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Chapter 505 Down File (Revised)

9月25日开画的《哭泣游戏》，首周37块银幕，票房126万美元；次周86块银幕，票房267万美元、

In the third and fourth weeks, the number of screens of "The Crying Game" increased to 155 and 173 respectively, and the box office reached US$403 million and US$397 million respectively.

Therefore, as of October 10, "The Crying Game", which was released for four weeks, has unknowingly accumulated a box office of 22 million US dollars, which is nearly four times the production cost of 1193 million US dollars.

On October 10, the fifth week of its release, the screening scale of "The Crying Game" finally saw a significant increase for the first time, with the number of screens reaching 23.

Gaomen Pictures did not rush for success because of the excellent box office performance of this low-cost literary film, and patiently controlled the release rhythm of the film. It still adopted a relatively cost-effective radial distribution model, and opened films in different regions one after another. , in order to achieve the purpose of reusing copy resources and more accurately screening audience groups.

The last week of October passed in a blink of an eye.

10月23日到10月29日，银幕规模增加到535块的《哭泣游戏》，馆均依旧达到1.6万美元，单周票房大幅增加到861万美元。

At the same time, the cumulative box office of the film also exceeded 2000 million US dollars, reaching 2054 million.

For literary films, 2000 million is often a difficult threshold to cross.

As the total box office of "The Crying Game" in North America exceeded 2000 million US dollars, various media began to pay more and more attention to this non-mainstream low-cost film, which led to a further rise in popularity of the film.

The publicity methods of Gaomen Pictures, such as radial distribution mode, hype and rating conflicts, etc., can actually be imitated. There are many talents who are good at marketing and hype, but Daenerys Entertainment is still the best in the field of literary films.

This "Crying Game" once again made many Hollywood colleagues feel powerless.

After carefully studying the film's various links from project approval to release, Hollywood studio executives once again realized a fact that is difficult to ignore.

At the end of the day, it’s still Simon Westeros.

Take "The Crying Game" as an example. The script of this movie was born ten years ago. The preparations have been slow and bumpy throughout the 80s. It was not until Simon Westeros took a fancy to the project that the project was given the green light all the way, and finally created The current dark horse at the box office.

Looking at others, whether it is the DC movie universe dominated by Daenerys Entertainment, or the Pixar studio that has risen rapidly with a 3D animated movie, or even a series of other types of movie projects, tracing back to the source cannot avoid a certain The insight of a young man.

Therefore, the success of "The Crying Game", and even the success of Daenerys Entertainment as a whole, simply cannot be replicated.Because it's impossible for other studios to find another Simon Westeros.

When "The Crying Game" attracted more and more attention from the industry, on October 10, after five months of screenings, Daenerys Entertainment's summer blockbuster "Wonder Woman" was also released in "Midnight Ring" The film was officially offline the day before, and the film's total North American box office was finally 30 million US dollars, which was only 5 million US dollars away from "Batman: The Dark Knight"'s 3.71 million US dollars.

Overseas, as of the end of October, the cumulative overseas box office of "Wonder Woman" has reached 10 million US dollars, and the global box office is 3.51 million US dollars

Considering that many box-country countries are still in the release stage, the film still has a box office potential of about 1.5 million US dollars. Therefore, the total global box office of "Wonder Woman" is expected to be about 8.7 million US dollars.

A total investment of US$1.6 million in production and publicity, and a global box office of US$8.7 million.

The box office alone has already brought huge profits to Daenerys Entertainment and Time Warner Group. However, the biggest profit of "Wonder Woman" is the sales of peripheral products.

As of the end of October, the total revenue of "Wonder Woman" related products, even without including the original soundtrack, which has sold 10 million copies, has reached 730 billion US dollars.

Calculated according to the net profit ratio of about 15% after deducting all development, production, channel and tax costs of peripheral products, only the peripheral revenue of USD 13 billion is expected to bring a net profit of nearly USD 2 million for the two companies.

In comparison, "Wonder Woman" is expected to have a total box office of US$8.7 million worldwide, but it can only bring about US$1.5 million in pre-tax profits after deducting production and publicity costs.

Even if Hollywood studios have various tax avoidance methods to reduce the tax rate that the movie box office needs to bear as much as possible, the box office revenue of "Wonder Woman" cannot be compared with the revenue generated by peripheral sales.

Moreover, the box office scale of "Wonder Woman" has basically been determined. With the arrival of the peak sales season at the end of the year, there will be a new wave of sales of the film's peripherals.

It is estimated that in the next two years, the total sales of peripheral products related to this superhero movie will exceed 20 billion US dollars, and the net profit will reach 3 million US dollars.

3 million U.S. dollars, which is already the total annual net profit of a major Hollywood studio in an ordinary year.

However, for the DC movie universe, this is just a peripheral sales item of "Wonder Woman".

On the other hand, several important summer movies related to Daenerys Entertainment, such as "Pleasant Deal", "Time to Kill" and "The Last of the Mohicans" are also drawn before "Wonder Woman".

In the end, among the three films, only "Time to Kill" achieved a North American box office of over 1.13 million, with an accurate figure of [-] million US dollars.

The total North American box office of "Peachy Deal" is 9311 million US dollars, which is still about 700 million US dollars away from breaking through [-] million.

"The Last of the Mohicans" performed the worst at the box office among the three, with a North American box office of only 8792 million US dollars.

However, "A Time to Kill" also has its own shortcomings, because the film discusses issues of judicial justice and racial themes that are more localized. The overseas box office of the film lags behind "Pleasure Deal", which is expected to be only about 7000 million US dollars.

With two Hollywood heavyweights, Robert Redford and Valerie Golino, in "Pleasure Deal", it is expected that the overseas box office will surpass that of North America, at about 1.3 million US dollars, and the global total box office will therefore exceed 2 million US dollars.

"The Last of the Mohicans" is more localized than "The Time to Kill", so it is also the bottom of the overseas box office among the three films. Judging from the market performance of the box office countries that have been released, after completing the entire overseas release cycle, it is expected that The total overseas box office is only about 5000 million US dollars, and the global total box office is expected to be between 1.3 million and 1.4 million US dollars.

Of course, even though the three films are far from being able to compare with "Wonder Woman", they were among the best box office performances of all North American films in 1992.

As of the end of October, the three films are temporarily among the top ten in the annual North American box office list.

On October 10th, as the polling day for the U.S. presidential election draws closer, the North American Halloween schedule begins.

"Midnight Ring" produced by Daenerys Entertainment's New World Pictures opened on October 10 with a scale of 30 screens. At the same time, a horror thriller "Samurai" produced by Columbia Pictures' Samsung Company was also released. "Legend of Pursuing Life", the opening screen size is 2356 yuan.

The story of "Midnight Ring" need not be repeated.

"Legend of Pursuing Life" also tells a story similar to the killing of evil spirits.

The story originated in the era just after the Civil War in the United States. Racial issues are still deeply rooted in all parts of the United States. A black boy fell in love with the white daughter of the slave owner. The love affair was discovered. The black boy was covered with honey by the white people, attracting bee swarms. A slow and painful death.

In order to take revenge, the soul of the black boy turned into an evil spirit and hid in the mirror. As long as someone repeatedly called the name of "Sugar Man" five times in front of the mirror, the evil spirit would be summoned.

Although it is also the killing of evil spirits, but different from the Japanese horror of "Midnight Ring", "Legend of Life" is more of an imitation of New Line's "A Nightmare on Elm Street".

The "Sugar Man" evil spirit in the film has many similarities with Freddy in the "A Nightmare on Elm Street" series, from appearance to killing methods, and there are many references to the plot structure.

After these years of repeated squeezes, the popularity of the "A Nightmare on Elm Street" series has long since fallen. At this time, a horror movie that follows the trend of "A Nightmare on Elm Street" will naturally hardly arouse too much interest from the audience.

Therefore, after the release, the two films quickly widened the gap in terms of word-of-mouth and popularity.

The media score of "Legend of Chasing Life" is only 4.6 points, which is not even a pass.

"Midnight Ring" has been unanimously recognized by the media and the public, and the media score is almost double that of "Legend of Destiny", reaching an excellent 8.7 points.

At the same time as "Midnight Ring" was released, and entering November, Simon began to make advance arrangements for the schedule for the end of the year.

David Johnston and Leslie Wheater's wedding is set for November 11.

The Simon couple will definitely rush to Australia at that time, and then plan to take a vacation for more than a month, and plan to stay in Australia until after the New Year.

In order to arrange the affairs of various companies before the holiday schedule at the end of the year, Simon has not had a rest recently, and he also works for breakfast on weekends.

Although it was still the end of 1992, Daenerys Entertainment's list of key projects in 1993 was basically determined.

1993 Easter schedule: "Wisdom 2".

Summer: "Superman," "Sleepless in Seattle," "Sugar Trap," "Gannet Killing."

"Superman" is produced solely by Daenerys Entertainment and distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures.

Sleepless in Seattle is a collaborative project with Disney.

"Assassination of Gannets" is a cooperative project with Warner Bros., and it is also the last of the original ten-film plan.

"Sugar Coated Trap" is a film independently operated and distributed by Daenerys Entertainment.

Subsequently.

Halloween schedule: The Seven Deadly Sins.

Thanksgiving schedule: 3D version of the animated film "The Lion King," Steven Spielberg's "Schindler's List."

Christmas schedule: Mission: Impossible with Paramount.

In order to avoid internal competition in terms of box office and awards, Simon moved "Forrest Gump", which was originally planned to be released at the end of 1993, to the summer of 1994.

The above list is only the key films in 1993. Others, such as "In the Name of the Father" starring Daniel Day Lewis, and the African savannah documentary produced after the success of last year's Antarctic documentary "The World of Ice and Snow", etc., have not. counted.

It is estimated that in 1993, under Daenerys Entertainment, Daenerys Pictures, New World Pictures and Gaomen Pictures, the total number of films planned to be released will still reach about 40.

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Daenerys Studios.

The time is July 11rd, Sunday.

At noon, in the executive restaurant of the film studio, Simon was having lunch with his father and daughter Dario Argento, who came to North America with him last time, and the president of New World Pictures, Danny Morris and female assistant Jennifer.

Dario Argento's "The Wind" can be described as a generation of horror classics.

Relying on the fame accumulated in "The Wind Blows", Dario Argento has been cooperating with Hollywood over the years.What the two sides are discussing today is a crime thriller "Trauma" written by Dario Argento and will be directed by himself. The story tells the story of a pair of young people looking for and fighting against a serial murderer.

Dario Argento also won the leading actress position for his daughter Aisha Argento.

Aisha Argento is 17 years old this year. Because she was born in a film family, the girl has been acting in her father's movies non-stop since she was 10 years old. She has already acted as the heroine in several Italian movies, so her acting skills are sufficient. Simon has no objection to Argento's request for his daughter to be the heroine.

In fact, Dario Argento's "Trauma" is largely aimed at pushing his daughter into Hollywood.

Although the Italian film industry is relatively prosperous in Europe, compared with Hollywood, it can only be regarded as a small pond after all.

With the global rise of Hollywood, the "little ponds" in various European countries have shown a clear trend of drying up. Marching to Hollywood has become the best way out for European filmmakers.

Simon has already read the script of "Trauma". Although it is not as good as "The Wind Blows" back then, it is still above the standard.Moreover, the expected production cost of the film is only 500 million US dollars, which is completely low-cost production for New World Pictures at this time, so the project was given the green light.

Of course, because the key projects that Simon personally finalized are not included, the schedule of "Trauma" is temporarily uncertain.

The film is planned to start shooting early next year. The production cycle from shooting to finished film is about five months, and it can basically be completed in the first half of 1993.

According to the results of the film in the future, if it is average, the schedule will probably be set in September and October next year;

Although the films of several labels under Daenerys Entertainment have many differences such as various production scales, grades and types, for Simon, he will not underestimate any film, all films under the three labels, although executives Has a lot of autonomy, but ultimately needs to be approved by him.

Simon has also been instilling in the company team the idea that movies are the 'products' produced by Daenerys Entertainment. There is no distinction between these products and what everyone needs to do is to make these products as good as possible. And use appropriate publicity strategies to maximize the commercial benefits of these products.

Not only the indoctrination of this concept, Simon has also been leading by example.

This is the case with Trauma right now.

Simon has personally read the script, personally communicated with the main creator Dario Argento, and personally paid attention to the film's budget and main creative information. Although he will not participate in the specific production of the film due to limited energy, he will be the first time in the future Watch the sample effect and pay attention to the follow-up publicity plan.

Through this style of work, Simon basically knows every movie project under the company's banner.

At the same time, because of Simon's prophetic advantage, this work style can also largely ensure that Daenerys Entertainment can obtain as many blockbuster films as Simon remembers, and therefore far exceed the overall commercial performance of the produced films. Other film companies in the same industry.

Chapter 506 Election Results (Revised)

After the weekend, the polling day for the 1992 US presidential election drew closer.

This game about the No.1 throne of American power will finally come to a conclusion on November 11.

After re-running for the election, the support rate of Ross Perot, an independent candidate of the third party, has recently reached 20%. However, the power structure of the two parties controlling the political arena in the United States will not change because of this. from among the major party candidates.

However, compared to the situation where many independent candidates can only be used as a foil in the past, Ross Perot's influence in this US presidential election has also made both parties quite vigilant.

Monday flies by.

Tuesday, November 11rd, Election Day.

In order to facilitate public voting, American universities, middle schools and primary schools basically have a day off on this day, and many companies also give employees half a day to vote.

In this general election, Simon still has no plans to vote in person.

The main reason is that I don't want to be surrounded by the media, and I don't want to trigger any public opinion effect.

In fact, for various reasons, the size of the 'non-voting' group in the United States is actually very large.

Since there is no voting plan, Simon rushed to San Francisco the day before the election.

The Eaglet Portal will conduct a 24-hour webcast of the general election. As an event-based traffic news that can greatly increase the attention of the website, the entire Eaglet company attaches great importance to it, and preparations have been started one month in advance.

On Tuesday morning, Simon and his female assistant woke up in their Woodside mountain house just before four o'clock.

According to the voting process, polling stations across the United States are open for voting at 12:[-] am, and the deadline is [-]:[-] pm for [-] hours.

Arriving at Eaglet headquarters in downtown Palo Alto, the brightly lit office building is already busy.

The Big Three of Eaglet, Tim Berners-Lee, Jeff Bezos, and Carol Bartz, have all appeared at the headquarters, and Bezos, who is mainly in charge of the network business, has stayed up all night.What the three care about is not only the traffic brought to the website by the general election itself, they also know more about the other significance of the general election.

As long as Clinton wins, the federal domestic policy will be very biased towards the new technology field in the next few years, which is crucial to the rise of the Internet industry.

Simon entered the company's office building and gathered with all senior executives in a large open conference room where employees could see the work area. The projection screen on the wall of the conference room also displayed news and data related to the general election in real time.

It's just over four o'clock on the west coast, and it's past seven o'clock in the morning on the east coast, and New Hampshire, the first state to start voting, has begun to feed back data.

A small town called Dixville in the easternmost state of New Hampshire in the United States was the first to open voting. A total of 78 people participated in the voting. According to preliminary statistics, George Bush: 23 votes; Bill Clinton: 39 votes; Ross Perot: 16 votes.

Bill Clinton was way ahead.

Although the voting results of a small town cannot affect the overall situation, it does not prevent the media from giving this opening a different interpretation and meaning.

That's clearly a good sign for Clinton supporters.

The Eaglet Portal immediately made the headlines about the voting results in the town of Dixville.