Best of Hollywood - Chapter 222

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“On the first weekend of April, North America once again ushered in two large-scale films, one of which was “The Sixth Sense” jointly released by Paramount and Orion Pictures, starring Bruce Willis and Scarlett Johansson, the two of them staged the most frighteningly tender scene.”

“It is unbelievable that “The Sixth Sense” earned $28.08 million at the three-day box office in the second weekend, which is under pressure from the $14.38 million box office at the three-day first weekend of “The Plague of Python” released by Sony Pictures. .”

“The former has been in theaters for a week, and the latter has just been released.”

In the office, Amy Pascal snapped and threw the newspaper out, “Who can tell me why?”

The director of the film, Luis Rocha, has a very ugly face. The box office of “The Plague of Python”, which he worked so hard to produce, only reached US$14.38 million in the first weekend of its release, which is not even as good as “The Sixth Sense” in the second week of its release.

The most unacceptable thing for him is that the director of “The Sixth Sense” Knight Shyamalan is only a newcomer.

This film is his first screened work.

“We didn’t fail.”

The film producer Susan Ruskin took a deep breath and said: “The director of “The Sixth Sense” Nate Shyamalan is only an Indian, and we can definitely make some fuss about it.”

Amy Pascal suddenly raised her head and stared at her coldly, “What about the “Liarger” released by Universal Pictures?”

“Do you want to write some articles on it too!”

Not only “The Sixth Sense”, which was released a week in advance, poses a threat to “The Plague of the Python”, even “Liargator”, which was released last month, has fierce competition for “The Plague of the Python”, and even a single day The box office can overwhelm “The Calamity of Python”.

A very speechless fact is in front of you, and it is definitely not something that can be saved by small actions.

What’s more, is it in the interests of Sony Pictures to offend Paramount and Universal Pictures once and for all, as well as Ryan Gosling, who has recently become famous?

If only targeting “The Sixth Sense” and Paramount alone, I’m afraid Universal Pictures and the crew of “Liargian” will jump for joy.

“I’m not going to ruin my career for a project that can’t be salvaged.”

Amy Pascal said unceremoniously: “Sony Pictures will not continue to invest more resources in “The Plague of Python”, and the next promotional focus will be on Sony Pictures’ summer release.” Above Godzilla.”

“So I don’t want any mishaps to happen next.”

“Besides, as you said, the project has not failed.”

At least from a commercial point of view, “The Calamity of Python” has not failed.

With a three-day box office of US$14.38 million in the first weekend, for a film with an investment of only US$45 million, as long as there are no major changes in the next box office trend, Sony Pictures can fully recover the investment cost from the film’s box office.

Then make a lot of money from the sales of peripheral products and copyrights.

Susan-Ruskin opened her mouth, but finally said nothing.

With the arrival of the second working day, the magic of “The Sixth Sense” broke out completely,

On Monday, $3.85 million was harvested, and on Tuesday, there was another slight increase, with a single-day harvest of $4.02 million, Wednesday’s harvest of $3.58 million, Thursday’s harvest of $3.4 million, and a total of $14.85 million in four days.

Counting the 76.67 million US dollars already harvested, the North American box office of the film reached 91.52 million US dollars, which is about to break through the 100 million US dollar mark.

Don’t worry, the most amazing place has not yet appeared. The film earned $7.56 million again on Friday, which is an unbelievable drop compared to last Friday’s $8.01 million.

Saturday was once again unbelievable, with a box office of 10.11 million US dollars in a single day, which was only about 1 million US dollars less than last week’s 11.25 million US dollars.

The harvest on Sunday was 7.13 million U.S. dollars, which was a pitiful drop compared to last week’s 8.82 million U.S. dollars.

Moreover, the North American box office of the film officially broke through 100 million, reaching 116.32 million US dollars.

Many media are exclaiming, if the spring file in March belongs to “Liargian”, then April belongs to “The Sixth Sense”.

The box office of two consecutive films exceeded 100 million in the relatively deserted spring season. With the addition of Sony Pictures’ “The Catastrophe of Python”, it can be called the busiest spring season in recent years.

However, the magic of “The Sixth Sense” will continue until May 23, when Universal Pictures releases another film, “Jurassic Park 2″ directed by Steven Spielberg. : The Lost World” is released, it will be considered as an end.

“The Sixth Sense” finally couldn’t continue to dominate the weekly box office champion.

The box office trend of the original version of “The Sixth Sense” is so miraculous. It won the box office championship for five consecutive weeks, becoming the film second only to “Titanic”.

Speaking of which, the releases of the two films are very similar. When they were just released, they were not very explosive at the box office, but they still have a lot of stamina.

At the same time, in the box office markets of many overseas countries, “The Sixth Sense” has won several box office champions one after another, and even the release scenes in some European countries are hotter than those in North America.

So many evaluation agencies once again gave a piece of data, predicting that the overseas box office performance of “The Sixth Sense” is likely to exceed the North American box office in the end.

Even according to the forecast given by the evaluation agency, the global box office of “The Sixth Sense” will reach more than 400 million U.S. dollars, while the film investment is only 35 million U.S. dollars.

As the film investment company Paramount and Orion Films, the income that can be obtained in the future is definitely a very astonishing figure.

However, the release plan of “A Basket of Little Ghosts” was postponed by Orion Films. In order not to affect the box office trend of “The Sixth Sense”, the release plan of “A Basket of Little Ghosts” was deliberately moved to after the summer vacation.

In this regard, Knight-Shyamalan has no dissatisfaction, and even very much agrees with Orion Pictures’ approach.

With “The Sixth Sense” box-office hit, he’s already achieved enough success that “A Basket of Ghosts” has become irrelevant.

He only put forward one condition, hoping to personally lead a team to India to promote “The Sixth Sense”.

India is such a magical box office market that neither Paramount nor the crew of The Sixth Sense see it as a major promotional location.

It’s not that I don’t want to, but the Indian box office market is too exclusive, and even Hollywood has nothing to do with it.

Of course, Ryan did not refuse Knight Shyamalan’s request, but chose to agree. As the director of the film, Knight Shyamalan still has this privilege.

According to the words of the other side of the Pacific Ocean in the previous life, it is nothing more than returning home.

With the release of “The Sixth Sense”, which has completely changed Knight-Shyamalan’s life, he will return to India as a popular Hollywood director instead of an unknown newcomer director.

The success of “The Sixth Sense” has changed not only Knight-Shyamalan alone.

There is also Scarlett Johansson, who is underage, as the most famous child star in Hollywood at the moment, starring in two films, “The Evil One” and “The Sixth Sense” successively, her social value has skyrocketed.

Helen has already called out a salary of 3.5 million US dollars to a number of Hollywood film companies.

This is considered Hollywood’s top child star remuneration.

Even in Ryan’s previous life~www.mtlnovel.com~$10,000 child star remuneration, only a few child stars have ever received it.

For example, when Darko-Tafanning starred in “War of the Worlds”, he received $3 million in salary, and when Hermione Grann starred in “Harry-Potter 5”, he received $5 million in salary, and this is a movie. Sequel movie.

The most surprising thing is that in just a few days, Scarlett Johansson received an invitation from Pixar Animation Studios to dub a character in “A Bug’s Life”.

In addition, the biggest change is Orion Pictures.

Orion Pictures began to become as ambitious as Ryan Gosling.

It can be regarded as the most dynamic second-tier Hollywood film company besides DreamWorks.

As the president of Orion Films, Ryan didn’t stay long in Los Angeles before heading back to his studio in New Zealand to start filming Mr. and Mrs. Smith.