Chapter 1064 (1/2)
While Simon was accompanying Irene on Martha's Vineyard island on the east coast, Los Angeles on the west coast was still in the mansion on the hillside of palisade, which borders Malibu and Santa Monica. Denise entertainment held a large-scale party here in the evening.
It's mainly to celebrate the box office break of Annabel and the complete formation of the evocative movie universe. The recent box office blockbuster ”uninhibited night” and many other Hollywood filmmakers who have made friends with Denise entertainment have also been invited. It's a large-scale gathering of feelings at the end of the year.
First of all, I have to talk about the recent film market.
Today is November 15, Friday, and the Thanksgiving season of 1996 officially opens.
In the past box office week, from November 8 to November 14, Annabel, which was released in the third week, continued to earn $27.29 million with a 21% box office drop. In three weeks, the new series of evocative movie universe opened with a cumulative box office of $109.2 million, easily promoted to the Club of $100 million. At the same time, it is expected to impact the first local box office of evocative movie universe, reaching $109.2 million 500 million dollars in movies.
Another film, uninhibited night, produced by daenerys Entertainment's gaomen film company, closed another $6.69 million in the fourth week with a steady decline of 24%, with a cumulative box office of $35.49 million. It basically recovered the total investment of $20 million in production and publicity, and entered the profit stage.
In sharp contrast to the two blockbuster films of danielis entertainment, it is undoubtedly the pressure and anxiety of other Hollywood studios at the end of the year.
The pressure mainly comes from three films, DC film ”wonder woman 2” released on November 22, and ”game of the brave” and ”Thunderclap baby” released on Christmas.
Three super heavy bombs.
Among them, ”wonder woman 2” is the first DC movie universe blockbuster after ”Batman vs Superman: Dawn of justice”, which finally reached $1.938 billion at the end of last year. The industry estimates that the local box office of the film will easily reach $400 million.
As for ”game of the brave” and ”baby thunderbolt”, one is a special effect blockbuster with Stallone, the other is a joint action with 007 series and is expected to develop into a blockbuster project of the secret agent movie universe. As long as the public praise does not appear to collapse after the release, it is basically a local box office level of 200 million US dollars.
As a result, just three super blockbusters basically locked in the box office of US $800 million of the two major schedules at the end of the year, leaving poor room for other studio projects to maneuver.
Since last year, the schedules of the three films have been announced one after another, Hollywood has been planning to reduce or postpone the development plan in order to avoid.
Sony Pictures, which is really under pressure, simply adjusted the schedule of its $80 million partnership between Ron Howard and Mel Gibson's new film ”ransom storm” before the launch of marketing at the end of September this year. It withdrew from the established Thanksgiving in 1996 and switched to the summer of 1997.
The reason given by Sony is that it hopes to get more post production time for the film, but an old-fashioned crime action film is not a special effects blockbuster, so where does it need too much post production time?
It is inevitable that there will be a lot of discussions, which will inevitably have a negative impact on the film.
Sony had to.
In addition, Sony also pulled Barbara Streisand's new movie ”double faced mirror” back to Thanksgiving, which was originally scheduled for Christmas. To be exact, it was the week before the Thanksgiving on November 8. After all, it was also to get more opportunities.
After the first week from November 8 to November 14, Barbara Streisand's another self directed and self acting psychological film, double faced mirror, with a production cost of 42 million US dollars and a screen opening price of 2489 yuan, has been released for seven days, with a box office of only 10 million yuan It is estimated that the total domestic box office is only about $40 million, and the final result is set.
However, in the industry review, Sony has made a good move.
If ”double faced mirror” is not put on file, but continues to collide with a number of new and old blockbusters during the Christmas period, this feature film with far less reputation than ”the waves of time” will only be reduced to cannon fodder, even if the local 40 million people don't think about it. Once the local cinema is completely released, it will only be more difficult for the follow-up channels.
In addition, the week before the release of ”wonder woman 2” at the beginning of the Thanksgiving show, there were still two big contenders, one for Warner Bros.'s ”slam dunk in the air” and the other for Paramount's classic science fiction series ”Star Trek 8”.
Needless to say, the Star Trek series is a rare Hollywood Science Fiction evergreen. This sequel costs US $45 million.
”Slam dunk in the air” is a combination of real life and animation, similar to Disney's box office blockbuster ”Who Framed Roger Rabbit”. In addition, Warner not only launched its famous cartoon character ”bugs bunny” this time, but also invited legendary basketball star Michael Jordan to participate in the film, which costs 80 million dollars and is full of ambition.
It's a pity that there is more than one ”wonder woman 2” in front of ambition. Even the schedule from November 15 to November 21 is terrible. Because the following box office week, November 18 is the fifth TV show of Weimi, and November 19 and November 21 are the second autumn series of ”American Idol”, which are still in full swing. Even if they are all on weekdays and occupy three nights, these two phenomenal TV programs will still have a serious impact on the viewing data of the first box office week of Thanksgiving .If it wasn't for ransom storm to run ahead of time, air dunk might have to run.
However, if you think about the summer vacation and the end of next year, tornado, independence day, Titanic and so on, there is not much room to run away. You can't run to 1998.
In the final analysis, the root cause of all this is that Denise entertainment is too strong. The Hollywood plate is so big, Denise entertainment occupies too much, and the living space of other studios is naturally getting smaller and smaller. In order to avoid the investment of the film project constantly reduced to cannon fodder, next, other Hollywood studios, will only be forced to reduce the production scale, leading to a vicious circle of their own strength decline.
At the party at the mansion on the hillside of palisade.
The leaders of wma and CAA are just discussing this issue.
In the 1980s, Michael owitz was full of emotion: ”with the development of the current situation, at most five years, the seven major Hollywood brands will become a thing of the past. I think at that time, when Denise entertainment is the only one, it will have two or three second tier brands that can't compete with it, and other brands will probably be the only ones left 。”
Now it's all younger brothers, so Jonathan Friedman, who was quite calm when he met his former enemy, nodded slightly and asked, ”who do you think can be left?”
”Warner is definitely one with GE and DC movie universe. Even if MGM can make the secret agent movie universe, it can only count as half. The remaining one and a half places will depend on Fox, Disney, paramount and Sony as well as their reserve capital, and Simon's attitude. ”
”Considering the News Corporation factor, I think fox should be one of them.”
”Not necessarily,” owitz said, ”News Corporation is news Corporation, and fox is fox. Simon will definitely make friends with news corporation. On Fox's side, even Murdoch himself is not very interested. He prefers to make TV rather than movies with too much uncertainty. As a matter of fact, Eisner and I have talked about it recently. It's a pity that Disney is in the hands of the French, and it's most likely that it will decline. ”
Friedman agreed: ”Simon doesn't seem to like France. However, Simon should be interested in Disney's theme park business. ”
”this is for sure, so Disney's brand will be kept, just like Universal Studios. And even if we already have universal studios, Danny rice is now enough to eat Disney, ”Ovitz said, feeling that” ten years, it is fantastic to do that. ”
Jonathan Friedman looked a little nostalgic and said with a smile, ”every time I think of the ambitious young man I met Simon for the first time, I think everything is normal now.”
”It's a pity that I let you get a low price in those years, otherwise I would have beaten wma down completely.”
”Frankly speaking, with the bad situation of wma at that time, I once thought about changing jobs to work with you. Fortunately, I met Simon.”
When they said this, they laughed at each other, raised their glasses to each other in the light of the cliff lawn, sipped a sip of champagne, and Jonathan asked, ”well, what's the matter with that Lingying you and Eisner made?”