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Chapter 455 Big Event (Revised)

The second day after the premiere of "The Flash", the film's media reputation was officially lifted.

The quality of this superhero blockbuster itself is beyond doubt.

In addition, Warner Bros. Pictures not only invested 5000 million US dollars in the publicity budget for "The Flash", but also spared no effort in media public relations.

Driven by comprehensive factors, although it is a standard popcorn commercial film, "The Flash" has received very positive reviews on various mainstream media platforms in North America.

According to statistics, according to the 10-point scoring system, the comprehensive media score of "The Flash" reached an astonishing 9.1 points.

Simon himself feels that based on the film standards of this era and the quality of "The Flash" itself, the film's film critic score of 8 points is very reasonable, and the score of 9.1 points obviously has factors of Warner's public relations operation.

Although American film critics claim to be objective and fair, they are not incapable of influence.

Under normal circumstances, major studios don’t interfere too much with the media’s evaluation of a movie, but they occasionally make efforts on a key project like “The Flash” that is related to some important layouts, and film critics are very happy to sell a movie. face.

In the final analysis, film critics are dependent on the entire Hollywood film industry to survive.

Almost all of the Marvel Cinematic Universe series in the original time and space can get high scores. Anyone with a discerning eye can see that it is definitely not just because of the quality of the film itself.

In any case, the excellent media reputation with a score of 9.1, the overwhelming publicity campaign, the number of opening screens exceeding 3000 yuan, and the blessing of this well-known superhero IP, the combination of the right time, place and people, logically created this superhero A blockbuster blockbuster at the box office.

On December 12th, it was only the first day of the filming. Counting the box office of the early show and the midnight show, "The Flash" successfully won a box office of 20 million US dollars.

In comparison, the production budget of the same 7000 million U.S. dollars, started on December 12, and the film "Captain Hawk" directed by Spielberg, which has just experienced its first week of screenings, has a cumulative box office of only 13 million U.S. dollars in seven days.

"The Flash" is only the first day of its opening, and its box office of 1612 million US dollars is already comparable to the box office data of "Captain Hawk" in its first seven days.

Not to mention anything else, just this comparison is enough to show that "The Flash" is in full swing.

From December 12th to December 20nd, during the first three days of the opening weekend, "The Flash" quickly won a box office of 12 million U.S. dollars. Such box office results are only behind the previous two "Batman" movies. Also in Hollywood at the hands of invincible.

So much so that when the first weekend box office of "The Flash" was released, an article in the "Hollywood Reporter" couldn't help feeling that the current Hollywood movies can be divided into two types at the box office, DC movie universe movies, and other movies.

Affected by the strong impact of "The Flash", many old movies that should have rebounded at the box office in this Christmas period, actually saw box office figures drop to varying degrees.

Perhaps due to the strong media comparison, the reputation of "Captain Hawk" in the media and audience has further declined, which also caused the box office of the film to drop by 28% in the next weekend. The 28% drop in the box office during the schedule is already very serious.

What's more, the box office starting point of "Captain Hawk" was already very low.

Therefore, compared with the box office of $4931 million in the first three days of "The Flash", the box office of "Captain Hawk" in the second weekend is only $968 million.

In ten days, this blockbuster, which Columbia Pictures had high hopes for, only earned a total of $2723 million.

On the original timeline, when the word-of-mouth of "Captain Hawk" collapsed, the domestic box office in North America could still exceed [-] million, mainly because the film had no other competing films in the same period, and it happened to be Christmas again. The bustling "Captain Hawk" is indeed more suitable for family audiences to watch the movie, and this has achieved a cumulative box office of over [-] million in North America.

Now, with IP popularity no less than that of Peter Pan's "The Flash", coupled with the disparity in quality and media reputation between the two films, it is self-evident how the audience will choose.

What's more, before "The Flash", "Toy Story", which was released on the Thanksgiving schedule, this 3D animated film that is also suitable for family carnival audiences, still maintains a good stamina.

Therefore, according to the accumulated box office figures of "Captain Hawk" in ten days and the subsequent box office trend under the impact of "The Flash" and other films, the media generally predict that the total North American box office of this blockbuster is likely to stop at 6000 million. Dollar.

This figure is more than 40% lower than the box office of "Captain Hawk" in Simon's memory.

The box office in North America is 6000 million US dollars. If it is other films, it may still be called a blockbuster.

However, for "Captain Hawk", the production cost of this film is as high as 7000 million US dollars. Even if the total production and publicity budget does not reach the 1.2 million US dollars level of "The Flash", it still exceeds 1 million US dollars. One hundred million U.S. dollars.

In the original time and space, "Captain Hawk" with a box office of more than [-] million in North America was released through various channels, and it took a few years to barely recover the cost of the film in all aspects.

Now, the expected box office has plummeted by 40% compared with the original time and space. Even through the next overseas distribution and even video tapes and other peripherals, it will be very difficult for "Captain Hawk" to recover all the budgetary costs.

In fact, not only "Captain Hawk", but also "Assassination of Kennedy", which started drawing at the same time as "Captain Hawk" last week, and even a series of films released during Thanksgiving, have had a very obvious impact on the box office data.

After all, the $4931 million in the first weekend, including the word-of-mouth of the film, can almost guarantee the North American box office of "The Flash" of $2.5 million.

2.5 million U.S. dollars is equivalent to cutting a very large piece of cake in the stock of the year-end schedule.

"The Flash" cuts away too much, and what other films can share will naturally be greatly reduced.

It's a new week and Christmas is approaching.

However, the eyes of the whole world are attracted by Moscow's every move.

More than two years of turmoil in Europe have come to a head in recent months as Gorbachev's reforms failed.

In the past two years, East and West Germany have been unified, Eastern European countries have announced their withdrawal from the Warsaw Pact, and some republics have declared independence. The Soviet regime, which has been fighting against the Western world for half a century, has entered its final moments.

Finally, Christmas Eve just passed, and on Christmas Day, the supreme leader of the Soviet Union Gorbachev announced his resignation from all personal positions, and all the political, economic and military assets of the Soviet Union were inherited by Russia.

The next day, after the last Supreme Council of Soviets, the Federal Republic of Soviets was officially dissolved.

In the overwhelming reports of the media all over the world, Simon just watched this great change with cold eyes.

Russians seem to be getting the freedom they want.

It's just that they don't know that what they are about to usher in is an even harsher winter.

Gorbachev was generally a very enlightened leader. However, Yeltsin, who inherited most of his power, was just a careerist.Yeltsin will completely squander the wealth accumulated during the Soviet era in the next ten years.

Simon also thought about the way out of the Soviet Union in private, and finally came to a very pessimistic result.

This is basically a dead end.

In any case, in the process of great system changes, it is difficult for ordinary people in Russia to escape such a catastrophe that is no less than a war.However, if no changes are made, the terminally ill Soviet Union will continue to exist, and it will still be headed towards the abyss.

Rise and fall change, all people suffer.

Then, Simon also discovered again how lucky the United States is.

They have George Washington, they have power to divide and rule, and they have a bottom-up power structure. In the 200 years since the founding of the country, except for the Civil War, the mainland has not experienced much disaster. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, this country will become the planet. The only superpower in the world.

For many, many years to come, as the only superpower, only the United States will be able to bully others.

When the whole world is cheering for the arrival of the age of peace, Simon knows that peace is always temporary.

War, war never changes.

The selfishness and aggression rooted in the genes of all creatures on this planet are destined to end in tragedy in the end.

Of course, this world will not change because of the pessimism in Simon's bones.

While countries around the world are planning how to deal with the world situation after the disintegration of the Soviet Union, the entire Westeros system has also begun to discuss the next expansion plan.

After merging MCA, Simon has launched a plan to develop new markets within Daenerys Entertainment Group.

With the disintegration of the Soviet Union, the further opening of the Eastern European market will be Daenerys Entertainment's next business focus.

In addition, the Westeros Corporation as a whole is also planning to expand to the entire Eastern Europe, and Cersei Capital is already looking to raise a fund dedicated to investing in Eastern European countries.

Even the Johnston family in Australia, Anthony Johnston plans to fly to Moscow in the near future.

After all, Russia is a well-known resource-rich country.

Since Yeltsin was destined to squander the wealth accumulated in the Soviet era, Simon didn't mind taking a share of it, so he began to consider some plans while continuing to accompany Janet on her maternity leave.

On the other hand, changes in the world pattern have not affected the Christmas schedule in North America.

After the box office of US$4931 million in the first weekend, the box office of "The Flash" in the first week and seven days finally reached US$7286 million. .

During the week from December 12th to December 20th, No. 12 in the ranking list was neither "Captain Hawk" which started drawing last week, nor "Assassination" by Oliver Stone and Kevin Costner. Kennedy,” but Daenerys Entertainment’s 26D animated film “Toy Story,” which was released on Thanksgiving.

Because of Christmas, under the strength of "The Flash", although "Toy Story" did not achieve a box office reversal, it also maintained a weak box office decline of only 7%, and received another US$1671 million.

After five weeks of release, the cumulative box office of this 3D animation film reached 1 million US dollars.

Considering that the single-week box office remains at a high of 1671 million US dollars, and the long-lasting long-term attributes of animated films, "Toy Story" is enough to hit the 2 million US dollar mark very smoothly in the next screenings. This box office performance is better than $1995 million for the original 1.9 version of "Toy Story."

However, considering the resources Daenerys Entertainment has invested in this project, the $2 million box office also seems logical.

In fact, if it weren't for the impact of "The Flash", this version of "Toy Story" should have a higher box office.

Although "Toy Story" lags behind the No.1 "The Flash" with a gap of more than 5000 million US dollars, it is still too lucky compared with "Captain Hawke" and "Assassination of Kennedy".

In the second week of painting, the overall box office of "Captain Hawk" fell by 26%, and it received another US$1298 million.

Within two weeks of its release, this blockbuster with an investment of 7000 million US dollars has a cumulative box office of only 3053 million US dollars. The loss of the project is almost a foregone conclusion.

Counting the US$6500 million "Ultimate Condor" starring Bruce Willis in the summer, Columbia Pictures' two key projects this year all ended in a very bleak situation.

The Japanese economy is still in a downward trend. With the huge losses of two consecutive films, news has even spread in the industry that Sony intends to withdraw from Hollywood.

Although Sony immediately clarified that such arguments are just rumors, since the acquisition of Columbia Pictures, they have paid several large "tuition fees" in a row, and Sony is obviously unable to bear it. For the two professional managers of Columbia Pictures, Peter Cooper and Jon Peters also had doubts.

In addition, after sorting out some good news from the media, it was unexpectedly discovered that the films that Columbia Pictures has paid the best in recent years are precisely the two films "The League of Pink" and "Ten Days of Dangerous Love" that it cooperated with Daenerys Entertainment last year. Movie.

Although it shares interests with Daenerys Entertainment, the combined production costs of these two films last year were not as high as either of this year's two blockbusters.

However, either of these two films has outscored this year's two misnamed 'blockbusters', "Condor" and "Captain Hawk."

Because of this report, the media once again focused on Daenerys Entertainment, who has become a Hollywood giant in just a few years.

Therefore, it is also found that in recent years, companies that cooperate more closely with Daenerys Entertainment have gained more benefits.

Simon Westero's original "Run Lola Run" directly saved Orion from possible bankruptcy at the time.

Several films in cooperation with Fox have also made the big studio earn a lot of money. The "Butterfly Effect" and "Death Comes" two series are still going on.

Subsequently, ten film projects were planned, each of which brought very rich benefits to the partners.

Then came the DC Movie Universe project.

If it weren't for the rise of the DC movie universe that brought a lot of benefits to Time Warner, and even greatly increased Time Warner's stock price, this large media group that just completed the merger last year would definitely not have to survive the economic downturn after the collapse of the US bond market. would appear too easy.

The intensity of the power struggle within Time Warner is almost well known.

If it hadn't been for the full effort to promote the cooperation between Time Warner and Daenerys in the DC movie universe and other projects, Steve Ross, who has been criticized for the original merger and subsequent corporate difficulties, would have been in Time Warner Group The position will definitely not appear too stable.

Because of this trend of public opinion, even Peter Cooper and Jon Peters, who may lose their status under pressure from Sony, contacted Amy Pascal again in private to test whether the two parties have the opportunity to continue to cooperate.

Chapter 456 Reset 007 (Revision)

On December 12th, North American theaters once again had three new films start production, namely "Fried Green Tomatoes" released by Universal Pictures, Fox's "For the Boys" and Warner Bros.'s "The Waves".

However, whether it is Daenerys Entertainment's "Fried Green Tomatoes" taken over from Universal, Fox Films' musical "For the Boys" or Warner Bros.' "Warner Bros." , neither has shown to be a threat to The Flash.

After the box office of US$7286 million in the first week, in the three days of the second weekend, "The Flash" dropped only 27% compared to the box office of the first weekend, and received another US$3601 million.

In ten days, the cumulative box office of this superhero masterpiece successfully broke through 1 million, reaching 887 million US dollars.

After "The Flash", "The Waves of Time" ranked No.3000 with a production budget of 2 million US dollars. This feature film earned 1003 million US dollars in three days after it was shot. Although it cannot be compared with "The Flash", it has also reached Warner's expectations.

However, the film's comprehensive media score is only 6.8 points. Even with Daenerys Entertainment taking the initiative to retreat, Warner Bros. Pictures has a lot of difficulty in hitting the Oscars with this film.After all, apart from other things, Gaomen Pictures' previous "Farewell to the Piano" scored 9.2 points from the media.

"For the Boys" produced by Fox Films is an old-school musical musical starring Hollywood actor James Caan, who was nominated for an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for "The Godfather." The Pond was nominated for Best Director.

As a package project for C, the musical had a budget of $4000 million.

However, after the film opened with 1308 screens, the box office results were a complete disaster for Fox.

With a production budget of 4000 million U.S. dollars, the box office only received 453 million U.S. dollars in the first three days of painting.

As a genre film with Oscar ambitions, the media score of "For the Boys" is only a poor 4.3 points.

According to such media reputation and box office start, the total North American box office of "For the Boys" is likely to stop at less than 2000 million US dollars, and Fox will suffer a huge loss of tens of millions of dollars.

The last new film "Fried Green Tomatoes" stars Kathy Bates, Mary Louise Parker and other actresses. It tells the story of a pair of girls who grew up together in a small town in Alabama in the south of the United States in the early [-]th century. A story of deep friendship.

The theme of "Fried Green Tomatoes" is very similar to Daenerys Entertainment's stage play adaptation film "Steel Magnolias" two years ago. It is also a conservative southern town, with the same female theme, and it also conveys about family, friendship, love, etc. Warm elements.

Additionally, "Fried Green Tomatoes" has the lowest budget of the three new releases this week at $1100 million.

Universal originally planned to use "Fried Green Tomatoes" as an award-winning film, but Daenerys Entertainment has already had enough awards-winning projects this year, not to mention not planning to really hit the Oscars. The box office of "Green Tomato" is also very good, and the film was released directly as a commercial film, with an opening screen size of 1021 yuan.

Three days after the painting started, "Fried Green Tomatoes" not only achieved a media score of 7.4 points, which was slightly stronger than "The Stormy Times", but also successfully earned 963 million US dollars, slightly behind "The Stormy Times" in this weekend's box office list ", ranked No.3.

"Toy Story" fell 17% this weekend compared to the same period last week, and received another US$915 million, lagging behind "The Flash", "The Waves of Time" and "Fried Green Tomatoes", ranking No.4 in the weekly box office list .

At the same time, the cumulative box office of "Toy Story" also reached 1 million US dollars, steadily hitting 5451 million US dollars.

"Captain Hawk" continued to earn US$787 million in the third weekend of its opening, a decrease of 19% compared to the same period last week, ranking fifth on the list, with a cumulative box office of US$4005 million.

Oliver Stone's "Killing JFK" narrowly edged out Fox's new "For the Boys," a hit and gag historical drama with a $469 million third-weekend weekend. In the third weekend, the cumulative box office was only 2368 million US dollars.

Judging from the film's continued weak decline of 13% last week and 19% this week, "Assassination of Kennedy" is still expected to hit the box office of 5000 million US dollars after long-term screenings.

Of course, compared to the production budget of 4000 million US dollars, the producer Paramount Pictures is under a lot of pressure to pay back.

Moreover, when Daenerys Entertainment voluntarily withdraws from this year's Oscar competition, "Assassination of Kennedy" will undoubtedly become the most powerful competitor of "The Waves".

In addition, "The Piano Farewell" produced by Gaomen Films is also worth mentioning on this week's list.