Chapter 835： a little regret

"Titanic" reached 447 million US dollars at the box office last week. This week, it is almost inevitable to surpass the $460 million North American box office record of Star Wars. There wasn't much surprise in Eric's heart. Listening to Christine's tone, she is obviously a fan of Titanic.

Sleeping away, Eric turned over and looked at Christina, who was lying next to him with a smile. "This thing, let's talk about it, now..."

With that said, Eric suddenly reached out and took Christina's slender waist to pull her whole person and then turned over.

"Yeah, don't," Christina struggled with a smile.

Eric is more than one meter tall, and Christina is only a one-five-five-small man. With Eric's movements, Christina's petite body completely disappears under him.

"Kitten, the next time I remember, the man who was suddenly woken up, the fire is very big."

Christina narrowed her eyes, her face flushed, and stretched her arm to let Eric take off her little t-shirt. She softly asked for mercy: "Eric, I am wrong, I will not dare again next time." It is."

"The next time I say it next time, I still have to punish this time."

"But I have already made breakfast, and it will be cold when you are punished."

Christina said this, Eric also felt a hungry, and looked at the sun outside the window. It was not too late. In the past few days, "Royal Casino" is about to be completed, and all the work requires him to stare at himself. Resist the desire, let go of Christina, turn over and get out of bed, saying: "Well, look at your slyness, this time let you go."

After more than two years of re-enactment in "Star Wars", the cumulative box office has just exceeded $460 million. Therefore, if you want to record the first round of box office records, before the "Titanic", you should count the "Jurassic Park" made by Eric a few years ago, the final box office in North America is 450 million.

However, in any case, after 12 weeks of reflection, the Titanic North American box office reached 469 million US dollars, breaking the box office record of all previous North American films, and also recorded a record-breaking 12-week North American single. Weekly box office champion.

Although everyone knows that "Titanic" will break the North American box office record without any suspense this week, but after the real data is released, people who can react like Eric will be a minority.

After getting up on the same day, in just half an hour after breakfast with Christina, there were five or six calls on the Eric phone.

Today's media in North America are basically focusing on this matter. More than half of Eric's subscribed newspapers have news on the front page that "Titanic" broke the North American box office record. The Internet is even more boiling. The huge fan base of "Titanic" has posted in the Yahoo community and major movie forums to celebrate the film breaking the North American box office record.

Under the arrangement of the company, ab's morning news program "Good Morning America" ​​took a full 20 minutes to review the whole process of the "Titanic" from the start to the present, the host even connected to the scene in Japan. Several filmmakers who promoted the film, the "Titanic" report directly increased the ratings of "Good Morning America" ​​by 30%.

Although a few months ago, including Eric himself, no one could know whether the Titanic would break the North American box office record this week.

However, today is March 14th, only 10 days away from the 69th Academy Awards. After the nomination is announced, in order to make the most of the influence of the Titanic Oscar, the main overseas ticket of the film remains. The national release time of the warehouse was basically arranged for the next two weeks. By then, the number of overseas countries in the Titanic will increase from less than 30 to 68.

Today, the number of overseas release countries of Titanic will increase by 17, including Germany, France and Japan, the three most important overseas ticket warehouses.

In the original time and space, the first round of the "Titanic" screening of overseas box office was 1.2 billion US dollars. Eric remembers that Japan’s box office is about 200 million U.S. dollars. According to the United States’ current box office figures of 91 million U.S. dollars, Germany and France, which are comparable in size to the UK market, may also exceed 100 million U.S. dollars. The total box office of these three overseas box office countries will reach about 400 million US dollars, accounting for one-third of the Titanic overseas box office market share.

Therefore, fireflies have paid special attention to the release of these three countries. Several of the "Titanic" pioneers rushed to Europe and Japan to participate in the premiere of the corresponding country in the previous week. At this time, Cameron Everyone still stays in Japan.

Eric believes that after the release of the new **** scale, the overseas box office data of "Titanic" will also completely erupt. Before again, because of the established distribution strategy of fireflies, the number of overseas box offices has only been reluctant until now. Reached $400 million.

After a busy morning at Firefly Studios, Eric rushed to Burbank in the afternoon to attend the next working conference on Titanic.

In the 12th week of North America, the total number of box office reached 469 million US dollars, which also brought a little trouble to the firefly's distribution department, or regret.

"Although the current box office data of "Titanic" is still maintained at a scale of 20 million US dollars per week, according to the survey data in our hands, most of them are the result of repeated watching by the fans of the film. The reason why these people Will repeatedly enter the cinema, in addition to the appeal of the film itself, but also because of their love of the film, looking forward to it can create more box office miracles."

At the meeting, Robert Thompson, president of the Firefly Distribution Department, introduced the current situation: "So, there are three propaganda points in the Titanic that can stimulate North American box office data to continue to rise, breaking the North American box office record, North America. The box office broke through 500 million US dollars, and the Oscar awards ceremony, if these three publicity points can appear in three weeks, it is undoubtedly the best state. But now the situation is that "Titanic" has broken the box office record, left The next two publicity points, according to the current box office trend, are likely to happen in the same week, or even the same day. Because now from Oscar, it happens to be a full week plus a weekend, the award ceremony is next Monday, the 14th of the day The box office was just released three days in the weekend."

Although Robert Thompson said that there is not much regret in the tone, everyone in the conference room is probably the same.

Everyone can hear that "Titanic" broke the box office record in North America this week, and the box office broke through 500 million U.S. dollars in the next week. It will hit the Oscars in the next week. This week, a publicity point to stimulate the box office is undoubtedly the best.

However, the "Titanic" single-week box office remained above 20 million US dollars, it is already a fan of fans, although the fireflies can easily take out 10 million US dollars, the "Titanic" next week, the box office to 500 million, but do this It’s as stupid as scratching a scratch on the flawless 'Pearl' of Titanic. At that time, opponents who hate all kinds of fireflies are expected to be crazy.

Everyone whispered to each other for a while, some people said: "Robert, you forgot to consider the movie global box office to break the $1 billion propaganda point?"

"Of course I have considered it," said Robert Thompson. "But this is not a new record. Jurassic Park broke four years ago. And this data should be released after Oscar, by then, North America. The box office should have a good chance of starting to fall back sharply, and we can't expect anything from the North American market anymore."

Someone suddenly said: "That is 2 billion in the world?"

There was a brief pause in the meeting, and everyone laughed.

Robert Thompson also shook his head and looked at each other. He spoke to Kenneth Horn, the president of New Line Films. Before the release of Titanic, the new line film almost caught up with the annual box office performance of the department, Kenneth· Horn's position in the group has increased dramatically. However, after the "Titanic" box office broke out, the data of the new line film was once again far away. It was still in the heart of Kenneth Horn, who was trying to get more resources for the new line. Quite depressed, but he will not show up on this occasion.

Within the entire Firefly Group, Kenneth Horn is equal to Robert Thompson, and Kenneth Horn's new line of film includes the entire production and distribution system, although most of the budget has been under $30 million. The film, but the performance of the new line has been very good in recent years, and with the support of the old ministers in the new line, Kenneth Horn is still quite high-level attention. As the president of the group's issuance department, Robert Thompson is in charge of the Bo Wei International Distribution Group, which is responsible for the local and global distribution business. Although it is not involved in production, it controls all the mainstream studios of fireflies, such as Firefly, Disney Pictures and Pixar Animation. The job of film distribution, Robert Thompson's status can not be underestimated.

Although there is no intersection in the management of the business, in the same system, both of them have some signs of competition.

"Kenneth, since you said so, it is better for us to make a bet. If the "Titanic" global box office can break through 2 billion US dollars, I would like to have someone to eat at the place. If it is not reached, you come."

"Of course no problem, I can still afford a meal," Kenneth Horne did not hesitate to look around.

In this festive atmosphere, no one will say anything about this small gambling, although almost everyone feels that although the Titanic can break through 1 billion US dollars, even touched 1.5 billion US dollars, but 2 billion The dollar is still too hanging.

Eric put together a piece of information that he had just read in front of him. He looked up and smiled and swept between the two men. He said, "Well, I remembered the two gambling games. I will choose it. Location, you'd better leave the year-end award last year."

As the core executive of the Firefly Group, Kenneth Horn and Robert Thompson's year-end bonuses are in the multi-million dollar class. Listening to Eric, Robert Thompson is stunned: "Eric, you still robbed directly, there is no hotel in the world that can eat millions of dollars for a meal."

"Robbery is illegal, I am a law-abiding citizen," Eric laughed and made a joke.

Everyone laughed for a while, and Kasenberg announced the next issue.

"After this period of analysis, we found that many "Titanic" fans are very interested in the filming process. Moreover, we just saved all the props of the "Titanic" shooting period, Titan The Nick ship model is also standing in the studio in Rosarito, Mexico. Some of the core props are also shipped back to Los Angeles. They are currently in the warehouse in the studio, so let’s discuss the theme of the Titanic exhibition. feasibility."

After Kasenberger finished, everyone did not speak immediately at the meeting. Everyone slammed through the investigation report that was distributed.

Eric also opened the investigation report in his hand. Westerners are generally very interested in collecting, and some of the classic movie props are often able to auction out the price. This is also the cultural basis for the Titanic to host props exhibitions.

Although I don’t know the specific data in the original time and space, Eric remembers that after the success of the Titanic, Fox held a grand tour of the Titanic filming props around the world. Driven by huge profits, Fox certainly did not do this.

Moreover, one of the most regrettable things that Eric looked at in the original time and space was that Cameron copied the Titanic model on the Rosarito film in a one-to-one ratio. In the latter part of the film production, in order to raise enough Production expenses were directly dismantled and sold for scrap iron. Presumably, this is also a great regret for many fans.

This time, from the very beginning, Eric told the film's masters to keep all the props perfectly. The reason he gave it was of course to provide props support for the subsequent production of retro films related to Titanic. After all, the Titanic props cost tens of millions of dollars.

However, now that the "Titanic" has achieved the same success as the previous life, then the real reason for the original move can be taken out in an imposing manner.

Although the "Titanic" themed exhibitions certainly cannot last as long as Disneyland, but with a wealth of experience in operating the Disney theme park, the possibility of fireflies holding the "Titanic" theme exhibition is also very likely to be successful.

(To be continued.)