Hollywood Hunter

The day after the premiere of "The Flash", the media's word of mouth was officially lifted.

The quality of this superhero bombshell itself is beyond doubt.

In addition, Warner Bros. Pictures not only invested a $50 million budget for "The Flash", but also spared no effort in public relations.

Driven by comprehensive factors, although it is a standard popcorn commercial, "The Flash" has received very positive reviews on various mainstream media platforms in North America.

According to statistics, according to the 10-point scoring calculation, the "Flash" media comprehensive score reached an astonishing 9.1 points.

Simon himself feels that with the film standard of this era and the quality of "The Flash", the 8-point film review score is very reasonable. The score of 9.1 points obviously has a factor in the operation of Warner's public relations.

Although American film critics advertise objectiveness and fairness, they are not influential.

Big studios usually don’t interfere too much with the media’s evaluation of a film, but they only occasionally make an effort on a key project such as “The Flash” related to some important layouts, and film critics are also very happy to sell one. face.

In the final analysis, film critics survive on Hollywood's entire film industry.

In the original Marvel movie universe series, almost all of them can get high scores. As long as they are discerning people, they can see that this is definitely not just the quality of the film itself.

In any case, the excellent media reputation of 9.1 points, the overwhelming publicity offensive, the number of more than 3,000 open screens, and the blessing of the well-known superhero IP blessing, the combination of time, place, and people made this superhero logically. The blockbuster at the box office was a blockbuster.

On December 20, just the first day of the painting, counting the box office of the early show and the midnight show, "The Flash" successfully won the box office of 16.16 million US dollars.

In comparison, the same production budget of 70 million US dollars, opened on December 13th, and just experienced the first week of the film directed by Spielberg "Captain Hawke", the cumulative box office for seven days, only 17.75 million US dollars.

"The Flash" is just the first day of the painting. The box office of 16.16 million US dollars is already comparable to the seven-day box office data of "Captain Hawke" in the first week.

Not to mention others, just this comparison is enough to show that "The Flash" is in full swing.

From December 20 to December 22, three days after the first weekend of the painting, "The Flash" quickly won a box office of $49.31 million. Such box office results only lag behind the previous two "Batman" movies. Also in Hollywood is invincible.

So much so that when "The Flash" came out at the box office on the first weekend, an article in "The Hollywood Reporter" couldn't help but sigh. Hollywood's current movies can be divided into two kinds at the box office, DC movie universe movie, and other movies.

Due to the strong impact of "The Flash", a lot of old films that should have rebounded at the box office during this Christmas period, the actual box office figures have declined to varying degrees.

Perhaps it is because the media comparison is too strong, and the reputation of "Captain Hawk" in the media and audience groups has further declined, which also caused the box office of the film to fall by 28% during the next weekend. The box office, 28% box office decline, has been very serious.

What's more, the starting point of the box office for "Captain Hawke" is already very low.

As a result, compared to the $49.31 million box office for the three days of "The Flash", Captain Hawk's box office is only $9.68 million at the next weekend.

In ten days, this bombshell, which had high hopes from Columbia Pictures, had accumulated only $27.23 million.

In the original timeline, when the reputation of Captain Hawk collapsed, the box office in North America could achieve more than 100 million, mainly because the film did not have other competing films in the same period, which happened to be Christmas. The lively "Captain Hawke" is indeed more suitable for family audiences to watch the movie,

Now, with the popularity of IP as much as Peter Pan's "The Flash", coupled with the disparity between the two films in terms of their own quality and media reputation, how the audience will choose is completely self-evident.

What's more, before "The Flash", the "Toy Story" released on Thanksgiving schedule, this 3D animated film also suitable for the family members of the family, still maintains good stamina.

Therefore, according to the box office figures accumulated by Captain Hawker over ten days and the subsequent box office trends under the impact of films such as "Flash", the media generally predicts that this blockbuster expects that the total box office in North America will likely stop at 60 million. US dollars.

This figure has fallen more than 40% from the box office of "Captain Hawke" in Simon's memory.

The box office in North America is $60 million. If it is another movie, it may be called a selling block.

However, for "Captain Hawke", the production cost of this film is as high as $70 million. Even if the total production and distribution budget does not reach the $120 million level of "Flash", it exceeds 1 One hundred million U.S. dollars.

In the original space and time, Captain Hawke, which had a box office of over 100 million in North America, was released through various channels. It only took a few years to recover the cost of the film.

Now, the box office is expected to plummet by 40% compared to the original time. Even through the subsequent overseas distribution and even the surroundings of video tapes, it will be very difficult for Captain Hawke to recover all the budget costs.

In fact, not only "Captain Hawke", the "Assassination of Kennedy" which was painted in the same period of "Captain Hawk" last week, and even a series of films released on the Thanksgiving schedule, the box office data has been significantly affected.

After all, the first weekend of $49.31 million, including the film's word of mouth, can almost guarantee the North American box office of "The Flash" $250 million.

$250 million is equivalent to cutting a very large piece of cake in this year-end ticket warehouse.

"The Flash" cuts too much, and what other films can get, naturally will be greatly reduced.

As the new week begins, Christmas Day is approaching.

However, the eyes of the entire world were attracted by Moscow's every move.

European turmoil lasted for more than two years, and with Gorbachev’s failed reforms, it reached its zenith in recent months.

Over the past two years, Eastern and Western Germany have achieved reunification, countries in Eastern Europe have announced their departure from the Warsaw Treaty, and some joined republics have declared their independence. The Soviet regime, which has been fighting the Western world for half a century, has entered the final moment.

Finally, Christmas Eve had just passed. On Christmas Day, Gorbachev, the supreme leader of the Soviet Union, announced his resignation from all personal posts. All political, economic, and military assets of the Soviet Union were inherited by Russia.

The next day, after the last Supreme Soviet Conference, the Federal Republic of Soviets officially declared its dissolution.

In the overwhelming coverage of media around the world, Simon just watched this great change with a cold eye.

The Russians seem to have the freedom they want.

It's just that they don't know that what they are about to usher in is a colder winter.

Gorbachev was generally a very enlightened leader. However, Yeltsin, who inherited most of his power, was only an ambitionist.The wealthy family accumulated in the Soviet era will be completely squandered by Yeltsin in the next ten years.

Simon privately thought about the way out of the Soviet Union, and finally got a very pessimistic result.

This is basically a knot.

In any case, during the course of the great changes in the system, ordinary Russian people will have a hard time escaping such a catastrophe like war.However, if no change is made, the ailing Soviet Union will continue to exist, and the trend will still be the abyss.

The rise and fall of the people will suffer.

Then Simon also discovered again how lucky the United States is.

They have George Washington, they have the power to divide and conquer, and they have a bottom-up power structure. Two hundred years after the founding of the country, except for the Civil War, the country has never experienced too much disaster. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, this country will become this planet. The only superpower.

For many, many years to come, as the only superpower, only the United States will bully others.

The world is cheering when the era of peace finally comes, but Simon knows that peace will always be temporary.

War, war has never changed.

The selfishness and aggression rooted in the depths of all biological genes on this planet are destined to end too many things in the end as a tragedy.

Of course, this world will not change because of Simon’s pessimism.

When various countries in the world have planned how to deal with the post-Soviet world pattern, the entire Westeros system has also begun to discuss the next expansion plan.

After the merger of the MCA, Simon has already launched a plan to explore emerging markets within the Daenerys Entertainment Group.

With the disintegration of the Soviet Union and the further opening of the Eastern European market, it will be the focus of Daenerys' next operation.

In addition, Westeros is also planning to expand the entire Eastern Europe as a whole. Cersei Capital has been looking for a fund to invest exclusively in Eastern European countries.

Even for the Johnston family in Australia, Anthony Johnston recently planned to fly to Moscow.

After all, Russia is a well-known resource country.

Since the family accumulated in the Soviet era was destined to be squandered by Yeltsin, Simon did not mind sharing a slice of it, so he began to consider some plans while continuing to accompany Janet's maternity leave.

On the other hand, the change in the world pattern has not affected the Christmas season in North America.

After the $49.31 million box office at the first weekend, the box office for the first seven days of "The Flash" eventually reached $72.86 million. Not only is it the single-week box office champion without suspense, it also left the follow-up film of the weekly box office list far behind. .

This week from December 20 to December 26, the second place on the list is neither "Captain Hawk" painted last week, nor "Assassination" by Oliver Stone and Kevin Costner. "Kennedy", but the Daenerys entertainment 3D animated movie "Toy Story" released on Thanksgiving schedule.

Because of Christmas, under the power of "The Flash", "Toy Story" did not achieve a box office decline, but it also maintained a weak box office decline of only 7%, and received another 16.71 million US dollars.

Five weeks after its release, the cumulative box office of this 3D animated film reached $14.69 million.

Considering that the one-week box office remains at a high of 16.71 million US dollars, and the long-term long-term properties of animated movies, "Toy Story" will be able to hit the $200 million mark very smoothly in the next screening. Such box office results are better than The original version of the 1995 version of Toy Story was $190 million.

However, considering the resources that Daenerys Entertainment has invested in this project, the $200 million box office also seems logical.

In fact, if it is not the impact of "Flash", this version of "Toy Story", the box office should be higher.

Although "Toy Story" lags behind the first place "The Flash" by more than 50 million US dollars, but compared with "Captain Hawke" and "Assassination of Kennedy" is still too lucky.

In the second week of painting, the overall box office of "Captain Hawk" fell by 26%, collecting another 12.98 million US dollars.

Two weeks after its release, this blockbuster with an investment of US$70 million had a cumulative box office of only US$30.53 million, and the loss of the project was almost a foregone conclusion.

Counting the $65 million "Ultimate Condor" starring Bruce Willis in the summer, the two key projects operated by Columbia Pictures this year all ended in a very bleak situation.

The Japanese economy continues to decline. With the huge losses of two consecutive films, the industry has even reported that Sony intends to withdraw from Hollywood.

Although Sony immediately clarified that this kind of argument is just a rumor, but since the acquisition of Columbia Pictures, it has paid several large amounts of'tuition fees' in a row, and Sony has obviously been overwhelmed. For the two professional managers of Columbia Pictures, Peter · Cooper and John Peters also questioned.

In addition, after sorting out some good things in the media, it was unexpectedly found that Columbia Pictures has returned the best films in recent years. It is precisely the "Red Pink Alliance" and "Dangerous Ten Days" that were continuously cooperated with Daenerys Entertainment last year. the film.

Although it is necessary to share the benefits with Daenerys Entertainment, the production costs of the two films last year add up, and they are not as high as any of the two blockbusters this year.

However, in either of these two films, the box office scores are better than this year's "Ultimate Condor" and "Captain Hawke" two well-known "blockbuster".

Because of this report, the media once again focused on Daenerys Entertainment, who became a Hollywood giant in just a few years.

It is therefore also found that in recent years, the closer the company cooperates with Daenerys Entertainment, the more benefits it will receive.

Simon Westeros' first "Roller Run", directly made Orion out of bankruptcy.

Several films in collaboration with Fox have also made this big studio profitable, and the two series "Butterfly Effect" and "Death Is Coming" are both still ongoing.

Subsequently, each of the ten film projects brought great benefits to the partners.

Immediately after, it was the DC Film Universe Project.

If it were not for the rise of the DC movie universe that brought Time Warner a lot of revenue, and even greatly increased Time Warner’s stock price, this large media group that just merged last year and wants to survive the economic downturn after the collapse of the US bond market, absolutely not Would seem too easy.

The intense power struggle within Time Warner is almost well known.

If it wasn’t all for the cooperation between Time Warner and Daenerys in the DC movie universe and various other projects, Steve Rose, who had been accused of the original merger and subsequent corporate difficulties, was within the Time Warner Group. The status of will never appear to be too firm.

Because of this trend of public opinion, even Peter Cooper and John Peters, who may face the pressure of Sony and may not be able to maintain their status, privately contacted Amy Pascal again to test whether the two sides have the opportunity to continue cooperation.