Chapter 867 (1/2)
After the opening of the Thanksgiving schedule, from November 17 to November 23 in a full week, the first seven days of the first week of ”beauty and the beast” made $68.73 million, easily winning the box office title of the week.
The score ranked third among Pixar's four animated films, lower than $87.31 million in the first week of ”Toy Story 2” and $70.31 million in ”Lion King's”, but higher than $46.73 million in the same period of ”Toy Story” in 1991. Of course, even in the third place, the box office of ”beauty and the beast” in its first week was $68.73 million, which is still beyond the reach of many Hollywood films.
”White House romance”, which ranked second in the list, grossed $13.49 million in the first seven days of the week.
Even if we can get out of a slightly better curve, the local box office of the film is only about $50 million. With a huge production budget of $62 million, it can only be said that Sony has paid a high tuition fee.
It's also Denise Entertainment's ”evocation 2” that takes third place on the list.
In the fourth week of its release, even though the themes were not in conflict, evocation 2 was still impacted by beauty and the beast. The box office of the film dropped 38% in a single week and continued to earn US $10.39 million. The cumulative domestic box office of the film successfully reached the threshold of us $100 million, reaching US $105.12 million.
In the fourth place is an old film released on October 20, called ”dwarf in power”, which is a black comedy adapted from a novel, produced by MGM, directed by Barry sonanfeld, starring John Travolta and Renee Russell, with a production cost of $30 million.
With an excellent media score of 8.7, the first week of ”short man in power” started with only $16.78 million, but it successfully walked out of a very beautiful long line.
From November 17 to November 23, in the fifth week of its release, ”dwarfs in power” fell 36% in a single week, earning $6.09 million and accumulating $59.61 million at the box office.
Simon actually knew about the project, and he also personally selected Renee Russell, the heroine in the original version, who was quite amazing in appearance. However, after the film was finished, MGM was not very confident in the business prospects of the project, so it was put on the cold schedule at the end of October, and Simon did not interfere any more. In fact, the cold schedule in October was just suitable for the non mainstream class relying on word-of-mouth The type of film survives.
Simon also expected the success of the project.
What's more, Simon is more concerned about Barry sonanfeld, the director of short man in power.
This is the director of the man in black series in the original time and space.
As it happens, the copyright of ”man in black” has long been in the pocket of danielis entertainment.
Simon didn't plan to launch the ”man in black” series in the near future. After all, until 1997, danilisi Entertainment's list was basically full.
”Cut throat island”, which costs 100 million US dollars, has finally won the fifth place in the box office list.
In the first seven days of the week, the cumulative box office of ”cut throat island” was 4.96 million, even failed to break the $5 million threshold.
By calculation, the opening scale of 2505 screens is only $1980 in the first week.
Hollywood studios and North American Theaters usually sign a two-week minimum screening contract, some of which will be four weeks, and then adjust according to the specific box office situation.
Now, the average price of ”cut throat island” is less than 2000 US dollars in the first week, which has already hit the threshold of the next file. You know, beauty and the beast, which topped the box office this week, has an average of $25600, which is more than ten times that of cut throat island. The attendance rate is low, but the operating cost of the cinema will not be reduced. Even if it only needs to continue showing for a week, it will face losses. Many cinemas either negotiate with paramount to reach a compromise agreement, or simply tear up the contract to pay liquidated damages. Anyway, they insist on withdrawing Most of the canvases of ”cut throat island” were painted.
When the new box office week begins, the number of screens of ”cut throat island” has plummeted from 2505 to 1196.
On November 24, the Thanksgiving schedule entered its second week, and the number of films produced by North American Theaters increased to seven.
Four of them are commercial films with a scale of more than 1000 yuan. They are respectively Warner Bros.'s new film ”Las Vegas” created by Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro, MGM's family comedy ”good things in pairs”, Paramount's Johnny Depp thriller ”at a critical moment” and Sony Pictures' black action Star Wesley Snapes Silver line.
Two of the three small-scale new movies are from gaomen film industry. They are Sean Pan's 72 hour life and death line, another French drama love under the stars, and finally Paramount's Orion film's 25 cents starring Al Pacino.
Of the seven new films, only Martin Scorsese's Las Vegas is a blockbuster, with a production cost of $52 million.
The initial negotiation partner of the project is danelis entertainment, Simon = pushed to Warner Bros.
This is not because Simon is not optimistic about this project. Although the box office of the film in his memory is really unsatisfactory, Simon's main reason for doing so is that the film list of danielis is full and there is no suitable schedule.In recent years, Martin Scorsese's project has gradually become less popular in Hollywood. This is a director whom Simon admires and appreciates very much. Simon insists that Hollywood should not be left with commercial films such as super British films or animated films just for the sake of profit.
The lack of film types will ultimately damage the interests of Hollywood. Today's danielis entertainment is basically half of Hollywood, so it damages the interests of danielis entertainment.
If Warner Bros didn't take over the project at the beginning, Simon also planned to take over the project by Denise entertainment, but the schedule would inevitably be delayed.
MGM's ”good things in pairs” still follows the development strategy of a few blockbusters and focusing on medium and low-cost films determined by Simon himself for the studio. The production cost of the film is only 10 million US dollars. It is starred by Olsen twins, the twin sister of Elizabeth Olsen, who was once the role of Marvel Scarlet Witch. The opening screen scale of the film is 1545 pieces .
Johnny Depp's ”a close call” and Wesley Snapes's ”silver line” are both low and medium-sized films with a cost of less than $30 million.
Simon has no impression of the last three award-winning films in his memory, and the quality of the films he saw in advance is also unsatisfactory, which is basically cannon fodder.
With the release of the first week's box office data of ”cut throat island” and the failure of this year's summer season production cost of $50 million, the main investor of the two projects, karok pictures, which has been in Hollywood for many years, has come to an end.
Simon has been thinking about it in recent days.
In the 1990s, due to the continuous opening of the overseas film market and the rapid recovery of the global economy, the overall upward trend of the Hollywood film industry did not slow down due to the continuous collapse of a film company.
If we don't take some measures, there will certainly be more capital entering the market.
In fact, this is another manifestation of warm thoughts.
If you have money, you always want to gain some fame. Hollywood is undoubtedly the best shortcut to fame. Even if you don't play in person, hold a large amount of money in your hand, invest in some projects, and hang up the title of executive producer, you can smoothly enter this bright circle and get compliments from the big stars who can only be seen on the film and television screen. Indirectly, you can also enhance the global popularity of the enterprises behind the scenes of the investors and achieve more with one stone.
Therefore, the influx of foreign capital into Hollywood is inevitable.
If it can't be blocked, it can only be dredged.
Take the initiative to open up some places for foreign capital.
Or, even if you want to play alone, you have to be within the control of the westero system.
If possible, it is better to dredge to other industries.