~： Three hundred and eighty-nine - first week box office champion

"Hollywood Draw(!

Sergey dug another hole under the awning of Wayne's favorite lawn, carefully clinging to the edge of another dog's grave. Fendi is buried here next to its older brother.

These two dogs have been by Wayne's side since they were teenagers. In fact, they are basically no different from their family members. In some respects, their feelings may be even better than their family members.

Nina stood silently not far away, still thinking about the story in her mind. This story was far beyond her expectations, like a bunch of afternoon sunshine, full of heart-warming power, but unfortunately there was no ending.

Thinking of the previous scene, Wayne was sitting on the ground with the golden retriever in his arms, while bathing in the red sunset glow, one person and one dog all exuded reluctance, she suddenly felt that she understood the story, it was a teenager who accompanied her youth partners, saying goodbye to each other.

"I'm fine, everyone go back."

Wayne looked at the place where the two dogs were buried, raised his head and found several people around him, all looking at him with worried eyes. The corners of his mouth twitched twice, and he could see that he wanted to give everyone a smile.

For the current result, he had already prepared himself mentally, since the other golden retriever left.

Naomi Watts can understand his feelings, Golden Retriever has been by her side since she was pregnant. A pure white hand stretched out, gently holding Wayne's hand and pressing it twice.

"Honey, Fendi is so gentle and kind, trust me, God just called it back."

The two held hands and walked along the lawn to the villa together. Facing the comfort of the Australian actress, Wayne shrugged silently, and then nodded.

"Write the end of that story." Naomi Watts turned around and looked up at the big boy beside her. "We can invest and shoot it ourselves, and when Fendi is a little older, we can show it to our little princess."

"I will."

The departure of the last golden retriever seems to have taken away Wayne's juvenile mark. Although his mood has been very low, he forced himself to focus on the fiery summer war.

"The Matrix" continues to move forward amid controversy. This film completely obscures the light of the "Hulk" next door. Countless young people keep walking into the theater to watch it repeatedly. This special sci-fi film is for young people. Fans have brought enough novel and cool movie viewing experience.

"The plot of the film is boring, the rhythm of the story is slow, and even the dark wind in it is so deliberate."

"To watch 'The Hulk' is a waste of time, a dull plot, and you won't get anything other than a strong sleepy feeling."

Many fans who did not believe in evil and bought tickets to watch "The Hulk" gave quite poor evaluations when filling out the questionnaire.

In just one week, the audience reputation and professional reputation of "Hulk" have dropped to the lowest point at the same time. The media described this film as a box office tragedy at the beginning of the summer season.

In sharp contrast to this film, "The Matrix" is being released, and the audience's reputation is extremely strong. It was also released for a week, and although the attendance rate continued to decline, it was completely in a healthy decline.

When the second Friday came, according to the media's first-week box office statistics, "The Matrix" had a box office figure of $86.82 million, completely crushing the $39.6 million of "Hulk" next door, and easily won the weekly box office champion.

After the box office explosion of "Hulk" on the first day, there are fewer and fewer fans buying tickets. Affected by the gradual collapse of word of mouth, its prospects in the theater market are generally bad.

In this regard, the theater companies who responded the most quickly, led by the three major theater companies, Emperor Cinemas, AMC and the American Artists Chain, uniformly lowered the “Hulk” before the second weekend. The number of screens and the rate of screening.

As a large-scale production with a production cost of more than 100 million US dollars, it is very rare that the film scheduling rate was reduced to less than 20% in the next weekend.

This part of the screen that was squeezed out was also given to the well-reputed "The Matrix" by the theater line. Starting from Friday morning, the average filming rate of this film will reach only about 40% horror. .

"No need to contact the theater company, now they won't talk to us at all."

In a coffee shop in Century City, Ron Mayer stirred the coffee gently, made a clinking sound, looked at Justin who was sitting opposite and said, "The fundamental existence of cinema companies is customer flow, they will only serve Profitable films give way, and it is impossible to give up the big profits at your fingertips in order to maintain the relationship with Universal Pictures.”

Justin put the mobile phone back on the table and sighed. "Now the senior management of the three major theater companies have stopped answering my calls! These bxxxhs!"

"The Hulk..." Ron Mayer shook his head, took a sip of his coffee. "There is basically no possibility of a comeback. The losses incurred by this film will take at least ten years of operation to recover."

As the distribution director of Universal Pictures, Justin knows that this is the reality, and although he is a little reluctant to accept it, the box office numbers are not deceiving. Universal Pictures is destined to suffer a big downfall on "The Hulk".

"It's now." Ron Mayer put his hands on his lap, leaned his upper body behind the chair, and looked at the pedestrians outside through the floor-to-ceiling windows of the cafe. "Warner Bros. is still hyping it up, trying to create buzz about The Matrix, and they won't give The Hulk a chance to breathe."

"The advantage of The Matrix is ​​too obvious." Justin shook his head angrily. "We underestimated the ad director, and we underestimated Wayne Greenberg. Bill Baker was in some ways inferior to a rookie director, shit."

Although there are many reasons for the failure of "The Hulk", someone is responsible for the failure of the project. Director Bill Bakerby and producer Brian Glazer are the best responsible people, and Universal Pictures cannot be allowed to Executives stand up and take responsibility.

"Don't worry, we still have "Professor Fat Guy"." Ron Mayer watched the success and failure of the film a lot, and did not have too violent mood swings. "Let Warner Bros. and Wayne Greenberg go and fight with other companies first. After "Professor Fat Guy" is released, they will be almost the same. I don't believe that dark lunatic can still affect "Independent". day's box office."

Justin looked at the confident boss, nodded and reluctantly agreed with the other party's point of view. But judging from the news he got, "Independence Day", the competitor of "Professor Fat Guy" in the same period, also received a lot of praise after the preview held by 20th Century Fox.

Fans and media who have participated in the preview all praised this as a well-made summer popcorn, which belongs to the category of sci-fi productions with the widest audience, and is definitely not an opponent that is easy to bully.

Putting "Professor Fat Guy" in front of sci-fi popcorn like "Independence Day" will not take advantage of it in any way.

"You said, what price did the dark madman Wayne Greenberg pay to let Warner Bros. accompany him crazy..."

There was Ron Mayer's murmur in his ear, and Justin frowned, also wondering about this question.

Warner Bros. is an uncompromising giant company, and even ranks first among the six Hollywood giants in terms of revenue and box office. Even if Wayne Greenberg is a major shareholder, Warner Bros. has no reason to accompany him crazy. That's right.

Don't look at the box office of "The Matrix" in the first seven days of the week, breaking 80 million US dollars, and the sales performance of peripherals is probably equivalent to this figure. But if other major Warner Bros. productions fail to compete in the future, the profits from "The Matrix" will definitely not stop the losses of other films.

"$7.52 million on Monday, $7.6 million on Tuesday, $6.6 million on Wednesday, and $5.5 million on Thursday, 'The Matrix' hit $80 million in total for seven days."

In an office on the eighth floor of the Fox Building in Century City, Townsend Rothman looked at the statistics in front of him, pouted and shook his head, teasing Terry who was sitting across from the desk. "Universal Pictures is going to make a big comeback. "Hulk" don't want to rely on box office and peripherals to make money. At least ten years, they don't want to recover their investment."

"That Zack Snyder is very good." Terry scratched his chin with one hand and said thoughtfully: "From the Matrix alone, he is indeed by Wayne Greenberg's side. , I have learned enough experience in a few years, boss, have you noticed that Zack Snyder's shooting style is completely like a little Wayne Greenberg."

Hearing these tongue twisters, Townsend-Rothman's eyes narrowed, and he also lowered his head thoughtfully.

The Hollywood rule has always been that if you want to get a reward, you have to pay first, but 20th Century Fox agreed to Wayne's deal. .

Then facing the negotiation with the agent Jimmy, I have been in a state of being able to delay it This is completely inconsistent with the rules. The main reason they did this was to see what directors other than Wayne would do with making superhero movies.

Now that "Hulk" has rushed to Grandma's house, completely cut off their other messy ideas, and will soon invite Jimmy again to continue the stalled negotiations.

The main reason why the negotiation stalled and the reason why 20th Century Fox wanted to see the results of "The Hulk" was that Wayne's personal treatment requirements were too high, and it was difficult to negotiate. No way, he really deserves it. With such a high price, other companies can't ask for this opportunity.

But agreeing to the harsh conditions proposed by Jimmy means that most of the film's revenue will go into the other party's pocket. But Terry's words just now reminded Townsend Rothman...

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