Chapter 482 Time is money
Embassy Films, offline distribution department.
The constant ringing of calls made everyone in the office extremely busy. Since Gibbs arrived at the company at 8:30 in the morning, he kept answering the phone and making records, and he didn't even have time to drink water.
The colleagues around him were no better than him. They all looked serious and were busy with the work at hand.
This is the first time that the offline distribution department has been so busy like this when the movie was just released.
In the past, the busiest thing at this time was the online distribution department and the publicity and marketing department, and the offline distribution department was preparing for future offline distribution.
Gibbs took advantage of the break from going to the toilet and passed through the online distribution department and the publicity and marketing department, and he observed it. These two departments were also very busy, but they were not as busy as offline distribution departments.
"Pirates of the Caribbean" seems to have overturned all the past working modes!
Back at the office area, Gibbs answered a few more calls. It was not until eleven o'clock in the morning that the phone number gradually decreased. When he was about to get off work at noon, he picked up his notebook and walked into the office of the department director Terry.
"Director." Gibson sent the record book and said: "This morning, a total of 31 channel dealers here asked me to increase the delivery of products around the Pirates of the Caribbean as soon as possible. According to their first-hand data feedback, the sales around the video were nearly three times higher than we expected."
Terry glanced at the record book and said, "You communicate with the manufacturer and logistics company as soon as possible."
Gibson said: "Okay."
"Pirates of the Caribbean" has been very popular, and even Terry did not expect that as of midnight yesterday, the film was officially released for one day, and sales of peripheral products exceeded US$6 million!
Everyone can understand the huge business opportunities contained in this.
Moreover, the profit margins of peripheral products are extremely high, and the profit sharing of Embassy Films can reach one-quarter of the sales!
Terry was also a little lucky. Fortunately, the company made sufficient preparations in advance. Not only did it stock up, but it also temporarily rented a warehouse for logistics companies. It established a peripheral storage center of "Pirates of the Caribbean" in popular consumer cities in North American movies, and was able to deliver goods according to market dynamics as soon as possible.
With the box office of "Pirates of the Caribbean" winning US$24.8 million on the first day, and the continuous increase in film schedules and attendance rates on Saturday, time is money for the offline release of peripheral products!
According to the situation on Friday, peripheral sales on the two rest days on the weekend will increase, and sales of peripheral products in the first weekend should exceed US$20 million.
Now, the success of the company's first top-level production is a foregone conclusion!
Embassy Film and even the entire Relativity Entertainment will inevitably be involved in more top-level productions in the future, and the company will inevitably develop greater.
The knock on the door suddenly rang out, and Thomas, the director of the online distribution department, pushed the door and walked in.
"How do you have time to come?" Terry asked curiously.
Thomas joked, “Look at how busy you are.”
Terry shrugged: "It's busier than you anyway."
Thomas couldn't help laughing and asked, "The head office has issued a notice to all the management staff, so that we can take time to go to the theater to see "The Strange Soldiers from the Sky" with our own eyes."
Terry only found the notice inexplicable: "Why support the box office of "Skyfall"? Because we have been working with Warner Bros.?"
The films under Relativity Entertainment have been filming at Warner Studios, and the new Batman project, which has collaborated with Warner Bros., has entered the official shooting stage.
"It shouldn't be." Thomas shook his head: "It is said that this is what Ronan means. I guess Ronan has some ideas that we don't understand."
Terry's inexplicable disappearance without a trace: "Ronan's eyes have always seen far away, not something we can easily understand."
Just like when Ronan launched the Pirates of the Caribbean project, most of it was difficult to understand, but the result proved everything.
Terry recalled a little and found that there were many similar examples.
"When do you have time?" Terry asked.
Thomas thought for a while and said, "Why tomorrow night?"
"Okay!" Terry agreed: "We'll go together tomorrow night."
Others need to adjust their time to go to the theater to watch "Shocks from the Sky", but Ronan and Jessica Felton entered a Century City theater with Jessica Felton on Saturday night to watch this very special hero movie produced and released by Warner Bros.
After watching the movie, the two went to a restaurant in Century City Shopping Center for a midnight snack.
Jessica Felton ordered some food casually and asked curiously: "This movie has a very bad reputation, why did you ask me to watch it?"
Ronan said: "Because this movie is very special."
Jessica Felton was even more curious: "Because Warner Bros. is a partner in Relativity Entertainment?" She then denied: "It's not like your style."
The waiters then delivered food one after another, and the two of them were having sex and chatting.
Ronan ate the crispy potato cake and said, "Jesse, don't you think every failed film is a painful lesson?"
Jessica Felton nodded slightly: "You are right. This movie is not only because of the plot and character setting, but also because of poor editing and insufficient camera logic..."
Perhaps because she said it while eating, her wrist trembled and the vegetable salad on the fork fell down.
Fortunately, Jessica Felton was ready and had a napkin tied on her chest.
Ronan looked at the stain on the white napkin and said, "You're an old problem."
Jessica Felton picked up a tissue, gently wiped off the stain, and Tylenol naturally shaking, saying, "It's too big and there's trouble."
Ronan seemed not to see the shaking peaks, and said, "So, the stains left by eating are always on the chest, but the men are on the stomach."
Jessica Felton couldn't help laughing: "This is a very reasonable thing." She joked with Ronan for a few words, and then pulled back the topic of going off the wrong way: "You must have a purpose when you watch this "Strange Soldiers from the Sky"?"
Ronan did not answer positively, but said: "The film and television copyrights of most Avengers of Marvel Comics are now held in the hands of Shahai Entertainment."
"Avengers?" Although Jessica Felton is a technical mate, she also knows what Avengers are. When she thinks of "Shocks from Heaven" that she just watched, she suddenly realized: "You don't want to shoot the Avengers movie, do you?"
Both sides have been partners who have worked together for many years, and Ronan also trusts Jessica Felton very much and said: "It's true."
Jessica Felton understood: "So, you want to see why "Skyfall" failed to avoid making the same mistake in the future."
Ronan nodded: "Yes." He said: "I will let all the senior executives of Shahai Entertainment and Embassy Films watch this film."
Jessica Felton thought for a while and said, "It's not easy to succeed in such a movie."
Ronan agreed: "It can be said that there are many difficulties in bringing together a large number of heroes with different abilities in the same movie. If you can't handle it well, it's another movie "Shocks from the Sky."
Jessica Felton is no longer a simple editor, and she has served as a post-production producer in several films in succession, which has broadened her horizons, saying: "This requires a detailed and huge plan."
She looked at Ronan: "You ask me to see "Shocks from Heaven". I'm not a part of your plan, right?"
Faced with a smart, independent and capable woman like Jessica Felton, Ronan did not need to go around in circles and said directly: "Jesse, no one among my partners is more proficient and good at editing than you. Among the copyrighted superheroes of Shahai Entertainment, there are many female superheroes, and there will be female superhero movies in the future. I also need a female producer with outstanding abilities and understanding true feminism."
"So you chose me?" Jessica Felton was not embarrassed: "Ronan, you made the right choice."
Ronan said: "You go back and think more about "Shocks from Heaven"."
Jessica Felton nodded: "I understand."
"Shocks from Heaven" also gathers a group of famous heroes and monsters, which can be called a movie that collects monsters.
Alan Courtman, the explorer in "The Treasure of Solomon", Tom Sawyer in "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer", Captain Nemo in "Twenty Thousand Miles Under the Sea", Dr. Hyde in "The Incarnation Doctor", Mina in "The Kiss of Dracula", Incarnation in "The Invisible Man", Dorian Gray in "Portrait of Dorian Gray"...
These people responded to the call of Queen Victoria of Great Britain and formed a "special gentlemen's alliance" to fight against the madman ghosts who attempted to subvert the world.
After Jessica Felton went home to check the relevant information, she only felt that this was the Avengers or Justice League of Victorians? Hollywood had the idea of forming a team to kill monsters so early.
To a certain extent, "Shocks from Heaven" is a very good idea.
But after actually working in Hollywood, you know that good ideas and good scripts are as far away as good movies.
This film is a typical example, making an extremely clever and stunning idea into a vulgar and bad movie.
In contrast, Gore Vipensky, the director of "Pirates of the Caribbean", was the opposite. The old-fashioned pirate theme was reborn under him.
After careful consideration, Jessica Felton also discovered a major reason for the failure of "Shocks from Heaven".
Although the heroes and monsters in the film are not unknown people and are even famous figures in classic literary works, they are all strange characters for big screen and movie audiences.
Can the audience accept it quickly by rashly gathering a group of strange characters who have not clearly told their origins on the screen in the same video? You must be confused!
Chapter completed!