The new line's headquarters is not in the Daenerys East Coast headquarters building on West 66th Street in the Upper West Side, but in Greenwich.

The evening party was also held in the banquet hall of a hotel in Greenwich Village.

From the establishment of the distribution company in 1967, to the second-tier line with the "Ghost Street" series in the 1980s, to the bankruptcy of Hollywood integration in 1992, and later incorporated by Blockbuster under Daenerys, the ups and downs of Xinyi Film can simply write a wonderful novel with ups and downs.

This time, as Daenerys increased its investment in two major platforms, namely DHO and Blockbuster leasing chains, and continued to implement Simon's competitive strategy to quietly set up a squeeze on the living space of other studios. The new line that has been silent for several years has been reused again, and plans to open up Daenerys, the fourth largest brand under Daenerys Entertainment, outside of New World and High Gate.

The party held by Xinyi tonight is to build momentum for the company's expansion next year.

When the little maid took Mona Elmery to the hotel where the party was, the situation this time was obviously much larger than the party in the film and television circle last time. Before entering, there was also a promotional process such as autographing and taking photos. Although it was obvious that the reporter on the scene was not very interested in her, a strange oriental girl, appeared in front of the photo wall, the little maid was still very satisfied.

Even if the stars in China are old, how many of them can stand in such occasions?

When she entered the banquet hall, there were not many people at the scene. The little maid saw her agent, Jenny Lesenberg, at a glance, walked straight over, and waited for Lesenberg to finish the conversation with the middle-aged man in front of her and turned to her, then she smiled and greeted in English: "Good evening, Jenny, why are you here so early?"

"The early birds eat insects," Lesenberg said, patiently waiting for Mona to translate a sentence in the little maid's ear, and then he did not forget to introduce it: "By the way, Fan, this is the format van Sant, the director of the very outstanding "The Spirit Catcher" two years ago. Gus, this is Fan, a great actor. The two consecutive TV series she starred in in China have achieved phenomenal ratings."

The little maid listened to Mona's instant translation in his ear and tried to shake hands with the middle-aged man with a stubble hairstyle in front of him in English: "Hello, Mr. Sant, I've seen your "Spirit Catcher" and I like it very much."

"Thank you, Miss Fan, I'm glad to know you," Gus Van Sant shook his hand with the little maid, in a very polite tone, but both sides were not familiar with each other and had no topic at the moment, so he turned to Lesenberg again: "Since that's the case, Jenny, let's arrange a meeting as soon as possible and have a detailed discussion."

"No problem, I will give you the exact time tomorrow."

Watching Gus van Sant leave, the little maid showed just the right doubts, and Jenny Lesenberg did not keep it a secret, and smiled and revealed: "The new film Gus is preparing for has attracted my next actor, William Messi. If you have watched "Furious", he won the Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor for the performance of that film."

The little maid has been making up for Hollywood common sense for a while, and movies are naturally the most important one. Hearing the word, "I know the Coen brothers' movie, and director Sant, I believe he is preparing another excellent movie."

"Ha, I'll take you to meet Bob, and then you need to have a social event on your own," Lesenberg smiled and signaled in one direction, leading the little maid through a crowd at a buffet table. Seeing that there happened to be no one around, he whispered to the topic just now: "Actually, after "The Mind Catcher", Gus' new film last year was a mess, burning Disney's $50 million cost, and only recovering less than 20 million box office. In the typical second-grade effect, Daenerys did not continue to work with him after "The Mind Catcher". Many Hollywood filmmakers are like this, and they have achieved success, thinking that they are the center of the universe, and they feel that any interference between agents and studios in him is a serious crime. In the new film, they demand absolute control, freely play, and squander. As a result, they are often like the sports car that rushed to the valley in "The End of the Road", Boom!"

Seeing that Lesenberg finally spread his hands and made an explosion, the little maid smiled in cooperation, but didn't understand much, and thought, maybe this agent was hitting him?

No need.

Even though "My Fair Princess" and "Legend of Sword and Fairy" in China are at its peak, she is not inflated at all and is still in awe.

As he said that, he soon came to the other people.

The little maid and Mona used the Internet to check the information of Robert Shea, the founder of the new line, in the villa in the Upper West Side in advance. After seeing the photos, they recognized the gray-haired middle-aged man with a very British gentleman look at one of the conversations.

There seems to be a promotion here.

The other party is two, with a bit similar appearance, probably two brothers.

"Yes, Bob, this is indeed a hodgepodge of "Saturday Night Live" jokes, but thankful Adam's "Tea Boy" has proven that such films are very popular with audiences."

“And the cost is very low.”

"Yes, the cost is very low. In addition, we can invite a supermodel to play the role of Mary, and Cindy Crawford is good."

Robert Shea subconsciously interrupted when he heard this: "Cindy can't do it. Although she is very famous, it turns out that she is more suitable to play some small supporting roles and can't support a movie alone."

One of the two brothers with long hair quickly gestured and said, "Then Daniela...Heidi...Fernanda, Oh, by the way, Roberta, Roberta Chilco, although Roberta performed very much like an action actress in that 007, she really has the potential of an American sweet girl..."

The long-haired man had to continue. When Robert Shea saw Lesenberg approaching with his little maid, he finally interrupted: "Peter, Bob, to be honest, because he does not go through theater channels, but directly puts on TV and video platforms. The new line mainly produces low-cost action movies or crime, thriller, and horror types. Even if you give a literary film script, I can try it, but comedy movies, I'm sorry, this is not the type that audiences prefer on small screens. Maybe you can put ideas on the New World."

Shay spoke out and could see that the brothers were a little depressed, but the long-haired man quickly said: "Or, Bob, we have an idea to make a spoof horror comedy based on "The Street of Ghosts". You know, last week's "Shocking Scream" sold more than 55 million in the first week, which was a miracle."

Robert Shay shook his head this time and frowned obviously: "Sorry, Peter, I don't want to see "Ghost Street" being spoofed. Please do whatever you want, I have other guests to greet you."

When Shay said this, neither of the brothers were ignorant anymore. They raised their glasses to Shay, nodded to the little maids and turned around and walked away.

When the brothers walked a little further, Robert Shay had changed his smile and shook hands with Jeni Lesenberg to greet him.

Then he helped to introduce the little maid.

After hearing Lesenberg's introduction, Robert Shei greeted him in a friendly and polite manner, he also said another thing: "Ms. Fan, I have watched the video of "Edge of Crisis" you auditioned for. If you have no other problems here, this role can be decided directly, how about it?"

"Oh, really?" The little maid skillfully imitated the Westerners to show a surprise expression. After Shay confirmed again, she nodded quickly: "That's so much thank you, Mr. Shay."

"You're welcome, Miss Fan has achieved such dazzling achievements in China at such a young age. I am also looking forward to your cooperation with Xinyi."

Jenny Lesenberg, who was standing next to him, was polite to each other, but did not walk away immediately, but asked casually: "Bob, what ideas are those two selling you just now?"

"The kind of spoof comedy similar to "Saturday Night Live" is called "I'm crazy for Mary"," Shea retracted her attention from the little maid and turned to Lesenberg, saying: "Those brothers who have participated in the screenwriter of "Seinfeld" have good skills. If I can go to the big screen, I'm still quite excited. The problem is, you know, I'm only responsible for the two channels of DHO and Blockbuster. Although the headquarters also gave me some theater quotas, it still has to be used on key films, which is a pity."

Lesenberg nodded in agreement and smiled jokingly, "However, I think it's a good idea to spoof "The Ghost Street".

"Ha, don't joke about me," Sheayi did not frown this time, but laughed: "I can't bear to leave it alone. Moreover, the situation of "Ghost Street" and "Scream" are different. "Scream" has been completed. The box office of "Ghost Street" was very good at the beginning of the year. We are already preparing for another sequel."

The little maid was listening patiently to the conversation between the two big guys, occasionally making a splash, but she kept up with the topic of the two.

The core focus of everyone's discussion is the "Sharp Scream" released on December 11, which spoofed a teenage horror comedy that also belonged to Daenerys's blockbuster series "Sharp Scream".

The first "Scream" of that year was released in 1988 Halloween, and it is exactly the 10th anniversary of this year.

Daenerys also used the gimmick of 10th anniversary to conduct major early publicity. After all, in ten years, he has accumulated a certain amount of feelings.

However, before the film was released, both Daenerys and the industry media had a disgraceful attitude towards "Screaming Screaming", believing that such a movie would not only achieve the results of "Screaming Screaming" back then, even if it was a luxury to be grateful to Adam Sandler's "Tea Boy".

The same environment surrounding blockbusters, "Tea Boy" was released on November 20, after US$23.78 million in the first week, according to the subsequent trend, the industry generally predicts that the movie is expected to reach the 80 million local mark. In this way, it only relies on the release of North America to recover the total production and promotion costs of 40 million and make a small profit.

Very outstanding result.

Therefore, before "Shocking" was released, everyone basically thought that this spoof comedy that sounded good, was a terrible spoof comedy that was a remnant, and a similar market environment was definitely not as good as "Tea Boy".

The result was beyond everyone's expectations.

After the painting started on December 11, "Shocking Scream" has been popular all the way, and it was released for seven days. Under the pressure of two other competitors of the same period and the old films that Yu Li still had, it won a box office of up to 55.67 million US dollars in the first week, and it was broken.

Even Simon, who was far away in Australia, couldn't help but confirm the authenticity of the data when he heard the news.

However, this is indeed the case.

After the New World Film team followed up with a rush to investigate, they roughly confirmed the two reasons.

First of all, the plot of the film itself is indeed very outstanding. Even if it is a spoof popcorn, it can make people laugh so hard that their stomachache, it is obviously a very outstanding popcorn.

Secondly, feelings are really good.

"Screaming" back then was said to be the first hit series released by Daenerys after gradually accumulating a certain amount of strength and getting rid of the first single-time sales series by other studios. While it was a great success, the entire trilogy almost became the memory of a generation.

Ten years later, the project was restarted in a spoof manner, which even if it would make a few movie fans disgusted, it attracted the attention of most people. After all, for ordinary people, whether it is horror or funny, they are popcorn after all, so they will not feel that Daenerys will be unable to bear to spoof her classic horror series, but instead are curious and expect more.

The addition of two major factors led to the grand event of "Shocking Scream" winning $55.67 million in the first week of its release.

It is no exaggeration to say it is a miracle.

You should know that this is the box office result of the opponent and the gratitude period of the same period, which is a combination of old films. It can be imagined that if there is a period of more relaxed competition, it is not impossible for "Shocking" to rise a little higher in the first week of the box office to reach 60 million.

In any case, the first week of $55.67 million was a box office result that most blockbusters could not meet. Moreover, according to the box office ladder sharing rules signed with theaters, Daenerys basically recovered the production of $20 million and the same $20 million in promotional costs in the first week, and entered the profit cycle from the next week.

In addition, from December 18 to December 20, the year-on-year decline of "Shocking Scary" remains at 39% under the strong pressure of "Suicide Squad 2". It is expected that the decline will be controlled at about 40% in the entire week. This means that the total box office of the film in North America can not only easily enter the 100 million yuan box office club, but also hope to sprint towards a higher target of US$150 million.

Not only that, the North American film market, which has increased and decreased, the outstanding achievements of "Shocking Scream" inevitably have sniped against other films during the same period.

For example, "Tea Boy".

If there is no "Shocking Scream" with similar genres or even the box office performance is mediocre, "Tea Boy" will definitely reap another smoothly during the Christmas season and ultimately achieve the local target of 80 million.

Because of the emergence of "Shocking Scream", "Tea Boy" fell by as much as 41% in the week of December 11, even if it should not rebound, and the box office decline was as high as 41%. This deep downward trend directly broke the 80 million path of "Tea Boy", and the total local box office is expected to shrink to about 70 million.
Chapter completed!