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Monday morning, when the work week resumes, should be a lively day, especially for studios. If the film released last week is a big sell, the whole company will be full of laughter, but at this time Fox Building will be full of laughter. At the weekly meeting, the expressions on everyone's faces were heavy and depressed.

Without CAA's vampires, without the main creative team of "Interview with the Vampire", as the main investor, the executives of Twentieth Century Fox made no secret of their disappointment.

"AMG and Emperor Entertainment have rejected our request to expand the theatrical scale of "Interview with the Vampire" and compress "Brave Island."

Tim Fisher, who just took over the position of director of the film distribution department, broke the silence of the conference room by saying, "There is no beautiful box office data to support, and we have no capital to strive for."

He looked at Townsend Rothman, opened the latest statistics in front of him, and read to everyone, "Interview with the Vampire earned $6.21 million on Sunday, and the first three days of the North American box office totaled $28.3 million."

In normal times, this result can basically guarantee a weekly box office champion position, which is obviously impossible now.

"Brave to the Dead Island's box office on Sunday was $11.13 million!" Tim Fisher said, regardless of other people's faces, "The box office on the first three days was as high as $36.79 million!"

As if to remind the many high-level executives present, Tim Fisher raised his voice, "Everyone, this is not just a weekly box office number one position, it means that "Interview with the Vampire" can only be in its shadow. show!"

"Maybe it's going to have a huge drop next week."

Hearing this nonsense voice, Tim Fisher immediately retorted, "Duke Rosenberg's audience A rating has been maintained at more than 85%! This is "Life and Death" "Speed" has an unparalleled audience reputation after its large-scale screening! Don't forget, the highest weekend box office of "Life and Death" was only $34.75 million, and the final North American box office was more than $130 million! The global box office is as high as 350,000 Thousands of dollars!"

The people just stopped talking, and the conference room fell into silence again. After all, they are not laymen. With the support of such a strong audience's word of mouth, "Brave Island" will inevitably maintain a healthy box office decline in the next few weeks, and the final box office how many?

100 million dollars is definitely not the end of this film, right?

Townsend Rothman, who was sitting in the first place, jumped out of this idea unconsciously. According to the plummeting word of mouth and the predictions of major institutions, the North American box office of "Interview with the Vampire" exceeded 100 million at most, while "Brave to the Dead Island" "As long as the follow-up is not too weak, it is likely to go straight to 150 million US dollars.

I advocated the introduction of "Speed ​​of Life and Death", but pushed "Brave to the Dead Island"...

At this moment, the feeling in Townsend Rothman's heart can only be understood by himself. Two to three movies with a box office of over 100 million in North America can be released in a summer file, and his position as CEO will definitely be more firmly seated!

He regretted it a little. If he had chosen Duke Rosenberg instead of CAA's project, although he would have to accept one-fifth of the other party's investment, according to Duke's contract with Warner, he would only enjoy the same proportion. Short-term revenue sharing, unable to share long-term revenue.

What about CAAs? The profitability of "Interview with the Vampire" is definitely not a problem. It seems that CAA can only get a commission of 10% of the total revenue of the film. It seems that the proportion is less than half, but it is a long-term share!

That is to say, as long as "Interview with the Vampire" can still bring benefits, one-tenth of them will always belong to CAA.

It is almost a foregone conclusion that the revenue of "Interview with the Vampire" itself is not as good as that of "Brave to the Dead Island", and it is necessary to let the vampires share the long-term benefits. Which project was more cost-effective to choose?

Townsend Rothman couldn't think clearly for a while, he was only sure of one thing, he shouldn't give up Duke Rosenberg so easily!

"I have a suggestion!"

The voice that sounded still belonged to Tim Fisher, who seemed extra positive today, "I have definite news, Duke Rosenberg has two scripts on file with the Writers Guild, and one of the sci-fi scripts has been completed! There's a bigger explosion in the script!"

As soon as these words came out, the Fox executives present were immediately refreshed. Hollywood didn't believe in anything, but only in profit and data. The success of two consecutive films has proved Duke Rosenberg's directorial strength, not to mention that More crazy explosions! That lunatic full of destructive desires is definitely a genius in this area!

Without waiting for others to speak, Tim Fisher said quickly, "I suggest that we re-contact Duke Rosenberg! Try to win him back to Fox's camp, and let the pre-review department go to the Writers Guild. Check out the script he has filed so that the review process can be started at any time!"

"I agree!"

"I agree……"

Many people have agreed, as long as it can bring benefits, they don't care who the partner is!

Townsend Rothman crossed his hands on the table, raised his chin slowly, and seemed to be thinking. In fact, he knew very well that, like Tim Fisher, who had a conflict with Duke, as an executive of a commercial company , face is never as important as performance!

"If I remember correctly..." he said slowly, "Duke signed a 1+2 contract with Warner Bros.?"

"It's a 1+2 contract!" Tim Fisher apparently made good preparations, "but there is a remark clause in it, and only under the same conditions, Warner Bros. has the priority to invest."

Hearing this, Townsend Rothman no longer hesitated, "Contact Nancy Josephson as soon as possible... In this way, ask her out, I will talk to her in person, and, when Duke returns to Los Angeles, invite him to attend Fox's party!"

"We don't have a party plan for the time being," said a person next to him suddenly.

"Then hold it once!" Townsend Rothman snapped.

Also on this Monday, "Brave Island" began its North American promotional tour. Unlike "Speed ​​of Life", it was different from rushing around for flights. It was led by Duke, Lee, Cage, Harris and Naomi Watts. The publicity team formed by the cast and crew flew on a business jet belonging to Warner Bros. The excellent first-week box office performance of "Brave to the Dead Island" undoubtedly gave Warner a reassurance.

As soon as he arrived in Seattle, Duke received a call from Nancy Josephson. He was not surprised by the changing attitude of 20th Century Fox. This is a society chasing commercial interests, and there was no incompatibility between him and 20th Century Fox. Reconciled contradictions, and under the premise of sufficiently large interests, there is no commercial contradiction that is irreconcilable.

Although it was a pleasure working with Warner Bros., Duke would not be foolish enough to hang himself from a tree, and even if he couldn't give Twentieth Century Fox any promises, he told Nancy to talk to them first, even if it didn't work out in the future, saying It is not allowed that there will be opportunities for cooperation in the future, not to mention that this can put some pressure on Warner Bros. in the negotiation of the next film in order to strive for greater interests for its own side.

Business cooperation is like this. There are no permanent friends and no permanent enemies. If Tom Cruise is invited to play in the movie, he can maximize the benefits. Duke will not hesitate. He will still praise the four at the fan meeting in Seattle. The male and female protagonists are the same, touting Liangtang's acting skills to the cloud.

However, Duke did not have many opportunities and time to speak in the publicity activities, and the publicity still revolved around the actors and the film itself. Of course, a large number of fans also knew him, a young director who is full of desire for explosion and destruction in the media's mouth.

"By the way, I want to thank you, Duke."

Back at the hotel in the evening, a few people went to the bar downstairs, and when they were sitting and drinking together, Nicolas Cage suddenly said to him, "In the afternoon announcement, those movie fans are crazy about me, which has never happened before. of."

"You'll get used to it later."

Holding up the glass, Duke and Cage touched each other, and before drinking, he said, "Trust me what I said to you, if you go on the way you are now, Nikolai, you can become an icon of Hollywood in the 1990s. One of the sex characters."

"You look like a medieval god stick now!" Sophia next to him rudely hit him.

"No, Sophia, I think Duke is right."

Without waiting for Duke to say anything, Cage retorted, he was enjoying the feeling of being a superstar like never before, "This is my first time working with Duke, and I think this will be a turning point in my career. , I have been ups and downs in Hollywood for nearly ten years. Although my acting skills have been affirmed to some extent, I have not made a box office hit. If I was just an unknown actor before, then today I feel that I am a Hollywood movie star!"

"This cup to you, Duke!" Nicolas Cage raised the cup solemnly.

Just after drinking with Cage, Christopher Lee, who was sitting at the same table, also raised his glass, "I want to toast you too, Duke."

The old man's expression was equally serious and solemn. Since he chose to step into this Vanity Fair, no one wants to become famous and become a celebrity that can be famous all over the United States and even the world. Now Christopher Lee is undoubtedly enjoying all that John Mason has brought.

"Looks like," Duke and Li exchanged glasses, "you guys are trying to get me drunk today."

This is all a joke. A few people have contracts, and they have to fly to other cities to run promotions the next day. They are not alcoholics, and they will definitely not get drunk.

According to the plan, the crew still traveled from east to west, going through the most important ticket-holding cities in North America one by one. Routine fan meetings and media conferences followed one after another. The crew also became entertainment in a short period of time. media focus.

While running the publicity, Duke also noticed another thing, after 20th Century Fox had a talk with Nancy Josephson, the media smear him and "Brave Island" has weakened a little, Fox side Clearly showing goodwill.