Chapter 811:
In September, when Eric filmed "Royal Casino" in the UK, the North American film summer file officially came to an end.
The three films released by the Firefly Group's summer file, "The Matrix", "The Desperate Island" and the "Death of Death" under the new line label, eventually accumulated a total box office of 420 million US dollars, although all three films are still in North American cinemas are sporadic, but the box office receipts of hundreds of thousands of dollars a week have had little impact on the total box office share.
Compared with the box office total that almost doubled the previous year, the Firefly Group’s box office revenue this year has not only completely lost this advantage, but has even been snatched by Universal Pictures with a slight advantage of $435 million. In the year of the summer box office championship, Universal Pictures also won good results in the other two films released at the box office of "Mummy 2" and "Fatty Professor".
After the fireflies, Warner accumulated a total of six films in the summer file. Although there was no box office movie, but with the quantitative advantage, it still followed the fireflies with a total income of 380 million US dollars.
Perhaps because of the sharp decline in the performance of the Firefly summer file, the world, Warner and subsequent Paramount, Fox and other major film companies, this year's summer box office revenue has become more obvious than in previous years. increase.
When Variety magazine officially announced the data of this year's summer box office and related comments, other media immediately began to follow up. Many professional media have publicly stated that the firefly's film performance has dropped, indicating that Hollywood will return to the top seven film companies. "Normal state", because before the rise of fireflies, the seven major Hollywood film companies, because of the fixed production scale and distribution channels, even if a certain occasional big explosions, but in most cases, the seven major market share is based on their own The overall strength is in a relatively balanced ratio.
Although the Hollywood Seven has already developed and integrated towards the media group, the film business still occupies a considerable share. After the firefly returned to the 'normal' tone, most of the media accepted it, and the capital market responded for the first time. Time Warner The stock prices of several companies such as Viacom and MGM have risen by more than 10% in just a few days. Even if Sony is the box office of "The Brave Game 2", the stock price has also appeared on a small scale. Go up.
However, the Firefly Group, a media empire train that can almost be regarded as speeding in recent years, has suddenly slowed down. The media’s most concern is the internal reaction of the Firefly Group. In order to get some feedback from the Firefly Group’s top management, some media even did not hesitate to send out intentions. Provocative comments from the Firefly Group. However, after dealing with the sequel to the Matrix, the firefighter's public relations department has been very low-key, except for counterattacks against apparently false news.
As for Hollywood, most people are just a optimistic attitude, especially after the premiere of the Titanic Venice Film Festival, many people are waiting for the end of the year with almost expectation.
With $215 million in production costs, $50 million in distribution costs, and more than three hours of film duration, no matter what, Hollywood can't see the possibility that the Titanic will succeed at the box office.
If most of the firefly competitors in Hollywood are just waiting to see the excitement, Wall Street has already seen their eyes.
Once the "Titanic" huge loss, not only will swallow the profits generated by other firefly insects, but it may also impact the firefly-closed production system, obey the rules of the industry, and no longer adhere to the self-sufficient production mode. .
As long as the fireflies open a gap and finance the film production with the capital markets like other film companies, then Wall Street Capital has enough confidence to tear this 'gap' step by step, eventually swallowing the fireflies and making it and most movies in Hollywood. Like the company, it is under the control of capital.
In the case of the outside world, everything inside the Firefly Group is on track.
On September 15th, after more than half a year of preparation, the ff TV station jointly cooperated by Firefly, Fox and MGM was officially launched, because ff TV has more high-quality movie content than the integrated TV station, and implemented a series of preferential activities. The users of the home-paid cable station are basically saved, and the total user size reaches 4.1 million.
Because ff TV station positioning is completely similar to hb, Time Warner is naturally an enemy for the launch of ff TV. Warner Cable TV did not hesitate to tear up the contract, and also completely cut off the signal of 300,000 users who originally carried a ff predecessor to a TV station. The entire era of Warner was completely blocked for ff TV.
Although Firefly Group and Time Warner will not openly rip their faces because of this incident, there is not much scruples between the subsidiaries. In the first time when Warner Cable cut off the user signal, ff TV station sued Warner Cable TV to the federal court. The company uses market position to conduct unfair competition. Warner Cable knew that the lawsuit had been heated up, and it would only make ff TV station famous, but it also had to respond, because ff TV station obviously would not agree to private settlement.
As a veteran of the operation of Karen, Weinstein quickly spurred the matter, and the ff TV station became famous for a time.
At the same time as the ff TV station went online, September was also the beginning of the TV fall file.
Popular TV series "Friends", "Emergency Room Story" and "Survivor" and lieie TV's "Wuwang City", "Tianqiao Pride", "National Supermodel Contest" and other popular dramas have returned in September.
When a person is busy, the days will always fly fast.
When the Firefly TV department sent the September TV program ratings report to Eric, the time has come to October unconsciously.
The weather in London is even colder. The Royal Casino has completed more than 80% of the filming progress. The remaining one month, the most important part, will be Bond and Charlie's trio teamed up to rescue Angela Linde. The plot of the.
Kate, Charlize and Penelope still need a week to enter the group. In recent days, the crew has been relatively easy to film, mainly Bond, Mrs., Vesper and several villains.
In the morning, I just finished an interactive scene between Wisper and Angela. Eric sat in the restaurant of the pine forest studio. After lunch, there was still time left. I read the New York side and just sent it. Rating report.
Ab side, is still the "Friends", "Emergency Room Story" and "Survivor" three-stop ace program leading the viewing.
This year, "Friends" came to the eighth season, the series has been scheduled to end in the tenth season, ab TV station has announced relevant news before the start of this season, although the six stars are younger than the previous life, but a drama After ten years of shooting, I was tired and I didn’t want to go on.
This time and space, Aniston did not unite with several other starring actors to stage a million-piece remuneration, but the fireflies were not awkward. In the last three quarters of the contract, the six-star singles paid a single-chip pay increase to $600,000. They paid twice as much for the first two seasons.
As the most popular medical drama in recent years, the story of the “Emergency Room Story” is very stable, and the single-set viewing is basically maintained at more than 20 million.
After surviving the peak of the average audience of 30 million viewers in the previous two seasons, and the reality TV show launched by other TV stations, the audience ratings began to fall sharply.
However, because the cost of making Survivors is very low, even if the ratings drop below 10 million, the TV station is still very profitable. What's more, the average number of viewers in the first three episodes of this season is 17 million. In any case, it is not with the failure. All of the reality shows in North America are among the best.
In addition to the three-stop lead series, this year ab also appeared a brand new black horse, sitcom "everyone loves Raymond."
This sit-in comedy with a family-inspired style, under the guidance of Friends, the number of viewers in the first episode reached 15 million. Perhaps because of family restrictions, because of the cultural differences between the East and the West, the sitcom in this past is not too high in Asia, but the ratings during the peak period are definitely no worse than Friends, and 15 million starts. Rating is definitely just the beginning. It is expected that when "Friends" is officially finished, "Everyone Loves Raymond" will also enter the peak of its ratings, just in time for the comedy night of "Friends".
In memory, "Everyone Loves Raymond" is the trump card sitcom of bs.
However, this project, Eric did not intervene, he also found out after seeing the list of new dramas submitted by ab in May. The reason why "everyone loves Raymond" will be transferred to ab, mainly because the producer of "everyone loves Raymond" is David Letterman, who reformed the late-night program two years ago, will bs The "David Letterman Late Night Show" dug up ab, David Letterman served as the producer's TV project, and naturally took over by ab.
After watching ab's ratings statistics, Eric is about to open the lieie TV data, and Christina Aguilera is coming over with a small plate.
The girl stood opposite Eric and asked, "Eric, can I sit here?"
Eric smiled and cleaned up the information in front of him. He nodded to the girl, and Christina sat down on the plate and sat down.
Although there was a relationship between the two, Christina was not entangled at all, and there was no such thing as a person who preached the relationship between the two. This kind of cleverness and knowing the advance and retreat made Eric very satisfied.
Today's all-day drama is related to Christina. Therefore, Christina is taking the initiative to sit next to Eric. Everyone will only think that she wants to talk to the director about the movie, but it will not attract anyone's attention.
Watching Christina pick up the cutlery and smack the vegetable salad on the plate, Eric smiled and asked, "What have you just done, come and eat now?"
Christina replied cleverly: "Mom called from Los Angeles, we talked for a little longer."
"Oh, is it homesick?"
"Not too much," Christina shook her head.
She really doesn't feel homesick. As a single-parent family, Christina is more independent than Britney. She doesn't have the school mentality, has a job, and can follow the world tour of the crew, but she is happy.
Eric smiled and turned his eyes to the information in his hand. Christina took the initiative: "Eric, I... I suddenly felt that the role of Angela is not too cool."
Eric looked up: "What do you think is cool?"
Christina certainly saw "Charlie's Angel", and she didn't want to say it: "Of course, like Selena played by Kate Beckinsale, but Angela is more like a little book like a drum machine. I think, if Charlie's detective agency really exists, they certainly won't be able to see Angela Linde."
In the setting of Christina's role in the "Casino Royale" script, Angela Linde is a technology house girl obsessed with precision equipment, which was influenced by her father when she was a child.
"You will think that Angela Lynn is not cool enough. This is because "Royal Casino" is a 007 movie. The film does not give the character too much space. However, this character has a very perfect setting. She is equivalent to Dr. Q in the 007 series, and will provide all kinds of very cool high-tech props for the 霹雳 娃 。. In the future, after the film is released next year, Marvel Entertainment will publish comics related to Angela Linde. Then you can see it."
Eric just gave this role to her, and did not reveal too many things. Christina once thought that this role may be just a common character in the "Casino Royale" series.
At this point, I heard Eric say this, Christina's nephew became sparkling, and asked: "That, Eric, is this saying that I can still appear in the movie in the future?"
Eric smiled and said: "Your character is definitely in the comic story. This has already begun to be done on Marvel. As for whether it can appear again in the MGM movie universe, it involves Too many questions, your future career development, the audience feedback of the character image, the storyline needs, etc. Now I can't give you any promises."
Even though Eric said that Christina did not lose the slightest, the girl was born with a little disenchanted little eyes stunned and shouted: "Eric, I am going to you tonight, okay?"
"Why, I want to bribe me," Eric said with a smile.
"Oh, this is just an actress who wants to please Mr. Director."
"Still forget it, you still have a play tomorrow, I don't want my actress to get out of bed tomorrow." (To be continued.)