Heads Up Hollywood

West Cotton is the global marketing director and president of the distribution department of Twentieth Century Fox. He once had a fierce quarrel with Tom Rothman on the issue of the schedule of "Titan A.E."

But West Cotton couldn't shake the power of the top leader, and the schedule of "Titan A.E." was advanced by half a month, challenging "Spider-Man".

Later, Tom Rothman regretted it and wanted to adjust the schedule of "Titan A.E.", which was strongly rejected by West Cotton. The copies have been sent out, and the theaters have also made a series of screening arrangements. How can the schedule be changed at this time?

As can be imagined, West Cotton was again severely criticized by Tom Rothman.

This time, Disney took the initiative to discredit "Titan A.E.", which directly led to a significant drop in the box office expectations of the evaluation agencies, and the theaters also gave feedback, reducing the screening rate by 5 percentage points.

Tom Rothman was very angry, called West Cotton to the office, and cursed angrily, "How do you work? Our filming rate has dropped by another 5 points, are you waiting to see my joke ?”

West Cotton was sulking, and said stiffly: "Now the public opinion is very unfavorable for "Titan A.E.", movie fans are disappointed, evaluation agencies lower expectations, and it is normal market behavior for theaters to adjust the screening rate."

"Normal?" Tom Rothman laughed angrily, "West, is this how you work? What I want is the result, the solution, not your endless explanations and complaints!"

"Solution?" West Cotton frowned, "Hollywood stars, who doesn't have black material? If you want to suppress competitors and expose actors' scandals, this is definitely the choice of death. This is the best solution. "

"Nonsense!"

Tom Rothman slammed the table and reprimanded angrily.

As a veteran filmmaker, Tom Rothman certainly understood what West Cotton meant.

Regardless of friendship and rules, Disney pushed public opinion to expose Drew Barrymore's black history, which had a great adverse effect on the upcoming "Titan A.E."

At this time, if Fox uses its own way to deal with its own body and discredit "Sixty Seconds", it will definitely arouse Disney's vigilance and attention.

At that time, in order to avoid the same end, the two companies must negotiate a settlement, end all the public opinion hype, clarify, explain, and save the film's image.

At that time, the crisis of "Titan A.E." will naturally be resolved.

But in this situation, does Tom Rothman dare to attack Disney? Shameless?

He was the one who launched "Sixty Seconds" in the first place. Now that the film box office market is in a major crisis, Disney has taken some self-help measures. What's wrong?

If at this time, Tom Rothman dares to adopt the plan of dying together, not only his old face will have no living space in Hollywood, and he will tear himself apart from Disney, and he will also lose foreign aid in the board of directors.

Disney also had a thorough understanding of this before daring to make a bold move.

Tom Rothman's face was livid, "Immediately cooperate with Drew's agency and start public relations to minimize the negative impact!"

The corners of West Cotton's mouth curled up slightly, his face a little sarcastic.

Can such a person run Twentieth Century Fox?

Professional ethics? Shit!

Between corporate interests and private interests, he chose the latter after all. Anyone with a little brain knows that at this time, the more you explain, the more powerless you are, and launching a counterattack is the most effective way to get out of the situation.

Seeing West Cotton's mocking face, Tom Rothman became even more furious and scolded loudly: "West, let me tell you, if "Titan A.E." fails at the box office, you pack up and leave me!"

When any blockbuster fails, someone has to take the blame.

The Fight Club fiasco broke Bill McNick, so what if Titan A.E.

Tom Rothman narrowed his eyes.

It is impossible for him to allow others to defeat himself with the means he used to do.

He wants to plan ahead.

This unruly and arrogant West Cotton is of course the first choice!

...

It was not easy for Tang En to sow discord.

Everyone lives in a circle and knows each other very well, but at least it can create some confusion in the current situation.

Private life in the United States is very open, but family values ​​are very conservative, and derailment within marriage is a very serious matter!

Bruce Willis became a hot topic in the tabloids when he dated a young model, causing the couple to separate.

Since the exposure of the "Gold Club" incident last year, Bruce Willis' popularity has plummeted. This time the derailment incident pushed him to the cusp again.

And the suspense film "Undead" invested by Disney starred Bruce Willis, which implicated Disney also under a lot of pressure.

This is not the end!

In order to weaken the market influence of "Titan A.E.", Disney launched a gossip public opinion, high-profile reported the scandal of Drew Barrymore in the past, and even when she was only 11 years old, she played multiple P with multiple opposite sexes. It is also implicitly hinted at.

However, Columbia Pictures is now cooperating with Drew Barrymore's production company to shoot the movie "Charlie's Angels", Cameron Diaz is the lead actress, and Drew Barrymore is the lead actress, with an investment of nearly 1 One hundred million U.S. dollars!

Amy Pascal became the president of Columbia Pictures last year and became the chairman this year. The image of a strong woman is brilliant but unstable. Now she needs to prove through such a big production from a female perspective that women are no worse than men!

Now, because of the market competition between Disney and Fox, Drew Barrymore is involved, how can she bear it?

Columbia Pictures belongs to Sony Entertainment, and its publicity ability is far inferior to that of Disney and Fox. As a veteran studio in Hollywood, there are always a group of gossip tabloid channels and network resources behind it.

And this time, it just happened to confirm the truth that the heroes see the same thing!

Tom Rothman does not dare to shout about Disney at this stage because of his personal interests, but Amy Pascal doesn't mind pushing him behind.

At this time, if there is news that is unfavorable to "Sixty Seconds" in the market, most people's thoughts must be Fox's secret manipulation, right?

Amy Pascal is a woman with a new official position and an unstable position, so it is not easy to directly challenge Disney. Moreover, Colombia's strength is no longer what it used to be. Saving the country with curves is a good choice, and sowing discord is the best way!

Soon, following Drew Barrymore and Bruce Willis, another big star appeared in the vortex of public opinion, and his name was—Nicolas Cage!

Last Christmas, Cult held a concert.

At that time, Nicolas Cage and his wife also arrived at the scene. But the concert scene was too hot and there were too many audiences. Nicolas Cage's bodyguards opened the way with their fists, violently driving away many fans who blocked the way, and opened the way for the "hero" in the movie.

At that time, there were boos all over the scene, but Nicolas Cage looked calm, as if everything was normal. This was pure big-name behavior. Later, this incident caused a moment of restlessness, but it was quickly resolved by Nicolas Cage's public relations team.

At this time, before "Sixty Seconds" is about to be released, the old story is exposed again. Anyone with a normal IQ will understand that this is targeting "Sixty Seconds"!

...

Tang En just held three meetings.

One is the "Mr. and Mrs. Smith" script seminar with the production department, screenwriting department, and marketing department; the other is a discussion meeting with Universal on the release of Nolan's new film "Memento"; Hasbro Alliance," the storyline idea, it was a conference call.

After resting, Tang En leaned back on the boss's chair with half-closed eyes, and Isla Fisher gently rubbed his forehead behind him.

Reese Witherspoon stood in front of him, holding a stack of newspapers with a smile, and said excitedly: "It's a quarrel, it's really a quarrel!"

Tang En's expression was shocked, and he suddenly became interested, "Is it Disney and Fox?"

"Who else but them? The whole of Hollywood, they are the only ones who are happy!" Reese Witherspoon screamed excitedly, with a kind of joy after winning, "I didn't expect you to use a little trick to easily arouse Seeing their internal strife, it's really laughable!"

Isla Fisher gently massaged Twain with an expression of admiration, "I knew it, Twain is the best!"

At this time, everyone didn't know that it was Colombia's strong woman Amy Pascal who was really sowing discord behind her back.

Tang En didn't care about the process, he only cared about the result. Thinking of Bruce Willis, Drew Barrymore, and Nicolas Cage, who were deeply involved in the scandal of public opinion, he felt a little high-spirited.

Needless to say, Bruce Willis, the old enemy of Twain Films, is very easy to suppress this kind of big guy with well-developed limbs and simple mind.

As for the other two...hey, let Disney and Fox go dog-eat-dog!

The worse the image of "Sixty Seconds" and "Titan A.E.", the better the reputation of "Spider-Man" released at the same time will be compared!

Disney and Fox...

Hehe, I tripped myself with the rope, this is estimated to become the biggest joke in Hollywood in 2000!

Tang En was in a good mood. He seemed to have seen the day when "Spider-Man" swept the box office all over the world and made film history. He smiled and turned on the faces of Reese and Ella, "Let's go together tonight, let you two try, I A more powerful method!"

Reese Witherspoon gave him a charming look, "Just try it, who would be afraid of you?"

Isla Fisher also snorted and said, "That's right, Reese, let's work together tonight, deal with this guy well, and you'll know how to bully people!"