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After the first week, because the new year's day on January 1, 1990 is the same as the previous Christmas Eve, which is a legal holiday, the weekend of the second week of Batman's release is also four days.

In this week's new film, the production cost of "rocket expert" starring Tom Cruise and Meg Ryan is 45 million US dollars. Paramount was very confident when he got the project from Denise by disgraceful means, so he also invested 20 million US dollars in the publicity.

However, in the case of obvious public relations elements, the media evaluation of rocket expert is still barely passing, and some mainstream paper media platforms such as the New York Times, entertainment weekly and Washington Post also give bad comments mercilessly.

Simon learned that in order to make space for rocket expert, paramount also transferred born on July 4, also starring Tom Cruise and directed by Oliver Stone, to Easter in 1990.

However, the total investment of 65 million US dollars, the most popular Christmas schedule, the starring of Tom Cruise and Meg Ryan, all these favorable factors failed to make rocket expert gain market recognition, and the audience did not like this kind of slightly nondescript retro and science fiction style video.

In addition to the strong impact of "Batman: the moment of war", from December 29 to January 4, "rocket expert" only won $11.98 million in the box office in the first seven days of the week. Although it ranked second in the box office list, it was far away from "Batman: the moment of war".

Another new film, Steven Spielberg's until forever, tells the love story of a pilot who returns to his girlfriend in a ghostly state after a plane crash and starts a different life with him. Yes, the idea is very similar to ghost, but the plot is quite different.

In the first week, the fantasy romantic comedy only got $7.18 million at the box office under the same lukewarm reputation, ranking fourth in the box office list. The third place on the list is still occupied by the Easter season of "over the air innocence", which fell another 11% this week, earning $9.68 million and grossing $135.77 million.

As for Batman at the top of the list, due to the record breaking box office of 82.39 million US dollars created in the first week and the fact that the film itself has a wider audience than Simon's previous two works, the box office of the film did not fall in the next week, but rose by 8%, earning 88.79 million US dollars again.

In two weeks, "Batman: the moment of war" grossed $171.18 million at an unprecedented rate.

Such two-week box office results mean that "Batman: the moment of war" will easily break through the $400 million box office mark in China. "Star Wars" and "et et et" have not been repeated, so "Batman: the moment of war" will become the first domestic box office movie in North American history to break 400 million dollars.

With the exclamation of the media and the cheers of the fans, the major Hollywood studios immediately responded and quickly turned their attention to the superhero comics that might be adapted from the film.

Then, at this time, most people found that marvel and DC, the two most important cartoon manufacturers in the United States, had no room for them to intervene.

What's more disappointing is that these two major manufacturers are almost in the hands of Denise entertainment.

Marvel is completely in Simon westero's pocket. Superman, Batman and wonder woman, the core of DC, are also under the control of Simon westero, which is equivalent to blocking DC's throat.

Not to mention marvel, an undeveloped gold mine, according to the box office results of Batman: the moment of war, but according to the DC movie universe plan recently released by Denise and Warner Bros., it is probably enough for Denise to have entertainment for ten years.

You know, not only at the box office, Batman: the moment of war derivatives sales reached $150 million the next week, after $130 million in the first week. According to the sales data of the last two weeks, the sales of various derivatives of "Batman: the moment of war" may reach $2 billion in the next year, according to industry statistics agencies.

Film derivatives rely on the super high premium brought by the brand image, and the terminal sales price can usually reach about 10 times of the production cost, so the gross profit is very high.

Even through multiple profit concessions from manufacturers, distributors and retailers, the revenue of the copyright owners can reach 10% to 20% of the sales volume according to the different types of derivatives.

"Batman: the moment of war" is expected to generate $2 billion in derivatives sales in the next year, which will also bring about $300 million to Denise entertainment and Time Warner in accordance with the eclectic percentage. Moreover, because this part of income does not need too much early investment, it basically belongs to pre tax net income.

Because of the huge profits expected from Batman: the moment of war, Warner Bros. experienced a short period of excitement after the box office explosion, and soon turned into pain and regret.

Even though it was Simon westero who created the box office miracle of Batman: the moment of war, Warner had a chance to invest in the film.Now, according to the original contract, Warner Bros. can only draw 15% commission from the distribution channels of films. With huge derivatives income, Time Warner, which has completed the merger, can only get 10% of the net profit share in the name of its subsidiary DC Comics.

Although only these two parts of revenue may bring Time Warner no less than $200 million in the next few years, time warner can't even calculate how much Denise entertainment will earn from this project.

The more sad it is!

Moreover, if it's other second - and third tier Hollywood film companies, Warner Bros., which has Omni channel distribution rights, can squeeze the profit share of their partners as much as possible through the usual Hollywood financial means, but for danielis entertainment, Warner Bros. can't do so.

Since the launch of Batman: the moment of war, Denise entertainment has sent a special accounting team to follow up the whole project, which makes it difficult for Warner to do financial tricks.

Of course, it may not be impossible, but Warner did not dare to do so.

Denise Entertainment's handling of the dispute over the original record of bodyguard has impressed Hollywood.

Allista records tried to swallow up the share of record sales due to danielis entertainment. Simon westero stopped the sale of a phenomenal record in spite of the possible huge loss caused by its out of stock. In the end, allista records not only failed, but also paid a double fine, and the president of allista records lost his job I have finished my work.

If Warner Bros. did the same, Terry Semel felt that Simon westero might not hesitate to stop developing the entire DC movie universe until Warner vomited everything he had swallowed. Perhaps, in the end, someone has to take the responsibility. He, the CEO of Warner Bros., is obviously the most suitable scapegoat.

Therefore, since it has become an established fact, Time Warner's current goal is to promote the follow-up development of DC movie universe as soon as possible.

Santa Monica.

In the conference room of Denise entertainment headquarters, it was Friday, January 5, 1990.

During the whole day's meeting, the teams of the two companies, led by Amy Pascal and Terry Semel, were discussing their follow-up cooperation and DC film universe plan.

Initially, the terms of the contract agreed that the two sides could renegotiate many details after Batman's debut, such as the distribution commission ratio of Warner, a follow-up film.

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The 15% commission for all channels is actually very high.

Because the whole DC film universe project involves too many interests, in addition to a list of 10 films in the next five to seven years, the two sides only initially determined the proportion of the subsequent distribution Commission.

Terry Semel didn't make much concession in this aspect, but made some reasonable concessions after subdividing the domestic, overseas, video and TV broadcasting platforms.

After negotiation, for the follow-up films jointly distributed by Warner Bros., the proportion of Commission for local distribution will be reduced to 12.5%, while that for overseas distribution will be reduced to 10%, and the proportion of Commission for the total revenue drawn from video and TV broadcasting platforms will also be 12.5%.

Of course, the publicity and distribution expenses of each channel should be included in the cost and deducted separately. However, due to the strict financial supervision of danielis entertainment in this respect, it is difficult for Warner to tamper with it.

At the same time, in the future, some projects undertaken by Denise entertainment will also be taxed according to this proportion.

At five o'clock in the afternoon, the meeting ended.

Terry Semel and Amy Pascal walked out of the office together and asked, "when will Simon be back? I'm still looking forward to his coming back to Los Angeles as soon as possible."

Amy handed the folder to her assistant Vanessa and said, "I don't know. I called him after the box office of the first week of the film. He said he was going to take Jennie to Antarctica."

Terry Semel raised his eyebrows: "Antarctica?"

Amy said with a smile, "yes, Antarctica. Melbourne is relatively close to the South Pole. I'm not sure. However, it's summer in the southern hemisphere, and it's the warmest time of the year in Antarctica. Oh, it seems that it's still in the polar day stage. "

"And then?"

Amy shrugged: "then, I can't get in touch with him in recent days. He didn't say when he would come back, probably until the end of the month. "

Terry Semel gave a wry smile: "well, he won't attend the celebration party this weekend."

"Well," Amy nodded and said, "there's another thing. The box office of" time for war "is very good. Simon asked me to draw up a reward scheme. It's about $3 million for each of the two leading roles and $1 million for each of the supporting roles. The rest of the crew also have their own rewards. The total expenditure is about $20 million. I want to tell you about this. Warner doesn't need to share this part of the expenses this time, but the subsequent projects and rewards will be included in the general ledger. "Terry Semel nodded and said, "20 million, which is not much compared to Denise's income this time."

Amy smiles, knowing that Terry Semel must be struggling these days, so she doesn't talk about it any more.

Seeing off Warner and others, Amy didn't leave work immediately, but came to her office.

Nancy Brill has arrived early and is sitting on the sofa in Amy's office lounge looking through the document.

Seeing Amy come in, Nancy got up, hugged her and asked, "how was the meeting with Warner?"

"It's going to be a long time. There's so much to discuss," Amy said, and then asked, "how are you doing in Rhode Island?"

Nancy just came back from Rhode Island this afternoon to do something about Denise's entertainment in the toy factory there.

In this derivative development of "Batman: the moment of war", the toy factory over there undertakes the production of the most important protagonist's hand-made and bat motorcycle models. However, due to lack of experience in this field, several toys produced by the Rhode Island factory sold out in the first week of the show.

This time, Nancy went to the factory to coordinate the production of toys. At the same time, she contacted her old relationship in Hasbro and entrusted some toy orders that her factory could not complete.

Hasbro's headquarters are also in Rhode Island.

"It's done," Nancy said. "In fact, I think the last time we sold out of stock was a good result. After replenishment, the sales of those toys became more popular. Simon has told us several times before that hunger marketing is really easy to use. By the way, I've brought back some limited edition toys. Do you want to give them to anyone? "

"Of course, leave some for me. My nephew and I asked for them at Christmas, but they couldn't take them out, and they were scolded by my parents."

They were talking and laughing. Amy motioned Nancy to continue to sit down. She turned back to her desk, opened the safe, took out an envelope, came over again, handed it to Nancy, and said, "Simon asked me to give it to you."

Nancy opened the envelope and inside it was a check for five million dollars: "what's this?"

"Bonus, it's for you," Amy sat down next to Nancy. Vanessa came in with coffee. She took the coffee and held it in her hand. She continued to say to Nancy, "you know Simon's temperament. Your contract can't be changed in a short time. It's an extra compensation."

Nancy impolitely put the check in her satchel and asked Amy with a smile, "did he offer it or did you want it for me?"

"I mentioned it, and he offered it," Amy said. "He really cares about you."

"Well, that's a very ambiguous sentence," said Nancy

"Well, I forget you're single," Amy said. "In fact, if you don't change your contract now, the company will probably go public soon. Simon will certainly give you a bigger salary contract

Nancy got excited and asked, "did he talk to you about the listing plan?"

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