Chatty Hollywood

After this episode of "The Oprah Show", Rachel Weisz's character as a "foodie beauty" was suddenly established.

Brendan Fisher also fully demonstrated his sense of humor in the show, which greatly increased his popularity.

Although the two of them inevitably had their privacy poached by Oprah in the end and were forced to sensationalize and gossip, it was worth it compared to the popularity they gained.

The box office of "The Mummy" also received a bonus because of this——

In the second week of release, the movie box office's decline curve was very weak, and even showed a slight reverse growth on Wednesday.

"According to this box office curve, we should be able to challenge the status of "Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace"!"

Sean Daniel was excited during a phone call to Charlotte.

At present, Universal Pictures has approved the plan to prepare the second part of "The Mummy". The main purpose of Sean calling Charlotte this time is to persuade him to serve as the director and producer of the second part.

Charlotte wanted to wait until he finished producing "Sherlock Holmes" before talking about these things in detail, which disappointed Sean Daniel.

In order to convince Charlotte, he mentioned the competition between "The Mummy" and "Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace" for the North American annual box office championship——

There is no way. Although most of the movies Charlotte has shot after becoming famous are strong contenders for the annual box office championship in North America, they dare not rely on "Star Wars", an American national IP.

In particular, this is more than ten years later. George Lucas is restarting the "Star Wars" series again, and filming the story of Darth Vader, the most popular Dark Knight in the original trilogy. Call Shi out.

The fans' expectations for it alone are enough to make it a strong contender for the annual box office championship in North America.

In fact, if it weren't for the performance of "The Mummy" that seems to be a bit unfavorable at present, Sean Daniel feels that "Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace" can almost lock in North America's annual box office championship in advance.

Charlotte quite agrees with this—

Although based on the history of the original world, he knew that the reputation of "Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace" was actually quite average.

After not directing a film for more than ten years, George Lucas was obviously a little uncomfortable returning to directing again.

In addition, unlike in the past, there have been more and more large-scale special effects productions in Hollywood in recent years, which makes the advantages of the "Star Wars" series in special effects less obvious.

On the contrary, the relatively poor weaknesses of the plot and lines were highlighted.

——A space opera!

Charlotte couldn't help but smile when she thought of the disparaging names that fans of the "Star Trek" series had for "Star Wars"...

In short, Charlotte still takes this rival movie very seriously, which will be released in more than a week.

Of course, considering the schedule difference between the two parties, when "Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace" was released, the peak box office period of "The Mummy" had already passed.

It can be said that there is no direct competition between the two in an absolute sense.

But indirectly...

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In the end, after chatting for a long time in Wailou about "Star Wars: Episode I: The Phantom Menace", Charlotte only agreed to Sean Daniel to serve as the producer of "The Mummy 2" and help write the script outline.

As for directing it himself, let's wait until he finishes filming "Sherlock Holmes"!

In fact, Charlotte has been quite busy recently——

On the one hand, he has to prepare for the new film "Sherlock Holmes"; on the other hand, as the producer of "The Mummy", even if he does not have to devote himself to promotion, proper attention is still essential.

——And this is only the movie he directed.

After reaching an agreement with Warner, he will also need to serve as a producer on subsequent films in the "Harry Potter" series.

——Although he is not the chief producer, he is not purely in name either.

Many things in the movie,

He still has to take care of it.

Especially the parts involving special effects.

After all, according to the agreement with Warner, the special effects work for the later films in the "Harry Potter" series was still handed over to Spectre Studio.

In this case, Charlotte still needs to be more careful.

In particular, in order to match the growth cycle of the young actors, the second "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets" has already begun filming.

Time is also tight this time.

——No way, although when Charlotte was casting before, most of the young actors she was looking for were one or two years younger, but because of the time-consuming negotiations after "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" and the fact that they reached the One year of communication and coordination time after the agreement has passed.

Now it's time to start the second part.

In line with the start of filming of the second part, and to take advantage of the east wind, J.K. Rowling's third "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban" will also be released in the near future.

Of course, this has nothing to do with Charlotte.

But another thing is related to him——

After receiving Rowling's authorization, Spectre Studio commissioned EA to develop the console game, which was eventually named "Magic Quidditch". It has also been produced and will be released soon.

——I will choose this time to release it, naturally to take advantage of the east wind.

Judging from the current pre-sale situation, the results are still very good.

——Although, this may also be influenced by the "Quidditch Match" that was previously shown on ABC TV.

In fact, in the past year, the number of Quidditch fans in North America has increased a lot, and even some people who are not fans of the "Harry Potter" series have joined in.

Now, the future of this game can be said to be very bright.

Charlotte also took advantage of this opportunity and finally clicked on Spectre Studio’s game development skills book——

He poached half of the studios developing "Magical Quidditch" from EA.

EA is naturally a little dissatisfied, but there is nothing they can do about it.

——No way, as the Internet economic bubble burst, as a company in the similar video game industry, EA's stock price was also affected.

In order to stabilize the company and ensure the safety of the capital chain, EA naturally adopted a self-protection method commonly used by American companies - layoffs.

And when my own company is laying off employees, and other companies are poaching people on a large scale, I naturally have no choice but to do anything.

What's more, EA still holds the license and is making other games in the "Harry Potter" series, so naturally it cannot have a stalemate with one of the copyright parties like Charlotte.

In the end, EA acquiesced to the poaching of Specter Studio in exchange for continuing to obtain subsequent IP licenses for the "Harry Potter" series.

——Of course, the copyright money that should be paid to Warner and the original author Rowling is still indispensable.

As for Spectre Studio, after successfully poaching people, it successfully established its own game studio.

While they continue to take over the follow-up maintenance and development work of "Magical Quidditch"——

After all, this game was commissioned by Spectre Studios to be developed by EA, and the ownership rights still belong to Spectre Studios.

Now, since they have hired the original developers and have the ability to maintain and develop on their own, it is naturally better to maintain it themselves.

On the other hand, this new game studio also participated in the preparation of "Detective Sherlock Holmes" under the guidance of Charlotte.

——Charlotte is preparing for a real video game linkage this time.

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