Once Upon a Time In Hollywood

Chapter 418 An embarrassing thing happened

Of course, even if Roland has decided on the two ways of inviting Old Bush and Zipperton, this does not mean that the matter must be carried out immediately. When the war on terrorism has just started and the lingering thunder of Enron has not subsided, Roland is not prepared Get in touch with them now, but want to interview these old coins when you get home in the next year.

In this way, enjoying the rest of the vacation with his wife with peace of mind has become what Roland should do.

But while Roland was leisurely, the old man was very busy.

Deciding to continue filming the "Harry Potter" series, he asked Katherine Kennedy to fly to the UK quickly, convened the main creative team, and ordered them to make preparations for the sequel filming of "The Chamber of Secrets". Get in touch and help them arrange the schedule for the next year to ensure that you can join the group and shoot at any time.

After giving instructions, the old man rushed to Los Angeles overnight.

Walter Parks, the contracted producer of DreamWorks, immediately pulled up the project team of "Cat and Mouse Game", contacted screenwriter Jeff Nathanson and legendary liar Frank Abagnale to confirm the final script, and then worked with Leonardo DiCaprio communicated with Tom Hanks and informed them of the fact that they must join the filming team after Christmas. After getting confirmation from the two, they understood the seamless filming that they had played for many years When the show could continue again, he who was running back and forth finally stopped.

Although the old man did not intentionally show his busyness to Roland, when Roland heard about the preparation process, the guy who accompanied his wife to raise swans in his hometown in Reading still expressed his emotions.

"In this impetuous society, solid and hard-working guys like him are really rare."

Be reasonable.

Roland just said casually.

He felt that the old man's vigorous character was the root of his success.

That's all.

However, as soon as the words came out, the stinky woman who was wrapped up like a brown bear next to her sneered, "That's because you are too lazy."

While speaking, she took out a handful of corn from her pocket and sprinkled it on Reading Lake.

Following her movements, the swans who had accompanied her when she was a child suddenly flapped their wings and came to **** the food.

The sound of bang bang aroused countless splashes, and the response of bang bang caused countless ripples. When those foolish and bold people scrambled to eat the corn in the water, they looked up and looked around in dissatisfaction. mean.

And when she found that the big white geese were all staring at her with longing eyes, Kate took out a handful of corn from her pocket again with a smile, and continued to feed her without stopping, "Look at how hard they are trying to survive." I’m eating! What about you? You have something to do, but you have to deal with it after the New Year, so don’t envy others for their hard work.”

Good guy! Roland called him a good guy!

Holding his hands together, he threw a pestle towards the lake, his face was full of grievances and resentful wives, and his sour air was overwhelming.

In fact, after learning about the importance of "House of Cards" to her husband's career, Kate once suggested that she fly back to Los Angeles directly to deal with matters first, and then return to the UK for the New Year if time permits.

But Roland really felt that there was no need to rush, so he decided to let his wife spend the New Year at home with peace of mind, and let the rest be discussed after the year.

But for Kate, this kind of behavior is mindless accommodation.

Even if she didn't struggle, and she didn't show Roland in front of her parents after returning home, the occasional picky behavior would still make Roland helpless, although Roland really wanted to complain, "Why are you women so troublesome? You would be dissatisfied when I didn’t go home with you, but you’re still dissatisfied now that you’ve put down your work to go home with you!”, but…

Can you really say something like this?

For the sake of his own life, Roland would squat aside whenever Kate brought up the old story again.

no way!

Who told this woman to be chosen by herself?

With no one pressing his head to force him to marry, he can only bear with his wife's temper.

Not to mention, this time, Kate still considers the issue from his perspective.

In this case, even if Roland knew that he had done something bad with good intentions, he had no choice but to pretend to be dead, and he could go.

Of course, blindly playing dead is not Roland's style.

In order to ensure that his wife can have a good year, Roland, who has no job at all, can only find a way to make himself look busy, try his best to pretend to be in control of the overall situation, but in fact he doesn't need him to control the overall situation at all.

For example, in front of my wife, I made a call to Evelyn Watson, the president of Warcraft Film and Television, and asked the subordinate of this tool worker to prepare to try to improve the departments that the company lacked, and to collect some information about film and television drama projects, because in the future , They may need to produce content in large quantities to ensure the company's core competitiveness in the industry.

According to common sense, this is the boss's order to his subordinates, and it belongs to the future to-do list.

As for when Evelyn Watson will reply?

It all depends on whether Roland, who is driven by coaxing his wife, can still remember this matter.

But as the work was issued, Roland, who thought there was nothing wrong, just wanted to hang up the phone, and then went to show his love to the stinky woman who was lying on the sofa reading a book, when the guy on the phone with no eyesight , but he was stopped.

"Boss! Boss! Wait..."

"What are you doing? Is there something wrong?"

"Something happened, you just said that the company may need to expand, so it needs to collect external projects?"

"Yeah? What's the matter? Are you having trouble?"

"have."

"Aha? What's your problem?"

Evelyn Watson's words confused Roland.

He just got Evelyn Watson ready for the expansion of the company, and didn't tell her to do it right away!

Do you have difficulty in making preparations?

Then how can I pretend that everything is fine in front of my wife?

Looking at the person leaning on the sofa who had pricked up his ears, Roland, who was calling out his bad luck, could only ask with a dark face, "What's wrong?"

While he was asking the question, he was actually thinking about whether he had to find some capable guys to replace this person.

But when Evelyn Watson told about the difficulties the company was facing, Roland changed his mind.

Because in this world, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are hard to find.

"Boss, the problem our company is facing now is not too few projects, but too many projects.

In the whole year, we have five movies released.

Although we have tried our best to stagger the release time of the projects, there is still some influence between them.

For example, "Memory Fragments" and "X-Men", the latter directly washed out 17% of the former's film schedule.

Next year, although we only have three films released, five films will start shooting at the same time, which means that we will face the same situation as this year in the next year, with five films released in the same year.

But unlike this year's "Memento", "X-Men", "The Princess Diaries", "Harry Potter" and the upcoming "Lord of the Rings", the investment in the next year's films is basically no less than 100 million, that is to say, even if we arrange the release time like this year, we can't do it without affecting each other..."

That's right!

When Roland wanted to strangle companies that wanted to develop in the streaming media industry from the source by harvesting content, the output of Warcraft Movies and Television had already exceeded the capacity of the entire market!

If it is not obvious this year, because "Memento" was bought by Roland, and "X-Men" was a year-delayed product, "The Princess Diaries" was very low-cost, "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" If they have already fought against "The Lord of the Rings", then next year will be the first year that Warcraft Film and Television is about to explode.

Blue Sky Studios, which was previously acquired by Roland, has already completed "Ice Age". According to Evelyn Watson's arrangement, this film, which has no historical achievements and no big names, will be released next year, that is, in 2002. released in February.

In addition, "The Bourne", which was previously stagnated in development due to the arrest of Soviet spy Robert Hansen, also has the dawn of release. According to Robert Hansen's guilty plea, his sentence will come out in the first half of next year, and After getting rid of him, "The Bourne Shadow" will be launched smoothly, and it is expected that it will look like the summer vacation.

After excluding these two films, the upcoming "Lord of the Rings 2" will also be released at the end of next year.

On the face of it, the timing of all three films is harmonious.

But actually? 𝒇𝘳𝐞𝚎𝓌𝑒𝑏𝒏𝑜𝙫ℯl.c𝚘𝒎

This is just an illusion!

Because the "Pirates of the Caribbean" that Roland and Disney talked about before has completed the preparatory stage, and the filming will start as soon as the new year is over!

And when the old man decided to shoot "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets" in the first half of next year, the film's schedule directly entered 2003!

In addition, being urged by Arnold Schwarzenegger, "Terminator 3", directed by Christopher Nolan and written by Jonathan Nolan, will also be launched in the first half of next year, and it will definitely be available in 2003!

And the "Bourne Shadow" series, which was signed according to the trilogy before, will definitely enter the second filming stage after "Bourne Shadow" is released!

In this way, in just one year and three years, Warcraft Film and Television has four projects with an investment of over 100 million yuan to be launched!

Then…

There is also "The Lord of the Rings 3" that has been sealed...

In the 2003 Christmas season, there must be a place for him!

If it is exaggerated enough to say that a film studio produces five films with an investment of over 100 million yuan within a year, then Marvel, which has already left the jurisdiction of Warcraft Film and Television, actually has works!

After Roland delegated power to Kevin Feige, he took control of the "X-Men" series, and this bald man who wanted to make achievements would inevitably come up with "X-Men 2" in 2003, which is King Kong The sequel to The Wolf and Magneto...

Looking at it this way, Warcraft Film and Television will instantly become the company with the fewest number of productions in a year in the circle, but the largest investment in special codes!

And with the scale of six films and six hundred million, how many schedules can they arrange for them in a year?

The summer vacation period from May to August is good for one month, and this can only solve four.

There are still two months left for the Thanksgiving file in November and the Christmas file in December, and two more can be solved.

Although this arrangement is perfect, this is already the limit, okay?

Other film companies are already watching their films!

If you continue to increase the size, it’s okay...

The other companies don’t need to make movies anymore, they just watch Roland fight each other here and beat themselves!

"Boss, we really can't continue to increase the size, because we have all series in our hands.

According to your arrangement, among the six films, "Pirates of the Caribbean", "Harry Potter", "The Bourne", and "X-Men" must have sequels, and we still have a sequel in hand But "Princess Diaries" which I didn't have time to shoot, looking at it this way, if there is no conflict in the production time, at least five more can be produced in 2004, and even if there is a conflict, we can still produce two or three...

In the case that this market is almost saturated, we really can't expand any more.

Because we have to leave some space for DC projects under Time Warner.

And if "Ice Age" is also successful, and there is a possibility of serialization, then we...

Maybe I can’t take over a new project. "

Come on!

Evelyn Watson's helpless words of persuasion made Roland bewildered.

Market saturated?

The market is saturated before he has made anything yet?

this…

This special code is too outrageous!

If before, he just wanted to dispel his wife's anxiety by pretending to work, but now, he himself is really anxious, because this situation has exceeded his expectations!

"No... Are you sure our company is no longer able to undertake new projects?"

"Yes, Boss, we really can't undertake new projects, because the audience's purchasing power is limited, and under our high-cost and high-investment operating model, if we want to make a profit, we must give the audience breathing space.

Six movies with an investment of more than 100 million yuan a year need a box office market of 1.8 billion yuan just to recover the cost, and the global box office market is only more than 20 billion yuan. Only one-tenth of it can support us to pay back the cost.

The point is…

It is impossible for many movies to only earn 300 million box office.

so…

If you continue to shoot, you can only send it at the wrong peak. "

Evelyn Watson is telling the truth.

Excluding "Terminator 3" with unknown prospects, "Bourne" which is unlikely to be a big hit at the box office, and "X-Men" which has no hope of being a big hit for the time being, the remaining "Pirates of the Caribbean", "Harry Potter" "Special" and "Lord of the Rings" are both at the billion level.

In the case where the three films accounted for 3 billion box office, even if the remaining three films have a total of one billion, these six films can absorb 20% of the global box office market, and when Roland alone occupies the market one fifth...

Where can this expansion go?

There is no room to expand!

Because other countries also have their own movies!

In other words, these projects are all joint ventures with Disney, Time Warner, and Universal, and these guys are also responsible for distribution. Otherwise, starting from 2003, the global box office rankings will become the same as Disney 16 years later. Same.

Warcraft Movies, Warcraft Movies, Warcraft Movies, Warcraft Movies...

Direct slaughter version!

Any other film company can’t come up with a project!

While they are taking out items, the market can't take them!

(end of this chapter)