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As the days of Christmas are getting closer, the second week of movie screenings from November 24 to December 1 has also come to an end.

This week’s North American box office totaled 241 million U.S. dollars. The top of the list is still the R-rated comedy "The Hangover" produced by Manhai Entertainment. It swept away 96.05 million U.S. dollars from the movie market this week, accounting for nearly half of the total. Market share.

The second-ranked movie was premiered on the 19th, "National Treasure" released by Touchstone Pictures (distribution brand under Disney). This adventure movie starring Nicholas Cage, who is beloved by fans, was released in 3250 The number of screens in the home theater has achieved a box office of $73.22 million; but the competition between the two parties is not big, after all, movie audiences are different.

The third place this week is the comedy film "Meet Father-In-Law 2" jointly released by Universal and DreamWorks. This unlucky movie has encountered such a gleeful movie as "The Hangover", and the box office is not satisfactory. It is forgivable that only 37.62 million US dollars were received. It can already be expected that this movie will lose money, because the farther it is shown, the more box office profits the theater will get. Can't be saved.

The fourth place "Arctic Secret Service" received $14.23 million; "The Adventures of Cotton Ball Cube", which was released by Paramount Pictures, received $12.32 million; the box office of "Chain Saw", which was about to go down, was $5.23 million ...In addition, there are many miscellaneous fish movies that have divided the remaining 20 million US dollars in the box office share. So far, this week's movie release war in North America has ended.

On Yahoo’s one-week box office review list, he commented: “The Hangover has performed very well in the film market. It has opened up a new pattern of R-rated comedy movies. Now everyone recognizes this theme. I believe that more and more excellent R-rated comedy movies will appear in the future, and audiences can continue to look forward to this type of movie... And the "National Treasure" starring Nicholas Cage "The performance in the past week was also very good. The film tells a slightly clichéd treasure hunt story. However, under the arrangement of the director and screenwriter, Nicholas Cage and other actors have performed wonderfully. Whether it’s the plot arrangement before the treasure hunt or the later treasure hunt process, it will not make people feel boring. The details of the movie are also very good. At least it can attract the audience’s curiosity, and it will not make people feel too unreasonable. It is also recommended to see..."

Now, the total box office of the movie "The Hangover" in North America has reached a good score of more than 160 million U.S. dollars. The Western European film industry responsible for local distribution, the production of the movie Manhai Entertainment, and Roman and other upper management personnel are all doing this. Feel cheers, this movie, they made a lot of money.

The production cost of the film itself is not high, only 15 million U.S. dollars, plus the nearly 30 million U.S. dollars used by the Western European Film Industry to advertise, and a total of 45 million U.S. dollars was paid, and a large part of the production funds came from the mainland According to this trend, Roman has already harvested more than 70 million US dollars in just two weeks.

According to the prediction of the professional organization hired by the company, although there will be a lot of movies to enter the theater, considering that the hit comedies are not so easy to lose the characteristics of the box office market, they gave the North American region, the film "The Hangover" "The final box office drop of 280 million to 320 million, does not rule out the possibility of getting more box office.

And this is just the North American release of the "Hangover" movie, what about overseas regions?

According to the cooperation between Manhai Entertainment and Paramount Pictures, in the new week, the movie will be released in good ticket warehouses in the UK, Australia, France, Germany and other movie markets, and in some other Asian countries and Europe. Small countries, South America and other regions will also arrange the release of "The Hangover".

Paramount Pictures, the underprivileged among the six major Hollywood circles, as long as there is a global publicity channel in hand, it is still the top carnivore in this jungle.

When Manhai Entertainment and Paramount Pictures negotiated a cooperation, it was only close to a month before the movie was released. In such a short period of time, not only have to contact theaters to distribute films, but also have to do publicity work in other regions. It is so cumbersome and they have done it. This is the foundation that they have as a large company.

Comparing the North American publicity work of Western European Films, you can see that only a film company of the size of the Big Six can raise a team that is responsible for the promotion of the global film market. It must be done once and the number of people involved. No less, the cost is also very expensive.

And given that Manhai Entertainment and Paramount Pictures have a basis for cooperation, the relationship between the two parties is not bad, at least Paramount Pictures is also willing to win over Manhai Entertainment, a new generation of outstanding production companies, so in the signing of the contract , They only charge 30% of the movie’s profit, plus the cost of the movie’s publicity will be calculated into the movie’s box office profit, that is, the movie’s benefits in overseas regions minus various expenses and The tax, multiplied by 30%, is used to pay Paramount Pictures as a distributor of profits. This condition is very good. It can also be seen that Paramount Pictures really wants to win over the ally of Manhai Entertainment. Yes, otherwise, it will not provide conveniences like family members.

However, although many countries and regions have given Hollywood face, Paramount Pictures still encountered a wall when discussing cooperation in Asia.

If it were originally intended by Paramount Pictures, it would definitely have to be released at a unified time in overseas regions. With this arrangement, it would be easier to do publicity work. However, the protection of local films in the island countries and the Smecta countries is still relatively in place. Like the Smecta countries, it clearly stated that the "Hangover" movie will not be scheduled for release in half a month, and it will start next week. It’s impossible; and the island country’s card face is even bigger, and it doesn’t plan to give up the golden schedule for Hollywood movies. It just said that it won’t find time to release the movie until next year; as for the mainland, the movie has not been introduced at all. , Or because of the subject matter. Roman also talked with China Film. Chairman Han said that if the lens in the movie is deleted and supplemented, the introduction may be very large, but Roman refused. That would be too much trouble, and there is not much. Interests, the current mainland market still needs to develop, far from the scale of later generations, there is no need to prepare a mainland version; and the Xiangjiang area is also screened at the same time, probably because they have long been entangled with Hollywood interests. Are together.