Hollywood Hunter

Simon flew back to Los Angeles with the girl in the afternoon. This was on Thursday, July 27th. "Kung Fu", which was about to open on a large scale the next day, happened to hold a small premiere in Los Angeles, and Simon did not attend.

It's not a big movie after all.

Speaking of which, the original New World Pictures team also considered whether to conduct some pre-screening of "Kung Fu" in order to accumulate word of mouth.

In the end it didn't work.

Because it is not necessary.

Since its Cannes premiere in May, the news of "Kung Fu" has been spreading in the North American entertainment circle, even if the starring Zhou Xingxing is not as famous in the United States as Jack Cheng, Jet Li and others, but it has continued for several months. Constantly flooding with information, from the film itself to the leading actors, I am very familiar with the screen of Chinese-language films after a little attention.

In addition, recently, "Kung Fu" has frequently set box office records in the Chinese-speaking regions on the other side of the ocean.

Even the premiere on July 27.

Although Simon did not attend the premiere, not only a large group of Chinese faces familiar in North America, but also many local Hollywood stars were arranged here to attend the premiere. The last wave of assists on the online platform was even more powerful. Extensive, in short, the popularity and word-of-mouth accumulation that a movie should have before it is released, "Kung Fu" is enough, and even the popularity foundation laid by Chinese-language films in this period in previous years. Next, all you need to watch is just The market performance of the film itself.

Friday, July 28.

In the new box office week, "Kung Fu" officially opened in North America with a scale of 2,509 screens. For a Chinese-language film, such an opening scale is also sufficient.

At the same time, there is a box office week that just ended.

"Black Dahlia" directed by Brian de Palma reached the top without any accident, but apparently because of the second half of the summer season, the performance of "Black Dahlia" is far from the series in June or even early July. The strength of the blockbuster, the final first-week box office of 43.91 million US dollars.

within expectations.

The final North American box office of the film is probably around the 100 million threshold. Compared with the production cost of "Black Dahlia" of 50 million US dollars, only the North American local theater stage can recover the previous production investment, and overseas can enter the profit cycle in the same period.

As the second project of the 'L.A. tetralogy', it is expected that it is unlikely to hit the Oscars this time. At most, it is only Mia Kirschner's best supporting actress nomination plus one or two technical awards, but commercial still successful. Of course, it is also a quite satisfactory success. The dark horse is definitely not a black horse, but there is nothing unsatisfactory.

Then, Daenerys Entertainment's own worth mentioning is "The Hangover 2", which received an additional $16.43 million in its fourth week of release, bringing the cumulative box office to $166.19 million.

Because of a deep drop of 55% in the previous week, "The Hangover 2" has no hope of hitting 200 million, but with the current trend, the final domestic box office will also be between 180 million and 190 million US dollars. Not only that, judging from overseas feedback in recent weeks, the overseas box office of "The Hangover 2" is also expected to reach between 300 million and 400 million US dollars, eventually pushing the film's global total to more than 500 million US dollars.

With a total investment of 80 million US dollars in production and publicity, the global revenue is 500 million. It is expected that it is expected to harvest a net profit of 150 million US dollars in the theater stage, which is a great success.

With the big sale of "The Hangover 2", as expected, Ukraine has become a very popular tourist destination this summer, especially Rivny in Rivne, where the recent increase in tourists has increased by 300% compared to the same period last year. The above, some time can not be received.

At the same time, the success of the film itself has also made the third part the focus of many people's attention.

Not only the main creators of the project and the team inside Daenerys, the outside world is also closely watching the next sequel project of this series, because the Atlantic City in the first part and the Ukraine Rivni in the second part are due to the Among them, the appearance has received good publicity, and some countries have also taken the initiative to contact them, hoping to become the location of "The Hangover 3".

Simon was not very interested in this.

It is not only the previously set strategy of delaying the development of the sequel, but the success of the first two films, it is inevitable that the production cost of "The Hangover 3" will further increase to more than 70 million yuan.

Although as long as there is no big difference, even if the cost is greatly increased, the profit is still not very rare, and, compared with various original projects, the risk is actually quite small, but after all, it gives people a bit of tasteless feeling.

In short, Simon is not planning to launch a sequel in the short term, provided there is no shortage of other better options.

Next is "Charlie's Angels 2".

In the fifth week of its release, the box office of "Charlie's Angels 2" fell to $13.49 million in a single week. However, compared to "The Hangover 2", which unfortunately stopped within the 200 million threshold, it was also the first week of the 90 million level. "Charlie's Angels" 2" had successfully surpassed the local 200 million mark last week, and this week's box office went even further, reaching 220.22 million US dollars.

The follow-up is expected to have a box office potential of about 20 million, and the final box office will be around 240 million US dollars.

In addition, the overseas performance of "Charlie's Angels 2" is also stronger than that of "The Hangover 2". Following the overseas feedback in recent weeks, the final overseas revenue is expected to be more than 400 million US dollars. $600 million to $700 million.

Last but not least is Finding Nemo.

This 3D animated film, which opened in early June, just made $10.01 million in the past week, and it will slip into the box office range of 10 million US dollars this week. After 8 weeks of release, the cumulative total box office of "Finding Nemo" has reached 332.66 million US dollars , the follow-up will collect another 20 million or so, and the total domestic box office of the film will be pushed up to 350 million US dollars, which is not a big problem.

In addition, in the past two months, the overseas box office of "Finding Nemo" has exceeded 400 million US dollars, and it is expected that there will be another 200 million US dollars in the revenue range, and the overseas box office will eventually reach 600 million US dollars.

350 million domestically, 600 million overseas, and over 900 million US dollars globally. It is obvious that whether the threshold of 10 can be broken in the end, although everyone is looking forward to it, but I have to admit that the door seems to be right in front of you. Not so easy.

In any case, Finding Nemo is already the most successful film of the year 2000.

A little regret is still around.

During this time, clownfish around the world were sold to the extent that animal protection organizations came out to protest, but Daenerys Entertainment could not do this live fish business after all.

With the release of "Kung Fu", the 2000 North American summer program has entered the follow-up finishing stage, and at the same time, the time will soon come to August.

In the new month, Simon's first concern is another G8 summit from July 31 to August 2.

This year's G8 summit was held in Okinawa, Japan. There are two main topics, one is still globalization, and the other is new technology.

Simon has joined the excitement of G8 in the UK and Germany in the past two years. It stands to reason that this year's topic is new technology, and he should attend.

However, did not go.

In addition to the US military base in Okinawa, there is really nothing to pay attention to, not to mention that I have only been to Asia for a long time before, and I am too lazy to run again.

Of course, on the other hand, Japan does not want Simon to appear.

The Westeros effect is terrifying.

In fact, I also thought about it, deliberately doing this, I don't care if you are afraid. However, everyone is an adult, and they are so busy, so forget it.

Although Simon did not last, the three-day meeting was quite lively.

In addition to the last round of foreign affairs visits to Asia, Clinton and other heads of state of the seven countries who will soon arrive in Vietnam, which are more concerned by the Westeros system, leaders of many regional countries have also been invited.

Then, a group of small countries such as the Philippines and Malaysia also produced a communique before the G8 communique was published.

The content is mainly condemnation.

Condemned the various developed countries for not fulfilling their commitments to help reduce the debt of developing countries.

This is actually a topic that has been covered in the G8 meetings for several consecutive years after the Asian financial turmoil. But, of course, everyone is just talking. In this regard, the spokesperson of the G8 meeting also publicly stated that developed countries can only provide assistance to reduce debt, mainly relying on the efforts of developing countries themselves.

Saying it means not saying it.

Then there is the usual protest by Okinawa residents against the stationing of the U.S. military in Okinawa. Recently, a disturbing incident happened. A U.S. military in Okinawa, um, according to the mandarin language, forcibly had **** with a local middle school student. Therefore, the public resentment was once again provoked.

Not only that, but South Korea, which has always been at odds with Japan, echoes far away.

Local residents in Seoul protested against the damage to the environment by the local garrison, and directly discharged untreated formaldehyde into the Han River.

Speaking of which, when Simon saw this kind of news, he immediately understood the source of inspiration for "The Monster of the Han River" in the original time and space.

It's exactly the same.

In addition, there are actually details. The formaldehyde and other substances emitted by the US military seem to be used to preserve corpses. As for why and what corpses to preserve, Simon did not inquire in depth. After all, it is a matter that affects appetite.

The two things that happened at the same time ended up with a good result.

Apologize.

The local U.S. military representatives in Okinawa and Seoul apologized before and after, and said they would investigate and strictly deal with those responsible.

Barbara.

Speaking of which, it is a habit for the U.S. military stationed in Japan to apologize. Anyway, it will definitely not change.

However, on the Seoul side, according to the news, this is the first public apology for his actions since the U.S. military stationed in South Korea in 1945.

first.

The treatment is obvious.

To my son, my own side is not doing very well, so I will show it to some extent.

Right... Well, Simon doesn't know how to describe it. In short, it's the first apology in half a century.

However, as the largest country in the universe, extending the time to the 20 billion-year lifespan of the universe is equivalent to an apology in an instant compared to the U.S. military stationed in South Korea for half a human century, which must be a big win. Total victory, and as a result, the local South Korean newspapers generally covered the event in a triumphant tone.

After paying attention to the liveliness on the other side of the ocean from a distance, Simon's attention turned back to North America again.

A box-office week of July 28 to August 3 ended quickly.

The much-anticipated "Kung Fu" did not disappoint. In the first week of its North American release, it successfully won a box office of 37.93 million US dollars, and the average hall reached 13,000 US dollars, which was quite a big hit.

Speaking of which, both Simon and the Xuanfa team were a little worried that North American audiences would not be able to adapt to Zhou Xingxing's performance style. Even in this movie, Zhou has quite restrained his own characteristics. Fortunately, the worry did not happen.

37.93 million in the first week, it may be difficult to break through 100 million, but there will be no problem with 80 million.

Equivalent to "Hero".

After all, the production cost of "Kung Fu" was only 25 million US dollars. It was only in mainland China before. It is estimated that the basic box office of 500 million yuan has recovered most of the cost. On the North American side, how much it gets is profit.

Of course, Simon's personal satisfaction does not mean that everyone is satisfied.

However, compared to the regrets of a group of creators including Zhou and other related parties, Simon has always remained sober.

Chinese movies, after all, only opened a 'Kung Fu' label in North America.

Although Simon is not what some people on the original timeline think, Westerners have watched a few films and lost interest, thus causing Chinese-language films to lose their market in Hollywood. In fact, it's just that Chinese-language filmmakers themselves failed to make good films. And make a good announcement, but if you can't get rid of this label, it won't last long.

Simon, on the other hand, was in high spirits at first.

But, gradually, some struggle is inevitable. w;

After all, it was a fish that came ashore.

In any case, things in the future will be discussed in the future.

One thing after another at the moment.

For example, this weekend, I didn’t leave Los Angeles, and I worked as usual. In the morning, I decided to watch the documentary Brahmaputra Grand Canyon, which has entered the final stage of publicity.

This is a project right after last year's Everest.

Speaking of which, if it can be successful, even if it is slightly worse than last year's "Mount Everest", as long as it has enough repercussions, it can open up a small label for Chinese movies that is not too mainstream.

The film's creative team obviously worked hard for this goal.

Just before the release ceremony of "Kung Fu", not only did Jiang Mi, the star of "Yalung Zangbo Grand Canyon", attend in full costume, but even for the first time, as the premiere film, a pre-trailer was also included, which is exactly this one. Trailer for the documentary.

In short, "Yarlung Zangbo Grand Canyon", which is scheduled to be released on August 18, is a gimmick to follow last year's "Mount Everest", coupled with a series of recent smart promotions, it can be regarded as attracting a lot of attention.

Although it is nearing the release, it is definitely too late to change, Simon still intends to see it for himself.

Unexpectedly, in a screening room of Daenerys Studios, not long after the documentary started, a woman suddenly knocked on the door.

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