Hollywood Hunter

Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, Las Vegas, Chicago, Miami, Philadelphia, New York, Boston.

From west to east, from north to south.

Hold the premiere, interact with fans, participate in TV shows, accept interviews with local newspapers...

After traveling around nine cities in just half a month, when the team finished recording a program on a local TV station in Boston and finally announced the end of the carpet marketing journey, Courteney Cox felt that she was going to disperse.

I felt a little bit weak on the big bed of the hotel where the Boston Cambridge team was staying. I couldn't help but think of a guy, and suddenly felt bitter.

Participating in "Screaming Scream", he only got a newcomer price of 200,000 US dollars, but he had to be called like a first-line actress with a salary of 2 million. What is even more annoying is that he clearly told himself that this movie is not It will make her popular, but it may affect her future career.

but.

Bastard, did you give me another choice?

Tired with resentment, he fell asleep unconsciously. When I was awakened by the knock on the door, the sky outside the window had completely darkened.

Today is October 28th, the first day of "Screaming".

Now that I have done everything I should and can do, I was a bit self-defeating, what is the box office, what is my business. But at this time I found myself still wondering if this movie would be popular.

It is rumored that the script of the film was conceived by the guy himself, but there was no signature, saying that he did not want to cause controversy like "Instinct". This gossip has been very hot in the media recently, and accidentally discovered that Daenerys Entertainment deliberately contributed to it, but never gave an accurate answer.

She knows the truth.

He really conceived it personally. I met him at a marketing meeting before the start of this publicity trip. When asked in a joke, he personally admitted.

So there is a little sense of superiority.

Get up and wash up, go out to have dinner with everyone, and recently a group of people who have been acquainted with each other recently proposed to see a movie of her own in person, and she readily agreed.

Everyone rushed to an AMC theater on the banks of the Charles River. At any rate, they were little stars. Naturally, the staff helped them buy the movie tickets in advance, so they can directly often. However, everyone did not seem too anxious. After entering the theater hall, a group of six people curiously observed the surroundings. It was during the golden movie viewing period, the ticket office was lined up, and the hall was posted everywhere. The poster, from this point, it can be seen that Daenerys Entertainment has completely achieved the ultimate in publicity.

Because they didn't cover up too much, they were quickly recognized by the men and women in the hall. A group of people rushed forward, asking for autographs, saying hello, purely curious, and there were many people. Habitually squeeze out the friendly smiles that I have developed during this period of time to interact with the audience. It took nearly ten minutes before everyone was able to enter the theater.

This is a theater with only about 100 people in the early years. A few people consciously choose the back row and wait patiently. When the movie starts, the theater is densely packed, and there are almost no vacancies.

Finally completely relieved.

The movie was performed by myself and others. Naturally, I didn’t pay much attention to the plot. It took nearly two hours before I knew it. I heard the surrounding audience screaming and screaming. There is a key plot at the end. Above, there was a guy with a loud voice who couldn't help but yelled'Run, idiot', which made many people glared.

Leaving the open theater, he was inevitably stopped again.

The cinema manager, who is very good at the opportunity, also specially prepared a batch of posters for everyone to sign and send to the audience. After half an hour of so busy, the team took a photo of a commercial vehicle to pick up people, and a group of people squeezed into the spacious general commercial vehicle. , She vaguely felt that this was not arranged again, right?

The guy who led the team to publicize, Mark Belford, I heard that he personally promoted to the "Screaming and Screaming" publicity team at a meeting. He is indeed the kind of very smart and capable guy who habitually grasps everything. Opportunity to publicize the film, Robert Rem also takes it seriously.

But it doesn't matter anymore.

Returning to the hotel where they were staying, everyone gathered in a bar downstairs for a while, and when it approached late night, they returned to rest individually, looking forward to the box office data of the film.

It will definitely be good.

Because of the time difference, the east coast is already wee hours, and the west coast is not yet nine o'clock in the evening.

The market has been in a downturn for more than a month, and too many people in Los Angeles are also paying attention to "Scream". For Daenerys Entertainment’s marketing offensive like the promotion of blockbuster films, naturally some people disagreed, thinking it was a very unwise move, but when the theaters reported another queuing phenomenon after the summer break, Many people's moods have become complicated.

Inside a mansion halfway up the mountain in Beverly Hills.

Warner Bros. Pictures CEO Terry Semel did not rest all night.

This Halloween schedule, due to the lack of films, other major Hollywood film companies have no choice but to give up. Only Warner Bros.'s "Oolong Detective" and "Screaming Scream" were released at the same time.

"Oolong Detective" is a female derivative version of Warner's best-selling series "Gold Medal Police Academy", starring Hollywood beauty Rebecca de Moni.

In 1984, the first film of "Gold Medal Police Academy" earned more than US$81 million in North American box office at a production cost of US$4.5 million, ranking sixth in the list that year. In recent years, Warner has continued to develop the " "Gold Medal Police Academy" sequel.

However, due to the screenwriter's strike, the quality of "The Oolong Detective" was severely affected. During the internal screening stage, a group of executives looked at the chaotic plot and basically had no expectations. Only 850 screens were arranged for this release. You know, the "Gold Medal Police Academy 5" at the beginning of the year, although the final box office results were not satisfactory, it got 1,700 yuan to open the screen.

In recent years, the theater ticketing system has been updated, and now it is relatively accurate to quickly calculate the approximate single-day box office data.

When I woke up in the morning, Terry Semel completely gave up the last glimmer of expectations without checking the box office data fax for the first time. He knows very well that if there is good news, the company will send the data as soon as possible, and the executives of the publicity department may even call in person.

After waiting until eight o'clock, the fax machine finally sent a page of data.

Terry Semel, who had just retrieved today's newspaper from the outside, took a quick glance at the page of data, and even a wry smile appeared on his face. The box office of "Screaming" is higher than expected, and the data of "Oolong Detective" is lower than expected.

The single-day box office gross report only counts the top ten movies.

On the first day of the painting, the box office of "Screaming Scream" with 1,755 screens was a hit, and preliminary statistics on the first day were about 4.5 million US dollars.

The second-ranked "Moonlight Panic 4", roughly equivalent to the screen size of 1,692, the box office on the first day of the second week of screening was 1.5 million US dollars, only one-third of "Screaming".

Paramount's "Pear Flower", Fox's "Alien Empire", Universal's "Fog Locking Crisis", and Columbia's "Headline Joke" four old films that have been released for several weeks followed closely.

Although it is a new film, "The Oolong Detective" was directly dropped to the seventh place on the single-day list. This film, which cost the same $10 million as "Scream", only had a poor box office of 350,000 on the first day. The dollar was less than one-tenth of the box office of "Screaming" on the first day.

Putting down the box office report in his hand, Terry Semel sat down on the sofa in the living room and began to read today's newspaper.

"Los Angeles Times", "Variety", "Hollywood Reporter" and so on, although not all positive reviews, but every newspaper appeared a large block of "Scream" film review articles, it is the turn of " Oolong Detective, even only two professional magazines, Variety Show and The Hollywood Reporter, barely mentioned it.

Having worked in Hollywood for so many years, Terry Semel understands a truth very well. What's worse than one-sided reviews is that no one commented at all. "Oolong Detective" encountered this worst situation.

The first day of 350,000 US dollars, less than one-tenth of the box office data of "Scream", obviously means an ultra-low attendance rate. The theater will definitely quickly withdraw this movie after the two-week contract is over. , The total box office may be only 3 million US dollars, still not as good as the first day of "Scream".

In comparison, with a box office of 4.5 million US dollars on the first day of the painting, "Screaming and Screaming" will obviously have a very beautiful long line.

Terry Semmel suddenly thought of an opinion formed in the media during the release of "Instinct", starting with "When Harry Meets Sally", then "Pulp Fiction" and "Instinct", produced by Daenerys Entertainment The movie has been carrying out a 100 million box office relay. The first three movies have successfully completed their goals. Now, "Scream" is likely to continue Daenerys Entertainment's relay road.

The fourth film with a box office exceeding 100 million.

Before that, Hollywood did not necessarily have four movies with a box office of more than 100 million yuan a year. Now, a small company that has only just risen less than two years has achieved this goal, which is incredible.

Putting down the newspaper in his hand, Terry Semel hesitated for a moment, then picked up the phone and dialed the number of Simon's residence.

Warner now has two film collaborations with Daenerys Entertainment. At least on the surface, it should be okay to call to congratulate them, and it will not cost much.

Malibu.

Although it was Saturday, Simon still got up early and received the box office data report from the company as soon as possible. On the first day of 4.5 million US dollars, it exceeded expectations and completely relaxed. Janet had already come back from France, habitually staying in bed, so she began to prepare breakfast for the two of them. Although occasionally complaining half-jokingly, in fact, this is probably the only thing he needs to do at home.

After seven o'clock, breakfast was ready, and Simon went to the bedroom.

The woman was still asleep, Simon looked around and decided to wake her up later. He picked up a folder by the bed and walked out of the bedroom again. October is the month when the new quarterly financial reports of listed companies are released. In the folder are several financial reports of listed companies held by Westeros and the financial reports of Westeros itself in the previous quarter.

Listed companies in North America generally pay dividends on a quarterly basis.

According to preliminary statistics, in the third quarter just past, the total cash or equity dividends received by Westeros is equivalent to approximately 26.3 million US dollars. Based on this figure, it is estimated that it can receive about 100 million US dollars of various types of dividends throughout the year. Relative to the total value of the stock held by Westeros, this number is not high, probably only equivalent to 5% of the annual interest, not as good as the income of some long-term bonds.

However, due to the generally better-than-expected quarterly financial report, the stock prices of technology stocks held by Westeros have generally risen. The total value of the statistics in the last week has reached 1.930 billion US dollars, compared with the August when Forbes announced the rich list. The total value of US$1.8 billion has risen again by US$130 million.

Obviously, stock price appreciation is the most important point for most investors.

In the past half month since returning from France, Janet has been helping Simon to read these financial reports. Although he always looks casually, Simon knows that women are definitely more dedicated than anyone else around him. She helps to stare at them. Simon didn't worry about any discrepancies.

As Janet, she personally explained Westeros’ quarterly earnings to Simon until midnight.

Nearly eight o'clock, Simon received a number of congratulatory calls from Amy Pascal, Terry Semel and others to the box office of "Screaming Scream", and then he came to the bedroom again to call Janet to get up.

It still works on weekends.

With the box office data on the first day, many other movie-related information are quickly summarized.

Overall, the reputation of "Scream and Scream" is not very good, barely surpassing 7 points, but it is obvious that the public popularity of this film far exceeds that of all other movies in the same period. Moreover, Daenerys Entertainment’s highly targeted publicity strategy has always focused its attention on the young people. These people happen to be not too concerned about the media reputation, but are more inclined to word of mouth from their classmates and friends.

"Screaming and Screaming" unknowingly formed a movie-watching boom among the youth group, and the three days of the weekend quickly passed.

October 31st, Monday.

The preparation box office data for the past weekend was released smoothly.

Like half of the first day's box office gross report, "Screaming Scream" is still unsurprisingly ahead of all other movies in the same period. In the end, the box office reached 13.79 million US dollars in the first weekend. Only this first weekend box office result has exceeded the total North American box office of most other films released in October.

Moreover, this kind of start, as long as the box office decline is not too serious, this is obviously another North American movie with a box office of over 100 million. Seeing this data, whether it is within Hollywood or the North American media, a faint sense of numbness can't help but produce.

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