On June 19, the third week after the release of "Wonder Woman", three new heavyweight films were released in North American theaters, namely "The Deal" co-produced by Daenerys and Paramount, and "Alien 3" produced by Fox. ” and Disney’s 2D animated film “Aladdin.”
As the flagship projects of various studios, the opening screen sizes of the three movies all exceeded 2,000, with "Deal of Love" at 2,219, "Alien 3" at 2,381, and "Aladdin" at 2,137.
Three new films have started filming, inevitably sniping at "Wonder Woman".
However, this female superhero movie also fully unleashed its box office potential during the relaxed period of the previous two weeks. Faced with the impact of three new films, although the box office decline expanded to 37% in the third week of release, it still earned 43.16 million The U.S. dollar continues to remain at the top of the weekly list.
At the same time, after being released last week, the cumulative box office of "Wonder Woman" also exceeded the US$200 million mark, reaching US$202.67 million.
Relying on the starring cast of Robert Redford and 'Catwoman' Valerie Golino and the controversial topic of whether he is willing to transfer his wife for US$1 million, "Peach Deal" reached a box office of US$32.27 million in its first week, ranking first on the list. Second place.
The 2D animated film "Aladdin" produced by Disney ranked third on the list, with a box office of US$29.63 million in its first week, which also exceeded Disney's expectations.
The production cost of this animated film was only $28 million.
Fox's US$50 million "Alien 3" grossed US$26.84 million in its first week, ranking fourth on the weekly box office list.
"Alien 3" had a not-so-low start. However, the sequel's reputation was somewhat crumbling, with a comprehensive media score of only 4.3. The box office in the first week was basically supported by the popularity of the Alien series and the sparing no effort in early promotion. After the first week, the industry generally predicted that the movie's box office would plummet the next week.
Later, Disney's "Sisters Are Crazy" ranked fifth. In its fifth week of release, this dark horse comedy starring Whoopi Goldberg continued to earn US$7.61 million, with a cumulative box office of US$71.31 million.
Faced with the impact of the still strong "Wonder Woman" and three new films, the single-week box office of "Sisters" dropped only 11% from June 19 to June 25. Therefore, although the weekly box office volume is only over 7 million US dollars, this black comedy is still expected to exceed the 100 million yuan mark relying on its excellent long-term trend.
The total North American box office of "Sisters Are Crazy" in Simon's Memory exceeded 130 million US dollars.
This time, due to the strong impact of "Wonder Woman", although the total North American box office of "Sisters" is still expected to exceed 100 million, it will be difficult to exceed 110 million US dollars, shrinking by more than 20 million US dollars.
"Lethal Weapon 3", which is in its sixth week of release, has a box office of US$6.85 million this week, ranking sixth, with a cumulative box office of US$124.06 million.
Because it opened earlier, "Lethal Weapon 3" will be less affected by "Wonder Woman", and the total North American box office is still expected to hit the original US$140 million.
The US$60 million film "Pulse" starring Tom Cruise has only US$4.63 million left in the box office in its fourth week of release, with a total box office of US$35.61 million.
Because attendance rates continue to fall, in the new week, half of the screening screens, which have been continuously decreasing, have been removed due to the expiration of most cinema screening contracts, leaving only 1,135 screens. It is expected that the total box office in North America will barely exceed 4,000 million US dollars, stopped within 50 million US dollars.
In addition, it is worth mentioning that "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2", which was previously released during the Easter period, has been in theaters for exactly 10 weeks as of June 25.
Because of the popcorn nature of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series, the sequel began shrinking its canvas in its fourth week. When "Wonder Woman" opened on June 5, the canvas of "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2" in mainstream theaters was basically transferred to this superhero movie, leaving only two to three hundred screens in some remote theaters. In theaters.
In the week from June 19th to June 25th, "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2" continued to earn US$290,000 with 263 screens, with a cumulative box office of US$113.17 million.
It can be said that "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2", which will be completely canceled in the next few weeks, will basically have a total box office of US$113 million in North America. For an animated sequel to a popcorn movie, this is a huge box office success.
San Francisco Bay.
In a villa in the Woodside Mountains west of Palo Alto.
The time is Saturday, June 27th.
I have been involved in the affairs of several technology companies here on Thursday and Friday. I worked until seven o'clock in the evening yesterday, and attended a dinner party with several senior executives of Yigrit in the evening, and did not return to Los Angeles.
The first person to open her eyes in the morning, Jennifer Raybould felt the breath of the man behind her on her neck. Her waist was tightly hugged by a strong arm, and she subconsciously pressed against her back.
Then I felt the man's characteristic tension in the morning, and his face turned slightly red.
The light from the curtains showed that the sky was already bright. He stretched out an arm and grabbed the watch on the bedside table and looked at it. It read six fifty-five.
I was a little reluctant to leave, but I also knew it was time to get up.
After several body movements, Simon inevitably woke up, pulled the female assistant into his arms, kissed the girl's neck, and said softly: "Morning, baby."
"morning."
I like the tone of his voice every time he casually calls her "Honey", it's really sweet.
It's just that I've always been embarrassed to respond like this, and I'm still a little curious about how he calls Janet in private. It's also 'Honey', or 'baby', probably not 'Darling', it's too formal.
I wanted to ask, but I was afraid that he would think I was arguing about something.
With such random thoughts, the hand that was holding her was roaming around her body at will. She felt that her body was getting hotter and hotter, and she almost gave up on herself. In the end, she endured it and said, "It's time to get up."
"Um."
The man pretended to be weak, and she couldn't help but curl her lips, pulled his arm over, kissed the back of his hand, and said, "You can sleep for another 15 minutes. I'll get up first and help you prepare breakfast." "
"I was very tired last night. I think it would be more appropriate to sleep for another half hour."
"You are a man, you cannot be lazier than a woman."
After bargaining for a while, the man finally let go, and the female assistant began to get out of bed, get dressed, and wash up.
When I walked downstairs, Zoe Parks and Isabel Dunn, who had come with me, had already gotten up. Knowing Jennifer's habits, the two women simply explained the ingredients for breakfast and that today's newspapers were ready, and then disappeared on their own initiative.
Simon did not stay in bed for half an hour and got up soon after the female assistant got out of bed.
I habitually ran a few kilometers in the fresh air of the mountains in Woodside, and as usual I met Larry Ellison again. Since meeting on this mountain trail last year, Simon has been able to meet each other during morning jogs many times in San Francisco. This late-blooming Oracle founder is really good at managing connections in such subtle ways.
After some arduous adjustments, Oracle has already weathered last year's crisis. The early outbreak of the Internet industry has given the database company even more strength.
Most professional Internet sites require a database.
Moreover, because Westeros Company continues to buy 25% of Oracle's shares, Igrit Company is also more inclined to adapt to Oracle software in the process of developing World Wide Web technology.
It didn't involve any substantive topics. The two jogged and chatted for a while. Simon returned to his villa, took a shower and changed clothes. The female assistant had already prepared breakfast, and gave him the newspaper he was used to reading at breakfast and yesterday's. North American theater box office reports are also on the dining table.
A new box office week started yesterday, and two new films were released again, namely "A Time to Kill" co-produced by Daenerys and MGM and "Double Girl" produced by Columbia Pictures.
The female assistant watched Simon look through yesterday's box office report and said while serving sweet soup to the man: "On the first day, it was only US$4.79 million, which seems to be on the low side."
What I’m talking about here is, of course, “A Time to Kill.”
Compared with the original version, the new version of "A Time to Kill" stars Nicolas Cage, Sandra Bullock and Samuel L. Jackson. The story is similar to the original version in Simon's memory. It is also adapted from John Grimson's novel. A crime drama involving racial discrimination and judicial justice.
It grossed US$4.79 million on the first day, and its first-week box office should be between US$20 million and US$25 million.
This kind of opening box office, let alone "Wonder Woman" and "Lethal Weapon 3", is not as good as last week's "Peach Deal".
However, Simon has no worries, saying: "The key still depends on the decline next week. The box office curve pursued by "A Time to Kill" should be comparable to Harrison Ford's "Presumed Innocent"."
Two years ago, "Presumed Innocent" had a box office of just over US$10 million in its first week. However, due to its strong follow-up trend, the film's total North American box office continued to exceed the studio's expectations, eventually exceeding US$80 million.
In comparison, "A Time to Kill", which has a similar genre and theme, opened with a box office of 20 million to 25 million US dollars, which is already very good.
After "Wonder Woman" at the beginning of the month, there are no blockbuster movies to be released this summer. The reputation of "A Time to Kill" has also been recognized by critics, and its long-term follow-up trend will definitely not be a problem.
Having been with Simon for so long, Jennifer certainly knows this, but she is accustomed to feeling that the projects he personally leads should have better box office results.
After chatting casually for breakfast, the two flew to Chicago together in the morning.
For "Home Alone 2".
The sequel to this phenomenal children's comedy, which will be released at the end of the year, has basically completed its post-production phase.
Simon left complete control of the Home Alone franchise to John Hughes, whose studio was based in Chicago, where the filmmaker shot and produced most of his films.
Although Hughes could have sent the finished film to Los Angeles, Simon did not do so and instead rushed over in person.
After watching the finished movie, I can fly to Toronto nearby to go shopping. Unlike Los Angeles and San Francisco, where there are always many eyes staring at you and needing attention, in these infrequently visited cities, as long as you keep a low profile, you don't need to be discovered by anyone.
This continues until Sunday evening, when we return to Los Angeles and start a new week of work.
The acquisition of LTD Company has been basically finalized recently, and plans for the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show are also advancing rapidly.
According to the confirmed schedule, the Victoria's Secret show will be held in early November and will be broadcast on TV networks in mid-November, before the peak consumer season at the end of the year.
Because it is a project led by Simon himself, the four major television networks in North America have shown interest in this fashion show.
After several bidding negotiations, ABC Television Network bought the television rights to the show for a high price of US$5 million.
Although the price of US$5 million includes the rights to the first broadcast and a total of 10 replays in the next five years, this transaction price still makes Leslie Wexner marvel at Simon's influence.
The budget for the entire show was only 10 million US dollars, and ABC directly paid for half of it. If they had known this, LTD would not have needed to transfer half of the copyright of the show to Daenerys Entertainment. However, Wexner also understood that without the participation of Daenerys Entertainment and the leadership of Simon Westeros, ABC would certainly not have paid such a high price.
The planned 40 Victoria's Secret Angels and five Victoria's Secret Angel spokespersons who will participate in the catwalk have also become the focus of recent competition in the modeling circle.
The catwalk team of forty people seems to be quite large, but in the entire modeling circle, it seems insignificant. In the modeling industry, there are almost no barriers. As long as you have a reasonably good skin, you can basically enter the industry. However, there are very few people who can really climb to the top.
Several supermodels who have become famous in recent years, such as Cindy Crawford, Linda Evangelista, Claudia Schiffer, etc., all have a journey to the top that is full of luck.
The Victoria's Secret show has attracted strong attention from the media as soon as it was exposed. Major model agencies in both North America and Europe have realized that compared to top luxury brands whose brands are well-known but whose catwalk exposure rate is not high, this time Simon. The underwear fashion show led by Westeros will also be broadcast on TV, which will become a very rare exposure platform.
If a model wants to be in the spotlight, whether she is rumored to have a scandal with a celebrity singer, be on the cover of a fashion magazine, or participate in a top brand catwalk, in the final analysis, what she is pursuing is exposure.
Many luxury brands always give the general public a very cold feeling, but in fact, these brands will only choose models with relatively high reputations, whether for catwalks or endorsements. This can be seen from the fact that many luxury brands are vying to hire IT Girls or Internet celebrities to participate in catwalk shows many years later.
Especially Internet celebrities, whose style is not high at all, but this group has tens of millions of fans and an exposure rate that is difficult for ordinary supermodels to achieve.
Therefore, major model agencies have recently used various connections to get their models into the forty Victoria's Secret Angel spots. As for the five more popular angel spokespersons, whether they are top supermodels who have already achieved fame or new talents who have just emerged, they are also keeping a close eye on them.