Chapter 748： stolen luck

"Juno made $52.78 million in its opening weekend."

Liam handed the aggregated box office data to Lehman, "In addition, the matter of discussing additional screenings with the theater chain has been negotiated. Starting from next week, the number of screens will increase to 3,128, and the share of the film will increase to 100%. No. 38... As for the original sound CD, Sony has come up with a cooperation plan, they provide channels, share 60%, and they also pay the copyright fee."

In these few days, Firefly has received a lot of good news.

The market performance of "Juno" is really good, and now it is fully unleashing the film's screening potential.

For example, in the past week, the North American weekly box office data was officially released, and "Juno" easily topped the list.

During the same period, there is nothing to beat in the new films except "Juno", but there are a few works that have been screened for a period of time. The cumulative box office gap is not very large.

Among them, Nicolas Cage's "Soul Chariot" cooperating with Columbia and Dimen Pictures in the middle of last year cost 110 million, and after more than a month of screening, it won 18.62 million again, ranking third, making the North American box office over 100 million yuan The threshold is 113 million in North America.

However, the film has a bad reputation, Columbia's plan to create another Marvel series failed, and the "Los Angeles Times" mercilessly commented on the film as: "An all-round waste of creators, time and money. "

According to the investment amount and publicity expenditure, "Soul Chariot" needs to get at least 300 million box office in various markets, but now it seems that it is impossible. Due to the unfavorable reasons of North America, overseas regions will receive less money, completely Sorry for the huge budget of this movie.

Of course, Marvel, who has already sold character images, is not sad. Anyway, whether the movie sells well, they can't get any money. You must know that the "Spider-Man" series is so popular, and Marvel indirectly earned it because of the popularity of the comics in the market. More than 30 million US dollars, and the rest, Columbia will not share the copyright dividends that belong to the little spider.

In the same period, the second place was "Lingshu 23" produced by Xinxian.

This thriller movie starring Jim Carrey, directed by Joe Schumacher, the master of horror, after the two joined forces, they did not break out the market appeal they should have, but the film still received 32.76 million US dollars. .....The sixth place is the "Wild Boar Racing Team" with overlapping audiences. The more "Juno" is favored by the market, the worse it will be, and it has only gained 5.87 million at this moment.

Ryman knew that Juno would have a good box office market, but it was quite sudden that it managed to maintain a stellar performance.

In the days that followed, Juno's box office fell by just 24 percent, far less than most films should.

Of course, this is actually a choice given by the market.

First, there are not many high-quality movies in the March schedule;

Second, once a plot type film such as "Juno" has a reputation, it will be less affected by the time market than ordinary commercial films.

And because the production investment of "Juno" was less than 11 million US dollars, the cost was recovered after the first week - this is also a small-budget film that seems to be unable to break any market records at the box office, but it can always get a lot of benefits. reason.

"Chainsaw" only looks at the box office, which is inconspicuous compared with other blockbusters, but the profit of the series is comparable to that of the "Matrix" trilogy. Oh, 8:3 is not fair, but the 8 sequels of "Saw" combined did not reach half of the production investment of "The Matrix".

If "Juno" can follow Blue Butterfly Pictures' prediction based on the market, it will be able to accumulate a considerable amount of benefits from all over the world in about 2 months... The worst is to use 100 million box office as the Target.

But putting this project aside temporarily, Firefly's project output this year is still a headache.

Don't look at the fact that Firefly Pictures is now in a stage of rapid expansion and accumulation of wealth. From the initial annual profit of less than 50 million, to now, with March as a quarter, it can earn a profit far exceeding 50 million US dollars- —Well, it is easy to exceed 100 million when it comes to explosive models...

However, the production business on which these are based is developing smoothly, and the foundation is still not solid.

Even if multiple blockbuster films can be produced every year, the increase is only pure annual income, and it is impossible for the company to advance to a higher level.

At best, the integrated business can only be regarded as a second-tier studio with relatively prominent project income, rather than a media company with multi-directional development and in-depth channels. Firefly neither has its own steady source of funds, nor does it talk about it. Shanghai binds overseas markets and business upgrades.

And now, there is another question before Lehman——

Lyman looked at Liam, called Joseph again, and said slowly: "Yesterday, Lionsgate boss Gusta called me and wanted to cooperate in the development of "Twilight". They provided overseas distribution and helped Blue Butterfly distributes domestically, and all the production revenue belongs to us, but this project and its sequel must provide them with a certain copyright dividend. Should we agree or not?”

During this period of time, Firefly has been developing in a hurry, and Lionsgate is not bad.

If it wasn't for the call from Lionsgate, Lyman would not have known that Lionsgate was about to take action.

In 4 or 5 years, in addition to DreamWorks, another studio that challenges overseas rights and interests has appeared, and its capital is far more abundant than that of DreamWorks.

But Lyman suspects Lionsgate is embarrassed right now.

He knew that Lionsgate would definitely be able to develop an overseas distribution network, but in the original time and space, Lionsgate first relied on low-cost thrillers and horror works to accumulate strength, and then carefully operated the "Twilight" series. .

But now, all the copyrights with a little influence on the market have been taken away by studios such as Wuwu and Firefly. Although Lionsgate has also obtained a few, they are not suitable for large-scale distribution. If the needs of others are not met, it is impossible to devote resources to cooperate with Lionsgate.

In other words, Lionsgate has carefully prepared and communicated with many issuers, but found that they could not come up with good projects, the cake was not big enough, and it was not tempting enough.

It seems that the momentum is very loud, and it has broken the five major patterns, but if the interests cannot be separated for a long time, the fragile relationship that is maintained by the interests will naturally be broken.

It is a good thing to have power, but it is a very embarrassing thing to have power without real benefits.

After discussions inside Lionsgate, they still came up with the idea of ​​Firefly. The main reason is that under the deliberate friendship of Lyman in this time and space, the two are relatively close, and there are usually entangled interests.

What's more, after Lehmann took the lead in obtaining the film adaptation rights of the copyright of "Twilight" and its follow-up works, Lionsgate President Jon Feilermei has been obsessed with it. He always felt that this series was extremely suitable for Lionsgate's future plans. Also want to spend a high price to let Firefly change hands. Of course, Lehman refused at the time, only vaguely said that there might be opportunities for cooperation.

But Jon Feilermei once again put the treasure on the series, which is based on a filmmaker's intuition.

Because a series of movies targeting the youth market is the most suitable for global distribution - there are not many cultural barriers, and there is no threshold for viewing movies. And love is a theme that all audiences can recognize, just look at how many best-selling love movies there are in the world.

After getting Gusta's call, Lehman also realized that Lionsgate was not willing to continue making small noises, and would definitely use the well-communicated overseas distribution network to upgrade the distribution business and **** the overseas who should only be able to talk about the Big Five. share.

Although he had considered , Lyman never thought that Lionsgate would move so fast.

However, Lionsgate in the previous life was also filmed "Twilight" in 2008. It seems that the development of a certain overseas distribution network in 2007 really fits the time. Big things should always be prepared in advance.

"Is Lionsgate capable of overseas distribution?" Liam was the first to be surprised.

I have to say that Lionsgate's keeping a low profile has confused many people.

Who would have thought that such a studio that has been established for many years, except for sometimes being noticed because of acquisitions, is developing low-cost themes for the rest of the time. If you don't make a sound, you just want to make a big move.

At that time, DreamWorks often developed high-cost movies and was trapped in business needs, so they had other ideas.

Lionsgate doesn't look like a company with that need.

After all, the genre of thrillers has never been popular overseas. How much money can you make?