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In September, when Eric was filming "Casino Royale" in the UK, the summer season of North American films also officially came to an end. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Firefly Group's three summer films "The Matrix", "Brave Island" and "Death is Coming" under the new line label finally accumulated a total box office of $420 million, although the three films are still sporadically released in the North American market, but the weekly box office revenue of hundreds of thousands of dollars has little impact on the total box office share.

Compared with the total box office of almost twice the second place in previous years, the box office revenue of Firefly Group this year not only completely lost this advantage, but was even robbed of the summer box office champion position that Universal Pictures had firmly held for several years with a slight advantage of $435 million.

After Firefly, Warner has accumulated the distribution scale of six films in the summer file, although there are no box office hits, but with the advantage of quantity, it still follows Firefly with a total revenue of 380 million US dollars.

Perhaps because of the sharp decline in the performance of Firefly's summer films, Universal, Warner, and then Paramount, Fox and other major film companies have seen a significant increase in box office revenue this summer compared with previous years.

When "Variety" magazine officially announced this year's summer box office data and related review articles, other media immediately began to follow up, and many professional media publicly said that the decline in Firefly's film performance indicates that Hollywood will return to the seven major film companies that are evenly matched. Normal state', because before the rise of Firefly, the seven major Hollywood film companies, because of their fixed production scale and distribution channels, and because of the extreme uncertainty of film investment, even if a certain company occasionally has a big hit, but in most cases, the market share of the seven is in a relatively balanced proportion according to its own comprehensive strength.

Although the seven major Hollywood companies have developed and integrated in the direction of media groups, the film business still occupies a considerable share, and after the firefly's return to 'normal' was recognized by most of the media, the capital market also reacted immediately, and the stock prices of several companies such as Time Warner, Viacom, and MGM have risen by more than 10% in just a few days, and even Sony, which has suffered a box office smash in "Jumanjiji 2", has seen a small increase in stock prices.

However, the Firefly Group, which can almost be regarded as a speeding media empire train in recent years, suddenly slowed down, and the media paid the most attention to the reaction within the Firefly Group, in order to obtain some feedback from the top management of the Firefly Group, some media even did not hesitate to make remarks that deliberately provoked the Firefly Group. However, after dealing with the sequel to "The Matrix", Firefly's PR department has been very low-key, except for a counterattack to obviously false and defamatory news.

As for Hollywood, most people just have a good show, especially after the poor reception of the premiere of "Titanic" at the Venice Film Festival, many people are almost waiting for the arrival of the year-end schedule with anticipation.

With a production cost of $215 million, a distribution cost of $50 million, and a film length of more than 3 hours, Hollywood does not see the possibility of "Titanic" being a success at the box office.

If most of Hollywood's Firefly rivals are just waiting to see the excitement, Wall Street is already in the dark.

Once "Titanic" suffered a huge loss, it would not only eat up the profits generated by Firefly's other blockbuster films, but also have an impact on Firefly's closed production system, making it obey industry rules and no longer adhere to the self-sufficient production model.

As long as Firefly opens a gap and finances film production in the capital market like other film companies, then Wall Street capital is confident enough to tear open this 'gap' step by step, and eventually swallow the Firefly, so that it is under the control of capital like most Hollywood studios.

In the case of the outside world's watchful eye, everything within the Firefly Group is going according to plan.

On September 15th, after more than half a year of preparation, the FFM TV station cooperated by Firefly, Fox and MGM was officially launched, because FFM TV has more high-quality movie content than the TV station before the integration, and implemented a series of preferential measures, and the users of the original several paid cable stations were basically saved, with a total user scale of 4.1 million.

Because the positioning of FFM TV is completely similar to HBO, Time Warner is naturally like a big enemy for the launch of FFM TV. Warner Cable TV did not hesitate to tear up the contract, and also completely cut off the signal of 300,000 subscribers who originally carried a TV station that was the predecessor of FFM at the first time.

Although Firefly Group and Time Warner will not publicly tear their faces because of this incident, the subsidiaries do not have too many scruples between them, and as soon as Warner Cable cut off the subscriber signal, FFM TV filed a lawsuit in federal court against Warner Cable for using its market position to engage in unfair competition. Warner Cable knew that the lawsuit would only make FFM TV famous, but it had to respond to the lawsuit, because FFM TV obviously would not agree to settle privately.

As a veteran of the operation of Yulun, Weinstein quickly stirred up the matter, and FFM TV became famous for a while.

At the same time as the launch of FFM TV, September is also the beginning of the autumn TV season.

ABC's "Friends," "ER" and "Survivor," as well as Lifetime's "Lust City," "Flyover," "America's Top Model," and other popular series are back in September.

When a person is busy, the days will always fly by.

When the Firefly TV department sent Eric's September TV ratings report to Eric, the time had come to October.

The weather in London is even colder, and the filming progress of "Casino Royale" is more than 80% complete, with one month left, and the most important scene will also be the plot of Bond and Thunderbolt Trio teaming up to rescue Angela Linder.

Kate, Charlize and Penelope will take another week to join the crew, and in recent days, the filming of the crew has been relatively easy, mainly with Bond, Mrs. M, Vesper and several villains.

In the morning, after filming an interactive scene between the two sisters Wisper and Angela, Eric sat in the dining room of Pinewood Studios, and after lunch, he read the ratings report that had just been sent from New York.

On ABC's side, it is still "Friends", "ER's Story" and "Survivor" that lead the ratings.

This year, "Friends" has come to the eighth season, and the series is scheduled to end in the tenth season, ABC TV has announced the relevant news before the start of this season, although the six leading actors are younger than their previous lives, but a series has been filmed for ten years, and they are tired in the end and are unwilling to continue.

However, Firefly is not stingy, and in the last three seasons of the contract, the salaries of the six leading actors have been increased to $600,000, which is twice their salary for a single episode in the first two seasons.

As the most popular medical drama in recent years, "ER Story" has very solid ratings, with a single episode rating basically remaining above 20 million people.

"Survivor" peaked after an average of 30 million viewers in the first two seasons, coupled with the reality shows launched by other TV stations to compete for viewers, and the ratings began to drop significantly.

However, because the production cost of "Survivor" is very low, even if the ratings drop below 10 million, the TV station is still very profitable, not to mention, the average viewership of the first three episodes of this season is 17 million, which has nothing to do with failure in any way, and is among the best among all reality shows in North America.

In addition to the three-stop leading dramas, this year's ABC also has a new 'ratings dark horse', the sitcom "Everyone Loves Raymond".

This sitcom, which focuses on family warmth, was preceded by "Friends", and the first episode reached 15 million viewers. Perhaps because of the restrictions of family themes, this sitcom was not too famous in Asia in its previous life, but the ratings at its peak were definitely not much worse than "Friends", and the opening rating of 15 million was definitely just the beginning. It is expected that when "Friends" officially ends, "Everyone Loves Raymond" will also enter its peak ratings, just in time to take over the comedy night of "Friends".

In my memory, "Everybody Loves Raymond" is CBS's ace sitcom.

However, Eric did not interfere in this project, and he only found out after seeing the list of new dramas submitted by ABC in May. The reason why "Everybody Loves Raymond" will be transferred to ABC is mainly because the producer of "Everybody Loves Raymond" is David Letterman, ABC reformed the late-night program two years ago, and dug CBS's "David Letterman Late Show" to ABC, and David Letterman served as the producer of the TV project, which was naturally taken over by ABC.

After reading ABC's ratings statistics, Eric was about to open the lifetime TV stats when Christina Aguilera walked over with a small dinner plate.

Christina stood across from Eric and asked, "Eric, can I sit here?"

Eric smiled and cleaned up the materials in front of him, nodding at the girl, and Christina happily put down the plate and sat down across from her.

Although the two had a relationship, however, Christina did not pestering people at all, let alone publicize the words and deeds of the relationship between the two to outsiders, which made Eric very satisfied with this smart and knowing how to advance and retreat.

Today's scenes all day are related to Christina, so when Christina takes the initiative to sit next to Eric at this time, everyone will only think that she wants to talk to the director about the movie, but it will not attract anyone's attention.

Watching Christina pick up the cutlery and take a small bite of the vegetable salad on her plate, Eric smiled and asked, "What did you just do and come over to eat now?"

Christina obediently replied, "Mom called from Los Angeles and we talked a little longer. ”

"Oh, are you homesick?"

"I don't think much of it," Christina shook her head.

She really doesn't miss home very much, as a child from a single-parent family, Christina is much more alone than Britney, she doesn't have the heart to go to school, she has a job, and she can travel around the world with the crew, but she enjoys it.

Eric smiled and was about to turn his gaze to the information in his hand again, but Christina took the initiative to say, "Eric, I'...... I suddenly felt that the character of Angela didn't seem to be very cool. ”

Eric looked up, "And what do you think is cool?"

Of course, Christina has watched "Breaking Bad", and she said without thinking about it: "Of course it's like Selena played by Kate Beckinsale, but Angela is more like a little nerd who likes to tinker with machinery." I don't think they would have looked down on Angela Lind if Charlie Detective Agency really existed. ”

In the Casino Royale script for Christina's character, Angela Lind is a tech-savvy woman obsessed with precision instruments, influenced by her father when she was a child.

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Today's scenes all day are related to Christina, so when Christina takes the initiative to sit next to Eric at this time, everyone will only think that she wants to talk to the director about the movie, but it will not attract anyone's attention.

Watching Christina pick up the cutlery and take a small bite of the vegetable salad on her plate, Eric smiled and asked, "What did you just do and come over to eat now?"

Christina obediently replied, "Mom called from Los Angeles and we talked a little longer. ”

"Oh, are you homesick?"

"I don't think much of it," Christina shook her head.

She really doesn't miss home very much, as a child from a single-parent family, Christina is much more alone than Britney, she doesn't have the heart to go to school, she has a job, and she can travel around the world with the crew, but she enjoys it.

Eric smiled and was about to turn his gaze to the information in his hand again, but Christina took the initiative to say, "Eric, I'...... I suddenly felt that the character of Angela didn't seem to be very cool. ”

Eric looked up, "And what do you think is cool?"

Of course, Christina has watched "Breaking Bad", and she said without thinking about it: "Of course it's like Selena played by Kate Beckinsale, but Angela is more like a little nerd who likes to tinker with machinery." I don't think they would have looked down on Angela Lind if Charlie Detective Agency really existed. ”

In the Casino Royale script for Christina's character, Angela Lind is a tech-savvy woman obsessed with precision instruments, influenced by her father when she was a child. (To be continued.) )