I’m in Hollywood Chapter 1000: Good news
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On the second floor with Meyer, Eric pushed open a room door and turned sideways towards Meyer, saying, "Nà, you will live here these two days, there should be brand new washing in the bathroom cabinet You need to buy your own utensils. "
Meyer took two steps towards the room with a suitcase. This is a very spacious bedroom with bright white decoration, a separate terrace and bathroom, and a large bed, wardrobe and desk. It is simple, but obviously with a delicate and expensive atmosphere, and there is a computer with a 21-inch LCD screen that is currently rare.
Looking around, Meyer turned around and saw Eric standing at the door, and didn't mean to come in. His expression stopped, and suddenly he didn't know what to say.
Eric noticed the change in Meyer ’s expression and smiled: "That ’s it, I went to the study upstairs, you are at your own discretion. There is a library and entertainment room on the first floor, and a home theater in the basement. I want to go shopping. If you want, you can drive the car they left behind with Carter. "
Meyer saw that Eric was leaving, and finally found a topic, saying: "Eric, then, do you need me to help you prepare dinner?"
"Oh, there is a Minjiang restaurant in Jiekou Garden Hotel, please call to reserve a place, we can eat there in the evening."
Meyer did n’t know the phone number for ordering at Minjiang Restaurant, but she did n’t ask too much. She still managed to handle such a trivial matter, so she nodded.
As Eric left, the figure disappeared on the opposite staircase. Meyer closed the door and stood there for a while before opening his suitcase and starting to pack it up.
Eric did n’t organize any luggage. The girl arranged everything in his private house. This mansion has his complete set of daily necessities. Even the pencils on the desk of the study are arranged according to his personal habits. Put it, this is almost his other home.
Replace Meyer, Eric came to the study on the third floor.
Turn on the computer, Eric clicks the Yahoo Browser icon on the monitor desktop, and skillfully marks the URL of the Google search engine in the address bar.
The familiar search engine page immediately jumped out. In addition to the web search, there are additional pictures, emails, maps, and a dedicated Yahoo homepage through train. Compared with the original beta version, the official Google search engine Some fine-tuning, but the overall change is not big.
Yahoo's current business focus is still on web portal. Although it has been determined that the search engine will be the focus of business in the next few years, Yahoo has not yet promoted the separate Google search engine. . After all, the upcoming IPO of Yahoo is still focused on the concept of Internet media.
Click on the row of buttons at the top of the search box, Eric directly logged in to his work mailbox through the browser, and found the new week's Box Office data report.
June 12 to June 18, " The Day After Tomorrow 》 In the second week of the release, the film as a whole is Box Office 43% drop in a week Box Office 63.69 million USD ,Grand total Box Office Reach 1. 7.5 billion USD , Temporarily listed in 1998 North America the film Box Office The second place in the list, the first place is the "Eastern Festival" released " Austin Powers 2 ", this spoof movie ends Box Office Fixed at 1.8 600 million USD .
Furthermore, due to the synchronous release of most overseas ticket warehouse countries, the cumulative overseas Box Office of "The Day After Tomorrow" in two weeks has reached 2.2.6 billion USD. There is no doubt that "The Day After Tomorrow" will be another overseas Box Office accounts for the big Hollywood blockbuster.
Combined with the Box Office data of the previous two weeks, the Firefly distribution department predicted that North America Box Office of "The Day After Tomorrow" will be between 230 million and 250 million USD, overseas Box Office is between 400 million and 500 million USD, and global Box Office is expected to be around 600 million to 700 million USD.
Although it cannot be regarded as an outbreak, there is no doubt that "The Day After Tomorrow" can definitely be said to be a big sale of global. According to the production budget of the film 120 million USD and the release budget of 50 million USD, it is only global Box Office, "The Day After Tomorrow" can recover more than 100 million USD Net profit.
Glanced at the Box Office information of other movies in the Box Office data report, Eric's attention turned to "The Matrix2" which was officially released today.
Although the production rights for the sequel of "The Matrix" were sold, Firefly still retains the development rights for the peripheral products of the "The Matrix" series.
Compared to the long-term operation of videotapes and TV broadcasting rights, the benefits of the film ’s peripheral products are almost at the same time as the film ’s release.
The release of "The Matrix2", regardless of the result, will definitely bring a wave of sales peak to related peripheral products. Although the surroundings of the "The Matrix" series are not as rich as animation movies or "Jurassic Park" and other films, but for this part of the income, Firefly earns very easy, almost no investment of marketing resources.
Although Eric did not specifically ask, the assistant's office sent the related information of "The Matrix2" to his email address.
Eric opened the email and saw the Box Office data information of 9950,000 USD of "The Matrix2" midnight.
The midnight show Box Office close to 10 million USD broke the North America midnight show Box Office record again. Last year ’s Eric's "Casino Royale", the midnight show Box Office was only 5 million USD.
However, Eric did not feel too surprised. The 007 series has become a symbol of popular movie culture. Although the popularity is very high, there are not many diehard fans, so there will not be too many viewers who are willing to stay up late to watch the midnight show.
But the "The Matrix" series is different. The stunning movie first part directly made this series on the altar, gathered a lot of diehard fans, and it is not difficult to understand the high level of Box Office at midnight.
However, "The Matrix2" broke the record at midnight, and there are also factors for the natural growth of the North America movie market. Not to mention the "Star Wars Prequel" which will be released at the end of the year, even if it is "Charlie's Angels3" half a month later, it is possible to refresh this record again.
Looking at the comments attached under the midnight field data, Eric turned to the comments of the film, which is what he is more concerned about.
The email first lists the good reviews of "The Matrix2".
"I like this movie very much, and I sincerely recommend it to everyone. However, this movie is already missing something that can impress me in first part."-"New York Observer"
"Compared with first part, Wachowski Brothers's skill is more mature."-"Salon"
"You can enjoy this movie very easily without understanding the deep meaning of the" The Matrix "series." "Hollywood Reporter"
"Although some new elements have been added, the film is no longer as stunning and exciting as first part."-《Variety》.
Although it is praised, Eric clearly feels that many media and film critic's evaluation of "The Matrix2" can only be regarded as recognition, but from these words, it must not be regarded as rave reviews like first part. This argument is also consistent with Eric's memory of the previous version and his senses after watching the two sequels of Wachowski Brothers, script.
After reading the good news, Eric skipped the following series of excerpts of brief negative reviews, found a long comment, and read it carefully.
"Considering the good start of the" The Matrix "series, you will definitely keep the same expectation for the sequel, right?"
"However, many people may be disappointed, at least, I personally feel this way. In this sequel, many excellent ideas and highlights in the first part movie have been diluted, and it can even be said that it has been left very bad. Although the film still looks cool on the surface, it is actually far inferior to first part. Wachowski Brothers deliberately added some vague and obscure philosophical thinking. In my opinion, it is just a mystery. I really think about this video Everything here is disappointing, everything seems to be off track, leaving only a bunch of so-called hot action scenes repeatedly. "
“first part will always be a special effects milestone for movies. It will change special effects movies forever. At the same time, it also brings us a philosophical proposition about reality and fantasy for many years. However, this sequel has obviously begun Being vulgar, considering that this is a two-episode series, I can hardly imagine what the third part will look like, maybe it will give us a worse ending. If you are the fans of the "The Matrix" series, you must I do n’t want to see this happen. However, to think about the original Firefly Group in order to avoid shoots in accordance with the two sequels script established by Wachowski Brothers, and even to sell the production rights of the film, it is difficult for me to have any third part Looking forward. "
The film critic of North America is more professional in that it basically does not give spoilers in advance.
After reading this review, Eric, although I ca n’t see this film critic ’s plot analysis of this sequel, but thinking about how I felt when I saw Wachowski Brothers script, I can roughly guess what the other party ’s mood is.
At the end of the email, after statistics, the overall score of "The Matrix2" is only 7.3, which is far less than 8.7 of first part.
Compared with the great situation created by first part, the score of 7.3 is only barely passable.
After reading the email in front of me, Eric puts the matter of "The Matrix2" behind his head. It is still the same sentence. Since it is already splashing water, it is useless to pay more attention.
The 300 million USD income Eric of the sequel production right of "The Matrix" was directly invested in the Clover Fund. Even if the value of the 16billion USD of the overall stock of the Clover Fund was held, the money had more than doubled. When selling stocks, the gains from 300 million USD may exceed 1billion USD.
An Berlin Film Industry has invested more than 600 million USD for the sequel of two "The Matrix", even if "The Matrix2" global Box Office reaches 1billion USD, "The Matrix3" Box Office is still excellent, but considering the huge investment in the previous period, these two The profit from the sequel to An Berlin Film Industry is absolutely impossible to reach 1billion USD.
Turn off the mail page of "The Matrix2", Eric continued to check the unread mail in the work mailbox, and soon saw a good message from Katzenberg.
After a full year, Cameron finally intends to start the production of "Spider-Man".
Katzenberg said in an email that he had just chatted with Cameron and Jon Randall about the details yesterday afternoon. At the end, he jokingly asked Eric if he would personally pick "Spider-Man" Heroine.
Although far away from Los Angeles, Eric has been paying attention to the rough cutting progress of "Iron Man". He and Joss Whedon talk about the editing details of some films by phone or email almost every day. It is expected that Eric will return to Los Angeles, "Iron Man" The first version of rough cut is about to be completed, and is about to enter the most important special effects production stage.
Compared with "Iron Man", the project of "Spider-Man" is too slow to make people blame. If Cameron really drags too long, Eric will have to change to Director. He cannot let "Spider-Man" delay the entire Marvel Cinematic Universe process. .
Fortunately, Cameron is finally ready to start production now.
As long as the project enters a substantial production stage, Cameron cannot be slowed down even if it is delayed.
Thinking about this, Eric has picked up the phone and directly dialed the Cameron phone far away from Los Angeles.
The phone was connected quickly. The Cameron people were in Firefly Studios. After a few words of greeting, the two chatted about "Spider-Man", from script to special effects to the protagonist, and they chatted for an hour. Eric only hung up.
According to the plan in the Cameron discourse, "Spider-Man" completed the preliminary preparations for the cast selection of Kanjing in the second half of the year, and the filming can start at the beginning of next year. It only needs to wait until the summer of 2000 to be released at the latest. This progress is still in Eric. Endure the range.
After finishing the call with Cameron, I worked on the work email for a while, and the sky went dark unconsciously outside the window.
Flying around for more than half a month, Eric's biological clock also began to be a bit confusing. When I noticed the time, it was already past seven o'clock in the evening.
Turn off the computer, Eric left the room, and the villa began to become dark. It seemed very quiet. When I walked down the circular corridor from the third floor to the second floor, I saw the light in the small living room downstairs and walked down the stairs. Going down, Meyer sat on the sofa in the small living room and watched TV with some absentmindedness.
The TV sound is very low, Eric ca n’t take it lightly, Meyer soon felt someone approaching, turned his head, smiled shyly, said: "Eric, I was thinking when to call you right What about. "
"Hungry, let ’s go," Eric said, waiting for Meyer to stand up and see that she was still wearing a light gray professional suit and said, "Do you want to change clothes?"
"Okay," Meyer nodded and said, "Then wait a moment."
Eric walked into the small living room, sat down on the sofa, and waited patiently for five or six minutes. Meyer changed a very gorgeous flaming red knee-length dress and went downstairs.
Most women find it difficult to hold up red clothing, but this suit is wearing Meyer, but it makes some young girls suddenly have a bit of a strong woman in the workplace.
Eric could n’t help but take a few more glances and exclaimed: “It ’s beautiful.”
"Thank you," when I heard the words Eric, I originally relaxed with a bit of awkward Meyer and said, "Then, let's go."