I’m in Hollywood Chapter 478: They will get used to it
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"The Mask" got the Box Office of 3more than 7 million USD in the first week, far exceeding its production cost of less than 30 million USD, and the total Box Office broke 100 million with almost no suspense.
Compared to Metro Goldwyn Mayer, which only released one movie and got less than 10 million USD Box Office in the summer season, TG ’s performance will definitely renew the idea and covetment of many people. Compared with the Metro Goldwyn Mayer, TG's Box Office transcript in the 1992 summer file is also more dazzling than Paramount, Universal and Fox.
The Paramount summer file mainly features the Harrison Ford action film "Patriot Game", but this film only got more than 80 million Box Office, and the situation of Universal and Fox is almost the same. The three major Film Studio summer files do not have Box Office For a movie with over 100 million yuan, as for Sony Film Industry, which is "great fortune", although Tom Cruise was invited to create "Running Out of Time: Prequel", for various reasons, the total Box Office of this movie has also stopped at about 80 million seats, which is comparable to the movie. The budget cost, the impact of the North America local Box Office market failure is often a series of, because "Running Out of Time: Prequel" Box Office is not ideal, overseas Box Office and surrounding copyright sales will be greatly affected, this project will once again bring Sony Film Industry Huge losses.
One week after the release of "The Mask", Disney's "Sister Act" stepped on the tail of the summer file and boarded more than North America2100 theaters. The release of this comedy film almost announced the end of the summer file, and the subsequent films basically These are movies that Film Studio doesn't value very much, but they want to put their luck at the end of the summer season. The chance of dark horses in these movies is very small.
There is no doubt that "Twister" has become the biggest winner of the entire summer season. It is expected that the total Box Office of 300 million USD plus the subsequent "The Mask". The total Box Office of the Firefly summer season will exceed 400 million USD. If you count Disney's The film, then, based on North America's current annual total of Box Office, it is just a summer file. Box Office obtained by Firefly Pictures has exceeded 10% of the total annual Box Office. If Firefly is a listed company, perhaps the stock price has already risen a lot at this time.
However, Eric has already left Los Angeles when the North America entertainment media has been talking. After attending the premiere of "The Mask", he quickly flew to the Hawaii archipelago.
Due to the excellent preparatory work of Jerry Bruckheimer, when Eric arrived at Hawaii, Dr. Hadmond ’s experimental base, Jurassic Park gate, and the power grid that blocked dinosaurs were all completed and at the same time. Two other small film crews also excavated amber and dinosaur archaeological scenes in the Amber Mine in Dominica and the Red Rock Canyon National Park shoots in California.
"Eric, you see, this is it," Jerry Bruckheimer pointed to a deep jungle channel: "Kauai Island does not have the terrain you need, but the conditions here are absolutely met, we only need to spend one day to the corresponding equipment shoots can be shipped over. "
At this time, the two are discussing the scene of the Tyrannosaurus Rex chasing jeep. Because there is no convenient terrain on Kauai Island, Jerry Bruckheimer found a corresponding scene on the nearby Oahu island that also belongs to the Hawaii archipelago.
"If you choose here, you will definitely need to make some changes to the surrounding environment. Otherwise, there is no way to shoots, will the Hawaii state government agree?" Eric asked, looking at the very primitive forest environment in front of him in doubt.
"I have thought about this for a long time, and they said no problem," Jerry Bruckheimer showed a determined expression to Eric.
Eric smiled and did n’t ask any more. The two got on a jeep together. After the driver drove, Eric stretched out lazily, although he only arrived at Hawaii yesterday. However, today he and Jerry Bruckheimer ran through all shoots venues, and tomorrow will have some pre-trial shooting work.
shoots, which is a big movie, is like a war in ancient times, it is a very labor-intensive thing. Therefore, it is impossible for Eric to take too much time to rest. The production team of hundreds of people is a huge expense every day. Therefore, Eric has to work as soon as possible.
After the jeep arrived at the Oahu dock, the two boarded a small yacht and returned to Kauai Island, which was already in the evening. After a day of work, I felt relaxed and looked at the island that looked extremely beautiful in the sunset. Jerry Bruckheimer smiled and said to Eric: "Eric, maybe you can try to buy an island."
"Do you have a private island?" Eric asked curiously, the trend of buying a private island has now risen, but Eric is not very interested in it.
Jerry Bruckheimer shook his head and said, "Not yet, but I occasionally consider this matter."
Jerry Bruckheimer, as a gold medal Producer that has been famous for more than ten years, is no worse than the first-line star of Hollywood, so there is no economic problem in buying a private island.
"Actually, I think buying an island is not cost-effective. If it is too close to the land, privacy is often not guaranteed. If it is too far from the land, it is lonely overseas, so infrastructure is a big problem unless Regardless of the cost of investment, otherwise do n’t want to be too comfortable on the island. "
When Jerry Bruckheimer heard Eric, it slightly revealed the thought.
Eric went on to say: "If it were me, I would rather buy a mountain. Then I will take my friend to the foot of a towering mountain and point to the cloud: Look, this mountain is mine."
Jerry Bruckheimer imagined the picture depicted by Eric and could n’t help laughing.
After the yacht gradually moved away from Oahu, Jerry Bruckheimer looked at the assistant on the deck and made a wink at Eric. The two of them got into the cabin.
"Eric, according to the Box Office trend of several movies now, Firefly Pictures should be able to exceed 500 million USD in this summer Box Office?"
Eric knew that Jerry Bruckheimer would not talk about this for no reason. He nodded silently and sat down beside the window seat.
"I have seen the Firefly and Disney's movie release schedules. At the end of the year, Firefly will also have" The Speed "," Ace Ventura "and" Mr. & Mrs. Smith "with Sony. Disney will release another animation. The Box Office of cartoons has always been very stable. Then, the Box Office figures obtained at the end of the year will not be much worse than the summer season, plus the accumulation of Box Office of non-popular mid- and small-scale movies. Firefly Pictures ’s Box Office share this year is likely to exceed Warner Reached 30%. "
Eric has almost heard some of the meanings in the Jerry Bruckheimer words and asked with a smile: "Jerry, did anyone ask you to help spread the word?"
Jerry Bruckheimer nodded: "Mr. Martin Davis of Paramount. You know, I have been working with Paramount before."
"What does he want?" Eric asked outspokenly.
Jerry Bruckheimer smiled and said: "If you agree, Mr. Davis will come to meet you personally, as for what you want to talk about. It's not my concern."
"Okay, I will take the time to call Mr. Davis," Eric nodded.
The meaning of Jerry Bruckheimer just now is obvious. Firefly ’s film score is too dazzling, and it will definitely cause a rebound from several other Film Studios. Martin Davis will let Jerry Bruckheimer take the word at this time. Undoubtedly, it wants to cooperate with Firefly. Under the circumstances, few people will actively choose the hostile.
"Eric. Personally, I actually think you can split the Pixar animation studio and the digital field from the Firefly system and set up two companies."
Eric smiled and shook his head: "Jerry, I finally condensed Firefly into a whole, how can I take the initiative to remove my hands and feet?"
Jerry Bruckheimer was stunned for a while. It seemed that Eric said something reasonable, but felt that something was not right.
"Since the two 30 eras have joined together, Hollywood has become accustomed to the pattern of the Sixth, Seventh, or Eighth, but it does not mean that this should be the normal state of Hollywood. In the United States, GM can be single hegemony. Bell can be single hegemony , Exxon Mobil can be single hegemony, and even Walmart only established in 30 years can be single hegemony, and since that is the case. Why can't Hollywood be single hegemony? "
When Jerry Bruckheimer heard this, he felt a slight cracking sound. He has been in Hollywood since the early 1970s. He has been in Hollywood for nearly two decades now. However, Eric made Jerry Bruckheimer aware. It turns out that this rule cannot be broken.
"Eric, why does Hollywood keep this coexisting pattern?" Jerry Bruckheimer couldn't help asking.
Eric thought for a while and said: "Probably because of the ups and downs in performance. Movies are different from other industries, such as Walmart. They developed a distribution system that is ahead of their peers, so they dominated the entire United States in just 30 years. In the case that Walmart has already occupied the market, even if other opponents completely imitate the Walmart model, it is impossible to reach the scale of Walmart. But Film Studio is different. The strength of a Film Studio is measured by the film Box Office, and the film Box Office Things are the most unstable. Perhaps a Film Studio will contact to produce a number of hot movies in a certain period of time, just like the years when Barry Diller took over Paramount, but for various reasons, that situation will definitely not be Lasting, and the other Film Studio is not idle, and may also produce high Box Office movies from time to time, so that you come and go, it is difficult to reach the situation of single hegemony. "
After saying this, Eric smiled confidently and said: "But in Firefly, this situation will definitely continue, so, one day, I will let them get used to certain things."
If Jerry Bruckheimer smiled, but did not echo Eric, since other Film Studio performance will fluctuate, how could Firefly not appear?
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Eric did not take Paramount ’s Martin Davis through Jerry Bruckheimer too seriously. Firefly has now developed into a fairly stable state of mind. Such a Film Studio cannot be defeated by those crooked evils. If you want to defeat a Film Studio, Then we can only talk about the movie. But if it is better than the movie, Eric is confident that Hollywood has no such strength as Film Studio.
However, he did not ignore the Martin Davis's rumors. That night, Eric called Martin Davis far away from Los Angeles, and agreed that both parties have time to chat. As for whether they can reach cooperation, it depends on the sincerity of Paramount. Eric knew that when Metro Goldwyn Mayer was ignored, Disney was annexed by Firefly, and Universal and Columbia were both acquired by the Japan consortium, outsiders wanted to intervene in Hollywood. The only option now is to acquire Paramount.
According to the memory and some data collected before, Viacom's Redstone failed to compete with Eric after Disney, and directly shifted the target to Paramount, while Barry Diller left Fox, started his own business for a while, and quickly started In order to return to Hollywood, he united several companies and began exploring the shareholders of Paramount.
Although Paramount ’s performance in recent years is not very good, but with such a shell, only by being able to pull high-quality movie projects, Paramount may rise again at any time, so Martin Davis simply does not have much thought of selling Paramount.
But helplessly, Paramount is a listed company. Although Martin Davis is the company's largest shareholder, if other Film Studio adopts a malicious acquisition to annex Paramount, in the case of poor performance of Paramount, other company shareholders are likely to Agree to the other party's high-priced acquisition and choose to start cashing out.
It is estimated that this is also the reason why Martin Davis will contact Eric suddenly. When Japanese acquired Columbia and Universal, both Film Studio and Firefly had a short-term cooperation and achieved good results, although in the end both companies were sold Off, but let Japanese spend a lot more USD.
And Martin Davis's mind is very clear, he just wants to improve the performance of Paramount to prevent other shareholders from choosing to sell the company. With the gradual opening of the Eastern European film market and the continued increase in the total Box Office annually of North America, Martin Davis ’s desire to sell Paramount is also well understood, except that things are often not based on the will of some people. (To be continued.)