Vol 2 Chapter 637: The hard power of the work!
["Hidden Over the Sea" is a wonderful action movie! 】
[The director of "Hiding the Sky", Christopher Chalek, said: "The movie box office is directed at 200 million US dollars, and it will definitely win the Oscar award next year."]
["The Lord of the Rings" movie reproduces the magical epic of Middle-earth! 】
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Burbank Villa.
"Zuke, how do you read the newspaper with joy? There is such an interesting content?" Lima asked, who had just come down from the stairs.
"How interesting is the newspaper?"
Zhu Ke shook his head: "However, the battle between the two films "Lord of the Rings" and "Hidden from the Sky", the battle between New Line Pictures and Warner, is the most interesting thing."
Lima flipped through the newspaper, still at a loss.
Zhu Ke explained with a smile: "Look, there are 11 newspapers in front of me. They are "Times" Entertainment, "AOL New Weekly", "TC Entertainment", "The Observer" and so on. In the section, there are more than 9 companies that mentioned the movie "Hidden Sky Crossing the Sea" and reported separately. On the other hand, Xin Xian Pictures’ "Lord of the Rings", in terms of media announcements, it is miserable..."
Lima was stunned: "I remember New Line Pictures is not a Warner subsidiary?!"
Hearing this, Zhu Ke laughed and said: "This is the difference between a son and a stepson. You say, is it interesting?"
Nowadays, there are very few things that can bring Zhuke's spirits up, but the struggle between Warner and New Line can actually interest Zhuke.
Moreover, Wald Pictures under Zucker’s name has already signed an agreement with New Line Pictures, Goldman Sachs and the three parties to jointly produce the "Chronicles of Narnia" film series.
Of course Zhuke was very happy to see Warner deflated.
Disney, Columbia, 20th Century Fox, Paramount...
There is one Hollywood film company, and it is hoped that New Line Pictures and Warner will play their heads!
"Zuke, you are very concerned about the "Lord of the Rings" movie?"
Lima asked.
"of course!"
Zhu Ke said without hesitation: "I am quite optimistic about the future of "Lord of the Rings". Similarly, I am also very optimistic about the film and television copyrights of "A Song of Ice and Fire" and "The Bourne Shadow", but the copyright of "Lord of the Rings" belongs to On the new line, the film and television adaptation rights of "A Song of Ice and Fire" belong to Warner's HBO, and the copyright of "The Bourne Shadow" belongs to Universal Pictures...I didn't get any of them."
While speaking, Zhu Ke spread out his hands and made a regretful look.
Ding Ding Ding~
At this moment, Zhuke's phone rang.
Caller: Kevin Fitch.
"What are you talking about? Kevin called at this time. It is estimated that he got the current box office situation of "Hidden from the Sky" and "Lord of the Rings."
Zhuke said to Lima.
After speaking, Zhuke answered the phone.
Sure enough...Zuke guessed it right.
As of noon on December 19: The movie "Hiding the Sky" again reported a box office of $4.3 million in half a day today, a small drop of 3% from the first half of yesterday, continuing its strong box office performance.
The film "Lord of the Rings" is almost meaningless...
In half a day, more than 3,300 theaters only reported $3.7 million in box office receipts, and the attendance rate was less than 30%.
In contrast, Xinxian Pictures is in a weak position.
"Zuke, I remember Tolkien's novel "Lord of the Rings" is not very famous, shouldn't it attract a large number of fans of the original? How could this attendance rate be so low?"
Many doubts arose in Lima.
Zhu Ke curled his lips and said: "The novel of "The Lord of the Rings" is very famous, and the original fans are also many, but because of this, many original fans dare not read it!"
As early as the end of 1999, when New Line Pictures announced the establishment of the "Lord of the Rings" movie, it was opposed by a large number of fans of the original, and there were even small-scale demonstrations.
Not only that, even the son and grandson of Tolkien, the original author of the "Lord of the Rings" novel, had disputes with New Line Pictures due to copyright gains and dividends, and they also publicly stood up against them.
The most important thing is that the movie announcement is not strong!
"If this movie were to be announced by Warner, it wouldn't be so bleak if it opened the box office and it wouldn't be so bleak. Who would let New Line Pictures do its own distribution?"
Zhu Ke said lightly.
Under various negative factors, the film "Lord of the Rings" naturally had a bad start!
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Warner Bros. Pictures.
"The publicity and distribution department did a beautiful job!"
"As of noon, even though Warner's "Hidden Sky" has been released for 12 days, it can still suppress "Lord of the Rings". It has to be a beautiful job!"
CEO Barry Meyer is very excited when he sees the box office data.
Xinxian Pictures is a subsidiary of Warner, how can it be?
Stepson is not obedient....
As a stepmother, can't it be rectified? !
The assistant smiled and said at the moment: "In fact, we have been merciful, otherwise the opening box office of "Lord of the Rings" will be even worse."
"Ok!"
Barry Meyer nodded in agreement: "New Line Pictures is our Warner subsidiary. If we change to other film companies, we will use media power to attack "Lord of the Rings". Now we have not attacked it, at best we have greatly reduced its exposure."
quickly.
The box office status of the two films "Lord of the Rings" and "Hidden Sky" reached the ears of Time Warner Chairman Steve Rose.
"While I was fighting with the AOL gang, Shay was a bit dishonest. It's good to have a lesson."
Steve Rose said flatly.
He was very satisfied with Barry Meyer's approach.
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Of the major Hollywood studios, which one is not well-informed?
The box office data of the two films, if they thought, they would be able to direct it, but it was a lot of tricks.
The film "Hidden Sky Over the Sea", this morning at the box office of 4.3 million US dollars;
The film "Lord of the Rings", box office this morning, 3.7 million US dollars;
"Shay still lost!"
Lionsgate’s owner Gusta looked at the report in his hand and couldn’t help sighing: “I’ve said long ago that the top six cakes thrown by Hollywood are not so delicious~www.wuxiaspot.com~ See it now, right? He thought To get out of Warner’s control, judging from the box office results this time, it’s difficult~"
DreamWorks Spielberg: "I can't help myself! My DreamWorks gave up to surpass the Big Six in Hollywood. Can its new line film industry win this time? What a joke!"
Touchstone Pictures, Miramax, Searchlight, Emperor Gate Pictures...
After seeing the results of the data, these film companies all expressed their disappointment.
Even Kevin Fitch said: "Boss, you overestimated the "Lord of the Rings" movie this time!"
but......
One of them counts as one, and they all underestimate the hard power of the "Lord of the Rings" work itself!
With the spread of "Lord of the Rings", the fans of the original book turned from black to fans, and one after another bought tickets. By 8 o'clock in the evening, the box office of "Lord of the Rings" had completed the overtake of "Hidden Sky"!
As soon as the news came out, everyone was dumbfounded!
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