I’m in Hollywood Chapter 503: Christmas file
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In New York, I accompanied two women for a month. Before Christmas, Eric returned to Los Angeles. As the most important period of the year in addition to the summer season, most of the Christmas season films will be released in the two weeks of December 18 and December 25.
The last "Ace Ventura" of Firefly in 1992 was also scheduled on December 18, because Jim Carrey and TG had been unable to talk about the remuneration of the next movie. In early December, Jim Carrey once again publicly expressed to the entertainment media Strong indignation at the "fraud" signing of the option contract, and also said that he did not intend to participate in the premiere of "Ace Ventura".
A few days before the premiere of "Ace Ventura", after a long period of hacking negotiations, TG and Jim Carrey finally signed another film contract with 11 million USD, and also let the audience premiere on December 17th I saw the figure of Jim Carrey.
Hollywood Star often stares at Director or Producer movies at a low price or even free of charge, but they are often tit-for-tat against Film Studio who unearthed them, making trouble in terms of remuneration, which has almost become a habit of Hollywood Trends, Eric is also accustomed to this.
In addition to "Ace Ventura", "Mr. & Mrs. Smith" jointly produced by 《The Bodyguard》 and Columbia of Warner and Disney Film Industry under Firefly was also released on the same day.
Eric did not participate in the premiere of "Ace Ventura", but finally attended the premiere of "Mr. & Mrs. Smith" under the request of Peter Guber and the soft words of Nicole.
According to the original agreement, the five films of Firefly and Columbia, North America local distribution rights belong to Columbia, and overseas distribution is responsible for Firefly. This agreement is naturally to cover up the private agreement between Eric and Peter Guber As a result, the overseas distribution network of Columbia has already fallen into pieces at this time. If Columbia conducts overseas distribution, the overseas Box Office of "Mr. & Mrs. Smith" may even be only half as expected.
Because of the optimism about the prospect of "Mr. & Mrs. Smith", Columbia has almost all of his family. More than 2,800 screens were arranged for "Mr. & Mrs. Smith" in the first week. After learning this data, most of the media said that the Columbia's distribution method of `` beyond '' the potential of the film Box Office is likely to cause the film to shrink significantly in the next week Box Office But after three days of screenings on the first weekend. "Mr. & Mrs. Smith" got an amazing 39million USD Box Office. It is expected that Box Office will touch the production cost line of 60 million USD in the first week. Prior to this, such results will generally only happen to the summer blockbuster, so the shock to the industry can be imagined .
Such results are released. Most of the media that originally saw the Columbia hairstyle strategy changed their direction, and they began to analyze the reasons for the success of "Mr. & Mrs. Smith". In addition to the scale of the premiere, "Mr. & Mrs. Smith" used a completely different East from the previous North America form of action film. The Kung Fu factor has also become the focus of the media.
As soon as Box Office was released on the first three days of the first weekend of the movie, John Wu received cooperation invitations from dozens of movies and countless media interviews in just a few days.
Because the contract has been signed with Firefly, although John Wu is very excited about the high Director rewards and shares reported by other Film Studios, it also knows that it has no private contact with outsiders, nor does it mean to tear up the contract with Firefly. . It was those invitations from the media that made John Wu very enjoyable, accepting interviews from various newspaper magazine or TV Station, talking about their violent aesthetics and oriental kung fu. He even flew back to Hong Kong to fly back to Hong Kong to accept TVB's interview program.
In the original time and space, the most successful and the earliest collaboration between Kung Fu Elements and Hollywood local commercial movies was "The Matrix". The entire series won Box Office over 1.5 billion USD at global, which made Kung Fu Elements popular in Hollywood. As for the earlier Kung Fu movies, most of them have Kung Fu stars from the East to participate, and it cannot be regarded as an authentic Hollywood movie.
Now, because of the great success of "Mr. & Mrs. Smith", Hollywood has also begun to pay attention to Hong Kong movies that are far away from the ocean and are experiencing the last period of crazy prosperity. Because John Wu has a contract with Firefly. Several other Hollywood Film Studio knew that there was no way to dig people from the hands of Eric, so they set their sights on Director in Hong Kong, and the local filmmakers in Hong Kong also saw the scenery of John Wu during this time, becoming the temptation of the international big Director The development bottleneck of the local movies has already appeared. The solicitation of Hollywood is also extremely eager. The two sides come and go, and the charming eyes fluttering across the Pacific.
Although Box Office in the second week of "Mr. & Mrs. Smith" fell by more than 40%, the next week of 36 million USD Box Office plus the accumulation of the previous screening of the film, the Box Office score easily exceeded 100 million USD within two weeks of the release and became the 1992 Christmas file. The biggest black horse Box Office. It is estimated that the total Box Office of the movie is likely to break through 200 million USD, Firefly and Columbia can recover all announcement costs and profit only on North America Box Office. A series of distribution methods in the later period will bring all pure profits, which is undoubtedly the acquisition of Columbia by Sony The most dazzling Box Office score achieved since.
Peter Guber was originally full of complaints about the first movie with Firefly was not a special-effect blockbuster, but now he only has ecstasy in his heart, even if Columbia can only get 40% of the benefits in the original share agreement, but the The profit still exceeds that of most of the movies released by Columbia in the past two years. If the four films with Firefly in the next three years can still maintain similar results, Peter Guber can sit very safely in the seat of ColumbiaCEO.
In addition to "Mr. & Mrs. Smith", the Christmas file Firefly's "Ace Ventura" and Eric named Producer 《The Bodyguard》 also achieved good results, although not as strong as the "Mr. & Mrs. Smith" Box Office harvesting ability, but after two weeks, "Ace Ventura" And Box Office of 《The Bodyguard》 broke through 50 million USD.
In addition to Firefly, Warner, and Columbia, the performance of the other four major Film Studios of Hollywood at the end of the year is relatively unsatisfactory, and the most miserable one is Metro Goldwyn Mayer. Metro Goldwyn Mayer has not produced any movies for a whole year. , But only for the distribution of films produced by other small companies, and the total revenue of all Box Office films released by Metro Goldwyn Mayer in 1992 was even less than 100 million USD, which can be said to be extreme.
Metro Goldwyn Mayer was publicly auctioned by the French bank in December because of the fraud case of Italy investor Giancarlo. Paredi. At present, there is no final bid result. Although Eric is a little bit interested in the huge film library of Metro Goldwyn Mayer, in order to accumulate funds for a more promising investment, Eric has not yet shot Metro Goldwyn Mayer.
Fox intended to obtain the sequel of "Home Alone" series copyright from Firefly again. However, although the last "Home Alone" was a success, but because the small protagonist Stewart. Runkel is another year old, his excellent life in recent years makes him look no longer suitable for pretending to be cute in the movie, so this The series has also entered the stage of highest risk, and this time the Fox's asking price is only 50% of last year. But I hope to participate in the peripheral division of "Home Alone". In the end, the two parties have not negotiated. For various considerations, the "Home Alone" series has been completely stranded, but the several comedy films independently developed by Fox have not performed very well.
Paramount's Martin Davis has been dealing with things that may be acquired by Viacom or QVC throughout the year, and has no intention of Film Industry service, so there are no works released.
Universal It's better, in Michael Eisner Under the helm, Universal At the end of the year, a low-cost strategy of winning by quantity was launched. Film Studio When only one or two works are released at the end of the year. Universal At the end of the year, six movies were launched in one breath. The opening screens were all around 1,000 yuan, and then appropriate adjustments were made according to the film scores, and everyone in the industry can see Michael Eisner This is out of frustration, he is in charge Universal The event is too short, and the long-term big production movies are too late to launch, in order to improve as soon as possible Universal The business situation of the company boosts the confidence of investors, Michael Eisner Only came up with such a strategy.
Except for "Schindler's List", the other five movies are all comedy or feature films with an investment of no more than 20 million USD. Although the Box Office scores achieved are not too eye-catching, in the two months of Thanksgiving and Christmas, the six movies including "Schindler's List" also surpassed 200 million USD, and subsequent Box Office around 100 million USD is not a problem. The profit prospects are considerable.
At the same time, "Schindler's List" has undoubtedly become a big hit of Oscar.
As a movie depicting the World War II massacre, and the target is still Jewish, the attitude of all the media of North America towards the film can almost be described with caution, and the negative about "Schindler's List" is basically not seen on the paper media and TV Report, of course. It is definitely not that there are no other voices. For example, some Jewish groups voiced that the Spielberg's film restored historical facts to a certain extent and used the situation of documentaries, but it was still not realistic enough to portray the tragedy of that year. And some other Jewish commentators also said that the best way to deal with the Holocaust should be silence, rather than repeating it as a victim, and this will only increase hatred and lay unpredictable for another conflict. seed.
Regardless of the attitude of the outside world, this movie was released for a few weeks. With the support of a large number of Jews, Box Office quickly broke through 40 million USD, Universal thought it would be a doomed loss project, and the results made Michael Eisner unexpected. It is also more determined to increase efforts to win the determination of Spielberg's.
With Drew and Nicole who stayed in Los Angeles spent Christmas in Cliff Peak Manor, during this period, I continued to participate in some party cocktail parties that could not be pushed off. Eric thought that this year will be in this lively and lively atmosphere The next wave was spent unsurprisingly, but with the release of Hollywood's Box Office statistical results throughout the year, Firefly has once again become the focus of everyone's attention.
Although many movies are still in the release stage, according to the reputation and Box Office curve in the early stage of the movie, it is not too difficult for the Box Office organization to calculate the total Box Office of a movie, and the accuracy rate is quite high.
In the last few days of the New Year, although most people are on vacation, Hollywood ’s professional or non-professional magazine has begun to review, review and summarize all the movies in 1992, while Hollywood Box Office, overseas Box Office, The total annual Box Office of the major Film Studio is undoubtedly the data that everyone is more concerned about.
Most of the results given by magazine surprised people both inside and outside the circle.
Firefly Pictures's six billion-dollar movies of "Twister", "Sister Act", "The Mask", "Aladdin", "The Speed" and "Ace Ventura", plus several other brands such as Firefly Pictures's Disney and New Line, which have been released in succession The seven movies received a total of Box Office of 1.5 billion 30 million USD, far exceeding the total Box Office score of the second-ranked Time Warner 800 million 40 million, and in North America1992 total 5500 million USD Box Office accounted for 27% of the market share.
Although some magazine also raised objections, they said that the two films "The Mask" and "Ace Ventura" should not be counted under Firefly, but should belong to TGFilm Studio, but even so, minus the two films 200 million more Box Office, Firefly Pictures The results are still far more than the second place Time Warner. What's more, anyone with a slight understanding of the Hollywood circle can know that TG is almost equivalent to a subsidiary of Firefly, and some people also refute that if it is to invest rather than issue, then "Mr. & Mrs. Smith" is a big Part of Box Office should also be counted under Firefly, so most of the media are more inclined to the roughly Box Office amount of 1.5 billion.
27% of the Box Office share, such an alarming number has not appeared in the entire Hollywood for many years, "Hollywood Reporter" carried out some statistics on this, Firefly Pictures production and operating budget is expected to be around 800 million USD, After deducting the taxes that should be paid, Firefly can only get a net profit of up to 400 million and more USD on North America's local Box Office. What's more, Firefly also has overseas Box Office scores that have not lost to the local North America.
After the acquisition of Disney, the entertainment industry chain of Firefly Pictures has been perfected. In addition to the fixed revenue distribution of domestic and foreign theaters Box Office, Firefly can also obtain large sums of money from the distribution of video tapes, TV broadcasting authorization, exclusive operation authorization profit. What's more, Firefly now also has several Disneyland and Disney franchise stores around the major cities of entire US and Europe.
It can be said that the annual turnover of Firefly will far exceed the figure of 1.5 billion USD.
However, unfortunately, because Firefly is not listed, there is no need to disclose the financial report of Firefly to the public, which also leads to the fact that the actual turnover and profit of Firefly are basically unknown to outsiders except the core senior Firefly. (To be continued.)