Chapter 1068： Opening year end period

The new film released on November 13th in the North American market includes "Teddy Bear", "Star Trek: Uprising" and "Death University".

"Teddy Bear" has a plush toy image and Eric's personal scriptwriting blessing; "Star Trek: Uprising" is Paramount's old sci-fi series; "Desperate College" script comes from creating "Screaming Kevin Williamson of the series.

It can be said that the three new films have enough potential box office appeal.

However, with the outbreak of "Teddy Bear", the opening of the "Star Trek: Uprising" and "Death University" opened the box office has been very obvious impact.

Three days in the first weekend, compared with the "Teddy Bear" $55.41 million explosive box office, the second place in the rankings of "Star Trek: Uprising", three days at the box office is only $ 22.05 million, even "Teddy Bear" Half of it is not, but the cost of making this sci-fi film is the highest among the three new films, reaching $58 million.

Because of the great difference between word of mouth and audience, the "Ma Shu" who was released into the second week was not affected by several new films. The box office in the third day of the weekend was as expected, and the decline was very good at 32%. , and received another $21.86 million for 10 days. The best-selling book has a total box office of $68.25 million. As long as the next week can withstand the pressure brought by the "Mission Impossible 3", the hope of the film box office in North America is still very large.

Kevin Williamson’s new screenwriter, “The University of Life”, did not repeat the word-of-mouth and box office of the original “Screaming and Screaming”. It was only $11.63 million in three days and ranked fourth.

From various aspects of analysis, the North American box office potential of this horror film is only about 40 million US dollars. Compared with the production cost of 30 million US dollars and the declaration budget of 10 million US dollars, Colombia can only expect overseas issuance to be recovered. cost.

Culver City.

In a screening room in Columbia Studios, the staff is preparing a film screening, and Eric and Colombian film eo Bill Michalnik are also talking about "Death University."

“The teen horror film has always had a very broad market potential. The key is to find a reliable script and production team. Of course, there is cost control. In this respect, “Death University” is simply a mess, starting from the script. There was a problem. The audience did not like to see a group of bad teenagers inexplicably save the world. They prefer to see these bad teenagers being killed by the perverted killer. The more brutal the better."

"Kevin Williamson signed a film with five films at the end of MGM, but MGM chose the summer file from the two new scripts of Kevin Williamson." I know what you did last summer, and gave up the "Death University", this is the reason. "I know what you did last summer" North American box office more than 70 million US dollars, the world's 125 million US dollars, the cost is still very Well controlled at $17 million, it is a big profit. But "Death University" now has a North American box office potential of only $40 million, and the cost of production and distribution is $40 million. This is a disaster. Bill, I will not pursue the previous things, but I hope that this will never happen again in the future."

Eric is talking, the screen door is pushed open, and the little watery Anne Hathaway holds a few cups of coffee at the door, staring at the two people sitting in the front row.

Seeing the girl appear, Eric didn’t go on, she waved at her, and Anne Hathaway walked in by chance, handing a cup of coffee to Eric and Bill Michal, and then holding it herself. A cup of coffee quietly sat down on the other side of Eric, a small look.

During this time, Anne Hathaway still often feels like she is dreaming. She just heard Eric’s unceremonious comparison with Mr. Michanik’s instructions at the door, and let her realize that this man is The power of Hollywood. At the same time, the girl also inexplicably gave birth to a sense of pride. Of course, she will not show these thoughts.

Eric didn't pay much attention to the girl's heart activities, took a sip of coffee, and saw that the show was not ready, and continued to compare with Michalnik: "Yes, the director of "Death University" is good. I remember that he is a good friend of Quentin?"

Bill Michanik didn't feel too much resistance to Eric's words. In fact, Howard Stringer and Sakamoto's top executives were more welcoming than Eric, and He also knows that Eric is just talking about things and does not address his personal meaning.

When I heard Eric’s question, Bill Michalnik said: “Yes, before the filming of “Death University”, I also watched his debut, “The Killer’s Sad Song,” which was made for only $7,000. "This is a very talented young director."

"The Colombian side can continue to try to cooperate with him," Eric remembers a series of very personal style directors in the original time, Robert Rodriguez, and said: "Of course, you should not because I just In that case, I will focus all my attention on cost control. As long as I encounter a good project, I still have to spend money on it. I just don’t want to see a lot of unnecessary waste. The scale of this aspect is yours. I am self-sufficient. For Colombia, I give you enough autonomy, but I also hope to see the corresponding return."

Bill Michalick nodded and said: "Eric, in fact, I recently talked to Robert about a project, a children's science fiction film, telling the story of a pair of retired agents who fought back in the face of bad guys. The script is still being written, and I will pass it to you the first time."

Eric heard the description of Bill Michalnik and immediately thought of the "alternative" series of "very small spies" in Robert Rodriguez's work.

Although it is not clear about the box office situation of this series, it is absolutely very successful to be able to shoot three in a row.

Moreover, Eric’s first feeling is that this series should be more suitable for Disney.

However, this thought is only flashing in Eric's mind. Colombia is in desperate need of some quality film projects to recover. At this time, it is definitely not suitable to transfer Bill Michalnik's personal film to Disney. there.

Anyway, even if you don't participate in the production and distribution of the film, as long as the series can be successful, the surrounding operation of the film can still be handled by the experienced Disney team to maximize profits.

"It’s ok to tell me the script as soon as possible," Eric nodded, and saw that the staff finally told the film to show at the door, and waved at random, and continued to compare with Michalnik: "Say, we want Looking at the film, the production cost is $1,000 lower than Robert's "Slayer's Sadness". The whole process cost only £3,500, or about $6,000. It is said that the director spent a year using the Saturday. The work was freed during the free time. In September, the film also won the Best Debut Award at the San Francisco Film Festival."

With Eric’s remarks, the lights in the auditorium were dark.

On the big screen, the film did not have a title. In the black and white picture, there was a pair of hands wearing gloves. After a moment of scattered shots, the name of the movie appeared on the screen: "Follow."

Christopher Nolan, Follow.

Many things in this world always look very wonderful.

For example, Eric last time in the United Kingdom to collect scripts, originally wanted to find Guy Ritchie's "Two Shots", but found another famous script, "Memory Fragments". The scriptwriter's name is a pair of brothers, Christopher Nolan, Jonathan Nolan.

The remarks given by the British branch are Christopher Nolan's debut "Following", which is the one being shown. In the data, not only the San Francisco Film Festival, but also a very good response at many other independent film festivals.

Eric’s work has been seen in the original time of Nolan’s work. Of course, the most impressive one is the Batman trilogy.

As for other things such as "Memory Fragments", "White Nights", "Fatal Magic", etc., Eric used to be a director. Although he can feel the special thoughts that Nolan spent on these works, it is hard to die like those. Fans like these fans enjoy these movies.

However, although Nolan’s films outside of Batman are not very popular, Eric will naturally not let go, and in the past few days, after thinking, Eric has even A complete plan, that is Batman.

In the original time and space, Nolan's "Batman" trilogy is absolutely amazing in terms of box office and quality of works.

But at the same time, the success of Nolan's "Batman" trilogy also caused a very 'deep' influence on Time Warner's d comic universe. When the Marvel movie universe was fully up, it was impossible to get rid of Nolan's "bat." The influence of the trilogy of the man, d in order to fight against several works of the Marvel universe, almost all embarked on a very unsuccessful dark route, and even some of them are enchanted to the point that most of the pictures are dark.

Although works such as "Superman: The Body of Steel" are not strictly a commercial failure, the loss of the movie universe after the Nolan "Batman" trilogy is obvious to all.

After the box office and word of mouth failed "Batman and Robin" last year, Warner Bros. will definitely fall into a period of silence in the adaptation of the comics, but there is no doubt that if there is another film company in Hollywood that has a The potential of Marvel's counterbalance is absolutely undoubtedly a time Warner's d.

Once Marvel's next "Iron Man", "Spider-Man" and even the entire Marvel movie universe flourished, you can imagine that Warner will definitely follow up immediately.

Well, if there is no 'Buckle' in Nolan's "Batman" trilogy this time, even if Warner's internal low execution factor will delay the speed of the entire d-change universe, as long as Time Warner's high-level reaction comes, d movie universe It will still be a huge threat to Marvel.

In the past history, with the fierce competition between Marvel and D, there has been a very obvious trend of flooding in the movie market. If this trend is not contained, the audience will gradually feel bored one day and eventually lead to The entire diffuse change in the film market.

Since the plan of the entire Marvel movie universe has been advanced, then, in case, just in case, Eric quickly noticed the discovery of Nolan, and continued to promote Nolan to make the "Batman" of d. series.

As long as the d comic universe can be firmly put on Nolan's mark again, Eric believes that there is no time for Warner's internal disputes. Eric believes that there is no time for ten or eight years, and d will never want to turn back to the right path.

Of course, on the other hand, Eric definitely does not intend to do such a 'good thing' in vain.

In any case, Nolan's "Batman" trilogy has won more than $2 billion in the global box office giant. Although it is not easy to let the copyright of "Batman" be easily made by Warner, who has the whole time Warner's backing, but in the box office defeat of "Batman and Robin", by then, the firefly system is completely inconsistent with Warner's copyright. It’s still very easy to get involved in a part of the investment and get a lot of profit from it.

I want to come, any one of Time Warner’s top executives will never think that Eric’s involvement in investment sharing risks and copyright does not allow Warner’s demise in the “Batman” series to be revived. In fact, he is digging a Warner. Bigger pit.

How can there be such a bad person?

Eric thought about these things, and on the screen, only 70 minutes of "Following" was quickly finished.

After the lights are on, the time is approaching noon.

Eric took Anne and Bill Michalnik to the in-house restaurant in Columbia Studios and ordered lunch. Eric asked Bill Michalnik: "So, Bill, you think that movie. how about it?"

“A very interesting non-linear narrative,” said Bill Michnik. “Just, it seems that there is a bit too much emphasis on skills. If you analyze it carefully, there is actually no place in the story that is worthy of recollection.”

Eric agreed to nod and smiled. "However, this is actually a talent. Not everyone can make such a good quality film at such a low cost. For newcomers, They don't have enough resources to invite stars or make big scenes, they can only spend a lot of effort on storytelling skills. Was Quentin's "Pulp Fiction" not the same?"

Bill Michalnick smiled and said: "So, Eric, you let me see what this film is going to do?"

"There is also a script called "Memory Fragments". The narrative style is similar to this "follow-up". However, the story is more elaborate and complete," Eric did not bend around. "I will fly directly to New York." So I didn't bring it to you. However, I have asked my assistant's office to send the script to your email address. You can go back and check it out. My request is to find the director and sign three movies with him. The film was tied to the Columbia Film Company's chariot. As for his film style, it may not be easy to achieve commercial success, but as long as the propaganda strategy is right, the director with strong personal style is still very It is easy to get a large number of diehard fans."

After saying this, Eric finally added with some unclear smiles: "As for the future, I will talk about it in the future."