I’m in Hollywood Chapter 935: Trough period
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"Monsters, Inc." was supposed to be a Pixar project. Eric sold Disney Hand-Drawn Animation Department. After the reorganization of the new Disney animation studio, Director and screenwriter Peter · Docter of "Monsters, Inc." were transferred to Disney animation. This project also followed. Become the first part works of the Disney animation studio after digital transformation.
After buying Hand-Drawn Animation studio at Paramount, it has successively launched two works of "Sound of the Desert" and "The Lion King2". Although the greatly increased salary of the Hand-Drawn Animation division caused the dramatic increase in the cost of the two animations, in general, the two 2D Animation The films have achieved commercial success.
Therefore, as the first part works after Disney abandoned Hand-Drawn Animation Department, if the Box Office of "Monsters, Inc." is not satisfactory, Eric ’s original sale of Disney Hand-Drawn Animation Department is destined to be criticized and mocked again, perhaps even Firefly Group There will be criticisms internally.
However, compared with the expectation and disturbed thoughts of Katzenberg, which is directly responsible for Disney animation studio, Eric is much easier.
Because I really like the fantastic creativity of this animated movie, from the beginning of the project, for more than two years, Eric has been paying attention to the production progress of all aspects of this animated movie, and has also added some very interesting story details. Therefore, Eric is very confident in Box Office of "Monsters, Inc.". What's more, the profit margins of animated movies are not on Box Office, and the peripheral products are the major profits of this type of movie.
Speaking of this, I was stimulated by the two hot films of "Titanic" at the end of last year and "Finding Nemo" this summer, and the development rights of the peripheral products of the "The Lion King" series are still in the hands of the company. Firefly Group's peripheral products this year The sales volume has almost doubled compared to last year. Only in the first three quarters, the sales revenue of peripheral products has reached 2.5 billion USD.
Due to the release of another new 3D movie "Monsters, Inc." at the end of the year, plus Thanksgiving and Christmas are both peak consumer seasons, the company expects that in the last quarter, the sales revenue of the company's peripheral products will likely exceed 1billion USD.
This also means that the sales revenue of Firefly Group's peripheral products in 1997 will reach 3.5 billion USD.
3.5 billion USD's peripheral product sales revenue is almost equivalent to 10% of the entire Firefly Group annual revenue. In previous years, this data was usually only about 5%.
Moreover, compared with the average net profit margin of about 11% for all businesses of Firefly Group, the net profit margin of peripheral products has reached 25%. Therefore, only the peripheral products, this year will bring Firefly Group profits over 800 million USD.
A little comparison, how amazing the revenue from just knows Firefly Group peripheral products is.
According to published data, in the first three quarters, the revenue of Time Warner Group ’s peripheral products combined was only 370 million USD, and the profit was even less. This is because Warner Bros. released the "Batman and Robin" this year although Box Office The fiasco has somewhat driven the sales around the Batman.
Even if it is a Viacom that relies on the Blockbuster chain store as a retail channel to develop peripheral businesses, although "The Lion King2" has brought good Box Office revenue to Paramount, but because there is no peripheral development right for the "The Lion King" series, Viacom in the first three quarters The sales revenue of peripheral products is also less than 600 million USD, and even the profit figures of Firefly Group peripheral products are not as good.
After attending the premiere of "Monsters, Inc.", and then showing his face on the subsequent party, Eric left early.
Back to Cliff Peak Manor, it's ten o'clock in the evening.
Entering the lobby of the villa, Eric will see the lighting of the reception area on the west side of the glass curtain wall.
Walking all the way, I saw a blanket wrapped in Aniston, and the kitten was curled up on the sofa like a sleep, a white Fireflyer player with headphones fell on the floor next to her, and there was a This opened "Harry Potter and the Magic Stone".
Carefully pick up the Fireflyer player and "Harry Potter and the Magic Stone" and put it on the coffee table. Eric did not disturb Aniston and walked lightly to the kitchen.
Boiled a pot of coffee and sat down on the sofa next to Aniston. Eric gave himself a cup of coffee and began to look at the thick pile of documents placed on the coffee table in the reception area.
After staying in United Kingdom for a month, although Firefly Group works as usual, the huge scale of Firefly system is put there. During this time, I gradually accumulated a lot of things that need to be handled by Eric. The documents and materials related to the company's administrative affairs are all placed in the office, and the pile on the coffee table in front of them is basically movie project information.
Compared with this year's series of heavyweight movies, Firefly's film distribution plan for next year has shrunk a lot.
Except Michael · Bei's "The Day After Tomorrow", there will be no major heavy production next year.
There could have been a sequel to "The Matrix", but Eric originally sold the production rights of "The Matrix" to Anberlin Film Industry founded by Spielberg and others. The Paramount responsible for the release now has "The Matrix2" filed next year. In the summer, there is no news of "The Matrix3" yet. I don't know if Amberlin and Paramount will be able to rush out "The Matrix3" at the end of next year like the original Time Warner. Since Anberlin took over the plan of Wachowski Brothers's back-to-back shoots in full power, there was no word about revising script, and Eric is still not too optimistic about these two sequels.
Although relying on the accumulated popularity of first part, the two sequels will definitely make Amberlin and Paramount make a fortune, but Eric has no regrets. The 300 million USD and Eric obtained by selling the production rights of the "The Matrix" sequel were invested in the Clover Fund to buy technology stocks. Now the 300 million USD has doubled, and it will be okay to double again in the next two years. In comparison, the two "The Matrix" sequels, even if calculated according to the global Box Office of previous life 1.2 billion USD, plus the income from the later videotapes, the benefits to Anberlin and Paramount will never exceed 600 million USD.
Withdrawing his floating thoughts, Eric glanced at the document in his hand.
This is a 3D-IMAX format movie that IMAX plans to produce, called "Return to the Cretaceous". Before the acquisition of IMAX by Firefly, this movie was already established. IMAX changed its owner. Whether the film still needs to start shooting or not will be decided by Firefly.
The duration of the film project is only 45 minutes, and the budget is 15 million USD. Prior to this, IMAX companies were basically assisting some museums to produce IMAX documentaries. Although this film is planned to have only 45 minutes, if it is produced, it will be regarded as a first partIMAX format movie.
Eric simply flipped through script, which is rough, but think about it, this film is not for storytelling, mainly to promote and display 3D-IMAX technology.
For a while, Eric picked up the pen on the coffee table and approved a line at the end of the document, agreeing to the movie ’s shoots. The implementation of the ‘4200’ plan is still two years away, and this video can indeed be used to show the visual effects of 3D-IMAX in advance, while also allowing the IMAX team to continue to accumulate technology.
Place the folder next to it, and Eric went through several other scripts one after another.
Due to the long production cycle of special effects blockbuster, it is inevitable that Firefly will experience a short trough in this regard. Since Firefly's heavyweight big production film next year is only one of "The Day After Tomorrow", Eric intends to find several medium- and low-cost movies with good Box Office potential to fill this gap.
The 《Ted》 is currently established. Although it is also a special effects movie, the production of 《Ted》 is much simpler than those of "Iron Man" and "The Lord of the Rings", and it is expected to be released at the end of next year.
In addition, Eric has sent Katzenberg to Japan to collect the horror film script.
At the moment, the two horror films script "Ring" and "Grudge" are placed in the file heap in front of his eyes. This is Eric contacted by email when United Kingdom, selected from a large number of Japan horror story summary Yes, he hasn't had time to read the detailed script.
Eric remembers that "Ring" was released in 1998, and originally thought that Firefly could only get the remake right.
Unexpectedly, when the Firefly staff collected the horror movie script in Japan, although this classic horror movie has completed script, it has not yet started shooting.
Japanese will naturally not know that "Ring" will break the Japan horror film Box Office record. Since script was favored by the Hollywood giant, it was naturally put on both hands, so Firefly easily cut off the script. The other "Grudge" was directly obtained from original screenwriter and Director Qingshui Chong, but it did not encounter any setbacks.
Reading script quietly for a while, Eric looked up and was about to pick up the coffee, but he saw Aniston did not know when he woke up, and there was a pair of beautiful eyes lying there looking at him motionlessly.
Eric smiled and clapped, saying, "Come, hug."
Aniston immediately grunted his mouth when he heard Eric teasing a kitten. However, Xiao Niu quickly kicked off the blanket on her body again, and her figure floated lightly.
Eric watched Aniston pounce at himself, quickly put the folder on his knee aside, and reached out to hug Xiao Niu.
Kissing on that sweet face, Eric smiled and said: "I told you to go to the premiere with me, wouldn't you stay here alone?"
Aniston's pointed chin knocked on the shoulder of Eric, and said softly lazily: "I won't go, I don't want to be found out that I'm reconciled with your fellow again."
"Oh, you did it like stealing a bell with your ears closed. Last time there was so much noise, you still expect that others will not know," Eric hugged her waist and laughed and laughed.
Aniston nibbled gently on the shoulder of Eric with dissatisfaction, but he was wearing a jacket, the taste was not too good, and soon released the little white teeth, said: "Anyway, if you know, they have to know Pretend not to know. "
"Well, this is also true," Eric still smiled, but the big hand on the waist of Aniston unsatisfiedly opened the hem of her tight sweater.
"You guys," feeling the movement of Eric's big hand, Aniston twisted his waist, I don't know whether he was resisting or catering, after a while, I felt that Eric's movements were becoming more and more excessive, before saying: "Do not Here, go to the bedroom. "
"Okay," Eric directly hugged Xiao Niu and said, "Let's take a shower first."
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The next day, he was woken up by a knock on the door.
Eric just opened his eyes, and before he was confused, the bedroom door was pushed open. Drew rushed in with a smirk and jumped directly into the big bed: "Hey, chubby girl, good morning."
With that said, the girl did not carelessly grab the Aniston with cold little hands.
The little girl who was also confused at the time saw the Drew and immediately woke up, like a cat encountering a natural enemy, without hesitation he grabbed a pillow to block the Drew, his mouth showed no weakness: "Little bitch, you Do you think I can't beat you? "
"Ha, let's try it."
"Wait, don't run."
So, the two are already entangled.
Eric reluctantly put on clothes in twos and threes, watching Aniston and Drew didn't mean to greet important parts, knowing that they had a sense of balance in their hearts, they didn't dissuade, and planned to let the cat fight.
Walk to the door and plan to go to the other bathroom to wash. When I saw the twins staying at the door, I ordered: "Look at them, and pull away when you are anxious. If you want Drew to help you, you shouldn't hear it. This kind of thing is not allowed to be mixed. "
As the twins nodded and understood, Eric was relieved to leave.
After a brief wash, I went to exercise for a while before going to the kitchen to prepare breakfast for everyone.
Frying eggs, Aniston and Drew finally appeared in the restaurant outside. Although the two women were still fighting, they did n’t mean to do anything.
"Nà, after exercising, you are ready to eat," Eric said, lifting his chin towards the prepared bread: "Bring these into the restaurant, what else do you want to eat, go to the refrigerator yourself . "
The girl grinned and said, "Eric, Metro Goldwyn Mayer is preparing for a movie that lacks an Heroine Oh. For a sweetheart type, it is better to be over 30 years old."
The chick is not to be outdone: "Huh, then you are just right, it is best to be like the 《Scream》, directly hanging in the tree for five minutes."
Eric tapped on the heads of the two women and said, "Okay, today's confrontation ends here. If you want to find someone older than 30, please contact Meg · Ryan. Well, who will bring me today's newspaper. "(To be continued.)