Chapter 760 Celebration Party

Time has entered December, the third week of Scream's release. Although Thanksgiving has passed, the film still received 13.56 million US dollars at the box office due to its popularity among teenagers, and the three-week cumulative box office reached 52.11 million US dollars. . Look

Relatively speaking, the Jedi Men released by Firefly Headquarters, although the box office harvested 42.57 million US dollars in the first week, was pleasantly surprised, but because the box office fell by more than 40% for two consecutive weeks, the box office of the film fell to 15.6 million US dollars in the third week. Compared with Scream, there is not much advantage. With Scream's weak weekly decline curve of about 20%, this low-cost thriller may even surpass the Jedi Men at the box office in the fourth week.

However, although the box office curve is very different, there is no suspense that the two films will break through 100 million at the North American box office in the next few weeks. As the two films, the production cost also does not exceed 20 million, and even the total production and distribution costs are around 30 million. The North American box office exceeded 100 million. There is no doubt that these two films were the dark horses at the box office at the end of 1995, while the box office of several other films released in the same period was only less than 30 million US dollars in three weeks. Even if the corresponding film company did not lose money, The profits are also far from comparable to Scream and the Jedi.

The unexpected success of Scream has played a very obvious role in promoting MGM's stock issuance plan in December.

At present, several major film companies in North America have basically completed the transformation and integration into media groups. Even Columbia and Universal are backed by large multinational groups, and their business scope also involves all aspects other than movies. However, MGM, which has struggled for more than ten years in business difficulties and debt quagmire, is still limited to pure film production and distribution, if not for the integration of several major series of films from Flower Pictures and DreamWorks After the copyright, its strength has greatly increased. MGM wants to issue additional shares, and it is estimated that even the investment banks that undertake the business cannot find it.

However, with Charlie's Angels, 007, Mission: Impossible, Night at the Museum, Resident Evil, and the Scream series, which has just been a box office success, MGM's December stock issuance went very smoothly, with a total of 70 million stock issuance plans. , was sold out within a week of its official release.

Under normal circumstances, when a company implements a stock issuance process, the stock price tends to show a downward trend. However, because of the positive stimulation of the success of the screaming box office, the stock price of MGM not only did not fall, but rose against the trend within a week. After the completion of the additional issuance, the total share capital of MGM has reached 435 million shares, and the market value has reached a new high, reaching 6.873 billion US dollars. With the huge capital of 1 billion US dollars raised in this additional issuance, MGM has completely got rid of the current situation of shortage of funds, and the huge debt of 1.7 billion US dollars can no longer pose too much threat to it, and the company has officially entered a healthy development track.

Burbank, the headquarters of the Firefly Group.

Kelly Haynes knocked on Eric's office door and walked in.

"Eric,

This is the casting information for Yuwang City just passed over from New York. They have already narrowed down the candidates to eight. "

Eric motioned to Kelly to sit down and looked down at the cast information in his hand.

After Candace Bushnell disagreed with Elizabeth Hurley for the lead role, Eric devolved casting to AE's programming division.

However, during the casting process, Eric casually added several original heroines to the audition list. At this time, when he opened the audition results from New York, Eric was surprised to find the heroine given by the crew. Among Carly Bradshaw's two candidates, Sarah Jessica Parker was still elected, and the other candidate surprised Eric, Mary Louis Parker, a single drug mother in the original time and space.

Just looking at the names, people who don't know may even think that they are sisters, but Eric knows that the two have nothing to do with each other.

In the character evaluation column of the role form, Mary Louis Parker's comment reads: With many years of Broadway stage performance experience, skilled acting, shrewd and cunning, but not lacking in style, it is very suitable for the heroine Carly Bradshaw. writer's identity.

Because of the type of drama and the relationship between the times, Eric's impression of the single poisonous mother is much stronger than that of the city. Mary Louise Parker's role in the single poisonous mother is like a struggling to survive surrounded by wolves, tigers and leopards. Without a little sheep, Eric's memory is more than a series of cute and innocent eyes in the other party's dark and pure eyes.

Kelly, who was sitting opposite Eric, noticed a strange smile on the corner of his mouth and asked curiously, "Eric, what's wrong?"

"Ah, no," Eric shook his head and crossed the Mary Louis Parker profile.

Although between Sarah Jessica Parker and Mary Louise Parker, it's the latter that makes Eric look more emotional. But because of the deep memory of the single poisonous mother, Eric was unable to bring Mary Louis Park into the heroine of Yuwang City, not to mention that the original heroine had already appeared in the final list of candidates, Eric no longer Do superfluous things.

After confirming this matter, Eric looked through several other candidates, but this time he found no acquaintances.

After giving the information to Kelly, Eric said: "The heroine chooses Sarah Jessica Parker, I don't care about the other three heroines, let Annie decide for themselves."

Kelly wondered: "Eric, don't you need to see the audition tape, it will be delivered tomorrow?"

Eric shook his head: "No, since they have narrowed down the candidates to eight, these people are definitely very suitable."

"Okay, then I want to go out."

Kelly packed up the information and was about to leave, when Eric stopped her: "By the way, Drew is holding a party at Jiaojiao Manor tonight to celebrate the successful issuance of the stock and the success of the screaming box office, you want to are you coming?"

Kelly stopped, turned around, shook her head, and said with a smile, "I'm afraid not tonight. I promised Nina to take her to the movies."

"Oh, forget it, I won't delay you from being a good mother."

"Hehe, if it's all right, I'll be in the office."

Kelly smiled and left Eric's office, but, in less than five minutes, she turned around again.

"Eric, the new line called and said that the English version of the Hongfan District cooperating with Jiahe has been completed. You mentioned it before, do you want to watch it now?"

Eric nodded, looked at his watch, and said to Kelly, "Let them prepare, I'll be there at three o'clock."

"Okay." Kelly nodded and exited the office.

Eric was busy with some of the work in his hand. It was nearly three o'clock. He got up and walked to the file cabinet in the office to find a script, then left the office and walked towards the projection room of the office building.

After several years of development, the original New Line Film Company has been fully integrated into the Firefly system. However, under the arrangement of Eric, the team of the new line still adhered to the original production strategy, and at the same time did not cut off some cooperation with the Golden Harvest Film Company on the other side of the ocean.

Hongfan District is the film work that Jiahe once again tried to enter the North American market. Jiahe mainly invested in the production. Xinxian only participated in a small part of the investment and provided relevant assistance in the shooting process, so it obtained the North American distribution rights of the film. The film was completed last year and has been widely released in Asia, but the North American release is scheduled for next year's Easter schedule.

Although the North American box office of more than 30 million US dollars in the Hongfan District in the previous life was converted into more than 200 million Hong Kong dollars, which made Jiahe overjoyed, but Eric didn't care too much, he was only interested in the Hongfan District's warm-up of the actor's popularity in North America effect.

At this time, another script in Eric's hands was the focus of his plan.

This is a script written by a screenwriter named Ross Ramana. Although Ross Ramana seems to be unknown, this script is famous in the original time and space because it is called Rush Hour.

The rush hour script at this time is just an old-fashioned and simple dual-protagonist crime action genre film, which is very similar to the current Jedi men and the previous Beverly Hills detectives, lethal weapons and other series, and even the protagonist is very similar. There is no 100% certainty that Asians are used, and the plot is also a bit far from the original.

However, Eric is only interested in the general story outline of the script. As for the detailed plot, he will revise it according to his own wishes in the future.

There is also an episode worth mentioning. Rush Hour screenwriter Ross Ramana also wrote another script called Titanic, which also revolves around the story of the big ship. Of course, this script has absolutely nothing to do with the project that Cameron is shooting. Originally, there were still film companies interested in this script. However, after Firefly released Cameron's version of the Titanic project, Ross Ramana's script It was completely ignored.

When I came to the screening room of the headquarters building, in addition to the person in charge of the new line, Eric also saw several Asian faces, but did not see the male protagonist.

"Mr. Williams, let me introduce to you, this is Jonny Lee, the producer of the red zone, and Chen, the agent of the actor Jack." Seeing Eric coming, the person in charge of the new line Introduce a few people to Eric.

"Mr. Li, Mr. Chen, hello, welcome to Los Angeles," Eric shook hands with the other party and said, "Then, let's watch a movie first."

The producer surnamed Li said enthusiastically: "Of course, Mr. Williams, I'm sure you won't be disappointed."

The crowd didn't chat too much, and walked into the screening room together.

Eric has seen this movie in his previous life, and of course it is in Mandarin. At this time, watching the specially translated English version, of course there is no problem in understanding the lines. Compared with the original in memory, it is very interesting. .

After the movie was played, Eric patiently listened to the person in charge of the new line to introduce the release plan, but nodded and did not intend to intervene. Instead, he handed the rush hour script in his hand to the person in charge of the new line and the actor's agent.

"This is a script I saw by accident. I think this story is slightly modified, which is very suitable for Jack. I have written the detailed modification comments on the script, but I think if it is filmed, Jack must have a lot of personal ideas. , so, Mr. Chen, you can discuss it with him, and if you are interested, we can sign it immediately."

Although they also got a few pages of the script, the producer of Jiahe found that Eric didn't mention their intentions. He looked at Jack Cheng's manager and thought about it, but he still didn't speak immediately.

However, when Jack Cheng's agent heard Eric's words, he was overjoyed and said, "Mr. Williams, are you saying that if Jack wants, we can sign it immediately?"

"Of course," Eric nodded with a smile: "If all goes well, I hope the film will be released at the end of next year."

Mr. Chen asked again: "Then, Mr. Williams, I don't know if this film is produced by New Line or by Firefly Headquarters?"

Eric said: "New Line, but Mr. Chen, whether it is New Line, Firefly or Disney, the different brands under Firefly are only different in the type of film production, so you don't have to worry about the film being produced by New Line. , will be treated differently.”

Although he really hoped to cooperate, Mr. Chen continued to ask: "Mr. Williams, then, Jack's salary?"

"Hehe, let's discuss with the new line," Eric said with a smile. Although Ai Rui also thought about asking the other party to sign three low-cost movie contracts in one go, but after thinking about it carefully, there is no need to do so much damage. After all, a win-win situation is the best way to cooperate.

It was nearly five o'clock when I watched the movie, and I talked about the rush hour. Eric handed over the follow-up work to the New Line team and hurried back to the Jiaojiao Manor.

Scream has entered its fourth week, and has once again collected 10.65 million US dollars at the box office. The total box office has reached more than 62 million. With the arrival of the next Christmas schedule, I believe that the film's box office will rebound to a certain extent, and the North American box office will exceed 100 million. Just a matter of time.

Coupled with the smooth implementation of MGM's stock issuance plan, the girl was allowed to hold a celebration party for MGM's recent good situation at the corner manor after pestering Eric for a while.

When Eric arrived at the Jiaojiao Manor, it was past six o'clock, and guests began to arrive in the manor one after another.

(To be continued.)

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