Hollywood Director 1992.

Chapter 228 The Game Begins (Subscription Request)
"Boss, here are the information and box office results of the recently released movies."

After Liu Xiaoli left, new assistant Monica Lewinsky came in and placed several documents in her arms on his desk.

“How does it feel to be an assistant?”

Link asked smoothly as he took the folder.

"Not bad, thank you Mr. President for the promotion."

Lewinsky laughed.

Lewinsky is 21 years old, a junior at Clark College and is currently doing an internship. She is 171 cm tall, has long black hair that falls to her shoulders, and is wearing a white women's suit, looking very capable.

Not long ago, she asked for a change of position in the script library.

Link wanted to test her work ability, so he asked her to organize the script information in the script library first.

Lewinsky spent more than a month organizing all the scripts and storing them in a computer. If she wanted to browse the scripts, she could do so directly on the computer, which was very convenient.

She did a good job on this.

Link transferred her to the President's Office through Michael Leeson.

Link's president's office has six assistants and secretaries, including Annie, so it's not a problem to squeeze in Lewinsky.

"Work hard, and I hope you have a pleasant internship."

Link was about to look at the documents, but found that Lewinsky was still standing in front of the desk.

"Monica, anything else?"

"Mr. President, I don't have much work to do now. I just organize documents every day. Those tasks can be completed in less than two hours. Can you assign me more work?"

Lewinsky said.

"You're just an intern, why do you do so much work every day?"

“I want to train myself and improve my work ability.”

Lewinsky said, shaking her fist.

Link had no choice but to give the female college student some thought. He said, “The company is planning to cooperate with Columbia Pictures in the near future to shoot 8 to 10 movies. We will decide what movies to shoot.

At the same time, Columbia has decided to open its script library and copyright library to us. Your job is the same as last time. Lead 2 to 3 screenwriters to the Columbia script library to read the scripts, summarize all the script stories, and finally submit them to me. This work will take three months. How many scripts can be recorded in three months? Do you want to take this job?"

Lewinsky blinked and said, "Mr. President, can I bring the script to the company to read? I prefer the environment of our company. While reading the script, I can also take care of other work and serve Mr. President."

"can!"

"Thank you, Mr. President. You are the most graceful and charming man I have ever met."

Lewinsky smiled with her dimples and walked out in her high heels.

Link shook his head. If she didn't have a foreign face, her behavior would easily make people suspect that she was a Chinese female student studying abroad. She was too aggressive at work.

This is probably why several other assistants in the office don't like her.

After seeing Lewinsky off, Link continued to look at the recent movie box office performance on the file.

The summer vacation starts at the end of April and ends at the end of August every year.

Among the 37 movies currently in theaters, the one with the highest box office is the animated film "The Flintstones" released by Universal Pictures. After three weeks of release, it has grossed 8679 million US dollars in North America and is expected to take around 1.5 million US dollars.

The second place is the western film "Maverick", released by Warner Bros. Pictures. After four weeks of release, the North American box office has reached 6646 million US dollars, and there is a great chance to exceed 1 million US dollars. The third place is the Gothic action film "The Crow" produced by Miramax Films, the posthumous work of kung fu superstar Bruce Lee's son Brandon Lee. After seven weeks of release, the North American box office has reached 4639 million US dollars.

The results were pretty good, but unfortunately Brandon Lee died young and was unable to enjoy the glory that came with the movie's big sales.

Fourth place is the love movie "When a Man Loves a Woman" released by Disney Pictures, which has been released for 10 weeks and has a North American box office of 4428 million US dollars.

The remaining 12 films had box office revenues of over 1000 million.

At the beginning of the summer vacation, two movies are about to break 100 million yuan at the box office, and more than ten movies have exceeded 10 million yuan. From this point of view, this year's summer vacation market is good.

However, compared to the box office, Link is more concerned about the movies released before and after "Speed" and "Seven".

"Speed" was announced relatively early, and there is not much change in the movies released at the same time. Its biggest competitor is "The Lion King" from Disney Pictures.

After Guess What Pictures announced the release date of "Seven Deadly Sins", several films under the Big Seven Studios made adjustments, shifting many commercial blockbusters to be released before and after the two films, while also increasing the scale of film publicity and promotion to squeeze the market of the two films.

The movies that were originally released around "Seven" included blockbusters such as "Forrest Gump", "True Lies", "The Pursuit" and "The Client". After the adjustments, the situation of the two movies has become more difficult.

If Guess What Pictures wants to achieve better publicity effects, it will need to spend more money.

After reading the information, Link called Jon Gordon, the head of the publicity department, and Joe Fillem, the head of the distribution department, to inquire about the progress of the film's publicity and distribution.

After listening to the reports from the two, Link requested to increase the publicity funds for "Seven Deadly Sins" from the original 500 million to 1500 million. If necessary, there would be no upper limit on the publicity funds in an effort to let more people know about the movie.

This is to cope with the competition from the seven major film studios.

In terms of film distribution, we should also expand the scale of film release as much as possible and strive to get the film into theaters of all sizes across North America.

Jon Gordon and Joe Fillemy tactfully stated that "Se3200en" is an art film with a production cost of million US dollars. If the publicity and promotion costs are increased, the film may suffer losses and the risk is too great.

Link didn't care.

After becoming a Microsoft shareholder, his net worth reached over 10 billion. He no longer had to worry about money and could concentrate on his career.

Even if the film company goes bankrupt, with those shares, it can make a comeback at any time.

This is also the reason why he dared to challenge the seven major film studios.

Secondly, "Seven Deadly Sins" has a 2.6-fold box office subsidy. If the publicity is done well, the box office subsidy will be even higher.

He also doesn't worry about losing money.

Third, doing so is also a counterattack against the suppression by the seven major film studios.

Guess What Pictures has increased the publicity and promotion costs for "Se7en". If the films of the Big Seven studios want to suppress "Se7en" and achieve better publicity effects, they must also increase their publicity expenses.

This practice is equivalent to raising the bet when playing Texas Hold'em.

In the first round, Link took the initiative to increase the stakes.

If the seven major film studios want to gamble, they must increase their stakes. If they don’t, they may lose.

Once you increase the bet, you will win more and lose more.

He has Flash Gold Capital as a retreat. Although the Big Seven Pictures are large and powerful, they have many problems and may not be able to afford the risk.

Hearing that he insisted on doing so, Jon Gordon and Joe Fillem did not persuade him any more and called a meeting of the department staff to rearrange the release of "Seven Deadly Sins" to ensure the smooth release of the film.

(End of this chapter)