Hollywood Hunter

The last week of May 1990 quietly ended in the summer file opened by "Back to the Future 3" and "Firebird Attack".

In the week from May 25 to May 31, the two movies that received the most attention were not the two movies, but the official release of Batman: Hour of War in North America.

"Batman: Hour of War" was released on December 22 last year to the end of May 31. It stayed in North American theaters for a total of 23 weeks. The total box office in North America eventually reached 436.86 million U.S. dollars, not only creating the first Hollywood movie The box office record of the round of screenings also surpassed the other two blockbusters, "Star Wars" and "Alien ET", which had a box office of $400 million after being rescreened.

At the same time, the overseas box office of "Batman: Hour of War" as of the last week of May also reached 390 million US dollars.

Although most overseas ticket warehouse countries have already been released, judging from the current screening progress of overseas countries, "Batman: Hour of War" has at least $100 million in overseas box office potential. This record-breaking superhero movie hit the $1 billion mark at the global box office. Although it is a bit difficult, the global box office of $900 million is already firmly established.

Regardless of inflation, the global box office of more than 900 million US dollars has pushed "Batman: Hour of War" to the top spot in Hollywood history.

Moreover, not only at the box office, but within six months of its release, the peripheral sales of "Batman: Hour of War" have also exceeded $1.5 billion.

Although most countries and regions, including North America, will continue to decline, there is no problem with accumulating $500 million in peripheral sales in the second half of the year. The sales of peripheral films may even exceed the original annual total forecast of $2 billion. .

The better the score of "Batman: Hour of War", the more pressure on Jane de Bont, who was appointed by Simon to take over the director of "Batman: The Dark Knight". This kind of pressure does not only come from within. Fans who worry that the photographer who has never directed a movie will mess up the sequel will have a fight in three days. After the Igreat portal was launched, the online forum section even appeared. A dedicated "We Don't Want Jane De Bont" fan meeting.

In order to appease movie fans, Daenerys Entertainment and Warner Bros. Pictures have to repeatedly suggest that the helm of "Batman: The Dark Knight" is still Simon himself, and Jane de Bont will only be an ‘executor’.

When Jane de Bont even received a death threat letter from Batman fans asking him to withdraw from directing, Simon had to send him far in advance to Melbourne, and Simon could clearly feel that the photographer came from The director was suffocated in his heart, which gave Simon a little more confidence in his choice.

"Batman: Hour of War" was the last film related to Daenerys Entertainment last year. This film was down the stage, and Daenerys Entertainment's other movies at the end of last year basically ended.

Earlier "Scream 2", the local box office in North America finally reached 112 million US dollars, and the overseas release is also coming to an end. The box office number is roughly 93 million US dollars, and the global box office totals 205 million US dollars. Although the overall box office performance is not as good as the first one, But it is still the most successful youth horror film series in Hollywood.

Thanksgiving’s "Flying the Innocence", the North American box office was finally fixed at US$163 million. It was hit by "Batman: Hour of War", and the box office was slightly lower than expected at the beginning of the movie. Overseas as of the end of May, the total box office has reached 130 million U.S. dollars. It is estimated that there is a box office potential of about 30 million U.S. dollars, and the global box office is expected to reach 320 million U.S.

The fashion documentary "The Mark of Gucci", the North American box office finally reached 41.63 million U.S. dollars. Because Gucci's promotion model only seeks for marketing and not profit, overseas countries are even better than the local box office in North America. As of the end of May, it has exceeded 62 million U.S. dollars, which has exceeded 100 million dollars worldwide. Digital, unnatural "The Mark of Gucci" has become the most successful fashion documentary in Hollywood history, and it has also greatly enhanced Gucci's brand awareness.

Affected by "The Mark of Gucci", Hollywood has started to produce more than three fashion documentaries of various types, and other projects that are still in the pipeline are even more difficult to count.

The local screening of "Driving for Miss Daisy", which was the flagship film of Gaomen Films at the end of last year, also ended before the "Batman: Hour of War" went down. The local box office broke 100 million, reaching 106.5 million US dollars.

Compared with the production cost of the film of 7 million US dollars, "Drive for Miss Daisy" not only makes Gaomen Pictures a lot of money, but also proves the huge commercial potential of low-cost literary films.

However, because of the strong localized style of the film itself, the overseas box office performance of "Driving for Miss Daisy" was not satisfactory. Although it has the blessing of Oscar's best picture halo, as of the end of May, the overseas box office was only more than 26 million US dollars, and the total overseas box office potential is expected to be about 30 million US dollars.

When the downgrade of "Batman: Hour of War" triggered media discussions, the two new films in the past week were naturally not completely forgotten.

In the first week of the opening of the painting, "Back to the Future 3" opened with a screen size of 2019, and recovered $27.76 million in the box office within seven days.

Compared with the second part, the box office of this closing sequel has once again seen a significant drop, coupled with the unsatisfactory reputation, no one expects "Back to the Future 3" to go out of a beautiful long-term. It is expected that the total box office in North America will be roughly 80 million. To 100 million US dollars.

However, the results of "Back to the Future 3" are actually pretty good, at least far surpassing the "Firebird Expert" who was originally expected by Paramount to hit the record of "High Ambition".

With the same 2006 opening screen, the box office of "Fire Bird Attack" was only $7.55 million in the first week and seven days.

In such a highly competitive summer file, the museum average barely exceeded US$3,700, which means that the film will be significantly cut in two weeks after its release, and will basically enter a downgrade after a month.

Although there is not much insider discussion on "Rocket Expert" and "Firebird Attack" in the public media, Hollywood has basically spread, and Paramount cut two projects from Daenerys Entertainment at a high price.

Then, all failed.

Moreover, it is not just a simple box office failure. Last year’s Christmas file and this year’s summer file, the two consecutive “lost” of the highest quality schedules, will have a significant impact on Paramount’s 1990 film performance.

After "Back to the Future 3" and "Fire Bird Attack" led the start, on June 1, Daenerys Entertainment’s "Human and Ghosts Are Not Coming" and Sony’s first blockbuster "Comprehensive" released after entering Hollywood "Memories" was released at the same time.

After the premiere on May 30th, Daenerys Entertainment also released the word of mouth for "Human Ghosts Are Coming" on Thursday in advance. In contrast, the cautious Sony has covered the media evaluation of "Total Memories" until the beginning of the painting.

However, the word-of-mouth comparison between the two films this time is a bit unexpected.

"Human Ghost Love Is Not Over" did not have the obvious overwhelming media praise like Daenerys Entertainment's "Sixth Sense of Supernatural" which opened last summer.

The "New York Times" directly gave a bad review, attacking "Human Ghosts Are Unending" as "an old and stupid ghost movie, which is completely incomparable with "The Sixth Sense of Supernatural".

According to statistics, the comprehensive media score of "Human Ghosts Are Coming" only reached 7.4 points.

If it is the past, such a media rating is actually pretty good. But compared with "Total Recall", which was originally not optimistic and even reported that Simon Westero personally judged that it was likely to fail, the gap was somewhat obvious.

Unlike some film critics who originally predicted another muscular man to save the world, "Total Memories" gave the media a great surprise. The Chicago Tribune praised "Total Memories" as'Schwarzenegger is maintaining his own style. An outstanding breakthrough on the basis of'.

In the first week of the final painting, "Total Memories" collected 36.08 million U.S. dollars with 2040 screens, and the museum exceeded 17,000 dollars.

In comparison, the opening scale of the 1521 screens of "Human and Ghosts", the box office in the first week was only 19.76 million US dollars, and the museum barely reached 13000 US dollars. Although it still reached the big selling level, it was compared with "Total Recall" It's obviously not as good.

Then, on June 8, the crime thriller "Presumed Innocence" starring Harrison Ford and the classic Disney animation "The Forest Prince" were released.

Although "Presumed Innocence" is not an action movie, its reputation is also very good.

Disney's re-screening animation has always had a very stable audience.

This time, many people feel that Daenerys Entertainment will finally fail once. After all, word-of-mouth is not great, and the start is not eye-catching. Many media predict that the North American box office of "Human Ghosts Are Coming" is likely to be only about 60 million US dollars.

US$60 million is certainly not a failure for the production cost of only US$20 million for "Human Ghost Love Is Not Yet", but for Daenerys Entertainment, it is a failure.

Only the Daenerys Entertainment distribution team, which follows up on the feedback from the most end-users in real time, has faintly gained the word-of-mouth reputation of this film like last year's "Sixth Sense of Supernatural", and the sales of the original soundtrack that the film has quietly become popular. , I have a premonition that this movie may still have a chance to comeback.

However, no one dares to pack a ticket 100% in this kind of thing.

In order to prevent the news from turning into a joke, the publishing team of "Human and Ghosts Are Coming" simply remained silent on such feedback.

In a mansion near Paradise Bay in Malibu on June 9.

After a tour of several major cities on the West Coast, Madonna, who took a short break, held a celebration party at her Malibu residence.

In addition, just yesterday, after discussing with Simon again, Madonna’s team finally announced a long-awaited blockbuster news by fans. Simon Westero will be the guest guitarist on June 23 at Madonna’s West New York A concert held at the Brenda Berry Arena in Rutherford Town, East Suburbs.

The concert in New York is scheduled to start on June 20th and there will be four concerts in total.

The reason for choosing June 23 is mainly because that day happens to be Saturday, which can attract more fans' attention. Moreover, because Simon confirmed to join, before the news spread, Madonna's team sold the live TV rights of the concert for a high price of 6 million US dollars, and it is said that a special video tape will be released later.

In fact, due to the limited rehearsal time after all, Simon will not follow the audience, nor is it a guitarist who needs live accompaniment for every song.

In order to prevent fans from feeling deceived, the relevant news has been released in advance. However, after the announcement of the concert that Simon attended yesterday, the ticket booking phone for the concert on June 23 was blown up.

From April to now, Madonna's ambitious blonde world tour concert has passed halfway.

Compared with Madonna’s total box office revenue of 25 million US dollars after the last concert tour, this time, the tour is only halfway through, and the total box office revenue has exceeded 30 million US dollars. It is expected that the global tour’s box office revenue will exceed 60 million. turn off.

Counting other kinds of income, Madonna, who is expected to receive more than 30 million US dollars in all aspects, is likely to become the first in the American actor and singer income list this year.

Just from the scale of the party in front of me, it is not difficult to see the joy of this little woman who has never concealed her ambition.

Simon and Janet lived nearby, and there was nothing tonight, so they rushed over.

Chatted with Madonna, who was holding her new boyfriend Warren Beatty, and greeted some other guests who came forward to strike up a conversation. Simon was planning to take Janet to dance on the dance floor, but unexpectedly saw Terry. Semel and Peter Cooper.

One of them is the head of Warner Bros. Pictures and the other is the head of Columbia Pictures. Simon is still very curious about why the two appeared here.

Not to mention the two people together.

You know, because of Sony's acquisition of Cooper-Peters production company, Warner and Sony almost went to court, and eventually lost a huge sum of money with Sony.

However, thinking about it a little bit, Simon is not surprised.

For Hollywood, Sony is just an outsider. No matter what the troubles are on the stage, Terry Semel and Peter Cooper, who have been in Hollywood for many years, are considered "owners."

Speaking of it, if it hadn't quickly opened up Daenerys Entertainment's situation, even if Simon can now make money, he can only be regarded as an ‘outsider’ to most Hollywood natives.

In March of this year, after the withdrawal of Orion Pictures, Daenerys Entertainment has successfully replaced Daenerys Entertainment as a member of the American Film Association, which controls the American rating agency. This can be said to formally confirm Daenerys Entertainment's status in Hollywood.

Everyone exchanged a few warm words, Semel and Cooper obviously didn't mean to stay longer, so they started talking about their intentions.

It turns out that Sony is eager to prepare several big projects to build its reputation in Hollywood.

The recent negotiation is a new film that Steven Spielberg is very interested in, adapted from the famous "Peter Pan" novel called "Captain Hawke".

In addition to Spielberg, Robin Williams is also expected to join.

Terry Semel and John Peters suddenly came to Simon in person this time, but to intercede with Dustin Hoffman.

After canceling the contract with CAA, Dustin Hoffman played in the UK for a year, the Hollywood veteran star hopes to restart, he is also interested in the role of Captain Hawke. However, the first thing that needs to be resolved is Simon's attitude.

Last year because of the "Rain Man" incident and the four people who were forced to terminate their contract with CAA, Tom Cruise's career was basically not affected much. Although there was a loss in "Rocket Expert" at the end of last year, Cruise starred in the Easter schedule. "Born on July 4th" still got a good box office, and he also has another racing movie with Paramount this summer, "The Thunder", which is also a very successful commercial film.

"Rain Man" director Barry Levinson also seems to have completed his new film "Avalon" without any problems.

Dustin Hoffman avoids Europe. This low-key and submissive state can actually be considered a concession. With his decades of connections in Hollywood, he really makes trouble. He may not be pleased, Dan. Nilis Entertainment will definitely make her nose dirty.

Therefore, only Meg Ryan, who was photographed dead on the beach, had nothing to do with "Rain Man".