Chapter 483

After a simple bargaining, Simon and Leslie Wexner agreed that the copyright of the Vimy show should be jointly owned by Denise entertainment and Ltd. the two sides shared the budget investment of the show. Denise entertainment can also get regular distribution expenses in the future promotion of the show.

In addition, Simon also agreed to personally act as the producer of the show.

The riots in Los Angeles lasted for four days, and were not suppressed until thousands of officers and men from the National Guard and the Marine Corps moved into the city of angels.

After spending the first weekend in Columbus in early May, Simon returned to Los Angeles on May 4.

Unlike the mess in the central and southern part of the city, the first line of the Santa Monica Mountains in Los Angeles has not been affected.

As the incident subsided, Hollywood quickly returned to its former prosperity.

Ninja tortoise 2, which was released on Thanksgiving on April 17, has been on for two and a half weeks.

The box office of Ninja tortoise 2 fell as expected by 41% in the next week and closed for another $22.31 million.

At the end of the third week from May 1 to May 3, the film's decline narrowed to 27%, and continued to earn $11.39 million in three days, with a cumulative box office of $71.08 million.

In two and a half weeks, the cumulative box office was $71.08 million, and the box office in a single week was still more than $10 million, which means that the total box office of Ninja Turtle 2 in North America is expected to reach a high of $110 million to $120 million.

Although it is still slightly lower than the first one, it also exceeds Simon's initial expectation.

Ninja Turtle 3 was put on the production schedule.

In order to avoid too fast tempo, the third schedule is still two years later, that is, 1994.

However, these days, Simon's biggest concern is no longer Ninja Turtle 2, but marvel's 2D animated film spider man, which is also released directly through the video channel during Easter.

Spiderman officially hit the shelves on April 10, the week before Easter.

With a total budget of 15 million dollars for production and distribution, the 2D animated film needs to sell 1 million boxes to basically break even.

Denise Entertainment's Distribution Department expects to sell 2 million to 3 million copies of Spider Man videos.

After reaching this number range, Marvel's animation department can continue to make 2D animated films of other superheroes. If it does not reach the bottom line of 2 million boxes, even if it still makes a good profit, Simon does not intend to let 2D animated films consume the popularity of Marvel's superheroes.

However, with limited production and publicity resources, the first 300000 videotapes of spider man sold out on the first three days of its launch.

Denise family entertainment, which is mainly responsible for the distribution of videos and TV channels under Denise entertainment, is rapidly replenishing and investigating the cause of the incident. And soon found that it was a group of Marvel fans in the recent two years just the rise of the network forum set off a support for "Spider Man" animation, and then promote Denise entertainment production of live action movies.

Born 30 years ago, spiderman is no less popular than DC's Batman, Superman and other superheroes, so it has a very wide fan base.

The activity of network forum is only a beginning, and it is not very impressive at first.

However, this activity spread to the offline even before spider man was on sale, and eventually created a "grand occasion" in which the first 300000 video tapes of this animated film sold out quickly.

The team at danielis family entertainment did not initially anticipate the impact of the event.

However, the distribution team then made good use of this opportunity to publicize how difficult it was for Marvel's team to make this 2D animated film in the shadow of DC movie universe, and how the senior management of danielis entertainment deliberately suppressed marvel and tried to control the budget in order to protect the interests of DC movie universe 》Making 3D version and so on half true half false various lace, and therefore soon produced a kind of event effect.

Although it has only a budget of 12 million US dollars, with the careful production of Marvel team, the word-of-mouth of the 2D animated film spider man has indeed been widely recognized by the media, with a comprehensive film review score of 8.3, which has become the most solid foundation for the success of the 2D animated film.

Driven by various factors, Spiderman's 2D animated film finally sold 1.09 million boxes in the first week. In the Easter week, sales of videos rose again to 1.23 million boxes.

In just two weeks, the total sales volume of 2.32 million boxes has reached the initial sales expectation of danielis entertainment for the 2D animated film.

Moreover, 2.32 million boxes were sold in two weeks, and the final overall sales of spider man is expected to exceed 10 million boxes.

At an average price of about $30, 10 million boxes means $300 million in sales.

It's just North America.Although DC movie universe has been successfully launched overseas, as an American Superhero, Spiderman's 2D animated films have no plans to be released in theaters, and Denise entertainment doesn't expect much from overseas.

However, just like this, the expected return of this 2D animated version of spider man to danielis entertainment will far exceed the original idea.

The retail price of video tape is 30 US dollars. Generally, the wholesale price of the studio is about 15 US dollars. Excluding the cost of material transportation and so on, the gross profit margin is more than 40%.

Therefore, based on the total sales volume of 10 million boxes in North America, this 2D animated film can bring at least $100 million in net profit to danielis entertainment. The film's next overseas distribution and TV platform revenue, even if not much, will be very considerable under the background of popularity driven by the hot sale of video tapes.

The final net income is expected to be at least 10 times of the initial $15 million budget.

Hollywood's film projects that can bring a net profit of 150 million US dollars to the studio every year on the omni channel platform can be counted with one hand. Therefore, it can be seen that the 2D animated film spider man is definitely another super dark horse that other studios envy.

Even if there are some accidental factors in the success of this project, Simon has to pay more attention to the profit here.

The first is to put out the fire by public opinion.

In order to promote the sale of spider man, the distribution team has created a lot of "black materials" that are very disadvantageous to Denise's entertainment executives.

It was Simon's philosophy from the very beginning of danielis that he made the best use of all the favorable factors to release a film. Spiderman is so successful that the previous operation of the distribution team has certainly been positively affirmed.

However, it can't let Denise entertainment to suppress the opinion of marvel for DC.

It should be easy for anyone who is a little more rational to understand that even if they have the copyright of the three DC giants, DC superheroes can't be the "real son" of danilisi entertainment after all, and marvel, who is 100% owned by danilisi entertainment, is.

Even from the perspective of pure interests, Denise and Time Warner jointly build the DC movie universe. After careful calculation, warner can not only share the profits of the big three, but also own the copyright of the superheroes such as flash and steel bone. Therefore, Warner's overall income should be more abundant.

If daenerys develops the marvel movie universe, her interests are entirely her own.

Therefore, as long as feasible, danilisi entertainment has no reason to deliberately ignore marvel.

Since the marvel superhero's live action film project has not been launched, the senior management of danielis entertainment must have their own considerations.

Later, as the CEO of Denise entertainment, Amy Pascal personally explained in an interview with Hollywood Reporter why Denise entertainment did not develop Marvel superhero live action movies for the time being.

Compared with DC, Marvel's superhero movies often need more complex special effects technology support, and the special effects technology at this stage can not reach the satisfactory level. For example, spider man, it is very difficult to realize Peter Parker's shuttle in the urban forest of New York.

That's why Denise entertainment has put off the development of Marvel superheroes.

Choosing to cooperate with Time Warner's DC Comics is also to lay a foundation in advance for the future Marvel superhero movie universe.

Amy Pascal's explanation has been affirmed by most fans. Together with other private operations of danielis's public relations department, the public opinion noise created by the Spiderman distribution team soon subsided.

Although, there are some bad results.

Because of Amy Pascal's "Revelation", the current DC movie universe project is entirely to prepare for the future development of Marvel by Denise entertainment, which puts a light haze on the future of DC movie universe.

In the future, perhaps one day, in order to launch the "natural" Marvel movie universe, will danilisi entertainment, which holds the copyright of the three DC giants, deliberately suppress the direct competitor of refrigeration.

After the emergence of similar concerns in the media, the stock price of Time Warner fell for several days in a row.

So it's hard to avoid another spat.

After the completion of public opinion, the following is the follow-up animation film development plan.

Although it will take some years for Marvel movie universe to start, Simon actually has a general plan for it because of the memory of his previous life.

The sales of Spider Man videos are so good that animated films will definitely continue to be produced, and will also be produced into a long-term cross series. Simon, however, is unlikely to let animated films affect live action films. In short, we should not let the animated movie universe and the planned real movie universe overlap too much in the plot.

Otherwise, the audience will have a marvel movie universe journey on the animated film. If the real-life movie universe story line is similar to the animated film, even if they still expect it, there will probably be more people who do not want to see the simple plot copy.Fortunately, as a cartoon company that has been established for more than half a century, marvel has accumulated enough materials to be excavated over the years.

According to the roughly agreed plan, the animated film universe will be based on the accumulation of Marvel comic stories before 1990 as much as possible.

Meanwhile, in order to pave the way for the future reality Marvel movie universe, marvel will reopen a series of major events this year. These big events basically revolve around Simon's memory of Marvel movies, including superheroes, civil war, the invasion of the Krugs and so on. Some superheroes will restart.

In recent years, the comic industry in North America has been more and more depressed. With the increasing variety of entertainment activities, comic sales continue to decline.

The recession is almost irreversible. No matter marvel or DC, they have been eating their old books in the basic comic business in the past two years. They have increased their revenue by hyping comic collection and issuing classic reprinted versions.

Simon also hopes that the massive restart of Marvel superheroes will boost the declining sales of comic books.

In May, the 1992 Summer Program in North America is approaching.

The heaviest film project of this year's summer program will no doubt be released on June 5.

In recent months, with Denise Entertainment's relentless promotion, "Wonder Woman" has become one of the most anticipated films in the summer season.

With only one month to go before its release, all the creators of wonder woman have started a non-stop publicity schedule, and Denise entertainment has put publicity materials on various media platforms more intensively.

In order to avoid the edge of wonder woman, many studios have advanced the key project of this summer program to May.

Mel Gibson's new film, lethal weapons 3, was scheduled for May 15.

Columbia Pictures is also scheduled to produce Tom Cruise's big ambition on May 29, the week before wonder woman.

And Disney's "nuns are crazy" starring ubie Goldberg, scheduled for May 22.

As a black comedy, "nuns are crazy" costs 31 million dollars, far more than Disney's original estimate of 20 million dollars.

Disney executives do not have Simon's advantage as a prophet. It is impossible to know that "nuns are crazy" will become a black horse at the box office. Therefore, they are worried about the box office prospect of the film. It is said that Michael Eisner and Jeffrey carsenberg also have a big fight and try to shirk their responsibilities.

With the continuous recovery of Disney, the rift between the two Disney executives who had worked closely at the beginning became more and more obvious.

Of course, the secrets of this kind of circle will not be known to outsiders.

There are three films in front of us, and wonder woman has completely occupied the week opening on June 5. Even in the week following June 12, no heavyweight film will be released.

Under the hot summer film publicity, after cersei capital finalized the acquisition of Ltd, another news soon spread in the circle.

Denise entertainment will cooperate with Ltd to create a large underwear fashion show.

Simon westero is said to be the producer himself and the show will be broadcast on the network.

Subsequently, all kinds of news were confirmed one by one.

It's true.

Obviously, in order to promote the secret underwear brand of Victoria under the company of Ltd, Simon westero plans to go into battle in person.

It's obviously impossible for people of this age to imagine what Simon's memory of the Vimy show looks like.

Most of the public have the inherent impression that a group of models are walking around on the catwalk. How impressive is this?

However, due to the confirmation of the news, more media began to pay attention to cersei capital's just completed acquisition of LTE, and Victoria's Secret brand has also been mentioned many times and become famous.

Leslie Wexner is a very good marketing businessman. He took advantage of this opportunity to launch a new round of brand promotion.

As for Hollywood and the fashion world, even if they still doubt what kind of tricks a fashion show can play, it does not prevent the major model agencies from contacting danelis entertainment one after another, trying to let their models catch up with Simon westero, the towering tree.