Lina and Annika worked separately until they reunited in a French restaurant on the upper east side in the evening. Lina knew that Truman's world would not be nominated, including the next Oscar. Many people knew the reason. I believe Annika knew it too. She didn't say much, but said: "The pattern of Hollywood has long begun to change. Simon just let everyone fully understand the reality this time. In addition, he began to promote new line film industry this time, as well as MGM, danilis entertainment will have a larger and larger territory in Hollywood."
"This is a monopoly," Annika looked away from the mobile phone screen and smiled at Lina. "From the perspective of our agents or filmmakers, the monopoly formed by the studio giants is not a good thing for us. Think about it. If you are dumped by him one day, you may be completely kicked out of Hollywood."
Lina glanced across: "don't worry, I'll try to please him."
"Tut."
"Tut what, you are actually a gift I found to please him. Simon likes girls with very white skin. You just match."
Of course, Annika has long been aware of these. At this time, when she was pointed out by Lina, it is inevitable to show some mixed emotions. She doesn't know whether she is nervous or looking forward to something, but she doesn't show weakness: "since I'm more in line with his preferences, be careful I'll squeeze you out."
Lina just threw a white eye and then said: "In the 21st century of informatization and globalization, the integration of resources in all walks of life is an inevitable result, because only in this way can we strengthen our global competitiveness. The coexistence of Hollywood's seven, eight and nine in the past will be completely changed in the future. According to my observation, Simon may only intend to stay in the two, and the others will retreat to the second tier."
Annika blinked and quickly responded, "there's another Warner?"
"Yes," Lena nodded. "Moreover, in the end, Warner's strength should be much weaker than danilis. Only with the whole Ge can it be compared with danilis. Oh, in terms of market value, it is already so now. Even Ge group is not as good as danilis."
While the two women discussed the matter in the restaurant, the whole North American film and television circles were talking about the nomination of the Golden Globe Award.
However, whether it is cursing, shouting or questioning, the facts are already facts.
Since very early, Simon adopted the strategy of boiling frogs in warm water to Hollywood. At first, her strength was weak. In order to avoid being suppressed by the big and round studios at that time, danilis has been very active in adopting the profit sharing strategy of joint production for many years. Until now, there are many projects continuing. Undoubtedly, the most famous one is suicide team 2, which was painted last Friday Represented by the DC film universe series.
Then, from a grass-roots team, first ate the new world film industry and had its own discovery channel, then won the MCA of Universal's parent company and promoted to the ranks of major studios, and then annexed the metropolitan ABC Group to complete the layout of the television field until now.
With the arrival of another stage of US stock bull market, the market value of danilis entertainment has been close to US $500 billion again recently. It is only a matter of time before it breaks through.
The market value of US $500 billion is the most direct manifestation of danilis' current strength. If other major studios only talk about media and entertainment business, they can't equal danilis. Even if their respective parent companies are included, such as GE group, which has a market value of US $360 billion behind Warner, it is not much higher than danilis entertainment group.
How can other studios jump even if they want to jump over the wall?
In fact, twenty years later, Hollywood is basically the industrial pattern of Disney's top one plus Warner and universal, with a group of old studios that break out occasionally. Disney, with several trumps such as marvel, Pixar and Star Wars series, carves up about half of the top 10 annual box office shares every year, and there are no other companies jumping up.
Because I can't jump.
According to the business theory of the free market, this is the result of natural monopoly. If you can't make good films and get good IP to compete with Disney, you can only endure, compress the market share step by step, and decline step by step. Finally, there is only a large studio nameplate that may have been honored.
Now, Simon has opened up such a pattern in advance, and has gone further.
Once Disney, the market value of the peak period is only about 200 billion, and danireis entertainment group, with the full prosperity of movies, TV and games business, is only now close to 500 billion of its market value, and it is not 500 billion of the bubble. According to the net profit scale of 7 billion 610 million dollars in the previous fiscal year, Danielle is in the game business. The strong growth momentum maintained by the old, with a P / E ratio of about 65 times, is still within a reasonable range.
As Lina expected, when the Golden Globe nomination was announced, danilis media and public relations department, which paid close attention to the trend of public opinion, began to operate accordingly.
The core has only two points.
First of all, are the five nominated films qualified?
The answer is self-evident.
Secondly, if these films cannot be nominated at the same time because they come from one company, is that really unfair?
The answer is also self-evident.
In that case, what else can be disputed? Do you have to divide the nomination of the Golden Globe Award equally among the film companies like pork?
The two core guidelines worked simultaneously on the Internet, television and paper media, and soon completely suppressed the initial controversy. Even the general public, brainwashed by the overwhelming relevant arguments, generally tended to recognize this year's Golden Globe nomination.
And even further, began to speak for the next Oscar.
The problem is also simple.
Do you want to share pork for the Oscar? Do you want to choose only one of danilis's series of excellent films with nomination qualifications in order to balance, and then give up everything else?
This public opinion is generally judged by people with a keen sense of smell. It is obviously a cry for the upcoming Oscar.
Or pressure.
As a result, people can only wait for the Oscar nomination next month.
Amid the confusion, the box office week from December 19 to December 24 will soon end.
Although the box office of Thursday's Christmas Eve shrank significantly year-on-year, as the golden week of Christmas, the North American film market still handed over a dazzling report card.
First of all, of course, it is the high-profile suicide team 2.
As another super blockbuster of DC movie universe, "suicide team 2" topped the box office this week with 4155 pieces of screen size. After earning $83.76 million in the three days of the first weekend, the box office in the seven days of the first week finally reached $126.34 million, second only to the box office of $162.36 million in the same period of Jurassic Park 3 in the summer, It became the second highest grossing film in the first week of 1998.
In addition, compared with the $91.78 million in the first week of the first "suicide team", the box office of "suicide team 2" increased by 38% in the same period, which basically means that referring to the local box office of the first "suicide team" of $303 million, not surprisingly, the local data of "suicide team 2" is at least $300 million. Considering the summer "Jurassic Park 3" Finally, the local box office is set at 406 million, and the North American local box office of suicide team 2 is most likely to be around 350 million US dollars.
The total production and publicity cost of this suicide team 2 is US $250 million, and the local cost is US $350 million. The DC film universe project can obtain about 60% higher than the average share from the cinema. Only the local will recover US $210 million. Considering that overseas often exceeds the local, the project can easily achieve a profit of more than US $100 million at the cinema line stage.
Moreover, DC movie universe series also has sales revenue of peripheral derivatives with a volume larger than the box office, of which the profit can be imagined.
Therefore, even if a dark horse such as "Jing Sheng Jian Xiao" in the same period can also achieve a revenue of 100 million yuan in the cinema stage, the volume of omni-channel revenue is not of the same order of magnitude, which is also the reason why large studios are willing to invest huge costs for similar super heavy bombs.
Nevertheless, the new week beat the suicide team 2, and the other two new films in the same period won the second place in the weekly box office list.
The next week after its release, under the strong pressure of suicide team 2, the decline was still well controlled at 41%, closing another US $32.72 million, and the cumulative box office easily reached US $88.39 million, breaking US $100 million.
The third place finally fell to a new film this week.
This is a middle-cost family comedy produced by paramount. It is called "Christmas Love". It is completely customized for Christmas. You can also imagine why it collides with "suicide team 2" this week.
With a production cost of 25 million US dollars and 2394 pieces of painting screen, because it is very in line with the Christmas family atmosphere, and the comprehensive score is only 7.1 points, in the face of the crush of suicide team 2, "Christmas Love" still made a box office of 23.73 million US dollars in the first week.
Such a start, even if the next is the trend of cutting back, outside Shanghai, paramount is enough to recover costs and make a small profit.
It's a surprise.
Then, the fourth and fifth place fell back to the two old films.
"Mummy 2", a cooperative film in the charge of fox, ranked fourth. In the fifth week of release, it received another US $15.41 million, and the cumulative box office reached US $188.77 million, breaking US $200 million.
The fifth place is the collision between heaven and earth.
In the sixth week of release, "the clash of heaven and earth" continued to earn US $12.53 million, and the cumulative box office has reached US $234.51 million. Referring to the current trend, this comet hit the earth blockbuster will have a box office surplus of about $30 million, and the local market will be fixed at about 260 million.
Unfortunately, it failed to break 300 million.
Needless to say, it is also the reason for a certain word.
In addition to the top five, it is worth mentioning the award-winning film Elizabeth produced by daenerys's gaomen film.
In order to avoid the crush of suicide team 2, only 125 screens were opened in the third week of the small-scale painting of Elizabeth. This week, the revenue was $2.87 million, and the museum was about $23000.
In the new week, with the announcement of the nomination of the Golden Globe Award, the reputation and popularity of Elizabeth have increased again. In addition, the most fierce competition stage has passed. The film began to increase the screening scale, and the number of screens reached 506 this week.
The new box office week starts on Christmas on December 25 and ends on December 31, the last day of 1998.
Both before and after are festivals, so it belongs to a golden period next to Christmas week.
In addition to the expanded screening of Elizabeth and the award winning films premiered at some card points this week, there are also three films opened on a large scale.
First, danilis produced another romantic film "my best friend's wedding" starring Julia Roberts, which cost $35 million and opened 2613 screens.
Under the influence of Simon, the super butterfly, Julia Roberts, as the box office queen of the 1990s in the original time and space, although she also created classic films such as beautiful woman under the promotion of Simon, the development in recent years is obviously not as good as before.
Just like last year, Julia tried hard for a long time to play Shakespeare's love history. As a result, someone transferred her to Kate Beckinsale, who has a better style and image. As a result, Julia at least missed her first Oscar nomination.
What else can Julia do?
A big man is not something she can resist. If she loses her teeth, she can only swallow it.
Fortunately, this new film is a compensation.
Because it was Simon's idea and the well-known guarantee, both Julia as the hostess and danilis's internal production team have high expectations.
The second is MGM's crime thriller "perfect murder", starring Michael Douglas, which continues Douglas's consistent style since the fatal temptation of the fire in the 1980s. The budget is also $35 million and the opening screen is $2354.
Finally, there is a blockbuster from Disney, called "giant scarlet joyan".
Just listening to the name, you can probably imagine the content of this film. It draws lessons from the famous King Kong, combines Meryl Streep's out of Africa, and takes a wave of monster trend brought by Jurassic Park. Because the giant scarlet characters are produced in full CG, with a budget of US $90 million and 3176 screens.