I’m in Hollywood Chapter 816: Reverse PR
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The beach road near the sea.
A black Buick boulevard parked on the side of the road, Lucini sits casually on the front of the car, her legs are tilted, and she looks like a lazy look. Selena and Jill also lean against the body. The three women wear similar Tights, amazing face and figure are enough for all men who want to see this kind of scene want to be the Buick car beside them.
At this time, the three girls are looking at the two people who are farewell not far away.
One man and one woman, one big and one small, really Bond and Angela.
Everything is settled in the dust. As Visper ’s lover, Bond has the heart to take care of Angela, but also knows that he is wandering about the uncertain life. It will put her in danger. After some consideration, Bond still decided to entrust Angela to the Charlie detective office, which is also the girl's own request.
In the lens, Angela probably knew all the ins and outs. The girl gave the necklace to Bond again and said, "I think you may need this more than me."
Bond took necklace, hesitated, then held it in his hand and said to Angela: "So, take good care of yourself, if you have time, I will come back to see you."
"Well," Angela nodded cleverly.
Bond did not procrastinate, nodded to the Selena trio not far away, turned and walked towards his Aston Martin.
Angela looked at the figure of Bond leaving and suddenly remembered a very important thing, so she asked aloud, "Hey, you have n’t told me, what is your name?"
Bond raised a hand and waved it, but did not look back.
"Bond, James · Bond."
When Pierce Brosnan finished talking about the iconic line that must appear in every 007 movie, off-camera, Eric smiled and nodded, raising his voice: "G00d, I officially announced that" Casino Royale "will kill. "
Specially applauded for everyone who gathered in this scene today, nodding, hugging, and saying goodbye to the people around them.
Eric shook hands with Michael · Will and hugged with Barbara Brockley and said, "Barbara, I hope we have a chance to cooperate."
"Of course, I am also looking forward to the next arrival," Barbara Brockley said with a smile.
After almost a year, the Brockley family has basically accepted the reality that the 007 series of control was recovered by Metro Goldwyn Mayer, and it is no longer entangled in this point. After all, although the control is lost, the Brockley family is in The shares that should be wanted in the 007 series have not been compressed by Metro Goldwyn Mayer. Eric personally controls this series, but it can bring more benefits to the Brockley family.
A few words with Barbara Brockley, Eric turned to Pierce Brosnan, and completed the scene of Wisper, Kate Blanchett had already left the crew early, without Kate acting The pressure of Pierce Brosnan was very easy in the last period of time, and some small tangles accumulated in the previous period also disappeared invisible.
One by one to communicate with the crew of the crew, the crew returned from this beach to the pine forest Film Studio, where a grand killing party has been prepared.
The time is already November 3, North America just spent Halloween.
After the killing feast, Eric returned to Los Angeles with the later team of "Casino Royale" and shoots material.
There are only two weeks left before the Thanksgiving schedule. The release date of "Mission: Impossible2" is scheduled for November 22.
In the post-production process of "Casino Royale", the first thing that needs to be completed for Eric is the "Casino Royale" egg embedded at the end of "Mission: Impossible2". Since 《Charlie's Angels》 first part joined the "007 of GoldenEye" egg, this has become the Metro Goldwyn Mayer special film universe series. As a matter of fact, while watching the positive film, the majority of fans gradually began to have a very strong interest in each Metro Goldwyn Mayer special film universe series of Easter eggs.
In November, London had entered the winter. When Eric left, London had fallen the first snow of the year. The Los Angeles on the west coast of United States was still warm as spring. The daytime temperature was maintained at a very suitable temperature of about 20 degrees. Even at night, the temperature will not drop below 10 degrees.
Playa Vista, Firefly Studios.
Eric came out of the late studio together with the editing room of "Casino Royale".
The editing of movie eggs is not an easy task. Compared with the trailer, the duration of the eggs is shorter, and there are usually only one or a few simple shots, which are almost flash. So, to provide enough information and suspense to the audience in the egg, without revealing the main plot, that is, Director and the editor need to consider things in great detail.
The menu set in the Eric plan is for Mrs. M to introduce 007 to the ghost party information obtained from Ethan Hunt. However, the specific materials need to be carefully considered. He and the editing room discussed for two days before roughly taking A plan of about 10 seconds came out.
It ’s already evening. Say goodbye to the editor. Eric did not leave the studio immediately, but came to the office of Jeffrey · Katzenberg in the studio. At noon, Katzenberg called and hoped to talk about Thanksgiving. As for the release of the Christmas film, from the tone of Katzenberg, Eric decided that it should still be related to "Titanic".
At the end of this year, Firefly mainly released two films, "Rush Hour" produced by the new line and "Titanic" by Firefly.
"Rush Hour" has been screened several times in the early stage, and it has a good reputation. The film is scheduled for November 15, and it is currently in the final stage of publicity time. Moreover, the cost of this film is only 30 million USD, less than "Titanic" "One-seventh of the budget, the company does not worry too much about this movie.
Come to the office of Katzenberg, waved his hand to stop the secretary ’s announcement, knocked on the door and entered. Katzenberg, who was reading the document, looked up, saw Eric coming in, nodded, looked at his watch, closed the document in front, and said: "Eric, let's go to the cafe outside to talk."
The two went out of the administrative building and came all the way to the cafe in the cinema.
Choose twice as much coffee and some snacks at random, Katzenberg said: "Eric, yesterday someone saw Jim · West and Theo Jinma dining at Morton Restaurant," didn't wait for Eric to continue to ask, and Katzenberg explained Tao: "Jim · West is an assistant to Paramount Sherry · Lansing, and Theo Jinma is a judge of the Golden Globe Award Foreign Journalists Association."
Actually, after hearing Theo Jinma ’s name, Eric probably already understands what. Theo Jinma may be just a general judge of Golden Globe Award, but after more than ten years, Theo Jinma Will be the youngest jury in the history of Golden Globe Award.
"They really hope that Firefly will fail," Eric shook his head and sighed.
Eric knows that the company is currently conducting public relations for the Golden Globe Award nomination of "Titanic". The nomination criteria for Golden Globe Award and Oscar are similar, but the time for the announcement of the nomination for Golden Globe Award is around December 10 of each year, "Titanic". The large-scale release date is December 20th. Before this, although several movies will be carried out to meet the Golden Globe Award shortlist criteria, but to really get the nomination, it still needs a vigorous public relations.
In the past, Hollywood and other Film Studio rarely reversed the competition's prize-winning works, because once this is done, they will definitely be punished by the opponent in the future. In the competition for awards, people have more sharp competition methods, usually It also just found the weaknesses of competitors ’works and attacked in the media to prevent judges from casting votes on a work.
Like this year, "Titanic" which directly reverses the public relations Firefly is rare.
The Eric also knows that Firefly has suppressed the other big ones in recent years, but the movie market has been expanding, but the scale is still roughly fixed. He cannot possibly take into account the feelings of competitors. Suppress the Box Office performance of Firefly's own movies.
Katzenberg's face is also a little serious, saying: "We are also trying our best, but apart from Paramount, Warner, Universal, etc. several shots have been made, so on Golden Globe Award," Titanic "may only get a few Insignificant nominations. "
"I can only try my best," Eric said: "In addition, I do n’t want to use other extraordinary means at this time, so many people are staring, and once found, it will be more lively."
"Of course I know," Katzenberg nodded, and what Eric said was a very natural method, naturally a method such as bribery. Universal, Paramount and other competitors have all worked hard to deal with Firefly. At this time, it is the most stupid move to actively give people the handle: "In addition, before you return, Paramount temporarily fixed the original Thanksgiving ’s Star Trek · First Contact "was shifted to December 13, the week before the release of" Titanic ". The reason given by Paramount was to avoid the competition of" Mission: Impossible2 ", but everyone knows it well. Plus this In the three weeks before and after the release of "Titanic", there were nine films with a premiere of more than 2,000 screens, an average of three films per week. "
Katzenberg said, passing a document just brought out of the office to Eric.
This is a schedule of movie releases.
Eric saw that during the release of "Titanic", there were one or two movies highlighted every week.
On December 13th, in addition to Paramount ’s “Star Trek · First Contact”, there was also Sony ’s “Mr. Sweetheart” starring Tom · Cruise. On December 20th, Warner collided with “Titanic” The Jack · Nickel Mori's "Martians Turning Around the Earth", followed by Universal's comedy "Three Presidents".
In addition to these, Fox and Metro Goldwyn Mayer also have new films at the same time. The Christmas file is such an important date. Even if everyone is an ally, it is not a company after all, and they cannot give up on their own initiative, which is not very optimistic for everyone. "Titanic" gives way.
Eric looked at the movie schedule in hand, but Katzenberg did not stop reporting 'bad news' to him, saying: "In terms of overseas distribution, the only major overseas ticket warehouse countries that can be synchronized with North America are United Kingdom and Spain. And Australian, French, and German filmmakers are not very optimistic about the prospect of Box Office of "Titanic", they are only willing to give a date around February, I refused. Japan, there was originally expected to be synchronized with North America, but I think It should be that the last time we rejected Toho International buying out the distribution rights of "Titanic", maybe there is also the power of Sony. In short, the distribution work on the Japan side is not very smooth, and the schedule they give is In mid-March, it was not even as good as Germany and France. At the same time, some overseas issuers who were negotiating also wanted us to provide more benefit guarantees. In fact, we hope that we can lower the share ratio. "
Eric couldn't help rubbing temple(s) again. This series of messages really made him feel very bad.
Katzenberg is not talking about anything. Eric is not thin for him. It is impossible to express too much of such things as putting pressure on Boss.
"So," Eric said for a while, "If the Box Office of" Titanic "does not meet expectations next month, I will take the initiative to convene a high-level meeting to make a review and discuss making more strict Budget system. Others, you can do your best. "
"Eric, you don't need to review at all. Film Studio definitely needs to have a big production attempt. We only need to formulate a stricter budget system," Katzenberg shook his head quickly.
In the Disney era led by Michael · Eisner, Katzenberg has always been the person in charge of Film Studio. At that time, a large part of Katzenberg's work included actually carrying the Michael · Eisner. Once the movie led by Michael · Eisner failed, the criticism of the outside world will often be directly pressed on Katzenberg. In order to maintain the prestige of Michael · Eisner, Katzenberg rarely explains anything to the outside world.
Hollywood is a place that places great emphasis on authority. Eric's active review will definitely damage his personal prestige.
Everyone knows that Eric has always been the soul of Firefly over the years. Without his keen eye on film and television production, Firefly cannot grow rapidly today.
“It ’s set for now,” Eric shook his head, rejecting Katzenberg ’s good intentions, and said: “But before that, I hope that all departments will not be disturbed by outside information, as much as possible for the marketing and marketing of Titanic Distribution, overseas, since those filmmakers want to lower their share, let's wait until the film is released. "
Once North America Box Office does not meet expectations, Firefly naturally needs to reduce its share for overseas issuance, otherwise, the initiative will return to Firefly again.
"No problem, I will stare at it personally," Katzenberg assured solemnly. (To be continued.)