Although there is a minor incident like the Ivorian coup in the context of the ongoing war in central Africa, the world is generally peaceful and lively as the millennium is approaching. Not only is the restart of the Victoria's Secret show with the theme of "Welcome the Millennium" attracted widespread attention around the world. During this period, countless governments or private groups in various countries around the world are also organizing various millennium welcome activities.

The same is true for the Simon family.

The old man didn't plan to go to Australia again at the end of this year, so he was very unhappy about this, so he sent the boss Anthony to come over and snatch his baby grandson to account for the payment. The couple had no objection to this, but thought that if the old man could take all the little guys over, well, this year it would be a happy three-person world.

All right.

Then we moved to the East Coast and planned to hold a lively millennium party in the super mansion on the top floor of Westeros.

On the other hand, of course, there is also the movie market at the end of the year.

The official first week of Christmas, December 17 to December 23, passed quickly.

First of all, "The Brave Game 2".

The box office of this special effects blockbuster, which was jointly performed by Warner Bros. and Daenerys, was finally $81.66 million in the first week. It was the same sentence, without surprise and a moderate performance. After all, considering that the total investment in production and promotion of the film was higher than "Godzilla", it was definitely not a surprise if it did not exceed 100 million in the first week, but it exceeded $80 million, which also met the expectations of both Warner and Daenerys.

Speaking of which, it is because the period at the end of the year is too crowded.

However, compared with the box office of US$63.35 million in the first week of the first "The Brave Game", this time it exceeded 80 million, and of course it is still a progress. The key is to look at the trend of the next week.

The second place is "Lord of the Rings: The Rings Messenger".

The popularity of the first song of the "Lord of the Rings" series is actually higher than that of "The Brave Game 2", after all, it has a broad popularity base. After $91.37 million in the first week, the final box office decline remained at a very outstanding 26% in the next week under the attack of new films such as "The Brave Game 2" and "Alien 3". The potential of the film is once again visible. The next week, the cumulative box office has reached US$159.02 million.

Obviously, as long as the film can maintain a decline of less than 30% in the next week, the total local box office will exceed 300 million, which will only be a matter of time.

The third place was won by the new film "Alien 3".

The most popular heroine Natasha Hensquqi was replaced. The market performance of "Alien 3" in this popular Christmas period was unexpectedly expected, and it unexpectedly won a box office of US$46.39 million in seven days in the first week.

You should know that two years ago, the first week of "Alien 2" was only 33.15 million US dollars, with a total local box office of more than 80 million. This time, "Alien 3" won $46.39 million in the first week, and it is not impossible to even make it to exceed 100 million.

Relatively speaking, MGM's initial expectation was that "Alien 3" could achieve a global reach of over 100 million yuan and a local conservative 50 million yuan, which would be satisfactory. After all, although the total investment in the production and promotion of the film was as high as 60 million US dollars, the first two films have proved that the peripheral returns of this series of videotapes were very generous, and as long as the theater performance was not too bad, it would not lose money.

Even, because Natasha Hensquć no longer plays the heroine, the MGM team once considered directly putting the video on the videotape channel, which not only compresses production costs, but also saves most of the investment in publicity and promotion.

The current market feedback is obviously beyond expectations.

Moreover, the key is to prove that changing the heroine does not have that much damage to the film's market potential. Therefore, even if the second-generation alien girl Meghan Gale wants to start the price due to this success, the MGM team has the confidence to change it again.

Even the MGM team is already considering doing so.

After all, the third part is so successful, and the fourth part is definitely a foregone conclusion.

As for why the video was successful?

Perhaps, the audience just wants to see the change of alien girls, such as the next time, the third generation alien girls fight the second generation alien girls, what a good idea.

Not only that, with such outstanding vitality shown in this series, next time, the third generation of alien girls may not have to completely choose newcomers. They can try to invite some more well-known actresses or supermodels with a very popular current guest appearance.

Simon's attitude towards this is OK, but the key is that the acting skills of the three generations of alien girls must be sufficiently up to standard. They cannot just look at their faces and figures, otherwise they may become a big-breasted girl in B-level movies that exaggerate and fight each other, and then they will be inferior.

Further back.

Disney's new film "The Magic Elf" ranked fourth, with unsatisfactory performance. Its first week's box office was only 39.17 million US dollars. Compared with the total investment of $100 million in production and promotion, even due to the theme, the declines in the following Christmas and New Year will be relatively eased. Disney wants to recover the cost in the theater stage of global distribution, but it is not much hope.

What's more, Vivendi's expectations for this movie are not just about recovering the cost.

The initial news was that Vivendi hoped that this movie would become a fantasy version of "Home Imperial", with a local box office of at least 200 million. Unfortunately, things went against their wishes.

Immediately afterwards, the fifth place was "Cylinder 2".

In the fifth week of release, "Cyborg 2" fell 45% this week under the impact of a number of new films, and closed at another $17.51 ​​million, with a cumulative box office of $295.01 million.

It's about to break 300 million.

However, it is obvious that although it can easily break through the $300 million mark, it is basically impossible to make $400 million with the current trend of the film. The final box office should be around $350 million.

The same sentence is too crowded.

Actually, Hollywood's end of the year has been very crowded, but the problem is that the previous crowding, except for a few key points, was not too high, and the production costs were everywhere. If it were such an environment, "Cyborg 2" was enough to achieve a complete kill. Now, it is a group of super bombs crowded together. Not only do everyone's hard work in production, but their investment in publicity and distribution levels is also very different from the distribution model that was more than ten or twenty years ago, which was based on reputation and who would go through a long-term distribution model.

It’s just a Shura field. Even if you can fight out, you will definitely have to bring some injuries.

The best way to avoid this ending is to not participate.

Actually, it's already.

In recent years, the production output of other major Hollywood studios and even second- and third-tier film companies has been very obvious.

This is exactly the result that Simon is looking forward to.

In addition to the top five, the only one worth mentioning is "Racing Movement". In its 6th week of release, compared with "Cyborg 2", "Racing Movement", which has been favored by more family audiences, has just fallen by only 17% in the past week, and continues to earn US$10.13 million, with a cumulative box office of US$168.09 million.

There is only a gap of over 30 million to go to the threshold of 200 million.

Considering that Christmas and New Year are coming next, like Disney's "Magic Elf", the market performance of "Racing" in the next two weeks is also worth looking forward to.

Later, other videos have fallen within the box office of tens of millions of dollars per week, which is not worth mentioning.

In the same film field, there is another thing worth paying attention to this week, that is, the announcement of the Golden Globe Awards nomination for the American Film and Television Awards in the year. Previously, on Monday, December 20, the Golden Globe Awards Organizing Committee officially announced the nomination list for the 57th American Film and Television Golden Globe Awards. Like last year, Daenerys Entertainment is still ahead of the crowd.

I only talk about the best film nomination. Even though it was because of last year, the Golden Globes had some suppression on Daenerys and was no longer cut half of the share by this side. However, three movies were still successfully nominated for the best film nomination in a total of 10.

Among them, "The Genius Ripley" and "The Matrix" were nominated for the Golden Globes Best Picture Drama, and "Chicago", which will be released this week, is also the PR focus of Daenerys Entertainment's 2000 Annual Awards Season. After an internal trial specifically targeting the Golden Globes judges team, they successfully won the Best Picture Nomination for Music Comedy, as well as Catherine Zeta-Jones and Madonna nomination for the dual heroine, Hugh Jackman nomination for Best Actor, Robert Marshall nomination for Best Director, plus Best Screenwriter and Best Supporting Actress, a total of seven items.

On December 24, on Christmas Eve, after seven Golden Globe nominations and subsequent premiere publicity offensives, "Chicago" was officially launched in North American theaters without a small-scale trial, and 2,739 screens were directly launched.
Chapter completed!