I’m in Hollywood - Chapter 824

[Chapter 816 Reverse PR]

? Beach road near the sea.

??{? [

A black Buick boulevard parked on the side of the road, Lucine sat casually on the front of the car, with her legs crossed, she looked lazy and surnamed, Selena and Jill also leaned against the car body. Next to them, the three women wore similar tights, with stunning faces and bodies, enough to make all men who saw this scene want to be the Buick sedan by their side.

At this time, the three girls looked at the two people who were saying goodbye not far away together.

One man and one woman, one big and one small, it’s really Bond and Angela.

Everything has settled down in the dust. As Vesper’s lover, Bond has the intention to take care of Angela, but he also knows that his life of wandering and crisis is difficult. Not only will he not provide Angela with a peaceful life, but it will make him She was in danger, and after some consideration, Bond decided to entrust Angela to Detective Charlie’s agency, which was also the girl’s own request.

In the camera, Angela probably already knew the ins and outs of everything. The girl handed the necklace to Bond again and said, “I think, you may need this more than I do.”

Bond took the necklace, hesitated, and then Holding it in his hand, he said to Angela, “Then, take good care of yourself. If I have time, I will come back to see you.”

“Well,” Angela nodded obediently.

Bond did not delay, nodded to the three of Selena not far away, turned and walked towards his Aston Martin.

Angela looked at the figure of Bond leaving, and suddenly remembered something very important, so she asked loudly, “Hey, you haven’t told me yet, what’s your name?”

Bond raised a hand, He waved, but didn’t look back.

“Bond, James Bond.”

When Pierce Brosnan finished saying this iconic line that must appear in every oo7 movie, off-camera, Eric nodded with a smile and raised his voice: “g formal Announced that “oo7: Casino Royale” has been completed.”

Everyone who gathered specially for today’s scene applauded, nodding, hugging, and saying goodbye to those around them.

Eric shook hands with Michael Wilson, hugged Barbara Bullocky again, and said, “Barbara, I hope we have a chance to work together.”

“Of course, I’m also looking forward to the next one. Well,” said Barbara Blockley, smiling.

After almost a year, the Brockley family has basically accepted the reality that the control of the oo7 series has been taken back by MGM, and no longer struggles

with this point. The share of rights that should be wanted in the series has not been compressed by MGM. Eric personally controls the series, which can bring more benefits to the Brooke family.

After a few conversations with Barbara Bullocky, Eric turned to Pierce Brosnan again and completed the role of Vesper. Cate Blanchett had already left the crew ahead of schedule, without Kate’s acting skills. Pressure, Pierce Brosnan was very relaxed in the last period, and some small entanglements accumulated in the early stage also dissipated.

After talking to everyone on the crew one by one, the crew returned from this beach to Pinewood Studios, where a grand finale party was already prepared.

The time is already November 3, and North America has just spent Halloween.

After finishing the banquet, Eric returned to Los Angeles with the post-production team and shooting materials of “Casino Royale”.

With just two weeks left until Thanksgiving, Mission: Impossible 2’s release date is set for November 22.

In the post-production process of “Casino Royale”, what Eric needs to complete first is the “Casino Royale” easter egg embedded at the end of “Mission Impossible 2”, adding the “oo7: Golden Eye” easter egg from the first part of “Charlie’s Angels” At the beginning, this has become the convention of the MGM Agents Cinematic Universe series. While watching the main film, the majority of movie fans have gradually begun to have a very strong interest in the Easter eggs of each MGM Agents Cinematic Universe series.

In November, it was winter in London. When Eric left, London had already fallen for the first snow of the year. Los Angeles, located on the west coast of the United States, was still as warm as spring. The temperature during the day was kept at a very suitable 20 degrees, even if At night, the temperature will not drop below 1o degrees.

Playa Vista, Firefly Studios.

Eric comes out of the post-production studio with the editing room on Casino Royale.

The editing of movie easter eggs is not an easy task. Compared with trailers, easter eggs are shorter in duration and often only have one or a few simple shots, which are almost fleeting.

Therefore, providing enough information and suspense to the audience in the easter egg without revealing the main plot is something that the director and editor need to consider in great detail.

The menu that Eric plans to set up is Mrs. M introducing the Spectre Party material obtained from Ethan Hunt to oo7. However, the specific material needs to be carefully considered. He discussed with the editing room for two days before roughly coming out. A program of about 1o seconds.

It was already evening, and when he said goodbye to the editor, Eric did not leave the studio immediately, but came to Jeffrey Katzenberg’s office in the studio. At noon, Katzenberg called. , I hope to talk about the upcoming Thanksgiving and Christmas movie trips. From Katzenberg’s tone, Eric decided that it should still be related to “Titanic”.

At the end of this year, Firefly will mainly make two films, “Rush Hour” produced by New Line and “Titanic” by Firefly Headquarters.

“Rush Hour” has had several pre-screenings and has a good reputation. The film is scheduled to be released on November 15, and it is currently in the final stage of publicity. Moreover, the cost of this film is only 000,000 US dollars, less than “Titan” One-seventh of the budget of Nick, the company didn’t care too much about the movie.

Came to Katzenberg’s office, waved his hand to stop the secretary’s announcement, knocked on the door and went in. Katzenberg, who was reading the document, raised his head, saw Eric coming in, nodded, looked at his watch, and closed the door in front of him. The document, said: “Eric, let’s go to the coffee shop outside to chat.”

The two left the administrative building and went all the way to the cafe in the studio.

After casually ordering twice as much coffee and some snacks, Katzenberg said, “Eric, Jim West and Theo Kimma were seen dining together at Morton’s yesterday,” Eric didn’t wait. Continuing the questioning, Katzenberg explained again: “Jim

West

is an assistant to Shirley Lansing at Paramount, and Theo Jinma is a judge for the Golden Globe Awards Foreign Press Association.”

The name of Ao Jinma, Eric probably already understands something, Theo Jinma may be just an ordinary judge of the Golden Globe Award now, but, more than ten years later, Theo Jinma will become the Golden Globe. The youngest jury seat in the history of the award.

“They really expected Firefly to fail,” Eric shook his head and sighed.

Eric knows that the company is currently doing public relations for the Golden Globe nominations for “Titanic”. The Golden Globe nominations are similar to the Oscar nominations, except that the nominations for the Golden Globes are announced on December 10 every year. Around the number 1, the large-scale release date of “Titanic” is December 2o. Before that, although there will be several films to meet the nomination criteria for the Golden Globe Award, but if you want to really get the nomination, Still needs a lot of PR.

In the past, other Hollywood film companies seldom carried out reverse public relations for their competitors’ award-winning works, because if they did, they would definitely be tit-for-tat in the future. In the competition for awards, the sharper means of competition are usually just Find weaknesses in competitors’ work and attack in the media to stop the judges from casting votes on a work.

Like this year, it’s rare to see “Titanic” that directly reverse PR Firefly.

Eric also knows that Firefly has suppressed the other majors too hard in recent years, but although the movie market has been expanding, the scale is still roughly fixed. He cannot suppress Firefly just to take into account the feelings of his competitors. The box office performance of the movie itself.

Katzenberg’s face was also a little serious, and said: “We are also trying our best to fight for it, but in addition to Paramount, Warner, Universal and other companies have shot, so, at the Golden Globes, “Titanic” “It’s likely to only get a few irrelevant nominations.”

“I can only try my best,” Eric said: “In addition, don’t use other extraordinary means at this time, so many people are staring at it, once it is discovered , it will be more lively.”

“Of course I know,” Katzenberg nodded, Eric’s very means, of course, was a way of bribery.

Competitors such as Universal and Paramount have all done their best to deal with Fireflies. At this time, it is the stupidest move to take the initiative to teach others: “Besides, before you come back, Paramount temporarily “Star Trek: First Contact” on Thanksgiving was shifted to December 13, a week before “Titanic” was released. The reason given by Paramount is to avoid the competition of “Mission Impossible 2” , but everyone knows it well. In addition to this film, during the three weeks before and after the release of “Titanic”, there were a total of nine films screened over 2ooo screens, an average of three per week.”

Katzenberg said Then, he handed Eric a document he just brought out of the office.

This is a schedule of movie releases.

Eric saw that during Titanic’s release, there were one or two highlighted films a week.

On December 13th, in addition to Paramount’s “Star Trek: First Contact”, there is also Sony’s “Mr. Sweetheart” starring Tom Cruise, and on December 2o, facing “Titanic” It hit “The Martian Plays on Earth” starring Jack Nicholson of Warner Bros. The following week, there was Universal’s comedy “Three Presidents Are a Mess.”

In addition to these, Fox and MGM also have new films on the market at the same time. In such an important time as Christmas, even if everyone is allies, they are not a company after all. Titanic gives way.

Eric looked at the movie schedule in his hand, but Katzenberg did not stop reporting the ‘bad news’ to him, saying: “In terms of overseas travel, the only major overseas ticket warehouse country that can roughly synchronize with North America is the United Kingdom. , Spain and Australia, French and German filmmakers are not very optimistic about the box office prospects of “Titanic”, they are only willing to give a schedule around February, I refused. On the Japanese side, it was originally expected to be synchronized with North America. , but I think it should be because we refused Toho International to buy out the rights to “Titanic” last time, maybe there is also the power of Sony. In short, the work in Japan is not very smooth. The schedule given by them is in mid-March, which is not even as good as Germany and France. At the same time, some overseas traders who are negotiating also hope that we will provide more guarantees of interests. In fact, they hope that we can reduce the share ratio.

Eric couldn’t help rubbing his forehead again. This series of information made him feel really bad.

Katzenberg didn’t say anything either. Eric was not mean to him, and things like creating pressure on his boss should never be too much.

“Well,” said Eric after a while of silence, “If next month, the box office of “Titanic” fails to meet expectations, I will take the initiative to hold a high-level meeting to make a review, and at the same time discuss stricter production for the company For the rest, you can do your best.”

“Eric, there is absolutely no need for you to review, the film company definitely needs to have a large-scale production attempt, we just need to formulate a stricter budget system,” Katzenberg Ge quickly shook his head and said.

Katzenberg was always the head of the studio during the Disney era under Michael Eisner, and at that time a large part of Katzenberg’s job actually included taking the blame for Michael Eisner.

UU reading www.sonicmtl.com Once the film directed by Michael Eisner himself fails, the criticism from the outside world tends to be directly on Katzenberg. In order to maintain Michael Eisner’s prestige, Katzenberg seldom externally explain what.

Hollywood is a place that attaches great importance to authority, and Eric’s initiative to review it will definitely damage his personal prestige.

Everyone knows that, over the years, Eric has always been the soul of Firefly. Without his keen vision in film and television production, Firefly would not have grown to the scale it is today.

“It’s settled for the time being,” Eric shook his head, rejected Katzenberg’s good intentions, and added: “But before that, I hope that all departments will not be disturbed by outside information, and try their best to help the “Titanic” “For marketing and sales, overseas, since those filmmakers want to reduce the share, let’s wait until the film is released.”

Once the North American box office fails to meet expectations, Firefly naturally needs to reduce the share to conduct overseas sales. On the contrary, when the time comes The initiative will return to the Firefly’s side again.

“No problem, I’ll keep an eye on it myself,” Katzenberg solemnly assured.

(To be continued.) 8

…

[End of this Chapter]