"What about videotapes and CDs?" Sid asked about the most important profit chain, as the industry chain of North American television, before streaming took over, videotapes and DVDs were the most important profit points. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

"In the case of the tapes, we have already found a distributor. ”

"What about DVDs?" Although the tape was in its prime, Sid knew it was just a flashback.

Within 2 or 3 years, DVD will begin to obsolete videotapes and gradually become the mainstream medium in the world. This is like a USB flash drive replacing a disk, it is the trend of the times, if you are greedy for immediate benefits, it will only end up in the same fate as Kodak and Nokia.

"As for DVD, we are still looking for good distributors, because the technology of DVD is not yet mature, and the quotations of several manufacturers we are looking for are relatively high, and the profits are not large. Shirley explained. , and then she mentioned, "By the way, speaking of movies, the North American theater chain of "Ghost Shadow" has successively divided the box office into our money. ”

"Oh, how many?"

"The total number of theaters in each theater chain is 180 million North American box office, and our profit is 102 million US dollars, minus more than 40 million publicity costs, and the net profit of the North American box office alone is 55 million US dollars. ”

Shirley's words immediately startled Sid, this North American box office is almost the same as the global box office in the "history" of "Ghost Record". Even compared to the first DV movie in history, that is, the highest-grossing DV movie - "Blair the Witch" has a large increase in the North American box office of 140 million.

"Is the North American box office so high?" asked Sid curiously.

"Hehe, Sid. You should not forget that after you asked Ali (Emmanuel) and Sean to announce your identity in May, the movie-watching trend triggered at that time has pulled up a lot of box office. Shirley's explanation made Sid nod.

"I originally just planned to do my best to obey the fate of God, but I didn't expect the effect to be so obvious. Sid shrugged and smiled, "What about overseas?"

"Now Asian countries such as South America and RB have also begun to negotiate with us, but because we are entering these markets for the first time, the share rate given to us by the major ticket warehouse countries is relatively low, only about 17%. Shirley's words made Sid jump his eyelids.

Although in the eyes of outsiders, Hollywood's movies are sold all over the world and are arrogant and domineering, but in fact, just look at the box office share. Even for the six major film companies, after 2000, the WTO's GATT completely swept away the world's major box office countries. The average share that Hollywood studios can get from these overseas markets is only 35% of the box office.

This proportion is far lower than the 50~60% share of the North American market, which means that most of the box office in the overseas market was taken by the local government itself, not Hollywood companies.

And Fire Lion is such a small company, and it goes to the overseas market by itself, although now with the excellent performance of "Ghost Record" in North America, the other party is willing to let you in. But don't expect too much for those who are divided into gods.

"Well, try to negotiate as much as you can. The tuition fees of the first few times, we still have to pay them, and we can't give our lifeblood to the Big Six, we are not DreamWorks. Sid nodded and said.

"Yes, no problem. Shirley agreed, "In addition, the video of "Ghost Record" was released at the end of July, and the sales were very good, and the total sales have been close to 1 million units in two months. ”

“Good，Good。 Sid nodded repeatedly, rubbed his temples, and said, "That's all for tonight, Shirley." ”

"Yes, that's all. Rest well, Sid. You're still growing old. Sydney smiled and cared for a few words, then hung up the phone.

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"Survivor" took a more violent gesture than "Who Can Want to Be a Millionaire", and trampled the previous day's "Friends" under its feet in one fell swoop. The premiere rating of 39 million left behind the 30.9 million of "Friends".

Fire Lion TV continues to occupy the championship in the ratings list of non-drama programs (because in this era, "Friends" is not the No. 1 in the drama series, "Seinfeld", "ER Emergency Room", "Happy Family" and other strong hits and dramas, there are still quite a lot, until after 2000, these old dramas have ended one after another, and "Friends" has become a standout in North America).

This made the entire North American TV circle and entertainment media fall through the glasses again, if the good start of Fire Lion TV can be "explained" as luck, then the continuous high-rated programs are definitely not so simple as luck.

The Wall Street Journal is known as "Hollywood's Strongest Spoiler" and is crowned on the head of the Fire Lion Group. In the latest article, in the article on the front page, they analyzed in detail from Fire Lion Pictures' "Ghost Record", to Fire Lion TV's "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire", and then to the former's "Survivor", which was broadcast after the finale of the former, giving full play to the import effect.

At the same time, under the novel and wonderful program, he completed two home runs brilliantly. Although there are many media outlets who hold the same opinion, there are also many people who oppose it this time.

In fact, in the first episode of "Survivor", after the rules of the game were revealed, many people felt that something was wrong. Although the winner still gets $1 million, it is completely different from "Millionaire", which is a knowledge contest.

The rules of the game in Survivor are that the contestants, while battling the harsh natural environment, are also in a weekly "meeting". Publicly discuss who is eliminated from the competition, and then vote to kick out the person with the fewest votes.

The American audience, who didn't feel that there was anything wrong with this article, saw one of the female contestants in the competition as soon as they came up, and in order to kick off the opponent, they deliberately planted the trouble of cooking bad food to a competitor. Although the opponent escaped voting, it also made many viewers sweat when they watched it.

Several sociologists said on a daytime talk show a few days after the broadcast of "Survivor" that the design of the rules of "Survivor" is tantamount to magnifying the ugliness and inferiority of human nature to the extreme in the face of money, and it is easy to cause psychological misleading to the audience.

This kind of program not only causes serious physical and mental harm and distortion to the participants of the program, but also produces a wrong direction for the whole society. Moreover, there is a general lack of unity and enterprising spirit in American society, and the essence of this program is to show the public how to destroy the spirit of unity.

Psychologists on the program criticized that the treacherous and hypocritical nature of human beings has been "carried forward" in this program, which is harmful to the physical and mental health of the American people, especially teenagers.

Led by NBC's daytime social commentary show, "Survivor", which aired only one episode, immediately became a hot topic that swept the United States.

Although other big TV networks have begun to use negative factors to suppress Fire Lion TV intentionally or unintentionally, under the strict orders of Shirley and Mr. Charles, the entire Fire Lion Group has put away its edge, and has been promoting daily activities and new programs and movies as tightly as a mountain.

Because they know that the best way to deal with it now is to respond to all changes with the same, and when the broadcast of "Survivor" stabilizes, other TV networks will have no choice.

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"The camera crew is ready to go!"

"Lighting group ready OK!"

"Recording crew ready OK!"

A succession of reports sounded on the walkie-talkie, and Sid picked up the walkie-talkie: "Lance (Akode), the host seat is OK?"

Immediately across the intercom, Lance Arcord replied, "No problem." ”

"Action!" Sid ordered.

Facing the afternoon sun, the hero and heroine sit on a hillside platform overlooking the city.

"R?" said Julie.

"What's wrong?"

"Do you remember your name?" asked Julie.

"Nope. ”

"You can pick up your own, pick one, whatever you like. Julie said with a smile.

"I just like 'R'. The handsome former zombie said foolishly.

"Really?" Julie laughed sweetly, "You don't want to know what your original name was, and you don't want to go back to your old life?"

"I don't want to. R, who has returned to human skin color, looks a little more sunny and a little less weird, "I want this life now." ”

Julie smiled sweetly and leaned on his shoulder, "It's called 'R', huh?"

"It's called 'R'. ”

The camera on the boom slowly passed over the two of them, casting its eyes on the city in the distance.

Lance Arcord, who was sitting on the boom, picked up the walkie-talkie, "Sid, has this been passed?"

Orlando Bloom and Reese Witherspoon, who were sitting on the high platform, also raised their heads to look at Lance Arcod above them, and the whole set was extremely quiet, everyone held their breath, hoping for an affirmative answer on the intercom.

As the minutes ticked by, Sid, who was sitting in the tent at the back, did not answer, and Lance Arcod felt that something was wrong, so he repeated the question.

The first thing he answered was a cheer from the direction of the tent in the rear, and then Sid's voice said, "OK, this is over!"

Then Sid repeated: "Finish!"

The crew around the camera immediately erupted in cheers, and Lance Arcod breathed a sigh of relief that the two-month long filming of "Warm Corpses" had finally come to an end.

is different from the previous concise "Little Sunshine Beauty", "Warm Corpse" involves multi-scene and multi-technical requirements, and the protagonist and a group of zombie supporting characters have to make up special effects for several hours every day, which consumes a lot of time.

Coupled with the construction and filming of the green screen studio, Lance Arcard felt that he had encountered more challenges in this film than all previous films combined.

"Hey, Director Sid said to celebrate tonight, please drink at the best bar in Vancouver. Sid's assistant Justin Lin ran over and announced, which caused another round of cheers.

Looking at the cheering crowd, Lance Arcade, who was hanging on the boom platform in the sky, couldn't help but roar angrily: "You bastards who only know how to drink, put me down!"