Chapter 238： the way forward

"Soul Shifting Girl" is a literary film in a pure sense, which is completely different from "Beautiful Mind", a healing film that wears the cloak of a literary film and pursues mainstream values.

It is full of oppressive atmosphere and profound connotations. If you are not a serious movie lover, it is difficult to watch it in the spirit.

Even with the Palme d'Or, it's hard to attract widespread attention from fans.

Therefore, the film had its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival as early as May, but the official release time in North America was in mid-August, and the global release would be after September.

It is to avoid the hot summer vacation, delay the schedule, and use the spring breeze of the awards season to attract some fans to buy tickets to enter.

But I didn't expect that this summer, Tang En's name is in full swing!

The cross-hype between the positive and negative sides has made Tang En the master of the summer season, especially with the rampant trend of "Spider-Man", which has made him seem to have a personal brand effect!

Tang En produced, must be a boutique!

Under the blessing of this powerful halo, the literary film "The Soul-moving Girl", in which Tang En served as the producer, has also made a lot of achievements at the box office.

Although it can't compete with the most mainstream commercial blockbusters, "Soul Shifting Girl" has the strength to crush everything against some messy little shrimps.

The box office in the first week was 15.8 million US dollars, ranking second only to New Line Pictures' "Invasion of Brain Cells".

Entering the second week of the release, there will be three competitive new films released by Universal's "Pretty Girl Cheerleading", Warner's "The Art of War" and Disney's "Fox and Dogs".

The box office trends of "Pretty Girl Cheerleading" and "The Art of War" have nothing to do with Dunn.

He's only keeping a close eye on one movie - Disney's Fox and Dogs!

At this critical moment when Dunn Films and Disney are fighting each other, the weak Dunn Films must seize every opportunity to boost morale, start bit by bit, add up, and finally complete the big comeback against Disney.

"Soul Shifting Girl" naturally shoulders a very arduous task, that is, crushing "Fox and Dog Party" in the box office market!

"The Fox and the Dogs" is a bad movie, there's no doubt about that. Don't look at "The Girl Who Moved Soul" is a literary film, but according to the normal box office trend, winning the battle is not a problem at all.

What Dunn is most worried about is at this critical moment when the two sides are fighting, will Disney make a bad move?

Disney's films have been crushed by Dunn Films for a summer.

Since June, Disney films have been living in the shadow of Dunn Pictures.

It didn't attract the attention of Michael Eisner before, it's nothing, but now Michael Eisner has taken action. He personally wrestled with Dunn, and the degree of sternness and cruelty must be extraordinary!

What if Michael Eisner "buys the box office" in the theater through a relationship?

At this time, the two sides are fighting for one breath!

Michael Eisner can even do the "blocking order", what is impossible to "buy the box office"?

Dunn deliberately consulted Michael Ovitz's opinion.

Michael Ovitz was in Manhattan, New York at this time, holding Dunn's $100 million investment, negotiating with Merrill Lynch, and fooling Wall Street's capital into the operation of the platter investment project.

After hearing Dunn's confusion, Michael Ovitz laughed, "Don, that's Eisner, the big boss of Disney, you must underestimate him!"

Tang En raised his eyebrows slightly, a little puzzled, "What does this have to do with underestimating?"

Michael Ovitz said: "Dawn, Eisner is the chairman of Disney's board of directors, but this does not mean that he is Disney! If his personal image seriously affects Disney's interests, then the general meeting of shareholders will definitely remove him. Position."

Tang En narrowed his eyes slightly, and his heart beat violently.

Michael Ovitz said slowly: "Some time ago, Tom Cruise bought the $5 million box office of "Mission Impossible 2", and the result was well known and became a laughing stock. With such a foreshadowing, Michael Eisner wouldn't have made such a choice even if his head was in the water, don't ignore the power of the media!"

"The reason why he dared to break the industry rules and issue a ban on Tang En Pictures is because he only promoted it in a small area, and avoided the media skillfully and reasonably. The handle. If he really dares to suppress his competitors by buying box office, his personal image will be completely destroyed.”

"Tom Cruise is in a lot of trouble right now, and you should also know that because the bad influence of the 'buying box office' incident has affected the entire series of "Mission: Impossible". Don't look at "Mission: Impossible 2" this year is only about "Spider-Man" is a blockbuster, but it will take at least another 5 years for this series to restart!"

Dunn didn't listen carefully to what Michael Ovitz said, he was still thinking about the thought that jumped in his heart just now.

Michael Eisner...is the chairman and CEO of Disney, but behind him is the Disney shareholders meeting!

If Michael Eisner's image is damaged and Disney is implicated, then his almost emperor-like power in Disney will be deprived by the shareholders' meeting!

A bold and extremely anticipating thought suddenly appeared in Tang En's mind——

After the huge loss of Vivendi Group, Tang En will definitely make a move to acquire Universal Pictures, and there is not much problem in terms of funds.

With his current reputation and influence, he can easily raise money from Wall Street and complete acquisitions. He doesn't even need to raise a penny, the funds in his hand are enough to acquire Universal Pictures.

The problem in front of him is that Tang En Pictures is not influential enough to be qualified to acquire Universal Pictures!

Now, Hollywood, and even the whole of North America, can see that the competition between Dunn Pictures and Disney has become public and heated.

If Dunn wins this competition, and Dunn successfully removes Michael Eisner and makes Disney's general meeting remove him from his position, who would dare to question Dunn's ability?

What even the Big Three of DreamWorks could not do, Dunn did it!

Once Dunn Pictures settles Disney, it will be a nuclear bomb explosion, and the radiation will spread to the entire Hollywood. At that time... Will Universal Pictures have any reason to reject the acquisition invitation of Dunn Pictures?

I am afraid that the executives and shareholders of Universal Pictures can't wait to hope that Tang En will help Universal through the predicament, right?

Dunn took a deep breath, his eyes firm.

Before that, Bill McNick, West Cotton and others have given him ideas successively, and proposed ways to quickly increase the influence of Dunn Pictures.

But Dunn always felt that it was too slow, and even if he did it, he didn't fully recognize the Hollywood core that I could get.

However, the open competition with Disney is different. This is a consideration of comprehensive strength!

Michael Eisner, as a big man who has been in Hollywood for 20 years, is a legend in Hollywood.

If Dunn can get rid of Michael Eisner in one shot, then he is not just a famous director's role, but a real big man!

Whether the director or the actor is worth mentioning, they are all pawns on the Hollywood chessboard.

If Dunn can beat Michael Eisner, that is the transition from **** to player!

This is a true portrait!

Tang En's heart was bright, and it seemed that he had already seen the way forward.

...

On Friday, August 25th, Disney's crime comedy "Fox and Dog Party" was officially released. The film opened in 1,510 theaters, and the filming rate accounted for 23.7%, which was higher than that of "Beautiful Cheerleaders" and "The Art of War" that were released in the same period. Difference.

In particular, it can be seen that the theater party is not optimistic about this film, which is only 88 minutes long.

On its first day of release, "Pretty Girl Cheerleaders" grossed $6.23 million, and "The Art of War" also topped $4 million. "Fox and Dogs" is only $1.03 million, lagging behind "Space Cowboy", "Brain Invasion", "King of Comedy", "Scream", "Soul Shifting Girl", "Shiquanda Men" and other old films only came in at number 9 on the list.

Just on the first release day, this "Fox and Dog Party" with an investment cost of 35 million US dollars and a publicity cost of 8 million US dollars has already announced the end of the loss!

Seeing this result, Joe Ruth, the chairman of Disney's production department, touched the cold sweat on his forehead and breathed a sigh of relief.

Luckily he didn't make any promises to Michael Eisner, otherwise it would have been miserable.

It's just really strange, Dunn... Does he really have magic power?

"The Girl Who Moved Soul", a literary film, can actually get a lot of box office revenue?

Three days later, the box office results for the week were released.

Universal's new film "Beautiful Girl Cheerleaders" has become the champion of the weekly box office list with a box office income of 17.36 million US dollars!

The runner-up was Warner Bros.'s "The Art of War," which grossed $10.4 million.

The third place went to "The Girl Who Moved Soul", which grossed $9.4 million. Including the $15.8 million in the first week, the total North American box office has exceeded $24 million.

The goal of $50 million at the North American box office seems to be easy to achieve.

In comparison, Disney's film "Fox and Dogs" was a snot and tear, and its first weekend box office was only a pitiful $4 million!

After films such as "Sixty Seconds", "Scream" and "Girls Club" were crushed by Dunn Films at the box office, Disney's new film "Fox and Dog Party" did not escape the same fate.

And it's even more miserable. If the first few movies were crushed by the commercial giant "Spider-Man", and there are still some thin faces, then "Fox and Dog Party" was sanctioned by a literary film at the box office, which is a real face-slap.

Disney's movies can be described as desolate, miserable, and sad!

(Sanqi Chinese)