Chapter 511

On November 13, the next day of the TV show, the Thanksgiving season began.

Columbia Pictures, with a production cost of 40 million US dollars, has become the first large-scale film in the Thanksgiving schedule, with 2491 screens.

On the same day, gaomen film's "smell and know women" launched a small-scale screening.

As the key award-winning film of gaomen film this year, the number of opening screens of "smell the fragrance and know the woman" is only 20.

In addition to the two key films, there are also several films released at the same time, such as "the red lips Massacre" by Godwin pictures and "let sorrow end before sunrise" by Orion pictures. The opening screen size is less than 300 yuan, which is basically the cannon fodder of Thanksgiving.

On the other hand, after the first week of $28.79 million from October 30 to November 5, the box office of "the bell of the midnight", which is released on danielis Entertainment's Halloween schedule, dropped only a very weak 13% in the next week from November 6 to November 12, with the continuous fermentation of word-of-mouth and popularity, making another $25.03 million.

In just two weeks, the total box office of this Japanese horror novel adaptation movie has reached 53.82 million US dollars.

Considering that the next popular Thanksgiving season is coming, and there is no competition from other similar movies in this season, the new world film distribution team predicts that the total box office of this Japanese horror movie in North America is expected to reach more than $150 million.

The North American box office of more than 150 million US dollars is enough to ensure that "midnight bell" is firmly in the top ten of the North American box office list in 1992.

At the beginning, in order to save the cost, the murder bell at midnight was filmed in Australia, and Nicole Kidman's salary was not high. Coupled with the tax rebate, the final production budget of the film was only $13 million.

The production cost is 13 million US dollars. It is estimated that the box office in North America will be more than 150 million US dollars, and the return rate of box office cost will be more than 10 times, which makes the whole Hollywood feel envious.

What's more, it's just North American box office revenue.

When the film is a big success in North America, the follow-up overseas box office, video and television revenues will also rise.

The total profit of the whole project in the next few years is expected to easily exceed all the blockbusters in Hollywood except DC movie universe project.

When Simon bought the right to adapt "the midnight bell", Hollywood began to follow suit to buy the copyright of Japanese horror novels. With the success of "midnight bell", Hollywood has many Japanese horror film projects into the preparatory agenda.

In a word, the key to the success of "the bell at midnight" is a brand new style of horror film, which is quite different from the traditional western mode of horror film.

This model is based on the ghosts and spirits of the East, but it does not have to take the Oriental horror story as a template.

In fact, haunted events in the West are also very rich.

As a result, while other studios are trying to follow suit, Simon is asking new world president Denny Morris to find materials that will take place in North America.

As of the release of "midnight bell", the box office of "crying game" opened on September 25 has reached 20.54 million US dollars.

During the two weeks from October 30 to November 12, "crying game" continued to earn US $7.22 million and US $5.37 million with a screen size of more than 500, and the cumulative box office also continued to climb to US $33.13 million.

The arrival of Thanksgiving will also slow down the decline curve of cry game.

Gaomen pictures predicts that the final North American box office of "crying game" is expected to be between $60 million and $70 million.

In addition, this low-cost art film with excellent box office and public praise will become the focus of gaomen film industry in the next award season together with "smell the fragrance and know the woman".

In Simon's memory, both films were shortlisted for best picture nominations at that year's Oscars.

This time, as long as the box office performance of "smell and know women" in the next few weeks meets the expectation, gaomen film will pay more attention to "smell and know women" in order to avoid diluting votes in next year's award season.

Of course, in order to stimulate the subsequent box office potential as much as possible, "crying game" will not lack nominations either.

In a word, because there are so many excellent films produced by our family, Denise entertainment has been giving up in recent years.

Take this year as an example, Denise Entertainment's films of 1992, Howard manor, which was released at Cannes Film Festival in May this year and was released in August, crying game, which was released in September, and smelling and meeting women, which was opened on Thanksgiving Day, are all best picture nominees for next year's Oscars in Simon's memory.

However, there is only one best picture after all.

In order to avoid vote sharing, danelis entertainment can only apply for nomination for one film, which will inevitably lead to other films being ignored.

Howard manor, adapted from British novelist foster, has stayed in North American Theaters for nine weeks since its release in mid August, with a total domestic box office of $26.12 million.For an art film that costs only $6 million to produce, it's already a brilliant achievement. If it is released by other studios, it will definitely be the focus of next year's award season. However, under danielis entertainment, even without "smell and know women," Howards manor will fall behind "crying game", which is expected to make more than $60 million in total box office in North America.

Many Hollywood filmmakers have realized this.

Last year, for example, Jonathan Demi, director of "the silent lamb.".

Compared with the original time and space, the silence of the lamb won the 64th Oscar in 1992. In this time and space, under the impact of the other two films "farewell to the piano" and "crazy flowers at the end", this phenomenal horror film only won a few nominations.

Danielis entertainment gave up the 64th Oscars for the sake of long-term strategy.

Hollywood filmmakers tend to pay more attention to their own performance at the box office, but they will not ignore the honor.

Because of the experience of silence of the lamb, Jonathan Demi's Philadelphia story, which he prepared this year, did not continue to cooperate with danielis entertainment, but chose MGM to invest under Simon's personal lead.

"Philadelphia Story" is a movie about Tom Hanks' experience in protecting the rights of people with AIDS. Just by looking at the type of theme, people who are familiar with Hollywood's operating rules can find that the movie is obviously running for awards.

On the original timeline, Tom Hank won his first best actor Oscar for "the Philadelphia Story" and became the first Oscar winner for "Forrest Gump" the following year.

Not only that, "Philadelphia Story" box office is also very good.

After Simon delayed the production plan of Forrest Gump, Tom Hanks, who had a tight schedule, was able to rejoin the Philadelphia story. The film will start in January next year and is expected to be released at the end of 1993, hitting the award season in 1994.

It is worth mentioning that, in addition to Tom Hanks may create a miracle again, Jonathan Demi is also doomed to miss the Oscar this time.

Because at the end of 1993, there was Spielberg's Schindler's list.

Simon chose to postpone Forrest Gump at the beginning, in addition to the overcrowded schedule at the end of 1993, he also considered the factor of Schindler's list.

It would be a pity if the two films, which are both expected to win the Oscars, meet.

Staggered for one year, danielis entertainment can naturally become the biggest Oscar winner for two consecutive years.

Who dares to say that Schindler's list doesn't qualify for the Oscars because of the two films' status in Hollywood film history on the original time line? Who can question the strength of Forrest Gump?

After the completion of the TV broadcast of the Vimy show, a special person will be responsible for the follow-up matters. Simon and his wife will go to Melbourne to attend the wedding of David Johnston and Leslie Whitaker on November 21 at the following weekend, and plan to stay in Australia until after the new year.

Danielis Entertainment's top priorities at the end of the year are "kid in charge 2", which will be released on November 20, and "Jurassic Park", which will be released on December 18.

Melbourne, Australia.

The Johnston mansion on the Yala River in the northern suburb of the city is becoming more and more lively with the approaching of David Johnston's wedding.

Anthony Johnston and Norman Johnston both lived in the house,

Simon and his wife originally wanted to live in their villa nearby, but they had to move together because of the old man's mandatory order.

Veronica also took the little guy to the mansion at the same time.

Finally, with David Johnston and Patrick Johnston, the whole family got together.

Because of her daughter's wedding, Leslie Whitaker's family also came a lot of people.

He arrived in Melbourne on November 15 and spent a week in various busy social activities. Until the end of the wedding on November 21, David Johnston and Leslie Whitaker left Australia to start their honeymoon, and Melbourne was also free.

Simon and Janet continued to live in Melbourne for a few days, and the couple left for Tasmania across the sea.

Over the years, Simon has never stopped buying land in Tasmania.

Land prices are rising in Tasmania, aware of the buying behavior of the young super rich.

However, in the end, it is a piece of land on the edge of the world. Although there is no lack of some original landowners waiting for the price and followers with some thoughts, few people are willing to spend money in Tasmania.

After continuous expansion, Simon's total land area in Tasmania has reached 13000 square kilometers, equivalent to 3.2 million acres, which is more than one fifth of Tasmania's total area.

Of course, these are basically barren mountains and woodlands without any output.Unless Simon intends to cut down the virgin forest in the territory, it will be difficult for him to get any economic output.

Simon, of course, doesn't plan to do that. He should be an environmentalist in his heart.

However, because of his pessimistic nature, Simon doesn't deliberately change too many things, but he doesn't mind doing things that he can do at will.

In order to protect the ecology, Simon even bought and closed a copper mine in his own territory, and invested money to restore the forest seriously damaged by the opening of the mine.

Owning such a large area of land, doing nothing is more or less wasteful.

Janet once proposed that Tasmania could be developed into a film location shooting base. The forest, grassland, lakes and other primitive natural landscapes here are no worse than those in New Zealand next door. Simon still didn't agree.

This land is located in the ends of the earth. He only intends to be his own paradise, and does not want too many people to pay attention to it.

In addition, the doomsday sanctuary, which was originally built in the depths of Tasmanian forests, has been completed.

Full military facility level.

After the completion of the project, the construction team evacuated. Even if many people knew that there was such a fortification deep in the forest, most people could not find it without accurate direction.

For more than a week in late November, Simon and Janet lived in a wooden house near the shelter. During the day, they rode mountain, drifted and hunted. At night, they would rest in the shelter, and they were very happy to send a large number of materials to fill the inner space of the shelter.

Simon and his wife live in an isolated world in the jungle of Tasmania, while the Thanksgiving season continues in North America.

During the week from November 13 to November 19, Francis Ford Coppola's vampire thriller "four hundred years of horror" successfully won the box office title in a single week, earning $38.7 million in seven days, with the average revenue exceeding $15000.

In the third week of its release, the box office of the second ranked "midnight bell" still dropped by only 17%, and continued to earn $20.77 million, reaching $74.59 million in three weeks.

Danilisi Entertainment's gaomen film released the new film "smell the fragrance and know the woman", with a comprehensive film review score of 8.8 points. The first week's 20 screen painting scale brought in 630000 US dollars in seven days, and the average revenue reached 31000 US dollars.

No matter the film review reputation or box office data, "smell the fragrance and know the woman" has reached the popular level of the award season film.

On November 20, Thanksgiving's blockbuster "kid in charge of home 2" officially opened with 2673 screens.

Because of the amazing box office accumulation of the first movie, this week, Warner Bros.'s biographical drama "the black tide" was the only one competing with the movie.

Directed by Spike Lee and starring Denzel Washington, the black tide is still a film about race.

Compared with "kid in charge 2", the black tide has 1124 screens, plus the theme, which basically does not constitute any competition and threat to "kid in charge 2".

Relying on the popularity of the first film and the publicity of danielis entertainment, although the plot of "kid in charge of the house 2" coincides with that of the first film, which reduces the film's reputation to a certain extent, it is very qualified as a festival comedy.

From November 20 to November 26, in the first seven days of the first week of the painting, "kid in charge 2" won $53.13 million at the box office, easily topping the list of box office in a single week.

Under the impact of "kid in charge 2", four hundred years of shock fell by 45% in a single week, and continued to earn $21.5 million, ranking second, with a cumulative box office of $60.21 million in two weeks. Although the production cost is as high as 40 million US dollars, the revenue in two weeks is more than 60 million, and Colombia's profit in this project can also be expected.

The market performance of Spike Lee's new film "black tide" is obviously beyond the expectation of the industry, which can be described as a double box office success.

The film not only got a comprehensive media score of 8.8 points, which is equivalent to that of "smell and know a woman", but also took in $18.31 million at the box office in the first seven days of the first week with 1124 screens, with more than $16000 per Museum, ranking third in the list.

Unfortunately, just like Denise Entertainment's "crying game" and "Howard Manor", the upcoming award season, "black tide" is destined to make way for another Warner Brothers film, "unforgivable.".

Just after "the black tide", the "midnight bell" ranked the fourth in the list. The box office decline of the film also expanded to 24% in a single week. In the fourth week of its release, it earned 15.79 million US dollars again. The cumulative box office in the four weeks was 90.38 million US dollars, which is expected to break through 100 million US dollars next week.

Passenger 57, No. 5 on the list, dropped to about $6 million at the box office.

After word-of-mouth and popularity continued to ferment, "smell the fragrance and know the woman" continued to maintain the size of 20 screens in the second week, but the average Museum increased to $37000, with another $740000 in revenue.Relying on two consecutive weeks of outstanding film results, the new week, the screening scale of "smell and know women" officially started, with 1083 screens.