I’m in Hollywood Chapter 1081: Force PR
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At this time, Amy Adams heard Eric greet himself, and suddenly felt a flattered feeling.
The two just had a brief conversation when she just started working the other day. Amy is very clear about what the name Eric Williams means in Hollywood, although she felt that Eric had a different attitude towards her when she first contacted , But she still didn't expect Eric to even remember her name.
"Very, uh, it's like being in a dream," Amy held the menu that Eric just returned tightly to his chest, looking incoherent, eyes fixed on the man in front of him, saying: "Wei, Mr. Williams, I have always been your fan. "
Kenneth Horne patiently waited for his Boss to chat with the waitress before ordering his own lunch. Watching the erratic Amy leave, he smiled with a knowing smile on his face and praised, “It ’s very special A pair of eyes. "
"Yeah," Eric also nodded with a smile.
In fact, the eyes of Amy are not beautiful overall, but the eyes that are sometimes light blue and sometimes green under different light are easy to impress.
A few casual chats, Kenneth Horn quickly turned the topic to work.
The time is unconsciously already on Monday, December 14.
On the weekend just past, the last movie "The Waterboy" of Firefly Group in 1998 was also registered in the North America theater.
Although Adam **** successfully achieved a good score of North America Box Office in the "The Wedding Singer" Easter period, the company did not embrace his "The Waterboy" which imitated some elements of "Forrest Gump" There are too many expectations, because for most people, the plot of this film is a bit too nonsense.
But it turns out that the audience of North America really likes the movie style of Adam Sandler, who is simple and silly and brings these little tenderness and love.
In the first three days of the first weekend, the film received 33.91 million USD Box Office in the North America theater, far exceeding the original expectations of the new line distribution department.
According to the results of Box Office in the first weekend, the estimated Box Office around 50 million USD in the first week of the film is enough to recover the production cost of 23 million USD. The opening of the first week of 50 million USD, the next consecutive popular Christmas week, "The Waterboy" North America Box Office breaking 100 million is almost a matter of finality. After all, even if the popularity of "Star Wars Episode 1: The Threat of Spectre" is high, it is impossible to occupy the entire market.
Compared to the 2D Animation movie "Mulan" released at the same time by Paramount Pictures, only 22750,000 USD Box Office was harvested in more than North America2800 theaters in the first three days of the weekend, which is more than 10 million USD lower than "The Waterboy". On the other hand, the production cost of "Mulan" exceeds 70 million USD, which is more than three times that of "The Waterboy".
The reaction of the critics and the audience to this animated film can only be considered average. At this time, the industry finally gradually felt that, against the background of several consecutive 3D Animation movies sold by Box Office, 2D Animation movies have inevitably shown a trend of declining from the mainstream.
Eric has no intention to focus on Paramount animation.
On the Firefly Group side, after the dust of the year ’s distribution plan was settled, everyone was surprised to find that it was originally a year of relatively low Firefly Group Film Industry business, but the actual situation was far beyond everyone ’s expectations.
Moreover, all of this reversal comes from the low-cost dark horse works sold by Box Office under the new line Film Industry.
The most surprising of these is the summer "Ring". This horror movie that created the phenomenon-level movie watching boom has persisted until the end of November. It was completely downgraded in the North America market for more than four months. The final screening of Box Office reached 2.8600 million USD, second only to 3.2.2 billion USD of "Charlie's Angels3" in the current 1998 North America Box Office ranking list.
At the same time, on November 13th, the 《Ted》 still issued by the new line Film Industry. As of the past weekend, North America Box Office has accumulated to 100 million 954 300 million USD, which is only one step away from 200 million.
"Ring" and 《Ted》 North America Box Office broke 200 million, "The Wedding Singer" and "The Waterboy" North America Box Office broke 100 million, but these four new movies, North America 700 million USD Box Office total, accounted for 1998 North America annual Box Office share of 10%.
Due to the outstanding performance of the new line Film Industry, the annual market share of Firefly Group will still reach more than 20%.
What is even more rare is that the four Box Office films with a new line of Film Industry that broke 100 million are all based on Xiao Boda. The production cost of "Ring" is 30 million USD, the production cost of 《Ted》 is 50 million USD, and the total of "The Wedding Singer" and "The Waterboy" films Just now 40 million USD. The total cost of the four films is 100 million 20 million USD, but just North America will bring Box Office close to 700 million USD,
The new line Film Industry has been able to achieve such outstanding results for several consecutive years. Although it is inseparable from the series of ideas given by Eric, it is also inseparable from Kenneth · Horn ’s excellent management ability. After all, Hollywood is never short of Film Studio executives who have a good hand to be lousy.
It happens that the contract of Kenneth · Horn is about to expire next year. Before the change of CEOSteve · Bourne Stan of ESPNTV Station, Eric has been very sorry. He naturally does not want another member of the group to leave.
However, Firefly Group's solid management structure also makes it impossible for Eric to promote Kenneth Horn in the short term.
"Kenneth, you are very clear about the internal situation of the company," since Eric can't avoid it, he said: "In the short term, I can't make too many adjustments to the management, so although you I have done a great job in the new line, but I ca n’t adjust your position further. I and Jeffrey passed them. If you are willing to stay in the new line, the conditions I can give are that Based on the basic salary, the new line Film Industry Group enjoys a 5% annual profit dividend. In addition, you will no longer be governed by Jeffrey and will be directly responsible to me.
As the CEO of Firefly Group, Katzenberg's remuneration contract is based on the base salary, and enjoys 2% of the annual Firefly Group annual profit dividend. According to Firefly Group's current annual net profit scale exceeding 3billion USD, the annual salary level of Katzenberg is around 60 million USD.
The volume of the new line Film Industry is naturally not comparable to that of the entire Firefly Group. Although the operating performance in recent years has been very impressive, in fact, the various revenue data of the new line Film Industry still only occupy 15 of the entire Firefly Group %, Even this year is a relatively good year, this data actually does not exceed 20%.
However, Eric gave Kenneth · Horn a 5% of the annual new line Film Industry Group's annual profit dividend, which still seems sincere.
The new line Film Industry can contribute about 500 million USD to the parent company each year. The 5% annual profit dividend is equivalent to 25 million USD, which is already the salary standard of the seven Film Studio heads of Hollywood. If there will be a continuous outbreak of several dark horse works like this year, this number will undoubtedly be much higher.
In all fairness, Kenneth Horn did not think about leaving Firefly Group.
After all, although it is well paid, it is only in charge of a subsidiary of Firefly Group, and it is no better than operating a large Film Studio alone.
Moreover, he also knows that within Firefly Group, the possibility that he can further become the group Chairman is also far below Robert · Eiger. He can even be like many group executives, obviously feeling that Robert · Eiger is almost the next Chairman candidate of the Eric default group, and even the successor of Katzenberg in the future.
However, with only a little consideration, Kenneth Horne found that there is no suitable place for him in the current format of Hollywood.
Steve · Bourne Stan is from the TV industry, and he can also switch to the Comcast Group, which is closely related to the industry, but since he graduated from college, he has been in the circle of Hollywood, so he is very clear that he left Hollywood, After leaving Film Industry, it is difficult for him to be as easy as he is now.
As for Hollywood, the Firefly system has controlled four of the seven major Film Studios. The other three, Time Warner internal factions are constantly struggling, an outsider jumped in the past, under the constraints of many parties, simply unable to display his talents. Universal Pictures has been firmly controlled by Michael · Eisner, and he does not want to follow in the footsteps of Michael · Ovitz. As for Paramount, Redstone's strong desire to control the entire Viacom will not give him too much room to play.
Perhaps, within the Firefly system, he can also compete for the position of Columbia Film Studio. He believes that if he proposes it, Eric will not have too much hesitation. After all, Bill · Micanić can't be regarded as Firefly's heir to executives. He wants to control Columbia in the past, and Eric might even like to hear it.
However, although it is still nominally one of the seven major Film Studios, only fools will jump into the mess of Columbia.
Be aware that although it is only a subsidiary of Firefly Group, the current comprehensive strength of the new line Film Industry has far exceeded that of Columbia Film Studio. Of course, the size of the library and its hidden position in Hollywood are still incomparable. But if the two companies are listed separately, the market value of Columbia Film Industry will never exceed 5billion USD, but the new line Film Industry can easily break through 10billion USD.
Considering all aspects, in addition to staying in the new line Film Industry, Kenneth Horn cannot really think of other better options.
Not to mention, the salary conditions offered by Eric are absolutely sincere. Although his specific position has not improved, then he only needs to report to Eric for personal adjustments, which is equivalent to putting him in the same position as Katzenberg.
"Eric, I'm looking forward to continuing this work next," hesitantly thought for a moment, Kenneth Horn said: "However, I also hope that the company can slightly let go of the new line Film Industry Due to the limitation of film types, I think I still have the ability to try big productions. "
Although Eric is very generous in terms of salary and treatment, he does not intend to retreat when it comes to the fundamental operating route of the new line, saying: "Kenneth, I ca n’t promise you this, you should also be able to watch By these years, the new line's production strategy positioning has been very successful. Moreover, for series like "Bad Boys" and "Rush Hour", I will not limit you on the production budget of the sequel. But in In terms of fundamental business strategy, I still hope that the new line will continue to adhere to the current operating route. "
Noting the disappointed expression of Kenneth Horn, Eric still did not intend to change the attention, but still gave a 'sweet jujube' prepared earlier, saying: "However, Kenneth, you know, Firefly system recently In the past few years, the scale of the TV business has become larger and larger. If the TV programs are self-produced and sold, it is difficult to have too many high-quality products. Therefore, I hope that the new line will be more involved in the production of TV programs for ABC and FOX. And the cable TV Network of several companies provides TV programs. "
The new line Film Industry actually has a TV production department, but the scale has always been very small. In recent years, the main energy of the new line has also been placed on the Film Industry business.
After hearing Eric say this, Kenneth · Horn also understands that this is Eric hopes that the new line can become one of the Firefly system's major TV brand program suppliers, and at the same time stimulate the major TV brands to compete benignly in order to produce More outstanding TV shows.
North America ’s TV program market is about the same size as the movie market, but it has always been in a closed operating system. It is difficult to obtain specific data from the outside world as easily as movies.
Although Eric is not allowed to relax the restrictions on the production type of the new line Film Industry, but with the support of Eric to develop TV business, Kenneth · Horn ca n’t have more luxury.
After a few more chats, confirming some specific details, Amy Adams brought their lunch together, and Kenneth Horn took the initiative to turn the topic to the most recent thing.
"There is no doubt that this year is another Oscar year. So far, Hollywood has only been popular in the two award seasons of" The Horse Whisperer "and" Elizabeth ", and other films can only be regarded as accompanying. And, although the critics have a reputation Very good, but I have personally known that most of the college judges do not value "The Horse Whisperer" very much. "Elizabeth" is very likely to receive the important Oscar award this year. I even wonder if it can be "Ring" also impacted Oscar, just like 《Exorcist》 at that time. "
Eric shook his head and said with a smile: "If" Ring "is North America's Original Script, or it is adapted from Western horror novels, it may be possible. But it is adapted from Japanese horror novels. Will the proud old man see a work with Japanese culture embedded in the core? "
"Oh, I also know that this is unlikely," Kenneth Horn smiled, apparently thinking about it.
Eric continued: "Also," The Horse Whisperer "means a lot of things for the Harvey brothers, so they will never give up easily to let this film hit Oscar. I think that even if the judges do n’t like it, The Harvey brothers may also use all the resources and contacts accumulated over the years to force "The Horse Whisperer" to reach the top of Oscar, so you should not be so optimistic. "