Chapter 127: Acquisition?

The first Monday in September coincides with the Labor Day holiday.

Theater companies began to increase the number of screens and film schedules, and the single-day box office of "The Evil Invasion" rose instead of falling, ushering in a small boom, with a single-day box office of 6.08 million US dollars.

In addition, the three-day box office in the first weekend was 19.06 million U.S. dollars, and in just four days, a total of 25.17 million U.S. dollars was harvested.

However, the word-of-mouth of "The Evil Invasion" has declined rapidly, and it is estimated that the box office will face a sharp drop on Tuesday's working day

The viewing peak of "The Evil Spirit" is very short, and we can only rely on long-term screenings to increase the box office data a little bit.

"At the end of the summer vacation, on the first rest day in September, the North American film market once again ushered in a film, invested and distributed by 20th Century Fox, the horror film "The Evil Spirit" directed by Ryan Gosling was released, and opened at midnight. With a 480-screen opening, the first weekend and the Labor Day holiday earned a box office of 25.17 million U.S. dollars, and the film director Ryan Gosling once again dominated the end of the summer.”

"The film investor Twentieth Century Fox has publicly announced that "Chain Saw 3" will be released during the Thanksgiving holiday."

Inside the Disney headquarters office building, Michael Ovitz put down the newspaper with a very ugly face.

"It premiered for four days and earned a box office of 25.17 million US dollars!"

"In other words, Ryan Gosling's "The Evil Within" didn't fail?"

Widis-Albert nodded silently, and said: "At least from a business point of view, Ryan Gosling did not fail, but brought a lot of profits to 20th Century Fox."

Whether a film fails or not depends not on the reports in the media or the reputation of the audience, but on whether it can bring profits.

Obviously, the box office performance of "The Evil Spirit" has not only reaped costs, but is expected to make a lot of money.

Michael Ovitz opened his mouth, but in the end he didn't say anything, he just waved his hand and asked his assistant, Widis Albert, to go out.

After a while, he said to himself in a heavy tone, "Ryan-Gosling?"

He couldn't figure out why Ryan Gosling could succeed one after another.

Even a good-for-nothing horror movie still succeeds.

He just read the data in the newspaper, and the female audience accounted for 59%, an unbelievable proportion.

Michael Ovitz suddenly realized one thing, once Ryan Gosling was filming "The Truman Show", it could be successful again.

Then he will face unimaginable consequences, and there will be voices of doubt in Disney's board of directors, and even his position will be shaken.

Unless some necessary measures can be taken.

Michael Ovitz quickly shook his head and did not continue to think about it. He could publicly accuse Ryan Gosling, or even use his contacts to suppress Ryan Gosling.

But "The Truman Show" is not only invested by Ryan Gosling, facing Paramount and Lucasfilm, it is impossible for him to make any small moves.

Especially in the critical period right now, choosing to go to war with Paramount and Lucasfilm is not a good choice for him.

What's more, Disney is not a CAA. It is Eisner who can really call the shots, not Michael Ovitz.

At almost the same time, in Paramount's office building, Shirley Lansing and her husband William Friedkin received the newspapers just delivered by the secretary.

"The director of the film, Ryan Gosling, is obviously influenced by "The Exorcist" in terms of directing style?"

After William Friedkin finished reading, he first made a helpless gesture, and then exaggeratedly said: "Finally someone told the truth."

Shirley Lansing did not choose to satisfy her husband's vanity. "The Exorcist" has long been a thing of the past, and said: "Ryan Gosling, a director who can bring miracles, it seems that he chose to invest in "Chu The World of Doors is a very correct decision."

"Disney and Eisner have missed a director who can bring miracles."

Many Hollywood films and directors have been called miracle words, such as George Lucas and "Star Wars" back then, and William Friedkin and "The Exorcist" in front of us.

"It is said that 20th Century Fox intends to acquire Ryan Gosling's personal studio, so as to obtain the copyright of all the "Chain Saw" series." William Friedkin put down the newspaper in his hand and looked at Shirley Lansing Said.

"Chain Saw" series film copyright!

Shirley Lansing frowned slightly, and said, "It seems that Paramount also needs to issue a letter of intent for acquisition."

As we all know, Paramount is not good at running series of films. Except for the "Star Trek" series, there are almost no series of films that are familiar to people, not even as good as Lucasfilm among the second-tier film companies.

"Then the cooperation plan between CAA and Tom Cruise!" William Friedkin said with some hesitation.

CAA and Tom Cruise are preparing to cooperate with Paramount on a new project, and the initial estimated investment will be as high as 80 million US dollars.

Of course this is not the point, the point is the relationship between CAA and Ryan Gosling, a well-known thing in Hollywood.

"It doesn't matter."

Shirley Lansing pointedly said: "Michael Ovitz has already begun to transfer the shares of CAA. His current status is the president of Disney, not the controller of CAA. His residual influence will soon disappear. It will dissipate completely."

As early as August, Michael Ovitz had officially announced that he would resign from all positions in CAA, transfer all the company's shares, and assume the position of president of Disney.

It can be said that caa has little relationship with Michael Ovitz.

"Since you have already decided."

William Friedkin said without hesitation: "Then it is necessary for someone to immediately collect all the information about Ryan Gosling's personal studio, as well as a large amount of cash."

Shirley Lansing nodded. The value of the copyright of the "Chain Saw" series will obviously not be a small amount, and there will be many competitors, such as 20th Century Fox, and Paramount's final purchase price will definitely not be a small amount. It won't be cheap.

But she still has no intention of backing down. The copyright of the "Chain Saw" series can just make up for the shortcomings of Paramount's inability to operate series films.

Ryan, who is far away in Canada, did not pay attention to the release data of "The Evil Spirit" all the time as the outside world guessed.

However, the crew of "The Truman Show" became more and more awed when they looked at Ryan. Directing three films and producing one film all sold well at the box office. This is not something ordinary directors can do.

Another point is that the box office of the film is a big hit, which is also good news for ordinary crew members. Not only can they be extravagant at the celebration dinner, but they can also get a lot of money in red envelopes.

As a result, many crew members began to discuss in private the topic of "The Truman Show", whether it can continue to be a big box office hit in future releases, how many red envelopes they can get, and so on.

Ryan had just had a very pleasant experience, looking down at Claudia Schiffer in his arms, stroking her smooth skin.

"The box office of "The Invasion of Evil" is not bad. It is estimated that it will exceed 40 million U.S. dollars in the end. Otherwise, 20th Century Fox will have to blacklist me."

It is a bit exaggerated to say that even if the box office of "The Evil Spirit" is not satisfactory, 20th Century Fox probably will not blacklist him, and they will continue to cooperate in the filming of "Saw 3".

Claudia Schiff leaned into her arms, put a slender index finger on Ryan's chest, and said, "Do you want to celebrate?"

"You can ask your little lover to come with me, I don't mind."

"We can try something new."

The little lover in her mouth refers to Charlize Theron.

New tricks!

Ryan suddenly felt hot, and said: "Very tempting proposal, we can try tomorrow night, the new trick you mentioned."

You can play more tricks that you have never seen before, such as asking the two of them to walk the catwalk together.

By the way, you need to prepare more costume props such as stockings, skirts, leather pants, underwear, high heels, boots, etc.

If you have time, you can also come to a drama performance, Superman vs. Real and False Wonder Woman, to see how their acting skills are.

Don't think too much, there is nothing unhealthy about it, just normal model catwalks and some plot rehearsals.