Hollywood Hunter

The "Crying Game" opened on September 25, with 37 screens in the first week and a box office of $1.26 million; 86 screens in the next week and a box office of $2.67 million; in the third and fourth weeks, the screens were 155 and 173 respectively Block, the box office reached USD 4.03 million and USD 3.97 million in sequence.

As of October 22, the "Crying Game" was released for four weeks, and the cumulative box office has reached 11.93 million US dollars, which is roughly four times the production cost of 3 million US dollars.

On October 23rd, the fifth week of the release, the scale of the screening of "Crying Game" finally appeared for the first time and reached 535 pieces.

Gaomen Pictures did not rush to achieve success because of the excellent box office performance of this low-cost partial movie, and patiently controlled the film's release rhythm.

The last week of October passed in a flash.

From October 23 to October 29, the screen size of "Crying Game" increased to more than 500 pieces, and the single-week pavilion still reached 16,000 US dollars, and continued to receive 8.61 million US dollars.

At the same time, the cumulative box office of the film also reached 20.54 million US dollars.

The North American media has therefore increasingly noticed this non-mainstream, low-cost movie, and the popularity of "Crying Game" has further increased.

Gaomen Pictures’ promotional methods, such as the radial distribution model, hype rating conflicts, etc., can actually be imitated. Other Hollywood studios have also stolen from the Daenerys Entertainment team in recent years. Those who are not good at advertising marketing, however, the result is that Daenerys Entertainment still excels in the Hollywood movie business.

Whether it is a mainstream commercial movie or a low-cost literary film, the commercial performance is increasingly leaving competitors behind.

This "Crying Game" once again gave many people a feeling of powerlessness.

After carefully studying the various stages of the film from project to release, Hollywood studio executives also discovered one thing again.

After all, it was Simon Westero.

The script of "Crying Game" was born ten years ago, and has been preparing for the bumpy years until it was fancy by Simon Westeros. It was the green light all the way, and finally the grand occasion at this time appeared.

Look at the others, the DC movie universe led by Daenerys Entertainment, the Pixar studio that has rapidly risen with a 3D animation movie, etc., all traced back to the source are Simon Westeros.

Therefore, the success of "Crying Game", or the success of the entire Daenerys Entertainment, there is simply no way to imitate, because it is impossible for other studios to appear another Simon who can pick out the best-selling movies in countless project scripts. · Westeros.

"Crying Game" gradually attracted strong industry attention. On October 30th, after a five-month screening, Daenerys Entertainment's summer movie DC movie universe bombshell "Wonder Woman" was also in "Midnight" The last day before the release of the "Bell Bell" was officially painted across the board. The total box office of the film in North America was finally $371 million, which was only $20 million away from the $373 million in Batman: The Dark Knight.

Overseas, as of the end of October, the cumulative overseas box office of Wonder Woman also reached US$351 million, and the global box office also reached US$724 million

Considering that many ticket warehouse countries are still in the release stage, the film still has a box office potential of about 150 million US dollars, and the global box office is expected to be about 870 million US dollars.

A total investment of US$160 million in production and publicity, and a global box office of US$870 million.

Only the box office item has brought huge profits to Daenerys Entertainment and Time Warner. However, the biggest profit entry of Wonder Woman is the sales of peripheral products.

As of the end of October, the related products around Wonder Woman, excluding the original sound recordings that had sold 7.3 million copies, the total amount of peripheral income has reached 1.3 billion US dollars.

According to the surrounding products, all the costs of development, production, channels and even taxes are about 15% of the net profit.

In comparison, Wonder Woman’s estimated total box office of US$870 million can only bring in pre-tax profits of about US$150 million after the production and distribution costs are excluded.

Even if Hollywood studios have all kinds of tax avoidance methods to reduce the tax rate that the movie box office needs to bear as much as possible, the box office entry of "Wonder Woman" can not be compared with the profits generated by the surrounding sales.

Moreover, the box office of "Wonder Woman" has basically been determined, but with the arrival of the peak sales season at the end of the year, there will be another wave of fringe sales around the film.

It is estimated that in the next one to two years, the total sales of related peripheral products of this superhero movie will exceed USD 2 billion, and the net profit scale will reach USD 300 million.

$300 million is already the annual total net profit of a large Hollywood studio in the ordinary year.

However, this is just a peripheral sales entry for a superhero movie in the DC movie universe.

On the other hand, several important movies related to Daenerys Entertainment in the summer, "Peach Trade", "Killing Moment" and "The Last Mohigan" were also painted before "Wonder Woman".

In the end, of the three films, only North American box office of "Moment of Kill" reached 100 million, and the final number was 113 million US dollars.

Immediately afterwards, the North American box office of "Peach Deal" was 93.11 million US dollars, which is still about 7 million US dollars away from breaking the 100 million."The Last Mohigan" was the most unsatisfactory at the box office among the three, and the final box office in North America was only $87.92 million.

However, although the North American box office of "Moment of Kill" is the highest, the overseas box office lags behind the "Peach Deal" because of the localization of judicial justice and ethnic issues discussed in the film. It is estimated that the overseas box office is only about 70 million US dollars.

"Peach Trade" relies on the obvious joining of Robert Redford and Valerie Gallino. It is expected that the total overseas box office will exceed North America, reaching about 130 million US dollars.

The overseas box office of "The Last Mohigan" is still at the bottom. From the perspective of the market performance of the box office that has been released, after the completion of the entire overseas issuance cycle, the total overseas box office is expected to be only about 50 million US dollars.

Of course, the three films were among the best at the box office performance of all North American films in 1992.

At least, as of the end of October, the three films are temporarily within the top ten of the North American box office annual total list.

On October 30th, in the atmosphere that the US presidential election polling day was approaching, the Halloween period in North America was officially opened.

"Midnight Bell" produced by New World Pictures under Daenerys Entertainment opened on October 30 with a screen size of 2,356 screens, and a horror thriller produced by Samsung Pictures under Columbia Pictures "Following the Legend of Life", with a screen size of 1,732.

The story of "Midnight Bell" does not need to be repeated. The story of "Fate of Life" is also a story similar to the killing of evil spirits.

The story begins in the era when the American Civil War has just ended. The racial problems are still entrenched. A black guy fell in love with the white daughter of the slave owner. The romance was discovered. The black guy was covered with honey by the white man. After the death of the black guy, the soul of the black guy was turned into a ghost and hidden in the mirror. As long as someone repeatedly called the name of the "sugar man" five times in the mirror, the evil spirit would be summoned.

However, although the same evil spirits kill people.But unlike the Japanese horror of "Midnight Bell", "Fate of Life" is actually imitating the new line of "Meng Gui Street".

'Sweet Man' has many similarities with Freddie in the "Meng Gui Street" series from modeling to murder.

After years of repeated squeezing, the popularity of the "Menggui Street" series has long been much worse than before. At this time, a horror movie that follows the "Menggui Street" is naturally difficult to cause too many novelties for the audience.

Therefore, after the release, the two films quickly opened the gap both in word of mouth and popularity.

"Sweet Man" has a media score of only 4.6, which is completely unsuccessful.

It is also a evil spirit killing, but as a Japanese horror film that is completely different from the traditional Hollywood horror film style, "Midnight Bell" has been unanimously recognized by the media and the public, and the media score is almost one of "Sugarman" Times, reaching a very good 8.7 points.

The wedding of David Johnston and Leslie Whitaker is scheduled for November 21.

The Simons will definitely have to rush to Australia when the time comes, and then plan to take a vacation of more than a month, intending to stay in Australia until after the New Year.

In order to complete more work before the end of the year's holiday, Simon did not have a rest this weekend.

The time is already November 1, Sunday.

"Superman" has already been successful in September, and the post-production stage has already begun.

A series of key projects for Daenerys Entertainment next year are advancing with this.

Although it was still the end of 1992, Daenerys Entertainment's 1993 film list was basically confirmed.

In 1993, the Easter period, "Fighting Stars 2".

In the summer, "Superman", "Sleepless in Seattle", "Sugar Trap", "Gange Assassination Order".

Among them, "Superman" is produced solely by Daenerys Entertainment and distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures.

Sleepless in Seattle is a collaborative project with Pixar.

"Gange Assassination Order" is a cooperative project with Warner Bros. and the last of four movie plans.

"Sugar Coat Trap" is a movie released by Daenerys Entertainment alone.

Then.

Halloween schedule, "Seven Deadly Sins".

Thanksgiving schedule, 3D version of the animated movie "The Lion King", Steven Spielberg's "Schindler's List".

"Mission Impossible" in collaboration with Paramount during the Christmas period.

In order to avoid internal competition, Simon adjusted the original version of Forrest Gump, which was originally scheduled to be released at the end of 1993, to the summer of 1994.

The above list is only the key film of 1993. Others such as "In the Name of Father" starring Daniel Day Lewis, the African Savannah documentary that was produced because of the success of the Antarctic documentary last year, etc. are not counted in Within key projects.

Under Daenerys Entertainment, Daenerys Pictures, New World Pictures and Gaomen Pictures, the total number of movies discovered by other plans will still reach about 40.

Malibu, Daenerys Studios.

Time came to noon.

In the exclusive restaurant for senior executives of the Studio, Simon is having lunch with his father and daughter who came to North America with him last time. Next to him is Danny Morris, President of New World Pictures, and Jennifer, a female assistant. Accompany.

Dario Aquito's "Breeze" is a classic horror film.

Over the years, Archido has continued to cooperate with Hollywood. This time, the two sides will collaborate on a crime thriller called "Trauma", which tells the story of a pair of young people looking for and fighting a serial murderer.

Dario Akito will personally act as a director and win the position of the heroine for her daughter Aisha Akido.

Aisha Aquito is 17 years old this year, but because of her family of films, she has been playing in her father's films without interruption since she was 10 years old, and has also appeared in the heroines of several Italian films, so her acting skills are sufficient.Dario Aquito's "Trauma" is largely to push her daughter into Hollywood.

Although the Italian film industry is relatively prosperous in Europe, compared with Hollywood, it can only be regarded as a small pond after all.

With the global rise of Hollywood, this small pond has a tendency to dry up more and more.

Therefore, marching into Hollywood is also the dream of many Italian filmmakers.

Simon has already seen the "Trauma" script, although it is not as good as the "Blade of the Wind", but it is also above the standard.Moreover, the expected production cost of the film is only 5 million US dollars. For New World Entertainment at this time, it was completely low-cost production, and this project also received a green light.

Of course, because it is not a key project that Simon personally finalized, the schedule of "Trauma" is temporarily uncertain.

The film is scheduled to start shooting early next year. The entire cycle from shooting to completion is about five months, and it is completely completed in the first half of 1993.

According to the filming effect in the future, if it is average, the schedule will probably be set in September or October next year. If it is poor, it will be lost in January and February of 1994. If it is good enough, it will be further adjusted to 1994 Easter.

Although the films of several brands of Daenerys Entertainment have various production scale grade types, for Simon, he will not underestimate any movie, all films of the three brands, although there are many executives Sovereignty, but ultimately need his approval.

Simon has also instilled a kind of movie into the company team, that is, the'products' produced by Daenerys Entertainment. These products are not of a genre distinction. All people need to do is try to make these products as good as possible. And, with appropriate post-announcement strategy, these products can get the most business psychology.

Not only is this idea instilled, Simon has also led by example.

This is the case with Trauma at this time.

Simon has personally watched the script, personally communicated with the main creator Dario Archido, and personally paid attention to the budget and main information of the film. Although he will not participate in the specific production of the film because of limited energy, it will be the first time in the future. Watch the sample effect and the subsequent announcement plan.

Through this work style, Simon basically knows every project under the company.

At the same time, because of Simon’s prophetic advantage, it can also largely ensure that Daenerys Entertainment gets as many of the best-selling movies in Simon’s memory as possible, and in this way, the overall commercial performance of the produced film far exceeds that of other industries. movie company.