hollywood draw

Age and experience, when watching a movie requires these things, it does not bode well in commercial films. That means that there is a viewing threshold for those who want to understand this movie!

What are the mainstream audiences in the summer season? Young people, if they are specifically stratified, are mainly composed of teenagers and young people in their twenties. They are the main force in buying movie tickets to enter the theater to watch movies, and they are also the targets who are willing to empty their wallets for movies.

As for older audiences, the proportion of summer movies has never been large. This rule not only applies to the 1980s, 1990s, or the beginning of the millennium, even the second decade of the 21st century.

However, Tom Ge seems to be sure, but the specific situation depends on the box office results. Even Hollywood's most senior distribution master cannot predict success or failure before a movie is released on a large scale. The unpredictability of audience tastes will always be a headache for Hollywood film companies.

Sometimes, a movie suddenly becomes popular. As for the specific reason for its popularity, it is just the post-event analysis of the so-called "experts". Otherwise, there would not be so many small-cost box office dark horses, nor so many big investments would fail.

This is the case with this movie "The Great Collision of Heaven and Earth". When the bell rang at midnight, the whole of Los Angeles was already in a deep sleep. In an office of Paramount Pictures, several film creators laughed very happily.

At the same time as the premiere of "The Great Collision of Heaven and Earth" began, 2,300 advanced games were also launched in all North America. Just now, the people who had been waiting finally got the data sent back by the theater company.

“7.6 million US dollars!”

Director Mimi Ryder held a glass of champagne, and his confidence on his face was not concealed at all, and said to everyone: "This result is completely beyond our expected $5 million! You can achieve such a high box office in advance. The box office on the first day and even the first weekend is definitely guaranteed."

Unlike those popular movies that often exceed 10 million in box office in advance, "The Great Collision of Heaven and Earth" is an original movie. It is basically very excellent to be able to get this result.

Paramount Pictures’ initial expectations were just to strive to get about $5 million in advance, with a box office of about $45 million in the first week. In this era, as long as the expected box office results can be achieved, it means that the box office of "The Great Collision of Heaven and Earth" in North America will never be less than $100 million.

As long as the North American box office can be guaranteed to exceed the 100 million US dollars, the overseas distribution scale of this film is not a problem. This is just the most conservative expectation made by Paramount Marketing Department. Judging from the early box office tonight, it is simply a breeze to reach this number.

"I will notify the distribution department and continue to increase the publicity of the video this weekend."

Sherry Lansing also had a smile on her face. She raised champagne to everyone and continued, "You can go to major cities to promote it with peace of mind. Paramount will not miss such a good publicity opportunity."

Several main creators looked at each other with a smile, all nodded with peace of mind, drank the celebratory champagne in their hands, and then left the office.

When the entire office was left with only Ceo Shirley Lansing alone, she looked gloomy and shook the champagne in her hand and sat back on the chair behind the desk.

Then she picked up the phone on the table and her voice returned to the same seriousness as before.

"Send the investigation report in."

"Okay, boss." The secretary who had been waiting on the other end of the phone responded dullly.

Less than two minutes later, the office door was knocked by the secretary, and a detailed investigation and statistical report was placed in front of this powerful female executive.

"Elia Wood and Morgan Freeman, but it still cannot save the boring plot of this movie..."

"I'm not sure if I've watched this movie, but I just feel that it's familiar everywhere. Maybe I've watched too many similar movies..."

"The narrative is too long-winded and I don't know how to cut it..."

"There is insufficient disaster and there are many human natures. "The Great Collision of Heaven and Earth" has no surprises. As an ordinary movie fan, I don't understand why the director has arranged this way. We came for science fiction and disaster. There is no bombing or bullets flying everywhere. It's really disappointing..."

"Damn it, why is the president a black man? I admit that Morgan Freeman's charm is great, but I still can't accept a black president. As long as I see this setting, my mind keeps reminding me that things in this movie are completely impossible to happen!"

"This is the worst of all disaster films I have ever seen! I didn't see many disaster scenes at all, but instead seemed to keep telling the audience that this is a biographical video..."

"Don't know what the director is thinking at all. Why did a disaster film make this? This is a scam! Chilolo's scam..."

Looking at the whole page of bad reviews of the fans in front of him, Shirley Lansing's expression became even more gloomy. Of course, these bad reviews are only part of them, and there are also many good reviews. Just the advance stage of a movie makes so many viewers squirt wildly, it is difficult not to cast a deep shadow on the subsequent screening.

After turning over the homepage of the survey report, detailed statistics were given later. "The Great Collision of Heaven and Earth" distributed 4,000 questionnaires and collected 4,000 questionnaires. Fans who scored A and above for the film only accounted for less than 500 of them. The only good news is that there was no large-scale score below B.

According to the questionnaire, the overall score of the film is about A-to-be, and about 76% of the movie fans all scored B or above for the film. The overall reputation is quite good, at least not large-scale collapse.

But Shirley Lansing is very clear that tonight's investigation can only represent the opinions of some movie fans. More importantly, it depends on the reputation of the first day and even the first week, which means whether the film can maintain a large scale of screenings in theaters.

Just watching the comments and comments from representative movie fans, it is difficult for people not to worry about the lack of momentum in the film, especially their time is actually less than two weeks. By the 19th, they will immediately welcome strong competitors.

What worries her even more was actually some tacit understanding with Sony Columbia. "The Great Collision of Heaven and Earth" is the title of science fiction film, and "Godzilla" is the title of monster film. In fact, the heads of the two companies know better than anyone else. They actually look at the same audience group and fans of big scene disaster films.

Once the results of "The Great Collision of Heaven and Earth" fail to meet expectations, the tacit understanding with Sony Columbia will become a joke. Shirley Lansing will not work in vain. In the end, all the benefits will be saved by "Godzilla".

That night, the lights in Paramount Ceo's office were lit until dawn before they went out. However, the development of the matter did not happen that she was worried about.

On Friday, when "The Great Collision of Heaven and Earth" was officially released on a large scale, it won a strong North American box office of $19.6 million. If the unexpected burst of $7.6 million was added to the box office of the game in advance, the box office on the first day would be as high as $27.2 million!

Although the reputation of the movie fans does not seem to be very good and there are constant debates about the film, the box office numbers are there, covering up all the discordant voices.

The outstanding performance of the first day's box office seemed to have also driven subsequent results. When the full first weekend passed, the science fiction disaster film "The Great Collision of Heaven and Earth" won the first weekend box office championship without any suspense.

"The hot summer season is here again. Hollywood film giant Paramount Pictures is the first to make efforts. "The Great Collision of Heaven and Earth" released in North America last weekend, the box office in North America closed at $52.35 million in the first weekend, winning the weekend box office championship..."

As the new weekday comes, in the office of Warner Bros. Distribution Supervisor, Bruce Rosenblum frowned and threw the Los Angeles Times, which was half seen in his hand, onto the desk. Then he looked up at Wayne, who was sitting opposite him, and said in a low voice: "Man, it seems that Shirley Lansing's word is going to win the bet."

"Don't worry, Paramount has a week left, I hope they can keep it."

Box office news like the Los Angeles Times was filled with all the newspapers this morning, and Wayne read it early in the morning. However, his performance was not in a hurry and he still came to Warner Bros. very calmly to discuss the premiere of "The Flash".

Thinking of the movie fans complaining about the box office of more than $50 million, Bruce Rosenblum nodded slightly. Even so, he still said with some emotion: "Even if the reputation of the movie fans has collapsed on a large scale from now on, the box office of this film in North America is over 100 million."

"Then they have to hurry up."

With his head tilted, Wayne deliberately lowered his voice and reminded him. "I don't know if you noticed that Bruce, a large number of fans expressed strong dissatisfaction with the appearance of a black president in "The Great Collision of Heaven and Earth".

"yes......"

After playing movie distribution for half a lifetime, Bruce Rosenblum's eyes lit up when he heard the prompt. Looking at Wayne's eyes were like seeing a soulmate in life. "I understand, you'll wait and see the effect."

The two men had a tacit understanding and showed a fox-like smile at the same time. Some words were not to be said at all. This was a life-and-death summer vacation.

Nowadays, it is not wrong to use a black actor as president, but more mainstream audiences are still conservative white people. As long as someone tries to emphasize one thing, it is easy to arouse the disgust of many audiences, and that kind of disgust that cannot be expressed at all.

This method is precisely this kind of method that costs very low for media groups like Warner Bros., which own media, but often achieves very gratifying results.

Not to mention that there is a certain competitive relationship between the two sides. Normally, even if there is no competitive relationship between the two sides, it can cause trouble to the other six major players, Warner Brothers doesn't mind just making it. Anyway, everyone is playing like this, so no one can see who is despicable.