I’m in Hollywood Chapter 727: Get rid of the shadow
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Chapter 727
The call was made by ICM ’s Kapoor Sid.
After confirming the shoots Godzilla movie, Columbia ca n’t wait to start looking for Director for the project. Joe Johnson, who has just successfully produced "The Lost World: Jurassic Park", is undoubtedly the most suitable candidate. On the other hand, Actor, Director and Producer are closely related to Firefly. Most of the brokerage contracts are in ICM. Due to antitrust laws, although the two parties have no direct interest relationship, the relationship between ICM and Firefly in the three major Brokerage Firms has always been Very intimate.
Therefore, the news that Sony tried to dig the foot of the wall reached Eric as soon as possible.
Bill? Michanik is a veteran Manager of Hollywood, the information is not difficult to find, his management style tends to be conservative, and his personality is cautious. After Bill was enabled in Sony? Michanik served as ColumbiaCEO, Eric once thought Sony Will abandon the wealthy money-spilling strategy and start to accumulate money for the camp step by step, but the moment Sony intends to start "Godzilla", Eric immediately determined that Sony will also take the old road of previous life.
In the original time and space, although expelled Peter ? Guber Heqiang? Peters Two big borers, but Sony Still not converging the strategy of blindly smashing money to find a sense of existence, not only for Kim? Hollywood The first in history 20 million USD High-priced films, and blindly invested in a number of major productions that ended in failure. Among them, the 1998 version of "Godzilla" is undoubtedly the most typical one.
With Godzilla ’s strong popularity in the global range, at the early stage of film preparation, Sony was ambitious to make it into a trilogy, and invited Roland Emmerich, which achieved great Box Office success with “Independence Day”.
However, many things are often inseparable from the strange circle of greater disappointment.
In my memory, the 98th edition of Godzilla was not only rated as naive, inexplicable, and lacking in logic, but also fans focused more on Godzilla itself in the movie.
The reason why Godzilla is called ‘King of Monsters’ is mainly because of its powerful fighting ability, the Japanese version of Godzilla. Not only does it have a powerful attacking method such as a diamond body and a radiation hotline, but it can even carry a nuclear bomb attack, and even occasionally it will be pulled out to resist alien invasion. This is the monster that truly destroys the world. King.
Look at the 98th edition of Godzilla. The first reaction of most Godzilla fans after watching the movie is basically 'You **** tease me'. The king of monsters has abandoned the Japanese version of the classic image and was designed to grow the dorsal fin Tyrannosaurus Rex That's it. But the strength is so weak that it can only be entangled in the bridge's steel rope and it can't move. Is God's strength so small?
That ’s all, okay, but the most unbearable thing is that the dorsal fin Tyrannosaurus Rex was hit by several missiles from the US military area, so it hangs so easily, hangs, hangs ...
And, before hanging down, there was no unwilling struggle. There is no dying counterattack. At the last moment of his life, Mr. Tyrannosaurus Rex of the dorsal fin chose to have an affectionate eye contact with the male protagonist. After getting his people, I got his heart's subtext, and Enron passed away, leaving only the poor audience in the movie theater where the sky thundered and the point was infinite. You die, die, and you still need COS a diamond what happened!
In the memory of Eric. The Box Office of Godzilla is not a complete failure, but its reputation is so bad that even after more than a decade, it will often be pulled out by fans to whip the corpse.
The film has not only won the worst remake, the worst Director, the worst script and the worst supporting actress nominations, but also received unanimous criticism from global fans.
Godzilla ’s copyright owner Japan Toho originally planned to complete this series completely after the twenty-second Godzilla in 1995.
But after the release of the 98th edition of Godzilla. In order to restore the image of Godzilla in the hearts of the fans, he had to restart again, and it took until 28 films to die. After the development of the matter, the 98 version of Godzilla (Godzilla) was even given the God prefix and was only named Zilla.
After learning about this matter, Eric began to think about how to make this matter develop in the direction that he thought about.
Under his influence. Great changes have taken place in the history of Hollywood, and Eric is not sure that if Director is changed, "Godzilla" will not fail like previous life, so he quickly made up his mind to change "Godzilla" towards Guide on the track of previous life.
Although Sony ’s determination to manage Film Industry business is far greater than that of Panasonic, if it continues to be hit by the failure of big production, Eric does not believe that Sony will continue like previous life. What ’s more, Sony is now doomed The life-saving straw of the "Spider-Man" series.
The current Hollywood is not suitable for directing "Godzilla". There are not many Directors. Cameron is one, Spielberg is one, and Eric is of course one. In addition, there are Joe? Johnston, Roland Emmerich, Jane? There are only a few people such as Bonte, Paul Van Hoven, and most of these people are related to Firefly. After all, in recent years, the most successful special effects blockbuster of Hollywood are from Firefly, Cameron, Roland Emmerich, etc. With the full support of Firefly, I have accumulated enough experience in special effects films. 【ㄨ】
If you want Godzilla to repeat the same mistake, it is undoubtedly the simplest and most direct way to push Roland Emmerich to Sony again.
Therefore, what Eric has to do is very simple, just block Sony and find other Directors.
In this respect, Cameron does n’t matter, he is working on "Titanic", Sony is definitely impossible to start, Joe? Johnston signed an option contract with Firefly before taking "The Lost World: Jurassic Park", Sony even if it can be opened The sky-high price of 20 million USD is not enough to pay the liquidated damages, so he does not have to think about it. The other few people Eric are not too worried. Before excluding the first series of Director, Eric believes that Sony will not retreat and come next.
Then, the most unstable factor is Spielberg. The 《Jaws》 that old classmates were famous for was actually a monster movie.
There is no doubt that even if Eric deliberately releases water, Sony is likely to choose the former between Spielberg and Roland Emmerich.
Of course, there is no absolute thing in the world, and now, Roland Emmerich has a best chance to improve its ‘competitiveness’. To know. "Independence Day" is definitely the peak of Roland Emmerich's personal Director career.
While Eric is paying close attention to Sony Godzilla ’s preparations, Hollywood is still harvesting Box Office in summer, and the weekly Box Office performance of "Forrest Gump" has not been high. But it is definitely the most eye-catching one.
The Box Office of 47million USD in the first week, compared with 1500 screens, the museum has reached 30,000USD, far exceeding the Box Office blockbuster standard of 10,000USD per museum.
Subsequently, June 16. Firefly's "Toy Story 2" was released, without any suspense with 69million USD's first week Box Office topped the week's Box Office ranking list, "The Lost World: Jurassic Park" in the second week 77million USD Box Office, with a 45% drop in the total Box Office accumulated to 2.1.7 billion USD The three-week Box Office drop also reached 49%, gaining 39250,000 USD. Relatively speaking, "Forrest Gump" fell only 18% the next week, Box Office reached 39200,000 USD, and "Jurassic Park" only had a slight advantage of 50,000 USD. Dangerously and dangerously defended the throne of his Box Office runner-up.
When June 23 arrived, although Time Warner ’s “Batman Forever” had a polarizing word of mouth, they were drooling and happily entering the market in order to witness the screen show of several famous villains, “Forrest Gump” The strength of the thick and thin hair finally showed.
After the release of Box Office from June 23 to June 29, although "Batman Forever" topped the list with Box Office of 78 million USD, everyone ’s eyeballs were firmly attracted by Box Office of the second "Forrest Gump" 35 million USD After catching the eye, the decline of Box Office is even weaker, only 10%. The next week, "Toy Story" Box Office has slipped to 33 million USD, ranking third. "The Lost World: Jurassic Park" continued to follow the rules of its step-by-step commercial film Box Office, shrinking by 40%, only harvesting 23500,000 USD, ranking fourth.
Unconsciously. In three weeks, Box Office of "Forrest Gump" has unexpectedly accumulated 1.2.2 billion USD.
Moreover, according to its hot topic and weak weekly Box Office decline, the Box Office evaluation agency adjusted the Box Office expectations of "Forrest Gump" again and again. When the third week of Box Office came out, everyone was surprised to find out. Most Box Office assessment agencies and media have unconsciously set the Box Office tone of "Forrest Gump" at the high level of 300 million USD.
Although Box Office has reached 2.7900 million USD in four weeks of "The Lost World: Jurassic Park", the total Box Office 300 million USD is just around the corner, but few people doubt that "Forrest Gump" has unwittingly shown its strength to compete with The Lost World: Jurassic Park for the annual Box Office championship.
For the Box Office score of "Forrest Gump", the most excited is of course the producer Flower Films, and the most complicated mood is undoubtedly because of the disputes of "Men in Black" and "Jumanji" at the beginning of the year, which was won by "Forrest Gump" and "Night at the Museum" by Eric. The distribution right of Sony-Columbia is gone.
When Sony found himself for "Men in Black" and "Jumanji" because of the substantial increase in cost, it is likely to only earn a little hard money (according to the original agreement, Sony only has 40% of the benefits of two films), When abandoning "Forrest Gump" which can bring them at least 100 million and more USD, some shareholders even openly questioned the decision of the United States branch. If it was not for Idei Nobuyuki to personally endorse the Howard Stringer, the United States score just recently took office The head of the department may have to 'blame and resign'.
In the past, Howard Stringer is also more determined to get rid of the shadow of Firefly and make "Godzilla" into a super-selling series.
After the intention of inviting Joe? Johnston to direct "Godzilla" was directly rejected by the other party, Howard Stringer quickly stared at Spielberg. However, Howard Stringer is finally better than German film investors who will only choose big stars regardless of whether the other party is upset, because "Jurassic Park" was taken by Eric, although the Box Office is good in the two years of Spielberg, it is not counted Too dazzling, both 《Jaws》 and "ET Alien", who created the Box Office miracle, were things that happened a dozen or twenty years ago.
Not to mention, the "Hook" cooperation between Columbia and Spielberg a few years ago, in the early stage of the one-sided applause, also ended in unsettled failure, and, in recent years, Spielberg has been maintaining close cooperation with Universal Pictures, this summer The Box Office good "Ghost Horse Elf" at the beginning of the file is the result of the collaboration between Spielberg's **** Lin Film Industry and Universal. This fantasy family comedy has been stubborn under the crush of such super blockbuster "The Lost World: Jurassic Park" Realize more than 80 million Box Office of USD.
Even it is said that the new Film Studio that he is about to co-found in David? Gefen will also be affiliated with Universal, so Howard Stringer is not so confident in inviting Spielberg's.
Under such hesitation, "Independence Day" was released.
"Independence Day", which started painting on June 30, got Box Office of 56 million USD in the first three days of the first weekend, because United States July 4th Independence Day holiday is just on Monday, the Box Office on the same day does not fall but rises from the previous weekend. Therefore, with a strong reputation and marketing company, "Independence Day" reached 85 million USD in the first week of Box Office, and broke through the production cost of its 75 million USD in a week. Even according to the sharing rules, the producers often get 90% of Box Office in the first week Divided, therefore, in theory, Firefly has recovered all production costs in the first week.
The original "Deep Impact" has already made Roland Emmerich rank among the first-line Director. The Box Office of "Independence Day" is released, and it is even more popular with the Roland Emmerich.
Moreover, Howard Stringer was pleasantly surprised to find that Roland Emmerich is not as comfortable as Joe Johnston ’s option contract.
That is to say, as long as it pays enough, Sony can invite Roland Emmerich to direct "Godzilla".
The question now is, if Sony sends an invitation to Roland Emmerich, how will Firefly react?
Although I want to try my best to get rid of the shadow brought by Firefly, Howard Stringer is very clear. It is impossible to completely get rid of the influence of Firefly. At least, this film absolutely needs support in the digital field in terms of special effects. (To be continued.)