Chapter 1262: 1269

After Saturday, another day on the west coast, Simon flew back to Los Angeles on Monday morning.

At the same time, the three-day box office data for the weekend from November 21 to November 23 were released, which made Disney quite excited.

In the first three days, Terminator 3, which used to be the same female terminator routine, took a box office of 44.26 million US dollars in the first weekend, and nearly 10 million US dollars of 35.91 million US dollars of the second "insect agent team". It is expected that the box office in the first seven days of the week will be between 60 million and 70 million US dollars.

Disney, which is controlled by Vivendi group of France, is the core of two super blockbusters this year. The summer season's "the fifth element" ended in failure. The local box office is only more than 60 million US dollars. Jean Marie merier, the head of Vivendi group, who has been pushing the group into the entertainment industry, was defeated.

This time, I was a little relieved.

Although the final cost of Terminator 3 is as high as US $130 million, which is more than US $30 million compared with the US $100 million of the fifth element, and another US $50 million has been invested in the publicity, the film is expected to reach US $150 million to US $200 million in North America at the beginning of the first week.

Combined with Schwarzenegger's stronger appeal overseas, the global box office of this sequel is very likely to be the same as that of Terminator 2: judgment day. Therefore, Terminator 3 may make a small profit only in the cinema stage. The failure case of "the fifth element" comes first, which is a result that Vivendi is very satisfied with.

After all, it can't be compared with daenerys, can it?

Rumor has it that Jean Marie merier held a special video conference on Monday, affirming the performance of Disney's management team, claiming that it was a good attempt, and making it clear that Vivendi would continue to try.

For Hollywood, the biggest achievement of Terminator 3 is that it has finally ended the week-long momentum of danielis entertainment related films.

This shows that we still have a way to live.

All right.

If it wasn't for Denise and fox to give up the copyright, Disney would not have had a chance to get involved in the terminator series.

Simon saw the cost control of Terminator 3.

In 2003, Terminator 3 burned 200 million US dollars. This time, Vivendi, in order to avoid repeating Sony's responsibility behind the scenes, has been strongly interfering in Disney's operation, especially cost control. Therefore, when Cameron was also invited to be the producer, the cost was still relatively well reduced to $130 million, which is the main reason why Vivendi was so relaxed after the box office of the project was released three days at the weekend.

Among them, Schwarzenegger's fixed base salary is US $15 million, and others are settled by sharing. This is also a result that Simon has been quietly promoting over the years, successfully locking Hollywood's fixed salary ceiling at US $15 million instead of the original US $20 million. In contrast, the former Schwarzenegger took 30 million yuan in cash in the original Terminator 3, which is a bit outrageous.

As we enter the new week, the time flies. Thanksgiving Day on November 27th is almost a blink of an eye.

On Wednesday, the day before Thanksgiving, the other two new films, midnight garden of good and evil and magic weapon, were also released as scheduled. In the same box office week, five important commercial films competed with each other. Finally, the total North American box office from November 21 to November 27 was pushed up to more than $200 million, reaching $220 million.

Terminator 3, which won the first place, grossed $67.06 million in the first seven days of the week.

This achievement can't be compared with the DC movie universe blockbuster or danielis Entertainment's "Jurassic Park" series, but compared with the $56.93 million in the first week of "Terminator 2: Judgment Day", it is more than 10 million higher. Vivendi can really feel satisfied.

The second place was the entomologist team, which earned $54.39 million in the first week.

Because of a series of big sales of Pixar Animation, especially the huge success in the sales of peripheral products in addition to the box office, the cost of daenerys 3D animation film is rising steadily. Compared with the previous highest $80 million of Toy Story 2, the cost of this movie is officially rising to $100 million, even in front of Terminator 3.

As a result, the first week of $54.39 million was not a failure, but it didn't meet danielis Entertainment's expectations.

This is Pixar's fifth 3D animated film. The previous four parts are toy story, lion king, Toy Story 2 and beauty and the beast.

In all the five 3D animations, the first week performance of "insect agents" is only better than Pixar's pioneering work "Toy Story" of 46.73 million in the same period. In the other three films, "Toy Story 2" has a first week performance of 87.31 million US dollars, and "Lion King" has a first week performance of 70.31 million US dollars. Even "beauty and the beast" has a first week performance of 68.73 million US dollars.

In the history of the past, the entomologist team was a relatively depressed work by Pixar. Simon tried to make some adjustments at the beginning. He tried to eliminate the love element in the film as much as possible and changed it into a more family friendly element. Unfortunately, it did not reverse.Of course, such a start, failure is not.

It's not very successful.

According to the feedback from the surrounding channels, the sales of the peripheral products of "insect agent team" are not as good as the previous works. It seems that people don't like insects after all.

And then.

The third place was picked up by the old film "beyond time and space contact", which was opened a week ago. In the second week of its release, MGM's $90 million blockbuster made another $24.17 million, with a total box office of $63.8 million in two weeks.

Judging from the current box office trend, it is not a big problem to break 100 million yuan.

However, the production cost of 90 million yuan and the publicity cost of 30 million yuan are only over 100 million yuan in China, which certainly can not meet the expectations of the producers and can only rely on overseas performance.

The fourth place went back to the new film rain maker, which made $16.27 million in its first week.

Obviously, the rain maker, even with the participation of Francis Coppola, Denny DeVito and Matt Damon, is still the latest novel of John Grimson, which has adapted and produced such popular works as the pelican assassination order, the sugar trap and the killing moment, but it has not been able to continue its previous success.

The first week is 16.27 million US dollars, and it is estimated that only about 40 million US dollars will be available in China.

Through overseas and follow-up channels, Paramount will not lose money and may even make a small profit, but it is basically in vain.

The fifth place went back to the old Adam Sandler comedy "the wedding singer". The same week, it earned 15.9 million dollars, with a total of 45.36 million dollars in two weeks.

Simon doesn't see the dark horse in the eyes of the outside world.

The former "wedding singer" was released on Valentine's day in early 1998, with a local box office of $80 million. This time, judging from the current trend, it is about 80 million US dollars. Simon initially looked forward to a more popular schedule of "wedding singer" to achieve the local billion, but failed to do so.

Even so, Adam Sandler, who was born on "Saturday night live", will use the "wedding singer" to determine his position as a leading Hollywood comedian. In addition, if we can successfully support the rotten boy Gang next year, Hollywood's new generation of comedy stars will be very rich.

For the studio, more options naturally means more affordable pricing.

Comedy has always been a key type in the film industry. Simon's goal is to make this type not monopolized by a few top comedians.

Because it's a popular Thanksgiving show, it's worth mentioning the films after the top five, such as "alien 4" and "evocation 3", which are close to the sixth and seventh box office.

"Alien 4", which ranked sixth, grossed $11.59 million in the next week, with a total of $36.24 million in two weeks.

With a production budget of 75 million US dollars, it is estimated that the local box office will only be about 50 million US dollars. Unless the overseas box office can be more than three to four times that of the local box office, the loss of fox will be almost certain.

Especially after the box office of Terminator 3 came out, Murdoch personally called Simon and complained that Fox would continue to do Terminator 3 when he knew about it. At least it would not be as bleak as alien 4 now. Both inside and outside of the story, it was fox who followed Simon's advice and let go of the copyright. Compensation is needed.

There must be no compensation.

Hollywood is a big casino. You can buy it and you can make your own money.

Simon is a man of rules.

In the fourth week of its release, evocation 3, which ranked seventh, earned $11.43 million at the box office, slightly behind alien 4. Of course, "alien 4" will not be complacent because of that lead, because the cumulative box office of "evocation 3" has reached 129.72 million US dollars in just one month.

Even if there is no hope that the local film will hit 200 million like ghost film, but with the current trend of the film, it will not be a problem to collect another 30 million yuan. The local film is expected to be 160 million yuan. In addition, with the overseas sales of "evocation 3", even if the project cost is the highest in the world of evocation film, danielis entertainment can still make a lot of money.

And then.

In eighth place is paramount, another movie "magic of flying", which will be released on Wednesday, with a total revenue of $9.16 million.

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John Hughes, who once created the series of "home is a kid", has been silent for many years. Originally, he hoped that this $80 million blockbuster would create another miracle. However, the opening of $9.16 million in two days indicates that the box office in the next three days of the first weekend may only be about $20 million to $30 million.

If a similar family comedy can take a long-term course, as it did in earlier years, its performance in painting is not bad, and it is hopeful that it will hit the billion yuan mark in the future.

Now, the future is uncertain.

Clint Eastwood's "Midnight Garden of good and evil", which was directed and performed by himself, was the ninth. The same card was on schedule on Wednesday. It started for two days and earned US $4.03 million.

Considering the $35 million cost of the film, 4.03 million in two days means that it is difficult to earn more than 10 million in the next three days, and the total box office may only be about 20 million.The same failure.

After the death of Steve Roth, the old cowboy not only stopped shooting films for Warner alone, but also seemed to break the long-standing record of no loss. It can only be said that the world is unpredictable.

After Thanksgiving week, a new box office week opened on November 28 is still a continuation of Thanksgiving.

There have been a series of films piled up. This Friday, even some small-scale new films are not available. The previous many old films have also ushered in the last chance to play. The trend of this housing week will basically determine the follow-up potential of the films.

However, if we say that the biggest entertainment news in the past week is not a series of Thanksgiving movies, but a video game.

Anti terrorism elite ol.

After its official launch on November 21, the game sold more than 140000 sets on its first day.

Danielis entertainment followed up in a timely manner with an additional investment of 20 million US dollars for follow-up publicity. In addition, the media resources mastered by the westero system were fully developed, and the game's extremely attractive word-of-mouth for players triggered a word-of-mouth effect similar to that of phenomenal movies. Finally, from 9 a.m. on Friday to 9 a.m. on November 28, the game was launched, In a full week, the anti terrorist elite ol finally sold 1.13 million sets.

At a price of $69, the game's sales reached $78 million in just one week, higher than the first week box office of Terminator 3, the winner of the movie market in the same period.

Not only that, because "anti terrorism elite ol" has adopted the sales mode on the whole line this time, 73% of the sales are directly from danielis Entertainment's own game mall, that is, the kind that does not need to pay the platform Commission. Therefore, the 78 million US dollars of revenue, excluding the part of the commission that needs to be paid to steam mall and other platforms of igritte, falls to Dan Nellis entertainment still has $61 million.

It's equivalent to seven days. If we don't include the additional publicity expenses of 20 million, we can directly recover all the initial investment of 50 million US dollars.

And, as everyone can see, this is just the beginning.

Industry media generally predict that "anti terrorist elite ol" will become a super hot game like Nintendo's "Super Mario" and even create an era.

The era of online games.

Before that, the same hot "happy farm" and the subsequent "happy Ranch" can only be regarded as a foreshadowing.

Because of the obvious non replicability of "happy farm", the development cost of this game is very low, only 1.5 million US dollars. Due to its great success, the related online flash games have become rampant in recent years, but there is no such hot game as "happy farm".

Therefore, "happy farm" can only be regarded as an accident.

In contrast, anti terrorism elite ol, which has distinct characteristics of independent client type, has obvious replicability.

Just like the obvious evolutionary trajectory of this series from the failure of 1.0 to the emergence of 2.0 and then to the outbreak of 3.0, if other game manufacturers in the industry want to be lazy, they just need to refer to it and develop their popular single game online mode, which may create a miracle.

Not only that, the recent analysis of the industry, the advantages of this game is also very obvious.

That is the strong anti piracy ability.

Copyright protection is indeed strict in the west, but just like the record industry, which has been declining rapidly due to online music piracy in recent years, game piracy is also everywhere.

It's very difficult for a single computer game to be an anti-theft version. However, anti terrorism elite ol, an online game that needs to be activated online, can almost completely eliminate piracy. It can be imagined that the super high sales volume of 1.13 million in the first week of this game is inseparable from its piracy insulation property.

Therefore, some media even assert that the future of electronic games will be online games. In the future, console or PC games are likely to be eliminated completely.

This argument directly feedback in the recent week's global stock market related plate.

Mainly Japanese console and game manufacturers, the stock prices of Sony, Nintendo, Kapoor and other companies have plummeted. Nintendo's share price has even dropped more than 20% in just a few days.

In sharp contrast, danelis entertainment.

The game business will become the next strong growth point of danielis entertainment, and the relevant public opinion guidance and control will be launched at the same time of the hot sale of "anti terrorism elite ol". It is also only one week. The market value of danielis entertainment has once again hit the range of more than 400 billion US dollars, together with igritte, whose weekly growth rate is also close to 10% and almost exceeds 500 billion US dollars And continue to lead the North American stock market.

Even on the Wednesday of November 26, the media suddenly revealed that Tinkerbell's game console development plan, which was still in the stage of strict confidentiality, could not stop this trend.

Even the relevant information was refuted as false news by many media.

[Reading welfare] pay attention to the public.. number [bookfriend base camp], read books every day to draw cash / money!After all, Denise Entertainment's tendency to turn to online games in recent years is very obvious, not only "happy farm", but also "world of Warcraft 2" online platform and many other attempts, which are very obvious proof.

Therefore, it is obvious that some interested people spread the news that Tinkerbell has developed a game console just to divert attention.

We're all good people.

In the face of one-sided public opinion in the industry, no matter what the purpose, a large number of enterprises have begun to follow the trend.

Not only the major game giants have announced that they will invest in the development of their own online games, but also Microsoft has suddenly jumped out and announced the establishment of an online game department.

, many of the Internet companies trapped in the bursting of the new technology bubble, also saw opportunities.

The biggest problem faced by a large number of tottering Internet companies is the lack of sustainable business model. Even if they have tens of millions of users, they are unable to cash in and eventually fall in the capital exhaustion and industrial winter.

Now, online games, this is the direction! The

result is that the success of counter terrorism elite OL has led to a rebound in the entire NASDAQ plate. Many of the venture capital companies that have suffered great losses after the bursting of the new technology bubble have again tried to refocus their attention on the Internet and try to find opportunities.

As the behind the scenes of all this, Simon loves to see and hear all the people flocking to online games.

It's better to abandon the single machine completely.

As a latecomer, Simon is very clear that in the era of online games, the key for a game company to rise is to have traffic, platform and huge user base.

The game itself is less important.

With enough resources, a game with the potential of 1 million players can even reach the level of 10 million users through drainage. If there is a lack of resources, games with the same potential of 1 million can only harvest 100000 players.

The final result is that the stronger the strong, the weaker the weak.

When it comes to traffic, platform and user groups, the Internet and westero system are basically in a state of monopoly. Game companies that lack this advantage may occasionally come up with some popular models, but they can't be big after all.

To put it bluntly, it's still the same as stand-alone games.

Companies with mainframe platforms are often the largest stand-alone game companies. Others can only follow behind and drink soup. Occasionally, they get a few bones with meat, even if they are lucky.

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