I’m in Hollywood Chapter 891: Life is straightforward
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Eric was able to detect Rowling ’s nervousness and anxiety, and did not take her to the reception room of the villa, but came to the lawn in the backyard.
During July London, the temperature during the day is only about 20 degrees Celsius, and the courtyard surrounded by green trees is a gray and blue sky dome. Although there is no Los Angeles sunshine, it is less hot and sultry in the summer season. There is no uneasy restlessness in life.
A set of tables and chairs for rest was placed on the lawn. Eric took Joe Annie Rowling to sit down together. Christina brought a pot of coffee and poured them over, then turned around and returned to the villa.
The materials about Joe Annie Rowling and "Harry Potter" have been placed on the table in front of me. Feeling the emotions of Joe Annie Rowling, Eric was not in a hurry to talk about the business, casually said: "JK Rowling, J should be the first letter of your name, what about K? "
Joe Annie Rowling, who just picked up his coffee cup with the action of Eric, heard the question and immediately put down the cup again, explaining: "K means Kathryn, I do n’t have a middle name, Kathryn is me Grandmother's name. "
Eric felt that the poor little woman in front of her must have been overwhelmed by a series of recent incidents. After thinking about it, she said, "Do you know, Joe, in fact, Hollywood is a very easy psychological imbalance Place. "
Feeling that her disturbed mind was peeped by Eric, Rowling was a little embarrassed and did n’t know what to say, but just nodded gently.
Eric did not expect any response from the woman. He continued: "In Hollywood, someone bought a script for 250,000 USD, the film production cost was 15 million USD, and global got Box Office of 100 million 20 million USD, and the Box Office benefit is eight of the production cost. Times, the name of the movie is "Lethal Weapon"; some people bought a script at the price of 1750,000 USD and used 85 million USD to make it. In the end, Box Office was defeated, and even the production company was almost bankrupt. This movie is "Last Action Hero". And it is more interesting. The thing is, the screenwriter of the two movies is the same person. "
Luo Lin listened carefully to the words of Eric, feeling that she seemed to understand something, but shook her head and said softly: "Mr. Williams, I don't understand too much."
"Call me Eric," Eric took a sip of the coffee and said, "I just want to tell you, at Hollywood, um, or anywhere, if a person wants to make themselves easy, they should Live is more straightforward. Like the screenwriter of the two movies I just said, his name is Shane Black. The original "Lethal Weapon", with the income of global Box Office and subsequent video tapes, the producer Warner Bros. earned at least 100 million USD, Shane · Black only got the insignificant 250,000, and some people might think that he must be sad to cry. Later, when Carlock Film Industry bought his "Last Action Hero" script at a high price of 1750,000 USD and almost lost money to bankruptcy, there will also be someone I feel that as screenwriter, Shane Black should also feel uneasy. But this is not the case. Shane Black has always been very good. He is still the gold medal of Hollywood screenwriter and continues to cooperate with Warner Bros. "Lethal Weapon4 "."
Perhaps it was Eric ’s words that played a role. Rowling sitting opposite sat slightly upright, but after a short second of eye contact with Eric, the woman quickly drew out of breath.
Eric smiled and said, "About" Harry Potter ", in fact, I could have offered you a lower price, for example, 100,000 GBP, which is the average price of most script or novel copyright. But I do n’t I did n’t do it because I was optimistic about this story, and I hope to make it a well-known fantasy brand under Disney, even like Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck, so I gave a price tag that I think is worth it. Novels and movies, this series will also include a whole industry chain such as music, toys, theme parks, etc. If successful, Firefly Group will earn 1 billion or even 10 billion USD profits from this brand. "
Joe Annie Rowling, who just picked up the coffee cup, heard the description of Eric, and the hand holding the cup could not help shaking, and put the coffee cup down again, looking at Eric in surprise.
Looking at the appearance of the woman, Eric chuckled: "Do you think now, if Firefly really used this novel to earn 10billion USD, you can only get 1 million, Oh, maybe a few of the whole series Millions of pounds, will you lose money? "
Joe Annie Rowling just felt that the prospect depicted by Eric was a bit weird. Listening to him, I really felt a loss in my heart. She wanted to deny Basic Instinct, but faced Eric's bright eyes, she nodded gently.
"Look, many things are like this. I just said that a person who wants to be relaxed should be alive and confident, but the most important thing is not to overestimate oneself blindly. The importance of these things. "
Joe Annie Rowling heard the Eric implied beat, quickly shook his head and denied, "Ai, Eric, I don't have it."
"Nà, Firefly want to complete this plan, and you need to continue to write the next story, so I will talk about my plan first," Eric ignored the woman ’s denial, saying: "First, Harper Collins Publishing House Will take over the global release of the "Harry Potter" series. In order to create enough popularity for the series before the film is made, Firefly Group will also use the media resources in his hands to pack the novel as much as possible. Perhaps dozens of other novels of the same type are sold Ten thousand copies can be regarded as a best seller, but I hope that the sales scale of the "Harry Potter" series is tens of millions of levels or more. In the process, you will get what you deserve. The novel sells ten million copies, and you can Becoming a multi-millionaire, if the entire series sales scale reaches 100 million, you will further become a billionaire. But then, the "Harry Potter" series of movies, toys and parks and other profits, Firefly deserves. "
Joe Annie Rowling is not stupid, she understands the meaning of Eric. Without Firefly using its own media resources to brand this novel, "Harry Potter" can only sell hundreds of thousands of copies at most like ordinary best-selling books, bringing her hundreds of thousands of pounds in royalties. Perhaps relying on the sale of film and television copyright can also make some more, but definitely not reach the kind of brilliance described by Eric. Figured this out, some of the imbalances in Joe Annie Rowling's heart just started to dissipate, but she still asked carefully: "Then, Eric, if, if it fails?"
Eric shrugged: “Firefly ’s annual film and television production budget exceeds 1billion USD, at least 8% of which is spent on the acquisition of script or the adaptation of novels, comics, films and television, so even if it really fails, it does n’t matter.”
Joe Annie Rowling is no longer entangled with this problem. 1 million pounds may be a huge sum for her, but for Firefly Group, it is nothing.
Eric watched Rowling relax and smiled and opened the folder in front of him, saying: "So, now, let's talk about the content of the novel. I have read your outline of the novel, you plan to write five parts, But I think that seven books seem to be more appropriate. I have helped you figure out the titles of the seven novels. You have completed the first part manuscript. I hope to separate the tens of thousands of characters behind as the content of the second part novel. According to the content, first part is called "Harry Potter and Magic Stone". "
Joe Annie Rowling heard Eric without asking her opinion and opened her mouth to her novel, "Opening the Knife", and felt that it was necessary for her to insist on being the original author of the novel.
Only seeing that Eric looked up, raised the pencil in his hand and pointed to the side of herself to signal her to sit down. The resistance that had just risen in the woman ’s heart suddenly disappeared, and she moved up her chair and sat down to Eric Around. Although the tone of the man in the process of talking with her is always very gentle, the aura that the other party cultivated in power and wealth is not something she can resist.
In addition to the revision opinions of the first volume, Eric discussed with Luo Lin the details of some novel outlines that need to be revised according to the movie plot in memory.
Time passes unconsciously, and when things are over, time has come to the evening.
"Then you have a month to modify the first story. The next release will be in charge of Harper Collins Publishing House, and Firefly will also cooperate." Eric looked at the watch and looked up. Rowling next to him said: "It's not too late, I will let you arrange a room for you. Just tonight, Princess Dai is going to hold a charity reception, you can also go to see it together."
Since sitting next to Eric for a long time, the breath from the man made Rowling inevitably give birth to a little distracted ape, young, rich, handsome, strong ... Almost every characteristic of this man is strong for women She ’s attractive, not to mention that she has been single for a long time. Although Eric looked unaware, Rowling couldn't deceive herself. She could imagine that she might already have a blush on her face. Listening to Eric was going to keep her in the villa overnight, Rowling finally showed a panicked look in disguise. , Quickly shook his head and said: "No, no, Eric, I have booked a ticket to fly back to Edinburgh tonight, Jessica is still at a friend's house, I am not at ease."
Eric looked at the woman a few times and saw her body sitting on the chair unconsciously moved back, could not help laughing: "Well, I seem to scare you."
Although Luo Lin knew that Eric was joking with her, she quickly shook her head: "No, really not."
"Oh, since that's the case, I will let you take you to the airport," Eric doesn't keep it. Rowling can only be regarded as a temperamental woman, not his food at all, and tidy up the stack of documents in front of him. To Rowling, Eric got up and walked out
Luo Lin held the document in her arms and followed behind Eric, slightly lowered her eyes, and began to regret that she had just rejected it too simply.
The driver took Rowling to leave the villa. Christina, who was standing next to Eric, looked at the automatically closed door with his eyes, and turned to Eric.
Eric reached out and rubbed it on the girl ’s head and said, "What are you thinking?"
"Oh, no," Christina hugged Eric's arm and said: "It's not too early, Eric, I'll pick the dress for you."
"It's only six o'clock, what's the hurry," Eric shook his head and smiled: "Go and make some food first, you must be hungry in the past with an empty stomach. The Box Office data of North America should be sent yesterday Check it out. "
Christina went to the kitchen to hear what he said, and Eric returned to the study and turned on the computer to check the email.
Yesterday is Friday, the release of "Casino Royale" enters the second week, and at the same time, the super high Box Office of 1.1.7 billion USD in the first week also makes the whole Hollywood a focus, even Eric himself did not think of the first week of "Casino Royale" Box Office It will be so against the sky.
But then, the question came.
Two new films released this week, "Bad Boys2" and "Ice Age", have a very close relationship with Firefly. The reason why such a schedule was arranged at the beginning was also considering that the previous North America Box Office of the 007 series was not too high, and the parties would not form too strong a competitive relationship.
But now, including Eric, many people have some troubles.
On the one hand, everyone expects that the next week's drop in "Casino Royale" can be as low as possible. Due to the continued reputation of the film in the media and audiences this week, the possibility of "Casino Royale" maintaining a low drop is still very high. of. But on the other hand, the first week Box Office score of "Casino Royale" has reached 1.1.7 billion USD, even more than the previous "GoldenEye" North America1.0600 million USD total Box Office, then, "Casino Royale" Box Office drop is too low, "Bad Boys2" The two new films and "Ice Age" will be directly impacted.
With a wry smile, he shook his head, and Eric opened the Box Office statistical mail from Los Angeles.
On Friday ’s single-day Box Office rankings yesterday, “Casino Royale” topped the list with 18.61 million USD Box Office, which was only a 39% drop compared to last week.
These data were sent by Eric ’s assistant office, with professional notes.
In the accompanying analysis, as the topic of "Casino Royale" has increased along with Box Office and word of mouth, the proportion of Box Office on working days has also greatly increased relative to other films. According to the Box Office data on the first day of the second week of "Casino Royale" The overall decline of the film will remain around 35%. This means that the second week of "Casino Royale" Box Office will still be as high as 76 million USD.
In early July, it was the outbreak period of North America Box Office, and the size of Box Office in a single week of North America reached about 200 million USD. But now, although "Casino Royale" is already in its second week of release, a film still needs to take a third of the total Box Office. Without looking down, Eric can guess that the Box Office data of other films, especially Live-Action Film, is not Would be great.
The first week 1.1.7 billion, the next week 76 million, two weeks, the total Box Office of "Casino Royale" will exceed 190 million USD. Although the live-action blockbuster can't maintain the long-lasting screen vitality of animated movies, even with an average weekly decline of 40%, the North America of Casino Royale and the final Box Office are expected to reach 300 million to 350 million USD.
The average fare of North America in the 60s was around 0.8USD. In 1997, the average fare was 4.6USD, which is equivalent to 5.7 times that of the 1960s.
In this way, 1964 was once called "Goldfinger", the highest sequel to Box Office in the history of 007 after inflation was taken into account. At that time, Box Office of North America 5 more than 1 million USD was converted to 290 million USD. North America Box Office of "Casino Royale" 300 million to 350 million USD is expected to even replace "Goldfinger" even when calculating inflation factors, becoming the highest sequel to North America Box Office in the history of 007.
As for overseas, due to the difficulty of statistics, last week ’s Box Office data was delayed by a day before the preliminary results were obtained.
Although the upper Eric movie was four years ago, the record of "Jurassic Park" global breaking through 1billion USD for the first time is still vivid. Driven by interests, filmmakers from all over the world have made every effort to promote the simultaneous release of "Casino Royale". The film finally The number of overseas simultaneous ticket warehouses reached 36.
Last week, under the same record-breaking 2 1.3 million pounds (equivalent to 3 1,950,000 USD) of United Kingdom, the cumulative Box Office of 36 simultaneous releases overseas also successfully broke through the 100 million USD mark, reaching 100 million 36 100,000 USD. Although the overseas Box Office market is affected by various factors, the Box Office data is more difficult to predict, but there is no doubt that "Casino Royale" will be Eric after "Jurassic Park", another movie that is expected to impact global Box Office 1 billion USD.
Unlike the "Jurassic Park" that year, Eric's Box Office is expected to be only about 600 million USD before the release of "Casino Royale". Now, the film suddenly shows the potential of global 1 billion. If there is no excitement in my heart, it must be fake.
It's just that after glancing at the Box Office data of the next few films, Eric couldn't help but think that the senior executives in their own company will not be in a good mood. Last week, the first weekend of "Casino Royale" Box Office was just released. When Eric and Frank · Wells in Los Angeles discussed the upcoming Titanic exhibition hall by phone, the other party intentionally and unintentionally mentioned "Casino Royale", and the tone seemed very disgusting.
For this week's two new films, before the release of the film, the industry is generally more optimistic about having first part Popular bottoming " Bad Boys 2 ", the film's first part On the new line Film Industry Under the operation of global Box Office Close to 200 million USD . So," Bad Boys 2 "The cost from first part Of 19 million USD Straight up to 60 million .
It's just that on the first day of Friday, the second place is not "Bad Boys2", but "Ice Age" of Blue Sky Studios.
This animated movie had a good reputation before it was released, and was rated as "animated version of" Three Men and a Baby "" by the industry. You know, "Three Men and a Baby" is the champion of North America Box Office in 1987. "Ice Age" can get this kind of evaluation, which also indirectly shows the popularity of this animated movie in the trial stage.
The plot of "Ice Age" first part does also draw heavily on the idea of "Three Men and a Baby". Moreover, this plot mode has not only won the praise of the critics, but also received the approval of the audience. On the first day of the release, "Ice Age" received 13.46 million USD Box Office. Although it cannot be compared with Box Office on the first day of "Finding Nemo" over 20 million USD, the Box Office data on the first day exceeded the 12800,000 USD of "The Lion King2" a month ago.
According to expectations, the first week of "Ice Age" Box Office will be close to 60 million USD, which will also exceed the same period of "The Lion King2".
In the eyes of Eric, the quality of "The Lion King2" is actually better than that. The personalized "Ice Age" is even better. On the first day, Box Office was overtaken by "Ice Age". In the final analysis, it was still the original promotion of "The Lion King2" by Firefly And Fox joint constraints. Viacom began open acquisition negotiations with CBS at the end of June. Obviously, Redstone was determined to make up for the shortcomings of Viacom in terms of TV channels.
After "Ice Age", the Box Office on the first day of "Bad Boys2" was only 6.52 million USD, barely ranked third. The reason is said to be reluctant, because the fourth place of "Haidu Story", although the release has entered the fourth week, but Friday single day Box Office is still as high as 6.29 million USD, the difference between the two Box Office data is only more than 200,000 USD.
6.52 million USD on the first day, foretelling that Box Office in the first week of "Bad Boys2" will only be around 25 million USD, and the actual Box Office figure is even lower than the new line's original expectations by a full 10 million USD.
Obviously, most of the gap of 10 million USD is affected by Box Office in the next week of "Casino Royale". The two films are both action movies, and the audience has a great degree of overlap. The word-of-mouth of "Casino Royale" and Box Office both burst, and the topic has risen linearly. "Bad Boys2" is a black protagonist film. There is not much suspense about which one the audience will choose.
If there is no "Casino Royale", even if the Box Office of "Casino Royale" is not so against the sky, with the word of mouth and popularity accumulated by first part, the problem of "Bad Boys2" North America Box Office breaking 100 million is still not a big deal. But now, according to the expectations of 25 million USD in the first week, "Bad Boys2" North America Box Office can only go up and down 70 million USD. Due to the short board of the overseas market of black protagonist movies, even if the overseas Box Office can maintain the previous level, relative to the production of 60 million USD Cost and announcement budget of 20 million USD, the possibility that the company wants to recover the cost on Box Office is not too great. If you want to achieve profitability, you can only look forward to the future income of video tapes and TV broadcasting rights.
It ’s not hard to see, even if everyone understands that Metro Goldwyn Mayer is almost a part of the Firefly system now, but it is still very difficult for Firefly Group internal executives to accept this reality. Thinking of this, Eric couldn't help but shook his head. Although there was no idea of the lower movie in my mind, in order to appease everyone's emotions, I must have recently released the news that my lower movie will definitely return to Firefly. (To be continued.)