Chapter 515

Under the impact of Jurassic Park, the box office performance of other films in the first week of the Christmas show was unsatisfactory.

Under normal circumstances, with the coming of the festival, most of the two movies around Christmas will have a reverse decline, but this time it didn't happen. Even in the week of December 18 to December 24, the box office data of kid in charge 2, which is most suitable for the theme of the festival, fell by as much as 17%.

In the fifth week of release, the box office revenue of "kid at home 2" was $10.29 million, and the cumulative box office revenue reached $132.05 million.

Because of this reason, the danilisi entertainment distribution team had to lower its local box office expectation for "kid in charge 2". The original expectation of up to $200 million is certainly difficult to achieve. At best, it is estimated that it can only reach about $170 million on the original time line.

At the same time as Jurassic Park, Robin Williams's fantasy comedy "toys" was even more direct on the street, with a box office of only $5.31 million in the first seven days of the week.

In the same week, on Monday, December 21, the nominations for the 50th Golden Globe Awards were officially announced.

Danylis Entertainment's "crying game" won three nominations for best film, best supporting actor and best screenplay in the plot category. As the focus of the award season in 1993, "smell and know women" won six nominations for best film, best actor, best director, best supporting actor and best screenplay in the plot category.

With the announcement of the nominations, the two films again received the attention of the media and the public.

Crying game, which started on September 25, has been released for 13 weeks up to December 24. The total box office in North America has reached US $51.63 million, and the box office in a single week has fallen to less than US $4 million. The box office revenue in seven days from December 18 to December 24 is only US $3.13 million.

Gaomen film industry has focused on the promotion of "smell and know women". Therefore, taking advantage of the east wind of the award season and properly expanding the screening scale, crying game will probably earn another 1500 yuan. Finally, the domestic box office in North America is expected to be between $65 million and $70 million.

Compared to the $3 million production cost of the film, this is already a miracle.

After two weeks of screening, the painting "smell the fragrance and know the woman" opened on November 13, the number of screens officially opened on November 27.

As of December 24, the cumulative box office of "smell and know a woman" had reached $30.11 million in the four weeks after its large-scale release.

In view of the awarding season in the next few months, "smell and know a woman" will be the focus of danielis Entertainment's awards. The local box office of this art drama starring Al Pacino will at least reach the same level as "crying game".

On December 25, the second week of the Christmas season, three new films continued to be released in North American theaters.

Warner Bros.'s the end of time, starring Mel Gibson, has 1710 screens.

Simon's memory, the film's original heroine is Jamie Lee Curtis, this time, the heroine changed to Meg Ryan.

It's obviously Simon, the big butterfly.

However, Simon didn't intervene. He hoped that the heroine of the film would still be Jamie Lee Curtis. He just thought that Curtis, who is full of manly atmosphere, could not have any spark with Mel Gibson. It's not a film of dannerys entertainment. Of course, the worse the better.

Of course, even if the heroine is replaced by Meg Ryan, the end of the year is doomed to be crushed by Jurassic Park.

Two other new films.

Paramount Pictures' miracle of heaven, starring Steve Martin, tells the story of a swindler touring the country and performing everywhere, with 1554 screens.

Fox's Hoffa, a biographical crime drama starring Jack Nicholson, is obviously aiming for the award season, with 1066 screens.

New York, long island.

In a synagogue in East Hampton.

It's December 27.

At ten o'clock in the morning, Steve Roth's funeral was held here.

The Jewish pastor introduced Rose's life, and then relatives, friends and colleagues came to the stage to give speeches. The funeral lasted until noon, and everyone returned to the rose family's manor in East Hampton to have dinner.

Lunch was self-help and the atmosphere was solemn.

"Simon, I've been thinking about one thing recently. I hope that I can dedicate Schindler's list to Steve at the same time."

In the hall of the manor villa, Simon and his wife once again expressed their sympathy to Rose's widow Courtney rose, and Steven Spielberg next to them suddenly said so.

"Schindler's list" in my memory is the work of Universal Pictures, but at the end of the film, the words "dedicated to Steve Roth" are specially marked.

Simon naturally did not mind at this time. He nodded, "sure, no problem. Steven, Schindler has the final say."

Spielberg originally wanted to explain his specific ideas. Seeing that Simon said so, he didn't say much, just a little more thanks in his eyes.Courtney rose was also moved: "Oh, Steven, and Simon, thank you so much."

"That's what we should do, Ms. Ross."

"So," Courtney Ross looked at Simon and said, "Simon, I'm going to organize a memorial service for Steve next month. Can you spare time to attend it?"

Simonton nodded in front of Courtney Rose's eager eyes: "OK, just let me know."

Janet, standing quietly next to Simon with a dinner plate, turned her lips slightly when she heard the conversation.

Speaking of all, Courtney rose is Steve Rose's third wife, more than 20 years younger than rose, the standard husband and wife. Compared with Steve Roth's high EQ in dealing with people, Courtney Roth is not very pleasant in this circle.

Like the invitation just now.

Simon and rose are not very close friends. It's a great honor to be able to come back from Australia to attend the funeral.

Ross's memorial ceremony should have been invited in private. If Simon has time to attend, naturally it's best. If he doesn't have time, it won't hurt his face if he quietly refuses. At this time, in front of others at the lunch after the funeral, Simon had to promise in order to avoid obvious embarrassment.

Moreover, in the face of Spielberg, who almost has a father son relationship with Ross, Courtney Ross is too enthusiastic about Simon, which will inevitably appear snobbish.

Courtney Ross obviously didn't realize that.

This woman may only see that with Simon's present wealth, if he can attend Ross's memorial ceremony, it will certainly add some glory to the event. As for Spielberg next to her, she probably felt that even if she didn't mention it, it was natural for her partner to attend the Ross memorial ceremony.

A moment later, Robert Daley and Terry Semel, two of Rose's closest friends, came to say hello.

After a few whispers, Spielberg took the initiative to walk away.

Janet looked at Courtney rose, who was still standing. She had to step forward and said, "Courtney, can you introduce us to me?"

When Courtney rose heard that Janet, who was just a little cold, took the initiative to talk to her, she nodded and said with a smile, "Oh, of course."

When the two women walked away, Robert Daley said, "Simon, I've seen some information about Fashion TV. It's true that there is still a lack of a professional fashion TV station in the cable TV industry. This plan should have a bright future. Warner will try its best to cooperate and let this home appliance TV station go online as soon as possible."

As Ross's two deputies, Terry Semel is mainly in charge of the film business, while Robert Daley is in charge of Warner's cable operator business, mainly Warner Cable. As for HBO, a cable TV station, it belongs to the era company system.

If danielis entertainment wants to launch Fashion TV, it definitely needs the cooperation of cable TV operators.

Simon, of course, understood Robert Daley's intention of courting himself through Fashion TV, and said with a smile: "in fact, Fashion TV is mainly for promoting Gucci and other brands. I'm not confident whether it can do well. By the way, how have you been these days? "

"The Board plans to hold an extraordinary general meeting on January 5, when it will determine the management of the company," Terry Semel said

Today is December 27, more than a week before January 5.

Simon made a mental calculation, and then said, "in fact, Steve and I talked about this in the first half of the year, and he should have told you about it. I also don't want the good cooperation between Denise entertainment and Time Warner Group to be damaged. Therefore, I will try my best to support you two as co CEOs of Time Warner. If you need any help, please feel free to contact me. "

Steven Roth's successor, Gerald Levin, is a bit disheartened these days because of the leakage of his speech at the last internal meeting. Especially, the box office explosion of Jurassic Park makes Gerald Levin, who has vowed to renegotiate with Denise entertainment, more passive.

In addition, the recent collapse of Time Warner's share price caused by a series of events such as high-level infighting and Ross's death, Warner's board of directors and major shareholders are quite critical of Gerald Levin.

If Simon can spare no effort to support Robert Daley and Terry Semel at this time, it is not impossible for them to take charge of Time Warner completely.

And the way is simple.

As long as Denise entertainment and Time Warner Group cooperate in the DC movie universe to put pressure on Time Warner's board of directors and shareholders.

Since the merger of Time Warner, the most eye-catching project of the company in recent years is DC movie universe. This plan not only represents rich interests, but also affects the market's confidence in Time Warner to a great extent.

Time Warner's share price will definitely continue to fall sharply once the universe plan of DC film changes.For Denise entertainment, let alone marvel, which is in the state of development, just the recently released "Jurassic Park" is enough to show that Denise Entertainment's dependence on the DC movie universe is far lower than that of Time Warner. Therefore, Denise entertainment has a great initiative in front of Time Warner.

However, listening to Simon, Robert Daley and Terry Semel realized that Simon didn't mean to interfere too much in the change of top management in Time Warner.

Of course, they didn't completely understand some of the joints.

Denise and Time Warner, after all, are competitors. A competitor with internal chaos is definitely more in line with Denise's own interests than a competitor with stable management.

In addition, there is one more point.

They can't get Simon's chips to help them get to the top.

In order to ensure that the cooperation between the two sides will not change, westero can openly support them to take the CEO position of Time Warner, but without other benefits, the other side can not do too much.

As for the deeper factors, in fact, even if they really mastered the power of Time Warner, they didn't mean to fight against danielis entertainment.

After all, Time Warner is a public holding company. They are just professional managers.

As a professional manager, as long as he can make the best of the enterprise during his term of office, get the highest profits and get the due remuneration, it is enough. As for the long-term planning of a company, neither of them feels that they have such an obligation. Even for Time Warner, which is constantly struggling internally, even if they want to undertake such an obligation, it is unlikely.

Time Warner is not daenerys. In this mountain company, every faction has its own appeal.

Simon had a call with Gerald Levin when he was in Australia, and he also expressed his attitude on the phone.

After a brief discussion among the three, Simon promised danilisi entertainment that the official would make some more statements in the media to ensure that there would be no other changes in the shareholders' meeting on January 5, and Simon did not intend to do more.

After a simple lunch and greeting the right person, Simon and his wife went back to Manhattan together.

There's a dinner with the rabolds in the evening, and the Robert Eggers will be there.

Although he came back early, he didn't plan to return to Los Angeles immediately to work. Instead, he planned to spend the new year in New York, and arranged various activities in the next few days.

Unconsciously, the last week of 1992 finally passed.

During the week from December 25 to December 31, Jurassic Park was still in full swing. In the second week of its release, the film's decline was only 21%. Compared with the super high box office of US $91.38 million in the first week, the decline was already excellent. The next week, Jurassic Park continued to earn $72.17 million, and the cumulative box office quickly reached $163.55 million.

Compared with Jurassic Park's box office of $72.17 million, the new film starring Mel Gibson's box office in its first week was only $15.18 million, far lower than Warner's expectation.

Considering that the Christmas file will be over next week, and the production cost of "the end of the world" will reach US $30 million, the total box office in North America may only be between us $30 million and US $40 million.

The third place movie "kid in charge of the house 2" won $9.98 million again with a 3% ultra-low drop due to Christmas. It was released for six weeks with a cumulative box office of $142.03 million.

Fox's "Hoffa" box office for the first week was $8.71 million, ranking fourth.

With a comprehensive media rating of only 5.4 in the end, this biographical crime drama is unlikely to hit the award season.

Paramount's comedy the miracle of heaven, starring Steve Martin, took fifth place with $7.37 million in its first week's box office.

In fact, the top five films in the list, the last four films, such as "the end of heaven", together, can't make as much money as "Jurassic Park".

Relying on the momentum brought by Jurassic Park, Denise Entertainment's statement on the need to ensure a stable turnover of Time Warner's management immediately received a positive response from all forces of Time Warner.

Through this event, Hollywood has once again felt the growing influence of Denise entertainment in the American media industry.