Chapter 964： Least profitable movie

Because of Charlie Sheen, everyone in Hollywood is in danger. This is not an exaggeration.

Not to mention anything else, in the Relativity Building, many executives with good personal relationships often talk about a topic when discussing in private, that is-have you checked? Didn't get hit?

That’s right, this turmoil inevitably also affected relativity entertainment.

Probably the circle of relativity entertainment is far away from the circle of Charlie Sheen, who has never cooperated, and no one has been recruited yet.

Relativistic Entertainment is one of the large-scale companies in Hollywood, and it is inevitable to be influenced by the atmosphere in the circle.

Ronan will not be so stupid that company executives are not allowed to associate with Hollywood actors. This is obviously impossible.

In this circle, there are some common phenomena that it is impossible to care too much.

Besides, he can't do it himself.

Just like the affirmative movement, the power of an individual or a company cannot fight against the general social phenomenon. Even if you want to fight, you have to slowly try to do it, instead of denying everything.

That would only backfire.

But Ronan has emphasized at the company's internal meetings more than once that anything that anyone does must not harm the company's interests, and everything must be done on the basis of the company's interests.

For example, Robert Pattinson went to the house of female director Catherine Hardwick to audition. In the end, Robert Pattinson got the deciding factor for the role, or he did very well in the audition, which meets the role requirements. One of several male actors.

If the audition is not good, it is useless for Robert Pattinson to report to Catherine Hardwick’s every night.

The final step of the actor candidates for all the protagonists of the relativity entertainment crew is to have Ronan approve, and Ronan has a veto.

is only the crew of most small and medium-sized investment, Ronan has not cared much about the specific actors.

Because of these films, even if they claim to be an art film that requires great acting skills, the role determines the actors. Hollywood has never lacked actors.

As long as it wasn't for Natalie Portman to Jane Foster, Ronan would rarely interfere with the cast.

Charlie Sheen has completely ruined his career.

But Hollywood's various carnivals have not diminished.

However, Ronan did pay a lot of attention. For example, Jaina offered to bring the two actresses Li and Song to Los Angeles together, but he politely refused.

As for Will Smith’s carnival party celebrating blood test safety, Ronan would naturally not attend.

has not participated in a similar carnival before, nor will it in the future.

In fact, with the further growth of his psychological age and financial status, Ronan is also unknowingly undergoing some changes, but some changes are often difficult to detect by themselves.

Fortunately, these are basically positive changes.

Especially with the increase of his mental age, Ronan inevitably began to think about a problem, a problem that it is impossible for ordinary people to not think about it.

In the future, who will inherit his super assets of tens of billions or even hundreds of billions of dollars?

Can't come to a charity fundraiser, right?

Ronan never denies that he is quite selfish and not great at all.

Ronan couldn't do the things that legendary saints could do.

Many questions will inevitably appear in people's minds with the further growth of age and experience.

Ronan is a very normal person, it is inevitable.

However, Ronan will not lose his mind because of this. After all, as Ronan Anderson, he is only twenty-eight years old and he still has enough time to plan.

Charlie Sheen’s matter inevitably had a series of influences on him.

Before, Ronan had heard of many celebrities suffering from AIDS, but that was only heard, the distance was quite far away.

But Will Smith, as a good friend, and Charlie Sheen became like fellows because of Dennis Richards, and the example of only one step away from AIDS is in front of him. Ronan cannot ignore it.

The terrified Will Smith gave Ronan a lot of touches.

Will Smith, who held a crazy party to celebrate after safety, touched Ronan even more.

This is the way of life of Will Smith, Ronan cannot change it.

Ronan felt the deepest point from Charlie Sheen, in fact, it is not much different from what Heath Ledger and others brought him, and they are all the same-you can't die.

In October 2006, a special period of time that people in Hollywood can’t forget, big and small celebrities or bigwigs in the circle, all lived through the dangers of everyone, and dedicated to those private hospitals with high confidentiality. Inspection fee.

It is estimated that these high-end private hospitals located all over Los Angeles, the most hoped thing to see, is that Hollywood produces several Charlie Sheen every year.

This is better than the best advertising, the strictest confidentiality measures, can effectively drive their business.

Also this month, "Deadly Magic" directed by Christopher Nolan was pushed into the North American theaters by Embassy Pictures and officially released on the market.

This small and medium-sized production cost of 40 million US dollars, the premiere is not too big, basically it is the celebrities or celebrities in the circle who have worked with Christopher Nolan in the past.

Magic movies are not considered popular themes. Even if the director is Christopher Nolan, the actors include Christian Bale, Hugh Jackman and Scarlett Johansson. The Embassy Pictures’ forecast for the film’s prospects is not special. Optimistic, I deliberately avoided the summer and year-end holiday files that compete for records and chose to release it in October.

The scale of the premiere is not large. Because "The Dark Knight" has not yet been released, Christopher Nolan is still far from the first-line directors. Although he has a large number of iron fans through "The Hour of War", his influence is not comparable to the future. .

It is impossible for Embassy Pictures to invest too much publicity and distribution resources on magic movies.

This type of film, if you want to be profitable, you must plan carefully.

Fortunately, the quality of the film is indeed guaranteed. Although it is not outstanding among all the works of Christopher Nolan, it is above the average level.

Christopher Nolan has already proved his creative talent in film. His works are good at creating a sense of mystery and sense of confusion. It can be said that he is the kind of all-round director who takes the independent film industry and the mainstream Hollywood.

However, as long as those who follow Hollywood sort out the film history of the industry, it will happen that most directors and producers are actually trying to avoid mentioning everything related to magic in their works.

Because they think that the audience will have a preconceived notion: it is too easy to fake in a movie, even if it is really magic, others will not think so...

Movies and magic are not separated? Even today, this is an unconventional concept.

Christopher Nolan used "Fatal Magic" to combine the movie and the magic perfectly.

Perhaps, the views of "Entertainment Weekly" after the screening best reflect the characteristics of the film.

"This is not a mainstream movie, but it still brings a lot of fun to the audience."

"Fatal Magic" has a very good audience reputation. After the first day of the show, the IMDB audience scored an average of 8.e. The theater audience also had an "A" score.

These data show that the audience who enters the theater to watch the film generally recognizes "Fatal Magic".

But sometimes, not only the overwhelming reputation of film critics has nothing to do with the market response, and good audience reputation cannot determine the market trend of the film.

The film "Deadly Magic" not only has many characteristics of commercial films, but also a thought-provoking video work. It shows the audience various visual wonders, twists and turns, and the unexpected ending, which makes the audience feel During the whole process of watching the movie, I maintained a strong enthusiasm for watching.

But the inborn defects of the film's relatively niche subject matter cannot be compensated by a good audience's reputation.

The subject audience of this film may not be comparable to "Juneo".

Hollywood magic-themed movies are not extremely rare, but never have been.

If the director of "Fatal Magic" was not Christopher Nolan, if it were not for the great value of Christopher Nolan in the future, Ronan would never have invested in such a magic movie.

The most fortunate thing is that Christopher Nolan’s films have enough guarantees for the lower limit, not only word-of-mouth, but also box office.

The first weekend of "Fatal Magic" released in North America, it was limited to a niche subject, and there was no box office explosion. It was only in 3215 theaters that it got 23.89 million US dollars in box office.

The average box office of a single library is less than US$10,000.

This result can only be ranked second in the North American box office rankings that weekend The box office champion was re-elected by the Warner Bros. animated film "Happy Feet", which was released the previous weekend.

This animated feature film produced by Warner Bros. Animation Studios, after receiving US$45.68 million in the North American box office in the first week, another US$29.87 million in North America the following weekend, overwhelming the newly released "Fatal Magic" and achieved the North American box office. The two consecutive championships.

Even if the director is Christopher Nolan, it is impossible for a movie with a very niche subject to hit the box office.

Fortunately, "Fatal Magic" is well received by the audience. Even after three days of the first weekend, IMDB's audience rating is still as high as 8.6, which to a certain level also ensures that the film can have a relatively stable box office trend.

The three-day box office of "Fatal Magic" dropped by only 35 percent compared with the first weekend, and won 15.53 million US dollars.

In addition to the income of the previous four working days, the North American cumulative total of this film has reached 42.37 million US dollars, successfully crossing the production cost line.

But according to market data collected by various sources, Embassy Pictures predicts that the North American box office of "Fatal Magic" is unlikely to exceed $80 million, and there is no possibility of recovering the cost through the North American box office.

The business objective of this project is very clear, to recover costs as much as possible through the global box office, and to use offline multi-channel channels to generate profits.

"Fatal Magic" may be one of the least profitable movies of Relativity Entertainment this year.

Because the purpose of investment is the future.