Hollywood legendary director

"It is reported that as of 24:00 last night, "New York Tour" had a cumulative box office of 45.5 million U.S. dollars (including midnight screenings), and successfully won the North American Daily Box Office chart. Prior to this, the market’s hot "National Treasure" list The daily box office dropped to 7.65 million US dollars."

"The cutting-edge director Zach Schneider reached the top, and on the first day of "New York", he successively surpassed "National Treasure" and "Escape from Christmas" and other works."

"According to industry insiders, it is a foregone conclusion that "Travel in New York" will break 100 million in three days, and Zach Schneider will become the new favorite of the market."

"With the addition of a general in the 300 million club, Zha Dao is expected to become another first-line director of Firefly Pictures."

"Previously, "Dawn of the Living Dead", "Resident Evil 1, 2", "Zombie Shaun" and other zombies have set off a good wave of movie watching in the market. Although the results are not outstanding, the success of "New York", Does it mean that zombies will be the next hot spot in the market? Zombie frenzy?"

"It is reported that many film companies have launched projects with zombies..."

The pursuit of news hotspots has caused major theaters to prepare to increase the number of films and screens again based on the specific attendance and ticket sales of theaters in each state.

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Paramount Headquarters, Hollywood.

Shirley Lansing looked at the statistics report on the market share of each movie during the Christmas period on the desk, her eyes dimmed slightly: "The momentum is higher than I expected, and the box office and word-of-mouth maintenance are stronger. Single day 4 Ten million..."

"Warner's got the treasure, Lehman still has such a good market vision. Finding a new director and making a zombie movie can be very successful." The assistant standing next to Shirley Lansing had a complicated tone: "This People are different from ordinary directors, and capable directors can also have a keen investment vision. Before him, James Win and Zach Schneider, I don’t know where they came from..."

Thinking of this, Shirley Lansing felt the burden on her shoulders heavier.

She knows that with the current level of market competition, Paramount, who lacks production talents and excellent partners, is increasingly difficult to deal with.

But... Shirley Lansing shook her head, throwing away some unnecessary distractions.

Lehman is too ambitious, and it is estimated that he will not really become an ally of Warner. Seeing his hooking up with Lionsgate, he will have a good time, so don't worry too much.

"It's because there are more people in the industry." Shirley Lansing thought so, lifted off the stage and signaled the assistant to go out.

Later, she received Steven Spielberg, one of the Big Three DreamWorks, in the office to discuss acquisition and cooperation matters.

Both parties have complex equity. As a business involving billions of dollars, Paramount has been in contact with DreamWorks for a year and a half.

Meeting, meeting, meeting...

After resolving internal problems, external factors must be resolved. The board of directors does not know how much to suppress in order to support Shirley Lansing's acquisition of DreamWorks.

The general conditions have been discussed in this constant contact.

Once Viacom (parent company)’s Paramount Pictures acquires DreamWorks, it will assume all DreamWorks’ debts (mainly owed to banks and Wall Street Foundations), and will purchase it at a price of $1.6 billion. All shares in DreamWorks.

In the terms of the agreement, Paramount will also obtain the DreamWorks film library, which includes the copyrights of 59 films including "Gladiator", "American Beauty", "Saving Private Ryan" and "World War".

In addition to the acquisition, Paramount will sign new employment agreements with management such as Spielberg and David Geffen to continue their roles as producer executives.

In the newly acquired and reorganized DreamWorks production label, the management work is still carried out by Spielberg and David Geffen. In Paramount’s 14 to 16 film plans per year, DreamWorks will be responsible for it. As for the original DreamWorks’ promotional channels and other functional corporate structures, it will be integrated with Paramount’s related channels for unified management.

In other words, DreamWorks lost its distribution power and must cooperate with Paramount.

However, after nearly two years of negotiations, Spielberg still did not make a final choice.

He is still fighting for a better way out, such as "Escape from the Island of Clone".

And even if it is acquired, in terms of status, power, and even cooperative treatment, it is necessary to use new market performance to further raise expectations.

After Spielberg failed to give a clear answer again, Shirley Lansing did not entangle too much.

Anyway, the tone of the big has been determined, even if the details are a bit cumbersome.

After chatting for a while, Spielberg suddenly talked about the "New York Tour" that was being released.

After talking about the movie's popularity during the Christmas period, he tentatively asked Shirley Lansing.

"At the beginning, Lehman and others still had a cooperative relationship with you. Without Paramount's help, he would not be able to enter the North American market. In your opinion, is there still a possibility of cooperation between us?"

Spielberg's remarks revealed that he wanted to find Lehman to cooperate. After all, several major shareholders of DreamWorks agreed to the terms of the acquisition, and he couldn't oppose it anymore, only thinking about his own future.

"What do you mean?" Shirley Lansing pretended to be surprised: "I won't stop you from doing anything."

"Haha. I have been thinking about cooperation all this time."

Spielberg got the answer and left the matter behind.

There was a big gap between Paramount's relationship with Lyman, and everyone should know.

Even if he joined Paramount, he still kept the DreamWorks label, and his own studio also has investment projects, such a smooth director always has the opportunity to cooperate.

In the past two years, he has paid attention to Lehman's movements from many channels.

And if you want to do something in Hollywood, of course the more friends, the better, especially those who are capable.

As a great director who used to go all the way, he now spends more time on set shooting when he is like a capitalist.

The production of movies is also decreasing every year, and in many cases, he has lost his former vigorous creative energy and desire.

Even if he has a good idea, he invests more than makes a film, and finds a director more than himself.

The reason is that he is old and no longer young.

The failure of DreamWorks even extinguished his greatest ambition.

Unlike Lyman, he was still young and had good eyesight, allowing him to see his own shadow before, the upward momentum.

Shirley Lansing's words also made Spielberg more assured to contact Lehman.

There is no permanent enemy in the business field. Even if you are upset, you have to suppress it. This is a qualified Paramount president.

Afterwards, Spielberg said goodbye: "I have something to do, let's go ahead."