Chapter 636: Break up

In fact, since the beginning of the new century, several works directed by Spielberg have been weak in commercial terms. The box office and offline revenues of "Artificial Intelligence", "Minority Report" and "Immunity" have all Did not achieve the expected goal.
This "Happiness Terminal", even with Tom Hanks joining, still can not change Spielberg's recent weakness.
Two thousand years ago, Spielberg and Tom Hanks' box office in the first week did not exceed US$40 million, and the box office in North America did not exceed US$200 million. It is simply unimaginable.
It seems that all of Spielberg's weakness and problems have all erupted in "Happiness Terminal".
It is not difficult to find some of the reasons for this situation.
The situation and internal disputes of DreamWorks distracted Spielberg from too much energy.
After more than two decades, the audience seems to be bored with Spielberg's films to a certain extent.
The times are developing, the older generation is gradually silent, and the new generation of directors rises, just as the four major directors, including Spielberg, reached their peak in the 1980s. This is an inevitable law.
The box office of "Happiness Terminal" is not good, and the word of mouth is also average. With the large investment of DreamWorks, it is difficult to reap corresponding returns in a short period of time or even two or three years.
The other films drawn this weekend are much better than "Happiness Terminal" in terms of the ratio of investment to income.
The production cost was US$29 million, and "Notebook of Love," starring Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams, earned US$13.45 million in three days over the weekend.
Although the box office of Fox Searchlight's "Napoleon" in the first weekend was only 7.75 million US dollars, its cost was only more than 10 million US dollars.
In contrast, "Crazy Dodgeball" starring Ben Stiller became the biggest winner in the newly opened film. This comedy with a production budget of only 20 million US dollars, received 30.07 million in three days of the opening weekend. Dollar.
In this mid-size film pitching schedule, "Crazy Dodgeball" will undoubtedly become one of the winners with a small Boda.
But this is not enough to guarantee "Crazy Dodgeball" ascended the box office champion.
Because in the chaos and strangulation of many films, Relativity Entertainment's "The Wedding Proud Guy" still stands out.
The box office trend of this bad comedy is exceptionally stable, even unlike American comedies.
"Wedding Proud"'s box office for the next weekend dropped by only 25% compared to the first weekend, with 30.85 million U.S. dollars, winning the North American box office list.
Ten days after its release, the North American box office of "The Wedding Proud Guy" has accumulated US$118.24 million!
Compared with the production cost of 30 million U.S. dollars, plus the publicity cost of 15 million U.S. dollars, this film is undoubtedly a huge success.
The outside world also raised the North American box office forecast of "Wedding Proud" to $200 million.
The outstanding commercial performance of this film also gave Embassy Pictures full of confidence. Taking advantage of the fact that there was no major production film released before "Spider-Man 2" at the end of June, it launched another wave of publicity companies.
The publicity still centers on Ronan, the producer.
"Since entering Hollywood, apart from the failure of the first film to test the waters, other film projects initiated or purchased by Ronan Production have achieved commercial success almost all, from the earliest such as "Human Removal Project" and "Death is Coming" The horror film of "The Bourne" series, the magical adventure film of the "Pirates of the Caribbean" series, the game adaptation film of "Resident Evil", the youth idol film of "Jeans of Summer" and "Mean Girl", "Lying From the oriental martial arts films represented by "Tiger Hidden Dragon" and "Heroes" to the comedy "The Wedding Proud", Ronan has been involved in almost all types of Hollywood commercial films, and his success rate is scary..."
The article in the "Los Angeles Times" counted the types of movies Ronan has been involved in since his career, which surprised many people.
The famous film critic Todd McCarthy wrote in his Netflix sharing: Compared with another Hollywood ace commercial producer, Ronan Anderson has more films and a higher success rate!
A reporter who had a good news specifically went to interview Jerry Bruckheimer for Ronan. Although the two sides can only say that they know each other, they are not familiar, but there is no direct conflict of interest. Jerry Bruckheimer is quite polite.
"I am more focused on the field of adventure action movies. Ronan Anderson has a wider range of film types." Jerry Bruckheimer said to the media reporter: "But in my opinion, I have a relationship with Ronan Anderson. One thing in common is the love of telling easy-to-understand stories and full respect for the market and audience."
"Entertainment Weekly" selected Ronan as the cover character this week. In the cover slogan, a bold font reminds all fans that Ronan Anderson has become a movie brand.
These reports can not only allow the audience to continue to pay attention to "The Wedding Proud", but also remind people who have missed certain relativity entertainment movies to quickly go to the offline market to find movies.
Since Embassy Pictures has focused on promoting Ronan’s various soft-text reports, Netflix’s website has posted orders for film rentals produced by "Ronan-Anderson" by nearly 10% compared to last month.
The offline market allows a film to continuously generate commercial returns.
Of course, the box office performance of the cinema market directly determines the strength of offline returns.
With the arrival of a new weekend, the popularity of "Wedding Prouds" in the third week of its release continued to steadily decay. Under the impact of a number of new films, it was not surprising that it gave up the box office champion.
The "Fahrenheit 911" at the Palme d'Or at this year's Cannes Film Festival came with crazy public opinion, and the first weekend in North America reported $35.66 million.
This film once again proves to the world that regardless of the authenticity and quality of the film, as long as it can cause great controversy, the commercial prospects will not be bad.
The entire United States and the whole world are crazy about discussing this documentary. Xiao is not a classmate and stupid classmates, once again standing on the cusp of the storm, even many people think that this film will be driven out of that building in the next general election. The white room.
But this true and false documentary is impossible to shake the little one.
Many people overestimate the influence of Fahrenheit 9/11.
After all, Hollywood movies, whether documentaries or biopics, anyone who has a basic understanding of the film industry knows that they are full of nonsense.
If someone regards Hollywood movies as a golden rule, they can only say that not only water has flooded their heads, they have also flooded the entire Pacific Ocean.
Lions Gate Pictures finally ushered in an explosion after waiting too long.
But "Fahrenheit 911" brought not only good news at the box office. Many well-informed people like Ronan have got some rumors. Lionsgate is in Texas and Alabama. They were all targeted.
Although many people describe the person sitting in the oval office as a pig, he is not a real pig after all.
Moreover, Lionsgate is not a relativistic entertainment. Frank Gusta has not really analyzed Ronan’s actions in "Blair the Witch" and "The Passion of the Christ". He did not put Michael Moore in front, but instead put Lions everywhere. Door Pictures is tied with "Fahrenheit 911".
This is probably also the effect brought by Ronan. Since the establishment of Relativity Entertainment, Lionsgate has been suppressed a bit miserably. There are only a handful of movies with good responses. Nowadays, there is finally an explosion, and the entire company's depressed mood has exploded. .
As for whether this is a good thing or a bad thing, it depends on the development of Lionsgate in the next few years.
This weekend belongs to "Fahrenheit 911", and even for many weeks in the future, "Fahrenheit 911" will be the focus of media and public discussion.
In addition, the comedy "Miss So White" released by Sony Columbia Pictures also performed well this weekend. The opening weekend box office of nearly 20 million US dollars also marked the appearance of another successful comedy this summer.
Although "Wedding Proud" gave up the top spot in the North American box office chart, the trend was stable and terrible. This weekend's box office fell only 24% and received another 23.45 million US dollars.
In this way, the North American box office of "Wedding Proud" has reached 161.28 million US dollars.
As for the next weekend, it will be a test for all the movies that are being shown, because "Spider-Man 2" will be a strong hit.
On a new Monday, Van Diesel’s agent came to Shahai Entertainment Production Company and met Jessica Felton, the producer of the "Fast and Furious" series.
The agent was a little helpless in the face of such a strong customer as Van Diesel, but he still had some brains in negotiating with the production company and did not directly relay Van Diesel's four conditions.
"Miss Felton, my client has starred in the first "Fast and Furious"." The agent said loudly, "Isn't it appropriate for him to audition for Dominique Torreto?"
The conditions were listed by Jessica Felton, because she had heard of Van Diesel, and listed such conditions for the sake of bargaining.
Jessica Felton nodded: "You can cancel the audition, but we also have conditions~EbookFREE.me~The agent asked: "What conditions? Please explain. "
Jessica Felton's current focus is still on the post-production of the two sequels of "Pirates of the Caribbean". The "Fast and Furious" series is only in the pre-planning process. I have discussed with Ronan many times. About Dominic- For the role of Torreto, the two and the screenwriting department made two plans.
"Mr. Van Diesel as an actor." Jessica Felton specifically emphasized the identity of "actor": "Signed no less than five film contracts with Shahai Entertainment for the "Fast and Furious" series!"
The agent's face changed instantly: "This is impossible!"
At this moment, he felt that Shahai Entertainment and the female producer on the opposite side were more like shit-cutters than Van Diesel.
Jessica Felton shrugged slightly and confessed: "This is the prerequisite for Sandsea Entertainment and Mr. Van Diesel's "Fast and Passion" series.
In this meeting, the broker didn't say the other three conditions at all, and broke up unhappy.