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Monday morning, the weekly work starts again, which should have been a day of active atmosphere, especially for film companies, if the films released last week could be sold well, the entire company would be filled with laughter, but at this time, at the weekly meeting of Fox Building, everyone's faces were heavy and depressing.

The vampires without CAA and the creative team of "Night Visit Vampires", as the main investor, the senior executives of 20th Century Fox did not hide their disappointment.

"AMG and Emperor Entertainment rejected our request to expand the scale of the theater of "Night Visit Vampire" and compress the "Brave the Deadly Island."

Tim Fisher, who had just taken over the position of director of the film distribution department, broke the silence in the conference room, "Without beautiful box office data as support, we have no capital to strive for."

He looked at Townsend Rossman, opened the latest statistics in front of him, and said to everyone, "The Night Visit to the Vampire received $6.21 million on Sunday, and the North American box office totaled $28.3 million on the first three days."

If it is in normal times, this result can basically guarantee the championship of the weekly box office list, which is obviously impossible now.

"The box office of "The Island of Dead" on Sunday was $11.13 million!" Tim Fisher said without caring about the faces of others, "The box office of $36.79 million in the first three days!"

As if to remind the many senior executives present, Tim Fisher raised some voices, "Everyone, this is not just the position of the weekly box office champion, it means that "Night Visit to Vampire" can only be screened in its shadow!"

"Maybe it will see a huge drop the next week."

Hearing this mindless voice, Tim Fisher immediately retorted, "The A-level rating rate of the audience of Duke Rosenberg's film has been maintained at more than 85%! This is an audience reputation that cannot be compared with the mass screening of "The Speed ​​of Life and Death"! Don't forget that the highest weekend box office of "The Speed ​​of Life and Death" was only $34.75 million, while the final North American box office was more than $130 million! The global box office was as high as $350 million!"

The people just now stopped talking, and the conference room fell into silence again. After all, they are not laymen. With the support of such a strong audience reputation, "Brave the Deadly Island" will inevitably maintain a healthy box office decline in the next few weeks, and what will the final box office be?

One hundred million US dollars is definitely not the end of this film, right?

Townsend Rossman, who was sitting at the top, unconsciously broke out of this idea. According to the sharply declining reputation and the predictions of major institutions, the box office of "Night Visit to Vampire" in North America was at most over 100 million, while "Brave the Deadly Island" was not too weak in the future, and it is likely to go straight to $150 million.

He insisted on introducing "Speed ​​of Life and Death", but he turned down "Brave the Deadly Island"...

At this moment, only he can understand the feeling in Townsend Rossman's heart. In a summer season, he will definitely sit firmly as CEO!

He regretted it a little. If he had chosen Duke Rosenberg instead of CAA's project, although he would have to accept one-fifth of the other party's investment, according to the contract between Duke and Warner, he would have enjoyed the same proportion of short-term revenue share and could not share long-term revenue.

What about CAA? The profit of "Night Visit to Vampire" is definitely not a problem. CAA seems to be able to get a commission of 10% of the total revenue of the film, which seems to be half the proportion, but it is a long-term share!

In other words, as long as "Night Visit to Vampire" can still bring benefits, one in ten of them will always belong to CAA.

"Night Visit to Vampire" itself is almost a foregone conclusion that the revenue of "Brave the Deadly Island" is not as good as that of "Brave the Deadly Island". Vampires must share long-term benefits. Which project was more cost-effective to choose?

Townsend Rossman couldn't figure it out for a moment. He only confirmed one thing, and shouldn't give up Duke Rosenberg so easily!

“I have a suggestion!”

The sound of the voice still belongs to Tim Fisher, who seems particularly active today, "I have the exact news that Duke Rosenberg has filed two scripts at the Screenwriters Association, one of which has been completed! There is a larger explosion scene in the script!"

As soon as these words were said, the Fox executives present immediately felt refreshed. Hollywood believed nothing, but only believed in interests and data. The success of two consecutive movies has proved Duke Rosenberg's directorial strength, not to mention that it was a more crazier explosion scene! That madman full of destructive desire is definitely a genius in this field!

Without waiting for others to speak, Tim Fisher quickly said, "I suggest that we re-engage with Duke Rosenberg! Fight him back to Fox's camp as much as possible, and at the same time, let the pre-authorization department go to the Screenwriters Association to review his registered scripts so that the review process can be started at any time!"

"I agree!"

"I agree..."

Many people agreed, as long as they could bring benefits, they would not care who the partner was!

Townsend Rossman put his hands on the table, slowly lifting his chin, as if thinking. In fact, he knew very well that, like Tim Fisher, who had a conflict with Duke, as an executive of a business company, his face will never be important!

"If I remember correctly..." he spoke slowly, "Duke signed a 1+2 contract with Warner Bros?"

"It's a 1+2 contract!" Tim Fisher obviously did enough preparations, "but there is a note clause that Warner Bros. has priority investment rights only under the same conditions."

Hearing this, Townsend Rossman no longer hesitated, "Touch Nancy Josephson as soon as possible... In this way, ask her out, I will talk to her in person, and when Duke returns to Los Angeles, invite him to Fox's party!"

"We have no party plans for the time being." A person next to him suddenly said.

"Then it will be held specifically!" Townsend Rossman snapped.

It was also on this Monday that "The Island of Death" began its North American publicity journey. Unlike the flights that were rushing everywhere during "The Speed ​​of Life and Death", a publicity team composed of major cast members such as Duke, Lee, Cage, Harris and Naomi Watts took a business plane belonging to Warner Bros. "The Island of Death"'s outstanding first-week box office results undoubtedly gave Warner a reassurance.

As soon as he arrived in Seattle, Duke received a call from Nancy Josephson. He was not surprised by the 20th Century Fox, who changed his attitude. This is a society that pursues commercial interests. There is no irreconcilable contradiction between himself and 20th Century Fox. And under the premise of a large enough interest, there is no business contradiction that is irreconcilable.

Although the cooperation with Warner Bros. was pleasant, Duke would not be stupid enough to hang himself on a tree. Even if he could not give Twentieth Century Fox any promise, he still told Nancy to talk to them first. Even if it didn't work in the future, he might have a chance to cooperate in the future. Moreover, this would put some pressure on Warner Bros. in the negotiations of the next movie to fight for greater benefits for his side.

This is how business cooperation is. There are no eternal friends or eternal enemies. If Tom Cruise is invited to star in a movie, he can maximize his interests. Duke will not hesitate. He will still praise the acting skills of Qingtang to the cloud like he praised the four male and female protagonists at a meeting in Seattle.

However, Duke didn't have much opportunity or time to speak in the publicity campaign, and the publicity was still on the actors and the film itself. Of course, a large number of movie fans also met him, a young director who was full of explosion and destruction in the media.

"Speaking of this, I want to thank you, Duke."

When I returned to the hotel in the evening, several people went to the bar downstairs. While sitting together and drinking, Nicholas Cage suddenly said to him, "In the afternoon announcement, those fans were crazy about me, which was something I had never seen before."

"You will get used to it later."

He picked up the wine glass, Duke and Cage, and said before drinking, "Believe what I said to you, if you follow the path you are now, Nikola, you can become one of the iconic figures of Hollywood in the 90s."

"You look like a medieval charlatan now!" Sophia next to him bluntly.

"No, Sofia, I think what Duke said makes sense."

Before Duke said anything, Cage refuted. What he enjoyed today was the feeling of a superstar who had never been before. "This is my first collaboration with Duke. I think this will be a turning point in my career. I have been floating and falling in Hollywood for nearly ten years. Although my acting skills have been confirmed, I have not had a box office success. If I was just an unknown actor before, then today I feel like a Hollywood movie star!"

"To you this cup, Duke!" Nicholas Cage solemnly raised the cup.

Christopher Lee, who had just killed a glass with Cage, also raised his glass, "I want to toast you, Duke."

The old man's expression was equally serious and solemn. Since he chose to enter this world of fame and fortune, no one did not want to become famous and become a celebrity who could be famous all over the United States and even the world. Christopher Lee now undoubtedly enjoys all this brought by John Mason.

"It looks like," Duke and Lee touched the glass, "you are planning to get me drunk today."

These are all jokes. A few people have contracts and have to fly to other cities to run for publicity the next day. They are not drunks themselves, so they will definitely not get drunk.

According to the plan, the crew still walked from east to west, one by one in the most important ticket cities in North America. Regular fan meetings and media conferences followed one after another, and the crew also became the focus of entertainment media in a short period of time.
Chapter completed!