Hollywood Tycoon [US Entertainment + Business War]

Although Christopher Nolan's "Memento" is regarded as a "magic film", the film's release experience in the United States is very sad.Like all low-cost films, the original distribution track of "Memento" should have taken two or three years to participate in all the mainstream film festivals around the world, and finally it was released on a small scale in the United States.Although the film has a global box office of only 4000 million, the production cost of the film is only 900 million and the promotional expenses are even more pitiful.Therefore, as the original distribution company of "Memento", New Market Company earned at least 300% of the profit.

Naturally, the Galaxy Film Distribution Company would not spoil this masterpiece in such a way. At the production meeting, whether it was Jed, Jafei, or Meribo and Lansing, they all gave this movie a very high evaluation.What Meribo means is that this film not only has the hope of hitting the major film awards at the end of the year, but also has the opportunity to give all filmmakers an unexpected gift during the Thanksgiving schedule.

To be honest, "The Patriot" is not a failed movie, it's just that this movie would have been better if it was put on the Christmas schedule.The summer file is mainly aimed at young people. They are not interested in history or human nature topics. They only care about whether the scene is good or not, whether the actors are cool enough or not.Therefore, although "The Patriot" did not perform well at the box office, there should be no shortage of trophies at the end of the year.But if there is no box office movie, the Galaxy movie will still be talked about, so Meribo will not give up this opportunity to promote Christopher Nolan.

Just entering October, the movie channels of major cable stations in the United States began to broadcast a movie called "Follow" from time to time.The film was rather obscure and dark, so it didn't find mainstream audiences, but fans of cult films were pleasantly surprised to find a rising cult director.In this group of moviegoers who are somewhat stubborn but have a strong spending power, the name of Christopher Nolan is rumored.

As the number of searches for Christopher Nolan increased, Galaxy Movies began to list Nolan's page under its own page, and also put Nolan's blog on it.What surprised Jed was that although Nolan was a man of few words, he was a person who loved writing and sharing his personal experience.However, Nolan's blog is too wild and unconstrained, and the content is quite stream-of-consciousness. Although it was recommended, it was still ignored by the public.But after cult fans found Nolan's blog, it immediately became a place of pilgrimage for cult fans.

Nolan is indeed an excellent and talented director. He not only has the talent for making movies, but also his love for movies.He can answer almost any film question raised by cult fans.Gradually, Nolan's blog has become well-known in the movie circle without the help of Galaxy Movie's PR department.

So in November, the Galaxy Film Distribution Company timely pushed Nolan's new work "Memento" on the promotional schedule.In order to support this new generation of directors, the Galaxy Film Distribution Company not only spent money to place advertisements on the five major TV networks and nine major professional film channels in the United States, but also persuaded CBS to arrange for Nolan to appear in "The Late Show with David" and "The Late Show with David". Two late-night talk shows on The Midnight Show with Craig.

But what makes Jed regret is that ABC's "Jimmy Live Show" and the three talk shows of NBC's home as a news and sports station ("Reynolds Tonight Show", "Fallon Late Show", "Dali Late Call") And a national variety show ("Saturday Night Live") declined Nolan's announcement because of his relationship.This makes Jed a little depressed. Although he doesn't like NBC, and NBC's TV dramas and reality shows have not improved after entering the new century, NBC still ranks first in the US ratings by virtue of their strong sports programs and news talk shows. .Anyway, there is no unresolvable enmity between myself and NBC Universal Group, maybe we should find a chance to reconcile, right?

In fact, Jed didn't know if NBC was cursed. Their TV series (including comedies) entered a watershed in 2000. Before 2000, nbc could compete with cbs in terms of TV dramas, and if nbc hadn't messed up the quality of "law and order" in the new century, how could cbs' "crime scene investigation" have a chance to replace it Become a new generation of national drama?And importantly, before 2000, nbc Tuesday was known as the "national comedy file", and almost the best sitcoms in the United States were broadcast on nbc.

But after 2000, NBC's sitcoms almost broadcast one and died.Especially after nbc has made a lot of money on sports programs, it spends countless cash every year to make TV dramas every year. As a result, almost half of them can't survive the winter break, and the other half disappear after the spring show.Jade believes that NBC next year will start to worry that their TV dramas will not be able to support the stage. As the best TV drama production company in the United States, NBC will naturally seek Jade to cooperate.

And Jed did have two TV series ideas in his mind, both of which were sitcoms.Since the production cost of sitcoms is not high, we can shoot a few pilot episodes for NBC to see if they are hooked next year.Jed's comedy is a lazy work. He filmed an idol drama "Grey's Anatomy" by himself, and finally played a comedy "Intern" with the same theme.And another comedy is about workplace relationships, called "The Office".

In addition to the movie bombing of cable stations and talk shows on wireless stations, posters of "Memory Fragments" were painted on local newspapers and main streets in major cities in the United States.Such a large-scale publicity, naturally, cult fans also know.So they went to blogs to ask about the content of Nolan's new movie. Nolan was kind enough to not talk about the plot of the movie, but said that it was a movie about "truth" and "memory".If you haven't seen the end of the movie, maybe you can't understand the meaning of this movie.

With Nolan's words, many reporters quoted and laughed at Nolan's "does not know what is good or bad".Even Hitchcock, the recognized master of suspense films in Hollywood, dare not say such a thing. A fledgling film director dares to say that his films are not understandable by ordinary people.However, Nolan did not quarrel with these reporters, but cult fans started to complain about their idol director.This group of "first-generation otaku" who usually love to watch DVDs at home naturally have time to surf the Internet, and they all blasted on their blogs to accuse the reporters of pretending to understand movies.

As a result, the print media and the Internet media quarreled extremely happily. Originally, this was only a matter of the film and drama version, but as the matter expanded, the technology version, social version and even the current affairs version all reported this matter.Although everyone deliberately avoided talking about the movie that caused the controversy, the occasional news and the results of some young people's active searches made everyone suddenly have a great interest in "Memento".Therefore, not only amc theater chain, which has a good relationship with Galaxy Films, took the initiative to increase the number of screens, but Royal Entertainment Group, Cinemark, and American Entertainment also increased the number of screens.Regardless of whether everyone has a good relationship or not, in short, no one will have trouble with the dollar.

When the Thanksgiving schedule came, "Memory Fragments" was finally released in the United States as it wished.This is not the "limited release" that only had a dozen theaters in the previous life, but a real release that was simultaneously shown on more than 2000 canvases in the United States.Christopher Nolan is not a fool, he knows how many years it takes a director to achieve this step, but he only spent how many years.Strictly speaking, this is his second feature film in the true sense, and it is also his first commercial film in the film industry. It is definitely not normal for a new director to be treated like this.The important thing is that there is no shortage of star directors in Galaxy movies.With the famous European Luc Besson and Hollywood genius director Jed Sherman, together with John Woo, Michael Bay and Quentin Tarantino, Christopher Nolan's entry into the galaxy is really like a student entering a university classroom.

Before attending the screening ceremony at the Galaxy Theater in Los Angeles, Nolan changed his usual cool look and couldn't help but write a little jokingly on his blog, "I hope there will be at least [-]% attendance tonight! Otherwise, even The boss doesn’t fire me, and I’m ashamed to make a movie. If you’ve ever discussed a movie with me, then please go into the theater tonight, whether it’s good or not, go see it first, and then tell your feelings.”

Because of the spirit of competing with netizens, many film critics spent money to go to the theater to watch "Memory Fragments" by themselves.The length of the film is nearly two hours, half an hour longer than the standard American film.But the extra half-hour didn't make the audience feel impatient, but instead was climaxed by various logical traps designed by Nolan.If you just come to enjoy the movie, "Memento" is a wonderful suspense movie.But if you have to be serious, then the brain-burning degree of this movie has made many film critics start to vomit blood.Many film critics began to scold Nolan for being unkind in their hearts. How can there be such a brain-intensive suspense drama?

Therefore, after the screening of the film, many film critics had to sigh immediately on their respective blogs, "I have to admit that it is not enough to watch the movie once to understand "Memento."

Although the critics did not apologize, many people know who won in the end.Now that one side has responded, the media's follow-up reports can naturally continue.In addition, after being conquered by Nolan, some "unscrupulous" film critics sang praises for "Memento" in TV interviews, which directly led to the attendance rate of the next day surpassing the attendance rate of the first day.Seeing the box office returns from various places, Jed has already determined that there is no problem with the weekend box office champion.

With the release of "Memento", Galaxy Films announced that they have secretly produced three films this year. In addition to Memento, Jed and John Woo will each have a film released in December, and the films they directed will be released in December. are their respective subversive works.

After seeing Meribo's promotional words, Jed suddenly felt sorry for Wu Yusen.Feeling that the box office of "The Patriot" might not be satisfactory, Jed urgently summoned Wu Yusen, who was studying at New York University, to make a film in the summer vacation.But this movie made Wu Yusen's face very bad. First of all, this is a remake of a TV series, and secondly, it is a purely commercial movie, which is more commercial than any movie that Wu Yusen has ever made before.

Woo Yusen originally planned to refuse with a dark face, but Jed said, "The heroine of this movie is Chinese. This is the first time she plays the leading role in a movie. Do you have the heart?"

After Wu Yusen thought for a long time, he said, "Mr. Sherman, I hope this is the last time."

"Wu, I'm sorry too." Jed sighed, "I have nothing else to do."