Chapter 963 Development of the Easter Schedule
The last set of shots was completely without any difficulty. After more than ten minutes, with the cheers and congratulations of everyone on the set, the prison scene in "Iron Man" came to an end.
An assistant director was arranged to be responsible for the finishing work. Joss Whedon came to Eric who had just removed the mark1 armor and asked, "Eric, I will check all the shooting materials during this period tomorrow, Do you want to come together?"
When Iron Man filming had just started, Joss Whedon was worried that Eric would get too involved in the making of the film.
However, in the past two weeks, he has completely no scruples in this regard. Even, Eric's occasional advice during the shooting process has benefited him a lot as a rookie director who is a big-budget film for the first time. Joss Whedon now sincerely hopes to get from Eric here. Get more advice.
After the filming of the episode in the cave is complete, the set in the studio will soon be removed to make room for other films.
Therefore, once the shots of this part of the scene need to be re-shot, it will be very troublesome, and Eric naturally wants to make sure that everything is safe. Although tomorrow is Sunday, Eric did not hesitate to hear Joss Whedon's invitation. Promise.
Several core creators of the film got together again to discuss the shooting arrangements for next week, and Eric left the studio.
Noticing that he didn't see Miranda Kerr until he left the studio this time, Eric asked Caroline and the two women who were with him: "Have you come back yet?"
Caroline shook her head: "No, I called ten minutes ago, and Carter said they were going to go back and should take off now."
Today's filming ended relatively early. It was not yet five o'clock. Eric was in no hurry, nodded, and walked to the office of his administrative district, intending to deal with some work matters.
Eric walked into the office, and just turned on the computer, Caroline knocked on the door and handed him a folder: "Eric, this is what you ordered on Friday, the movie will be released on the Easter schedule. The film list, the relevant film details and marketing plans of the three companies Firefly, MGM and Fox are also included."
In the face of the increasingly crowded summer and new year stalls, Eric has had the idea of developing new popular stalls since last year. In addition to expanding the release cycle of the summer stalls and the Spring Festival stalls step by step, he first focused on on Easter.
In the plan, the 'reald' and '4200' plans to promote 3D and imax films will be implemented by the end of next year.
At that time, there will be no shortage of 3d and imax film sources for the New Year's file. Currently, there are two "Gravity" and "The Lord of the Rings" first films, but only a few 3d and imax film sources for the New Year's file. Obviously it is impossible to support from the new year to the summer.
Therefore, the Firefly system must release at least two more films in 3D and imax formats in the six months between the end of the year and the summer vacation to ensure that the 4,000 3D screens and 200 imax screens around the world will not be in a dilemma due to lack of film sources. In the six months between New Year's and summer, Easter is undoubtedly the best time to launch new sources.
Easter is the time for American students to take spring break, and teens happen to be the most receptive to the new model of movie screenings.
Speaking of which, the Easter schedule has always existed, and Hollywood releases a lot of films during the Easter period every year.
However, in the past, the attitude of all film companies towards the Easter schedule was only to take advantage of the students' holiday, so that they could earn a little more than the more deserted off-season films.
Since it has not been paid too much attention, there are very few big-budget movies released during the Easter schedule.
However, once the 'reald' and '4200' plans are implemented, the situation will be different.
First, since we are still in the film age, each film print costs between $1,000 and $2,000 to make, depending on the length of time.
Although the production cost of a single copy is not high, multiply this number by two or three thousand, and the expenditure becomes very large.
In the process of film distribution, only a few thousand film copies will cost millions of dollars. A 3D film in dual-camera mode directly doubles this cost, and the cost of expensive imax film film is equivalent to ten times that of ordinary film. times.
A film released in 3d and imax mode may cost more than ten million dollars just to make copies. Therefore, under the current circumstances, it is absolutely unnecessary for a low-cost film with a production budget of less than $50 million to enter the 4,200 theaters in Eric's plan, and two years later, it will take over "Gravity" during Easter 2000. And the 3d and imax movies of the first episode of "The Lord of the Rings" can only be big-budget movies.
In order to ensure that the Easter schedule film does not fail by then, Eric intends to develop the concept of the Easter schedule with great fanfare starting this year.
This process is probably similar to cultivating shopping carnivals such as Double Eleven or Black Friday, and it is not too complicated. To sum up, it is nothing more than improving the quality of movies released during Easter, and increasing publicity and marketing efforts to attract more audiences who would not otherwise watch movies on Easter to enter the cinema.
According to the information in hand, MGM intends to focus on the film "Xenogeneic" during the Easter period, and the production cost is 35 million US dollars, which is regarded as a medium-cost production.
Speaking of which, the heroine of this sci-fi horror film should have been Natasha Henstridge. Natasha Henstridge, who started her career as a model at the age of 14, is also a member of the Victoria's Secret Army.
Eric heard the girl talk about the audition for this movie last year, but did not intervene. In the end, the heroine of the film fell on another very beautiful actress in Hollywood, Heather Graham. In addition, Heather Graham also had a very good performance in New Line's "Boogie Nights" last year.
When casting "Iron Man", Eric directly assigned the role of "Vanity Fair" female reporter Kristen Everhart to the Victoria's Secret Legion. Linda Evangelinsta privately gave him the nickname 'jealous-daddy' because of Eric's ban on not allowing the Victoria's Secret Angel to fall in love with Xiao Lizi, which is quite apt.
Since he created the Victoria's Secret Army himself, Eric never minds holding his group of beautiful babies higher. Of course, doing so is not without merit. The higher Eric holds the Victoria's Secret Legion, the greater his influence in the fashion circle.
Natasha Henstridge did not get the role of "Xenogeneic". After Eric released the spot, he saw Natasha Henstridge participated in the audition and gave her the role.
Perhaps with a bit of anger, because she was not optimistic about the prospect of "Ace Powers 2", Elizabeth took this nonsensical spoof comedy out as Fox's main film in the Easter schedule.
However, the $30 million production budget of "Ace Power Spy 2" can also be among the top few films in the Easter schedule. Moreover, although there is not much expectation for this comedy, as long as it can maintain the North American box office level of the previous work of about 60 million, this film cannot be regarded as a failure.
And finally, New Line's romantic comedy called "The Wedding Singer," starring Adam Sandler.
If you compare the budget, New Line's "Wedding Singer" is the lowest of the three films, with a production cost of only $18 million, about half of the production cost of "Xenogeneic", and it can't be compared with "Ace Spy 2" at $30 million. compared to the production cost.
However, among the three films, Eric's favorite is "The Wedding Singer".
Because he happened to remember this movie, the original time and space, the heroine of this movie is Drew. Although the specific box office of "The Wedding Singer" is not clear, Eric knows that the film means almost as much to Adam Sandler as Jim Carrey's famous "Dumb and Dumber".
This time, the girl will definitely not be involved in this low-cost romantic comedy. However, the heroine who replaces the girl is Aniston, which is naturally the result of Eric's intervention.
After reconciling with Aniston last year, Eric happened to see that the new line was choosing a heroine for this romantic comedy, so he asked the chick to try it. "Friends" has entered the final stage, and now it is Aniston's role. Time to turn your energy to the film industry
As for the actor Adam Sandler, he has been a screenwriter and actor in "Saturday Night Live" since the early 1990s. As a resident actor of the longest-running variety entertainment show in North America, Adam Sandler is also considered in the United States. A household name.
A lot of people often confuse Adam Sandler with Ben Stiller's bad boy gang. But in fact, Adam Sandler is not a member of the Bad Boys Gang, but his own style, and his films have a very obvious personal style. The members of the Rotten Boys focus on vulgar comedies with no lower limit, but Adam Sandler prefers more warm and nonsensical romantic comedies.
Of course, as the star who frequently tops Hollywood's low-return charts in memory, Eric's mentality toward Adam Sandler is about the same as Jim Carrey's, or worse than Jim Carrey.
Jim Carrey still has international box-office appeal, but Adam Sandler's comedies, like the Bad Boys dramas, are mostly limited to North America.
Therefore, after working with Adam Sandler on several films, once the other party's salary and project production budget exceeded the acceptable range of Firefly, Eric would not plan to cooperate with the other party again.
After all, Firefly is not short of projects, and at the same time, the risk of comedy movies is actually very high. If the budget swells to a large-scale production due to the skyrocketing salary of the main creator, the probability of loss will become very high. This is actually Adam Sander. The reason Leer regularly tops the low-return leaderboards. Even, even if the box office is good, the profit estimates are basically in the hands of stars like Adam Sandler, and the studios are often just making hard money.
The three films, "Alien," "Ace 2," and "The Wedding Singer," haven't lived up to Eric's expectations, but they've been enough to support this Easter schedule.
Eric expects to be able to put a big-budget movie in, but on the one hand, after several years of outbreaks, the big-budget projects in Firefly's hands are all in the development stage, which is considered to be entering a trough. Just have to wait until next year. On the other hand, whether it is MGM or Fox, although they have several heavyweight films that can be arranged in the Easter schedule, with the current production scale of these two companies, they have projects that include summer and New Years. If the files are still not full, Eric can't ask the two to give up the popular schedules and run as cannon fodder for expanding the map.
After reading the information in his hand, Eric picked up the phone again and called Elizabeth and the others to discuss it. It was not until Caroline knocked on the door again and told Eric that the helicopter had returned, Eric packed his things and got off work. go home.
Leaving the office building, Eric came all the way to the helipad, but saw a group of seven or eight girls gathered beside Miranda Kerr. It seemed that they had just gotten off the plane and hadn't left yet.
These girls are about the same age as Miranda. Since they are all children of the wealthy district of Beverly High School, they are all dressed in casual clothes from the spring outing, simple shirts and jeans, and many of them have ponytails. They look youthful and invincible.
Noticing Eric's appearance, seven or eight girls immediately screamed in surprise, and they came over without recognition.
"Wow, it really is Eric."
"I thought Miranda was lying to us."
"Eric, can you sign us?"
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Eric suddenly had a big head. He never resented being surrounded by a group of beautiful girls, but he also disliked girls who were too loud.
Seemingly feeling Eric's dislike, the girls gradually quieted down, but they still boldly surrounded Eric and asked if Eric could invite them to the Sharphorn Manor to see the Shell Villa.
Eric was dealing with it, and Miranda had already walked over with another girl in his arms.
Eric was dissatisfied with the girl's self-assertion, and when he saw the appearance of the girl with Miranda, his face suddenly showed surprise.
The girl walking with Miranda is not too tall. Compared with Miranda, who has grown to 1.7 meters, she is just over Miranda's shoulders. He has long blond hair, his face is not pretty, but looks very green, and there is a small mole on his right cheek.
Noticing that Eric was looking at himself, the girl's expression was a little nervous and flustered, but she quickly walked over and introduced herself: "Hello, Mr. Williams, I'm Miranda's classmate, my name is Scarlett, Scarlett Johansson."
Eric didn't expect to meet the former Black Widow here, but it didn't feel too strange. Scarlett Johansson had debuted a few years ago, and Eric had seen her in several films. Figure, but has not been too concerned about it.
After all, Eric has discovered from various movies over the years that there are too many actors who will be famous in the future but are still unknown now. As long as these people have nothing to do with him, Eric generally does not Give someone special attention.