I’m in Hollywood Chapter 775: TV series spring file
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Compared with the lively Golden Globe Award of Hollywood in January, Eric is most concerned about the Sundance Film Festival, which has been popular in recent years. One ????? Reading
The David · Fincher's neodymium work "Seven" appeared for the first time at the Sundance Film Festival, opening the publicity work for this film before the Easter period.
Brad · Pitt still continues the role of Agent Mueller in "X-Files". The actor selected by the crew is Matthew · McConner, who has emerged in recent years. Eric does not like this male Actor very much. I always feel that he is too frivolous, but this image just fits the young and irritable character of the actor David · Smith in "Seven", so he is finally determined. Except for Matthew · McNack and Diane · Kruger which was stuffed into the crew by Eric and soy sauce, the other two supporting actors Morgan Freeman and Kevin · Spicy have not changed.
Compared to the murderous movies that hacked all the way to the end and even caused the audience to be aesthetically fatigued, the subtle and extremely shocking crime plot setting of "Seven" pushed this movie theme to an unprecedented height. The three male characters or impatient or calm or crazy personality also left a deep impression on the media and film critic. The film immediately aroused a strong response immediately after the launch of the Sundance Film Festival.
"... Most of the serial crime movies almost always have a Sherlock Holmes-style character to unravel everything." Seven "is a plot setting that allows criminals to show up and continue to complete crazy actions. Sexually, the ending of the film is shocking. It always gives a gothic dark religious atmosphere in the rainy gloomy city, echoing the religious theme of 'Seven' secretly. "
"... Compared to the messy and mediocre 《Alien 3》," Seven "is undoubtedly a reborn Director David · Fincher."
"... Kevin · Spicy in his short appearance time vividly interpreted a genius, indifference and madness into a murderous man, which made people think of the performance of Anthony Hopkins in 《The Silence of the Lambs》. Matthew · McConner and Morgan Morgan Freeman also contributed very outstanding performances. In addition, although many people frequently confuse Victoria’s Secret supermodel into Hollywood, but this time the performance of Diane · Kruger has also reached Passing the line, we can't ask for more of this group of beautiful babies with delicate faces and devil figures, are we? "
Although there is no lack of criticism in any film, the praise received by "Seven" has far overshadowed some negative reviews in the media, and movie-related topics have quickly spread from Christmas to the entire North America.
Although the Sundance Film Festival is dedicated to supporting independent films, after years of development, in order to survive better, it has also begun to compromise with several major filmmakers of Hollywood.
Among the chaos of 17 jury awards for the best finalists, more than one-third of the films from the Seventh Congress or its subsidiaries, "Seven" was nominated without suspense, and Under the operation of the new line, it successfully won the jury award, which opened a good head for the promotion of the film.
With the passing of January, the breath of holidays gradually disappeared, people's lives gradually entered the formal, and the film market also fell into the cold period of spring. The total amount of Hollywood week Box Office slipped from the new year's highest 170 million USD to 60 million. Correspondingly, in February, the TV series spring file began to arrive.
"Seven" started with the opening of the Sundance Film Festival, with another action movie "Rumble in the Bronx" of the new line. At the same time as the promotion of the Easter schedule in April, ABC TV Network, aeTV Network, Disney Channel, ESPN, etc. of Firefly Group Big TV Station has also started to launch new spring programs.
The most popular of these is the ESPN, which just signed the 9billion USD broadcast right contract with the National Football League, which is the lifeTV Station of aeTV Network, which specializes in urban elite fashion women.
Before the winter break last year, two episodes of Reality TV Show "America's Next Top Model" and "Project Runway" that caused huge repercussions in lifeTV Station in the last episode, both obtained ratings data that surpassed 6 million. The final ratings of the first season of "America's Next Top Model" The number of people has reached 6800,000, and the ratings were close to 4.0. Compared with most cable TV channels, this achievement is simply amazing.
With the phenomenon-level viewing trend brought by two Reality Shows, lifeTV Station subscribers have skyrocketed from 3,000 in early 1995 to the current 76 million. Several major cable operators have The inevitable price increase of lifeTV Station in the one-year broadcasting rights contract has also begun to be prepared.
According to industry expectations, as long as the lifeTV Station spring launch program can reach the average level of last fall, lifeTV Station will be able to increase the average subscription fee of users to more than 25 cents in the negotiation of new contracts.
Only this item, lifetimeTV Station will receive more than 200 million USD subscription revenue from cable operators every year. This data has exceeded the industry ’s overall valuation of lifetimeTV Station less than 150 million USD a year ago. The popularity of TV Station ’s advertising revenue and Cindy plus distribution and DVD sales of hit programs will far exceed the pure subscription share. Wall Street media industry analysts have even raised the valuation of lifetimeTV Station to 1.1 billion USD . Want to? Read the book
Although the audience of lifetimeTV Station will not pay too much attention to these industry data, their interest in the gathering of the two ace Reality Show of lifetimeTV Station has not weakened.
Although the second season of "America's Next Top Model" will be broadcast until early March, the new drama "Sex and the City" released by TV Station will also have to wait until the end of February.
But with the advent of New York Fashion Week, according to the rules originally formulated, the first season of "Project Runway" was not completely over, but the final was placed in New York Fashion Week.
After the winter break, the final three players who stand out from the drastic elimination will show their final works in the highly anticipated Manhattan Bryant Park.
In order to gather more attention, before the final broadcast, "Project Runway" specially made two special episodes, which were broadcast two weeks before and after New York fashion week, because all the popular Reality Show players in the series At the same time, it returned, although there was no previous game link, more only a review of last year ’s programs and interviews with players, but the two special episodes still achieved ratings of more than 500 people, which also once again showed the media and the industry. "Project Runway" powerful popularity.
Although Linda sent an invitation to Eric, hoping that he would appear as a special guest in the final episode of "Project Runway" at the final recording site, but Eric had to hurriedly return to Los Angeles after AOL IPO.
The preliminary budget for "Casino Royale" has been released, and the world-wide film scenes of Kanjing and auditions for some important supporting roles have been launched at the same time. These are inseparable from the participation of Eric.
At the same time, Firefly, Metro Goldwyn Mayer and Fox have also started related consultations on the cooperative establishment of a toll cable station.
In the original space and time, hbo almost monopolized more than 90% of the market share of toll cable TV Station, and even approached 2billion USD when the annual profit income was the highest. This profitable scale can squeeze into the world ’s top 500 companies even after more than ten years Among them. While several other major media companies have experienced many attempts to catch up with the market position of hbo, but because hbo has formed a market monopoly early, coupled with its own excellent operating methods, the market position has been stable as Mount Tai.
In my memory, in order to get an hbo, 20th Century Fox even initiated a tender offer to the entire Time Warner group, but of course it failed.
However, at this time, the entire United States cable TV market, after a long period of gestation from the 1980s, was just at the beginning of the outbreak. Although hbo has a small scale, it is far less dazzling than later, which is given Opportunities for other payable cable stations to come out on top.
In the early morning of the new week, Eric rushed to Playa Vista, and ate breakfast with Katzenberg in a cafe in the studio, and discussed the progress of the work in the recent period.
"We roughly picked a few goals, the most suitable of which is a toll cable station owned by Telecommunications. This TV Station user is currently about 1.5 million, mainly playing early old movies. Although the number of subscriptions is relatively high Less, but with a user base of 40 million for remote communication, as long as it can provide enough high-quality film and television resources, the growth of subscribers will be very rapid. "
Katzenberg reported on the toll cable station, took a sip of coffee, and then said: "However, remote communication is not willing to let go of this TV Station, they hope to be able to leave 20% of the shares, I think, if We finally determined that the acquisition of this TV Station should be able to reduce the telecom ’s shareholding ratio to 10%. After all, without our content support, the telecom ’s fee-based cable station cannot be enlarged. ”
Telecommunications, Comcast, and Time Warner are considered the three giants of traditional cable operators in this era. In addition to this, North America has more small and medium-sized cable operators and emerging satellite TV operators, even News Corp. Cable TV operation business, but the business scope is mainly concentrated in Europe and Australia.
In the early 1980s, due to antitrust considerations, these cable operators were not allowed to hold TV Station, but as media regulations became more open, this restriction was gradually broken. When Barry · Diller left Fox, the QVC TV shopping channel that it operated was TV Station, which was jointly funded by Telecommunications and Comcast.
After the new century, United States ’s largest cable TV operator changed from remote communication to Comcast. Eric is not very clear about the reasons, but it can also be guessed that remote communication is either after the Internet wave broke down, and Many high-tech companies have gone bankrupt like that, or they have been merged. If it is the latter, this merger is obviously Comcast.
"Try to fight as much as possible, and it is best to press it down to 10%. At the same time, we should also lean towards remote communication for more channel resources in advance," said Eric.
From the beginning, he never thought of monopolizing this TV Station, and keeping shares with the operator, and also allowing the other party to provide more resources and convenience for the expansion of TV Station. In addition, Katzenberg proposed to exclude Fox from the partners In addition, Eric did not adopt this suggestion. If it is just North America, of course there is no need to bring Fox. After all, Firefly and Metro Goldwyn Mayer can already provide enough programs for TV Station.
But with a longer-term perspective, the international media channel resources in the hands of News Corp can help this toll cable station to go overseas more easily, just like the Disney Channel in the hands of Firefly, because of the good relationship between Firefly and Fox, In the first two years, it carried the channel resources of Sky Media and successfully entered the TV market of Europe and Australia.
At the end of last year, with the explosion of "America's Next Top Model" and "Project Runway", Firefly has also begun cooperation with News Corp on the shift of lifetime TV Station to overseas markets. News Corp Australia-based TV Station has even bought the "Super copyright for the Australian version of the "Model Competition". ,
Even ignoring the relationship between Eric and Elizabeth, and pulling Fox into this cooperation, there are definitely more advantages than disadvantages.
After discussing the issue of toll cable stations, the two men ate breakfast slowly and Eric handed over a prepared document to Katzenberg, saying: "This is some of the movies and videos Imax and 3D I recently collected by Kelly You can take the technical information back and look at it, or you can copy several copies of them to Frank. "
Katzenberg is a bit unfamiliar with the concept of imax, but knows the 3D technology. After receiving the data and pressing it on hand, he said: "Eric, are you planning to make a 3D movie?"
Eric shook his head and said: "There is no such plan yet. Please look at the information first. According to the future production strategy of Firefly, we are going to take the line of fine production of large productions. These special effects-based movies are big. Some of them are very focused on visual experience. You can imagine that if we can popularize the 3D film technology into these films, we can not only improve the competitiveness of the film itself, but also increase the ticket price to a certain extent based on 2D. Recently In the past few years, although the size of the movie audience has been growing and the world film market is also expanding, there will always be a day of saturation. At that time, 3D film technology may become a very important entry point for us to maintain sustained performance growth. Oh The same is true for imax technology. I do n’t know if Los Angeles has an imax projection hall. You can find it and experience it first. ”
After listening carefully, Katzenberg nodded solemnly and said: "I will read the information as soon as possible, and let the strategic planning department come up with an assessment." (Unfinished to be continued.)