"The Crying Game" opened on September 25, with a box office of 1.26 million US dollars on 37 screens in the first week; 86 screens in the second week, a box office of 2.67 million US dollars; in the third and fourth weeks, the number of screens was 155 and 173 respectively. blocks, with box office reaching US$4.03 million and US$3.97 million respectively.
As of October 22, "The Crying Game" has been in theaters for four weeks, and its cumulative box office has reached US$11.93 million, which is roughly four times the production cost of US$3 million.
On October 23, the fifth week of its release, the screening size of "The Crying Game" finally increased significantly for the first time, reaching 535 yuan.
Gomen Pictures did not rush for success just because of the excellent box office performance of this low-budget and unpopular film, and patiently controlled the release pace of the film.
The last week of October flew by.
From October 23rd to October 29th, "The Crying Game", whose screen size increased to more than 500, still achieved a weekly average of US$16,000 and continued to earn US$8.61 million.
At the same time, the film's cumulative box office also reached US$20.54 million.
As a result, the North American media began to pay more and more attention to this non-mainstream low-cost film, and the popularity of "The Crying Game" further increased.
The publicity methods of High Gate Pictures, such as the radial distribution model, hype and rating conflicts, etc., can actually be imitated. In recent years, other Hollywood studios have also poached many members of the Daenerys Entertainment team. There are few talents who are good at publicity and marketing. However, the result is that Daenerys Entertainment still dominates the Hollywood film business.
Whether it is a mainstream commercial film or a low-cost literary film, commercial performance is increasingly leaving its competitors behind.
This time "The Crying Game" once again gave many people a sense of powerlessness.
After carefully studying the various aspects of this film from project development to distribution, Hollywood studio executives also discovered one thing again.
At the end of the day, it's still Simon Westeros.
The script of "The Crying Game" was born ten years ago. It has been in rough preparation for these years. It was not until Simon Westeros took a liking to it that the green light was given, and finally the grand occasion at this time appeared.
Looking at others, the DC movie universe led by Daenerys Entertainment, Pixar Studio, which has risen rapidly with a 3D animated film, etc., can all be traced back to the insight of Simon Westeros.
Therefore, the success of "The Crying Game", or the success of Daenerys Entertainment as a whole, there is simply no channel to imitate, because it is impossible for other studios to have another Simon who can select blockbuster movies from countless project scripts. ยท Westeros.
While "The Crying Game" has gradually attracted strong attention from the industry, on October 30, after a five-month screening, Daenerys Entertainment's summer DC movie universe blockbuster "Wonder Woman" also appeared in "Midnight" The day before "The Ring" was officially released, the film's North American box office total was US$371 million, only a US$20 million gap from "The Dark Knight"'s US$373 million.
Overseas, as of the end of October, the cumulative overseas box office of "Wonder Woman" has also reached 351 million U.S. dollars, and the global box office has thus reached 724 million U.S. dollars.
Considering that many ticket-rich countries are still in the release stage, the film still has a box office potential of about 150 million U.S. dollars, and the global total box office is expected to be about 870 million U.S. dollars.
The total investment in production and distribution was US$160 million, and the global box office was US$870 million.
The box office alone has brought huge profits to Daenerys Entertainment and Time Warner. However, the biggest profit source of "Wonder Woman" is the sales of peripheral products.
As of the end of October, the total revenue from peripheral products related to "Wonder Woman" has reached US$1.3 billion, excluding the original soundtrack, which has sold 7.3 million copies.
Based on the net profit ratio of about 15% after deducting all development, production, channel and even tax costs for peripheral products, the peripheral sales of only 1.3 billion US dollars are expected to bring nearly 200 million to Daenerys Entertainment and Time Warner. Net profit in U.S. dollars.
In comparison, "Wonder Woman" is expected to have a total global box office of US$870 million, which can only bring about US$150 million in pre-tax profits after deducting production and publicity costs.
Even if Hollywood studios have various tax avoidance methods to reduce the tax rate that the movie box office needs to pay as much as possible, the box office income of "Wonder Woman" cannot be compared with the profits generated from peripheral sales.
Moreover, the box office of "Wonder Woman" has basically been determined, but with the arrival of the peak sales season at the end of the year, there will be another wave of upsurge in peripheral sales of the film.
It is expected that in the next one to two years, the total sales of peripheral products related to this superhero movie will exceed 2 billion U.S. dollars, and the net profit will reach 300 million U.S. dollars.
US$300 million is already the total annual net profit of a major Hollywood studio in an ordinary year.
However, this is just the peripheral sales income of a superhero movie in the DC movie universe.
On the other hand, several important summer movies related to Daenerys Entertainment, such as "Peach Deal", "A Time to Kill" and "The Last of the Mohicans", were also scheduled to be released before "Wonder Woman".
In the end, of the three movies, only "A Time to Kill" exceeded 100 million in North American box office, with the final figure being US$113 million.
Immediately afterwards, the total North American box office of "Peach Deal" was 93.11 million U.S. dollars, which was still about 7 million U.S. dollars away from breaking 100 million. "The Last of the Mohicans" had the least satisfactory box office performance among the three, with a final North American box office of only $87.92 million.
However, although "A Time to Kill" has the highest box office in North America, because the film's discussion of judicial justice and racial issues are relatively local, the overseas box office lags behind "The Deal", and the overseas box office is expected to be only about US$70 million.
"Peach Deal" relies on the obvious joining of Robert Redford and Valerie Golino. It is expected that the total overseas box office will surpass North America and reach about 130 million US dollars.
"The Last of the Mohicans" is still at the bottom of the overseas box office. Judging from the market performance of the countries where it has been released, after completing the entire overseas distribution cycle, the total overseas box office is expected to be only about 50 million US dollars.
Of course, the three films ranked among the top box office performers among all North American films in 1992.
At least, as of the end of October, all three movies are temporarily in the top ten of the North American box office annual list.
On October 30, as the voting day for the U.S. presidential election approaches, the Halloween season in North America officially begins.
"The Ring" produced by Daenerys Entertainment's New World Pictures opened on October 30 on a scale of 2,356 screens. Also released at the same time was "The Ring," a horror thriller produced by Columbia Pictures' Tristar Company. "Legend of Chasing Life", the opening screen size is 1732 blocks.
There is no need to repeat the story of "The Ring", but "The Legend of Death" tells a story similar to that of evil spirits killing people.
The story begins in the era just after the American Civil War. Racial issues are still deep-rooted. A black boy falls in love with the white daughter of a slave owner. The love affair is discovered. The black boy is covered in honey by the white man, which causes the swarm to attack slowly and painfully. After his death, the black man's soul turned into an evil spirit and hid in the mirror. As long as someone calls the name "Sugar Man" five times in front of the mirror, the evil spirit will be summoned.
However, although it is also the evil spirit that kills people. But unlike the Japanese horror of "The Ring", "The Legend of Death" is actually imitating New Line's "A Nightmare on Elm Street".
From his appearance to his killing methods, 'Sugar Man' has many similarities with Freddy in the "A Nightmare on Elm Street" series.
After years of repeated squeezes, the popularity of the "A Nightmare on Elm Street" series has long been waning. At this time, a horror movie that follows the trend of "A Nightmare on Elm Street" will naturally be difficult to arouse too much novelty among the audience.
Therefore, after its release, the gap between the two movies in terms of word-of-mouth and popularity quickly widened.
The media score of "Sugar Man" was only 4.6, which completely failed.
The same evil spirit kills people, but as a Japanese horror film with a completely different style from traditional Hollywood horror films, "Midnight Ring" has been unanimously recognized by the media and the public, and the media score is almost as high as "Sugar Man" times, reaching a very excellent score of 8.7.
The wedding of David Johnston and Lesley Whickert is scheduled for November 21st.
Simon and his wife will definitely rush to Australia by then, and then plan to take a vacation of about more than a month, intending to stay in Australia until after the New Year.
In order to complete more work before the end of the year vacation schedule, Simon did not rest this weekend.
The time is already November 1st, Sunday.
"Superman" was completed in September and is now in the post-production stage.
Daenerys Entertainment is promoting a series of key projects next year.
Although it was still the end of 1992, Daenerys Entertainment's 1993 film list was basically confirmed.
In the Easter schedule of 1993, "Twilight Zone 2" was released.
Summer release, "Superman", "Sleepless in Seattle", "Sugar-coated Trap", "Grannet".
Among them, "Superman" is exclusively produced by Daenerys Entertainment and distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures.
Sleepless in Seattle is a collaboration with Pixar.
"Grannet" is a joint project with Warner Bros. and is the last of the original four-film plan.
"Sugar-Coated Trap" is a movie independently operated and distributed by Daenerys Entertainment.
Subsequently.
Halloween season, "Seven Deadly Sins".
During Thanksgiving, the 3D version of the animated film "The Lion King" and "Schindler's List" directed by Steven Spielberg will be released.
During the Christmas period, "Mission: Impossible" is cooperating with Paramount.
In order to avoid internal competition, Simon moved "Forrest Gump", originally planned to be released at the end of 1993, to the summer of 1994.
The above listed are only the key films of 1993. Others such as "In the Name of the Father" starring Daniel Day-Lewis, the African Savannah documentary produced separately due to the success of last year's Antarctic documentary, etc. are not included. within key projects.
The total number of films planned to be discovered by Daenerys Entertainment, Daenerys Pictures, New World Pictures and Gaomen Pictures will still reach about 40.
Malibu, Daenerys Studios.
The time came to noon.
In the restaurant dedicated to executives of the studio, Simon was having lunch with the Argento father and daughter who came to North America with him last time. Also beside him were New World Pictures President Danny Morris and female assistant Jennifer Keep company.
Dario Argento's "Suspiria" has become a generation horror classic.
Over the years, Argento has continued to cooperate with Hollywood. This time the two parties will collaborate on a crime thriller called "Trauma", which tells the story of a pair of young people looking for and confronting a serial murderer.
Dario Argento will direct the film himself and has secured the female lead role for his daughter Aisha Argento.
Elsa Argento is 17 years old this year, but because she comes from a film family, she has been acting in her father's movies since she was 10 years old. She has also starred in several Italian movies as the heroine, so her acting skills are sufficient. Dario Argento's "Trauma" is largely aimed at pushing his daughter into Hollywood.
Although the Italian film industry is relatively prosperous in Europe, compared with Hollywood, it can only be regarded as a small pond after all.
With the global rise of Hollywood, this little pond is likely to dry up even more.
Therefore, it is also the dream of many Italian filmmakers to enter Hollywood.
Simon has already read the script of "Trauma". Although it is not as good as "Suspiria" back then, it is still above the standard. Moreover, the expected production cost of the film was only US$5 million. For New World Entertainment at this time, it was a completely low-cost production, and the project was therefore greenlit.
Of course, the schedule of "Trauma" is temporarily uncertain because it does not count the key projects that Simon has finalized personally.
The film is scheduled to start shooting early next year. The entire cycle from shooting to completion will take about five months and will be completed in the first half of 1993.
Depending on the future results of the film, if it is average, the schedule will probably be set for September or October next year; if it is poor, it will be dropped to January or February of 1994; if it is good enough, it will be further adjusted to Easter of 1994.
Although the films of several labels under Daenerys Entertainment have various production scales and types, for Simon, he will not despise any film, all the films under the three labels, although the executives have many autonomy, but ultimately requires his approval.
Simon has also been instilling in the company team that movies are movies, and they are the 'products' produced by Daenerys Entertainment. There is no difference between these products. What everyone needs to do is to make these products as good as possible. , and use appropriate post-publicity strategies to maximize the business psychology of these products.
Not only has this philosophy been instilled in him, but Simon has also always led by example.
That's what "Trauma" looks like at this point.
Simon has personally read the script, communicated with the main creator Dario Argento, and personally paid attention to the film's budget and main creative information. Although he will not participate in the specific production of the film due to limited energy, he will be the first to do so in the future. Watch the sample effects and subsequent publicity plans.
Through this working style, Simon basically knows every project under the company's umbrella.
At the same time, because of Simon's prophetic advantage, it can also ensure to a large extent that Daenerys Entertainment will obtain as many blockbuster films as possible in Simon's memory, and in this way, the overall commercial performance of the produced films will far exceed that of other peers. movie company.