Hollywood Hunter - Chapter 1557: : Nomination

Although there is an unharmonious trivial incident such as the Cote d’Etat in Côte d’Ivoire under the background of the ongoing war in Central Africa, the world is generally peaceful and lively as the millennium is approaching. The show has attracted widespread attention worldwide. During this time, countless governments or private organizations in various countries around the world are also organizing various events to welcome the millennium.

The same goes for the Simons.

He didn’t plan to go to Australia again at the end of this year. For this reason, the old man was still very upset. He directly sent the boss Anthony over and snatched his baby grandson over, which was regarded as an offset. The couple had no objection to this, but thought, if the old man can pick up a group of little guys, well, this year’s end will be a happy three-person world.

All right.

Then I moved to the east coast and planned to host a lively welcoming millennial party in the super mansion on the top floor of the Westeros Building.

On the other hand, of course, the movie market at the end of the year is equally lively.

The first week of the official Christmas file, from December 17th to December 23rd, passed quickly.

The first is “Game of the Brave 2”.

This special effects blockbuster of Warner Bros. and Daenerys’s first week ended up at $81.66 million at the box office. It was the same sentence, no surprises, no surprises, and satisfactory performance. After all, considering that the film’s total investment of US$135 million in production and publicity is higher than that of “Godzilla”, it is certainly not a surprise if it did not exceed 100 million in the first week, but it exceeded US$80 million, which also reached Warner and Daneli. The expectations of both sides of the silk.

Speaking of it, after all, it is because the schedule at the end of the year is too crowded.

However, compared with the box office of 63.35 million US dollars 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 US$91.37 million in the first week, the film’s box office fell by 26% in the next week under the influence of new films such as “Game of the Brave 2” and “Xenogene 3”. The film’s potential was once again visible, and the next week it continued to make money. 67.65 million U.S. dollars, and the cumulative box office reached 159.02 million U.S. dollars.

Obviously, as long as the film can maintain a similar decline of less than 30% the following week, and the total domestic box office exceeds 300 million, it will only be a matter of time.

The third place was won by the new film “Alien 3”.

After replacing the most popular heroine Natasha Henschwitz, “Alien 3” performed unexpectedly in this popular Christmas market. It unexpectedly won $46.39 million in the box office for the first week and seven days.

You know, two years ago, the first week of “Alien 2” was only 33.15 million US dollars, and the total domestic box office was more than 80 million. This time, “Alien 3” received 46.39 million US dollars in the first week. possible.

Relatively speaking, MGM’s initial expectation was that “Alien 3” could achieve a global breakthrough of 100 million and a local conservative 50 million, 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 profits of this series of video tapes are very lucrative. As long as the theater performance is not too bad, it will not lose money.

Even, because Natasha Henstridge no longer plays the leading role, the MGM team once considered putting the film directly on the videotape channel, which can reduce production costs and save most of the investment in publicity.

The current market feedback is clearly unexpected.

Moreover, the key is to prove that changing the heroine does not hurt the market potential of the film so much. Therefore, even if the second-generation alien girl Meghan Gale wants to sit on the ground and raise the price because of this success, the MGM team is confident again. replace.

Even the MGM team is already considering doing so.

After all, the third part is so successful, the fourth part is definitely a certainty.

As for why the film can be successful?

Perhaps, the audience just wants to see the change of different kinds of girls, such as the next time, three generations of different kinds of girls fight against the second generation of different kinds of girls, what a good idea.

Not only that, with such excellent vitality shown in this series, next time, the three generations of alien girls may not have to choose newcomers completely, but can try to invite some well-known actresses or supermodels that are generally very popular nowadays.

Simon’s attitude towards this is okay, but the key is that the acting skills of the three generations of alien girls must be up to the standard. You can’t just look at the face and body, otherwise it is very likely that the big breasted girls in the B-level film will be exaggerated and pinch each other. .

Further on.

Disney’s new film “Magic Elf” ranked fourth, and its performance was not satisfactory. The box office in the first week was only 39.17 million U.S. dollars. Compared with the total investment of 100 million U.S. dollars in production and distribution, even because of the theme, the following Christmas and New Years The decline will be more moderate, and Disney wants to recover the cost in the theater stage of the global release, but it is not very hopeful.

What’s more, Vivendi’s expectation for this film is not just about recovering the cost.

The initial news came out that 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 afterwards, the fifth place was “Steel Bone 2”.

In the fifth week of its release, “Steel Bones 2” fell 45% this week under the impact of a number of new films, and collected another $17.51 ​​million, with a cumulative box office of $295.01 million.

Breaking 300 million is imminent.

However, it is obvious that although it can easily break through the 300 million US dollars mark, but with the current trend of the film, it is basically impossible to make 400 million US dollars. The final box office should be around 350 million US dollars.

Still that sentence, too crowded.

Actually, Hollywood’s year-end stalls have always been very crowded, but the problem is that, except for a few key points, the volume of the previous crowding is not too high, and the production costs are everywhere. If it is such an environment, “Steel Frame” 2 “Enough to achieve pass kill. Now, it is a group of super blockbusters huddled together. Not only did everyone desperately spend money on production, and the investment in publicity, but also the distribution model that used word of mouth to see who went long-term more than ten or twenty years ago.

It’s just a field of Shura, even if you can kill it, you will definitely have some injuries.

The best way to avoid this ending is not to participate.

In fact, it is already the case.

In recent years, the production output of other major Hollywood studios and even second- and third-tier film companies has declined significantly.

This is exactly what Simon expected.

In addition to the top five, the only thing worth mentioning is “Cars General Mobilization”. In the 6th week of its release, compared with the 45% of “Steel Bones 2”, the “Cars General Mobilization” has just begun to be favored by more family audiences. The decline in the week was only 17%, and it continued to receive 10.13 million U.S. dollars, and the cumulative box office reached 168.09 million U.S. dollars.

There is only a gap of over 30 million from the 200 million threshold.

Considering that Christmas and New Year are next, and like Disney’s “Magic Elf”, the market performance of “Cars” in the next two weeks is also worth looking forward to.

After that, other films have fallen into the box office range of tens of millions of dollars a week, which is not worth mentioning.

In the same film field, there is another thing worth paying attention to this week, and that is the announcement of another annual American Film and Television Golden Globe nomination. The previous Monday, December 20th, the Golden Globe Organizing Committee officially announced the nominations for the 57th American Film and Television Golden Globe Awards. Just like last year, Daenerys Entertainment is still riding a trail.

Just talking about the best picture nomination, even if it was due to last year’s sake, Daenerys was somewhat suppressed in the Golden Globes, and was no longer directly cut down by half of the share, but there were still three films that were successfully nominated for a total of 10 Nominated for Best Picture.

Among them, “Genius Ripley” and “The Matrix” were shortlisted for the best film in the Golden Globes drama category. The upcoming “Chicago” will be released this week. It is also the public relations focus of Daenerys Entertainment’s 2000 awards season. After the internal audition specifically for the Golden Globe judges team, it successfully won the best film nomination in the musical comedy category, as well as the double female lead nomination of Catherine Zeta-Jones and Madonna, and the best male lead of Hugh Jackman Nominations, Rob Marshall’s best director nomination, plus best screenwriter and best actress, a total of seven.

On December 24, Christmas Eve, after seven Golden Globe nomination honors 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 mid-cost science fiction film that Paramount collaborated with DreamWorks, which has gradually lost its sense of existence, “Galactic Adventure”, which was adapted from a science fiction drama of the same name in the 1980s, and the production cost was 45 million U.S. dollars. It happens to be the same cost as “Chicago”, and the number of screens in the film is 2,145 yuan.