I’m in Hollywood Chapter 169: Wrap around
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Aniston, who has been sitting quietly beside Eric, was a bit confused. When he came, Eric did not conceal the purpose of this invitation to Robert · Shei from her. However, now that most of the dinner has been eaten, the two did not talk about the Film Studio acquisition. Instead of looking for a marginal talk about various industry insiders, the huge loss of Metro Goldwyn Mayer "Heaven’s Gate", the Box Office miracle of "Gone with the Wind" when Robert Shay was born in 1939, why did Disney rise so quickly, and the truth of Radio-Keith-Orpheum bankruptcy Ah, anyway, there is nothing about the acquisition of Film Studio, at least little girl, whose head is not very smart, has not found any signs of this.
At the beginning, Aniston still listened to it with interest. Afterwards, it gradually lost interest, but did not want to be rude and let his boyfriend lose face. little girl can only sit down and listen carefully, although his mind has already flew to the horizon.
Until the waiter removed the tableware and changed coffee for several people, the "chat" between Eric and Robert · Shay did not end.
"... The latest issue of 《Variety》 magazine published a data article. Statistics show that starting next year, the revenue of video tapes and television broadcasting rights of the film will exceed the film Box Office across the board, and the development of various peripheral copyright of the film will also increase. The more diverse it is, the role of distribution channels will become more and more important in the film industry chain, and it will be difficult for pure film content providers to survive in the future. "
"It ’s a little one-sided to say that, if there is no excellent work, then the expansion of the distribution channel will be impossible to talk about. Hollywood is relying on one after another high-quality films to open up the overseas market. Expanding the ground is unprecedented. If our film is as aggressive as the Europe film and there are few good films, it will definitely be like the Europe film. It can only entertain itself in a small circle. The highway is important, but if there is no After car, the highway has no existing value. Moreover, the pay of Hollywood movie stars has increased more than ten times compared with ten years ago, and even has begun to share the profit sharing of the movie, which is the importance of content in the movie market. The most intuitive embodiment. "Eric finished, took a sip of coffee without a hurry, glanced at Robert · Shei, and shortly after the dinner began, the two greeted each other with a few toasts, and began to secretly unknowingly , Although no one mentioned any questions about company acquisitions, the two have been arguing about who is more important in the content and distribution of the movie. .
The discussion on this topic was picked up by Robert · Shay. In fact, from that moment on, Robert · Shay has been in a disadvantage. Since the other party has provoked this topic, Eric also understands that Robert · Shei is very excited about Firefly's proposal to purchase a new line. If the other party is not willing to sell the new line, they will not want to mention this topic at all.
The Robert Chey sitting opposite also felt a bit bitter in his heart. He found that he still underestimated the vision and insight of the youth sitting opposite.
As an old man who has been on Hollywood for more than 20 years, how can he not understand that if he provokes that topic, he will probably make the other party realize his intentions.
But Robert · Xie Yi originally thought that Eric was only 19 years old, even if he has some talents in film production, but other aspects must be very little known, and he is older than him 30, it can be said that it is much The accumulated experience in 30 years, plus Robert feels that his eloquence is not bad, so at first he was very confident that he could hold Eric. Once a seed of 'distribution channel is the key' was planted in the heart of Eric, in the future In the negotiations, Robert can take the initiative.
Eric's several consecutive films have created miracles on Box Office. Therefore, when Eric sent an invitation to him and revealed some news, Robert · Shay's mind came alive, Firefly acquired new Line, this is for sure, Robert · Shay has not considered the possibility of reverse, but although Robert · Shay is already fifty years old, he is still very ambitious, he does not value the huge amount of money for the Firefly acquisition of the new line, Rather, they hope to achieve the merger of the two companies and get as much equity as possible after the merger.
The new line has now developed into a bottleneck. Among the second-line Film Studio, the new line is already the leader. It has a film series with stable income. It has also established a good distribution channel in United States domestically, and it has also been fixed in overseas distribution. It is even more commendable for the collaborators that the new line has developed to the present, and it has not been attached to any film giants, and it has completely maintained its independent operating state. But compared to Six Great Film Studios, the gap of the new line is still very large. The main reason for this gap is that the new line lacks Box Office big-selling movies, or no. So far, the 《A Nightmare on Elm Street》 series with the best revenue from the new line, the highest Box Office is only more than 40 million, and if the movie is a big sale, North America Box Office must be around 100 million USD to be qualified. Without Box Office's big-selling movies, the new line is also destined to be difficult to rank among the giants.
The 28th law in the Hollywood Box Office market is particularly obvious, with 20% of movies sharing more than 80% of Box Office revenue each year. And every year the top ten movies on the Box Office rankings have been monopolized by Six Great Film Studios, which means that more than 80% of Box Office income is in the hands of Six Great Film Studios. In fact, the proportion of the six majors has been reduced in these years. Because of the vigorous development of various channels, the independent Film Studio has a lot of room for development, so Six Great Film Studios occupies only about 85% of the total Box Office annually, leaving Hollywood and other Film Studio15% share. This ratio seems to be very small, but the comparison More than ten years ago, this ratio was already very large. More than a decade ago, Six Great Film Studios basically divided all the Box Office of each year, leaving the share of the small Film Studio only a poor 1%.
If the new line wants to enter the ranks of giants to share more than 80% of the profits, before encountering Eric, there are only two ways to go, or they can concentrate all their strength and risk making big investment movies. In this way, it is possible to achieve a big sale of Box Office, but this is extremely risky. Once it fails, the new line will only go bankrupt. Either it is slowly going on, maybe one day, a small production movie invested by the company suddenly got the Box Office against the sky, quickly accumulated a huge financial strength for it, plus the company ’s leaders have good eyesight, and the subsequent investment in the movie Can also sell big, achieve a virtuous circle, then it may quickly accumulate strength, one day among the ranks of large companies. The Lion Gate Film Industry in parallel time and space is so risen by luck. The Lion Gate, which was established in 1997, was originally far inferior to the old second-tier companies such as the new line and Miramax in terms of qualifications and strength, but because it was huge in 2004. The low-cost documentary "Fahrenheit 9/11" released by political pressure, fortunately obtained the Box Office of 2.2.4 billion USD at global, quickly accumulated enough capital, and subsequently used these capitals to continuously develop the super-selling "Twilight" series and In the "The Hunger Games" series, Universal and Metro Goldwyn Mayer were stepped on the Box Office score, followed by Warner, Disney, Columbia and Fox, ranking fifth.
And after Eric threw out the acquisition intention, Robert · Shei saw another Kangzhuang Avenue, which allowed the new line to take risks without risking, or to wait slowly for good luck to arrive. The ranks of film giants, all of the first few movies of Eric have proved that he has the strength to do this. Since there is a fit giant like Metro Goldwyn Mayer-United Artists in the six majors, there will certainly be another new line-Firefly, okay , Is Firefly-new line.
With the fall of a cup or two of coffee, Robert · Shay also has no patience to consume with Eric. The young man in front of him is amazingly patient. Although he is not willing to admit, Robert · Shay still has to face this time The fact that he has failed in the confrontation. Without raising the topic again, perhaps Eric will really treat this meeting as a chat, and then get up to say goodbye, then meeting again may only be at the negotiating table.
"Eric, I heard that Firefly is ready to expand its own distribution channel?" Robert · Shey asked casually if he stirred the coffee that the waiter continued with a spoon.
A smile appeared on the corner of Eric's mouth, and I couldn't help it anymore. This meal was almost two hours old. Eric almost had no patience to consume it with Robert · Shay. little girl has been floating for several consecutive times. The charming little eyes hinted that he wanted to leave. Eric planned to finish the coffee in front of him. If the other party did not propose it again, he would go back and hold the Aniston roll sheet. The rest is Firefly officially issued an invitation to purchase the new line.
The reason why there is such a meal, Eric is to explore the tone of Robert · Shay and see if the other party intends to sell the new line, because in memory, Robert · Shay ’s desire to control is very strong, previous life Although the new line was recruited by Warner, Robert Shay still firmly held the control of the new line. It seems that almost two decades later, until "The Golden Compass" suffered a huge loss, Robert Shay was forced to step down with great pressure and great pressure.
Robert · Xie Yi just started to discuss the topic, and has been arguing with Eric for a long time, he has already expressed his attitude, so there is not much need to talk or not to talk about, anyway, even if the initial intention is reached, the specific terms Long-term negotiations are still needed. Sony's acquisition of Columbia has now taken more than half a year, plus the previous plan, it took at least a year. Although the Firefly acquisition of the new line will not be so troublesome, it will certainly not be completed in a month or two.