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However, even if it is a project led by Westeros himself, considering the subject matter, it is not so easy for "Forrest Gump" to get 1 million US dollars at the box office.

Probably because of the risk involved, Daenerys Entertainment wanted to control the production cost of "Forrest Gump" to around US$5000 million.

If it was a few years ago, C still had enough right to speak, and he could have demanded Daenerys Entertainment to increase the production budget to bear the risk himself and give the main creator enough interest protection.

Now, because Daenerys entertainment is becoming more and more powerful, C no longer has this kind of confidence.

Think about the "Wonder Woman" you just watched. Once blockbusters based on special effects become popular, the voice of big-name filmmakers in Hollywood will only be further reduced.

Moreover, Michael Eisner found that he was a little powerless despite being aware of this trend.

Unless Daenerys Entertainment stumbles a few times in a row and never recovers.

At that time, Hollywood stars will be able to regain the initiative and regain their power and status in Hollywood as they have for many years.

Just, is this possible?

Judging from the development of Daenerys Entertainment in recent years, this Hollywood giant that has evolved into a comprehensive media group after annexing MCA, even if it stumbles a few times in movies, there is no short-term decline at all possibility.

Chapter 488 First Week Box Office (Revised)

Because of the worries about "Wonder Woman" and the development trend of the entire Hollywood film industry, the two Michaels who lived next to each other kept discussing coping strategies almost all night after returning home.

While all parties in Hollywood are paying close attention to "Wonder Woman", the Simons are in Australia.

"Superman" officially started filming recently, and the shooting location of this superhero movie is still chosen to be in Australia.

The difference is that this time the main shooting city is in Sydney.

Moreover, "Wonder Woman" was released simultaneously in Australia and North America, and the Australian movie circle was quite lively during this period.

After attending the premiere of "Wonder Woman" on Wednesday, June 6, the Simon and his wife set off on June 3, and it was already Saturday afternoon local time when they arrived in Melbourne.

Since I came to Australia, of course I have to visit the little guy as soon as possible.

For the convenience of taking care of her children, after quitting her job, Veronica no longer lived in a high-rise apartment in downtown Melbourne, but also bought a villa on the banks of the Yarra River. The small nests in the suburbs are not far away.

Raymond Johnston loves this grandson very much, and specially arranged a room for the little guy in the mansion.

The Simons arrived and soon spotted someone in the nursery of the Johnston mansion.

The half-year-old Melbourne Westeros can already sit and crawl. Compared with the ugly little thing when he was born, the white and tender appearance makes people can't help but hug and kiss when they see it.

Janet picked up the child at the first sight when she saw the "little annoying person" she often talked about, and said to the child affectionately.After the last Easter, I haven't seen each other for more than a month, but the little guy doesn't recognize his birth at all, and he is very cooperative with his mother, ah, ah, ah, very tacit understanding.

The mother and son 'interacted' for a while before Janet handed the baby to Simon.

The little guy looked at the man in front of him, maybe he felt that he had seen it somewhere before, and he didn't resist, and raised his tender little hand to grab Simon's collar.Hearing Simon ask "Do you want Dad", he naturally couldn't answer, but he responded with two um-ahs very skillfully.

Veronica, whose temperament was much softer than before, stood next to the family of three, watching Simon talking to the little guy. She wanted to say something, but in the end she didn't say a word, but looked at the situation in front of her with some satisfaction in her eyes. .

After playing around for a while, the child quickly fell asleep from exhaustion.

Putting the little one in the crib with the nanny watching over them, the three left the room together.

Some time before dinner, besides Raymond Johnston and his wife, Anthony Johnston also brought his family over, and everyone gathered in the living room of the mansion to discuss some recent events.

After Australia released the industry control on foreign investment in the telecommunications field last year, after more than a year of deployment, the Westeros system's mobile communication business, Internet services and Eaglet Portal have initially established a firm foothold in this country.

In recent years, due to the impact of the Japanese economic downturn, the Australian economy has also entered a period of recession, and even experienced a bond market collapse similar to that in North America. Qintex Group, which bought MGM at the beginning, was insolvent and caused the founder The absconding of Christopher Scars and much that followed.

In the overall downward trend of the economy, the new technology industry has risen against the trend, making the Australian government begin to pay more attention to this field.

Of course, many of them are the result of the secret operation of the Westeros system and the Johnston family.

Just last month, the Australian Federal Parliament formally passed a bill to promote the development of the information industry. The Australian government plans to invest 100 billion Australian dollars in the next five years for infrastructure construction related to the information industry.At the same time, this bill also formulates many preferential measures for supporting talents, taxation and other aspects.

Under the lobbying of the Westeros system, the US "Information Superhighway Act" has entered the agenda of Congress ahead of schedule.However, it is at least a matter of next year to pass and implement it.

Europe, which has not completely ended the turmoil, does not have much thought to take care of this emerging field.

Therefore, Australia's bill on promoting the development of the information industry has become the first national policy document in related fields.

Due to its own market size, the scale of Australia's information industry cannot be too large after all.

However, taking this step ahead of time and taking the lead in the field of new technology will definitely bring unexpected benefits to this country.

In addition to the information industry, it is natural to talk about the film industry.

Out of cultural considerations, Australia made great efforts to support the film industry in the 80s. George Miller's "Mad Max" series came into being under this background. Among them is the strong support of the film industry.

However, this kind of policy support is not as good as the benefits brought by a series of blockbuster movies being shot in Australia.

In the original time and space, just because of the "Lord of the Rings" series, not only New Zealand has become the world of Middle-earth that movie fans all over the world yearn for, but this small country in the southern hemisphere has also become one of the most famous film production bases in the world.

The situation in Australia is pretty much the same as it was in New Zealand.

In addition to "Wonder Woman", which cannot be filmed in Australia due to filming, a series of projects in the DC movie universe, "Batman: Beginning of War", "Batman: The Dark Knight", "The Flash" and the just-launched "Superman" , all started shooting in Australia, including a lot of post-production work was also done directly here.

Driven by the DC Movie Universe series, Australia quickly formed a film industry base centered on Melbourne. Coupled with Australia's generous tax rebate measures and relatively cheap manpower and material costs, some other Hollywood studios are increasingly inclined to Movies are made in this country.

Australia's Internet industry, mobile communications industry, and film industry are all booming, and a series of companies in the Westeros system happen to have occupied very important positions in these fields in Australia.

This is actually a kind of infiltration!

Simon's next goal is to use the shell of the Johnston family to get involved in the core field of mining resources in Australia.

After completing this layout, Simon will have a decisive influence on this country.

June is winter in the southern hemisphere. However, cities such as Melbourne on the coast are affected by the temperate marine climate, and the winter season is not too cold.

The Simons spent a weekend in Melbourne, and went skiing in the nearby mountains on Sunday. On the following Monday, Simon rushed to the "Superman" crew in Sydney to follow up the filming of the film.

The straight-line distance between Sydney and Melbourne is about [-] kilometers, which is just a matter of ups and downs for private jets. Therefore, if he works in Sydney during the day, if there is no important thing, Simon will basically fly back to Melbourne at night.

At the same time, the box office data of "Wonder Woman" in North America continued to come in.

With the support of super popularity and excellent word-of-mouth, "Wonder Woman" earned a box office of 1921 million U.S. dollars on the first day of its opening, surpassing the box office of "Ambition for Earth" which opened last week, and once again Consolidated the phenomenal status of DC movie universe movies in Hollywood.

Subsequently, after three days of screenings in the first weekend, the box office figure of this superhero movie reached 6139 million US dollars, easily surpassing all summer movies that started painting in May.

When Simon returned to North America after a week of working in Australia, the seven-day box office of "Wonder Woman" was officially released.

9112 million dollars!

受到《神奇女侠》票房火爆的刺激，6月5日到6月11日的一周，北美院线的单周总票房金额达到1亿6286万美元。

However, because "Wonder Woman" alone scored more than half of the weekly box office share, films such as "Lethal Weapon 3", "The Nun is Crazy" and "Ambition for the Earth" released in the previous few weeks have all appeared in the box office. Box office fell more than 30%.

Because word-of-mouth is far inferior to "Lethal Weapon 3" and "Crazy Nuns", and the subject matter is not popular with audiences, Tom Cruise's "Ambition for the Earth" started far below expectations, and this week's decline was even worse, reaching 46%. Compared with the first week's 1562 million US dollars, the next week's box office is only 839 million US dollars.

It took in 2401 million U.S. dollars in two weeks, and the single-week box office has shrunk to just over 800 million U.S. dollars. The attendance rate is too low. After the two-week or four-week contract period, the theater will definitely withdraw the filming of "Ambition for the Earth" as soon as possible.Therefore, even if the subsequent box office decline eases, the total North American box office of "Ambition for the Earth" is expected to be difficult to break through 4000 million US dollars.

However, the total production and publicity budget that Columbia Pictures invested in this project reached 9000 million US dollars.

Even without considering the cost of time, "Ambition for the Earth" still needs to achieve a box office of about 6000 million US dollars in North America before it can recover the production cost through subsequent overseas distribution, video tape channels and TV platforms.

Now, the box office in North America is less than 4000 million US dollars, which means that it is impossible for Columbia Pictures to recover the huge investment of up to 5 million US dollars during the entire effective film release cycle of this film of 7 to 9000 years.

Tom Cruise's popularity, which was already declining, was hit hard by the failure of "Ambition for Earth".

Next, the Hollywood actor can only return to the low-budget field.

It is true that low-budget movies can make a big difference with a small amount. However, among the hundreds of low-budget movies produced in Hollywood every year, less than one-tenth of them can really make a big difference with a small amount.

Moreover, according to the usual practice, Tom Cruise can only fail two more times at most.

If the subsequent two consecutive films do not sell well, the actor's status will drop.

Seeing what happened to Cruise in recent years, many Hollywood filmmakers have mixed feelings in their hearts, and they can't help feeling a little more in awe of a certain young man.

However, this matter is no longer within Simon's concern.

The three films that have been released in the DC movie universe, "Batman: Beginning of War", with a box office of 8239 million US dollars in the first week, "Batman: The Dark Knight", with a box office of 1 million US dollars in the first week; The box office was 207 million US dollars.

With a start of $9112 million, "Wonder Woman"'s first-week performance among these four films is second only to "Batman: The Dark Knight".

Moreover, "Batman: The Dark Knight" obviously has the popularity bonus of a sequel.

If you don’t take this factor into account and only count the first part of the non-sequel, "Wonder Woman" is undoubtedly the highest among the three movies "Batman: Beginning of War" and "The Flash".

Because it is a female-led movie, before the release of "Wonder Woman", there was not a lot of negative voices. Now, the box office results of the first week of 9112 million US dollars have really caught many people's eyes.

In the originally negotiated licensing agreement, "Wonder Woman" was jointly invested by Daenerys and Warner Bros., and Daenerys was responsible for distribution.

Even with half the investment in the film, Terry Semel complained half-jokingly during a call with Simon about partiality.

The box office of "Wonder Woman" can exceed 9000 million U.S. dollars in the first week of painting, and the total North American box office of more than 3 million U.S. dollars is almost a certainty.

Among the first films in the three series, although the North American box office of "The Flash" reached 2.5 million U.S. dollars, it is obviously the lowest in both the opening box office and the total North American box office.

Compared with "Superman" who rushed to Australia to follow up after the filming just started, Simon was simply "indifferent" to "The Flash".

Moreover, the comparison between "The Flash" and "Wonder Woman" is not only about the box office, but also the sales of peripheral products of the two projects are also very different.

With the hot release of "Wonder Woman", the simultaneous release of the original soundtrack also caused a big sale because of Diana Prince's own background music. 87 copies were sold in the first week of its release, and the total sales volume is expected to easily break through 1000 million copies.

The sales of character dolls in the movie and Wonder Woman's weapons and props far exceeded those of the original "The Flash".

Among them, the specially produced 1 sets of Amazon female warrior limited edition complete set of character dolls, although the price was as high as 1000 US dollars, were still sold out within a week, and this alone brought in 1000 million US dollars.

Is Simon eccentric?

Of course.

At the beginning, Simon hoped to exchange half of the investment rights in "Superman" in exchange for half of the investment rights in "The Flash" and "Steel Bone". This is actually a very cost-effective business, but Simon's proposal was eventually rejected by Warner.

In order to maintain the unity of the DC movie universe, Simon still accepted these two superheroes.As a producer with a strong right to speak, he has actually devoted enough energy to these two projects.

However, it is not realistic to expect him to treat "The Flash" and "Cyborg" with the same heart as projects such as "Batman", "Wonder Woman" and "Superman".

After the first week, on June 6, North American theaters once again registered two new films, namely "Brothers and Brothers" produced by Warner Bros. and "Reinvented Warrior" launched by Samsung, a subsidiary of Columbia Pictures.

"Brothers and Brothers" is a common sibling comedy, and "Regenerator" is an action movie starring Dolph Lundgren and Jean-Claude Van Damme.

However, judging from the scale of openings, the two films are basically cannon fodder after "Wonder Woman". "Brothers" opened with 1140 screens, and "Reconstructed Warrior" only had 1281. Open the screen.The combined opening scale of the two films is not as good as "Wonder Woman".

Warner Bros. and Columbia probably chose this release strategy because they didn't want to give up this summer file and they didn't have confidence in these two films.

However, under the overwhelming popularity of "Wonder Woman", the two films, which were originally regarded as cannon fodder, failed to splash any water after their release.

The new film is weak, and the market is still left to "Wonder Woman".

Therefore, at the end of the second week of release, the box office of "Wonder Woman" fell by only 25%, and it received another US$6839 million.

In two weeks, the cumulative box office of this superhero blockbuster has reached 1 million US dollars, directly surpassing all the films released in North America in 5951, ranking No.1992 in the annual total box office list.

Chapter 489 Spokesperson (Revised)

On June 6th, the third week of the release of "Wonder Woman", North American theaters once again ushered in three heavyweight new films, namely Daenerys and Paramount's "Pleasure Deal", Fox's "Alien 19" and Disney's 3D animated film "Aladdin".

As the main summer projects of various studios, the opening screen scale of the three films all exceeded 2000 yuan, "Peachy Deal" was 2219 yuan, "Alien 3" was 2381 yuan, and "Aladdin" was 2137 yuan.

The opening of three new films will inevitably have an impact on "Wonder Woman".

However, "Wonder Woman" has fully released its box office potential during the previous two weeks of loose schedule. Facing the impact of the three new films, although the box office decline in the third week of release expanded to 37%, it still won 4316 million US dollars. , continue to maintain the No.1 position on the weekly list.

At the same time, after three weeks of release, the cumulative box office of "Wonder Woman" officially exceeded the US$2 million mark, reaching US$2 million.

Relying on the starring lineup of Robert Redford and "Catwoman" Valerie Golino and the controversial topic of whether he is willing to transfer his wife for $100 million, the box office of "Peachy Deal" reached $3227 million in the first week of filming, topping the list. No.2.

Disney's 2D animation film "Aladdin" ranked third on the list, with a box office of 2963 million US dollars in the first week, which also exceeded Disney's expectations.

You know, the production cost of "Aladdin" is only 2800 million US dollars.

Moreover, animated films are often able to make a relatively good box office.

Immediately afterwards, Fox's "Alien 5000", which cost US$3 million, had a box office of US$2684 million in the first week, ranking No.4 on the weekly box office list.

The opening box office of "Alien 3" is not low. However, the word-of-mouth of this sequel has collapsed. The comprehensive media score is only 4.3 points.

After the first week, the industry generally predicts that the film's box office will drop sharply in the next week.

After that, Disney's "Crazy Nuns" ranked fifth.

In the fifth week of its release, this summer box office dark horse starring Whoopi Goldberg continued to earn 761 million US dollars, with a cumulative box office of 7131 million US dollars.

Not only that, even in the face of the impact of the still strong "Wonder Woman" and three new films, the weekly box office drop of "Crazy Nun" was only 6% in the week from June 19 to June 6.Therefore, although the weekly box office volume is only more than 25 million US dollars, this black comedy is still expected to break through the 11 million yuan mark relying on its excellent long-term trend.

"The Nun is Crazy" in Simon's memory has a total North American box office of more than 1.3 million U.S. dollars.