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After "Old Nowhere" entered its third week, its single-day box office dropped by 30% year-on-year. In the third week, the cumulative box office in North America was only 13.76 million.

However, although such data is a little regrettable for Firefly, it is generally quite satisfactory.

After all, the movie is profitable, and projects that can make money at the box office alone are not satisfied.

Moreover, "Old Nowhere" is a long-term word-of-mouth film. For a studio, this type of film can play a positive role in label bonuses. When it enters offline, it is likely to set off another wave of enthusiasm.

And so far, the highest-grossing film in North America this year is "X-Men 3", and the second is "The Da Vinci Code". Among live-action movies, "Old Nowhere" ranks third, and the cumulative grossing box office is fourth. In any case, It is a successful project.

Even if it doesn't break 150 million.

Not to mention, the production cost of "Old Nowhere" is very low, including the publicity and distribution of no more than 28 million.

In contrast, other box office surpassing "Old Nowhere" production expenditure is not less than 60 million, let alone announcement.

And in this situation, while Lehmann was still filming in Nice, "Mission Impossible 3" was drawing near.

When the total data came out, Paramount was even more disappointed.

Sure enough, he still couldn't turn over.

The production cost plus the investment in publicity is close to 185 million. North America only gains 134 million, overseas 263 million, and global 397 million. After deducting theaters, taxes, and shares, there are at least 58 million blanks. This is still the sponsor’s advertising funds. With the subsidy in it, at that moment, the executives of the issuing department wanted to tear up the report.

It's not that Paramount can't afford to lose. In fact, "Mission Impossible 3" relies on a powerful series of peripherals, and spends more than 58 million time to manage it. It is not impossible to recover, but this kind of filling operation really makes people Very unmotivated.

Moreover, hasn't Paramount ever failed in the project? It's normal to make a movie, it's normal to have a loss and make a profit, it's not normal that Paramount doesn't lose five or six independent productions every year.

But the problem is that the first two of the "Mission Impossible" series are both profitable at the box office, and there are not many series in Hollywood that have this ability to attract money, and the market is cold without warning.

Could it be that Brother Tom is not attractive enough?I'm old, no longer, no fans?

No, in the random survey of audience watching, more than 7 Chengdu recognized Tom Cruise, and the reason for filling in was only for him.

So why is the market reaction so strange?

The second one is also over 200 million in North America and 546 million globally. After a few years, you will not recognize this series of movies?

In the conference room, some confused executives of the distribution department listened to Shirley Lansing: "Now is not the time to struggle with the box office. How to reduce our losses is the most important."

The dozen or so management personnel sitting at the conference table look at me, and I look at you. Some bowed their heads in silence, and some wanted to speak but were hesitant.

Until the project was proposed and the production department's deputy manager who led to the birth of the film took the initiative to speak: "I will explain to the board and submit my resignation."

The words were a little lonely, but none of them kept.

In this case, someone must stand up and bear the anger of shareholders after the failure.

It was also after he took the initiative that the briefly stupefied distribution manager took the report and sorted out his thoughts: "The second remuneration and box office share promised to Tom Cruise will be counted as a collateral for the loss of resource input. Give until the offline profit supplements the project failure."

"Well, the broadcast of the TV station is also put on our TV network, and the money is also deducted." Another person said.

"You can settle the announcement with Tom Cruise and let them bear part of it. This is completely his toughness that caused the project to fail."

For the rest of you, you said a word, and quickly found many ways to reduce losses for Paramount.

Although they were still a cooperative and win-win relationship before, they can't "win" anymore, and they have to bear the responsibility of poor production. If they are still good people, they are even more silly and naive.

Of course, these people are not stupid, and they are even very sensitive to similar events. After all, they don't do this once or twice, so they quickly adopted stop loss measures.

No matter how bad the box office of "Mission Impossible 3" is, and whose responsibility is, there is no need to pursue it at this moment.

......

Beverly Hills is located in the Cruise Manor on the half slope of the South Mountain.

But the host here is not in a good mood at this time.

Recently, he was in conflict with Paramount, coupled with the media's ridicule of his poor performance in his performance, he would definitely be very upset by saying that he was mad, so that he particularly hated the entertainment section of the newspaper.

However, because of job demands and professionalism, he still has to keep abreast of new trends in Hollywood.

Early in the morning, he finished his fitness, vented his depression on the treadmill, sweated, took a shower, changed into casual clothes, and picked up several newspapers that he had prepared on the coffee table.

Turning over the entertainment version of the Los Angeles Times, what came into view was a few big words-"After 15 days of release, "X-Men 3: The Last Stronghold" North American box office totaled 157 million, and 378 million worldwide.".

The day when the blockbuster film premiered was the day when "Mission Impossible 3" fell by more than half, and the market was squeezed, which made him very repellent of the news of the movie.

Sometimes he thinks, if no one competes for the market, maybe "Mission Impossible 3" will not be so bad at the box office.

However, the box office of "Mission Impossible 3", which was screened for half a month, was higher in three days. Such amazing results made people feel jealous, only sour.

Then, "Old Nowhere" has 130 million in North America, 220 million in the world, and the Cannes Jury Award.

If "X-Men 3: The Last Stronghold" is backed by the accumulation of fans and huge investment in the series, and the big scenes are constantly hot shots, then the success of "Old Nowhere" is definitely another time for Lyman's personal directing ability. Very good market portrayal.

The successful case of Xiaoboda is not uncommon in Hollywood.

It's not uncommon, and not often encountered, but Lehman has been like this in several movies.

Not to mention that he is not only a director of niche genre films, but he can also control special effects disaster films like "Water Monster in the Lake". This is really...

Similar all-round directors have varied shooting genres and varied themes. Looking at Hollywood, there are only a few people such as Spielberg and Kubrick.

Tom Cruise often pays attention to him because he has worked with Lyman.

Looking back at the filming of "Bad Guy", it was also the first time he tasted that film critics could admire his acting skills.

It's just that although this guy likes to work with acquaintances, he doesn't like to hire big-name actors for his projects, and he can't always drop his salary. Maybe he won't be paid by himself. Apart from occasional polite words, there is not much contact.

Ugh......

Tom Cruise put down the newspaper and half-squinted his mind.

The loss of "Mission Impossible 3" still had a big impact on him.

The most important thing is that this series has always focused on him, and the two years of preparation time, the result is such a result, it is really unacceptable.

Perhaps, as Paramount said, it is my problem?

Or, I'm really overwhelmed. If I play a similar cool role again, the audience will no longer recognize it, and I'm going to transform?

But the transformation is not so easy...

Just as Tom Cruise was thinking about it, the phone rang.

Tom Cruise took the call, and the more he listened, the more angry he became, and finally couldn't help but yell: "How dare they? Don't forget, half of the copyright of this series is in my hands. Tell them if you want to remake It’s better not to do this for this series."

After speaking, Tom Cruise hung up the phone, still unable to suppress his anger.

He sat on the sofa angrily, his temples bulging.

After a long time, he called back the number, and said calmly: "Talk to them, and the accounting firm we commissioned to intervene in the project's income finance. Remember, keep an eye on our interests."

People who are in a disadvantaged position are always scrupulous about those in high positions.

Tom Cruise doesn't want to completely turn his face.

The previous complaints were just to shirk responsibility for the failure of the project. Although he left Paramount, he could still live very well, but if it were not for the most extreme circumstances, he would not do it...