Heads Up Hollywood

"Unsinkable" earned US$62.67 million in the fourth week, and the North American box office did not smoothly break through the US$300 million mark, stopping at US$276 million.

Mainly because this weekend, Paramount's commercial blockbuster "Tomb Raider" was released.

The film grossed $47.86 million in the three days of the weekend, second only to "Unsinkable" and ranked second on the weekly box office list.

According to this momentum, by next week, the weekly box office revenue of "Tomb Raider" is likely to exceed that of "Unsinkable".

Angelina Jolie's performance in "Tomb Raider" is too sexy, too voluptuous, too attractive!

Charlize Theron's performance in "Unsinkable" is very brilliant, but it completely conceals the feminine characteristics of her body, and all the performances are acting and feelings.

A new generation of sexy goddesses like Angelina Jolie quickly became popular in the market!

Even... Some people have dubbed her the second "Marilyn Monroe".

The box office of "Unsinkable" did not break through 300 million US dollars as expected, and many people in the industry shook their heads regretfully.

Everyone originally thought that this movie would probably make James Cameron the second director after Twain to have a single movie with a global box office of more than 1 billion US dollars.

But now it seems that it is difficult!

"Unsinkable" has already begun to be released overseas, and the box office reached more than 86 million US dollars in the first week, which is a very good figure. But compared with the ambitious goal of 1 billion US dollars, there is a big gap.

Even the overseas box office of "Pearl Harbor" exceeded 60 million US dollars.

Due to the lag and differences in overseas markets, Disney did not play the banner of the second "Titanic" like it did in the North American market. Now it seems that it has received good results.

"Unsinkable" is a typical American heroism movie, which is about real events that happened in the United States. This 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".

Overseas box office has little hope, and the North American box office is lower than expected. After the fourth week of its release, "Unsinkable" beat its competitor "Pearl Harbor" all over the place, but it is already difficult to get a box office of 1 billion US dollars. Not too possible.

Moreover, there will be another round of new film impact next week.

The most powerful are three films - Dunn Films' "Mr. and Mrs. Smith", Disney's "Atlantis: The Lost Empire", and 20th Century Fox's "Doctor Dolittle 2".

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Twain was very satisfied with Nicolas Cage's performance.

He sent a vintage collector's edition convertible Rolls Royce, which is said to be worth more than $1.5 million!

It was impossible for Twain to ride this kind of convertible car.

He usually drives five cars in total, namely Rolls-Royce, Mercedes-Benz, Cadillac, Lincoln and Audi, each of which is a specially customized bulletproof model.

There are more than 30 top luxury cars of various brands 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.

Tang En certainly didn't care about the value of this third-generation Les Les Silver Clouds, but the attitude shown by Nicolas Cage.

Sincere enough!

From this point of view, after the filming of "Minority Report" is finished, Twain can prepare to start the series of "National Treasure", and the protagonist is Nicolas Cage!

Anyway, I have already snatched up Jerry Bruckheimer's "Pirate Series", and then snatched up the "Treasure Series", so that this Hollywood gold medal producer will completely quit!

As for the box office trend of "Unsinkable", Tang En didn't pay attention.

In the movie market, he already has the confidence to dominate. With the preparation, approval, shooting, and release of a series of commercial blockbusters, Tang En Pictures' movies will be like cutting leeks, and the box office will be bloodbathed one after another.

As for the art film, under Tang En's instruction, Katherine Kennedy joined forces with Focus Films and Rose Films to launch two films at the same time.

One is a feature film, with an investment of 30 million U.S. dollars, bringing together three top actresses, Meryl Streep, Nicole Kidman and Julianne Moore. ", is expected to start filming in August.

One is the musical "Chicago" with an investment of 45 million US dollars. The candidate for the director has been confirmed. It is Rob Marshall, who is proficient in choreography and served as Sam Mendes' assistant. Tang En personally acted as the producer, but the lead actors have not yet been confirmed.

In the past few years, Tang En has shot new movies every year, but this year Tang En Pictures' business is too busy, and he has no resources to spare. Only a part of the time will be spared, and the focus will be on the production of the film "Chicago".

Of course, it is impossible for Tang En to devote his energy to "Chicago" right now. He wants to ensure that the development of STA TV Network is worry-free!

Now "Six Feet Under" has been shown on Starz TV, and the ratings have been rising. This weekend, the number of viewers for the first broadcast exceeded 800,000!

It doesn't look like much, but it's actually a lot!

Because playing TV series and movies are not the same.

There are strict restrictions on the number of times a movie can be played, so when "Spider-Man" and "Chain Saw" are played, the number of viewers exceeds 10 million, which is very easy.

The copyright of TV series is usually a buyout agreement or a year agreement, which can be replayed for multiple rounds, so many viewers will not wait for a fixed time to wait in front of the TV.

Even when the number of HBO members exceeds 45 million, the average viewership of the first broadcast of the fantasy drama "Game of Thrones" is only about 5 million, and "Western World" is less than 3 million.

Of course, this is also related to the fact that there were too many hit dramas in prime time on weekend nights in that era.

It's different now, "Six Feet Under" is almost the only hit show in the entire United States at this time!

Starz TV, which has less than 3.3 million member users, premiered the second episode of "Six Feet Under", and more than 800,000 paying households watch it in front of the TV. It is definitely a surprise!

With the popularity of "Six Feet Under", the subscribers of STA TV network are also increasing. Although the growth rate is not fast, the upward curve has a good momentum.

Of course, misfortune depends on fortune, and fortune rests on misfortune.

With such a good momentum of development of the STA TV network, Twain had to be cautious about Viacom's attitude.

"It's time for a bribe!"

Since Dunn entered Hollywood, he has seldom tried to please others. Even in the face of Disney's big boss, Michael Eisner, he is head-to-head!

But facing Viacom's old man, Summer Redstone, Tang En had to bow his head and pretend to be his grandson.

"Michael, how about the platter investment plan?"

Tang En called Michael Ovitz, the head of Legendary Films.

Legendary Pictures has received $500 million in financing from Wall Street, and it can once again dominate Hollywood.

Michael Ovitz said: "We are in contact with Warner, and we plan to conduct a second round of cooperation."

Tang En knew about this matter.

Legendary Pictures and Warner Bros. once had a cooperation on platter investment. At that time, Legendary Films’ shareholding was about 15%-18%. to 30%.

There is no way, apart from Tang En Pictures, the film company with the highest profit return rate in Hollywood is Warner Bros. If no other factors are considered, Michael Ovitz will definitely choose Warner.

"I need help here."

"Oh? You said?"

Tang En was not polite, and blurted out: "Paramount!"

"Paramount?" Michael Ovitz frowned, "This company... has dirty hands and feet."

Since Paramount was acquired by Viacom, the upstream funds have almost been cut off. In order for the company to survive, it can only kill various investors.

It is a well-known black hole in the industry, it can only go in and out!

Tang En said: "I know, so everything must be reflected in the contract. For every project invested by Panpan, Legendary Pictures must send someone to supervise to prevent Paramount from making accounts."

"Is this important to you?"

"Very important!"

Tang En's reply was resounding.

Michael Ovitz pondered for a long time, and finally nodded acquiescingly, "Okay, just tell me how to cooperate on my side."

Tang En smiled, "Wait for my news, I'll go meet Lei Shidong first!"

"Redstone?"

Michael Ovitz was taken aback.

This Tang En, the circle of contacts is getting bigger and bigger!

It is simply out of the Three Realms, not in the Five Elements.

The Hollywood circle can hardly tolerate him anymore!

He originally thought that Dunn had an insider deal with Paramount's chairman Shirley Lansing, but he didn't expect that he was looking for the big boss of Paramount's parent company - Redstone of Viacom!