As September begins, while Eric filmed "Casino Royale" in the UK, the summer season of North American films has officially come to an end.

The three films "The Matrix", "The Island of Death" released by Firefly Group during the summer season and "The God of Death" under the new line label, the final cumulative total box office was US$420 million. Although all three films are still released in North American theaters, the box office revenue of hundreds of thousands of dollars per week has little impact on the total box office share.

Compared with the total box office that was almost twice the second place in previous years, Firefly Group's box office revenue this year not only completely lost this advantage, but also snatched away the summer box office champion position that had been firmly held for several years by Universal Pictures with a slight advantage of US$435 million. Universal Pictures also achieved good results while leading the box office of "Mummy 2" and "Fatty Professor".

After Fireflies, Warner has released a total of six films in the summer. Although there are no big hits in the box office, it still follows Fireflies with a total revenue of US$380 million due to its number advantage.

Perhaps it was because of the sharp decline in the performance of Firefly's summer films, and the other ones were rising and falling. Global, Warner, and Paramount and Fox and other major film companies have seen a significant increase in box office revenue this summer compared to previous years.

When Variety Show magazine officially released the box office data of this year's summer season and related commentary articles, other media immediately began to follow up. Many professional media publicly stated that the decline in Firefly's film performance indicates that Hollywood will return to the "normal state" of the seven major film companies, because before Firefly's rise, the seven major film companies in Hollywood had fixed production scale and distribution channels, even if a certain company occasionally had big movies, in most cases, the seven major market share was in a relatively balanced proportion based on their comprehensive strength.

Although the seven major Hollywood groups have already developed and integrated towards media groups, the film business still accounts for a considerable share. After Firefly's return to "normal" argument was recognized by most media, the capital market also responded immediately. The stock prices of Time Warner, Viacom, MGM and other companies have risen by more than 10% in just a few days. Even Sony, whose box office is so bad, has seen a small increase.

However, the Firefly Group, a media Imperial train that can almost be considered speeding in recent years, suddenly slowed down sharply. What the media is most concerned about is the reaction within the Firefly Group. In order to obtain some feedback from the senior management of the Firefly Group, some media even made remarks that deliberately provoked the Firefly Group. However, after dealing with the sequel of "The Matrix", unless it is a counterattack against obviously untrue slandering news, Firefly's public relations department has always been very low-key.

As for Hollywood, most people just have a good attitude, especially after the premiere of "Titanic" Venice Film Festival, many people are almost expecting the arrival of the end of the year.

With a production cost of $215 million, a distribution cost of $50 million, and a film duration of more than 3 hours, Hollywood cannot see the possibility of "Titanic" being successful at the box office.

If most of Hollywood Firefly competitors were just waiting to watch the fun, Wall Street would have shining.

Once "Titanic" suffers a huge loss, it will not only swallow up the profits generated by other hit movies in Firefly, but also may also have an impact on Firefly's closed production system, making it follow industry rules and no longer adhere to the self-sufficiency production model.

As long as Firefly opens a gap and raises film production funds into the capital market like other film companies, Wall Street Capital will have enough confidence to tear this "gap" step by step, and eventually swallows the Firefly, leaving it under the control of capital like most Hollywood film companies.

With the outside world eyeing it, everything within the Firefly Group is following the steps.

On September 15, after more than half a year of preparation, Firefly, Fox and MGM's TV station was officially launched. Because Fox has more high-quality movie content than the previous TV stations, and has implemented a series of discount activities. The users of several paid cable stations were basically saved, with a total user scale of 4.1 million.

Because ff TV station is positioned completely similar to HB, Time Warner is naturally facing a great enemy for the launch of ff TV station. Warner Cable Company did not hesitate to tear down the contract and immediately cut off the 300,000 user signals from a TV station originally equipped with ff's predecessor. The entire Time Warner also completely banned the ff TV station.

Although Firefly Group and Time Warner will not publicly break up because of this incident, there are not many concerns between the subsidiaries. As soon as Warner Cable cut off user signals, ff TV sued Warner Cable in federal court for unfair competition. Warner Cable knew that the lawsuit would only make ff TV famous, but had to respond, because ff TV obviously would not agree to a private settlement.

As a veteran in the operation of ethics, Weinstein quickly made this incident a lot, and ff TV became famous for a while.

While ff TV is online, September is also the beginning of the TV autumn season.

Popular TV series such as "Friends", "The Story of the Emergency Room" and "Survivors" and "Lieie TV's "The City", "Proud of the Overpass", and "American Supermodel Contest" have returned in September.

When a person is busy, life will always pass quickly.

When the Firefly TV department delivered the September TV ratings report to Eric, October was already unconsciously coming.

The weather in London is getting colder, and the filming progress of "Casino Royale" has been completed by more than 80%. With the remaining month, the most important scene will be the plot where Bond and the Charlie Angela Linde teamed up to rescue Angela Linde.

It will take another week for Kate, Charlize and Penelope to join the crew. In recent days, the crew's filming work has been relatively easy, mainly the literary dramas of Bond, Mrs. Wisper and several villains.

Just finished filming an interactive scene between the two sisters Wesper and Angela in the morning, Eric sat in the restaurant of the Pinewood Studios, had lunch, and there was still time left, so he read the ratings report just sent by New York.

Ab, there are still three ace programs leading the ratings of "Friends", "The Story of the Emergency Room" and "Survivor".

This year, "Friends" has arrived in the eighth season, and the series is scheduled to end in the tenth season. Ab TV has announced the relevant news before the launch of this season. Although the six starring actors are younger than their previous lives, they have been filming for ten years and are still tired and unwilling to continue.

However, in this time and space, Aniston did not join forces with several other starring to perform a one-million-paper-paper-punching drama. However, Firefly is not stingy. In the last three seasons, the pay for the six starring actors increased to 600,000 US dollars in a single episode, which is twice the pay for their first two seasons.

As the most popular medical drama in recent years, "The Story of the Emergency Room" has a very steady viewership, with a single episode basically remaining above 20 million people.

"Survivor" has peaked with an average of 30 million viewers in the first two seasons, and coupled with the reality shows launched by other TV stations competing for viewers, the ratings have begun to drop sharply.

However, because the production cost of "Survivor" is very low, even if the ratings drop below 10 million, the TV station is still very profitable. What's more, the average rating of 17 million in the three episodes of this season is unrelated to failure in any case. It is the best among all reality shows in North America.

In addition to the three-speed leading series, this year, a brand new black horse has appeared in the ratings, the sitcom "Everyone Loves Raymond".

This sitcom, which focuses on the warm family style, has reached 15 million viewers in the first episode. Perhaps because of the limitations of family themes and the differences in family concepts and cultures between the East and the West, this sitcom was not very famous in Asia in the past life, but its ratings were definitely not much worse than "Friends" at its peak. The ratings of 15 million on the airing are definitely just the beginning. It is expected that when "Friends" is officially completed, "Everyone Loves Raymond" will also enter its peak ratings, just taking over the comedy night of "Friends".

In my memory, "Everyone Loves Raymond" is BS's ace sitcom.

However, Eric did not interfere in this project. He discovered it after seeing the list of new dramas submitted by A in May. The reason why "Everyone Loves Raymond" was transferred to A is mainly because the producer of "Everyone Loves Raymond" was David Letterman. Ab reformed the late-night program two years ago and dug up BS's "David Letterman Late Night Show" to A. The TV project with David Letterman as the producer was naturally taken over by A.

After watching the ratings statistics of AB, Eric was about to open the lieie TV station data, and Christina Aguilera walked over with a small dish.

The girl stood opposite Eric and asked obediently: "Eric, can I sit here?"

Eric smiled and cleaned up the information in front of him, nodded at the girl, Christina happily put down the plate and sat down opposite him.

Although the two had sex, Christina did not bother anyone at all, and did not promote their relationship to outsiders. This smart and knowing how to advance and retreat made Eric very satisfied.

The scenes all day today are related to Christina, so Christina took the initiative to sit next to Eric at this time, and everyone would only think that she would not attract anyone's attention if she wanted to talk to the director about the movie.

Watching Christina pick up the cutlery and stuttering on the plate, Eric asked with a smile, "What have you just been doing, and I'm here to have a meal now?"

Christina replied obediently: "Mom called from Los Angeles and we chatted a little longer."

"Oh, are you missing home?"

"It's not too much," Christina shook her head.

She really doesn't miss homesome. As a single-parent child, Christina is much more self-employed than Britney. She doesn't have the intention to go to school. She has a job and can travel around the world with the crew, but she enjoys it.

Eric smiled and was about to turn his gaze to the information in his hand again, but Christina took the initiative: "Eric, I... I suddenly felt that the character Angela doesn't seem to be very cool."

Eric looked up and said, "What do you think is cool?"

Of course, Christina had watched "Charlie's Angels" and said without thinking: "Of course she is like Selena played by Kate Beckinsale, but Angela is more like a little nerd who likes to tinker with machinery. I think if the Detective Charlie's office really exists, they would definitely not be as good as Angela Lin."

In the character setting of Christina in the script of Casino Royale, Angela Linde is a technology owl who is obsessed with precision equipment, which was influenced by her father when she was a child.

"You think Angela Lin is not cool enough, because "Casino Royale" is a 007 movie. The film will not give this character too much room to play. However, this character has a very complete setting. She is equivalent to Dr. Q in the 007 series. In the future, she will provide various very cool high-tech props for the Charlie Angela Line. Well, after the film is released next year, Marvel Entertainment will publish comics related to Angela Line, and you will see it at that time."

Eric just handed over this character to her and did not reveal much. Christina once felt that this character might just be an ordinary character in the "Casino Royale" series.

At this moment, when Christina heard Eric say this, her eyes became brighter and she asked, "Then, Eric, is this saying that I can appear in the movie in the future?"

Eric smiled and said, "It is certain that your character appears in the comic story. Marvel has started to do this. As for whether it can appear again in the MGM Agent Cinema Universe, it involves too many issues. Your future career development, audience feedback on the character image, storyline needs, etc. I can't make any promises to you now."

Although Eric said this, Christina was not at all disappointed. The girl glanced around with a little charming look, and lowered her voice: "Eric, can I go to your place tonight?"

"What, I want to bribe me," Eric said with a smile.

"Haha, this is just the actress who wants to please Mr. Director."
Chapter completed!