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    For the movie "", Joshua is nothing more than an insignificant presence. Naturally, Universal CEO Ron Meyer, who received the cast list, would not pay too much attention to an unknown actor.  In fact, he only knows Vin Diesel on this list, and this is because "Deep Chill" starring Vin Diesel was being released in theaters during this time, as Disney's first adult film  For films on the market, major film companies are paying close attention to them.  Of course, whether Universal is willing to invest in this film mainly depends on Li Te¡¯s analysis of the film¡¯s prospects.  Litt did not directly tell Lang Meyer how much box office the film would earn. He only said that once the film is successful, it can spawn many equally successful sequels, and Lang Meyer agreed without hesitation.  cooperation.  There is more or less some guilt towards Litt in this, because some time ago when Litt was controversial due to the box office prediction of "Titanic", Universal Company also had doubts about Litt's vision, and after Li Te  When Te came to the door with "Red Flame Battlefield", Universal rejected the cooperation.  After the success of "Titanic", Lang Meyer was worried that Litt would not continue to cooperate with Universal in the future, so he increased the investment budget of "The Matrix" by US$100 million and attended "Meet Me" in person.  The premiere of "Father-in-Law" and various promotional activities, all of which are a change of direction to show goodwill to Lee Teuk.  This time Li Te took the initiative to come to cooperate.  And "" is also a very good script. If Ron Meyer is still dragging his feet when making a decision, it will be foolish rather than cautious.  The two parties quickly finalized the details of the cooperation.  Because this time Lee Teuk personally served as the film¡¯s producer.  Therefore, Universal not only had to pay 50 million in production costs for the film, but it also had to accept various conditions set by Li Te in terms of profit sharing.  Although Lang Meyer felt a little hurt, he still agreed.  After seeing off Li Te, Lang Meyer returned to the office and took out the North American box office statistics for the previous week that his assistant had just given him from his desk drawer, but he had not had time to look at them in detail.  Because he had just decided to invest in "" starring Vin Diesel, Ron Meyer was looking at this box office statistics.  Subconsciously, I was reminded of another movie "Chill" starring Vin Diesel, which was released last Friday.  The opening weekend box office data should be out now.  Just as he was thinking this, he followed Lang Meyer¡¯s gaze and saw the name of the movie written in the first column of the statistics table.  It¡¯s actually "Extreme Cold"!  Ron Meyer thought he was dazzled at first, but after a closer look, he realized that it was true, this movie was ranked first.  And when he looked along this line and saw the box office result of 43 million, he was shocked again.  "Deep Chill" actually took in 43 million at the box office in its first weekend. Could it be that another "Titanic" is about to be born?  Such an idea flashed through Lang Meyer¡¯s mind, but he immediately denied it.  Although Disney invested almost 80 million US dollars in the movie "Frozen", which does not include the later advertising costs, there is obviously a big gap between it and "Titanic", and this movie is just a horror movie.  The film does not have as broad an audience base as "Titanic" in terms of subject matter.  The most important thing is that "Titanic" has made Hollywood collectively look wrong once, and the same situation will obviously not happen again with "Deep Chill".  ??Suppress the surprise in your heart.  Ron Meyer began to look at the box office statistics carefully, and then he found that the second-ranked movie had a weekly box office of only more than 24 million, and the third-ranked movie was even worse, with only more than 18 million.  Lang Meyer did not look any further. With many years of experience, he could already make a conclusion.  There were no heavyweight films released in the United States last week, which is why "Deep Chill" achieved such a high opening weekend box office. ??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????:  It didn't encounter any strong enemies during the schedule, and the film itself was of excellent quality, so it was reasonable to receive such a high box office.  The doubts in his heart were solved, but Long Meyer was still a little unhappy. ?? It is an indisputable fact that "Deep Chill" was able to achieve such a high box office in its first weekend. It has already earned hundreds of millions in North America by the end of its screening, and it is not impossible to even exceed 200 million.  Having tasted the sweetness, Disney will definitely not stop there. With such a powerful newcomer in the already highly competitive adult film market, the market prospects will become increasingly bleak.  In fact, Lang Meyer¡¯s worries are not unreasonable. In the second week of its release, "Deep Chill" took in 45 million at the box office.?, one thing that Disney thought of was not to hold a celebration party for the film, but that Chairman Eisner personally came to find director Stephen Sommers and directly discussed with him the shooting plan for the next film.  In a casual chat, Li Te and Ovitz talked about this incident.  "Eisner was too anxious to do this. If I were Stephen Sommers, I would definitely have objections." Ovitz said with a smile: "If I were Eisner, I would be even more anxious than this.  " Li Te asked why. Ovitz's explanation was that Eisner was not having an easy time during this period. Disney's operating conditions in the past year were not very satisfactory. In addition, the Disney board of directors has been trying to oust Eisner.  The two things put together must have put a lot of pressure on Eisner.  In this case, the success of "Deep Chill" was tantamount to a life-saving straw, and Eisner could only cling to it.  "Then there's no need to be so anxious, right? Not to mention that Sommers may not have any ideas for the next movie yet. Even if he did, it would take at least more than a year from the beginning of preparation to the completion of production. For Disney,  It doesn¡¯t help the overall situation at all.¡± Li Te still doesn¡¯t agree with this, but Ovitz said this is normal.  "Based on what I know about Eisner, he will never wait that long, and the Disney board of directors will not give him so much time, so it is impossible for him not to be anxious." As the two chatted, some topics came up  Far away.  At this time, Fury knocked on the door and walked in, telling Li Te that a guest had arrived.  Li Te stood up and said goodbye to Ovitz. When he left, he took away the cup of coffee that he had not finished. As soon as he sat down in his office, Fury came in with the guest.  Li Te looked at the man who walked in with some surprise, his expression was very strange.  "Mr. Sommers, why is it you?" Sommers sat down at the desk and replied with a smile: "Mr. Little said when he brought Vin Diesel to the audition, the two of us will  We will meet often, have you forgotten?" Li Te smiled and shook his head, "Strictly speaking, our cooperation has ended after the filming of "Extreme Cold". By the way, I almost forgot to congratulate you.  "Mr. Sommers, the box office success of this movie is even better than I expected."  It will be different, and I am not the only one who thinks so. Many newspapers mentioned the performance of the two leading actors when evaluating this movie, and both of them were recommended to me by you." Sommers.  Changing his somewhat arrogant attitude in the past made Li Te a little uncomfortable, and Li Te also knew very well that the change in Sommers' attitude could not be just because of the box office success of "Deep Chill".  There must be other reasons.  Sure enough, Sommers then told Li Te about his purpose.  "Mr. Eisner found me two days ago and asked me to start preparations for the next movie immediately. Although I do have a good idea, Disney hopes that I can complete the movie within a year.  , this is simply impossible, unless I can shorten the preparation time of the film to the greatest extent, and it is not an easy task to do this. First of all, it will take a lot of time to determine the role candidates, and then  We still have to negotiate with their agents one by one, so I was thinking about whether there is a more efficient solution, such as the bundled movie plans implemented by AMG before. " "Since Mr. Sommers is interested in our AMG.  If you have some understanding of the movie bundling method, you should know that there is a very important prerequisite for executing this strategy, that is, everyone from the director to the actors must be our people." Li Te reminded.  "Then if I join AMG, will this problem be solved?" Sommers' words made Li Te raise his eyebrows.  "Are you serious?" "Of course I am, but I have two conditions. First, this movie must be a collaboration with Disney, and second, AMG must match all the actors for this movie for me within a month."  "That's all?" Li Te asked subconsciously.  Sommers thought for a moment and then added: "The starring role in the film cannot be worse than that of "Deep Chill"!" "No problem, I can agree to all of these, and I only need half a month to help you get everything done.  An actor.¡± Some people still didn¡¯t believe it when someone said that Li Te was arrogant, but this time he understood it completely.  ¡°You don¡¯t want to read the script before making a decision?¡± ¡°You can¡¯t even read it now.??, and what I just said is still valid!  " Seemingly influenced by Li Te's strong confidence, Sommers did not ask any more questions. He directly took out the folder containing the script from his briefcase and placed it in front of Li Te. (To be continued)
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