played six or five personalities in this movie... ..."
"The marriage of Jennifer Jefferson and Cesare Vijari is a red light? It is reported that because of the company's business philosophy, the two are going their separate ways. As we all know, Jennifer in July She never came back after going to New Zealand, and Cesare never went to New Zealand. It is said that Jennifer refused to answer all calls in New Zealand and is trying to find herself again. It is also reported that she and Salvi Tucci had a hot fight , the divorce is only a matter of time. But the spokesperson of both parties, Judy Ackerman, denied the news as usual. She said that "Cesare and Jennifer are both busy with business affairs, and Jennifer's new film is closed. It's the reason why Cesare didn't go to visit the class'..."
In December 2010, "Twilight Saga 3" was released as scheduled, becoming the second movie released by Big Dream. This movie sticks to the traditional Halloween schedule, and the box office is also very stable. There are not too many ups and downs in the world, and it has always been at the level of 600-700 million in the world. It has become the most stable small coffers of Big Dream in recent years, and it is really enviable. "Twilight Saga 4" was demolished It is divided into upper and lower parts, and then there are two parts. The current big dream, apart from the few movies still in production, they have already led two series, "Code Shero" has broken 1.6 billion worldwide, and finally stopped at 1.67 billion, failing to threaten Up to the status of "Titanic", taking the 3D spring breeze to become the third in history, and "Twilight" although the box office is relatively low, but the production cost is also low, isn't it? With the support of these two series, the fault tolerance rate of Big Dream in the company's strategy will be much higher.
"Where is the gap between the current big dream and the big six? The only problem is their unstable output. Big dream urgently needs to get rid of the entrepreneurial model of its own mom-and-pop store, truly incorporate capital from upstream and downstream, and enter the mainstream In the commercial company model. Use cash flow to standardize annual output, and use mathematical means to seek profits..." According to external estimates, this year's revenue of Dream should exceed 2 billion US dollars, including the share from "Avatar", "Code Name" Shero's profits, and of course, the multi-channel income of "The Twilight Saga 3"-while they spend very little, just for "The Hunger Games", "Dragon Boys" and "Bridesmaids", "Hip-Hop" "Empire" and other projects have invested. This phenomenon of not knowing how to use the money is not healthy for the development of the company.
As many reports have said, Dameng should try to include shares with strategic value and grasp the resources of the upstream and downstream industries. This is also the only way for the company to grow and gain a firm foothold in the industry ——It’s very simple. Although big companies such as Disney and Fox are making profits and losing money, the movies produced through commercial assembly lines can still bring them profits in the end. Their advantages in distribution are also clear at a glance. To stabilize the annual production, the first thing to do is to control the distribution resources by yourself. After this distribution war is over, Big Dream may become the target of the six major groups. If we say that in the past, this risk was still discussed by Jenny and Cesare. In the future, after projects such as "Avatar" and "Codename Shero", it is already a well-known tacit understanding. The multi-party cooperation adopted by Dameng before now seems to be part of the company's strategy. When this strategy is extended, it is natural to accept capital from all parties. Such an intricate equity relationship and the setting of ab shares will make Jenny Foo and Cesare easily secured their dominance, and they were no longer passive in commercial competition: in fact, accepting downstream shares in the industry is prohibited by law, and theater chains and production companies must be independent, so the strategy must be Accept upstream capital as a shareholder and become the investment target of Viacom, Time Warner and other large groups. In this way, the environment for the growth of Dream will be much more comfortable. Maybe it really has the hope of becoming another miracle in Hollywood since the new millennium—— The seventh largest studio to rise after the Founding Era.
Of course, the premise of all this is the relationship between Jennifer and Cesare. If they want to stage a litigation battle for equity, the development of Big Dream will undoubtedly be affected, and whether it will even end there. It's hard to be lonely. Judging from the performance of the two, many people are speculating that the reason why Jennifer went to New Zealand to isolate herself from the company's business was because she was not willing to accept a shareholding, mass production scale, and wanted to maintain the current workshop model , but Cesare is already eager to try, ready to take the dream to another level. His independent leadership of the TV drama department, as well as his continuous investment in the production of comedy decisions, all reflect his ambition to expand the market.
No matter what potential investors think about the current situation of Dameng, and whether they are optimistic about Cesare's decision, all affairs of Dameng are progressing in an orderly manner. The production plan finalized in July, September The script of the pilot episode was released in November, which is actually the first episode in a de facto sense, and the Fox TV network announced that it was "very satisfied with the quality of the pilot episode", and has already started a promotional plan and approached Terrence. Howard and Taraji Hansen starred in two movie stars. The "Empire of Hip Hop", which is currently in production, is scheduled to start broadcasting in mid-January after the winter break. In order to move space for it, Fox also cut off this year's Adding to the pressure on "Empire" is an underperforming new comedy: jay-z's music executive, Lee Daniels ("Precious," "Deadman's Dance") creator , making it the most expensive and most topical new drama this year. For such a TV drama, it seems to be a failure if it fails to win the ratings championship. Even winning the ratings championship is not considered a success. I can only say Is on time to complete the target.
"Dragon Tiger Boys" is shooting, "The Hunger Games" is shooting, "Twilight Saga 4" is shooting, "Bridesmaids" is in the planning stage... At the same time, there are four wholly-owned movies in operation, two of which have a budget of over 100 million Well, the current scale of Big Dream really can’t be said to be small—that’s not counting the rest of their investments. Among them, “Mission: Impossible 4” has just been completed and is in post-production, and “Life of Pi” is even more It just ended the twists and turns of the wrangling period, and re-entered full-speed shooting. "Oz" is in the post-production stage... and "Fast and Furious 5" has already completed the editing work, and it is scheduled for May 2011. Now Everything is ready, and we are waiting for the end of the awards season to start a comprehensive promotion. Universal, which is confident in the quality of the film, also advertised that "Fast and Furious 5" is our masterpiece this year, and directly regarded it as A-level production and publicity, it is even more planned to hold trial screenings in January in advance, trying to follow the line of word-of-mouth marketing, and plans to announce the production of "Fast and Furious 6" on the eve of the film's release, so that Universal's confidence will become the film's best movie. good publicity.
"Of course, the concept of the sequel still needs Jennifer's check." Because of the high quality of the "Fast and Furious" series, Georgia, who has a more stable position in the group, said affectionately on the phone, listening to him His tone of voice seemed to be completely ignorant of the outside world's guesses about the status quo of Dameng. "We can't do without her genius mind now—if it wasn't for her persistence, we wouldn't even have the chance to see how Lin fits in with the series."
"Jennifer will come back to sign the investment contract," Cesare on the other end of the phone seemed to have no idea of Georgia's careful thoughts, and he said in a normal tone, "New Zealand has been completed, and she will return to China at any time , should be able to come back before Christmas, oh, by the way, we plan to hold a reception for Christmas this year, if you and Mrs Lansing have no other arrangements, welcome to come and attend—if there is a business event..."
"Of course we'll come," Georgia said immediately, "I have a lot of things I want to discuss with Jennifer—God, but I can already imagine how many people Jennifer will be surrounded by ——"
His tone became really light, "But it's okay, there is still a long time before May..."
Discussing the marketing idea of "Fast and Furious" with Cesare again, Georgia hung up the phone, and spread her hands to the wife who was sitting next to her and pricked up her ears at some point, "It seems that their The relationship remains stable, Jennifer is really just a closed shoot in New Zealand."
Attempt to gossip and fail to find any shocking news, Bell inevitably felt a little embarrassed, she curled her lips, "Well, it turns out that they can maintain their relationship just through the phone - what an amazing couple, isn't it? "
After a habitual sarcasm, she, like Georgia, couldn't help showing a little bit of relaxation: If Jennifer leaves the company's affairs alone, will "oz" still be successful in marketing? , then it’s hard to say, Georgia and she are almost tied to the chariot of Dameng, so they are the ones who most hope that the management of Dameng will maintain stability, “I thought Salvi would be a problem, You know, it is said that Jennifer appointed him to direct "The Great Gatsby", and the rumors are spreading fiercely now. They say that he is J.J's new love, and J.J only accepted the filming of "Gatesby" in order to continue to be with him. than "."
Just because of this rumor, there are dozens of paparazzi who went to New Zealand this month to camp. Unfortunately, under the closed shooting and strict security, all the paparazzi returned in vain. I only found out that Jennifer and Heath were in the movie The news of 'cohabitation' during filming made people appear on the cover for a while, but it was soon clarified that it was the director and filming's request that they had to live separately, just for convenience, the two lived in the same apartment building , and there has always been a bodyguard team living together. ——This is equivalent to clearing up two scandals at once, and also made an advertisement for the new film.
For the public, no intimate photos can be taken, and just a few photos of going in and out of the set together can't explain the problem at all, and they are habitually treated as hype by the crew-the media said that Cesare and Jennifer have been together for a long time. No, they don’t believe this, because Jennifer didn’t have any street photography some time ago, and the media can’t prove whether it’s always been a single person. For people in the industry, the truth is like looking at flowers in water, making people unclear ——More people didn't care. Only the Georgia couple was nervous for a while because of this. They were afraid that Jennifer would continue to cooperate with Salvi, which was a harbinger that the dream duo would eventually break up. The phone call from Cesare relieved them a little bit of their doubts, but Bell still intends to observe and judge for himself how the relationship between the two is. She will definitely go to this Christmas reception.
"Let's see if Cesare will pick her up when she comes back." The reception more than ten days later obviously couldn't satisfy her impatience, Bell thought about it, and muttered, "This should be the last It’s a good barometer—if their relationship has eased, reporters will definitely be arranged to clarify the rumors..."
Just when Jennifer and her husband were worried about other people's couples, on the private apron of Lax Airport, Cesare ended another phone call, put the phone in his pocket, stepped forward, and stood on the gangway. The port door opened slowly below. Amidst the sound of "kacha, kacha" taking pictures, he took off his sunglasses, showed a bright and natural smile, raised his head and watched his wife step out of the cabin door gently. He ran down the gangway and threw himself into his arms——