Chapter 1286

Simon arrived at Malibu danelis studio, and the first thing in the morning was the video conference with Asia.

It's late December.

In South Korea, Hyundai, Samsung and SK have made a lot of efforts with the westero system team, and the acquisition or shareholding plans have been basically determined. We will sign formal agreements in the next few days.

The modern aspect is the purchase of the entire electronic business unit of the modern group.

Sk involves communication and electronics.

Samsung is mainly Samsung Electronics.

The relevant business of the three companies, westero system will achieve absolute control.

However, this is only the first step.

After getting some of the most desired assets of the westero system, a lot of money will need to be invested in helping Samsung take over Kia. As for the specific operation, it is a long-lasting thing.

When Simon and Chen Qing, who arrived in South Korea again, held a video conference with the relevant team, many people in Hollywood, although it was Sunday, were still paying close attention to the one-day box office of the Christmas file.

Mainly Titanic.

On the Saturday of the next week, "Titanic" earned $15.91 million a day. It seems that it completely ignored the pressure of "flash 2" and once again realized a year-on-year reverse drop of 8%. The box office trend can be called weird.

When things get to this point, almost all the things that need to be reflected have already been reflected.

This is going to explode.

Danielis timely followed up a market survey directly facing the audience and concluded that the reputation of this $200 million super blockbuster is rapidly spreading among the audience with its shocking visual effect and touching love story.

Word of mouth.

It has basically formed the popularity foundation of a phenomenal box office movie.

Next, there is the problem of more explosion and less explosion.

Simon had lunch with mark Belford, vice president of global operations of danielis, on Sunday noon and got the report when he discussed the layout of South Korea's entertainment industry. He just flipped through the report and told girl a to tell danielis film team to make it easy.

He has nothing to do with the follow-up publicity.

Again, it's a pity for Shakespeare's love story.

Compared with the original version, although the budget of Shakespeare's love story is still well controlled at $25 million, the leading roles are Daniel Day Lewis and Kate Beckinsale.

Lewis, needless to say, was once the best man for Shakespeare.

As for Simon's heroine, Kate Beckinsale, who is famous for her role in "breakie baby", has more British rose temperament than the other two candidates, Julia Roberts and Gwyneth Paltrow.

In the small-scale screening on December 5, "Shakespeare's love story" not only got a classic comprehensive media score of 9.1 points, but also won a box office of $1.21 million with a mere 39 screens, with the average of more than $40000.

The opening box office and word-of-mouth are not pleasant. From the 771 screens of the next week, Shakespeare's love story is not going well.

In the first week of large-scale opening, that is, the last box office week with the simultaneous release of Titanic, king of fights 2 and perfection, Shakespeare's seven day box office revenue was only US $5.69 million, with an average of more than US $7300, far from the average threshold of 10000 yuan level.

Better than the original lineup, higher reputation, the first week of large-scale even the museum were not able to achieve, can only say bad luck.

Moreover, the total number of nominations for the 55th Golden Globe Awards announced on December 19 is 6, which is less than 8 for Titanic. Next, there will be almost no accident. The film will definitely not repeat the glory of the award season, and then rely on the reputation of major awards to continue to stimulate the market and win more than 100 million box office results in North America.

It would be nice to have 50 million.

As Simon thought, this is sacrifice.

In the executive dining room of Daniels studios.

Sensing Simon's distraction, mark Belford asked, "boss, what's the matter?"

"Nothing," Simon said with a smile. Facing Belford's curiosity, he said, "it's a pity that Shakespeare's love story was very popular in the circle at the beginning. If it wasn't for Titanic and flash 2, it would have been better."

"It's inevitable, but we'll benefit after all," mark Belford said. After thinking about it, he said, "it's actually a good year. In the next few years, Denise Entertainment's film business is forming a trend. Boss, do you find out?"

"What do you mean?"

Mark Belford didn't play the key role either, saying: "boss, our three brands are working together to form a commercial dumping trend. Dumping, I'm sure you know the word, boss? "Simon nodded.

Of course I know.

Simon has been pushing Denise Entertainment's three film brands to work together to squeeze the living space of other Hollywood studios with higher and higher film production. However, it was only when Belford said this that Simon responded.

This is also a kind of dumping.

The biggest characteristic of dumping is to kill one thousand enemies and lose eight hundred. However, as long as we can wipe out all competitors, the market will be our own.

You can do whatever you want.

"So..." Mark Belford understood Simon and said with a smile, "the short-term losses are just for our long-term profits."

Mark Belford said that just to comfort Simon, who was a little sorry.

However, the senior executive's remarks awakened Simon once again. Another thing they are discussing is the South Korean entertainment industry.

Dumping.

This means can be used in South Korea.

Mainly movies.

During this period, a group of South Korean brands have approved 10 films at one time according to Simon's requirements, including a blockbuster blockbuster with a planned investment of 10 million US dollars in South Korea.

But if you think about it at this point, it's not enough.

Even if South Korea is not big enough, it is the demand of 46 million people. Every year, there are two or three hundred films produced by South Korea and imported from abroad, which are just entering the cinema.

Even if Simon's strategy is to carry out large-scale acquisition and integration of South Korean cinemas through South Korean shell companies to achieve platform monopoly, in order to completely occupy the South Korean market, westero system must show enough strength in content.

Because far away from the other side of the ocean, Simon can not personally check the quality of the film too much, then, the best way is to use quantity instead of quality.

Like Belford just said.

Dumping!

The share of Hollywood has reached its limit.

What Simon has to do is to occupy 146 days of local film quota in South Korea through the localization dumping strategy, and then cooperate with the monopoly of the cinema line, so that other film companies outside the westrow system in South Korea have no way to go.

In this case, 10 will not be enough.

It's not enough.

It's about 21 weeks, or at least one new movie a week.

Then, if you add more, it will be calculated as 30 units.

According to Hollywood's tent theory, 30 movies need at least three blockbusters, all of which are calculated at $10 million. This is the tent pole. For the rest, the average budget is 2 million, which is only 86 million.

100 million dollars.

Plus $50 million in publicity, the total is $150 million.

It's just the production cost of a flash 2.

These 30 films, as long as they can do well and keep improving, can achieve a dumping effect in South Korea.

The recovery of South Korea's local films began with the quota system in 1996, and began to take off since the lifting of censorship in 1998. Simon just stepped on the critical time point. Just like the big Hollywood studios in South Korea, as long as they keep "dumping" for several years, it is very difficult to change the pattern of the film market once it is formed.

Do as you think.

After lunch, Simon sent an email to Chen Qing, asking her to increase the number of film projects planned in South Korea from 10 to 30.

It's not bad for money.

There is a viewing room in the post production center on the second floor of Malibu studio.

It wasn't until more than four o'clock in the afternoon that the team of Blair the witch, who was stood up yesterday, saw Simon. Considering that we need to pull the sample film at least for three or four hours to discuss the subsequent editing, we are obviously busy until at least eight o'clock in the evening.

However, Simon westero sacrificed his Sunday time to be busy with everyone. It's impossible for other people to say anything about a small film that costs only a million dollars.

But Lena Kane, who also came to participate in the discussion, had a little complaint.

It was planned yesterday. After discussing the later plan in the afternoon, I might fly to Mexico for a weekend. Lena plans to bring her friend, Annika setel, who has become more and more comfortable during this time, who is also the screenwriter of "the witch Blair".

Annie is very white.

Some man must like it.

Today, I don't know if it's possible. After all, tomorrow is Monday. Even if it's near Christmas, with a man's busy degree, he should also work.

In addition to director Paul Greengrass, screenwriter Annika setel and Lena Kane, who has actually done a lot of producer work, Jerry brookheimer, who is obviously still trying to get on well with Simon, also came here again.

When we say hello, we will inevitably talk about Titanic again.This super blockbuster, which costs 200 million US dollars, has fallen unexpectedly in the last two days. It's really weird and can't be denied.

Time is tight. There is not too much nonsense.

After just a few words, Simon sat down on a sofa in front of the big screen. Paul Greengrass sat on Simon's left and on his right. It was supposed to be brookheimer. This Hollywood veteran gold medal screenwriter was wisely handed over to Lina Kane. After all, this film, frankly speaking, he, as a nominal executive producer, didn't do a lot of follow-up work Lena Kane, who works as a producer, knows more.

Paul Greengrass first gave a brief introduction of his own editing ideas, and then the staff next to him played the sample film, and we discussed paragraph by paragraph, how to choose between different materials, whether some scenes need to be retained, how to switch between different plots, and so on.

In fact, it once again reflects the fact that film creators are more engineers than designers. A movie is a huge project similar to building blocks. Maybe the inspiration of designers is indispensable, but more often, what we need is the tenacity and persistence of engineers.

Inspiration is often short-lived.

Making a movie is a long time.

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Why do the same director produce good and bad films? Is it lack of inspiration or ability? No, it's just that some are attentive and some are not.

For example, a typical explosive shell. Some of the same transformers series can be made into classics, and some can be made into rubbish.

And Titanic, which is being shown, is the result of James Cameron's exertion of the paranoid engineer to the extreme degree.

Simon was a little worried at first about whether Paul Greengrass, a middle-aged but still new film director, could control the new type of pseudo documentary. The first time he saw a sample film, he had no such doubts.

Because Paul Greengrass was obviously very attentive.

With years of experience in the media industry, Greengrass can turn his efforts into real high-quality images.

After more than three hours of film discussion in the evening and watching all the samples, not only Simon, but also Jerry brookheimer, who spent most of his time quietly watching, was very confident that another classic pseudo documentary was about to be born.

At the end of the discussion, the scene of Keira walking towards the witch, played by Rachel McAdams, was compared with the setting of the witch. Simon also listened to Greengrass's lobbying and gave up the original too mysterious setting of the floating witch.

However, Simon did not follow Greengrass's completely realistic idea. Instead, he made a compromise and chose brookheimer's plan. The witch landed and the flame floated.

There was no ghost in the last ghost record. This time, from the beginning, Simon decided that there must be a witch, otherwise, the audience may feel that they have been fooled twice. As for witches, Simon also firmly believes that even the first person style pseudo documentary should be realistic, but it's certainly right to have more obvious supernatural elements.

Although the floating flame is less weird than the floating witch, its effect is mysterious enough.

In addition, Simon is also satisfied that, compared with the old and ugly witch in the movie the witch starring Anya Taylor joy in his memory, even if the pictures taken with IREC home digital camera are obviously rough, it can still be seen that both the pictures of Kyla walking naked to the witch with a double and the red witches beside the box office fire are very hot, at least Spicy.

Even if there is only a short shot of more than ten seconds, this plot is enough to stir up the audience's emotion of watching repeatedly.

All the plans have been finalized. It's almost half past eight.

Everyone is hungry.

Simon and his party came to the executive restaurant in the studio, where they had dinner and discussed the publicity.

The film was released on Friday, and the same day the crew returned to Los Angeles, the "witch Blair incident" website has been launched simultaneously. Next, there will be a period of virus marketing before the Sundance Film Festival in January.

Simon remembers the original "crying game". During the release process of gaomen film group, in order to cover up the reversal that the "heroine" is actually a man, he hid the actor directly. This time, it must be the same.

"The key is the actors. During this period of time, let them hide as much as possible, and don't contact anyone except their relatives, otherwise they will definitely help."

Jerry brookheimer suggested, "in that case, Simon, how about sending them all to Australia?"

It's obviously too remote to be sent to Australia.

Simon thought about it a little, nodded and said, "didn't they have a lot of pressure during the shooting process? I have some holiday huts in Tasmania in the south of Australia. I'll lend them a place, and then I'll give them a team of psychiatrists for convalescence. "Australia is a place of exile.

Tasmania is at the southernmost end of Australia. Apart from the south pole, it is almost the real end of the earth. Even if the media find out where they are going and want to find someone, it's impossible to send them there.