I’m in Hollywood

Chapter 727

The call was from ic Kapoor Sid himself.

After Columbia decided to shoot a Godzilla movie, it couldn't wait to start looking for a director for the project. Joe Johnston, who had just successfully produced Jurassic Park 2, was undoubtedly the most suitable candidate. On the other hand, actors, directors and producers who are closely related to Firefly, most of their brokerage contracts are in ic because of the anti-monopoly law. Although the two parties do not have any direct interest connection, among the three major brokerage companies, the relationship between ic and Firefly has always been very intimate.

Therefore, the news that Sony was trying to dig a foot in the wall reached Eric as soon as possible.

Bill Michanick is a veteran manager in Hollywood. The information is not difficult to check. His management style tends to be conservative and his personality is cautious. After Sony hired Bill Michanick as the CEO of Columbia, Eric once thought that Sony He will give up the strategy of throwing money at the deep end and start to build up his strengths step by step, but the moment he heard that Sony was planning to launch Godzilla, Eric immediately determined that Sony would still follow the old path of the previous life.

In the original time and space, although the two worms Peter Cooper and John Peters were fired, Sony still did not restrain the strategy of blindly throwing money to find a sense of existence. Not only did it open the first Hollywood history for Jim Carrey A 20 million US dollars high price, but also blindly invested in a number of large-scale production films that ended in failure, of which the 1998 version of Godzilla is undoubtedly the most typical failure.

With Godzilla's strong popularity around the world, in the early stages of the film's preparation, Sony was ambitious to make it into a trilogy, and invited Roland Emmerich, who had a huge box office success with Solitary Day. .

But many things are often inseparable from the vicious circle that the greater the expectation, the greater the disappointment.

In my memory, the 1998 version of Godzilla was not only rated as childish, cheesy, inexplicable, and illogical in the plot, but also, fans focused more complaints on Godzilla itself in the movie.

The reason why Godzilla is called the King of Monsters is mainly because of its powerful combat power, the Japanese version of Godzilla. Not only does it have powerful attack methods such as the indestructible body of King Kong and radiation hot rays, but it can even withstand a nuclear bomb attack, and even occasionally be pulled out to fight an alien invasion. This is the real monster that destroys the world. King.

Look at the 98 version of Godzilla. The first reaction of most Godzilla fans after watching the movie is basically 'You fucking kid me' Just the dragon. But the strength is so weak that he can't move just because he is entangled by the bridge steel cable. Is Godzilla's strength so small?

That's all, that's all, but the most unbearable thing is that Mr. Tyrannosaurus rex was hit by several missiles from the US military area.

Just hang up so easily, hang up, hang up...

Moreover, before hanging up, there was no unwilling struggle. There was no counterattack on the verge of death. At the last moment of his life, Mr. Tyrannosaurus rex chose to exchange eyes with the male protagonist. His eyes were full of reluctance and nostalgia, leaving behind the woman behind the male protagonist. You got his people, but I got his heart' subtext, passed away peacefully, leaving only the poor audience in the movie theater with infinite thunder, you can die if you die, and you have to cos a King Kong temporarily. What's the matter!

Eric's memory. The box office of Godzilla is not a complete failure, but its reputation is so bad that even after more than ten years, it is often pulled out by fans and whipped.

The film not only won a number of golden raspberry nominations such as worst remake, worst director, worst script and worst supporting actress after its release, but also received unanimous condemnation from fans around the world.

Godzilla's copyright owner, Japan Toho, originally planned to complete the series after the 22nd Godzilla in 1995.

But after the 98 version of Godzilla came out. In order to restore the image of Godzilla in the hearts of fans, it had to restart again, and it was not until 28 films were filmed that it died. Later, the 98 version of Godzilla (godzil) even got the god prefix and was only named zil.

After learning about this incident, Eric began to think about how to make this matter develop in the direction he thought about.

Under his influence. Hollywood history has changed a lot, and Eric is not sure if Godzilla will fail like the previous life if he changes the director, so he soon made up his mind to make Godzilla Guide on the path of the previous life.

Although Sony's determination to run the movie business is far more than that of Panasonic, if it suffers consecutive big production failures, Eric does not believe that Sony will persist as in the previous life, not to mention that Sony is now destined to no longer have The Spider-Man series is a lifesaver.

In the current Hollywood, there are not many directors suitable for directing Godzilla. Cameron is one, Spielberg is one, and Eric himself is of course one. In addition, there are Joe Johnston, Roland R. Emmerich, Jane de Bont, Paul Verhoeven, and a few others, most of them are related to Fireflies. After all, in recent years, some of Hollywood's most successful special effects blockbusters are from Firefly, Cameron, Roland Emmerich and others have also accumulated enough experience in special effects films with the support of Firefly.

If you want to make Godzilla repeat the same mistakes, pushing Roland Emmerich to Sony again is undoubtedly the easiest and most direct way.

So what Eric has to do is very simple, just block Sony from finding a few other directors.

In this regard, Cameron doesn't care, he is making Titanic, Sony must have no way to start, Joe Johnston signed an option contract with Firefly before taking over Jurassic Park 2 , even if Sony can offer a astronomical price of 20 million US dollars, it is not enough to pay the liquidated damages, so he does not need to consider it. Eric is not too worried about the other people. Before excluding several directors of the first sequence, Eric I believe that Sony will definitely not settle for the next best thing.

Then, the most unstable factor is Spielberg. The Jaws that Lao Si made his name on back then is actually a monster movie.

There is no doubt that even if Eric deliberately let the water, Sony is likely to choose the former between Spielberg and Roland Emmerich.

Of course, there are no absolutes in the world, and right now, Roland Emmerich has the best chance to improve his 'competitiveness'. To know. Alone Day is definitely the peak of Roland Emmerich's career as a director.

While Eric is paying close attention to the preparations for Sony Godzilla, the Hollywood summer season is still reaping the box office in full swing. Among them, the weekly box office performance of Forrest Gump has not been high. But definitely the most eye-catching one.

The box office of $47 million in the first week, compared to 1,500 screens, is $30,000 on average, far exceeding the $10,000 box-office blockbuster standard.

Then, June 16th. Firefly's Toy Story 2 unsurprisingly topped the weekly box office charts with $69 million in its first week, and Jurassic Park 2 dropped 45% in its second week with $77 million After accumulating the total box office to 217 million US dollars, the box office in the third week also fell by 49%, with a harvest of 39.25 million US dollars. Relatively speaking, Forrest Gump fell only 18% in the second week, and the box office reached 39.2 million US dollars. Jurassic Park by a narrow margin of $50,000. Dangerously and dangerously held the throne of his box office runner-up.

When June comes, although Time Warner's Batman Forever has a polarized word of mouth, fans are drooling and paying for the big screen shows of several famous villains in pain and happiness, and Forrest Gump The True Story's accumulated strength was finally revealed.

After the weekly box office release from June 29 to June 29, although Batman Forever topped the box office with $78 million, everyone's attention was drawn to the second Forrest Gump with $35 million. The U.S. dollar's box office was firmly in the spotlight, and the decline was even more modest, at a mere 10%. And Toy Story has slipped to $33 million the next week at the box office, ranking third. Jurassic Park 2 continued to follow its step-by-step commercial box office rules, shrinking by 40% and only earning $500,000, ranking fourth.

unconsciously. In three weeks, Forrest Gump has racked up an unexpected $122 million at the box office.

Moreover, according to its hot topic and weak weekly box office decline, box office evaluation agencies have adjusted the box office expectations of Forrest Gump time and time again. When the third week box office was released, everyone was surprised to find out. Most box office evaluation agencies and media have unknowingly set the box office tone of Forrest Gump at a high of 300 million US dollars.

Although the box office of Jurassic Park 2 has reached 279 million US dollars in four weeks, and the total box office of 300 million US dollars is just around the corner, there are hardly many people who doubt that Forrest Gump has unknowingly revealed that it is similar to Jurassic Park. 2 to compete for the annual box office champion.

Regarding the box office results of Forrest Gump, the most excited is of course the producer Fang Huahua Films, and the most complicated mood is undoubtedly because of the disputes between Men in Black and Jumanji at the beginning of the year, Eric was rejected by Eric Sony-Columbia has won the distribution rights of Forrest Gump and Night at the Museum.

When Sony found that it could only earn a little hard-earned money for the two films Men in Black and Jumanji due to the substantial increase in cost (according to the original agreement, Sony only had 40% of the benefits of the two films ), and gave up Forrest Gump, which could bring them at least more than 100 million US dollars, some shareholders even publicly raised strong doubts about the decision of the US branch, if nobuyuki Idei personally came forward for Howard St. Ringer endorsed that the director of the US branch who had just taken office may be about to 'take the blame and resign'.

The wind blows in the past, and Howard Stringer is also more determined to get rid of the shadow of fireflies and make Godzilla a super-selling series.

After the invitation to Joe Johnston to direct Godzilla was directly rejected by the other party, Howard Stringer quickly set his sights on Spielberg. However, Howard Stringer is still better than the German film investor who only picks big stars regardless of whether the other party is out of breath. Because Jurassic Park was taken by Eric, Spielberg Although the two-year film has a good box office, it is not too dazzling. The Jaws and et Alien that he created a box office miracle have already happened more than ten or twenty years ago.

What's more, Captain ****, which Columbia collaborated with Spielberg a few years ago, ended in a one-sided applause in the early stage. Moreover, in recent years, Spielberg has been working with Universal Pictures. The company has maintained close cooperation with the industry. The box-office Ghosts and Horses that started this summer is the result of the cooperation between Spielberg's Lin Films and Universal. This fantasy family comedy is in Under the crushing of super blockbusters like Jurassic Park 2, it has tenaciously achieved a box office of more than 80 million US dollars.

Even it is said that the new studio he is about to set up in cooperation with David Geffen will also be attached to Universal, so Howard Stringer's confidence in inviting Spielberg is not so firm.

Amid this indecision, Day of Alone was released.

Independence Day, which opened on June 30, earned $56 million at the box office in the first three days of the weekend. Because the July 4 U.S. Solitude Day holiday falls on Monday, the box office on that day did not drop compared to the previous weekend. Therefore, with a strong reputation and marketing company, the box office of Solitary Day reached 85 million US dollars in the first week, and exceeded its production cost of 75 million US dollars in one week. Zhou gets 90% of the box office share, so, in theory, Firefly has recovered all production costs in the first week.

The original The Clash of Heaven and Earth has made Roland Emmerich one of the first-tier directors, and the box office release of The Day Alone has made Roland Emmerich's reputation soaring.

Moreover, Howard Stringer was pleasantly surprised to find that Roland Emmerich was not as comfortable as Joe Johnston's option contract.

In other words, as long as it pays enough price, Sony can invite Roland Emmerich to direct Godzilla.

Now the question is, how would Firefly react if Sony invited Roland Emmerich?

Although he wanted to try his best to get rid of the shadow of fireflies, Howard Stringer knew very well that it was impossible to completely get rid of the influence of fireflies. At least, this film absolutely needs the support of the digital field in terms of special effects. (To be continued.) Enable new URL