Chapter 483 (1/2)
After a simple bargaining, Simon and Leslie Wexner agreed that the copyright of the Vimy show should be jointly owned by Denise entertainment and Ltd. the two sides shared the budget investment of the show. Denise entertainment can also get regular distribution expenses in the future promotion of the show.
In addition, Simon also agreed to personally act as the producer of the show.
The riots in Los Angeles lasted for four days, and were not suppressed until thousands of officers and men from the National Guard and the Marine Corps moved into the city of angels.
After spending the first weekend in Columbus in early May, Simon returned to Los Angeles on May 4.
Unlike the mess in the central and southern part of the city, the first line of the Santa Monica Mountains in Los Angeles has not been affected.
As the incident subsided, Hollywood quickly returned to its former prosperity.
Ninja tortoise 2, which was released on Thanksgiving on April 17, has been on for two and a half weeks.
The box office of Ninja tortoise 2 fell as expected by 41% in the next week and closed for another $22.31 million.
At the end of the third week from May 1 to May 3, the film's decline narrowed to 27%, and continued to earn $11.39 million in three days, with a cumulative box office of $71.08 million.
In two and a half weeks, the cumulative box office was $71.08 million, and the box office in a single week was still more than $10 million, which means that the total box office of Ninja Turtle 2 in North America is expected to reach a high of $110 million to $120 million.
Although it is still slightly lower than the first one, it also exceeds Simon's initial expectation.
Ninja Turtle 3 was put on the production schedule.
In order to avoid too fast tempo, the third schedule is still two years later, that is, 1994.
However, these days, Simon's biggest concern is no longer Ninja Turtle 2, but marvel's 2D animated film spider man, which is also released directly through the video channel during Easter.
Spiderman officially hit the shelves on April 10, the week before Easter.
With a total budget of 15 million dollars for production and distribution, the 2D animated film needs to sell 1 million boxes to basically break even.
Denise Entertainment's Distribution Department expects to sell 2 million to 3 million copies of Spider Man videos.
After reaching this number range, Marvel's animation department can continue to make 2D animated films of other superheroes. If it does not reach the bottom line of 2 million boxes, even if it still makes a good profit, Simon does not intend to let 2D animated films consume the popularity of Marvel's superheroes.
However, with limited production and publicity resources, the first 300000 videotapes of spider man sold out on the first three days of its launch.
Denise family entertainment, which is mainly responsible for the distribution of videos and TV channels under Denise entertainment, is rapidly replenishing and investigating the cause of the incident. And soon found that it was a group of Marvel fans in the recent two years just the rise of the network forum set off a support for ”Spider Man” animation, and then promote Denise entertainment production of live action movies.
Born 30 years ago, spiderman is no less popular than DC's Batman, Superman and other superheroes, so it has a very wide fan base.
The activity of network forum is only a beginning, and it is not very impressive at first.
However, this activity spread to the offline even before spider man was on sale, and eventually created a ”grand occasion” in which the first 300000 video tapes of this animated film sold out quickly.
The team at danielis family entertainment did not initially anticipate the impact of the event.
However, the distribution team then made good use of this opportunity to publicize how difficult it was for Marvel's team to make this 2D animated film in the shadow of DC movie universe, and how the senior management of danielis entertainment deliberately suppressed marvel and tried to control the budget in order to protect the interests of DC movie universe 》Making 3D version and so on half true half false various lace, and therefore soon produced a kind of event effect.
Although it has only a budget of 12 million US dollars, with the careful production of Marvel team, the word-of-mouth of the 2D animated film spider man has indeed been widely recognized by the media, with a comprehensive film review score of 8.3, which has become the most solid foundation for the success of the 2D animated film.
Driven by various factors, Spiderman's 2D animated film finally sold 1.09 million boxes in the first week. In the Easter week, sales of videos rose again to 1.23 million boxes.
In just two weeks, the total sales volume of 2.32 million boxes has reached the initial sales expectation of danielis entertainment for the 2D animated film.
Moreover, 2.32 million boxes were sold in two weeks, and the final overall sales of spider man is expected to exceed 10 million boxes.
At an average price of about $30, 10 million boxes means $300 million in sales.
It's just North America.Although DC movie universe has been successfully launched overseas, as an American Superhero, Spiderman's 2D animated films have no plans to be released in theaters, and Denise entertainment doesn't expect much from overseas.
However, just like this, the expected return of this 2D animated version of spider man to danielis entertainment will far exceed the original idea.
The retail price of video tape is 30 US dollars. Generally, the wholesale price of the studio is about 15 US dollars. Excluding the cost of material transportation and so on, the gross profit margin is more than 40%.
Therefore, based on the total sales volume of 10 million boxes in North America, this 2D animated film can bring at least $100 million in net profit to danielis entertainment. The film's next overseas distribution and TV platform revenue, even if not much, will be very considerable under the background of popularity driven by the hot sale of video tapes.
The final net income is expected to be at least 10 times of the initial $15 million budget.
Hollywood's film projects that can bring a net profit of 150 million US dollars to the studio every year on the omni channel platform can be counted with one hand. Therefore, it can be seen that the 2D animated film spider man is definitely another super dark horse that other studios envy.
Even if there are some accidental factors in the success of this project, Simon has to pay more attention to the profit here.
The first is to put out the fire by public opinion.
In order to promote the sale of spider man, the distribution team has created a lot of ”black materials” that are very disadvantageous to Denise's entertainment executives.
It was Simon's philosophy from the very beginning of danielis that he made the best use of all the favorable factors to release a film. Spiderman is so successful that the previous operation of the distribution team has certainly been positively affirmed.
However, it can't let Denise entertainment to suppress the opinion of marvel for DC.
It should be easy for anyone who is a little more rational to understand that even if they have the copyright of the three DC giants, DC superheroes can't be the ”real son” of danilisi entertainment after all, and marvel, who is 100% owned by danilisi entertainment, is.
Even from the perspective of pure interests, Denise and Time Warner jointly build the DC movie universe. After careful calculation, warner can not only share the profits of the big three, but also own the copyright of the superheroes such as flash and steel bone. Therefore, Warner's overall income should be more abundant.
If daenerys develops the marvel movie universe, her interests are entirely her own.
Therefore, as long as feasible, danilisi entertainment has no reason to deliberately ignore marvel.