Ace Hollywood

From the faces of Universal's Jose, Landry, and even Meyer, Schneider and other department heads at all levels, one can see the optimistic estimate of the movie "The Bourne". A few days ago, in the last data adjustment before the screening, Shanying has already raised the North American box office forecast to 140 million, which is 20 million higher than the pre-estimated amount, and the global total box office has also been raised to 320 million. .

The adjustment of the forecast is based on "the popularity of the main cast and crew has increased significantly, and the audience's recognition of the film has increased. Routine surveys show that the size of the group of young people who plan to watch this movie, that is, the group aged 17 to 21, has increased significantly. The young and middle-aged crowd (25-35 years old) of the film group also saw a slight increase. In addition, the female film viewing group also showed a relatively large increase. This trend shows that the publicity work of "The Bourne" has gained Important results have significantly expanded the potential audience. Therefore, Shanying decided to increase its North American box office forecast to 140 million US dollars. In addition, the film has also increased its promotional budget and distribution costs worldwide. Sandler recently won the best actor award at the Cannes Film Festival. This factor is expected to have a considerable increase in the global distribution of "Bourne", thus increasing the global box office to 320 million. "

Daniel now has a detailed forecast in his hand.

Shanying's forecasting mechanism has been tested by more than a dozen movies, as well as continuous self-improvement, coupled with in-depth cooperation with Internet companies such as Google, Yahoo, and blogger, as well as TV newspapers and media such as ABC and "Los Angeles Times". The forecast report of upcoming movies in the next quarter has become the most trusted forecast report in Hollywood. In the release budget of major distributors, it has become a common practice to set aside relevant budgets for purchasing the detailed report version.

However, Mr. Fred, CEO of the company, seldom appears in the public view, and the spokesperson basically handles quite a lot of affairs. The fast-rising analytics firm has already secured several acquisition deals. Among them, Walt Disney's quotation is the most impressive. Among the two proposals proposed by Disney, the price of a wholly-owned acquisition is 470 million US dollars. The second plan is to acquire 51% of the shares at a price of 200 million US dollars, but allow the original management, including Fred, to continue to make decisions about the company.

Similar pre-acquisition cases have been widely reported in the financial media, and many people in the industry believe that if Shanying Company accepts investment from a giant in the film industry, it will inevitably damage its fairness and be quite detrimental to the company's development. Therefore, it is a better choice for Shanying to accept neutral funds such as TV networks without consortium background and major analysis institutions.

Fred and Daniel had of course had many rounds of discussions about this.

The opinions of the two people are not completely consistent.

Fred disagrees with accepting investment. He believes that the company's technical reserves in the fields of evaluation algorithms, big data mining, and data analysis are actually quite advanced and have great investment potential. Accepting investment at present may not be conducive to the company's long-term development and existing plans. But Daniel believes that Shanying’s technological leadership in related fields is difficult to maintain among the giants in Silicon Valley, so the introduction of funds that can update and improve technology will help Shanying maintain its priority. In fact, if the financial pressure of MB is not considered, it is a good choice for MB to invest in Shanying.

However, this kind of debate is not particularly fierce. As the absolute controlling party of the company, Daniel has the right to decide. However, the daily operation and planning of Shanying Company are all carried out by Fred. Even among the current senior executives of Shanying Company, there are no more than three people who know that Daniel’s investment company is the company’s controlling shareholder. Making decisions is very detrimental to the company.

This is the disadvantage of entrusting the management of the company to others.

However, out of energy considerations, Daniel still intends to trust Fred at present, and the corresponding financial and legal executives in the company, Daniel is also in his hands, and the specific operation still respects Fred. This is not the same as MircoBlog. After developing MB based on the blogger public forum, Daniel’s positioning and expectations for this promising new social media are quite large, so he has to spend more time on company decision-making, Javier As the CEO of the company, there is also a special board of directors, Daniel influences the company's decision-making through the board of directors, and provides development strategies-this cannot be avoided, and Javier obviously does not have this vision.

Take back the divergent thoughts, there are too many things, and it is always difficult to separate them one by one. From this matter to that matter, sometimes it is a shortcoming of wasting time.

When "Bourne" came out at the box office on the first day, Daniel was watching the final cut of "My Big Fat Greek Wedding" with David at DD Films.

"There were 3,211 screens on the first day, the box office on the first day was 17.43 million, and the single screen exceeded 5,300."

Daniel nodded and hung up Andy's phone. His private phone was left with Andy. There must be a lot of calls today, but it's actually meaningless. Although communication is essential, Daniel doesn't need to care about it at this time For these things, Daniel will naturally need to call people at the level of Schneider and Meyer later, but for ordinary people, there is no need for this, and the other party just wants to leave an impression on him—yes, then I also congratulated you for a while—but it was just for the purpose of meeting multiple topics in the future.

Daniel remembers that the first part of "The Bourne Shadow" did not have such a score, and the number of screenings may not exceed 3,000 yuan. Referring to the standards of other movies in the world, it can be roughly estimated that if it is not for his accident, at most Should only be around 2500. And it doesn’t mean that if the number of screens decreases, the box office contributed by a single block will automatically increase. Without this good thing, the number of viewers is consistent with the popularity. Usually, adding screens is because the theater chain predicts that the number of viewers will be large enough to maintain the conventional screen. It means that they need to adjust the follow-up screenings by observing the box office of a single screen.

The leading role has such an influence on the film, one can imagine the popularity he has received from major producers.

Daniel is obviously not yet ready for this. He has never been short of scripts or invitations. But after today, everything will change, and there is a priority that will be highlighted. He will become the first choice of the producers among most candidates, and he will be eligible to actively ask for the opportunities he fancy — This is power.

Andy's phone call came back quickly.

David glared at him. Since he came over, the phone has not stopped, Andy, Kusa, Melissa - although he said that there is nothing important today and don't bother him, everyone's business is very important.

Andy wants to report the box office on the first day, and Kusa is talking about "The Fake God" for him - Universal is rumored to abandon Jim Carrey, but now Daniel's worth has also increased. The specifics need to be followed up by Kusa . As for Melissa, endorsement invitations and commercial activities come from various channels, and there are many strong people outside of Hollywood-such as a California senator.

"OK, the last one, definitely the last one."

Yes, Daniel was right, it was indeed the last one, because he immediately left DD Films and returned home.

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Big adjustments made to "Bourne" at the box office