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Hollywood Hunter - Chapter 1529

Published at 19th of January 2022 11:07:49 AM


Chapter 1529

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Entering September, the box office week from August 27 to September 2 ended, and the North American summer program in 1999 basically ended.

For danilis entertainment, the most brilliant films in this summer are undoubtedly three big, two small and five films.

The first is three super heavy bombs.

Godzilla, which began in the summer, was originally "cannon fodder" taken out to hedge against Star Wars Prequel: the phantom threat. However, the result was unexpected.

The film opened on June 11. Not only did the box office break 100 million in the first week, but the subsequent trend was also very stable.

With the end of the summer season, this super blockbuster, which has been released for nearly three months, has also entered the closing stage. There are only more than 200 screens left, and the revenue is less than $100000 a week. The basic dust has been settled. The final box office in North America will probably fall to $313 million.

Overseas continues, however, because the main overseas ticket warehouses have basically been opened, and the box office volume has been clear, about US $470 million, which failed to reach the initial expectation of US $500 million, but there is no dissatisfaction.

Therefore, the global box office of Godzilla is expected to be US $780 million.

The production cost of the film is US $120 million, the publicity investment is US $30 million, and the global investment is US $780 million. Just at the stage of cinema distribution, it will contribute about US $200 million to the producer's pre tax income. It is only a film, which exceeds the annual profit scale of the lower seven companies in Hollywood.

Because of the success of the film, danilis entertainment and Godzilla copyright owner Japan Dongbao Co., Ltd. have been in close negotiations on the development of follow-up projects. Both sides have their own chips and are quite tugging at each other.

Then came Michael Bay's apocalypse.

The film opened on July 2 and lasted two months. It also entered the closing stage of less than $100000 a week. "The Apocalypse" is more than half a month behind the schedule of "Godzilla". At the same time, it begins to finish. It can also be seen that the box office of the film is relatively weak. The total local box office is basically determined to be US $228 million.

Overseas is also not as strong as Godzilla. At present, the overseas box office of doomsday is expected to be about 370 million US dollars, with a total global box office of about 590 million.

The total cost of production and publicity is 180 million, and the initial income of the release stage of the cinema is 80 million US dollars.

Of course, this score has nothing to do with failure. It has also reached Simon's initial pass line. The only problem is that people are afraid of comparison and films are afraid of comparison.

Then there is the last of the three blockbusters, the matrix.

As of September 2, the sixth week of release, "matrix" still received another $19.15 million at the box office. In six weeks, the cumulative box office of this groundbreaking sci-fi blockbuster has reached $267.12 million.

There is only a gap of more than 30 million from the threshold of 300 million.

According to the current momentum of the film, it is no problem for matrix to collect another $50 million, and the total local box office will be about $320 million, slightly higher than Godzilla.

Similarly, with the support of danilis Entertainment's strong global distribution capacity, the local market is bright, and the overseas performance of matrix is no worse than that of Godzilla. Although the distribution continues, the overseas performance will not be worse than that of Godzilla from the data accumulated so far.

Considering that the total production and publicity cost of matrix is only US $110 million, which is less than the production cost of Godzilla of US $120 million, let alone the apocalypse, the film's expected profit in the release stage will easily exceed US $200 million. Moreover, this time, all the profits will belong to danilis, and there is no need to share with Dongbao like Godzilla.

With the great success of the film, the sequel is also directly on the table.

Unlike the pull of Godzilla, danilis has signed an intentional agreement with the creator on the sequel as usual. Therefore, it can be determined that the cost of this sequel will be much lower. For example, even if Keanu Reeves, the leading actor, can still get the top salary in the sequel, this time it is only 15 million, not 20 million.

Because the agreement has been signed in advance, the sharing agreement will be lower. The sharing ceiling of this time and space is also 15%, but Reeves expects to take up to 10%, just like Michael Bay of the previous "doomsday", rather than the previous 20 / 20 contract.

In addition, Simon will still use the production strategy of back-to-back shooting of two sequels this time, which can also save the budget to a certain extent.

Not only that, Simon will not interfere with the first film indiscriminately and have no confidence, as Warner did. As a result, he failed to give full play to the film's potential. After the success of the project, he completely let go of the two sequels and let the wozhuosky brothers go, resulting in the collapse of the follow-up reputation and box office.

Simon is always willing to give the film creators enough space, but at the same time, he will never let them play too freely.

As for the scale, it is very simple, and the final right of interpretation belongs to Simon westero.

After the three heavyweights, there are two films with small volume but still outstanding box office performance.

The first is ghost Video 2. The film was released on June 18. Because Godzilla was too strong the previous week, this film also created a small phenomenon level pseudo documentary film. The opening performance of the film sequel will inevitably be affected. However, it is still as high as 46.45 million in the first week. Compared with the total investment of 25 million in production and publicity, it directly enters the profit cycle in the first week.

After all, it's a popcorn movie, with Godzilla before it and doomsday after it. The box office trend of the film is far less than that of the first one. It has been officially painted in mid August. Finally, the local box office was US $127 million and successfully entered the box office Club of us $100 million.

In addition, the overseas market performance of the film is also basically clear, about US $150 million.

After all, the total global box office of ghost 2 is 270 million, which is not as good as 460 million in the first film, but it is also a big profit relative to the cost. Therefore, ghost record 3 has directly entered the development stage.

The second is fight club.

In terms of cost, the production cost of $46 million is not a small film, but the publicity and distribution of the film can be called a classic, so that when many people are not optimistic about the commercial prospect of the film, they realized a counter attack.

The film opened on August 6. In the first week, it received $23.45 million with 1263 screens, and the museum reached the level of big sales.

Then, the screening screen remained unchanged the next week, with a well controlled decline of 17% and another $19.46 million.

In the third week, the number of screens doubled to 2537, and the box office also achieved a 7% reverse decline. It seems that it is not much, but it is the first film in the non-point screening stage in 1999, which achieved a reverse decline, with another $20.82 million.

More recently, in the fourth week from August 27 to September 2, the film finally ushered in a large 34% decline, with another $13.74 million. It seems to be accelerating the decline, but the cumulative total box office of the film has reached US $77.46 million, a gap of more than 22 million from breaking 100 million.

With the current trend, it's enough to lie down easily.

At first, even if she performed well in the first week, danilis's new world film team was still lack of confidence. She thought that the local box office of the film would only be between 60 million and 80 million US dollars, and she obviously had no expectations of breaking 100 million.

The reality is undoubtedly unexpected.

With the same excellent box office feedback from the overseas market that has been released, "fight club" has completely realized a perfect counter attack from the initial expectation that it may lose money to the cinema stage.

Similarly, the film director David Finch, who has failed in two films in a row, not only ushered in a turnaround of his own, but even because of this excellent marketing operation, David finch was also shaped into a film God who can attract the attention of fans.

Like Nolan later.

Later, when we mention David Finch, we can think of fight club. Even if some people haven't even seen it, they will inevitably feel unidentified and fierce, and then have expectations for finch's new film. In fact, this is commercial security.

Apart from the three major films and two minor films, Simon is a little sorry that danilis entertainment has launched a total of 13 films from May to August, and the remaining 8 have no dark horse. At present, after all the films are off the market, the other eight films are expected to bring danilis $200 million at the box office, with an average of less than 30 million each. Combined with overseas, excluding the cost, In fact, it's not a loss.

Overall, the total box office contribution of all 13 films to danilis is also expected to be US $1.3 billion,

On the other hand, from May 1 to August 31, about 17 weeks, the North American film market made a total box office of $2.53 billion.

Although nearly half of danilis' 13 films are still released, similarly, the projects belonging to danilis entertainment also entered the summer before May. Therefore, the figure of 1.3 billion is roughly not bad.

Obviously, it is still half of the country.

Other Hollywood studios have become numb to this, because anger is useless and other operations are useless. We can only strive for the remaining market share while being forced to reduce production production to avoid more losses.

In addition, danilis, including fight club, has won seven films with box office exceeding 100 million in 1999 from the American version of Aihu at the beginning of the year to the later American Pie 2 by September.

As for other studios, in addition to a Star Wars Prequel: the phantom threat, this summer, only Warner Bros. has achieved a box office of more than 100 million. This is a film completely produced by butterflies, called the ghost hunter. It is a medieval classical vampire fantasy type, which is very similar to the subsequent box office fiasco fan Haixin, Starring Mel Gibson, who has been working happily with Warner, the production cost is $75 million. The same painting was started during the Independence Day holiday in early July. As of September 2, it basically ended. The local box office is about $154 million and the world is expected to be more than 300 million. Considering the cost, it's a small profit.

Danilis rode the dust, Warner reluctantly followed, and the 20th century fox, which completed the merger of three companies at the same time through the Star Wars prequel, was ready to go, which basically fit the Hollywood pattern expected by Simon.




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