April ended in a blink of an eye, and the summer season in May came again. Although the overall downturn in the summer season last year made people disappointed with the performance of the film market, this was only compared with "Independence Day". In fact, "Jurassic Park 2: The Lost World", "Men in Black" and "Air Force One" performed very well, especially the "Men in Black" who emerged suddenly, which made Will Smith another popular black actor after Denzel Washington, Eddie Murphy and others.

This summer season will kick off with two works, "Deep.impact" and "Godzilla", and stage a vigorous summer box office battle. Both works are disaster movies, and are entirely based on the brilliant success of "Independence Day", especially the latter!

"Godzilla" is directed by Roland Emmerich. After this director who made a big splash on "Independence Day", he collaborated with Sony Columbia Pictures and spent $120 million to create the film. He also invited Jean Renault, who was famous all over the world because "this killer is not too cold", to join. It can be said that he is coming in full force.

Although the summer season has not begun at this time, people have already begun to be excited in advance. What box office performance will the two disaster movies contribute and what box office results will Roland's new work after "Independence Day" have all become hot topics.

Especially in the "Star Wars Prequel" series, the scandal with Hugo has been very popular in the past month, and the heated discussion has remained high. Some even wrote a joint letter to hope that Hugo could play Obi-Wan, and some organized a rally to protest Hugo's franchise in a parade. Topics followed one by one, allowing the heat of the summer season to cover the entire North American continent early.

It is not known what kind of chemical reaction will happen between Hugo and "Star Wars Prequel", but the answer will be revealed soon after the "Clash of Heaven and Earth" and "Godzilla" movie box office performance. What's more interesting is that this time Roland will have a duel with Hugo.

With the approaching summer season, Paramount Pictures also announced the schedule of "Trumen's World". This comedy movie with an investment of only $60 million can only be regarded as a small shrimp in this extremely competitive period, but it has become popular due to Hugo's joining.

"Godzilla" will officially land in the North American market on May 22, while "Truemon's World" will be fully released in North America on June 5. Although there is a two-week interval between them, "Godzilla" still needs to face the impact of "Truemon's World". The market share of this comedy movie starring Hugo will have a direct impact on "Godzilla"'s subsequent box office pulling ability.

This will be Hugo's third summer season after "life and death speed" and "Independence Day". However, compared with the previous two works, "Trueman's World" is not only Hugo's first challenge to comedy movies, but also needs to face the summer market's pickiness for the same type of movies. This also adds a hint of uncertainty to the movie's North American box office.

Of course, under Hugo's current momentum, people still generally believe in Hugo's box office appeal, and "Trueman's world" will inevitably become a seed choice that cannot be ignored in the summer season. Under such circumstances, how much pressure will the subsequent box office of "Godzilla" be under, and whether the cumulative box office will be directly affected in the end has become the biggest highlight.

People also lamented that this is a precursor to Hugo and Roland joining forces to "dominate the summer season" again after "Independence Day". It is ridicule, ridicule, and expectation.

Before the summer season arrived, everyone's attention was focused on the lively film market, and the topics surrounding Hugo were always inseparable from the shadow of "Star Wars Prequel". However, in silence, storms occurred in the circle.

In just less than fifty days, DreamWorks acquired four small issuance companies and a medium issuance company in a large scale, and vigorously established DreamWorks' own issuance department. Only then did people notice that a powerful amount of funds was injected into DreamWorks!

Before this, no news came out. When people in the circle heard that DreamWorks had taken the initiative to acquire the distribution company, they didn't care too much, because DreamWorks is an independent production company, and the three giants led by Steven Spielberg refused any form of Wall Street capital injection, so no one thought DreamWorks could make big moves.

But now, DreamWorks, which has been silent, suddenly burst out with such powerful energy, which is impressive. Only then did he notice the existence of Allen Strello, who injected funds into DreamWorks in his personal name, helped DreamWorks complete the construction of the issuance department, and improved DreamWorks' competitiveness several levels in one fell swoop.

In fact, this news made many people in the circle very confused. Everyone knows that Steven refused to inject funds because he refused all kinds of funds. The three helmsman of DreamWorks are all very personalized. They rejected external funds, which is actually a rejection of others' inferences about their creations. But this time, DreamWorks accepted Allen's capital injection, which is really an incomprehensible problem.

Soon after, rumors in the circle were found: Hugo Lancaster will join DreamWorks as the executive officer of Allen. Allen will not interfere with any daily affairs of DreamWorks and will give Hugo full rights to deal with it. In other words, DreamWorks is no longer the Big Three, but the Big Four! Hugo and Steven, David and Jeffrey are joining together and become the helmsman of DreamWorks' future development.

The news was soon recognized by David Geffen. One stone caused a thousand waves!

No one can predict what impact this change will have on Hollywood. The success of the two works "Los Angeles City Secret" and "Excellent" is still vivid in my mind. Hugo's unbeaten record since the Golden Raspberry Award has won the reputation of Hollywood as the "Golden God Hand". Even the success of the "Titanic" is considered to be something Hugo has expected.

Therefore, after Hugo joins DreamWorks, what changes will it bring to DreamWorks and what vitality will it inject into the works produced by DreamWorks. All of this is worth looking forward to.

At the same time, Hugo's franchise is also linked to the establishment of the issuance department. The funds injected by Allen are used to establish the issuance department. It is not difficult to guess that these two things are closely related, and it can also be seen that DreamWorks' strong ambitions are.

After careful exploration, you can find that the only medium-sized distribution company acquired by DreamWorks was completed from Disney. The company has very good resources and has cooperated with five major theaters. It has long-term screening cooperation rights for 1,300 theaters. In addition, it also has some cooperative relationships with Disney's theme parks, surrounding sales, and videotape rental businesses.

Among the other four issuing companies, three are independent issuing companies that started from scratch, with their issuing capabilities mainly concentrated in the West Coast and the central center centered on Chicago; the other is a cooperative issuing company under Paramount. This company has the long-term cooperative screening rights of 600 theaters, but its geographical location is a leader among small issuing companies. It is only a matter of time before it develops into a medium-sized or even large company.

As we all know, among the eight major Hollywood film companies, Paramount has the strongest distribution capabilities, but Disney has the marketing capabilities of its surrounding business. DreamWorks has chosen these distribution companies for acquisitions, which is definitely not aimless.

People in the circle suddenly smelled the exchange of interests here. Although they could not clear away the fog and saw the truth of the matter, after the precipitation of time, they would always come to light. At that time, they would know how many bloody storms they had experienced after this transaction.

What people didn't notice was that Hollywood had experienced several small turmoil over the long months thereafter.

First, Robert Eiger, CEO of ABC TV, was promoted in early July. He successfully joined Disney Corporation, became one of the many helpers of CEO Michael Esner, and became the president of the international business department. He was responsible for Disney's global distribution and opening up, and also served as the chairman of ABC Group.

Almost in the same period, there was a personnel turmoil in Bowei Film Company. CEO David Vogel's most trusted deputy chief operating officer was removed from office. Michael of Disney headquarters personally sent a new chief operating officer to assist Bowei Film Company in its business development.

In addition, Kenneth/Michelle Film Company owned by Catherine Kennedy signed a cooperation agreement with DreamWorks. In the future, they will jointly develop several works. DreamWorks has the priority distribution right. The premise is that DreamWorks' distribution department can meet the distribution capabilities of 2,500 theaters.

These trivial news did not attract much attention because personnel changes within large film companies are very frequent. In addition to CEOs and COOs, important positions have changed. Otherwise, it will be difficult for people to pay too much attention. After all, it is still a strategist who is planning behind the scenes. The lower the attention, the better.

However, real people with interest can notice the subtle connections, especially a week after DreamWorks completed the acquisition of the mid-sized distribution department, Hugo officially announced through Rick Rosen that his new work will be a horror movie "The Sixth Sense of Supernatural", working with new director M Knight Shamaran, and actors who performed on the same stage include Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Beckinsale and Toni Colette.

This horror film is not revealed, and investing 55 million US dollars will become Hugo's third work as producer. But it is worth noting that the "Supernatural Sixth Sense" is not a work invested by DreamWorks, but a work invested by Bowei Film Company.

The connections make people think a lot.
Chapter completed!