I’m in Hollywood Chapter 792: Actively jump pits
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Unless Spielberg and others can, with the support of Microsoft, acquire a large Film Studio of Hollywood, improve the distribution channel. Otherwise, the odds of the new Amberglin Film Industry wanting to gain a foothold in Hollywood are very low. At least in recent years, Eric did not take this Film Studio at all.
After having a deep discussion with Harvey · Weinstein, and after several consultations, the other party finally decided to take over FFMTV Station, and Eric then successfully won the script of "Black Road Family".
After signing the name on the contract, Harvey · Weinstein began to integrate the three paid cable stations that were acquired by the three. At this time, FFMTV Station actually only exists in the planning plan. Several TV Station should be removed from the employee team It will take at least a few months to complete the integration of the broadcast channels. The best estimate is that FFM will be officially launched under this name in the autumn file in September.
After FFM goes online, it will definitely need to go through a period of adaptation before it can form a stable user base. In such a turbulent period, it is certainly not a wise thing to rush to launch the "Black Road Family". Eric plans to release this series next autumn, which also allows the creator David · Chase to have more full time to play the show The set is polished more refined.
Eric is processing the FFMTV Station, "Titanic", "Rush Hour", "Bad Boys2" and other projects, and until the end of May, Hollywood Film Studio began to launch new films one after another, heralding the official arrival of the summer season in 1996.
The release date of "The Matrix" is May 31. Before that, only "Moment of Kill" Box Office released by Time Warner was not bad.
"Moment of Kill" is a crime movie starring the black movie star Samuel · Jackson about the racial conflict of United States. To be honest, this kind of movie is not very popular with film critic because it involves racial issues. The critics have become so handicapped that it is difficult to give a fair evaluation of this type of movie.
The average score of "Killing Moment" in the media is only about 7 points, which is not too high. If it is not the type of film that film critic consciously writes down, it is estimated that the score will be directly pulled to the 6-point pass line. With the joining of several movie stars such as Samuel · Jackson, the film won the Box Office of 2more than 3 million USD in the first week.
Because it is difficult for a race-type film to obtain a good Box Office score overseas, based on the production cost of its 40 million USD, unless "Moment of Kill" can get out of a long Box Office line, otherwise Warner may want to recover the cost on Box Office Sex is a bit low.
Eric saw the relevant information, but just thought that Warner seemed to choose the wrong schedule, and habitually filled in a cannon fodder before the summer schedule. Next, "The Matrix" and other blockbuster movies were released, and the filming of "Moment of Kill" and Box Office space will be greatly squeezed, it is impossible to get out of the long-term. Such a film, if it can be placed at the end of the summer file, may also achieve unexpected Box Office scores. After all, when it comes to the serious topic of racial conflict, the interest may be only an adult audience, and the most popular film viewers in the summer file. Of the student community is certainly not too interested.
Of course, Eric doesn't have any thoughts about Warner at all, because this year's Firefly situation doesn't seem to be very good.
From March, when Firefly officially announced that "The Matrix" was rated R, the media has never stopped talking about the film.
The novel "The Matrix" originally written by Eric did not involve much philosophical thinking. It was more like a pure science fiction novel with a big brain. This kind of theme, if you pay a little attention, it is impossible to shoot Into an R-rated film. The viewing requirements for R-rated films are young people under the age of 17, and they need to be accompanied by parents or adults. This kind of rating almost blocks a large part of the middle school students from the summer.
Because of the limitation of the natural audience, prior to "The Matrix", the Box Office scores of North America R-rated films were the most Qualcomm and often were around 200 million USD, just like the "Terminator 2: Judgement Day" and NN8NN that Cameron and Kathryn played in the summer two years ago. "Saving Private Ryan", although the two films are very hot, but because of the R-level rating, North America local Box Office is kept at 200 million USD more.
200 million USD is almost the recognized ceiling of R-class film Box Office in the circle.
Although even if "The Matrix" gets 200 million USD Box Office, coupled with overseas distribution, Firefly can still generate profits, but it is far from the industry's expectations.
In the eyes of many people, the creativity of "The Matrix" is no less than that of "Jurassic Park". The first two North America Box Office of "Jurassic Park" have broken through 300 million USD. Correspondingly, "The Matrix" should have the same potential of Box Office.
Therefore, after the R rating of the film was released, the media generally felt that it was likely that the Wachowski selected by Eric this time, the newcomer Director, messed up this project. Even within Firefly, there is no shortage of such views. Katzenberg could not help but hint that Eric personally intervened in the editing of "The Matrix" and changed it to PG-13 level.
It's just that these requests were rejected by Eric.
In addition to "The Matrix", "Titanic", which is still in the later stage, has also become the focus of media attention. "The production cost of" Titanic "exceeds 200 million USD. Firefly may repeat the news headlines such as Warner" Waterworld "." Time appears very frequently on the mainstream media pages.
Perhaps Firefly has been too strong in recent years, overwhelming too many people, so this year has shown some decline, and a group of people have begun to fantasize about the beautiful vision of turning over serfs and singing. .
Eric just laughed at these arguments, not to mention that everything has not settled, even if Firefly really encountered some failures in Film Industry business this year, it is impossible to cause too much damage to the Firefly Group that has laid a solid foundation The whole group still shows a vigorous upward trend as a whole.
Although Eric does not care too much about the outside world, it does not mean that others do.
Cameron clearly understands that if a film Box Office whose production cost reaches 200 million USD fails, the blow to his personal career is almost devastating. Therefore, although the harsh pursuit of perfection has not changed, Cameron has recently been in the workplace His temper started to get irritable again, and the frequency and decibels of cursing skyrocketed.
Eric received a call from Stan · Winston, and took the initiative to come forward and bluntly said to Cameron that the failure of a film Firefly could withstand.
Of course, if you really do n’t feel sorry, then after Titanic, help Firefly shoots with another movie.
Cameron was very touched by nature, and readily accepted the proposal of Eric, and once again accepted the Marvel universe series first part big movie "Spider-Man" proposed by Eric.
Why do you say ‘again’?
Because Cameron was interested in shoots "Spider-Man" as early as 1991, Carlock Film Industry also bought copyright from Marvel. However, the original Spider-Man script scale designed by Cameron was too large, and even Peter · Parker and Mary Jane made love scenes on the Brooklyn Bridge. The scenes were properly rated as R-level. In the end, due to various reasons such as cost and risk, Cameron abandoned this project, and copyright of "Spider-Man" was also recovered by Eric in previous years.
Of course, this time since Cameron took the initiative to jump into this pit, of course Eric will not come from his temperament. As the opening masterpiece of the Marvel Cinematic Universe series, the future new version of "Spider-Man" is almost equivalent to setting the overall tone of the Marvel universe series of movies, so the R-level is not acceptable anyway.
Almost busy with the work that needs to be handled in person, time has come quickly to the end of May.
On May 27th, the premiere of "The Matrix" was held at the Los Angeles Music Center. After attending the premiere tonight, Eric will fly to Bahamas tomorrow. The crew of "Casino Royale" has already assembled locally.
Although both inside and outside the company are very worried about the prospect of "The Matrix" Box Office, the scale of the premiere is no less than that of the blockbuster premieres in previous years.
In addition to Wachowski Brothers, the leading actor Keanu Reeves and other creative teams, there are also a large number of Hollywood superstar coming to the show.
Eric and Drew arrived at the premiere scene at 6:30 in the afternoon. Both sides of red carpet just boiled, and we could see the 《Charlie's Angels》 trio walking in front of them.
Although "Casino Royale" will cross in 《Charlie's Angels》, the three Charlie's Angels appearances are carefully controlled within ten minutes. This is actually a kind of hunger marketing method. The ten-minute cross plot can let the audience produce Enough excitement will not make them completely satisfied, so they will have expectations for more plots in the future.
The play of the three Charlize is mainly concentrated in Europe, and the time of shoots has to wait for a few months, so they did not go to Bahamas.
Eric and Drew walked through the red carpet together, ignoring the excited questions from the reporters on both sides, took some photos with a smile, and walked into the premiere.
In the background, I greeted the guests who came to the show one by one, and it was almost seven o'clock, and everyone went to the screening room.
Eric and Katzenberg sat together, the other side was Andy · Wachowski, knowing that Eric must talk to them about something, the girl actively chose the star guest seat in the back row.
After the screening hall is full of people, after a brief speech, the film officially starts playing.
Looking at the familiar animation scene of Firefly flying towards the sky, Eric noticed the clenched fist beside Andy · Wachowski and reached over to pat, and laughed: "Andy, be more confident, but I am very serious about this movie Be confident. "
Andy · Wachowski smiled at Eric. Of course, he did not lack self-confidence, but it was related to the success or failure of hundreds of millions of USD investments, and it was more about his future Director career. Anyone who is more confident will inevitably feel upset.
Eric is very decentralized for this project. After the script that was not much different from previous life was determined at the beginning, he rarely paid attention to the specific shoots affairs. Of course, regarding the finishing point of the bullet time, After confirming that the crew missed, he immediately mentioned it.
Except for some role changes, the new version of "The Matrix" first part and original have not changed much. It is not that Eric does not want to modify some of the immersed flaws, except that unless he spares a lot of energy to fully control the project, otherwise Indiscriminate intervention will only disturb the shoots rhythm of Wachowski Brothers, and the result will definitely outweigh the gains.
The story still began to receive a series of mysterious messages with Neo played by Keanu Reeves.
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Although "Casino Royale" will appear in 《Charlie's Angels》, the three Charlie's Angels appearances are carefully controlled within ten minutes. This is actually a kind of hunger marketing method. The ten-minute cross plot can allow the audience to produce Enough excitement will not make them completely satisfied, so they will have expectations for more plots in the future.
The scenes of the Charlize three people are mainly concentrated in Europe, and shoots will have to wait for a few months, so they did not go to Bahamas.
Eric and Drew walked through red carpet together, ignored the excited questions from the reporters on both sides, and took some photos with a smile, and walked into the premiere.
In the background, I greeted the guests who came to the show one by one, and it was almost seven o'clock, and everyone went to the screening room.
Eric and Katzenberg sat together, on the other side was Andy · Wachowski, knowing that Eric must talk to them about something, the girl actively chose the star guest seat in the back row.
After the screening hall is full of people, after a brief speech, the film officially starts playing.
Looking at the familiar animation scene of Firefly flying towards the sky, Eric noticed the clenched fist of Andy · Wachowski beside him, reached over and patted it, and laughed: "Andy, be more confident, I'm very serious about this movie Be confident. "
Andy · Wachowski smiled at Eric. Of course, he did not lack self-confidence, but it was related to the success or failure of hundreds of millions of USD investments, and it was more about his future Director career. Anyone who is more confident will inevitably feel upset.
Eric is very decentralized on this project. After determining the script that is not much different from previous life, he rarely pays attention to the specific shoots affairs. Of course, about the bullet point setting of "bullet time", After confirming that the crew missed, he immediately mentioned it.
Except for some role changes, the new version of "The Matrix" first part and original have not changed much. It is not that Eric does not want to make some changes to the immersed flaws, but unless he spares a lot of energy to fully control the project Indiscriminate intervention will only disrupt the shoots rhythm of Wachowski Brothers, and the result will definitely outweigh the gains.
The story still started to receive a series of mysterious messages with Neo played by Keanu Reeves. (To be continued.)