Chapter 727: Big Move (I)
"Transformers 4" is Paramount's signature work, with a global box office of $1.087 billion, a North American box office of 245 million, and a Chinese box office of 1.979 billion Chinese dollars.
"Love What I Love" didn't pursue too much to benchmark this work at the beginning, because its domestic box office was really amazing, but with the green light in the North American market, both Paramount and Fox were surprised to find that in terms of global box office performance, "Love What I Love" has more stamina.
Although Huaxia is a lot worse at the box office, North America's catch-up and overtaking is still something to look forward to, maybe, the world can break a billion dollars? Maybe, try to surpass "Transformers 4"?
Unfortunately, the final box office stopped at $1.03 billion.
Well, this is the number advertised to the outside world, in fact, this number should be 980 million, which is 100 million dollars short of "Transformers 4".
Rao is so, Paramount and Fox are still overjoyed, although this box office has not been compared, but the production cost of "Love What I Love" is less than that of "Transformers 4", and the profit is almost a tie.
Paramount, as the co-producer of the two works, is most aware of this, and it is they who actively proposed to convene a meeting of the management to exchange the gains and losses this time.
Paramount, Fox, Huayi, Bairihong, the four companies held a closed-door high-level meeting at the Hilton in Beijing, this cooperation is relatively pleasant, the two Hollywood giants provide global distribution channels, Huayi guarantees domestic channels, and Bairihong provides Forrest Gump, all of whom are happy.
The global box office performance of one billion dollars can be said to be an achievement, and so far, there are only 20 films with this achievement in film history.
Now, that number has moved up a bit to 21.
The official Weibo of the four companies has already officially announced the box office results, and Gan Jing also forwarded his company's Weibo, which once again attracted the congratulations of many peers.
One billion box office is an honor.
Of course, Gan Jing himself is still relatively calm when looking at this achievement, and the box office in film history has to take inflation into account, like "Star Wars Episode 1", which was $1.027 billion in 1999, and "Titanic", which was $2.186 billion in 1997, which is amazing.
The meeting of the four divisions went relatively smoothly, and this time Paramount and Fox both gave dry goods, disclosing some deep data in addition to the surface data, the feedback of European countries on the film, the expectations and evaluations of East Asian countries for actors, and so on.
Every billion-dollar movie is a phenomenon, and Paramount, which has not performed very well in recent years, even thinks about whether the global market still has expectations for themes like "Love What I Love", and the company has set up a team to analyze this matter.
Around the same time, Bairi Red also set up an internal analysis team for the box office market in Asian countries.
The meeting lasted for two days, and the Beijing Hilton was also a happy guest, and after that, Mr. Tom, the executive vice president of Paramount's trip, visited Forrest Gump's 100 Days Red Film and Television Company.
"Forrest Gump, we must strengthen cooperation, the potential of the Chinese market is still very large. Tom was a serious inspector, but what impressed him the most was Forrest Gump's unique corporate culture, with two lines of Chinese characters plastered on the door of each office.
"Of course. Regarding the script for next year's Oscars, I still hope that you can provide some more realistic stories. Gan Jing mentioned the intention to cooperate with Paramount.
Tom was not surprised, and nodded: "Don't worry, we're already collecting materials." ”
Scripts about the funds in the film and television industry are not too easy to write, and stories with realistic themes can often be dull and redundant, and it is not easy to have a good story line that can impress the Oscar judges.
"The script can be determined by April, as for the ...... of the framing you said," Tom said a little hesitantly, Forrest Gump asked to set the filming location in Italy without determining the story, Forrest Gump did not give a detailed reason, but in view of the demand for this film, Paramount has agreed.
"The environment in Italy is more suitable, and whether it is in the United States or in China, there may be a rebound. Gan Jing thought for a while, and then said, "The ...... over there There are many family businesses. ”
He paused for the term family business.
Tom hesitated, didn't have time to think about it for a while, just took this detail to heart.
After the visit, Paramount and Bairihong jointly held a press conference, saying that the two companies will carry out in-depth development and cooperation, which is actually the main purpose of Paramount's trip to China.
Gan Jing is happy to see this matter, he took the opportunity to say that he wanted Paramount to research and judge the Asian market when the two talked about cooperation - this request was said in front of Lao Chen and other high-level executives, although Forrest Gump still did not mention his plan for the development of the company at this time, but looking at this action, everyone also understood his choice, Li Juan was particularly excited.
"Lao Chen, I think Li Juan has a good point. Many serious matters were temporarily over, and Gan Jing had a heart-to-heart with his agent and president of the company.
"Which point?" Lao Chen was actually a little uncomfortable in his heart, not because of Forrest Gump's choice, but because he used his actions to give the answer first.
"Whooppy can be a great company. Gan Jing said a sentence from Li Juan's previous words, and added, "It can become a banner of Chinese films, as long as there are two films a year, no, as long as there is a film that can sweep the whole of Asia, within five years, we can compete with Hollywood in the Asian region." The Asian region should still be accustomed to looking at yellow skin. ”
Lao Chen Moran, this is actually a bit against the trend, far less hearty than taking advantage of the trend.
"Last year, I had an appointment with Huang Bo, who is a new face in Hollywood, but it would be better in Asia. This work can be used as a test of the waters, and I will communicate with him about the schedule first. This year, I mainly have these two films, one is Paramount's, and the other is Huang Bo's. The rest of the company still came as planned. Dongyu needs to strengthen its commercial appeal. ”
Gan Jing continued methodically: "Five years, I think this time can be given. ”
Lao Chen sighed: "It's really exciting." ”
Gan Jing ignored Lao Chen's humble resistance and said with a smile: "It's Huang Bo's side, what do you think of getting his studio here to hang up?"
"Hmm, will he?" Lao Chen's eyes widened, "It seems that I have to unify my thinking within the company." ”
"Well, I think it's okay to coax, no, to convince me. "Gan Jing is more confident. Still worried about the latest chapter you can't find?Amway One or search for Hot/Degree/Net/Article "Remember to remove "/"Otherwise you can't find it", here is a young lady to help you find a book, and chat with you!