Eric's assistant office is responsible for almost everything from his work to his life, and even has the meaning of being in charge of the team a few times. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 The info girl also looks familiar with the way to send an email at this time.,It's obviously not the first time you've done this.。

Drew also knew what Eric was waiting for, and after sending the email, he patiently shrunk into his arms and whispered.

Until about twelve o'clock in the morning, the laptop that was always open came out with a new email prompt, Eric got up and opened the email and looked at it a few times, then smiled and picked up the girl who was already in a fog and walked towards the bedroom. If it's a lively party, it's no problem for a girl to stay up all night, but in this quiet environment, this girl starts to be listless early.

Feeling Eric's gentle movements, the girl pressed on Eric's body, curled up comfortably into a kitten, and said in a daze: "Eric, well, Boeing, how much?" ”

Eric smiled and replied in a pampering tone, "Enough for you to buy a plane." ”

Early the next morning, the major newspapers and media in North America were lively, because the North American Friday box office charts this week were almost all news, and almost all the mainstream newspapers listed the Friday single-day box office charts in a prominent page.

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 box office numbers can easily understand what's going on with a glance at the barrage of headlines in the major newspapers.

"Finding Nemo beat "The Lion King 2" on the first day."

"'Chrono Contact' opened for $6.86 million, and Paramount's sniper strategy failed."

"Godzilla fell 66% year-on-year."

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

"The animated films in the summer are shining, and the live-action blockbusters that have been released have failed across the board, and "Batman and Robin" and "007: Casino Royale are afraid to follow in the footsteps."

“……”

In this series of news reports, the new issue of The Hollywood Reporter gives a more detailed analysis of the article.

First of all, I have to mention "Titanic" again, as of last week, the global box office figure of this legendary blockbuster with a total investment of 265 million US dollars has reached 2.133 billion US dollars, and the film finally finished with a box office of 600 million 2.98 million US dollars in North America. The impressive box office figures will directly bring Firefly Group a global box office share of $860 million, and minus costs, Firefly Group will make a net profit of nearly $600 million. ”

In addition, the sales of more than 70 kinds of peripheral goods of "Titanic" also exceeded 850 million US dollars. "Titanic" sold 5.6 million copies of the North American soundtrack in 10 weeks after its release, and interestingly, this figure is only physical record sales. It is reported that the North American Recording Association refused to recognize the 1.25 million copies of the "Titanic" digital record sales data of the Yahoo Music Store. According to industry analysis, the global record sales of "Titanic" may eventually reach 30 million, which alone will bring another $900 million to the Firefly Group. Based on the relevant data, the film "Titanic" will create a net profit of no less than $2 billion for the Firefly Group in the next few years, and in the entire Hollywood, several major media groups can have an annual net profit of more than $2 billion, and so far there is only one Firefly. ”

"Stimulated by the huge profits created by "Titanic", in the past six months, the author has heard more than once that the seven major Hollywood film companies have begun to brew new 'super blockbuster' film plans. However, in the past month, the box office performance of Hollywood's live-action blockbusters will undoubtedly sober up the already hot-headed Hollywood. ”

"Among them, the one that can bring the most introspection to Hollywood is undoubtedly the monster movie "Godzilla", which belongs to the same CG special effects blockbuster as "Titanic".

"Sony Pictures' ambitious work, with a total investment of 220 million US dollars, was aimed at the global box office of 1 billion before its release. But after a losing start and a series of extremely bad reviews, the single-day box office of the following Friday has been squeezed to the fourth place on the list, a sharp decrease of 66% compared to the same period of $17.5 million on the first Friday, and the box office figure has fallen sharply to $5.95 million, and the box office is expected to be only between 22 million and 25 million in the next week, and the total box office figure in North America will be difficult to exceed $130 million. At the same time, the overseas box office performance of "Godzilla" was equally disappointing, and the film was even strongly boycotted by Godzilla fans in the most important Japanese market. ”

"According to insiders, Sony's top management has urgently halted the preparation of the sequel to "Godzilla", and the person in charge of the project may also face the situation of being forced to resign." 、

Roland Emmerich, as the director and producer of the film, is also destined to be difficult to see after "Day of Alone". Even, before the release of "Godzilla", the Firefly Group suddenly announced that Michael Bay would take over the directing of the Firefly's well-known disaster film series "The Day After Tomorrow", which is likely to be affected by the poor quality of the finished film of "Godzilla". As we all know, Roland Emmerich was once rumored to be the director of "The Day After Tomorrow", and Firefly's digital domain is responsible for the special effects production of most of the "Godzilla" projects, and it is not difficult for Firefly to learn the quality of "Godzilla" before the film is released. ”

"In addition to "Godzilla", starting in May, the box office performance of "The Fifth Element" at a cost of $90 million by Gaumont Films, "Prison in the Sky" produced by Firefly Group at a cost of $75 million, and "Chrono Contact", which was produced by Amberlin Pictures and distributed by Paramount at a cost of $90 million, 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 box office in North America will be difficult to reach 70 million US dollars. "Prison in the Air" also grossed only $57.37 million in two weeks, and although the final box office may reach $100 million, it is still far below industry expectations. Similarly, Robert Zemeckis after "Forrest Gump" sci-fi masterpiece "Temporal Contact", although the production cost is comparable to "Finding Nemo" released on the same day, but this film that uses the cloak of science fiction to deeply explore religious and philosophical issues has obviously not been recognized by the audience, and the first-day box office is less than one-third of "Finding Nemo", and even lower than the 7.7 million US dollars of "Sky Prison" two weeks ago, perhaps, Amberlin Pictures and Paramount can only hope that "Temporal Contact" can go out of the same period as "Forrest Gump" A similar box office curve has occurred, but in terms of audience feedback, this possibility is extremely slim. ”

"The box office failures of four big-budget live-action films in a row have raised concerns about the highly anticipated Batman & Robin and 007: Casino Royale over the next two weeks. At the same time, Hollywood may also calm down at this time and not excessively pursue big investments and big productions under the stimulation of "Titanic". ”

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

Paramount Pictures' second 2D hand-drawn animated film "The Lion King 2" after taking over Disney's hand-drawn animation studio, although it was restrained by competitors in terms of publicity, the box office still reached $55.7 million in the first week, and it only fell a slight 24% drop in the second week, collecting another $42.33 million, and the cumulative box office reached $98.03 million in two weeks. On the first day of the third week of 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 box office in North America may still reach $200 million in the future, far exceeding the box office potential of several live-action blockbusters that have been released. ”

"Finally, the most important topic of the day, 'Finding Nemo.'"

Before the release of "Finding Nemo", due to the box office reputation of Disney's "The Lion King 2", the industry generally considered Eric Williams' move to sell Disney's hand-drawn animation studio as extremely stupid. But after "Finding Nemo", many people had to keep their mouths shut. ”

"Only three-quarters of the production cost of "The Lion King 2", and "The Lion King 2" has an excellent reputation, even if "Finding Nemo" has much more convenient publicity channel resources than "The Lion King 2", but with the excellent box office results of 7.41 million US dollars in the same period of "The Lion King 2" on the first day, we have to admit that 3D animated movies are indeed more popular with audiences than 2D animated movies."

The box office on the first day was $20.21 million, and under the stimulation of explosive word-of-mouth, the box office of "Finding Nemo" may reach a high of $90 million in the first week. Due to the long-term potential of animated films, "Finding Nemo" will undoubtedly become the first film in this summer season to hit a $300 million seed player at the North American box office. Or, even more daringly, if this kind of box office and word-of-mouth advantage can also be brought into play in overseas markets, "Finding Nemo" is likely to catch up with the former "The Lion King" and become another animated blockbuster that has reached the $1 billion global box office. ”

"The success of a new set of cartoon characters will bring continuous revenue to Firefly Group's peripheral stores, game parks and other industries."

Here, the author even began to look forward to the upcoming "Ice Age" on July 4, the first 3D animated film produced by Blue Sky Studios jointly funded by Firefly and Fox, although the cost is only $59 million, but in terms of the author's sense of this animated trailer, "Ice Age" is likely to be another surprise in the summer file. Perhaps, executives of other Hollywood film companies should focus more on the development of animated films, rather than catching up with the unattainable "Titanic". ”

The Hollywood Reporter article inevitably provoked reflection among some Hollywood studio executives, and it also prompted Firefly's competitors to accelerate the deployment of the animated film industry. However, Eric had always understood very clearly that "Titanic" was more of an outlier before this, so he had never been hot-headed about it.

Eric had planned to take advantage of his day off to talk to Chrissy Jenner about reality TV, and although the Kardashians' all-out hype methods in his previous life were disgusting, Eric now looks at things differently as the controller of a huge media empire. In his position, there are fifty or sixty high-level executives of the Firefly Group who can often be contacted, and there are thousands of executives above the manager level of the Firefly system, not to mention that the total number of employees of the entire Firefly Group has exceeded 120,000. In a circle like Hollywood, if you have any mental cleanliness, you must not think about comfort for a day.

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

However, early on Saturday morning, Eric received a call from Chris from New York, and the two chatted for more than half an hour, and Eric had to cancel the weekend off and convene an emergency meeting of Firefly distribution and finance executives and Clover Holdings' management.

The thing is very simple, after three months of accumulation, the attack of the international financial oligarchy on the Southeast Asian monetary system is about to be launched.

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

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

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

The Thai baht has only just experienced the attack of international currency speculators in March, and Southeast Asian filmmakers understand the concerns of fireflies.

However, most studios 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%, the impact of currency depreciation will not be too great for companies whose business scope is limited to the local area. Stimulated by the box office of "Titanic", Southeast Asian filmmakers welcomed Firefly Group's move to sell out the distribution rights, so they rushed to buy the distribution rights one after another.

Since the beginning of May, through some financial means, Firefly has successively recovered the box office share of "Titanic" equivalent to 50 million US dollars from Southeast Asia, and the box office share in Japan has also begun to be settled.

At the same time, after selling out the distribution rights of Firefly summer and 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 of these studios, Eric would have wanted to sell the distribution rights for the whole of next year, of course, this can only be imagined.

$75 million, although it is not a huge amount of money for Firefly, but for the Southeast Asian box office warehouse where the entire box office market is only half of Japan, this is already the highest profit that Firefly can squeeze in a short period of time.

Although the group's finance department calculates that due to this aggressive sellout strategy, Firefly may lose $10 million to $20 million if there is no economic crisis in Southeast Asia, Eric knows that if it does not do so, when the Southeast Asian economic crisis breaks out, Firefly's loss will be much more than that. At that time, the Southeast Asian currency depreciated to half, and what could have been equivalent to $10 million at the box office was converted again to only $5 million. And Southeast Asia's economy has been devastated, and the film industry will certainly be hit hard. Although there is a view in the industry that the more sluggish the economy is, the more prosperous the entertainment industry will be, but if the economy collapses, Eric does not believe that the people will still have the heart to go to the movies, otherwise, Hong Kong films in the previous life would not have completely declined after the economic crisis in Southeast Asia.

Over the weekend, Eric spent time reviewing the recovery status of funds across Southeast Asia, while starting to mobilize capital in preparation for Clover's next move to acquire more tech stocks.

The North American stock market is a very open global financial market, and the violent economic shocks in Southeast Asia will inevitably affect the soaring Nasdaq index, and in the next few months, with the outbreak of the Southeast Asian economic crisis, the originally high Nasdaq index will definitely have a temporary decline, which is undoubtedly the best time for Clover Holdings to invest.

While Eric was busy with these things, entering Saturday, the single-day box office of "Finding Nemo", which had been eye-catching at the beginning, soared by 38% again to $28.01 million. Although the box office fell on Sunday, the single-day box office still remained at a high level of $22.03 million, and the cumulative box office of "Finding Nemo" has reached a staggering $70.25 million in the first three days of the weekend.

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

In fact, the reality is true, this year's summer file and "Finding Nemo" are two movies with a production cost of $90 million, "The Fifth Element" and "Chrono Contact", the former only had a pitiful box office of more than $47 million in three weeks, and the latter was released at the same time as "Finding Nemo", and the box office in the first weekend and three days was only $20.58 million, although the box office in the first week may be close to 30 million, but even according to the conservative 30% weekly decline, "Chrono Contact" It can only recover $65 million in three weeks, which is still not comparable to the three-day box office of "Finding Nemo".

At the same time, "Finding Nemo" in some overseas box office countries released at the same time, the popularity is also significantly higher than Pixar's previous "Toy Story", "Bug Crisis" and other films, just in the United Kingdom, the first week of "Finding Nemo" box office equivalent to US dollars reached 13.5 million US dollars, and before that, Pixar's best overseas box office animated film "Toy Story 2", the first three days in the UK was only 6.1 million US dollars.

When this series of statistics came out, Hollywood and North American entertainment media realized that they had made the wrong focus in the first place.

The most dazzling box office star in this year's summer file is not "The Lion King 2", not "Godzilla", or maybe not the next "Batman and Robin" and "007: Casino Royale", but "Finding Nemo", which was unnoticeable before its release and was sandwiched between the two masterpieces "Godzilla" and "Batman and Robin", which was once considered "cannon fodder". (To be continued.) )