Simon set off alone to return to North America on January 5, and the two Jenny and the children would stay in Australia for a while due to the old man's request.

Back in Los Angeles, just a night off, Simon returned to work the next day.

It is Tuesday, January 6th.

Returning from vacation is all good news.

In addition to the "Titanic", which has held a celebration party, with the end of the Christmas schedule, the three major schedules from Halloween at the end of 1997 have basically been settled.

First of all, "Soul Conjuring 3".

As of the end of a box office week on January 1, although it has not completely dropped, it has entered the final stage of only tens of thousands of dollars a week. Affected by the fierce competition in the three major periods at the end of the year, "Soul Conjuring 3: Blood Moon", which is almost the same as "Ghost Record", has a local box office of $162 million, which is nearly 40 million away from the threshold of 200 million.

However, the overseas box office of "Soul Conjuring 3" has exceeded 140 million. Considering that several major overseas box offices such as France and Germany have not yet started paintings, the total overseas box office of the film is expected to exceed 200 million, and the global box office will be about 360 million US dollars. If overseas performance is better in the future, it is not impossible to hit 400 million globally.

Even if the total expenditure on production and promotion of "Soul Conjuring 3" reached US$75 million, it was still possible to make considerable profits in the theater stage.

In addition to profits, the most important point is that "Soul Conjuring 3" rejuvenates the original fatigued soul-suming movie universe.

It is also worth mentioning that the phenomenon-level horror film "The Legend of Ghosts" that was as famous as "Soul 3" in 1997 finally had a box office of US$212 million, and overseas distribution has also ended. The major overseas ticket stores earned about US$255 million, with a global cumulative total of US$467 million.

Compared with false reports, the production cost was only 300,000 US dollars, with a global box office of 467 million US dollars, and the return rate made the global film and television circles crazy. The result was that not only Hollywood, but also filmmakers from all over the world began to look for their own pseudo-documentary movies, trying to make a big splash with small numbers.

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Daenerys's main box office, the box office in North America was $160.36 million as of the box office week on January 1. As the festival passed, it is expected that there will be a box office potential of about 20 million in the future. The local area will eventually be around 180 million. Judging from the existing data trend, overseas can also receive about $200 million, and the global box office is expected to be around 400 million, which is equivalent to "Soul Conjuring 3".

However, the production cost of "The Bugs" reaches 100 million US dollars. Even if it will definitely make a profit, it is still the most mediocre one of Pixar's 3D animations.

Another movie, "Wedding Singer", barely survived until the end of the year in the face of a large number of bombs, and it ended completely, with the final local box office of 82.37 million US dollars.

Considering that "Wedding Singer" costs only US$18 million, it is considered a dark horse at the end of the year. The regret is that Adam Sandler's comedy is too rooted in American culture, and audiences outside the United States are not keen on. From the current perspective, the overseas box office is only US$20 to 30 million, and the world can barely exceed 100 million.

Next is the cooperative project "Super Time and Space Contact", which was responsible for by MGM. As of January 1, the cumulative box office was US$109.97 million. The box office in the last box office week was only US$3.04 million, and the subsequent box office potential was only US$5 million, and the local box office was basically locked at about 115 million.

Overseas, according to the current trend, it is also around 100 million US dollars.

The summer "One Day" made a big profit for the original investors. The market response from "Alien 2" was quite good. This time, the global box office expectation of "Space-Time Contact" of 200 million yuan is not a failure or a success. It is difficult to recover the cost of $90 million through theater distribution and the 40 million investment of MGM's 40 million yuan, but it is not difficult to make a small profit after operating the subsequent channel, but it only takes time.

And then, Christmas time.

The sacrifice of "Shape's Love History" and the counterattack of "Titanic", need no more words.

Throughout 1997, the total annual box office in North America finally reached US$6.19 billion, lower than the expectation of more than US$6.5 billion at the beginning of the year.

This fulfilled Simon's long-standing concerns.

Too many blockbusters will damage the diversity of the film market, and will instead prevent some viewers from entering the theaters, and will also prevent many films that originally had higher box office potential from fully exerting.

However, the entertainment situation in Daenerys is very good.

The three brands of its subsidiaries, Daenerys Pictures, New World Pictures and Gaomen Pictures, started with the big sales of "BJ Single Diary" at the beginning of 1997, and went all the way to the continued big sales of "Hurricane Rescue", "Face Change", "Tornado", "American Pie", "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", "Light Pig Six", "Ghost Record", "Soul Conjuring 3", "Word Movement", "Wedding Singer", "Titanic", etc., basically led most of the 52 box office weeks of the year.

Among them, only nine films that achieved a local box office of over 100 million as of December 31, 1997, have won a total box office of US$1.6 billion. Including "Hurricane Rescue", "Six Heroes of Light Pigs", "Wedding Singer", "Horror Ghost", and "Cable TV Repair", which has a series of local box offices of more than US$50 million, but unfortunately failed to exceed 10 million. This number has reached US$2.2 billion.

This is not the end.

In addition, a large number of medium and low-standard box office films such as "Two Big Smoke Bowls", "Following", "Mutual DNA", "Young Wong Feihong: Iron Monkey", "Soul Moving Girl", "Sea Pianist", and "Beautiful Mind", accounted for more than half of the 46 released films of Daenerys' three labels in 1997, and the total box office revenue exceeded 700 million US dollars.

The box office part of the 1998 films such as "Titanic" that are still being released does not count. The 1997 box office part of the 1996 films such as "Wonder Woman 2" and "The Mind Catcher" is naturally included, with about 200 million US dollars.

Together, the exact total figure is US$3.14 billion.

This is not considered a cooperation project such as "One Power Day".

In 1997, the total annual box office in North America was US$6.19 billion, and Daenerys directly released films was divided into US$3.14 billion, accounting for 50.7%. As expected in early 1997, the real North American film market was half of the market and was unparalleled in the limelight.

On the other hand, it also reflects the pattern of Hollywood's six, seven or eight studios being tied together in the early years, and has completely changed.

Only the top ten movies in 1997 ranked in the box office, which accounted for eight movies that came directly from Daenerys Entertainment, as calculated on December 31 of that year.

It seems to confirm a certain 28-law law.

The other two movies, one is "One Day" co-starring with Daenerys. Regardless of the "Titanic" that is still being released, "One Day" is temporarily ranked first with a local box office of US$306 million.

Another one that can be said to be barely related to Daenerys and is the only one that can be said to be a success. It is "Terminator 3". As of December 31, 1997, the local box office was US$141 million, and it ranked only ninth, only higher than Daenerys's "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" produced by the US$134 million.

As for the bombshells such as "Fifth Element", "Starship Team", "Alien 4" that were highly anticipated by a number of manufacturers, they all lost.

Faced with the strength of Daenerys Entertainment, Hollywood once again burst into some hope and suppression voices. However, it has long missed the best opportunity to suppress Daenerys Entertainment, and these voices are just some complaints after all.

Compared with other industries, Hollywood's competition is relatively fair. Everyone makes their own movies and then lets the market speak.

Now, Daenerys Entertainment is full of kings, and other companies cannot play good cards. Who can blame this?

You can't let Simon Westeros make less videos, right?

This makes no sense.

As for accusations such as monopoly, they are even more untenable.

If you can't beat the fair competition, you will often have some unfair ideas. However, for Daenerys, you dare not use this trick lightly at the moment, because in Hollywood, what other studios should expect is that Daenerys Entertainment, which is too powerful, will not use improper means to others, rather than using improper tricks toward a giant while chariot.

That's uncomfortable.

This is not OK, that is not OK. Daenerys is too strong. In order to avoid losses, each company can only reduce its production output. This is equivalent to taking the initiative to give up the market, like falling into a vicious cycle that makes people unable to extricate themselves.

Some people can still cycle.

For example, Vivendi, and Seagram.

I just had ambition to enter Hollywood for a few years, so of course I wouldn't stop easily.

Others think that Hollywood is becoming less and less fun, and they are already thinking about retreating. Now, this idea is getting stronger and stronger.

For example, Sony.
Chapter completed!