After Saturday, staying on the West Coast for another day, 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 was released, a result that excited Disney.

After three days of painting, Terminator 3, which was similar to the same female Terminator routine, broke the gap of nearly 10 million for the second place "The Bugs" with a first weekend box office of US$44.26 million. It is expected that the box office of the first seven-day week will be between US$60 and US$70 million.

Disney, controlled by France's Vivendi Group, has two super bombshells at its core this year. The summer "Fifth Element" ended in a failed position, with a local box office of only more than 60 million US dollars, making Jean-Marie Merrier, the head of Vivendi who has always pushed the group into the entertainment industry, feel disappointed.

This time, I finally breathed a little relieved.

Although, the final cost of "Terminator 3" is as high as US$130 million, which is more than US$100 million from "Fifth Element" and has invested another US$50 million in publicity, but the first week starts at $60 million to 70 million, and the film is expected to reach between 150 million and 200 million in North America.

Coupled with Schwarzenegger's stronger appeal overseas, the global box office of this sequel is very promising to be on par with "Terminator 2: Judgment Day". Therefore, in the theater stage, "Terminator 3" may make a small profit. The failure of "Fifth Element" is in front of it, which is a result that satisfyes Vivendi.

After all, it can't be compared with Daenerys, right?

Rumor has it that Jean-Marie Merrier also held a video conference on Monday to affirm the performance of Disney's management team, claiming that it was a good attempt, and stated that Vivendi will continue to try.

For Hollywood, the biggest achievement of "Terminator 3" is that it finally ended the continuous weekly momentum of Daenerys Entertainment-related films that no one knows when it started.

This shows that everyone still has a way out.

All right.

Although it was carefully studied, if Daenerys and Fox had not taken the initiative to give up the copyright, Disney would have never had the chance to participate in the "Terminator" series.

What Simon saw was the cost control of Terminator 3.

"Terminator 3" in 2003 burned $200 million. This time, in order to avoid repeating Sony's responsibility, Vivendi has been strongly interfering in Disney's operations, especially cost control. Therefore, while also invited Cameron to be the producer, the cost was still relatively well reduced to $130 million. This is also the main reason why Vivendi was so relaxed after the three-day box office of the project weekend.

Among them, Schwarzenegger's fixed base salary is $15 million, and the others are settled by share. This is also a result that Simon has been quietly promoting over the years. It has successfully locked the fixed salary ceiling of Hollywood at $15 million, rather than the 20 million in the original time and space. In contrast, Schwarzenegger, who once took away 30 million cash directly in the original version of "Terminator 3", is really outrageous.

As the new week begins, the time is fast, and Thanksgiving on November 27 is almost in a blink of an eye.

On Wednesday, the day before Thanksgiving, two other new films, "The Garden of Good and Evil" and "The Magical Weapon of Flying" were released as scheduled. The same box office week is considered a competition for five important commercial films on the same stage, and finally pushed the total box office volume of North America from November 21 to November 27 to more than 200 million US dollars, reaching 220 million US dollars.

The first-place "Terminator 3" finally had a box office of $67.06 million in seven days in the first week.

This result cannot be compared with the DC movie universe blockbuster or Daenerys 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. Vivendy can really be satisfied.

The second place is "Beasts", earning $54.39 million in the first week.

Because of Pixar animation's success, especially in the box office, the cost of Daenerys 3D animated films has been rising steadily. By the time the previous $80 million "Toy Story 2" was officially rising to $100 million this time, even in front of "Terminator 3".

Therefore, the first week of $54.39 million was not a failure, but it did not meet Daenerys Entertainment's expectations.

This is the fifth 3D animated film produced by Pixar. The previous four films are "Toy Story", "The Lion King", "Toy Story 2" and "Beauty and the Beast".

Among all five 3D animations, the first week of "The Bugs" was only a little better than Pixar's pioneering work "Toy Story" 46.73 million in the same period. The other three, "Toy Story 2" had a maximum of 87.31 million in the first week, and "The Lion King" was $70.31 million. Even "Beauty and the Beast", they received $68.73 million in the first week.

In history, "The Insect Agents" was a relatively downturn in Pixar. Simon also tried to make some adjustments to try to dissolve the love elements in the film and change them to a more family-friendly element, but unfortunately it failed to reverse.

Of course, such a start is not considered a failure.

It can only be said that it is not very successful.

According to feedback from peripheral channels, the sales of peripheral products of "Beast Agents" are not as good as those of the previous works. It seems that people don't like Bugs very much after all.

And then.

The third place was extracted by the old film "Space Contact" that was released a week ago. In the second week of its release, the $90 million bombshell released by MGM again earned $24.17 million, with a cumulative box office of $63.8 million for the two-week period.

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

However, the production cost of 90 million yuan and the promotion and promotion of 30 million yuan is only over 100 million yuan in the local area, which will definitely not meet the expectations of the producers and can only rely on overseas performance.

The fourth place returns to the new film "The Rainmaker", which earned $16.27 million in the first week of the $40 million drama.

Obviously, even if "The Rainmaker" is involved, even with the participation of Francis Coppola, Danny DeVito and Matt Damon, it has adapted and produced the latest novels of John Grimson, which have produced popular works such as "The Order of the Goose", "The Sugar-Coated Trap" and "The Hour of Killing", but it has not continued its previous success.

The first week was US$16.27 million, and it is estimated that the local area will only be around US$40 million.

Through overseas and subsequent channels, Paramount will not lose money and may even achieve a small profit, but it will basically be a waste of time.

The fifth place returned to the old film Adam Sandler's comedy dark horse "Wedding Singer". The same week, he earned $15.9 million, and the total two weeks was $45.36 million.

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

The former "Wedding Singer" was released during the Valentine's Day schedule in early 1998, with a local box office of US$80 million. This time, judging from the current trend, it is still about US$80 million. Simon initially expected that a more popular "Wedding Singer" could achieve a local box office of over 100 million, but unfortunately he failed to do so.

Even so, Adam Sandler, who was born in "Saturday Night Live", will determine his status as a first-tier Hollywood comedy star with this "Wedding Singer". In addition, if the Rogue Gang can be successfully supported next year, Hollywood's new generation of comedy star lineup will be very rich.

For studios, more choices naturally mean more affordable pay quotations.

Comedy has always been a key genre in the film industry. The purpose Simon wants to achieve is to make this genre not monopolized by a few top comedians.

Because it is a popular thanksgiving period, the films that come after the top five are worth talking about, such as "Alien 4" and "Soul Conjuring 3" with similar box offices in sixth and seventh place.

The sixth-ranked "Alien 4" earned $11.59 million in box office the following week of release, and the cumulative box office of $36.24 million in two weeks.

With a production budget of $75 million, the local box office is expected to be only about $50 million. Unless overseas can earn more than three to four times the local box office, Fox's losses will be almost a foregone conclusion.

Especially when "Terminator 3" was released, Murdoch personally called Simon, complaining that if he had known about it, Fox would have continued to do "Terminator 3", at least it would not be as bleak as "Alien 4" now. In and out, Fox was the one who let go of the copyright after following Simon's advice. He had to compensate.

There is definitely no compensation.

Hollywood is a big casino. If you buy it, you will be responsible for your own profits and losses.

Simon is a rule-teller.

The seventh-ranked "Soul Conjuring 3" earned $11.43 million in the fourth week of its release, slightly behind "Alien 4". Of course, "Soul Conjuring 3" will definitely not be complacent because of that little lead, because the cumulative box office of "Soul Conjuring 3" has reached $129.72 million in just one month after its release.

Even if the local area is hopeless to hit 200 million like "Ghost Record", with the current trend of the film, it is no problem to collect 30 million in the future. The local area is expected to be 160 million. In addition, the big sale of "Soul Conjuring 3" has begun overseas. Even if the project cost hits the highest level in the Soul Conjuring movie universe, Daenerys Entertainment can still make a big profit.

And then.

The eighth place is Paramount's other film "Flying Magical Weapon" that chose to be released on Thanksgiving on Wednesday. It took two days to draw and earned $9.16 million.

John Hughes, who once created the "Home Imperial" series, was silent for many years. He originally hoped that this $80 million bombshell would create another miracle. However, the start of 9.16 million in two days indicates that the box office may be only about 20 million to 30 million in the next three days of the next weekend.

If a similar family comedy can go long-term like in the early years, the results of such painting opening will not be bad, and there is a great chance of impacting the 100 million yuan mark in the future.

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Now, the prospect is unpredictable.

The ninth place is "Midnight Garden of Good and Evil" directed and starring Clint Eastwood. The same card was scheduled for Wednesday, and it started to draw for two days, earning $4.03 million.

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

Same failure.

After Steve Rose's death, the old cowboy not only stopped shooting movies for Warner alone, but also seemed to break the long-standing record of non-loss, which can only be said that things are unpredictable.

After Thanksgiving Week, the new box office week that started on November 28 is still a continuation of the gratitude period.

With a series of films already gathering, there are not even some new films that have been launched on Friday. The previous old films have also ushered in the final opportunity to play. The trend of this box office week will basically determine the subsequent potential of the film.

However, if the biggest entertainment news in the past week is not a series of videos in the gratitude period, but an electronic game.

Counter-Strike OL.

After its official release on November 21, the game achieved sales results of more than 140,000 sets on the first day.

Daenerys Entertainment followed up in time and invested an additional $20 million in follow-up publicity. In addition, the full range of media resources mastered by the Westeros system, and the extremely attractive reputation of the game itself to players triggered a word-of-mouth effect similar to phenomenal movies. In the end, from 9 a.m. on Friday to 9 a.m. on November 28, "Counter-Strike OL" finally sold 1.13 million sets in a full week.

At a price of $69, the game's sales reached $78 million in just one week, which is higher than the first week of the weekly champion "Terminator 3" in the film market in the same period.

Not only that, since "Counter-Strike OL" adopts a full-on sales model this time, 73% of the sales are directly from Daenerys Entertainment's own game mall, which is the type that does not need to pay the commission on the platform. Therefore, the $78 million revenue, excluding the part of the commission that needs to be paid to platforms such as Igrit's Steam Mall, will still fall into Daenerys Entertainment's hands to $61 million.

It is equivalent to seven days, and if the subsequent additional 20 million publicity and distribution expenses are not counted, the previous investment of US$50 million will be recovered directly.

Moreover, everyone can see that this is just the beginning.

Industry media generally predict that "Counter-Strike OL" will become a super hot-selling game like Nintendo's "Super Mario" and will even create an era.

The era of online games.

Before this, the same popular "Happy Farm" and the subsequent "Happy Farm" could only be regarded as a prelude.

Because of the obvious unreplicability of "Happy Farm", the development cost of this game is extremely low, only 1.5 million US dollars. Due to its excessive success, related online Flash games have been flooded in recent years, but there are no more popular games like "Happy Farm".

Therefore, "Happy Farm" can only be regarded as a coincidence.

In comparison, "Counter-Strike OL", which has distinct independent client-type characteristics, has obvious replicability.

As the mastermind behind all this, Simon is flocking to online games and is happy to hear about it.

It is better to completely abandon the stand-alone machine.

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

The game itself is not that important.

Games with sufficient resources and potential of 1 million players can even reach the level of 10 million users through traffic. If resources are lacking, games with the same potential of 1 million may only gain 100,000 players.

The final result is that the stronger the stronger the weaker the weaker.

If you talk about traffic, platform, user groups, the current Internet and Westeros system are basically in a state of nearly monopoly advantage. Game companies that lack this advantage may occasionally appear in some hot products, but they cannot be bigger in the end.

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