Chapter 478： They will get used to

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"Disguised Geek" received more than $37 million in box office in the first week, far exceeding its production cost of less than $30 million. There is almost no suspense in the total box office.

Compared to the summer file, only a movie was released and MGM, who got a box office of less than 10 million US dollars, this achievement of tg will definitely be a lot of people's ideas and embarrassment. After all, even if it is not completely broken. Looks like MGM, tg in the 1992 summer file box transcripts are also much brighter than Paramount, Universal and Fox.

Paramount's summer program is dominated by Harrison Ford's action film "Patriot Game", but this movie only got more than 80 million box office, while the situation of Universal and Fox is similar, the three major film companies summer file There are no movies at the box office. For Sony Pictures, which has a 'rich money', although Tom Cruise has been invited to create a "pre-war", but for various reasons, the total box office of the film has also stopped. About 80 million seats, can reach the budget cost of the movie, the impact of the loss of the North American box office market is often a series, because the box office of "Civil Wars" is not ideal, overseas box office and surrounding copyright sales Will be greatly affected, this project will once again bring huge losses to Sony Pictures.

A week after the release of "Disguise Geek", Disney's "Sisters Are Crazy" stepped on the tail of the summer file and boarded more than 2,100 theaters in North America. The release of this comedy film almost announced the end of the summer file, and then released. Movies are basically films that film companies don't value but want to try their luck at the end of the summer. The chances of black horses in these movies are small.

There is no doubt that "Tornado" has become the biggest winner of the entire summer file. It is expected that the total box office of 300 million US dollars plus the subsequent "Disguise Geek", the total box office of the Firefly summer file will exceed 400 million US dollars, if you count Disney Several films, then, according to the current annual box office total in North America, is only a summer file, the box office that Firefly Pictures has received has exceeded 10% of the total annual box office. If the firefly is a publicly traded company, perhaps the stock price has risen a lot.

However, Eric has left Los Angeles when the North American entertainment media is talking about it. After attending the premiere of "Disguised Geek", he quickly flew to the Hawaiian Islands.

Because of Jerry Bruckheimer's excellent pre-work, when Eric arrived in Hawaii, Dr. Hadmond's experimental base, Jurassic Park gate, and the dinosaur-blocking grid were all completed. Two other small crews also photographed the amber and dinosaur archaeological scenes at the Amber Mine in Dominica and the Red Rock Canyon National Park in California.

"Eric, you see, it's here," Jerry Bruckheimer pointed to a deep jungle passage: "There is no terrain you need on Kauai, but the conditions here are absolutely in line, we only need to spend You can shoot the corresponding equipment in one day."

At this point, the two are discussing the scene of the Tyrannosaurus chasing the jeep. Because there is no convenient terrain on Kauai, Jerry Bruckheimer found the corresponding Oahu island belonging to the Hawaiian Islands nearby. Scene.

"If you choose here, you definitely need to make some modifications to the surrounding environment. Otherwise, there is no way to shoot, will the Hawaiian state government agree?" Eric looked at the very primitive forest environment in front of him and asked in confusion.

"I have already considered this point, they said no problem," Jerry Bruckheimer showed a calm expression on Eric.

Eric smiled and didn't ask any more. The two men got on a jeep. After the driver drove, Eric stretched out, even though he arrived in Hawaii yesterday. However, today he and Jerry Bruckheimer traveled all the shooting venues, and some preliminary test work will be carried out tomorrow.

The shooting of big-production movies is like snoring in ancient times, and it is a very labor-intensive thing. Therefore, it is impossible for Eric to take too much time to rest. The production team of hundreds of people is a huge expense every day, so Eric has to work as soon as possible.

After the jeep arrived at the Oahu dock, the two boarded a small yacht back to Kauai, which was already in the evening. After a day's work was completed, my mood relaxed, and looking at the island behind him in the sunset, Jerry Bruckheimer smiled at Eric. "Eric, maybe you can try to buy a small island." Try it."

“Do you have a private island?” Eric asked curiously, and the ethos of buying a private island is now on the rise, but Eric is not interested in it.

Jerry Bruckheimer shook his head and said, "Not yet, but I will consider this occasion occasionally."

Jerry Bruckheimer has been a gold medalist who has been famous for more than a decade, and he is not inferior to Hollywood's first-line stars. Therefore, there is no economic problem in buying a private island.

"Actually, I think it is not cost-effective to buy a small island. If it is too close to the land, it is often not guaranteed. If it is too far away from the land, it is a big problem, unless the cost is invested. Otherwise, don't think too comfortable on the island."

Jerry Bruckheimer heard Eric's words and showed a slight look.

Eric went on to say: "If it is me, I would rather buy a mountain. When I come to a towering mountain with my friends, I will point to the cloud: Look, this mountain is mine."

Jerry Bruckheimer imagined Erik's picture and couldn't help but laugh.

After the yacht gradually moved away from Oahu, Jerry Bruckheimer looked at the assistant on the deck and made a look at Eric, who got into the cabin.

"Eric, according to the box office trend of several movies now, Firefly Pictures should be able to exceed 500 million dollars in the box office of this summer file?"

Eric knew that Jerry Bruckheimer would not say this for no reason, nodded silently, sitting next to the seat near the window.

"I have seen the fireflies and Disney's movie release schedule. At the end of the year, the fireflies will also have "Life and Death", "Detective Airplane" and "Smiths" with Sony. Three movies will be released, and Disney will launch another one. The cartoon, the box office of the cartoon has always been very stable, then the box office number obtained at the end of the year will not be much worse than the summer file, plus the box office accumulation of the non-hot stage small and medium-sized movie. The firefly film industry’s box office share is likely this year. Far more than Warner, reaching 30%."

Eric has almost heard some of the meaning of Jerry Bruckheimer's words. He smiled and asked: "Jerry, is there someone who will let you help me?"

Jerry Bruckheimer nodded. "Mr. Martin Davis of Paramount. You know, I have been working with Paramount before."

"What does he want?" Eric asked bluntly.

Jerry Bruckheimer smiled and said: "If you agree, Mr. Davis will come to see you personally. As for what you want to talk about, it is not something I care about."

"Well, I will take a call to Mr. Davis when I take the time," Eric nodded.

Jerry Bruckheimer’s meaning is obvious. The firefly’s movie performance is too bright, and it will definitely cause other film companies to rebound. Martin Davis’s time to let Jerry Brookeheimer’s message be undoubtedly Want to cooperate with fireflies, after all, in the case of a win-win situation, few people will take the initiative to choose hostile.

"Eric. Personally, I think you can split Pixar Animation Studio and the digital domain from the Firefly system and set up two companies."

Eric smiled and shook his head: "Jerry, I am so hard to fuse the fireflies into a whole, how can I take the initiative to remove my hands and feet?"

Jerry Bruckheimer stunned and seemed to think that Eric had some truth, but he felt that something was not too right.

"From the beginning of the 1920s and 1930s, Hollywood has become accustomed to the six, seven or eight big, but it does not mean that this should be the norm in Hollywood. In the United States, GM can be a big one. Bell can be a family The biggest one, Essen Maxim can be a big one, even Wal-Mart, which has only been established for only 30 years, can be a big one. If so, why can't Hollywood be a big one?"

When Jerry Bruckheimer heard this, he felt a slight shattering sound. He entered Hollywood from the early 1970s. It has been nearly 20 years since he was unknowingly accustomed to Hollywood. A state of great coexistence. However, Eric’s words made Jerry Bruckheimer aware. It turns out that this rule cannot be broken.

"Eric, why did Hollywood keep this kind of coexistence?" Jerry Brookeheimer couldn't help but ask.

Eric thought about it and said: "Probably because of the ups and downs of the performance, the film is different from other industries, such as Wal-Mart. They have developed a distribution system that is ahead of their peers, so they have dominated the entire United States in just 30 years. In the case that Wal-Mart already has a market, other rivals can't reach Wal-Mart's scale even if they completely imitate Wal-Mart's model. But the film company is different. Measuring the strength of a film company is ultimately a movie box office, and the movie. The box office is the most unstable. Maybe a film company will contact and produce a number of hot movies in a certain period of time, just as Barry Diller took over Paramount for a few years, but because of various The reason, that kind of situation will certainly not last, and other film companies are not idle, and may also produce high box office movies from time to time, so that when you come and go, it will be difficult to achieve a single situation."

After saying this, Eric smiled confidently and said: "But in the fireflies, this situation will definitely continue, so one day, I will let them get used to certain things."

Jerry Bruckheimer smiled and did not agree with Eric. Since the performance of other film companies will fluctuate, how can fireflies not appear?

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Eric did not take the words of Paramount's Martin Davis through Jerry Bruckheimer too. The fireflies have now developed into a fairly stable state of mind, so a film company relies on those tricks. Can not be defeated, want to beat a film company, then you can only rely on movies to speak. But if it's more than a movie, Eric is confident that Hollywood doesn't have that film company.

However, he did not ignore Martin Davis's message. In the evening, Eric gave a call to Martin Davis in Los Angeles, arranging for both parties to take a chat and talk about whether they could cooperate or not. Look at Paramount's sincerity. Eric knows that outside the MGM's disregard, Disney's swallowing by fireflies, and the fact that both Universal and Colombia have been acquired by the Japanese consortium, outsiders want to get involved in Hollywood, and now the only option is to acquire Paramount.

According to the memory and some of the information collected before, Viacom’s Redstone’s failure to compete with Eric for Disney directly shifted the target to Paramount, while Barry Diller left Fox and started his own business. For a while, he quickly started to return to Hollywood, uniting several companies and began testing the shareholders of Paramount.

Although Paramount's performance in recent years is not very good, but with such a shell, only the ability to pull high-quality film projects, Paramount may rise again at any time, so Martin Davis does not have much Selling Paramount's mind.

But helplessly, Paramount is a publicly traded company. Although Martin Davis is the company's largest shareholder, if the other film companies take the form of hostile takeovers to annex Paramount, the performance of Paramount is not good. Next, other company shareholders are likely to agree to the other party's high-priced acquisition, choose to cash out.

It is estimated that this is why Martin Davis suddenly contacted Eric. When the Japanese acquired Columbia and Universal, the two film companies had a short cooperation with the fireflies and achieved good results, although the last two The companies were sold, but the Japanese spent a lot more dollars.

Martin Davis’s mind is clear, he just wants to improve Paramount’s performance and prevent other shareholders from choosing to sell the company. As the Eastern European film market gradually opens up and North America’s annual box office volume continues to grow, Martin Davis’s desire not to sell Paramount’s mind is well understood, but things are often not based on the will of some people. standard. (To be continued.)

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