Chapter 503： Christmas file

After spending two months with two women in New York, Eric returned to Los Angeles near Christmas. As the most important period of the year except for the summer file, most of the Christmas files will be released on December 18th and December 25th.

Firefly's last "Detective Aircraft Head" in 1992 was also scheduled for December 18th, because Kim Kerry and Tg have been unable to talk about the next film. In early December, Kim Kerry once again made public. Expressed to the entertainment media the strong indignation of the 'deception' signing the option contract, and also said that he did not intend to participate in the premiere of "Detective Aircraft Head".

A few days before the premiere of "Detective Aircraft Head", after a long period of saw-and-saw negotiations, TG finally signed a contract with Kim Kerry for another film of $11 million, and also let the audience on December 17. At the premiere of the day, I saw Kim Kerry’s figure.

Hollywood stars often show low-cost or even free movies to directors or producers who have the knowledge of their own, but they often struggle with the film companies that discover them, and they have become a Hollywood one. A habitual trend, Eric is also used to this.

In addition to "Detective Aircraft Head", Warner's "Bodyguard" and "Smiths" jointly produced by Colombia and Firefly's Disney Pictures were also released on the same day.

Eric did not participate in the premiere of "The Detective Airplane", but at the premiere of "Smiths", Peter B. Cooper's stalker and Nicole's soft language request.

According to the original agreement, the five films that Firefly worked with Colombia, the North American native distribution rights belong to Colombia. The overseas issuance is the responsibility of fireflies. This agreement is naturally to cover up the impact of the agreement reached by Eric and Peter Cooper in private. Colombia’s overseas distribution network is now at a time, if it is carried out by Colombia. Overseas distribution, the "Smiths" overseas box office may even be only half of the expected.

Because of the optimistic outlook for the "Smiths". Colombia almost took out all of his family's homes. In the first week, he arranged more than 2,800 screens for the "Smiths". After learning the data, most of the media said that Colombia's distribution method that exceeds the box office potential of the film is likely. The film caused a sharp drop in the box office at the next week, but after three days of the first weekend of the show, "Smiths" got an amazing $39 million box office. It is expected that the box office in the first week is likely to hit the production line of 60 million US dollars. Before that, such results will generally only occur in the summer file, so the shock to the industry can be imagined.

As soon as such achievements were released, most of the media that originally looked at the Colombian hair style strategy changed their winds. The reasons for the success of the "Smiths" were analyzed. In addition to the premiere scale, the Eastern Kung Fu factor used in the "Smiths and Couples", which is completely different from the previous action films in North America, has become the focus of the media.

In the first three days of the movie, the box office was opened, and John Wu received a cooperative invitation for more than a dozen films and countless media interview invitations in just a few days.

Because of the contract signed with the fireflies, John Wu has been very impressed with the high director’s remuneration and share of other film companies, but he is also very self-aware that he has not personally contacted outsiders, and has no intention of tearing up contracts with fireflies. . However, those interview invitations from the media made John Wu very enjoyable and even accepted interviews from various newspapers and magazines or TV stations. I talked about my own violent aesthetics and oriental kung fu, and even returned to Hong Kong to receive tvb's exclusive program, which was a great time.

Original time and space. Kung Fu Element and Hollywood's local commercial film were the most successful and the first collaboration was "Matrix". The whole series won more than 1.5 billion US dollars at the box office, making Kung Fu elements popular in Hollywood. As for the earlier kung fu movies, most of them have stars from the East, and they are not authentic Hollywood movies.

And now, because of the great success of the "Smiths". Hollywood has also begun to pay attention to Hong Kong movies that are on the other side of the ocean and are experiencing the last period of madness and prosperity. Because John Wu has a contract with Firefly. The other major Hollywood studios knew that they couldn't dig people from Eric, so they set their sights on the frontline directors in Hong Kong. The local filmmakers in Hong Kong also saw the scenery of John Wu during this period. They became the attractors of international directors and the bottlenecks in the development of local movies. The recruitment of Hollywood is also very eager. The eyes fluttered over the entire Pacific Ocean.

Although the Smithsonian's box office fell more than 40% in the second week, but the $36 million second-week box office plus the film's pre-screening accumulation, the box office score in the two weeks of the release easily exceeded 100 million US dollars, becoming 1992 The biggest box office in the Christmas stalls is black horse. It is expected that the total box office of the movie is likely to exceed 200 million US dollars. Fireflies and Colombia can recover all the cost of the declaration and make profits only at the box office in North America. All will be pure profits, which is undoubtedly the most brilliant box office results Sony achieved after the acquisition of Colombia.

Peter Cooper originally complained about the first film that was co-operating with fireflies, but he was still full of ecstasy, but now he is only ecstatic, even if Colombia can only get 40% of the benefits in the original sharing agreement, but obtained Profits still exceed the proceeds from most of the films that Colombia has issued in the past two years. If the four films that worked with Fireflies in the next three years were still able to maintain similar results, Peter Cooper could sit comfortably in the seat of Columbia's ceo.

In addition to the "Smiths", the Christmas fireflies "The Detective Airplane" and Eric's "Bodyguard" performed by the producers also achieved good results, although there is no strong box office harvesting ability of the "Smiths", but two Weekend, the box office of "Detective Airplane Head" and "Bodyguard" broke through 50 million US dollars.

In addition to Fireflies, Warner and Columbia, the performance of the other four major Hollywood studios at the end of the year is relatively unsatisfactory. The most miserable of these is MGM. For a whole year, MGM did not make any film, but only for the film produced by other small companies, and all the film outlets issued by MGM in 1992. The total income is even less than 100 million US dollars, which can be said to have fallen to the extreme.

Because of the fraudulent lawsuit of Italian investor Giancarlo Paredi. MGM was publicly auctioned by the French bank in December. There is no final bidding result yet. Although Eric has some heartfelt interest in MGM's huge library, Eric has not yet invested in a more promising investment. Shot on MGM.

Fox intends to get the sequel to the "Little Ghosts" series of copyright productions from Fireflies again, but the previous "Little Ghosts" has been successful. But because the young protagonist Stewart Langkel is one year old, the good life of the past few years makes him look no longer suitable for the movie, so this series has also entered the most risky stage, and Fox The price of one offer was only 50% of last year, but I hope to participate in the peripheral division of "Little Ghosts". In the end, the two sides did not negotiate. For all kinds of considerations, the series of "Little Ghosts" was completely stranded, and several comedy films independently developed by Fox did not perform very well.

Paramount's Martin Davis has been dealing with things that might be acquired by Viacom or QVC all the year, and he has no intention of film business, so there is no work.

Global is better. At the helm of Michael Eisner, the strategy of winning at a low cost to win at the end of the year. At the end of the year, at the end of the year, only a few films were released at the end of the year. At the end of the year, around the world, six movies were released, and the screens were about 1,000. Then according to the film results to make appropriate adjustments, insiders can see that Michael Eisner did this because of helplessness, he took the global event too short, the long-term big production movie is too late to launch, in order to improve the world as soon as possible The business situation boosts investor confidence. Michael Eisner came up with such a strategy.

In addition to Schindler's List, the other five films are comedy films or feature films that donate no more than $20 million. Although the box office scores obtained are not too eye-catching, they are two months in Thanksgiving and Christmas. The six films, including the Schindler's List, add up to more than $200 million. It is not a problem to reap the box office of about $100 million. The profit prospects are considerable.

At the same time, "Schindler's List" has undoubtedly become a popular Oscar.

As a film depicting the Holocaust during the Second World War, and the goal is still Jewish, all the media in North America treat the film with almost cautious attitude. Basically, there is no such thing as "Schindler's List" on paper and television. The negative reports, of course, are definitely not without other voices. For example, some Jewish groups have voiced that Spielberg’s film has restored historical facts to a certain extent and used documentary situations, but it is still not realistic enough. The tragedy of the year was not deep enough. Other Jewish critics have said that the best way to deal with the Holocaust should be silence, rather than repeatedly reciting as a victim, which will only increase hatred and unpredictable for another conflict. seed.

Regardless of the attitude of the outside world, the film was released for a few weeks. With the support of a large number of Jews, the box office quickly broke through 40 million US dollars. Global thought this would be a loss-making project, and the results made Michael Eisner unexpected. At the same time, it is even more determined to increase the efforts to win Spielberg's determination.

Spending Christmas with Drew and Nicole, who stayed in Los Angeles, at the Sharp Point Estate, during which time they continued to participate in some party parties that couldn’t be beaten. Eric wanted to be in this year’s hustle and bustle. In the noisy atmosphere, the fans were able to spend the night, but with the release of Hollywood's box office statistics, fireflies once again became the focus of everyone's attention.

Although many movies are still in the stage of release, according to the pre-movie reputation and box office curve, it is not too difficult for the box office to count the total box office of a movie, and the accuracy rate is quite high.

In the last days of the New Year, although most people are in the holiday stage, Hollywood professional or non-professional magazines have begun to review, review and summarize all the films of 1992, and Hollywood annual box office, overseas box office, major movies. The company's annual box office total is undoubtedly the data that everyone is concerned about.

The results given by most magazines have surprised people both inside and outside the circle.

Firefly Films has six films including "Tornado", "Sisters Are Crazy", "Disguise Geek", "Aladdin", "Speed ​​of Life" and "Detective Aircraft Head", plus Disney, New Line, etc. The other 17 films that have been released several times have received a total of $1.53 billion in box office, far exceeding the second-placed Time Warner’s total box office score of 840 million, and in North America in 1992 totaling $5.5 billion. The box office has a 27% market share.

Although some magazines have also raised objections, the two films "Disguised Geek" and "Detective Aircraft Head" should not be counted as fireflies, but should belong to tg film companies, but even then, subtracting more than 200 million movies from two movies. At the box office, Firefly Pictures still far surpassed Time Warner in second place. What's more, as long as people who know a little about the Hollywood circle know that tg is almost equivalent to a firefly's subsidiary, others also refute if they want to invest instead of issuing, then one of the "Smiths" Most of the box office should also be counted as a firefly, so most media are more inclined to the roughly $1 billion box office.

27% of the box office share, such an amazing number has not appeared in Hollywood for many years, "Hollywood Reporter" has made some statistics, Firefly film industry annual production and operating budget is estimated to be about 800 million US dollars Deducting the tax that should be paid, Firefly can only get a net profit of more than 400 million US dollars only in the box office of North America. What's more, Fireflies still have no overseas box office results in North America.

After the acquisition of Disney, the entertainment industry chain of Firefly Pictures has been perfected. In addition to the fixed domestic and foreign theaters, the box office is divided into revenues. Fireflies can also obtain large profits from the video tape distribution, TV broadcast authorization, and exclusive operation authorization. . What's more, Firefly now has a huge sales revenue from several Disney parks and Disney's surrounding franchise stores across major cities in Europe and Europe.

It can be said that the annual turnover of fireflies will far exceed the figure of 1.5 billion US dollars.

However, unfortunately, because the fireflies are not listed, there is no need to disclose the fireflies' financial reports to the public. This also leads to the actual turnover and profits of the fireflies, except for the fireflies' core high-level, which outsiders are basically unaware. (To be continued)