Hollywood Hunter

After consecutive holidays, the working life of the North American public gradually returned to normal.

For Hollywood, the first full week at the box office in 1990 also quietly passed. This week, "Batman: Hour of War" is still the focus of everyone's attention.

From January 5 to January 11, the third week of its release, the one-week box office of "Batman: Hour of War" saw a significant drop, a 33% drop compared to last week.

However, because of the box office base of more than 80 million US dollars last week, "Batman: Hour of War" this week has fallen by 33%, and the box office revenue is still as high as 59.51 million US dollars. In three weeks, the cumulative box office of this groundbreaking superhero movie quickly broke the 200 million U.S. dollar mark, reaching 230.69 million U.S. dollars.

Under the brilliance of "Batman: Hour of War", all other movies in the same period are not worth mentioning.

Because the film has the same hot media attention as the box office, during this period, many news related to the film have become the focus of the media.

The first is naturally the DC superhero universe project that was born with "Batman: Hour of War".

According to various sources, Daenerys Entertainment and Warner Bros. Pictures will jointly develop a number of superhero movie projects under DC’s Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman in the next few years, and integrate all of them through a complete story line. The films are connected to form a large-scale DC superhero movie universe series.

After the news was officially released, not only fans and movie fans were boiling, but a large number of media also began to find ways to dig out more information about the DC Cinematic Universe project. A group of senior leaders from Time Warner and Daenerys have become chased by reporters these days. Object.

Pay close attention to the progress of the negotiations between the two companies on the implementation details of the DC Cinematic Universe project. At the same time, after the celebration party of "Batman: Hour of War" last Saturday, another very topical gossip quickly spread.

At the beginning of the "Batman: Hour of War" project, Adam Baldwin, Valerie Galino and other leading actors all signed a long-term contract with Daenerys Entertainment. This matter is not a secret to the outside world. At the beginning, many people questioned whether Daenerys Entertainment needed to do so.

As the film's box office exploded, some of the creators who were rumored to have signed long-term contracts became dissatisfied with the pay they received, hoping to renegotiate the agreement.

In order to express its dissatisfaction with this behavior, Daenerys Entertainment directly cancelled the original plan to give all crew members of "Batman: Hour of War" an additional cash reward program totaling tens of millions of dollars.

This rumor was simply too topical and enough to attract the public's attention, so it was quickly hyped.

The first thing the media talked about was how much Daenerys Entertainment and Time Warner could benefit from the release of "Batman: Hour of War".

The local box office quickly rushed to 230 million U.S. dollars in three weeks, and the North American box office of "Batman: Hour of War" reached 400 million U.S. dollars without any problems, and then overseas.

Batman can be described as one of the American cultural symbols. Although it has a very wide reputation worldwide, overseas audiences will not have the deep feelings that Americans have accumulated over half a century. Before the film was released, some industry media determined that the overseas box office of the film must not exceed the local box office.

However, the development of things went beyond everyone's expectations.

This phenomenon-level superhero movie created by Simon Westeros is really full of groundbreaking. With a series of stunning film technology and action design details, even if the Batman is replaced with other characters, It can definitely be described as "stunning", which is enough to ensure that overseas audiences will not have cultural acceptance barriers.

Therefore, the media is now generally optimistic that the overseas box office of "Batman: Hour of War" is enough to be equal to the local box office.

According to the global box office calculation of US$800 million, the producer and distributor can probably recover US$350 million in box office shares. According to the leaked distribution agreement information, the amount that belongs to Daenerys Entertainment should be about US$250 million.

According to the release schedule of a movie in recent years, the money can probably be recovered within the next year.

Also able to reap most of the revenue within a year is the sales of film derivatives. According to the media’s forecast of US$2 billion in derivatives sales in the next year, Daenerys Entertainment should be able to earn about US$300 million, excluding the need to pay DC 10% of the comic company, the remaining 270 million US dollars.

Combining the above two, Daenerys Entertainment will be able to recover $500 million in funds with "Batman: Hour of War" within the next year.

Even if the production and distribution costs of the film are directly counted as 100 million U.S. dollars, Daenerys Entertainment's net profit from this project in the next year can reach 400 million U.S. dollars.

Next, one year later, within the five-year income period, the follow-up derivative sales, video tape distribution and TV broadcast income of "Batman: Hour of War" will definitely be higher than the previous two income. You know, according to the latest statistics, with the further expansion of the video tape market, the average share of Hollywood film global video tape revenue in total revenue has exceeded 45%, and the proportion of box office revenue in total revenue has fallen to less than 30%.

Therefore, the revenue of "Batman: Hour of War" in the follow-up channels can at least be the same as Daenerys Entertainment's first year revenue.

Taken together, Daenerys Entertainment will be able to receive at least $800 million from the distribution of "Batman: Hour of War" in the next five years. As the issuer, Time Warner’s revenue from all aspects will not be less than US$200 million.

1 billion US dollars, which happens to be the total profit scale of "Batman: Hour of War" generally recognized by most media.

Daenerys and Time Warner can make $1 billion with "Batman: Hour of War". What is the salary of the heroes and heroines?

The media immediately exposed.

Adam Baldwin, Batman actor, $300,000. Valerie Galino, Catwoman, $200,000.

The sum of the two is only $500,000.

Compared with other supporting roles in the film, the pay is even cheaper.

Because of the release of "Batman: Hour of War", Adam Baldwin and Valerie Galino have quickly accumulated a group of fans.

Under the reports of the media that fears chaos, the idols can only get so little pay, but Daenerys and Time Warner can make 1 billion US dollars. Naturally, they become dissatisfied. Many movie fans have begun to write letters and fight. The telephone method asked Daenerys Entertainment and Time Warner to renegotiate a contract to give her idol a raise.

The relevant news was originally released by Daenerys Entertainment, and naturally responded quickly to this situation.

Although it has not been acquired by Time Warner but has always maintained a close relationship with the company, Turner Broadcasting's CNN channel did a special issue soon after the news was fermented, visiting Hollywood that was the last few shortlisted to play Batman last year. Current status of actors.

Compared with Adam Baldwin, who has gained fame, the last few shortlisted actors last year, the best development is just to get a resident role in an ABC TV series, more dramatic, and even some people have fallen into the San Fernando Valley. Of certain'movie' sets.

Subsequently, the "Hollywood Reporter" also exposed the details of Adam Baldwin's five film contracts.

In addition to the low salary of $300,000 for the first part, the total value of the remaining four contracts of Adam Baldwin is actually as high as $30 million, and the average salary of $7.5 million is completely first-line star level. Compared to the pay that Christopher Reeve received from the three "Superman" films, Daenerys Entertainment is already very generous.

The Hollywood Reporter also pointed out that relying on the popularity of participating in the "Batman" series, Adam Baldwin can not only take on other movies at the salary level of first-line stars, but also receive many other well-paid advertising endorsements. The sum of these is definitely higher than the income of most Hollywood stars.

In addition, the same goes for the other famous actors in "Batman: Hour of War".

If there is no chance of "Batman: Hour of War", most of these people will not be known to the public, and will even be reduced to those actors who were shortlisted for Batman but eventually lost.

Because of the importance of the DC Cinematic Universe project to Time Warner, Warner Bros. Pictures CEO Terry Semel directly stated in an interview with ABC "Good Morning America" ​​that Warner Bros. Pictures will never interact with movies that lack the spirit of contract. People cooperate.

Hollywood studios usually sign additional option contracts with actors in their key projects, especially newcomers. This actually represents the interests of the entire Hollywood studio class.

Therefore, with Terry Semel’s statement, Joe Rose of Fox Pictures, Shirley Lansing of MGM-United States and other Hollywood studio executives also voiced their voices, saying they would resist the lack of contracts. Spiritual filmmaker.

Mere words are always lacking in persuasiveness, and a seemingly unrelated incident that happened immediately afterwards made many Hollywood celebrities frightened.

After completing "Born on July 4th" with Tom Cruise, Oliver Stone, who is preparing for his new film "The Gate", publicly stated that he does not intend to invite Meg Ryan to serve as the gate of his story. The biopic heroine of the band's story.

Subsequently, the veteran Hollywood director John Slesinger who directed "Midnight Cowherd" also publicly clarified that his new film "Midnight Threat" has confirmed that Melanie Griffith will be used as the heroine. It was previously rumored that May The news that G. Ryan might be playing is completely nonsense.

Then came the news that the famous Hollywood photographer Barry Sonnenfeld, who used to be the photographer of famous films such as "Blood Labyrinth" and "Flying Over the Future", is now preparing his first directing film "The Adams Family". The ground told Paramount executives that if Paramount insists on asking Meg Ryan to act as the heroine, he will withdraw from the project. The other opportunities that have been confirmed in this famous TV series adaptation project, the actors also publicly expressed that they do not want to be with May. Ge Ryan cooperated.

Things are repeated over and over again, as long as the brain is not stupid, you can probably see the problem.

The holiday between Meg Ryan and Daenerys Entertainment is almost completely public. The Hollywood actress who quickly made her way to the top with "When Harry Meets Sally" soon became famous with Daenerys Entertainment The remaining two film option contracts were cancelled.

Daenerys Entertainment and CAA clashed due to the "Rain Man" incident. In the end, the seemingly unrelated Meg Ryan and the "Rain Man" creators were terminated by CAA.

Unlike Dustin Hoffman, Barry Levinson and Tom Cruise, who are already entrenched in Hollywood, Meg Ryan has just become famous and has not yet fully established a foothold in Hollywood.

Then, the actress first opened his mouth after becoming famous, and then terminated the contract with Daenerys Entertainment, and also participated in the "Rocket Expert" that Paramount Pictures stole from Daenerys Entertainment. Come deeper.

Most importantly, the box office of "Rocket Expert" also ended in failure. In Hollywood, if there is no box office to rely on, then you are nothing.

Coupled with the atmosphere of public opinion at this time.

Most people who pay attention to this matter will flash a proverb: Beatthedogbeforethelion.

Hit the dog in front of the lion.

Use a more appropriate idiom in Chinese to describe it, killing the chicken and the monkey.

Even if it was a year ago, Daenerys Entertainment wanted to ban a first-line actress, it was simply wishful thinking.

However, last year's 10 movie plans directly linked most of Hollywood to Daenerys Entertainment. Five of the traditional seven majors have gotten the projects in these 10 movie plans. For the remaining two, MGM began to move closer to Daenerys Entertainment because of the intervention of Australian capital.

The last Paramount, because of the two scripts of "Rocket Expert" and "Firebird Attack", did not get the projects in the 10 film plans, so there is no need to entertain Daenerys face.

Although the "Rocket Expert" project failed, as long as Meg Ryanken drastically reduced the pay, relying on the popularity of "When Harry Met Sally", Paramount management was still happy to pick a bargain.

It's just that Daenerys Entertainment may not be able to influence the decisions of Paramount's top management, but it is easy to influence specific film projects. The main creators of "The Adams Family" publicly resisted the cooperation with Meg Ryan is the result of Amy's efforts. Even if Paramount does not care about Daenerys Entertainment, these filmmakers are still looking forward to entertainment with Daenerys cooperating.

After all, Paramount could not force Meg Ryan against the wishes of all other creators.

In addition to the Seventh, under the edge of Daenerys Entertainment, as long as there are other options, other second- and third-tier film companies can't make enemies for themselves for a Meg Ryan.

In the face of Daenerys Entertainment’s strength, a first-line actress completely lost her foothold in Hollywood in a blink of an eye. Many Hollywood stars were afraid of Daenerys Entertainment’s strength when she was still a little unwilling to do "Batman". "The Hour of War" actor cleverly dismissed all thoughts, and in an interview with "Entertainment Weekly" took the initiative to express that he was very honored to be able to participate in the shooting of "Batman" and would definitely try his best to play this role in the subsequent series. .

After Adam Baldwin spoke, no matter whether he had some thoughts or not, the other main creators also cleverly surfaced their attitudes publicly or privately.

As a result, this conflict that has not yet arisen quietly ended in a gossip atmosphere.

There is always a sweet jujube for a stick.

Daenerys Entertainment subsequently announced that due to the box office sales of the film, it will issue an additional cash prize to all crew members who participated in the filming of "Batman: Hour of War".

However, the total bonus for everyone was directly halved to 10 million US dollars.

10 million U.S. dollars, 20 million U.S. dollars, compared to Daenerys Entertainment's income from the "Batman: Hour of War" project is not worth mentioning, the bonus halved, this is also an attitude.