Hollywood Hunter

"Cry Game", which opened on September 25, had 37 screens in the first week and a box office of 1.26 million US dollars; 86 screens in the following week, a box office of 2.67 million US dollars; the third and fourth weeks, the number of screens were 155 and 173, respectively Block, the box office reached 4.03 million US dollars and 3.97 million US dollars.

As of October 22, the "Crying Game", which was released for four weeks, has unexpectedly reached a cumulative box office of 11.93 million U.S. dollars, roughly equivalent to four times the production cost of 3 million U.S. dollars.

On October 23, the fifth week of the release, the screening scale of "Crying Game" finally appeared for the first time, reaching 535 yuan.

Gaomen Pictures was not eager for success because of the excellent box office performance of this low-cost partial movie, and patiently controlled the film's release rhythm.

The last week of October passed in an instant.

From October 23 to October 29, the screen size of "Crying Game", which increased to more than 500 yuan, still reached 16,000 US dollars in a single week, and continued to receive 8.61 million US dollars.

At the same time, the film's cumulative box office reached 20.54 million US dollars.

The North American media, therefore, began to pay more attention to this non-mainstream low-cost movie, and the popularity of "Cry Game" further rose.

The publicity methods of Gaomen Films, such as radial distribution model, hype rating conflicts, etc., can actually be imitated. Other Hollywood studios have also poached from Daenerys Entertainment's team in recent years. There are few talents who are good at advertising and marketing. However, the result is that Daenerys Entertainment is still the best in the Hollywood film business.

Whether it is mainstream commercial films or low-cost literary and artistic films, commercial achievements are increasingly leaving competitors behind.

This time the "Crying Game" once again made many people feel powerless.

After carefully studying the various aspects of the film from the project to the release, the executives of Hollywood studios also discovered one thing again.

In the final analysis, it was Simon Westeros.

The script of "The Crying Game" was born ten years ago. Over the years, it has been in rough preparations. It wasn't until Simon Westero's fancy, that the green light all the way, and finally the grand occasion at this time appeared.

Looking at other things, Daenerys Entertainment’s dominant DC movie universe, Pixar Studios, which has rapidly emerged with a 3D animation film, etc., trace the roots to Simon Westerlow’s wisdom.

Therefore, the success of "Cry Game", or the success of Daenerys Entertainment as a whole, there is no channel that can be imitated, because it is impossible for other studios to have another Simon who can pick out a hit movie from countless project scripts. · Westeros.

While "Cry Game" gradually attracted strong attention from the industry, on October 30, after a five-month screening, Daenerys Entertainment's summer file DC movie universe blockbuster "Wonder Woman" also appeared in "Midnight". The day before the release of Furious Bell, the film’s total North American box office ended up at US$371 million, which is only US$20 million behind the US$373 million of "Batman: The Dark Knight".

Overseas, as of the end of October, the cumulative overseas box office of "Wonder Woman" also reached 351 million US dollars, and the global box office also reached 724 million US dollars.

Taking into account that many ticket warehouse countries are still in the stage of release, the film still has a box office potential of about 150 million US dollars, and the global total box office is expected to be about 870 million US dollars.

A total investment of 160 million US dollars in production and publicity, and a global box office of 870 million US dollars.

The box office alone has already brought great profits to Daenerys Entertainment and Time Warner. However, the biggest profit input of "Wonder Woman" is the sales of peripheral products.

As of the end of October, "Wonder Woman" related products, excluding the original sound record that has sold 7.3 million copies, and the total amount of peripheral revenue has reached 1.3 billion US dollars.

Based on the 15% of the net profit ratio after all the development, production, channel and tax costs of peripheral products go out, just the $1.3 billion peripheral sales is expected to bring nearly 200 million to Daenerys Entertainment and Time Warner. Net profit in US dollars.

In comparison, "Wonder Woman" is expected to have a global box office of US$870 million, which can only bring about a pre-tax profit of about US$150 million after excluding production and advertising costs.

Even though Hollywood studios have various tax avoidance methods that can reduce the tax rate that the movie box office needs to bear as much as possible, the box office revenue of "Wonder Woman" cannot be compared with the profits generated by surrounding sales.

And the box office of "Wonder Woman" has basically been confirmed, but with the arrival of the end of the sales season, there will be another wave of sales around the film.

It is estimated that in the next one to two years, the total sales of related peripheral products of this superhero movie will exceed 2 billion US dollars, and the net profit scale will reach 300 million US dollars.

US$300 million is already the total annual net profit of a major Hollywood studio in an ordinary year.

However, this is only the peripheral sales of a superhero movie in the DC movie universe.

On the other hand, several important summer films related to Daenerys Entertainment, such as "Peachy Deal", "Killing Hour" and "The Last Mohican" were also painted before "Wonder Woman".

In the end, of the three movies, only "Killing Hour" had a North American box office of over 100 million, and the final figure was $113 million.

Immediately afterwards, the North American box office of "Peachy Deal" was US$93.11 million, which is about US$7 million behind the 100 million mark. "The Last of the Mohicans" had the worst box office performance among the three, and the final North American box office was only $87.92 million.

However, although "Killing Hour" has the highest North American box office, due to the localization of judicial justice and ethnic issues discussed in the film, the overseas box office lags behind "Peachy Deal". The overseas box office is estimated to be only about 70 million US dollars.

"Peachy Deal" relies on the obvious joining of Robert Redford and Valerie Galino. It is expected that the total overseas box office will surpass North America, reaching about 130 million US dollars.

"The Last Mohican" is still at the bottom of the overseas box office. Judging from the market performance of the ticket warehouses that have been released, after the completion of the entire overseas release cycle, the total overseas box office is expected to be only about 50 million US dollars.

Of course, the three movies were among the best in the box office performance of all North American movies in 1992.

At least, as of the end of October, all three movies are temporarily in the top ten of the annual North American box office chart.

On October 30, in the atmosphere of the US presidential election polling day approaching, the Halloween schedule in North America officially opened.

"Midnight Ring" produced by Daenerys Entertainment's New World Pictures opened on October 30 with a scale of 2,356 screens. Also released at the same time was a horror thriller produced by Columbia Pictures' Samsung Company. "Legend of Chasing Life", the scale of the opening screen is 1,732 yuan.

The story of "The Ring of Midnight" need not be repeated. The story of "The Legend of Fate" is also a story similar to the murder of evil spirits.

The story begins in the era when the American Civil War just ended. Race issues are still ingrained. A black guy fell in love with the slave owner’s white daughter. The love affair was discovered. The black guy was smeared with honey on the body by the white guy, which caused slow and painful bee attacks After death, the black guy's soul turned into an evil spirit and hid in the mirror. As long as someone called the name of the'sugar man' five times in the mirror, the evil spirit would be summoned.

However, although it is the same evil spirit killing people. But unlike the Japanese horror of "Midnight Ring", "Legend of Fate" is actually imitating the new line of "Meng Ghost Street".

"Sugar Man" has many similarities with Freddy in the "Men Ghost Street" series from modeling to murder.

After these years of repeated squeezing, the popularity of the "Most Ghost Street" series has long been less popular. At this time, a horror movie following the trend of "Most Ghost Street" is naturally difficult to arouse too much novelty from the audience.

Therefore, after the release, the two films quickly widened the gap in terms of word-of-mouth and popularity.

The media score of "Sugar Man" was only 4.6, which was a complete failure.

It is also an evil spirit killing, but as a Japanese-style horror film with a completely different style from traditional Hollywood horror films, "Midnight Ring" has been unanimously recognized by the media and the public. The media rating is almost one of the "Sugar Man". Times, reaching an excellent score of 8.7.

The wedding of David Johnston and Leslie Whittaker is set for November 21st.

The Simons and his wife will definitely rush to Australia at that time, and then plan to take a vacation of about a month and plan to stay in Australia until after the New Year.

In order to complete more work before the holiday schedule at the end of the year, Simon did not rest this weekend.

It is already Sunday, November 1.

"Superman" was finished in September, and the post-production phase has already begun.

Daenerys Entertainment's series of key projects next year are all proceeding with this.

Although it was the end of 1992, Daenerys Entertainment's 1993 film list was basically confirmed.

Easter schedule in 1993, "Anti-Wisdom Multi-Star 2".

Summer files, "Superman", "Night Sleep in Seattle", "Sugar Coated Trap", "Gannet Assassination Order".

Among them, "Superman" was produced solely by Daenerys Entertainment and published by Warner Bros. Pictures.

Sleepless in Seattle is a collaborative project with Pixar.

"Gannet Assassination Order" is a collaborative project with Warner Bros. and the last of the original four film plans.

"Sugar Coated Trap" is a film released by Daenerys Entertainment alone.

Subsequently.

Halloween schedule, "Seven Deadly Sins."

Thanksgiving schedule, 3D version of the animated film "The Lion King", Steven Spielberg's "Schindler's List".

During the Christmas period, "Mission Impossible" in collaboration with Paramount.

In order to avoid internal competition, Simon transferred "Forrest Gump", which was originally scheduled to be released at the end of 1993, to the summer of 1994.

The above list is only the key films of 1993. Others such as "In the Name of Father" starring Daniel Day Lewis, and the African Savannah documentary produced by the success of the Antarctic documentary last year are not counted. Within key projects.

Under Daenerys Entertainment, Daenerys Pictures, New World Pictures and High Gate Pictures, and other planned movies, the total number will still reach about 40.

Malibu, Daenerys Studios.

Time came to noon.

In the studio’s executive restaurant, Simon is having lunch with his father and daughter Aquito who came to North America with him last time. Next to him are Danny Morris, the president of New World Pictures, and his female assistant Jennifer. To accompany.

Dario Aquido's "Wind Wind" has become a classic of horror movies.

Over the years, Aquido has been cooperating with Hollywood uninterruptedly. The two sides will collaborate on a crime thriller this time. The story is called "Trauma", which tells the story of a pair of young people looking for and fighting a serial murderer.

Dario Aquido will personally serve as the director, and will win the role of heroine for his daughter Aisha Aquido.

Aisha Aquido is 17 years old this year, but because of her film family, she has been playing in her father's movies uninterrupted since she was 10 years old. She has also starred in several Italian film heroines, so she has enough acting skills. Dario Aquido’s "Trauma" is also largely to push his daughter into Hollywood.

Although the Italian film industry is relatively prosperous in Europe, compared with Hollywood, it can only be regarded as a small pond after all.

With the global rise of Hollywood, this small pond has a tendency to dry up.

Therefore, marching to Hollywood is also the dream of many Italian filmmakers.

Simon has already read the script of "Trauma", although it is not as good as the "Wind Wind", but it is also above the standard. Moreover, the expected production cost of the film is only 5 million U.S. dollars. For New World Entertainment at this time, it is completely low-cost production, and this project also received the green light.

Of course, the schedule of "Trauma" is temporarily uncertain because it does not count as the key project that Simon personally finalized.

The film is scheduled to start filming early next year. The entire cycle from filming to completion is about five months, and it will be completed in the first half of 1993.

According to the results of the future film, if it is normal, the schedule will probably be set for September and October next year. If it is poor, it will be lost in January and February of 1994. If it is good enough, it will be further adjusted to Easter in 1994.

Although Daenerys Entertainment’s films of several labels have various production scales and types, for Simon, he will not underestimate any movie, all movies under the three labels, although there are many executives. Autonomy, but ultimately all need his approval.

Simon has always instilled in the company team that a movie is a movie, which is a "product" produced by Daenerys Entertainment. There is no distinction between types of these products. What everyone needs to do is to make these products as good as possible. , And use appropriate post-announcement strategies to maximize commercial psychology for these products.

It is not only the indoctrination of this philosophy, but Simon has always set an example.

This is the case with "Trauma" at this time.

Simon has personally read the script, personally communicated with the main creator Dario Aquido, and personally paid attention to the film’s budget and main creative information. Although he will not participate in the specific production of the film due to limited energy, he will be the first time in the future. Watch sample effects and follow-up announcements.

Through this style of work, Simon basically knows every project under the company.

At the same time, because of Simon’s prophetic advantages, Daenerys Entertainment can to a large extent guarantee that Daenerys Entertainment can obtain as many blockbuster movies as Simon’s memory, and thus far surpass other industries in the overall commercial performance of the produced movies. movie company.