Hollywood Hunter

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Los Angeles International Airport.

Disney CEO Sandy Litvat was waiting in a VIP lounge along with President Bill Michanik.

Watching Litvat hang up a phone call, Bill Michanik asked, "Simon must have said no, right?"

"How could Simon have agreed to attend a meet and greet party for the Frenchie when that happened only the other day," said Sandy Litwart with an indifferent grin, putting away her phone and taking a sip from a nearby cup of coffee, "Anyway, we just have to finish what we have to do, just like when Peter -Guber pulled a whole bunch of stars to entertain Akio Morita and put the Japanese in a good mood."

With a little regret and self-deprecation, Bill Michanik said, "Too bad we weren't as well treated as Cooper and Peters."

"Donkeys don't step in the same spot twice, at least for a short time, we just haven't hit the right time," Sandy Litvat shrugged and smiled, looking out the VIP room glass window at the airport runway and suddenly added, "Have you been in touch with Michael lately? "

Michael, of course, was Michael Eisner, the two men's former boss.

Bill Michanik didn't hold back and nodded, "We had breakfast together two years ago, and Michael, that LinkedIn workplace social networking site is doing very well, and he was testing me to see if I was interested in going over there and doing it together."

Sandy Litvat was a little lost at hearing that from Michanik, and was a little disappointed that Eisner didn't get in touch with him.

But it was a quick relief.

Sandy Litvat was a lawyer by background and was once the head of Disney's legal department, and although he had managed the business he was in charge of well during his initial tenure, he hadn't been too brilliant, and he wasn't familiar with the current emerging Internet industry.

What's more, Litvat also knew that Michael Eisner had pulled former president Frank Wells, who had retired from Disney, to serve as LinkedIn's legal counsel. Frank Wells, also from a legal background, was Sandy Litvat's direct supervisor at first, and given the top of the list, Eisner certainly doesn't think of him.

Bill Michanick is different.

The former head of Disney's home entertainment division ran a succession of successful video releases of a series of old Disney animated films in the 1980s, which not only created a sales miracle, but also directly funded Disney's growth in the 1980s and contributed to the dramatic rise in Disney's stock price.

All in all, Michanik is a very hands-on business development and marketing professional, and if he moves to LinkedIn, there's a good chance he'll help Eisner improve the workplace social networking site's business model, a problem that many Internet companies desperately need to solve at this stage.

Thinking this way, Sandy Litvat asked, "So how did you get back to Michael?"

Michanik shook his head, "I turned it down."

"Why? I thought it would be a good opportunity?"

Bill Michanik: "The Internet industry is so crazy right now that I kind of don't understand it, and I think this bubble wave, well, it's going to last another year at most, and if I go to LinkedIn, maybe I'm not even on board yet, I'm going to have to face the crisis of the bubble bursting into an undervalued market. I'd be more stable in Hollywood than I would be if I stayed in Hollywood."

Sandy Litwart half-joked, "In that case, you could be missing out on hundreds of millions of dollars."

Michanik shook his head, "A lot of people are now pushing hard for Silicon Valley, both on Wall Street and in Hollywood, and how many of them are really making a fortune? Once the internet bubble bursts, do you think these people will be able to easily return to the realm of causes again? Also, it seems to me that the monopoly of the Internet industry is already in place, with the Westeros system taking most of the interest, and unless another change comes, the number of people digging a gold mine from this area will only get smaller."

Litvat pondered over Michanik's words.

"Yeah, the earliest it could go public is probably early next year, and Michael has revealed a little bit that it could be valued at about $500 million, which is a pretty significant number compared to what the site has put in," said Michanik, adding, "But that's why I'm not going, because if I had chosen to join in the first place, I could have gotten an extra Some stocks, jumping now, can only get some future options, you certainly know more about this than I do, once the bubble burst, those options will only be worthless."

In fact, the heart also thought about whether to use these years of savings to Silicon Valley to take a chance, listening to this analysis of Michanik, Litvat fondled the coffee cup in his hands, more or less decadent, and dispelled certain ideas.

In the end, both of them have reached middle age.

Can't afford to toss.

Now jointly in charge of Disney, even if it can only be a puppet of the French, after all, is also the seven heads of Hollywood, the French control of the Disney although harsh, but the original in order to stabilize the hearts of people, for them is not a loss.

After waiting for more than ten minutes, an assistant came to inform, the two got up, and took several attendants with them to a tarmac inside the airport for private planes to take off and land.

Jean-Marie Mercier, the new chairman and CEO of the French Vivendi Group, and his entourage had arrived from France.

Jean-Marie Mercier recently took over from Guy de Jovanni, the former head of the Vivendi Group for 20 years, a century-old corporate giant with a market capitalization of more than $30 billion.

The acquisition of Disney by Vivendi was a project promoted by Jean-Marie Mercier himself, and with the seniority accumulated by this acquisition, Mercier beat other competitors in one fell swoop to become the new head of Vivendi.

Having just completed the transition last week, Mercier couldn't wait to schedule the trip to North America.

Even if Disney's current performance is a bit tepid, after all, time is still short, the deal is far from being labeled as a failure, the global media and entertainment industry is now recovering, the acquisition of Disney, for the ambitious want to make Vivendi transform into a media and entertainment giant, Mercier is still just a beginning.

After getting off the plane, Jean-Marie Mercier, who came to Hollywood with a huge group of subordinates, did not go to the hotel to rest, but rushed directly to the Disney headquarters in Burbank.

Inside a large conference room at Disney headquarters.

Sandy Litvat and a cadre of Disney executives sat on one side, looking at the other side of the conference table at Vivendi's French TV4 executives, the famous French Gaumont Pictures executives, and the French director Luc Besson, who was still somewhat famous in Hollywood, and felt slightly odd.

Is this French guy trying to counterattack Hollywood?

Jean-Marie Mercier was also as swift as a thunderbolt, everyone sat down, introduced each other briefly, and then got straight to the point, saying that he would personally push Disney to focus on creating a number of bombshell projects to compete with other Hollywood film companies, and at the same time, in order to share the risk, Disney will also strengthen cooperation with major French media and entertainment companies.

After asking Sandy Litvat about the progress of the "Terminator" rights negotiations, Jean-Marie Mercier announced on the spot that he will cooperate with Gaumont Pictures to develop the French director Luc Besson's long-prepared science fiction blockbuster "The Fifth Element" series.

Mercier also introduced that this is a sci-fi series with a perfect worldview that Luc Besson has been working on since he was young, and there is already a complete concept of the trilogy, which may develop into a DC Cinematic Universe-like Fifth Element series in the future.

Sandy Litwart and others have not expressed their displeasure at the sudden attack that the Frenchman was completely unaware of beforehand.

Just an inevitable internal groan.

Another Cinematic Universe, doesn't the Cinematic Universe want money?

Moreover, pulling in a large number of French filmmakers to work with Disney has made Disney executives even less optimistic, and it's only weird that the French style of film can adapt to Hollywood.

Just like Luc Besson, that year's "Aqua Blue Sky" although created a French box office miracle, but the director, at least currently shows any potential to be able to adapt to Hollywood, two years ago, that "This Killer is not too cold", in North America is only good word of mouth, the box office is completely unable to take.

After such a breezy afternoon of meetings, as well as personally finalizing the contract on Terminator 3, the third day after arriving in Los Angeles, Jean-Marie Mercier personally presided over a grand press conference at Disney headquarters in Burbank to announce the new phase of Disney's film development plan led by the two major projects, Terminator 3 and The Fifth Element.

The day was Friday, June 21.

A box office week in North America had just ended, and the original talk of "007's Ghost Party" was hot, but I didn't expect to be suddenly drawn to Disney's big move.

However, that didn't exactly overshadow the sharpness of "Ghost Party of 007.

From June 14 to June 20, the opening week of "007's Ghost Party", just the North American market, with 3,346 opening screen size, crazy box office of $ 89.17 million, even accounting for inflation, this is also the 007 series since the creation of the highest first-week box office.

The big James Bond movie cost only $75 million to make.

With $89.17 million in its first week, and according to MGM's ladder rule with the theaters, the distributor gets 90% of the box office revenue after operating costs in the first two weeks of production, which translates to about 70%, the roughly $60 million in first-week revenue alone would allow MGM to recoup most of its costs.

All in all, while the total cost of production and distribution for the project is $125 million, the local release alone is expected to turn a nice profit for MGM. As a result, "Ghost Party of 007" will likely also be the most profitable James Bond movie in years.

The impact of 007's Ghostbusters has seen other films take a significant dip in the box office over the same period.

The second place film, Mission Impossible 2, dropped 51% in its third week of release and went straight to the waist, going on to take in $27.98 million. However, in three weeks, the TV series adaptation of the action blockbuster, which is also a secret agent, has accumulated $161.24 million at the box office.

And due to the "007's Ghost Party" is really too strong, except for the second place "Mission Impossible 2" to maintain the box office volume of more than 10 million dollars, this week, other films, all were knocked down to within the 10 million dollar range, and, even the opening of the "Romeo and Juliet" has been a dark horse posture and performance of the firm, just this past week's box office box office also appeared as high as 46% of the box office drop.

In fact, this is the "Romeo and Juliet" box office potential is beginning to run out of a performance.

After all, the release to now, counting just this past week's $6.76 million in box office, the production cost of only $15 million low-budget romance film, the cumulative box office smoothly broke the 100 million yuan, successfully entered the 100 million yuan box office club ranks, the total box office to 100 million 643 million.

On June 21, a new box office week opened.

By the rules of this summer's ups and downs, this week still doesn't count as a week of too heavyweight new films.

First up is Daenerys Entertainment's Goldman Pictures' "Police Empire," a Sylvester Stallone crime drama that was delayed from late last year to this summer's release, costing only $10 million to make and opening on 1,697 screens.

It was followed by Disney's 2D animated film "The Monsters of the Bell Tower," an animated adaptation of "Notre Dame de Paris," which opened to 1,297 screens.

That's still a bit unremarkable compared to "Police Empire.

Because of the rise of 3D animated films, 2D animated films have become less and less popular with audiences over the years. "The Wabbit in the Bell Tower" has a world class super IP like "Notre Dame" as its backing, but in fact, such an adult-oriented subject matter has very little appeal to audiences of all ages, especially children, who are the focus of animated films.

Disney also mentioned the topic of revitalizing animated films during its gala press conference on Friday, but unfortunately, due to various constraints, few people are optimistic that Disney will be able to do so.

Finally, there's "Locked Up in Anger, Broken Tide.

It's a blaxploitation film based on a novel, directed by the famous Spielberg, made for $30 million, and distributed by Paramount.

Compared to Jurassic Park, ET Aliens, or even even Schindler's List, Locked Out of Rage is almost unknown on Spielberg's list of directors, and few people in the original time period have heard of it.

In fact, it's a project between DreamWorks Pictures and Paramount.

And it's a pretty important project in the planning stages.

Unfortunately, Spielberg does not have the aura of never missing a beat, and this project was discarded by Paramount in the inception stage, only because of Spielberg's position in Hollywood and the other party's insistence that the project must not be developed, and also placed in the summer June 21, such an important period of time, Paramount also gave a 1956 screen opening size.

In fact, both Paramount and DreamWorks wanted the film to be the second "Schindler's List

It's just that everyone was a little more careful with Schindler's List in the first place, and many people were still in a position to buy tickets in for various purposes, allowing the Holocaust movie to turn hundreds of millions of dollars worldwide.

This time around, "Locked Up in Anger, Broken Tide," while also a sensitive racial subject, will no longer require caution. And with the limited spending power of blacks, there's little chance of another box office success like Schindler's List.