Chapter 249： Super director

The news about Paris-Hilton, in the relatively short movie schedule in April, has occupied a considerable section of the entertainment media in the United States, and many tabloids have even begun to explore the growth process of Paris-Hilton.

Paris-Hilton’s persona can’t last long.

But the level of topic and attention caused by rich daughters is enough for a small production like "House of Death" with a production cost of only $1.2 million.

Emperor Entertainment Group's Los Angeles branch, Miller received Thomas from Embassy Pictures, and both parties must finalize the opening of the theater line of "House of Death".

"Our cooperation has always been happy, and Emperor Entertainment will continue to support Embassy Pictures."

Miller has always been friendly to publishing companies that can make money for his own money: "So, this time we selected 400 theaters to support "House of Death."

Thomas smiled and said, "Thank you for the support of Emperor Entertainment. But Mr. Miller, is there a little less than 400 theaters?"

Miller frowned: "Less?" He was somewhat dissatisfied, and said, "Thomas, you didn't hold any trial screenings for "House of Death". We have no way of knowing whether the film is good or bad. The production cost is only $1.2 million."

Thomas’ expression remained unchanged and said: “The quality of the film is actually not important. Paris-Hilton has already aroused the attention of the public and the media. This super-rich daughter’s first film will attract the attention of a large number of people and drive many people. Buy tickets to watch."

Miller is rubbing his chin. He has also seen recent media reports. Moreover, inside Emperor Entertainment, including several assistants around him, occasionally talk about Paris Hilton making movies.

Thomas continued with a smile and said: "The cost of 1.2 million US dollars is not a problem. The cost of the films of Shahai Entertainment and Embassy Pictures has always been low, but the box office is quite good."

Hearing this, Miller nodded slightly, and the films of Shahai Entertainment and Embassy Pictures seemed to be the best at using small and broad.

Thomas used a killer: "Isn’t that the case with "Blair the Witch" back then? "The House of Death" is a movie run by Ronan himself."

Miller instantly remembered that super lousy movie. Others didn’t know. As the direct person in charge of the release of "Blair Witch", he knew very well that all the operations of "Blair Witch" came from the Ronan Anderson. Hand.

"The House of Death" turned out to be a film run by Ronan Anderson himself?

Miller doesn’t take it seriously!

"Emperor Entertainment has increased to 500 theaters." Miller has a lot of power in this area and made a direct decision: "400 of them will guarantee at least double theaters."

Thomas quickly said, "Thank you. On behalf of Embassy Pictures, I thank Mr. Miller and Emperor Entertainment for their support."

Miller nodded, and then asked: "Are you ready to copy?"

Thomas replied: "It must be all delivered before the show."

Leaving the Los Angeles branch of Emperor Entertainment, Thomas went to AMC and USA to finalize the number of theaters for "House of Death".

Thomas traveled to almost all the North American commercial theater chain companies, and did not expend too much effort, for a super bad movie like "House of Death" that did not even have a trial screening, and finalized 2,200 opening theaters. .

As the direct person in charge of the online distribution of Embassy Pictures in North America, Thomas discovered one thing. It seems that the film released by Embassy Pictures is highly valued by the cinema. He mentioned that this is a film operated by Ronan Anderson himself. The line party is very happy to increase the opening of the theater.

Thomas knows very well that opening a movie theater is very important to "House of Death". He has previously led people to conduct research based on past cases. The online release life of this "House of Death" is extremely short, and may not exceed six weeks. , It will even go offline around.

In this way, the first weekend box office will become extremely critical.

As much as possible, potential audiences must be driven into the theater on the first weekend.

Otherwise, after the film’s reputation is completely diffused, although it will attract some curious audiences, the overall performance will definitely suffer a major decline in diving style.

Thomas also estimated that the first week of the box office of "House of Death" will also account for at least half of the total box office.

After all, this is a bad film supported by a gimmick, and unlike the constant attention caused by "Blair the Witch", the heat caused by Paris-Hilton will soon be exhausted.

When the public lost enough curiosity about Paris Hilton, "The House of Death" returned to its original form.

But he also knows that this low-cost film is easy to achieve profitability.

"House of the Dead" spent very little on production and publicity. The production cost was only US$1.2 million, and the publicity budget was only US$500,000 at the beginning. Later, after Paris-Hilton triggered a media boom, an additional 1.5 million was added. With a US dollar budget, a small premiere is also planned.

The largest investment comes from the copy, 3000 copies and related distribution investment, a total of 5 million US dollars.

With a total investment of 8 million US dollars, Thomas is very confident that he will be able to recover the cost in the first weekend.

As for how much profit he can make, it is difficult for him to estimate.

On April 20, 2001, the premiere of "House of the Dead" was held at the newly renamed Nokia Theater.

The premiere cost only 200,000 US dollars. This amount of money to hold the premiere in Hollywood, can only be said to be stretched. Therefore, the scale of the premiere is very small, and no heavyweight guests are invited. The focus of the premiere is Paris. -Hilton and her sister group, and director Uvi Bauer.

Paris-Hilton was the entertainment focus of media and public attention during this period.

Uvi-Bauer draws the attention of journalists by virtue of his strength.

"I am best at adapting movies to games. I believe that no one in Hollywood does better than me."

Facing the reporter’s interview, Uvi-Bauer looked like an illiterate face, but when he said it, he was more confident than Spielberg: "The House of Death is just a series of games adapted from my movie. At the beginning, I still have many plans to follow."

This special-looking German director, with his strength, grabbed the attention of many media reporters from Paris Hilton.

The reporters saw Uvi Bauer so confidently and had no previous directing experience as a comparison, and thought that he was very competent.

A reporter immediately asked loudly: "Director Bauer, what plans do you have next?"

Uvi-Bauer is best at running trains with his mouth full, and he ran extraordinarily at this time: "Island Kojima Studio's "Metal Gear", Blizzard's "Warcraft" and "StarCraft"..."

These are all famous games. Many people who don’t play video games have heard of their names.

Many reporters looked at Uvi-Bauer in their eyes, as if they had seen an ambitious and successful director.

Uvi-Bauer is very good at bluffing people, otherwise he would never have been the king of bad movies, and he would be able to make investments.

"Very good." Ronan stood by the window on the second floor of the Nokia Theatre and said, "A talent like Uvi Bauer always has room to play."

Tony Koch, who had just arrived from Germany, said: "I think Paris Hilton is more valuable."

Ronan shook his head: "Paris-Hilton can only use this once, and it won't have such a good effect if you use it again. And Uvi-Bauer..."

He didn't continue, Wu Bao is a super director who can claim a throne!

Tony Koch asked curiously: "Ronan, how did you hook up Paris-Hilton? You don't have a leg, do you?"

Ronan said lightly: "You think too much." He changed the subject: "Has the tax refund applications for several new projects passed?"

"Basically there is no problem." Tony Koch put away his joke and said seriously: "These projects have relatively low individual investment. I repackaged them and operated them in the name of a one-time investment in Koch Pictures, and got the tax refund. No problem. But it will take next month at the earliest after approval."

Ronan nodded: "Don't be in a hurry, stay steady."

Tony Koch said: "I do things, you can rest assured."

Ronan smiled: "Don't be careless."

As long as the project with large investment, the tax refund operation will be carried out in Germany. The expected tax refund of 10% of the income is also a lot of money.

Many movies are shot, but they may not make 10% profit.

Like traditional industrial products, 10% can be said to be high-profit industries.

Ronan patted Tony Koch on the shoulder and said, "Come on, let's go into the cinema and wait."

There have been audiences entering the venue one after another, and there are sparse audiences on the second floor, but Ronan and Tony Koch are strange faces to the audience, and no one notices them.

Pedro took a Paris-Hilton character poster, entered the theater, found a seat, and found that many people were talking about Paris-Hilton.

It seems that many people come to see the goddess Bai Fumi.

I don’t know why, Pedro feels uncomfortable in his heart, and feels like his goddess is being peeped by wretched men.

How good would it be if you could grab home and appreciate it by yourself?

Pedro's thinking is too active, and suddenly think of something strange. If Paris Hilton could make a San Fernando film specifically for herself?

After the audience entered the venue, reporters and film critics from the media also stepped in.

Eric is in it.

Under the guidance of the staff, he came to the third row at the front, and the people around him were basically his colleagues.

Before coming over, Eric made a special inquiry. In the past two years, Embassy Pictures has released a lot of popular films, and film critics are also willing to comment on the films released by Embassy Pictures.

Movies that have audience enthusiasm, only the comments of film critics have attention.

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