I’m in Hollywood Chapter 735: A little regret
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[I accidentally miswritten the chapter number, this should be chapter 835, take the time to let the editor change it]
"Titanic" Box Office reached 4.4700 million USD last week. This week it is almost inevitable to surpass the North America Box Office record of 《Star Wars》 460 million USD. Eric did not have much surprise in her heart. Listening to the exciting tone of Christina, she was obviously a fan of "Titanic".
Sleep dissipated, Eric turned sideways, looking at Christina lying beside him with a smile, saying: "We will talk about this matter later, now ..."
So saying, Eric suddenly reached out, grabbed her slender Christina waist and pulled her over, and then turned over.
“Yeah—hehe, do n’t,” Christina struggled with a smirk that matched her.
The height of Eric is more than 1.8 meters, but Christina is only one meter five and five small. With the action of Eric, the petite body of Christina disappeared completely under him.
"Kitten, remember next time, the man who was woken up suddenly is very angry."
Christina narrowed his eyes and blushed, stretched his arms and allowed Eric to take off his little T-shirt, softly begging for mercy: "Eric, I'm wrong, I won't dare next time. "
"The next time I will talk about it next time, I still have to punish this time."
"However, I have already prepared breakfast and it will be cold after you punish Oh."
Christina said so, Eric also felt a hungry, and looked at the sunlight outside the window, it is not early, these days "Casino Royale" is about to be completed, all work requires him to stare in person, had to Restraint desires, let go of Christina, turned over and got out of bed, said: "Okay, for your obedient sake, I will let you go this time."
The 《Star Wars》 has replayed many times in the past two decades, and the cumulative Box Office has just broken through 460 million USD. Therefore, if you want to talk about the first round of screening of Box Office records, before "Titanic", you should count "Jurassic Park" produced by Eric a few years ago. North America Box Office is finally 450 million.
However, after 12 weeks of screening, "Titanic" North America Box Office reached 4.6900 million USD, breaking the Box Office record of all previous North America films, and also achieved a record-breaking 12-week North America single week Box Office champion.
Although everyone knows that "Titanic" will break the North America Box Office record without any suspense this week, but after the real data is released, there are only a few people who can respond like Eric.
After getting up, in just half an hour of having breakfast with Christina, there were five or six consecutive calls to Eric mobile phones.
North America ’s media today is basically focusing on this matter. Most of the newspaper subscribed by Eric appeared on the front page of the news that “Titanic” broke the North America Box Office record. The Internet is even more tumultuous. The huge fans group of "Titanic" has posted posts in the Yahoo community and major movie forums to celebrate the film's breaking the North America Box Office record.
Under the arrangement of the company, ABC's morning news program "Good Morning America" took a full 20 minutes to review the whole process of "Titanic" from the start to the present. The host even connected live on Japan for Several film creators who promoted the film, the report on "Titanic" directly increased the ratings of "Good Morning America" by 30% compared with the past.
Although a few months ago, including Eric itself, no one knows whether "Titanic" will break the North America Box Office record this week.
However, today is March 14th, only 10 days away from the sixty-ninth Oscar Awards Ceremony. After the nominations are announced, in order to make the best use of the influence of Oscar of "Titanic", the remaining major overseas The release date of the ticket warehouse countries is basically scheduled for the next two weeks. At that time, the number of "Titanic" overseas release countries will be increased from less than 30 to 68 in one fell swoop.
Today, the overseas release countries of "Titanic" will increase by 17, including Germany, France, Japan, the three most important overseas ticket warehouses.
In the original time and space, the first round of "Titanic" screening overseas Box Office was 1.2 billion USD.
Eric remembers that Japan Box Office is probably around 200 million USD. According to the Box Office figures of United Kingdom that has reached 91 million USD, Germany and France, which are comparable to the United Kingdom market, the cumulative Box Office may also break through 100 million USD, that is, these three The total Box Office of the overseas Box Office countries will reach about 400 million USD, accounting for one-third of the total overseas Box Office of "Titanic".
Therefore, Firefly attaches great importance to the screening work of these three countries. Several of the main creators of "Titanic" began to rush to Europe and Japan to participate in the premieres of the corresponding countries in the previous week. At this time, Cameron, etc. Everyone still stays in Japan.
Eric believes that after the new round of large-scale release, the overseas Box Office data of "Titanic" will also be completely exploded. Prior to this, because of the Firefly ’s established distribution strategy, the number of overseas Box Office has only barely reached 400 million USD.
After a busy morning at Firefly Studios, Eric rushed to Burbank in the afternoon to participate in the next phase of the release work conference on "Titanic".
In the 12th week of North America, the Box Office accumulated to 4.6900 million USD, which also brought a lot of troubles, or regrets, to the Firefly distribution department.
"Although the current Box Office data of" Titanic "is still maintained at the weekly 20 million USD scale, according to the survey data in our hands, most of them are the result of repeated watching by the core fans of the film. The reason why these people will Repeatedly entering the cinema, in addition to the attraction of the film itself, but also because of their love for the film, looking forward to it can create more Box Office miracles. "
During the meeting, Firefly's distribution department Chairman Robert · Thompson introduced the current situation: "Therefore, there are three publicity points in" Titanic "that can stimulate the North America Box Office data to continue to rise, breaking the North America Box Office record, North America total Box Office breakthrough 500 million USD, and Oscar awards ceremony, if these three publicity points can appear in three weeks, it is undoubtedly the best state. But now the situation is, "Titanic" has broken the Box Office record, there are two publicity points, According to the current trend of Box Office, it is likely to happen in the same week or even on the same day. Because it is now a full week plus a weekend from Oscar, the awards ceremony is Monday next week, the 14th day of the week, the three days of the week Box Office Released. "
Although Robert · Thompson said so, there was not much regret in the tone, and it was probably the same for everyone in the conference room.
Everyone can hear that "Titanic" broke the North America Box Office record this week, the next week Box Office broke the 500 million USD, and the next week hit the Oscar small gold man record. Such a week to stimulate the Box Office promotion point is undoubtedly the best state.
However, "Titanic" keeps Box Office above 20 million USD in a week, and it is already a fan favorite. Although Firefly can easily take out 10 million USD and push "Titanic" Box Office to 500 million next week, it is like doing it in "Titanic" This flawless 'pearl' is so stupid that it will be scratched. By then, it is estimated that all the envious and jealous opponents of Firefly will be crazy.
Everyone whispered to each other for a while, someone said: "Robert, you forgot to consider the movie global Box Office to break the promotion point of 1billion USD?"
"Of course considered," Robert Thompson said: "However, this is not a new record," Jurassic Park "broke four years ago. Moreover, this data should be released after Oscar, when the time comes, North America Box Office There should be a good chance that it will start to fall sharply, and we can no longer expect anything from the North America market. "
Someone suddenly said, "What about global 2 billion?"
During the meeting, there was a brief pause, and everyone laughed lightly.
Robert · Thompson also shook his head and looked at the other party, speaking of the new line Film Industry Chairman Kenneth · Horn.
Before the release of "Titanic", because the new line Film Industry almost caught up with the annual Box Office performance of several major production departments of the headquarters, Kenneth Horn's position in the group greatly improved, but after the outbreak of "Titanic" Box Office, the data of the new line Film Industry was again Far away, Kenneth Horn who was still fighting for more resources for the new line is certainly very depressed, but he will not show it on this occasion.
In the entire Firefly Group, Kenneth Horn and Robert Thompson have the same status.
Kenneth · Horn ’s new line Film Industry includes a complete production and distribution system. Although it has been producing medium and low-cost movies with most budgets below 30 million USD, the performance of the new line has been very good in recent years. With the support of the old ministers in the new line period, Kenneth Horne still attracted considerable attention from the top. Robert · Thompson, as the group's distribution department Chairman, is in charge of the Broadway International Distribution Group responsible for the local and global distribution business. Although it is not involved in production, it controls the distribution of all the mainstream Film Studio movies of Firefly, such as Firefly Pictures, Disney Film Industry, Pixar animation, Robert · Thompson's status should not be underestimated.
Although there is no overlap in the business under their jurisdiction, there are some signs of competition in the same system.
"Kenneth, since you said so, it is better to make a bet. If" Titanic "global Box Office can break through 2billion USD, I invite everyone present to eat, if not, you will come."
"Of course no problem, I can still afford a meal," Kenneth Horn did not hesitate, looked around.
In this festive atmosphere, no one will say anything about this small game, although almost everyone feels that although "Titanic" can steadily break through 1billion USD, and even touch 1.5 billion USD, 2billion USD is still too hanging Some more.
Eric closed a piece of information just read in front of him, raised his head, smiled and swept between the two, saying, "Well, I wrote down the game between you two, when I come Choosing a location, you'd better leave last year's year-end award first. "
As core executives of Firefly Group, the year-end bonuses of Kenneth · Horn and Robert · Thompson are both in the millions of USD levels. Listening to Eric, Robert · Thompson said, "Frightened," said: "Eric, you still robbed directly. There is no hotel in the world that can eat millions of USD for a meal."
"Robbery is illegal, I am a law-abiding citizen," Eric made a joke with a smile.
Everyone laughed for a while, Katzenberg announced the next issue.
"After an analysis of this period, we found that many fans of" Titanic "are very interested in the shoots process of the film. Moreover, we just saved all the props of" Titanic "shoots period perfectly, Titanic ship The model is still standing in the Rosarito’s studio in Mexico, and some core props are also shipped back to Los Angeles, which is currently stored in the warehouse in the studio. So, let ’s discuss the feasibility of the "Titanic" theme exhibition below. "
After Katzenberg finished, everyone did not speak immediately during the meeting. Everyone rummaged through the distributed investigation report.
Eric also opened its investigation report.
Westerners are generally very interested in collecting. Some classic movie props can often be auctioned for high prices, which is also the cultural basis for "Titanic" to hold prop exhibitions.
Although the specific data of the original time and space is not clear, Eric remembers that after the success of "Titanic", Fox has held a grand "Titanic" shoots props tour event around the world, if there are not enough benefits Driven, Fox certainly did not do so.
Moreover, the most regrettable thing about Eric in the original time and space is that the Titanic model copied by Cameron on the Rosarito studio in a one-to-one ratio was directly dismantled in the later stage of the film in order to raise sufficient production funds. Selling scrap iron, this is also a big regret for many fans.
This time, from the beginning, Eric ordered the film ’s creators to save all the props perfectly. The reason he gave was of course to provide prop support for the subsequent production of retro films related to "Titanic". After all, the production of "Titanic" props cost tens of millions of USD.
However, now that "Titanic" has achieved the same success as previous life, then the real reasons for the original action can be taken out in a magnificent manner.
Although the "Titanic" theme exhibition cannot exist for as long as Disneyland, but with extensive experience in operating the Disney theme park, the "Titanic" exhibition held by Firefly surpasses previous life's Fox is a breeze. (To be continued.)