Chapter 482： time is money

Embassy Pictures, offline distribution department.

The constant ringing of the phone keeps everyone in the office extremely busy. Since Gibbs arrived at the company at 8:30 in the morning, he has been answering calls and taking notes, and there is no time to drink.

The colleagues around him are no better than him, all of them are serious and busy with the work at hand.

This is the first time that the offline distribution department has been busy with this picture when the movie was first released.

In the past, the online distribution department and the promotion and marketing department were the busiest at this time. The offline distribution department was preparing for future offline distribution.

Gibbs took advantage of the gap between going to the toilet and passed the online distribution department and the promotion and marketing department. He observed that these two departments are also very busy, but not as busy as the offline distribution department.

"Pirates of the Caribbean" seems to have overturned all the previous work models!

Back in the office area, Gibbs answered a few more phone calls. It was not until 11 o’clock in the morning that the phone calls gradually disappeared. When it was almost noon, he picked up the record notebook and walked into the department director Terry’s. office.

"Director." Gibson sent a record book and said: "This morning, a total of 31 distributors on my side requested to increase the shipment of "Pirates of the Caribbean" peripheral products as soon as possible. According to their first-hand data feedback, the surrounding film The sales volume exceeded our expectations by nearly three times."

Terry glanced at the record book and said, "You communicate with the manufacturer and logistics company as soon as possible."

Gibson said, "Okay."

The sales of "Pirates of the Caribbean" are so hot that even Terry didn't expect that, as of 0:00 yesterday, the film was officially released one day, and sales of peripheral goods exceeded 6 million US dollars!

Everyone can understand the huge business opportunities contained therein.

Moreover, the profit rate of peripheral products is extremely high, and the profit sharing of Embassy Pictures can reach a quarter of sales!

Terry is also a little fortunate. Fortunately, the company has made sufficient preparations in advance. It not only stocks the stock, but also temporarily rents the warehouse of the logistics company. It has established a storage center around "Pirates of the Caribbean" in the popular consumer cities of North America. Market dynamics deliver goods.

With "Pirates of the Caribbean" winning $24.8 million in the box office on the first day, and the continual increase in film schedule and attendance on Saturday, for the offline distribution of peripheral products, time is money!

According to the situation on Friday, the peripheral sales on the two rest days of the weekend will increase. The sales of peripheral products in the first weekend should exceed 20 million US dollars.

Looking at it now, the success of the company's first top-level production is a foregone conclusion!

The embassy film industry and the entire Relativity Entertainment will inevitably get involved in more top big productions in the future, and the company will inevitably have greater development.

There was a knock on the door, and Thomas, the director of the online publishing department, pushed the door and walked in.

"Why do you have time to come over?" Terry asked curiously.

Thomas joked: "Look how busy you are."

Terry shrugged: "Buster than you anyway."

Thomas couldn't help but laughed and asked: "The head office has sent a notice to all the management personnel, so that we have to go to the theater to see "Avenging Warriors" with our own eyes."

Terry only found this notice inexplicable: "Why do you support the box office of "Arabian Fallen"? Because we have been cooperating with Warner Bros.?"

Relativity Entertainment's films have been shot at Warner Studios, and the new "Batman" project in cooperation with Warner Bros. has entered the official shooting stage.

"It should not be." Thomas shook his head: "It is said that this is what Ronan meant. I guess Ronan has some ideas we don't understand."

Terry's inexplicable disappearance disappeared immediately: "Ronan's eyes have always been far away, which is not easy for us to understand."

Just like when Ronan launched the project "Pirates of the Caribbean", most of it was difficult to understand, but the result proved everything.

Terry recalled a little and found that there were many similar examples.

"When do you have time?" Terry asked.

Thomas thought for a while and said, "How about tomorrow night?"

"Good!" Terry agreed: "We will go together tomorrow night."

Others need to adjust the time to go to the theater to watch "Attack from Heaven", but Ronan went to a theater in Century City with Jessica Felton on Saturday night to watch this very special movie produced and released by Warner Bros. Hero movie.

After watching the movie, the two went to a restaurant in the Century City Shopping Center for a late night snack.

Jessica Felton ordered some food at random, and asked very curiously: "This film has a very bad reputation, why do you want to invite me to watch it?"

Ronan said, "Because this film is very special."

Jessica Felton was even more curious: "Because Warner Bros. is a partner of Relativity Entertainment?" She then denied: "This is not your style."

The waiter brought meals one after another, and the two of them ate and chatted.

Ronan took a mouthful of crispy potato pancakes and said, "Jesse, don't you think that every failed film is a painful lesson?"

Jessica Felton nodded slightly: "You are right, this film is not only about the plot and character settings, but the editing is also very poor, and the lens logic is insufficient..."

Probably because she was talking while eating, her wrist shook, and the vegetable salad on the fork fell.

Fortunately, Jessica Felton had already prepared and tied a napkin on her chest.

Ronan glanced at the stain on the white napkin, and said, "You are guilty of old problems."

Jessica Felton picked up the paper towel and gently wiped off the stain. In the shaking, Tylenol naturally said, "It's too big and there are troubles."

Ronan didn't seem to see the trembling mountain, and said, "So, the stains left by eating, women are always on the chest, but men are on the stomach."

Jessica Felton couldn't help laughing: "This makes sense." She joked with Ronan, and then brought back the off-track topic: "You must look at this "Amazing Warriors" Is it purposeful?"

Ronan didn't answer directly, instead he said: "The film and television rights of most Avengers in Marvel Comics are now in the hands of Shahai Entertainment."

"The Avengers?" Although Jessica Felton is a technical nerd, she also knows what the Avengers are. When thinking of "Avengers" that I just watched, there is a feeling of sudden realization: "You don't want to Shoot the Avengers movie, right?"

The two parties have been partners for many years. Ronan also trusted Jessica Felton very much and said, "It is true."

Jessica Felton understood: "So, you want to see why "Ark of the Fallen" failed to avoid making the same mistake in the future."

Ronan nodded: "Yes." He said again: "I told all the senior management of Shahai Entertainment and Embassy Pictures to watch this film."

Jessica Felton thought for a while and said: "It's not easy to succeed in such a movie."

Ronan agreed: "Assembling a large number of heroes with different abilities in the same movie, it can be said that it is difficult to deal with it slightly, and it is another "Avenging Warriors".

Jessica Felton is no longer a mere editor. She has served as a post-producer in several films in succession, which has also broadened her vision, saying: "This requires a detailed and huge plan."

She looked at Ronan: "You are looking for me to watch "Amazing Soldiers", isn't I also part of your plan?"

Faced with a smart, independent and capable woman like Jessica Felton, Ronan didn’t have to go around in circles. He said directly: “Jessie, no one of my partners is more proficient and good at editing than you. Among the superheroes that Shahai Entertainment holds copyright, there are many female superheroes, and there will be female superhero movies in the future. I also need a female producer who is outstanding and understands true feminism."

"So you chose me?" Jessica Felton didn't have any embarrassment: "Ronan, you made the right choice."

Ronan said, "Go back and think more about the issue of "Avenger from Heaven."

Jessica Felton nodded: "I understand."

A lot of famous heroes and monsters are also gathered in "Attack from Heaven", which can be called a movie with a large collection of monsters.

Explorer Alan Cotman in "Solomon’s Treasure", Tom Sawyer in "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer", Captain Nemo in "Twenty Thousand Miles Under the Sea", Dr. Hyde in "Doctor Incarnate", The female vampire Mina in "Dracula's Kiss", the invisible man in "The Invisible Man", and the Doolin Gray in "Portrait of Doolin Gray"...

These people responded to the call of Queen Victoria of Great Britain and formed a "special gentleman alliance" to fight against the ghosts of madmen who tried to subvert the world.

After Jessica Felton went home to look specifically at the relevant information, there was only one feeling, isn't this the Victorian Avengers or the Justice League? Hollywood had the idea of ​​forming a team to fight monsters so early.

To a certain extent, "Arises from Heaven" is a great idea.

But if you have actually worked in Hollywood, you know A good idea and a good script are 100,000 miles away from a good movie.

This film can be said to be a typical of the typical, a very clever and stunning idea, made into a vulgar and terrible film.

In contrast, the director of "Pirates of the Caribbean", Gore Wibinski, is on the contrary. The old-fashioned pirate theme has been reborn under him.

After careful consideration, Jessica Felton also discovered a major reason for the failure of "Attack from Heaven".

Although the heroes and monsters in the film are not unknown, they are even famous characters in classic literary works, but they are strange characters to the big screen and movie audiences.

A group of unfamiliar characters who have not been clearly told on the screen are rashly assembled in the same film. Can the audience quickly accept it? It must be dumbfounded!

Jessica Felton sent Ronan a reminder e-mail to remind him that the Avengers plan must be taken step by step, not in a hurry.