I’m in Hollywood Chapter 760: celebration party
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The time comes in December, the third week of the 《Scream》 release. Although Thanksgiving passed, the film still gained 13.56 million USD Box Office by virtue of its popularity among the youth group. The cumulative Box Office reached 52.11 million USD in three weeks.
Relatively speaking, although the "Bad Boys" issued by Firefly headquarters was harvested 42.57 million USD Box Office in the first week, which was overwhelming, but because of the Box Office drop of more than 40% for two consecutive weeks, the third week of the film Box Office slipped to 15.6 million USD, Compared with 《Scream》, there is no much advantage. With a weak weekly decline curve of about 《Scream》20%, this low-cost thriller may even achieve Box Office overtake of "Bad Boys" in the fourth week.
However, although the Box Office curve is very different, there is no suspense for the two films to break the North America Box Office in the next few weeks. As the production costs of the two films also do not exceed 20 million, even the total production and distribution costs are around 30 million. North America Box Office broke 100 million. These two films are undoubtedly the Box Office dark horse at the end of 1995. While several other films released during the same period, three weeks Box Office are only within 30 million USD. The corresponding Film Studio even if it is not a loss, the profit obtained Far from being comparable to 《Scream》 and "Bad Boys".
The unexpected success of 《Scream》 has played a very obvious role in promoting the Metro Goldwyn Mayer December stock issuance plan.
At present, the major Film Studios of North America have basically completed the transformation and integration into media groups. Even Columbia and Universal are backed by large multinational groups, and the business scope also involves all aspects beyond the film. Metro Goldwyn Mayer, which has struggled for more than ten years due to business difficulties and debts, is still limited to pure film production and distribution. If it is not after integrating Flower Films and DreamWorks Studios's several series of movies copyright, Metro Goldwyn Mayer If you want to issue more shares, it is estimated that even the investment bank that undertakes the business cannot find it.
However, with the 《Charlie's Angels》, "007", "Mission: Impossible", "Night at the Museum", "Resident Evil" and the recently successful Box Office 《Scream》 series, the stock issuance of Metro Goldwyn Mayer in December was exceptionally smooth. The total issuance plan for 70 million shares in It was sold out within a week of the official launch.
Normally, during the process of stock issuance, a company ’s stock price tends to show a downward trend, but because of the favorable stimulus from the success of 《Scream》 Box Office, Metro Goldwyn Mayer ’s stock price not only did not fall, but it rose by 6% in a week. , The price per share reached 15.8USD, after the completion of additional issuance of Metro Goldwyn Mayer total share capital reached 4.3.5 billion shares, the market value is a record high, reaching 68.7300 million USD. With the huge investment of 1billion USD, Metro Goldwyn Mayer completely got rid of the current situation of shortage of funds, and the huge debt of 1.7 billion USD can no longer pose a great threat to it.
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Kelly · Haynes knocked on the Eric office door and walked in.
"Eric, this is the casting data of" Sex and the City "just passed over from New York, they have compressed the candidates to eight."
Eric motioned Kelly to sit down and turned down several Actor materials in his hand.
After Candace · Bushnell disagreed with Elizabeth · Hurley as Heroine, Eric delegated the cast to the aeTV Network program production department.
However, during the casting process, Eric added several Heroines of original to the audition list. At this time, when the audition results from New York were over, Eric was surprised to find Heroine Carly Among the two candidates of Brad Xiao, Sarah · Jessica · Parker was still elected, and the other candidate even surprised Eric, Mary Louis Parker, the former single poisonous mother in time and space.
Just looking at the name, people who do n’t know may even think they are sisters, but Eric knows that the two have no relationship at all.
In the character evaluation column of the character table, Mary Louis Parker ’s comment reads: With many years of Broadway stage performance experience, acting skills, smart eyes and cunning, but also no lack of style, very suitable for Heroine Carly Brad The identity of Xiaodu female writer.
Due to the type and age of the episode, Eric has a much stronger impression of "Single Poison Mom" than "Sex and the City". Mary Louis Parker's role in "Single Poison Mom" is like a wolfworm The tiger and leopard are struggling to survive with the unruly little sheep. Eric's memory is only the series of small and innocent eyes in the dark and pure eyes of the other party.
Kelly sitting opposite Eric noticed a strange smile on the corner of his mouth, curiously saying: "Eric, what's wrong?"
"Ah, no," Eric shook his head and drew a cross on Mary Louis Parker's profile.
Although it is between Sarah · Jessica · Parker and Mary Louise Parker, the latter makes Eric look a little more sensational. But because of the deep memory of "Single Poison Mom", Eric was unable to bring Mary Louis Parker to "Sex and the City" Heroine, not to mention that original Heroine has appeared in the final candidate list, and Eric is no longer a painter thing.
This matter was confirmed. Eric turned over several other candidates, but this time he didn't find any acquaintances.
Issue the information to Kelly, Eric: "Heroine chooses Sarah · Jessica · Parker, I don't care about the other three Heroine, let Annie decide for themselves."
Kelly wondered: "Eric, don't you need to look at the audition tape, maybe it will be delivered tomorrow?"
Eric shook his head: "No, since they have compressed the candidates to eight, these people are definitely very suitable."
"Okay, then I want to go out."
Kelly packed up the information and was about to leave. Eric called her: "Yes, Drew held party in Cliff Peak Manor tonight to celebrate the successful issuance of stocks and the success of 《Scream》's Box Office. Are you coming?"
Kelly stopped, turned and shook his head, laughing: "I'm afraid it won't work tonight, I promised Nina to take her to the movies."
"Oh, then consider as finished, I will not delay you to be a good Mama."
"Oh, if it ’s okay, I ’m back in the office."
Kelly smiled and left Eric's office, but within five minutes, she turned back again.
"Eric, the new line called over and said that the English version of" Rumble in the Bronx "which was cooperated with Jiahe has been completed. Did you mention it now, do you want to see it now?"
Eric nodded, looked at the watch, and said to Kelly: "Let them prepare, I will pass by three o'clock."
"Okay." Kelly nodded and exited the office.
Eric was busy with some of his work. Near three o'clock, he got up and walked over to the office's file cabinet to find an script, then left the office and walked to the projection room of the office building.
After several years of development, the original new line Film Studio has been fully integrated into the Firefly system. However, under the arrangement of Eric, the team of the new line is still sticking to the original production strategy, and at the same time, it has not cut off some cooperation with Jiahe Film Studio across the ocean.
"Rumble in the Bronx" is a film work that Golden Harvest once again tried to enter the North America market. Golden Harvest was mainly involved in investment production. The new line only participated in a small part of the investment and assisted in the shoots process, so I got the North America distribution of the film. right. This film was produced last year and has been widely released in Asia, but the release of North America is set for the Easter period next year.
Although the North America Box Office of previous life "Rumble in the Bronx" more than 30 million USD is converted into Hong Kong dollars to reach 200 million, which makes Jiahe overjoyed, but Eric is not too concerned, he is only looking forward to the preheating effect of "Rumble in the Bronx" on the hero North America.
At this time, another script in Eric's hands is the focus of his plan.
This is a script written by screenwriter named Ross · La Manna. Although Ross · La Manna appears to be unknown, this script is famous in the original time and space because it is called "Rush Hour".
At this time, "Rush Hour" script still has a cliché and simple dual protagonist crime action type film, which is very similar to the "Bad Boys" and the previous "Beverly Hills Cop" and "Lethal Weapon" series, and even The protagonists are not 100% sure to use Asians, and the plot is also a bit far from original.
However, what Eric is looking at is only the rough outline of this script. As for the detailed plot, it will be revised in the future according to its own meaning.
There is another episode worth mentioning. screenwriter Ross Lamana of "Rush Hour" has also written another script called "Titanic", which is also a story around the big ship. Of course, this script has nothing to do with the Cameron project in shoots. There was originally Film Studio who was interested in this script. However, after the Firefly released the Cameron version of the "Titanic" project, the script of Ross · Ramanna was completely gone People are interested.
In the screening room of the Headquarters building, in addition to the person in charge of the new line, Eric also saw several Asian faces, but did not see the male lead.
"Mr. Williams, let me introduce you, this is the producer Johnny Lee of" Rumble in the Bronx ", and manager Chen of the actor Jack." Seeing Eric coming, the person in charge of the new line introduced to Eric A few people.
"Hello Mr. Li, Mr. Chen, welcome to Los Angeles," Eric shook hands with each other, and then said: "So, let's watch the movie first."
The producer surnamed Li said enthusiastically: "Of course, Mr. Williams, I believe it will definitely not let you down."
The people did not talk too much, and walked into the screening room together.
Eric previous life has already seen this movie, of course it is the Mandarin version. At this time, looking at the specially translated English version, there is of course no problem with the line understanding. Compared with the original in memory, it is very interesting. .
After the movie was played, Eric patiently listened to the person in charge of the new line to introduce the release plan, but just nodded, and did not mean to intervene. Instead, he handed over the "Rush Hour" script to the person in charge of the new line and the actor manager.
"This is a script that I accidentally saw. I think this story is slightly modified, which is very suitable for Jack. I have written detailed comments on script, but I think if shoots, Jack must be A lot of personal ideas, so, Mr. Chen, you can take it back to discuss with him, if you are interested, we can sign the contract immediately. "
Although I also got a few pages of script, the producer of Jiahe found that Eric did not mention their meaning. After looking at the manager made by Jack, after thinking about it, he still did not speak immediately.
However, when manager made of Jack heard Eric, it was overjoyed and said: "Mr. Williams, you mean that if Jack is willing, can we sign the contract immediately?"
"Of course," Eric smiled and nodded: "If all goes well, I hope the film will be released by the end of next year."
Mr. Chen asked again: "Then, Mr. Williams, do not know whether this film is produced by Xinxian, or is it produced by Firefly headquarters?"
Eric said: "The new line, but, Mr. Chen, several brands of Firefly, whether it is the new line, Firefly or Disney, the difference is only the type of film production, so you do n’t have to worry about the video from the new line. Production, will be treated differently. "
Despite the desire to cooperate in his heart, Mr. Chen continued to ask: "Mr. Williams, then, Jack pay?"
"Oh, let's discuss with Xinxian," Eric smiled and said. Although iResearch also thought about letting the other party sign three low-cost movies in one go, but also think about it carefully, there is no need to do such damage. After all, win-win is the best way to cooperate.
It was almost five o'clock when I finished watching the movie. I talked about "Rush Hour". Eric handed over the follow-up work to the new line team and hurried back to Cliff Peak Manor by car.
《Scream》 enters the fourth week, once again harvesting 10650,000 USD Box Office, the total Box Office has reached 6more than 2 million, with the coming Christmas period, I believe that the film ’s Box Office will rebound to a certain extent, and it is only a matter of time for North America Box Office to break through 100 million.
In addition to the smooth implementation of the Metro Goldwyn Mayer stock issuance plan, the girl was entangled with Eric for a while, and was allowed to hold celebration party in Cliff Peak Manor for the recent good situation of Metro Goldwyn Mayer.
Eric returns to Cliff Peak Manor, the time has passed six o'clock, and guests have begun to arrive in the manor.
(To be continued.)