Heads Up Hollywood

The previous "Titanic", because it was released on Christmas, as long as it leads the Christmas file, it will be an off-season at the box office after that, and it can always lead the box office.

In fact, this is also the case. "Titanic" has been ranked first in North America's weekly box office for 15 consecutive weeks!

Such a mythical record is of course impossible to put in the summer file.

Twain was even mentally prepared that after two weeks at the top of the weekly box office, he would give up his position to "Jurassic Park 2".

On Thursday, the early box office, "Jurassic Park 2" surged 9.5 million US dollars, Friday's box office was 19 million US dollars, Saturday's box office was 23 million US dollars, Sunday's box office was 18.6 million US dollars, and the total box office in the first week exceeded 70 million US dollars!

Such first-week box office data ranks third in film history only after "Jurassic Park 1" and "Titanic", which is also a good ranking.

But Steve Spielberg couldn't laugh at all.

Because the box office of "Titanic" was even more popular that week, exceeding 85 million US dollars, a drop of less than 15%!

Such an unfathomable box office trend shocked the whole of Hollywood, and at the same time made Spielberg smile bitterly and mourn.

Even the box office in the first week is not as good as "Titanic". It is conceivable that after that, "Jurassic Park 2" will never have the opportunity to suppress "Titanic".

In fact, it is true.

In the 4th week of "Titanic"'s release, the box office still exceeded 60 million U.S. dollars, and the total box office in North America reached 330 million U.S. dollars!

The box office of "Jurassic Park 2" fell by more than 50%, and the box office of the week was only a little over 30 million U.S. dollars. According to market estimates, the North American box office of this movie is just over 200 million U.S. dollars.

fiasco!

Before the release of the two films, "Titanic" was a joke in Hollywood and even in the United States, while "Jurassic Park 2: The Lost World" was a super blockbuster that everyone was looking forward to!

But what happened?

"Titanic" is like a giant, crushing everything along the way, even the dinosaurs that have always amazed and awed movie fans have to make way humblely.

Shame!

Steve Spielberg has become the godfather of Hollywood commercial films since he became famous after filming "Jaws". All monsters and monsters will avoid him when they encounter him.

This also made Spielberg, who is of Jewish origin, more and more inflated his position in Hollywood, and even went out ambitiously to go out independently, and opened a dreamworks film industry that wanted to compete with the six major film companies!

Unexpectedly, this summer, a child under the age of twenty stepped on his head and became famous in one fell swoop!

Given Steve Spielberg's status and prestige, he naturally couldn't allow himself to degenerate to the point where he deliberately made things difficult for the younger directors, but his unhappiness was indeed true.

It's as if Francis Coppola, Woody Allen, Stanley Kubrick and other big-name directors were unhappy with him!

Time has entered June, and many commercial blockbusters have been released. Under the attack of films such as "Prison in the Air", "Men in Black", "Speed ​​2", "Batman and Robin", "Titanic" Finally gave up the top position at the box office, the weekly box office fell sharply, more than 55%, down to 30 million US dollars.

In particular, "Men in Black" starring Will Smith is another big surprise this summer, with a box office of more than 65 million US dollars in the first week. Its cool and gorgeous scenes caused quite a stir.

Such a result naturally squeezed the living space of "Jurassic Park 2".

By the end of June, the North American box office of "Jurassic Park 2" was only 180 million U.S. dollars, while "Titanic" broke through 400 million U.S. dollars, reaching 450 million U.S. dollars!

The records set by "Jurassic Park 1" back then are now smashed one by one in front of "Titanic".

The official period of the summer file is from July to September, so the craze about "Titanic" is one after another all over the world, and the movie has not yet been released in many places. So far, the overseas box office has only reached 340 million US dollars.

But even so, the global box office of "Titanic" has reached 800 million US dollars, and everything is moving towards the figure that Dunn Walker predicted!

On July 1, Cameron, Twain, Leonardo and others flew to the UK on Cameron's private plane to attend the UK premiere.

Starting today, "Titanic" will be officially open to the world!

It can be expected that in the next two to three months, the box office of movies will have a crazy growth.

In the UK, everyone saw Kate Winslet with a slightly haggard face.

"How are you?"

As her two best friends in the crew, Tang En and Leonardo embraced with concern.

Kate rolled her hair and forced a smile, "I'm fine."

Tang En frowned, "Did that guy make things difficult for you?"

Kate returned to China a month ago to deal with the dissolution of the engagement, and judging from her expression, the situation didn't seem to be going well.

Kate shook her head with extreme disappointment on her beautiful face, "It's okay, I can handle it."

Leonardo said displeased: "Kate, don't you consider us friends?"

Kate felt the concern of the two, and sighed: "The matter has been resolved, and I paid a hush money."

"Hush money?"

Tang En and Leonardo's expressions changed. They didn't expect things to turn out so badly. Her fiancé's... character is too bad, right?

"Forget it, the problems that can be solved with money are not problems." Tang En patted Kate's arm, "As long as the troubles are solved, I still have some cash in hand, if you need help..."

Kate finally smiled happily, "Thank you, Tang En, I don't need it for now, but... I think I need to take on a play right away."

Tang En nodded, "Okay, don't tire yourself too much, remember, no matter what the future holds, Leon and I will always stand behind you."

Leonardo also expressed his position immediately.

Kate was a little moved, and simply hugged the two of them, "Thank you, I am lucky to have you two good friends."

...

Tang En's assistant, George Paxton, also came to London, and Tang En had a very important task for him.

"George, go to the major bookstores immediately and look for fantasy and magical literary novels for young people. Remember that they are novels, not fairy tales."

Naturally, Tang En couldn't directly reveal the title of the book, that would be too unbelievable.

George's abilities are mediocre, but his mind is good, "Twain, do you want to create a fantasy movie for teenagers?"

Tang En once asked him to inquire about the copyright of "The Lord of the Rings", and found that it had been purchased by New Line Films, and they were working with Peter Jackson to bring this epic classic to the big screen.

George naturally thought of Tang En's thoughts.

Tang En didn't deny it, "It's true."

George frowned and said, "Tang En, you know...I'm not good at negotiating. I think it's better to let your agent come forward in this matter."

"William?"

Tang En pouted, with a look of disdain on his face.

He was so disappointed in his agent, William Mihawk, that he almost got fired.

With the hot box office of "Titanic", more and more director invitations to Twain, William Mihawk is like a bumpkin who has never seen the world, a movie invitation with an investment of 18 million, also Being able to make him laugh and flatter Tang En happily.

Tang En knew that although he was the director of "Titanic", his qualifications and age were too low. No film company would take such a big risk to hand over a commercial blockbuster with an investment of over 100 million yuan to him. In contrast, Steve Spielberg, Mel Gibson, Ridley Scott and other commercial directors with many successful works are safer.

But William Mihawk, as Tang En's manager, can't be hungry, can he?

So Tang En completely lost trust in this incompetent manager, and it was impossible to entrust him with such an important task.

"It's okay, I know what's in my heart, you can do it."

A small loss in the negotiation cannot change Tang En's determination.

What's more, he knows the general trend of the future.

Using the temporary lack of benefits to pursue longer-term benefit guarantees is the advantage that the reborn should bring.