I’m in Hollywood Chapter 825: Golden Globe Award dispute
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Initially, after the data of Box Office less than 30 million USD was released for the first three days of "Titanic" on the first weekend, in a mockery of schadenfreude, almost all forecasting agencies believed that this super investment with a total investment of 2.6500 million USD, North America total Box Office It may not exceed 90 million USD.
But in fact, in only ten days, Titanic ’s Box Office has reached 89.69 million USD, which is only one step away from 90 million USD, which makes most of the media ’s predictions a week ago a joke instantly. . The 35.44 million USD Box Office that went up against the trend three days on the next weekend of "Titanic" made all the media that originally sneered at "Titanic" shut their mouths.
The next working week of the second week, because it coincides with the New Year, coupled with the further spread of the word of mouth of "Titanic" and the publicity effect of the Box Office downturn the following week, the working week of the second week "Titanic" Compared with the weekend, the single-day Box Office has only fallen by less than 30%. The two days before and after New Year's Day, Box Office has once again returned to the single-day USD level.
After the second week, Firefly Group announced the next week Box Office of Titanic, 73.52 million USD.
With the excellent Box Office performance on weekdays, Box Office in the second week of "Titanic" has an amazing decline of 35% compared to the first week.
What is this concept? In the North America film market, when a film is opened on a large scale, the Box Office 'decrease' can be maintained at around 35% next week, and the film maker is already very satisfied, because it means this The movie's word of mouth and Box Office are very good and have achieved commercial success. As for those Box Office that can be equal to the first week in the next week, and even achieve a slight decline, all of them are Box Office blockbuster movies that can be named by the film and television. An Film Studio may not be able to encounter such a situation for ten or twenty years or even until bankruptcy. God-level blockbuster.
But now, the trend of Box Office of "Titanic" has completely broken everyone's traditional understanding of the Box Office curve of the film. No matter inside or outside Hollywood, most people will see a Box Office data for the next week of "Titanic" This kind of strong confusion: shouldn't it be a 35% drop?
No matter how powerful the thoughts filled with question marks in the minds of millions of people, it is impossible to change the fact that in the second week of "Titanic", it did indeed achieve a 35% Box Office reverse decline, with a single week of Box Office reaching 73.52 million, two Weekly Box Office accumulated 1.2.7 billion USD.
However, everything has just begun.
New year, Friday, January 3rd.
According to the North America film market time division rules, this is the first week of 1997.
The two-week statutory holiday ended, and the single-week Box Office of "Titanic" also fell back to 45.01 million USD, and Box Office fell by 38%.
When everyone thought that the Box Office curve of the film began to return to ‘normal’, in the fourth week, Titanic ’s Box Office decline was again sharply reduced to 16%, and then received 37.56 million USD.
At this time, the total of Box Office in the four weeks of "Titanic" has reached 200 million 10.34 million USD. In contrast, a month ago, "Mission: Impossible 2", which started strongly with 82.7 million USD in the first week of Box Office, Box Office was only 100 million 8 in the same period of four weeks. 1.3 million USD, and, "Mission: Impossible 2" experienced four weeks of screening, Box Office has fallen around 20 million USD, but "Titanic" still remains in the 40 million USD Box Office interval with great potential.
After half a month of confusion, doubt, and silence, as "Titanic" total Box Office broke through 200 million USD, the North America media finally began to sound, changing the sing before the film was released and the mockery at the beginning of the show, Turn to analyze the causes and consequences of the success of "Titanic" Box Office, four weeks of 200 million, Box Office potential is endless, although there is still a lot of cost pressure, but now, no one dare to rashly say "Titanic" can not recover the production cost Words come.
On the other hand, although many film critics criticizing "Titanic" are still stubborn in the face of the film's general Box Office trend, as more and more movie reviews appear on entire US large and small newspaper magazine, the overall criticism of "Titanic" has a reputation It also began to reverse sideways.
As the earliest 《The New York Times》 who praised "Titanic", after the film Box Office broke through 200 million, it published a special film review again.
"Large costly luxury scenes, shocking and magnificent shipwreck special effects, beautiful and atmospheric film soundtrack, touching love story ... All of this has to make people recall the sensational" Gone with the Wind " . "
"These two films undoubtedly have too many similarities." Gone with the Wind "perfectly reproduces the rise and decline of the Southern Federal Plantation more than 100 years ago." Titanic "also shows flawlessly. It is a terrible disaster that the luxury ship that claims to never sink will sink into the sea on the first voyage. "Gone with the Wind" is not a first part color film, but it brings Hollywood color film to its heyday. "Titanic" is also not a first partCG special effects blockbuster. Prior to this, we already have "Twister", "The Terminator", "Jurassic Park", "Men in Black" and other special effects blockbuster, but there is no doubt that "Titanic" will also open a new era for Hollywood, a special effect The era of movies. "
With the reversal of the "Titanic" movie reputation, at the end of January, when the United States film and television Golden Globe Award awards ceremony was approaching, the topic of "Titanic" only receiving an irrelevant best screenwriter nomination on Golden Globe Award was suddenly again It was heated up and caused a lot of controversy.
Everyone can see that even if "Titanic" is a commercial film, even if the Golden Globe Award judges have a cold eye for the commercial film, even if Golden Globe Award does not have a pure technology award, but in addition to the best screenwriter nomination, In the nomination of the best film soundtrack and the best original song award, "Titanic" undoubtedly has 100% of the qualifications to be nominated. The graceful and melodious Scottish whistle in the film, the gentle sorrow of the female singing, and the sound of the sound of "My Heart Will Go On", even It is the person who is the least sensitive to music. After hearing this, his mind will tremble.
However, the Golden Globe Award jury nominated these two films as "Shakespeare in Love", "Mrs. Belon", "Shining Style", which did not have any soundtracks and songs, but ignored Titanic. . Moreover, in terms of performance awards, even Madonna, who won the worst Heroine of Jinmeimei three times, can get the best Heroine nomination, but the amazing performance of Rachel · Weisz in the film has not won the slightest favor of Golden Globe Award, these have become The media of all parties focused on the important topic of this session of Golden Globe Award.
"Undoubtedly, Hollywood once again contributed a lot of excellent films to us last year. Commercially we have" The Matrix "," The Mummy2 "," Sound of the Desert "," Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle "and other Box Office masterpieces. We can also see artistic aspects. "Shakespeare in Love", "Red Alert", "Ice Blood Storm", "Shining Style" and other excellent movies. However, although "Shakespeare in Love", "Red Alert", "Ice Blood Storm", "Shining Style" and other movies are in Great achievements have been made in the art of film, but this cannot be the reason why "Titanic" is ignored. Perhaps, the Golden Globe Award jury should reflect on its own selection strategy. "
This comment on "Hollywood Reporter" is definitely the most modest. There is no mention of the topic that Golden Globe Award may be manipulated, but many other media are not so polite.
A reporter from San Francisco Chronicle bluntly revealed the scars of Golden Globe Award: "Do you remember Pia Zadora in 1982? I'm just very curious, which gold owner is paying this time , Let the Golden Globe Award judges completely ignore the excellent film "Titanic"? "
The 1982 "Butterfly" Heroine Pia Zadola's award-winning event is definitely the biggest scandal in the history of Golden Globe Award. At that time, the rich husband of Pia Zadola invested heavily in public relations for his wife. The Golden Globe Award Best Newcomer Award that year.
After the scandal was exposed, not only did the credibility of Golden Globe Award drop significantly, but CBSTV Station also stopped the TV broadcast cooperation with the Golden Globe Award organizer. Subsequently, in order to make people forget this matter as much as possible, Golden Globe Award directly canceled the best newcomer. This award.
The all-round reversal of "Titanic" in terms of word-of-mouth and Box Office is undoubtedly the most exciting is the large number of fans of the film. The audience's sense of the film is the most direct. They clearly remember the cold reception and ridicule that the film received before and at the beginning of the release. When the reputation and Box Office of the film have been strongly reversed in recent weeks, because of the "Titanic" "The fans who loved and felt almost the whole process. Recently, they are in a sense of excitement and pride in the Jedi rebirth, and pay more attention to all the information about" Titanic ".
When the controversial topic of Golden Globe Award's nomination for "Titanic" broke out, fans quickly gave the most direct and rude feedback on the Internet media that has risen rapidly in recent years.
“It ’s hard to imagine that more than 90 judges of the Golden Globe Award jury can completely ignore all the advantages of“ Titanic ”. I can only guess that this group of old man must have fallen asleep before the movie started playing, since you guys Already too old to watch movies, is there any reason for Golden Globe Award to exist? "
"In any case, the excellence of" Titanic "cannot be concealed. The North America Box Office of this movie has broken through 200 million USD. It is said that overseas Box Office is also very good. So, why are we entangled with such an insignificant award, everyone Choosing to ignore it may be the best 'respect' for Golden Globe Award. I hope that on January 19th, no one will jump to NBCTV Station. "
"Golden Globe Award, Kazakhstan, who cares, is there a New York Queens partner here, maybe everyone can buy a ticket and watch again at night, I am only concerned about Box Office of" Titanic "now."
"From the beginning, this was a conspiracy. Some people hope that" Titanic "will be completely defeated, so they will snipe this movie on Golden Globe Award, but" Titanic "once again proved to us that it is Gold always shines the famous quote. Obviously, "Titanic" is not only gold, but also diamonds, and it is the most dazzling "heart of the ocean". "
"The boycott Golden Globe Award campaign has started, and friends who want to support" Titanic "enthusiastically support it. Our campaign website is ..."
In the one-sided questioning and denunciation in the media and online, the organizer of Golden Globe Award had to take the initiative to publish an announcement before the award ceremony, firmly denying all the accusations of the "unscrupulous" media on the Golden Globe Award jury, and expressed Golden Globe Award ’s The judging process is absolutely fair. The reason why "Titanic" has not been nominated is because there are too many excellent films in this session. "Titanic" is not outstanding in terms of artistry.
In preparation for the Super Bowl trailer of "Casino Royale", after the New Year, Eric returned to Los Angeles.
For the Golden Globe Award jury, this is obviously a nonsense statement. Eric just laughed it off. The recent media talk, Firefly Group did not help behind the scenes, and the Yahoo forum even deleted some of the excessive remarks against Golden Globe Award.
After all, although "Titanic" is not shortlisted, "Red Alert" by Kathryn Director and "Shakespeare in Love" operated by Miramax over Fox are the two hot spots in this awards season, because they are both slow-moving art film types. The distribution strategies of the two films are similar, and they are currently in the small-scale release stage of three or four hundred theaters. It is expected to expand the projection scale to more than 1,000 after Golden Globe Award. The two films belong to the plot category and the musical comedy category. There is no conflict in the main nominations. If you can get the award, it will eventually play a good role in promoting Box Office on both sides of the film.
Since "Titanic" has become a reality, Eric will not influence the rhythm of the release of these two films in order to fight for the moment.
Of course, Firefly cannot be indifferent to the apparently unfair treatment of "Titanic", although the "Titanic" crew received an invitation from the Golden Globe Award organizer, I hope they can participate in this award ceremony, Golden Globe Award jury boiled Xi even called in person to send an invitation to Eric. Eric still refused on the grounds of busy work. As for the creators of "Titanic", no one would attend the award ceremony on the day, even though they won the best screenwriter nomination. , Cameron's resentment to Golden Globe Award is definitely heavier than any one of the crew, and he will naturally not attend.
After returning to Los Angeles, in addition to restarting the later work of "Casino Royale", Eric also invested a lot of energy in the subsequent announcement work of "Titanic".
Due to the general decline of the industry before the film was released, at the time of the release of "Titanic" North America, there were only nine countries overseas that achieved basic synchronization. Except for United Kingdom and Australia, Europe ’s Germany, France, Italy, and Spain are the major Box Office towns. Released.
Originally, if Firefly is forcibly issued, with the group's strong distribution strength, "Titanic" should also be able to get the release date of January or February in the overseas big market, but this is not what Eric wants.
For the current major overseas Europe, East Asian and Latin American movie markets, the January and February periods after the New Year are all unpopular periods just past the holidays. Although they cannot prevent the doomed rise of "Titanic", these periods also Certainly unable to let "Titanic" reach the full potential of Box Office.
According to the current Box Office trend of "Titanic", Eric expects that the film will break the North America Box Office record, and the total Box Office will break the time of 500 million USD, probably at the end of March. At the same time, there is also a crucial point for the Hollywood movie in March. The important event is Oscar.
As you can imagine, as long as it is operating properly, March is definitely the most popular moment of "Titanic".
Therefore, Eric put the emphasis on the next phase of overseas release of "Titanic" during the Easter period in March. At that time, with the powerful influence brought by "Titanic" because of breaking the Box Office record and winning Oscar, "Titanic", the time and space of global Box Office, can definitely exceed the scale of previous life 1.8 billion USD.
The trend of North America Box Office of "Titanic" has been determined. What Firefly will do next is, of course, to ensure that "Titanic" gets enough Oscar small gold figures. (To be continued.)