December is one of the most important holiday months for Westerners.

Their Christmas is more important than New Year's Day.

Of course, the Christmas and New Year holidays are almost connected, and it doesn't matter to the children, they can all play.

The pace of many factories and companies has also slowed down, and people have more entertainment activities.

For example, at the box office of the movie, many of the movies released during this period can achieve good results, so the Christmas file is the second most important stage for Hollywood giants, second only to the summer file.

In terms of TV viewing, there is no doubt that the number of viewers has also decreased - housewives are ushering in the busiest time of the year.

But even in this case, the TV show follows the law of the strong and the strong.

The fist product of cloth and cloth stitching, "Friends", has won the love of many students because of its relaxed and joyful atmosphere, as well as the frequent occurrence of golden sentences, and the vitality of young people.

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In fact, this is not the first time that "Friends" has attracted young people, its viewership this year has exceeded 15 million all the way, and it has repeatedly bottomed out around 16 million, the reason is that young people have joined.

Jennifer Aniston quickly became the most popular idol among young people with her beautiful face and bumpy figure.

In the idol selection between the ages of 18-25, she directly defeated Julia Roberts and other famous female movie stars, ranking first among female stars.

She also quickly won the favor of advertisers, signing more than a dozen advertisements in one go, earning more than $10 million.

The other protagonists of "Friends" are not treated badly, and as "Friends" continues to become popular, they each have their own advertising endorsements and business activities, and the income they get is much more than the meager salary.

In particular, Coca-Cola asked the six of them to shoot three Christmas family commercials together, and the total remuneration reached a staggering $5 million!

Although most of them are Jennifer Aniston's popularity, when negotiating, she specially told her agent that the endorsement fee must be shared equally by six people - the atmosphere of "Friends" is very good, and Jennifer Aniston does not want to destroy everyone's friendship for this money.

After all, they are basically unknown young actors who began to star in "Friends", and several times last year, Jennifer Aniston's bills were made up by a few friends, and everyone can definitely be regarded as friends in distress.

That's why they are willing to sign "Friends" at the cost of a total salary of 2 million for ten years.

Before you became famous, you were nothing.

After becoming famous, everything came to money, honor, status, and so on.

Originally, some of them were a little complaining about the salary, but as soon as these advertising endorsements came, millions of dollars were pocketed, and the resentment of the big guys immediately dissipated.

And I fully agree with the continuation of filming for two seasons next year.

That's right.

This year, "Friends" actually filmed the second and third seasons, but it was only the second season.

It is equivalent to cloth stitching monsters in stock.

The cast of the six-member group thought it would be nice to do that.

First, filming the ten seasons of "Friends" at least five years in advance can save them a lot of time.

In the past few years since filming was completed and not broadcast, they can still have all kinds of film and television drama shooting opportunities, and they are not afraid of hitting the streets.

hit the street once, "Friends" is still on the air, so it can turn over again.

hit the street for the second time, and "Friends" continued to be broadcast, so it was able to turn over again.

Anyway, as long as "Friends" is still there, their popularity is still there, the advertising value is also there, and the effect of making money is there.

The second is the economic factor.

They only signed ten "Friends", and after the ten films were completed, the ratings of "Friends" remained high, and the audience liked it very much, and the cloth stitching monster was definitely willing to continue broadcasting.

In this case, the salary or something has to be renegotiated.

At that time, it will not be something that can be passed for 3,000 or 5,000 dollars per episode.

Not to mention that a single episode costs seven or eight hundred thousand dollars, at least two or three hundred thousand dollars per episode should be.

In that case, there will be another surge in income, which is great.

As the helmsman of the cloth stitching monster, Chen Xiyue actually hasn't taken this aspect into account.

She thinks more about the newly released "X-file eucalyptus" and "Dr. House" that will be released recently.

The pilot pilot episodes made by "X-file Eucalyptus" and "Dr. House" had very different reactions under the scores of a group of judges.

"Dr. House" received unanimous praise from Fox News with an average score of 7.8 in three games.

Everyone thinks that this is the best and most distinctive medical drama in recent years, and the average number of viewers can reach at least 10 million.

can reach around 10 million, which is basically the top five level of the spring file - if it is placed in the autumn file, the top ten may still be a little hanging.

This made some senior executives of Fox News a little excited, wondering whether to postpone it to September to participate in the competition for the fall slot.

Chen Xiyue's answer was also very direct, "You are willing to pay all the expenses in advance, and we can wait." ”

According to the content of the previous negotiations between Xuluo and Gail Berman, "Dr. House" should be a starting price of around 1 million per episode, and if the ratings are high, it will continue to rise.

"Doctor House", a TV series that runs for half a year and has a total of 24 episodes, has a minimum advance payment of $24 million.

For Fox News, with so much money given out in advance, and unable to get feedback from advertisers in a timely manner, there is no doubt that it is a lot of pressure.

And the uncontrollability in this is too high, pilot is just pilot, what if it's not accurate, what if you pull your crotch after a few episodes?

Fox News has already given the money by then, is it going to eat a piece of shit until March next year?

Surely it can't be!

So they never mentioned it again.

The people of Mi are like this, whether it works or not, they have the face to say it first, if you don't agree, forget it, they don't lose anything.

If you agree for the sake of face, then they must be the ones who take advantage, you are the one who suffers, and they will not be responsible for your losses.

Therefore, when dealing with this kind of person, we must be resolute and resolute, and do not talk about any human feelings.

Of course, for specific individuals, it is still possible to talk about feelings.

For example, Fox News' Gail Berman, Chen Xiyue and her have had coffee a few times, have eaten a few times, and even went to a Broadway musical together, and the relationship between the two is not bad.

Compared to the success of "Dr. House", the pilot of "X-file" is a bit unpopular.

The judges scored three consecutive batches, the highest was only 6.5, and the lowest was 4.3.

At one point, NBC wanted to regret it and only gave 300,000 yuan for the premiere of one episode.

They initially promised to follow the guaranteed 500,000 per episode, and then if the number of viewers exceeded 7 million, they would take $1 million per episode, and if the number of viewers exceeded 10 million, it would be $1.5 million.

Even NBC suggested that the actor should be changed from Yuan Biao to a Mi countryman, which will definitely increase the number of viewers.

Faced with such a request, Chen Xiyue categorically refused, telling them to either sign the contract according to the previous one, or not to give NBC.

Because the rating is not good enough, NBC is actually a little unwanted.

But the cloth stitching monster has "Friends" in his hand!

"Friends" has now become an NBC signature, and it can be used to play against other TV stations as an ace TV series!

Once "Friends" leaves NBC, although the viewership will definitely be affected to a certain extent, NBC will face even greater losses.

Although Chen Xiyue didn't threaten NBC and didn't give me good conditions for "X File Eucalyptus", I withdrew "Friends", but NBC was afraid that this kind of thing would really happen!

So after repeated discussions, they still had to pinch their noses and admit it.

But they also left a trail, that is, once the viewership of "X File Eucalyptus" falls below 3 million for three consecutive episodes, they will immediately terminate the contract without any responsibility.

Chen Xiyue agreed.

Because such a result is indeed very poor, even if it is a work of Xuluo, it is impossible to hold on.

But it can be done for two more seasons, and only the videotape will be released to watch it.

If the videotape is very popular, you can make a profit just by renting the videotape.

However, Chen Xiyue never believed that the script made by Xuluo himself, "X File Eucalyptus", would be worse.

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Recently, Chen Xiyue has more troublesome things.

That is "Jurassic Park" that is being filmed.

God knows how much she wanted to carry a knife to the set of "Jurassic Park" and kill James Cameron to vent her anger.

Filming "Jurassic Park", Cameron's own team accounted for one-third of the people, one-third were sent by the Boob Stitch Monster, and the remaining one-third were hired by the Boob Stitch Monster.

As a result, after four months of filming, the entire team has changed 300 people.

You read that right!

That's 300 people!

The team itself has only more than 200 people, but 300 people have been replaced, so naturally many positions have been changed more than once.

It's not just the Bubu Stitching Monster here, but his own team has a lot of departures.

Together with the personnel of special effects companies such as the digital field, more than a dozen have gone.

Why?

They were all scolded by Cameron.

When filming, James Cameron was particularly irritable and particularly pursuing perfection.

Once he doesn't meet his requirements, he has to start all over again regardless of any budget, no matter what time, no matter what wind, rain and other conditions.

Where can the people of Mi stand this!

Even though you pay overtime, people don't want to earn it.

The key is that Cameron's attitude is very bad, and he has to have all kinds of complicated relationships with the women of the other party's family at every turn.

Cameron was not beaten, he was the biggest control.

Together with a group of actors, they also have a lot of opinions about Cameron, if they hadn't signed the contract, they would have lost a lot of money to break the contract, and maybe someone would have run away again.

Of course, Cameron is not angry at everyone, such as the heroine Hui Yinghong, as well as Huang Honghui of the Xiangjiang special effects team and others, these Chinese people are very praised by Cameron for their hard-working and obedient orders.

It's just that praise is praise, and when it is time to scold, you still have to scold.

The assistant director Stephen Sommers, a man in his twenties and thirties, is said to have been scolded and cried more than three or five times, so you can imagine how much pressure there is.

In fact, the director is irritable, and Chen Xiyue can understand.

Many directors don't have a good attitude on the set, and scolding is commonplace.

But Cameron was also too reluctant, scolding 300 people away, and the cost of finding someone to come over again was a lot of money.

That's it.

But Cameron's intemperance during the filming process, completely ignoring the budget, still made Chen Xiyue go violent several times.

You said that you gave him 30 million at the beginning, and he said that it was okay in a proper manner.

The last time Xuluo came, he gave him another 30 million, and Cameron patted his chest and assured that it was enough.

But now that the filming is about to end, Cameron once again asked for an increase in the budget of 20 million for post-production special effects, and Chen Xiyue couldn't bear it.

People's ". ", "Jaws", "Star Wars", "Alien" and other special effects movies, not to mention the total budget of 80 million US dollars!

The cost of 80 million US dollars, if you want to recoup the cost by the box office alone, at least the North American box office will reach 250 million US dollars!

And that's just the return on investment!

Then don't worry, that's not all there is to it

Is Sony Colombia's publicity money here?

A big production like "Jurassic Park" is simply impossible if it lacks a publicity cost of 20 million to 30 million.

With the addition of this one, if you want to make a profit, basically 300 million US dollars can be reached at the box office.

There is one count, how many movies have exceeded $300 million at the North American box office?

Even if Xuluo is very optimistic about "Jurassic Park", everyone is optimistic about "Jurassic Park", thinking that this is a movie that will break records, as his big housekeeper, Chen Xiyue has to help him take care of his property.

So she really rushed to the set and quarreled with Cameron in the office several times.

But that can't be helped.

Cameron is very dead now, either you want to increase the cost for me, or I'll do it slowly, don't blame me for the delay!

You must know that Kira, Cameron and Nobuyuki Idei have already discussed that "Jurassic Park" must be released in the United States in July next year.

The finished product must come out in June at the latest.

Then if you calculate back, all the production will be completed in May, the special effects will be completed in April, and the special effects will be started in January.

It's already December, and there's no problem with the live-action part.

Cameron returned from filming on the Caribbean islands back in October, and the rest was a few reshoots.

If Cameron's funding requirements are guaranteed, he is also willing to work overtime - there is no problem in soaking in the special effects studio all day long.

The most important issue now is money.

Chen Xiyue was really reluctant.

But now that 60 million has been invested, you say that you want to quit, it is completely impossible.

Fortunately, Sony also invested 30% of the funds and bore all the publicity costs.

This can make the cloth stitching monster much less investment, and the financial pressure will be reduced a lot.

Compared to the wealthy Sony, the cloth stitching monster is not even a hair.

Therefore, when Chen Xiyue communicated with Nobuyuki Idei, he praised Cameron, just to let Nobuyuki Idei pay more.

Nobuyuki Idei admires James Cameron very much.

Every time I go to the set to communicate with Cameron, I return with a full load and praise him - I don't know if the corporate culture of Nippon is like this, in order to achieve the ultimate goal, he scolds his subordinates to death.

If that's the case, the two of them stink together.

It seems that this time the $20 million investment has to be communicated with Nobuyuki Idei, even if the money is gathered, it can't be given to Cameron at will.

Now Chen Xiyue can see clearly, this person is the kind of person you give him how much money he can use, and the investor's money is not money at all in his eyes!

With a sigh, Chen Xiyue picked up the phone and dialed Nobuyuki Idei......

The beautiful sister is secretly ruthless in her heart.

After this collaboration, and then with James Cameron, I am a pig!

If Xuluo wants to cooperate with him again, I will slap the little guy to death!

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