Chapter 1133 (1/2)
The media and audience feedback of the premiere of Crouching Tiger, hidden dragon in Cannes was sent back to North America. Danelis entertainment immediately put the relevant news on various media platforms such as newspapers, TV and the Internet. Hollywood Reporter and variety gave a lot of praise and comments. The first official trailer was timely launched on the YouTube video website.
Everything is familiar.
Now in Hollywood, danelis entertainment is not only a big studio that attaches the most importance to marketing, but also has a large number of media resources.
Therefore, even though the final stage of a series of blockbusters in the summer season is in full swing, crouching tiger, hidden dragon is still more than two months away from its release date on July 25. The film is still in the ”Kung Fu craze” stalls in the current North American film market and has attracted a lot of public attention.
On the other hand, the two new films ”Police Story 4” and ”absolute power”, which were launched on May 16 in the summer season, are also some people's joys and some people's worries.
”Police Story 4” is Jack Cheng's new film, which continues the popular ”Police Story” series in Hong Kong. However, after the rush hour fire last year, the production specifications of Police Story 4 were upgraded and the script was specially modified to cater for the western market.
As a result, the project got the attention of Hollywood parties and was finally won by Disney controlled by Vivendi.
The film was shot all over the world, and the production cost of the final public promotion reached 25 million US dollars. In North America, the film started with 2376 screens. Three days in the first weekend, with Jack Cheng's popularity and 7.8 media comprehensive score, it successfully earned 17.81 million US dollars, and the box Office of the whole first week is expected to reach about 25 million US dollars.
It's a big sale.
As for the total box office of the film in North America, it depends on the box office curve. However, even if Disney offered quite high conditions at the beginning, it will definitely make a profit this time. Therefore, other Hollywood studios regret that they failed to be more bold when they opened last year.
Clint Eastwood's new Sony film absolute power is in sharp contrast to police story 4.
With a production cost of US $50 million and a screen size of 2579, this crime thriller tells the story of a lone robber involved in the murder of the president, exposing evil and upholding justice. Only US $15.17 million has been made in the first three days, and it is estimated that the full first week will be about US $20 million.
If the cost of the two films is adjusted at the beginning of the summer season, it will not be a failure. Unfortunately, with a cost of $25 million, the box office in North America is conservatively estimated to reach $50 million. With a budget of $50 million, it is unlikely that the local box office will be equal to the cost.
Generally speaking, the box office results of the first three days are that Disney has made a steady profit, Jack Cheng's popularity in North America has further stabilized, and the bumpy Sony, even if it is not a box office fiasco, has once again met with a rebuff.
Los Angeles.
The result of Simon's one week's leisure in China is that he is surrounded by a lot of work during his week back in North America. Even if the new week of May 19 comes, it's still the same.
Denise studios in Malibu.
After breakfast, Simon arrived at his office at 8:20, and Amy Pascal arrived early, planning to talk about something before the nine o'clock high-level meeting.
”As for Godzilla, some other details are still under negotiation. However, Dongbao has no room for concession when it asks for 30% of the investment share. Simon, if you have no problem, we can sign an agreement recently?”
Simon sat on the sofa in the reception area of his office, flipped through a list of documents just handed over by girl a, and asked with two purposes: ”30% investment is OK, you can promise them. What are the details
”It's mainly the issue Commission, and it's also very important to share the peripheral products. We have the initiative in the former, which can be stuck at 15%. The latter is mainly in Dongbao. After all, they have been operating Godzilla for decades. ”
Simon nodded and motioned to Amy to continue. He just asked. He knew the details well and didn't intend to interfere in them.
When Amy saw Simon's promise, he understood that the cut-off to Sony had been basically finalized. He looked down at his memo and showed some smiles. He said, ”Over Sony Pictures, I met Chris Lee again at a party at the weekend. He said that” the ultimate miracle of 2013 ”has been approved. Oh, it's mainly because Sony knows that it can't get Godzilla However, Sony has only given us $40 million in budget. ”
Simon made some marks on the list of documents in his hand and said with a smile: ”it's good to set up the project. At the beginning, the future water world said that it was only 70 million.”
After all, it's not an obvious thing. Amy didn't say much. She laughed and then said, ”besides, Wu has recently found a new project. They have planned a gunfight action movie with Zhou, the hero of Crouching Tiger, hidden dragon, which just premiered in Cannes. I've seen the synopsis of the story. It's probably about a story about a failed killer mission and being chased. Wu is good at it However, Denny once talked with him about Wu's low interest in continuing to work with us. This time, he doesn't plan to act as a director in person, but is only responsible for productionSimon knew what Amy meant by that.
If Simon thinks it's necessary to stay, Denise can bid a higher price for it.
Simon shook his head: ”we insist on our own standards. If Wu can't accept it, let him be at will.”
To put it bluntly, it's because after the successive success of ”broken arrow” and ”mission impossible 2”, white dove Wu has the idea of fighting for more salary and discourse power for himself.
It's human nature.
Unfortunately, other Hollywood studios may connive at famous directors, but Simon won't. After all, there are so many cases in my memory that I can't get used to it. On Danielle's side, anyone who wants to go away has to go away. Simon is not used to it.
Amy, who has believed her boss's judgment for a long time, didn't refute it. She wrote it down on the memo and said, ”then the matrix. Simon and the wodrowski brothers have talked to me several times. Independence Day is coming soon. They think their project can be started?”
The wodrowski brothers have been in Simon's eyes a few years ago. There are still two people who don't have the idea of ”the matrix” that Simon's big butterfly has fanned out. However, after completing the first feature film ”crazy flowers” invested by danielis entertainment, in order to let the two brothers accumulate more experience, Simon sent them to the crew of ”Independence Day” to act as deputy director to Roland Emmerich Play.
”Independence Day” will be released on July 4, the independence day of the United States, and the work of the wodrowski brothers has already been successfully completed.
Simon heard Amy mention this, thought about it, nodded and agreed, ”yes, but it's still a schedule. Please pay attention to it.”
”It must be a blockbuster,” Amy said. ”Since you've been so optimistic about them all the time, I think the summer program in 1999 should be very suitable.”
”Well.”
A lot of the preparatory work for matrix has been completed. It's just the summer of 1997. If we speed up the production, we can release it even next summer. It's just that the 1998 film list is full and can only be put in 1999. Simon knows how successful this project was. If it's not put in the hot summer or end of the year, it's a waste.
Even in the summer of 1999, there are still two years left.
As a business, the shorter the operation cycle of a sum of money, the more cost-effective it is. That's the same reason. The concept of earning 10% in one year for 100 million US dollars is totally different from that of earning 10% in two years. Therefore, in the case of determining the schedule, the closer the official shooting date of ”matrix” is to the schedule, the more favorable it is for danielis entertainment.
Even though daenerys entertainment is now one of Hollywood's biggest cash reserves, Simon has been paying close attention to this issue.
Amy Pascal, of course, has no objection.
two people continued to talk about the many trivial things about Danny's business, such as the game of the same name developed by the Dan Nelly game department in conjunction with the Star Wars preface series of Lucas pictures, such as another summer tour to be launched soon after the second idol of the United States, such as Simon's last visit to Rome Universal Studios after the construction site. And so on.
So, until nearly nine o'clock, they got up and went to the meeting room where the regular high-level meeting was held on Monday, and shuttled through the corridor. Amy thought of another thing: ”I almost forgot, Simon, what should we do about the exchange study project with two Chinese universities?”
A few days ago, in China, because the siheyuan in Maoer hutong is very close to Zhongxi, Simon took time to go there. He had the idea of introducing a group of school students to Hollywood for exchange and study, and told them to go on.
I thought that the two sides would have to communicate for a while before they could come up with a plan. When Amy mentioned it, Simon said, ”you can talk to Chen Qing about this, because some of them will have a special identity. She must know that these people will give them some comfortable positions and preferential treatment. The others are all cast into the film crew they are shooting, and they are considered interns. ”
Amy nodded her understanding.