Legendary Hollywood Producer

"Thank you, Roman."

Just as Shulman said some words of thanks, Alyssa ran over.

"Dad, Uncle Roman." After saying this, Alisa leaped into Shulman's embrace with a shark. After a while, the big white Labrador also rushed in, wagging its tail around the little owner.

"Alyssa, my princess, why did you run up, don't you continue to play with your North Star?" Roman joked from the side. Polaris is the name of the big Labrador dog.

"The dog is tired from playing and wants to run up to rest. I will come and accompany him." Alyssa sat on her father Shulman's recliner and explained to Roman in a serious manner.

Romain wanted to laugh a bit. When the two met at the beginning, Alyssa was still a little bit ungrateful for him. Now it hasn’t been a long time, so she agrees with him. A lot sweeter.

After talking, after everyone went out for lunch again, Roman returned to the company to devote himself to work.

The hot box office trend of the movie "The Hangover" still hasn't diminished. On the first Monday of the second week, it still got a box office of 20.5 million U.S. dollars, and continued to sit on the first day of the North American box office chart.

Even the production of the sequel to the new movie "Meet Your Father-in-law" jointly released by Universal and DreamWorks has been suppressed. The latter's first day box office was only $18.5 million, which is obviously better than the predictions made by Universal and DreamWorks. Estimated revenue to be low. However, this is no way. People at Universal and DreamWorks can only get depressed on their own. Who makes the two movies belong to the same comedy genre? The audience must be concentrated, and "Meet Father-in-Law 2" There is no comedy effect like the "Hangover", a simple competition comparison, but the comparison is really normal.

Perhaps this may be the highest box office that this movie can get during its release. Even the first day's results are not ideal. In addition, there are more outstanding movies of the same type on the head, the future of "Meet Father-in-Law 2" It is not optimistic.

The executives of Universal and DreamWorks also maintained a not optimistic attitude towards their films, knowing that there is a high possibility that the box office will continue to fall in the future, so they have also taken some measures to save them.

At the immediate meeting, both Universal and DreamWorks agreed on the plan to reduce the promotional budget of the movie "Meet Father-in-Law 2" in order to stop losses in time.

The production cost of this film is as high as more than 70 million US dollars. If the investment is to be recovered by the film market, the global box office must exceed 200 million US dollars.

I thought that when the two companies were co-produced, they were very confident about it, but when the box office results on the first day of the film came out, it undoubtedly poured cold water on their hearts.

At that time, the two companies were still in the sweet period of cooperation. Universal invited DreamWorks to join in the development and production of the sequel to the movie "Meet Father-in-Law". DreamWorks still felt that Universal's partner was very good at the time and could come up with it. A high-quality project shares the benefits.

But now, at the meeting room, the supervisor of DreamWorks roared in his heart, this is a big hole at all, but we are still in a hurry to jump. This time, DreamWorks is definitely going to fall into it.

Nobody's money is brought by a strong wind, and our DreamWorks does not have overseas distribution channels like your Universal, so we can reap benefits in a relatively relaxed manner.

The executives of DreamWorks thought in their hearts: We have invested more than 30 million in this time, and hope to recover some more costs by then.

As for whether these investments can be fully recovered, one depends on the next box office performance of the movie, and second, it depends on the meaning of the global side.

The former is easy to understand, and the latter? Because this time the cooperation, the dominant power has always been in the hands of Universal, and they have also invested more resources in the film this time. If Universal also wants to recover the loss, It is likely to drag the profit sharing of overseas markets, not so quickly to DreamWorks. This kind of thing, the six Hollywood uses too many times. After all, they have perfect overseas channels. If you don’t give it, DreamWorks is really true. There is no way with them. Executives can only pin their hopes on Universal.

In fact, who would have thought that the cooperation between the two companies would fail in the box office market. After all, the film’s predecessor "Meet Father-in-Law" won nearly $300 million worldwide, but the sequel was not as good as the No. 1 sequel. The results achieved in this one are really weird.

It's not just the people at DreamWorks who are depressed, but Universal is the one who can't figure it out even more.

They carefully selected this project to cooperate with DreamWorks this time, just to win each other.

In recent years, Stephen Spielberg and two other partners Jeffrey Katzenberg (Disney’s general who created the box office myth of "Beauty and the Beast") David Geffen (music tycoon) DreamWorks Entertainment, a company founded together, produced high-quality movies and excellent box office. Not only could it make a fortune at the Oscars, but the achievements in the box office market also made the six Hollywood envy.

Since DreamWorks does not have overseas distribution channels, Hollywood’s six major wooing of DreamWorks is still relatively large. To the embarrassing situation now, it is definitely not what the senior executives of Global are willing to see. Even if Global remedies it, priority is split. The profit to DreamWorks can only restore a little bit of friendship between the two sides, but it can only be done in this way. It’s really the record of DreamWorks is too sturdy, "Saving Private Ryan", "Little Chicken Run", "Beautiful Mind", "Shrek", "Cat and Mouse Game" and a series of good reputation and box office dramas , It won’t work if you don’t win, Paramount Pictures is also very close to them, and Universal is not willing to push partners to competitors for nothing.

Universal could only make up for the failed cooperation this time. Who would have imagined that an excellent comedy sequel movie can't beat an original movie. When choosing the release schedule, Universal hadn't paid much attention to "The Hangover". Now that it's fine, it will be released a few days later. It is too late to change the schedule. Watching the box office of "The Hangover" is hot, Universal's heart is still There are illusions, and I feel that they may not be able to stand on their own feet, or even transcend. Today, reality finally gave them a slap and made them sober. Thinking that "Meet Father-in-Law 2" will fight "The Hangover" in overseas markets next, the senior executives of Global are even more heartbroken. Global money is also money.