Chapter 727： Get rid of the shadow

Chapter 727

The call was made by Kapoor Sid of Icm. ∷∷,

After confirming that he wanted to film Godzilla movies, Colombia couldn't wait to start looking for directors for the project. Joe Zhuangston, who had just successfully produced Jurassic Park 2, is undoubtedly the most suitable candidate. On the other hand, closely related to fireflies, actors, directors and producers, most of the brokerage contracts are in icm. Due to the anti-monopoly law, although there is no direct interest relationship between the two parties, the relationship between icm and fireflies in the three major brokerage companies It has always been very close.

Therefore, Sony’s attempt to dig the wall was first reported to Eric here.

Bill Michalnik is a veteran manager in Hollywood. The information is not difficult to check. His management style tends to be conservative and his personality is cautious. After Sony started Bill Michal as Colombian ceo, Eric once thought that Sony Will abandon the financial and crude money-saving strategy, began to step by step for the accumulation of thin, but when I heard that Sony intends to launch "Godzilla", Eric immediately confirmed that Sony will also embark on the old road of previous life.

In the original time and space, although the two locusts of Peter Cooper and Strong Peters were expelled, Sony still did not converge on the strategy of blindly looking for a sense of existence, not only for Kim? Kerry to open the first in Hollywood history. A $20 million sky-high price, and blindly invested in a number of large-scale productions that failed, and the 1998 version of Godzilla is undoubtedly one of the most typical failures.

With the strong popularity of Godzilla around the world, Sony was ambitiously trying to make it a trilogy in the early days of film preparation, and invited Roland Emmerich, who won a huge box office success with "Dongli". .

But many things, often can not be separated from the expectation that the greater the disappointment, the bigger the circle.

In memory, the 98 version of "Godzilla" is not only rated as naive and cheesy, inexplicable, lack of logic, but also fans will focus more on Godzilla itself in the movie.

Godzilla is called the 'King of Monsters', mainly because of its powerful fighting power, the Japanese version of Godzilla. Not only does it have powerful attack methods such as King Kong's not bad body and radiation hotline, but even the nuclear bomb attack can harden it down, and even occasionally it will be pulled out to fight against alien invasion. This is the monster that really destroys the world. Wang.

Look at the 98 version of Godzilla. The first reaction of most Godzilla fans after watching the movie is basically 'You **** me,' the king of the monsters, gave up the classic image of the Japanese version, and was designed to grow the dorsal fin of the dorsal fin. The dragon is just fine. But the strength is so weak that it is only a matter of being entangled by the bridge cable. It’s not going to matter. Is God’s strength so small?

That's it, but the most unbearable thing is that the back fin Tyrannosaurus was actually hit by several missiles in the US military area, so it was so easy to hang up, hang up, hang up...

Moreover, before hanging, there is no unwilling struggle. There is no sudden death counterattack. At the last moment of life, Mr. Tyrannosaurus Rex has chosen to have a deep affection with the actor. His eyes are full of reluctance and nostalgia, leaving behind the woman behind the actor. You got his people, but I got the subtext of his heart, and then died, leaving only the poor audience in the cinema where the thunder is rolling, and you die, you have to cos a King Kong. What is going on!

Eric's memory. The box office of "Godzilla" is not a complete failure, but its reputation is so bad that even if it is more than ten years later, it will often be pulled out by the fans.

The film not only won the worst remake, the worst director, the worst script and the worst supporting actress, but also won the unanimous condemnation of the global fans.

Godzilla’s copyright owner, Japan’s Toho, originally planned to complete the series after the 22nd Godzilla in 1995.

But after the 98 version of Godzilla was released. In order to save the image of Godzilla in the hearts of fans, I had to restart it again, and I have been shooting 28 pieces. After the development of the matter, the 98 version of Godzilla was even given the **** prefix, which was only named zilla.

After learning about this, Eric began to think about how to make this happen in the direction he thinks.

Under his influence. The history of Hollywood has changed a lot. Eric is also not sure if Gods will fail like the previous life if he changed the director, so he quickly made up his mind to "Godzilla". Guided on the trajectory of past lives.

Although Sony's determination to run the film business far exceeds that of Panasonic, if it suffers from the failure of big production, Eric does not believe that Sony will stick to it like the previous life, not to mention that Sony is now destined to have no more. The Spider-Man series is a life-saving straw.

At present, there are not many directors who are suitable for directing Godzilla. Carmelo counts one, Spielberg counts one, and Eric himself is of course one, in addition to Joe Zhuangston, Roland? Emory, Jane Bonte, Paul Van Hoven and many others, most of whom are related to fireflies. After all, in recent years, Hollywood’s most successful special effects have come out. Fireflies, Cameron, Roland Emmerich and many others have accumulated enough experience in special effects films with the support of Fireflies.

To make "Godzilla" repeat the same mistake, it is undoubtedly the easiest and straightforward way to push Roland Emmerich to Sony again.

Therefore, what Eric has to do is very simple, and it is enough to block Sony's search for other directors.

In this regard, Cameron does not care, he is making "Titanic", Sony must be unable to start, Joe? Zhuangston signed the option contract with Fireflies before taking over Jurassic Park 2 Even if Sony can open a price of 20 million US dollars, it is not enough to pay liquidated damages, so he does not have to consider, other people Eric is not too worried, before eliminating the first sequence of several directors, Eric I believe that Sony will definitely not retreat to the next level.

Then, the most unstable factor is Spielberg. Laos’s famous "Great White Shark" was actually a monster movie.

There is no doubt that even if Eric deliberately releases water, Sony is likely to choose the former between Spielberg and Roland Emmerich.

Of course, there is no absolute thing in the world, and now, Roland Emmerich has the best chance to improve his 'competitiveness'. To know. "Donely Day" is definitely the highest peak of Roland Emmerich's personal director career.

While Eric pays close attention to the preparations for Sony Godzilla, the Hollywood summer file is still harvesting the box office in full swing. Among them, the weekly box office performance of Forrest Gump is not high. It is definitely the most eye-catching one.

At the box office of $47 million in the first week, compared to 1,500 screens, the museums all reached $30,000, far exceeding the box office blockbuster standard of $10,000.

Subsequently, June 16th. Firefly's "Toy Story 2" was released, without a suspense to top the box office list for the first week of the $69 million box office, "Jurassic Park 2" in the second week of the $77 million box office, with a 45% decline After the total box office totaled 217 million US dollars, the third week's box office drop also reached 49%, harvesting 39.25 million US dollars. Relatively speaking, "Forrest Gump" fell only 18% in the next week, and the box office reached 39.20 million US dollars. Jurassic Park has only a slight advantage of $50,000. The danger was safe and dangerous, and he held the throne of his box office runner-up.

When June Day arrives, although Time Warner’s "Forever Batman" has a bizarre word of mouth, he is fascinated by the side of the screen to witness the screen show of several famous villains, and they are all hurt and happy when they enter the market. The power of the true biography is finally revealed.

After the box office was released from June to June 29, although "Forever Batman" was topped the list with a box office of $78 million, everyone’s eyeballs were the second one, "Forrest Gump", 35 million. The box office of the US dollar was firmly attracted to the eye, and the box office fell even more, only 10%. The "Toy Story" box office at the next week has slipped to $33 million, ranking third. "Jurassic Park 2" continued to shrink by 40% according to the rules of its stepped commercial box office, only harvesting 500,000 US dollars, ranking fourth.

unconsciously. In three weeks, the box office of Forrest Gump has unexpectedly accumulated $122 million.

Moreover, according to its fiery topicality and weak weekly box office declines, the box office appraisal agency adjusted the box office expectations of Forrest Gump again and again. When the third week of the box office came out, everyone was surprised to find out. Most of the box office and the media have already unknowingly set the box office tone of Forrest Gump at a high of $300 million.

Although the box office of Jurassic Park 2 has reached 279 million US dollars, the total box office of 300 million US dollars is just around the corner, but few people suspect that "Forrest Gump" has been unconsciously revealed with "Jurassic Park" 2" compete for the strength of the annual box office champion.

For the box office results of "Forrest Gump", the most exciting thing is of course the production of the flower industry, and the most complicated mood is undoubtedly because of the "Black Man" and "The Game of the Brave" dispute at the beginning of the year, by Eric I won the Sony-Colombia of the "Forrest Gump" and "Museum of the Museum" distribution rights.

When Sony found out that it was for the "Black Man" and "The Game of the Brave", because of the substantial increase in cost, it is likely to only earn a bit of hard money. According to the original agreement, Sony has only 40% of the benefits of the film. When they gave up the "Forrest Gump" which at least brought them more than 100 million US dollars, some shareholders even publicly questioned the decision of the US branch. If it wasn’t for the self-declaration of Howard Ringer’s endorsement, the head of the US branch that had just taken office, may have to 'resign and resign.'

In the past, Howard Stringer also strengthened his determination to get rid of the shadow of fireflies and make Godzilla a super-selling series.

After inviting Joe Zhuangston to direct the "Godzilla" intention to be directly rejected by the other party, Howard Stringer quickly stared at Spielberg. However, Howard Stringer is better than a German film investor who will only pick big stars regardless of whether they are angry or not, because Jurassic Park was taken away by Eric, Spielberg Although the two-year film is good at the box office, it is not too dazzling. The "Great White Shark" and "Edie Alien" who created the box office miracle are already a dozen or twenty years ago.

What's more, the "Captain of the ****", which Columbia co-operated with Spielberg a few years ago, ended up in a slap in the early stage, and in the past few years, Spielberg has been with Universal Pictures. The industry maintains close cooperation. The "Ghost Horse Elf", which is a good box office at the beginning of this summer, is the result of cooperation between Spielberg's **** Lin Yingye and the global community. This fantasy family comedy is in Jurassic Park 2, under the pressure of this super blockbuster, has stubbornly achieved more than $80 million in box office.

It is even said that the new studio that he will soon establish in cooperation with David Geffen will also be affiliated with Universal. Therefore, Howard Stringer’s invitation to Spielberg’s confidence is not so determined.

In this hesitant situation, "Don Liri" was released.

On June 30th, "Dongli Day", which won the US$56 million box office on the first three days of the first weekend, because the US independence day holiday on July 4 was just on Monday, the day's box office did not fall back compared to the previous weekend. l, therefore, with a strong reputation and marketing company, "Dongli" first week, the box office reached 85 million US dollars, a breakthrough of its production costs of 75 million US dollars a week, and even according to the rules of division, the producers are often in the first Zhou got 90% of the box office share, so in theory, fireflies have recovered all production costs in the first week.

The original "Heaven and Earth Clash" has already made Roland Emmerich among the top-ranking directors. The box office of "Donely Day" is released, and even the reputation of Roland Emmerich is in full swing.

Moreover, Howard Stringer was pleasantly surprised to find that Roland Emmerich didn't have the comfort of Joe Zonston's option contract.

In other words, Sony can invite Roland Emmerich to direct Godzilla as long as it pays enough.

The question now is, if Sony sends an invitation to Roland Emmerich, what will the fireflies react to?

Although trying to get rid of the shadows brought by fireflies, Howard Stringer is very clear that it is impossible to completely get rid of the influence of fireflies. At least, in terms of special effects, this film definitely needs support in the digital field. (To be continued.)