Chapter 343 Another Dud
After returning to Los Angeles, Joanna and Eric separated. Although Eric hoped that the girl could move to the Sharphorn Manor for a period of time, Joanna was unwilling. In her words, she just didn't want to encounter some embarrassment again. Case.
However, the girl accepted a golden house and a charming little villa that Eric bought her in Beverly Hills. This is the second house Eric gave her. Famke Jensen also chose one before. A villa located near Sunset Boulevard in Beverly Hills, but far from the mansion that Eric bought first, but close to West Hollywood.
For Eric's current net worth, a villa worth about one million dollars is nothing. Therefore, Eric is looking forward to a day when his golden house hides a charming place to surpass Howard Hughes.
The first thing about returning to Los Angeles is of course about the release of Silence of the Lambs.
In the past two weeks, there has not been any box office dazzling film in Hollywood. Compared with the first week of the sequel of "Raiders of the Lost Ark" in the same period last year, which was close to 50 million US dollars at the box office, among the films released in the past two weeks, only 6 The "Total Recall" released on the 1st of the month was a bit better at the box office. "Total Recall" is an action blockbuster starring Schwarzenegger, and it is also the first big-budget movie released with pride after the establishment of Sony Pictures.
Although the film earned $36 million at the box office in its first week, it still did not meet Sony's expectations, because the production cost of "Total Recall" was as high as $65 million, and the publicity cost exceeded $30 million, and North America had to get close to 2 $100 million at the box office to recoup the cost.
However, judging from the film's first-week results and the response after its release, it is clear that the film did not have the potential to harvest $200 million at the box office.
As for the other "Back to the Future 3", the box office dropped by as much as 49% in the next week, and it only received 14 million at the box office. There is absolutely no hope of the box office breaking 100 million. As for a certain 'dud' released by Disney's PWE International, let's not mention it, Firefly and Disney have spent a lot of time. Only then did the public's attention be drawn to the hero of that movie.
The premiere of The Silence of the Lambs is not that big, except for Eric. It is the leading actors of the movie, Jodie Foster, Anthony Hopkins and others.
And, of course, the three producers of the film, Elizabeth Murdoch, Julia Roberts and... Drew Barrymore.
Under Eric's "torture", Xiao Nizi told Eric about the tg film company, and Eric knew that the girl held 30% of the shares in the tg film company. Moreover, there is also Drew's $3 million investment in "Silence of the Lambs", which of course was secretly drawn from the credit card Eric gave her, Caroline Dre, who was previously in charge of Eric's personal finances. Elliott mentioned about the abnormality of the credit card in Drew's hand, but Eric didn't care too much, he believed that the little girl would not mess up.
I didn't expect to see such a surprise now.
Only, if the movie really followed its original trajectory, it won the best picture. That's pretty lively, because the best picture is awarded to the three main producers of the film at most, and this "Silence of the Lambs". There are exactly three people in the producer column, three women.
The development of things is that, before the Oscars in the future, after the film was released in 1,500 theaters on June 8, the three female producers of "Silence of the Lambs" were the same as the content of the film, and became Hollywood in the following days. The hottest topic.
Because of a bloody horror film about cannibals and skinned killers, the producers turned out to be three beautiful beauties. This contrast is too great, not to mention. The star of the film is also the famous Hollywood actress Jodie Foster.
Under the influence of this strong topic effect and the film itself is very exciting, the first three days. "The Silence of the Lambs" earned 14 million at the box office because of the film's R-rating and theater restrictions. This result is already very good. The box office statistics agency predicts that the film will earn nearly 20 million US dollars at the box office in the first week. Moreover, because of the good reputation, this film is very promising after a long-term screening and the box office will exceed 100 million US dollars.
Here I have to mention another tragic movie, another "dud" from Disney, "Rocketman".
The film has been in preparation for several years before, and it is said that Disney has also spent a lot of money to develop a special camera mount for certain lens effects.
Under the influence of Eric's butterfly effect, "The Rocketeer" appeared a year earlier. Although the male protagonist has not changed, it is still the unknown Bill Campbell. However, the female protagonist is Jennifer Connelly in her previous life. It was replaced by Bo Ji Xiaosi. Because of the fame brought by the girl she met in "Dark War" last year, although Bo Ji Xiaosi played a vase, the salary she got in this movie was Bill Campbell's. three times.
Tragically, this big production with a total investment of more than 40 million and a promotion cost of more than 20 million US dollars only received more than 9 million US dollars at the box office on the first three days, so it is inevitable to hit the street.
Although the box office of the two major productions by Sony and Universal is not as good as that of the movies in the same period last year, it is certain that people will make a fortune on the later video tapes by recoupling the cost through overseas distribution. But Disney's two consecutive "duds" are sure to lose money, because the box office performance in North America is so poor, it must be difficult to release overseas, especially the first "dud".
To this end, Eric deliberately studied several other Disney films that will be released in the next summer this summer, and found that in addition to the "Human Ghost Love" co-released with Firefly, several other Eric films I'm not impressed. It seems that Disney's financial statements for the next quarter will be quite ugly. I just don't know how Michael Eisner will react.
After "Silence of the Lambs", the propaganda campaign of Firefly's next movie "Sleeping with the Enemy" became more enthusiastic. Of course, all of this was operated by Robert Shea himself, because of his resentment against Robert Shea, Eric just didn't ask. Anyway, the movie will definitely be successful, he just needs to wait for the final payment.
Although there is no need to worry about "Sleeping with the Enemy", Eric doesn't have much free time, because at the beginning, he promised Cameron's current wife, Katherine Bigelow, to be the producer of "Shocking Point" himself , I had to worry about this movie at this time. (To be continued)