Chapter 626 The core competition of the movie (4000+ chapters~)
The seven major studios in Hollywood today are 20th Century Fox, Disney, Universal, Paramount, Time Warner, Sony and Phantom!
MGM had gone through many sales before this. At the same time, when Ted Turner sold all of MGM's assets, he retained MGM's film library. Ted Turner took these assets to join the Times.
Warner, causing MGM's vitality to be severely damaged.
This is also the reason why Phantom can replace MGM as one of the seven major studios in Hollywood!
With the collaboration between Spielberg and Lucas, six major studios joined forces with Spielberg's Amblin Entertainment and Lucas's Lucasfilm to boycott the production of "The Last Days".
Upon its release, this shocking news had already spread throughout Hollywood.
At this time, almost no one was optimistic about the movie anymore, but as their temporary interest alliance, there was actually a loophole in their plan, and that was Oceanwide Cinemas, whose attitude had never been clear.
Oceanwide Cinemas is currently expanding at an extremely fast pace. In the past half year, it spent money waving around to acquire theater companies all over the world. Now it has become a large theater company in North America that cannot be ignored.
Spielberg and Lucas still haven't figured out the mystery behind this, but they also stepped up their training with major production companies during this period in order to increase pressure on Oceanwide Cinemas.
But the result is...
"Boss, I'm sorry, Oceanwide Cinemas has announced that on Valentine's Day, all its theaters will screen the movie "The Love of Ghosts"!"
Spielberg's secretary ran in and said in a panic that he knew how important his boss was to this matter, and now Oceanwide Cinemas is really going to release "The Last Days"...
....
Spielberg and Lucas suddenly stood up and looked at each other, both seeing surprise in each other's eyes.
"What is the relationship between Oceanwide Cinemas and Phantom Entertainment? Doesn't he know the consequences of doing this?" Lucas shouted in surprise.
Spielberg said coldly: "It's useless to say this now. What we have to do now is to contact several other studios immediately to boycott Oceanwide Cinemas. We must not lose this battle!"
Lucas nodded, he also understood the significance of this battle to them. This was no longer a battle between the two of them and Phantom Entertainment, but a battle between the entire Jewish community in Hollywood and Phantom Entertainment.
If they lose, it will be a huge blow to their reputation in Hollywood.
Soon Spielberg got through to Universal. The most important thing for Spielberg to get started in Hollywood was the appreciation of Universal's former president Sidney Seannberg. So you will find that Spielberg
Ge's earlier works "Jaws" and "ET" were both distributed by Universal.
However, with Panasonic taking over Universal, Akio Tanii took over Sidney Seanberg's position and became Universal's president, but this did not delay Universal's cooperation with Spielberg.
Spielberg's status can no longer be measured solely as a director or producer. His status is enough to directly talk to the president of any studio.
I thought this was a sure thing, but Spielberg heard a different flavor in Akio Tanii's tone.
"Steven, I'm afraid there's something you don't know yet!" Akio Tanai's tone was a little helpless, but also a little hopeful.
Spielberg's heart sank and he quickly asked: "What happened?"
"Just now, Phantom Entertainment released news that it wants to sell the copyright of "Home Alone"!" Akio Tanii didn't say anything else, but this is enough. The "Home Alone" series can be called the beginning of the 1980s.
It is the most profitable movie series in Hollywood. At that time, all the studios wanted to participate in this movie, but Phantom Entertainment only chose to cooperate with Universal, which also made Universal make a lot of money.
And Phantom Entertainment has made a lot of money because of this series. Authoritative media once made statistics that the "Home Alone" tetralogy brought at least US$740 million in net income to Phantom Entertainment!
Now that Phantom Entertainment actually wants to sell the copyright of "Home Alone", it naturally arouses the common attention of all production companies.
"The vitality of 'Home Alone' has been almost consumed by Phantom. At this time, this series will not bring much benefit to the company at all!" Spielberg immediately said.
Akio Tanii chuckled and said: "Steven, we know what you think, but I'm afraid we won't be able to help you this time. We have already made detailed calculations about what will happen to the "Home Alone" series in the future.
Although his future income may not be as high as before, it can at least bring a net income of 100 million yuan to the company!"
Spielberg's expression was extremely dejected when he said this. Although Jewish people have extremely high influence in Hollywood, their influence pales insignificance in the face of hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue.
Then Spielberg called Paramount. Spielberg has two major production companies in Hollywood with whom he has close cooperation, one is Universal and the other is Paramount.
The "Raiders of the Lost Ark" series was invested and distributed by Paramount.
But the feedback he received was similar to that of Universal. Even though Murdoch is now extremely wary of Fengge Media, in the face of hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue, Murdoch cannot give up. No one in this world
Will choose to give up hundreds of millions of dollars in profits for so-called business friendship.
In fact, when Phantom Entertainment threw out the copyright of "Home Alone", their alliance of interests was already disrupted.
Lucas also ended his call. The reply he got was similar to Spielberg's. Now their alliance of interests is obviously unsustainable. Even if he did not get the copyright of "Home Alone", then he would get it.
The company that holds the copyright for "Home Alone" will definitely continue to cooperate with Oceanwide Cinemas.
This immediately solved the film source problem of Oceanwide Cinemas. The production company and the theater company had a mutually beneficial relationship.
When Oceanwide Cinemas no longer worries about film sources, then they no longer need to be afraid of production companies.
At this time, the production company needs to change their own plans. After all, having one more theater company to cooperate with also means that their company's movies have many more release channels.
There are real benefits here!
Spielberg and Lucas looked at each other and saw frustration in each other's eyes. Anyone who suddenly experienced the feeling of falling from the clouds to the ground would not feel too good.
The most important thing is that as a result of this incident, their influence in Hollywood will drop a lot.
"It's not over yet!" Lucas said suddenly.
Spielberg immediately looked at Lucas and asked, "What else can be done?"
"As long as "Back to the Future 3" sells well at the box office, we will still have a chance to make a comeback in this matter!" Lucas said fiercely.
In all these years, Lucas has never felt this frustrated.
Anger made Lucas lose his usual calm!
Spielberg's eyes lit up: "Yes, as long as the box office of "Back to the Future 3" can surpass "The Last Days", we can make a comeback!"
Neither of them expected that things would develop to this point and that it would come to the core competition in the North American film industry, the quality of the film and its acceptance by the audience!
Spielberg contacted Universal again. This time he no longer asked Universal to boycott "Back to the Future 3" with him, but wanted to increase the promotion of "Back to the Future 3"!
Universal is the distribution company of "Back to the Future 3". Although they will not boycott the movie "The Last Days", it does not mean that they will give up their own interests and choose to release "The Last Days".
this movie.
At most, it will return to the previous relationship of mutual help and normal competition.
However, Universal has its own plans for the release of "Back to the Future 3", and it is impossible to increase publicity just because of Spielberg's words.
In other words, if Spielberg wants to achieve this goal, he can only add money to it himself!
Spielberg, who was already furious at this time, immediately agreed to Universal's proposal.
Universal is naturally very satisfied with this.
After experiencing all the overt and covert struggles, the movies "Back to the Future 3" and "The End of the World" have returned to the core competition of the movie itself!
It is precisely because of this that in the following days, the promotion of these two films occupied almost all promotion channels in North America.
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"The farthest distance in the world is when I am by your side but you can't see it; the shortest distance in the world is when you and I are separated by yin and yang, but we still love each other deeply!"
On the poster of "The Love Between Ghosts and Ghosts", there is a passage like this written on it!
Why is it said that love is the most common language in the world? That is because most women in the world are emotional, so when they see this sad text appearing in front of them, their hearts immediately collapse.
Got it!
"This Valentine's Day, I want to watch this movie!" Fiona said with longing, holding her arm with her boyfriend Liam.
Liam said disapprovingly: "What's so good about this movie? You forgot what was reported in the newspaper. Kun, the director of this movie, doesn't understand our love at all. It's better to watch "Back to the Future 3"
"Well, the concept there is so cool, I want a hang gliding skateboard too!"
In the "Back to the Future" series, there are many technological products that amaze people today, but the most impressive ones are the Nike shoes and the hang gliding skateboard.
Fiona looked at Liam and said arrogantly: "Do you not love me anymore?"
Liam: "..."
"In the past, when people asked me to watch something, you would watch it with me. Now, when I ask you to go watch a movie, you don't even accompany me. It must mean you don't love me anymore. Did you fall in love with that little Debbie when you were at a party?"
Are you a bitch?" Fiona didn't want to reason with Steven at all. Anyway, if you don't go to the movies with me, you don't love me anymore!
Liam: "..."
Someone has long said that women and children make the most money, and the potential audience for romance movies are also women. Not only will they come by themselves, but they will also bring their boyfriends.
In the end, in order to prove that he loved Fiona, Steven naturally agreed to accompany Fiona to watch "The Love of Ghosts"!
But even so, according to the "Hollywood Reporter" survey, "Back to the Future 3" is still far ahead of the movie "The Last Day" among the movies they most want to watch on Valentine's Day.
IMDB and Rotten Tomatoes, which represent the reputation of Hollywood movies, have not yet been launched, but many newspapers will take the initiative to survey audiences' expectations for upcoming movies.
There is no way, the lingering memories of "Back to the Future 2" are still there, and many people want to know what the final result of this series of movies will be.
In addition, almost everyone was not optimistic about this movie, which also led to many viewers automatically giving up the idea of watching her movie after seeing this movie.
Phantom Entertainment!
"What should I do?" Linda said helplessly as she looked at the investigation in the "Hollywood Report" in her hand.
Wu Jianye sat on the sofa, holding a newspaper in his hand, and still said with great confidence: "We have anticipated this situation for a long time. There is nothing to worry about. The real power of the movie will be after the movie is released.
time!"
The movie "The Last Days" must have had extremely bad psychological implications in the minds of the audience because of everything that happened before. In this case, it will definitely affect the box office performance of the movie on the first day, but this does not
Not a bad thing.
If the quality of the movie itself is not strong enough, then the movie will basically be a failure. But if the movie is a high-quality product, then with such a reputation, it will greatly exceed everyone's expectations after it is released.
It’s time for this movie to really shine!
Linda looked a little helpless. She found that since launching this movie, she has been helpless more often than before, and said: "This is the case now, we can only continue to promote it!"
Wu Jianye nodded and asked: "How are the discussions with other production companies about the copyright of "Home Alone" going?"
Although he had agreed to leave the copyright of "Home Alone" to Linda, Wu Jianye still needed to ask.
Speaking of "Home Alone", Linda felt a pity, and her tone became resentful: "What the big boss like you doesn't despise is valuable in the eyes of others, and now all the production companies want it.
Copyright of this series."
Wu Jianye didn't take Linda's tone to heart and said with a smile: "Isn't this better? It can allow you to increase the selling price!"