Hollywood New Century - Chapter 400

After three days in Santa Barbara and Ivanka, the two separated, one flew to New York and the other returned to Los Angeles.

Meanwhile, Disney Pictures chairman Rich Ross just finished his annual report on the Disney board, and chairman Robert Iger was angry at the huge losses on the live-action film project.

“There are six DreamWorks movies that we need to release this year, and I believe they will do well at the box office, including the war blockbuster War Horse directed by Steven Spielberg, as well as the sci-fi film Iron Fist, plus our own. The sequel blockbuster “Caribbean Islands 4”, “Ricky Ross is under a lot of pressure now. After all, the three blockbusters of “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice”, “Tron Chronicle” and “Prince of Persia: The Blade of Time” have failed, and someone needs to be Responsible.

“This Cowboys and Aliens cost nearly $170 million to make. I heard DreamWorks is going to be made for Universal?” Robert Iger asked, after all, this is the most expensive of the six DreamWorks movies. As for Transformers 3, that was released by Paramount.

Richie Ross nodded and said: “Yes, it was DreamWorks, Relativity Media, and Universal, and Universal was responsible for the distribution. However, after Xinghai Entertainment acquired Universal, Simon Parker terminated almost all Universal’s unfilmed film projects, and also Ended the cooperation agreement with Relativity Media;”

“After we signed a contract with DreamWorks, Disney took over the distribution, and Relativity Media signed a cooperation agreement with Paramount. “Cowboys and Aliens” is produced by Steven Spielberg, “Iron Man” “Director of the series, Jon Favreau!”

“Paramount cooperated with Theory of Relativity, and Universal also gave up the adaptation rights for the special effects blockbuster “Super Battleship”? “Robert Iger is a little confused, “Super Battleship” is also a toy authorized adaptation of Hasbro, Universal Pictures It was also a competition before, so why was it transferred directly to Paramount?

“Universal is now pretty much dominated by previous projects from Xinghai, the Marvel series and several sequel IPs,” explained Richie Ross.

“Last year, it sold its shares of Hulu, Focus Pictures, and now Xinghai Entertainment has heard that it is seeking to sell its shares of AMC TV and NBC’s Bravo TV and SyFy Channel. Simon is losing weight and accumulating funds,” Robert Iger also worried.

“Universal Studios Hotel Group, the expansion of Universal Studios Hollywood, Universal Studios Orlando also purchased land for expansion, repurchased the shares of RB Universal Studios Osaka, and they signed the Shanghai Universal Studios Resort project cooperation agreement with Shanghai, China. to begin;”

“Disneyland’s biggest rival, Universal Studios, has begun to exert its strength!”

“Simon Parker has a very high vision in film production. In this regard, no one in Hollywood can compare it. Steven Spielberg has a deep relationship with Universal Pictures. When the parent company was General Electric, it has been With the estrangement, and now that Xinghai Entertainment is more powerful than GE, Steven Spielberg doesn’t seem to have any preferential treatment, and he has no interest in cooperating to develop new movies. “Rich Ross is also envious, Spielberg’s ability is unquestionable, but his expense is also high.

“Rich, although DreamWorks’ production budget is now lower than before, if the results are not met, the board will still reduce DreamWorks’ budget,” Robert Iger is now also unfamiliar with Disney Studios’ live-action film. No way, I just hope that the addition of DreamWorks can inject new vitality.

“I see.” Of course Rich Rose understood that DreamWorks joined, but the most valuable IP “Transformers” remained at Paramount.

The production capacity of DreamWorks is no longer what it used to be. Steven Spielberg makes so many movies every year, and the box office is becoming less and less. Otherwise, he would not have committed to Paramount because of high debt.

If the big project “Cowboys and Aliens” fails again, Rich Ross is absolutely sure that he will be fired.

At the same time, Simon also received the box office data of the horror film “Hidden” just produced by Aurora Pictures, with a $13.5 million opening score in the first weekend.

You must know that the cost of “Latent” is only about 1.5 million US dollars, which is typically represented by Xiaoboda. Therefore, it seems that Wen Ziren’s abilities still exist and need to be explored.

Aurora Pictures also took advantage of the heat to announce that “The Conjuring” will be filmed by Wen Ziren and will be released next year. And the project of “Hidden 2” has also been put on the agenda and will be released the year after.

In addition to the “Ghost Records” series, Aurora Pictures has a horror series, plus the horror and thriller IP that took over the Universal Studios library, the future of Aurora Pictures is flat.

“Wen Ziren is indeed a talent, and it’s not easy to be a character in “The Saw”,” Simon praised Laura Collins, who was sitting on the sofa in his arms.

“Boss, there is good news. “Unreachable” is the best. France’s box office is 170 million US dollars, Germany’s 80 million US dollars, Spain and Italy are about 20 million US dollars, although we only have 10 million US dollars in North America, but the global box office is 10 million US dollars. The box office reached 430 million US dollars! Now the local film companies in France, whether it is Gaumont EMI or Europa, are envious of us,” Laura Collins said and kissed Simon on the neck.