Chapter 455

On December 20, the opening ceremony of "flash" was just the first day of the painting. With the box office of the advance show and the midnight show taken into account, flash successfully won $16.12 million.

In contrast, with the same production budget of 70 million US dollars, the film "Captain Hawk" directed by Spielberg, which started on December 13 and just went through the first week of screening, grossed only 17.55 million US dollars in seven days.

"Flash" is just the beginning of the painting. Under the strong impact of "flash", the box office numbers of many old films that should have rebounded in this span of Christmas have actually declined in varying degrees.

Perhaps due to the strong contrast from the media, the reputation of Captain hawk in the media and the audience has further declined, which has also led to a full 28% drop in the box office of the film the next weekend. In such a time when it should have rebounded, the 28% drop in the box office is already very serious.

What's more, the box office starting point of "Captain Hawk" is very low.

As a result, compared with the $49.31 million box office of "flash" in the first three days, Captain hawk's box office next weekend was only $9.68 million.

In ten days, the blockbuster, which was highly expected by Columbia Pictures, earned only $27.23 million.

In the original time line, when the reputation of "Captain Hawk" collapsed, the box office in North America could still exceed 100 million yuan, mainly because there was no other film competing with it in the same period. It happened to be Christmas, and the boisterous "Captain Hawk" was also more suitable for family audiences to watch, which realized the cumulative box office of more than 100 million yuan in North America.

Now, with IP, the popularity is no less than that of Peter Pan's "flash". Coupled with the great difference between the two films in terms of quality and media reputation, it is entirely self-evident how the audience will choose.

What's more, toy story, a 3D animated film that is also suitable for family members, which was released on Thanksgiving before flash, still has a good momentum.

Therefore, according to the cumulative Box Office figures of "Captain Hawk" in 10 days and the next box office trend under the impact of "flash" and other films, the media generally predict that the blockbuster is likely to stop at $60 million in North America.

That's more than 40% lower than Simon's "Captain Hawk" box office.

The box office in North America is 60 million US dollars. If it's any other film, it may also be called a box office.

However, for captain hawk, the production cost of the film alone is as high as US $70 million, and the total budget for production and publicity is more than US $100 million, even if it does not reach the US $120 million level of flash.

In the original time and space, Captain hawk, whose box office in North America exceeded 100 million yuan, was released through various channels. It was only a few years later that it barely recovered all the costs of the film.

Now, the box office is expected to plummet by 40% compared with the original time and space. Even through the following overseas distribution and even the surrounding video, it will be very difficult for captain hawk to recover all the budget costs.

In fact, the box office figures of not only "Captain Hawk", but also "the assassination of Kennedy", which was opened in the same period of "Captain Hawk" last week, and even a series of films released on Thanksgiving, have been significantly impacted.

After all, the first weekend's $49.31 million, including the film's reputation, can almost guarantee the $250 million North American box office of flash.

250 million US dollars, which is equivalent to cutting a very large piece of cake in the end of this year's ticket warehouse.

"Flash" cut too much, other films can be divided, naturally will be greatly reduced.

As the new week begins, Christmas is drawing near.

However, the eyes of the whole world are attracted by every move of Moscow.

The turmoil in Europe, which lasted more than two years, has peaked in recent months with the failure of Gorbachev's reform.

In the past two years, the unification of East and West Germany has been realized. Many countries in Eastern Europe have announced their departure from the Warsaw Pact. Some of the republics have even declared their independence. The Soviet regime, which has been confronting the western world for half a century, has entered the last moment.

Finally, just after Christmas Eve, on Christmas day, the supreme leader of the Soviet Union Gorbachev announced that he would resign from all his personal posts, and all the political, economic and military assets of the Soviet Union would be inherited by Russia.

In fact, if it wasn't for the impact of flash, the box office of this edition of toy story would have been higher.

Although Toy Story lags behind first place flash by more than $50 million, it is still lucky compared with Captain hawk and the assassination of Kennedy.

In the second week, the overall box office of "Captain Hawk" dropped 26%, and received another $12.98 million.

In two weeks, the $70 million blockbuster grossed only $30.53 million, and the loss of the project is almost certain.

With the $65 million movie "the ultimate Eagle" starring Bruce Willis in the summer program, Columbia Pictures' two major projects this year all ended in a very bleak situation.Japan's economy continues to decline. With the huge losses of two consecutive films, the industry has even heard that Sony intends to quit Hollywood.

Although Sony immediately clarified that such an argument is just a rumor, it has paid several large sums of "tuition fees" since the acquisition of Columbia Pictures. Sony obviously can't bear it. It has also questioned Peter Cooper and John Peters, two professional managers of Columbia Pictures.

In addition, after sorting out some good media, it is unexpectedly found that the best returns of Columbia Pictures in recent years are just the two films "pink League" and "ten days of danger" which were continuously cooperated with Denise entertainment last year.

Although we have to share the benefits with Denise entertainment, the production cost of these two films last year is not as high as that of this year's two blockbusters.

However, the box office performance of either of these two films exceeds that of this year's "ultimate Eagle" and "Captain Hawk", two infamous "blockbusters".

Because of this report, the media once again focused on Denise entertainment, who has become a Hollywood blockbuster in just a few years.

As a result, it is also found that in recent years, the closer the company cooperates with Denise entertainment, the more benefits it will get.

Simon westero's first "Lola Run" directly made Orion get rid of the possibility of bankruptcy.

Fox has also made a lot of money with several films, and the butterfly effect and death are still going on.

Subsequently, ten film projects, each of which brought huge profits to the partners.

Then came the DC movie universe project.

If it wasn't for the rise of DC film universe, which has brought a lot of revenue to Time Warner, or even greatly increased its share price, it would not be too easy for this large media group, which just merged last year, to survive the economic downturn after the collapse of the US bond market.

The fierce power struggle within Time Warner is almost well known.

Steve Roth, who has been criticized for the merger and the subsequent corporate difficulties, would not have been too stable in the Time Warner Group if he had not fully promoted the cooperation between Time Warner and Denise in DC movie universe and other projects.

Because of this trend of public opinion, even Peter Cooper and John Peters, who may lose their status under the pressure of Sony, have contacted Amy Pascal again in private to test whether they have the opportunity to continue their cooperation.