In a residential apartment in the Santa Monica Mountains north of Daenerys Studios.
In the blink of an eye, it is already October 3rd.
Entering the first Friday in October.
After a week of continuous promotion after the release, Amy Adams and Jessica Chastain just flew back from Florida in the south yesterday and were finally able to have a good night's rest.
However, because their emotions continued to be high, the two women woke up at around six o'clock in the morning.
Today is the day when the complete first-week box office of "The Ghost Story" is released.
When Amy Adams left the bedroom and came to the living room without even brushing her teeth, she found Jessica Chastain already sitting cross-legged on the sofa in the living room, holding the just-acquired "Los Angeles Times" in her hand, and several copies beside her Other newspapers.
Rushing forward in two or three steps, Amy did not fight for the newspaper in Jessica's hand, but picked up a copy of "The Hollywood Reporter", sat on the single sofa next to her, and asked impatiently: "How much, how much?"
Jessica didn’t even raise her head: “See for yourself.”
Amy said that she had already seen the front page title of "The Hollywood Reporter", and the eye-catching string of 59M characters came into view.
"Wow, 59 million, which is higher than the 55 million they expected on Monday."
Jessica smiled and corrected, "To be precise, it's 59.63 million, which is close to 60 million."
"Sixty million US dollars, it's incredible, the cost is only US$300,000."
Jessica said aside: "Didn't you read the article in Variety a few days ago? In fact, it's not 300,000, just tens of thousands of dollars at most. It's not like you don't know how much remuneration we received."
Of course Amy knew.
Because this was a small, ultra-low-cost film, she originally signed not a fixed salary, but the lowest-level weekly salary contract, which was only US$1,000 per week. After the film was completed, she only received US$8,000.
As a minor supporting role, Jessica was paid even less.
So, just before the premiere in Toronto last month, both women were working as waitresses in Santa Monica to make ends meet.
Thinking of this, Amy felt a little sour again.
They had quietly checked the contract a few days ago, and neither of them had any sharing clauses.
I asked Lin Yibin in private as well.
Because it was an ultra-low-cost experimental project, it was not covered by the union's stipulations that it must be accompanied by a share-sharing clause. What's more, they had not yet joined the union at the time, and the brokerage company was currently handling this matter.
Now, Daenerys Entertainment can earn hundreds of millions of dollars just by relying on the North American box office, so giving yourself one million is not too much, right
It's a pity that there is not a word.
Jessica noticed Amy's expression and probably understood something, and said: "Actually, everyone is like this. Schwarzenegger's salary for his first movie was only US$12,000. At that time, he was already a well-known bodybuilder in the United States. , much more famous than us.”
"I just thought that since Daenerys made so much money this time, she should give us some rewards, right?"
"Lin may have this, but we may not," Jessica said: "What's more, Amy, if you want to be more open, our biggest gain is to be able to participate in this movie. Otherwise, say Maybe we won’t be famous in our lifetime.”
Amy nodded and couldn't help but said: "Actually, Lin may not be able to get extra bonuses. Although the media is reporting that he is the main creator, in fact everyone knows that he is not."
"But he did a good job with the idea, so Daenerys Entertainment will definitely try its best to win over him."
Amy paused and had to admit it.
He calmed down a little and looked at the newspaper in his hand again.
Jessica did not continue a topic that was getting more and more disturbing the more people thought about it, but instead said: "Look at this week's box office list. I didn't pay much attention to it before, but now I find that Daenerys Entertainment is really awesome. .”
Amy didn't know why: "What?"
Jessica said: "In the top five on the list, in addition to the first place "The Ghost Story", Daenerys Entertainment also occupies two places."
Amy quickly browsed the article about the week's box office summary in the "Hollywood Reporter" and quickly understood it, which made her speechless.
Box office week from September 26th to October 2nd.
The first place, "The Ghost Story" has no suspense, with 59.63 million U.S. dollars. This box office result directly broke the September single-week box office record in Hollywood history.
Immediately afterwards, DreamWorks Pictures' "Doomsday Alert" ranked second on the list, with a box office of US$13.67 million in its first week.
Although it is the runner-up, considering that "Doomsday Alert" has a blockbuster-level production cost of US$50 million and made US$13.67 million in the first week. It is also a commercial movie with a poor reputation. It is impossible to have a long-term success. The final box office may only be about 25 million. Obviously affected by the strong impact of "The Ghost Story", "Doomsday Alert"'s estimated local box office has dropped significantly from the 40 million box office originally expected by DreamWorks.
Third place is once again in the hands of Daenerys Entertainment.
"The Six Strongest Man", which set a box office record of 15+ ratings in the UK in August, opened in North America on September 12. After 22.96 million US dollars in the first week, it continued to earn 16.3 million US dollars in the second week.
In the third week of its release just past, this small film with a production budget of only 2 million pounds faced the impact of "The Ghost Story" and its box office dropped by 36%. However, it still grossed US$10.43 million at the box office in a single week, ranking third on the list.
In the three weeks since its launch, the North American box office of "The Six Strongest Pigs" has accumulated US$49.69 million, and the total North American box office is expected to be around US$70 million. Although it is not as good as the UK's 62 million pounds, which is equivalent to US$95 million, considering the cost, it is also a real box office dark horse.
The fourth place is also from Daenerys Entertainment.
This is a remake of Ang Lee's "Eat Drink Couple" with an all-black cast, called "Food for the Soul". It tells the story of black culture through a black family's weekend dinner. The director, George Tillman Jr., is a black man and the heroine is One is the famous 'Cyborg' girlfriend Halle Berry.
The film was produced by Gomen Pictures and was released a week before "The Ghost Story". It has a screen size of 1,336 and the comprehensive media score reached an excellent 8.1 points. With Ang Lee, who became more famous after "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", personally helping to promote the film, the film's box office in the first week reached the level of a box office hit of over 10,000, with revenue of 14.32 million US dollars.
The film's production cost was only US$7.5 million, and Gomen Pictures' initial expectations were US$20 million. Revenues of 14.32 million in the first week not only directly recouped the production investment, but also more than doubled Gaomen Pictures' initial expectations. Relying on long-term word-of-mouth, it is expected to hit the 50 million threshold.
Unfortunately, "Food for the Soul" met "The Ghost Story" the following week.
Faced with the strong performance of "The Ghost Story", the Gomen Pictures team originally predicted a slight decline of about 20% in the next week, which eventually expanded to 37%. The revenue for the next week from September 26 to October 2 was finally 9.02 million. Dollar.
In two weeks, "Food for the Soul" has grossed a total box office of US$23.34 million.
Of course, it is still a very good result, but in the face of the continued pressure from "The Ghost Story", the North American box office of "Food for the Soul" is likely to stop at less than 40 million.
Then, at fifth place on the list, Daenerys Entertainment once again gave up the coming out comedy "Ins and Outs" produced by Paramount.
This movie stars Kevin Kline, the actor of "A Fish Named Wanda", and Tom Selleck, the actor of "Three Dads and a Baby". It tells the story of Howard, a middle school teacher who has reached middle age, and has a great relationship with him. After a long journey of love, my girlfriend was finally on the verge of achieving success, but she was publicly accused of being gay by her former student at a ceremony.
Howard tried to prove his innocence, but unexpectedly discovered his 'self'.
The theme is similar to "The Birdcage" which was also a hit last year.
By the way, Hollywood, as the base camp of the fringe left, is actually like this. For decades, it has been quietly reversing Westerners' traditional concepts bit by bit through movies and public opinion, and finally brought the gay community to the forefront. 'I don't like you' to 'I don't oppose you' to the ultimate 'You are politically incorrect if you dare to oppose me', which can be called a classic case of ideological shaping.
Due to the excellent reputation of "Ins and Outs" and the support of Hollywood, it started on the same September 12th schedule as "Six Pigs" and earned US$19.15 million and US$13.94 million respectively in the previous two weeks.
However, due to the sniper attack of "The Ghost Story", "Ins and Outs" became the one with the deepest decline among the top five new Chinese and African films. In the past week, the box office shrank by 46%, with only US$7.53 million left in the single-week box office. The cumulative total in the three weeks after its release was The box office was $40.62 million.
Similar to "Food for the Soul," "Ins and Outs" was expected to have a total domestic box office of more than 60 million US dollars. It has also shrunk by at least US$10 million and is expected to stop at around US$50 million.
In the final analysis, it is still a trade-off.
However, relatively speaking, due to the phenomenal popularity of "Ghost Chronicles", the "lengthening" part this time far exceeds the "eliminating" part.
The two Hollywood newcomers huddled in a corner of the Santa Monica Mountains were just surprised by the weekly box office list that had just been released. All over Los Angeles, film practitioners of all sizes who were not part of Daenerys Entertainment's It scratches the heart and lungs, and the five flavors are mixed.
Are you going to let people live? !
From 1997 to now, from the Valentine's Day release of "BJ's Diary" with two British guys, to the Easter release of "Alien 2", "Cable TV Repairman", "Ghost", and "The Rescue", four consecutive hits, and then The summer season is packed with films like "Face/Off," "Twister," "American Pie," "Day Alone" and even "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon."
When the summer season comes to an end, I finally feel that it’s time to slow down and let everyone show off. In September, first there was the dark horse "Six Pigs", and at the end of the month, there was another "Ghost Story" king bomb, which directly locked the entire October.
Is Daenerys the only company left in Hollywood to co-write? !
However, with the current strength of Daenerys Entertainment in Hollywood, all the resentment can only be incompetent rage.
Even after feeling resentful, both industry executives and directors and stars couldn't help but start to wonder whether they could switch jobs or cooperate with Daenerys Entertainment.
After all, you still have to have a good time, and who doesn’t have a good time
As for the few film company bosses, what else can they do as long as they are alive
Even if you bribe a desperado to kill Simon Westeros, not to mention whether the whole family will be evaporated like the rumored Westeros wiped out the entire mafia family in Italy, even if it is done, Daenerys Entertainment Still there.
The power is established.
As for seeking administrative measures and launching an anti-monopoly campaign against Daenerys Entertainment, there is probably no company in Hollywood that has a closer relationship with Washington than Daenerys Entertainment.
So I can only fantasize about it.
For example, going back ten years ago, everyone pooled some money and bribed doctors to keep a madman in the Watsonville Mental Hospital forever.
How nice.
Mountain Apartments in Santa Monica.
The two girls just sighed and hurriedly started preparing breakfast.
Today is still a busy day.
After filling their bellies and taking care of themselves, the two women went out, quickly got into the car under the flashlights of the paparazzi who had begun to follow them, and rushed to the nearby Daenerys Studios.