I’m in Hollywood Chapter 879: One day to one week
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The assistant office of Eric is almost responsible for all aspects of his work to life, and even has the meaning of a butler team. The girl sent an email at this time and looked familiar, obviously not the first time.
Drew also knows what Eric is waiting for. After sending the email, he patiently shrank into his arms and started talking.
Until 12 o'clock in the morning, the laptop that was always on came out a prompt for new mail. Eric got up and opened the mail and glanced a few times, then smiled and hugged the girl who was already confused, towards the bedroom. Go. If it's on the lively party, it's no problem for the girl to stay up all night, but in this quiet environment, this Nizi has been listless early on.
Feeling the soft movements of Eric, the girl put a sticker on Eric, curled up comfortably into a kitten, and confusedly said: "Eric, um, Boeing, how much?"
Eric smiled and said in a flattering tone: "Enough for you to buy an airplane."
In the early morning of the next day, North America ’s major newspaper media became lively, because this week ’s North America Friday Box Office rankings are almost all news points, and almost all mainstream newspapers will be Friday ’s single-day Box Office rankings. Listed on the conspicuous page.
"Finding Nemo": 20.21 million USD.
"Macro Contact": 6.86 million USD.
"The Lion King2": 6.22 million USD.
Godzilla: 5950,000 USD.
"Air Crisis": 3.08 million USD.
Even those who are completely insensitive to this Box Office list number, just glance at the dazzling commentary headlines on the major newspaper, you can easily understand what happened.
"" Finding Nemo "beat" The Lion King2 "on the first day."
"" Macao Contact "started painting 6.86 million USD, and the Paramount sniper strategy failed."
"" Godzilla "fell 66% year-on-year."
"An Berlin Film Industry is dissatisfied with Paramount's investment in" Time Out Contact "announcement, and the cooperation between the two parties has cracked."
"The summer movie animated film shines brightly, and the live-action blockbuster has been released across the board." Batman and Robin "and" Casino Royale "are scared."
"..."
In this series of news reports, the new issue of "Hollywood Reporter" gives a more detailed analysis article.
“First of all, I have to mention“ Titanic ”again. As of last week, this legendary giant global Box Office with a total investment of 2.6 500 million USD has reached 2.1 billion 3 3 million USD, and the film North America has also ended up with 600 million 0298 million USD The Box Office is officially drawn. The breathtaking Box Office number will directly bring Firefly Group to 8. 600 million USD ’s global Box Office share, minus costs, and Firefly Group ’s net profit is therefore close to 600 million USD. ”
"In addition," Titanic "sales of more than 70 kinds of peripheral products also exceeded 8. 500 million USD." Titanic "North America soundtrack album sales reached 5 600,000 ten weeks after the release of North America. Interestingly, this data is only physical records It is reported that the North America Recording Association has refused to recognize the Yahoo music store 1 250,000 "Titanic" digital record sales data. "Titanic" overseas nationally released soundtrack sales also easily exceeded 7 million. According to industry analysis, "Titanic" global Record sales may eventually reach 30 million, and this alone will bring 900 million USD income to Firefly Group. Relevant data is integrated, a film of "Titanic", will be created for Firefly Group not less than 2 billion USD Net profit, and the entire Hollywood, several major media groups can exceed 2 billion USD annual net profit, so far only Firefly only. "
"Stimulated by the huge profits created by" Titanic ", in the past six months, I have heard more than once the seven Film Studios of Hollywood embarking on a new" super blockbuster "film plan. However, in the past month, Hollywood live-action The blockbuster performance of Box Office will undoubtedly make the already hot Hollywood sober. "
"Among them, the most introspective thing for Hollywood is undoubtedly the monster movie" Godzilla "which is the same CG special effects blockbuster as" Titanic ".
"Sony Film Industry, the ambition of the total investment 220 million USD, was pointed to global 1 billion Box Office before it was released. But after experiencing the opening loss and consecutive extreme negative reviews, the Box Office on Friday was squeezed In the fourth place on the list, compared with the first Friday, 1 7.5 million USD has shrunk by 66% over the same period, the Box Office number has rapidly dropped to 5 950,000 USD. It is expected that the Box Office will only be between 22 million and 25 million the following week, and the total Box Office number of North America will also be very high It is hard to exceed 130 million USD. At the same time, the overseas Box Office performance of "Godzilla" is also disappointing. The film has even been strongly resisted by Godzilla fans in the most important Japan market. "
"According to insiders, Sony executives have urgently stopped preparations for the" Godzilla "sequel, and the person in charge of the project may also face the situation of being forced to leave.",
"Roland · Emmerich, which is the film Director and Producer, is also destined to be difficult to be seen after" Independence Day ". Even before the release of" Godzilla ", Firefly Group suddenly announced that Michael · Bei will take over and direct the well-known disaster film series Firefly The project "The Day After Tomorrow" is likely to be affected by the poor quality of "Godzilla". It is well known that Roland · Emmerich was once referred to as the Director candidate of "The Day After Tomorrow", and the digital field of Firefly is responsible for most of "Godzilla" "The special effects production of the project, Firefly learned that the quality of the film" Godzilla "is not difficult before the film is released."
"In addition to" Godzilla ", from May, the French Gaumont Film Company spent 90 million USD's" Fifth Element ", Firefly Group production cost 75 million USD's" Con Air "and Anberlin Film Industry produced by Paramount and also released 90 million USD "Macro Contact", Box Office performance can only be described as deserted. "
"Among them, the three weeks of" The Fifth Element ", the cumulative Box Office is only more than 47 million, and it is expected that the total Box Office of North America will be difficult to reach 70 million USD." Con Air "Box Office only has 57.37 million USD in two weeks, although the final Box Office may Reached 100 million USD, but still far below industry expectations. Similarly, Robert Zemikis ’s sci-fi giant "Macro Contact" after "Forrest Gump", although the production cost is the same as "Finding Nemo" released on the same day, but this part uses sci-fi The film in which the outerwear deeply explores the issue of religious philosophy is obviously not approved by the audience. The first day of Box Office is less than one-third of "Finding Nemo", which is even lower than the same period data of 7.7 million USD of "Con Air" two weeks ago. Perhaps, An Berlin Film Industry and Paramount can only expect "Macro Contact" to come out of the Box Office curve similar to "Forrest Gump", but based on audience feedback, this possibility is extremely slim. "
"The loss of Live-Action Film Box Office in four consecutive major productions makes people inevitably worry about the" Batman and Robin "and" Casino Royale "that are expected in the next two weeks. At the same time, Hollywood should also calm down at this time, not in the" Titanic ". Excited by excessive pursuit of large investment and production. "
"However, in addition to Live-Action Film, the two animated big movies Box Office and word-of-mouth performance that have been released in the summer are amazing."
"The second part2DHand-Drawn Animation movie" The Lion King2 "after Paramount Pictures took over the studio of Disney Hand-Drawn Animation, although it was clamped by competitors on announcement, the Box Office still reached 55.7 million USD in the first week, and only a weak 24% drop in the next week. It received 42.33 million USD, and the cumulative Box Office reached 98.03 million USD in two weeks. Although it fell by 37% year-on-year under the impact of "Finding Nemo" on the first day of the third week of the release, with the long-term advantage of animated movies, the total North America total Box Office is still possible in the future Reaching 200 million USD, far surpassing the potential of Box Office in several live-action feature films. "
"Finally, the most important topic of today is" Finding Nemo "."
"Before the release of" Finding Nemo ", because of the The Lion King2 Box Office word of mouth from Disney, the industry generally believed that the sale of Disney Hand-Drawn Animation studio by Eric Williams was extremely stupid. But after" Finding Nemo ", many People have to shut their mouths. "
"Only three-quarters of the production cost of" The Lion King2 "is comparable to" The Lion King2 ". Even though" Finding Nemo "has much more convenient announcement channel resources than" The Lion King2 ", it exceeds" The Lion King2 "on the first day. "With the excellent Box Office score of 7.41 million USD in the same period, we also have to admit that 3D Animation movies are indeed more popular than 2D Animation movies."
"The first day of Box Office202.1 million USD. Under the stimulation of the word-of-mouth," Finding Nemo "may reach the high of 90 million USD in the first week of" Finding Nemo ". Due to the long-term potential of the animated film," Finding Nemo "will undoubtedly become the summer file this year. first part North America Box Office may touch 300 million USD The seed player. Even more daring, if this Box Office and word-of-mouth advantage can also be exerted in overseas markets, "Finding Nemo" is likely to catch up with the previous "The Lion King" and become another global Box Office animation block that touches the 1billion USD level. "
"And with animation films far outperforming the peripheral profitability of live-action films, the success of a whole new set of cartoon images will bring a continuous source of wealth to industries such as Firefly Group's surrounding shops, game parks, etc."
“Here, the author even started to look forward to the“ Ice Age ”which will be released on July 4th. This first 3D Animation movie produced by Blue Sky Studios jointly funded by Firefly and Fox, although the cost is only 59million USD, For the sense of the animated trailer, "Ice Age" is likely to be another surprise for the summer. Perhaps, other Hollywood Film Studio executives should focus more on the development of the animation film field, rather than catching up with the unreachable. "Titanic". "
This article in "Hollywood Reporter" inevitably caused the reflection of some Film Studio executives of Hollywood, and it will also prompt competitors of Firefly to speed up the deployment of the animation film industry. However, Eric has been very clear before that "Titanic" is more like a different number, so it has never been a fever for this.
Eric originally planned to talk about Reality Show with Chris · Jenna on the rest day. Although previous life Kardashian ’s omnipotent hype means were offensive, Eric is now controlled by a huge media empire The perspective of the problem is naturally different. In his position, there are 50 or 60 senior Firefly Group executives who can often be reached, and the executives above the Manager level of the Firefly system reach thousands, not to mention the total number of employees of the entire Firefly Group currently exceeds 120,000. In a circle like Hollywood, if there is any mental cleansing, then certainly don't think about comforting one day.
Metro Goldwyn Mayer acquires E! After entertainment, if you want to quickly open up the situation in the TV industry, enabling people like Chris · Jenna who is good at hype is undoubtedly a very effective method.
However, early in the morning on Saturday, Eric received a call from Chris from New York. The two chatted for more than half an hour. Eric had to cancel the weekend break and temporarily called the executives of the Firefly issuing department and the finance department and The management of Clover Holdings held an emergency meeting.
The matter is very simple. After three months of hard work, the attack of the international financial oligarch on the Southeast Asia currency system is about to be launched.
Both people will call Chris from New York to Japan Tokyo by phone. They may be there in the next month.
After the meeting at the end of April, Firefly Group began to speed up the extraction of Southeast Asia "Titanic" Box Office. At the same time, it also sold out the Firefly summer file and the upcoming second half of the film to Southeast Asia film vendors.
Firefly was also very honest with the Southeast Asia producer. The company worried that the economic situation of Southeast Asia in the second half of the year would cause serious exchange rate losses, so it hoped to cash out early.
The Thai baht has just experienced the attack of international currency speculators in March, and Southeast Asia filmmakers also understand the worries of Firefly.
However, most of the filmmakers of Southeast Asia are generally unaware of the seriousness of the matter. According to common sense, even if the local currency depreciates by 10% or even 20%, for these companies whose business scope is limited to local companies, the impact of currency depreciation will not be too great. Stimulated by the "Titanic" Box Office, the Southeast Asia film producers very much welcomed the Firefly Group sell-off of the distribution rights, so they bid for the distribution rights.
Since the beginning of May, through some financial means, Firefly has successively withdrawn the Titanic Box Office share equivalent to 50 million USD from Southeast Asia, and the Box Office share of Japan has also been settled.
At the same time, after the one-time sale of the Firefly summer file and the Southeast Asia distribution rights for a series of films such as "Con Air", "Finding Nemo2", and "Jurassic Park3" in the second half of the year, Firefly again recovered the cash of 75 million USD.
If it were n’t for these filmmakers ’appetite, Eric would really like to sell the rights to release the film for the whole year next year. Of course, this can only be thought of.
75 million USD is not a huge sum for Firefly, but for the Southeast Asia ticket warehouse with only half of Japan in the entire Box Office market, this is already the highest profit moistened that Firefly can squeeze in a short time.
Although the Group ’s financial department statistics, due to this aggressive sell-out strategy, once Southeast Asia does not have an economic crisis, Firefly may lose 10 million to 20 million USD, but Eric knows that if this is not done, the loss of Firefly will be caused by the Southeast Asia economic crisis Far more than that. At that time, the currency of Southeast Asia depreciated to the waist, and the original Basic Instinct was enough to convert to 10 million USD Box Office. Once again, only 5 million USD remained. The Southeast Asia economy has been devastated, and Film Industry will also be strongly affected. Although there is a view in the industry that the lower the economic downturn, the more prosperous the entertainment industry will be, but if the economy collapses, Eric does not believe that the public will have the mind to go to the movies, otherwise, previous life Hong Kong will not completely decline after the Southeast Asia economic crisis.
Throughout the weekend, Eric is checking the status of Southeast Asia ’s capital recovery, and at the same time it has begun to mobilize funds in preparation for Clover Holdings ’next step of absorbing more technology stocks.
The North America stock market is a very open global financial market. The violent economic shock of Southeast Asia will inevitably affect the Nasdaq index that is surging all the way. In the next few months, as the Southeast Asia economic crisis erupts, the originally high Nasdaq The Dak Index will definitely experience a short-term decline, which is undoubtedly the best time for Clover Holdings to invest.
While Eric was busy with these affairs, entering Saturday, the original start-up "Finding Nemo" Box Office once again rose 38%, and eventually reached 28.01 million USD. Although Box Office fell back on Sunday, Box Office remained at a high of 22.03 million USD on a single day. In the first three days of the first weekend, the accumulated Box Office of "Finding Nemo" has reached an astonishing 70250,000 USD. This powerful Box Office explosive power is amazing.
《Los Angeles Times》 A film critic even joked that "Finding Nemo" is Box Office which harvests others in a day.
In fact, this is indeed the case. This year ’s summer production and the production cost of "Finding Nemo" are also two films of 90 million USD, "The Fifth Element" and "Macro Contact". The former three weeks Box Office only has the poor 4more than 7 million USD, after At the same time as "Finding Nemo" was released, the first weekend of Box Office three days Box Office only had 20.58 million USD. Although Box Office may be close to 30 million in the first week, even according to the conservative 30% weekly decline, "Overtime Contact" can only be recovered in three weeks. 65 million USD is still unable to compare with the three days of Box Office in "Finding Nemo".
At the same time, the popularity of "Finding Nemo" in some overseas ticket warehouse countries is also significantly more popular than "Toy Story", "A Bug's Life" and other films before the Pixar animation, just United Kingdom, the first week of "Finding Nemo" Box Office equivalent USD reached 13500,000 USD, and before that, Pixar overseas Box Office's best performing animated movie "Toy Story 2", United Kingdom only 6100,000 USD on the first three days of the first week.
When this series of statistics was released, Hollywood and North America entertainment media realized that they had made the wrong attention at first.
The most dazzling Box Office star this summer is not "The Lion King2", not "Godzilla", and maybe not the next "Batman and Robin" and "Casino Royale", but it is not attractive before the release. Attention, the release period was sandwiched between the two masterpieces of "Godzilla" and "Batman and Robin" was once considered "cannon fodder" "Finding Nemo". (To be continued.)