I’m in Hollywood Chapter 871: Last chance

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Beverly Hills Manor, Eric lived in the mansion of the **** the Trousdale manor for the past two days. He did not spend most of the night like many high-level Paramount. Although it was Saturday, he still got up on time, washed, morning exercises, breakfast, sitting You can read the new day of newspaper on the mansion terrace overlooking the whole Los Angeles.

It seems to want to make some counterattacks. Paramount ca n’t wait to announce Friday ’s single-day Box Office ranking on newspaper.

The twins quietly collected the tableware on the round table. The girl sat opposite the Eric and also read a copy of 《Los Angeles Times》 spread out on the table. She was surprised: "Thirteen days are expected for 40 million in the first weekend. 60 million USD, similar to first part, did our blockade plan fail? "

Eric smiled and shook his head, saying: "The usual movie is correct according to your algorithm, which is equivalent to more than half of the weekday on the weekend. The animated movie is different, especially 2D Animation, because most of the audience are For children who need parental companionship, the percentage of Box Office on weekdays will be lower. The first three days of "The Lion King" Box Office is close to 70% of the first week. This sequel is certainly similar, so it is unlikely that it will exceed 60 million USD in the first week. It should be around 55 million USD. "

"In the first week of 55 million USD, how much will there be in total Box Office?"

Eric read a film review of "Con Air" and thought about it, said: "This is not true. The total number of Box Office in" The Lion King2 "is mainly based on its Box Office performance in the first four weeks. After this week, next week is "Godzilla", next week is "Finding Nemo" and "Macro Contact", then "Batman and Robin", these are the films that can pose a great threat to "The Lion King2", if these films Box Office performance Great, "The Lion King2" will definitely be hit, on the contrary, it is not impossible for "The Lion King2" Box Office to approach first part. "

Actually, according to previous life's memory, Eric already has some details in mind.

The films that will be released in the next three weeks, "Godzilla" and "Batman and Robin" are very likely to hit the street, and only "Finding Nemo" is the most direct opponent of "The Lion King2".

However, the current "Con Air" seems to have a trend that Box Office does not meet the expectations. On the first day, 7.7 million USD, and only about 35 million USD in the first week. Under the bombing of the next few weeks, will North America Box Office be able to break? Billion is still very dangling. The sluggish performance of "Con Air" makes Eric less sure about the prospect of Box Office of "Finding Nemo". He has seen this 3D Animation film several times. Although it is not inferior to the original, it is due to the launch of original. Six years ahead of time, whether Eric can show the amazing explosive power of Box Office was once uncertain.

After listening to Eric, the girl turned down on the entertainment version, found the summer schedule of the movie, looked at it for a while, then looked up and said: "Then, it seems that the summer schedule global Box Office may be close to 1billion USD, only" Godzilla "and our" Casino Royale "now."

"You are also stimulated by" Titanic ", global 1 billion is so easy, Hollywood can produce a global Box Office 1 billion Box Office dark horse every year, even if it is lucky, this year, um, Eric hesitated After that, I didn't say the name of "Finding Nemo", I paused and said: "There may be this year, but it will not be" Godzilla "and" Casino Royale "."

"Ah, you have no confidence?"

Eric analyzed: "Look, the global Box Office of the last" GoldenEye "is 350 million USD. If inflation is not considered, this is the best result of 007. In fact, it also shows the potential of the original form of 007 Box Office. This In the second "Casino Royale", I am not sure whether the audience will like the modification of the film format. However, combined with the 007 brand, my personal Box Office appeal and the aura of the special film universe, this film global Box Office exceeds 500 million USD. Not big, if it breaks out a little, it may be able to reach 700 million, but 1billion needs a great chance. "

The girl turned her eyes and said, "Then, will it be possible to reach 1billion USD in the final battle between the three secret agent organizations and the ghost party?"

Eric remembered the original time and space. After the release of "The Avengers" first part, the two first Box Office mediocre series sequels Box Office "Captain America" and "Thor" almost doubled. The original popularity of "Iron Man" Box Office is even more It broke through 1billion USD. The reason why this happens is largely because of the assembly of multiple Superheros, which has increased the popularity of the original single hero and the appeal of Box Office.

The three special agent movie series "007", "Mission: Impossible" and 《Charlie's Angels》 are already very popular. "Casino Royale" happens to be the first film of the three series to achieve the first plot. Fans of the series will certainly also merge. Even though "Casino Royale" does not enhance the original series as much as "The Avengers", in the next series of sequel films, as long as the cross-coherence of the plot is maintained, it may appear before the final ghost party battle. global Box Office 1 billion movie may also.

"Of course it is possible, you do n’t even need to wait until the final battle Nà."

Eric nodded and suddenly thought of something, put down the newspaper in his hand, created a blank document on the laptop next to it, and struck the keyboard while saying: "However, I suddenly thought that in the next series , You should pay attention to some problems, I will write a memo to you. "

The girl came together curiously and said, "What is it?"

Eric continued typing on the keyboard and explained: "About the supporting characters, you see, whether it is" 007 "or" Mission: Impossible ", and 《Charlie's Angels》, there are more outstanding supporting characters, Mrs. M, Dr. Q, etc. After "Casino Royale", it will not be a problem to shoot 10 more in the special film universe series, but in this case, if you want to make the protagonists of the three major series interact with each other, the production cost will become very high. , Let the supporting roles in the series to achieve this interpenetrating effect, the price / performance ratio is very high. Even, like "Mission: Impossible", Kevin · Costner's remuneration offer price is getting higher and higher, if the two sides finally find it difficult to cooperate, we can even enable The original supporting role continued to lead the 'impossible mission department' and continued the "Mission: Impossible" series. "

Looking at the memo document that Eric quickly knocked out, she roughly understood it and nodded with a smile: "Just like you promised Chris to appear in the speeding movie as Angela Lynd in" Casino Royale " ? "

Eric's finger hitting the keyboard paused and took a picture on the round table, saying: "Yeah, I almost forgot this movie, I blame it for being too busy recently, I have taken time to review the outline these two days Write it down, go find some suitable screenwriter to fill script. "

"Oh," the girl smiled and said, "Give it back to us, Liz will definitely be more angry, maybe Jeffrey will also have opinions Oh."

Eric has really stuffed girls with too many hot movies over the years, so I ’m not going to talk about the movie universe. "Night at the Museum", "Resident Evil", "Forrest Gump" and other movies are all very eye-popping hot projects. Next The Tor Jin Zhongtu epic series is more than enough for a family of Film Studio to eat for ten years.

It seems that Drew himself hopes that Eric will not be so obviously biased.

Laughing and kissing on the face of the girl, Eric said: "This time consider as finished, you continue to hold it, I hope this racing series can be linked with the agent movie universe, if it is placed in other Film Studio, although it can still be Achieve plot crossover, but because the subject matter is quite different, it will seem too deliberate to do so, and will also produce a lot of unclear copyright disputes. There is no shortage of projects on the Firefly side. On the Fox side, they are now working on "Star "Pre-war biography", Miramax's performance in the past two years is also very eye-catching, and Julia this Box Office Huadan support field, except for the Film Industry service there is no less big production, not much worse than you, let's say, Fox's foundation It is much stronger than Metro Goldwyn Mayer. "

Fox has been taken over by News Corp for more than ten years. Although the Film Industry business in these years is not too good, but with the support of News Corp, Fox's operation is still very stable.

Compared to this, Metro Goldwyn Mayer's current business is still limited to movies. Although the vitality began to recover under the stimulation of a series of popular blockbuster movies, its overall strength is still at the bottom of the Seventh Congress.

Of course, the girl also knows that Eric hopes that Metro Goldwyn Mayer will become stronger as soon as possible and play a greater role in the media system of Firefly.

Nodded, no longer refused, the girl said: "Oh, Eric, Amy also discussed with me last time, we just happened to have a chance to acquire a cable TV Station recently."

Metro Goldwyn Mayer wants to go further and definitely needs to expand into the TV industry. The initial idea of ​​Eric is to hope that Metro Goldwyn Mayer can acquire Columbia Film Industry in the hands of CBS and Sony. However, due to the rise of the new technology wave, the value of CBS has now exceeded 20billion USD, Sony also has no To get rid of the Film Industry business, these two ideas are temporarily unworkable.

So, expanding into the cable TV industry has become a good choice. In the next two decades, North America public TV Network is destined to decline, and the cable TV industry will enter its heyday.

Eric sent the written memo to the mailbox of Metro Goldwyn MayerCEOAmy · Pascal and asked the girl: "Which TV Station is it?"

"E! Entertainment."

Eric raised his eyebrows slightly, and immediately remembered that it was the original time air broadcast and big ... Oh no, the TV Station who was traveling with the Kardashians.

Nodded, Eric said: "This TV Station, I heard it, but I didn't pay much attention to it."

The girl introduced: "I have read the information, E! Entertainment mainly plays fashion-related movies, TV, music and other programs, Oh, and Hollywood gossip."

Eric subconsciously asked: "Is there no Reality Show?"

The girl crooked her head: "It seems, no, but if we can buy it, we can definitely make Reality Show by ourselves."

"This type of TV Station is too wasteful to not play Reality Show, but it also needs to be planned well," Eric said, and asked: "Now the ownership of E! is in that company?"

"This is a bit more complicated. E! Entertainment was originally established by the joint venture of five companies including Warner cable, Comcast, remote communication, Continental TV and basic cable. It has been integrated several times over the years. Both mainland TV and basic cable Withdrew, this time it is Time Warner who also wants to withdraw. We are looking for interested buyers. We can buy up to about 40% of the shares. However, Conast ’s side means that if we take over the shares in the Warner wired hands, Should be able to get the right to operate E! Entertainment. "

North America ’s cable TV began to rise in the 1980s. At that time, in order to avoid investment risks and make full use of various resources, it was basically a joint stock form, just like Firefly and Hearst Communications are still jointly held by AETV Network and ESPNTV Station. That way.

"Then buy 40% first, and have the opportunity to eat the whole TV Station in the future."

"But I feel a little expensive, E! Entertainment plus a few sub-stations, the current subscription users are less than 50 million, last year's revenue was only 370 million, and it also lost 13 million USD. Less than 40% of the shares, Warner cable Quotation 750 million, Amy said that the price can still be discussed, but in the end will not be lower than 600 million USD. "

If it is a pay-per-view cable station, subscribers around 50 million will surely allow shareholders to make money, but E! Entertainment is obviously relying on advertising and operator sharing as the basic cable station for the main income.

In the past two years, just like CBS, both public TV Network and wired TV Station have been stimulated by the wave of new technology, and their prices have skyrocketed.

If it was a few years ago, according to the current financial situation, E! The overall value of entertainment will not exceed 750 million USD reported by Warner cable, but now, Warner is against E! The offer of 750 million USD, a 40% stake in entertainment, is not too outrageous. Time Warner's financial situation in recent years has not been too good. Warner cable estimates are also the idea of ​​getting rid of the burden at the same time.

"Buy it as much as possible," and after thinking about it, Eric said to the girl: "In a few years' time, it is estimated that others will not buy it."

In recent years, it is the final moment of integration of the North America media industry. When all the dust is settled, the development momentum of the cable TV Station is getting better and better. The major media groups that have formed a giant, will certainly not be easy It is arguable that TV Station, which is off the hand, is the last opportunity for Metro Goldwyn Mayer to expand into the TV industry in recent years.

The girl has no doubt about Eric's judgment and nods: "Okay, I will call Amy now."

As I said, Natasha came out of the villa, holding a cordless phone, and handed it to Drew: "Boss is the phone of Miss Harrelson." (To be continued.)