I’m in Hollywood Chapter 811:
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In September, while Eric was in United Kingdom shoots "Casino Royale", the North America movie summer file officially came to an end.
The three films "The Matrix", "The Rock" and "Final Destination" under the new line label released by the Firefly Group summer file, the final cumulative total Box Office is 420 million USD. Although the three films are still released in North America theaters sporadically, but dozens of weekly Wan USD's Box Office revenue has little effect on the total Box Office share.
Compared with the total Box Office nearly doubled in the previous year, Firefly Group ’s Box Office revenue this year not only completely lost this advantage, but was even taken away by Universal Pictures with a weak advantage of 4.3.5 billion USD. In the summer Box Office championship, Universal Pictures took the lead in "The Mummy2" and "Professor Fatty" Box Office, and the other two films released also achieved good results.
After Firefly, Warner accumulatively released six films in the summer season. Although there is no Box Office big-bang movie, but with the advantage of quantity, the total revenue of 380 million USD still follows Firefly.
Probably due to the significant decline of the Firefly summer Film Industry performance, the trade-offs, Universal, Warner, and subsequent Paramount, Fox and other major Film Studio, Box Office revenue for this summer's summer file has been significantly higher than in previous years increase.
When 《Variety》 magazine officially announced the Box Office data and related review articles for this summer, other media immediately followed up. Many professional media have publicly stated that Firefly ’s Film Industry performance has declined, indicating that Hollywood will return to the seven major Film Studio evenly matched. State ', because before the rise of Firefly, the seven major Film Studios of Hollywood, because of the fixed production scale and distribution channels, even if a certain company occasionally has big explosions, in most cases, the market share of the seven majors is based on their own comprehensive Strength is at a relatively balanced ratio.
Although the seven major parties of Hollywood have developed and integrated in the direction of media groups, the Film Industry business still occupies a considerable share. After the argument that Firefly returns to "normal" has been recognized by most media, the capital market has also reacted for the first time. The stock prices of several companies such as Time Warner, Viacom, Metro Goldwyn Mayer and others have risen by more than 10% in just a few days. Even for the Sony where Jumanji2 Box Office has plunged, the stock price has also seen a small increase.
However, Firefly Group, a media empire train that can almost be regarded as speeding in recent years, has suddenly slowed down. The media's most concern is naturally the internal reaction of Firefly Group. In order to obtain some feedback from Firefly Group executives, some media even hesitated to send out deliberate intentions. Provocative Firefly Group remarks. However, after dealing with the sequel of "The Matrix", unless it is a counterattack on the apparently untrue defamation news, the public relations department of Firefly has always been very low-key.
As for Hollywood, most people are just a playful mindset, especially after the poor performance of "Titanic" Venice Film Festival premiere, many people are almost expecting the arrival of the year-end schedule.
The production cost of 215 million USD, the distribution cost of 50 million USD, and the film length of more than 3 hours. At any point, Hollywood ca n’t see the possibility of "Titanic" being able to succeed on Box Office.
If most of the Firefly competitors of Hollywood are just waiting to see the excitement, Wall Street has already shined.
Once "Titanic" suffers a huge loss, it will not only devour the profits of Firefly's other blockbuster films, but also may have an impact on the closed production system of Firefly, making it comply with industry rules and no longer insist on self-sufficient production. mode.
As long as Firefly opens a gap and finances film production in the capital market like other Film Studio, then Wall Street Capital has enough confidence to tear this "gap" step by step and eventually swallow Firefly, making it bigger than Hollywood Part of Film Studio is under the control of capital.
Under the circumstance of the outside world, everything inside Firefly Group is in order.
On September 15th, after more than half a year of preparation, FFMTV Station, a collaboration between Firefly, Fox and Metro Goldwyn Mayer, was officially launched, because FFMTV Station has more high-quality movie content than the TV Station before the integration, and implemented a series of preferential activities. The subscribers of the pay cable station are basically saved, and the total subscriber scale reaches 4100,000.
Because the positioning of FFMTV Station is completely similar to that of HBO, Time Warner is naturally a big enemy for the launch of FFMTV Station. The Warner cable company did not hesitate to tear up the contract, and also immediately cut off the 30 ten thousand user signal that originally carried the TV Station of FFM, and the entire Time Warner was completely blocked for FFMTV Station.
Although Firefly Group and Time Warner will not tear their faces publicly because of this incident, there is not much concern between the subsidiaries. FFMTV Station sued Warner cable TV in the Federal Court the first time Warner cable cut off the user ’s signal. Companies use market position for unfair competition. Warner knows that this lawsuit will be heated up, and it will only make FFMTV Station famous, but it has to respond to the lawsuit, because FFMTV Station will obviously not agree to private settlement.
As a veteran of Yulun's operation, Weinstein quickly fired up this matter, and FFMTV Station became famous for a while.
At the same time that FFMTV Station went online, September was also the beginning of the TV fall season.
ABCTV Station's 《Friends》, "ER" and "Survivor" and LifetimeTV Station's "Sex and the City", "Project Runway", "America's Next Top Model" and other popular episodes have returned in September.
A person is busy, and life will always go fast.
When Firefly TV Department sent the September TV ratings report to Eric, the time came to October unconsciously.
The weather in London is even colder, and the progress of shoots of "Casino Royale" has also been completed by more than 80%. The remaining one month will be the most important part, and the Bond and Charlie's Angels trio will jointly rescue Angela Linde The plot of the.
The three girls Kate, Charlize and Penélope still need a week to enter the group. In the last few days, the crew ’s shoots work has been relatively easy, mainly Bond, Mrs. M, Wisper and several villains.
On the morning of shoots, we finished an interactive scene between the sisters of Visper and Angela. Eric sat in the restaurant of Film Studio in Songlin. After lunch, there was still time left. I read the New York just delivered over there. Rating report.
On the ABC side, the three-block ace programs of 《Friends》, "ER" and "Survivor" are still leading the show.
This year, 《Friends》 has arrived in the eighth season, and the series has been scheduled to end in the tenth season. ABCTV Station has announced the relevant news before the start of this season. Although the six leading actors are younger than previous life, one drama After collecting shoots for ten years, I am already tired and I don't want to go on.
It's this time and space. Aniston hasn't co-operated with several other actors to perform a million-dollar drama. However, Firefly is also not stingy. In the last three seasons, the six-star single-element film rewards have been increased to 600,000 USD. This is their In the first two seasons, the pay for a single episode was doubled.
As the most popular medical drama in recent years, the ratings of "ER" are very stable, and the ratings of single episodes basically remain above 20 million.
After watching the peak of the average 30 million audience in the first two seasons of "Survivor", and the competition of the Reality Show launched by other TV Station, the ratings began to drop sharply.
However, because the production cost of "Survivor" is very low, even if the ratings fall below 10 million, TV Station is still very profitable, not to mention, the average number of 17 million viewers in the opening three episodes of this season is not related to failure anyway. North America is a leader among all Reality TV Show.
In addition to the three-block lead episode, this year ABC also appeared a brand new viewing dark horse, sitcom "Everybody Loves Raymond".
In the family-friendly style comedy, under the guidance of 《Friends》, the number of viewers in the first episode reached 15 million. Perhaps it is because of the limitation of family themes, because of the difference in family concept culture between East and West, the popularity of this sitcom previous life in Asia is not too high, but the ratings in the peak period are definitely not much worse than 《Friends》. The opening of 15 million is absolutely It's just the beginning. It is expected that when 《Friends》 is officially completed, "Everybody Loves Raymond" will also enter its peak state of viewing, just taking over the comedy night of 《Friends》.
In memory, "Everybody Loves Raymond" is CBS 'ace sitcom.
However, this project, Eric did not intervene. He also discovered it after seeing the list of new dramas submitted by ABC in May. The reason why "Everybody Loves Raymond" will be converted to ABC is mainly because the Producer of "Everybody Loves Raymond" is David · Letterman. ABC reformed the late night program two years ago, and dug CBS's "David · Letterman Late Night Show" to ABC, David · Letterman As the TV project of Producer, ABC will naturally take over.
After watching the ratings statistics of ABC, Eric is about to turn on the data of LifetimeTV Station, and Christina · Aguilera came over with a small dinner plate.
The girl stood opposite Eric and asked obediently, "Eric, can I sit here?"
Eric smiled and packed up the information in front of her, nodded at the girl, Christina happily put down the dinner plate and sat down opposite.
Although the two of them have a relationship, Christina is not intimidating at all, nor does it have any words or deeds to promote the relationship between two people. This kind of clever and knowledgeable behavior makes Eric very satisfied.
Today's all-day drama is related to Christina. Therefore, Christina took the initiative to sit next to Eric at this time. Everyone would only think that she wanted to talk to Director about the problem of the movie, but it won't attract any attention.
Looking at Christina picking up the cutlery and eating the vegetable salad on the plate, Eric smiled and asked, "What did you just do, and now come to eat?"
Christina replied neatly: "Mama called from Los Angeles, we talked for a long time."
"Oh, are you homesick?"
"Not too much," Christina shook his head.
She does n’t really feel homesick. As a single-parent family, Christina is much more independent than Britney. She does n’t have the mentality to go to school. She has a job and can travel with the crew around the world. Instead, she enjoys it. .
Eric smiled and turned his attention to the data in his hand again, but Christina took the initiative to say: "Eric, I ... I suddenly felt that the role of Angela seems not very cool."
Eric raised his head: "So what do you think is cool?"
Christina, of course, has seen 《Charlie's Angels》, and thought about it without thinking: "Of course it is like Selena played by Kate Beckinsale, but Angela is more like a little nerd who likes to tinker. I think If detective agency Charlie really exists, they will definitely not be able to look at Angela Lynd. "
In "Casino Royale" script's role setting for Christina, Angela Linde is a tech housemaid obsessed with precision equipment, which was influenced by her father when she was a child.
"You think Angela Lynn is not cool enough. This is because" Casino Royale "is a 007 movie. The movie does not give too much room for this character. However, this character has very perfect settings. Yes, she is equivalent to Dr. Q in the 007 series. In the future, she will provide Charlie's Angels with a variety of very cool high-tech props. Well, after the film is released next year, Marvel Entertainment will publish comics related to Angela Linde, You will be able to see it by then. "
Eric just gave this character to her at the beginning, and did not disclose too many things. Christina once thought that this character might just be a common character in the "Casino Royale" series.
At this time, when I heard Eric say this, Christina eyes became shiny, and asked: "Then, Eric, does this mean that I can still appear in the movie in the future?"
Eric smiled and said: "Your character is sure to appear in the comic story. This thing has already been done on the Marvel side. As for whether it can appear again in the Metro Goldwyn Mayer agent movie universe, it involves too much. Question, your future career development, the feedback of the character image viewers, the need for the storyline, etc. Now I ca n’t give you any promises. "
Although Eric said so, Christina did not lose a bit. The girl was born with a little charming eyes, looked around and lowered her voice and said: "Eric, will I go to you tonight?"
"Why, want to bribe me," Eric said with a smile.
"Oh, this is just Actress. I want to please Mr. Director."
"Still consider as finished, you still have drama tomorrow, I do n’t want my Actress to get out of bed tomorrow." (To be continued.)