Chapter 371: Out of bounds 3, not in line 5
"Unsinkable" earned $62.67 million in the fourth week, and the North American box office did not break through the $300 million mark smoothly, stopping at $276 million.
Mainly because this weekend, Paramount's commercial blockbuster "Tomb Raider" hit theaters.
The film grossed $47.86 million over three days over the weekend, second only to "Unsinkable" and second on the weekly box office charts.
According to this momentum, by the next week, the weekly box office revenue of "Tomb Raider" is likely to exceed "Unsinkable".
Angelina Jolie's performance in "Tomb Raider" is so sexy, so enchanting, so attractive!
Charlize Theron's performance in "Unsinkable" is brilliant, but it completely hides the female characteristics of her body, and it is all acting and feelings.
A new generation of **** goddesses like Angelina Jolie quickly gained popularity in the market!
Even... someone has called her the second "Marilyn Monroe".
The box office of "Unsinkable" did not break through the $300 million as expected, which also made many people in the industry shake their heads regretfully.
Everyone originally thought that this film would likely make James Cameron the second director with a global box office of more than 1 billion US dollars after Dunn.
But now it seems, difficult!
"Unsinkable" has begun to be released overseas, and its first week box office reached more than 86 million US dollars, which is a very good number. But compared with the ambitious goal of 1 billion US dollars, the gap is very large.
Even the overseas box office of "Pearl Harbor" exceeded 60 million US dollars.
The lag and differences in overseas markets have prevented Disney from playing the banner of the second "Titanic" as it did in the North American market. Now it seems that it has received good results.
"Unsinkable" is a typical American heroism film, which plays real events that happened in the United States, which is a big difficulty for overseas markets.
Even with Mel Gibson in charge and the promotion of universal values, it will be difficult for "Unsinkable" to achieve the overseas box office revenue of "Star Wars Episode 1" and "Spider-Man".
The overseas box office has little hope, and the North American box office is lower than expected. After the fourth week of its release, "Unsinkable" has beaten its rival "Pearl Harbor" all over the place, but it wants to get a box office of 1 billion US dollars. Not too possible.
Moreover, there will be another round of new film shocks next week.
The strongest are three films - Dunn's "Mrs. & Mrs. Smith," Disney's "Atlantis: The Lost Empire," and 20th Century Fox's "Doctor Dolittle 2."
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For Nicolas Cage's performance, Dunn is very satisfied.
He delivered a retro collector's edition convertible Rolls Royce, said to be worth over $1.5 million!
This convertible, Dunn could not ride.
He usually drives a total of five cars, namely Rolls-Royce, Mercedes-Benz, Cadillac, Lincoln and Audi, each of which is a specially customized bulletproof model.
More than 30 top luxury cars of various brands are parked in the garage of Banshan Manor, mainly used to pick up and drop off female companions, and some are also given to them as gifts.
Of course Dunn doesn't care about the value of this three-generation Les Leis silver cloud, but the attitude shown by Nicolas Cage.
Sincere enough!
From this point of view, when the filming of "Minority Report" is over, Dunn can prepare to start the series of "National Treasures", and the protagonist is Nicolas Cage!
Anyway, I have already grabbed Jerry Bruckheimer's "Pirate Series", and then grabbed the "Treasure Series", so that this Hollywood gold medal producer can completely stop!
As for the box office trend of "Unsinkable", Dunn doesn't pay attention.
In the film market, he already has the confidence to dominate. With the preparation, project approval, shooting and release of a series of commercial blockbusters, the films of Dunn Pictures will be like cutting leeks, and they will wash the box office round by round.
As for art films, under Dunn's advice, Kathleen Kennedy joined Focus Films and Rose Films to launch two films at the same time.
One is a feature film, with an investment of $30 million, which brings together three top actresses, Meryl Streep, Nicole Kidman and Julianne Moore, and is preparing a film adaptation of the novel of the same name. ", is expected to start shooting in August.
One is the musical "Chicago" with an investment of 45 million US dollars. The current director has been determined, Rob Marshall, who is proficient in choreography and served as Sam Mendes' assistant. Dunn himself serves as the producer, but the starring crew has not yet been determined.
In the past few years, Dunn has been shooting new movies every year, but this year Dunn's business is too busy, and he has no skills. I will only take part of the time, and the focus will be on the production of the film "Chicago".
Of course, it is impossible for Dunn to put his energy into "Chicago" at the moment. He wants to ensure that the sta TV network develops without worry!
Now "Six Feet Under" has been shown on starz TV, and the ratings have been rising. This weekend, the first broadcast has more than 800,000 viewers!
It doesn't look like much, but it's actually a lot!
Because TV shows and movies are not the same.
The number of times a movie can be played is strictly limited, so when "Spider-Man" and "The Chainsaw" are played, the number of viewers exceeds 10 million, which is very easy.
The copyright of TV dramas is usually a buyout agreement or a term agreement, which can be replayed in multiple rounds, so many viewers will not wait for a fixed time in front of the TV.
Even when HBO has more than 45 million members, the fantasy drama "Game of Thrones" broadcasted will have an average viewership of about 5 million for its premiere, and "Westworld" will be less than 3 million.
Of course, this is also related to that era, when there were too many prime-time hits on weekend nights.
It's different now. "Six Feet Under" is almost the only hit drama in the entire United States during this time period!
Starz TV station, which has less than 3.3 million members, premiered the second episode of "Under Six Feet", and more than 800,000 household paying subscribers watched in front of the TV, which is definitely a surprise!
With the popularity of "Six Feet Under", the number of subscribers to the sta TV network has also increased. Although the growth is not fast, the upward curve has a good momentum.
Of course, misfortune and good fortune depend, and good fortune and misfortune fall.
With such a good momentum of development of the sta TV network, Dunn must be careful about Viacom's attitude.
"It's time for a bribe!"
Since Dunn entered Hollywood, he has seldom flattered others. Even in the face of Disney's big boss, Michael Eisner, he has done it head-on!
But in the face of Viacom's old man, Summer Redstone, Dunn had to bow his head and pretend to be a grandson.
"Michael, how about the plan for platter investment?"
Dunn called Michael Ovitz, the head of Legendary Pictures.
Legendary Pictures has received $500 million in Wall Street financing, and it can make waves in Hollywood again.
Michael Ovitz said: "We are in talks with Warner, and we intend to do a second round of cooperation."
This thing ~ www.wuxiaspot.com ~ Dunn knows.
Legendary Pictures and Warner Bros. had a cooperation in platter investment. At that time, Legendary Pictures held about 15%-18% of the shares. Now for the second cooperation, Legendary Pictures will increase the proportion of platter investment projects. to 30%.
No way, except for Dunn Pictures in Hollywood, the film company with the highest return on profit is Warner Bros. If nothing else, Michael Ovitz would definitely go for Warner.
"I need help here."
"Oh? You say?"
Dunn was not polite and blurted out, "Paramount!"
"Paramount?" Michael Ovitz frowned, "This company... has dirty hands and feet."
Since Paramount was acquired by Viacom, upstream funds have almost been cut off. In order to keep the company alive, it has to kill all kinds of investors.
It is a well-known black hole in the industry, you can only get in and out!
Tang En said: "I know, so everything must be reflected in the contract. For every project invested in the platter, Legendary Pictures will send someone to supervise it to prevent Paramount from accounting."
"This is important to you?"
"Very important!"
Dunn's reply was loud.
Michael Ovitz pondered for a long time, and finally nodded in acquiescence, "Okay, you can just tell me how I want to cooperate here."
Tang En smiled, "Wait for my news, I'll go meet Redstone first!"
"Redstone?"
Michael Ovitz was taken aback.
This Tang En, the circle of contacts is really getting taller and taller!
It is simply out of the Three Realms, not in the Five Elements.
Hollywood circles can't hold him anymore!
He thought it was Dunn and Paramount's chairman Shirley Lansing had insider trading, but he did not expect that he was looking for the big boss of Paramount's parent company - Redstone of Viacom!
(Sanqi Chinese)
