Chapter 929

In the reception room of the villa, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Joe Ross, the president of fox, are really talking about terminator.

"In fact, after the success of Terminator 2, someone proposed to develop Terminator 3. Arnold, I think you must have heard about it. Many people, including me, were excited about it, but later Simon himself rejected it. Want to restart the series, although Well, seriously, you'd better communicate directly with Denise entertainment. "

The original "Terminator 2", as a cooperative project between the two sides, Fox and Denise each shared half of the copyright.

Arnold Schwarzenegger didn't take Joe Ross's words, but said: "Joe, why don't we talk about another solution, for example, fox bought the other half of Denise's copyright and developed it separately. Now Denise entertainment has a lot of popular projects, and there is no lack of terminator. I think as long as the price is right, there will be very happy Take the shot. If you buy the copyright of terminator, fox can also have an ace, let alone a sequel. It is not impossible to develop a terminator universe in the future. "

Joe Ross felt Schwarzenegger's encouragement, but he didn't feel excited. He raised his hand and scratched his index finger twice on his standard Jewish high nose. Then he looked directly at the other side and asked, "Arnold, you should have been in contact with Denise, and you were rejected, right?"

Schwarzenegger's face flashed a touch of embarrassment, thinking or nodding: "danielis really has no intention to develop sequels. But, Joe, isn't it better to develop such a high-quality project alone? "

"Maybe," Joe rose said, hesitating a little, apparently not in high spirits. "Arnold, frankly speaking, since Barry left, Rupert has not been very interested in the film business. He is more interested in the TV and newspaper fields he is familiar with. In the past year, fox has only released nine films in total. If it had not been for the market boom in recent years, the film business would have been profitable, and Rupert would have sold the film department directly. Moreover, you should also know the relationship between News Corporation and westero system. Therefore, if Simon opposes the production of Terminator 3, even if we get the full copyright, Rupert will not necessarily agree, because Simon is not optimistic about it, and because the project costs too much money. "

Schwarzenegger didn't expect himself to come out in person or hit the wall. For a moment, he couldn't restrain himself: "Joe, are we willing to be the vassal of danielis entertainment?"

In the face of Schwarzenegger's aggressive tone, Joe Ross just laughed: "Arnold, if you can, no one is willing to be a vassal, but the industry trend is like this, let's say..." At this point, Joe rose did not export, just shrugged, in front of the big star, it is better not to directly poke scars.

Maybe we will cooperate in the future.

What rose wants to say is that Warner just didn't want to be a vassal of danielis, so he insisted on shooting "evaporation secret order" and the disastrous "future water world" last summer. If these failed projects didn't eat up the profits, and relying on the success of "Batman vs Superman: Justice Liming" and other films, Warner's film performance would only be better.

Blockbusters are a Hollywood trend.

However, this field is not so easy to play. Especially in the case of Denise entertainment becoming more and more powerful, a lot of resources are occupied by each other, other studios venture to invest in blockbuster movies, the risk will only be higher and higher.

At this stage, entertainment with Denise is the safest strategy.

Just like the DC movie universe of Warner and Denise, just like the mummy released by Fox today, just like MGM which is more and more inclined by westero.

As for the future.

If not even now, who cares about the future?

Arnold Schwarzenegger also understands Joe Roth's unspoken lines. If he is still at the peak of his popularity, he will definitely leave. This time, he can only bear his displeasure and throw out a final plan: "in this case, Joe, if I find other companies willing to invest in this film, can fox transfer the copyright of Terminator?"

Joe rose was a little stunned, and then very simply: "Arnold, it still depends on the meaning of danielis, if the other side is willing, fox will certainly have no problem."

In this case, Schwarzenegger understood that he had no need to stay any longer and got up to leave.

After seeing Schwarzenegger off, Joe rose didn't immediately return to the party. He came back to the reception room, took out his mobile phone and dialed a number. After a moment, he got through. Even though he was through the microphone, rose still showed a very sincere smile: "good evening, Amy, I hope I didn't disturb you Oh, it's the same with me Well, Arnold just came here... "

After briefly talking about the meeting with Schwarzenegger, he hung up the phone and rose turned to the outside party again.

For Schwarzenegger's words during the meeting, rose really doesn't care. He's just a professional manager. What's more, even after a series of mergers and acquisitions, Hollywood is still Jewish Hollywood.

Even if some young people are in the ascendant now, they are indispensable to the operation of this circle.

Hollywood is the capital and star of running water.Only Jews are eternal.

Maybe there is one more King now, but the king can't deal with everything by himself. He still needs their help, so they still have power.

In palisade, which is not too far from Brentwood, Simon's mansion on the hillside is also holding a reception, but Amy Pascal is hosting the reception for a film industry delegation from China.

It's an idea Simon had on the plane when he returned from China.

Amy Pascal personally took over the task. China responded positively and arrived in Los Angeles this morning for a two-week inspection and exchange.

Simon didn't attend the reception.

Even if we attach great importance to it, some things are better than others. In many cases, maintaining arrogance can achieve better results.

After hanging up the phone call from Joe Ross, Amy thought about it for a moment, called in her assistant to give a few orders, picked up a glass of red wine again, and went to the three people in the crowd who were chatting: "Mr. Liu, Jack, Jeter, I'm sorry, I just picked up a phone call."

One is from the Vice Minister of China's Ministry of radio and television, surnamed Liu, one is Jack Cheng, the other is Jet Li.

"Black man" will be released next week, and jet Lee has been cooperating with the publicity in the United States recently.

Jack Cheng is temporarily invited by danielis entertainment from the other side of the ocean, mainly to support "black man". After all, the influence of "rush hour" at the beginning of the year is still there. It must be very good to promote another kung fu star with a famous Chinese kung fu star in North America.

As for what Jack Cheng thinks in his heart, it's not something that needs to be considered here. Anyway, at the invitation of danielis entertainment, the other party still came.

Three people listen to Amy say so, the Deputy Minister surnamed Liu first said: "it doesn't matter, Ms. Pascal."

Amy Pascal doesn't have Simon's language talent. With his interpreter, she smiles and asks, "what were you talking about?"

Vice Minister Liu said: "I've learned some information about jet's" black man "in advance. I didn't expect that danelis entertainment would put this Chinese movie on such a hot schedule as the summer season."

"The black man is a great movie. What's more, Simon made sure of it himself. He always has a good eye."

"Well, we've also noticed that Denise entertainment has released a lot of Chinese movies in recent years."

"The main reason is that Simon likes Chinese culture very much. If he was here tonight, there would be no translation at all. By the way, Simon is still personally leading the preparation of a martial arts film recently. I hope we can cooperate with China at that time. "

Vice Minister Liu was surprised: "did I hear you right, Ms. Pascal? You mean the martial arts movie?"

Jack Cheng and Jeter Lee, although they didn't jump in, both of them looked at each other without any trace.

Amy nodded and said, "yes, martial arts movies. Maybe my pronunciation is not too standard, but Mr. Liu didn't understand it wrong. This is a movie adapted from a Chinese martial arts novel, named crouching tiger, hidden dragon. If you have enough time here, maybe we can arrange a meeting to exchange ideas. "

Vice Minister Liu can't remember who wrote crouching tiger, hidden dragon for a moment, but it doesn't prevent him from keenly capturing the significance of the project. This investigation involves the reform of China's film industry, which can't produce immediate results. However, if you bring back a film cooperation project, it will be a real achievement. Therefore, there is a faint excitement in the tone: "of course, you must hand it in."

About crouching tiger, hidden dragon, Simon told Amy in advance and let the Chinese side know. Let the delegation directly bring a cooperation project back, it is also considered to send a favor. After all, as long as China sees the general information of the project, it will understand that this is a good opportunity to publicize Chinese culture.

Of course, at the public level, the project will remain as low-key as possible in accordance with Simon's promise to Ang Lee.

I believe that as long as danielis entertainment puts forward, the Chinese side will also cooperate in confidentiality.

After all, the recognition of Chinese movies in the west is still very low. If the publicity is carried out in advance, once the project fails, it may become a laughing stock.

The next day was Saturday.

Simon still gets up early at domay point.

Exercise, take a bath, change into fresh and casual clothes, sit by the glass curtain wall of shell villa, read today's newspaper in the short time before breakfast, and listen to the work report of some a girls. After five more kids, the breakfast time at home is always very busy. It's impossible to read the newspaper while eating.

As for the overall situation, the 1996 US presidential election is in full swing.

Bill Clinton has not yet got rid of the morass of Paula Jones case. Recently, the white water case broke out again, making people dizzying.

With Clinton's current rate of spending in public opinion polls, unless he gives up on his own initiative, or there are other irresistible major changes, there is almost no suspense about his re-election. The Republican Party's various twists and turns are just continuing to attack the overall strength of the Democratic Party.Though.

Simon felt that doing so would only let the public down on both parties in Washington.

The same is true.

After the new century, the United States has fallen into a strange circle of elderly politics. The main reason is that the public has completely lost interest in Washington's intrigue, and you are in a laissez faire state of mind.

Of course, this is good for chaebol capital such as westerlow system.

It's like Japan's low desire society.

The common people are in peace, fighting, fighting and fighting.

How nice.

On the Hollywood side, the focus is still on summer holidays.

The box office of the first day of the summer vacation week yesterday was unexpected and reasonable, which made the media very busy.

First of all, the order of evaporation was overruled by Romeo and Juliet.

Although mummy is a natural number one on the list.

In addition, Disney's high hopes for the summer season "trump cheap spy" did not copy the success of the "fight against smart stars" series. This is another way to say that at the beginning, Denise entertainment did not renew its contract. Simon westero was obviously not optimistic about it. So, how obvious, how obvious.

Specifically.

On the first day of the painting, mummy, which has 2986 screens, has won US $13.81 million in the morning and night. It is expected that the box office will be around us $40 million in the three days of the first weekend, and it may break through the 60 million mark in the seven days of the first week.

It may not be able to compare with the phenomenal DC movie universe series, but this achievement has fully met the expectations of the two producers.

According to the $60 million opening, the local box office of mummy is expected to reach about 150 million, which is enough to recover the $70 million production cost of the film. The overseas box office of the blockbuster with similar themes has always been higher than that of the local, so only in the stage of cinema release, "Mummy" is expected to make a profit.

So the sequel will start immediately.

Maybe we can exploit the mummy universe, which needs to be planned.

Second on the list is Romeo and Juliet.

This is also the most unexpected and reasonable.

Although the box office of the first week fell behind the order of evaporation, Romeo and Juliet suppressed the order of evaporation in terms of popularity reputation and average library data. The new world film team also increased the number of screens from 2017 to 2534 in the second week.

As a result, on the first day of the next week, Romeo and Juliet earned US $5.69 million, a year-on-year decrease of only 18% compared with the first day of last week.

Maybe there will be a drop in the future, but even according to the 20% drop in the next week, "Romeo and Juliet" will earn about $25 million this week, and the film will reach more than $56 million in two weeks.

Because of the audience's theme and other reasons, the strong "Mummy" obviously did not cause too obvious impact on "Romeo and Juliet", and so do the follow-up films such as "mission impossible 2". Therefore, "Romeo and Juliet" is expected to go out of a very beautiful long-term, and the total domestic box office can not only easily exceed 100 million, but also go up a lot.

"Evaporation secret order" is not so lucky.

On the first day of the next week, the $100 million super heavy bomb plummeted to $4.13 million from $8.69 million last week, a 53% year-on-year drop.

Even if calculated by the overall 50% decline of the next week, the box office of the second week of the release of "evaporation secret order" will only be about $18 million, with a total of about $54 million in two weeks. It seems to be almost the same as Romeo and Juliet, but because of the sharp decline, the film may only have $30 million of box office potential in the future, and it is estimated that the total box office potential in North America is about $80 million.

This is a better estimate.

The box office in North America is tepid, and it is unlikely that there will be a miracle overseas. Warner Bros. will further expand its losses in the release stage of this cinema line.

The box office of the first day of the final "trump spy" was $356, far lower than Disney's expectation. It is estimated that the box office in the first three days of the first weekend will be about $10 million, and that in the first week will be about $15 million.

The first week opened low. It is estimated that the total domestic box office of "ace spy" will be about US $30 million. The domestic box office of US $30 million is 20 million less than that in history. Obviously, it is due to the impact of "Mummy" and other films.

Because it is a local vulgar comedy, overseas will only be worse.

Considering the $40 million cost of the film and the $20 million publicity, Disney's cinema line is doomed to suffer the same loss at the release stage.

In a word, if the budget of the first "ace spy" is controlled within 20 million US dollars as in the original time and space, even if the first song is only 30 million, it is still expected to start the sequel, and then it may continue to create the last two "ace spy" in history.

Now, the first song has failed, and the sequel must not be considered. Mike Myers has to look for other projects.It's not easy.

Because the new generation of comedy stars quietly cultivated by Simon will gradually emerge in the next few years. The audience will have a fresh feeling of comedy, otherwise there will not be the phenomenon that comedy film sequels are easy to fail.

It's not just about movies, it's about actors.

Of course, Simon doesn't mean to suppress Mike Meyers. In his current position, the more various Hollywood actors blossom, the better for the westero system.