Chapter 1573

Simon returned to Los Angeles. Due to jet lag, the east coast of the United States was still February 13.

The Valentine's day schedule of 2000 has been opened on February 11. Danilis, in addition to the new version of "I'm crazy for Mary" by Lina Kane and Annika setel, who are particularly concerned by Simon, there is another romantic film "embracing dawn" starring American sweet sister Meg Ryan on the same day. And, on February 4 of the previous week, there was a new line film "late strike", a criminal action film starring old Hollywood action man Shanger Winton.

Among them, the production cost of "later strike" is $25 million. The tough guys and beautiful women in Hollywood have a very good reputation. The comprehensive media score reached 8.1 points. In the first week of the painting from February 4 to February 10, they made a box office of $26.83 million, so they made a good start and successfully entered the competition on Valentine's day.

Besides, "embracing the dawn", compared with "I'm crazy for Mary", which is just a vulgar comedy type with a little love skin, Meg Ryan's new work is a very orthodox love film, which tells a romantic story about a Manhattan man and woman who met unexpectedly, fell in love and healed each other because they were also suffering from insomnia in the past. Danilis was released, The production cost is USD 30 million. The premiere held in advance has a general reputation, and the comprehensive media score is 7.3.

However, because an episode with the same name as the film title "embracing the dawn" is unexpectedly very popular, the film also shows a good market prospect.

Finally, I'm crazy for Mary. The production cost is only $16 million. Danilis has the lowest budget among the three films in the same period. Moreover, the ban on word-of-mouth was lifted after the premiere. The comprehensive media score of 6.3 is also the lowest one.

This makes the publicity and distribution team of new world film more or less worried. After all, due to Simon's special attention, the distribution of this film is also the strongest. If it is smashed, it will certainly not hurt the muscles and bones, but the performance of this Valentine's file may be a little ugly compared with the other two brother brands.

The subsequent facts once again proved danilis's dominant position in Hollywood, a strength that even her team often didn't adapt to.

With the three-day weekend and the four-day hot Monday, February 14, and the box office week from February 11 to February 17, the box office volume of the North American film market hit a small new high after the beginning of 2000, reaching US $160 million.

Among them, danilis Entertainment's three films directly occupied the top three.

At the top of the list is the most worrying "I'm crazy for Mary", which is a vulgar prank comedy that is not as good as danilis's other two films in terms of cost and reputation. In the publicity stage, the "American Pie", known as an adult, opened for seven days, and finally earned $39.12 million at the box office.

The accident was a real accident.

Even with Jennifer Aniston, who also belongs to the American sweet sister from friends, this obvious style of Saturday night live, well, for many viewers who don't like it, it's unreasonable why they can get nearly $40 million at the box office in a week.

However, for some people familiar with the current pattern of Hollywood, it makes sense.

Because in the current Hollywood, danilis entertainment has all-round advantages.

For example, in the production process, danilis can more easily attract the best filmmakers to join at a relatively low price. Just like Jennifer Aniston this time, even if friends is over, Rachel's appeal can not be absorbed by a $16 million low-cost production under normal circumstances. However, because of danilis, Rachel joined us.

Besides publicity, with the media resources currently controlled by danilis and even the whole Westeros system, and the publicity cost of 1 million yuan for the films of our company, it is easy to enlarge the effect to 5 million or even 10 million as long as it is operated properly.

In contrast, even big studios that are also established in Hollywood, such as the current weak paramount or Disney, spend 10 million on publicity and distribution, and the best result is only 10 million. Once they compete with danilis, with a little operation here, 10 million will shrink to 5 million or less in a blink of an eye.

Finally, with regard to distribution, even though most cinemas in the United States are operating independently at this stage, unless they do not want to get more copies of popular films from danilis, all major cinemas must give the best screening hall and the best scheduling time for all films produced by danilis entertainment, Even more posters of danilis films must be posted in the cinema hall.

All the results, very simple, or one ebb and flow.

This time "I'm crazy for Mary" is the result confirmation again. Then, maybe in other studios, even if it accidentally fits the audience's taste, the box office volume in the first week is only about 20 or 30 million. Under the all-round strong publicity of danilis, it directly soared to nearly 40 million.

Then, embracing the dawn, which ranked second on the list, did the same.

Since sleepless in Seattle, Meg Ryan has been a little tepid in recent years. In addition, the rise of super heavy bombs has squeezed the living space of other types of films, and the coffee position has declined obviously. The re cooperation with danilis is also to maintain her precarious position in the film industry. Therefore, Meg Ryan is very concerned from the preliminary preparation to the recent publicity.

The results of the film did not disappoint sister Mei Tian.

In the first week of painting, "embracing the dawn" won a box office of $36.45 million, second only to "I'm crazy for Mary", surpassing its production cost of $30 million.

Moreover, considering that the type of film is likely to last longer than I'm crazy for Mary, which has stronger popcorn attribute, and there will be no strong competitors until Easter, it is not impossible for embrace dawn to counter attack and enter the 100 million yuan box office club.

Then, the third place on the list is "late strike" by Xinxian film.

In the second week of release, because of the Valentine's day schedule, even if it is also a type of action film with strong popcorn attribute, "late strike" still achieved a very good 29% decline, continued to earn $18.93 million, and the cumulative box office reached $45.76 million, basically recovering the production cost of $25 million.

The local box office volume of about US $70 million is expected to enable the new line to recover all investment and enter the profit cycle only through the issuance of local cinemas.

Go on, ranking fourth on the list, in sharp contrast.

It is also a romantic comedy produced by paramount, "the bride of Paris". The heroine is Julia Roberts, who once again proved the appeal of her romantic film through "my best friend's wedding" a year ago. The hero invited Jeff Briggs, the "governor" who was absolutely handsome after taking care of himself and controlling his body. The baker brothers, Men are staring at Michelle Pfeiffer, and women will never forget Briggs. Moreover, only looking at the title, the story also takes place in Paris, the romantic capital. It obviously has a natural attraction for lovers on Valentine's day.

In addition, the production cost of US $35 million is higher than danilis's three films, and the reputation is not bad. The comprehensive media score reaches 7.6 points. As a result, in the first week of painting, "Paris bride" only made $16.53 million at the box office, which is not even as good as Shanger Winton's action film "late strike" released next week.

Why?

Just looking at the screen comparison, I'm crazy for Mary, the first one, has 3265 screens, while paramount, who focuses on releasing only this film in the same period, only gets 2127 screens, so it can be seen.

Cape dume estate, Los Angeles.

After the warm Valentine's day, Simon's 32nd birthday was on February 22.

The simple operation was determined in advance, and only close relatives and friends were invited. After the list was determined, it still reached the level of hundreds of people. Therefore, the night of shell villa is still lively.

In the lobby of shell villa.

Simon patiently entertained all the way to a sofa next to the sea glass curtain wall. Several women were sitting around teasing the little spot in Nancy Brill's arms. In the twinkling of an eye, Alex westero, who was half a year old, grew very fast. He was no longer like a "little mouse" teased by Janet at first. He was as fat as a doll and everyone wanted to pinch it.

What makes Nancy a little regretful is that after a lot of effort, the small female executives still failed to discover their son's genius attribute, which may be similar to Seattle. Six months after birth, they still only know uh huh in pronunciation, which is a normal child level.

After greeting several women, there was no room here, and no one meant to give way to himself. Simon sat down on the armrest of the sofa next to Catherine Bigelow and handed the red wine to Sofia ficy, who came to North America because of the ongoing new york fashion week, Then he put his head on the back of the sofa and leaned over to the woman who was obviously interested in the little guy in Nancy's arms. He smiled and whispered, "are you envious?"

"Yes," Katherine, who used to sit upright, just turned her head a little, looked at Simon, whispered and directly: "but I already have two godsons, Mel and Nick. They are my children, so don't think about anything."

Simon just smiled, looked at Catherine's exquisite face that had hardly changed over the years, felt the faint fragrance of women, and continued softly: "what do I think?"

Catherine glanced at the little man around her, but looked at the sample face that seemed to have changed little over the years. Suddenly, she felt so inexplicably that he came up and kissed her on the forehead. She didn't dodge. She just resented again. She glanced at Janet, who was still socializing with Amy Pascal in the crowd, and her voice was softer, With nostalgia, he actually wanted to raise his hand and touch the little man's face. After all, he restrained himself and said, "I didn't expect that the little boy who took the bus all the way would become Simon westero today."

Simon also had some nostalgia, but pretended to be proud and looked up slightly: "do you worship me?"

Catherine just looked at it again: "big capitalist."

Simon's body hit Catherine and wanted her to squeeze out a place for herself. Unfortunately, he was rejected. He could only continue to sit on the armrest and said with a smile: "in fact, as a radical left, I've always been worried that you would regard me as a class enemy."

"I'm a leftist. Although I tend to anarchism, I'm not a radical leftist," retorted Catherine. She paused again, looked at Jennifer and Nancy next to her, took back her eyes and said, "moreover, you have made me think a lot over the years."

"Huh?"

"About our generation..." Catherine said, and some didn't want to continue, because deep down, she didn't want the little man around her to have some idea that he and she should actually be counted as two generations, so finally she just said gently: "you know, the year I was born, the Catcher in the rye happened to be published."

Simon nodded, probably understand what Catherine wanted to say, or, can also slightly understand what Catherine realized from herself.

Catherine is a typical baby boomer in the United States. In 1951, the catcher in the rye was published, so she grew up in the 1950s and 1960s when the U.S. economy broke out but the spirit was confused. Then, she was young in the Vietnam War. At the same time, she experienced the fear, madness, laissez faire and more confusion that the doomsday clock could be reset at any time in the most intense state of the cold war.

Then, with the disintegration of the Soviet Union, a new era seems to be coming. Once a generation has also entered the age of no doubt. Most people have returned to the life of flies and dogs. Looking back, they find that they probably gave up, lost and missed too much.

Unfortunately, life can't come back.

At least for people other than Simon in the world.

Stooping closer again, Simon took the woman on the other side with his arm and said with a smile, "then make a movie and take what you just thought."

Catherine leaned slightly along the strength of the little man around her and shook her head subconsciously: "I don't want to spend your money, in case I can't sell at the box office."

Simon is considerate: "I'll help you invest and pit other people's money."

So dissatisfied, Catherine stared up and said, "are you sure I can't sell at the box office?"

Simon raised his empty hand and made a surrender: "well, my fault."

Catherine bent her mouth and remembered the recent events: "during this time, during Valentine's day, danilis's films crowded other films. I heard complaints."

"Slowly, they get used to it."

“……”

Catherine felt the naturally arrogant tone of the little man, thought again, and bent her mouth: "well, you help me write a script and I'll shoot it. About, um, our times."

Simon did not refuse: "what kind of idea?"

Catherine thought again and said, "it's the catcher in the rye."

"This has been photographed," Simon said. "There's no need to repeat it."

"No," Catherine was not sure if she remembered correctly. "It seems that Salinger refused to film and television his novel, and he is still alive."

"I mean," Simon deliberately sold off before continuing: "taxi driver, in fact, is the catcher in the rye. The atmosphere and mood in the film are the same. Why don't we arrange a private movie tomorrow night to review the classics?"

Catherine thought for a moment and suddenly found that it was really.

Zhuyu is in front.

Suddenly more confident, can only look at someone.

Simon thought a little and said, "in fact, if you want to do it, you can try to make a documentary. There must be enough material about that era. The name is, uh, our time. It happens to be the Millennium this year. If you can catch up, we can release it at the end of the year and win an Oscar next year."

Katherine could not help glancing at someone when she heard the last.

big capitalist.

However, he nodded quickly.

At least, it doesn't cost him too much money. Moreover, compared with films with more restrictions, after all, two hours and one story can't tell much after all. Documentary, the same two hours, but can add more elements, which is undoubtedly the best choice.

Thinking so, I looked up at a little man and inexplicably gave birth to some women's unique advantage in front of the beloved man: "you help me do it together."

Simon was very talkative and nodded cheerfully, "no problem."