Chapter 1124 Still Have to Do It Yourself
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Simon left London the next day for his next stop in Helsinki.
The official schedule of this trip to the UK is basically done, but there are two other small things, none of which have been settled, it is the Spice Girls and Harry Potter that I remembered on the plane when I came.
Not to mention the Spice Girls.
Regarding Harry Potter, Simon privately searched the Facebook social network and other platforms on the UK side, but could not find a lady named JK Rowling, and immediately remembered that Western women often follow their husband's surname after marriage. The former JK Luo Lin is a single mother, not necessarily this time.
Then changed the method to search mainly with the jk prefix, and even some online literature communities, still found nothing.
Can only give up.
In the end, I decided to try it myself. During the next trip to Finland and Italy, Simon took the time to list the outline of the first Harry Potter series based on memory, and also wrote a story outline, which was passed to Los Angeles and asked them to Find a sought-after representative.
As for story inspiration.
Simon also adopted the previous version, accidentally caught a glimpse of a wizard with black-rimmed glasses dressed as a little boy on the side of the road, and took a sketch of Harry Potter.
Of course, when the story is published in the future, Simon does not intend to sign it. Considering the layout of this ip, he does not intend to give the shooter the right to sign, but instead gives a pseudonym, jk.
Forget Rowling in the back.
As for what to do in the future, Simon can only do this, let nature take its course.
Los Angeles.
When Simon was tossing around in Europe, it was April 18, another Friday, before he knew it.
The Easter season has come to an end, and several previous films are still going on.
In the past box office week, the new version of Hurricane Rescue starring Jet Li once again won the single-week box office championship. From March 28, it has been the third week of its release. This Chinese kung fu action movie combined with Hollywood templates is in the premiere. After a good start of $31.37 million in the week, it fell slightly by 43% in the next week, and earned $17.88 million. In the third week, the decline narrowed to 26%, and then closed at $13.21 million.
In three weeks, the $25 million low- and medium-budget film has grossed $62.46 million at the box office. Even if you include the $10 million in publicity and distribution, the cost has basically recovered.
Judging from the current trend, there is still a box office potential of 15 million to 20 million US dollars in the follow-up of the hurricane rescue, and the total domestic box office is expected to reach 80 million US dollars.
Although it is hopeless to break 100 million, even if Simon does not report too high expectations for this new version of hurricane rescue, the box office forecast of 80 million US dollars has exceeded everyone's expectations. The continuous success of Jack Cheng and Jet Li in Hollywood has not only sparked a Chinese kung fu movie craze among the audience, but also various Hollywood studios have turned their attention to the other side of the ocean. Get in touch there.
Then I realized that it was still a step too late.
This is about a Chinese kung fu movie, Teen Wong Fei Hung's Iron Horse, which Daenerys Entertainment re-launched last Friday.
Although the English name of the film was translated into iron monkey (iron monkey), the wonderful Chinese kung fu display in the film has attracted a lot of attention under the craze caused by the hurricane rescue.
On April 11, the young Wong Fei-hung's Iron Horse opened with 1,514 screens in North America. In the first week of its release, it once again unexpectedly won a box office of 10.36 million US dollars, almost breaking 10 million.
In April, such a stand-alone, Chinese-language movie theme, 1514 screen size is not too much, the first week of 10.36 million US dollars, can be called a small miracle.
With this little miracle, the iron horse Liu of the young Wong Feihong even gained the second place on the weekly box office list.
In the same box office week, the top two films in the North American film market had Chinese protagonists, which is also a spectacle that has not appeared in many years.
With such a small start, the North American box office of the young Wong Fei-hung's Iron Horse is expected to reach 25 million US dollars, which does not seem to be much. However, this old film produced in Hong Kong in 1993 is actually Daenerys Entertainment. Bought in a package.
Even though last year's rush hour made Chinese Kung Fu once again attract the attention of many people, most people are accustomed to looking forward rather than looking for old movies.
Daenerys Entertainment did the opposite.
On the other hand, the collapse of Hong Kong films from last year has made many film companies in desperate need of funds, even if they want to sell it. As a result, Daenerys Entertainment, in the name of distributing video tapes, including the North American omni-channel copyright of nearly 20 films, including the young Wong Feihong: The Iron Horse, etc., spent a total of less than 10 million US dollars on Daenerys Entertainment, an average of Less than $500,000 each.
Of course, converted into Hong Kong dollars, the average price of nearly 4 million Hong Kong dollars per unit is still quite impressive.
Now, the young Huang Feihong's Iron Horse has earned more than 10 million US dollars in a week. The film's producers, such as Golden Harvest and Media Asia, are suddenly not so 'considerable', and the feeling of being cheated is better than that of a certain production of Hei Xia last year. Fang is even worse.
If the more than 20 films sold are not all, even if only half of them have such market potential, it will be a blood loss.
I thought that by strictly guarding against new projects like Police Story 4, it would never make Hollywood too cheap. I didn’t expect that an old film that had been released for so many years could still sell well in Hollywood.
However, in addition to worrying, Hong Kong filmmakers, who were originally worried about the future because of the collapse of the Hong Kong film market, have seen a way out after successive Hong Kong films have been successful in Hollywood. Coupled with the attempts of Hollywood, it can be called a hit-and-run. .
After all, it is the unpopular period between Easter and summer. After Hurricane Rescue and the Iron Horse of Huang Feihong, the third-place terrifying ghost fell back to the range of tens of millions of dollars at the box office this week.
Also in the third week of its release, Ghost of Horror slashed 51% of the $14.51 million in the following week. The three-week box office narrowed its decline by 32%, and made another $9.86 million, with a cumulative box office of $53.91 million.
Taking into account the film's box office curve, the film's total domestic box office is expected to be between $60 million and $70 million, which is not as good as the $80 million expected for the hurricane rescue, but compared to the $30 million production cost, it used to be a letdown. people are satisfied.
The fourth place on the list is Xenomorph 2.
In the fourth week of its release, this alien-shaped sci-fi movie made another $8.16 million, with a cumulative box office of $71.55 million, easily surpassing the first previous film. Not only that, with the film's box office capacity at this time, it is not a big problem to break through 80 million in China, so it will also become the highest-grossing film in the Easter schedule, and of course, the highest-grossing film among the 4 films related to Daenerys Entertainment. part of.
Number five on the list is cable repairman.
However, in its fourth week of release, Jim Carrey's single-week box office for this comedy has fallen to $4.51 million, barely surpassing the $4.19 million in the ninth week of the second-place bj's single diary, with a cumulative box office of $52.5 million. It's hard to break past $60 million.
Considering the $35 million in production and $15 million in publicity, Daenerys Entertainment obviously cannot recover the cost from the local distribution and can only look forward to overseas.
In addition to the top five, it is worth mentioning that the sixth bj single diary.
In the ninth week of its release, with a box office receipt of $4.19 million, the love movie's cumulative box office has reached $138.26 million. Although the single-week box office is much less than that of the cable TV repairman, the box office curve of bj's single diary is very stable, and it may not be impossible to hit 150 million.
Daenerys Entertainment executives look back on the entire Easter schedule with regret.
Except for the bj singles diary that should be counted in the Valentine's Day schedule, none of the four featured movies in the Easter schedule has a local one that exceeds 100 million yuan. However, four films are released together, and this result is not surprising at all.
Let’s just say that Xenomorph 2, which performed better than expected, would have no problem with breaking 100 million if it wasn’t for the combined impact of hurricane rescue and terrifying ghosts during the Easter week. However, the pie in the movie market is so big, if you take more, others will definitely have less.
Therefore, in this Easter period, the internal friction between the four films is obvious.
Of course, it's totally worth it, given the increased box-office that many viewers are drawn to the movie theaters as a result of the simultaneous release of the four films. If there are no four films from Daenerys Entertainment, not to mention that the extra share will definitely be eaten by other studio films, and the Easter schedule for two consecutive weeks may not be able to break through 100 million at the box office every week. , and even reached a high of $130 million in the week of Easter that matched the summer and year-end.
All in all, the pros outweigh the cons.
Daenerys Studios.
Near the end of a week of work, Amy Pascal held a meeting with the heads of several of its studios, returned to her office again, and began to ask her assistant Vanessa Lind some work matters.
It's mainly something that my boss has recently explained.
Such as the idea of a romantic film called My Best Friend's Wedding, the negotiation between Husoni and Japan's Toho for the copyright of Godzilla, and a fantasy idea called Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone that I just got yesterday. .
"Ronald Bass has already accepted the screenwriting job. In addition, I also transferred the story idea to Julia, and there is no response from icm for the time being. As for Godzilla, Toho, their attitude is a little vague."
"I don't want to hear that ambiguity."
"Sorry, Ms. Pascal, but obviously, based on the information we got, Sony had already made a deal with Toho, and now, we stepped in, and with Daenerys Entertainment's Hollywood appeal, the Japanese only needed to Don't be stupid, you know who is more beneficial to work with. But, they should be waiting for us to make an offer now."
Amy thought about it for a while, and came to a general understanding: "Dongbao wants to participate in the investment?"
"Yes," said Vanessa Linde, who has been conscientiously following Amy's side all these years: "According to the information we have received, the cooperation between Dongbao and Sony was not intended to be invested, but only to enjoy a certain profit share. But now Dan If Nilis Entertainment wants to take over, in the eyes of the Japanese, the box office will be quite secure, and naturally they will not miss investment opportunities.”
"In this case," Amy considered for a moment again, and then said: "Let our copyright team continue to maintain contact with Dongbao, but we should wait for the other side to offer conditions."
Vanessa nodded, she also thought the same, since the Japanese mind has been determined, there is no need to lose more initiative, let the other side make their own conditions, Daenerys Entertainment will be better to bargain, after saying this One thing, Vanessa handed over a folder: "Also, here are some materials for writers who are good at children's fantasy."
Amy took the information, opened it, and said, "You can get off work first, I'll leave after reading this."
Vanessa agreed and smiled again: "Actually, Ms. Pascal
, you don't have to be so tired, it doesn't matter if you leave work early. "
Amy just smiled, knowing that Vanessa cared about herself, but didn't explain much.
In general, there are two types of heads of big Hollywood studios, those who are good at creativity and those who are good at management.
Michael Eisner was a very creative type at the time. He even added an additional title of chief creative officer to himself while in charge of Disney, and he personally served as the host of a Disney Channel program.
As for those who are good at management, they are often lawyers or accountants. Taking Disney as an example, Eisner's original deputy Frank Wells was a lawyer. While Eisner was in control of Disney's general direction, Wells helped to take care of various This kind of administrative affairs, the two cooperated tacitly in the 1980s, and quickly brought Disney to life.
If it weren't for the appearance of Simon, the big butterfly, Disney would still be brilliant in the 1990s.
Although he started out as an assistant, but later turned into a producer, Amy Pascal believed that he should also belong to a creative executive. It's a pity, um, of course, it's not a pity here, but, with the rapid development and growth of Daenerys Entertainment, and having an inspirational boss above her head, Amy can only do management work wholeheartedly now.
Frankly speaking, at the current scale of Daenerys Entertainment, she is actually a little powerless, so for her own boss to spread her power to Nancy Brill, Robert Iger and even the heads of the three studios. Amy has no complaints about the architectural design.
After all, along with her own boss, Amy knows very well that she can still stay in this position at this time, mainly because of the affection she has accumulated over the years, not because of her ability, so she also corrects herself very well. position, do what you can.
One of the keys is to make things as easy as possible for someone to explain.
Like my best friend's wedding script, the copyright of Godzilla, and the idea for Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, based on the experience Amy has accumulated over the years, it seems unremarkable, but in the end, it is often You will find that there are too many things involved.
The most typical is the DC movie universe.
At the beginning, she was responsible for the copyright of DC superheroes and negotiated them one by one.
Therefore, to do these things well, even the greatest credit will still be counted on the boss, and she is still indispensable in it.
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