Best of Hollywood

Compared with the summer schedule, the only advantage of the Christmas schedule is that the spring schedule in January, February, and March of the next year is one of the off-seasons for the box office in North America, so films released in November and December can have a relatively long screening Expect.

For example, "The Truman Show" is one of them.

In the second week, the box office of "The Truman Show" inevitably experienced a slight decline, but fortunately, the decline was not very large.

Not counting Christmas Day on Monday, $32.56 million was harvested in six days.

If you count the $35.38 million harvested in the first three days of the first weekend, and the $14.02 million on Christmas Day.

In just ten days, the North American box office reached 82.41 million US dollars. Almost all media agreed that the box office of "The Truman Show" will break through the 100 million US dollar mark this week, and the filming cost of the film is only 35 million US dollars.

Even a math idiot knows one thing, as the film investors Paramount and Lucasfilm will definitely make a lot of money.

Of course, with the advent of the new week, some American universities start school one after another, it is impossible for "The Truman Show" to continue to be popular, and Paramount's high-intensity publicity has also reached the final stage.

Next, Paramount will inevitably reduce its publicity efforts and invest some resources in other films.

However, the benefits of the Christmas schedule are beginning to appear gradually. "The Truman Show" has a relatively long screening period, and it can rely on a little time to accumulate box office.

"The Truman Show" was a big hit, apart from embarrassing Touchstone Films and Disney.

In the past few days, Tom Rothman, CEO of Twentieth Century Fox, has also been in a bad mood.

A project that was supposed to belong to 20th Century Fox was rejected by 20th Century Fox itself.

Tom Rothman's face was a bit gloomy. He shouldn't have given up on this cooperation plan and the cooperation with Ryan Gosling.

"I have a message!"

Jim Gianopoulos said somewhat abnormally: "Ryan Gosling and Gail Anne Hurd intend to restart the sequel of "Terminator", so Carlock Films' motion."

"I think we can make a quick decision. It is to directly refuse, and then obtain the filming rights of the sequel of "Terminator" through a bankruptcy auction.

Still continue to follow the original acquisition plan. "

In fact, as early as November, Carlock Films was on the verge of bankruptcy. For this reason, 20th Century Fox planned to acquire the entire property of Carlock Films at a price of 50 million US dollars.

However, the two parties have not reached an acquisition agreement. The reason is very obvious. Carlock Films hopes to use the release of "Cut Throat Island" to bring it back to life or increase the acquisition price.

But with "Cutthroat Island" becoming the biggest box office bomb in Hollywood history, Carlock Films not only failed to recover, but instead took on huge debts.

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As a result, 20th Century Fox has become hesitant about whether to continue to spend 50 million US dollars to acquire a carlock film industry that is burdened with huge debts.

Until this time, the sequel to "Terminator" appeared.

For a while, all the executives of 20th Century Fox were shaken. Ryan Gosling had already proved his directing ability to everyone through the huge sales of "The Truman Show".

Besides, this is not a new script, but a sequel to "Terminator", with the reputation and influence accumulated from the two blockbuster films "Terminator 1" and "Terminator 2".

As long as Ryan Gosling's shooting level is stable, the sequel of "Terminator" will definitely be a big hit at the box office.

Colette Singer was the first to speak and said: "Let Carlock Films go bankrupt, get the rights to the sequel of "Terminator" through the bankruptcy auction process, and continue to maintain a cooperative relationship with Ryan Gosling."

"In this way, not only can we get the right to shoot the sequel of "Terminator", but we also don't have to bear the huge debt of Carlock Films."

"agree!"

"Can……"

The executives of 20th Century Fox almost unanimously agreed that no one would refuse to spend the smallest price to get the right to shoot the sequel of "Terminator".

"However, it seems that Ryan Gosling is about to buy the distribution department of Orion Films, and just spent $3 million to buy a script copyright from Disney." Someone reminded.

Jim Gianopoulos quickly said: "The copyright of "The Sixth Sense", he seems to intend to cooperate with Paramount in the name of Orion Pictures, which is about to be bought."

Paramount!

The faces of the 20th Century Fox executives present immediately changed. Over the past few years, Paramount's performance has continued to rise, and Paramount has become one of 20th Century Fox's biggest competitors.

As for the so-called Orion Films?

No one is worried that for 20th Century Fox, it is easy to suppress an ordinary distribution company.

Tom Rothman has been silent, seems to be thinking about something, while cooperating with 20th Century Fox and Paramount?

"Get the right to shoot the sequel of "Terminator" as soon as possible..."

"In addition, a small celebration banquet will be held in the name of "Braveheart", and Ryan Gosling, Gail Anne Hurd, James Cameron and others will be invited to participate."

The North American distributor of "Braveheart" is Paramount, and Twentieth Century Fox is the film's overseas distributor.

Having said that, he paused, "Many shareholders of the company, including Mr. Rupert Murdoch, are very dissatisfied with this year's performance."

"So in the future cooperation, I don't want any surprises."

All the top executives of 20th Century Fox became quiet and scary, and some even showed worried expressions.

Ordinary shareholders are fine, but Rupert Murdoch is dissatisfied, which is likely to trigger changes in the company's top management.

But then again, 20th Century Fox's performance this year is indeed a bit underwhelming.

There are only two films with a box office of more than 100 million, one of which is "Die Hard 3", relying on the North American market to barely cover the cost, but it has made a lot of money in overseas markets, and the other is a cooperation with Ryan Gosling The "Saw" series.

The performance is almost at the bottom of several giants.

In the next few days, Ryan personally and the negotiating team conducted several rounds of negotiations with the shareholders of Orion Films, and the two sides barely reached an agreement.

At a price of 28 million US dollars, and a one-time payment, he bought the Orion brand and the North American theater distribution department, excluding the video tape distribution channel.

It's like owning a distribution company.

The reason why the distribution channel of video tapes will be excluded is that the two camps of DVD have unified the standards in September this year, and it is expected that the era of DVD will come soon.

In the second year, 20th Century Fox officially refused to acquire Carlock Films. Carlock Films will soon face bankruptcy and liquidation. It is entirely possible to buy Carlock Films’ video tape distribution company through a bankruptcy auction.

In addition, according to Ryan's plan, the new Orion Films will be relocated to an office building in North Hollywood as a whole, just one street away from the studio.

Subsequently, most of the staff in the studio were transferred to Orion Films, leaving only a few ordinary employees and an operator, and the studio continued to exist.

At the same time, merging the copyright of the studio's "Chain Saw" series of films into Orion Films can be regarded as a stabilizing effect.

The copyrights of the Marvel Comics superheroes continue to remain under the banner of the studio.

Instead of merging Orion Pictures with the studio outright, Ryan chose to keep it that way.

During the period, Jon Felthammer officially resigned from Sony Pictures. As he himself said, neither the company's board of directors nor a group of high-level executives from Japan made things difficult for him.

In just a few days, he officially left Sony Pictures, which was frighteningly fast.

Immediately after leaving the company, Jon Felthammer joined Orion Films as the vice president of the company and a temporary part-time head of the distribution department.

Ryan very generously improved the treatment of the company's employees, and promised to give Jon Fertemer certain options.

The top executives of American companies almost all get some company options more or less, which can be regarded as a bundle of interests, and Ryan is naturally no exception.

However, Orion Pictures needs some time to adjust and get familiar with the new company framework, at least for the time being it will not accept distribution business.

At the same time, officially in the name of Orion Films, contacted Twentieth Century Fox, preparing to restart the sequel of "Terminator".

For this reason, Ryan stayed in the office of Orion Films for several days, silently writing down some plot details of "Terminator 3" in his previous life.

For the cooperation of "The Sixth Sense", Paramount was a little hesitant. Facing a new director with no achievements at all, instead of being directed by Ryan himself, it was difficult for Paramount to directly agree.

Even, Paramount stated that as long as Ryan can personally direct "The Sixth Sense", the two parties can sign a cooperation agreement immediately.

This is the biggest difference between a well-known director and a new director.

Even Paramount is having a hard time making up its mind to invest in a film directed by a new director.

It was Twentieth Century Fox who showed the intention of investing.

It's just that Ryan didn't want to hang himself from a tree in 20th Century Fox like a fool, so he didn't pick up this topic.