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San Jose on the San Francisco Bay.

The time is already December 20th, in the Willowglen area in the south of downtown San Jose, and "The Sixth Sense" will be officially launched here from December 12th.

The original "Sixth Sense" story took place in Philadelphia on the east coast. Simon's body has never been to Philadelphia at all, but he has too many memories of San Jose, so the background of the story is set here.

Simon flew here from Los Angeles yesterday morning. While visiting the class, he stopped by to visit several technology companies in which Westeros Corporation has a stake.

Because this is the first time Simon has returned to the place where he grew up after his fortune, both the Bay Area media and the local government are very excited about it. However, instead of scheduling various visits as many expected, Simon spent most of his time at work.

Entering December, the media has been very keen to discuss how much Daenerys Entertainment has made this year, and even the most conservative estimates are enough to make most Hollywood studios jealous.

Now that he occupies this body, Simon is also destined to be unable to escape everything in the past.

Before Simon left San Jose, Pat Kingsley announced that the Simon \u0026 Janet Westeros Foundation would donate $1 million to several schools and welfare agencies in San Jose. This money is a drop in the bucket compared to Simon's current net worth, but since it is done, the media can no longer say that Simon is too indifferent to where he grew up. Although, that is the case.

Back in Los Angeles, Simon begins his final episode of Batman, which is about to begin filming.

Over the past few months, Simon himself and his hired storyboard artists have accumulated more than 2,000 concept maps and draft storyboards, and some very important shots have been specially made for short reference animations. After such a long preparation, the whole film can be said to have been completely installed in Simon's mind, and the next thing to do is to show them on film.

After all, "Batman" will not be released until next year. In recent days, the most attention in Hollywood is undoubtedly "Rain Man", which has been silently counterattacking.

After a low opening of $2.1 million on the first day, "Rain Man" not only unexpectedly achieved a three-day box office of $7.28 million in the first weekend, but entering the working day, the film's single-day box office receipt of nearly one million dollars is also unexpected. .

Feeling this unusual, Daenerys Entertainment immediately conducted a questionnaire survey for "Rain Man" directly to the audience.

As a result, 36% of the 1,000 viewers surveyed in major cities in North America chose to watch the movie after being recommended by their relatives and friends. At the same time, 91% of the viewers indicated that they would recommend the movie to those around them. .

Just these two data, Amy Pascal and Robert Rehm, who are experienced in the industry, have determined that "Rain Man" is producing a rare word-of-mouth effect.

Although Simon's "Lola Run" last year successfully evolved into an 'event movie', it mainly relied on Simon's age gimmick, the media hype and the audience's strong curiosity, but "Rain Man" is a real movie with content. draws the audience into the cinema.

Therefore, although it is not clear what the box office trend of "Rain Man" will be in the future, and whether it will evolve into a national-level 'event film' again, but at least one thing can be confirmed, "Rain Man" will definitely not be like everyone before. Failed as predicted.

As word of mouth continued to ferment, many media that were originally influenced by caa also published positive film reviews of "Rain Man" one after another.

Among the complex and difficult emotions such as countless expectations, doubts, fears, etc., on December 23, the box office data of the new week was officially released.

Universal Pictures' unexpectedly big-selling "Dragon Brother and Mouse" is still locked in the weekly box office champion position. In the second week of its release, the film received another $12.17 million.

"Rain Man" is followed by "Dragon Brother and Mouse Brother".

In its seven-day opening week, "Rain Man" eventually grossed $11.65 million, almost 50 percent above its $8 million opening-week forecast. People who had no expectations for this film at first found that with such a box office start, coupled with the film's continuous spread of word of mouth, it is not impossible for "Rain Man" to hit the 100 million yuan box office club.

In addition to "Rain Man", "Steel Magnolia" and "Scream" produced by Daenerys Entertainment continued to receive $7.66 million and $5.73 million at the box office, ranking fourth and fifth on the list respectively.

"Dead Poets Society", which opened in the second week of the painting, received an additional $2.08 million this week after last week's $1.63 million box office. In just two weeks of screening, the cumulative box office of "Dead Poets Society" has reached $3.71 million.

"Dead Poets Society" officially opened on a large scale this week with as many as 1,693 screens, which is more than the 1,621 screens that Universal Pictures "Dragon Brother and Mouse" had urgently deployed. In addition, the film was screened for two consecutive weeks. With the accumulated word of mouth, few people would doubt that "Dead Poets Society" will win the box office champion of Christmas week.

In addition to "Dead Poets Society", there are three more large-scale films released this week, namely Disney's 2D animation "Olivia" based on Dickens' "Oliver Twist", and Fox's film that has won a string of Golden Globe nominations for quality But the mediocre "Working Girl" and "My Stepmother is an Alien", which MGM took over from Columbia Pictures after dropping "Rain Man".

Compared with the 1693 screens of "Dead Poets Society", the screen size of these three new films is relatively low, "Olivier Adventures" is 952, "Working Girl" is 1051, "My Stepmother" is 1051. is an alien" is 1

106 blocks.

Like "Dragon Brother and Mouse Brother", due to its strong reputation, the release scale of "Steel Magnolia" this week has also expanded again, reaching 1,613 yuan, becoming the third Christmas movie with a screen size of more than 1,600 screens.

This year's Christmas Eve is still spent by Simon and Janet. After Christmas, the crew of "Batman" began to set off for Melbourne one after another, but Simon had to wait until after New Year's Day.

Perhaps because the previous months were too deserted compared to previous years, with the arrival of Christmas, the North American market this week has seen an explosive growth. Although there are only four new films that have been released on a large scale, in the week from December 23 to December 29, many old films that have been released for several weeks have experienced a strong box office rebound.

However, in this world, there are always people who are happy and who are sad.

Since the box office and word of mouth of "Rain Man" began to counterattack, MGM has been in a state of intense unease.

If the box office of $11.65 million in the first week was not so unacceptable, when the box office data for the new week came out, Tony Tomopoulos, chairman of United Artists who made the decision to give up the distribution rights of "Rain Man", only felt his own Jobs may be lost.

December 30, the seven-day Christmas week box office release.

Compared to last week's $73.19 million total, the broader market soared 68% this week to $122.36 million.

"Dead Poets Society", which has the largest number of screenings, has achieved $19.01 million at the box office in its first week after accumulating word-of-mouth in the previous two weeks.

Obviously, Daenerys Entertainment's 1988 year another million-dollar box office club member was born.

However, compared to the expectations of "Dead Poets Society", it was "Rain Man" that surprised everyone this week.

In the second week of its release, "Rain Man" still had only 1,136 yuan on the screen, but as word of mouth further fermented, the box office of this film, which had apparently successfully evolved into a phenomenal film, not only did not drop, but instead soared by 45 yuan. % to $16.67 million.

Even though the box office of several other films such as "Dragon Brothers" and "Steel Magnolia" have increased to varying degrees this week, the 45% drop in "Rain Man" is still amazing.

You know, "Dragon Brothers and Mouse Brothers" has a reverse decline of only 18%. "Steel Magnolia" has increased the number of screens to 1,613, and the theme is very suitable for the festive atmosphere. This film's reverse decline is only 25%.

Moreover, because of the different box office bases last week, "Dragon Brothers", which fell by 18%, this week's box office was 13.67 million US dollars, and the box office figure of "Steel Magnolia" was actually only 9.21 million US dollars.

With the same number of screens, "Rain Man" has achieved a reverse drop of up to 45% at the box office, and the single-week box office number jumped from $11.65 million last week to $16.67 million. In two weeks, this film, which was originally predicted by many to have a box office of only $20 million in North America, has reached a total of $28.32 million.

At the same time, such box office data also officially means that the six films produced by Daenerys Entertainment this year have fully achieved the grand slam of the North American box office breaking 100 million relay. Of course, a horror comedy that was taken over from Shinsegae was naturally ignored.

In comparison, MGM originally gave up "My Stepmother is an Alien" from "Rain Man" and took over from Columbia, because the word of mouth collapsed directly after the opening of the painting, and there was no splash in the hot market on Christmas Monday. any waves.

The family comedy with a budget of $20 million grossed just $3.81 million in its first seven days.

When the media noticed this, all that was left for MGM was pure sarcasm.

MGM chose "My Stepmother is an Alien" instead of "Rain Man", which was not favored at the beginning. The original plan was actually quite perfect.

A sci-fi family comedy like "My Stepmother is an Alien" is completely in line with a schedule like Christmas, compared to a road movie where two men go all the way to Shinto. Although Columbia Pictures was not optimistic about the film during the internal preview stage, MGM executives generally believed that "My Stepmother is an Alien" should be better than "Rain Man" even if it was worse.

Wishes are beautiful, but reality is cruel.

"My Stepmother From Aliens" box office was $3.81 million in its first week. Even if MGM can get 55% of the box office share from the theater, it can only recover $2.09 million.

If according to the contract signed with Daenerys Entertainment, "Rain Man" accumulated a total of 28.32 million US dollars at the box office in two weeks, and according to the distribution commission ratio of 15%, MGM can get 4.25 million US dollars. Needless to say, the gap between $2.09 million and $4.25 million is just the estimated share of the two weeks, which is already close to the $5 million offer when MGM released "Rain Man".

There are rumors in the circle that just after Christmas, Kirk Kerkorian, the big boss behind MGM, personally flew from Las Vegas to Los Angeles because of the "Rain Man" incident, and brought all MGM executives. Gathered and cursed.

Although there were media reports that MGM would file a lawsuit against Daenerys Entertainment in an attempt to seek compensation based on some loopholes in the contract between the two parties, this matter obviously will not follow. Not to mention that Daenerys Entertainment is unlikely to leave the first and last to MGM, which is now a broken MGM, and there is no such economic strength to fight with Daenerys Entertainment.

Facing the unexpected box office explosion of "Rain Man", Mi Gao was beating his chest

Besides Mei, the most entangled is undoubtedly several big coffees under caa.

When the box office curve of "Rain Man" gradually became clear, Barry Levinson, Dustin Hoffman and Tom Cruise became the target of the paparazzi. The three people's previous disdain for "Rain Man" is still vivid in their minds. Now, the paparazzi's favorite thing to do is to chase after the three and ask them what they think of "Rain Man".

Faced with the pursuit of the media, Barry Levinson tried to choose to disappear completely, but in front of the uncrowned king who made up his mind, this strategy obviously failed. Barry Levinson disappeared for just two days over Christmas before being poached out of Tokyo by the supernatural media.

Dustin Hoffman, who had been hiding in the UK on vacation before, tried to express that some of the success of "Rain Man" also had the intention of his own and others' credit, but the result was a stronger ridicule.

On the other hand, the harassment of the media even affected Tom Cruise's filming "Born on the Fourth of July". Oliver Stone had no choice but to stop work. Tom Cruise also spent most of the time in hiding. Staying in a mansion in Los Angeles.

Cruise's agent Paula Wagner congratulated Daenerys Entertainment on the success of "Rain Man" very generously, plus Cruise was neither like Barry Lai before the release of "Rain Man". Vincent directly conflicted with Daenerys Entertainment like that, and he didn't talk like Dustin Hoffman, which made his situation in this public opinion turmoil significantly better than the other two.

As the dust settles on the box-office form of Rain Man and Dead Poets Society, Hollywood is surprised to find that, of the six Daenerys Entertainment films this year, When Harry Met Sally, Rain Man Neither "Dead Poets Society" nor "Dead Poets Society" was written by Simon himself. Even "Scream", although it is rumored to be Simon's idea, he did not sign it.

This situation undoubtedly proves once again that Simon Westeros chooses the script with the same vision as his creative talent.

As a result, a series of film copyrights that Daenerys Entertainment had already held in their hands suddenly became the object of attention of the entire Hollywood. At the beginning, the media and film companies that once ridiculed Simon for taking huge sums of money to win the copyright had to start over again. Review those items.

As for the projects that Daenerys Entertainment has expressed interest in but has not yet acquired, it has undoubtedly become the object of close attention of the entire Hollywood.

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