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Entering September, while Eric was filming Casino Royale in the UK, the summer season of North American movies officially came to an end. Yikan?Book ???·??????·

The three films The Matrix, Crossing the Dead Island and Death Is Coming under the New Line label, which were released in the summer of Firefly Group, finally accumulated a total box office of 420 million US dollars, although all three films still It was released sporadically in the North American market, but the weekly box office revenue of hundreds of thousands of dollars has little impact on the total box office share.

Compared with the box office total that almost doubled ahead of the second place in previous years, Firefly Group’s box office revenue this year not only completely lost this advantage, but was even snatched away by Universal Pictures with a slight advantage of 435 million US dollars. In the summer of 2019, Universal Pictures led the box office of The Mummy 2 and Professor Fat Guy, and the other two films released also achieved good results.

After Firefly, Warner has accumulated a total of six films in the summer. Although there is no box office hit, it still follows Firefly with a total revenue of 380 million US dollars.

Perhaps it is because of the sharp decline in the performance of Firefly's summer movies. One is changing and the other is growing. Universal, Warner, and subsequently Paramount, Fox and other major film companies have seen a significant increase in box office revenue this summer compared to previous years. increase.

When Variety Magazine officially announced the box-office figures for this summer and related commentary articles, other media immediately followed suit. Many professional media publicly stated that the decline in Firefly's film performance indicates that Hollywood will return to the evenly matched position of the seven major film companies. Normal state, because before the rise of Firefly, the seven major Hollywood film companies had fixed production scale and distribution channels, and because of the extreme uncertainty of film investment, even if a certain company occasionally appeared a big blockbuster film, but in most cases The market shares of the top seven are in a relatively balanced proportion according to their comprehensive strength.

Although the seven major Hollywood companies have been developing and integrating in the direction of media groups, the film business still occupies a large share. The stock prices of several companies such as , Viacom, and MGM have risen by more than 10% in just a few days. Even Sony, which has suffered a terrible box office for Jumanji 2, has also experienced small-scale stock prices. rise.

However, the firefly group, a media empire that can be regarded as speeding in recent years, has suddenly slowed down, and the media is most concerned about the reaction within the firefly group. Provocative remarks of the Firefly Group. ????One?Reading???·?????·But, after dealing with the hype surrounding The Matrix sequel, Firefly's PR department has always been in the dark, unless it's fighting back against apparently untrue disparaging news. Acted very low-key.

As for Hollywood,

Most people are just watching a good show, especially after the poor review of the premiere of Titanic at the Venice Film Festival, many people are almost looking forward to the arrival of the year-end schedule.

With a production cost of $215 million, a distribution cost of $50 million, and a film run of more than 3 hours, Hollywood does not see the possibility of Titanic being a box office success at any point.

If most of Hollywood's Firefly rivals are just waiting to watch, Wall Street's eyes are shining.

Once Titanic suffers a huge loss, it will not only swallow up the profits generated by Firefly's other blockbuster films, but also have an impact on Firefly's closed production system, making it comply with industry rules and no longer adhere to a self-sufficient production model.

As long as Firefly opens a gap and uses the capital market for film production financing like other film companies, then Wall Street capital has enough confidence to tear open this 'gap' step by step, eventually swallowing Firefly and making it comparable to most Hollywood movies. Like a company, it is shrouded in the control of capital.

Under the circumstance that the outside world is coveting, everything inside the Firefly Group is proceeding step by step.

On September 15th, after more than half a year of preparation, the ffm TV station co-operated by Firefly, Fox and MGM was officially launched, because ffm TV station has more high-quality movie content than the TV station before integration, and implemented a series of preferential measures. The subscribers of the charging cable stations are basically preserved, and the total number of subscribers has reached 4.1 million.

Because the positioning of ffm TV station is completely similar to that of hbo, Time Warner is naturally facing the enemy when it comes to the launch of ffm TV station. Warner Cable did not hesitate to tear up the contract, and immediately cut off the signals of the 300,000 users who originally carried ffm's predecessor, a TV station. The entire Time Warner was completely blocked for ffm TV.

Although Firefly Group and Time Warner will not publicly tear their faces because of this incident, there are not too many scruples between the subsidiaries. The first time Warner Cable cut off the user's signal, ffm TV station sued Warner Cable in federal court. Companies use market positions to compete unfairly. ?? ?Yikanshu ???·???·Warner Cable clearly knew that this lawsuit would heat up, and it would only make ffm TV famous, but it had to respond to the lawsuit, because ffm TV obviously would not agree to privately reconciliation.

As a veteran of Yu Lun's operation, Weinstein quickly hyped this up, and ffm TV became famous for a while.

At the same time that ffm TV was launched, September was also the beginning of the autumn TV season.

ABC's Friends, ER Story, and Survivor, as well as Lifetime's Sexy City, Project Runway, and America's Next Top Model, all return in September.

When a person is busy, life always flies by quickly.

When Firefly TV sent Eric the September TV ratings report, it was already October.

The weather in London is getting colder, and the filming progress of Casino Royale has been completed by more than 80%. There is one month left. The most important part will also be Bond and Charlie's Angels teaming up to rescue Angela Linde. The plot of the.

Kate, Charlize and Penelope still need a week to join the group. In recent days, the filming work of the crew has been relatively easy, mainly for Bond, Mrs. M, Vesper and several villains.

Just finished filming an interactive scene between Vesper and the Angela sisters in the morning. Eric was sitting in the restaurant of Pinewood Studios. After lunch, there was still time left, so he read that the New York side had just delivered it. viewership report.

On the abc side, Friends, The Story of the Emergency Room and Survivor are still the three-block ace programs leading the ratings.

This year, Friends has come to the eighth season, and the series has been planned to end in the tenth season. ABC TV has announced the relevant news before the start of this season. Although the six leading actors are younger than their previous lives, but one After ten years of filming, I am tired and unwilling to continue.

However, in this time and space, Aniston did not cooperate with several other leading actors to stage a million-dollar forced palace drama. However, Firefly was not stingy. In the last three seasons of the contract, the single-episode salary of the six leading actors has been increased to 600,000 US dollars. They were paid twice as much for the first two seasons of a single episode.

As the most popular medical drama in recent years, the ratings of Emergency Room Story have been very stable, and the ratings of a single episode have basically remained above 20 million.

After Survivor reached its peak of 30 million viewers on average in the first two seasons, coupled with the fact that other TV stations launched reality shows to compete for viewers, the ratings began to drop sharply.

However, because the production cost of Survivor is very low, even if the viewership drops below 10 million, the TV station is still very profitable. What's more, the average viewership of the first three episodes of this season is 17 million, which is not related to failure in any case. The best of all reality shows in North America.

In addition to the leading series in the third block, this year abc also appeared a brand new dark horse, the sitcom Everyone Loves Raymond.

This family-friendly sitcom, led by Friends, reached 15 million viewers in its first episode. Perhaps because of the limitation of family themes, this sitcom was not very famous in Asia in its previous life, but the ratings at its peak were definitely not much worse than that of Friends, and the 15 million viewership ratings were definitely just the beginning. It is expected that when Friends officially ends, Everybody Loves Raymond will also enter its peak state of ratings, just in time to take over the comedy night of Friends.

In memory, Everybody Loves Raymond is the ace sitcom of CBS.

However, Eric did not intervene in this project. He also discovered it after seeing the list of new dramas submitted by abc in May. The reason why Everybody Loves Raymond was transferred to ABC is mainly because the producer of Everybody Loves Raymond is David Letterman. ABC reformed the late-night program two years ago and moved cbs The David Letterman Late Show dug up abc, and David Letterman was the producer of the TV project, which was naturally taken over by abc.

After watching the ratings statistics of abc, Eric was about to open the life TV data, Christina Aguilera came over with a small dinner plate.

Christina stood opposite Eric and asked, Eric, can I sit here?

Eric smiled and packed up the information in front of him, nodded to the girl, Christina happily put down her plate and sat down opposite.

Although the two had a relationship, Christina didn't bother anyone at all, and she didn't use her words and deeds to publicize the relationship between the two to outsiders. Eric was very satisfied with this clever and knowledgeable move.

Today's whole day's scenes are related to Christina. Therefore, Christina took the initiative to sit next to Eric at this time. Everyone would only think that she wanted to talk to the director about the movie, and it would not attract anyone's attention.

Watching Christina pick up the cutlery and nibble on the vegetable salad on the plate, Eric asked with a smile, What did you just do, and are you here to eat now?

Christina replied tactfully: Mom called from Los Angeles, and we talked a little longer.

Oh, are you homesick?

Not too much, Christina shook her head.

She really doesn't miss home very much. As a child from a single-parent family, Christina is much more independent than Britney. She has no intention of going to school. She has a job and can travel all over the world with the crew. Instead, she enjoys it.

Eric smiled and was about to turn his eyes to the information in his hand again, but Christina took the initiative: Eric, I... I suddenly felt that the role of Angela didn't seem too cool.

Eric raised his head: Then what do you think is cool?

Christina, of course, had seen Charlie's Angels, and said without thinking: Of course it's like Kate Beckinsale's Selena, but Angela is more like a little nerd who likes to fiddle with machines. I don't think if Charlie's Detective Agency existed, they wouldn't be interested in Angela Lynd.

In the Casino Royale script for Christina's character setting, Angela Linde is a technology nerd obsessed with precision instruments, which is influenced by her father as a child.

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Today's whole day's scenes are related to Christina. Therefore, Christina took the initiative to sit next to Eric at this time. Everyone would only think that she wanted to talk to the director about the movie, and it would not attract anyone's attention.

Watching Christina pick up the cutlery and nibble on the vegetable salad on the plate, Eric asked with a smile, What did you just do, and are you here to eat now?

Christina replied tactfully: Mom called from Los Angeles, and we talked a little longer.

Oh, are you homesick?

Not too much, Christina shook her head.

She really doesn't miss home very much. As a child from a single-parent family, Christina is much more independent than Britney. She has no intention of going to school. She has a job and can travel all over the world with the crew. Instead, she enjoys it.

Eric smiled and was about to turn his eyes to the information in his hand again, but Christina took the initiative: Eric, I... I suddenly felt that the role of Angela didn't seem too cool.

Eric raised his head: Then what do you think is cool?

Christina, of course, had seen Charlie's Angels, and said without thinking: Of course it's like Kate Beckinsale's Selena, but Angela is more like a little nerd who likes to fiddle with machines. I don't think if Charlie's Detective Agency existed, they wouldn't be interested in Angela Lynd.

In the Casino Royale script for Christina's character setting, Angela Linde is a technology nerd obsessed with precision instruments, which is influenced by her father as a child. (To be continued.)