Hollywood Hunter

Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, Las Vegas, Chicago, Miami, Philadelphia, New York, Boston.

From west to east, from north to south.

Hold premieres, interact with movie fans, participate in TV shows, accept interviews with local newspapers...

In just half a month, he traveled to nine cities. When the team finished recording a local TV station in Boston, and finally announced the end of this carpet marketing journey, Courtney Cox felt like he was going to disperse.

Some of them were paralyzed on the big bed of the hotel in Boston, Cambridge, and couldn't help but think of a guy.

In "Scream", he only got a newcomer price of $200,000, but he was called like a first-line actress with a pay of 2 million. What is even more abominable is that he clearly told himself that this movie is not It will make her red and purple, but it may affect her future career.

but.

Bastard, did you give me other options?

Tired with a grudge, he fell asleep unconsciously.When I was awakened by the knock on the door, the sky outside was completely dark.

Today is October 28, the first day of "Scream".

Now that I have done everything I can do, I was a little bit arrogant, how about the box office, and what to do with myself.But at this time I found myself still wondering if this movie would be welcomed.

It is rumored that the script of the movie was conceived by the guy himself, but it was not signed, saying that he did not want to cause controversy like Instinct.This gossip has been hot in the media recently, and I stumbled upon the fact that Daenerys Entertainment deliberately helped, but never gave an accurate answer.

She knew the truth.

Indeed, he personally conceived. He met him at a marketing meeting before the start of this promotional journey. When asked about the joke, he personally admitted.

So there is a little sense of superiority.

She cheered up, went out to eat with everyone, and then a group of people who had been acquainted recently suggested to go to see a movie of her own, and she readily agreed.

Everyone rushed to an AMC theater on the Charles River. Anyway, it was a small star. Naturally, some staff had helped them buy movie tickets in advance.However, everyone did not seem too anxious. After entering the theater hall, a group of six people were curious to observe the surroundings. It was during the golden viewing period. The ticket office had already queued up, and "Scream" was posted everywhere in the hall. The poster, from this point we can see, Daenerys Entertainment has completely made Xuanfa the ultimate.

Because it was not too disguised, it was quickly recognized by the men and women in the hall. A group of people first stepped forward to sign, greet, purely curious, President Lin Lin.It is customary to squeeze out the friendly smiles that have been practiced during this time and interact with the audience, so that after nearly ten minutes, everyone can enter the theater.

This is a screening room with only about 100 people in it. Several people consciously chose the back row and waited patiently. After the movie started, the screening room was crowded and there were almost no vacancies.

Finally let down completely.

The movie was performed by myself and others. Naturally, I didn’t pay much attention to the plot, and it took almost two hours unconsciously. Instead, I heard the surrounding audience constantly surprised and screamed and sighed. The key story at the end On the other hand, there was a guy with a loud voice who couldn't help but shouted'Run, stupid', which caused a lot of people to blame.

It is inevitable to be stopped again after leaving the opening auditorium.

The cinema manager who was very good at seizing the opportunity also specially prepared a batch of posters for everyone to sign and send to the audience on the spot. So busy for half an hour, the team took a commercial car to pick up the people, and the crowd squeezed into the spacious general business car ,

The guy who led the team's publicity, Mark Belford, heard that he personally promoted into the "Scream" to announce the team at a meeting. It was indeed a very smart and hardworking guy who used to catch everything. Opportunity to promote the film, Robert Rem also valued it very much.

But it doesn't matter.

Returning to the hotel, everyone gathered in a bar downstairs for a while, and late at night, they each returned to rest, while looking forward to the box office data of the film.

It will definitely be good.

Because of the time difference, it is already early in the morning on the east coast and less than nine o'clock in the evening on the west coast.

The market continued to slump for more than a month, and there are too many people in Los Angeles paying attention to "Scream".For the marketing offensive of Daenerys Entertainment like the promotion of blockbuster movies, some people naturally disagree, thinking that this is a very unwise move, but when the cinema side reported another queuing phenomenon after the end of the summer file, The mood of many people began to get complicated.

A mansion on the mountainside of Beverly Hills.

Terry Semel, CEO of Warner Bros. Pictures, did not rest well all night.

Because of the lack of films for this Halloween period, other major Hollywood movie companies have no choice but to give up. Only a Warner Bros. "Dragon Detective" and "Scream" are released at the same time.

"Dragon Detective" is a female derivative of Warner's best-selling series "Gold Medal", starring Hollywood beauty Rebecca De Mone.

In 1984, the first part of the "Golden Police Academy" achieved US$81 million at the North American box office at a production cost of US$4.5 million, ranking sixth in the list of the year. In recent years, Warner has continued to develop with a frequency of one per year. The sequel to the "Gold Medal Academy".

However, due to the strike of the screenwriter, the quality of "Wulong Secret Agent" was seriously affected. During the internal audition, many executives looked at the scattered and disorderly plot, and basically had little expectations.Only 850 screens were arranged for this release.You know, at the beginning of the year, "Gold Medal Police Academy 5", although the final box office score was not satisfactory, but it got 1700 open screen.

In recent years, the theater ticketing system has been updated, and now it is possible to quickly calculate the approximate single-day box office data relatively accurately.

Waking up in the morning, without looking at the box office data fax for the first time, Terry Semel completely gave up the last trace of expectations.He is very clear that if there is good news, the company will send the data over as soon as possible, and the executives of the publicity department may also call in person.

Waiting until eight o'clock, the fax machine finally sent a page of data.

Terry Semel, who had just taken back today's newspaper from outside, took a quick glance at that page of data and even smiled bitterly on his face.The box office of "Scream" is higher than expected, and the data of "Wool Detective" is lower than expected.

The single-day box office rough report only counted the top ten movie data.

On the first day of the painting, the box office of "Scream" with 1,755 screens was a must-have at the box office, and preliminary statistics were about $4.5 million on the first day of the box office.

The second-ranked "Moonlight Panic 4" is roughly the same size as the 1,692 screens. The first day of the second week of the screening was $1.5 million, only one-third of "Scream".

Paramount's "Robotic Pear Blossom", Fox's "Alien Empire", Universal's "Fog Lock" and Columbia's "Headlines" have all been released for several weeks, followed by old films.

Although it is a new film, "Wolong Secret Agent" was directly dropped to the seventh place in the single-day list. This movie with the same $10 million production cost as "Scream" has a poor box office of only 350,000 on the first day. The dollar is less than one-tenth of the box office at the first day of Scream.

Putting down the box office report in hand, Terry Semel sat down on the living room sofa and began to read today's newspaper.

Although the "Los Angeles Times", "Variety", "Hollywood Reporter" and so on, although not all positive reviews, there are large and large reviews of "Scream" in every newspaper. Oolong Secret Agent, even only two professional magazines, "Variety" and "Hollywood Reporter", barely mentioned it.

After working in Hollywood for so many years, Terry Semel understands the truth very well, and it is worse than one-sided bad reviews, that is, no one commented at all."Wool Detective" encountered this worst situation.

The first day of $350,000, less than one-tenth of the box office data of "Scream", obviously means a very low attendance. The theater will definitely withdraw the movie quickly after the two-week screening contract ends , The total box office may be only 3 million US dollars, still less than the first day of "Scream".

By comparison, the $4.5 million box office was obtained on the first day of the painting. "Scream" will obviously come out of a very beautiful long line.

Terry Semel suddenly thought of a point of view formed in the media during the release of "Instinct", starting with "When Harry Meets Sally", and then "Pulp Fiction" and "Instinct" by Daenerys Entertainment The movies have been undergoing a 100 million box office relay. The first three movies have successfully completed their goals. Now, "Scream" is likely to continue the relay road of Daenerys.

The fourth box office movie that broke 100 million.

Prior to this, Hollywood did not necessarily have four movies with a box office that exceeded 100 million a year. Now, a small company that has just risen less than two years ago has achieved this goal. It is unbelievable.

Putting down the newspaper in his hand, Terry Semel hesitated for a moment, but still picked up the phone to dial the number of Simon's residence.

Warner now has a two-film collaboration with Daenerys Entertainment. At least on the surface, it's okay to call and congratulate, it won't cost much.

Malibu.

Although it was Saturday, Simon still got up early, and received the box office data report sent by the company for the first time.On the first day, $4.5 million, which exceeded expectations, completely relaxed.Janet had returned from France long ago and was habitually bedridden, so she began to prepare breakfast for the two. Although she occasionally complained half-jokingly, in fact, this was probably the only thing he needed to do at home.

More than seven o'clock, ready for breakfast, Simon came to the bedroom.

The woman was still asleep, Simon looked at him a few times, and decided to wake her up later.He picked up a folder at the head of the bed and walked out of the bedroom again.October is the month when the listed company's new quarterly financial report is released. In the folder are several financial reports of the listed companies held by Westeros and the previous quarter's financial reports of Westeros itself.

Listed companies in North America generally pay dividends quarterly.

According to preliminary statistics, in the third quarter of the past, Westero's total cash or equity dividends have been converted to approximately US$26.3 million. Based on this figure, it is estimated that various types of dividends of approximately US$100 million will be available throughout the year.Relative to the total value of Westeros' stocks, this number is not high, it is only equivalent to 5% annual profit, and it is not as good as some long-term bonds.

However, affected by the generally better-than-expected quarterly financial report, the stock prices of technology stocks held by Westeros have generally risen. The total value of the statistics in the past week has reached 1.93 billion U.S. dollars, compared to the time when Forbes announced the rich list in August. The total value of $1.8 billion has risen again by $130 million.

Obviously, the appreciation of stock prices is what most investors value most.

For half a month since returning from France, Janet has been helping Simon to read these financial reports. Although he always has a casual look, Simon knows that women are definitely more devoted than anyone else around her. She helps her stare. Simon did not worry at all that there would be a difference.

As Janet, he personally explained to Simon Westeros’ quarterly financial report until midnight.

Near eight o'clock, Simon continuously received some congratulatory calls from Amy Pascal, Terry Semel and others at the box office, and then came to the bedroom again to call Janet to get up.

Work on the weekend.

With the first-day box office data, a lot of other information related to the film is quickly summarized.

Overall, the criticism of "Scream" is not very good, barely exceeding 7 points, but it is obvious that the public popularity of this film is far more than all other films in the same period.Moreover, Daenerys Entertainment's highly targeted advertising strategy has always locked the eyes of the audience on the teenagers. This part of the people does not care too much about media word of mouth, but it is more inclined to pass word of mouth from classmates and friends around.

"Scream" is unconsciously forming a movie watching boom among the youth group, and the three days of the weekend pass quickly.

Monday, October 31.

The box office data just prepared for the past weekend was released.

As half of the box office reported on the first day, "Scream" still has no suspense. Yaoyao leads all other films in the same period, and finally reached $13.79 million at the box office on the first three days of the weekend.Only this first weekend box office score has surpassed the total box office in North America for most other films released in October.

Moreover, this kind of start, as long as the box office decline is not too serious, this is obviously another North American box office movie that broke the billion-level.Seeing this data, whether it is Hollywood internal or North American media, there is a faint sense of numbness.

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