Hollywood Hunter

Hollywood is a circle full of personal heroism. When you can create a box office miracle, you are a hero sought after by everyone, and the whole world will turn around you.

However, few Hollywood filmmakers can be treated as heroes forever.

This is the cruel side of Hollywood again.

When you are no longer able to create miracles, being abandoned by everyone is almost inevitable. In a century of Hollywood, too many people have experienced this strong difference, so there are also many people who spare no effort to maintain their own scenery.Steven Spielberg's mood has probably been like this recently.

The personal destiny of the veteran filmmaker who became famous with "Great White Shark" at that time has actually turned since the summer of 1986.Without the appearance of a certain young man, the name Spielberg will remain a hallmark of Hollywood until the new century.

The strong rise of Daenerys Entertainment Group has changed the fate of almost every filmmaker in Hollywood.Steven Spielberg is undoubtedly the one most affected.

Because Hollywood’s resources are limited in the end, the reason why Spielberg has always been prosperous, in addition to his personal film talent, the most important point is that this filmmaker has always been able to enjoy Hollywood’s top resources, abundant Production funds, top production teams, generous promotional investment, high-quality movie schedules, gold cinema resources, etc.

Now, all this is taken away by Daenerys Entertainment Group.

Since "Rola Run", the American public's attention has been attracted to the name Simon Westeros. Even if it was the first "Jurassic Park" three years ago, many people think it is mainly Weis The credit for Trouhui's eyes and pearls puts Spielberg as the director and producer second, and later kicked him out of the game.

Since "Great White Shark" sent 29-year-old Spielberg to the pinnacle of the Hollywood Pyramid, for the first time in so many years, he received this treatment for the first time.However, what made Spielberg even more uncomfortable was the great success of Jurassic Park 2.

When the first day of "Jurassic Park 2" came out at the box office, Spielberg felt very bad. In the morning night, the first day of $29.87 million was recorded. This is already the total box office of many blockbuster movies in the first week. For "Jurassic Park 2", it is only a day's income.

In the first three days of the first weekend, the cumulative box office of this phenomenal dinosaur blockbuster eventually reached $83.16 million, directly surpassing the seven-day box office of $72.17 million in the first week of "Jurassic Park" three years ago. The industry generally predicted that "Jurassic Park" 2 will break the single-week box office record of $113 million in the first week of Batman: The Rise of the Dark Knight last year, again creating a new box office high.

This is almost beyond doubt.

So, even though he was very careful, on Tuesday, June 6, he went to Paramount Studios to attend a meeting. Spielberg was stopped by the paparazzi who had been watching for a long time and asked him about the box office of "Jurassic Park 2". In view of this, several paparazzi were obviously prepared, and deliberately stepped forward to stop the collision. Spielberg, who had been well-preserved by Hollywood, had not suffered such treatment for a long time. Even if he finally suppressed his emotions and did not surge on the spot, he was still shot by the paparazzi. Here comes the picture of the car with black face.

The next day the news appeared that "Spielberg heard the "Jurassic Park 2" box office data with anger left".

No circle is less than a last resort, and even if there is a deep contradiction between them, they will not easily tear their faces openly.

What's more, Daenerys Entertainment is so strong at the moment, and the media has added so much fuel to it, it seems that the two sides have become incompatible, which is very unfavorable to Spielberg himself and DreamWorks.

Just like in the past because of the alienation of "Alien ET", after the movie was successful, Spielberg revenge Frank Price, the then president of Universal Pictures, who was troubled by this project. The article of not cooperating with the other party is written in the agreement,

This time, if the circle also believes that the contradiction between Daenerys Entertainment and Spielberg is irreconcilable, then whether it is active or passive, there may be a phenomenon of choosing a side station. In the current situation of Hollywood, those people It is self-evident which side will be chosen, and DreamWorks will be struggling by then.

Therefore, even with a suffocation, under pressure from other DreamWorks executives and partner Paramount, Spielberg still had to react quickly to the gossip, and publicly issued a clarification statement, stating There is no contradiction between the two parties, and they specifically mentioned a contract with Daenerys Entertainment and a legacy from the global era, and congratulated the success of "Jurassic Park 2".

Daenerys Entertainment also performed very well, and soon made the same response. Michael Bay, director of "Jurassic Park 2", also praised his predecessor in an interview with the media.

The storm seems to have disappeared.

However, early this morning, Spielberg was still having breakfast with his family, and suddenly received bad news that CAA was working on the latest science fiction script of Michael Clayton, the author of the original Jurassic Park novel. Tornado finally fell into the hands of Daenerys Entertainment.

The continuous success of the TV series "Jurassic Park" and "The Story of the Emergency Room" made Michael Clayton famous, and many Hollywood studios hope to win each other's latest scripts.

In order to stabilize his status in Hollywood as much as possible, Spielberg took the initiative to temporarily suspend the "Broken Lock Fury" about the history of black slave trafficking, intending to personally direct a blockbuster, "Tornado" is his Fancy item.If it was a few years ago, let alone directing, even if it was just the name of a producer, as long as Spielberg spoke, those screenwriters would cry and shouted to deliver the script to his hands.

All of this scenery has become a thing of the past.

Obviously, even if DreamWorks and Paramount are willing to shout a higher offer, Michael Clayton is still more willing to hand the project to the Daenerys Entertainment Group. Daenerys’ powerful technical background is undoubtedly undoubtedly It is also better to show "Tornado" perfectly on the big screen.

Michael Clayton's current coffee position can already enjoy a higher profit share.

By handing over the project to Daenerys Entertainment, the movie has a greater chance of success, and as a screenwriter, the more Clayton can get.

Spielberg didn't know the Matthew effect, but realized that he had fewer and fewer resources in Hollywood.

The CAA headquarters of Century City.

Hearing the news, Spielberg came here from his mansion in Palisades. He wanted to see if there was any room for recovery. Michael Clayton's brokerage contract was in CAA.

As one of CAA's most important customers, Michael Ovitz personally received him, but Ovitz also could not help with this matter.

If it was in the 1980s, Michael Ovitz could also make "Tornado" a packaging project, and he had a great say in which studio the project was sold to. Now everything has changed.The rise of the huge blockbuster movie has allowed the studio to regain the initiative of film production. The strong Daenerys Entertainment is the CAA needs to try to make a good presence.

Just like this time.

Michael Ovitz also tried his best to make an attempt to make Clayton and Spielberg work together again. However, Spielberg’s appeal cannot be compared with the entire Daenerys Entertainment Group. Forcibly handing the script to Spielberg will not only offend Daenerys Entertainment, but may also lose the gold medal customer Michael Clayton.

Of course, Michael Ovitz is not a snobbish person who likes to see the wind and rudder.

Seriously explained this regret to Spielberg, and also introduced several good scripts of the same genre selected by the company early to the other one by one. The meeting between the two lasted for an hour, confirming that hopeless recovery, Spielberg Grid can only leave temporarily with the scripts recommended by Ovitz, he also knows that the CAA president has done his best.

Today is already Friday, June 9.

The beginning of another box office week.

After personally sending Spielberg into the elevator, Ovitz returned to his office and finally got free time to pick up the box office report just over the past week.

The box office of "Jurassic Park 2", which everyone is most concerned about, is actually no news.

Just over the past week, Daenerys Entertainment has once again launched a very exciting marketing plan, announcing the movie’s single-day box office immediately on the official Facebook account of "Jurassic Park 2" every day.After careful research, Ovitz found that this marketing plan is absolutely awesome.

Ordinary people do not lack ambition to create miracles, but most people are often unable to do so.

Daenerys Entertainment announced the "Jurassic Park 2" single-day box office as soon as possible every day, making good use of the subtle mentality of the public hoping to participate in creating a miracle together. After the box office is released on the first day, it will actively create a "Jurassic Park 2", a new high in the single-week box office, just happens to be a brand-new box office miracle.

At the same time, the public only needs to buy a movie ticket to participate in and witness the appearance of this miracle together, almost involuntarily.Many fans who did not have a movie viewing plan are affected by this topic atmosphere, and they are inevitably affected by buying tickets.After all, Jurassic Park 2 is a commercial blockbuster that is definitely worth watching.

Recently, Ovitz, who is focusing on the Internet industry, also found that Daenerys Entertainment provoked this marketing event, and at the same time further promoted the popularity of Igret's Facebook social network.

Kill two birds with one stone.

Eventually, seven days in the first week of the painting from June 2 to June 8, "Jurassic Park 2" showed an unstoppable box office trend, based on the box office of $83.16 million in the first weekend, a full week was released, and the cumulative credit reached 1 29.13 million US dollars, in one fell swoop last year, "Batman: The Dark Knight Rise" created a 113 million US dollars in the first week of the record increased by 16 million US dollars.

In comparison, a series of new films in the past few weeks of this year's summer season, the best performance of "Golden Dragon 3", the box office figure of $29.88 million in the first week is only only better than that of "Jurassic Park 2" The odds are higher.

What makes other studios uncomfortable is actually the box office performance of other films under the impact of "Jurassic Park 2" this week.

The first-ranked "Jurassic Park 2" box office for the first week was $12.93 million.

However, the second-placed Clint Eastwood and Meryl Streep starred in the new film "The Bridge of Dreams", and after a good reputation, the audience did not compete with "Jurassic Park 2" There are too many intersections, box office box office drop still reached 36% the next week, box office box office fell from the start of 15.8 million US dollars to 10.13 million US dollars.

If there is no "Jurassic Park 2", with the classic media word-of-mouth reputation of "The Bridge of Dreams" reaching 9.0, the local box office is expected to walk out of a very beautiful long-term, and the total box office is expected to reach more than 70 million US dollars.

Now, from the perspective of the next week's box office, even if the decline next week will slow down significantly, since the single-week box office has fallen into the $10 million range, the follow-up can only be accounted for about $30 million, the cumulative box office of the film should be 55 million About US dollars, shrink at least 15 million US dollars.

In fact, the encounter of "Landscape Bridge Dream" is already very good. The production cost of this drama is only 24 million US dollars, and the announcement is only 10 million US dollars.Only at the local box office, Warner Bros. can basically recover all the investment, and overseas and follow-up channels can easily achieve profitability.

Immediately after, there was "Ghost Horse Elf" on the third place on the list.

"Ghost Horse Elf", which was painted at the same time as "Tiger Gallbladder 3", also performed well at the box office in the first two weeks.

In the first week, it was 25.71 million US dollars, a decrease of 29% the following week, and it was 18.19 million US dollars.

However, as expected, this summer carnival movie, which was expected to be out of the long-term box office, was released in the third week and hit "Jurassic Park 2", which is also aimed at audiences of all ages. The deep decline of the model, the 52% box office drop, let "Ghost Horse Elf" the single-week box office slipped directly to a low of 8.61 million US dollars.

Cumulatively US$52.51 million in three weeks, with the theme of "Ghost Horse Elf", even if the subsequent decline has slowed down, the local box office is only about US$70 million.

The worst is "Tiger Gallbladder 3".

Bruce Willis starred in this $90 million action blockbuster. After the first week of $29.88 million, the box office fell by 37% the following week and closed at another $18.79 million.Then, in the third week of the release, it suffered a strong crush from "Jurassic Park 2", and the box office of "Golden Dragon 3" plunged 56% in the past week, leaving only 8.26 million US dollars at the box office.

Three weeks after its release, the cumulative box office of "Tiger Gallbladder 3" was $56.93 million.

As a typical popcorn commercial, there are only 8.26 million US dollars left at the box office in one week. Even if the subsequent decline will slow down slightly, the follow-up of "Golden Dragon 3" will only be able to receive another 15 million US dollars. It is expected that The local box office was in the early $70 million.

The same $70 million local box office expectation as "Ghost Horse Elf" is not a failure.

However, the total cost of producing and distributing US$130 million for Tiger’s Dragon 3 is too high. Even if it performs better overseas, the total box office in the world is calculated at US$200 million. Fox can’t avoid huge amounts in the short term. Losing ending.

If there is no "Jurassic Park 2", whether it is "Golden Dragon 3" or "Ghost Horse Elf", it is actually very promising to break through the threshold of 100 million box office clubs.

The same is true in Simon's memory.

Now, with just these two films, the total shrinkage of the local box office has reached 60 million US dollars, plus "Landscape Bridge Dream" and the films "Forgotten Paris" and "Special Agent" that are still in the same period. Jurassic Park 2 robbed the box office of at least $100 million from all these projects.

This is not counted in projects such as "Brave Heart" and "Pocahontas" that will be released in the next few weeks.

In the first week, the box office was as high as 129 million US dollars. With a better reputation than the first one, it was only a matter of time before the local box office of Jurassic Park 2 broke the 356 million US dollars in the first song. Billions of dollars are not impossible.

You know, this summer file is not the situation where last year's "Batman: The Rise of the Dark Knight" and "Forrest Gump" are two phenomenal juxtapositions. Daenerys entertains another "Apollo 13" this summer. There is no problem with the big sale.

The local expectation is 400 million US dollars. In addition to the gains that the film itself stimulates market demand, perhaps half of them are probably from the box office potential of other films.The trade-offs are long and short.

It is still a trade-off.