Chapter 565 on 'Trust'

Callidos, the director of Fox Films, really didn't bother to probe and speculate in advance about the box office revenue that those hundreds of screens could bring. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

But not so with the top brass at Fox Studios.

Because, this time, the chips are too high.

It's so expensive that the directors of Fox are already having trouble sleeping.

The $200 million invested in James Cameron to shoot "Titanic", both Fox Film Company and the directors who hold shares in the company have high hopes for this film that will set a film investment record.

Just as Fu Zhengyi initially speculated, if it was just a guy with deep financial strength who negotiated with Fox to buy out all the rights and interests of the film, presumably anyone in Fox Film Company would only roll his eyes and raise his middle finger, and if he could, he would even give a sip of 'bah' to show disdain and contempt.

Therefore, even if all the rights and interests of "The Princess Diaries" are taken out as a condition, it is estimated that it is impossible to talk about it.

However, the animated film "Shrek", which has been released for more than half a year, still occupies the prime time of the summer file on some big screens in North America, and the European market is even more sensational because of the arrival of this cartoon, and it is still refreshing its global box office statistics.

It is said that parents took their children to buy Coke and popcorn and sat in the theater, laughing like idiots because of the dialogues in the film, and even after leaving the scene, many parents bought plush toys of various proportions and stuffed them into their children's arms at the behest of their children.

In 95, Disney and Pixar jointly released "Toy Fight", which has been a great success, and "Shrek" produced by DreamWorks seems to be opening the global animation market, and its premiere box office easily broke "Toy Fight" After the major Hollywood studios have set up large or small research and analysis departments, and then track and analyze market reactions, audience age levels, etc., trying to find out the theoretical basis for the start and explosion of the animation market.

More and more attention has also revealed more details of the cartoon "Shrek", which was invested by [Dream Media] and produced by DreamWorks.

The innovative intensive promotion method of movie peripheral derivatives has been welcomed and cooperated by the theater side, but it has also caused those plush toy manufacturers and sellers to complain.

So when the global box office of the animated film "Shrek" exceeded $300 million, the major film companies couldn't sit still.

The development of the film and entertainment industry in the United States has actually established a fairly mature model, so the cooperation between [Drea Media] and DreamWorks has been so successful, which in turn has aroused the alarm of major film companies.

The reasons for this are self-evident.

Under the existing model and system of Hollywood, film companies naturally believe that "movies" can allow a large amount of money to come in, but how these funds are invested, to whom they are invested, and how to give full play to their benefits must be decided by the film companies.

Of course, some funds with a special nature, saying that they want to make a beautiful woman popular and a popular student are also allowed, but these funds must not regard major film companies as manufacturing factories for commodities like 'movies'!

David, who was sitting at the end of the dining table, said very seriously after analyzing these insiders. "Fu, "Shrek" itself is a very meaningful work that subverts the classics, but the major film companies are afraid that they will eventually become a 'film manufacturing' workshop, so the film company headed by Fox is ready to start building momentum, and the news received early in the morning shows that many media have publicly criticized the film "The Princess Diaries", thinking that the whole movie is full of absurd imagination and pretentiousness, the plot is pale, and the actors' performances are stiff, and it is a garbage work that is extremely boring!"

picked up a napkin and wiped the corners of his mouth, raised his hand to look at the time, Fu Zhengyi smiled indifferently. "Yes, there's less than fifty hours left for them to make a decision, and I'm confident that The Princess Diaries will do at the box office!"

Seeing this, David shook his head. Now I'm not joking! I received a call from Jeffrey this morning, and he learned through Fox Company's statistics that the box office on the first day of the theater was only 1.3 million, and the pre-sale spot check of the theater side showed that the premiere box office of "The Princess Diaries" should not exceed 10 million, and he felt that he should immediately communicate with the theaters that had not released this movie, and even did not hesitate to replace the summer file "Shrek" to improve the box office of "The Princess Diaries", otherwise you will lose!"

More than 600 screens are showing at the same time, and I've never been dissatisfied with Jeffrey's ability to operate in the market......

Seeing that the other party still didn't care, David was a little anxious. "Paid! Your gambling agreement is not only betting your [Dream Media], you are also betting on the sequel shooting of "Shrek"! If you lose, it means that DreamWorks will be damaged by it!"

Finally understood the reason, Fu Zhengyi was a little sorry for his sluggishness and the degradation of his associative ability. "Ahh......hhh

The words were picked, and David was blunt. If the cost of making a sequel is not less than 80 million US dollars, then the worst in the market should have a box office of more than 300 million, so what I want to discuss now is that if you lose the bet, I hope [Dream Media] can start the production of the sequel as soon as possible, instead of waiting for Fox to upgrade the equipment and personnel of their animation department, or to join forces with Pixar, Disney's animation division ended up taking away profits that should have belonged to DreamWorks......"

"I also have shares in DreamWorks, how could I hurt the interests of DreamWorks? Now that the VAM agreement has not yet come into effect, don't worry so much......

"Worried?aha!" Davy was so angry that he turned his face and yelled at Candace, who was sitting next to her with a straw drink. "Hey, luckygirl, can't you persuade too?"

Glancing at Fu Zhengyi, Candace shook her head very firmly. "David, I will unconditionally support the decision he makes!"

David stared at Candace for a moment, sighed very dejectedly, picked up a napkin, wiped his mouth, stood up, and left the restaurant without saying a word.

Frightened by David's eccentricity, Candace pulled her chair to Fu Zhengyi's side and asked in a low voice. "Honey, did I say the wrong thing?"

"No! You're telling the truth. But David was a little hard to accept......"

David, who happened to appear at the door with three goblets and a bottle of red wine, shouted immediately. "Fu! Don't talk about people, this is your ancient Chinese saying, right?"

"Ha, I'm just praising Candace, but I don't mean to target anyone......"

Fu Zhengyi said that when he saw David put the cup on the table and began to pour wine, he couldn't help but look out the window and said in surprise. "David, it's early in the morning, are you idle today?"

David pouted. "What could be more important than waiting for Fawkes to make a decision?"

Anyway, in David's luxurious suite, Fu Zhengyi was not afraid that someone would see that he was so close to Candace, picked up the wine glass, shook it, smelled it, and then set his eyes on the bottle of red wine without a wine label that David placed on the table.

Davy smiled smugly and motioned for Candace to pour herself a little to taste.

Candace shook her head. "I don't have any research on red wine, let alone be able to tell the difference between good and bad......"

"This is a bottle of 90-year-old Emberland. Château Petri is the first of the eight wineries, but unfortunately because it only covers an area of 12 hectares, and the planting density is as low as only 5 or 6,000 plants per hectare, and the annual production is at most 5,000 cases, so it is often called the king of the best quality wines in Bordeaux......"

After the introduction, David saw that Candace was still uninterested, and sighed helplessly. "Luckygirl!Trust is a good quality, but blind trust means losing one's ......"

Candace burst out laughing and flattened her mouth. "David, is it not good to blindly trust me, but he hasn't lost yet, so I'd rather believe that he won't lose than doubt because of what others say!"

Syllable!

With a heavy slap on his face, David, who hung his head, kept repeating 'no help', and left the restaurant a moment later, holding his wine glass and picking up the bottle of red wine that had just been opened.

To be honest, Fu Zhengyi didn't think there was anything special about this wine, but the faint mellow aroma and aftertaste similar to black fruit and coffee-like taste did seem to be a little higher grade than some red wines that he drank more before.

With his hands on his cheeks, he looked at Candace, who had finished drinking the glass of red wine, and then asked. "Honey, am I going to be responsible for getting rid of David?"

Fu Zhengyi smiled. "You're responsible, what's your responsibility? He's just more irritable now, like a balloon that can explode as soon as it gets poked. So don't mess with him......"

Candace nodded in agreement, but then became a little distressed. "But the problem is that you can't always stay in his suite......"

Thinking that the suite where David lived was the best one in the hotel, Fu Zhengyi was a little dissatisfied, and asked with a roll of his eyes. "Or just blast him out?"

Candace looked stunned, and the corners of her mouth pulled helplessly. "Honey! Davy has a good temper, but you can't always bully him like that......" (To be continued.) )