Hollywood Hunter

Hearing Christine's question, Simon nodded, showed her the document in his hand, and said, "If you want to see it, I'll ask them to send a copy over."

Kristin Scott Thomas glanced at the numbers on the document in the man's hand, and said deliberately, "but I want to see the IMAX version. I heard that the visual effects are very shocking."

Simon smiled and said: "Then there is no way to send it to the house, but I can arrange a VIP show for you, um, and Julie, you can watch it together in the morning?"

Juliette Binoche was looking at the numbers on the report in the man's hand, feeling a little unreal. When she heard the words, she raised her head and said, "There are only two of us in the hall with hundreds of people, Simon, I don't want to be so extravagant."

The current IMAX theaters under Daenerys are halls with hundreds of people. After all, the cost is placed there, and it is difficult for the small hall to break even.

This situation can only change after digital promotion in the future.

Kristin actually wanted to be extravagant and said expectantly, "Simon, are you free to watch with us?"

"I've seen samples too many times in private. You know, eating a dish over and over again can get boring."

Kristin pretended to be disappointed with a sigh, and touched the delicate face of Juliet Binoche in the man's arms with a mockery: "Simon, you shouldn't be tired of this dish, right?"

Juliet blushed again, directly opened her mouth and bit Christine's finger, seeing the other party's pained cries, and countered: "You are the dish."

Simon smiled and let the cats fight, his eyes turned to the report in his hand.

The two women didn't intend to do anything, and they bickered a few more times, then quickly stopped and aimed at the document together.

After a while, Juliet couldn't hold back and said in disbelief: "Simon, it's just $46.37 million in one day, is this... true?"

In Juliette Binoche's perception, even if there are many big-selling films, the box office of a week is probably more than 40 million US dollars, and most of the films that the actress has acted in in the past have grossed the total box office. , not even so much!

On the first day, it exceeded 46 million, so for the whole week, wouldn't it cost 200 million US dollars.

Two hundred million!

Simon felt the good scent of the woman in his arms, rubbed his chin on her slanted face, and said with a smile: "The opening screen of more than 5,000 yuan, and all IMAX theaters in North America, 46 million on the first day. , very normal."

Julia shrank a little from the man's light stubble, but she liked a certain feeling inexplicably. She wanted to get closer, but she was embarrassed, so she could only continue the topic she was discussing: "In this case, um... this movie is the first In a week, the box office will exceed 200 million US dollars, huh?"

"No surprise, it should be like this."

On the first day, it was 46.37 million. It is easy to calculate. The three-day box office number in the first weekend should reach about 140 million. For seven days, even if next Thursday is Thanksgiving, many potential audiences will give up going out to watch the movie and dine with their families, but it does not prevent " Justice League: The Invasion hit more than $200 million for the full week.

Seeing that the two were chatting hotly, Kristin interjected: "It's incredible, when will I be able to star in a movie that breaks $200 million at the box office in its first week."

"It takes luck," Simon said. "However, if you don't mind the size of the character, you can make a cameo in some super blockbuster movies."

Whether it was the original "Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice" or the later "Titanic", and then to this "Justice League: Invasion", the box office volume in North America alone is $6.7 billion. After all, it is a phenomenon very few grades.

At this stage, the local volume of most blockbuster films is still around $300 million.

Like the Lord of the Rings series.

Therefore, Christine needs a lot of luck to appear in such a film.

Simon's only certainty is probably only the planned future "Avengers" in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

Kristin raised his hand and put his hand on Simon's shoulder, leaning over again, expectantly: "Simon, what if I mind?"

Cameo?

So insincere!

Simon has not spoken yet, and Juliet, who has a straightforward personality, has already overthrown: "Then you will never have a chance."

Christine: "…"

If the man wasn't here again, she would definitely not be able to hold out her hand and pinch that little mouth.

Too talkative.

Please open your mouth a little and speak hard!

When the three were gossiping about the box office of "Justice League: Invasion" on the first day, North America, and even all over the world, were also buzzing with related discussions.

Most are cheers, admiration and emotion, but there is no shortage of dissent.

For example, the high box office of "Justice League: Invasion" on the first day will most directly affect other films in the same period.

Although most of the new films have chosen to avoid it, there is still a Paramount comedy film on the line at the same time. This is the latest family comedy from 'The White-Headed Detective' Leslie Nielsen, called "Mr. Gardener", about a A middle-class town has all the fun surrounding a $100,000 private garden competition.

This $30 million warm comedy, which also fits the atmosphere of the upcoming Thanksgiving, has a pass-level media score of 6.7, which is not a bad work, but it is under the strong crush of "Justice League: Invasion". , the first-day box office was only a pitiful $780,000.

That's right, 780,000, not 7.8 million.

The first day was $780,000, and it is expected that the film's box office will be just over $3 million for the entire week.

Destined to be a box office tragedy.

In addition to this poor new film, even blockbuster old films such as "Scream 2" and "The Conjuring 4: Reaper" have been hit much harder than most people had imagined.

Among them, "Scream 2" is only in the second week of its release. The year-on-year decline in a single day on the past Friday was as high as 63%. If this trend is maintained throughout the week, the total box office of this film in a single week will be reduced from the first week. The $41.43 million plummeted to around $15 million.

There is no possibility of any local breaking 100 million.

The first part of this project, North America, got an excellent result of 146 million US dollars.

In short, the result of "Justice League: Invasion" thriving is undoubtedly the withering of other flowers.

On the FB platform, a film critic with more than 300,000 fans expressed strong concern about this, and believes that the excessive prosperity of super blockbusters such as "Justice League: Invasion" should be suppressed, because behind this seemingly prosperous situation, it is very likely that It will damage the fundamentals of Hollywood and make the American film market lose the living space for other types of films.

This remark came out, and it quickly aroused a lot of resonance.

Speaking of which, this is also consistent with Simon's private point of view. It should not be too blockbuster and should maintain the diversity of Hollywood.

However, while the debate is widespread, many people have to admit the fact that the Hollywood film industry landscape has undergone fundamental changes unknowingly.

Simply put, it is the Matthew effect, the stronger the stronger, the weaker gradually lose their living space.

Just say "Justice League: Invasion", according to the box office estimate on the first day, North America reached the domestic box office of "Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice" five years ago of 700 million US dollars. It is not a big problem, and the world is likely to hit the 2 billion mark again. .

If the goal is achieved, this means that even if the total cost of the project reaches 350 million US dollars, Daenerys and Time Warner will reap nearly 500 million US dollars in profits in the global theatrical release stage.

Just a movie with a profit of $500 million, what is the concept?

Take this year's Fortune Global 500 as an example, among the 500 most powerful companies in the world, there are 224, or nearly half, with an annual profit of less than US$500 million. In other words, the revenue of a single "Justice League: Invasion" movie, um... just the box office revenue at the theatrical release stage, exceeds the annual profit level of nearly half of the 500 most powerful companies in the world.

This is not counting the toys, clothing, games and many other peripherals that were popular in the same period of "Justice League: Invasion".

Not to mention the sequel.

With the size of "Justice League: Invasion", not to mention the current rental market that is at its peak, even if the TV channel in the future, if the TV station wants to buy the broadcast rights in the future, it will definitely be broadcast on a per-view basis, don't think about monthly subscriptions And so on, and each time the offer is played, it will not be lower than the level of tens of millions of dollars.

Therefore, even though the global market continues to expand and peripheral channels continue to enrich, a super blockbuster like "Justice League: Invasion" is still too dazzling. The more direct impact of this dazzling is that it has unknowingly squeezed the living space of many other movies.

This trend, including Simon, can be understood by many people, but it is not so easy to reverse it.