Hollywood Hunter

In Simon's view, the summer season in 1987 had a certain meaning of "watershed" in Hollywood movie production and distribution mode.

Beginning in mid-May, "Esda" starring Dustin Hoffman, "Beverly Detective 2" starring Eddie Murphy, "Blood Warrior" starring Arnold Schwarzenegger Films such as "East Town Witch" starring Jack Nicholson were released in sequence.

Among them, "Esta" and "Beverly Detective 2" are the most typical representatives of this watershed.

"Esta" budget cost up to 55 million US dollars, the first week of 5.7 million US dollars at the box office, destined to produce Columbia Pictures will have no money.However, this movie heralded the official arrival of the era of Hollywood's big budget.

As the sequel to the 1984 North American box office champion, the production cost of "Beverly Detective 2" is also as high as $28 million.However, the more representative point of this film is that it has a screen size of 2,326 pieces.

2,326 open screens are not too many for the large-scale films that later open three or four thousand screens, but in this era when most of the films can only get around 1,000 open screens, Detective Beverly 2 "The opening scale of the painting is absolutely unprecedented.

Paramount Pictures did not choose the traditional Friday date, but decided on Wednesday, May 20.

Through the intensive propaganda offensive in the early stage, only on the Wednesday and Thursday of the opening of the painting, "Beverly Detective 2" received a box office of US$7.61 million, and directly received only US$5.7 million in "Esta" for the entire week. Kicked to the second place in the single-week box office list.

The following week, Detective Beverly 2 received another $40.03 million, and the box office totaled $47.64 million in nine days.

Before 1987, such a violent box office momentum was completely attainable only by the national-level "Star Wars" series.

In comparison, the box office champion "Zhuang Zhi Ling Yun" in 1986 had a box office of only 12.21 million US dollars in the first week. The box office champion "Return to the Future" in 1985 had the same Wednesday box office with a total of 22.22 million US dollars at the 9-day box office.

At the same time, the box office data of "Beverly Detective 2" fell sharply by 40% in the following week after the box office of US$47.64 million was arrogant, falling far more than the long-term trend of 10% to 20% of popular movies.

Nevertheless, "Beverly Detective 2" is also destined to be another super-selling work.

While many film companies are studying the distribution strategy of Paramount Pictures, Simon understands that outside of the era of big budgets, Hollywood movies have gained popularity through early large-scale publicity, and then rolled out thousands of screens at once for recycling in a short period of time. The era of full-scale box office is also coming.

On Simon's side, the layout of stock index futures has been completed, and "Death Is Coming" produced by Daenerys Pictures was officially launched on May 18.

The main location of "The Grim Reaper" is in Queens, New York. Simon flew to New York personally after the film began, and stayed in the crew for three days before returning to Los Angeles again.

In the ensuing time, Simon was basically busy with the casting of "Pulp Fiction", Kan Jing and the rehearsal of actors.

The filming cycle of "The Grim Reaper" is 8 weeks. If all goes well, the film will be killed around July 10.The opening of "Pulp Fiction" was scheduled on July 13, and the shooting cycle in the initial plan was 10 weeks.

at the same time.

Due to a series of new films in the summer, the box office trends of "Rola Run" and "Butterfly Effect" have been significantly affected.

However, on June 15, the 18th week of the release, "Roller Run" was credited with a box office of US$1.36 million over the three days of the weekend, and the cumulative box office officially exceeded the US$200 million mark, reaching US$20.07 million.

Immediately.

From June 19 to June 25, in the 12th week of "Butterfly Effect", the box office received another $1.82 million, and the cumulative box office also exceeded the $100 million mark, reaching $10.87 million.

Although everyone knows the box office potential of "Rola Run" and "Butterfly Effect", when the two films really broke through the expected box office figures, the entire North American media still boiled again.

For a time, countless news about Simon was spread on various newspapers and media.

Catherine's "Blood Corpse Night" happens to be released on June 19.

Due to Simon's previous participation, under the influence of this media heat, "Blood Corpse Night" has become the most direct beneficiary.

The film opened with 513 screens in the first week, and after a heated discussion in the media, only three days on the first weekend, "Blood Corpse Night" earned US$7.86 million at the box office, with an average of more than US$15,000 in a single hall, which fully reached the level of hot blockbuster .

Simon and Janet originally planned to hold some parties in March and April to thank those who had helped Simon this year.

Taking advantage of this opportunity at the moment, the two of them raised the matter again.

Saturday, June 27.

In Palisades's mansion, a grand party was officially held on this day.

A terrible day, I really don't want to make a change and pass a short chapter.