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On Monday morning, when the week resumes, it should be a lively day, especially for the studios, and if the film released last week can be a big hit, the whole company will be full of laughter, but at this time at the weekly meeting of the Fox Building, everyone's faces are heavy and depressed.

Without the vampires of CAA, without the main creative team of "Interview with the Vampire", as the main investors, the executives of Twentieth Century Fox made no secret of their disappointment.

"AMG and Imperial Entertainment rejected our request to expand the theatrical scale of 'Interview with Vampire' and reduce the size of 'Death Island.'"

Tim Fisher, who had just taken over the position of head of the film distribution department, broke the silence in the conference room with his words, "We don't have the capital to fight for without a beautiful box office number to support us. ”

He looked at Townsend Rothman, flipped through the latest statistics in front of him, and read to everyone, "'Interview with the Vampire' earned $6.21 million on Sunday, and the North American box office totaled $28.3 million in the first three days. ”

In normal times, this result can basically guarantee the position of the top of the weekly box office list, but now it is obviously impossible.

"'Into the Island of Death' grossed $11.13 million on Sunday!" Tim Fisher didn't care about other people's faces, and said straightforwardly, "The box office in the first three days was as high as $36.79 million!" ”

As if to remind the many executives present, Tim Fisher raised his voice, "Guys, this is not just a weekly box office top, it means that "Interview with the Vampire" can only be shown in its shadow! ”

"Maybe it's going to drop a lot the next week."

Hearing this mindless voice, Tim Fisher immediately retorted, "Duke Rosenberg's film has always maintained an audience A rating of more than 85%!" This is the audience reputation that cannot be matched after the large-scale screening of "Speed of Life and Death"! Don't forget, the highest weekend box office of "Life and Death" was only $34.75 million, and the final North American box office was more than $130 million! The global box office is more than 350 million US dollars! ”

The person just now stopped talking, and the conference room fell silent again, after all, they are not laymen, with such a strong audience word-of-mouth support, "Brave Death Island" will inevitably maintain a healthy box office decline in the next few weeks, and what is the final box office?

$100 million is definitely not the end of the film, is it?

Townsend Rothman, who was sitting in the first place, unconsciously jumped out of this idea, according to the plummeting word-of-mouth and the predictions of major institutions, the North American box office of "Interview with the Vampire" will exceed 100 million at most, and "Brave Death Island" is likely to go straight to $150 million as long as the follow-up is not too weak.

He strongly introduced "Speed of Life and Death", but single-handedly rejected "Brave Island of Death......

At this moment, the taste in Townsend Rothman's heart can only be experienced by himself, a summer file can launch two to three movies with a North American box office of over 100 million, and his position as CEO will definitely sit more firmly!

He regretted that if he had chosen Duke Rosenberg instead of CAA's project, although he would have to accept one-fifth of the other party's investment, according to Duke's contract with Warner, he would only enjoy the same proportion of short-term revenue share and could not share long-term revenue.

What about CAA? "Interview with the Vampire" is certainly not a problem for profit, CAA seems to only get a commission of 10% of the total revenue of the film, which seems to be less than half, but it is a long-term share!

In other words, as long as "Interview with the Vampire" can still bring benefits, one tenth of it will always belong to the CAA.

"Interview with the Vampire" itself is almost a foregone conclusion that the revenue of "Brave Island" is not as good as "Brave Island", and it is almost a foregone conclusion that the vampires will share the long-term benefits, which project should be more cost-effective in the first place?

Townsend Rothman couldn't think clearly for a while, he was only sure of one thing, he shouldn't give up Duke Rosenberg so easily!

"I have a building yì!"

The voice still belonged to Tim Fisher, who seemed to be particularly active today, "I have the exact news that Duke Rosenberg has two scripts on file with the Screenwriters Guild, and one of the sci-fi scripts has been completed!" There's a bigger explosion in the script! ”

As soon as these words came out, the Fox executives present immediately perked up, Hollywood didn't believe in anything, only believed in interests and numbers, and the success of two movies in a row has proved Duke Rosenberg's directing strength, not to mention that it was an even crazier explosion scene! That madman full of destruction is definitely a genius in this regard!

Without waiting for anyone else to speak, Tim Fisher quickly said, "I'm going to re-engage with Duke Rosenberg!" Win him back to Fox's camp as much as possible, and at the same time let the pre-review department go to the Screenwriters Guild to check the script he has filed, so that the review process can be started at any time! ”

"I agree!"

"I agree ......"

Many people have agreed, as long as it can bring benefits, they don't care who the partner is!

Townsend Rothman crossed his hands on the table and slowly lifted his chin, as if he was thinking, in fact, he knew very well that, like Tim Fisher, who had a conflict with Duke, as an executive in a commercial company, face is never as important as performance!

"If I'm not mistaken......" he said slowly, "Duke is on a 1+2 contract with Warner Bros.?" ”

"It's a 1+2 contract!" Tim Fisher has clearly done the work, "but there is a note clause that Warner Bros. will have a right of first refusal only under equal conditions." ”

Hearing this, Townsend Rothman no longer hesitated, "Try your best to contact Nancy Josephson...... So, ask her out, I'll talk to her personally, and, when Duke gets back to Los Angeles, invite him to Fox's pie! ”

"We don't have a plan to send duì for the time being." A person next to him said suddenly.

"Then hold a special one!" Townsend Rothman snapped.

Also on this Monday, "Death Island" began its North American promotional journey, unlike "Life and Death" when rushing to catch flights everywhere, the publicity team composed of Duke, Lee, Cage, Harris and Naomi Watts and other key cast members took a business plane belonging to Warner Bros., and the excellent first-week box office results of "Death Island" undoubtedly reassured Warner.

As soon as he arrived in Seattle, Duke received a call from Nancy Josephson, who was not surprised by the changing attitude of Twentieth Century Fox, which was a society that pursued commercial interests, and there were no irreconcilable contradictions between himself and Twentieth Century Fox, and there were no irreconcilable commercial contradictions under the premise of sufficiently large interests.

Although the cooperation with Warner Bros. is very pleasant, Duke will not be stupid enough to hang himself from a tree, even if he can't give Twentieth Century Fox any promises, he still tells Nancy to talk to them first, even if it doesn't work out in the future, maybe there will be a chance to cooperate in the future, not to mention that this can also put some pressure on Warner Bros. in the negotiations for the next movie, in order to fight for greater interests for his side.

Business cooperation is like this, there are no permanent friends, there are no permanent enemies, if Tom Cruise is invited to star in the movie he can maximize his interests, Duke will not hesitate, just like in the Seattle fan meeting to praise the four male and female leads, to praise Liang Tang's acting skills to the clouds.

However, Duke did not have many opportunities and time to speak in the promotional activities, and the publicity still revolved around the actors and the film itself, and of course, a large number of fans got to know him, and the media was full of explosive and destructive desires. The young director of hope.

"Speaking of which, I want to thank you, Duke."

Back at the hotel in the evening, a few people went to the bar downstairs, and when they sat down to drink together, Nicolas Cage suddenly said to him, "On the afternoon announcement, those fans are crazy about me, which has never been done before." ”

"You'll get used to it later."

Picking up his glass, Duke touched Cage and said, "Believe what I said to you, if you go down the path you have now, Nikolai, you can become one of the iconic figures of Hollywood in the nineties." ”

"You really look like a medieval god now!" Sophia next to her hit him unceremoniously.

"No, Sophia, I think Duke has a point."

Without waiting for Duke to say anything, Cage retorted, he enjoyed the feeling of a superstar that he had never had before, "This is the first time I have worked with Duke, I think this will be a turning point in my career, I have been up and down in Hollywood for nearly ten years, although my acting skills have been affirmed to a certain extent, but there is no box office success, if I was just an unknown actor before, then today I feel like a Hollywood movie star!" ”

"This cup to you, Duke!" Nicolas Cage solemnly raised his glass.

Christopher Lee, who had just finished a drink with Cage and was seated at the same table, also raised his glass, "I want to salute you too, Duke." ”

The old man's expression is also solemn and solemn, since he chooses to step into this vanity fair, no one does not want to become famous and become a celebrity who can be famous in the United States and even the world, and now Christopher Lee undoubtedly enjoys this qiē brought by John Mason.

"Looks like Duke," he and Lee clinked their glasses, "you're going to get me drunk today." ”

It's all a joke, a few people have a contract, and the next day they have to fly to other cities to run publicity, and they are not drunkards, so they will definitely not get drunk.

According to the plan, the crew still walked from east to west, one stop at a time in the most important box office cities in North America, and the routine fan meetings and media conferences followed, and the crew also became the focus of entertainment media in a short period of time.

While running the publicity, Duke also noticed another thing, after Twentieth Century Fox had a conversation with Nancy Josephson, the media smeared him and "Death Island" and the voice of "Death Island" weakened a little, and Fox was clearly showing goodwill.