Chapter 1557: Nomination
Although there are unharmonious incidents such as the coup d'etat in Côte d'Ivoire under the background of continuous war in Central Africa, when the millennium is approaching, the world is generally peaceful and lively. The show has aroused widespread concern around the world. During this period, numerous governments or private organizations in various countries in the world are also organizing various activities to welcome the millennium.
So did the Simons.
He didn't plan to go to Australia again at the end of this year, so the old man was still very upset about it, so he sent his boss Anthony over to snatch his precious grandson to pay off the debt. The couple had no objection to this, but thought that if the old man could take over a group of little guys, well, it would be a happy three-person world at the end of this year.
All right.
And then there's the move to the East Coast, with plans for a raucous Millennium party at the super-luxe mansion atop the Westeros Tower.
On the other hand, equally lively is of course the film market at the end of the year.
The first week of the official Christmas file, from December 17th to December 23rd, will pass quickly.
The first is Jumanji 2.
The box office of this Warner Bros. special effects blockbuster co-operated with Daenerys was 81.66 million US dollars in the first week. It is still the same sentence, no surprises, no surprises, and the performance is quite satisfactory. After all, considering the total investment of 135 million US dollars in production and publicity, which is higher than that of Godzilla, it is definitely not a surprise if it did not exceed 100 million US dollars in the first week, but it exceeded 80 million US dollars, which also reached Warner and Daenerys. expectations.
Speaking of it, after all, it is because the schedule at the end of the year is too crowded.
However, compared to the $63.35 million box office in the first week of the first game of the brave, this time it exceeded 80 million. Of course, it is still an improvement. The key depends on the trend of the next week.
The second place is Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring.
The popularity of the first part of the Lord of the Rings series is actually higher than that of Game of the Brave 2, after all, it has a broad popularity base. After 91.37 million US dollars in the first week, under the attack of new films such as Jumanji 2 and Alien 3, the film's final box office decline remained at a very good 26%, which once again shows the potential of the film, and continued to earn 67.65 million US dollars in the next week. The cumulative box office reached 159.02 million US dollars.
Obviously, as long as the film can maintain a similar decline of less than 30% in the next week, it will only be a matter of time before the total domestic box office exceeds 300 million.
The third place was won by the new film Alien 3.
Replacing the most popular heroine Natasha Henstridge, Alien 3's market performance in this popular Christmas file is unexpected, and it unexpectedly won a box office of 46.39 million US dollars in the first seven days.
You know, the first week of Alien 2 was only 33.15 million US dollars two years ago, and the total domestic box office was more than 80 million. This time, Alien 3 earned 46.39 million US dollars in the first week, and it is not impossible to break the local box office.
Relatively speaking, MGM's initial expectation was that Alien 3 could achieve over 100 million worldwide and a conservative 50 million locally, which would be satisfactory. After all, although the total investment in the production and publicity of the film is as high as 60 million US dollars, the first two films have proved that the income from the peripherals of this series of video tapes is very rich. As long as the performance of the theater chain is not too bad, it will not lose money.
Even, because Natasha Henstridge is no longer the heroine, the MGM team once considered putting the film directly on the video tape channel, which can not only reduce the production cost, but also save most of the publicity investment.
The current market feedback is obviously unexpected.
Moreover, the key point is to prove that changing the heroine does not hurt the film's market potential that much. Therefore, even if the second-generation alien girl Megan Gale wants to sit on the ground because of this success, the MGM team has the confidence to replace it again. .
Even, the MGM team is already considering doing so.
After all, the third part is so successful, the fourth part must be a certainty.
As for why the film was successful?
Perhaps, the audience just wants to see the change of heterogeneous girls, for example, next time, the third generation of heterogeneous girls will fight against the second generation of heterogeneous girls, what a great idea.
Not only that, but with such outstanding vitality shown in this series, next time, the three generations of alien girls may not have to choose newcomers completely, but they can try to invite some well-known actresses or popular supermodels as guest stars.
Simon's attitude towards this is okay, but the key is that the acting skills of the three generations of heterogeneous girls must be up to the standard, not just looking at the face and body, otherwise it is very likely to turn into a b-movie with big-breasted girls exaggerating and choking each other, which will be inferior .
further back.
Disney’s new film Pokemon ranked fourth, and its performance was unsatisfactory. The box office in the first week was only 39.17 million US dollars. Compared with the total investment of 100 million US dollars in production and publicity, even because of the subject matter, the next Christmas and New Year’s decline will be large. It is relatively moderate, and Disney has little hope of recovering costs in the theater stage of global distribution.
What's more, Vivendi's expectation for this movie is not just as simple as recovering the cost.
According to the initial news, Vivendi hoped that this movie could become a fantasy version of Home Alone, with a local box office of at least 200 million. Unfortunately, things backfired.
Immediately after, the fifth place is Cyborg 2.
In the fifth week of its release, under the impact of a large number of new films, Steel Bone 2 fell by 45% this week, and it received another US$17.51 million, with a cumulative box office of US$295.01 million.
Breaking 300 million is imminent.
However, it is obvious that although it can easily break through the $300 million mark, with the current trend of the film, it is basically impossible to reach $400 million, and the final box office should be around 300 million dollars.
500 million dollars up and down.
Again, too crowded.
In fact, Hollywood’s end-of-year stalls have always been crowded, but the problem is that in the past, except for a few key points, other volumes were not too high, and production costs are everywhere. Enough to achieve a kill. Now, it is a group of super blockbusters crowded together. Not only are they spending money desperately on production, but also investing in publicity and distribution. It is also very different from the distribution model of ten or twenty years ago, where everyone depends on word of mouth to see who will take the long-term.
It's just a field of Shura, even if you can kill it, you will definitely suffer some injuries.
The best way to avoid this outcome is not to participate.
This is already the case.
In recent years, the production output of other major Hollywood studios and even second- and third-tier film companies has shown a very obvious downward trend.
This is exactly what Simon expected.
Apart from the top five, only Cars is worth mentioning. In the 6th week of its release, compared with the 45% drop of Cyborg 2, Cars, which is favored by more family carnival audiences, only dropped 17% in the past week. It continued to earn US$10.13 million, and the cumulative box office reached US$168.09 million.
There is only a gap of 30 million to the threshold of 200 million.
Considering that Christmas and New Years are just around the corner, like Disney's Pokemon, Cars' market performance in the next two weeks is also worth looking forward to.
After that, other films have fallen below the box office range of tens of millions of dollars in a single week, which is not worth mentioning.
In the same film field, there is another thing worthy of attention this week, and that is the announcement of the nominations for the American Film and Television Golden Globe Awards for another year. On the previous Monday, December 20, the Golden Globe Awards Organizing Committee officially announced the nomination list for the 57th American Film and Television Golden Globe Awards. Like last year, Daenerys Entertainment is still the best.
Just talking about the best picture nominations, even if it was because of last year, Daenerys was somewhat suppressed by the Golden Globes, and she was no longer directly cut off by half of the share, but there were still three films that were nominated for a total of 10. Best Picture nomination.
Among them, The Genius Ripley and The Matrix were shortlisted for the Golden Globe Award for Best Drama, which will be released this week in Chicago, and it is also the public relations focus of Daenerys Entertainment's 2000 awards season. After its in-house test, it was nominated for Best Picture in the Musical Comedy category, along with dual actress nominations for Catherine Zeta-Jones and Madonna, Best Actor nomination for Hugh Jackman, and Best Director nomination for Rob Marshall. The nominations, plus Best Screenplay and Best Supporting Actress, total seven.
On December 24, Christmas Eve, after seven Golden Globe nominations and the subsequent publicity campaign for the premiere, Chicago officially entered the North American theaters. There was no small-scale trial screening, and 2,739 screens were directly rolled out.
At the same time, there was another medium-budget sci-fi film that Paramount cooperated with DreamWorks, which has gradually lost its sense of existence. Galactic Exploration was adapted from a sci-fi drama of the same name in the 1980s. The production cost was 45 million U.S. dollars, which is just right The cost is comparable to that of Chicago, and the number of screens in the film is 2145.