The next day is November 13th.

Friday.

The North American Thanksgiving Schedule in 1998 officially started. Not to mention some preview films, there are four mainstream commercial films with a scale of more than 1,000 yuan on the same day. The most popular one is naturally "The Great Collision of Heaven and Earth" produced by Daenerys Entertainment.

Project director Roland Emmerich has gone all the way from the DC movie universe, not only forming his own reputation, but also confirmed his ability outside the DC movie universe through the super sales of "One Day" last year. Therefore, this "Collision of Heaven and Earth" has become the focus of fans' attention since its establishment.

In addition, a comet hit the earth is also a very popular social topic in recent years. The theme of "The Great Collision of Heaven and Earth" is in line with current affairs.

Although the project plan finalized before "One Power Day" failed to offer too high pay and production conditions, the film eventually burned $120 million in budget, not only far exceeding the $75 million in Mimi Ryder's version, but also one-third higher than the $90 million in "One Power Day" last year.

At the same time, the film's publicity and distribution expenditure also reached US$60 million.

It can be said that just like the summer "Jurassic Park 3", as a super heavyweight at the end of the year at Daenerys Entertainment, the local box office of "The Great Collision of Heaven and Earth" is not considered a success, and the goal is 300 million US dollars.

The premiere was held on Thursday night the day before, and today the word of mouth was lifted.

Compared with the original version, in addition to a general idea and a gimmick such as Morgan Freeman playing the first black president on the screen, the film has generally been completely two films from the time it was, with more Emmerich style, and the special effects level has been significantly upgraded. The final 8.3-point comprehensive media rating made the audience completely lose any scruples about entering the theater to watch the movie.

Not only that, the film has a 4,316-yuan screen number, with the highest end of the year, and is even larger than the new DC movie universe "Suicide Squad 2" next Christmas.

In short, although the four mainstream films competed in the same period, "The Great Collision of Heaven and Earth" basically took away more than 70% of the public's attention.

Another 30%, worth mentioning is "The New York Gangster" directed by Martin Scorsese and co-starred by Leonardo DiCaprio and Daniel Day Lewis.

This is the last of a series of collaborative films from "The Alien" that started with "The Alien", "The Alien 2", "The Alien 2", and "One-Speedy Day" all achieved good results. Among them, "One-Speedy Day" was so successful that Daenerys' team couldn't help but wonder if there was a problem with his boss and handed over such a good project to others.

The last movie "The Gangster of New York" naturally attracted much attention.

Martin Scorsese had the idea of ​​shooting this movie since the 1970s. The project was circulated in the circle for a long time, and the news of the project was announced was gone many times until Simon took action.

Mainly, it is also a suitable opportunity.

In addition to the gimmicks that Old Martin has been preparing for many years, it is mainly Little Little Li, who has just reached its peak in popularity with the success of "Titanic", also signed an agreement in advance. At that time, he successfully promoted this cooperation with only $5 million in pay. Now, for the same project, Little Li must get a maximum salary of 15 million, and may have to be divided into an agreement.

With this alone, all parties involved in the matter should sigh at Simon's vision again.

The project was successfully completed in the end with only $65 million, far lower than the 100 million it used to be, which is also the credit of Simon's careful calculations.

"The Great Collision of Heaven and Earth" was held on Wednesday before. As the first film starring Little Little Little has been in the film after "Titanic", Well, in September, a guest appearance in a few minutes was promoted as a gimmick and it was promoted as a gimmick. Of course, it doesn't count. In short, outside the Chinese Theater where the premiere was held, it was crowded and very lively.

Of course, there are also unsatisfactory aspects.

The word-of-mouth was lifted on the second day of the premiere. Although it received some praises such as "Martin Scorsese's "Les Miserables", the overall media reputation was somewhat unsatisfactory, with a comprehensive media score of only 7.3 points. The criticism was mainly because the story was too weak and could not support an epic ambition at all.

In any case, as expected, Little Li Zi was brought in, saving at least 50 million in publicity and distribution budget. Now the film is absolutely popular. Even if the schedule of the end of the year is too tight, it can only be matched with "The Great Collision of Heaven and Earth" on November 13. MGM predicts that the global release will be completed and the global box office will not be a big problem. This basically achieves a balance of revenue and expenditure, and there will be good profits in the subsequent channels.

Furthermore, although it cannot be compared with "The Great Collision of Heaven and Earth", MGM also arranged 2,734 screens to open.

Two other films of the same period, one is "The Siege" produced by Warner, starring Denzel Washington, New York's anti-terrorism campaign, which cost $50 million and opened on screens of 2,381 yuan. The other is the love film "Love in This Life" produced by Disney, directed by Martin Bleist, director of "Smelling the Fragrance and Knowing the Woman", invited "Superman" Brad Pitt, which cost $35 million and opened on screens of 3,103 yuan.

It can be seen that this is a rather crowded schedule.

In the past, there was a super blockbuster like "The Great Collision of Heaven and Earth". Not to mention squeezing four mainstream films, there might not be any competitors at the same time.

The problem is actually very simple.

Or incline.

Let’s talk about the next two major periods, in addition to the finale of "The Great Collision of Heaven and Earth", the next week on November 20, followed by Fox, a collaboration project with Daenerys with Daenerys, and the collaboration between Bai Ge Wu and Paramount to burn $100 million.

In addition, there is the seemingly less eye-catching Adam Sandler's latest comedy "Tea Boy" produced by Daenerys's New World Films. However, the local box office in this comedy's original time and space was $160 million. In the current situation, Simon's expectation this time is only able to exceed $100 million.

It doesn't matter if it can't be broken.

Because the package agreement was signed in advance, although Sandler's "Wedding Singer" sold 80 million yuan for $18 million last year, the cost of "Tea Boy" was still controlled at $25 million, so the pressure was far lower than the two blockbusters released on the same day.

Further down, Christmas time.

Not to mention other things, just projects related to Daenerys Entertainment have been rolling out all the way since December 4, including "Elizabeth" which focuses on this year's Oscars, "Surprise Comedy" produced by New World Pictures, another new work in DC's Cinema Universe "Suicide Squad 2" and the romantic comedy "My Best Friend's Wedding" starring Julia Roberts.

Among them is just "Suicide Squad 2", which makes other bombs want to subconsciously avoid it.

After all, even if it is highly anticipated, "The Great Collision of Heaven and Earth" is just an original film, while "Suicide Squad 2" has the popularity of the entire DC movie universe for ten years as the foundation. "The Great Collision of Heaven and Earth" wants to make 300 million yuan in local area, which is very suspenseful. "Suicide Squad 2", referring to the first local area of ​​303 million yuan, the chance of breaking through again is more than 80%.

Anyway, this year, it will be crowded everywhere.

Of course, there is no choice.

Stop until next year.

However, filmmakers with a slightly more keen eye can feel the changes in Daenerys Entertainment's strategy.

It will only be more crowded next year.

The heads of studios even understood Simon's intention. Daenerys did this to suppress other studios from continuously reducing the production of movies. After all, if you don't make movies, you don't have to squeeze, let alone take risks. The final result is that the first line of the past has become the second line, the second line has become the third line, and those outside the third line can probably have to close the door.
Chapter completed!