Heads Up Hollywood

Since last year, entertainment reality shows have suddenly become a new trend.

Following "American Idol" and "Smart and Brave", Dick Clark Television Productions has started a new project - "The Bachelor".

American reality shows usually have a major feature-tearing.

Not only the guests tear each other up, but also the host and the guests. Anyway, the supervision is very loose. In order to create conflicts, there are various kinds of tears in reality shows.

Enhance the so-called "realism".

Is "America's Next Top Model" just taking photos and walking the stage? No, there is still tearing!

"Flying Bridge" is obviously a fashion design program, but it has to be torn!

Even a culinary reality show like "Hell's Kitchen" has to be torn apart in the process of cooking.

Since one of the main themes of the reality show is sex, then well, Twain will directly take out the "Bachelor" reality show, make sex for the sake of sex, and make sex to the peak!

"The Bachelor", in fact, is to choose a super handsome guy, and then choose a dozen beauties. With one season of the program, let these girls and handsome guys go to the scenic spots to play and increase the relationship between each other.

If during the program, the girl fails to get the rose presented by the handsome guy, it means that she is eliminated.

The girl who survives to the end is the winner. Not only can she hold hands with the handsome guy to succeed, but she can also achieve many benefits.

In order not to be eliminated, the girls must use all kinds of tricks and tricks to attract the attention of the handsome guy, and even take the initiative to court him. During this process, the fighting between the girls will definitely be very hot!

What's more, if you want to be teased, you can't make the handsome guy feel disgusted, otherwise you will be eliminated, and you can only tease him behind your back.

In this kind of fierce competition, "good girls" will often be eliminated, and "scheming whores" can often stay, which is so interesting.

If the handsome guy wisely discovers the girl's "scheming" means and keeps the kind girl, it will be even more interesting!

Of course, the most interesting thing is sex.

If the handsome guy sleeps the female guest during this process, but in the following rose gifting session, he does not give this female guest, pulls out the ruthless, and eliminates after sleeping, then it will completely explode.

In addition, it can also be reversed, a big beauty is selected among a dozen men, showing the "means" of men in competing for women, which is the female version of "The Bachelor" - "The Bachelorette".

"American Idol" is becoming more and more popular. At present, more than 30 countries have purchased the copyright from Tang En Pictures.

The copyright fee alone can generate an income of 100 million U.S. dollars every year!

And as long as the program continues to be popular, the copyright will increase year by year.

In Hollywood, the core of making money was movies. With Tang En's promotion, high-quality TV dramas have also been taken seriously. I heard that HBO will also vigorously launch self-produced dramas with large investment.

With the success of "American Idol", Twain has realized that the ability to make money from popular reality shows is no worse than popular movies and TV series.

That being the case, why not completely control the reality show in your hands!

Tang En's foresight only has more than a dozen years left, and he must make full use of this natural advantage.

Those reality shows with explosive ratings, he will occupy a lot of them!

After Michael Eisner heard the news, he immediately called Tang En, "The Bachelor must be signed to ABC!"

Tang En smiled and said, "Michael, I'm under a lot of pressure!"

"Um?"

""American Idol" was given to CBS, and "Smart and Brave" was given to ABC. Both NBC and FOX also contacted me for cooperation. There are even many cable TV networks who want to cooperate with me. Woolen cloth."

"Don't forget, now Disney and Tang En Pictures are strategic partners! ABC has the priority to sign Dick Clark's reality show."

Tang En smiled, "Of course there is priority, but the premise is that ABC's bid cannot be lower than theirs."

Michael Eisner could not wait to scold twice.

This kid, at a young age, recognizes money!

Since it is a partner, can't we give Disney a little discount?

However, he would not say these words naively. He sighed and changed the subject, "How about the co-production of the movie? Tell me...how about the first movie being a direct remake of "Snow White"?"

Michael Eisner is very anxious now. Shareholders are putting a lot of pressure on Disney's management. He needs to use Dunn's famous brand to win the trust of investors.

""Snow White"...is too classic and famous. It will be very difficult to remake it. Let's talk about it in a few years." Tang En shook his head and said slowly, "I have already communicated with the production department about the specific project. After communication, I think... the first film can be a remake of "Dumbo."

"Dumbo?" Michael Eisner was slightly taken aback.

Tang En said: "The biggest problem in remaking a movie is not the storyline, but the values. The values ​​of a few decades ago are very different from what they are now. If a cartoon like "Snow White" is remade, there must be a big difference. But "Dumbo" doesn't need it, the value of the original cartoon is very good, we only need to show the wonderful pictures in the cartoon with the current lens language and special effect technology, and restore it to a high degree. This is a generation People's memories can attract fans of almost all age groups, old, middle-aged, young and young."

Michael Eisner did not speak, still thinking.

Tang En continued: "When the animation of "Dumbo" was released, it happened to be two months before the outbreak of the 'Pearl Harbor Incident'. At that time, there was a storm of movie viewing in North America. Many media thought that "Dumbo" In an era of war, he became the master of the children's kingdom. "Time Magazine" even awarded the Person of the Year to 'Dumbo' Danbo ingeniously."

Michael Eisner immediately understood what Tang En meant.

Now is also the time of war!

The "Dumbo" cartoon is a fond memory of the war years, and the live-action movie... can also use this idea to carry out marketing.

"Because of the impact of the economic crisis and strikes in the original cartoon, the plot is not coherent enough, and the structure of the movie is also very simple. It has to be said that this is a great pity. Therefore, in the remake process, all the advantages of the cartoon must be carried Come here, enrich the plot and make up for regrets." Tang En added.

Michael Eisner suddenly asked, "What about the budget?"

The corner of Tang En's mouth was quite sarcasm, and he said lightly: "'Dumbo' must be a 3D animation of a computer, and it must be produced with high precision. No failure is allowed! Therefore, we must invite big-name directors to take the shots, and invite big-name stars to lead the lineup."

Black lines appeared on Michael Eisner's forehead. He has always been very repulsive to big-budget movies, "Is it necessary?"

"It is very necessary! This film must be a high-quality production!"

Tang En's tone was unquestionable.

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In May, "Spider-Man 2" was only released in certain countries in Latin America and Asia, and only received a box office of US$50 million in overseas markets.

But in June, the overseas market began to exert its strength!

By June 15, the North American box office of "Spider-Man 2" had broken through the US$500 million mark, and overseas markets had also received US$200 million.

In contrast, "Star Wars Episode 2: Attack of the Clones", which was very high-profile during the promotional period, began to show signs of decline. The overseas market only received 100 million US dollars, and the North American box office just reached 250 million US dollars.

Basically, the box office revenue of "Star Wars Episode 2" is only half of that of "Spider-Man 2".

Tang En made a special call to George Lucas for this, and said insincerely that he liked "Star Wars Episode 2" very much. The reason why the box office was not as expected was because of 20th Century Fox's marketing strategy mistakes.

If he is allowed to operate the "Star Wars" series of projects, he will definitely be able to make more money.

George Lucas smiled wryly.

But it sounds... I always feel that Tang En's words are suspected of sowing discord.

"Lucasfilm and 20th Century Fox signed a distribution contract for three films." George Lucas directly interrupted Tang En's thoughts.

Tang En smiled slightly and said meaningfully: "The contract can be bought out."

George Lucas had a black line on his forehead, "Do you think Star Wars is the same as Pixar's cartoons? Pixar's cartoons are good-looking, but they also have the risk of losing money. But no matter how bad the box office of Star Wars is, they can still make a lot of money!" That liquidated damages is a sky-high price!"

Tang En laughed silly twice.

Next, he will fly to Seattle, meet with Bill Gates, talk about the crisis of Penguin, and start the project cooperation between Microsoft and Dunn Films by the way.

MSN is currently the second largest portal in the world, second only to Yahoo.

And MSN chat software, as well as news push.

Tang En talked about a business with Bill Gates. Tang En Pictures' future entertainment inside information will be exclusively provided to Microsoft; Lots of news coverage.

Microsoft and NBC have already cooperated, and even launched WNBC TV station, and they are no strangers to cooperation with the entertainment industry.

Then, Tang En will fly directly to England to inspect the filming of "Harry Potter 2", meet the young actors, and encourage them to act well.

This group of young actors is very hard, since "Harry Potter 1", there is basically no winter and summer vacation, and all the long vacations are used to make movies.

If "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" is released, it's okay to say that the children will definitely be very motivated to see their performance in the cinema.

But now that "Harry Potter 1" has not yet been released, the filming of "Harry Potter 2" will start directly, which will definitely make children feel confused and not motivated enough.

Tang En wanted to encourage them.

After condolences to the "Harry Potter" crew, Tang En is going to fly to Paris.

This is the highlight of his trip - he wants to meet Vivendi executives!

For Tang En, this summer has just begun!