Hollywood legendary director

Chapter 3

At 9:00 a.m., during one of Blue Butterfly's regular meetings, Lyman walked in and was surrounded by his subordinates congratulating him.

All in all, even though the press has been less than stellar, "Supersoul" still has a first-class screening curve at its price point.

"Yesterday I went to see their manager at Emperor Cinema Line, and they were discussing how much to add to the screening."

"I was in charge of hiring a survey company to take back those audience questionnaires, and our movie has been very well received by the audience, especially the male audience.

"Well, I've seen those audience reviews online, and it's mostly men, especially young men, between the ages of 16 and 25, who have the best response to the movie, and they're all saying good things about it, and it's quite a bit of tap water, and the one that's been praised the most is also Scarlett's part."

"Don't tell me, the number one real-time search hotspot over at Yahoo is Scarlett's performance in Supernatural, and searches for content about her are skyrocketing, and the diversion effect is outstanding."

"This time she's finally taking the lead on a commercial film all by herself, and the industry will have to re-evaluate her box office appeal."

"That's good, because we've signed multiple film contracts with her, and the more topical they are, the better the roadies will be, and we'll be the ones to benefit in the end. Win-win?"

After all, by all accounts, Super Body is on the right track to success, and the audience shows no signs of collapsing, so there is no pressure to show it.

The crowd was in a good mood, and so was Lyman.

Jokingly, I remembered that Scarlett and her agent had called to thank her last night, and my face was overflowing with joy - and I was happy.

In fact, the box office revenue obtained by "Super Body" on Friday and Saturday is already too high for other movies to catch up with in the same period, and Scarlett and her team of agents will certainly be specially thankful after locking up the weekly chart in advance.

As we've said before, Hollywood chases winners, just as the industry would not give Scarlett the biggest credit for the success of "Complex" in terms of actors' portrayals, but would attribute the failure of "Escape from Clone Island" to her - by the weight of the scene, the number of scenes.

So, it's not hard to imagine that the more successful a big female drama like "Superbody" is, the more her career will move forward.

Of course, they've moved on very quickly, according to her agency team themselves: after the screening, offers are coming in, and they're weighing them against each other.

In other words, if she hadn't already taken on "America's Team 2," she probably would have already booked a performance slot, and even then, the commercials and commercial appearances would have been enough for the girl's team to pick their eyes.

On the other end of the phone, their excitement could not be faked and their gratitude was sincere.

After all, in Hollywood, the fee is only one part of the flow, and with popularity, the circle is full of good people for you.

Even Lyman, after the deep bundle, is not also a strong support for her, and is sincere in the promotion of resources are tilted to her, spent more than 20 million to promote the fee.

"Okay, let's talk business." Looking at his boss sitting on the sidelines, Liam put away his smile and said a little more seriously, "Eddie, you'll start with a report on the screenings in the movie market."

Eddie, a white, 30-something member of the distribution management team, held a box office file and said, "Last weekend, with our movies, there were five new releases in the top 10: Relativity Entertainment's romantic comedy 'Take Me Home Tonight', which was ranked 10th in 2003 with an average of $1,729 at 3.46 million theaters.

The CBS Films label's adaptation of the fantasy-adventure drama "The Beast" ranked fourth in 1,952 theaters, grossing $9.85 million with an average of $5,046.

Universal Pictures sub-label General Image's thriller "The Bureau of Destiny," starring Matt Damon and Emily, ranked third at 2,840 theaters with an average of $7,449 and $21.15 million in receipts.

The Lucasfilm-funded and Paramount-distributed animated film, Rango, came in second with $31.1 million at 3,200 theaters with an average venue of $9,721. ...... and our action sci-fi film, "Superbody," which took the top spot with $51.68 million at 3,400 theaters for $15,200 per theater." Eddie began to analyze the positive information revealed by the market.

"From the perspective of the North American market as a whole, the Top 20 titles combined achieved $163 million, which is 13 percent higher than the same period last year and 7 percent more than last month, indicating a recent trend in the masses' entertainment choices and a relative expansion in the matter of going to the movies. That's good for all of us."

Yes, the more good movies there are, or the more projects the studios produce above the passing line, the easier it is to get the masses interested in going to the movies.

Again, times are changing, movies and TV shows are not the most frequent entertainment for a new generation of people, and how to attract them with content is only becoming more important to production companies.

The days of bad movies, bad movies and TV shows that have no character whatsoever, only get worse.

Eddie went on to report: "The audience for our films is 7.2 percent male, with another 60 percent over the age of 16 and under 30. In general, The Incredibles is very manly or the biggest impulse for fans to enter theaters is to see Scarlett's performance, so ...... Our core audience is very stable, and there are not many parts that overlap with other films to compete, but Universal's Destiny Planning Bureau invested 65 million dollars, which is far more than what we spent, but its first week performance was unsatisfactory, probably the return on investment is extremely low cost performance, a bad one, if the next week's box office is squeezed too much by the period film, it is likely to lose money."

It's simple.

According to the market performance of "Super Body", the new films of the same period must not be able to raise the idea of competition, "Rango" is not far behind, the only animated film hanging on the list, the audience is also very stable, then the probability is that the original opening is not bright, and the word of mouth is not very good, "Destiny Planning Bureau" will be targeted out of the game.

"What's our plan?" Lyman asked.

"Because the theater will support us, we will expand the number of screenings this weekend, not much, I guess it will be around 3700, 3800. In that case, in order to maintain the buy-in, I'm going to add $10 million in additional publicity money, continue to help Johnson Scarlett build momentum and attract audiences with her rising curb appeal, and attack Destiny's Innocence.

The market is very restrained, and all we and other distributors have to do is release a negative press release about its unfavorable screening, so that the film's negativity spreads, and naturally, there will be one less enemy to divert audiences in the schedule. After all, there are many more people who want it to fail than we do." Liam was quick to judge, "As for the overseas market, Don, you'll have to report on the results first."

Don, who is of mixed American descent and around 40, stood up and said, "In the first batch of simultaneous territories, the UK got $5.09 million in the first weekend, Spain 3.41 million, Portugal 360,000, Netherlands 720,000, Denmark 440,000, France 12.85 million ...... Croatia's $73,000, and to sum it up, the total overseas first-weekend total for "Superbody" is $48.85 million.

According to this trend, when the second batch of regions, especially China, Japan and Korea, catch up with the results, the overseas box office will be very optimistic to exceed the North American box office. ......"