Chapter 879 1 Day Arrives 1 Week

Eric's assistant office is responsible for almost all aspects of his work and life, and even a bit of a housekeeper team. The girl looked familiar when she sent out an email at this time. Obviously, it was not the first time that she had done so.

Drew also knew what Eric was waiting for. After sending the e-mail, he patiently shrunk into his arms and started talking.

Until after twelve o'clock in the morning, the always-open laptop came out with the notification sound of a new email. Eric got up and opened the email and glanced at it, then smiled and picked up the already hazy girl, and walked towards the bedroom. go. If it was at a lively party, the girl would have no problem staying up all night, but in such a peaceful environment, this girl began to feel listless early on.

Feeling Eric's gentle movements, the girl put a sticker on Eric's body, curled up comfortably into a kitten, and said vaguely, "Eric, um, Boeing, how much?"

Eric smiled and replied in a doting tone: "Enough for you to buy a plane."

In the early morning of the next day, the major newspapers and media in North America became lively, because this week’s North American Friday box office rankings were almost all news points, and almost all mainstream newspapers listed Friday’s single-day box office rankings on the list. Conspicuous layout.

Finding Nemo: $20.21 million.

Chrono Contact: $6.86 million.

The Lion King 2: $6.22 million.

Godzilla: $5.95 million.

Air Crisis: $3.08 million.

Even those who are completely insensitive to the numbers on the box office list can easily understand what is going on just by glancing at the dazzling headlines in the major newspapers.

"Finding Nemo beat The Lion King 2 on day one."

"The super-space contact opened for 6.86 million US dollars, and the Paramount sniper strategy failed."

"Godzilla is down 66 year over year."

"Amberlin Pictures is dissatisfied with Paramount's investment in Chrono Contact, and there is a crack in the cooperation between the two parties."

"Summer animated films are shining brightly, and live-action blockbusters have been released all over the world. Batman and Robin, and 007's Casino Royale are about to follow suit."

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In this string of news stories, the new issue of The Hollywood Reporter details a more nuanced analysis.

"First of all, I have to mention the Titanic again. As of last week, this legendary blockbuster with a total investment of 26.5 billion US dollars has reached 2.133 billion US dollars at the global box office, and the film finally reached 602.98 million US dollars in North America. The box office is officially down. The breathtaking box office figures will directly bring the Firefly Group a global box office share of 8.6 billion US dollars, minus the cost, the net profit of the Firefly Group will be close to 600 million US dollars.”

"In addition, the sales of more than 70 kinds of Titanic merchandise also exceeded 8.5 billion US dollars. Titanic North American soundtrack sales reached 5.6 million in ten weeks of release. Interestingly, this data is only physical album sales. It is reported that the North American Recording Association refused to recognize the 1.25 million Titanic digital album sales data on Yahoo Music Store. Titanic’s overseas sales of acoustic records also easily exceeded 7 million copies. According to industry analysis, Titanic Global Records The sales may eventually reach 30 million copies, and this alone will bring another 900 million US dollars in revenue to the Firefly Group. Relevant data is comprehensive, a Titanic film will successively create no less than 20 million dollars for the Firefly Group in the next few years. The net profit of the entire Hollywood, several major media groups can exceed 2 billion US dollars, and so far only Firefly is the only one.”

"Stimulated by the huge profits created by the Titanic, in the past six months, the author has heard more than once that the seven major Hollywood film companies are brewing new super blockbuster film plans. However, in the past month, the box office performance of Hollywood reality blockbusters has , will undoubtedly make the already hot-headed Hollywood sober a lot."

"Among them, the most introspective to Hollywood,

Undoubtedly, it is the monster movie Godzilla, which belongs to the same special effects blockbuster as the Titanic. "

"Sony Pictures' ambitious work with a total investment of 2.2 billion US dollars, before its release, aimed at the global box office of 1 billion. But after experiencing a failure at the beginning and continuous extreme bad reviews, the next Friday's single-day box office has been squeezed to 1 billion. The fourth place on the list has shrunk by 66% compared to the same period of 17.5 million US dollars on the first Friday. The box office number has dropped rapidly to 5.95 million US dollars. It is expected that the box office will only be between 22 million and 25 million in the next week. It is difficult to exceed $1.3 billion. At the same time, Godzilla’s overseas box office performance was equally disappointing, and the film even faced strong boycotts from Godzilla fans in the most important Japanese market.”

"According to insider sources, Sony executives have urgently stopped the preparations for the Godzilla sequel, and the person in charge of the project may also be forced to leave.",

"As the director and producer of the film, Roland Emmerich is also destined to have a difficult time on his own. Even before the release of Godzilla, the Firefly Group suddenly announced that Michael Bay would take over to direct the firefly's well-known disaster film series the day after tomorrow. It is likely to be affected by the poor quality of Godzilla's finished film. As we all know, Roland Emmerich was once rumored to be the director candidate of the day after tomorrow, and Firefly's digital field is responsible for the special effects production of most of the Godzilla projects. Firefly is in the film. Knowing the quality of Godzilla's films before the release is not difficult."

"Beyond Godzilla, starting in May, the French Gaumont Films cost $90 million The Fifth Element, Firefly Group's $75 million Air Prison, and Amberlin Pictures and Paramount Distribution also cost the same. The $90 million super-space contact, the box office performance can only be described as deserted."

"Among them, the fifth element, which was released for three weeks, has a cumulative box office of only more than 47 million, and it is expected that the total North American box office will hardly reach 70 million US dollars. The two-week box office of the air prison is only 57.37 million US dollars, although the final box office may reach 100 million US dollars. , but still far below industry expectations. Similarly, Robert Zemeckis' sci-fi giant Macross Contact after Forrest Gump, although the production cost is comparable to the Finding Nemo released on the same day, but this film uses a sci-fi coat to deeply explore the philosophy of religion The film in question has obviously not been recognized by the audience. The box office on the first day is less than one-third of Finding Nemo, and even lower than the same period data of $7.7 million in the air prison two weeks ago. Perhaps, Amberlin and Paramount can only expect Macross contact can get out of the box office curve similar to Forrest Gump, but based on audience feedback, this possibility is extremely slim."

“Four consecutive big-budget live-action film failures at the box office have raised concerns about the much-anticipated Batman and Robin and 007 Casino Royale in the next two weeks. At the same time, Hollywood may also calm down at this time and not be in the Titanic. Excessive pursuit of big investment and big production under the stimulus.”

"However, in addition to live-action movies, the box office and word-of-mouth performance of the two big animated movies released one after another in the summer are surprising."

"The Lion King 2, the second hand-drawn animated film after Paramount Pictures took over Disney's hand-drawn animation studio, although it was restrained by competitors in its announcement, the box office still reached 55.7 million US dollars in the first week, and even more in the following week. It only fell slightly by 24, and received another 430,000 US dollars, and the cumulative box office in two weeks reached 98.03 million US dollars. On the first day of the third week of its release, although the year-on-year decline expanded to 37 under the impact of Finding Nemo, with the long-term advantage of animated films, The total North American box office may still reach $200 million in the future, far exceeding the box office potential of several live-action blockbusters that have already been released.”

"Finally, it is the top priority of today's topic, Finding Nemo."

"Before Finding Nemo was released, due to the popularity of Disney's The Lion King 2 at the box office, the industry generally believed that Eric Williams' move to sell Disney's hand-drawn animation studio was extremely stupid. But after Finding Nemo , a lot of people have to keep their mouths shut."

"Only three-quarters of the production cost of The Lion King 2, and an excellent reputation that is comparable to The Lion King 2. Even though Finding Nemo has much more convenient publicity channel resources than The Lion King 2, it surpassed The Lion King 2 on the first day by 741 Under the excellent box office performance of 10,000 US dollars, we also have to admit that the 3-animated film is indeed more popular with the audience than the 2-animated film."

"The box office on the first day was 20.21 million US dollars. Stimulated by the overwhelming word of mouth, the box office of Finding Nemo may reach a high of 90 million US dollars in the first week. Due to the long-term potential of animated films, Finding Nemo will undoubtedly become the first North American box office possible this summer. The seed player who touches $300 million. Even more boldly, if this box office and word-of-mouth advantage can also be exerted in overseas markets, Finding Nemo is likely to catch up with the former Lion King and become another global box office hit the $1 billion level. animation blockbuster.”

"With the surrounding profitability of animated films far exceeding that of live-action films, the great success of a new set of cartoon characters will bring continuous and continuous financial resources to the surrounding stores, game parks and other industries of Firefly Group."

"Here, the author even began to look forward to the upcoming Ice Age on July 4th, the first 3 animation film produced by the Blue Sky Studio jointly invested by Firefly and Fox, although the cost is only 59 million US dollars, but according to the author's opinion From the senses of this animation trailer, the Ice Age is likely to be another surprise in the summer. Perhaps executives of other Hollywood studios should focus more on the development of the animation film field, rather than catching up with the unreachable. the Titanic."

The Hollywood Reporter's article inevitably caused reflections from some Hollywood studio executives, and it also prompted Firefly's competitors to speed up the deployment of the animation film industry. However, Eric had always been very clear before this that the Titanic was more of an anomaly, so he never got hotheaded about it.

Eric originally planned to take advantage of the rest day to talk to Kris Jenner about the reality show. Although the previous Kardashian family's omnipotent hype was disgusting, Eric is now a huge media The controller of the empire naturally looks at the problem from a different angle. In his position, there are 50 to 60 senior executives of the Firefly Group who can often come into contact, and there are thousands of executives above the manager level of the Firefly system, not to mention that the entire Firefly Group currently has more than 120,000 employees. In a circle like Hollywood, if there is any kind of mental cleanliness, it must not be comfortable for a day.

MGM buys! After entertainment, if you want to quickly open up the TV industry, it is undoubtedly a very effective way to use someone like Kris Jenner who is good at hyping topics.

However, early on Saturday morning, Eric received a call from Chris from New York. The two chatted for more than half an hour. Eric had to cancel the weekend break and temporarily convened the Firefly distribution department and the financial department. Management and Clover Holding's management held an emergency meeting.

The matter is very simple. After three months of accumulation, the attack of the international financial oligarchs on the Southeast Asian monetary system is about to be launched.

The two spoke on the phone, and Chris was flying from New York to Tokyo, Japan, where he might be in person for the next month.

After the meeting at the end of April, the Firefly Group began to speed up the pace of extracting the box office share of the Titanic in Southeast Asia. At the same time, it also successively sold the Firefly summer files and the films to be released in the second half of the year to Southeast Asian filmmakers.

Firefly is also very frank with Southeast Asian filmmakers. The company is worried that the economic situation in Southeast Asia will cause serious exchange rate losses in the second half of the year, so it hopes to cash out in advance.

The Thai baht just experienced an attack by international currency speculators in March, and Southeast Asian filmmakers also understand Firefly's concerns.

However, most filmmakers in Southeast Asia are generally unaware of the seriousness of the matter. According to common sense, even if the local currency depreciates by 10 or even 20, for these companies whose business scope is limited to the local area, the impact of currency depreciation will not be too great. Stimulated by the box office of the Titanic, Southeast Asian filmmakers welcomed the Firefly Group's move to sell off the distribution rights, so they rushed to buy the distribution rights.

Since the beginning of May, by adopting some financial means, Firefly has successively withdrawn the Titanic box-office share equivalent to 50 million US dollars from Southeast Asia, and the Japanese box-office share has also begun to be settled.

At the same time, after selling out Firefly’s summer program and the Southeast Asian distribution rights for a series of films such as Air Prison, Finding Nemo 2, and Jurassic Park 3 in the second half of the year, Firefly once again recovered $75 million in cash.

If it weren't for the lack of appetite for these filmmakers, Eric would actually like to sell the film distribution rights for the entire year next year. Of course, this can only be thought.

Although $75 million is not a huge sum for Firefly, it is already the highest profit that Firefly can extract in a short period of time for the Southeast Asian box office where the entire box office market is only half of Japan’s.

Although the Group's financial department statistics, due to this aggressive sell-off strategy, once there is no economic crisis in Southeast Asia, Firefly may lose 10 million to 20 million US dollars, but Eric knows that if he does not do this, when the Southeast Asian economic crisis breaks out, Firefly's The loss will be far more than that. At that time, the currency of Southeast Asia has depreciated to half, which could have been equivalent to 10 million US dollars at the box office, but only 5 million US dollars will be left after conversion. While Southeast Asia's economy has been devastated, the film industry will certainly be hit hard as well. Although there is a view in the industry that the more sluggish the entertainment industry is, the more prosperous the entertainment industry will be, but if the economy collapses, Eric does not believe that people will still have the heart to go to the movies. Otherwise, Hong Kong films in the past life will not completely decline after the Southeast Asian economic crisis. down.

Over the weekend, Eric was checking the recovery of funds in Southeast Asian countries, and at the same time began to mobilize funds to prepare for the next step for Clover Holdings to absorb more technology stocks.

The North American stock market is a very open global financial market. The severe economic shocks in Southeast Asia will inevitably affect the Nasdaq index, which has been advancing all the way. In the next few months, with the outbreak of the economic crisis in Southeast Asia, the originally high Nasdaq index will A brief dip is sure to follow, and this is undoubtedly the best time for Clover Holdings to make an investment.

While Eric was busy with these affairs, entering Saturday, the one-day box office of Finding Nemo, which had been eye-catching from the beginning, rose again by 38, and finally reached 28.01 million US dollars. Although the box office fell on Sunday, the single-day box office still maintained a high of 22.03 million US dollars. In the first three days of the first weekend, the cumulative box office of Finding Nemo reached an astonishing US $ 70.25 million. This strong box office explosive force is amazing.

A Los Angeles Times film critic even joked that Finding Nemo was one day reaping someone else's box office for a week.

In fact, the reality is indeed the case. The production cost of this year’s summer and Finding Nemo are also $90 million. The Fifth Element and Macross Contact. The former box office has only a measly more than $47 million in three weeks. The total mobilization was released in the same period, and the box office in the first weekend and three days was only 20.58 million US dollars. Although the box office in the first week may be close to 30 million, even according to the conservative 30-week decline, the super-space contact can only recover 65 million US dollars in three weeks. On par with Finding Nemo's three-day box office.

At the same time, the popularity of Finding Nemo in some overseas ticket warehouse countries that are simultaneously released is also significantly higher than that of Pixar's previous films such as Toy Story and A Bug's Life. Just in the United Kingdom, the box office of Finding Nemo in the first week reached 13.5 million U.S. dollars. Before that, Toy Story 2, Pixar's best-performing animated film overseas, only made $6.1 million on its first three days in the UK.

When this series of statistics came out, Hollywood and the North American entertainment media realized that they were all wrong in the beginning.

The most dazzling box office star this summer is not The Lion King 2, not Godzilla, maybe not the next Batman and Robin and 007 Casino Royale, but the unobtrusive before the release, the release date Sandwiched between Godzilla and Batman and Robin's two masterpieces, Finding Nemo was once considered cannon fodder. To be continued.