The box office of "Titanic" reached 447 million U.S. dollars last week, and it is almost inevitable to surpass the North American box office record of 460 million U.S. dollars for "Star Wars" this week. Eric wasn't too surprised. Hearing Christina's excited tone, she was obviously a fan of "Titanic".
The drowsiness dissipated, Eric turned sideways, looked at Christina lying next to him with a smile on his lips, and said, "We'll talk about this matter later, now..."
Saying this, Eric suddenly reached out, grabbed Christina's slender waist, pulled her over, and turned over.
"Ah-hehe, don't do it," Christina struggled with a cooperating coquettish smile.
Eric is over 1.8 meters tall, but Christina is only 1.55 meters tall. Following Eric's movements, Christina's petite body completely disappeared under him.
"Little cat, remember next time, the man who was suddenly woken up is very angry."
Christina narrowed her eyes, her face was flushed, she stretched out her arms and let Eric take off her little T-shirt, begging for mercy in a soft tone: "Eric, I was wrong, I won't dare to do it again next time." gone."
"We'll talk about it next time, but we'll still be punished this time."
"But, I've already made breakfast, and it will be cold after your punishment."
When Christina said this, Eric also felt hungry for a while, and looked at the sunshine outside the window again. It was getting late, and "Casino Royale" was about to be completed these days, and all the work needed to be watched by him personally, so he had to Restraining her desire, she let go of Christina, turned over and got off the bed, and said, "Okay, for the sake of being so obedient, I'll let you go this time."
After two decades of re-screenings, "Star Wars" has just broken through $460 million at the cumulative box office. Therefore, if you want to talk about the box office record of the first round of screenings, before "Titanic", you should count "Jurassic Park" produced by Eric a few years ago, and the North American box office finally reached 450 million.
However, in any case, after 12 weeks of screenings, the North American box office of "Titanic" reached 469 million U.S. dollars, breaking the box office records of all previous North American films, and also broke the record. Weekly box office champion.
Although everyone knows that "Titanic" will break the North American box office record without any suspense this week, but after the real data comes out, there are only a few people who can react as calmly as Eric.
After waking up, within half an hour of having breakfast with Christina, there were five or six consecutive calls to Eric's cell phone.
The media in North America today are basically focusing on this matter. More than half of the newspapers that Eric subscribes to have the news that "Titanic" broke the North American box office record on the front page. There was even more excitement on the Internet. The huge fan base of "Titanic" posted on the Yahoo community and major movie forums to celebrate the film breaking the North American box office record.
Under the company's arrangement, ABC's morning news program "Good Morning America" took a full 20 minutes to review the whole process of "Titanic" from its launch to the present. Several film creators who promoted the film directly increased the ratings of "Good Morning America" by 30% compared with the past.
Although a few months ago, including Eric himself, no one knew whether "Titanic" would break the North American box office record this week.
However, today is March 14, and there are only 10 days before the 69th Academy Awards ceremony. After the announcement of the nominations, in order to make the best use of the Oscar influence of "Titanic", the remaining major overseas ticket sales for the film The national release dates are basically scheduled for the next two weeks. By then, the number of overseas release countries for "Titanic" will increase from less than 30 to 68 in one fell swoop.
Today, "Titanic" will be released in 17 more overseas countries, including Germany, France, and Japan, the three most important overseas box office.
In the original time and space, the overseas box office of "Titanic" in the first round was 1.2 billion US dollars.
Eric remembers that the Japanese box office is about 200 million US dollars. According to the current box office figure of the UK which has reached 91 million US dollars, the cumulative box office of Germany and France, which are comparable to the British market, may also exceed 100 million US dollars. That is to say, The total box office of these three overseas box office countries will reach about 400 million US dollars, accounting for one-third of the total overseas box office of "Titanic".
Therefore, Firefly also attaches great importance to the release work in these three countries. The main creators of "Titanic" began to rush to Europe and Japan to participate in the premieres of the corresponding countries in the previous week. At this time, Cameron And others are still staying in Japan.
Eric believes that after the new round of large-scale releases, the overseas box office data of "Titanic" will also explode completely. to $400 million.
After a busy morning at Firefly Studios, Eric rushed to Burbank in the afternoon to attend a meeting on the next stage of release of "Titanic".
The cumulative box office in North America in the 12th week reached 469 million US dollars, which also brought a little bit of trouble, or regret, to the distribution department of Firefly.
"Although the current box office data of "Titanic" is still maintained at a scale of 20 million U.S. dollars per week, according to our survey data, most of this is the result of repeated viewing by the core fans of the film. They will enter the cinemas repeatedly, not only because of the attractiveness of the film itself, but also because of their love for the film, and they expect it to create more miracles at the box office."
During the meeting, Robert Thompson, president of Firefly’s distribution department, introduced the current situation: “Therefore, there are a total of three publicity points that “Titanic” can stimulate the North American box office data to continue to rise, breaking the North American box office record. The box office breaks through 500 million US dollars, and the Oscars ceremony, if these three publicity points can appear within three weeks, it is undoubtedly the best state. But the current situation is that "Titanic" has broken the box office record, and the remaining The next two publicity points, according to the current box office trend, are likely to happen in the same week, or even on the same day. Because now the Oscars are exactly one full week plus a weekend, and the awards ceremony will be next Monday, the 14th day of the day The three-day box office just came out on weekends and weekends."
Although Robert Thompson said so, there was not much regret in his tone, and everyone in the conference room probably did the same.
Everyone can hear that "Titanic" breaks the North American box office record one week, breaks through 500 million US dollars the next week, and hits the Oscar statuette record the next week. Such a publicity point that stimulates the box office a week is undoubtedly the best state.
However, "Titanic" has maintained a weekly box office of more than 20 million U.S. dollars, and fans are already cheering. Although Firefly can easily spend 10 million U.S. dollars to support "Titanic" next week's box office to 500 million, but doing so It's as stupid as scratching a flawless 'pearl' in "Titanic", when the time comes, the opponents who are envious and jealous of Firefly will probably go crazy with joy.
Everyone whispered to each other for a while, and someone said: "Robert, you forgot to consider the promotional point of the movie's global box office breaking 1 billion dollars?"
"Of course I have considered it," Robert Thompson said: "However, this is not a brand new record. "Jurassic Park" broke it four years ago. Moreover, this data should be released after the Oscars. By then, North America There should be a good chance that the box office will start to drop sharply, and we can't expect anything more from the North American market."
Someone suddenly said, "What about the 2 billion people in the world?"
There was a brief pause in the meeting, and then everyone chuckled.
Robert Thompson also shook his head and looked at the other party. It was Kenneth Horn, the president of New Line Pictures, who was speaking.
Before "Titanic" was released, Kenneth Horn's status in the group was greatly improved because New Line Pictures almost caught up with the annual box office performance of several major production departments of the department. However, after the box office of "Titanic" broke out, New Line The data of the line film industry was once again left far behind. Kenneth Horn, who was still fighting for more resources for the new line, was of course very depressed, but he would not show it on this occasion.
In the entire Firefly Group, Kenneth Horn and Robert Thompson have the same status.
New Line Films under the control of Kenneth Horn includes a complete production and distribution system. Although it has been producing most of the low- and medium-budget films with a budget of less than 30 million US dollars, the performance of New Line has been very good in recent years. With the support of the old ministers in the new line period, Kenneth Horn is still quite concerned by high-level officials. Robert Thompson, as the president of the distribution department of the group, is in charge of the Bowei International Distribution Group, which is responsible for the local and global distribution business. Although he is not involved in production, he controls all the mainstream studios of Firefly, including Firefly Pictures, Disney Pictures, and Pixar Animation. Robert Thompson's status should not be underestimated.
Although there is no overlap in the business under their jurisdiction, within the same system, the two have more or less signs of competition.
"Kenneth, since you said that, why don't we make a bet. If the global box office of "Titanic" can exceed 2 billion US dollars, I will treat everyone present to dinner. If not, you come."
"Of course no problem, I can still afford a meal," Kenneth Horn looked around without hesitation.
In this kind of festive atmosphere, no one would say anything to this kind of small gamble. Although almost everyone feels that although "Titanic" can steadily break through 1 billion US dollars, or even touch 1.5 billion US dollars, but the 2 billion The US dollar is still too hanging.
Eric closed the file he had just read before, raised his head, scanned the two of them with a smile, and said, "Okay, I've written down the bet between you two, and I'll choose when the time comes." location, you better keep last year's year-end bonus first."
As the core executives of Firefly Group, Kenneth Horn and Robert Thompson's year-end bonuses are in the millions of dollars. Hearing what Eric said, Robert Thompson was 'shocked' and said: "Eric, you should just rob it. There is no hotel in the world that can eat millions of dollars for a meal."
"Rooting is illegal, and I'm a law-abiding citizen," Eric joked with a smile.
After everyone laughed for a while, Katzenberg announced the next topic.
"After analyzing this period of time, we found that many fans of "Titanic" were very interested in the filming process of the film. Moreover, we happened to have perfectly preserved all the props from the filming period of "Titanic". The model of the Nickelodeon ship is still standing on the set in Rosarito, Mexico, and some core props have also been shipped back to Los Angeles, and are currently stored in the warehouse in the studio. So, let’s discuss the theme exhibition of "Titanic" feasibility."
After Katzenberg finished speaking, everyone in the meeting did not speak immediately, and everyone flicked through the distributed investigation report.
Eric also opened the investigation report in his hand.
Westerners are generally very interested in collections. Some classic movie props can often be auctioned for sky-high prices. This is also the cultural basis for the "Titanic" to hold prop exhibitions.
Although I don't know the specific data in the original time and space, Eric remembers that after the success of "Titanic", Fox held a grand tour of "Titanic" shooting props all over the world. Driven by enough interests, Fox certainly didn't do this.
Moreover, one of the most regrettable things in the original time and space in Eric's opinion is that the model of the Titanic that Cameron reproduced on the Rosarito studio in a one-to-one ratio, in the later stage of film production, in order to raise enough money The production funds were directly dismantled and sold for scrap iron. This must be a great regret for many movie fans.
This time, Eric ordered the creators of the movie to preserve all the props perfectly from the very beginning. The reason he gave at the beginning was, of course, to provide prop support for the subsequent production of retro films related to "Titanic". After all, the production of props for "Titanic" cost tens of millions of dollars.
However, now that "Titanic" has achieved the same success as in the previous life, then the real reason for the original action can be revealed openly.
Although the "Titanic" theme exhibition cannot last as long as Disneyland, but with rich experience in operating Disney theme parks, it is still easy for Firefly's "Titanic" exhibition to surpass Fox in the previous life. (To be continued.)