Chapter 505

The first week of "crying game", which started on September 25, had 37 screens, with a box office of $1.26 million; the next week had 86 screens, with a box office of $2.67 million; the third week and the fourth week had 155 and 173 screens, respectively, with a box office of $4.03 million and $3.97 million.

As of October 22, weeping game, which had been released for four weeks, had grossed US $11.93 million, roughly four times the production cost of US $3 million.

On October 23, the fifth week of release, the screening scale of "crying game" finally appeared for the first time, reaching 535 yuan.

Gaomen film industry is not eager for success because of the excellent box office performance of this low-cost film, patiently controlling the release rhythm of the film.

The last week of October passed.

From October 23 to October 29, weeping game, whose screen size increased to more than 500 yuan, still reached $16000 a week, and continued to earn $8.61 million.

At the same time, the cumulative box office of the film also reached 20.54 million US dollars.

As a result, the media in North America began to pay more attention to this non mainstream low-cost film, and the popularity of "crying game" further increased.

In fact, the publicity methods of gaomen film industry, such as radial distribution mode, speculation and rating conflicts, can be imitated. In recent years, other Hollywood studios have poached many talents who are good at publicity and marketing from the team of danielis entertainment. However, as a result, danielis entertainment is still the best in Hollywood film business.

Whether it is mainstream commercial films or low-cost art films, commercial achievements are more and more leaving competitors behind.

The "crying game" once again made many people feel powerless.

After carefully studying the various links from the project approval to the release of the film, Hollywood studio executives once again discovered one thing.

At the end of the day, it's Simon westero.

The script of crying game was born ten years ago, and it has been preparing for these years. It was not until Simon westero saw it that the green light came out, and finally the grand occasion of this time appeared.

Let's look at other things, such as DC movie universe dominated by danielis entertainment, Pixar studio, which is rapidly rising with a 3D animated film, and so on.

Therefore, there is no way to imitate the success of crying game, or the success of Denise entertainment as a whole, because there is no other studio that can produce another Simon westero who can choose and sell a movie among countless project scripts.

"Crying game" has gradually aroused strong concern in the industry. On October 30, after five months of screening, Denise Entertainment's summer DC movie "magic woman" was officially released on the day before the release of "midnight bell". The total box office of the film in North America was 371 million US dollars, which is 3.73 times that of "Batman: Dark Knight" The gap is only 20 million US dollars.

Overseas, as of the end of October, the cumulative overseas box office of wonder woman has also reached US $351 million, and the global box office has thus reached US $724 million

considering that many ticket warehouse countries are still in the stage of release, the film still has a box office potential of about US $150 million, and the global total box office is expected to be about US $870 million.

The total investment in production and publicity is 160 million US dollars, and the global box office is 870 million US dollars.

The box office alone has brought huge profits to Denise entertainment and Time Warner. However, the biggest profit of wonder woman is the sales of peripheral products.

By the end of October, "Wonder Woman" peripheral related products, excluding the sales of 7.3 million original records, the total amount of peripheral revenue has reached 1.3 billion US dollars.

According to the net profit ratio of about 15% after all the development, production, channel and tax costs of peripheral products, only the $1.3 billion peripheral sales are expected to bring nearly $200 million in net profit to Denise entertainment and Time Warner.

In contrast, the estimated total box office of "Wonder Woman" is 870 million US dollars worldwide, which can only bring about 150 million US dollars of pre tax profit after excluding the production and publicity costs.

Even if Hollywood studios have all kinds of tax avoidance means to reduce the tax rate of the box office as much as possible, the box office revenue of wonder woman can not be compared with the profits generated by the surrounding sales.

And the box office of "Wonder Woman" has been basically determined, but with the arrival of the sales season at the end of the year, there will be another wave of upsurge in the surrounding sales of the film.

It is estimated that in the next one to two years, the total sales volume of related peripheral products of this superhero movie will exceed 2 billion US dollars, and the net profit scale will reach 300 million US dollars.

300 million dollars, which is the total net profit of a big Hollywood studio in an ordinary year.

However, this is only the peripheral sales revenue of a superhero movie in DC movie universe.On the other hand, several important summer movies related to danielis entertainment, such as the peach trade, the killing moment and the last Mohican, were painted one after another before wonder woman.

In the end, the North American box office of the three films, only "time to kill" reached more than 100 million, and the final figure was 113 million dollars.

Then, the total North American box office of "peach trade" was 93.11 million US dollars, which was about 7 million US dollars away from breaking 100 million US dollars. "The last Mohican" was the worst of the three, with only $87.92 million in North America.

However, although killing moment has the highest box office in North America, its overseas box office lags behind peach trade because of the localization of judicial justice and racial issues discussed in the film. It is estimated that the overseas box office is only about $70 million.

"The peach trade" relies on Robert Redford and Valerie Gallino to join in. It is estimated that the total overseas box office will exceed that of North America and reach about 130 million US dollars.

"The last Mohican" is still at the bottom of the overseas box office. Judging from the market performance of the released ticket warehouse countries, it is estimated that after the completion of the entire overseas distribution cycle, the total overseas box office is only about US $50 million.

Of course, the box office performance of all the films in North America in 1992 was among the best.

At least, as of the end of October, all three films are temporarily in the top ten of the annual box office list in North America.

On October 30, in the atmosphere of approaching the polling day of the US presidential election, the Halloween schedule in North America officially opened.

The midnight bell, produced by new world pictures of Denise entertainment, opened on October 30 with a total screen size of 2356. Meanwhile, a horror thriller, legend of the pursuit of life, produced by Samsung of Columbia Pictures, opened with a total screen size of 1732.

There is no need to repeat the story of "the bell at midnight", but the story of "the legend of pursuing life" is also similar to the story of evil spirits killing people.

The story begins at the end of the American Civil War. The racial problem is still deeply rooted. A black guy falls in love with the white daughter of the slave owner. The love is found. The black guy is covered with honey by the white man, which leads to the bee colony to attack him. He dies slowly and painfully. The soul of the black guy turns into an evil spirit and hides in the mirror, as long as someone calls repeatedly in the mirror Five times the name of "sugar man" will call out evil spirits.

However, although it is the same evil spirit killing. But different from the Japanese style horror of "midnight bell", the legend of pursuing one's life is actually imitating the ghost street of Xinxian.

Sugar man has many similarities with Freddy in the ghost Street series, from modeling to killing techniques.

After years of repeated squeezing, the popularity of the "ghost Street" series is not as good as before. At this time, a horror film following the trend of "ghost Street" can hardly arouse too much novelty in the audience.

Therefore, after the release of the two films, both word of mouth and popularity have rapidly widened the gap.

Sugar man's media score was only 4.6, a total failure.

As a Japanese horror film with a completely different style from the traditional Hollywood horror film, "midnight bell" has been unanimously recognized by the media and the public. The media score is almost double that of "sugar man", reaching a very excellent 8.7.

The wedding of David Johnston and Leslie Whitaker is scheduled for November 21.

Simon and his wife are sure to go to Australia. Then they plan to take a vacation for more than a month. They plan to stay in Australia until after the new year.

In order to finish more work before the end of the year holiday schedule, Simon did not rest this weekend.

It's already November 1, Sunday.

Superman was released in September and is now in post production.

Danielis entertainment will promote a series of key projects next year.

Although it was still at the end of 1992, Denise Entertainment's 1993 film list was basically determined.

The Easter calendar of 1993, anti Star 2.

Summer files, Superman, sleepless in Seattle, sugar trap, Pelican assassination order.

"Superman" is produced by danelis entertainment and released by Warner Bros.

Sleepless in Seattle is a partnership with Pixar.

Pelican assassination order is a cooperative project with Warner Brothers and the last of the original four film plans.

"Sugar trap" is the film released by danelis entertainment.

Then.

The Halloween schedule, seven sins.

Thanksgiving schedule, 3D version of the animated film "Lion King", Steven Spielberg's "Schindler's list".

Christmas schedule, mission impossible with paramount.

In order to avoid internal competition, Simon shifted Forrest Gump, originally scheduled to be released at the end of 1993, to the summer of 1994.The above listed films are only the key ones in 1993. Other films, such as "in the name of my father" starring Daniel Day Lewis, and the African prairie documentary produced because of the success of the Antarctic documentary last year, are not included in the key projects.

The total number of films discovered by danielis entertainment, danielis pictures, new world pictures and gaomen pictures and other plans will still reach about 40.

Malibu, daenerys studios.

It's noon.

In the executive dining room of the studio, Simon is having lunch with akido and his daughter who came to North America with him last time, accompanied by new world film president Denny Morris and his female assistant, Jennifer.

Dario aquido's "the wind" has become a generation of horror classic.

Over the years, akido has been cooperating with Hollywood continuously. This time, they will cooperate in a crime thriller called trauma, which tells the story of a young couple looking for and fighting against a serial murderer.

Dario aquido will be the director himself, and for his daughter Aisha aquido won the position of heroine.

Aisha akido is 17 years old, but because she was born into a movie family, she has been playing in her father's movies since she was 10 years old. She has also played the leading role in several Italian movies, so her acting skills are enough. Dario aquido's trauma, to a large extent, is also to push her daughter into Hollywood.

Although Italian film industry is relatively prosperous in Europe, compared with Hollywood, it can only be regarded as a small pond after all.

With the global rise of Hollywood, this little pond is still drying up.

Therefore, marching to Hollywood is also the dream of many Italian filmmakers.

Simon has seen the script of trauma for a long time. Although it's not as good as that year's "the wind blows", it's also above the standard. Moreover, the expected production cost of the film is only US $5 million. For the new world entertainment at this time, it is completely low-cost production, so the project also gets the green light.

Of course, the schedule of trauma is uncertain for the time being, not counting the key projects Simon has personally finalized.

The film is planned to start shooting early next year. The whole cycle from shooting to completion will take about five months. It will be completely completed in the first half of 1993.

According to the effect of the film in the future, if it is normal, the schedule will probably be set in September next year. If it is poor, it will be left in January or February 1994. If it is good enough, it will be further adjusted to Easter in 1994.

Although the films of several danilisi entertainment brands have various production scales and levels, Simon will not despise any film. Although the executives of all the films of the three brands have a lot of autonomy, they all need his approval in the end.

Simon has been instilling to the company team that movies are movies, the "products" produced by danielis entertainment. There is no difference between the types of these products. What everyone needs to do is to do well in these products as much as possible, and to maximize the commercial psychology of these products with appropriate post promotion strategies.

It's not only the indoctrination of this idea, Simon has always set an example.

This is what trauma is like at this time.

Simon has seen the script in person, communicated with Dario aquido, and paid close attention to the budget and creator information of the film. Although he will not participate in the specific production of the film due to his limited energy, he will also watch the effect of the sample film and the subsequent publicity plan for the first time in the future.

Through this work style, Simon basically knows every project of the company.

At the same time, because of Simon's advantages as a prophet, it can also ensure that Denise entertainment can get as many blockbusters as possible from Simon's memory, and its overall commercial performance is far better than that of other film companies in the same industry.