Chapter 1122 (1/2)
Hot girls are very simple. Denise entertainment has been exploring young pop singers all these years. It's easy to copy them. Even if they fail, it doesn't matter.
It's a pity that the ”Harry Potter” series, such a super big IP, will be lost.
In the front study of the Boeing 767.
Simon is thinking about this with one mind and two uses. Girl a knocks on the door and presents a newly sorted document: ”boss, this is from Chris Lee.”
Simon met Chris Lee, President of Sony's Columbia Pictures, at the Jonathan's reception last Saturday. After a few words, he sent a message to Chris Lee the next day, asking him to compile a list of all the film projects Sony Pictures is incubating.
It's actually a kind of trial.
Sony has been in Hollywood for so many years. If it was in the past, foreign investment in Hollywood would have been in line with Simon's plan. Times are changing. Since Denise entertainment does not intend to retain its strength to seek coexistence, it is also the time to sweep the Japanese out of Hollywood.
Once upon a time, Sony successfully survived the difficult period around 2000 and established itself in Hollywood for a long time by virtue of the big hit series such as man in black and spider man. Now, if we want to get the Japanese out, Simon needs to control Sony as much as possible, and there will be no more variables like ”man in black”.
Chris Lee is one of Simon's pieces.
Now that Chris Lee has passed on the information, it's clear that the Hollywood executive not only understands Simon's intention, but also decisively delivers the nomination.
Simon took the document from girl a and opened it. He found that the information given by Chris Lee was more detailed than he asked for, including Sony's film list this year, and the internal evaluation tendency of various incubation projects.
The two major brands, Columbia and Samsung, controlled by Sony, have suffered losses for many years in a row. This year, it is estimated that only 11 films will be produced, including 7 in Colombia and 4 in Samsung.
In addition to ”walking with the devil” which failed at the box office in the Easter season, the key films of 1997, the disaster of the boa constrictor and absolute power which are scheduled for the summer season, and the perfect and the Star River team which are scheduled for the end of the year, the others are small films with a budget of less than $30 million.
This is quite different from Sony's 1997 movie list in Simon's memory.
Once upon a time, in history, 1997 was a year when Sony made a big comeback. In the top ten of the annual box office list, Sony occupied four films, namely ”man in black”, ”Air Force One”, ”perfection” and ”my best friend's wedding ceremony”.
It was because of the big sales of four movies in a year that Sony survived the most difficult period, and it was after the millennium that it completely established itself by relying on the Spider Man series.
This time, things have obviously changed too much.
First of all, under the strong impact of daenerys entertainment, and Sony's successive losses, this Japanese electronics giant, like several other Hollywood studios, has to take the initiative to reduce film production. The 11 films of its two brands are not too few. Fox has less than 10 films this year. However, compared with a series of blockbusters, such as man in black, air force one, walking with the devil, Star River team and the fifth element, which were successful or failed in 1997, this time, there are only four blockbusters with a budget of 50 million US dollars, including walking with the devil, absolute power, perfection and Star River team.
More careful analysis, distribution in the summer and the end of the main film is also very interesting.
Absolute power is a crime drama directed and performed by Clint Eastwood again. The old cowboy is no longer hanging on the tree of Warner since Steve Roth died in that year. In addition, the box office has always been very secure. It is very popular with major studios. This time, it was courted by Sony and spent $50 million to shoot this new film.
”The python disaster”, a typical Hollywood monster adventure film, once starred in Jennifer Lopez, is a typical bad movie, but the box office is still good. Coupled with the hot sale of the video market, a series of sequels have been produced, some of which are directly put into the video and DVD market as the follow-up of ”the alien”.
This time, because Jennifer Lopez was busy judging American Idol, the heroine changed to Demi Moore.
Obviously it's Simon, the big butterfly.
Without the rise of Denise entertainment, Bruce Willis and Demi Moore would have been very nurturing in the 1990s.
Even if there is no representative work after ghost, Demi Moore still takes advantage of the huge amount of hot money pouring into Hollywood in the 1990s to make big budget films such as ”the devil's maid” and ”the devil's soldier”. No matter how miserable these projects have been to investors, Demi Moore's salaries of more than ten million dollars in a row are full.
Of course, because of the bad character, Demi Moore, who played the villain in 2003's ”Thunderbolt 2”, only got $2 million.Now, with the strength of danielis entertainment, other big studios are not easy to live, hot money is not stupid, the number of Hollywood inflow has been greatly reduced, and Simon has also actively absorbed part of it. The most direct result is that the chance for stars to eat hot money dividends has also been greatly reduced. In addition, the era of 20 million film rewards for Hollywood's first-line celebrities has not come, and the current film reward ceiling has been reduced Simon successfully stuck in the upper limit of 15 million,
the butterfly influence in a smaller scope is that Bruce Willis and Demi Moore are far from having a better life.
Bruce Willis, an action star who grew up on ”tiger's gall dragon”, has fallen back to the second tier without ”vulgar novel” to make him popular again in the late 1990s.
As for Demi Moore, we still need to take over the film that is hard to make a difference. Compared with Jennifer Lopez, who has just crossed the circle, although Demi Moore's coffee seat is higher, the budget of the film is still only $45 million, less than the $50 million blockbuster threshold.
As for the box office this time, according to Chris Lee's internal information, the effect of the disaster of the python is not good, and the prospect is not very optimistic.
And then there's the year-end version of perfection.
This is a romantic comedy by James Brooks, a well-known Hollywood filmmaker who has produced such blockbuster films as ”deep love between mother and daughter” and ”flying over the future”, in collaboration with Jack Nicholson, the film's best actor. It was also a box office award winner on the time line, which not only made Jack Nicholson the Oscar winner again, but also ranked sixth in the annual box office list.
The final ”Star River team”, needless to say, is another box office fiasco relative to the cost of breaking 100 million yuan.
On the whole, ”walking with the devil” has lost. The following four major films are ”absolute power”, ”the disaster of the python”, ”perfection” and ”Star River team”. Even if ”perfection” can be as popular as in the original time and space, it is difficult to reverse the overall decline of Sony Pictures.
As long as there is no big accident, Sony Pictures will still end up at a loss in 1997.
After watching Sony's 1997 movie list, Simon wrote down ”my best friend's wedding” on the draft paper at hand, and then obliterated it.
This film, which used to be one of the top ten box office films of the year, was obviously tailor-made for Julia Roberts at that time, so it's only natural that it was lost by the butterfly. If you think about it, you're sure to make it. It's a billion dollar movie. Why not?
Immediately, Simon did not forget ”Air Force One” and added another.
It's also one of the top ten movies of the year.
Even if the budget is a little high and the cost performance is relatively low, it is a good choice for MGM or other studios in the future.
After finishing all these, we can find that air force one is still on Sony's incubation list. However, because of Harrison Ford's bad cooperation experience with the devil, Sony's senior management delayed the development of this project. With the box office fiasco of ”walking with the devil”, if there is no accident, then at least Sony will not develop the film.
When Simon saw this, he didn't need to cover it up any more, so he made a remark on the data.
Now that Chris Lee has given his nomination, Simon will of course reciprocate. This project can be quietly suppressed by the other party. After the Japanese go away, they can take it out and make it by themselves. It will also become a qualification.
And then Simon quickly saw another project, ”Godzilla.”.
Sony is in contact with Japan's Dongbao copyright, has not yet reached an agreement.
Simon immediately listed it as a sniper.
In 1998, Roland Emmerich's version of Godzilla was badly criticized because the king of monsters was made into a Tyrannosaurus Rex. However, due to the huge reputation of this world-class IP and its shocking special effects, the box office of nearly $400 million in the world was not a failure. Sony basically recovered the cost and made a profit.