Chapter 1294

Simon left for North America alone on January 5. The two Jennie and the children will stay in Australia for a while because of the old man's request.

Back in Los Angeles, just a night off, Simon returned to work the next day.

It's January 6, Tuesday.

Back from vacation, all good news.

Apart from Titanic, which has already held a celebration party, with the end of the Christmas season, the three major films from the Wansheng Festival at the end of 1997 are basically settled.

First of all, evocation 3.

At the end of the box office week on January 1, although it has not been completely cut off, it has entered the closing stage of only tens of thousands of dollars a week. Affected by the fierce competition among the three major time slots at the end of the year, it is almost the same as ghost record, which is a phenomenal horror film "evocation 3: Blood month". The local box office is basically fixed at 162 million dollars, It's nearly 40 million away from the 200 million threshold.

However, the overseas box office of "evocation 3" has exceeded 140 million. Considering that several major overseas ticket warehouses such as France and Germany have not yet been opened, the total overseas box office of the film is expected to exceed 200 million, and the global box office will probably be more than 360 million US dollars. If the overseas follow-up performance is better, it is not impossible for the film to hit the global 400 million US dollars.

Even if the total cost of production and publicity of "evocation 3" reaches 75 million US dollars, it is still able to reap considerable profits at the stage of cinema.

In addition to profits, the most important thing is that "evocation 3" revitalizes the universe of the original exhausted evocation movie.

In addition, it is worth mentioning that in 1997, the phenomenal horror film Ghost real record, which was as famous as "evocation 3", ultimately took us $212 million at the box office in North America, and its overseas distribution has also ended. The revenue of each overseas ticket warehouse is about US $255 million, with a total of US $467 million in the world.

Compared with the false report, the production cost is only 300000 US dollars, the global box office is 467 million US dollars, and the rate of return makes the global film and television circles crazy. As a result, not only Hollywood, but also filmmakers from all over the world began to search for their own fake documentary films, trying to be small and broad.

And then there's Thanksgiving.

As of the box office week ending January 1, the North American box office of "bug story" by danielis has totaled US $106.36 million. With the passing of the festival, it is estimated that there will be about 20 million box office potential in the future, and the domestic box office will eventually be about 180 million. According to the existing data trend, it is estimated that the overseas box office will also receive about US $200 million, and the global box office is expected to be around 400 million, It's the same as evocation 3.

However, the production cost of "bug story" is only $100 million, even if it is sure to earn money, it is still the most mediocre one of Pixar's series of 3D animation.

Another "wedding singer", in the face of the impact of a large number of blockbusters, barely survived to the end of the year, but also completely ended, the local box office finally reached 82.37 million US dollars.

Considering that wedding singer costs only $18 million, it's a dark horse at the end of the year. It's a pity that Adam Sandler's comedy is too rooted in American culture, and audiences outside the United States don't like it. At present, the overseas box office is only about $20 million or $30 million, which can barely exceed 100 million in the world.

And then there is the cooperation project "beyond time and space contact" in MGM's charge. As of January 1, the cumulative box office was $109.97 million. In the latest box office week, only $3.04 million was left. In the follow-up period, only $5 million was left. The local box office basically locked at about $115 million.

Overseas, according to the current trend, it is also around $100 million.

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The "Independence Day" of the Summer Edition has made a lot of money for the original investors, and the market response of "alien 2" is also quite good. This time, the box office expectation of "beyond time and space contact" of 200 million in the world is neither a failure nor a success. It is difficult to recover the cost of 90 million US dollars and the 40 million US dollars invested by MGM, However, it's not difficult to make a small profit by operating the follow-up channels. It just takes time.

And then, Christmas file.

The sacrifice of Shakespeare's love story and the counterattack of Titanic need no more words.

In 1997, the total box office in North America reached 6.19 billion US dollars, lower than the expectation of 6.5 billion US dollars at the beginning of the year.

This is the fulfillment of Simon's worries.

Too many blockbusters will damage the diversity of the film market. On the contrary, some audiences will no longer enter the cinema, and many films with higher box office potential will not be able to fully play.

However, danelis entertainment situation is a good.Its three brands, Denise pictures, new world pictures and gaomen pictures, started with the big sale of BJ's single diary at the beginning of 1997, and then continued to sell like Hurricane rescue, face changing, tornado, american pie, crouching tiger, hidden dragon, six heroes of the pig, ghost record, evocation 3, entomologist story, etc "Wedding singer", "Titanic" and so on basically led most of the 52 box office weeks of the year.

Among them, only nine films which had achieved a domestic box office of more than $100 million by December 31, 1997, had made a total box office of $1.6 billion, and a series of local box office projects such as Hurricane rescue, the six heroes of the pig, wedding singer, ghost of terror, and cable TV repairman, which were also big sellers with a total box office of more than $50 million, but unfortunately failed to make it more than $100 million, That's another $2.2 billion.

That's not the end of it.

In addition, a large number of films with low and medium box office volume, such as "two big smoker", "follow", "mutant DNA", "young Huang Feihong's Iron Monkey", "soul shifting girl", "sea pianist" and "beautiful soul", accounted for more than half of the 46 films released in 1997 by three danilisi brands, The total box office revenue also exceeded $700 million.

The 1998 box office portion of films such as Titanic, which are still on show, is not included. Naturally, the 1997 box office portion of films such as wonder woman 2 and mind catcher, which were produced by Denise in 1996, is also included, which is about $200 million.

All in all, the exact total is $3.14 billion.

It's not even a collaboration project like independence day.

1997 The total box office in North America was US $6.19 billion, and Denise's direct distribution of films was US $3.14 billion, accounting for 50.7%. As expected at the beginning of 1997, half of the real North American film market is unparalleled.

On the other hand, it also reflects the juxtaposition of six, seven or eight major Hollywood studios in the early years, which has completely changed.

Just to say that the top ten box office films in 1997, counting from December 31 of that year, accounted for eight films directly from danielis entertainment.

It seems to confirm some 28 law.

The other two films, one of which is "Independence Day" with danielis, do not consider "Titanic", which is still on show. For the time being, "Independence Day" ranks first at the domestic box office of $306 million.

The other thing that has nothing to do with danielis is Terminator 3. As of December 31, 1997, the local box office has totaled 141 million US dollars, and the ranking is only the ninth place, only higher than danielis's 134 million US dollars Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon.

As for the blockbusters such as "the fifth element", "Star River team" and "alien 4", which had been highly expected by many manufacturers, all failed.

In the face of Denise's strong entertainment, Hollywood once again surged out some hope to suppress the voice. However, we have already missed the best time to crack down on Denise's entertainment. After all, these voices are just some complaints.

Compared with other industries, the competition in Hollywood is fairer. We make our own movies and let the market speak.

Now, danielis entertainment is all wangchan, other families can't play good cards, who can blame it?

Can't Simon westero make less films?

It doesn't make sense.

As for the accusations of monopoly, they are even more untenable.

If we can't fight fair competition, we often have some unfair ideas. However, this move is not easy to use for danielis at present, because in Hollywood, what other studios should expect is that danielis entertainment, which is too powerful, will not use improper means to others, instead of making a bad move to a big Mac.

That's asking for discomfort.

This is not good, that is not good, Denise is too strong, in order to avoid losses, each family can only cut their own production. This is equivalent to actively letting the market out, like falling into a vicious circle that people can't extricate themselves from.

Some people can cycle.

Like Vivendi, like sigram.

It's only a few years since I entered Hollywood with ambition. Of course, I won't stop it easily.

Other people feel that Hollywood is becoming less and less fun, and they are willing to quit. Now, this idea is becoming more and more intense.

Like Sony.

Sony once experienced a big reversal in 1997, producing super blockbuster films such as man in black, which barely survived the most difficult times in 1997 and 1998. This time, it was not so lucky. In addition, the follow-up effects of the Asian financial crisis began to appear, making it more and more difficult for Sony to continue to entangle in Hollywood.