Chapter 1149 (1/2)
Benedict community east of Beverly Hills.
It's July 25, Saturday.
At the premiere of Crouching Tiger, hidden dragon on Wednesday night, Jack Cheng flew to Los Angeles and settled in the mansion he just bought last year.
It's near noon.
Just now I saw the phantom agent sample film from Hong Kong with bill michanik, President of Disney Pictures. My assistant came to remind me that the guests had arrived one after another.
No matter what the reviews are, Jack Cheng is definitely a man with high EQ, and he is really a big brother.
In the past two years, more and more Chinese filmmakers have entered Hollywood. Recently, many of them are here. Jack Cheng specially takes this opportunity to gather everyone together and get in touch with each other. In the future, he can help each other more or less.
First of all, Fage arrived with Michelle young, one of the heroines of Crouching Tiger, hidden dragon.
Hello everyone, Jack Cheng did not forget to introduce bill michanik to them.
Bill michanik has heard some news about the box office of Crouching Tiger, hidden dragon on its first day this morning, and he is very enthusiastic about Fage and Michelle young.
Later, Jeter Lee, Xu laoguai and some other Asian American faces who have not made a name in Hollywood arrived one after another.
Jeter Lee didn't mention it.
In addition, Xu laoguai, taking advantage of the wave of Chinese film makers going to the United States, has recently successfully signed a film contract with Warner. The hero is Steven siger, Warner's direct action actor. He is currently writing a script, with a preliminary idea to tell a story about the anti-terrorism cooperation between the police of Hong Kong and the United States. This design is mainly for shooting in Hong Kong that he is familiar with It is estimated that there will be funds from the other side of the ocean, with a budget of about $25 million.
In addition, some of the Hollywood natives Jack Cheng has known in recent years, when it's past 12 o'clock, the villa hall is already bustling, and even new world film's president, Denny Morris, has come.
This is a buffet party.
Seeing that the crowd has started, Jack Cheng, as the host, hasn't said a few opening words, and the atmosphere is becoming more and more delicate.
Because the most dazzling Chinese movie maker in Hollywood has not yet arrived, it is Wu dove, who has been selling ”broken arrow”, ”mission impossible 2” and ”face changing”.
More acute people can also find that on Wednesday's premiere of Crouching Tiger, hidden dragon, Jeter Lee flew in from China, but Wu, a pigeon from North America, did not attend. Even if Wu's recent actions make it clear that he doesn't mean to cooperate with danielis entertainment any more, it's a film of compatriots after all. Regardless of danielis entertainment, we should support each other after all.
And this time old Xu.
In that year's ”the true colors of heroes”, it's hard to say a word. Now Mr. Xu follows others in Hollywood. It's hard to say what white dove Wu thinks.
Until a quarter past twelve, dove Wu finally came.
After all, it's the Chinese filmmakers who have made great achievements in Hollywood at this time. Jack Cheng and many other Hollywood natives have come forward one after another.
”I'm sorry, ah long, there was a meeting in the morning, and there was a traffic jam on the road,” Wu Lianlian, a white dove, apologized. Seeing Bill michanik, she was enthusiastic again. ”Bill, I didn't expect you to be here, too.”
”Nice to meet you again,” said Bill michanik, shaking hands with dove Wu with a smile. ”Wu, how about taking time to talk about the double crisis project?”
With a smile on his face, Wu said, ”bill, I don't think we should waste our time. I hope we can have absolute control over our own projects in the future. You obviously can't give that, can you?”
”Yes, I'm on the phone with Mr. Messier from France.”
”I'm sorry, but I've settled a script with paramount,” Wu interrupted directly, signaling to the side, ”and I'll go and say hello to AFA.”
Bill michanik can only regret to see Wu leave.
Then I saw new world film president Denny Morris, who was not far away and indifferent to the arrival of dove Wu, and it was hard to avoid some slight schadenfreude.
With the local box office of ”face changing” about to exceed 200 million, white dove Wu is hot in Hollywood recently. Danielis entertainment has trained this big shot director, but now she is watching him leave without trying her best to keep him. In the eyes of michanik, a traditional Hollywood executive, it is very unwise.
On the other side, white dove Wu greets with the crowd and comes to Fage. He is sorry again: ”I'm a little busy recently. Ah FA, I didn't attend the premiere of Crouching Tiger, hidden dragon. I hope you don't mind.”
Fage was in a good mood and said with a smile, ”it doesn't matter.”
White dove Wu didn't mean to talk more about it. In fact, if you want to go, of course you can spare time. However, he has made three big selling films for danielis entertainment, and he doesn't intend to let the other party take advantage of him. Even though he knows the influence of danielis entertainment in Hollywood, with the big selling of the three films, white dove Wu firmly believes that he can still do well without danielis entertainment.Recently, white dove Wu has successfully signed two film contracts with paramount. One is a gunfight action film CO produced with Fage, and the other is a project directed by him, which is called ”American police officer”. Similar to the idea of ”the end of the world”, it tells the story of a police officer who discovers all kinds of conspiracies in the process of chasing down and escaping from a plane crash.
In addition to Paramount's targeting of Tommy Lee Jones in ”the end of the world,” he has considerable power as a director, including the final editing power. And the budget is also very generous to give 100 million dollars directly, which is the same as ”face changing”.
Compared with the constraints of working with danilisi entertainment, this is what he wants most.
When a person is very successful, he will gradually open his eyes to many things. After a round of greeting, Wu Bai Ge takes the initiative to chat with Xu laoguai. With the intention of freeing up the past, he says that he can say hello to himself if he needs anything in Hollywood.
The atmosphere of the reception was quite harmonious.
When several celebrities get together, the topic unconsciously talks about some recent movies.
”Jiahe's” Mirage agent ”ah, I've also paid attention to it. It should not be finished now?”
”It was just finished last week, and it's in the later stage,” Jack Cheng said. ”Mr. Zou asked someone to send a sample film. In the morning, Mr. michanik and I just saw it. After all, the cooperation of Police Story 4 is very happy.”
White dove Wu drank some wine, high spirited, and said: ”this time, the strategy is actually great, two leading roles, Hong Kong stars with Hollywood actors, but Haonan's reputation is lower, it's better to add some money to find Huazai or Weizai, and the heroine, Jiang Anqi...”
At this point, Lao Wu didn't feel dizzy after all. He stopped in time and said: ”in a word, the strategy of combining Chinese and Western culture is very right, just like” rush hour ”and” hurricane rescue ”by ah long and ah Jie. When we go to Hollywood, we should do as the Romans do. In my opinion, Li's” Crouching Tiger, hidden dragon ”is a counter example, bringing a pure martial arts movie to Hollywood, it's just too easy How can it be successful? ”
After hearing these words, the acquaintances around all looked strange, but they didn't refute anything.
But Bill michanik, who is still here, can't help saying, ”Wu, do you know the box office of Crouching Tiger, hidden dragon on the first day?” When white dove Wu looked at himself with a little doubt, michanik took the initiative to solve the mystery: ”143 screens, box office on the first day of 1.65 million US dollars, the same is yesterday's paramount's hamburger story, 1887 screens, box office on the first day of 1.07 million US dollars.”
143 screens, 1.65 million on the first day.
1887 screens, 1.07 million on the first day.
The contrast is strong.
Even though a lot of demand films are inevitably very high because of their small-scale screening, it is rare that the number of demand films directly exceeds 10000 on the first day, not to mention the non award season. Crouching tiger, Hidden Dragon captured 1.65 million yuan on the first day, and it may be between 7 million and 8 million yuan in the first week.
The total box office of many Chinese films in North America is not necessarily seven or eight million, but this is only the expected first week screening result of Crouching Tiger, hidden dragon.
When I think about the evaluation that Wu just exported, the atmosphere is a little awkward.
In the end, it was Jack Cheng who made it through: ”danielis has spent so much effort on publicity. It's right for her to get a better performance. The key to what can be done at the box office of more than 1 million depends on the follow-up.”
Brother Long's face needs to be given, and we all know that this is a step. Everyone agrees with him. Bill michanik just said nothing more. After all, he may cooperate in the future.
When white dove Wu almost let himself down, the whole Hollywood also gradually pay attention to the box office trend of Crouching Tiger, hidden dragon.
Even though many people think crouching tiger, hidden dragon will sell well according to their feedback in advance, it won US $1.65 million at the box office on the first day with only 143 screens, which is beyond almost everyone's expectation.
The weekend passed in a flash.
On Monday, July 28, box office statistics were released. Crouching tiger, hidden dragon's final box office was $4.96 million in the first three days, surpassing American Pie with nearly $35000, ranking fifth in the three-day weekend box office list, second only to independence day, regeneration man, no more to lose and tornado.
Then, after a full week from July 25 to July 31, ”Crouching Tiger, hidden dragon” earned $7.53 million at the box office, ranking fifth on the list.
Each venue is close to US $53000.
Danylis entertainment followed up in time, and the super high first week screening Hall of Crouching Tiger, hidden dragon became the focus of more media attention at the same time, which once again produced the word-of-mouth effect among the audience.
On August 1, a new box office week began.
Due to the strong feedback from the first week's screening, Denise entertainment adjusted in time, and directly expanded the original planned large-scale screening from more than 1500 screens in the first week to 1863 screens, and planned to consider adding another one according to the specific situation.
Subsequently, the box office potential of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon officially began to release.In the face of the attack of two new films and other old films on August 1 and the heat of continuous fermentation, crouching tiger, hidden dragon finally won $29.13 million at the box office from August 1 to August 7, the first week of large-scale painting!
Directly won the first place in the weekly box office list.
Maybe the box office of other movies with less than $30 million a week is only average, but for a Chinese movie that broke into Hollywood, it's still an art oriented Chinese movie with a box office of $29.14 million, which is a phenomenal dark horse.
In the first week, the cumulative box office of Crouching Tiger, hidden dragon has reached $36.67 million in just half a month.
What's more, ”Crouching Tiger, hidden dragon” is obviously going out of a long way, which is different from the previous $27.55 million in the first week and the 53% drop in the next week. It is even very hopeful that it will become the first Chinese language film to achieve a box office of more than 100 million in North America.
Originally, after independence day, Hollywood thought that dannilis entertainment would stop and give you more or less room to play. After all, from face changing, dannilis entertainment related films had won the box office champion for 10 consecutive weeks in the summer of 1997 as of July 31, and no one expected that dannilis entertainment would jump out of Crouching Tiger, hidden dragon.
On August 8, another box office week opened, and the number of screens of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon increased sharply again, reaching 2393. In order to stimulate the box office potential of the film to the greatest extent, the publicity and distribution investment of the film also increased to 15 million US dollars, which is equal to the production cost of the film.
New York.
If the shooting process of Crouching Tiger, hidden dragon is too tired to live, in the past two weeks, the restart of intensive publicity schedule has made Li Youhu tired and happy.
After more than a year of hard work, it was not in vain.
To be exact, it's a big harvest.
Not only in North America, but also in China, she has become as famous as Angela Chiang in the first half of the year. She is more popular than Angela Chiang. After all, Angela Chiang is just a vase with more parts in hurricane rescue, and she is really a heavy heroine.