Ye Jin stayed in Xiangjiang until mid-September, and then returned to Hollywood after Jiayi transformed and officially got on track.

At this time, the first round of release of "Grease" has ended. The first round of release has a total box office of US$125 million, which is awesome for the summer.

In comparison, other companies' movies performed poorly.

Among the sluts, the best performer was Paramount Pictures' "The Wrong Heaven and Reborn" with a box office of 32 million US dollars;

The second is Universal Pictures’ "New Wizard of Oz", which received $15 million in box office due to the support of Africans;

Again, Disney Pictures' "Sky Cat" has a box office of US$7.6 million. Even if it adds the box office abroad, it is likely that it will not be able to recover the cost. It can only count on the release of videotapes in the future or charge a TV copyright fee.

The worst-performing movie at the box office is Columbia Pictures' "Atlantis God of War". This weird fantasy action movie has a total box office of less than $5 million, which is a huge loss compared to a $9 million investment.

"Grease" dominated the summer season and made Fox Film the biggest hit. And compared with a $6 million investment, a $125 million box office can be called a "heavy profit".

What's more, "Grease" is only released in the first round, with two rounds, three rounds of re-screening, and overseas box office in the future. It is estimated that this movie alone will bring Fox Pictures a box office profit of $150 million.

If videotapes, TV broadcast copyright fees, and peripheral product development, the total profit is expected to reach more than 230 million US dollars.

Such achievements can be said to be quite impressive.

Therefore, during the release of "Grease", as its box office accumulated, Fox's stock price also rose.

In this month and a half, the stock price has risen by 20%, which is very ideal.

All shareholders of Fox Films were also very satisfied with this and said bluntly that they did not ask for the wrong person.

...

After returning to Hollywood, Ye Jin met some friends.

For example, George Lucas, director of "Star Wars", Stephen Spielberg, director of "Raiders of Lost Ark", John Carpenter, director of "Ghost Street", etc.

He is planning to restart the filming of these three movies at the end of the year. In this way, the sequels of these three movies will be released from 1979 to 1980.

"George, are you interested in creating a sequel to "Star Wars"?" Ye Jin said to George Lucas with a smile.

"Of course I'm interested." George Lucas smiled.

"Star Wars" was finally released last year, and it achieved an excellent box office, which also allowed him to avenge his previous shame and become the most box office director in Hollywood.

Moreover, "Star Wars" has a lot of momentum. Although it has been nearly a year since its premiere, the movie has not yet been released. In some theaters in America, it is still being re-released, and every re-released will still attract fans. Some fans even watched it more than 170 times, which is quite amazing. This is not common in the history of movies.

In addition, the sales of peripheral products of Star Wars are also very popular. Fans have purchased toys, models, posters, laser swords, star destroyers, and even Death Stars.

In the year after its release, the licensing fee for peripheral products alone had reached 75 million US dollars, which was higher than the box office of most Hollywood movies.

George Lucas has been busy licensing this year and has made a lot of money. And he also has reason to believe that if the quality of "Star Wars 2" does not decline, the IP value of the entire [Star Wars] will be higher, and then they may be able to make more money.

George Lucas is both a film director and a shrewd businessman. He naturally would not refuse such a profitable thing.

"Very good, I have brought you the script. If you have any questions, please come and ask me. I hope this movie can be filmed as soon as possible, and it is best to be released within two years." Ye Jin smiled.

"Of course." George Lucas nodded.

In fact, he had known that Ye Jin had written the second story of "Star Cowboy", and the story of "Star Cowboy" is inexplicably similar to "Star Wars", so there should be no problem with the story of "Star Wars 2" when applied to "Star Wars 2".

Ye Jin then handed over the script of "Star Wars 2" to Lucas.

Lucas looked at it in front of Ye Jin.

To be honest, although the story of the entire series of "Star Wars" is already in his mind, the script is actually different from the story.

Just like everyone knows the story of "Journey to the West", it still takes a lot of thought to how to put it on the screen, and you cannot directly use the novel as a script.

Over the past year, in addition to being busy with peripheral product licensing, Lucas has been thinking about scripts and considering filming to better tell the story of "Star Wars".

He himself and the invited screenwriter also tried to write two versions of the script, but neither was particularly satisfied.

Now, after seeing the script of Ye Jin, Lucas suddenly felt that [it's it]!

Ye Jin's script tells the story in his mind very well, just as if he knew [Mind Reading], which was so wonderful.

"Mr. Ye, your script is very well written, it is simply perfect!" Lucas sincerely praised.

He and the screenwriter he invited have written for a year, but they are not as good as Ye Jin's version of the script.

"Just like it." Ye Jin nodded with a smile, "Then if there is no problem, start preparing. I hope it will be released as soon as possible."

"Okay." Lucas nodded.

...

Ye Jin then visited Stephen Spielberg again.

"Raiders of the Lost Ark" directed by Spielberg last year was a hit, and at the beginning of the year, "The Third Category of Contact" directed by him also sold out.

The film cost 19 million US dollars and the global box office of 330 million US dollars, which can be said to be a very successful work. Within one year, the two films sold well, with a total box office of more than one billion US dollars. Such results also made Spielberg the hottest director today.

Major film companies hope to cooperate with him, and film contracts are endless. If he is not picky, he will make five movies a year, and he will probably not finish filming until he dies of old age.

"Stephen, long time no see." Ye Jin shook his hands with a smile, "What are you busy with recently?"

"I'm not busy with anything, I'm looking at the stories, picking scripts, going to parties...that's probably all." Spielberg smiled, "Ye, you've been very busy lately. Fox Pictures has achieved another great success. You're really amazing."

"That's all the credit of my colleagues. Actually, I'm quite idle these days." Ye Jin smiled, "By the way, since you're choosing scripts, are there any good scripts?"

"I'm more optimistic about a war comedy script," Spielberg said. "I've never made a war comedy before, I want to give it a try."

Ye Jin nodded.

In war comedy, he has only watched a few movies such as "Hand Up" and "Escape from the Tiger's Mouth", and he really has no good insights into it.

"Mr. Ye, do you have a good script to recommend to me?" Spielberg asked curiously.

Hollywood produces more than 100,000 scripts a year, but to be honest, there are still too few good scripts. After "The Third Category of Contact", he kept screening scripts, but those scripts were boring in his opinion and could not raise his interest in directing them.

"Well..." Ye Jin blinked.
Chapter completed!