Chapter 174 (1/2)

On June 10, three new films will be released in the new week, including Disney's family comedy ”four daughters and two mothers”, Paramount's thriller suspense ”puccidi base” starring Sean Connery, and MGM's horror sequel ”haunted by ghosts 3”.

The strategy of questioning the fairness of the golden palm of Cannes Film Festival ”vulgar novel” failed, and some media pointed to the excessive violence of the film and its reference to many films.

However, in the background that vulgar novel has once again become a movie watching craze, just like last year's Lola Run, these off disk moves will only increase people's curiosity about the film.

To be fair, for most of the audience, especially the mainstream youth audience of vulgar novel, it is very difficult for them to realize what is good about the film without the influence of external public opinion. However, when a large number of media around and many classmates and friends are discussing ”vulgar novel”, these people often know something about the film and have their own expectations before entering the cinema.

As a result, countless rich details such as Vincent and Mia's swing dance, golden watch's Deer Hunter foreshadowing, Esmeralda and taxi driver are very interesting. Coupled with the novel circular closed structure of the plot, the whole film is unconsciously labeled as ”cool”.

Because of the popularity of vulgar novel, several celebrities who took part in the film have become more and more popular. New people such as Samuel Jackson and Nicole Kidman have also begun to enter the public view. Even Janet, who just appeared in the film for a few minutes, has become the object of much media discussion because of the wonderful performance of Esmeralda, the taxi driver. Jonathan Friedman is a private actor I also jokingly asked Janet if she was interested in signing with wma.

In the second week of its release, ”vulgar novel” continued to be the box office champion with a 15% drop. During the seven days from June 10 to June 17, the film made another $23.38 million.

In the first two weeks, the North American box office of ”vulgar novel” broke through the $50 million mark, reaching $50.91 million.

In two weeks, it easily won $50 million at the box office. The major media and box office statistics institutions in North America generally predict that the total box office of vulgar novel in North America will reach about $150 million, and the film is likely to break through $100 million in North America within six weeks.

Coincidentally, ”vulgar novel” and ”instinct” are just six weeks apart.

”Crocodile Dundee 2” ranked second in the list, after a sharp drop of 41% last week, the box office of this week still fell by 31%, closing another $12.35 million, accumulating $65.15 million.

Although it has more than $30 million opening, according to the current decline trend of the film, ”Crocodile Dundee 2” is likely to barely break through 100 million in North America box office, far less than the $174 million of the first film.

After ”Crocodile Dundee 2”, Tom Hanks starred in ”flying into the future” unexpectedly fell by only 4.7% in the next week, almost the same as last week, and closed another $12.01 million, with a total box office of $24.6 million in two weeks.

The $24.6 million box office in North America may not be comparable to ”vulgar novel” and ”Crocodile Dundee 2”, but compared with ”funny farm”, which has fallen behind to the eighth place in the box office this week, we can see how gratifying the box office figure of ”flying into the future” is.

In the second week of release, the box office of funny farm, which is similar to flying over the future, dropped by 26% to only $6.01 million, including $8.11 million in the first week and $14.12 million in the two weeks.

According to the decline curve of funny farm, the film's total box office in North America may be only about $25 million.

Moreover, if the box office decline in the next few weeks can be as weak as that in the first week, ”flying over the future” can obviously hit North America's box office again as it did in the original time and space. Completely did not expect this good fox has begun to prepare to increase the layout matters.

Apart from vulgar novel, Crocodile Dundee 2 and leap into the future, the other films this week have not performed well, and the box office figure of four thousand gold and two mothers, the best of the three new films, is only $911 million.

When Harry meets Sally, which has fallen to No. 10 in the list after breaking the box office of 100 million in North America last week, quietly received another $2.15 million, with a cumulative box office of $102.36 million.

Not surprisingly, when Harry meets Sally, the box office figure will drop to less than one million dollars next week, and Disney has cut the screen size of the film to 635. It is expected that when Harry meets Sally, the total box office in North America will finally be around $110 million when it comes down in August.

North American summer films are in full swing, and Hollywood writers' strike continues.

On June 13, the Federation of film and television producers proposed a new contract again after another tug of war. Although the plan made some concessions, it still failed to meet the original expectations of the writers' Union.

The strike lasted for more than three months, and the autumn TV show was doomed to be seriously affected. However, the writers, who had no income for a whole quarter, were getting worse and worse. Therefore, the writers' union finally decided to give the choice to the writers themselves and vote again to decide whether to accept the new contract provided by the producers' Union.Simon doesn't think that his butterfly has reached the point where it can affect the overall situation. The trial broadcast time of who will be a millionaire, which may have some impact on the situation, is June 20. By that time, most of the writers have already sent their votes.

As a result, the result of the vote is clear, and the strike is sure to last another two months.

After several contacts, Ge, which owns $220 million debt of new world entertainment, has made a positive response to Simon's debt to equity swap plan. CEO Jack Welch of GE has also made several phone calls with Simon himself.

However, in the process of communication, Ge put forward a plan similar to that of Steve Ross, chairman of Warner. They want to use new world entertainment as a chip to participate in danielis pictures.

Just as a person who has made enough money often begins to pursue fame, many big enterprises in the world like to enter the entertainment media industry. Of the seven major Hollywood companies, half of Columbia Pictures is owned by Coca Cola, and Paramount's parent company is Gulf West industries.

Ge bought NBC two years ago for a similar motive.