Hollywood Hunter

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The merger of a giant-level enterprise is very cumbersome. The early financial and legal feasibility assessment, the negotiation of the detailed acquisition plan after the official launch, the review of the enterprise's assets and liabilities after the agreement is reached, and so on, usually take at least several months or even It will take a year or two to complete.

Panasonic began to approach Michael Ovitz after Sony acquired Columbia Pictures late last year, and also hopes to acquire a major Hollywood studio.

The Japanese stock market has fallen by more than 30% in the past six months, but Panasonic, which has accumulated a large amount of US dollar cash in its hands over the years, has not given up the idea of ​​acquisition.

For half a year, in order to keep it as secret as possible, when Michael Ovitz led the team to and from Tokyo and Los Angeles many times, he even forbade the staff to disclose the specific business trip to his family. One of his deputy returned from Tokyo to bring a piece for his wife. The kimono had to pretend to be bought in London.

Unexpectedly, after a hundred secrets, things were leaked out in advance.

The caa headquarters in Century City.

Michael Ovitz had a busy day yesterday, communicated with Panasonic, looked for reasonable excuses, contacted the media, and made a unified statement with the team members to determine the plan to deny the "Los Angeles Times" report, and finally reviewed the press release in person. It was late at night.

I still arrived at the company less than eight o'clock today.

After finishing the routine new week high-level meeting, and discussing today's media feedback and the next step with the members of the acquisition team, the time has come to 9:30.

Back in his office, Michael Ovitz looked through today's work schedule and asked his assistant if the lunch with Dustin Hoffman had been arranged for noon.

Last year, under the pressure of Westeros, Ovitz apparently terminated several people from Hoffman, but Ovitz has been helping a few people maintain their careers as much as possible, and it is still free, which greatly reduces the impact of the termination incident. Negative effects caused by caa.

Dustin Hoffman's ability to join "Captain Hawk" this time, as well as Terry Semel and Peter Cooper personally speaking out, are the result of Ovitz working behind the scenes.

Of course, of the four people who terminated their contracts last year, only three were actually recovered.

Westeros had no choice but to suppress Meg Ryan on the long-term contract issue, and Ovitz had nothing to do with it.

After talking about the lunch arrangement, Ovitz was about to start other work today when the assistant handed him a box office report from the past weekend and said, "Mr. Ovitz, maybe you should look at this."

Michael Ovitz took the box office report, sent his assistant to leave, looked down, and quickly showed a surprised look on his face.

In the past weekend, because the two new films "Presumed Innocence" and "Prince of the Forest" did not perform well at the box office, "Total Recall" in the second week of the filming fell by 41% year-on-year, but still made $15.06 million at the box office. It easily won the average position of the box office for three days on the weekend.

Ten days after its release, the cumulative box office of "Total Recall" also broke through the 50 million mark, reaching 51.14 million US dollars.

Of course, such data does not actually surprise Ovitz.

What Michael Ovitz didn't expect was the name at No. 2 on the list.

In the second week of the opening, Daenerys Entertainment's summer opening film "Ghost Story", which failed to meet many expectations in terms of word of mouth and box office in the first week of its release, not only did not have "Total Recall" at the box office the next weekend. It fell sharply, but rose against the trend.

Compared with the box office of $12.19 million in the first three days of the film's opening, the box office of "The Ghost Story" fell by 2.7% in the next three days, and received another $12.52 million.

2.7%, this figure seems insignificant, however, Michael Ovitz is very clear that media word of mouth is only a general situation, it is very difficult for a movie to reverse the decline.

"Human Ghost Love" did it.

again.

The "Sixth Sense of Spirituality" in the same period last year, because of its explosive reputation and high topicality, it was only natural that it achieved a reverse decline in the next week.

Now, what's going on with "The Ghost Story"? !

Michael Ovitz wondered, probably one of the things Hollywood was paying attention to early this morning.

You know, it was just such a seemingly inconspicuous reverse drop, and the box office curve of "The Ghost Story" was directly supported. This film, which was originally predicted by many media to only have a domestic box office of 60 million US dollars, is almost certain to hit the 100 million yuan box office club.

It may even surpass Total Recall in the end.

This is really eye-popping.

As a result, the media and other Hollywood studios began to pay attention to why this happened.

The plot of "The Ghost Story" made countless audiences cry...

"Unrestrained Melody" resonated with countless people...

Another pass-through effect...

all in all.

Audiences love this movie!

This is the most important and direct reason, the reason why countless filmmakers can't ask for it.

The media swarmed and began to report on the movie-watching event of "The Ghost Story". When Hollywood was looking for ideas similar to this movie, many people remembered their initial mentality in the release of "The Ghost Story", and they couldn't help laughing at themselves. Nellis was entertaining, and she couldn't help but feel a sense of powerlessness that your uncle is still your uncle.

sunday and dani

Liz Entertainment held high-level discussions once Panasonic launched its response strategy to mca in advance, and as caa denied the matter in the media, Simon's mind turned to other affairs in his hands.

However, although caa publicly denied it, starting from Monday, in the following days, mca's stock price has risen in a wave, and once rushed to a high of $52. Obviously, a lot of capital has begun to enter the market at this time.

If Daenerys Entertainment has no plans to acquire mca, Cersei Capital can start to absorb the company's stock in a big way now, and when Panasonic's acquisition of mca is completed, it will definitely make a lot of money.

Now, such an opportunity can only be passed up.

Seriously speaking, as long as no one is serious, this is not actually insider trading. However, Cersei Capital is already too eye-catching in the eyes of many people. Simon believes that if this is done, there will definitely be people who will be 'true' to Cersei Capital.

Silicon Valley over there.

AOL management predicts that the number of users accessing the World Wide Web through the company may reach 500,000 in the second half of this year alone, as the number of AOL access users exceeded expectations in May.

Moreover, other ISPs outside the AOL region have begun to approach Igrit, which holds the core patents of the World Wide Web. After so many years of accumulation, the base of Internet users in the United States is actually very large. If all of them turn to the World Wide Web, by the end of this year, the number of World Wide Web users nationwide will definitely be far more than 500,000.

As a result, both AOL and Igret have begun planning to expand their data center and line networks.

Currently, the two data centers on the east and west coasts of Igreat can only carry 400,000 user visits. The number of visits that the server can carry is extended to millions.

America Online's main expansion is its own basic line network.

Although it is impossible to build a nationwide network transmission channel without a billion-dollar investment, AOL's own funds are still sufficient to support the investment in the backbone optical network on the east and west coasts. Simon does not plan to inject capital to dilute other shareholders' equity in the short term. If necessary, AOL's next stage of financing will be in the form of loans.

In terms of Internet cafes, after confirming the model and business model of Internet cafes, 100 Internet cafes are expected to open one after another around the end of July.

AOL owns 60% of the 'intercom bar' subsidiary, and the basic cost of each internet bar is more than $100,000. However, AOL's own investment is actually only $3.5 million. Others have sponsors and ibm's investment fund undertakes.

Daenerys Studios in Malibu.

The time is Wednesday, June 13th.

"Ghost Love" was a big hit at the box office. Although "Total Recall", which had fallen behind the top three weekend box office, was nearly $3 million, after entering the working day, "Ghost Love" was a big hit at the box office. Due to the further improvement of media popularity and audience reputation, the single-day box office has already surpassed "Total Recall".

Simon did not relax.

Daenerys Entertainment's first of last year's 10-film program, "Sleeping with the Enemy," is set to hit theaters on June 15. However, for several consecutive internal previews of the film before, the evaluations given by the media who participated in the viewing were very low, and the general audience did not produce very good feedback.

Daenerys Entertainment's 10-film program is highly anticipated by both Hollywood and general audiences.

Now, Daenerys Entertainment's single-run "Ghost Story" has shown signs of being a big seller. If the "Sleeping with the Enemy" cooperating with foreigners fails at the box office, not only the audience will lose the follow-up film of the 10-film plan. It is expected that other Hollywood studios will inevitably have other ideas.

Simon, of course, has no control over the audience's feedback on the film.

However, after accumulating up to now, many Hollywood studios have been tied to the same boat by 10 movie plans. This time, manipulate the media's evaluation of "Sleeping with the Enemy" to ensure an evaluation above the passing line. The problem is still Not big.

Therefore, just after the new week arrived, Simon began to contact the media contacts that Daenerys Entertainment had accumulated in the past few years, and also asked Fox and other participants of the 10 movie plans to work together. Everyone knows that "Sleeping with the Enemy" did not start well, and the other 10 planned films that have already created a brand effect in the minds of the audience will be affected.

The conference room on the top floor of Office Building No. 1 on the fifth floor of the administrative district.

That's what the distribution teams at Daenerys Entertainment and Fox Pictures are discussing, with Simon, Amy Pascal and Fox's Joe Ross all taking part in the meeting.

After a busy few days, Fox's distribution team, with the help of Daenerys Entertainment and other Hollywood connections, has secured the Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Chicago Tribune and San Francisco Chronicle. The trend of film criticism in four mainstream newspapers on the east and west coasts.

Two professional media, The Hollywood Reporter and Variety, also promised to give a relatively loose evaluation.

In addition to these influential print media platforms, the team also contacted a group of well-known film critics such as Roger Albert, and these people have also agreed.

In general, there will be no high evaluation, but a passing score of more than 6 points is absolutely no problem.

Simon is not worried that this kind of manipulation of film critics will leak out. To put it bluntly, this is actually a kind of public relations.

, and it's not the first time that Hollywood has happened. Moreover, although it is still only a new player in Hollywood, Simon knows that this kind of thing must not be abused.

Therefore, before "Sleeping with the Enemy", other films produced by Daenerys Entertainment have not had similar PR.

Once in a while, as long as it is not too ordinary, in fact, various newspapers and film critics are also happy to give face to the Hollywood giants. Even if it is exposed, because there is no real money transaction involved, there is no too-shameful inside story, but the tacit understanding formed by everyone drinking coffee or talking on the phone during the process of talking and laughing together will not cause too much disturbance.

There are a large number of print media platforms in the United States, but those are the ones with huge influence. Small and medium-sized print media platforms are actually easily affected by the wind direction of large-scale print media.

Once the Los Angeles Times, The New York Times and other large media have been secured, the "word of mouth" of "Sleeping with the Enemy" will be guaranteed.

In the trivial busyness, another week passed quickly.

June 8 to June 14.

Arnold Schwarzenegger's "Total Recall" dropped by 41% at the box office for the whole week to $21.32 million, still ranking first in the single-week box office chart, and the cumulative box office within two weeks also quickly reached $57.4 million.

However, compared to the "Ghost Love", whose reputation and popularity have risen against the market, the advantages of "Total Recall" are already very weak.

In the second week of its release, "Ghost Love" recorded a 4% drop for the whole week, and received an additional $20.55 million, leaving the gap with the weekly list champion "Total Recall" by less than $1 million. In two weeks, the cumulative box office of "The Ghost Story" has reached 40.31 million US dollars.

Because of the unexpected box-office performance of "The Ghost Story", Daenerys Entertainment quickly increased the number of screens in the film's third week to 1,866, which is a one-time increase compared to the 1,521 screens in the film. With more than 300 screens, it is expected that the box office of the film will not drop too much in the third week.

Two other new films.

"Presumed Innocence" starring Harrison Ford ranked third, with a box office of $11.71 million in its first week, which unfortunately failed to break through 10,000.

The fourth-place "Back to the Future 3" received another $10.84 million in its third week of release, bringing the cumulative box office to $52.72 million.

Disney's rerun of "The Forest Prince" came in at No. 5, earning $7.7 million in its first week, not bad.

In addition to the top five, "Firebird", which was released at the same time as "Back to the Future 3", in the third week of its release, the box office in a single week has plummeted from 1.78 million US dollars. In three weeks, "Firebird" has accumulated only 1.78 million US dollars at the box office. There are 12.01 million U.S. dollars. It is expected that after the release next week, most of the screens will be removed, and the final box office can only stay at about 15 million U.S. dollars. Paramount relies on the North American box office and cannot even recover the cost of publicity.

On June 15, the new week, North American theaters will still release two new films at the same time, namely "Sleeping with the Enemy" by Fox Films and Daenerys Entertainment, and Disney's "Sleeping with the Enemy" by Warren Bee. The comic book adaptation film "The Greatest Detective" starring Tee and Madonna.

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