Chapter 1294: All Are Good News

Simon set off alone to return to North America on January 5. The two Jenny and the children will stay in Australia for a while because of the old man's request.

Back in Los Angeles, with just one night off, Simon was back at work the next day.

It's Tuesday, January 6th.

Returning from vacation, everything is good news.

In addition to "Titanic", which has already held a celebration party, with the closing of the Christmas file, the three major film schedules counting from the Halloween file at the end of 1997 are basically settled.

The first is "The Conjuring 3".

After the box office week ended on January 1st, although it has not been completely down, it has entered the final stage of only tens of thousands of dollars in income every week. Affected by the fierce competition in the three major schedules at the end of the year, it is not the same as "Ghost Story" "The Conjuring 3: Blood Moon", which is almost also regarded as a phenomenon-level horror film, basically has a local box office of 162 million US dollars, which is nearly 40 million short of the 200 million threshold.

However, the overseas box office of "The Conjuring 3" has already exceeded 140 million. Considering that several major overseas box offices such as France and Germany have not yet opened, the total overseas box office of the film is expected to exceed 200 million, and the global box office will probably be 360 ​​million. If the overseas performance is better, it is not impossible to hit the global 400 million.

Even if the total production and publicity expenditure of "The Conjuring 3" reaches 75 million US dollars, it is only in the theater stage, and it can still reap considerable profits.

In addition to profits, the most important point is that "The Conjuring 3" revitalizes the originally exhausted Conjuring movie universe.

It is also worth mentioning that in 1997, the phenomenon-level horror film "Ghost Records", which is as famous as "The Conjuring 3", finally had a domestic box office of 212 million US dollars in North America. billion, with a global total of 467 million.

Compared with the false report, the production cost was only 300,000 US dollars, and the global box office was 467 million US dollars. The rate of return made the global film and television circles go crazy. As a result, not only Hollywood, but filmmakers from all over the world have begun to search for their own pseudo-documentary films, trying to make a big difference with a small one.

Then there is the Thanksgiving file.

Daenerys's "A Bug's Story", as of the box office week of January 1, has a cumulative box office of 160.36 million US dollars in North America. As the festival passes, it is expected that there will be about 20 million box office potential in the future. It will be around 180 million. Judging from the existing data trends, overseas can also receive another 200 million US dollars. The global box office is expected to be around 400 million, which is comparable to "The Conjuring 3".

However, "A Bug's Story" just cost $100 million to produce, and even if it will definitely make money, it is still the most mediocre of Pixar's series of 3-D animations.

Another "The Wedding Singer", facing the impact of a large number of blockbusters, managed to survive until the end of the end of the year, and it also completely closed, with a final domestic box office of 82.37 million US dollars.

Considering that the cost of "The Wedding Singer" is only 18 million US dollars, it can be regarded as a dark horse at the end of the year. The pity is that this comedy by Adam Sandler is too rooted in American culture, and audiences outside the United States are not interested. From the current point of view, the overseas box office is only about 20 to 30 million US dollars, and the global box office can barely exceed 100 million.

Then there is the cooperation project "Contact", which MGM is responsible for. As of January 1, the cumulative box office was 109.97 million US dollars. The box office potential in US dollars, the local box office is basically locked in about 115 million.

Overseas, according to the current trend, it is also around US$100 million.

The "Independence Day" in the summer file made a lot of money for the investors at the beginning, and the market response of "Alien 2" was not bad. Failure is not considered success. It is difficult to recover the cost of 90 million US dollars through theatrical distribution and the 40 million MGM invested in publicity and distribution. However, it is not difficult to make a small profit through follow-up channel management, but it will take time.

And then, Christmas.

Needless to say, the sacrificial "Shakespeare in Love" and the counterattack "Titanic".

Throughout 1997, the total annual box office in North America finally reached 6.19 billion U.S. dollars, which was lower than the expectation of more than 6.5 billion U.S. dollars at the beginning of the year.

This can be regarded as fulfilling Simon's long-standing worries.

There are too many blockbusters, which will damage the diversity of the film market. On the contrary, some audiences will no longer enter the theater, and many films with higher box office potential will not be fully realized.

However, Daenerys' entertainment situation is very good.

Its three labels, Daenerys Films, New World Films and Gaomen Films, started with the big hit "BJ's Diary" in 1997, and continued to sell well later, "Taken", " Face Changing, Tornado, American Pie, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Six Heroes of the Pig, The Ghost Story, The Conjuring 3, A Bug's Story, The Wedding Singer, Titans "The Nick" and so on, basically led most of the 52 box office weeks of the year.

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Among them, there are only 9 films that have achieved a local box office of over 100 million as of December 31, 1997. The total box office has reached 1.6 billion US dollars. Scary Ghost, "Cable TV Repairman" and a series of domestic box office hits of more than 50 million U.S. dollars are also considered big-selling projects, but unfortunately they failed to break through 100 million. This figure reached 2.2 billion U.S. dollars.

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In addition, "Two Smoking Barrels", "Follow", "Mutant DNA", "The Iron Horse of Huang Feihong", "The Girl Who Moved the Soul", "The Pianist on the Sea", "A Beautiful Mind" and a large number of medium and low specifications Films with box office volume accounted for more than half of the 46 films released by Daenerys's three labels throughout 1997, and the total box office revenue also exceeded 700 million US dollars.

The 1998 box office of films such as "Titanic" that is still in theaters is not counted, and the 1997 box office of films produced by Daenerys in 1996, such as "Wonder Woman 2" and "Good Will Hunting", are naturally included in it. , about another two hundred million dollars.

Add it all up, and the exact total is $3.14 billion.

And that’s not counting collaborations like Independence Day.

In 1997, the total box office in North America was 6.19 billion U.S. dollars, and Daenerys' direct distribution film split was 3.14 billion U.S. dollars, accounting for 5.07 billion U.S. dollars. As expected at the beginning of 1997, half of the real North American film market was in the limelight.

On the other hand, it also reflects the pattern of six or seven or eight studios juxtaposed in the early days of Hollywood, which has completely changed.

As far as the top ten box office movies in 1997 were concerned, as of December 31 of that year, eight directly came from Daenerys Entertainment.

It seems to confirm a certain 28th rule.

The other two films, one is "Independence Day" with Daenerys. Regardless of "Titanic" which is still in theaters, "Independence Day" temporarily ranks first in the local box office with 306 million US dollars.

The other one that can hardly be said to have nothing to do with Daenerys is the only remaining fruit, which is "Terminator 3". Neris produced "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" for $134 million domestically.

As for blockbusters such as "The Fifth Element", "Starship Troopers", and "Alien 4", which had high hopes from many manufacturers, they all failed.

Faced with the strength of Daenerys Entertainment, Hollywood once again surged out some voices wishing to suppress it. However, the best opportunity to suppress Daenerys' entertainment has long been missed, and these voices are only complaints after all.

Compared with other industries, the competition in Hollywood is relatively fair. Everyone makes their own movies and then lets the market speak.

Now, Daenerys Entertainment is full of king bombs, and other companies can't play good cards. Who can blame this?

Can't let Simon Westeros make less films, right?

It doesn't make sense.

As for the accusation of monopoly, it is even more untenable.

If legitimate competition cannot be beaten, some improper ideas will often arise. However, Daenerys does not dare to use this trick lightly at the moment, because in Hollywood now, other studios should hope that Daenerys Entertainment, which is too powerful, will not use improper means against others , instead of mantis doing tricks at a certain Big Mac.

That's self-inflicted.

This doesn't work, that doesn't work either, Daenerys is too strong, in order to avoid losses, each company can only reduce their own production output. This is equivalent to actively giving up the market, as if caught in a vicious circle that people cannot extricate themselves from.

Some people can still cycle.

Such as Vivendi, such as Seagram.

It's been a few years since he broke into Hollywood with ambitions, so of course he won't stop easily.

Others feel that Hollywood is getting less and less fun, and they already want to quit. Now, this idea is getting stronger and stronger.

Such as Sony.

The former Sony experienced a major reversal in 1997, producing super hit films such as "Men in Black", and barely survived the most difficult period in 1997 and 1998. This time it was not so lucky. In addition, the subsequent impact of the Asian financial turmoil began to appear, making it more and more difficult for Sony to continue to entangle in Hollywood.