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It's another new week. Lehmann led the crew to continue to promote in major French cities, and "Furious" continued to be shown in major theaters. Moreover, due to the relatively good box office results in the first weekend, the market dominance of the next week even increased slightly.

At this time, other overseas regions also started film distribution.

Germany, well, leave Germany aside.

The distributors over there are very unwilling to help release "Furious", the reason is naturally clear, the position of the film is too embarrassing, so embarrassing to the filmmakers over there are all concerned, and, it can be expected that, Even in the theater, the results are absolutely terrible.

No one wants to do such a thankless thing.

However, in addition to Germany, other regions do not have these problems.

Overall, it's okay.

However, the Christmas stalls never leave too many opportunities for any film to gather high box office. So many blockbuster films are released in groups, and they are usually dead in two or three weeks.

As for whether a movie will be a big hit, it is basically clear at a glance just by looking at the box office of the first weekend and the decline in the following working days.

On Monday, the film’s single-day box office dropped from about 14 million last weekend to about 10 million today; Tuesday was a traditional theater discount day in North America, so the revenue there rebounded slightly, with 11.32 million US dollars on the day; It fell again on Wednesday, gaining 9.62 million US dollars; the box office on Thursday was only 8.43 million US dollars...Friday, 7.26 million US dollars.

In the five working days of the week following the release of "Furious" in North America, a total of 46.63 million U.S. dollars was made and directly booked this week's box office champion.

After all, any movie in such a cruelly competitive Christmas schedule cannot escape the inevitable law that the box office market begins to decline the next week. "Fury" has fallen, and "007: Die Another Day" is no exception.

However, in comparison, it fell even harder.

But even so, trapped by the type of film and the rapidly declining reputation of passers-by, the market appeal of "007: Die Another Day" is not too bad.

The two parties to the scandal come out from time to time to show off their affection and reveal a little about the status quo of their relationship. The attention they have brought is enough to support them to continue to compete with "Furious", but they only got 36.43 million US dollars in five days, which is already gone. A pretty big body.

As for how many of these audiences were fooled into the movie theater by the media, perhaps you can get a glimpse of the declining IMDB score and Rotten Tomatoes index of "007: Die Another Day"...

A new weekend rest day is approaching. At the weekly meeting of MGM Entertainment Pictures, many senior executives looked heavy and depressed, and they were obviously in a bad mood.

"AMC, Royal Entertainment Group and CEL have all contacted, and they rejected our proposal to maintain the scale of the cinema chain of "007: Die Another Day"."

"Where is "Furious" over there?"

"Almost, but the situation will be better than ours, and it will maintain 2,400 theaters."

"..."

Sitting in the position of director of MGM’s film distribution department, Blake Josiah frowned slightly, and it took a long time before he said something to break the silence in the conference room, “We don’t have beautiful market data to support it. How could that group of vampires still agree to the screening? Conditions? We no longer have the capital to compete."

Although this sentence is true, it obviously cannot be accepted by everyone.

The number of theaters that have been reduced from more than 2,700 to 2,000 screenings is not a small loss, let alone competing with "Furious."

"No way, let's start more overseas projections. In the North American market, if you don't want to give up, you have to give up." Another high-level executive continued to talk.

"In fact, our results are not bad, but the market performance of "Furious" is better, otherwise it is not the case."

Yes, they were still sitting on the throne of the weekly box office champion in the first week.

"The North American box office of "Furious" has accumulated 88.65 million U.S. dollars. The marketing department predicted that the final landing point will be around 140 million. The global box office is likely to be close to 400 million U.S. dollars." Blake Josiah shakes Shaking his head, he said calmly.

Everyone stopped talking, and the meeting room fell into silence again.

After all, they are not laymen. With the support of such a strong audience, it also proves that the market expression of "Furious" is not as serious as that of "007: Die Another Day". It is conceivable that even if the follow-up With the addition of other blockbusters, "Furious" can also maintain a relatively healthy box office decline, and how much is the final box office?Maybe it can really break 400 million.

The investment cost is only 50 million yuan, and the box office alone makes a profit...

Black Josiah, who was sitting in the first place, jumped out of this idea unconsciously.

If it weren't for the support of the sponsors, maybe "007: Die Another Day" would still have the worry of loss. This is not a good market prospect for an old special agent series.

And Nicholas Cage, who just lost the "Wind Whisperer" he had so much hope for, made himself criticized by the board of directors and the CEO.

If it weren't for the excellent performance of his work in the past, it is estimated that just like the head of the marketing department, that is, his colleague, the unlucky ghost, he would have resigned and stepped down.But I didn't expect that the same theme of World War II, the same as a soldier, how could "Furious" have such a good reputation and market performance so promising?

At this moment, the feeling in Blake-Josiah’s heart is very uncomfortable. Although he also knows the success or failure of a movie, it is extremely irresponsible to watch the actors alone, but in such a situation, it is difficult for people not to go in that direction. miss you.

"The meeting is over." Everyone is not very interested, and there is no good way to save the film's decline, and there is nothing to discuss.

"Pierce's gossip and hype don't stop." Apart from this, they don't have any topics to promote, and naturally they have to hold on to it.Blake-Josiah reminded him that he got up and left the meeting room first...

Regardless of how disappointed the people at MGM Entertainment Pictures are and what their actual thoughts are, "Fury", like all successful Christmas films, stands out from the fierce competition and continues to sprint to new box office heights. With the increase of the show time and the increase in box office numbers, the rebound from the market will increase, but the excellent reputation of the film is still enough to ensure that "Frenzy" continues to harvest a block of dollars from the theater.

On Saturday, it was reported to receive 8.63 million U.S. dollars, a slight increase from the previous working day; on Sunday, it was reported to receive 7.92 million U.S. dollars.

Also on this day, when Lehmann and his party were still on their way from Strasbourg to Montpellier, and were finally preparing to end the entire French roadshow journey, "Furious" also went smoothly in the North American theater. Spent the third weekend.

Although it was unsurprisingly defending the top of the North American weekly box office chart, the better news is that, with the box office results of the previous week, the total North American box office of the film successfully reached $12.48 million.

The North American market of "Furious" successfully broke 100 million. Once this barrier was passed, the stakeholders, whether it was Paramount Pictures, Europa Pictures, CAA, or investor and director Lyman, were very happy.

However, he is also very clear that this should be the final market glory of the film, and only time can be used to accumulate a little increase in box office numbers.

Because on the new weekend, that is, on December 18th, a film with a box office performance even more than ten years later will be released.

That’s right, Peter Jackson’s "Lord of the Rings 2" also translated as "The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers" epic magical masterpiece is coming.

But most of the films that want to make a difference during the Christmas period have mostly avoided the weekend schedule that enters the middle of December.

Lehman is certainly not afraid of competition, but not being afraid does not mean he has to hit the iron with his head.

At the beginning, he persuaded Europa Films to compete with "007: Die Another Day" on the same stage. Isn't it because the latter's market dominance is too strong?

Now what I want to get has been obtained, and what I want to fight for is over. No matter how the market changes, it is not a big deal for the screening of "Furious". Anyway, even the number of theaters has been further reduced, leaving only 880. Around home.

Relying on time to accumulate box office, it is a little bit more to get a little bit more, anyway, the cost of publicity and filming has been almost the same, and now all the profits are made.

And "Furious" was also released on the third weekend in North America, and the box office data for the first week of landing in various overseas regions was also released.

Britain’s 7.65 million dollars, Australia’s 4.65 million dollars, and Italy 3.12 million...respectively successfully occupied the local box office champions, winning without any suspense, the only competitor "007: Die Another Day" market fans Dominance in overseas regions is far less terrible than North America.

But, although overseas regions make money, some films even rely on overseas box office blood or profit, but in general, this part of the box office settlement is very troublesome for Lehman.

How long has it been since "Three Fools Raise Bollywood", that part of the division into Europa Pictures has not yet been fully settled.

It's not that they are unwilling to give, but the various financial settlement and tax details are very cumbersome, and it takes a lot of time to slowly go through it.

But, Lehman is not in a hurry. The accountant team from PricewaterhouseCoopers he hired is all involved, and he is not worried about Europa Pictures' tricks.

After entering mid-December, Lehmann finished the promotion and stayed in Cannes for a few days to rest. Also on the 17th, he flew to Los Angeles in North America with Ryan, Thomas George and others.

In the City of Angels, there are many human relations waiting for him. In this highly commercialized society, this is something that a director of him cannot refuse.

Favor, communication, communication, these two words have already indicated the most important way of making connections in interpersonal communication.

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