Best Movie Star

Hearing Harvey Weinstein's words, Steve Stabler didn't dare to take it lightly, and quickly replied, "Warner Bros. declined our request." He explained, "I fought for my reasons, but I was in charge of this project. Toby Emmerich didn't talk to me, and I went to Warner Bros. CEO Kevin Tesuhara, but he was kicked out."

Harvey Weinstein frowned, a fat face very ugly.

Steve Stabler added, "They didn't even give me a chance to talk."

This is not only a shirk of responsibility, but also the truth. Warner Bros. has no intention of negotiating at all. How to talk?

Harvey Weinstein looked unhappy, "A bunch of **** who forget their own interests! It wasn't me who came forward, New Line Cinema could integrate the movie rights of "The Lord of the Rings" and "The Hobbit"?"

In the mid-1990s, he was the first person who wanted to shoot the "Lord of the Rings" movie. At that time, he was in contact with Peter Jackson. On the one hand, he only wanted to shoot one movie. On the other hand, due to copyright issues, he did not make the trip.

Later, New Line Pictures, which had been acquired by Warner Bros., joined in. With his assistance, the film copyright issue was resolved, and the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy came into being.

In return, he also invested in the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy, but the overly cautious relationship resulted in a very low investment ratio and limited returns.

It was the high yield of the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy that led to tensions with Warner Bros.

This year, Peter Jackson, who claimed that he would not make movies without Tolkien, is planning to cooperate with New Line Pictures to shoot "The Hobbit", the prequel to the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy, but New Line Pictures' parent company Warner Bros. directly intervened, firmly controlling the project's dominance.

The "Lord of the Rings" trilogy is a big hit, and he has the right to invest in "The Hobbit" according to his agreement with New Line Pictures when he was working at Miramax.

Now that "The Lord of the Rings" is ahead, "The Hobbit" can be said to be the sequel to the blockbuster movie, and the possibility of successful investment is very high.

Besides, the director is Peter Jackson.

It is said that "The Hobbit" planned by Peter Jackson will shoot two or three films. Due to the huge investment, Warner Brothers will solve some of the funds through external financing.

Therefore, he remembered the agreement with New Line Pictures, and this made people come to him.

"They didn't say a reason?" Harvey Weinstein asked sullenly.

Even if Warner Bros. has a bad attitude, there must be a good reason to save face, right?

Steve Streb shook his head. "No, just refused to negotiate with me...we."

While speaking, he was also muttering in his heart, you have scolded Warner management on TV, can the other party happily promise you to come in and get a share of the pie?

Warner Bros. is running a number of big projects at the same time, especially "Green Lantern", the beginning of the DC superhero movie universe, which has led to its own financial constraints. Even if it is external financing, it will not give priority to those who publicly criticize itself, right?

In the face of such a boss, Steve Stabler can only keep a lot of words in his heart, otherwise he might be unlucky.

Harvey Weinstein stood up and walked back and forth twice, with the basis of the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy, the success of "The Hobbit" is to be expected, he has an agreement with New Line Pictures, not May pass up such a good opportunity to make money.

Although the investment ratio is only a little over 10%, in such a mega-production project, the profit brought by this investment ratio is probably more than the profit from his busy two awards seasons.

After a few laps, Harvey Weinstein said, "I'm in charge of this myself, I'm going to talk to that **** Kevin Tesuhara."

"Uh..." Steve Stabler opened his mouth and closed it again.

Harvey Weinstein noticed his expression and asked, "What?"

"That, boss..." Steve Stabler said weakly, "Kevin Tesuhara may... may not see you."

This also reminded Harvey Weinstein that although he has not completely torn apart his face with Warner Bros., the relationship between the two sides is not good, and he may not even be able to enter the Warner Bros. building.

Harvey Weinstein considered for a few seconds, then asked, "Steve, you go ask Kevin Tesuhara's recent itinerary to see if he has any public events? I'll just block him and let him You can't even hide!"

"Looks like there is," Steve Stabler said, thinking back, "Before I got kicked out of his office by Kevin Tesuhara, I heard him talking on the phone and saying Next Saturday night, I will be attending a charity reception held by the Los Angeles Charity Federation."

Harvey Weinstein nodded his double chin, "Go check it out, and if you're sure Kevin Tesuhara will attend, go get me an invitation."

"Okay." Steve Stabler responded quickly.

This trivial matter is not difficult for him at all. It is too common for the actual controller of Weinstein Pictures to attend a charity dinner.

Harvey Weinstein sat back on the sofa and waved at Steve Stabler, who hurried out of the suite.

Seeing that the door was closed, Harvey Weinstein thought about countermeasures. Although he had a clear written agreement with New Line Cinema, he should not take the road of legal proceedings until the end, which meant that it would take a long time. drag it down.

After thinking about it, his mind suddenly returned to Matthew Horner. As an actor, especially a Hollywood actor, is Oscar not attractive to him at all?

He can't confirm this, and no one can confirm it. Some actors' ideas are hidden deep, and outsiders are often elusive.

As long as he can confirm one thing, if Matthew Horner wants to plot Oscar, he has a way to get him!

Helping a person win the Oscar for best actor and actress, even a person like him who has succeeded many times, cannot be 100% guaranteed.

"Fast and Furious 4" starring Matthew Horner has been successful again. Now he is brilliant enough in business, and he has a series of movies as a guarantee. If he wants to hit the Oscars, it is estimated that it will be a matter of the past few years.

Harvey Weinstein pulled a smile from the corner of his mouth, and then frowned again. The box office of "Fast and Furious 4" is so enviable.

Entering the working day, the popularity of "Fast and Furious 4" has decreased slightly, but with the support of high-ranking films and high-profile topics, its performance is still good.

On Monday, the single-day box office fell only 52% compared with Sunday, closing at $18.7 million; on Tuesday, there was a small rebound, with $19.6 million; Like some commercial film industries, they have shown a continuous downward trend, reaping $17.7 million and $15.9 million respectively.

Ahead of a new weekend, "Fast and Furious 4" crossed the $200 million mark at the box office for seven days in North America.

"Fast and Furious 4" also became the first film in the North American film market to exceed $200 million at the box office in 2009.

At the same time, on the other side of the Pacific Ocean, which had been released in advance, the popularity of "Fast and Furious 4" gradually decreased. After two weeks of screening, the box office was infinitely close to 400 million RMB, thus completing the surpassing of "Titanic". It broke the monopoly of the big ship for the box office champion for more than ten consecutive years.

Due to policy reasons, "Fast and Furious 4" only has more than two weeks of show time left, but it is easy to break through 4RMB, and 500 million box office is not a problem.

Of course, Matthew is very clear that "Fast and Furious 4" won't hold the box office crown for long, and James Cameron's "Avatar" is about to be released.

In addition to the other side of the Pacific Ocean, "Fast and the Furious 4" also landed in the theater market in many overseas countries and regions last weekend, especially Europe, Australia and Latin America, which are traditional Hollywood movie dumping places.

There is basically no suspense. This film has become the box office champion of the week in most of the released regions. In just one weekend, it has collected 128.9 million US dollars from more than 60 overseas markets including the other side of the Pacific Ocean. In this way, the global box office will further advance to the direction of 400 million US dollars.

However, the second weekend of "Fast and Furious 4" in North America has ushered in the challenge of two new films - 20th Century Fox's "Night at the Museum 2" and Warner Bros. "Terminator 2018".

The former's production cost is $150 million, while the latter's production budget is as high as $200 million.

These two heavyweights are rarely squeezed into the weekend before Memorial Day, which is also one of the best times of the summer.

Counting "Wolverine" and "Star Trek" that were released before "Fast and Furious 4", and "Flying Home" by Pixar Studios next weekend, the North American film market in May was full of gunpowder and fierce competition. .

Only the first-line super commercial giants have reached six!

"Fast & Furious 4" has come out of the same period as "Wolverine" and "Star Trek", and it is not something that "Night at the Museum 2" and "Terminator 2018" can hold~www.readwn.com ~Although after entering the second week of screening, compared with "Night at the Museum 2" and "Terminator 2018", which were released in the first weekend, the advantages are not particularly large, but they also retained the top spot in the North American box office chart.

"Fast and Furious 4" took another $56.5 million in the next weekend and continued to rank first; "Night at the Museum 2" successfully suppressed "Terminator 2018" with the advantage of all age groups, ranking second with $51.4 million; " Terminator 2018, despite the addition of Batman Christian Bale, has a poor reputation and won $42.1 million by relying on the influence of the brand, which can only rank third, and the fourth and fifth places are respectively held by "Star Trek" and Wolverine Occupy.

Fast and Furious 4's North American box office is firmly on its way to $300 million after its second weekend.

That is, this weekend, Matthew received an invitation letter, and the Los Angeles Charity Federation invited him to a charity reception.

(As for the six films released in May, all of them were released during this time period, except that "Fast and Furious 4" replaced Tom Hanks' "Angels and Demons".)