I’m in Hollywood Chapter 728: Strategy mistakes
Remember [lnmao.org] in one second, fast update, no pop-up window, free to read!
"20 million USD remuneration and 15% of North America Box Office are divided into, oh, Firefly can not offer this kind of quotation," Eric smiled and shook his head, said to Roland Emmerich sitting on the other side.
The time was July 7, and the two were having breakfast in a Beverly Hills breakfast room. Roland Emmerich told Eric unconditionally about the conditions for Sony to direct him to "Godzilla". Howard Stringer is also a smart person. He wanted to dig Roland Emmerich out of Sony Film Industry to direct "Godzilla". Instead of directly contacting Firefly, he made an offer for Roland Emmerich that he could not refuse, and then handed over the work for Firefly's understanding Gave him.
If the future Box Office level of "Godzilla" can be equal to the "Independence Day" being released, reaching about North America 300 million USD, then Roland Emmerich will be able to get 65 million USD from this project. Even if Box Office failed disastrously, Roland Emmerich's income can remain above 20 million USD, which is guaranteed by drought and flood anyway. Under such conditions, Firefly will definitely not be released.
Of course, Firefly is also not stingy. "Independence Day" Box Office is a big hit. In addition to the original 8 million USD fixed pay, according to the corresponding sharing agreement, Roland Emmerich can also get more than 20 million USD from the subsequent income of "Independence Day". Department "Independence Day" can also bring him 30 million USD credit. Director, which can get the income of 30 million USD in one film, can count the whole Hollywood in one hand.
This is also the way of cooperation that Eric has always advocated, suppressing fixed pay, bundling the main interest with Box Office income through appropriate sharing, and jointly taking risks. Like Sony, 20 million USD skyrocketed before the movie. In addition, a high amount of Box Office is added, which is simply a mess of money.
Roland Emmerich saw Eric and was not angry after hearing that he was going to film Sony. There was still a faint smile on his face. Let me relax.
Although he has never seen this young man angry, he will not naively think that Eric is a temperless person. On "Deep Impact" and "Independence Day". The cooperation between Roland Emmerich and Firefly is very pleasant. He also knew that it was these two films that pushed him to his present position. He is not the kind of ungrateful person. Normally, even if there is no binding bond, he is very willing to continue. Cooperation with Firefly continues, but this time. The offer made by Sony really made it difficult for him to refuse.
“In short, I ’m sorry, Eric, I ’m afraid I ca n’t direct“ The Day After Tomorrow ”anymore,” Roland Emmerich has a relaxed expression on his face, although Firefly is already in the sky, Eric is still influential in Hollywood In the ever increasing, less than a last resort, Roland Emmerich absolutely does not want to anger Eric. After thinking about it, Roland Emmerich said: "Eric, everyone is looking forward to your new work. Perhaps, it is also a good choice to direct" The Day After Tomorrow "in person."
"Depending on the situation," the Eric smiled and said indecisively.
Sony is ambitious to make "Godzilla" into at least a trilogy. In theory, Roland Emmerich will not be able to return to direct the Firefly film in the next few years.
Eric is still a little uncomfortable about this matter. Roland Emmerich gave up directing "The Day After Tomorrow", and the shoots movie Firefly plan will be adjusted accordingly.
But when Roland Emmerich was invited to direct "Deep Impact", Roland Emmerich only signed two film contracts with Firefly. Completed "Independence Day". The performance of the contract between the two parties is completed, although Firefly has the priority to renew the contract. But it is absolutely impossible to offer even the sky-high film rewards similar to Sony, which is like killing parents. In this case, it is difficult for Firefly to forcibly leave Roland Emmerich.
Of course, the main reason why Eric will let Roland Emmerich leave so easily is because it is planned in advance for a few years.
The representative of Crédit Lyonnais has arrived at Los Angeles and is in negotiation with Amy Pascal in charge of Flower Films. Once Metro Goldwyn Mayer is issued, Flower Films will expand rapidly.
On the other hand, despite the strong financial support of Sony, Sony will never be able to continue to operate Columbia-Samsung forever due to the huge losses caused by the operation of Peter Guber. Once Sony's ambitious "Godzilla" series fails again, the continued confidence in Sony to maintain Film Industry will cause a devastating blow. By then, Flower Films can take advantage of Columbia and complete the plan to further expand the Hollywood map of Eric.
Roland Emmerich did n’t know the thoughts of Eric, but he was ashamed to see him letting him go so easily.
Therefore, the atmosphere of breakfast inevitably became embarrassing. The two chatted nonchalantly and hurriedly finished their breakfast. Roland Emmerich took the initiative to settle the bill and left the restaurant.
Although Howard Stringer also hopes that he can communicate with Eric about entrusting the digital field to be responsible for the special effects of "Godzilla", Roland Emmerich is already quite ashamed. This kind of thing is even harder to say. Incomparable things are left to Sony to deal with.
After Roland Emmerich left, Eric did not rush to the company. Instructed the waiter to remove the tableware, asked for a cup of coffee, and leisurely read today's newspaper.
In the weekly Box Office bulletin of the 《Los Angeles Times》 entertainment version, the first place is "Independence Day" 85 million USD, followed by the new film Universal Pictures, the famous "Apollo 13", although the actor is no longer Tom Hanks, But with the excellent quality and word of mouth of the film, he still got the first week Box Office of 4more than 3 million USD, ranking second.
Although calculated, despite the turbulent acquisitions at the beginning of the year, the Universal Pictures summer file still maintained a good Box Office score. At the end of May, "Ghost Horse Elf" and this "Apollo 13", the cost of both films Not too high, although the results are far from comparable to Firefly, but it is enough to make Universal's summer Box Office score very good. Although Michael Eisner's strong and changeable character is not pleasing, but after re-starting Universal, it seems to have been inspired by the courage when operating Disney in the 1980s. Eric remembers that in the next ten years, Universal Pictures will continue to change its ownership Turbulent, just do not know that he can afford Universal several major changes.
After "Apollo 13", the second week of "Batman Forever", Box Office 42 million USD, ranked third. Next, "Forrest Gump" is still a very stable 2more than 8 million USD Box Office, a weak 20% Box Office drop, ranking fourth, the total Box Office in four weeks has reached 150 million USD. "Toy Story 2" Box Office has just reached 28.02 million USD, ranking fifth, the total Box Office cumulative 130 million USD, also began to take a long-term, but certainly not as "Forrest Gump" as full of stamina, the total Box Office is expected to be around 200 million USD.
In addition, in the "The Lost World: Jurassic Park" after four weeks of cumulative Box Office reached 280 million USD, the fifth week of Box Office has only more than 14 million. It is expected that the cumulative Box Office will break 300 million USD next week, but at the same time, Zhou Box Office will also fall to the million level and enter the sweeping stage.
In just one month, Zhou Box Office slipped from 140 million to 14million USD. newspaper also inevitably appeared Firefly publishing strategy mistakes. It is believed that Firefly will release 3500 screens in the first week of painting, which excessively consumes the Box Office potential of "The Lost World: Jurassic Park" If the Firefly's arranging strategy can be conservative, the Box Office curve will definitely look better.
For this kind of comment, Eric just laughed, and people with a clear eye can find that in recent years, Firefly has almost occupied the entire June schedule. In order to avoid confrontation with Firefly films, several other big Film Studio have taken early or Delayed release strategy, if not because Firefly needs to make "Independence Day" cater to United States Independence Day on July 4, this film will definitely be a week in advance, and because of this, Warner dared to put "Batman Forever" on June 23 This should belong to the last Box Office bomb of the Firefly summer file.
It is precisely because of Firefly's behavior of occupying the June schedule that other Film Studios have put the main movie in July, starting from Universal's "Apollo 13" and "Independence Day" on June 30. The entire seven During the month, two major new films are released almost every week, such as "The King of Tales" starring Fox Jim Carrey on July 7 and "Waterworld" by Time Warner, "Night at the Museum" and "Eraser" on July 14, July 21 "007 of GoldenEye" and 《Heat》. Under the intensive bombing of new films, if Firefly does not excavate the Box Office of "The Lost World: Jurassic Park" in June as much as possible and enters July, it will still be quickly occupied by a large number of new films.
Eric scanned some of today ’s main newspaper hurriedly and noticed that Kevin Costner ’s “Waterworld” will be released today, so he picked up the phone and dialed Amy Pascal ’s phone to remind the other party to pay attention to the trend of “Waterworld” and choose appropriate Opportunity and Kevin Costner open the "Mission: Impossible2" pay negotiation.
Although I did n’t see the film, Warner ’s 1.7.5 billion USD water waste movie ticket is destined to end badly. Counting the JAG, the more thumping western film last summer, Kevin Costner has failed two major productions. In this case, Flower Films will have a very large initiative in the negotiation of the remuneration of "Mission: Impossible2".
Despite the strong support of Eric, in the process of acquiring Metro Goldwyn Mayer, Flower Films must still solve part of the financing on its own. "Mission: Impossible" first part global Box Office broke 500 million USD, the results are very eye-catching, and the contract for the sequel of "Mission: Impossible" is finalized. Flower Films adds more financing chips.
(To be continued.)