Hollywood Hunter

The middle-aged ticket seller heard two beautiful Asian girls asking for 8 "Black Hero" movie tickets at a time. It was a little unexpected. They still dutifully inquired the ticketing system to report the number of appearances. There was exactly one at 8:15. Again After confirmation, the money will be collected neatly.

"Happy viewing."

Finally, he gave a polite formula and sent away the two girls. The middle-aged conductor began to welcome the later guests.

This is a young white guy who has been dressed a little and obviously took care of it. With the glaring eyes of the middle-aged ticket seller, he can see at a glance that the other party should be dating tonight. The girlfriend is probably buying popcorn or the like. According to recent experience, He thinks the guy is likely to watch "Romeo and Juliet".

This time I guessed wrong.

Probably, or guessed right.

The young man really asked for two tickets, but it was still "Black Man".

After sending away the other party again, the middle-aged ticket seller glanced at the information on the screen of the computer and found that "Black Man" at 8:15, the screening room of 120 people, actually sold 103 tickets, which was a bit unexpected.In particular, the ticket clerk cut the Leslie Nielsen’s "Ultimate Detective" that was released at the same time yesterday. The same 8:15 show was also a medium-sized screening hall for 120 people. The summer time was a prime time on Saturday night at 8:00 pm Only sold 87 tickets.

Although it is just an ordinary ticket seller in the multi-hall theater under the AMC theater line opened two years ago, middle-aged people still know some recent anecdotes in the circle.

In the movie "Black Man", most cinemas actually don't want it.

This is a summer holiday.

If it's January or February or September or October, what's going on with a popular Hong Kong Island movie like the summer season?

What's more, it's not Jack Cheng.

Who is Jet Lee?

Another point is that there is not even a European or American face in this movie, which will inevitably make the audience more exclusive.As for kung fu, well, this is indeed a selling point, but there are not many kung fu elements in this film, but more inclined to a shootout.

In short, if you want to play "Black Man", you might as well add more screens to "Mummy".

However, despite this thinking, the major theaters eventually opened a total of more than 1,000 screens for "Black Man", because the current Daenerys Entertainment is too strong, if you don't want "Black Man" , Okay, do you want "Mummy", "Mission Impossible 2" or "007 Ghost Party"?

Ok.

This is actually the package sale that was explicitly prohibited by the Paramount Act, but the studios have always had policies and countermeasures.

It is forbidden to pack multiple films and sign a distribution agreement with the cinema line.

Then talk one by one.

However, if you feel that "Black Man" is not good and you are not willing to give me a canvas, then I also think that you are not sincere enough to not give you a copy of "Mummy".

Well, it’s not appropriate not to give.

Easy to eat lawsuits.

It’s okay to give less.

You need 200 copies. I will only give you 100 copies. The remaining 100 screens will continue to display "Evaporation Secret Order".

The others are 15,000, and yours are 15,000.

Gee.

Speaking of which, the three movies "Mummy", "Mission Impossible 2" and "007 Ghost Party" are not even released by Daenerys Entertainment, but Daenerys Entertainment can use these three blockbusters as chips Such a power, such a strong force, who dares not follow?

Therefore, "Black Hero" can not only refuse, but also secretly tucked into the small hall, the posters should be publicized.

It now appears that this film is not as bad as expected.

However, the middle-aged ticket seller at the AMC theater who kept sending out movie tickets on a busy weekend night still felt inappropriate, but this matter may not be cracked for a long time in the future, but it is more likely to ask Daenerys Entertainment-produced films lean more resources.

On the other side of the theater, the eight girls who got their tickets found a screening hall on the third floor and entered directly.

Unlike the streets outside, when you enter the cinema and wait for the gap, someone starts to come forward and talk up. The girls are quite a man and they are inevitable. There is no some new immigrants’ promises. The two waitresses also played a very important role. The good blocking effect, coupled with the discovery that the clothes and dresses on a group of girls are expensive, and there is no one who is too entangled. After being rejected, she walks away.

When the lights are dimmed, the first is a few pieces of patch advertisements.

The girls who sat together and sat in two rows before and after were also relished, though, basically, they didn't understand.

Soon, the film "Black Man" started.

After the opening LOGO, the opening was a fierce action scene. Jet Lee made a fierce battle and made a big fight. The Chinese and English titles of "Black Man" appeared on the screen.

Li Youhu, sitting between Chi Jianjia and a waitress named Katie Roderick, is very interested in watching. She belongs to the type that can afford a movie home and a video recorder in China. However, the source of domestic movie films is ultimately Not much, not to mention, the effects of the AMC theater screen sound, which has only been in operation for two years, are far from comparable in China.

As for the movie itself.

For North American fans, Li Youhu is not uncomfortable because he can see the thick cheap B-class film style at a glance.

It was the subsequent literary drama that made Li Youhu quickly start to lose his mind.

Because I don’t understand, I can’t even guess the lip, because the prototype is Cantonese.

I can only roughly understand that the black man incognito played by Jet Lee became a librarian, and had a good relationship with it, as well as a police friend.

So he couldn't help looking around.

Chi Jianjia took it very seriously.

Ok.

Nasty school bully.

Li Youhu knows that Chi Jianjia's family background is equally good. Before getting the job, he was a senior student at the Academy of Dance and Dance. At the age of 21, he not only picked dances for more than 10 years, but also had excellent cultural skills.

In fact, none of the 100 girls selected from the hundreds of thousands of resumes at that time were simple.

Privately quietly thinking, Li Youhu even vaguely felt that she and Chen Xingwei were probably the bottom two, as if they had walked through the back door to get the job.

something wrong.

Katie Roderick on the other side certainly understands, but the interest is obviously not high.

Seeing Li Youhu looking over, Katie also looked back and smiled at her.

Katie is Li Youhu's designated waitress.

Li Youhu also smiled, leaned over, and asked, "Katie, what do you think?"

"Okay, I don't like it very much. Ellie may be more interested."

Katie said that the name of Ellie is Alyssa Camus, and Chen Xingwei's designated guard. To be precise, it should be the standard of one guard and one guard for Li Youhu and Chen Xingwei.Alyssa is a kind of standard Victorian female guard who comes from the Victorian private army MCSS located in the Ohio training base. She has a tough temperament and is very interested in fighting and firearms.

This time, following the guarding of six girls, in addition to Katie, the other one is also a female guard.

It's just that because she was repeatedly told beforehand to pay special attention to the safety of girls, Katie, who had also received professional gun training before, also brought a gun.

Listening to the clearly accented Chinese in Katie’s conciseness, Li Youhu knew that it was impossible to go deep into the conversation and had to turn back to the big screen and quietly pay attention to the reactions of the audience around him.

After all, as a girl said before entering the theater, Jet Lee’s movie can be released in the United States, which is regarded as glory for the country. Li Youhu is the same. She can’t understand the twists and turns of this movie. Even at this time It doesn't quite understand what this movie hall's over 80% attendance means.

However, she noticed that as the plot progressed or the sound of comment or exclamation in the movie theater, she was still sure that these foreigners still liked the movie quite a bit.

So inevitably gave birth to some small pride.

At the end of the movie, Li Youhu continued to walk out of the auditorium holding Chi Jianjia's arm, listening to the heated discussions of the people around him. Even if he didn't understand a few words in the first 90 minutes, he still felt a sense of satisfaction.

Several other white youths passed by with the girls. Before the movie started, they had a conversation. After being rejected, they had no entanglement. At this time, they still looked at them undisguised. They also deliberately raised their voices, obviously wanting to cause girls Our attention, it is a pity that they failed to make a difference until both sides passed by.

Li Youhu disdain these young people's display, see Chi Jianjia with a smile on his face, realized what, asked: "What did they just say?"

"They said that "Black Man" is better than Schwarzenegger's "Evaporating Secret Order."

"Schwarzenegger, I know, I have watched both of the Terminators, um, "The Evaporative Order, new film?"

Chi Jianjia pointed his finger at a poster on the inside wall of the theater: "Now, the main thing is, they also said that the production cost of "Evaporation Secret Order" is $100 million, and "Black Man" may not even reach 10 million. "

Li Youhu glanced at the poster on the wall, the obvious Schwarzenegger photo, which is not known in other English, but also proud: "10 million beat 100 million, that is really amazing. However, 100 million dollars The movie, um, is equivalent to 830 million yuan, which is too extravagant."

Chi Jianya smiled and said, "In fact, they just think that the box office of "Black Hero" is definitely not as good as "Evaporation Secret Order", but this movie can be released in North America, in short, it is already very powerful."

"Oh, anyway, I must be on "Black Hero" side."

Li Youhu and Chi Jianjia were chatting like this, but they didn't know that the topic of the two coincided with an argument that has risen rapidly in recent days.

Internet forums spread quickly.

The "Black Man" from the other side of the ocean is more exciting than the $100 million "Evaporation Secret Order". A film critic in the New York Times said on his Facebook page: The same popcorn commercial, "Black Man" "It may be rough, but there are quite a few things worth noting about the shootouts and fighting scenes. Compared to it, "Evaporation Secret Order" is like a dull giant, awkward and boring.

This argument has been recognized by many people for a while.

The public attention of "Black Man" increased once again.

As it happens, the villains used pulse weapons in the final battle between "Black Man" and "Evaporate Secret Order", limited to cost. The pulse weapons in "Black Man" looked like toys, and the pulse weapons in "Evaporate Secret Order" undoubtedly had to be much more professional.However, in contrast to the two-phase plot, the pulse weapon battle of "Black Man" is both thrilling and exciting. "Evaporation Secret Order", except Schwarzenegger grinning his teeth and pulling the steel bar from the thigh, there is nothing left to leave. Make too many impressions.

The sudden rise of this discussion, of course, was the result of operations behind the scenes of the "Black Man" release team.

Later, this is the standard rubbing heat.

The official announced that the small film with a cost of only 7 million US dollars pulled a large 100 million US dollars. What is said in this sentence, I am weak and reasonable.

After all, there are only 7 million.

So all the bright spots of the weak can be magnified, and the strong just happened to fail again, so all of them have become shortcomings.

All in all, from the release on Friday, three days on the first weekend, because of this rapidly rising discussion, it has unknowingly played the unexpected effect of millions of millions of dollars in publicity expenses.

Turned around in the weekend.

Monday, May 27.

East Hampton.

After getting up early in the morning and getting the box office report just past the weekend, Simon himself was a little surprised.

In the three days of the painting, "Black Man" won the box office of US$6.56 million at the first weekend with a screen size of 1276 screens, and the three-day pavilion reached US$5,141, and Simon’s initial expectation was that the movie will be completed for seven days in the first week All can reach the $5,000 level, even if it is successful.

Now, the three-day pavilion has exceeded $5,000, and in the first week, the "Black Hero" pavilion may reach $8,000.

This has been regarded as a hot sale level.

Although the threshold of $10,000 per pavilion is still a little bit less, but with the volume of "Black Man", the pavilion has reached $8,000, which is already a small miracle.

It's not obvious by itself.

In comparison, the success of "Black Man" is more obvious.

It is also the new film "The Ultimate Laughing Detective" released by the "Bald Detective" last Friday, which opened at the box office for $10.45 million on the three-day weekend.It seems to be more than "Black Man", but the number of opening screens of this movie is 2,286, which is close to twice that of "Black Man", so the three-day pavilion at the first weekend is only $4570, which is better than "Black Man" Still low.

It is like comparing "Black Hero" with "Evaporation Secret Order" on the Internet.

There is no comparison.

No matter how "Evaporation Secret Order" is, the box office in the first week will exceed the total box office of "Black Hero" in North America. The volume of "Ultimate Detective" is also much larger than that of "Black Hero". The film is only 18 million yuan in production cost. The US dollar is equivalent to two and a half "Black Heroes", and New World Pictures only took 2 million US dollars to obtain the distribution right, and only 3 million US dollars to declare the investment.

So, in terms of returns, only three days during the first weekend, "Black Hero" recovered a large part of the total cost of 5 million US dollars, perhaps the full first week will be able to pay back and start to achieve profitability.On the contrary, whether it is "Evaporation Secret Order" or "Ultimate Laughing Detector", it is unlikely that it will be profitable at the stage of theater release.

Moreover, the profit of "Black Hero" is definitely not optional.

Three days in the first weekend of 6.56 million, it means that the local box office of the film is expected to exceed the 20 million mark, but the local box office, deducting the total investment of 5 million US dollars in production and distribution, is expected to achieve a profit of more than 5 million US dollars.

What New World Pictures obtained was the copyright of the European and American markets.

Such a small film, of course, will not be divided and distributed in Europe. It must be sold out directly. It has the popularity of the North American box office. The film is directly sold out in Europe, and it is not a problem to recover 5 million US dollars.

Immediately afterwards are the video tapes and TV surroundings.

The "Black Man" video tape in memory is a big hit in North America, but the revenue in this area is more than 50 million US dollars.This time, even if it was the same as it used to be, according to the 40% gross profit, it was another 20 million US dollars.The gross profit of the video tape is actually the net income of the project, which is mainly different from the calculation of the after-tax profit of the overall studio.

In fact, the box office is the same as other aspects.

Finally, with TV broadcast, it is another sum.

Calculate another 5 million US dollars.

Not to mention the long-term long-term operation, this is actually the expected return in the next two years or so.

A total of 35 million US dollars.

Calculated, a small film bought by New World Pictures for $2 million actually has a higher overall income than many blockbusters.

Just like "Evaporation Secret Order", according to the current gradual overseas box office downturn trend similar to North America, the global box office may only be 160 million, mainly because the same "Mummy" overseas sniping, this time Schwarzenegger obviously did not recreate Overseas surpasses the local box office miracle.

The total cost of the "evaporating secret order" is 130 million US dollars, the global box office is 160 million US dollars, and it is expected to recover 70 million US dollars in share.

The loss of word-of-mouth and box office will inevitably affect the follow-up channels. In the next two years, the combination of video tapes and television broadcasts may not necessarily make up for the loss of 60 million US dollars, let alone generate profits.