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Simon's return to Los Angeles from the east coast at the end of a box office week from July 17 to July 23 is another "wonderful" box office week for Hollywood.
The first is the success of hangover.
The R-rated comedy, with similar repercussions as Simon remembers, fell only 24% next week and earned $43.02 million, ranking first in the weekly box office.
In two weeks, the cumulative box office of the film quickly reached 99.53 million US dollars, almost 100 million US dollars.
The second place is Warner Brothers' lethal weapons 4.
The old action movie starring Mel Gibson made only $34.69 million in the first seven days of the week, which disappointed Warner.
Considering the mediocre reputation of the film, even if there is no heavy film sniping in the future, the local box office potential is estimated to be only about $70 million to $80 million.
Except for Shanghai, it can only recover 120 million US dollars of production cost. It's not a box office fiasco, of course, but it's far from the expectation of Warner Bros.
The third place is saving Private Ryan, back in the hands of Denise entertainment.
In the third week, Saving Private Ryan earned $22.94 million in a single week with a 33% drop, and the cumulative box office successfully exceeded $100 million, reaching $110.61 million. Judging from the current trend, there is no hope that the film will reach the box office of 200 million US dollars in North America.
Then the fourth place was youth of song and dance.
The campus song and dance film starring Christina Aguilera continued to earn US $12.39 million in the fourth week with a 39% decline, and the cumulative box office was worth more than US $100 million, reaching US $101 million.
The fifth is Jurassic Park 3, the heaviest summer program, with a weekly income of US $10.97 million, which will drop to less than US $10 million next week.
It's the seventh week since its release, and the cumulative box office of Jurassic Park 3 has reached 366.94 million US dollars, which is not far from the 400 million threshold.
With the current trend, "Jurassic Park 3" is expected to reach 400 million box office.
After the fifth place, there are a series of closing films in the box office area.
Not to mention that "morgue haunted event 3", which earned 8.13 million US dollars in the sixth list, is still the top five produced by daenerys entertainment. Except for one "lethal weapon 4", the other four films are all from daenerys entertainment. This kind of dominance has numbed other Hollywood studios up to now.
It should be that sentence does not break out in silence, but perishes in silence.
It happens that danilisi entertainment will win blockbuster after the acquisition of baolijin. It's obvious that if it goes on like this, there will be no way for us to survive. Therefore, taking the acquisition of blockbuster as an opportunity, when a new box office week comes out and Simon returns to the west coast, public opinion suddenly breaks out.
Not surprisingly, this time Disney is the most alienated entertainment company between Hollywood and Denise.
On July 24, Disney, controlled by Vivendi of France, issued an article in Hollywood Reporter directly, strongly opposing Denise Entertainment's overall acquisition of blockbuster, believing that it would further strengthen Denise Entertainment's monopoly position in Hollywood.
Although other studios have not followed up, it can be imagined that if Simon is in the corresponding position, even if it is not convenient to speak publicly, he will absolutely support this matter.
Therefore, with the voice of Disney, the following weekend, there were other reports about Denise Entertainment's monopoly market appeared in the media of other platforms. The spearhead of these reports was the acquisition of blockbuster by Denise entertainment. However, it is obvious that the core of these reports is the dissatisfaction with Denise Entertainment's increasing market share.
Danielis entertainment, of course, will not let public opinion ferment and will soon fight back.
Compared with other industries, Hollywood is actually a relatively fair and free competition market. The question is whether we can produce good movies that let the audience buy. Now the question is, who is to blame for Denise Entertainment's ability to launch a series of films that make audiences applaud and sell well, but other studios can't?
In short, the current high market share of danielis entertainment is not snatched by improper means, but is a natural result of market competition, just like the good products beat the poor ones in the real market.
In fact, we all know the truth.
That's why this time the spearhead is on blockbuster.
Some media even quoted the outdated paramount act once again, believing that the federal government should curb the vertical expansion of danilisi entertainment. Moreover, blockbuster is the largest video rental chain in North America and even the world. Once it is completely controlled by danilisi entertainment, it is likely to affect the distribution channels of other studios' films.
Denise's reason for entertainment is even stronger.
After getting rid of the franchise business, even if blockbuster is still the number one, its market share is only 34%, and 66% of the market belongs to other rental service enterprises, large and small. In this case, even if danielis entertainment completely wins blockbuster, in order to ensure sufficient film sources and maintain its competitiveness, it will only make better friends with other studios, They don't reject each other's films.
Anyway, the truth is right in any way.
Not only that, but soon other video rental chains, big and small, also jumped out and opposed the acquisition.
The reason is more legitimate.
These rental chains are worried that Denise entertainment will refuse or at least delay reducing the supply of content resources to them after taking blockbuster. At present, most of the popular Hollywood movies are from danielis entertainment. If Simon westero does this, blockbuster will soon be able to break down other rental chains.
This is another problem.
The impact of things soon became apparent.
Naturally, every company will not only fight in the media, and there will be no lack of operation in Washington. Therefore, danielis Entertainment's application for the acquisition of blockbuster was not unexpectedly temporarily suppressed, and the Ministry of justice did not reject it. Instead, it asked danielis entertainment to negotiate with the dissenting manufacturers and give a proper result, That's the only way to let the acquisition go.
Simon has been through it.
The most important acquisitions before were accompanied by all kinds of "negotiation", which is actually the exchange of interests.
This time, though, it's obviously different.
The key to the development of danilisi entertainment to its present scale lies in a fast word. In just over ten years, danilisi entertainment has expanded rapidly from scratch, one big step at a time, to the present scale, so that when Hollywood natives want to suppress this underachiever, they find that they can only look up to it.
Now, it's a complete reaction.
We really can't let Denise entertainment continue to expand just because of some small profits.
So you can imagine.
In the week of the end of July, Denise entertainment held two intensive meetings with representatives of various studios and video rental manufacturers, both of which broke up unhappily.
It's a good thing.
Simon is eager to complete the last step of danilisi's entertainment industry layout, but he is stuck here.
Fortunately, it's not impossible to turn things around.
The next thing to go to court is to initiate a lawsuit, let the official intervene in mediation, and reach some mandatory binding terms, which is definitely better than all kinds of lions' big mouth. It's purely to disturb things. Even the hearts of all parties probably understand that this can only delay at most, and even may lead to a bad relationship with Denise entertainment, and they may be wearing shoes behind their backs, I can't help it.
There's no way out.
Time in this bustle, unconsciously into August.
First of all, a box office week started on July 24, when Denise entertainment released Robert Redford's "the Horse Whisperer", which became Denise Entertainment's most mediocre summer box office performance so far. During the first seven days of the first week from July 24 to July 30, only $21.43 million was recorded.
More importantly, Denise entertainment finally won a weekly box office title.
Fox's film version of "X-Files" started on the same day as "the Horse Whisperer", earning $41.6 million in the first seven days of the week, making it the box office leader of the week at the end of July.
Then, on July 31, Zhang Guoshi's hero was released in North America.
This film, which is the counterpart of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon last year, has been under intensive publicity recently. In addition to a large number of familiar faces of Chinese film makers, the box office performance of the film in China has also become another focus of publicity.
In China, "Crouching Tiger, hidden dragon" was released on July 9. After 139 million yuan in the first week, it received 87 million yuan in the next week with a 37% drop. In the third week, it received another 56 million yuan. At present, the cumulative box office of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" in mainland China has reached 282 million yuan, which is more than twice that of "Crouching Tiger, hidden dragon" in China last year.
The same danielis Entertainment Investment and production, the same type of martial arts, as well as a large number of Oriental filmmakers who are relatively familiar to the western audience, such as Jeter Lee, have joined in. It can be said that the audience's expectations before the release of this film far exceeded last year's Crouching Tiger, hidden dragon.
After the premiere ceremony on July 29, the film's public praise was lifted, which is also worthy of public expectation.
With almost all the media giving positive comments, hero's comprehensive media score easily reached a classic high of 9.4.
However, Simon was not dazzled by such high media reviews.
Compared with crouching tiger, hidden dragon, which had a rather simple story line last year, for Western audiences, hero, which adopted a "Rashomon" routine, frankly speaking, for Western audiences, the plot is somewhat complicated.
Most people actually like to watch a movie without thinking.
Of course, on the other hand, the visual wonders and martial arts elements of hero are enough to make up for the too many twists and turns in the plot, so that the audience can feast their eyes even if they don't fully understand the plot.
In a word, even if it doesn't reach the 100 million mark of Crouching Tiger, hidden dragon in North America last year, Simon's expectation of hero is higher than that of the 50 million box office in North America.
Los Angeles.
Inside the hillside mansion in palisade.
This is August 1st.
Saturday.
It's kind of a summer party.
Not to mention Steven Soderberg's little movie magic Mack, which cost only $7 million to make on August 7. By the end of hero, in many people's eyes, Denise Entertainment's summer program has come to a perfect end.
Including hero.
Starting with 2563 screens yesterday, hero's first day box office reached $7.18 million, which means it is expected to earn about $30 million in the first seven days of the week.
In the first week, 30million yuan, even if the follow-up trend is not as stable as the "Crouching Tiger and hidden dragon" last year, the total box office of 60million to 80million is OK. This is equivalent to 30 million dollars of production cost to recover and make profits.
Therefore, at the party tonight, Simon can clearly feel the relief of Mr. Zhang.
Actually, I can imagine.
The investment of 30 million US dollars in Hollywood is nothing. In China, 250 million RMB is just a mountain. If it fails, it will be enough to crush any filmmaker. Therefore, even if hero had been sold well in China before, Mr. Zhang did not dare to relax completely. After all, it is obvious that there is no cost recovery in China.
Without the pressure of hero, in the conversation between Zhang Guoshi and Simon, he inevitably talked about the trilogy of Chuhan: "the meaning of China Film and brocade book has been finalized, and I am fully responsible for it, which makes me under great pressure. Simon, can you give me some suggestions?"
"Zhang, what's the weakest part of hero this time?"
"Plot, I found out that a long time ago. Frankly, I'm not very good at it. However, the script of Chu Han is excellent, which is a remedy for me. "
Simon nodded: "to understand your weakness, the key is to overcome it. Zhang, my advice is, from now on, forget all that hero has brought you. Money and honor are useless. In Hollywood, few directors can live a lifetime with a single film. In order to maintain their position, any director has to constantly produce new works, or praise them, or make them popular. For you, if you only stay in the stage of "hero" and regard it as a peak, it's a pity. You should firmly believe that the next film is your peak. Oh, this seems to be a cliche, but it's also a simple truth. "
The two chatted for a while. Simon just turned around with Li Youhu, who had been quietly holding his arm, and was stopped by an oncoming Scarlett.
Although Horse Whisperer is lukewarm, little girl's performance in the film has won the unanimous praise of film critics. The only disadvantage is that she is too young, otherwise she will surely receive a large number of film appointments now.
Seeing the goblin holding a glass of juice looking forward to himself, Simon reached out and rubbed the girl's head: "where's your sister?"
Scarlett Johnson broke down and said, "Simon, do you only have my sister in your eyes?"
Simon has nothing to do with it. Li Youhu, who is next to him, can't help laughing when he hears the jealous words of little girl. He realizes that the goblin is glaring at him. Li Youhu doesn't stop smiling, but finds it more interesting.
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Simon's return to Los Angeles from the east coast at the end of a box office week from July 17 to July 23 is another "wonderful" box office week for Hollywood.
The first is the success of hangover.
The R-rated comedy, with similar repercussions as Simon remembers, fell only 24% next week and earned $43.02 million, ranking first in the weekly box office.
In two weeks, the cumulative box office of the film quickly reached 99.53 million US dollars, almost 100 million US dollars.
The second place is Warner Brothers' lethal weapons 4.
The old action movie starring Mel Gibson made only $34.69 million in the first seven days of the week, which disappointed Warner.
Considering the mediocre reputation of the film, even if there is no heavy film sniping in the future, the local box office potential is estimated to be only about $70 million to $80 million.
Except for Shanghai, it can only recover 120 million US dollars of production cost. It's not a box office fiasco, of course, but it's far from the expectation of Warner Bros.
The third place is saving Private Ryan, back in the hands of Denise entertainment.
In the third week, Saving Private Ryan earned $22.94 million in a single week with a 33% drop, and the cumulative box office successfully exceeded $100 million, reaching $110.61 million. Judging from the current trend, there is no hope that the film will reach the box office of 200 million US dollars in North America.
Then the fourth place was youth of song and dance.
The campus song and dance film starring Christina Aguilera continued to earn US $12.39 million in the fourth week with a 39% decline, and the cumulative box office was worth more than US $100 million, reaching US $101 million.
The fifth is Jurassic Park 3, the heaviest summer program, with a weekly income of US $10.97 million, which will drop to less than US $10 million next week.
It's the seventh week since its release, and the cumulative box office of Jurassic Park 3 has reached 366.94 million US dollars, which is not far from the 400 million threshold.
With the current trend, "Jurassic Park 3" is expected to reach 400 million box office.
After the fifth place, there are a series of closing films in the box office area.
Not to mention that "morgue haunted event 3", which earned 8.13 million US dollars in the sixth list, is still the top five produced by daenerys entertainment. Except for one "lethal weapon 4", the other four films are all from daenerys entertainment. This kind of dominance has numbed other Hollywood studios up to now.
It should be that sentence does not break out in silence, but perishes in silence.
It happens that danilisi entertainment will win blockbuster after the acquisition of baolijin. It's obvious that if it goes on like this, there will be no way for us to survive. Therefore, taking the acquisition of blockbuster as an opportunity, when a new box office week comes out and Simon returns to the west coast, public opinion suddenly breaks out.
Not surprisingly, this time Disney is the most alienated entertainment company between Hollywood and Denise.
On July 24, Disney, controlled by Vivendi of France, issued an article in Hollywood Reporter directly, strongly opposing Denise Entertainment's overall acquisition of blockbuster, believing that it would further strengthen Denise Entertainment's monopoly position in Hollywood.
Although other studios have not followed up, it can be imagined that if Simon is in the corresponding position, even if it is not convenient to speak publicly, he will absolutely support this matter.
Therefore, with the voice of Disney, the following weekend, there were other reports about Denise Entertainment's monopoly market appeared in the media of other platforms. The spearhead of these reports was the acquisition of blockbuster by Denise entertainment. However, it is obvious that the core of these reports is the dissatisfaction with Denise Entertainment's increasing market share.
Danielis entertainment, of course, will not let public opinion ferment and will soon fight back.
Compared with other industries, Hollywood is actually a relatively fair and free competition market. The question is whether we can produce good movies that let the audience buy. Now the question is, who is to blame for Denise Entertainment's ability to launch a series of films that make audiences applaud and sell well, but other studios can't?
In short, the current high market share of danielis entertainment is not snatched by improper means, but is a natural result of market competition, just like the good products beat the poor ones in the real market.
In fact, we all know the truth.
That's why this time the spearhead is on blockbuster.
Some media even quoted the outdated paramount act once again, believing that the federal government should curb the vertical expansion of danilisi entertainment. Moreover, blockbuster is the largest video rental chain in North America and even the world. Once it is completely controlled by danilisi entertainment, it is likely to affect the distribution channels of other studios' films.
Denise's reason for entertainment is even stronger.
After getting rid of the franchise business, even if blockbuster is still the number one, its market share is only 34%, and 66% of the market belongs to other rental service enterprises, large and small. In this case, even if danielis entertainment completely wins blockbuster, in order to ensure sufficient film sources and maintain its competitiveness, it will only make better friends with other studios, They don't reject each other's films.
Anyway, the truth is right in any way.
Not only that, but soon other video rental chains, big and small, also jumped out and opposed the acquisition.
The reason is more legitimate.
These rental chains are worried that Denise entertainment will refuse or at least delay reducing the supply of content resources to them after taking blockbuster. At present, most of the popular Hollywood movies are from danielis entertainment. If Simon westero does this, blockbuster will soon be able to break down other rental chains.
This is another problem.
The impact of things soon became apparent.
Naturally, every company will not only fight in the media, and there will be no lack of operation in Washington. Therefore, danielis Entertainment's application for the acquisition of blockbuster was not unexpectedly temporarily suppressed, and the Ministry of justice did not reject it. Instead, it asked danielis entertainment to negotiate with the dissenting manufacturers and give a proper result, That's the only way to let the acquisition go.
Simon has been through it.
The most important acquisitions before were accompanied by all kinds of "negotiation", which is actually the exchange of interests.
This time, though, it's obviously different.
The key to the development of danilisi entertainment to its present scale lies in a fast word. In just over ten years, danilisi entertainment has expanded rapidly from scratch, one big step at a time, to the present scale, so that when Hollywood natives want to suppress this underachiever, they find that they can only look up to it.
Now, it's a complete reaction.
We really can't let Denise entertainment continue to expand just because of some small profits.
So you can imagine.
In the week of the end of July, Denise entertainment held two intensive meetings with representatives of various studios and video rental manufacturers, both of which broke up unhappily.
It's a good thing.
Simon is eager to complete the last step of danilisi's entertainment industry layout, but he is stuck here.
Fortunately, it's not impossible to turn things around.
The next thing to go to court is to initiate a lawsuit, let the official intervene in mediation, and reach some mandatory binding terms, which is definitely better than all kinds of lions' big mouth. It's purely to disturb things. Even the hearts of all parties probably understand that this can only delay at most, and even may lead to a bad relationship with Denise entertainment, and they may be wearing shoes behind their backs, I can't help it.
There's no way out.
Time in this bustle, unconsciously into August.
First of all, a box office week started on July 24, when Denise entertainment released Robert Redford's "the Horse Whisperer", which became Denise Entertainment's most mediocre summer box office performance so far. During the first seven days of the first week from July 24 to July 30, only $21.43 million was recorded.
More importantly, Denise entertainment finally won a weekly box office title.
Fox's film version of "X-Files" started on the same day as "the Horse Whisperer", earning $41.6 million in the first seven days of the week, making it the box office leader of the week at the end of July.
Then, on July 31, Zhang Guoshi's hero was released in North America.
This film, which is the counterpart of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon last year, has been under intensive publicity recently. In addition to a large number of familiar faces of Chinese film makers, the box office performance of the film in China has also become another focus of publicity.
In China, "Crouching Tiger, hidden dragon" was released on July 9. After 139 million yuan in the first week, it received 87 million yuan in the next week with a 37% drop. In the third week, it received another 56 million yuan. At present, the cumulative box office of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" in mainland China has reached 282 million yuan, which is more than twice that of "Crouching Tiger, hidden dragon" in China last year.
The same danielis Entertainment Investment and production, the same type of martial arts, as well as a large number of Oriental filmmakers who are relatively familiar to the western audience, such as Jeter Lee, have joined in. It can be said that the audience's expectations before the release of this film far exceeded last year's Crouching Tiger, hidden dragon.
After the premiere ceremony on July 29, the film's public praise was lifted, which is also worthy of public expectation.
With almost all the media giving positive comments, hero's comprehensive media score easily reached a classic high of 9.4.
However, Simon was not dazzled by such high media reviews.
Compared with crouching tiger, hidden dragon, which had a rather simple story line last year, for Western audiences, hero, which adopted a "Rashomon" routine, frankly speaking, for Western audiences, the plot is somewhat complicated.
Most people actually like to watch a movie without thinking.
Of course, on the other hand, the visual wonders and martial arts elements of hero are enough to make up for the too many twists and turns in the plot, so that the audience can feast their eyes even if they don't fully understand the plot.
In a word, even if it doesn't reach the 100 million mark of Crouching Tiger, hidden dragon in North America last year, Simon's expectation of hero is higher than that of the 50 million box office in North America.
Los Angeles.
Inside the hillside mansion in palisade.
This is August 1st.
Saturday.
It's kind of a summer party.
Not to mention Steven Soderberg's little movie magic Mack, which cost only $7 million to make on August 7. By the end of hero, in many people's eyes, Denise Entertainment's summer program has come to a perfect end.
Including hero.
Starting with 2563 screens yesterday, hero's first day box office reached $7.18 million, which means it is expected to earn about $30 million in the first seven days of the week.
In the first week, 30million yuan, even if the follow-up trend is not as stable as the "Crouching Tiger and hidden dragon" last year, the total box office of 60million to 80million is OK. This is equivalent to 30 million dollars of production cost to recover and make profits.
Therefore, at the party tonight, Simon can clearly feel the relief of Mr. Zhang.
Actually, I can imagine.
The investment of 30 million US dollars in Hollywood is nothing. In China, 250 million RMB is just a mountain. If it fails, it will be enough to crush any filmmaker. Therefore, even if hero had been sold well in China before, Mr. Zhang did not dare to relax completely. After all, it is obvious that there is no cost recovery in China.
Without the pressure of hero, in the conversation between Zhang Guoshi and Simon, he inevitably talked about the trilogy of Chuhan: "the meaning of China Film and brocade book has been finalized, and I am fully responsible for it, which makes me under great pressure. Simon, can you give me some suggestions?"
"Zhang, what's the weakest part of hero this time?"
"Plot, I found out that a long time ago. Frankly, I'm not very good at it. However, the script of Chu Han is excellent, which is a remedy for me. "
Simon nodded: "to understand your weakness, the key is to overcome it. Zhang, my advice is, from now on, forget all that hero has brought you. Money and honor are useless. In Hollywood, few directors can live a lifetime with a single film. In order to maintain their position, any director has to constantly produce new works, or praise them, or make them popular. For you, if you only stay in the stage of "hero" and regard it as a peak, it's a pity. You should firmly believe that the next film is your peak. Oh, this seems to be a cliche, but it's also a simple truth. "
The two chatted for a while. Simon just turned around with Li Youhu, who had been quietly holding his arm, and was stopped by an oncoming Scarlett.
Although Horse Whisperer is lukewarm, little girl's performance in the film has won the unanimous praise of film critics. The only disadvantage is that she is too young, otherwise she will surely receive a large number of film appointments now.
Seeing the goblin holding a glass of juice looking forward to himself, Simon reached out and rubbed the girl's head: "where's your sister?"
Scarlett Johnson broke down and said, "Simon, do you only have my sister in your eyes?"
Simon has nothing to do with it. Li Youhu, who is next to him, can't help laughing when he hears the jealous words of little girl. He realizes that the goblin is glaring at him. Li Youhu doesn't stop smiling, but finds it more interesting.
Simon's return to Los Angeles from the east coast at the end of a box office week from July 17 to July 23 is another "wonderful" box office week for Hollywood.The first is the success of hangover.The R-rated comedy, with similar repercussions as Simon remembers, fell only 24% next week and earned $43.02 million, ranking first in the weekly box office.In two weeks, the cumulative box office of the film quickly reached 99.53 million US dollars, almost 100 million US dollars.The second place is Warner Brothers' lethal weapons 4.The old action movie starring Mel Gibson made only $34.69 million in the first seven days of the week, which disappointed Warner.Considering the mediocre reputation of the film, even if there is no heavy film sniping in the future, the local box office potential is estimated to be only about $70 million to $80 million.Except for Shanghai, it can only recover 120 million US dollars of production cost. It's not a box office fiasco, of course, but it's far from the expectation of Warner Bros.The third place is saving Private Ryan, back in the hands of Denise entertainment.In the third week, Saving Private Ryan earned $22.94 million in a single week with a 33% drop, and the cumulative box office successfully exceeded $100 million, reaching $110.61 million. Judging from the current trend, there is no hope that the film will reach the box office of 200 million US dollars in North America.Then the fourth place was youth of song and dance.The campus song and dance film starring Christina Aguilera continued to earn US $12.39 million in the fourth week with a 39% decline, and the cumulative box office was worth more than US $100 million, reaching US $101 million.The fifth is Jurassic Park 3, the heaviest summer program, with a weekly income of US $10.97 million, which will drop to less than US $10 million next week.It's the seventh week since its release, and the cumulative box office of Jurassic Park 3 has reached 366.94 million US dollars, which is not far from the 400 million threshold.With the current trend, "Jurassic Park 3" is expected to reach 400 million box office.After the fifth place, there are a series of closing films in the box office area.Not to mention that "morgue haunted event 3", which earned 8.13 million US dollars in the sixth list, is still the top five produced by daenerys entertainment. Except for one "lethal weapon 4", the other four films are all from daenerys entertainment. This kind of dominance has numbed other Hollywood studios up to now.It should be that sentence does not break out in silence, but perishes in silence.It happens that danilisi entertainment will win blockbuster after the acquisition of baolijin. It's obvious that if it goes on like this, there will be no way for us to survive. Therefore, taking the acquisition of blockbuster as an opportunity, when a new box office week comes out and Simon returns to the west coast, public opinion suddenly breaks out.Not surprisingly, this time Disney is the most alienated entertainment company between Hollywood and Denise.On July 24, Disney, controlled by Vivendi of France, issued an article in Hollywood Reporter directly, strongly opposing Denise Entertainment's overall acquisition of blockbuster, believing that it would further strengthen Denise Entertainment's monopoly position in Hollywood.Although other studios have not followed up, it can be imagined that if Simon is in the corresponding position, even if it is not convenient to speak publicly, he will absolutely support this matter.Therefore, with the voice of Disney, the following weekend, there were other reports about Denise Entertainment's monopoly market appeared in the media of other platforms. The spearhead of these reports was the acquisition of blockbuster by Denise entertainment. However, it is obvious that the core of these reports is the dissatisfaction with Denise Entertainment's increasing market share.Danielis entertainment, of course, will not let public opinion ferment and will soon fight back.Compared with other industries, Hollywood is actually a relatively fair and free competition market. The question is whether we can produce good movies that let the audience buy. Now the question is, who is to blame for Denise Entertainment's ability to launch a series of films that make audiences applaud and sell well, but other studios can't?In short, the current high market share of danielis entertainment is not snatched by improper means, but is a natural result of market competition, just like the good products beat the poor ones in the real market.In fact, we all know the truth.That's why this time the spearhead is on blockbuster.Some media even quoted the outdated paramount act once again, believing that the federal government should curb the vertical expansion of danilisi entertainment. Moreover, blockbuster is the largest video rental chain in North America and even the world. Once it is completely controlled by danilisi entertainment, it is likely to affect the distribution channels of other studios' films.Denise's reason for entertainment is even stronger.After getting rid of the franchise business, even if blockbuster is still the number one, its market share is only 34%, and 66% of the market belongs to other rental service enterprises, large and small. In this case, even if danielis entertainment completely wins blockbuster, in order to ensure sufficient film sources and maintain its competitiveness, it will only make better friends with other studios, They don't reject each other's films.Anyway, the truth is right in any way.Not only that, but soon other video rental chains, big and small, also jumped out and opposed the acquisition.The reason is more legitimate.These rental chains are worried that Denise entertainment will refuse or at least delay reducing the supply of content resources to them after taking blockbuster. At present, most of the popular Hollywood movies are from danielis entertainment. If Simon westero does this, blockbuster will soon be able to break down other rental chains.This is another problem.The impact of things soon became apparent.Naturally, every company will not only fight in the media, and there will be no lack of operation in Washington. Therefore, danielis Entertainment's application for the acquisition of blockbuster was not unexpectedly temporarily suppressed, and the Ministry of justice did not reject it. Instead, it asked danielis entertainment to negotiate with the dissenting manufacturers and give a proper result, That's the only way to let the acquisition go.Simon has been through it.The most important acquisitions before were accompanied by all kinds of "negotiation", which is actually the exchange of interests.This time, though, it's obviously different.The key to the development of danilisi entertainment to its present scale lies in a fast word. In just over ten years, danilisi entertainment has expanded rapidly from scratch, one big step at a time, to the present scale, so that when Hollywood natives want to suppress this underachiever, they find that they can only look up to it.Now, it's a complete reaction.We really can't let Denise entertainment continue to expand just because of some small profits.So you can imagine.In the week of the end of July, Denise entertainment held two intensive meetings with representatives of various studios and video rental manufacturers, both of which broke up unhappily.It's a good thing.Simon is eager to complete the last step of danilisi's entertainment industry layout, but he is stuck here.Fortunately, it's not impossible to turn things around.The next thing to go to court is to initiate a lawsuit, let the official intervene in mediation, and reach some mandatory binding terms, which is definitely better than all kinds of lions' big mouth. It's purely to disturb things. Even the hearts of all parties probably understand that this can only delay at most, and even may lead to a bad relationship with Denise entertainment, and they may be wearing shoes behind their backs, I can't help it.There's no way out.Time in this bustle, unconsciously into August.First of all, a box office week started on July 24, when Denise entertainment released Robert Redford's "the Horse Whisperer", which became Denise Entertainment's most mediocre summer box office performance so far. During the first seven days of the first week from July 24 to July 30, only $21.43 million was recorded.More importantly, Denise entertainment finally won a weekly box office title.Fox's film version of "X-Files" started on the same day as "the Horse Whisperer", earning $41.6 million in the first seven days of the week, making it the box office leader of the week at the end of July.Then, on July 31, Zhang Guoshi's hero was released in North America.This film, which is the counterpart of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon last year, has been under intensive publicity recently. In addition to a large number of familiar faces of Chinese film makers, the box office performance of the film in China has also become another focus of publicity.In China, "Crouching Tiger, hidden dragon" was released on July 9. After 139 million yuan in the first week, it received 87 million yuan in the next week with a 37% drop. In the third week, it received another 56 million yuan. At present, the cumulative box office of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" in mainland China has reached 282 million yuan, which is more than twice that of "Crouching Tiger, hidden dragon" in China last year.The same danielis Entertainment Investment and production, the same type of martial arts, as well as a large number of Oriental filmmakers who are relatively familiar to the western audience, such as Jeter Lee, have joined in. It can be said that the audience's expectations before the release of this film far exceeded last year's Crouching Tiger, hidden dragon.After the premiere ceremony on July 29, the film's public praise was lifted, which is also worthy of public expectation.With almost all the media giving positive comments, hero's comprehensive media score easily reached a classic high of 9.4.However, Simon was not dazzled by such high media reviews.Compared with crouching tiger, hidden dragon, which had a rather simple story line last year, for Western audiences, hero, which adopted a "Rashomon" routine, frankly speaking, for Western audiences, the plot is somewhat complicated.Most people actually like to watch a movie without thinking.Of course, on the other hand, the visual wonders and martial arts elements of hero are enough to make up for the too many twists and turns in the plot, so that the audience can feast their eyes even if they don't fully understand the plot.In a word, even if it doesn't reach the 100 million mark of Crouching Tiger, hidden dragon in North America last year, Simon's expectation of hero is higher than that of the 50 million box office in North America.Los Angeles.Inside the hillside mansion in palisade.This is August 1st.Saturday.It's kind of a summer party.Not to mention Steven Soderberg's little movie magic Mack, which cost only $7 million to make on August 7. By the end of hero, in many people's eyes, Denise Entertainment's summer program has come to a perfect end.Including hero.Starting with 2563 screens yesterday, hero's first day box office reached $7.18 million, which means it is expected to earn about $30 million in the first seven days of the week.In the first week, 30million yuan, even if the follow-up trend is not as stable as the "Crouching Tiger and hidden dragon" last year, the total box office of 60million to 80million is OK. This is equivalent to 30 million dollars of production cost to recover and make profits.Therefore, at the party tonight, Simon can clearly feel the relief of Mr. Zhang.Actually, I can imagine.The investment of 30 million US dollars in Hollywood is nothing. In China, 250 million RMB is just a mountain. If it fails, it will be enough to crush any filmmaker. Therefore, even if hero had been sold well in China before, Mr. Zhang did not dare to relax completely. After all, it is obvious that there is no cost recovery in China.Without the pressure of hero, in the conversation between Zhang Guoshi and Simon, he inevitably talked about the trilogy of Chuhan: "the meaning of China Film and brocade book has been finalized, and I am fully responsible for it, which makes me under great pressure. Simon, can you give me some suggestions?""Zhang, what's the weakest part of hero this time?""Plot, I found out that a long time ago. Frankly, I'm not very good at it. However, the script of Chu Han is excellent, which is a remedy for me. "Simon nodded: "to understand your weakness, the key is to overcome it. Zhang, my advice is, from now on, forget all that hero has brought you. Money and honor are useless. In Hollywood, few directors can live a lifetime with a single film. In order to maintain their position, any director has to constantly produce new works, or praise them, or make them popular. For you, if you only stay in the stage of "hero" and regard it as a peak, it's a pity. You should firmly believe that the next film is your peak. Oh, this seems to be a cliche, but it's also a simple truth. "The two chatted for a while. Simon just turned around with Li Youhu, who had been quietly holding his arm, and was stopped by an oncoming Scarlett.Although Horse Whisperer is lukewarm, little girl's performance in the film has won the unanimous praise of film critics. The only disadvantage is that she is too young, otherwise she will surely receive a large number of film appointments now.Seeing the goblin holding a glass of juice looking forward to himself, Simon reached out and rubbed the girl's head: "where's your sister?"Scarlett Johnson broke down and said, "Simon, do you only have my sister in your eyes?"Simon has nothing to do with it. Li Youhu, who is next to him, can't help laughing when he hears the jealous words of little girl. He realizes that the goblin is glaring at him. Li Youhu doesn't stop smiling, but finds it more interesting.
