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Chapter 624 The core competition of movies (4000+ chapters, please subscribe~)

The seven major studios in Hollywood are [-]th Century Fox, Disney, Universal, Paramount, Time Warner, Sony and Phantom!
MGM has gone through multiple sales before this, and at the same time because when Ted Turner sold all of MGM's assets, he kept MGM's film library, and Ted Turner defected to the times with these assets Warner, which caused MGM's vitality to be seriously injured.

This is why the Phantom can replace MGM as one of the seven major Hollywood studios!
Under the tandem of Spielberg and Lucas, the six major studios joined forces with Spielberg's Amblin Entertainment and Lucas' Lucasfilm to boycott the "Ghostly Love" The shocking news has already spread all over Hollywood.

At this time, almost no one is optimistic about this movie anymore, but as their temporary alliance of interests, in fact, there is still a loophole in their plan, and that is Oceanwide Cinemas, whose attitude has not been clear.

Oceanwide Cinemas is currently expanding at an extremely fast speed. In the past six months, they have bought theater companies all over the world with banknotes, and now they have become a large theater company in North America that cannot be ignored.

Spielberg and Lucas still haven't figured out the mystery behind it, but they also stepped up training with major production companies during this period, in order to increase the pressure on Oceanwide Cinemas.

But the result is.
"Boss, it's too bad. Oceanwide Cinemas has announced that on the eve of Valentine's Day, all of its theaters will show the movie "The Love of Ghosts"!"

Spielberg's secretary ran in, and said in a panic that he knew how much his boss attached importance to this matter, and now Oceanwide Theaters is actually going to release "The Love of Ghosts".
Spielberg and Lucas suddenly stood up, looked at each other, and saw surprise in each other's eyes.

"What is the relationship between Oceanwide Cinemas and Phantom Entertainment? Doesn't he know the consequences of doing so?" Lucas shouted in surprise.

Spielberg said coldly: "It's useless to say these things now, what we have to do now is to immediately contact several other studios to boycott Oceanwide Cinemas, we must not lose this battle!"

Lucas nodded. He also understood the meaning of this battle to them. This was no longer a battle between the two of them and Phantom Entertainment, but a struggle between the entire Hollywood Jewish population and Phantom Entertainment.

If they lose, it will be a huge blow to their reputation in Hollywood.

Soon Spielberg made a call from Universal. Spielberg was able to get up in Hollywood, and the most important thing was to be appreciated by former Universal President Sidney Seanberg, so you will find that Spielberg Ge's early works "Jaws" and "ET" were distributed by Universal.

However, with Panasonic's entry into Universal, Akio Tani took over Sidney Seanberg's position as Universal's president, but this did not delay the cooperation between Universal and Spielberg.

At Spielberg's position, he can no longer be measured solely as a director or producer. His status is enough to have a direct dialogue with the president of any studio.

I thought it was a sure thing, but Spielberg heard a different taste in Akio Tani's tone.

"Steven, I'm afraid there's something you don't know yet!" Akio Tani said in a tone of helplessness and expectation.

Spielberg's heart sank, and he asked quickly, "What is it?"

"Just now, Phantom Entertainment released the news that they want to sell the copyright of "Home Alone"!" After that, Akio Tani didn't say anything, but this is enough. The "Home Alone" series can be called the most popular in Hollywood in the early 80s It was a movie series that made money. At that time, all studios wanted to participate in this movie, but Phantom Entertainment only chose to cooperate with Universal, which also made Universal a lot of money.

And Phantom Entertainment has made a lot of money because of this series. Some authoritative media have done statistics, and the "Home Alone" tetralogy has brought Phantom Entertainment at least 7.4 million US dollars in net income!
Now that Phantom Entertainment actually wants to sell the copyright of "Home Alone", it naturally immediately attracted the attention of all production companies.

"The vitality of "Home Alone" has been almost consumed by Phantom. At this time, this series will not bring much benefit to the company!" Spielberg immediately said.

Akio Tani chuckled, and said, "Steven, we know what you think, but this time, we probably can't help you. We have already made specific calculations about the future of the "Home Alone" series. Alright, although his future income may not be as high as before, but at least it can bring the company a net income of [-] million yuan!"

Speaking of this, Spielberg's expression is extremely depressed. Although their Jews have extremely high influence in Hollywood, these influences are insignificant in the face of hundreds of millions of dollars in income.

Then Spielberg called Paramount again. Spielberg has two major production companies in Hollywood with close cooperation, one is Universal, and the other is Paramount.

The "Raiders of the Lost Ark" series was invested and distributed by Paramount.

But the feedback he got was similar to that of Universal. Even though Murdoch is extremely wary of Fengge Media now, it is impossible for Murdoch to give up in the face of hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue. No one in this world Will choose to give up hundreds of millions of dollars in profits for the so-called business friendship.

In fact, when Phantom Entertainment released the copyright of "Home Alone", it had already disrupted their alliance of interests.

Lucas also ended his phone call. The reply he got was similar to that of Spielberg. It is obvious that their alliance of interests can no longer be maintained. The copyright company of "Home Alone" will definitely continue to cooperate with Oceanwide Cinemas.

This immediately solved the film source problem of Oceanwide Cinemas. The relationship between the production company and the theater company was originally one of trade-offs.

When Oceanwide Theaters no longer worries about the film source, then they don't need to worry about the production company anymore.

At this time, the production company needs to change their own plans. After all, one more cooperative cinema company also means that their own company's films have many more release channels.

There are real benefits here!
Spielberg and Lucas looked at each other, and they both saw frustration in each other's eyes. Anyone who suddenly experienced the feeling of falling from the clouds to the ground would not feel too good.

The most important thing is that the follow-up results of this matter, after this battle, their influence in Hollywood will drop a lot.

"It's not over yet!" Lucas said suddenly.

Spielberg immediately looked at Lucas and asked, "What else can I do?"

"As long as "Back to the Future 3" sells well at the box office, then we still have a chance to make a comeback!" Lucas said fiercely.

For many years, Lucas has never felt such frustration.

Anger made Lucas lose his usual calmness!
Spielberg's eyes brightened: "That's right, as long as the box office of "Back to the Future 3" can surpass that of "Ghostly Love", we can make a comeback!"

Neither of the two thought that the matter had developed to this point, and it had reached the core competition in the North American film industry, the quality of the film and the degree of acceptance by the audience!

Spielberg contacted Universal again. This time, he no longer asked Universal to boycott "Ghost Love" with him, but wanted to increase the promotion of "Back to the Future 3"!

Universal is the distribution company of "Back to the Future 3". Although they will not boycott the movie "Ghost Love", it does not mean that they will give up their own interests and choose to release "Ghost Love" this movie.

At most, it will return to the previous relationship of non-help and normal competition.

However, Universal has its own plan for the release of "Back to the Future 3", and it is impossible to increase its publicity just because of Spielberg's words.

In other words, if Spielberg wants to achieve this goal, he can only add money to it himself!
At this time, Spielberg, who was already overwhelmed by anger, immediately agreed to Universal's proposal.

Universal is naturally very satisfied with this.

After going through all the open and secret battles, the movie "Back to the Future 3" and "The Love of Ghosts" has returned to the core competition of the movie itself!
That's why, in the next few days, the promotion of these two films almost occupied all the promotional channels in North America.

"The farthest distance in the world is when I'm by your side, but you can't see it; the shortest distance in the world is when you and I are separated by yin and yang, but still love each other deeply!"

On the poster of "Human Ghost Love Is Unbroken", such a passage is written!

Why do you say that love is the most common language in the world, that is, most women in the world are emotional, so when they see this sad text appearing in front of their eyes, their hearts immediately sink up!
"This Valentine's Day, I want to watch this movie!" Fiona said with longing on her boyfriend Liam's arm.

Liam said disapprovingly: "What's so good about this movie? You forgot the report in the newspaper. The director of this movie, Kun, doesn't understand our love at all, so he should watch "Back to the Future 3" 》Well, the idea in there is really cool, I want a hang gliding board too!"

In the "Back to the Future" series, there are many technological products that amaze people today, but the most impressive ones are Nike shoes and gliding skateboards.

Fiona looked at Liam and said arrogantly, "Do you not love me anymore?"

Liam: "."

"In the past, when people said to watch something, you would watch it with me. Now I say to watch a movie, but you don't accompany me. You must not love me anymore. Did you fall in love with that little Debbie when you were at a party? Whore?" Fiona didn't reason with Steven at all, anyway, if you don't go to the movies with me, you don't love me anymore!

Liam: "."

It has been said for a long time that women and children earn the best money, and the potential audience of romance movies is also women. They will not only come by themselves, but also bring their boyfriends.

In the end, in order to prove that he loves Fiona, Steven naturally agreed to accompany Fiona to watch "Ghost Love"!
But even so, in the "Hollywood Reporter" survey, "Back to the Future 3" is still far ahead of the movie "Ghost Love" among the most wanted movies on Valentine's Day.

IMDB and Rotten Tomatoes, which represent the word-of-mouth of Hollywood movies, have not yet been launched, but many newspapers will take the initiative to survey audiences' expectations for upcoming movies.

There is no way, the remaining warmth of "Back to the Future 2" is still there, and many people want to know what the final result of this series of movies will be.

In addition, almost everyone was unfavorable to this movie before, which also caused many viewers to automatically give up the idea of ​​watching her movie after seeing this movie.

Phantom Entertainment!

"What should I do?" Linda looked at the investigation in the "Hollywood Report" in her hand and said helplessly.

Wu Jianye was sitting on the sofa, holding a newspaper in his hand, still confidently said: "We have anticipated this kind of situation a long time ago, so there is nothing to worry about, the real strength of this movie will be after the movie is released. when!"

Because of all the previous things, the movie "Human Ghost Love" must have extremely bad psychological hints in the hearts of the audience. In this case, it will definitely affect the box office results on the first day of the movie, but this is not the case. Not a bad thing.

If the quality of the movie itself is not strong enough, then this movie is basically a failure, but if this movie is a boutique, then with such a reputation, it will greatly exceed everyone's expectations after it is released, then It's time for this movie to really kick in!

Linda's expression was a little helpless. She found that since she launched this movie, she has been helpless more times than before, and said: "This is the case now, we can only continue to promote it!"

Wu Jianye nodded and asked, "How is the discussion with other production companies regarding the copyright of "Home Alone"?"

Although it has been agreed that Linda will be solely responsible for the copyright of "Home Alone", Wu Jianye still needs to ask.

When it came to "Home Alone", Linda felt a pity, and her tone became resentful: "The thing that you, a big boss, despise, is a favorite in the eyes of others, and now all the production companies want to get it." copyright to this series."

Wu Jianye didn't take Linda's tone to heart, and said with a smile: "Isn't this better, it will allow you to increase the price!"

"Humph!"

(End of this chapter)