Chapter 303

After entering the new millennium, especially after the Internet technology bubble and 911, the film industry is also depressed. Paramount is the oldest among the six most qualified Hollywood in the world. However, in the early years of twenty-first Century, this quasi century old shop was not very comfortable. From 2002 to 2004, it was ranked seventh in the company's list for three consecutive years. For several consecutive years, the box office revenue was only more than 600 million US dollars, less than half of that year's champion. It was about to fall behind and become a medium-sized company.

This year, paramount finally returned to the top six with World War and the longest yard, but the alarm was not lifted because the projects under development were not fully competitive. At this time, good luck visited this old company in crisis. DreamWorks, which was originally ambitious to be promoted to a big studio, encountered big problems. They had some good projects, But trapped in debt, paramount signed a three-year merger agreement with DreamWorks at the end of this year.

This summer, globegroup has become a laughing stock in Hollywood because the company has created an impossible miracle, that is, none of the summer films can exceed 100 million at the box office, which means that they will once again become the Deputy monitor of the six major studios in 2005.

Globegroup is a middle-school student in six universities and colleges. In the past decade, only 160 films have been released, with a total box office of 9.6 billion US dollars. At the beginning of the new century, globegroup ranked second among major studios by relying on "Christmas geek", "meet your father-in-law", "fat Professor 2" and "the true story of a Lian". In the next 2001, globegroup has the same scenery and released "Mummy", "Jurassic Park 3" and "beautiful mind" and other five films with billions of dollars have kept the second place. Universal is good at small and broad, but it seems that it can't play this year. The total box office of beimi is not as good as the new mm.

In the first five years of the 21st century, only two major studios have not tasted the taste of the annual champion, that is, universal and 20th century fox. In fact, fox has only won the runner up once. Most of the time, fox can only rank fourth or fifth. In terms of overall performance, fox is in sympathy with universal. Fox is not without trump films, George Lu Cass's "Star Wars prequel" series is released by Fox, and "X-Men" is also the treasure of fox's town. In addition, fox's blue sky studio has gradually grown into an animation giant, and they produced "ice age" It can almost compete with Pixar and DreamWorks Animation, but Fox's problem is that he relies too much on these films, so once there is no sequel to shoot, the results will be very ugly immediately.

From 2000 to 2003, Disney played a leading role in Hollywood and won two annual titles in four years. Especially in 2003, it can be called the year of Disney, "Pirates of the Caribbean" and "Finding Nemo" Both leaped the 300 million mark. The company's total annual box office was $1.5 billion, more than 300 million more than the second sonny. From these two films, it is not difficult to see that Disney's way to win is to rely on Pixar and pirates on two legs, and it is generally stable. It always swims in the top six. Now Pixar I have decided to run away, and my animation department has not grown up, so the prospect is worrying.

Warner is strong. Since Barry Meyer came to power, he has always preferred blockbuster strategy. The success of the matrix, the Lord of the rings, Harry Potter and Batman has kept them in the top position in recent years.

In fact, MGM began to fall behind in the 2000's, while Sonny Columbia rose strongly after ten years of dormancy. The success of spider man and black super special police series made them the second. In recent years, Warner, Disney and Sonny compete for the top three, and universal, paramount and fox are desperate not to be the youngest.

However, sonny Columbia was a little complacent. In the process of M & A of MGM and ATV, it was sniped by Wall Street capital and choked to death. In the eyes of the world, the new mm took it in and became a new generation giant. Mm has bankers, Wall Street capital support and has the world's largest film library. Its competitiveness can not be underestimated. After they licked their wounds, The strong will return and join the ranks of dominating the world.

After talking so much nonsense, it's because mark finally found a job suitable for himself. As the helmsman of a large company, achievement is the most important. The only standard to prove his strength is the box office. No one is interested in how you operate and manage the company. Among the six giants, hundreds of millions of large-scale productions can be made by the president and major shareholders behind the scenes.

Like paramount, in order to get involved in the copyright of the professional secret service, even leishidong came to the end in person and beat the table with Tom.

From 1994 to 2004, under the management of Shirley Lansing, paramount entered another prosperous period, producing brave heart, Forrest Gump, Titanic (co funded with 20th Century Fox), professional secret service, face changing, Truman's world and Saving Private Ryan These business cards, but paramount is also the least good at developing series films among big Hollywood companies. There are only a few series films of Star Trek, professional secret service and Tomb Raider.

The production right of "professional secret service" is still in the hands of Tom. In the era of Shirley Lansing, Tom was paramount's favorite biological son. Now Shirley Lansing has stepped down. The new president gray is not happy with the production right of "professional secret service" in Tom's hands, and has long tried to get it back.

Take world war for example, it seems that the world's 550 million yuan is a big sale, of which the production cost plus the publicity cost is as high as 200 million, 40% of the box office goes to the cinema, and the rest, plus the DVD sales revenue, Tom wants to take 25%, and the director Lao Si also wants to take nearly 60 million, according to media reports, Paramount worked for several years and made only tens of millions of profits, while Tom took nearly 100 million. Therefore, paramount wanted to reduce Tom's salary. Tom quit. The two sides negotiated. If it wasn't for the professional secret service 3 under cooperation, it would be possible to fight.

Hollywood has always seen new people laugh, not old people cry. Shirley Lansing, a strong woman who has been in charge of paramount for more than ten years, stepped down. As her close comrade in arms, it is inevitable that liangtang will be suppressed by the new president.

Mark took over the production power of mm and was responsible for the selection of film projects, and the production actors handed it back to general Zai egger. They learned from Paramount's experience and lessons, the film remuneration can be discussed, the box office share can also be discussed, the DVD share should be asked less, and the copyright can never be discussed.

For example, among the projects led by mm, the Da Vinci Code led by Tom Hanks and the wonderful night of the museum led by Ju Stiller (robbed from the 20th Century Fox crossbar) are the only two projects with film remuneration, box office DVD share and copyright.

There is no way. This is the project and production team found by the other party. Mm is responsible for capital, publicity and distribution. This is the cooperation between the company and the company.

However, the internal Spiderman tried to add DVD share after the project was launched, which made people angry. As the highlight of MM's Columbia film industry, it was stuck by people. I don't know whether it will recover the copyright in the next step. Now Sam Remy is so angry that Leighton and Pascal are also annoyed.

Nowadays, Spiderman can't be beaten or scolded. His reputation stinks. It's not good for the Spiderman project being launched, or even screw up the whole project. Now they realize the difficulties of paramount. The difference is that Maguire doesn't have a film company and production rights like Tom o, but he can use the rare chicken that can lay golden eggs in Hollywood as a threat, This is the lifeblood of Colombia. No one dares to take it lightly. As the most popular spider man, he is the most popular and indispensable. Colombia dares to risk a series of attacks on the street.

Sam Remy dare not.

Pascal dared not.

Neither did Leighton.

Egger had a headache, which was discussed at the joint meeting of the board of directors, which shows the seriousness of the problem.

It's not the first time spider man and Colombia have had a bad relationship. After the big sale of spider man, the producers were only willing to pay $4 million for the second film. They thought that a character who covered his face and waved and played handsome was only worth $4 million.

However, Maguire quit. Spiderman 1 broke $400 million. This is the second beimi broke $400 million work in history. How many fans and popularity did it bring to him? This time, he was direct. 17 million plus points, less than that. It's a big success. Up to now, he's not satisfied with the extra points of $25 million. DVD is the big part, He also thinks he is qualified to put forward such conditions. He has thought about it. If he succeeds, he will set up a company to operate it, because DVD sharing is a long-term thing.

Maguire also hopes to make spider man his own business card and brand his own brand, such as Harrison Ford's Star Wars series and Indiana Jones series; Stallone's the first drop of blood, rocky; Governor Arnold's terminator; Tom's "professional agents".

Maguire is thinking of Meimei. Does the producer have any other way to go besides compromise? Without spider man, I still fart Spider Man 3! They're waiting for the movie to help? It's like a sick man waiting for antibiotics.

However, he waited for a letter from the Colombian lawyer, who warned him that if he did not return to the set within 24 hours and fulfill his contractual obligations, he would face the prosecution of Colombian film and compensate us $100 million for economic losses.

Colombia's unexpected toughness, sending a lawyer's letter and threatening to sue, really flustered Maguire.