Chapter 1457

The headquarters of the new line is not in the danilis east coast headquarters building on West 66th street, Upper West District, but in Greenwich.

The evening party was also held in the ballroom of a hotel in Greenwich Village.

From the establishment of the distribution company in 1967 to the second tier with the ghost Street Series in the 1980s, to the bankruptcy in the wave of Hollywood integration in 1992, and then incorporated by blockbuster under the control of danilis, the ups and downs of the new line film industry can simply write a wonderful novel with ups and downs.

This time, with the two platforms of danilis overweight charging cable channel DHO and blockbuster rental chain, Simon quietly decided to squeeze the living space of other studios. The new line that has been silent for several years has been reused again, and plans to open up the fourth largest brand of danilis entertainment outside danilis, new world and gaomen.

The party held by Xinxian tonight is to build momentum for the company's expansion next year.

When the little servant girl took Mona elmery to the hotel where the party was located, the battle was obviously much larger than the party in the film and television circle last time. There were publicity processes such as signing and taking photos before entering the door. Although it shows that she is obviously interested, the reporter at the scene is not interested in her strange Oriental Girl appearing in front of the photo wall, the little servant girl is still very satisfied.

How many stars in China, no matter how old they are, can stand on this occasion?

When she entered the banquet hall, there were not many people at the scene. The little servant girl saw her agent Jenny lesenberg at a glance and went straight to her. When lesenberg finished his dialogue with the middle-aged man in front of her and turned to her, she smiled and said in English: "good evening, Jenny, why are you so early?"

"The early bird catches the worm," said lesenberg, patiently waiting for Mona to quietly translate a sentence in the little servant girl's ear, so he didn't forget to introduce it: "by the way, fan, this is format van Santer. He was a very excellent heart catcher two years ago The director, Gus, this is fan, a great actor. Her two consecutive TV dramas starring in China have achieved phenomenal ratings. "

Listening to Mona's immediate translation in her ear, the little servant girl tried to shake hands with the scrupulous middle-aged man with stubble hair in front of her in English: "Hello, Mr. Sant, I've seen your soul catcher. I like it very much."

"Thank you, Miss Fan. It's nice to meet you," Gus Van Sant shook hands with the little servant girl in a polite tone, but after all, they didn't know each other well. There was no topic for the moment, so they turned to lesenberg again: "in that case, Jenny, we'll arrange a meeting as soon as possible to talk in detail."

"No problem. I'll give you the exact time tomorrow."

Watching Gus Van Sant leave, the little servant girl showed proper doubts, and Jenny lesenberg didn't sell off. He smiled and said, "Gus is preparing a new film and has a crush on an actor under my name, William Messi. If you've seen ice blood storm, he won the Oscar nomination for best boyfriend with the performance of that film."

The little servant girl has been making up for Hollywood common sense these days, and the film is naturally the most important one. She heard the speech and said, "I know the Cohen brothers' film, and director Sant. I believe he is preparing another very excellent film."

"Oh, I'll show you Bob, and then you'll need to socialize yourself," lesenberg smiled, motioned in one direction, took the little servant girl through the crowd at a buffet table, saw that there was no one around, and whispered to continue the topic: "in fact, the soul catcher" After that, Gus's new film last year was a mess. It burned Disney's $50 million cost and only recovered less than $20 million at the box office. The typical second grade effect, danilis in the heart catcher It's right not to continue to cooperate with him after that. Many Hollywood filmmakers think they are the center of the universe after a success. They feel that any interference by agents and Studios is a heinous crime. In the new film, they demand absolute control, play at will and spend recklessly. As a result, they often look like crazy flowers at the end of the road Like the sports car rushing into the valley, boom! "

The little servant girl saw that lesenberg finally made an explosion and smiled cooperatively. She didn't understand much. She thought, maybe the agent was beating herself?

It's not necessary.

Even if China's "huanzhu gege" and "Legend of the immortal sword" are booming, she is not inflated at all and is still in awe in Hollywood.

He soon came to the other people.

The little servant girl and Mona used the Internet to query the information of Robert Shea, the founder of the new line, in the villa in the Upper West District in advance. After looking at the photos, they recognized the middle-aged man with gray hair and British gentleman style on one side of the conversation.

There seems to be a sales promotion going on here.

On the other side are two people, who are somewhat similar in appearance. It is estimated that they are two brothers.

"Yes, Bob, it's really a hodgepodge of Saturday night live, but Adam's tea boy has proved that such films are very popular with the audience."

"And the cost is very low."

"Yes, the cost is very low. In addition, we can invite a super model to play the role of Mary. Cindy Crawford is good."

When Robert Shea heard this, he subconsciously interrupted, "Cindy can't. although she is very famous, it turns out that she is more suitable for guest supporting roles and can't afford a film alone."

One of the two brothers with long hair quickly gestured and said: "then Daniela... Heidi... Fernanda, oh, by the way, Roberta, Roberta chilco, although Roberta acted like an action actress in that 007, she really has the potential of American sweet girl..."

The long haired man wanted to continue. Robert Shea saw lesenberg approaching with his little servant girl and finally interrupted: "Peter, Bob, frankly speaking, because they don't go through the cinema channel, they directly launch TV and video platforms. The new line mainly produces low-cost action films or crime, thriller and horror types. Even if you give a literary film script, I can try it, but comedy films, I'm sorry, this is not the type favored by the audience on the small screen. Maybe you can The idea goes to the new world. "

Shea opened his words and saw that both brothers were a little depressed. However, the long haired man quickly said, "or, Bob, we have another idea to make a spoof horror comedy based on fierce ghost street. You know, last week's scream sold more than 55 million in the first week. It's a miracle."

Robert Shea shook his head directly this time and obviously frowned: "sorry, Peter, I don't want to see the ghost street being teased. Please help yourself. I have other guests to greet."

Xie Yi said so. The brothers didn't lose interest any more. They raised their glasses to Xie Yi, nodded to the little servant girls, and turned away.

When the brothers walked away a little, Robert Shea had changed his smiling face and shook hands with Jenny lesenberg.

Then he helped introduce the little servant girl.

After listening to lesenberg's introduction, Robert Shea said another thing with the same friendly and polite attitude: "Miss Fan, I've seen the video of your audition on the edge of crisis. If you don't have any other problems, this role can be decided directly. How about it?"

"Oh, really?" the little servant girl skillfully imitated the surprised expression of Westerners. When Xie Yi confirmed again, she nodded quickly: "thank you very much, Mr. Xie Yi."

"You're welcome. Miss Fan has made such dazzling achievements in China at such a young age. I also look forward to your cooperation with Xinxian."

Jenny lesenberg and others standing next to each other were polite. Instead of walking away immediately, they asked casually, "Bob, what ideas were those two selling you just now?"

"A joke comedy like Saturday night live is called" I'm crazy for Mary. "Shea took her attention away from the servant girl, turned to lesenberg and said:" the two brothers participated in the true story of Seinfeld The screenwriter has good skills. If I can go to the big screen, I'm still very excited. The problem is, you know, I'm only responsible for DHO and blockbuster. Although the headquarters has also given me some cinema quota, I still have to use it for key films. I can only regret. "

Lesenberg nodded in agreement and said with a joking smile, "but I think it's a good idea to make a joke on fierce ghost street."

"Oh, don't make fun of me," Shay said with a smile instead of frowning this time. "I can't bear it. Moreover, the situation of ghost street and scream is different. Scream is over. The restart ticket room of ghost street at the beginning of the year is excellent. We are already preparing another sequel."

The little servant girl listened patiently to the conversation between the two big men, and occasionally broke in a word, but she kept up with their topic.

The core focus of everyone's discussion is the previous "scream" released on December 11, spoofing a youth horror comedy that originally belonged to danilis's blockbuster series "scream".

Scream, the first film of that year, was released on Halloween in 1988, and it happens to be the 10th anniversary this year.

Danilis also used the gimmick of the 10th anniversary to carry out the main early publicity. After all, she has accumulated some feelings in the past ten years.

However, before the release of the film, both danilis and the media in the industry held a bad attitude towards "scream" and believed that such a film, let alone achieve the results of scream in that year, even if it wanted to reach the gratitude file Adam Sandler's "tea boy", it was an extravagant hope.

It is also the environment around the blockbuster. "Tea boy" was released on November 20. After the first week of $23.78 million, according to the follow-up trend, the industry generally predicts that the film is expected to hit the local 80 million mark. In this way, only relying on the release in North America, it has recovered the total cost of production and publicity of 40 million and made a small profit.

A very outstanding achievement.

Therefore, before the release of "Jing Sheng Jian Xiao", everyone basically thought that the pleasant point of this film was to sell feelings. It was hard to hear that it was a prank comedy of fried cold rice. The similar market environment was certainly not as good as "tea boy".

The result was beyond everyone's expectation.

After the opening of the painting on December 11, "Jingsheng Jianxiao" was almost popular all the way. It was released for seven days. Under the pressure of other two competitors in the same period and a group of old films in the gratitude file, it even scored a box office of up to $55.67 million in the first week and broke a lot of glasses.

Even Simon, who was far away in Australia, couldn't help but confirm the authenticity of the data.

However, this is indeed the case.

After the new world film team hurriedly followed up the investigation, it was roughly confirmed that there were two reasons.

First of all, the plot of the film itself is really excellent. Even spoof popcorn can make people laugh and feel stomachache. Obviously, it is also very excellent popcorn.

Secondly, feelings are really easy to sell.

In that year's scream, it can be said that danilis gradually accumulated some strength and got rid of the first box office series independently issued by other studios. At the same time, the whole trilogy has almost become the memory of a generation.

Ten years later, the project was restarted in a spoof way. Even if it would disgust a few fans, it also attracted the attention of most people. After all, for ordinary people, whether it's scary or funny, they all belong to the type of popcorn. Therefore, they don't think danilis can't stand making fun of her classic horror series, but they are more curious and expected.

The sum of the two factors resulted in the grand opening of "Jingsheng Jianxiao" with a box office of US $55.67 million in the first week of its release.

It's not too much to say it's a miracle.

You know, this is also the box office performance under the attack of a pile of old films from rivals and Thanksgiving files in the same period. It can be imagined that if there can be a more competitive schedule, it is not impossible for the box office of "Jing Sheng Jian Xiao" to rise to 60 million in the first week.

In any case, the first week of $55.67 million was already a box office achievement that most blockbusters could not reach. Moreover, according to the box office ladder sharing rules signed with the cinema side, danilis basically recovered the production cost of $20 million plus the publicity cost of the same $20 million in the first week, and entered the profit cycle from the beginning of the next week.

In addition, in the past three days from the weekend of December 18 to December 20, the year-on-year decline of "Jing Sheng Jian Xiao" remains 39% under the strong pressure of "suicide team 2". It is expected that the decline in the whole next week will be controlled to about 40%, which means that the total box office of the film in North America can not only easily enter the box office Club of 100 million yuan, but also hope to sprint towards a higher goal of 150 million dollars.

Not only that, in the changing North American film market, the outstanding achievements of "Jing Sheng Jian Xiao" inevitably form a sniper against other films in the same period.

Like tea boy.

If there is no "Jing Sheng Jian Xiao" with similar types or even mediocre box office performance, tea boy will surely reap another wave in the Christmas file and finally achieve the local goal of 80 million.

Because of the appearance of "Jingsheng Jianxiao", the box office of "tea boy" will only decline slightly even if it does not rebound. In the week of December 11, the box office decline is as high as 41%. Such a deep downward trend has directly broken the 80 million road of "tea boy", and it is expected that the local total box office will shrink to about 70 million.

In a word, the topic heat caused by the dark horse performance of "Jing Sheng Jian Xiao" is not even much worse than that of "suicide team 2", which was painted last Friday. After all, it is natural that "suicide team 2" sold well. After the box office data in the last three days of the past week were released, it is also natural that it is expected to break the 100 million mark in the first week. Failure will become big news.