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The best place to host a Titanic-themed exhibition is undoubtedly the Rosarito studio in Mexico.
However, after discussion, everyone agreed that this would not work at all.
Leaving aside the issue of visas, it is impossible for most movie fans to take a cross-border trip just to visit the filming location of a film.
What's more, the security of the Mexico-U.S. border is also a big problem. Eric felt deeply during his trip to Mexico last year. , that Firefly will be very passive. These kinds of things happen to be very common in Mexico, where drug dealers are entrenched and gangs are everywhere. Cameron’s friend and Mexican director Guillermo del Toro, who first introduced and assisted him in building the "Titanic" set in Rosarito, Back then, when he had just made a name for himself in Hollywood, his old father in his hometown was immediately kidnapped.
But Los Angeles is different. According to statistics, in recent years, Los Angeles has received more than 30 million tourists from all over the world every year. Los Angeles is a movie sanctuary in the hearts of movie fans all over the world. When most tourists come to Los Angeles, they will basically visit movie-related attractions such as Universal Studios and Disney World. This provides sufficient visitors for the "Titanic" theme exhibition. source guarantee.
After an afternoon of discussion, Eric finally decided to put the theme exhibition of "Titanic" in Firefly Studios in Los Angeles. The model of the Titanic built in Rosarito will also be dismantled and transported back to Los Angeles for re-examination. Assemble and carry out a new transformation, and open up exhibition halls, restaurants and other areas inside for tourists to visit better. While doing so would cost a fortune, the money was nothing compared to the huge profits that Titanic would bring to Firefly.
At the beginning, Eric purchased 100 hectares of land in Playa Vista at one time. Although the studio has expanded over the years, more than half of the land purchased at the beginning has been consumed, but it is more than enough to open up an area dedicated to "Titanic" , as a legendary masterpiece destined to be recorded in the history of world cinema, "Titanic" also deserves such treatment.
The group has a dedicated team that builds and maintains several major Disney parks in the world, known as Dream Engineers.
After the plan is determined, this experienced team will also be responsible for the next tasks.
During the discussions at the meeting, some of the group's top executives proposed to imitate the model of Universal Studios and directly expand Firefly Studios into a tourist attraction.
This proposal moved Eric quite a bit, but, if Disney’s brand resources are not counted, there are not many projects that Firefly has accumulated over the years that can provide tour resources for the studio, and it is not enough to support a theme park. This plan We can only give up temporarily, but "Titanic" is undoubtedly a good start. As long as it can be successful, some of Firefly's next film projects that are not suitable for Disneyland can open up attractions in Firefly Studios and accumulate to a certain extent Therefore, it is logical that Firefly Studios will be transformed into a tourist attraction.
In order to complete "Casino Royale" as soon as possible, Eric did not rest on the weekend. In the last two days, the post-production of the film was completely over, and he didn't need to worry too much about the next film rating work and early-stage publicity work.
In the new week, although Eric hoped to rest for a few days, he was unable to relax due to various affairs that came one after another.
On Sunday night, March 16th, "The Sopranos" elaborately produced by FFM TV officially began to broadcast. Eric has great expectations for this TV series. The selection of the protagonist, except for the former James Gandolfini in the original time and space, he did not intervene in other aspects. Eric also ordered Weinstein to delegate as much power as possible to the main creator of this TV series, David Chase.
The reason why "The Sopranos" was rated as No. 1 TV series by many media in the original time and space is that this movie completely broke the traditional TV series mode and created a new and meticulous narrative mode. If their management, which has a traditional production thinking mode, intervenes indiscriminately, "The Sopranos" is likely to become a traditional form and lose its original characteristics.
Although there are some differences from the original version after all, the main production idea has not changed.
Therefore, just after the first episode was broadcast, it attracted the attention of many film critics.
"Entertainment Weekly" directly gave almost full marks for drama reviews, and evaluated "The Sopranos" as a "television series full of surprises".
A well-known film critic in the "Boston Globe" even gave an enthusiastic review.
"The Sopranos is a surprisingly special new series."
"The actor Tony Soprano is the leader of a gang in New Jersey, but his gang is not as grand as the Corleone family in "The Godfather", but a small group of five or six people. It's just a collection of protection fees, and perhaps the biggest industry is just the strip club. Even, in addition to this gray identity, he is also an ordinary middle-aged man who has encountered a midlife crisis. Two restless children , his neurotic mother and his wife have brought him all kinds of troubles, which even made him have to seek help from a psychiatrist."
"Therefore, it is difficult for us to find any bright spots purely from the characters in the film. But this creative drama is precisely under this ordinary appearance, opening up a brand-new progressive narrative for us The pattern and the narrative structure of the series are presented without any messiness, and even the screenwriter’s control of the plot structure is perfect, which makes people think about it repeatedly, and can’t help but look forward to the arrival of the next episode.”
Eric didn't know much about the process of "The Sopranos" from its launch to its popularity, so he originally thought that this series would gradually become better like the later "Breaking Bad". But after the film was broadcast in the first season, the response far exceeded Eric's expectations. During the call with Harvey Weinstein, Eric also asked whether Harvey's media reaction was intentional. As a result of the research, Harvey smiled and gave a negative answer.
At the same time, under the good publicity in the early stage, the first broadcast of "The Sopranos" also created a good audience of 1.76 million, which is close to 40% of the total number of subscribers of FFM TV. As a paid cable station, every viewer of FFM TV is valid. Subscribers, plus the show doesn't run any commercials, and doesn't count 18-49 year olds.
The good start of "The Sopranos" almost immediately raised the alarm of main rival HBO, and in the new week, it announced that it would start the production of its own series again. The reason why it is called "again" is mainly because although HBO also announced last year that it will produce its own TV series, due to the slow execution efficiency within the Time Warner system, until the launch of "The Sopranos", HBO did not The official list of self-produced drama projects has not yet been announced.
Of course Eric clearly remembered HBO's first self-produced drama, which wasn't "Sex and the City" or "The Sopranos", but a not-so-famous but equally good-quality "Prisoner".
Since HBO's response is so slow, the project of "In View of the Wind and Cloud" is of course impossible to fall into the hands of HBO. FFM has already bought the script at the beginning of the year. Production will also start soon.
On weekends, although Eric went to work as usual, Christina did not leave, but stayed in Pointe Manor. The girl who originally planned to come to the manor for the weekend heard the news, but only complained to Eric on the phone.
Monday morning.
Eric hung up the phone with Harvey Weinstein, went into the restaurant and read today's newspaper.
Christina was wearing a cropped T-shirt and jeans, and an apron that almost wrapped her petite body around her waist. She ran around like a bee, bringing breakfast to the dining room, and then came across Eric. Sit down, but this girl's expression today is a little strange, it looks like admiration, or awe, which makes Eric feel a little baffled.
Picking up the hot milk at hand and taking a sip, Eric asked half-jokingly, "Why did you suddenly look at me like this, or did you just find out that I'm so handsome today?"
"No," Christina smiled, looked down at the stack of newspapers in front of Eric, raised her hand to point at something, but was stunned, stood up, and said inexplicably: "I remembered, I After looking at it, it landed on the sofa by the curtain wall."
Eric watched curiously as Christina ran out of the kitchen, and soon came back with a magazine.
It turned out to be this month's "Forbes" magazine. Only then did I remember that the new issue of "Forbes" magazine should be officially released today. Oh, this issue also has the list of the 400 richest people in the United States. With such an expression, Eric’s net worth reached 67.7 billion U.S. dollars last year. Before this issue of “Forbes” magazine was released, most financial media predicted that his worth this year would exceed 80 billion U.S. dollars. 80 billion, most people come That being said, it's quite impressive.
This year, in addition to the steady growth of Firefly Group, companies such as Cisco, Yahoo, and AOL under Firefly Investment have almost doubled their growth. Just like Cisco, the market value at this time last year was only more than 10 billion, but according to the recent stock price, Cisco's market value has increased to 33.2 billion US dollars. America Online's market capitalization also grew to $15.3 billion compared to last year.
"Come on, let me see how much money I have now." With a smile on his face, Eric took the magazine from Christina's hand. There was no surprise on the cover, it was his photo, just glanced at the title , Eric immediately widened his eyes in surprise, and said: "They really want to put me on the fire."
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... The Sopranos' strong start almost immediately alerted arch-rival HBO, and in the new week, it announced yet again that it would begin production on its own series. The reason why it is called "again" is mainly because although HBO also announced last year that it will produce its own TV series, due to the slow execution efficiency within the Time Warner system, until the launch of "The Sopranos", HBO did not The official list of self-produced drama projects has not yet been announced.
Of course Eric clearly remembered HBO's first self-produced drama, which wasn't "Sex and the City" or "The Sopranos", but a not-so-famous but equally good-quality "Prisoner".
Since HBO's response is so slow, the project of "In View of the Wind and Cloud" is of course impossible to fall into the hands of HBO. FFM has already bought the script at the beginning of the year. Production will also start soon.
On weekends, although Eric went to work as usual, Christina did not leave, but stayed in Pointe Manor. The girl who originally planned to come to the manor for the weekend heard the news, but only complained to Eric on the phone.
Monday morning.
Eric hung up the phone with Harvey Weinstein, went into the restaurant and read today's newspaper.
Christina was wearing a cropped T-shirt and jeans, and an apron that almost wrapped her petite body around her waist. She ran around like a bee, bringing breakfast to the dining room, and then came across Eric. Sit down, but this girl's expression today is a little strange, it looks like admiration, or awe, which makes Eric feel a little baffled.
Picking up the hot milk at hand and taking a sip, Eric asked half-jokingly, "Why did you suddenly look at me like this, or did you just find out that I'm so handsome today?"
"No," Christina smiled, looked down at the stack of newspapers in front of Eric, raised her hand to point at something, but was stunned, stood up, and said inexplicably: "I remembered, I After looking at it, it landed on the sofa by the curtain wall."
Eric watched curiously as Christina ran out of the kitchen, and soon came back with a magazine.
It turned out to be this month's "Forbes" magazine. Only then did I remember that the new issue of "Forbes" magazine should be officially released today. Oh, this issue also has the list of the 400 richest people in the United States. With such an expression, Eric’s net worth reached 67.7 billion U.S. dollars last year. Before this issue of “Forbes” magazine was released, most financial media predicted that his worth this year would exceed 80 billion U.S. dollars. 80 billion, most people come That being said, it's quite impressive.
This year, in addition to the steady growth of Firefly Group, companies such as Cisco, Yahoo, and AOL under Firefly Investment have almost doubled their growth. Just like Cisco, the market value at this time last year was only more than 10 billion, but according to the recent stock price, Cisco's market value has increased to 33.2 billion US dollars. America Online's market capitalization also grew to $15.3 billion compared to last year.
"Come on, let me see how much money I have now." With a smile on his face, Eric took the magazine from Christina. There was no surprise on the cover, it was his photo, just glanced at the title , Eric immediately widened his eyes in surprise, and said: "They really want to put me on the fire." (To be continued.)