Chapter 1124 (1/2)
Simon left London the next day and the next stop was Helsinki.
The official schedule of this trip to Britain is basically settled, but there are two other small things, none of which is settled. It is the hot girls and Harry Potter that came to mind on the plane.
Not for the moment.
On Harry Potter, Simon searched the Facebook social network and other network platforms in the UK, but failed to find a woman named J.K. Rowling. Then he remembered that Western women often follow their husband's surname when they get married. Once J.K. Rowling was a single mother, this time is not necessarily.
And then change the way, mainly with J · K prefix search, and even some network literature community, still nothing.
We have to give up.
Finally, he decided to give it a try. During his next trip to Finland and Italy, Simon took the time to list the outline of the first Harry Potter series based on his memory, and wrote a synopsis of the story, which was passed to Los Angeles for them to find a shooter to write for him.
As for story inspiration.
Simon also used to say that he caught a glimpse of a wizard dressed up as a little boy with black glasses on the side of the road and spent a sketch of Harry Potter.
Of course, Simon doesn't intend to sign the story in the future. Considering the layout of the IP, he doesn't intend to give the shooter the right to sign. Instead, he gives a pseudonym, J.K.
Forget Rowling.
As for the future, all Simon can do is let it be.
Los Angeles.
When Simon was in Europe, it was April 18, another Friday.
The Easter schedule has come to an end, and several previous films are still going on.
Just in the past box office week, the new ”hurricane rescue” starring Jett Lee once again won the box office champion in a single week. From March 28, it is the third week since its release. After the first week's success of $31.37 million, this action movie, which combines Chinese Kung Fu with Hollywood template, fell 43% in the next week, earned $17.88 million, and narrowed to 26% in the third week, then closed at $1 $3.21 million.
In three weeks, the cumulative box office of the $25 million budget film has reached $62.46 million. Even with the $10 million of publicity investment, it has basically recovered the cost.
Judging from the current trend, ”hurricane rescue” has a box office potential of US $15 million to US $20 million. It is expected that the total domestic box office is expected to reach US $80 million.
Although it's hopeless to break through 100 million, even if Simon doesn't have too high expectations for the new hurricane rescue, the $80 million box office expectation has exceeded everyone's expectation.
The successive success of Jack Cheng and Jet Li in Hollywood has not only triggered a wave of Chinese kung fu movies among the audience, but also many Hollywood studios have turned their eyes to the other side of the ocean. Recently, many studios have begun to contact with them.
And then it turns out, it's still a little late.
This brings us to a Chinese Kungfu movie, young Huang Feihong's Iron Monkey, which was released again by Denise entertainment last Friday.
Although the English name of the film has been translated into iron monkey, the wonderful display of Chinese Kung Fu has attracted a lot of attention under the upsurge of Hurricane rescue.
On April 11, ”young Huang Feihong's Iron Monkey” opened with 1514 screens in North America. It was only the first week of its release, and once again made an unexpected $10.36 million at the box office.
In April, with a stand-alone, Chinese language movie theme of 1514 yuan, not much screen scale, the first week of 10.36 million US dollars, can be called a small miracle.
With this little miracle, ”young Huang Feihong's Iron Monkey” even won the second place in the box office list.
In the same box office week, the leading characters of the top two films in the North American film market are all Chinese, which is a spectacle that has not appeared in many years.
With such a small start, the box office of ”young Huang Feihong's Iron Monkey” in North America is expected to reach about 25 million US dollars, which seems not much. However, this old film produced in Hong Kong in 1993 was actually bought by danielis entertainment.
Even though last year's ”rush hour” made Chinese Kung Fu attract a lot of attention again, most people used to look forward after all, instead of looking for old films.
Danielis entertainment is the opposite.
On the other hand, the collapse of Hong Kong films since last year has made many film companies in urgent need of funds, even if they want to be sold. As a result, daenerys entertainment released video tapes, including ”young Huang Feihong's Iron Monkey” and so on, totaling more than 20 films with Omni channel copyright in North America. Daenerys entertainment only spent less than $10 million, with an average of less than $500000 per film.
Of course, in Hong Kong dollars, the average price of nearly 4 million Hong Kong dollars per unit is still considerable.Now, ”young Huang Feihong's Iron Monkey” earns more than US $10 million a week. The producers of the film, such as Jiahe and Huanya, are not so ”impressive” all of a sudden. The feeling of being trapped is worse than one of the producers of ”black man” last year.
If more than 20 films are sold Not to mention all, even if only half of them have such market potential, it is also a blood loss.
I thought that Hollywood would never make a lot of money if we strictly guard against such a new project as police story 4. Unexpectedly, an old film that has been shown for so many years can still be sold in Hollywood.
At the same time, Hong Kong filmmakers, who were worried about the future because of the collapse of the Hong Kong film market, can't help but see a way out after the successive success of Hong Kong films in Hollywood. In addition, Hollywood's explorations can be called a hit and go.
After all, it's a cold time between Easter and summer. After ”hurricane rescue” and ”young Huang Feihong's Iron Monkey”, the box office of ”ghost of terror”, which came in third, fell back to the range of 10 million dollars this week.
It was also the third week of release. After the $14.51 million cut by 51% in the next week, the box office of ”ghost of terror” shrank by 32% in the three weeks, earning $9.86 million again, accumulating $53.91 million.
Considering the box office curve of the film, the total domestic box office of the film is expected to be between us $60 million and US $70 million, which is not as good as the expected US $80 million of Hurricane rescue. However, compared with the production cost of US $30 million, it used to be satisfactory.
Fourth on the list is alien 2.
In the fourth week of its release, the science fiction film with alien themes made another $8.16 million, with a cumulative box office of $71.55 million, easily surpassing the first one. Not only that, with the film's box office surplus at this time, it's not a big problem for the local government to break through 80 million. ”Hurricane rescue” is only expected to reach 80 million, and ”alien 2” is enough to easily break through the 80 million barrier and reach a higher level, so it will also become the most popular film in the Easter season, of course, the most popular one among the four films related to Denise entertainment.