The general direction is finalized, and Miss Li is inevitably chased by her to ask for some specific ideas. After all, according to His Highness the Princess, Simon is the best screenwriter in Hollywood, the kind who has won the Oscars.

Simon was about to forget about this.

Finally, I showed the tooth marks that still did not fade on my wrist. I "get it casually" gave two more famous ideas in my memory. One was "My Savage Girlfriend" and the other was "My Wife is a Big Boss".

These are two well-known projects that successfully broke through South Korea's national gates in the early 2000s.

Actually, there is one more.

It was once circulated in the early days of the Internet and in the memory of a generation, everyone owed a member. "Sex is Empty". Because of the similar cultures, this Korean restricted youth film is far more famous in Asia than the imitation of "American Pie".

However, because it is definitely not suitable to be made into a 'tourism promotional video', Simon didn't say it.

In fact, the two "My..." are not very suitable.

What's more appropriate is the kind of "Roman Holiday", but "Roman Holiday" is not so easy to copy. "Girlfriend" and "Big Boss" can barely get together. After all, after the new century, frankly speaking, romance films have declined rapidly.

Because for some reason, everyone gradually stopped believing in love.

The whole world seems to be the same.

Therefore, Hollywood no longer has "The Pretty Beauty" and "Sleeping in Seattle", and South Korea gradually loses "My Savage Girlfriend" and "Blue Life and Death Love", and Japan has more and more "Alice in the Dead Country" than "Tokyo Love Story", China... It is possible to fall in love in all kinds of types and themes, but mainly because love is cheap. After all, it is much easier to talk to the male and female protagonists than to work hard to figure out the plot and make special effects. Just like an unscrupulous author who wrote more than 6 million words but refused to finish it, he actually likes jokes about men and women fighting the most, and it is easy to be a chapter.

As for love, what is that?

Since I thought about it, after breakfast, I sent Miss Lee away. After Simon set off, he wrote down the idea of ​​"Sex is Empty" on the plane and transferred it to the Showbox Entertainment side, which was in charge of Cheng Tae-hee.

The general idea is to imitate "American Pi". As for what it can be, whether the box office and influence can be as good as before, it depends on luck.

Speaking of which, the ongoing North American summer season has once again proved the impermanence of the film industry, and it depends on luck.

First of all, "Star Wars Prequel: The Ghost Threat", which is completely unavoidable in this summer.

With the release of "Godzilla" and other major releases, the prequel's first episode has been even worse than expected in June. The continuous acceleration of the single-week box office shrinking speed makes the local box office of this super blockbuster that has been integrated into American culture may be difficult to break through the initial expected 400 million, let alone the former $470 million.

After the initial enthusiasm, more and more movie fans began to accuse George Lucas of messing up everyone's expectations, which put Lucas under great pressure, quietly adjusted the production progress of the last two sequels and planned some re-films. After all, Lucas is definitely not short of money now, but as the founder of Star Wars, this Hollywood movie star doesn't want his most glorious achievements to end with a bleak end.

In addition, the failure of the prequel's first plot has left the merger of the three companies without any change, and has recently passed the antitrust review of the Federal Department of Justice.

This is much smoother than Daenerys's previous expansion.

After all, in Hollywood now, even if they raise objections and want to stop them, the political resources and lobbying forces in Washington are far from comparable to Daenerys.

What's more, Time Warner, which has the ability to interfere, has been incorporated into the GE system, will be released after private communication because of their friendship. There are also Disney and Paramount, which no longer belong to local capital. Even if you speak, Washington will definitely be on his own.

Therefore, Simon returned to North America and the three film companies had entered the formal merger process.

Let’s talk about the movie.

After the first part of the prequel, it is naturally "Godzilla".

Because it is also considered a cooperative project, Simon was not very optimistic about this monster blockbuster at first, so he placed it in the early part of this summer, and his investment was limited, and he was in the battle with the prequel's first song.

The ending is also expected.

Perhaps because the special effects blockbusters in this era are far from being aesthetically exhausted by the audience. In addition, the quality of the film itself and the global popularity of the name "Godzilla". In short, after the first week of the box office was higher than the first song of the Star Wars Prequel, Simon left North America during the period of time. The film continued to earn US$63.79 million in the next week of release from June 18 to June 24 with a considerable 43% drop, with a cumulative box office of US$175.71 million.

The second day after Simon returned to North America, the third week of "Godzilla" was released, and the decline in a single week narrowed to 35%, and another $41.46 million was closed. The cumulative box office easily exceeded 200 million, reaching $217.17 million.

With the current box office trend, the local 300 million yuan is still not a big problem.

Of course, no matter how high it is, it will hit 400 million, just like Simon initially expected, without expectation.

Next, before Michael Bay's new film "The Peerless Heavenly Tribulation" on July 2, there are two movies worth mentioning in June, "Ghost Records 2" and the science fiction pseudo-documentary "Alien Archives" that attracted much attention at the Sundance Film Festival at the beginning of the year.

In fact, Daenerys' three most popular films this summer are "Godzilla", "The Peerless Heavenly Tribulation" and "The Matrix", but because Simon no longer keeps his efforts in expanding his ideas, the entire summer season, if calculated based on the four months from May to August, Daenerys' brands, including the New Line Film Industry, which began to increase investment last year, are expected to release 13 videos. Even if there is a movie every week, it is almost the same.

Just before "Godzilla", even though it had the first episode of the Star Wars prequel, since early May, Daenerys's labels have released three movies, but it is not worth mentioning because of its average performance.

The sequel "Ghost Records" "Ghost Records 2", which achieved the rare "event effect" in Hollywood movies two years ago, was released between "Godzilla" and "The Peerless Heavenly Tribulation", following the second week of "Godzilla".

This is because Simon thinks that Godzilla will not be too outstanding and too overwhelming.

The reality is obviously different from the idea.

The result is that "Ghost Records 2" released on June 18 brought a large number of fans gathered in the first movie, as well as Jessica Chastain who performed well in "Public Enemy" during the Easter period, which has increased popularity. After the film premiered, the media score reached 7.6 points, which was quite good reputation. Then, the box office was inevitably affected.

The New World Film team of Daenerys Entertainment provided 3,254 screens for "Ghost Records 2". The previous investment in publicity and promotion reached 20 million US dollars, which is 4 times the cost of a sequel of $5 million. It was originally expected that the first week of the film would be able to make a box office of 50 million. After all, the first week of the first film was close to $60 million, and this time it could not be too bad.

In the end, "Godzilla" won the single-week championship for $63.79 million, and the inevitable diversion of several other new films during the same period. "Ghost Records 2" had a box office of only $46.45 million in the first week.

Of course, this "only" is only relative to the first song of this series.

The total cost of the film production and promotion is only US$25 million. According to the ladder-sharing rules, in fact, the first week of release of "Ghost Records 2" is equivalent to entering the profit cycle, but it is still a bit of a drawback. After all, such a start, let alone reaching the first local record of US$212 million, this time it may not even be able to pass 150 million.

Anyway, Hollywood is like this, it depends on luck.

Finally, in the new box office week on June 25, "Alien Archives", which was obviously not concealed in publicity, was released. After a fight, the project was finally won by Disney.

Simon also paid attention to the specific details of the cooperation.

Disney won the science fiction pseudo-documentary film with a production budget of US$7 million with a prepaid agency fee of US$15 million plus a subsequent 50% share of the 50% share of the promotional and distribution expenses. It also promised the June schedule for the summer vacation, and the promotional and distribution expenses were US$15 million, and the number of screens to be opened shall not be less than 2,500 yuan.

All of these are satisfied.

After the premiere in advance, the reputation of the film spread on a large scale, and the overall result was still 8.3 points. It was praised by Variety Magazine as "Another groundbreaking pseudo-documentary classic". At the same time, during the promotion process, the film also actively cooperated with "Ghost Records 2", which was launched a week in advance, creating a topic effect.

Since it is a business competition, Daenerys cannot be too polite.

Why was the "Ghost Record" successful two years ago? The rapid spread of "viral marketing" on the Internet platform is key. "Alien Archives" obviously also hopes to have "viral marketing". Unfortunately, I forgot who belongs to the Internet.

Therefore, even if it doesn't disappear on the Internet, it's too obvious after all, but the topic of "Alien Archives" is suppressed to the greatest extent.

As for traditional marketing channels, whether it is TV or newspapers, I have also greeted them.

In the end, in the first week of release, the box office of "Alien Archives" was only US$27.96 million. Although the museums all exceeded 10,000 and reached the sales level, they were still not as good as "Ghost Records 2" in the second week.

Seven days after the opening week, "Ghost Records 2" lost 37%, and earned $29.11 million again, with a cumulative box office quickly reaching $75.56 million. Even though it was still not as good as the first one, it has already brought Daenerys a considerable book profit.

Let’s talk about “Alien Archives”, with the conditions offered by Disney, this movie requires North America to get 80 million box office, so that Disney can achieve balance of revenue and expenditure.

The first week was US$27.96 million, which is not the 27 million that could easily go out of the long-term 10 years ago. In short, the better result is that it is about 80 million locally.

Disney's expectations are at least 100 million yuan.

To be honest, with the quality of this movie, if Daenerys runs it, it is easy to break 100 million. The problem is that Hollywood has never meant that you can get high box office if you have good movies. At present, as Hollywood's monopoly trend continues to strengthen, this tendency is becoming more and more obvious.

Backed by a French capital group like Vivendi, Disney is now an "outsider". Not only is its own strength far from being comparable to Daenerys and Time Warner, but also, as an "outsider", the films produced by this company must be subject to various light or dark restrictions from production to distribution.

Therefore, the reason why the film has achieved its current results is because the quality of this movie is excellent enough.

Finally, it's the present.

Daenerys' second super bombshell in the summer of 1999, "The Peerless Heavenly Tribulation" held its premiere the day before the film was launched on a large scale. The next day, the word of mouth was lifted.

It turned out to be a car.

Among them, the comments of "Hollywood Reporter" are undoubtedly the most representative. The column criticized "The Peerless Heavenly Tribulation" for being "noisy, stupid and heavy, but the box office will be very impressive. The Los Angeles Times also joked that the film "spending all its thoughts on special effects, and finally remembering to tell a story." The Washington Post on the East Coast also turned its finger on Simon and asked, "Why did Simon Westeros allow such a bad story to be brought to the big screen?"

Anyway, almost one-sided criticism.

Even if Daenerys media public relations team works hard, the comprehensive media score of "The Peerless Heavenly Tribulation" is still only 4.3 points. It can be imagined that without some relief behind the scenes, the reputation score will only be lower.

The unsatisfactory reputation is actually a major decision during the internal preview of "The Peerless Heavenly Tribulation".

The same goes for Simon.

After all, they are all old birds who make movies, so it is impossible for them to have no such vision.

However, it was so short that everyone was trying to criticize him like a cheer, which was still somewhat unexpected.

I responded to that sentence again, it depends on luck.

Anyway, the luck of "The Peerless Heavenly Tribulation" is obviously not very good this time.

Of course, the box office level is just as predicted by The Hollywood Reporter, it will be "very considerable". After all, various works of Bei's explosion on the timeline were scolded and held high box office.

This time it should be the same.

After all, the selling point of "The Peerless Heavenly Tribulation" is actually the special effects.

As for the story, just be ready.

Then again, the project certainly had a very smooth script at the beginning, rather than the Los Angeles Times saying that it was the end of the story. The problem is that the movie is probably like cooking, even if it has the freshest ingredients and the most complete ingredients, no one knows what a dish looks like before it is finally completed.

Too many variables.

Furthermore, after a series of successes, the explosion classmate Bei inevitably began to become a little bit arrogant, just like before, which is also human nature.

The result of floating is naturally that the quality of the film plummets.

This is exactly the same as before.
Chapter completed!