Once Upon a Time In Hollywood

  Chapter 98 Box Office Impact, Fox of Shit

  It's a pity that James, that little bastard, can't understand the thinking of middle-aged and elderly people like Roland.

For him, only middle-aged, involuntary guys like his father will focus on his family. You Roland are obviously the same age as me, how can you speak old-fashioned? of?

etc…

  People can't help themselves when they reach middle age?

  Is it impossible...

You can not?

  Thinking of this, James immediately moved his gaze down a bit.

   In his opinion, if Roland has a problem, he should see a doctor sooner!

  Don't use my sister as a shield, delaying treatment will affect happiness!

However, when James reminded his brother in a tactful tone, hoping that he would pay more attention, Roland, who wanted to continue preaching, suddenly had black lines all over his head—if James saw the rejection letter, he just felt ashamed That's right, Roland is really hitting someone with a pillow at this moment!

   "Shit!"

   "Can you say something nice?"

   "What does it mean to believe in science and cure intractable diseases?"

   "What do you mean we are rich, don't be afraid that the cost is too high?"

   "Seeing how dare you talk, do you dare to go to the bathroom with me?"

   "I dare to throw soap, do you dare to pick it up!"

   Picking up the pillow, the 'angry' Roland directly threw James out of the house.

  Not only that, when he found out that James had left a stinky shoe in his home when he was running away, he even kicked it out as if it were a ball.

  I worked so hard to enlighten you, but in the end you smeared honey?

  What does it mean to treat a disease earlier?

   I see you are sick, okay?

   What Mencius said is indeed true, 'The taboo of people is to be a teacher. '

   Roland swears that if he continues to rely on the old man to nag these things in front of James in the future, then he is really stupid!

Of course, Roland's 'rage' and James' 'melancholy' were just a small episode after the celebration party ended. In the ears of the Elsons—James, who was broken in love, didn’t work hard and started to lose weight, and Roland, who had regular physical examinations every year, didn’t take James’ guesses to heart, because the feeling of fullness when he woke up every morning can prove everything .

   While Roland was meeting James' request and bickering with him, the feedback from the outside world didn't stop.

On July 15th, the box office data of Maple Leaf Country and Kimchi Country came back for a week. Although it was not as exaggerated as America, but with the guarantee of the previous film and the big hit "Home Alone" just last year, the total data still reached 500. However, it is a pity that although Sony, an immigrant, acquired Columbia and Samsung and became one of the top eight in Hollywood, their overseas distribution is also low these days. Is there a scene where movies will be released one after another every month? As for the places like Ah San and Mao Xiong, it may have to be delayed until next year...

  Although global distribution is the most important means for Hollywood giants to control the market, but—

  Nowadays, even they have to spend time doing it.

  Want to release it globally simultaneously?

   That's just a dream!

Not to mention outsiders such as Sony, Panasonic, and News Corporation, even Warner and Paramount will have to spend nearly three months before they can fully spread the global market—under such circumstances, Roland no longer expects himself to be able to In a short period of time, he has seen things like overseas box office, and the box office bonus, with Cameron around, he is not afraid that the picture company will delay it for a few years.

  Of course, although there is no overseas data as a detailed reference, the high local curve already explains everything.

In the face of no one can play + Schwarzenegger + the number one child star in North America + summer schedule, the film has been released for more than half a month, and the box office market in North America has been squeezed out, although the theater alliance has no movies to schedule. , still maintain the plan and arrangement, continue to line up films for "Terminator 2", but it is obviously impossible to achieve the explosive growth as before, even if fans keep checking the box office, 200 million to 220 million U.S. dollars The estimated number is already the ceiling of the entire movie. If you want to break through 300 million like "Home Alone", it is simply a dream, but—

   This is an R-rated film!

R-rated movies have always sold well on discs, because when selling discs, there are too many small tricks that can be used. Many guys who are not yet old but have money in their pockets can watch movies to their heart's content through video tapes, and this , is something that theaters do not have.

   But now?

  R-rated movies may take away 150 million US dollars in one month, and this number may rise to 220 million in the remaining month? Although this achievement is estimated to be only 20 million more than Roland's previous life, but! The benefits obtained by prolonging the screen time are different from the short-term explosive benefits!

   To put it bluntly, the photo company in this life can earn at least 20 million more because of him.

  As for the North American Theater Alliance, due to the short-term explosion of the box office, it has a net loss of 20 million.

  Although this kind of loss is simply an unbearable existence for the North American Theater Alliance, for the major film companies, this is really extra money!

  Because the four weeks before the film's release, the dividends are the highest. Not only that, the theaters must also start the first phase of dividends after 28 days! Only a fool would refuse such a thing as being able to get cash in his hand in a short time!

And when this terrifying dividend rate was exposed, the news that the truck driver and Roland wanted to make a Spider-Man movie was like the last straw that broke the camel's back. Compared with Erman, a special actor dressed as Spider-Man is very conspicuous. He is alive and kicking on the New York Stock Exchange, which seems to indicate the upward trend of the stock K line. Sixty-five dollars went up to eighteen sixty-six.

  Even though Roland doesn't know how to shoot Spider-Man now, the investment is very optimistic about him and Cameron, the violent and money-absorbing combination!

Although this kind of increase does not help those Wall Street bigwigs realize their dreams, but—according to what the truck driver said, Perelman and the others, after seeing the stimulus curve of the day, set the company's position at around three billion yuan. .

  If the operation is good, 1.8 billion in two years will be a simple matter, and this is just cash. By letting Marvel bear the debt, the other ancillary value obtained will only be higher.

   And this result also made Roland stunned.

  The guys on Wall Street, all the special codes are devils who eat people without spit out bones!

   "Oh... Ronald will be very happy if he hears this."

Four weeks after "Terminator 2" was released, Marvel was officially listed, and after the stock price stabilized, Roland called the truck driver to come out to dive, and when Cameron heard Roland's emotional voice, he put his head in his hands and leaned on the canvas chair On the night, wearing sunglasses and enjoying the summer sun, he suddenly laughed: "These financial people are different from others. The more others scold them, the happier they are, because this can show that their methods are really effective." How vicious, only when others fall into fear when they hear their names, can they be invincible in acquisition after acquisition."

   "But for those retail investors, their behavior can only cause pain."

   Sitting on the edge of the deck, staring at the sea pole, Roland, who was fishing at ease, turned his head and glanced at him, "Money... can't appear out of thin air."

   "No, No, No, you are wrong..."

   "If they enter the arena without being mentally prepared, then they don't deserve to play this game at all."

   Cameron did not agree with Roland's statement, "Everything has risks, including Ronald and the others..."

  "If the company's original shareholders were stubborn, or if their original boss, New World, hadn't sold the company to Ronald, then all this would not have happened today, because... New World is not a listed company."

   "What's more, although their actions may harm the company's development in the long run, if they only look at the short term, they can bring huge returns to the current shareholders, and isn't this what those shareholders want..."

What the truck driver said is not unreasonable. Although these financial wolves are difficult to deal with, there are still ways to fight. The simplest way is to spend money to buy your life—just like when Icahn bought Netflix, before Icahn bought Netflix. When it started to intervene in the company's affairs, Netflix immediately announced the "Poison Pill Plan"-if individuals buy more than 10% of the shares and institutions buy more than 20%, the company will issue additional shares at a low price; Netflix would rather commit suicide than They didn't want to hand over the company's sovereignty, and their behavior also made Icahn 'helpless'. In three years, he made a net profit of 1.9 billion, and Netflix spent money to buy it out of the company.

Although many people said that Icahn's behavior caused him to lose 9.6 billion, because if those stocks continued to be held back then, they would have swelled to 12 billion. If the law develops steadily, you expect Icahn to spend money on streaming media? Don't be kidding, they only have money in their eyes.

   And their goal is to make money quickly.

  Of course, these things are still a bit too far for the truck driver and Roland.

  Although they cooperated with each other to make a vote, it does not mean that they have entered the arena.

  In Perelman's eyes, Roland and Cameron are just tool people who are willing to cooperate with him. They can help out when nothing happens, but take them to play? Can you afford the one billion entry fee?

However, although Perelman will not bring them to play for money, his name can already make Cameron and Roland not worry about eating and drinking. The simplest manifestation is after the success of "Terminator 2" Well, the whole staff didn't intend to hold a celebration banquet, because—the blind one really deserves a beating.

  If you can get cheap and act like a good boy, don’t do it if you can.

   Can't you keep a good record?

  Why do you have to provoke other people's nerves?

  Like Xiao Lizi, is he defiant after winning the box office championship? Crazy about the Oscar judges? Refuse to attend the awards ceremony?

   Isn't this a fool's act?

  Compared with him, Spielberg is much 'smarter'.

You know, Spielberg dared to anger all the Oscar judges at the Oscars ceremony, but after they finished spraying, the one who should participate in the future is to participate. The guy who scolded the judges, no one else can stop him! If it is deliberately targeted, it will seem that those guys are narrow-minded!

   "Hey, by the way, have you never attended a celebration banquet?"

   When talking about the celebration banquet, the truck driver directly put his sunglasses on his head, "I remember, when "Home Alone" hit the box office, Fox didn't seem to hold any celebration banquet?"

  When Cameron mentioned this matter, Roland, who was facing the sea, rolled his eyes directly, "Yes..."

   "I've been in the industry for a year and a half, but I seem to have participated in a Golden Globe Award from the beginning to the end. I recorded a few programs announced in the later stage of "Home Alone". As for other projects, I haven't been there once..."

That's right, not only James thinks that Roland doesn't look like an insider at all, but even Roland himself doesn't think he's an insider, what kind of feasting party, what kind of venue for luxury and money, what kind of place is it that looks like a mountain and a peak What a proud sight...

  He has never touched it at all.

   Of course, this is also normal.

  Entered in the circle last January, and the movie was released in November. During this process, he was not popular, so of course he would not be invited.

After the movie exploded, he was filming on the set of "Terminator 2", plus Joe Pesci was going to the Olympics, and John Hughes was too lazy to meet the Jewish gang, so what kind of celebration dinner, party invitations, everything gone...

After the filming of "Terminator 2", the entire Hollywood was busy with the award ceremony, and before the end of the award ceremony, Roland joined the crew of "Captain Hook" and went directly to the director's house. , and no one would send invitations to Roland in a brainstorm, inviting him to participate in some more interesting adult activities...

   Fooling a child he likes in front of Spielberg who likes children?

   Isn’t that sick?

What now?

  The financial vultures have just struck. Facing those guys who clearly want to make money, they don't know how to face Roland and Cameron, let alone invite Roland to some kind of party in the circle...

so…

   Roland's entertainment methods will become extremely scarce.

  The scarcity is such that he can only go diving with Cameron now, and fishing is boring.

   As for why there are only two of them?

  Because they are the only two guys who have interviewed with Perelman!

   "Wow...then you are unlucky enough..."

   "Although you are well-known in the circle, but you can't see anything?"

  After Cameron finished listening to Roland's narration, the truck driver immediately picked up the wine bottle and blew it directly. After taking a few sips, he continued to say, "However, that's fine..."

   "At your age, you shouldn't have participated in those activities."

   "Just film well, don't get involved with those guys, after all, you don't know if anyone will harm you."

   "Yeah... If you don't go, you don't go..." Roland nodded, deeply agreeing with Cameron's statement.

  The truck driver speaks from the bottom of his heart, because there are too many guys who have been ruined by drunken life.

  If there are many invitations, Roland will not give face if he doesn’t go, but now—

  Since people don't call him, is he still happy?

  Natural barrier, use it for nothing!

What's more, unlike advertising artists and variety show anchors, actors are not suitable to show their faces in this profession. Yan Wang is overexposed, and he looks like a bull-headed terrier in every scene he shoots. This is especially true for Brother Chao and Little Cheetah. The couple in "Shadow" Everyone thought that Pei Wang was going to tear up the famous brand with Jingzhou. If he wanted to make filming his own business, then he would not expose it if he could.

  Of course, this kind of exposure refers to not being on the show very much, not having face-to-face contact, not not having no news.

  Even in the Internet age of later generations, many big names in Hollywood do not open social accounts, and the means for outsiders to contact them, other than the agent’s social account, is the only email in the personal information on IMDb Professional Edition.

   But that thing, many people also leave it to their public relations to take care of it.

   "I have nothing to do recently, what about your future arrangements?"

   ""Spider-Man" is not in a hurry... "Jurassic Park" will not start until next year at the earliest..."

   "These two projects can be put aside for now, "Home Alone 2" is your primary goal right now?"

   Cameron has hit the point this time.

  Now that he and Perelman have reached a consensus, Roland first put aside the twenty-page notebook.

   There is no such thing as a sure thing, so hurry up!

   It's time to get out the draft of "Jurassic Park" first.

  Unfortunately, with the official finalization of the "Home Alone 2" project, the writing of the "Jurassic Park" book has been delayed again. There is no other reason, it is purely Fox, who is crazy about money—

"Terminator 2" has proved to the whole world how much Roland is loved by his peers, and in this case, he doesn't want to accept children's clothing advertisements, so those children's clothing manufacturers decided to make a decision. on Fox.

   Don't you, Roland, don't want to accept the endorsement?

  Then let's place ads in the movie!

  We pay Fox to manipulate the costumes in the movie, so that even if you don’t want to ignore our children’s clothing sellers, we can still make money through you...

   In "Home Alone 2", Roland Allen wore the same costume!

   Isn’t this advertisement just typed out with a special code?

   As a result, Fox received a large number of invitations.

  In addition to children's clothing, what family-oriented car manufacturers, what children's favorite toy manufacturers, and what snacks and beverage manufacturers are also moving after hearing the news-no way, who made the achievement of 10 million in three days so ridiculous?

  Facing those green Franklins, Fox would be an idiot if he refused!

   To put it bluntly, the sum of the income from the implants can already offset Roland's salary!

   This is tens of millions of expenses!

  If they refuse, Murdoch will definitely kill them!

but-

  Even if Fox happily accepted the implant invitations and accepted their initial funds, it doesn't mean that they will directly let John Hughes, the screenwriter and producer, write the script without telling Roland.

   After all, Roland has too many backers, so he can't say no!

If Roland is just an ordinary actor, then Fox can treat Roland the same way he treats other child stars, and turn him into a walking billboard in a daze, earning more money for himself, because even if the actor knows this They couldn't resist everything, but—Roland was different, this kind of behavior that seriously violated the actor's personal image, the guy behind him had countless ways to help Roland tear up the contract.

   And at that time, Fox has breached the contract.

   In this way, when John Hughes was writing the script, they, Fox, 'kindly' informed Roland.

Not only that, but they also raised their arms and legs to welcome Roland, the guy who can take charge of the camera in Spielberg's crew, and participate in the writing of the script—this is a book that you participate in the whole process of creation. We have already told you the idea of ​​placing advertisements, Now that you have agreed, then we can take pictures boldly with confidence.

  Although Fox's actions are aboveboard, for Roland, this kind of nonsense is really troublesome!

   And the reason why he would ask Cameron out to fish is that he wanted this guy who had dealt with Fox many times to teach him how to implant this special code.

"James, did you know..." After hearing Cameron's question about "Home Alone 2", Roland, who had no hook to fish in the first place, took back the empty line, dropped the sea rod, and walked to the table , Picking up a cup of tea, "When I saw the list of sponsors given by Fox, I was completely dumbfounded..."

   "Hats, got a sponsor..."

   "Jacket, with sponsors..."

   "Pants, with sponsors..."

   "Shoes, with a sponsor..."

"If I only need to put these wearing items on my body, I can solve all the problems, then I want to ask, what about the things in the car? If you tell me, the camera lens of the car only takes a few seconds when I get in and out of the car The clock manifests, that—”

   "Where's the drink?"

   "I really don't get it, which brainless liquor seller would advertise in a home movie?"

When Roland waved his right hand and narrated his helplessness to the truck driver, the guy leaning aside suddenly laughed—he was not laughing at Fox’s ugly eating, because the way of advertising in the movie was too much. It's common, but he's laughing at Roland, the guy who used to annoy him to death, and now he's also in trouble.

  Of course, I still have to help out the solution.

When Roland noticed that the truck driver seemed to be secretly elated and pleased with himself, he stared decisively at the past, and when Roland's death eyes were about to activate, Cameron didn't delay any longer and said directly :

   "Roland, this matter is simple!"

   "Does Coca-Cola know?"

  “They bought Columbia Pictures in order to promote themselves and discredit Pepsi.”

  “They let the decent people in the movie drink Coke, and let the villains drink Pepsi, so as to leave a bad image for the audience watching the movie that drinking Pepsi is a bad person.”

   "Although they have sold Columbia Pictures, the publicity effect of the year was still good."

   "It's very normal for children to drink Coke!" Roland was not satisfied with the truck driver's words, "If it's a Coca-Cola advertisement, can't I just drink it in front of the camera?"

   "But now it's wine!"

   "If I'm drinking and the picture gets out, that's unlucky, it's Fox!"

   "Because it's illegal!"

Of course, it is impossible for Cameron to encourage Roland to drink, and the reason why he mentioned Pepsi is to tell Roland that there are actually many ways to solve the problem, "But you can use other methods to show the image of wine... "

   "For example, like Coca-Cola, let others drink Pepsi?"

   "I don't know if you have seen "Superman 2" in 1980."

"In order to open up the women's market and to get more people to buy their own cigarettes, Marlboro spent money to get Superman's girlfriend Louise to start smoking. Marlboro's logo and smoking scenes appeared in large numbers, and this loss-making movie is even more because of The existence of Marlboro is repeatedly broadcast on the prime time of major TV stations..."

   "So, the wine thing is actually easy to solve."

   "Of course, even if the sponsor wants you to appear with the wine."

   "This problem can also be solved."

   "Like, lighting a fire with wine?"

   "Although this action is dangerous, it is also the use of alcohol in an emergency, right?"

""Home Alone" is an absurd comedy movie after all. If it is based on reality, Joe and Daniel have died countless times in the first movie. Since they can't be killed, they can do whatever they want. questionable."

"you…"

   "Can you understand?"

   Note: ①The dividend ratio between the box office of the first week and the box office of the next week has been written in a single chapter before, so I won’t go into details here. ②Wolf King Icahn did acquire Netflix. On the day of the acquisition, Netflix’s stock price soared by 14 points, but Netflix was afraid of death, so they directly announced their suicide plan. They would rather die than be manipulated by Icahn, so Icahn Just cash out 1.9 billion and leave the market without wasting time. ③ When Spielberg missed the best director nomination for "Jaws", he **** off the judges at the Oscars that year. He publicly stated that those judges envied his commercial success, so they chose "art" , and he believes that Federico Fellini (one of the greatest art film directors of the twentieth century) who was nominated for "I Remember" was just inserted by the Oscar judges to disgust himself... young Spielberg , or in other words, before the sudden death of the "E.T." People scold directly in front of others. ④ Coca-Cola acquired Columbia Pictures. In addition to the idea of ​​making movies, the disgusting Pepsi is also true. ⑤ "Superman 2" in 1980 was indeed sponsored by Marlboro. Marlboro wanted to open up the women's cigarette market, so it sponsored this movie, and when the movie hit the market, it also made it appear on TV all the year round , in order to let women buy cigarettes.

  (end of this chapter)