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Superstar - Chapter 1995

Published at 31st of January 2024 08:43:42 AM


Chapter 1995: Issuing department

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April ended in a blink of an eye, and the summer vacation in May came again strongly. Although the overall downturn in the summer vacation last year made people disappointed in the performance of the film market, this is just a comparison with "Independence Day". In fact, " Jurassic Park 2: The Lost World, "Men in Black", and "Air Force One" performed very well, especially the "Men in Black" who turned out to make Will Smith a successor to Denzer El-Washington, Eddie Murphy and others followed by another popular black actor.

This year's summer file will kick off the curtain with two works, "World Clash" and "Godzilla (, staged a vigorous summer box office battle. Both of these works are disaster films, which are entirely based on the brilliant success of "Independence Day", especially the latter!

"Godzilla" was directed by Roland Emmerich. After the director who relied on "Independence Day" to make a big hit, he collaborated with Sony Columbia Pictures to create this movie at a cost of 120 million U.S. dollars. Jean-Renault, who is famous all over the world for "this killer is not too cold," was also invited to join, which can be said to be menacing.

Although the summer archive has not yet kicked off at this time, people are already excited in advance. What kind of box office performance will the two disaster movies contribute to, and what box office results will Roland's new work after "Independence Day" contribute to? , All this has become a hot topic of discussion.

Especially in the "Star Wars: Prequel" series and Hugo's scandals have been heated in the past month. The hot agenda has always been high, and some people even jointly wrote a letter hoping that Hugo could play Obi-Wan, and some organized a rally to protest against Hugo's joining. The topics followed one after another, so that the heat of the summer vacation began to cover the entire North American continent.

What chemical reaction will happen between Hugo and "Star Wars Prequel" is not known for the time being, but the box office performance of "Clash of Heaven and Earth" and "Godzilla" will soon be revealed. What's more interesting is that this time Roland will have a duel with Hugo.

With the approach of the summer vacation, Paramount Pictures also announced the schedule of "Trumen's World". This comedy movie with an investment of only 60 million US dollars can only be regarded as a small shrimp in this extremely competitive schedule. But because of the joining of Hugo, it became hot.

"Godzilla" will officially land on the North American market on May 22, and "Trumen's World" will be released in North America on June 5. Although there was a two-week interval, "Godzilla" still needs to face the impact of "Trumen's World", the market share of this comedy starring Hugo. It will have a direct impact on the "Godzilla" follow-up box office pulling ability.

This will be Hugo’s third summer landing after "Life and Death" and "Independence Day". However, compared with the previous two works, "Trumen's World" is not only Hugo's first challenge to a comedy movie. And it also needs to face the picky of the same type of movies in the summer market. This also adds a touch of uncertainty to the film's North American box office.

Of course, under Hugo's current momentum, people still generally believe in Hugo's box office appeal, and "Trumen's World" is bound to become a seed choice that cannot be ignored in the summer archive. Under such circumstances, how much pressure will the follow-up box office of "Godzilla" bear, and whether the final cumulative box office will be directly affected. Have become the biggest attraction,

People also lamented that this was a sign that Hugo and Roland once again joined forces to "dominate the summer file" after "Independence Day." It's a mockery. It's ridicule, but also anticipation.

Before the summer holidays, everyone's attention was focused on the lively movie market, and the topics surrounding Hugo were always inseparable from the shadow of "Star Wars Episode". But in silence, stormy waves broke out in the circle.

In less than fifty days, DreamWorks has acquired four small issuing companies and one medium-sized issuing company. Resolutely established its own distribution department belonging to DreamWorks. At this time, people noticed that a powerful sum of money was injected into DreamWorks!

Before this. No wind leaked out. When I heard that DreamWorks had started to acquire a distribution company, people in the circle didn't care too much, because DreamWorks is an independent production company, and the Big Three led by Steven Spielberg refused any form of Wall Street capital injection, so No one thinks DreamWorks can make big moves.

But now, DreamWorks, which has been silent and silent, suddenly burst out with such a powerful energy, which is impressive. Only then did he notice the existence of Alan Strello-he injected DreamWorks into DreamWorks in his own name. With the funds, it helped DreamWorks complete the construction of the issuing department, which improved the competitiveness of DreamWorks by several steps in one fell swoop.

In fact, this news confuses many people in the circle. Everyone knows that Steven's refusal to inject funds is to reject all forms of funds. The three helms of DreamWorks are full of personalities, and they reject external funds. In fact, it is rejecting others to point fingers at their creations. But this time, DreamWorks accepted Allen's capital injection, which is really an incomprehensible problem.

Soon after, there were rumors in the circle: Hugo Lancaster will serve as Allen's executive officer in DreamWorks. Allen does not interfere with any of the daily affairs of DreamWorks, and has the sole responsibility of Hugo. In other words, now DreamWorks is no longer the Big Three, but the Big Four! Hugo, Steven, David, and Jeffery, kept pace with each other and became the helm of DreamWorks' future development.

The news was quickly acknowledged by David Geffen himself. One stone stirred up a thousand waves!

No one can predict what impact this change will have on Hollywood—the success of the two works "L.A. Confidential" and "Perfect" is still vivid, and Hugo's undefeated record since the Golden Raspberry Awards It has also won the reputation of Hollywood's "Golden Hand", and even the success of "Titanic" is considered to be what Hugo had expected.

Therefore, after Hugo joins DreamWorks, what changes will it bring to DreamWorks and what vitality will it inject into the works produced by DreamWorks? All these are worth looking forward to.

At the same time, the joining of Hugo is also linked to the establishment of the issuing department-Allen's injection of funds is used to establish the issuing department. It is not difficult to guess that these two things are closely related, and we can also see the powerful ambitions of DreamWorks.

After careful digging, it can be found that among the five distribution companies acquired by DreamWorks, the only medium-sized distribution company was acquired from Disney. This company has very good resources and cooperates with the five major theaters. Long-term screening cooperation rights for 1,300 theaters, and some cooperation relationships with Disney's theme parks, peripheral sales, and video tape rental business.

Among the other four issuing companies, three are self-made independent issuing companies, with issuing capabilities mainly concentrated in the West Bank and the central part of Chicago. There is also a cooperative issuing company under Paramount, which owns six Hundreds of theaters have long-term cooperation for the screening rights, but the geographical advantage is definitely the leader among small distribution companies, and it is only a matter of time before it develops into a medium-sized or even a large-scale company.

As we all know, among the current eight major Hollywood film companies, Paramount has the strongest distribution ability, but Disney has the ability to sell peripheral businesses. DreamWorks' selection of these issuing companies for acquisition is definitely not without a target.

People in the circle immediately smelled the benefit exchange in this. Although they could not get rid of the fog and see the truth of the matter, it will always be revealed after the precipitation of time. By then, they will know what happened after this transaction. How much blood and blood.

What people didn't notice was that there were a few small turbulences in Hollywood over the long months.

First, the chief executive officer of the TV station, Robert Iger, was promoted in early July. He successfully entered the Disney headquarters and became one of CEO Michael Eisner’s many assistants. He became the president of the international business department and was responsible for Disney. Issuance and opening in the world, and also serves as the chairman of the group.

Almost at the same time, Bowei Films experienced personnel turmoil, CEO David Vogel’s most trusted deputy COO was removed, and Michael of Disney’s headquarters personally sent a new COO to assist Bowei. The business development of Wei Film Company.

In addition Kenneth/Michelle Films, owned by Katherine Kennedy, has signed a cooperation agreement with DreamWorks. In the future, they will work together to develop several works, and DreamWorks has priority distribution rights-premise It is the distribution department of DreamWorks that can meet the distribution capacity of 2,500 theater chains.

These trivial news did not attract too many people's attention, because the personnel changes within large film companies are very frequent. Except for changes in important positions such as the CEO and chief operating officer, it is difficult for people to pay too much attention— —After all, he is still a strategist behind the scenes. The lower the attention, the better.

However, real interested people can notice the subtle connection, especially a week after DreamWorks completed the acquisition of the medium-sized distribution department, Hugo officially announced through Rick Rosen that his new work will be a horror movie. ——"Supernatural Sixth Sense", cooperated with the new director m-Night-Samaran. The actors on the same stage include Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Beckinsale and Toni Colette.

This horror movie is not revealing, with an investment of 55 million US dollars, it will become the third production of Hugo as the producer. However, it is worth noting that the "Sixth Sense of Supernatural" is not a film invested by DreamWorks, but a film invested by Bowei Film Company.

The connection makes people have to think about it. (To be continued)




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