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After the first week, because New Year's Day, January 1, 1990, is a Monday like the previous Christmas, a legal holiday in the United States, the weekend of the second week of "Batman" is also four days.

This week's new film, "The Rocketeer," starring Tom Cruise and Meg Ryan, cost $45 million to make, and Paramount took the project from Daenerys' shady way , can be described as full of confidence, so it also invested 20 million US dollars in the publicity.

However, despite the obvious presence of public relations elements, the media score of "Rocketman" still barely reached a passing grade, and many mainstream print media platforms such as "The New York Times", "Entertainment Weekly" and "Washington Post" also ruthlessly gave Bad review.

According to Simon, in order to make time for "Rocketman", Paramount has also moved "Born on the Fourth of July", also starring Tom Cruise and directed by Oliver Stone, to next year's Easter.

However, the total investment of $65 million, the hottest Christmas season, starring Tom Cruise and Meg Ryan, all these positive factors failed to make "Rocketman" recognized by the market, and the audience did not like it. This nondescript retro sci-fi style movie.

Coupled with the strong impact of "Batman: Time for War", from December 29th to January 4th, "Rocketman" only received $11.98 million at the box office in the first seven days of the week. Although it ranked second in the weekly box office list, it was not. Was thrown far away by "Batman: Hour of War".

Another new film, Steven Spielberg's "Forever," tells the story of a pilot who returns to his girlfriend in ghost state after a plane crash to start another life with him.

That's right, this idea is very similar to "Ghost Love", but of course, the plot is quite different.

In the first week of the filming, this fantasy comedy received only $7.18 million at the box office under the same tepid reputation, ranking fourth on the weekly box office list.

The third place on the list is still occupied by "Flying Over the Childhood" during the Easter schedule. The film fell another 11% this week, taking in 9.68 million US dollars and a cumulative box office of 135.77 million US dollars.

As for "Batman: War Hour", which topped the weekly box office list, due to the record-breaking $82.39 million in the first week and the film itself having a much wider audience than Simon's first two works, the film's box office in the next week Not only did it not fall, but there was an 8% rise against the trend, and it made another $88.79 million.

In two weeks, "Batman: Hour of War" took in an unprecedented $171.18 million at the box office.

Such bi-weekly box office results mean that "Batman: War Hour" will easily break through the domestic box office mark of 400 million US dollars.

Once-phenomenal films like "Star Wars" and "et Aliens" have yet to experience repeated re-releases, "Batman: Hour of War" is expected to be the first domestic film in North American history to break $400 million at the domestic box office. .

With the amazement of the media and the cheers of fans, major Hollywood studios also responded immediately and quickly turned their attention to superhero comics that may be adapted into movies.

Then, most people finally found that the two major comics manufacturers in the United States, Marvel and DC, have no room for them to intervene.

What is even more disappointing is that the two major manufacturers are almost all controlled by Daenerys Entertainment.

Marvel has long become a wholly-owned subsidiary of Daenerys Entertainment, and the three core superman, Batman and Wonder Woman of DC have also been bought by Simon Westeros, which is equivalent to jamming DC's throat.

Not to mention the unexplored gold mine of Marvel, according to the box office results of "Batman: War Hour", it is just the dc movie universe plan announced by Daenerys and Warner Brothers recently, which is probably enough for Daenerys to entertain. last ten years.

You know, not just the box office, but also other channels such as videotape and TV broadcasts can be expected, "Batman: War Hour" derivative sales continued to sell $ 150 million in the second week after the first week of $ 130 million.

Industry statistics agencies predict that sales of various types of derivatives of "Batman: War Hour" may reach $2 billion in the next year, based on sales data in the last two weeks.

Relying on the super high premium brought by the brand image, the terminal sales price of movie derivatives can usually reach about 10 times the production cost, and the gross profit is very high.

Even after multiple concessions from manufacturers, distributors, and retailers, depending on the type of derivative, the copyright owner usually earns 10% to 20% of sales.

The estimated $2 billion in derivative sales of "Batman: War Hour" in the next year, calculated on the basis of the compromised percentage, will bring in about $300 million to Daenerys Entertainment and Time Warner. Moreover, this part of the income basically belongs to the pre-tax net income because it does not require too much up-front investment.

Because of the huge revenue expected in all aspects of "Batman: War Hour", Time Warner management experienced a brief excitement after the film's box office explosion and soon began to regret it.

Even if it is understood that it is Simon Westeros' personal control that created the box office miracle of "Batman: Hour of War", Warners still had the opportunity to participate in the investment of this film.

Now, according to the original contract, Warner Bros. Pictures can only take a 15% commission from the distribution of the film through various channels. Huge derivatives income, Time Warner, which has been merged, can only get a 10% profit share in the name of its subsidiary DC Comics.

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These two parts of the income may bring in no less than 200 million US dollars for Time Warner in the next few years. However, how much Daenerys Entertainment will make from this project is almost too much for Time Warner to calculate.

It's getting more and more sad!

Moreover, if it is Hollywood's other second- and third-tier film companies, Warner Bros. Pictures, which holds omni-channel distribution rights, can squeeze as much as possible the partner's due profit share through the usual Hollywood financial means, and even more extreme, even directly tearing up A contract to recover copyrights such as "Batman".

For Daenerys Entertainment, however, it's impossible for Warners to do so.

Since the launch of Batman: Hour of War, Daenerys Entertainment has deployed a dedicated accounting team to follow the entire project, making it difficult for Warners to play financially.

Of course, it may not be impossible, but Warner dare not do it.

Daenerys Entertainment's handling of the dispute over the division of the original record of "Bodyguard" has left a deep impression on Hollywood.

Alistar Records tried to devour Daenerys Entertainment's share of the record sales, and Simon Westeros completely ignored the huge loss that a phenomenal record might have caused by going out of stock, and directly stopped the sales of this record.

In the end, Alistar Records not only failed, but paid a fine of double the engulfed amount, and the president of Alista Records also lost his job.

If Warner Bros. did the same, Terry Semel felt that Simon Westeros might not hesitate to stop further development work on the entire DC Cinematic Universe until Warner spit out everything it swallowed.

Perhaps, someone has to take responsibility in the end, and he, the CEO of Warner Bros. Pictures, is obviously a suitable scapegoat.

Now that it's an established fact, Time Warner's goal now is to push the DC Cinematic Universe forward as quickly as possible.

Santa Monica.

In the conference room of Daenerys Entertainment's headquarters, the time is already Friday, January 5, 1990.

Throughout the day of the meeting, the two company teams, led by Amy Pascal and Terry Semel, discussed their follow-up collaborations and plans for the DC Cinematic Universe.

The original contract terms established that the parties could renegotiate many details after the Batman debut, such as Warner's distribution commission percentage for the follow-up film.

The 15% commission for omni-channel is actually very high.

Because the entire dc movie universe plan involves too many interests, for a whole day, in addition to a list of ten films in the next five to seven years, the two parties have only initially determined the follow-up distribution commission ratio.

Terry Semel didn't make much concessions in this regard, but made some concessions after subdividing the local, overseas, videotape and TV broadcast platforms.

After negotiation, for the follow-up films co-operated by the two parties and distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures, the local distribution commission rate will be reduced to 12.5%, the overseas distribution commission rate will be reduced to 10%, and the total revenue commission rate drawn by videotape and TV broadcasting platforms will also be 12.5%.

Of course, the advertising and distribution expenses of each channel should be deducted separately after being included in the cost. However, because of Daenerys Entertainment's strict financial supervision in this regard, it is also difficult for Warner to play a role in it.

In addition, some projects that will be distributed by Daenerys Entertainment in the future will also be drawn according to this distribution ratio.

At five o'clock in the afternoon, the meeting ended.

Terry Semel walked out of the conference room with Amy Pascal and asked the question that mattered most to him: "When will Simon be back?"

Amy handed the folder in her hand to her assistant Vanessa and said, "I don't know either. I called him after the film's first week of box office was released, and he said he was going to take Jenny to Antarctica."

Terry Semel raised his eyebrows: "Antarctic?"

Amy smiled and said: "Yeah, the South Pole. Melbourne is relatively close to the South Pole, I don't know. However, it is summer in the southern hemisphere, and the Antarctic is the warmest time of the year, oh, it seems that Extremely day, it is very suitable for past travel.”

"and then?"

Amy shrugged: "I haven't been able to contact him in the last few days. He hasn't said when he will be back, probably until the end of the month."

Terry Semel smiled bitterly and said, "Then, he will definitely not attend the weekend celebration party."

"Well," Amy nodded and said, "There is one more thing, the box office of "War Hour" is very good, Simon asked me to draw up a reward plan, about 3 million US dollars for each of the two protagonists, and several supporting roles. It is $1 million, and the rest of the crew also have their own rewards. The total expenditure is about $20 million. I still have to tell you about this. Warner does not need to share this part of the expenditure this time, but the follow-up projects will be rewarded again. It's going to be counted in the ledger."

Terry Semel nodded and said, "20 million is not much compared to Daenerys' income this time."

Amy smiled, knowing that Terry Semel must be struggling these days, so I won't mention it any more.

After sending off Warner and the rest, Amy came to his office.

Nancy Brill had arrived early and was sitting on the sofa in the reception area of ​​Amy's office, flipping through a document.

Seeing Amy come in, Nancy got up and hugged her and asked, "How was the meeting with Warner?"

"It will definitely take a while, and there are too many things to discuss," Amy said, and asked again, "What about you, has the Rhode Island thing been done?"

Nancy down

I just came back from Rhode Island in the afternoon, because of Daenerys Entertainment's work at the toy factory over there.

For the development of the "Batman: War Hour" derivatives this time, Daenerys Entertainment has undertaken the production of the most lucrative batch of protagonist figures at the toy factory in Rhode Island. In the end, it was because of lack of experience in this area that in the first week of its release, all the toys produced by the Rhode Island factory were sold out.

This time, Nancy went to re-coordinate the toy production of the factory, and also contacted her old relationship with Hasbro, and entrusted some toy orders that her own factory could not complete.

Hasbro's headquarters is also in Rhode Island.

"It's done," Nancy said. "Actually, I think the last time it was sold out was a good result. After restocking, the sales of those toys became even more popular. Simon told us a few times before, Hunger marketing is really useful. By the way, I brought back some limited-edition toys, do you want to give someone?"

"Of course, save me a few. My nephew asked me for Christmas, but he couldn't bring it out, and he was scolded by his parents."

The two were talking and laughing. Amy motioned for Nancy to continue to sit down. She turned back to her desk, opened the safe, took out an envelope, and came over again, handed it to Nancy, and said, "Simon asked me to hand it over to you."

Nancy opened the envelope and inside was a check for $5 million: "This is?"

"Bonus," Amy sat down next to Nancy, Vanessa brought in the coffee at this time, Amy took the coffee and held it in her hand, and continued to Nancy: "You know Simon's temperament, your contract is short-term There is no way to change it, it's an extra compensation."

Nancy put the check in her bag unceremoniously and asked Amy, "He gave it to me, or did you ask for it for me?"

"I mentioned it a little bit, and he gave it to me," Amy said. "He actually cares about you very much."

Nancy knew that Amy's 'care' had no other meaning, so she pretended to be dissatisfied and said, "This sentence is really ambiguous."

"Okay, I forgot that you are single," Amy said with a smile: "Actually, it's better if you don't rush to revise the contract now. When the three-year period expires, the company will probably go public, and it will happen to be able to get one. A new contract with options.”

Nancy came to the interest and asked: "Simon and you talked about the listing plan?"

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