"Hey, Jim, those things you let people say are doing a great deal of harm to my lucky ones."

"Haha, don't say the kind of hypocritical things that those guest remarks have nothing to do with you!"

"Didn't everyone throw a little bit? I'm not alone......"

"I know, I know you've always taken good care of me...... Yes, Dr. Chen also said that your new project with A+ Wind Investment Bureau is great. ”

"Well, I apologize for the attitude I just had, I just ...... Okay, okay, understood...... So that's it? ”

It's the next weekend in a blink of an eye, and the sequel to Dance My Life has a total box office of only nearly nine million in nine days and one night in a thousand theaters, although it overwhelms the imagined mortal enemy: Miramax is a beautiful woman in the same type of youth romance film, but the performance is still far lower than the investor's expectations, and the total box office of North Mi is about to fall in the 30 million range, if the overseas attendance rate is also this one, the global box office can almost only keep the capital, and then rely on advertising revenue such as A+ clothing and TV broadcast and video tape income to make money.

In addition to the quality of the film itself, it seems to have been dragged down by the changing environment of the audience's tastes, this Valentine's Day schedule North Mi audiences generally do not buy romance films, Zhou Champion belongs to the modern war action film "Broken Arrow", directed by the most successful Chinese commercial film director John Wu, starring veteran actor John Travolta.

The other films that preceded the sequel to Dancing My Life were either family comedies or dramas.

Dance Out My Life Sequel and Pretty Lady are unlucky.

There are too many investors; Last year, too many follow-up films caused the audience to suffer from aesthetic fatigue; After the filming was completed, the waiting time for the schedule was too long, and in the middle, Universal Pictures experienced a high-level change, resulting in half-heartedness; The script is not strong, and art film director Stephen Gyllenhaal is not good at making this kind of commercial youth song and dance film; There is no chemistry between the male and female protagonists; Even the popular small-screen idol actress Jennifer LoveHewitt is still too far away from APLUS, which is the first monoclonal antibody box office, in terms of fame and box office appeal; APLUS HIMSELF DOESN'T WANT TO ABSOLVE HIMSELF OF RESPONSIBILITY, THE ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK OF THE MOVIE HE PERSONALLY WROTE AGAIN IS NOT AT ALL WONDERFUL FOR THE FIRST PART, AND HE CERTAINLY DIDN'T DO HIS BEST......

In the same way that there are always reasons to fall in a bear market, critics and Hollywood media have summed up a whole host of reasons for box office failures. And Song Ya has only one of his own feelings: Why didn't the old man Szynberg get out of the world earlier!? The project was led by him, and the script actors were all built according to his opinion, so everything was his fault!

The current president, Ron Meyer, will certainly not take the blame for Hinberg's legacy, and he later told him to temporarily halt the filming of the third part of My Life until the producers, A+ Film Studios and Amperin Entertainment, submit a script that satisfies him.

David Geffen didn't have the heart to continue to make a fuss, and Geffen Films hinted that it would withdraw from the investment in the third part, saying that he would focus on DreamWorks.

The bad news is frequent, the team behind Jennifer Love, Hewitt and Gosling are crazy, Universal can not care, Amperin Entertainment and Geffen Pictures can not matter, A+ Film Studio can not matter, and directors with many art film honors can also do not care, but they can't, this is the first time to break into the big screen as a starring role.

From now on, they should do everything possible to create a buzz in an attempt to save the box office.

And Song Ya's mood was not affected at all, the project really dragged on for too long, until he didn't feel it anymore, and after Daniel left, he returned to Sony Columbia Records headquarters in New York, and the other party was finally willing to settle it.

Hang up the phone with Jim Clark, "Where's my check-in?" He continued to sign the paperwork as he hummed.

Throughout '95, Song Ya and Ferge's new albums and singles accounted for the majority of A+ album revenue, and the rest was Song Ya and Ferge's debut album and single disc, Dance Out of My Life, and Cat and Mouse Game Soundtrack's continued sales revenue share.

Song Ya also has a lot of songwritten royalty income, such as Malibu on Mariah Carey's best-selling daydream album, Stepup in the soundtrack of the Dream Tearstain movie and the solo version of the Heart of Empire girl in Ano's unplugged concert, songs given to Ferggy, Donny Breston and others, and so on.

In other ways, he also has a lot of income from tours, commercial performances, advertising, etc. (these are not settled by Sony Columbia Records, but they are written together to save trouble).

In short, after removing the costs of legal affairs, finance, and brokerage company sharing, and leaving A+ Records, which has increased significantly in expenses in 96, is enough for working capital, Song Ya once again 'printed' 54 million cash for himself.

Hehe, Stanley Chase said that Picault made 100 million in a month, and look, didn't I make 100 million this month? Or cash.

The huge amount of money was not panicked in the palm of his hand, Song Ya was secretly proud, feeling that he was resurrected with full blood, and this year was a perfect start again, "Happy cooperation, Mr. Cali." ”

He stood up and shook hands with John Cali, president of Columbia Pictures and acting president of Sony Columbia Records, across the table.

"Congratulations APLUS."

John Cali was certainly not as affectionate as Daniel had been during his reign, and after the two sides had taken care of a series of business, he ended the meeting with a few words of congratulations.

"You say, why did Sony suddenly not delay the settlement?"

Song Ya didn't get carried away yet, and as she returned to Tribeca's house to rest, she asked, "Their behavior is a little weird and hard to explain, isn't it?" ”

"It's very simple, you got more than 50 million cash from Picault, and it doesn't make sense to card your cash flow operation."

Samuel replied with a smile: "Your financial situation is very healthy, no matter what trouble you encounter, 50 million cash and 100 million are not much different, enough to cope." ”

This guy has risen to prominence in Coopers Accounting Firm, and now it only appears on important settlement occasions of this scale today.

"That's right." William Morris's Donovan nodded, "You are strong enough, they are friends, you show weaknesses, they are enemies, because no matter how dull they are, they can now be sure that you have no chance of renewing your contract at all." ”

"So they still have the intention of harming me?" Song Ya asked.

"Business is business, don't care what they're thinking, just watch what they do." Hamlin nodded.

"Break it down, Ms. Sloane, and use the conspiracy theories you've learned from Washington." Song Ya quipped to Sloane, "I see that you are very silent today, and you have been thinking about something. ”

"Turbulent political turmoil is often triggered by trivial things......"

Sloan did have something to offer, and she said, "Let's try to analyze what was a trivial, but surprisingly small thing during your second fight with Motura and Sony? ”

"What?"

Song Ya recalled, "I didn't feel anything...... That hardcopy magazine that suddenly attacked me and Mimi? They used Paramount's channel resources, but Mr. Lei Shidong was busy, and John Cali said that he didn't ask anything from Paramount Pictures President Shirley Lansing. ”

"Is that a trivial matter?" Sloan asked rhetorically.

"No...... Not count. "It's not a trivial matter.

"I mentally sorted it out a bit, and it felt like it was just the missing Broadway dancer......" Sloan prompted.

"The guy who suddenly unplugged my backphones on the concert stage?"

Song Ya remembered, "It's just that I was embarrassed in public." ”

"Yes, I put myself in the shoes of Motura according to the timeline, and I felt that it was impossible to isolate the incident, otherwise it would be meaningless."

Sloan said: "Getting rid of Daniel and getting Motura back to Sony Columbia Records, that was almost a sure decision, you fought back and the two sides went to war...... If I were Motula, I wouldn't have exposed myself to Sony and wanted to ruin one of the company's most profitable artists, but I hate you so much that I would have devised a perfect plan and waited for the right time to execute it. ”

"Well, that dancer dealt with Wesley Naples on Broadway, and Wesley and Motura had teamed up against me a long time ago, and that dancer should have been hired by them." Song Ya nodded.

"According to the performance of Sony Columbia Records, it won't take long for them to settle your cards, so the time for this plan to start in early '96, or earlier, was just disrupted by you reducing your holdings of Netscape stock and cashing out."

Sloan continued to envision: "No, maybe it will be launched at the end of last year, but Motura didn't expect your counterattack to be fast and ruthless, such as exposing photos of his ex-wife and daughter, using discriminatory language in the recording to launch a large demonstration of African Americans in New York, and the management of the book was forced to back down under pressure, so it was repeatedly delayed......"

"What does that have to do with making me make a mess at a concert that wasn't broadcast?" Song Ya asked.

"If it were me, I would probably arrange a fan to hide in the stands below to quietly record the video, and at the right time, release it to hit your popularity...... Have you forgotten how Paula Abbadu fell so quickly from DIVA status because of the accusations of proxy singers? Even if the lawsuit is won, it will be too late, the lawsuit will drag on for too long, and the popularity will long be gone. ”

Donovan said.

"At the same time, you and Mrs. Song were hit by negative revelations from various media, and Mrs. Song ...... in the recording of that phone call"

Hamlin also got the hang of it, when Mariah Carey didn't react to Motula's discriminatory language, "It's going to hit your African-American base hard." Then Motura envisaged a time to start at the beginning of this year, and the time for your congressional hearing has already been set, and when Danburton suddenly launches a treason charge, which leads you to the same criminal case as MJ and Simpson, Sony can help jam your cash flow, and maybe there are other sinister methods that we don't know about. ”

"Wow......"

Song Ya's brows furrowed, and she felt a little chill in her back, "So it's because of my decisive series of fierce counterattacks at the end of last year, as well as the media influence I bought, bowing to Jesse Helms, and their unexpected commercial success that prevented this plan from coming to fruition?" It's a bit dangerous in retrospect. ”

"Almost, all of your copings are fantastic, you can play A-." Sloane nodded.

"Is it so low?" Song Ya asked with a smile.

"You haven't completely defeated your enemy APLUS yet." "And the threat of Motura kids, who are of Italian descent, is a bit of a trick," Sloan said. ”

"I didn't, and besides, he attacked my family first."

Samuel was still beside him, Song Ya pouted, "All these assumptions are derived from your conspiracy theory just now, even if it is not far from the actual situation, Motura has lost the opportunity forever now......"

"In short, you can't take it lightly, you have to erase the Bath chemical case and the hidden dangers we just mentioned as soon as possible."

Sloan warned, "Damberton's evidence is already on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and now Jesse Holmes is just dragging with the trigger still on his finger." ”

"Well, you can rest assured of my mobility, Ms. Sloane."

Song Ya nodded, "Then cancel tomorrow's party, I'll rush back to Chicago tonight, and find a way to meet with old Barn as soon as possible and have a chat." ”

"Okay."

When Song Ya and the others were about to leave for the airport, a brief news was sent back to the mainland by the Associated Press of Mi.

On 24 February, two planes belonging to the Brotherhood of Rescue of Cuban Exiles crashed in Cuban airspace, and the fate of four Cuban-American pilots was unknown.

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