Chapter 164

The North American video of "Lola Run" has been on the market, and the overseas distribution of the film is also continuing.

In order to stimulate video sales and overseas market revenue, Simon unexpectedly won the Oscar for best editing with the help of Orion and Warner. In the following days, the media popularity even surpassed that of the last emperor who won many awards.

Most of the media tend to complain about Simon, and think that the conservative and aging of Oscar make "Lola Run" unable to get the nomination and honor it deserves.

Then, on April 13, the 41st Cannes Film Festival, which will open next month, announced the shortlist, and vulgar novel became one of the 21 films that entered the main competition.

At the press conference of the shortlist of Cannes local film festival, a reporter specially mentioned the experience of "Lola Run" in the Oscar, and asked if the famous Italian director ITO Scola, the chairman of the jury of Cannes Film Festival, would discriminate against "vulgar novel" because of Simon westero's age, although the answer was just an official cliche, and the news was sent back The United States, however, has once again triggered a heated debate.

"Vulgar novel" is scheduled for June 3. The news that Cannes films are shortlisted for the main competition unit is back home, and Orion film also released its first TV Trailer.

Because of the integrated plot structure of vulgar novel, it is not easy for the film to produce a wonderful Trailer.

Several previews provided by Orion didn't satisfy Simon, so he had to do it himself. After careful consideration, the length of the first trailer is 1 minute and 30 seconds. Robert De Niro, John Travolta, Robert Redford and other celebrities all come out. Through a series of suspense dialogue carefully captured, the picture is finally fixed on the golden box.

The plot of vulgar novel is still in a state of secrecy. Therefore, after the announcement of the trailer, the media quickly judged that it was a "looting" movie.

In fact, the judgment of nature is quite different from that of the media. However, this is exactly what Simon wants to see. Throwing out a topic to arouse media discussion has always been the most simple and effective way of film marketing. The box office curve of "when Harry meets Sally" has proved this.

In the third week of large-scale release, "when Harry meets Sally" received another $12.11 million, with a cumulative box office of $49.16 million. The decline of the whole week was finally locked at 21%. The box office decline curve was better than that of other films in the Easter season.

Although the next week's show expanded by 50% at a time, Tim Burton's "beetle juice" box office fell nearly 25% in the second week.

The box office of "good Johnny" released by Orion pictures at the same time as "when Harry meets Sally" even dropped by 51%. This week, the box office of the film only received $1.97 million. The film with a budget cost of $22 million grossed only $13.3 million in three weeks. After next week, the one month screening contract with the cinema will expire, and the film will basically withdraw from the big screen.

In Simon's view, the failure of good Johnny foreshadows Orion film's doomed decline this year.

Two years ago, after producing several box office blockbusters, the blind expansion of Orion film this year's production and distribution scale is completely the same as that of the big seven, even surpassing MGM and other major film companies with relatively low performance.

However, except for vulgar novel, Simon didn't see the second film with great potential in Orion's long list.

After last year's stock market crash, life in Hollywood will not be so good in the next few years. The decline of Orion is as inevitable as canon, new world, de Laurentiis entertainment and other companies, and Simon can only watch coldly.

At the beginning of this month, we negotiated with Disney and signed the overseas distribution rights contract of when Harry meets Sally. In late April, danelis pictures received $30 million in sale out money.

Compared with the $15 million production cost of when Harry meets Sally, the company has doubled its direct return. Of course, the proceeds of the film also need to be shared with the British handicraft film industry, which has participated in the investment together.

According to the original contract, danielis pictures will get 60% of the film's net profit excluding production costs. In this way, danielis pictures can get 16.5 million dollars for the $30 million sale. After offsetting the production cost of $15 million, Denise pictures will be able to get 60% of all the next revenue.

Before "when Harry meets Sally" was released, danelis film industry had been spending money like water. Now it has finally started to earn money, and Amy Pascal's tight mind has obviously relaxed a lot.

Simon can see that she has been worried that Denise pictures will rise and collapse as fast as canon and other companies.

Although Simon has a lot of wealth now, if danilisi pictures really follows canon and other companies, he will not continue to spend money on this company. Amy obviously knows this very well.

However, the expansion of daenerys film industry seems to be equally blind, but Simon knows how much the company has won in a series of projects.Whether it's the big seven or the second tier film companies like Orion, they usually invest in a large number of projects in order to expect several box office blockbusters. As long as this can be achieved, the film company can basically make a good profit.

Due to Simon's advantage as a prophet, danelis film has raised several big fish directly in the fishing net.

April 21.

In the new week, Simon got up early in the morning and saw from the Los Angeles Times that the negotiations between the producers' Union and the American writers' Union broke down again.

Santa Monica.

Denise film headquarters, arrived at the company at eight o'clock, Simon watched the recent days of "Rain Man" sample, time just to work time. Amy also arrived at the company ahead of time. When Simon came out of the screening room, she said, "Simon, have you heard the news?"

Because it's Monday, Denise pictures' department heads and a series of project leaders will hold a weekly meeting.

Simon and Amy went to the conference room together, nodded with other executives who had already arrived, and said, "of course, so our reality TV show project can enter the substantive production stage."

The talks between the producers' Union and the writers' Union broke down. Naturally, it is impossible to restart the talks on the basis of restart. Both sides need to make a pinch and come to the negotiation table again, at least next month.