Chatty Hollywood

Chapter 521: Magic Quidditch Ball

After this issue of the "Oprah Show", Rachel Weisz's "Foodie Beauty" character set can be said to stand up all at once.

And Brandon Fisher also fully demonstrated his sense of humor in the show, and his popularity has greatly increased.

Although the two inevitably were forced to dig for some privacy by Oprah in the end, they were forced to follow the sentimental and bloody, but compared to the popularity of the harvest, it was considered worthwhile.

And the box office of "The Mummy" also got a bonus because of this——

In the second week of its release, the film's box office declined very weakly, and there was even a slight inverse growth on Wednesday.

"According to this box office curve, we should be able to challenge the status of "Star Wars: The Threat of Ghosts"!"

In the call to Charlotte, Sean Daniel was excited and honest.

At present, Universal Pictures has passed the plan to prepare for the second part of "The Mummy". Sean called Charlotte this time with the main purpose of persuading him to be the director and producer of the second part.

Charlotte hopes to wait until he finishes "Sherlock Holmes" before discussing these things specifically, which disappoints Sean Daniel.

In order to persuade Charlotte, he mentioned the battle between "The Mummy" and "Star Wars: The Threat of Ghosts" for the annual box office championship in North America——

No way, although most of the films that Charlotte made after becoming famous were strong contenders for the annual box office championship in North America, they did not dare to be big in the face of "Star Wars", the national IP of the United States.

Especially, this is still more than ten years later, George Lucas restarted the "Star Wars" series again, and shot the story of Darth Vader, the most popular black warrior in the original trilogy. Begin to call out.

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

In fact, if it weren’t for the performance of "The Mummy" at the moment it seems a bit against the sky, Sean Daniel felt that "Star Wars: Prequel 1: Phantom Threat" could almost secure the annual box office champion in North America in advance.

In this regard, Charlotte also agrees with—

Although based on the history of the original world, he knew that the reputation of this "Star Wars: The Threat of Ghosts" was actually quite ordinary.

After not directing the film for more than ten years, George Lucas, who re-directed the tube again, is obviously a little uncomfortable.

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

On the contrary, the weak points in the plot and lines are highlighted.

-Space opera!

Thinking of the scornful claims made by fans of the "Star Trek" series of "Star Wars", Charlotte couldn't help but smile...

In short, Charlotte still attaches great importance to this rival movie that will be released in more than a week.

Of course, considering the schedule difference between the two sides, when "Star Wars: The Threat of Ghosts" was released, the box office peak period of "The Mummy" had 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 talking about "Star Wars: The Threat of Ghosts" for a long time in Crooked House, Charlotte only agreed to Sean Daniel, who could serve as the producer of "The Mummy 2" and help write the outline of the script.

As for directing in person, let’s wait until he finishes filming "Sherlock Holmes"!

In fact, Charlotte has been relatively busy recently-

On the one hand, he wants to prepare the new film "The Detective Sherlock Holmes". On the other hand, as the producer of "The Mummy", even if he doesn't have to devote himself to publicity, proper attention is still indispensable.

——And this is just a movie directed by him himself.

After reaching an agreement with Warner, he also needs to serve as the producer of the follow-up film of the "Harry Potter" series.

——Although it is not the chief producer, it is not the kind that is purely named.

He still has to take care of many things in the movie.

Especially the part that involves special effects.

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

In this case, Charlotte should be more or less concerned.

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 to be filmed.

Time is also tight this time.

——No way, although Charlotte was looking for a young actor who was looking for a year or two when he was casting a cast before, but because of the time-consuming negotiations after "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone", plus the conclusion After the agreement, the communication and coordination time, one year has passed.

The time has come to open the second part.

In line with the rhythm of the second filming, and also to borrow the east wind, J.K. Rowling's third "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban" will also be on sale 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, the Ghost Party Studio commissioned EA to develop the console game that was eventually named "Fantastic Quidditch". It has also been produced and will be released soon.

——I will choose this time for sale, of course it is also to borrow the east wind.

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

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

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

Now, the prospects of this game can be said to be very good.

And Charlotte took advantage of this opportunity~lightnovelpub.net~ and finally opened the game development skill book of the Ghost Party Studio——

From the EA side, he dug over half of the studios that developed "Fantastic Quidditch".

Naturally, EA is somewhat dissatisfied, but there is no alternative.

——No way, with the bursting of the Internet economy bubble, as a company in the similar video game industry, EA's stock price has also been affected.

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

And when one's own company layoffs, catching up with other companies aggressively poaching, naturally there is no alternative.

What's more, EA still holds the authorization to work on other games in the "Harry Potter" series. Naturally, it cannot have a stalemate with one of the copyright owners such as Charlotte.

In the end, EA acquiesced in the digging of the Ghost Party studio in exchange for continuing to obtain the subsequent IP authorization of the "Harry Potter" series.

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

As for the Ghost Party Studios, after successful poaching, they successfully established their own game studio.

They continued to take over the follow-up maintenance and development work of "Fantastic Quidditch"-

After all, this game was commissioned by the Ghost Party Studio to develop it at EA, and the ownership still belongs to the Ghost Party Studio.

Now, since they have dug up the original developers and have their own maintenance and development capabilities, it is naturally better to maintain them by themselves.

On the other hand, this new game studio, also under the guidance of Charlotte, participated in the preparatory work of Sherlock Holmes.

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

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