Chapter 1557

Although the coup d'etat in C ô te d'Ivoire against the background of continuous war in Central Africa has taken place, the world is generally peaceful and lively at the dawn of the millennium. Not only the restart of the secret service show with the theme of "welcoming the Millennium" has attracted widespread attention all over the world, Countless governments or private groups in various countries around the world are also organizing various Millennium activities.

So did the Simons.

At the end of this year, he didn't plan to go to Australia again. Therefore, the old man was very unhappy. He directly sent his boss Anthony to rob his baby grandson, which was regarded as a credit. The couple had no problem with this. Instead, they thought that if the old man could pick up a group of little guys, well, it would be a happy world of three at the end of this year.

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Then he moved to the east coast and planned to hold a lively Millennium party in the super mansion on the top floor of Westeros building.

On the other hand, there is also the film market at the end of the year.

The first week of the official Christmas file, from December 17 to December 23, will soon pass.

The first is the game of the brave 2.

The box office of this special effects blockbuster cooperated by Warner Brothers and danilis in the first week was $81.66 million. In that sentence, there was no surprise and no joy, and the performance was regular. After all, considering that the total investment in production and publicity of the film is $135 million higher than Godzilla, it is certainly not a surprise if it does not exceed $100 million in the first week, but it exceeds $80 million, which also meets the expectations of Warner and danilis.

After all, it's because the schedule is too crowded at the end of the year.

However, compared with the $63.35 million box office of the first "game of the brave" in the first week, this time it exceeds 80 million. Of course, it is still a progress. The key depends on the trend of the next week.

The second place is the Lord of the rings: the guardian of the rings.

The popularity of the first song of the Lord of the rings series is actually higher than that of the brave Game 2. After all, it has a broad popularity foundation. After $91.37 million in the first week, under the attack of new films such as game of the brave 2 and alien 3, the final box office decline remained at an excellent 26%, which once again shows the potential of the film. The next week, the film continued to earn $67.65 million, and the cumulative box office reached $159.02 million.

Obviously, as long as the film can maintain a similar decline trend within 30% of the next week, it will only be a matter of time for the local total box office to exceed 300 million.

The third place was won by the new film "alien 3".

With the replacement of the most popular heroine Natasha henstridge, the market performance of "alien 3" in this popular Christmas file was expected, with an unexpected box office of $46.39 million in the first seven days of the week.

You know, two years ago, the first week of "alien 2" was only US $33.15 million, with a total local box office of more than 80 million. This time, "alien 3" got us $46.39 million in the first week, and it is not impossible to even break the local billion.

Relatively speaking, MGM's initial expectation is that "alien 3" can achieve a global breakthrough of 100 million and a local conservative of 50 million, which can be satisfactory. After all, although the total investment in the production and publicity of the film is as high as US $60 million, the first two films have proved that the surrounding income of this series of videos is very rich. As long as the cinema performance is not too bad, it will not lose money.

Even, because Natasha henstridge no longer acted as the heroine, MGM team once considered putting the film directly into the video channel, which can not only reduce the production cost, but also avoid most of the publicity investment.

The current market feedback is obviously unexpected.

Moreover, the key is to prove that changing the heroine does not do so much harm to the market potential of the film. Therefore, even if Megan Gail, a second-generation exotic girl, wants to start the price because of this success, MGM team has the confidence to change again.

Even the MGM team is already considering doing so.

After all, the third film is so successful, and the fourth film must be a certainty.

As for why the film can succeed?

Perhaps, the audience just wants to see the change of exotic girls, such as the next time, three generations of exotic girls fight the second generation of exotic girls. What a good idea.

Not only that, with such excellent vitality shown in this series, next time, three generations of heterogeneous girls may not have to completely choose new people. They can try to invite some well-known Actresses or super famous models with high popularity.

Simon's attitude towards this is OK, but the key is that the acting skills of the three generations of exotic girls should be up to the standard. They can't just look at their faces and figures. Otherwise, they are likely to become big breasted girls in class B films, boasting and pinching each other, which will be inferior.

Go back.

Disney's new film "magic elf" ranked fourth, and its performance was unsatisfactory. The box office in the first week was only US $39.17 million, compared with the total investment of US $100 million in production and publicity. Even because of the theme, the decline in the next Christmas and new year will be relatively moderate. Disney has little hope to recover the cost in the cinema stage of global distribution.

Moreover, Vivendi's expectation of the film is not just to recover the cost.

According to the initial news, Vivendi hoped that the film would become a fantasy version of "kids in charge", with a local box office of at least 200 million. Unfortunately, it backfired.

Then, the fifth place is steel bone 2.

In the fifth week of release, "steel bone 2" fell by 45% this week under the impact of a number of new films, closing another US $17.51 million, with a cumulative box office of US $295.01 million.

Breaking 300 million is imminent.

However, it is obvious that although it can easily break through the $300 million mark, with the current trend of the film, it is basically impossible to rush $400 million, and the final box office should be around $350 million.

That's the same sentence. It's too crowded.

In fact, the year-end stalls in Hollywood have always been very crowded, but the problem is that in the past, except for a few key points, the volume will not be too high, and the production cost can be found everywhere. If it is such an environment, steel bone 2 is enough to achieve universal killing. Now, it is a group of super heavy bombs crowded together. We not only spend money desperately on production and investment at the publicity and distribution level, but also are very different from the distribution mode of relying on word-of-mouth to see who takes the long line ten or twenty years ago.

It's a Shura field. Even if you can kill it, you must bring some injuries.

The best way to avoid this outcome is not to participate.

This is already the case.

In recent years, the production output of other major studios in Hollywood and even second and third tier film companies has a very obvious downward trend.

This is exactly what Simon expected.

In addition to the top five, the only thing worth mentioning is racing story. In the sixth week of release, it fell 45% compared with steel bone 2. Racing story, which is favored by more family members, has just fallen by 17% in the past week, continued to earn US $10.13 million, and the cumulative box office reached US $168.09 million.

There is only a gap of more than 30 million left from the threshold of 200 million.

Considering that Christmas and new year will follow, like Disney's magic elves, the market performance of motor racing in the next two weeks is also worth looking forward to.

Later, other films have fallen into the box office range of tens of millions of dollars a week, which is not worth mentioning.

In the same film field, another thing worth paying attention to this week is the announcement of another Annual Nomination for the American film and television Golden Globe Award. Previously, on Monday, December 20, the Organizing Committee of the Golden Globe Awards officially announced the nomination list of the 57th American film and television Golden Globe Awards. As last year, danilis entertainment is still unique.

Just talking about the best picture nomination, even if it is still because of last year, the Golden Globe Awards have somewhat suppressed danilis and are no longer directly cut down by half, but three films have successfully been shortlisted for a total of 10 best picture nominations.

Among them, genius Ripley and matrix were shortlisted for the best film in the plot category of the Golden Globe Award. Chicago, which will be released this week, is also the public relations focus of danilis Entertainment's 2000 award season. After an internal trial for the Golden Globe Award Jury team, they successfully won the nomination for the best film in musical comedy, At the same time, there are seven nominations, including Catherine Zeta Jones and Madonna, Hugh Jackman's best male host, rob Marshall's best director, plus best screenwriter and best female partner.

On December 24, Christmas Eve, after seven golden globe awards nominations and the subsequent premiere publicity offensive, Chicago officially entered the North American cinema. There was no small-scale trial, and 2739 screens were directly launched.

In the same period, there was another medium-cost science fiction film that paramount cooperated with DreamWorks, which gradually lost too much sense of existence. The galaxy adventure was adapted from a science fiction drama of the same name in the 1980s, and the production cost was US $45 million, which was just equivalent to the cost of Chicago. The number of screens for the film was 2145.