Hollywood New Century

"Golden Compass" held a grand premiere in New York, and New Line Cinema did spend money on publicity.

Anyway, Simon is now waiting for the seasoned filmmakers that his company will lay off after New Line Cinema was acquired by Warner Bros.

"The Golden Compass" was opened in 3,561 theaters in North America, but the result was only 26 million US dollars. For a large production costing 180 million US dollars, this is undoubtedly a death sentence.

The results of the overseas market are much better than the North American market, but North America, as the world's largest movie market, can't get this kind of report card!

The film's star Nicole Kidman is depressed; New Line Cinema's president Michael Lynn and company founder and chairman Robert Shayer are depressed; AOL Time Warner CEO Richard Parsons is also depressed Also depressed!

Eva Green was sitting on the sofa and saw Simon Parker on the other side smirking while looking at the newspaper. The box office and reputation of "The Golden Compass" are not good, and it really has nothing to do with her. Anyway, she is just a supporting actress who plays a witch. .

Simon then put down the newspaper, looked at Eva Green, and smiled: "The Harry Potter series developed by Warner Bros. can't be copied so easily. Paramount Pictures also hired Jim Carrey and Meryl Streep and Jude Law's The Unfortunate Adventures of Raymond Snitch didn't fail either!"

Of course, as for the first "The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe" developed by Disney, the first part of the children's fantasy series is very successful, but it has been closed, and the second sequel "The Chronicles of Narnia: The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian, Simon of course knew that it was an unsuccessful movie! This led to the direct sale of the filming rights for the third sequel.

"Simon, if the box office of "The Golden Compass" is not good, will it have a great influence on Nicole Kidman?" Eva Green was affected by Nicole Kidman when filming "The Golden Compass" A lot of care, seems to be because of knowing Simon Parker's sake.

"Uh, it's okay, Nicole Kidman's influence is still good, but it is indeed not small," Simon did not hide, after all, if the box office investment is too low for a movie of the scale of "The Golden Compass" , it is impossible to say. Although "Pearl Harbor" was not good at the box office, it did not have such a success in North America.

"Well, during the filming of "The Golden Compass", there were rumors that I would be replaced because of my poor acting skills. Even my mother called in France to ask if it was true, and it was Nicole who accepted it. It was clarified for me when the reporter interviewed, "Eva Green became famous as a Bond girl, and Bond girl is just synonymous with vases, and it is not easy for Eva Green to participate as a newcomer in a huge production like "Golden Compass" as a supporting actress. !

"Well, I know! Nicole said you're doing well, you're very serious, and you don't seem to like people calling you Bond Girl!" Simon laughed.

Eva Green shook her head and explained, "I don't think Bond girls need any acting skills, so I don't like that people always call me a Bond girl!"

"What you said also makes sense," Simon agreed somewhat. "However, Bond girls are a great opportunity for newcomers to show themselves on the world stage, and the influence of "007" is still great!"

"What sci-fi movie of "Franklin" will be released next year?" Simon asked after thinking about it.

Eva Green nodded, it was a British film anyway, and there were no resources in Hollywood after all.

Simon looked at her, Eva Green's dark style, and she remembered that all of her movies were off-screen.

In terms of acting skills, it's still good, and the dark gothic style is also a feature. I can't think of any movie that suits her for a while.

"Wait first, let's talk about it next year, anyway, now you have to promote "The Golden Compass"," Simon thinks Eva Green is good, and always plays that type of movie buried.

Afterwards, Simon took Eva Green in his arms and said with a smile: "I have specially customized a Gulfstream G550 luxury business jet at Gulfstream Aerospace, a subsidiary of General Dynamics Group, which is currently the top-of-the-line business jet. A business jet with a super long range, can fly more than 11,000 kilometers!"

"Ah, so far, where do you want to go? It doesn't take that far to go from here to cities in Europe!" Eva Green was surprised.

"The delivery will be in April next year. I'm going to fly directly from Los Angeles to Beijing, China to watch the Olympic Games, and if I come from New York, I can also fly directly to RB Tokyo!" Simon really didn't want to think that he had to change planes in Europe before and wasted time. Private jets A must have, the Gulfstream G550 has everything Simon needs, and the cabin is luxurious enough.

"Well, in a few days, I will go to Europe with the crew to promote it. After that, I will stay in France to spend Christmas with my family. I should come to the United States next year." at home in France.

"Okay, I will go to France to find you when I have time," Simon hugged the girl, thinking of the French style, which is not bad. Anyway, I will definitely buy a lot of properties in Europe in the future. The financial tsunami is a big bargain!

In the Christmas period of 2007, the apocalyptic one-man movie "I Am Legend" starring Will Smith released by Warner Bros. also received good reputation at the box office;

The feature film "There Will Be Blood" jointly developed by Paramount Advantage and Miramax has been well received. It can be said that it is comparable to "No Country for Old Men" previously released by Xinghai Pictures. Next year's Oscars will have another battle.

2007 would have been perfect for Hollywood, of course if it hadn't been for the writers' union strike.

The impact of the writers' strike that lasted for more than a month finally showed, with a large number of episodes being cut off and suspended. What TV stations use to make up for episodes are reality shows, talk shows or various talent show variety shows!

The broadcast of the first season of "Keeping Up With the Kardashians" also discussed this good time, and the American people are still somewhat interested in the daily life of this family.

Of course, the saddest one is New Line Pictures, a subsidiary of AOL Time Warner. The 40-year-old New Line Pictures is not a bad thing.

In 1994, New Line was acquired by Turner Ted's Turner Broadcasting Cable Network (TBS), the broadcast group that owns cable stations such as TNT and CNN.

In 1996, Time Warner Group acquired the entire TBS Group, and Turner Ted also became the vice chairman of Time Warner Group and the person with the most shares in the group.

New Line Pictures has become a film company on an equal footing with Warner Bros. under the group. It has the power to independently produce, distribute and market films. Although it does not have the ability to distribute overseas, it has its own rights to distribute overseas. Many distributors in overseas markets are not Warner Bros. International overseas branch!

It is conceivable that in the current situation, doesn't Time Warner Group have the best reason to start a new line?