Chapter 1462

The last few days of 1998 passed quickly, and the time entered 1999.

While people celebrate the new year in Australia, Simon still inevitably pays attention to the box office situation in North America at the end of the year, because the last day of 1998 happens to be the end of a complete box office week from December 25 to December 31.

First of all, "suicide team 2" won the box office Championship for weeks without suspense.

The DC movie universe super blockbuster fell 39% the next week, which was a very good trend. In the second week, it received $77.06 million, and the cumulative box office exceeded $200 million, reaching $203.4 million.

The first week's box office plus the next week's trend basically reconfirmed the total box office potential of suicide team 2 in North America of about US $350 million. It is expected to rank second in the films released in 1998, second only to Jurassic Park 3 in the summer.

In addition, even if many large-scale ticket warehouses have not been opened, the cumulative overseas box office of suicide team 2 has rapidly exceeded 200 million in the same two weeks, and it is preliminarily estimated that it is about 250 million US dollars.

Because the overseas market is much more complex than that in North America, the total overseas box office needs to be further observed, but there is no doubt that it exceeds that in North America. The global box office of the film will certainly not be less than 700 million, and it is more likely to be between 800 million and 900 million US dollars.

As for 1 billion, the local government has not exceeded 400 million, and the global 1 billion is not too extravagant.

In the past 1998, only Jurassic Park 3, whose global distribution was basically completed, broke through 1 billion at the global box office, accurately US $406 million in North America, US $737 million overseas and US $1.143 billion worldwide.

If Simon hadn't personally finalized such achievements, even if she had announced the temporary end of the series to the public in advance, danilis would like to have another Jurassic Park 456.

Simon has no intention of changing his mind.

Mainly to ensure Hollywood's creativity. At least, even Hollywood can't escape the cycle of rise and fall. In the most prosperous years, shoot more original non sequels, and there will be more old books to eat in the future.

The second place fell quite unexpectedly on my best friend's wedding.

The romantic comedy starring Julia Roberts earned $23.62 million in its first week.

Compared with the appeal of the box office queen in the 1990s in the original time and space, this achievement is somewhat unsatisfactory.

However, considering the medium production cost of the film of US $35 million, even with the publicity and distribution of US $15 million, the total investment will reach US $50 million. After the global release, the pressure to return the capital will not be too great, and maybe we can make a small profit in the cinema stage.

After all, with the continuous development of the surrounding channels of Hollywood films, the income of the next film is roughly the same in the three channels of cinema, video and television. Therefore, if we do not consider the long-term cost that subsequent channels may take several years to operate, it is only on the book. As long as a film can recover one-third of its investment in the cinema channel, it can basically achieve revenue and expenditure balance after the operation of the subsequent two channels.

Of course, the problem happens to be the cost of time.

For example, if the same $100 million is invested in other channels, it can get a return of 15% every year. In three years, the compound interest can be doubled to 1.5 times to $150 million.

If you invest in movies for the same three years, in a cycle in which the three channels of cinema, video and television can operate completely, you only achieve a balance of payments and come back with $100 million, it is actually a loss. It is even better to deposit your money directly in the bank for interest.

This is also why Hollywood studios care most about the first stage of cinema release.

After all, most studios do not spend their own money to make movies. They often finance from various financial investment institutions, and a large part of them still need to pay interest for debt financing.

Therefore, if the cinema can recover the cost and directly repay the loans of financial institutions, the income brought by subsequent channels is net profit.

As for the Carlock company, which was very active in Hollywood a few years ago and has been silent because of the influence of Simon, the big butterfly, it was the production company that originally invested in blockbuster films such as Terminator 2 and instinct. It played even more ahead. In the preparatory stage of the film, it sold most of the distribution rights through capital operation in order to return the funds as soon as possible.

But the comprehensive income of doing so must be very low.

All this is because the studio can't afford the cost of time.

If we can break through this limitation, form an omni-channel self circulation, and keep the benefits in our own system to the greatest extent, we will undoubtedly be able to maximize the benefits of a project.

In the current Hollywood, danilis entertainment is the company that most vividly realizes this.

Because daenerys is large enough and powerful enough, first of all, from the production stage of the film, daenerys entertainment does not need to rely on external capital, which directly avoids a large amount of interest expenses. Secondly, in the issuance stage, because there is no need to sell out and cash out the issuance rights of various channels urgently for the sake of cash flow, it is like reclaiming a piece of land. It can be cultivated as carefully as possible to achieve the maximum output.

Eventually form a virtuous circle.

In the 1990s, Hollywood's traditional big studios merged and integrated one after another, expanded their own volume and realized diversification. To a large extent, it is also to achieve the goal of a virtuous circle of maximizing interests.

Back at the box office.

The third place was produced by danilis entertainment. The sound of surprise and laughter, which was released in the third week, made another $20.34 million with a 38% weekly decline, reaching a cumulative box office of $108.73 million, and successfully entered the box office Club of $100 million.

The industry can only envy this spoof comedy that sold feelings unexpectedly and successfully.

I can't learn.

Like the second place "my best friend's wedding", and this film, in addition to the film itself and some gimmicks to sell feelings, on the other hand, a very important and important reason for the relative success of the two films is that danilis entertainment itself is too strong.

With the current advantages of danilis entertainment in media, cinema and other aspects, coupled with many resources owned by the whole Westeros system, it can unknowingly add a gain aura to danilis's films that other studios can't match.

For example, publicity.

In the final analysis, the publicity of the film is to strive for exposure, so as to let more people know the film before the film is released and accumulate as many potential audiences as possible.

In this regard, in addition to the national ABC TV network, the rapidly rising Internet platform is also completely open to danilis. As for paper media, although her own paper media resources are not much, danilis has a very good relationship with companies with strong paper media strength such as news corporation and Time Warner.

As a result, with the same $10 million publicity expenditure, other studios may only reach the publicity result of $10 million, but danilis entertainment can expand to the level of $20 million or even $30 million.

Speaking of this, we can actually refer to Hollywood in the original time and space.

Finally, the big studios that can live well, whether Disney, Warner or universal, basically have their own TV assets that can provide a wide marketing platform for the film business.

As for Viacom, who owned CBS but later played a good hand to the poor, in addition to Lei Shidong, who can't do well and will never delegate power, has become the biggest obstacle to the development of Viacom. In addition, because of the infighting of Lei Shidong family, Viacom has actually been re split, and various businesses such as film and television cinemas go their own way. As a result, paramount, which originally owned transformers, mission impossible, DreamWorks Animation and even Marvel film, which could easily eat at the beginning of the new century, not only fell to the bottom of the six, but also almost had to sell himself to continue his life.

By the way, it almost sold to a Chinese company.

By the way, it didn't sell well in the end. Because there was an accident in the Chinese company, he had to hang half alive and eat some old books of mission impossible and transformers. Later, the transformers series was destroyed, so he could only honestly give a bull like uproar to Tom, who was fired and asked to go back to work.

Compare it to the real bull Dibo.

You say I'm too controlling and don't give the director room to create, then you go.

So the tail light went away.

So the scandal of taillight cheating on the set many years ago broke out.

So the tail lamp killed itself through the Justice League.

Compare with paramount.

You're mighty, you're domineering, you can play, you can make, so you've killed the most profitable transformers series, patted your ass, went to the big assembly line dog family, continued to play and make with a large amount of money, leaving a unlucky owner who can only seek to sell his life.

Then.

Back to the above, by the way.

And back to the box office.

The fourth place finally had nothing to do with danilis entertainment and fell on the giant scarlet joyan produced by Disney.

This blockbuster, which combines the characteristics of "out of Africa", "King Kong" and "Jurassic Park", has a production cost of $90 million. Unfortunately, it failed to gain the popularity of the three films it used for reference. It opened seven days in the first week, and the final box office was only $20.2 million.

If it is some other low-cost films, $2002 million in the first week, it is not a failure, but falling on "giant scarlet Joe Young" is undoubtedly an achievement that can disappoint the executives of Disney and its parent company Vivendi to kick the table.

After all, for the first week of 2002 million dollars, the film in North America can only be fixed at about 50 million dollars.

Considering the world, even if the total box office of the whole theater stage can receive more than 100 million, compared with the huge production cost of US $90 million and the same expensive publicity and distribution investment, it can only face huge losses.

Even if other channels are fully operational in the following years, they may not be able to recover the full budget.

At the beginning, it was ambitious to win Disney, which can be called the representative of American culture. Vivendi in France was once full of ambition. However, after two or three years of tossing and turning, there has not been a big selling film that even gives Vivendi face.

Some people probably understand that Hollywood is not so fun.

As for when to get a thorough understanding and prepare to pack up and leave like many Hollywood capital visiting here, we are not in a hurry.

The fifth place is MGM's perfect murder.

Michael Douglas continued his style of crime thriller, which brought MGM $16.34 million in box office in the first seven days of the week. Both word-of-mouth and box office were not as good as the fatal temptation that made Douglas fall into a similar type 10 years ago.

Fortunately, the production cost of the film is only US $35 million. It is expected that the local box office revenue of US $40 million to US $50 million, plus outside Shanghai, there is still a certain hope to achieve revenue and expenditure balance at the cinema stage.

In addition to the top five, only the films related to danilis Entertainment:

"Mummy 2" received $10.01 million in the sixth week, and the cumulative box office reached $198.78 million, breaking $200 million. It is expected that the local box office will fall between $220 million and $230 million.

"Clash of heaven and earth" received $8.86 million in the seventh week, with a cumulative box office of $243.37 million. It is expected that the local box office will fall between $260 million and $270 million.

"New York gangster" received $2.01 million in the seventh week, with a cumulative box office of $73.82 million. There is little chance that the local box office will break $80 million.

Then there is Elizabeth, which was released before Christmas as an award-winning film.

After three consecutive weeks of small-scale screening, avoiding the direct impact of "suicide team 2", relying on the nomination of the Golden Globe Award, the number of screens was increased to 506 in the new week on December 25. After the large-scale screening, the box office revenue of "Elizabeth" in the latest week was $6.93 million, and the museum reached $13700.

The cumulative box office for four weeks was US $10.71 million, successfully breaking tens of millions.

Obviously, this is just the beginning.

As the operation focus of danilis entertainment this year's award season, even if the Oscar may discriminate against danilis Entertainment's films this year because of the great victory of Titanic at the Oscar last year, it is not a problem for Elizabeth to walk out of a box office curve similar to Shakespeare's love history until the Oscar ceremony.

Moreover, Simon does not intend to converge in this year's award season, as can be seen from the nomination of this year's Golden Globe Award.

Therefore, this time the Oscar, even if not determined to win, also has seven or eight points.

The ultimate goal is to promote "Elizabeth" to break the local billion, and after winning the highest Oscar Award, the world will reap another wave with the aura of awards.

In any case, for a literary film with a production cost of only $25 million, from the current beginning, "Elizabeth" is bound to achieve a quite good success.

After the official end of the schedule in North America at the end of 1998, Simon did not stay in Melbourne for too long in Australia.

On January 3, before the end of the weekend immediately after new year's day, Simon left Australia ahead of the women and children. After all, he left for a month. There are too many jobs in North America to be handled by Simon.

Two Jenny and a group of little guys will continue to live in Melbourne for a while.

Moreover, the return dates will be staggered as much as possible. In fact, Simon leaves first, so he thinks. Still that sentence, be careful, you can't be wrong.