Hollywood Hunter

In a residential apartment in the Santa Monica mountains north of Daenerys Studios.

In a blink of an eye, it was already October 3rd.

Enter the first Friday in October.

After a week of promotion after the release, Amy Adams and Jessica Chastain just flew back from southern Florida yesterday and finally got a good night's rest.

However, because of the continued excitement, the two women woke up at six o'clock in the morning.

Today is the day when the full first-week box office of "Ghost Story" is released.

When Amy Adams left the bedroom and came to the living room without even brushing her teeth, she found Jessica Chastain sitting cross-legged on the sofa in the living room, holding the just-acquired "Los Angeles Times" in her hand, and several copies beside her. other newspapers.

Rushing forward in three or two steps, Amy did not fight for the newspaper in Jessica's hand, but picked up a copy of "The Hollywood Reporter", and while sitting on the single sofa next to her, she couldn't wait to ask: "How much, how much?"

Jessica didn't look up: "Look for yourself."

Amy said that she had seen the headline on the front page of "The Hollywood Reporter", and the eye-catching 59m string of characters came into view.

"Wow, 59 million, higher than the 55 million they expected on Monday."

Jessica smiled beside her, corrected and agreed: "To be precise, it is 59.63 million, which is already close to 60 million."

"$60 million, it's unbelievable, and the cost is only $300,000."

Jessica said from the side: "Didn't you read the article on "Variety" a few days ago? In fact, it's not 300,000, at most tens of thousands of dollars. It's not like you don't know how much we got paid."

Of course Amy knew.

Because this was an ultra-low-cost small film, what she signed was not a fixed salary, but the lowest-level weekly salary contract, which was only 1,000 US dollars per week. After the film was finished, she only got 8,000 US dollars.

Jessica was paid less in a supporting role.

So, just before the premiere in Toronto last month, both women were working as waitresses in Santa Monica to earn a living.

Thinking of this, Amy felt a little sour again.

The contract has been checked quietly a few days ago, and the two of them don't have any sharing clauses.

I also asked in private, and Lin Yibin did the same.

Because it was an ultra-low-cost experimental project, it was not covered by the labor union's mandatory sharing clause. What's more, they hadn't joined the labor union at the time, and the brokerage company was handling this matter recently.

Now, Daenerys Entertainment can net hundreds of millions of dollars just by relying on the North American box office, so giving yourself a million is not too much, right?

Unfortunately, not a single word.

Jessica noticed Amy's expression, and she probably understood something, and said, "Actually, everyone is like this. Schwarzenegger's first film salary was only 12,000 US dollars. At that time, he was already a well-known bodybuilder in the United States." , much more famous than us.”

"I just thought, Daenerys earned so much this time, should she give us some rewards?"

"Well, Lin may have it, but we don't necessarily have it," Jessica said: "What's more, Amy, if you want to open some, our biggest gain is to be able to participate in this movie, otherwise, say Maybe we won’t be famous all our lives.”

Amy nodded, and couldn't help but said: "Actually, Lin may not be able to get an extra bonus. Although the media is reporting that he is the main creator, everyone knows that it is not."

"But he has done a good job with this idea, so Daenerys Entertainment will definitely try its best to win over him."

Amy paused and had to admit it.

After calming down a little, he looked at the newspaper in his hand again.

Jessica did not continue with a topic that made people think more and more disturbingly, and instead said: "Look at this week's box office list. I didn't pay much attention to it before, but now I find that Daenerys Entertainment is really amazing. .”

Amy didn't know, so: "What?"

Jessica said: "The top five on the list, apart from "Ghost Story", which is number one, Daenerys Entertainment also has two places."

Amy quickly browsed the article on the "Hollywood Reporter" about the box office summary of the week, and she quickly understood, and couldn't help but be speechless.

A box office week from September 26 to October 2.

The first place, "Ghost Story" has no suspense, 59.63 million US dollars, this box office result directly broke the September single-week box office record in Hollywood history.

Immediately afterwards, DreamWorks Pictures' "Doomsday Alert" ranked second on the list, with a box office of 13.67 million US dollars in the first week.

Although it is the runner-up, considering the blockbuster production cost of "Doomsday Alert" of 50 million US dollars, the first week's income was 13.67 million US dollars, and it is a commercial film with a poor reputation. It is impossible to go out of the long-term. Obviously, due to the strong impact of "Ghost Story", the estimated domestic box office of "Doomsday Alert" has dropped a lot from the 40 million box office that DreamWorks originally expected.

Third place went back to Daenerys Entertainment again.

"Six Heroes of Light Pig", which set a box office record of 15+ ratings in the UK in August, opened in North America on September 12. After earning US$22.96 million in the first week, it continued to earn US$16.3 million in the second week.

In the third week of its release just past, this small film with a production budget of only 2 million pounds, faced the impact of "Ghost Story", the box office fell by 36%. However, single

The weekly box office still earned $10.43 million, ranking third on the list.

In the three weeks since the start of the painting, the North American box office of "Six Heroes of Light Pig" has accumulated to 49.69 million US dollars, and the total North American box office is expected to be around 70 million US dollars. Although it is not as good as the UK's 62 million pounds, which is equivalent to 95 million U.S. dollars, it is also a solid box office dark horse considering the cost.

Fourth place, also from Daenerys Entertainment.

This is a remake of Ang Lee's "Eating and Drinking Men and Women" with an all-black cast called "Food for the Soul". It tells about black culture through a weekend dinner in a black family. The director George Tillman Jr. is black, and the heroine One is the famous 'Steel Bones' girlfriend Halle Berry.

Produced by Gaomen Films, the film was released the week before "Ghost Story", with a scale of 1336 screens, and the comprehensive media score reached an excellent 8.1 points. With Ang Lee, who became more famous after "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", he personally helped the platform promote the film, and the box office of the film reached the top-selling level of over 10,000 in the first week, earning 14.32 million US dollars.

The film was produced on a budget of just $7.5 million, with Highgate's original expectation of $20 million. It earned 14.32 million in the first week, which not only directly recovered the production investment, but also more than doubled the original expectation of Gaomen Films. Relying on the long-term reputation of word of mouth, it is expected to hit the 50 million threshold.

Unfortunately, "Food for the Soul" encountered "Ghost Story" the next week.

Faced with the strength of "Ghost Story", the Gaomen Films team originally predicted a slight decline of about 20% in the next week, which eventually expanded to 37%. The next week's income from September 26 to October 2 finally reached 9.02 million Dollar.

In two weeks, "Food for the Soul" has accumulated a box office of 23.34 million US dollars.

Of course, it is still a very good result, but in the face of the continuous pressure of "Ghost Story", the North American box office of "Food for Soul" is likely to stop within 40 million.

Then, at the fifth place on the list, Daenerys Entertainment gave up again, the comedy "Ins and Outs" produced by Paramount

This movie is starring Kevin Klein, the actor of "A Fish Named Wanda" and Tom Selleck, the actor of "Three Dads and a Baby". After a long long-distance love race, his girlfriend was finally on the verge of achieving a positive result, but she was publicly identified as gay by her former student at a ceremony.

On the arduous journey of proving his innocence, Howard caused a series of ironic stories.

The word-of-mouth of the film is very good. It has the same September 12 opening schedule as "Six Heroes of Light Pig". In the previous two weeks, it earned 19.15 million US dollars and 13.94 million US dollars respectively.

However, still due to the sniping of "Ghost Story", "Ins and Outs" became the one of the top five Chinese and African new films with the deepest decline. The box office has shrunk by 46% in the past week, and the box office in a single week is only 7.53 million US dollars. The box office was $40.62 million.

Similar to "Food for the Soul", "Ins and Outs" was expected to have a total local box office of more than 60 million, but it has also shrunk by at least 10 million US dollars, and is expected to stop at around 50 million US dollars.

In the final analysis, it is still a trade-off.

However, relatively speaking, because of the phenomenon-level popularity of "Ghost Story", the "length" this time far exceeds the "disappearance" part.

Regarding the just-released weekly box office list, the two Hollywood newcomers who huddled in the hinterland of the Santa Monica Mountains were just surprised. All over Los Angeles, film practitioners, large and small, who are not from Daenerys Entertainment, are all different. It's a heart scratching lung with mixed flavors.

Still let people live? !

From 1997 to the present, from "Bj's Single Diary" on Valentine's Day to drag two British younger brothers, "Alien 2", "Cable TV Repairman", "Ghost of Terror" and "Taken" on Easter four consecutive hits, and then In the summer, there are so many "Face Changing", "Tornado", "American Pie", "Independence Day" and even "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon".

When the summer file ended, I finally felt that it was time to slow down and let everyone play. In September, the dark horse "Six Heroes of Light Pig" came first, and at the end of the month, there was another "Ghost Story" Wang Zha, which directly locked the whole world. October.

Daenerys is the only company left to co-author Hollywood? !

However, with Daenerys Entertainment's current strength in Hollywood, all resentment can only be incompetent rage after all.

Even after resentment, whether it is industry executives or director stars, they couldn't help but start thinking about whether it is possible to switch jobs or cooperate with Daenerys Entertainment.

In the end, we still have to have a meal, who is not right?

As for the small number of movie company bosses, as long as they are alive, what else can they do?

Even if you buy a desperado to kill Simon Westeros, not to mention whether he will be evaporated by the whole family in the same way that Westeros wiped out the entire mafia family in Italy, it will be done, Daenerys Entertainment Still there.

Power is established.

As for seeking administrative means, such as anti-monopoly against Daenerys Entertainment, there is probably no one in Hollywood that has a closer relationship with Washington than Daenerys Entertainment.

So you can only imagine it.

For example, going back to ten years ago, everyone pooled some money and bribed the doctor to keep a certain lunatic in the Watsonville Mental Hospital forever.

how nice.

Mountain condos in Santa Monica.

The two girls just sighed with emotion, and hurriedly started preparing breakfast.

Today is still a busy day.

fill the stomach carefully

After tidying up, the two girls went out, quickly boarded the car under the flashing lights of the paparazzi who had already started watching them, and rushed to the nearby Daenerys Studios.