Chapter 511 (1/2)

On November 13, the next day of the TV show, the Thanksgiving season began.

Columbia Pictures, with a production cost of 40 million US dollars, has become the first large-scale film in the Thanksgiving schedule, with 2491 screens.

On the same day, gaomen film's ”smell and know women” launched a small-scale screening.

As the key award-winning film of gaomen film this year, the number of opening screens of ”smell the fragrance and know the woman” is only 20.

In addition to the two key films, there are also several films released at the same time, such as ”the red lips Massacre” by Godwin pictures and ”let sorrow end before sunrise” by Orion pictures. The opening screen size is less than 300 yuan, which is basically the cannon fodder of Thanksgiving.

On the other hand, after the first week of $28.79 million from October 30 to November 5, the box office of ”the bell of the midnight”, which is released on danielis Entertainment's Halloween schedule, dropped only a very weak 13% in the next week from November 6 to November 12, with the continuous fermentation of word-of-mouth and popularity, making another $25.03 million.

In just two weeks, the total box office of this Japanese horror novel adaptation movie has reached 53.82 million US dollars.

Considering that the next popular Thanksgiving season is coming, and there is no competition from other similar movies in this season, the new world film distribution team predicts that the total box office of this Japanese horror movie in North America is expected to reach more than $150 million.

The North American box office of more than 150 million US dollars is enough to ensure that ”midnight bell” is firmly in the top ten of the North American box office list in 1992.

At the beginning, in order to save the cost, the murder bell at midnight was filmed in Australia, and Nicole Kidman's salary was not high. Coupled with the tax rebate, the final production budget of the film was only $13 million.

The production cost is 13 million US dollars. It is estimated that the box office in North America will be more than 150 million US dollars, and the return rate of box office cost will be more than 10 times, which makes the whole Hollywood feel envious.

What's more, it's just North American box office revenue.

When the film is a big success in North America, the follow-up overseas box office, video and television revenues will also rise.

The total profit of the whole project in the next few years is expected to easily exceed all the blockbusters in Hollywood except DC movie universe project.

When Simon bought the right to adapt ”the midnight bell”, Hollywood began to follow suit to buy the copyright of Japanese horror novels. With the success of ”midnight bell”, Hollywood has many Japanese horror film projects into the preparatory agenda.

In a word, the key to the success of ”the bell at midnight” is a brand new style of horror film, which is quite different from the traditional western mode of horror film.

This model is based on the ghosts and spirits of the East, but it does not have to take the Oriental horror story as a template.

In fact, haunted events in the West are also very rich.

As a result, while other studios are trying to follow suit, Simon is asking new world president Denny Morris to find materials that will take place in North America.

As of the release of ”midnight bell”, the box office of ”crying game” opened on September 25 has reached 20.54 million US dollars.

During the two weeks from October 30 to November 12, ”crying game” continued to earn US $7.22 million and US $5.37 million with a screen size of more than 500, and the cumulative box office also continued to climb to US $33.13 million.

The arrival of Thanksgiving will also slow down the decline curve of cry game.

Gaomen pictures predicts that the final North American box office of ”crying game” is expected to be between $60 million and $70 million.

In addition, this low-cost art film with excellent box office and public praise will become the focus of gaomen film industry in the next award season together with ”smell the fragrance and know the woman”.

In Simon's memory, both films were shortlisted for best picture nominations at that year's Oscars.

This time, as long as the box office performance of ”smell and know women” in the next few weeks meets the expectation, gaomen film will pay more attention to ”smell and know women” in order to avoid diluting votes in next year's award season.

Of course, in order to stimulate the subsequent box office potential as much as possible, ”crying game” will not lack nominations either.

In a word, because there are so many excellent films produced by our family, Denise entertainment has been giving up in recent years.

Take this year as an example, Denise Entertainment's films of 1992, Howard manor, which was released at Cannes Film Festival in May this year and was released in August, crying game, which was released in September, and smelling and meeting women, which was opened on Thanksgiving Day, are all best picture nominees for next year's Oscars in Simon's memory.

However, there is only one best picture after all.

In order to avoid vote sharing, danelis entertainment can only apply for nomination for one film, which will inevitably lead to other films being ignored.

Howard manor, adapted from British novelist foster, has stayed in North American Theaters for nine weeks since its release in mid August, with a total domestic box office of $26.12 million.For an art film that costs only $6 million to produce, it's already a brilliant achievement. If it is released by other studios, it will definitely be the focus of next year's award season. However, under danielis entertainment, even without ”smell and know women,” Howards manor will fall behind ”crying game”, which is expected to make more than $60 million in total box office in North America.

Many Hollywood filmmakers have realized this.

Last year, for example, Jonathan Demi, director of ”the silent lamb.”.

Compared with the original time and space, the silence of the lamb won the 64th Oscar in 1992. In this time and space, under the impact of the other two films ”farewell to the piano” and ”crazy flowers at the end”, this phenomenal horror film only won a few nominations.

Danielis entertainment gave up the 64th Oscars for the sake of long-term strategy.

Hollywood filmmakers tend to pay more attention to their own performance at the box office, but they will not ignore the honor.

Because of the experience of silence of the lamb, Jonathan Demi's Philadelphia story, which he prepared this year, did not continue to cooperate with danielis entertainment, but chose MGM to invest under Simon's personal lead.

”Philadelphia Story” is a movie about Tom Hanks' experience in protecting the rights of people with AIDS. Just by looking at the type of theme, people who are familiar with Hollywood's operating rules can find that the movie is obviously running for awards.

On the original timeline, Tom Hank won his first best actor Oscar for ”the Philadelphia Story” and became the first Oscar winner for ”Forrest Gump” the following year.

Not only that, ”Philadelphia Story” box office is also very good.

After Simon delayed the production plan of Forrest Gump, Tom Hanks, who had a tight schedule, was able to rejoin the Philadelphia story. The film will start in January next year and is expected to be released at the end of 1993, hitting the award season in 1994.

It is worth mentioning that, in addition to Tom Hanks may create a miracle again, Jonathan Demi is also doomed to miss the Oscar this time.

Because at the end of 1993, there was Spielberg's Schindler's list.

Simon chose to postpone Forrest Gump at the beginning, in addition to the overcrowded schedule at the end of 1993, he also considered the factor of Schindler's list.

It would be a pity if the two films, which are both expected to win the Oscars, meet.