Made in Hollywood

North America is the most mature commercial film market in the world. Since the 1990s, the population of North America has not grown significantly, which means that the number of movie audiences will not increase significantly. Watch a movie on weekends. A large number of viewers will inevitably lead to a decline in the number of audiences for other films.

"Godzilla" intensifies its promotion, and Warner Bros. certainly can't sit back and watch.

However, compared with the various promotional strategies used by Sony Columbia Pictures, Warner Bros. followed Duke's suggestion and always responded with the simplest and most direct method.

"Godzilla's reputation is overwhelming, the audience is shouting for thrills, and the monster fever is heating up."

This is the news hype created by Sony Columbia Pictures, and Warner Bros. is responding - Godzilla is a native Japanese monster!

"Godzilla's first-day box office was nearly 10 million dollars, leading the summer season!"

"Godzilla is a native Japanese monster!"

"When the hero and heroine were filming the film, they were scared by Godzilla and their legs were weak."

"Godzilla is a native Japanese monster!"

"Monsters invaded Manhattan, and all kinds of landmarks were destroyed in front of Godzilla."

"Godzilla is a native Japanese monster!"

Cultural differences are an objective fact, especially in North America, where isolationism still has a great influence, and although the Internet is on the rise, it is far from reaching the level of connecting the world. It is inevitable that foreign cultures will be excluded from the big screen in North America. The thing, let alone the Japanese monster Godzilla, the Western-style commercial film "Taxi Express" produced by the French Hollywood director Luc Besson is only a three-day tour in North American theaters.

As for the actual trend of "Godzilla" and "The Matrix", Monday's "Los Angeles Times" entertainment section published the weekly box office report at a glance.

"The third weekend of May, the North American box office market was still very hot, although it did not achieve the feat of reaching $20 million in the first three weekends. However, the market market was able to be driven by the two films of "The Matrix" and "Godzilla". Continuing to run high, almost in line with the same period last year when Jurassic Park: The Lost World opened, the North American annual box office was up 7 percent by the end of the week compared to the same period last year, which is very good."

"Last weekend, Sony Columbia Pictures spent $140 million to create the heavyweight monster movie "Godzilla". Against the previous box office and word of mouth "The Matrix", this film Friday and Saturday And Sunday reported $8.42 million, $10.12 million, and $8.25 million, respectively, and won $26.79 million in the first weekend!"

"However, this result is not enough for "Godzilla" to win the weekly box office champion, this week's box office champion still belongs to "The Matrix"!"

"Jointly created by Warner Bros. and Duke Studio, the sci-fi action film "The Matrix" directed by the famous director Duke Rosenberg was still strong in the next weekend, despite the strong attack and competition of "Godzilla" Challenge. The second weekend was still $39.89 million, and it won the weekend championship without any pressure. The North American box office broke the $150 million mark in one fell swoop, reaching as high as $150.86 million!”

"The small-budget film "Horse Whisperer" released by Bowei Pictures was the biggest surprise of the week. It overwhelmed "The Clash of Heaven and Earth" in its third weekend. With a box office score of 13.68 million US dollars, it occupied the box office No. 3 on the list, while DreamWorks' Clash of Earth continued its disappointing performance, earning just $5.61 million in its third weekend. The North American box office totaled $56.22 million, and it's nowhere close to recouping its costs."

"The same surprise also came from "Titanic", which was released for more than half a year. This big ship seems to have no end. Last weekend, it collected another $3.56 million in 521 theaters, and the North American box office has reached $632.55 million. This film Every step forward. It is creating a new film history record!"

"It's not hard to tell from the box office data that this past weekend, "Godzilla" and "The Matrix" have jointly dominated the market, but the response of the two films in the audience has shown a completely different direction."

"The Matrix has led a wave of cyberpunk culture in North America since its release. It has been highly acclaimed since its test screening. Director Duke Rosenberg has successfully combined philosophical thinking and sci-fi elements to perfection. Combined, it has created a new era of science fiction, and even George Lucas believes that The Matrix will become a milestone in the history of science fiction, and its status will not be lower than that of Star Wars."

"In addition, this film that has attracted fans' popularity is still amazing two weeks after its release. The audience's praise rate has always remained above 90%, and the famous film and television website IMDB has an audience score of 9.5 points! With the support of such a strong word of mouth, $200 million is definitely not the end of the North American box office for this sci-fi film!"

"On the other hand, "Godzilla" has a good box office in the first week, but the reputation of the film cannot be ignored. On the day of the film's large-scale opening, the audience's praise rate was only 63%. After the three-day weekend, It has dropped to 58%, and the audience rating of the film and television rating website IMDB is only a pitiful 5.6 points. Based on this, it is speculated that the North American box office of "Godzilla" can exceed 100 million US dollars. It is a victory!"

""The Matrix" has achieved two consecutive summer box office charts, and North America is about to usher in the Memorial Day schedule. "Peerless Heavenly Tribulation" produced by Touchstone Pictures and distributed by Bowei Pictures is about to be released. This investment 1 Whether the $40 million sci-fi blockbuster can shake up The Matrix, we'll have to wait and see."

Not only the North American market, just this past weekend, "The Matrix" began to land in overseas markets. All the film locations were from Sydney, and the response was particularly strong in Australia. It won 7.52 million US dollars in three days over the weekend, which is the second time in Australian film history. In the first week of "Titanic" box office results.

In the United Kingdom, "The Matrix" received an equally strong response, with an opening weekend of $11.2 million.

Looking at the world today, the Internet is not yet prosperous, and some concepts in "The Matrix" will also make it difficult for people who have not touched the Internet to understand. However, Duke did not discuss these two worlds in depth, but highlighted them. The strategy of being cool and handsome brings advantages, just watching the action and explosion scenes inside is enough to make people addicted.

Also this weekend, The Matrix earned $6.84 million in France, $7.85 million in Germany, $6.55 million in Spain, $5.67 million in Italy, $7.44 million in Russia, $7.11 million in Argentina, $7.26 million in Brazil, and $5.66 million in Mexico ...

Although "The Matrix" has not yet appeared in the Asian market, in one weekend, the film's overseas box office totaled 74.89 million US dollars, and the global box office easily exceeded 220 million US dollars!

"Actually, the box office is nothing."

After discussing how to target Martin Bob next, the conversation in the office turned to The Matrix, Eno Martin said to Pat Kingsley, "The media and the public have ignored the peripheral income of The Matrix. ."

"Warner Bros. did not disclose the peripheral sales data for last weekend." Pat Kingsley poured himself a cup of coffee, "Enoch, did you get the peripheral sales data for last weekend?"

"I got some rough peripheral statistics of "The Matrix" through my relationship with Warner."

After taking a document, Eno Martin handed it over to Pat Kingsley, "See for yourself, this time Warner Bros. and Duke Studio are going to make a fortune."

"A total of around $25.6 million in merchandise was sold in North America last weekend?"

Even Pat Kingsley was a little surprised, took a sip from the coffee cup, calmed down a little, and said, "If I remember correctly, the North American merchandising sales of The Matrix have exceeded 100 million."

"Yes, it is indeed over a billion."

As if feeling a little emotional, Ino Martin rubbed his forehead and said, "I have definite news that the Duke Studio signed an agreement with various manufacturers to take 30% of the sales, that is to say $30 million is almost a profit.”

"The percentage of peripheral profits from big-selling movies is getting bigger and bigger." Jinsili sighed.

Eno? Martin added, "Don't forget, this is only North America! And the disc, video and TV rights of "The Matrix" have not been sold, I think the peripheral profit of this film may exceed the box office profit!"

"Short-term perimeter within a year," he added.

Pat Kingsley nodded and thought for a while, "Not signing a brokerage contract with Duke Rosenberg was definitely the biggest decision-making mistake in CAA's history."

"It's a pity that we didn't have the right to speak."

Having said this, Eno Martin's eyes flashed again and again, "That's fine, the more successful Duke is, the more psychologically unbalanced the partners will be, and the more they will feel that someone should be responsible for the original mistakes, and the person who needs to be responsible, this year with Sri Lanka. Pierberg's packaging project was not a success, and our chance is coming!"

Not too far from their offices, Martin Bob was sitting alone in the office, frowning. He cooperated with the most secure Spielberg, but it was still difficult to get rid of the bad luck of the past few years. He seemed to be getting farther and farther, and he was almost the laughing stock of CAA, almost synonymous with failure.

There are strong enemies outside competition, and hungry wolves are looking around. Martin Bob has already felt the crisis. Even if he is the largest shareholder among all CAA partners, when the opposition is strong to a certain extent, the only way is to step down sadly. Walk.

He didn't want to be thrown out of office as a loser like Michael Ovitz left Disney.

A small mistake a few years ago, abandoning a seemingly inconspicuous little person, has now become a clarion call, Duke Rosenberg, is it really powerful and invincible?

Those who can sit in high positions are all determined people, and Martin Bob does not intend to admit defeat. (To be continued ~^~)

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