Hollywood Hunter - Chapter 1555: : Opening·Friction

Obviously because four Chinese models logged on to the Victoria’s Secret T station, and the Chinese song “Those Flowers”, this contributed to the TV-14-level restrictive fashion show overseas. Log in to TV stations in Mainland China once.

There is no doubt that the biggest beneficiaries will be the four Chinese girls.

In addition, following the success of the boat, the Victoria’s Secret brand will also open its own flagship store in China. The first batch is expected to be two, as usual, one in Beijing and one in Shanghai.

When a large number of news about the Victoria’s Secret show continued to be broadcast with the TV broadcast of the restarted version of “Welcome the Millennium”, on December 8, another major event happened again in the North American film market, and countless book fans have been paying attention to it for so long. In recent years, hundreds of related themed websites appeared, the first part of The Lord of the Rings “The Lord of the Rings: The Fellow of the Ring” officially held its grand premiere in Los Angeles.

The media is paying close attention, online discussions have broken out again, and other studios in Hollywood are facing enemies.

After all, the popularity of the “Lord of the Rings” series of novels in the West is similar to the Chinese “Journey to the West”, so it can be imagined.

In short, with Daenerys Entertainment investing heavily, as long as the quality of this super blockbuster series is not too bad, it can be imagined and the box office will not be too bad. Once the film’s word-of-mouth breaks out, the most direct thing is that other films in the same period will inevitably encounter impact.

The final result did not disappoint everyone who was looking forward to this film.

The premiere was held on December 8. On December 9, the film’s word-of-mouth ban was lifted and praised.

Among them, a very emotional comment by a film critic on “The New Yorker” showed the voice of most audiences: “I saw “Star Wars” in the first half of the year, and “The Lord of the Rings” in the second half of the year, two epics. This life worthwhile.”

The opponent is obviously a diehard fan of the “Star Wars” series, so he probably ignored the reputation of the first half of the prequel to the collapse of the first half of the year.

However, comparing “The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring” with the “Star Wars” series, one of the icons of American culture, is undoubtedly a very high praise.

The final comprehensive media score of the film reached 9.6 points, which also reached the classic level that can be ranked in the forefront of film history.

This kind of public opinion feedback, even the 179-minute duration makes everyone a little regret that the film’s daily schedule will be limited, so it may affect the box office, Daenerys Entertainment has not too much worry about the film’s commercial prospects. Not only that, with the rapid popularity of DVD in the West, Simon also specifically mentioned the future director’s cut version release plan this time. This is something.

On December 10th, “Lord of the Rings: Angel of the Ring” officially opened on a large scale on 3359 screens in North America.

This time I didn’t spread too much at one time. It was also because of the length of the film, combined with word-of-mouth, I hope to be able to walk out a more stable long-term line, rather than fast in and out like other popcorn films.

On the same day, in addition to “The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring”, another Warner investment production cost of “Almost Fame” was released on the North American theater. A rock music film by the director Cameron Crowe who starred in “Mr. Sweetheart”.

Warner adopted the method of commercial film distribution, and gave out 1,738 screens in the first week, but at the same time, he also hopes that the film will hit next year’s Oscars with word of mouth.

It’s a pity that things backfired.

The film premiered on the same day of “Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring”, and then, there was basically nothing. Then, the comprehensive media score was only 7.3 points. If it is a commercial film, this score is not bad, but it wants to hit the awards season. , Certainly not enough.

In addition, it is the heroine of the film, Kate Hudson, who showed her face in a large number of “Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring” news, and was praised by some film critics for her acting.

Obviously the kind of public relations operation.

After all, Kate Hudson has a good mother, one of the early sweet sisters in America, Gotti Han.

Once Kate Hudson won the Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress with this movie. In order to increase the probability of nomination, the protagonist applied for a supporting role. Then, there was not much. Then, this Hollywood resource is better than Gwen. Niss Paltrow, who is still much stronger, had nothing to do with the second generation of stars in Hollywood.

In short, it was originally an escort, but as the word of mouth fell short of expectations, it was truly reduced to an escort.

The attention of the movie market has basically fallen on “Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring”. After all, everyone is concerned about whether this movie can achieve the top 100 million in the first week. Very promising.

Of course, Daenerys is also very much looking forward to it, and at the same time, we must face reality.

The reality is that the length of the film is close to three hours, which greatly limits the schedule of the film. Even if the average ticket price will increase because of the market, it is impossible to increase it too much.

In such anticipation, the three days from December 10th to the first weekend of December 12 will soon end.

The box office results of the weekend were announced. The three-day box office of “Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring” was $63.65 million. It is expected that the box office will be around $90 million in the first week, which is also expected. , As for breaking 100 million in the first week, it is still the same sentence, the limit of film arrangement.

In addition, “Almost Fame”, which was completely accompanied by running, was not worth mentioning at the box office. It only received a mere $3.63 million in three days. It is expected to be about 5 million in a full week and withdraw directly in two weeks. As for the subsequent awards Season, don’t think too much.

Then, a box office week from December 10th to December 16th ended soon.

For the entire first week and seven days, the opening box office of “Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring” ended up at US$91.37 million. This year-end file is second only to “Steel Bones 2”. Even if it is placed in the whole year, it only adds a second place. “Godzilla”, ranked third. Therefore, although it is a little regret that it did not directly break 100 million in the first week, this result is still very satisfying.

After all, compared to the super blockbuster with a total investment of 240 million U.S. dollars like “Steel Bone 2”, after the Australian government gave a subsidy of 50 million U.S. dollars, the trilogy’s continuous shooting budget of 270 million U.S. dollars was directly compressed to 220 million U.S. dollars. , The average cost of each movie is just over 70 million, and Daenerys Entertainment’s publicity budget this time is only 40 million, which is equivalent to the total investment in the production and distribution of the first “Lord of the Rings: Angel of the Ring” Only 110 million U.S. dollars, less than half of “Steel Bones 2” and lower than “Godzilla”.

Then, it was actually a very critical next week. The box office trend will directly affect the overall local box office volume of “Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring”.

December 17th, next week is Christmas, a little earlier than December 10th, this week is a well-deserved Christmas start, so there are a total of three new films open.

The first is a key cooperation project between Warner Bros. and Daenerys, “Game of the Brave 2”.

After the success of the first part, “Game of the Brave 2” still adopts a combined game mode of fighting monsters. In other words, Daenerys has also been launched last year for the stand-alone games of this series, and they are selling very well.

This time, Warner and Daenerys once again invested a huge budget of 100 million U.S. dollars, and Warner’s publicity expenditure on the issuance reached 35 million U.S. dollars. A very clear figure, mainly related to the subsequent share, Warner did. If you want to increase the announcement to 50 million, everyone is in the circle. Who doesn’t know how to play, and of course they won’t agree.

In any case, the total cost of the project still reached 135 million US dollars.

Moreover, to some extent, the film was released immediately after last week’s “Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring”, which still has the meaning of beating itself.

The number of opening screens of the film is 3766.

Afterwards, it was MGM’s “Alien 3”, because it was a cooperative project, and Daenerys’s participation, obviously, I still beat myself.

After two consecutive “Alien” have been sold, especially after the surrounding video tape market has become more popular, the production of “Alien 3” has also been very smooth. Not only that, this time the MGM team, of course, is now under the umbrella of 20th Century Fox. The team, but still released under the MGM factory standard, and then specifically strived for such a golden period for the end of the year for “Alien 3”.

The protagonist of the third part was replaced by a second-generation alien girl, or a hot Australian female model personally selected by Simon at the beginning, Megan Gale, who almost starred in George Miller’s version of “Justice League”. The one of the heroine.

In addition, because the first generation of alien girl Natasha Henskirch was so popular, even though the protagonist was replaced by Megan Gale, Henskirch still performed a cameo appearance this time.

The production cost of the film is still well controlled at 45 million US dollars, the announcement expenditure is 15 million, and the total investment is 60 million, which is incomparable with other super blockbusters, but it also reaches a high budget level.

Simon deliberately learned before that MGM does not have high expectations for the movie’s theater release box office prospects, and focuses more on subsequent home entertainment channels.

However, the number of opening screens this time has reached 2,945 yuan.

Finally, there is a fantasy comedy produced by Disney that fits the Christmas atmosphere very well, “Magic Elf”, which tells the story of an elf Jackie who accidentally came to human society from the kingdom of elves and the little boy Gaby to take an adventure together and defeat the coveted Jie. The story of the strange evil witch.

It is not a novel setting, the key is to fit the festive atmosphere.

However, the production cost of the film is not low, because a large number of CG special effects are used, and the budget reaches 70 million US dollars. France Vivendi, who still hopes to open the situation in Hollywood, also approved a 30 million US dollar announcement for the Disney team. Development expenditure, the total investment reached 100 million U.S. dollars, and the number of screens opened was 3,356.

Under the attack of the three films, one can fully imagine the pressure of “The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring”.