Hollywood Starts with Animation
Chapter 110
A few days later.
14 June 1997.
The midnight box office data of "human clearance plan" and the box office data on the opening day have been freshly released, and have been collected into the hands of Group CEO Victor for the first time.
"Well done!"
Looking at Kevin Fitch in front of him, Victor said excitedly, "our new movie really didn''t disappoint us. The box office at midnight was $5.01 million, and the box office on the opening day was $23.7 million, ranking first in North America on Friday."
The first day box office of 23.7 million, even in the blockbuster Hollywood of 1997, is the top ten of the first day box office of the new year.
The box office at midnight is US $5.01 million, though not much, which is not comparable to the US $57 million in the future star wars 7; Even less than the $60 million midnight box office of Fu Lian 4, but in 1997, it was quite a box office success.
Kevin Fitch is also happy to say: "not only that, the average attendance rate of our" human clearance program "in all major courtyard lines is also the first on Friday. It can be imagined that the three-day North American box office champion this weekend must belong to us."
Victor and Kevin have reason to be excited.
If you don''t count the box office cost of the cinema and the film fund, and the cost of film promotion, Wald pictures will be able to recover the cost in just one day.
This achievement is enough to make people proud!
"Kevin, in my name, you will inform Ms. Donna of UPN TV network in a moment to make her fully cooperate with the second announcement of human clearance plan. At the same time, contact our cooperative media and newspapers, let them also increase publicity, financial aspects I will call to inform
Victor said at once.
"All right!" Kevin Fitch responded immediately.
"Wait a minute!"
Suddenly Victor added, "don''t forget the online media and forums, and the water army we hired, let them act again."
Kevin nodded in agreement.
You know, in this film publicity work, online publicity accounts for almost half of the publicity funds.
In Hollywood in the 1990s, this is undoubtedly a very bold act!
But the final result, also let the whole Wald film industry surprised!
The publicity effect on the Internet has more than doubled compared with that of last year, which makes Victor very sharp to find that the main publicity channel of films in the future is no longer the offline traditional paper media, but the online Internet.
The founding of the water army, Wald film is the earliest implementation in the field of Hollywood!
The effect is naturally very good!
Daddada ~!
After Kevin Fitch left the office, Victor called the first time to tell him the good news.
"Really?"
At this moment, Zhuke could not hide his excitement.
"The box office of our new film is so good that it still ranks first at the box office on Friday?"
The box office of "human clearance project" far exceeded Zhuke''s expectation.
In the original time and space, the total box office of the film produced by Universal Pictures in North America was more than 89 million US dollars; In 2013, even the top 30 North American box office rankings were not included.
But
But now, according to the current box office trend, it is absolutely certain that the film will exceed 100 million US dollars in North America. As for how much US dollars can be harvested in the end, it depends on the publicity.
"Victor, the second promotion of the movie is up to you. If you need support, please feel free to contact me." Zucker made a promise right now.
"OK, boss."
Victor hung up solemnly.
Now the group is growing and in good condition, and many things don''t need Zhuke to worry about any more, just need to control the overall situation.
Jubilant Zhuke, now just want to open a bottle of champagne, to celebrate.
.......
Disney Pictures.
Compared with the excitement of Wald pictures, the senior executives of disney pictures are full of haze.
Because their company''s movie "earth shaking" only came in second at the North American box office on Friday.
On Friday, the box office only closed for $6.3 million!
"Goddamn Wald pictures, go to the goddamn project of human clearance!"
"According to our previous estimate, the box office of earthshaking will not be so low even if it is less than $10 million on the next Friday," one executive said angrily
The movie "earth shaking" is on its second weekend this weekend.
On the weekend of last week, the movie "earth shaking" took the first place in the box office with $51 million; At the end of this week, they knew that the human clear was coming, but they didn''t expect the box office gap to be so big.
"Hum!"
Another executive snorted: "it''s no use saying that now. This weekend''s three-day box office, our "earth shaking" is a dead end, but we absolutely can''t wait to die
"That''s right!"
The first executive to speak is very supportive.
Now they don''t expect to see "earth shaking", but on June 15, that is, tomorrow, father''s day in western countries, Disney has a new film on this day.
——Hercules!
It is a well-known IP work of Disney Pictures. As early as the 1970s, it has been moved to the film screen, but it was in the form of animated film at that time; In the late 1980s, Governor Arnold starred in the live action movie version of Hercules, and achieved the top five box office results in North America that year;
Now, this time, it''s Governor Arnold and Disney joining hands again to perform the new Hercules, which Disney also attaches great importance to.
But!
The sudden emergence of "human clearance plan" made them feel threatened.
This incident even shocked Walt Disney group, the parent company of Disney Pictures.
Michael Eisner, chairman of Disney group, personally gave instructions:
"Idiots, we are great Disney. No matter what you do, you must suppress the arrogance of" human clearance plan "to me. Once the box office of" Hercules "is affected, then you will all go away!"
"Yes
Disney executives are sweating.
After all, the speaker is Michael Eisner!
Famous Disney king!
Even though he is deeply involved in the struggle with Disney family members, he still has absolute rights to the Disney group. It''s no empty talk to tell them to go away.
If you don''t believe it, look at Michael owitz!
Owitz is well-known in Hollywood. He created a giant CAA agency with others. In the acquisition cases of Columbia and universal pictures, owitz was even more influential and ranked first in Hollywood''s power list for many times.
Moreover, in 1995, he joined the Disney group and became the president of the Disney group, ranking second only to Eisner.
But what happened?
Less than a year later, he was swept out by Eisner!
Once the agent giant owitz, extremely embarrassed, once became the whole Hollywood joke.
You say, can the employees of Disney Pictures not be afraid of Eisner?
Can you forget what he said?