Hollywood Hunter

The second day of the Victoria's Secret TV show, November 13th, the Thanksgiving schedule opened.

Columbia Pictures’ production cost of $40 million, "Four Hundred Years of Fright," became the first large-scale film to be drawn on Thanksgiving, with 2,491 screens.

Gaomen Pictures' "Wen Xiang Zhi Xuan Zhi" launched a small-scale screening on the same day.

As the key prize-winning film of this year's high-end film industry, the number of screens for the opening of "Wen Xiang Zhi Xian Zhi Women" is only 20.

In addition to the two key films, there were several films released during the same period, such as Godwin Pictures’ Red Lips Case and Orion Pictures’ “Let’s Sorrow Before Sunrise”, all of which opened within 300 blocks. , Basically exists in the cannon fodder of Thanksgiving schedule.

On the other hand, Daenerys Entertainment's "Midnight Bell" released on the Halloween schedule, following the opening of $28.79 million in the first week of October 30 to November 5, as word of mouth and popularity continued to ferment, November 6 The box office fell only a very weak 13% in the following week from November to November 12, and another $25.03 million was credited.

In just two weeks, the cumulative box office of this Japanese horror novel adaptation film has reached 53.82 million US dollars.

Considering that the following is the popular Thanksgiving schedule, "Midnight Bell" has no other films of the same type to compete with during this period. The New World Films release team predicts that the total box office of this Japanese horror film is expected to be It is expected to reach more than 150 million US dollars.

The North American box office of more than 150 million US dollars is enough to ensure that "Midnight Bell" firmly ranks in the top ten of the 1992 North American movie box office list.

In order to save costs, Nicole Kidman's film remuneration was not too high for the filming of "Midnight Bell", plus tax rebate. The final production budget of the film was only 13 million US dollars.

With a production cost of 13 million US dollars, the North American box office is expected to be more than 150 million US dollars, and the return rate of the box office cost is more than 10 times, which makes the whole Hollywood feel jealous.

Moreover, this is only a box office income in North America.

When the film is a big success in North America, the subsequent overseas box office, video and television broadcast income will also increase.

The projected total profit for the entire project over the next few years will easily exceed all of Hollywood’s blockbuster except the DC Film Universe project.

When Simon bought the adaptation rights of "Midnight Bell", Hollywood began to follow suit to snap up the copyright of Japanese horror novels.With the success of "Midnight Bell", there are many Japanese horror film projects in Hollywood.

All in all, the key to the success of "Midnight Bell" is, in the final analysis, a brand new horror film style, a horror film mode that is very different from the traditional Western screaming plasma murderer.

This model is based on the Eastern spirits, ghosts and evil spirits, but it does not necessarily have to be based on Eastern horror stories.

The haunting incidents in the West are actually also very rich.

Therefore, when other studios tried to follow the "Midnight Bell", Simon asked New World Pictures President Danny Morris to find related materials that occurred in North America.

As of the release of "Midnight Bell", the cumulative box office of "Crying Game", which began on September 25, reached US$20.54 million.

In the two weeks from October 30th to November 12th, "Crying Game" continued to accumulate US$7.22 million and US$5.37 million with a screen size of more than 500 blocks, and the cumulative box office also continued to climb to US$33.13 million.

The arrival of Thanksgiving will also slow down the "Crying Game" curve.

Gaomen Pictures predicts that the final North American box office for "Cry Game" is expected to be between US$60 million and US$70 million.

Moreover, this low-cost literary movie with excellent box office and word-of-mouth will also be the focus of the next awards season for Gaomen Pictures in "Wen Xiang Zhi Zhi Women".

In Simon's memory, both films were successfully nominated for the Oscar nomination for the year.

This time, as long as the box office performance of "Wen Xiang Zhi Women" meets expectations in the next few weeks, next year's awards season, in order to avoid diluting votes, Gaomen Pictures will focus more on "Wen Xiang Zhi Women".

Of course, in order to stimulate the potential of subsequent box office as much as possible, "Crying Game" will not lack nominations.

All in all, because there are so many excellent movies produced by me, Daenerys Entertainment has been abandoning it in recent years.

Take this year, for example, the movie produced by Daenerys Entertainment in 1992 participated in the "Howard Estate" at the Cannes Film Festival in May this year and was released in August, the "Crying Game" in September and the Thanksgiving schedule. "Wen Xiang knows women", three films in Simon's memory are the winners of the Oscar nomination for next year's best film.

However, there is only one best film after all.

In order to prevent the votes from being shared, Daenerys Entertainment can only apply for nomination for one movie, which will inevitably lead to the neglect of other movies.

Adapted from the British novelist Foster's "Howard Manor" released in mid-August, the cumulative stay in the North American theater for 9 weeks, the local box office reached 26.12 million US dollars.

For an art film with a production cost of only 6 million US dollars, this is already a very impressive achievement.If it is released by other studios, it will definitely become the focus of the awards season next year.However, under Daenerys Entertainment, "Howard Manor" would have fallen behind "Crying Game" with a total box office in North America expected to exceed US$60 million, even if "Wen Xiang Zhiren Women" is not available.

Many Hollywood filmmakers have realized this.

For example, Jonathan Demi, director of The Silent Lamb last year.

Compared to the original "Silence Lamb" in the original time and space in the 64th Oscar in 1992, this time and space, in the other two films of Daenerys Entertainment, "Piano Parting Love" and "The Last Road" Under the impact, this phenomenon-level horror movie, but only won a few corner nominations.

Daenerys Entertainment completely abandoned the 64th Oscar due to its long-term strategy.

Hollywood filmmakers tend to prefer their own performance at the box office, but they will not ignore the honor.

Because of the "Lamb of Silence", Jonathan Demi's "Philadelphia Story" this year, did not continue to cooperate with Daenerys Entertainment, but only chose to invest in MGM under Simon's personal lead.

"Philadelphia Story" is a movie about the rights protection experience of AIDS people played by Tom Hanks. Just looking at the type of theme, anyone who is familiar with the rules of Hollywood's operation will find that the film is obviously going for the award.

On the original timeline, Tom Hank won his first Oscar for Best Actor with "Philadelphia Story", and became the first to win the gold medal next year with the phenomenal "Forrest Gump" Oscar film emperor.

Not only that, the box office of "Philadelphia Story" is also very good.

After Simon postponed the production plan of "Forrest Gump", the originally tightly scheduled Tom Hanks was able to rejoin "Philadelphia Story". The film will be launched in January next year and is expected to be released as the end of 1993, impacting the 1994 Award season.

It is worth mentioning that, in addition to Tom Hanks may once again create a miracle of succession, Jonathan Demi is also destined to miss Oscar this time.

Because, at the end of 1993, there was Spielberg's "Schindler's List."

Simon chose to postpone "Forrest Gump". In addition to the overcrowded schedule at the end of 1993, it also took into account the factors of "Schindler's List".

It would be a pity if two films that are expected to reach the Oscar meet.

Staggered by one year, Daenerys Entertainment can also be the biggest Oscar winner for two consecutive years.

With the status of two films in the history of Hollywood film on the original timeline, who dares to say that "Schindler's List" is not eligible for the Oscar?Who can question the strength of Forrest Gump?

After the TV broadcast of the Victoria's Secret Show was completed, the follow-up matters were all personally responsible. The Simons and the couple rushed to Melbourne to attend the upcoming David Johnston and Leslie Wickett on November 21 The wedding, while planning to stay in Australia until after the New Year.

Daenerys Entertainment’s top priority at the end of the year, “The Alone 2” released on November 20 and “Jurassic Park” released on December 18, will also be operated by the company team.

Melbourne, Australia.

The Johnston Mansion on the Yarra River Plate in the northern suburbs of the city became more lively as David Johnston's wedding approached.

Both Anthony Johnston and Norman Johnston lived in,

Simon and his wife originally wanted to live in their own villa nearby, because the old man had to move in because of the mandatory order.

Veronica also took the little guy into the mansion.

Finally, with the addition of David Johnston and Patrick Johnston, a large family gathered together.

Because of her daughter's wedding, the Leslie Wickert family also came a lot.

Arrived in Melbourne on November 15th, and then spent a week in a variety of busy entertainment, until the wedding ended on November 21st, David Johnston and Leslie Wickert left Australia to start their honeymoon trip , Melbourne is also free.

Simon and Janet continued to live in Melbourne for a few days, and the couple left for Tasmania, across the sea from Melbourne.

In a few years, Simon’s acquisition of Tasmanian land has never stopped.

Realizing the buying behavior of this young super-rich, Tasmania's land prices have also skyrocketed.

However, after all, it is a piece of land located on the edge of the world. Although there is no lack of some original landlords who are willing to sell and follow some thoughts, there are not many people who are willing to throw money in Tasmania. .

After continuous expansion, Simon’s total land area in Tasmania unconsciously reached 13,000 square kilometers, equivalent to 3.2 million acres, which has exceeded five-fifths of the total area of ​​Tasmania. One.

Of course, these are basically barren mountains and woodlands without any output.

Unless Simon intends to harvest the primary forest in the territory, it is difficult for him to obtain any economic output.

Simon certainly didn't plan to do this. He should be an environmentalist in his heart.

It's just that because of the pessimistic nature of his character, Simon didn't intentionally change too many things, but he didn't mind doing so for things that he could do easily.

In order to protect the ecology, Simon even bought and closed a copper mine in his own territory, and invested money to restore the forest that was severely damaged due to the opening of the mine.

Owning such a large area of ​​land, doing nothing, is somewhat wasteful.

Janet once proposed that Tasmania can be developed as a filming location for filming. The original natural landscapes such as forest grasslands and lakes here are no worse than New Zealand next door. Simon still does not agree.

In this land at the end of the world, he only intends to be a paradise for himself, and does not want too many people to pay attention to it.

In addition, the doomsday refuge built in the depths of the Tasmanian forest at the beginning of the place has also been completed.

Complete military installation level.

After the project was completed, the construction team was evacuated. Even though many people knew that there was such a fortification in the depths of the jungle, most people would not be able to find it without accurate directions.

For more than a week in late November, Simon and Janet lived in a wooden house near the refuge, riding horses, mountaineering and rafting during the day, and resting in the refuge at night. The internal space.

Simon and his wife live in an isolated world of two in the jungle of Tasmania, North America, but the Thanksgiving holiday continues.

In the week of November 13 to November 19, Francis Ford Coppola’s vampire thriller "Fear of Hundred Years" successfully topped the single-week box office champion, with a total of $38.7 million in seven days, and the museums exceeded 1.5 Ten thousand U.S. dollars.

The second-ranked "Midnight Bell" was released in the third week. At the box office, the decline was still only 17%.

Da Ni Li Si Entertainment's high-end film industry released a new film "Wen Xiang Zhi Women", the comprehensive film score reached 8.8 points, the first week of 20 screens on the scale of the painting, seven days to account for 630,000 US dollars, the museum all reached 31,000 US dollars .

Whether it is film criticism or box office statistics, "Wen Xiang Zhi Xian Zhi" has reached the popular level of the award season film.

On November 20th, Thanksgiving's blockbuster "The Alone 2" officially began painting on a scale of 2,673 screens.

Because of the amazing box office accumulated in the first episode of "The Kid Alone", this week, only a biography of Warner Bros. "Kuroshio" was released at the same time.

"Black Tide" directed by Spike Lee, starring Denzel Washington, is still a movie about racial issues.

Compared with "Devil Alone 2", the number of screens for "Kuroshio" after the opening of 1,124, plus the theme, basically does not constitute any competition and threat to "Alone Devil 2".

With the popularity of the first part, coupled with Daenerys Entertainment's spare no effort to promote, although "Little Devil's Head 2" has many overlaps with the first part in the plot, it has reduced the reputation of the film to a certain extent, but His status as a comedy for the holiday season is very qualified.

From November 20 to November 26, seven days in the first week of the painting, "The Alone 2" won $53.13 million at the box office in one fell swoop, easily topping the single-week box office list.

Shocked by "Little Devil's Master 2", "Four Hundred Years" has dropped 45% in a single week, and continues to earn 21.5 million US dollars, ranking second, with a cumulative box office of 60.21 million US dollars in two weeks.Although the production cost is as high as 40 million US dollars, but the two-week deposit exceeds 60 million, Colombia's profit on this project can also be expected.

The performance of Spike Lee's new film "Kuroshio" is clearly beyond the expectations of the industry, and can be described as a double harvest at the box office.

The film not only received a 8.8-point comprehensive media score equivalent to "Wen Xiang Zhi Jing", but also, the opening scale of 1,124 screens, the box office receipts in the first seven days of the week also reached 18.31 million US dollars, and the museums exceeded 16,000 US dollars, ranking in a single week Third place on the list.

Unfortunately, like Daenerys Entertainment's "Crying Game" and "Howard Manor", the upcoming award season, "Kuroshio" is destined to make way for Warner Bros.'s other film "Unforgivable".

Immediately after "Kuroshio", "Midnight Bell" ranked fourth, the film's box office drop in the week also expanded to 24%, and in the fourth week of the release, it was re-accounted for 15.79 million US dollars, and the cumulative box office was 90.38 million US dollars in four weeks. It is expected to break 100 million next week.

At the fifth place on the list, "Passenger 57", the box office figure fell directly to the level of about 6 million US dollars.

After word of mouth and popularity continued to ferment, "Wen Xiang Zhi Xian Zhi" still maintained the size of 20 screens in the second week, but the museum had increased to 37,000 US dollars, and it was again credited to 740,000 US dollars.

Relying on the outstanding film results for two consecutive weeks, the new week, the scale of the screening of "Wen Xiang Zhi Xian Zhi" was officially rolled out, and the number of screens reached 1083.