Chapter 1019 Little Boy

At this time, listening to Eric take the initiative to mention the two people's bet on the Oscar last time, Judy couldn't help saying: "However, why do I suddenly feel like I owe you a promise instead."

"Since you think so," Eric hit the snake and followed the stick: "Otherwise, treat me to dinner later."

"Okay," Judy nodded happily and said, "Let's go to the movies together after dinner."

Eric was even more cheerful: "No problem."

Judy continued: "You can take me home after watching the movie."

Eric was flattered: "Okay."

Judy's quite heroic Western-style Danfeng eyes gouged out Eric fiercely, with a smile on the corner of his mouth: "You think beautifully."

Eric looked hurt and said, "Uh, Judy, it's not good for you to be like this."

Judy didn't have the slightest remorse, she still smiled and said, "Who made you always think about soaking in me, little boy."

"Do you know, Judy," Eric said with a serious expression, "From a psychological point of view, the name little boy shows that you are subconsciously worried that you cannot stop the attraction of a certain opposite sex, so you deliberately use one of your own Defensive title that you think will distance you from the opponent. But in reality, it will probably only have the opposite effect.”

Judy leaned against the table and raised her chin with one hand, listened with a smile, and said, "Although I think you are talking nonsense, it seems to make sense."

Eric advised: "You should be more confident and have the courage to admit your psychological state."

"Okay, I won't listen to your nonsense," Judy took out a stack of manuscripts from her satchel with a smile and handed it over: "This is the first draft of the novel version of "Gravity" I wrote. I still want you to take a look."

Eric listened to Judy talking about the business, and stopped joking. He took over the stack of manuscripts and said, "Then I will read it over the weekend, and I will reply to you on Monday."

"Don't be in such a hurry, you can finish it whenever you want," Judy waved and got up. "Then, I'll go first."

Eric also got up and sent Judy away, then returned to the workbench and continued to complete today's work log.

Early Saturday morning, it was still sunny and sunny.

Although there are also work arrangements today, there is no need to rush for time like working days.

In Sharphorn Manor, Eric got up at seven o'clock on time, sat in the dining room after his routine exercise and read today's newspaper, with an open laptop on the dining table. The twins' slender figures were quietly busy in the kitchen. The girl was crazy outside last night and came back late at night. She stayed in bed as usual.

Today is the third Saturday of the release of "Charlie's Angels 3", and the laptop shows the detailed box office data of the film in the recent period.

After a record-breaking opening weekend of $95.9 million, "Charlie's Angels 3" finally reached $130.43 million in its first week, continuing to break all Hollywood box office records.

Subsequently, the film’s box office in the second week also did not disappoint. The second week’s decline remained at a very good 43%, and it collected an additional US$74.34 million. The total box office for the two weeks reached 204.77 million, successfully achieving a bi-weekly breakthrough. 200 million feat.

Judging from the box office of the third week and Friday of yesterday, "Charlie's Angels 3" fell by 49% compared with last Friday, and the single-day box office received another 8.46 million US dollars.

Considering the release of another A-level blockbuster "Scorpion King" this week, this nearly 50% drop is not disappointing.

In Eric's memory, the previous "Scorpion King" can only be regarded as a medium-to-high cost, and the box office does not seem to be outstanding. But this time, under Universal's ambition to create a universe of mummy mythology, this new "Mummy" spin-off movie just cost $90 million to make.

After its large-scale release yesterday, "The Scorpion King" received good reviews both in terms of story and special effects. On the first day of the film's midnight show and the first day, the total box office also reached 21.86 million US dollars. According to the word-of-mouth and opening box office of "The Scorpion King",

The box office is expected to exceed $80 million in its first week.

This data is naturally incomparable to "Charlie's Angels 3", but as the first part of the spin-off series, this result is already very good, just at the North American box office, Universal may recover all the production costs.

In this case, it is almost inevitable that "Charlie's Angels 3" will be impacted, and the decline does not exceed 50%, which has already proved the popularity of this blockbuster in the spy movie universe. Moreover, under the circumstance of breaking 200 million fortnightly, "Charlie's Angels 3" has been very securely locked in the first North American box office film in 1998 that is expected to exceed 300 million US dollars.

Considering the film list for the second half of the summer and the end of the year, except for "Mission: Impossible 3", which is also in the MGM film universe, "Charlie's Angels 3" is definitely the 1998 North American annual box office champion without other super dark horses. the most powerful contender.

Overseas, among the major ticket warehouse countries that have achieved simultaneous release, the overseas box office of "Charlie's Angels 3" in two weeks also exceeded 260 million US dollars. Among them, several important overseas ticket warehouses such as Japan and Italy have not yet been released.

Combining all aspects of information, it is conservatively estimated that the overseas box office of "Charlie's Angels 3" will also be twice that of the North American box office. That is to say, "Charlie's Angels 3" is very hopeful to hit the global box office one billion dollar mark again, becoming a Michael The Agent May Cinematic Universe's second billion-dollar film worldwide.

Last year's "007 Casino Royale" was a hit at the box office, making MGM, which has been silent in Hollywood for many years, to break through the $10 billion mark in one fell swoop.

In the context of the overall rise in the North American stock market, along with the further success of the MGM movie universe and the rapid development of the MGM TV business, according to yesterday's closing price, MGM's stock price has reached a high of $51.37, with a market value of $51.37. to $22.3 billion.

A few years ago, MGM, which was on the verge of bankruptcy and could be thrown out of the ranks of Hollywood's big producers at any time, at this time, if only in the film and television media business, its strength has far surpassed Sony Pictures, which used to be at the bottom of the 'neck and neck'. Expected earnings can rank among the top three major studios.

While sitting at the dinner table casually flipping through today's newspapers, Eric is already thinking about the further expansion of MGM.

In terms of film and television, the biggest shortcoming of MGM at present should be the limitation of the scale of film production and distribution.

Although there are two super blockbusters "Charlie's Angels 3" and "Mission Impossible 3" this year, MGM has only nine production and distribution plans for the entire 1998 year. "Charlie's Angels 3" and "Mission: Impossible 3" have booked more than 80% of MGM's annual box office share.

Although the Secret Service Cinematic Universe project has entered its most prosperous stage, it is actually full of dangers in secret. The most obvious thing is that all three series have begun to encounter the test of the Hollywood trilogy.

Although Eric made the 007 series pass this threshold through strong means last year, but now, with the increasing importance of the agent movie universe to MGM, it is impossible for him to easily use last year's approach that almost broke the boat.

If MGM wants to reduce its reliance on the Secret Service Cinematic Universe, it must enhance MGM’s overall film production and distribution capabilities, so that even if the Secret Service Cinematic Universe changes, MGM will not suddenly fall from the peak to the bottom.

Just like this year's Firefly, although the entire Firefly Group has only one heavyweight special effects blockbuster called "The Day After Tomorrow" this year, due to the combined production and distribution scale of Firefly Pictures, Disney Pictures and New Line Pictures, as well as the first few Firefly Group’s film and television business revenue this year is still firmly in the top spot in Hollywood, with the follow-up video tapes and TV broadcasting rights of a series of box office blockbusters in 2018.

The twins brought breakfast, Eric stopped thinking about these things temporarily, ate breakfast, waited for the twins to sit down opposite, and asked, "Where did you go yesterday, so crazy?"

Natasha looked up and said, "Miss Paltrow's party, to celebrate the completion of "Fast and Furious"."

Eric nodded, didn't say anything, just warned: "You two don't drink at these parties, take care of her."

Natasha replied softly, "Master, we never drink alcohol."

"Well, this is a good habit," Eric said, "what do you usually like to do?"

Natasha was stunned and said, "We will do whatever the boss asks us to do."

Eric thought about it carefully, and didn't seem to notice that the twins usually have any special hobbies. The twins looked like the shadow of a girl: "Well, haven't you thought about what you will do in the future, such as marrying someone?"

Natasha looked over with her blue and clear eyes, and suddenly asked, "Master, do you want us to marry?"

Eric was stunned for a moment, then smiled suddenly, shook his head and said, "No, this is not right, you usually don't talk much."

Natasha did not respond to Eric's words, but asked again: "Master, do you want us to marry?"

Listening to Natasha's completely uncharacteristic words, while Eric was surprised, he simply broke the can and said, "Of course I don't want to. Both of you are mine, and neither of you is allowed to run."

"Well," Natasha responded, as if the conversation just now had never happened, and returned to her usual cold and indifferent expression, bowed her head slightly, and began to eat silently.

Eric stared at the two women on the opposite side for a few seconds, and suddenly had a feeling that he had just experienced a supernatural event. He couldn't help but ask, "Nata, do you remember what you just said?"

Natasha raised her face again, nodded slightly, looked at Eric and said, "Master, if you want, you can take us out for the night, but we can't be together, only one at a time."

You can only have one at a time, so how can you take advantage of twins?

Eric thought to himself, glanced at Eve on the other side, Eve felt Eric's gaze, and there was a little blush on her delicate face exactly like Natasha, but she just lowered her head slightly.

Eric retracted his gaze, turned to Natasha, and said, "Well, what if I have to be together?"

Natasha's expression did not change much, she said, "Master, you can't beat us."

"..."

Well, it seems that the truth is always in the hands of the big fist.

Eric suddenly found that there were two more deeply hidden abnormal human beings around him, and some strange emotions were inexplicably born in his heart.

"I remember calling Drew up at ten o'clock, and I can't sleep for too long. In addition, for the "Charlie's Angels 3" celebration party at night, I went directly from the studio, you don't have to wait for me," After breakfast, before going to work , Eric gave instructions to the twins as usual, and when the twins nodded quietly, looking at the two identical faces in front of them, Eric half-jokingly said, "I'm going to work, do you want a kiss?"

Natasha nodded, but Eve blushed shyly. Two identical girls with completely different reactions gave Eric a strange feeling again.

However, after Eric finished speaking, the two sides stood there for a while, and neither moved, nor moved, nor moved.

After a stalemate for more than ten seconds, Eric shrugged slightly and said, "Okay, I must have said something strange just now. It's been strange all morning. Hey, goodbye."

Aside from some abnormal experiences in the morning, Eric rushed to Firefly Studios and quickly entered the working state.

I worked with Robert Byron, the visual effects supervisor of "Gravity", to study the modification of the astronaut helmet with the glass cover removed in the morning, but at noon it was an agreed meal with Amy Pascal, planning to discuss "Thunderbolt" Of course, the next open plan for the "Beautiful Baby" series is mainly about the remuneration of the Charlize trio.

Generally speaking, the global box office of "Charlie's Angels 3" is expected to hit the global box office of one billion US dollars, and the starring of this series is enough to qualify for 20 million US dollars or even more.

It's just that Charlize and the others are three people. If everyone gets a salary of $20 million for a single movie, but only the three of them, MGM will pay $60 million for each sequel. If the series wants to invite one or two more powerful supporting roles, then just the salary expenditure is enough for Hollywood to make an A-level film.

Under the traditional Hollywood rules, poor cost control has always been the main reason for the loss of major Hollywood studios. Of course, this is not because Hollywood lacks excellent producers who are good at cost control, but, producers usually follow this kind of rules. the most direct beneficiaries.

The main creators, big and small, who participate in the production of the film can make a fortune, and the interests of shareholders and investors are often sacrificed. If Eric is just a director, he naturally hopes to see this form of profit distribution continue for a long time.

But now, Eric's most important identity is more inclined to shareholders and investors, he just can't let this situation continue to happen in the Firefly system.

Regarding the next development of "Charlie's Angels", although Eric will not be as tough as last year in terms of remuneration, it is absolutely impossible to conform to Hollywood's traditional rules of profit distribution.