Chapter 775： TV drama spring file

Compared to the Hollywood Golden Globe Awards in January, Eric is most concerned about the Sundance Film Festival, which has been popular since recent years. ≥≧

David Finch’s "Seven Deadly Sins" made his first public appearance at the Sundance Film Festival, opening up the publicity work before the film's Easter season.

Brad Pitt is still continuing the role of Agent Muller in Archives. The actor selected by the crew is Matthew McConaughey, who has emerged in recent years. Eric is not too fond of this man. The actor always felt that his face was too frivolous, but this image coincided with the young, irritating character of David Smith, the hero of the Seven Deadly Sins, and he finally decided. In addition to Matthew McKenna and Diane Kruger, who was thrown into the crew by Eric, the other two supporting roles, Morgan Freeman and Kevin Spacey, have not changed.

Compared with those killing mad films that slash all the way and even let the audience produce aesthetic fatigue, the subtle and extremely shocking crime plot of "Seven Sins" has pushed this film theme to an unprecedented height. The three male characters or the impatient or calm or crazy personality also impressed the media and film critics. The film immediately aroused strong repercussions after the launch of the Sundance Film Festival.

"...most of the serial crime movies, in the end, almost a Holmesian character appears to unravel everything. The "seven sins" episode setting that allows criminals to take the initiative and continue to complete the madness is undoubtedly subversive. The film's solution is shocking, and it always gives a gothic dark religious atmosphere in the rainy gloomy city, echoing the religious theme of 'seven sins'."

"... Compared to the chaotic and mediocre "Alien 3", "Seven Deadly Sins" is undoubtedly a reincarnation of director David Finch."

"... Kevin Spacey in his short playing time, a genius, indifference and madness is too murderous, and people can't help but think of the performance of Anthony Hopkins in The Silence of the Lamb. Matthew McConaughey and Morgan Morgan Freeman also contributed very good performances. In addition, although many people did not want to rush into Hollywood in the past, but Diane Kruger The performance has also reached the passing line. We can't ask too much for the beautiful baby who has the owner's delicate face and devil figure, isn't it?"

Although there is no lack of criticism in any film, the praise of "Seven Deadly Sins" has far exceeded the negative comments in the media, and the topics related to movies have spread from Christmas to North America.

Although the Sundance Film Festival is dedicated to supporting independent films, after years of exhibitions, in order to survive better, it has also begun to compromise with several major Hollywood filmmakers.

In the chaos of as many as 17 jury awards, the best finalists in the jury, the film from the Seven or its subsidiaries has passed more than one-third, "Seven sins" nominated for no suspense, and in the new Under the operation of the line, he successfully won the jury award and opened a good start for the film's propaganda work.

With the passing of January, the atmosphere of holidays has gradually disappeared, people's lives have begun to enter the formal, the film market has also fallen into the cold season of the spring, the total number of Hollywood weekly box office slipped from the highest of the new year file of 170 million US dollars to about 6ooo. Correspondingly, in February, the spring drama of the TV series began to come.

The "Seven Deadly Sins" started with the opening ceremony of the Sundance Film Festival. With the new line of another action movie "Hong Fan District", the Easter program was launched in April, and the major TV stations such as the abalone group of the Firefly Group also started. Continued to launch a new spring program.

The most popular of these, in addition to the espn that has just signed a $900 million broadcast rights contract with the National Football League, is the lietime TV station of the ae TV network that specializes in urban elite fashion women.

Before the winter break last year, the two live-action shows "All-American Model Contest" and "Tianqiao Pride" that caused great repercussions by lietime TV station in the last episode, both obtained more than 6oo people's viewing data, "American Model Competition" In the first quarter, the final number of viewers reached 680,000, and the ratings were close to 4.o. Compared with most cable TV channels, this score is simply amazing.

With the phenomenon-level viewing trend brought by the two reality shows, lietime TV subscribers soared from the oo of early 1995 to the current 76oo, and several major cable operators for this year from April to May. The inevitable price increase behavior of lietime TV station in the new annual broadcast rights contract is also beginning to be prepared.

According to industry expectations, as long as the program launched by lietime TV in the spring file can reach the average level of last fall, lietime TV will increase the average user subscription fee to more than 25 cents in the negotiation of the new contract.

Only this one, lietime TV station will receive 200 million US dollars of subscription revenue from cable operators every year. This data alone has passed the industry's overall valuation of lietime TV station less than 150 million US dollars a year ago. With the popularity of the lietime show, the advertising revenue of the TV station and the syndicated distribution and DVD sales of the hot show will bring far more pure subscription revenue, Wall Street media industry analysts have even estimated the lietime TV station. Raised to $1.1 billion.

Although lietime TV viewers don't pay too much attention to industry data that means too many things, their interest in lietime TV's two ace realities has not diminished.

Although the second season of the "American Model Competition" will be broadcast until the beginning of March, the new drama "Wuwang City" launched by the TV station will also wait until the end of February.

However, with the arrival of New York Fashion Week, according to the rules originally drafted, the first season of "Tianqiao Pride" did not completely end, but the finals were placed in New York Fashion Week.

After the winter break, after the sudden elimination, the three finalists will also show their finals in the highly anticipated Manhattan Bryant Park.

In order to gather more attention, before the final finals, "Tianqiao Pride" specially made two special episodes, which were broadcasted two weeks before and after New York Fashion Week, because all the popular reality show players in the show were simultaneously Returning, although there is no previous game link, more is just a review of last year's program and interviews with players. However, the two special programs have still achieved the ratings of 5oo people, which has once again demonstrated the "overpass" to the media and the industry. Pride is a powerful popularity.

Although Linda made an invitation to Eric, he hoped that he would appear as a special guest in the final episode of "The Bridge", in the final recording scene, but Eric had to rush back to Los Angeles after the US online ipo.

The initial budget of "Oro Royal Casino oo7" has been released, and the world-wide film and some important supporting audition work will be launched at the same time, which is inseparable from Eric's participation.

At the same time, Firefly, MGM and Fox also began negotiations on the establishment of a fee-based cable station.

In the original time and space, the h wave almost monopolized the market share of the toll-free cable TV platform, and the annual profit income was even close to 200 million US dollars. Even if the profit scale is more than ten years later, it can squeeze into the world's top 500. In the enterprise. While several other major media companies have tried many times to try to catch up with the market position of h wave, because the h wave has formed a market monopoly area early, coupled with its excellent operational means, the market position has been stable.

In the memory, in the 20th Century Fox, in order to get a h wave, even made an invitation to the entire Time Warner Group, the result was of course unsuccessful.

However, at this time, the entire US cable TV market, after a long period of brewing since the 1980s, has just been in the early stages of the explosion. Although the h wave has been small and small, it is far less dazzling, which gives other charges. The opportunity for the cable station to come up later.

On the early morning of the new week, Eric deliberately rushed to Prea Vista to have breakfast with Kasenberg in the cafe in the studio, and to discuss the progress of the recent period.

"We have roughly selected a few targets, the most suitable of which is a toll-free cable station under the telecom. The user of this TV station is currently around 150 million, mainly playing early old movies. Although the user base is low, But with the user base of 4ooo million telecom, as long as it can provide enough high-quality video resources, the growth of subscribers will be very fast."

Kasenberger reported on the progress of the paid cable station, took a sip of coffee, and then said: "However, telecommunications is not willing to let go of this TV station, they hope to leave 2% of the shares, I think if We finally decided to buy this TV station, we should be able to reduce the shareholding of telecoms to 1o%. After all, without our content support, the telematics station of telecom is not likely to grow."

Telecommunications, Comcast, and Time Warner are the three giants of traditional cable TV operators in this era. In addition, there are more small and medium-sized cable operators and emerging satellite TV operators in North America. Even News Corp. There are cable TV operations, but the scope of operations is mainly concentrated in Europe and Australia.

In the early 1980s, due to antitrust considerations, these cable operators were not allowed to hold TV stations, but as media regulations became more open, such restrictions were gradually broken. When Barry Diller left Fox, the qv TV shopping channel was operated by telecom and Comcast.

After the new century, the largest cable operator in the United States has changed from telecommuting to Comcast. Eric is not quite sure why, but it can be guessed that telecom is either after the Internet wave is broken. It is as bankrupt as many high-tech companies, or it is merged. If it is the latter, this merger is obviously Comcast.

"Try to fight for it, it can be best to press 1o%. At the same time, we should also seek more resources in advance for remote communication," Eric thought for a moment.

He did not think about monopolizing the TV station from the beginning, keeping the stock connection with the operators, but also allowing the other party to provide more resources and facilities for the expansion of the TV station. In addition, Kasenberg proposed to exclude Fox from the partners. In addition, Eric did not adopt this proposal. If it's just North America, of course there is no need to bring Fox together. After all, Firefly and MGM have been able to provide enough programs for TV stations.

But in the longer term, the international media channel resources in the hands of News Corporation can help the toll-free cable station to go overseas more easily, just like the Disney channel in the hands of fireflies, because of the good relationship between fireflies and Fox, in the first two years. It is equipped with the channel resources of Sky Media and has successfully entered the TV market in Europe and Australia.

At the end of last year, with the popularity of the "American Model Competition" and "Tianqiao Pride", Firefly has also begun to cooperate with News Corporation to turn lietime TV station into overseas market. News Corporation's TV station in Australia has also bought it. The copyright of the Australian version of the "Model Contest". ,

Even if I ignore the relationship between Eric and Elizabeth, it is definitely better for the Fox to enter this cooperation.

After discussing the issue of the paid cable station, the two men ate the breakfast slowly, and Eric handed the prepared information to Kasenberg, saying: "This is some of the things I recently asked Kelly to collect about ima. And 3d video technology information, you take it back, you can also give Frank a copy of them."

Kasenberg is somewhat unfamiliar with the concept of ima, but knows 3d technology, taking over the information and saying: "Eric, are you going to make a 3d movie?"

Eric shook his head and said: "There is no such plan yet. You should first look at the information. According to the future production strategy of fireflies, we will take the boutique route of the big production. Most of these films pay more attention to the visual experience. You can imagine that if you can popularize 3D movie technology into these films, we can not only improve the competitiveness of the film itself, but also increase the movie fare to a certain extent on the basis of 2d. In recent years, although the movie audience The scale has been growing and the world movie market is expanding. But there is always a saturated day. By that time, 3D film technology may become a very important entry point for us to maintain sustained performance growth. Oh, ima technology is also the same. I don't know if there is an imascreen in Los Angeles. You can look it up and experience it first."

After listening carefully, Kasenberg seriously nodded and said: "I will read the information as soon as possible, and then let the strategic planning department come up with an assessment." (To be continued.) 8