Instructing Girl A to continue to pay attention to the follow-up of "Warcraft" and discuss some other things. Alison left the study and Simon looked at the box office data report that had just passed the past week.

From July 15 to July 21, the third week of "Forrest Gump" was released, and the box office fell by only 18%, continuing to dominate the championship position of the single-week box office list. It earned US$38.97 million in the past week, and the cumulative box office reached US$139.95 million.

The second week of release is the second place in the list of "The True Lies".

Because there was no powerful new film on July 15, the box office decline of "The True Lies" also maintained a very good 25% the next week, earning $30.59 million again, with a cumulative box office of $71.42 million. It would be very easy for the local box office to exceed 100 million.

"Romeo with Blood" directed by Quentin Tarantino is ranked third on the list.

The first week of the film's box office exceeded the general expectations of Gaomen Pictures' distribution department and the outside media. Relying on Quentin's unique personal style and Gaomen Pictures' good promotion and promotion, the film's first week of the film was close to $12,000, and the box office earned as much as $23.97 million in seven days of the painting.

As a crime drama film that deviates from the mainstream of the business and has a R-rated R-level rating, it adopts a relatively saturated 2031 screen size. According to the initial reputation of the movie and audience feedback, the publicity and distribution team originally predicted that the first week of the film would be between 8,000 and 10,000 US dollars, with the first week of the box office expected to be around 18 million US dollars, and the total box office expected in North America was 50 million US dollars.

Now, the first week's box office is $23.97 million, which is as much as $6 million in the initial forecast. If a long-term box office trend with a relatively ease in the future, "Blooded Romeo" is even expected to hit the 100 million box office threshold.

In comparison, the production cost of "Blooded Romeo" is 15 million US dollars, and the promotion budget is only 10 million US dollars, with a total investment of 25 million US dollars.

The box office revenue of US$23.97 million in the first week. According to the theater ladder sharing rules, the first two weeks are enough for Daenerys Entertainment to recover all costs and achieve profitability.

Simon's memory has no information about the original "Blooded Romeo", which shows that this video did not splash any water in the original time and space.

This time, the director was changed, the script was modified, the production specifications were improved, and a group of big names were invited to play cameo. Unexpectedly, they went straight to the classic level of film history.

Quentin, who used to be famous by relying on "Pulp Novels" this year, is now, although "Pulp Novels" has been taken away by Simon in advance, this time, "Blooded Romeo" will eventually exceed 100 million yuan, and its hot-selling box office will allow Tarantino to advance to the ranks of Hollywood's first-line directors.

The seventh week of the painting begins, the rankings of "Batman: The Dark Knight Rises".

Just over the past week, the box office of this super bombshell fell by only 13%, and it closed at another $16.19 million, with a cumulative box office of $332.47 million.

It remains so vibrant for more than a month after its release. It is very likely that "Batman: The Dark Knight Rises" will hit a total domestic box office of $400 million. Once successful, the film will become the second film after the opening work of the DC Cinema Universe to exceed $400 million in local box office after the opening work of "Batman: The Moment of War".

The fifth-placed "Soul Conjuring", the box office fell 23% in the fifth week of its release, earning $9.35 million. The comprehensive box office successfully reached the threshold of the 100 million box office club, with a total of $105.66 million.

At the same time, "The Conjuring" has become the fourth movie after Daenerys Entertainment's direct release this year, which has exceeded 100 million yuan in box office after "Four Weddings and One Funeral", "Star Gate" and "Forrest Gump". Among all six movies that have entered the 100 million yuan club in 1994, the other two movies "Batman: The Dark Knight Rises" and "Life and Death Speed" are closely related to Daenerys Entertainment.

Not only that, it lists this week.

The first place is Forrest Gump, the second place is "The True Lies", the third place is "The Blooded Romeo", the fourth place is "Batman: The Dark Knight Rises", and the fifth place is "The Conjuring".

The five movies are either directly released by Daenerys Entertainment, or Daenerys Entertainment collaborates with other studios.

Basically, it can be said that all the top five on this week were dominated by Daenerys Entertainment.

Even though Daenerys Entertainment Group has been strong enough in recent years, this phenomenon of directly dominating the top five of the weekly box office list has occurred for the first time.

Films such as "I Love Trouble", "Wolf Man" released at the same time were very significantly impacted by the movies produced by Daenerys Entertainment.

"I Love Trouble", which ranked fourth on the list last week, fell 39% this week and fell 7.43 million US dollars, ranking sixth.

Jack Nicholson's "The Werewolf Love" also saw a sharp drop of 41%, with only $6.75 million remaining in a single week's box office, ranking seventh on the list. The cumulative box office of the film in three weeks of release was only $43.11 million, which has not reached the same level as the $50 million production budget.

Paramount's new film "Baby League", released on July 15 at the same time as "Blooded Romeo", had a box office of only $5.63 million in the first week of the painting, ranking eighth, and failed to splash any waves.

The ninth place "The Phantom" and the tenth place "Detective Beverly 3" have a box office of $4.93 million and $3.13 million respectively. As both the museums are getting lower and lower, they are not far from the lower level.

At the same time, the new box office week that started today is the last climax of the summer season.

The two new films "The Story of Fire" and "The Eyebrow Chasing" are both very important.

The crime action film "The Story of Fire" led by two major actors Robert De Niro and Al Asino, plus a large number of powerful actors starring Fang Keimer, Jon Voit, William Fidel, etc., won 8.6 points on the first day of the large-scale painting. This reputation is comparable to last week's 8.7-point "Blooded Romeo".

In addition, the final production cost of "The Story of Fire" was also due to the joining of a series of big names reaching a bombshell level of US$60 million.

Because the film's duration is 171 minutes and is nearly 3 hours, Daenerys Film's promotional and distribution team did not follow the comprehensive distribution model of conventional commercial films, but instead gave a 2,105-pack opening screen similar to "Blooded Romeo". Compared with the current stage, the scale of opening screens that have generally reached nearly 3,000 yuan, which has been reduced by nearly 1,000 yuan.

Harrison Ford's "The Eyebrow" is the last part of the novelist Tom Clancy's Cold War Counter-Terrorism Trilogy. The first two "Hunting Red October" and "Patriot Game" both achieved box office sales. The production cost of the ending of this trilogy reached US$65 million. The producer Paramount Pictures also gave 2,963 screens.

In the front cabin study of Boeing 767.

After reading these materials, Simon's first reaction was to be worried about the box office performance of Daenerys Entertainment's films so far.

Of course it's not because it's too bad.

But because it's too good.

From the beginning of 1994 to the present, all the videos that entered the 100 million yuan box office club are related to Daenerys Entertainment Group, which completely feels like not giving other Hollywood studios a chance to survive.

Not only that, there is even an unexpected "Blooded Romeo". If this film reaches another 100 million yuan, considering that there will be "Mortal Haunted Incident", "Toy Story 2", "Disguise Bizarre" and "Suicide Squad" in the second half of the year. The top ten box office rankings this year are likely to be included in Daenerys Entertainment-related videos.

This is definitely not a good thing.

Simon can only expect "The Eyebrow Chasing", which started painting today, to be more successful, or another box office dark horse will appear in other studios in the second half of the year.

As for "Romeo in Blood" and this week's "The Story of Fire", Simon quickly made a decision to not add any promotional budgets. "Romeo in Blood" would be best suppressed within the 100 million yuan threshold. As for "The Story of Fire", which Simon personally likes very much, this movie that is also very promising to reach the 100 million yuan threshold if the promotional strategy is right, it can only give up some ideas.

In fact, for this reason, Simon only approved a $20 million publicity budget for The Stealing Fire in advance.

The box office in North America cannot exceed 100 million, and the total budget of "The Story of Fire" will definitely not be able to recover its costs in the local market. However, in my memory, the overseas box office of this movie is very outstanding. With the addition of global box office, it is basically not a big problem to recover the production and promotion budget.

As for profit, it depends on subsequent video tapes and other peripherals.

The classic crime action movie that lasts up to 3 hours is more suitable for home viewing through videotapes.

However, plans never seem to keep up with changes.

The second thing happened.

Early on Saturday morning, a film critic from the Los Angeles Times suddenly published an article titled "God wants to watch movies in 1994."

This title is so familiar to Simon.

In the original time and space, it was named the year when God wanted to watch movies in 1994. That year, Hollywood appeared in Forrest Gump, Shawshank Redemption, Pulp Novels, and the True Lies, etc., a series of classic movies that are enough to be recorded in film history. In addition to Hollywood, films such as "Four Weddings and One Funeral", "Blue, White and Red Trilogy Red", "East Evil and West Poison", "Sunny Days" and other films are also shining in their respective fields.

However, this time the article in the Los Angeles Times is not a coincidence.

Some time ago, at a high-level party at Daenerys Entertainment after the release of Forrest Gump, Simon casually talked about this statement with Amy Pascal, Ella Deutchman and others. Although only half of 1994 has passed, after counting it, there have been enough classic movies produced in and outside Hollywood this year.

On the other hand, Simon has only discussed the idea of ​​suppressing its films to reduce the number of members of the club's 100 million box office, and other senior officials are not clear about Simon's thoughts.

This kind of thing is not suitable for being on the table with great fanfare.

Then, in recent years, Ella Deutchman, who is becoming more and more good at word-of-mouth marketing, remembered Simon's statement at the party. Yesterday, "The Story of Fire" was released, and it once again gained a classic media reputation. Deutchman quietly fabricated this article and promoted the statement of "God watches movies".

After the two blockbuster bombs "The Story of Fire" and "The Eyebrow Chasing" on July 22, there will be no other heavyweight films released this summer, and the follow-up will be the time for the existing films to fully utilize.

Without the stimulation of new films, the market will inevitably fall into cooldown.

Now, with the release of the article "God wants to watch movies in 1994", coupled with the secret fuel of Daenerys Entertainment, a hot topic has quickly become.

In order to avoid the suspicion of self-selling and boasting, the article covers a wide range of scope. The excellent films that have been produced in Hollywood this year have been mentioned, and many popular projects that have not yet been released around the world have also been included.

Of course, the point is Hollywood.

Until now, Hollywood has various traditional genres, including "Four Weddings and One Funeral", comedy include "Detective's Aircraft Head", science fiction include "Star Gate" and "Batman: The Dark Knight Rises", action include "Speed ​​of Life and Death", "Real Lies" and "The Eyebrow Chasing", plots include "Forrest Gump", horror include "The Conjuring", crime include "Blooded Romeo" and "The Story of Fire". Even in the movie circle, excellent works such as "Crazy Clerk" have appeared.

Well, while a lot of them are related to Daenerys Entertainment, it is, by any means, a fruitful year for the world's film industry.

It seems that God suddenly wants to watch a movie, so so many classics appear.

After the article was published, many newspapers, television and the Internet and other media expressed their opinions on this topic.

Although there are many ridicule and objections, under the strong public opinion of Daenerys Entertainment, mainstream concepts generally recognize that this year is a super movie year.

Influenced by this wide range of social topics, even many ordinary publics who have not had the habit of watching movies for a long time have entered the cinema, and some viewers who have enjoyed a full blockbuster feast this summer have also started buying tickets again in order not to leave a "regret" this year.

Therefore, with the continuous spread of the topic on July 23, a clear viewing climax once again appeared in the North American film market.

As long as you have sufficient media resources, it is not difficult to mobilize public emotions, and the general public often has a clear herd mentality.

In Simon's memory, many movies that achieved box office miracles across the ocean were caused by the phenomenon after the audience's emotions were mobilized.

Human nature is common.

Even though the North American film market has a century of history and is far more mature than other regions, the audience is still susceptible to public opinion factors.

The most typical one is the DV horror film "Blair the Witch" in Simon's memory. This mediocre horror film that many viewers are not interested in watching for the second time. Because of the phenomenon-level viral marketing that is difficult to distinguish between true and false, it actually sold nearly $250,000 worldwide for a box office of nearly $250,000.

In this time and space, Simon's first movie "Run Lola" also caused a movie viewing craze because of his strong topicality of a 18-year-old genius director, and eventually created a box office record of more than 200 million US dollars in North America.

He has been a human being for two lives and happens to have a lot of experience in the film industry. Simon has been instilling the marketing techniques of "event effect" for Daenerys Entertainment's team over the years.

Gaomen Pictures’s “1994 When God Want to Watch Movies” this time can be regarded as another classic use of the ‘event effect’.

Although the weekend effect of the topic just started is not very obvious, according to the data feedback from Daenerys Entertainment's self-operated theater chain, the number of viewers on the weekend has increased significantly compared to expectations.

As long as it is operated properly, this topic will not be a problem until the end of August.

Not only that, there is still half a year before the end of 1994. In the following Halloween schedules, Thanksgiving schedules, and Christmas schedules, as long as there are excellent videos, this topic can be repeatedly mentioned, constantly stimulating the audience's desire to watch movies.
Chapter completed!