Chapter 646： The most fascinating act

Disney has invested a total of US$60 million in production costs and promotional expenses for this film. The original first week release plan was only 3,224 theaters. However, as the most promising super blockbuster in October, the reality of "Alexander the Great" is It was too bad. Numerous theaters gave up the screening of this film and joined the screening of "Argo" one after another.

Fortunately, Disney has enough printing capabilities to provide enough copies for the newly added theaters before the premiere.

As a result, the number of theaters in the first week of "Argo" surged to 3,586, becoming the movie with the most theaters released in October this year.

Limited by subject matter and genre, the box office of the movie is not outstanding compared to Ryan's past major productions.

In the three days of the weekend, Friday only got 12.55 million U.S. dollars, which was his second worst opening result after "The Pianist" as an adult.

However, the fast-paced and exciting plot of the film, as well as the good reputation among the audience, boosted the box office on Saturday and Sunday.

Especially on Saturday, the box office ushered in a moment of explosion. The single-day box office of 17.55 million US dollars was worth the box office performance of "Alexander the Great" in the first week.

On Sunday, the film’s box office did not escape the declining pattern. The single-day box office of $13.5 million was the last time "Argo" had a single-day box office score of more than $10 million.

On the first three days of the week, "Argo" won US$43.5 million in North America, which is incomparable to those commercial blockbusters with a box office of around 100 million yuan in the first week, but relative to the total investment of only US$60 million, it is already very good. The results are enough to sit on the throne of the North American box office leaderboard.

Because of the increase in theaters, the box office in the first week was higher than the expectations of Ryan and Disney. Capital always wants to maximize profits. Disney has increased its promotional efforts and invested the remaining promotional expenses in the market.

The crew also specially appeared on Antonia Kidman’s evening talk show, which has now become one of the television’s signature shows, although the focus of the interviews was on George Clooney, Alan Arkin, and John Gu Deman and Robert Downey Jr., but Ryan finally answered a few questions.

"Movies belong to all mankind. Whenever a great Hollywood movie comes, everyone suddenly becomes fans." When Annie asked which plot in the movie he was most satisfied with, Ryan deliberately threw it out for a while. Words that will be discussed by a lot of media.

"The most fascinating scene in the film is that Tony Mendes and his team showed the storyboards of the film they were preparing to make to the Iranian Islamic Guards who tried to hide their Hollywood fans. When Tony finally gave the storyboards to the Iranian soldiers, they Like a kid who received the "e?t Alien" poster personally presented by Steven Spielberg, he smiled happily."

"So..." Ryan said seriously, "Iranian fans' enthusiasm is not lost to us American audiences."

Including George Clooney, Antonia Kidman and others laughed at the same time, and the audience sitting under the stage applauded warmly with laughter.

When they recalled the movie, they found that the plot was exactly as Ryan said, and the Iranians really looked like Hollywood fans.

Ryan only participated in the publicity of the three stations in Washington, New York and Los Angeles, and gave the remaining publicity work to George Clooney. After the release of "Argo", he is definitely the person who has received the most praise-the media and the public. I have long been accustomed to Ryan's success-even successfully getting rid of the awkward identity of the male vase before. The better the film's performance, the more actual and invisible benefits he can get.

Under the intensive publicity offensive, although the box office of "Argo" in the second week inevitably saw a sharp drop, its $33.5 million result still retained its position as the No. 1 box office leader in North America; it was regarded as the largest. Competitor "Alexander the Great", this week's box office is only almost negligible $ 570,000.

In the words of the media, "Alexander the Great" used an extremely tragic way to demonstrate to Hollywood how the big production suffered a box office defeat.

Subsequently, "Argo" landed on overseas markets one after another. The latest entry is naturally a few English-speaking countries. Although the film is full of Hollywood self-righteousness and American arrogance, its performance in these areas is not bad.

Especially those hard-core allies.

Australia's box office in the first week reached more than 5.8 million U.S. dollars, in the UK it got more than 4.9 million U.S. dollars in the first week of box office, and even New Zealand had more than 500,000 U.S. dollars...

Except for these **** brothers, the performance of "Argo" in other countries is not so good.

Major overseas markets such as Brazil, France, Germany, Japan, South Korea, Argentina and Italy have almost all box offices below $1 million in the first week.

This situation is also in Ryan's expectation. It would be strange if a movie with the theme of "Argo" could be a big success in these non-English speaking countries.

However, the performance of the film in North America is very stable. Although in the third week, Disney’s newly released "National Treasure" squeezed the top spot in the North American box office chart with a box office of more than 36 million US dollars, but with a score of 23.47 million US dollars, it achieved The North American box office broke 100 million yuan in three weeks.

In addition, in the eyes of the media and industry insiders, this film will be one of the most powerful contenders for the Oscars and other major awards next year.

A successful movie can bring benefits to many people, even if it is a movie like "Argo" that can't do much about it.

As the prototype of the movie's protagonist, Antonio Mendez is well-known throughout the United States and has become a hero in the minds of many people. In addition to fame, he actually gained a lot of benefits, even though the movie did not pay any fees for the CIA. But Disney still paid him up to US$3 million in copyright fees.

There is also his memoir. With the help of the movie trend, "Argo: How the CIA and Hollywood worked together to complete the most daring rescue operation in history" easily sold more than 500,000 copies, and even signed a book sale. During the event, Antonio Mendez sold 16 paintings in one go. The most expensive painting sold for 40,000 US dollars, and all the paintings together received up to 170,000 US dollars.

Later, when talking on the phone with Ryan, he also mentioned that he was about to start writing two memoirs, "Master of Disguise" and "Classic Cases of Deception."

This is one of the 50 most outstanding agents in the history of the CIA, and it won't take long to become a multimillionaire.

The CIA is also the beneficiary. The film is basically singing praises for them. To a certain extent, the incompetent and terrible CIA image in the public's mind is reversed after 9/11.

This is also their original intention for agreeing to cooperate with Ryan on this film.

Regarding the cast and crew, Ryan himself needless to say. Since the movie was released, Disney's media has begun to build momentum to win the best picture and best actor nomination for the upcoming awards season.

Another person who has benefited greatly is George Clooney. In view of the success of "Argo", Warner Bros. is considering letting him replace Steven Soderbergh as the new episode of the Arhat series, “The Thirteen Arhats”. "The director of ", in addition, his management team also started public relations, in order to fight for the Golden Globe Award and even the Oscar nomination for best director.

Bright sunlight fell on the grape racks all over the garden, and through the gaps between the yellow-green leaves, leaving a golden halo on the ground. Although the time has entered November, it is not visible in the Napa Valley. In the mid-autumn season, nothing seems to have changed.

In the leisure floral corridor under the grapevine, Nicole was sitting at a small table, flipping his eyes at the laptop and looking at Ryan on the opposite side, just to see him hung up the phone.

"Whose invitation." She looked at Ryan, who had put away her phone, and asked curiously, "I refused so resolutely?"

"George Clooney." Ryan poured the cold black tea from the cup into the trash can, and Nicole picked up the silver jug ​​and refilled it for him, saying, "Could it be that you are invited to appear in "Thirteen Arhats", right? ?"

"Honey." Ryan shook her hand. "You guessed it."

"It's on the entertainment news." Nicole pointed to the laptop screen. "Yahoo Entertainment just reported that Warner Bros. is going to let him direct this movie."

Ryan leaned over and took a look. Nicole was watching those entertainment gossips and then sat back. He didn't explain why he refused, and Nicole didn't mean to ask. After all, he has only appeared in the works of his own film company over the years.

"That's right..." Nicole left the computer screen, looked over, and asked concerned, "Isn't Alison's mv completed? When will it be released and wait for her to return from Australia. ."

Seeing Nicole’s seemingly longing expression, Ryan reached out and grabbed her left hand, “Don’t worry, she is taken care of and supervised over there... Well, there are at least four hours every day to practice, you Didn’t you go to see her there last month?"

"Scarlett, Alison, Christine, and..." Nicole frowned, but didn't mention the name. "Do you want to put all your friends in that movie?"

"It's just for box office appeal." Ryan squeezed his chin slightly embarrassedly, and quickly changed the subject, pointing to the notebook and said, "Any hot news recently?"

"Not the ones that often happen in Hollywood..."

Nicole held the right hand of the mouse and kept flipping through the web page. Suddenly, she blinked her eyes and showed an inexplicable smile. "

"Me?" Ryan pointed to his nose, "What is it?" r1152()