Chapter 641

December 19.

The film "Lord of the rings 1", produced and released by new line pictures, was officially released in the United States today. On the day of its opening, it received more than 3300 cinemas and more than 7000 screens. It is definitely the largest film ever released since December.

This point, even Warner Bros. produced, the film being released, "hide the sky and cross the sea," can not be compared.

Warner Bros.

At the moment, as the CEO of Warner Bros., Barry Meyer is very angry: "this Shay, I don't know how to praise him. He doesn't care about the overall situation at all. I told him more than two months ago that "Lord of the rings 1" movie will be released in January. But he's good. I'll see what kind of box office results "Lord of the rings 1" can win, without us Warner. "

The film "Lord of the rings 1", produced by new line pictures, was released on December 19;

Warner Bros.'s movie "hiding the truth from the world" was released on December 7;

The interval between the two shows is only 12 days. Even if they are not shown at the same time, they will still divert a part of the audience.

How is Warner Bros willing to bear this?

Don't forget, Warner Bros. is the largest shareholder of new line pictures, and the largest shareholder with the largest shareholding, which is higher than that of Shay, the founder and chairman of new line pictures.

In Barry Meyer's view: "new line film is only a subsidiary of Warner, so it is not allowed to get out of control."

But... Shea's heart is to leave Warner.

Nowadays, the two films are competing, which makes a lot of melon eaters laugh.

.......

New line pictures.

"Bullshit!"

"What is Barry Meyer?"

"He's just a CEO of Warner Bros. to put it bluntly, he's a part-time worker. If Steve Roth (Chairman of Time Warner) comes out in person, I'll save his face. As for Barry Meyer, he can't control me!"

Shea is also hot tempered.

Although he is always humble when he gets along with Zhuke, he is absolutely a madman in his heart. He doesn't look at people with a straight eye.

"Boss, you're right!"

Vice President Jonathan echoed: "sometimes Warner doesn't stress fairness at all. It's clear that our new line film "Lord of the rings 1" was the first to be released on December 19, but what did Warner do? "

"Warner saw the film market pick up and arranged the release of" hide the truth "on December 7."

"Immediately, as a major shareholder, he forced us to withdraw the file" Lord of the rings 1 "and give way to" hide the truth from the world and cross the sea ". I want to ask... Why?"

Warner Bros. has opinions, but new line is full of complaints.

Does a subsidiary have human rights?

Do you have to listen to Warner?

This time, Xie Yi, the boss of the new line film industry, chose the hard bar!

......

Hollywood's colleagues watched and expressed a lot of opinions.

Steven Spielberg of DreamWorks: "what do you think of me? Hehe, whether it's Warner or new line, in my opinion, it's nothing more than a fight between the devil and the devil. It's not a good person! "

Gusta, the boss of Lion Gate pictures: "the dispute between new line and Warner, to put it bluntly, is the conflict between the parent company and the subsidiary company, just like the relationship between stepmother and stepson. What Warner thinks for the first time must be his own son. How can he think of new line pictures as a stepson?"

pierce to the heart of the matter!

For Warner, the movie "hide the truth from the world and cross the sea" produced by his family is definitely his own son, which must be arranged first;

For Warner, the new line movie "Lord of the rings 1" is naturally a stepson. In order to kiss his son, he must sacrifice his stepson.

For this reason, Barry Meyer and Shay also had a fight during the film promotion.

On the same day, Zucker returned to Los Angeles.

"Kevin, I've heard that Warner and new line are having a lot of trouble recently?"

After getting off the plane, Zhuke inquired.

Kevin Fitch was surprised and said, "boss, do you know?"

"Of course!"

Zhuke nodded: "I'm very optimistic about the box office results of Lord of the rings, so I've been paying attention to it all the time. And don't forget, I'm the major shareholder of Vita digital studio. Once the box office of the movie is booming, Vita digital is definitely making money every day. "

Kevin Fitch raised his eyebrows.

He himself is also optimistic about the box office prospects of "Lord of the rings", but he is more optimistic about the box office potential of "cover the world and cross the sea".

Today is December 19, and Warner's movie "hiding the truth" has been released for 12 days.

After the release of the movie, the box office of the movie exceeded 38 million US dollars in the first weekend, which was only a general achievement in the previous Christmas period, but now the box office performance of the movie is extremely excellent in the Christmas period after 9 / 11.

So far, the film has won a total of US $10300 at the North American box office;

This figure alone is enough to rank in the top 20 of North America's annual box office rankings in 2001.

Various analysis companies even pointed out: "the North American box office performance of hide the truth is expected to exceed US $200 million by the end of December, and the total box office in North America is expected to be between us $280 million and US $300 million."

Public praise is not bad.

"The entertainment edition of time published an article saying:" the top production of CASS, and CASS also has the Oscar standard, the total number of nominations received by the actors has reached 15. "

With the influence of "time", the box office of "hide the truth from the world and cross the sea" is rising.

"Eh?"

Zhuke said with a smile: "listen to what you mean, that is to say, the outside world now thinks that" the Lord of the rings "is not the opponent of" hide from the sky and cross the sea. "

Kevin Fitch nodded.

"Boss, I've been to the premiere of Lord of the rings. I don't deny that Lord of the rings is a very good movie, even the best magic epic movie in Hollywood since the 21st century. However, it was released by new line itself," he said

"On the other hand," hide the truth from the world and cross the sea "has made a good box office result, which can be said to be a preemptive one..."

"In this case, I don't think new line will win."

The voice fell.

Chuck nodded frequently.

Kevin Fitch's words are very reasonable and agree with most people's opinions.

After all, compared with Warner, the publisher of "the Lord of the rings", new line pictures is far from perfect.

But... This is Lord of the rings!

In the future, "Lord of the rings" trilogy is definitely the existence of film history!

In contrast, what is "hiding the truth from the world" worth?

Zucker squinted and said with a smile, "Kevin, I think you're going to miscalculate this time."

Kevin fitch

"The first watch" is presented.