Eight Hundred and Seventieth Chapters Cold Water
Since its birth in 1954, Godzilla is definitely the most well-known monster in the world.
As Godzilla's first big movie after entering Hollywood, it also has the most popular cg special effects in recent years as a gimmick. Large numbers of spectators automatically walk into the cinema.
Therefore, Sony Pictures has high hopes for "Godzilla", not only invited Roland Emmerich with an unprecedented $20 million salary plus 15% of the North American box office share, but also ambitiously formulated from the beginning. In the trilogy plan, the production budget of the first film of the film has also been increased from the original 1.2 billion US dollars to 1.5 billion US dollars. Stimulated by the global box office explosion of "Titanic", Sony Pictures, which confidently wants to hit the $1 billion global box office, even raised the film's publicity budget to $70 million.
Intensive TV trailer bombing and overwhelming poster promotion made "Godzilla" the most watched super blockbuster this summer from the very beginning, and the audience's expectations were far higher than "Batman and Robin", " 007: Casino Royale" and other summer blockbusters.
Under the profligate marketing campaign of Sony Pictures, almost no one in Hollywood doubts that "Godzilla" will become the most box-office movie of the summer. In order to avoid the edge of "Godzilla", after June 6th The one-week schedule can be said to be completely monopolized by "Godzilla". Even those small film companies who like to grab food behind summer blockbusters dare not choose to release their films this week. The opening scale of more than 3,300 screens also tied the opening screen record created by "The Mummy 2" last year.
In the context of the unprecedented box office record that "Titanic" has just created, the entire film industry is not sure for a while whether Hollywood will have a box office behemoth again soon. Therefore, in addition to Sony Pictures, Hollywood Most studios are anxiously watching the box-office figures for "Godzilla." Even if "Godzilla" only shows half of "Titanic"'s box office potential, other films that follow will be impacted to varying degrees.
"Godzilla" also seems to have completely lived up to expectations. The box office at the midnight box office on the opening day was 6.25 million US dollars. You must know that "Jurassic Park", which broke the midnight box office record a few years ago, was only 4.59 million at the box office. US dollars only.
However, perhaps it also corresponds to the truth that the higher you stand, the worse you fall.
After the good start of the midnight show, on Friday, the major newspapers and media in North America poured cold water on this super blockbuster.
"It's so spectacular, it's so spectacular, it seems that special effects blockbusters are not a panacea."
In the mansion on the top of Beverly Hills, early in the morning, reading the fax from Fox's distribution department, Elizabeth was obviously a little excited, but her tone was a bit sour.
Although it has the convenience of alliance with Firefly, and also owns shares in the Australian branch of the digital field, it can easily use the industry's top special effects production resources, but Fox has not released CG special effects blockbusters this year. "Star Wars", several special effects film projects prepared by Fox are in the early stage of preparation.
Eric took the breakfast from Julia, opened the laptop on the dining table, glanced at Elizabeth, and joked: "What age, and they still use such an old-fashioned communication method as fax, come, let me introduce to you. Look at Yahoo's business email system."
Elizabeth gave Eric a roll of eyes, and said with contempt, "Also, the asking price is so expensive that when I reported the budget, it was almost rejected by the board of directors. I would have used aol if I knew it earlier," suddenly remembered that AOL was also the same. Firefly invested in the company, and Elizabeth bluntly added: "Microsoft's is also good."
Julia turned to the kitchen again to bring her and Elizabeth's breakfast,
Sitting down at the dining table, he asked, "Liz, what did you just say is spectacular, a review of "Godzilla"?"
Elizabeth was interested again and said, "Yeah, listen to me. This is a part of the movie reviews that the company just collected this morning."
"Entertainment Weekly: Despite some clever and exciting shots, this $150 million junk sci-fi blockbuster is far more embarrassing than shocking."
"'Variety': Not to mention the big scenes that make people feel uninteresting, this monster movie as a whole gives a sense of incongruity and weirdness, and the director obviously didn't capture the soul of the story."
"Also, Roger Ebert also commented in the Chicago Sun-Times: 'You have to be totally brainless to accept a movie like this, but my brain keeps insisting that it doesn't Logic is used where welcome'. Haha, Roger probably got PR, but the sarcasm is embarrassing as the review sounds mild."
"This Arizona Daily Star is not showing mercy at all: 'It's unbearably dull and boring, I can't imagine how anyone could ever like such a dung-like piece of junk'. Gee, no. I know if Sony has offended this film critic and scolded it so hard."
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Elizabeth slammed more than a dozen newspaper reviews in one breath, and Eric only heard two that were barely compliments. Several major Hollywood film companies are basically paying attention to the box office performance of "Godzilla". Eric opened his e-mail, and Firefly also passed on some word of mouth and data analysis of "Godzilla".
According to the review results of dozens of mainstream American newspapers on Friday, "Godzilla" has just been released, and the overall score of the movie has been pulled to a level of 3, which is completely unworthy of watching.
Although the box office of "Godzilla" at midnight reached $6.25 million, the Firefly distribution department predicts that under the influence of this ultra-low word of mouth, "Godzilla" may not exceed $80 million at the box office in its first week, which is far from impossible. Meet Sony's first week of breaking expectations.
After listening to Elizabeth read a series of film reviews, Julia said in disbelief: "The production cost of 150 million US dollars, no matter how bad it is, it can't be too bad, right?"
"Future Water World has spent 175 million yuan, and it's still a bad review, but Godzilla seems to be even worse. I remember that the overall score of Future Water World is still 4 points. Elizabeth said, flipping through the stack of faxes in her hand again, and said: "The overall score of "Godzilla" is only 3 points. It is estimated that in a few days, there will only be one or two points left. This shit is really outrageous, Eric, aren't you the one doing the trick?"
Eric closed the analysis file of "Godzilla", opened the e-mail of last week's box office statistics, and asked back with a smile: "What does your family do, can't you see if I'm making trouble?"
"Hmph, who knows what tricks you will play behind your back, but I'm suddenly curious about such a bad super blockbuster, why don't we watch it together at night?"
"Not tonight. Robert Iger is coming to New York. Jeffrey and I have agreed to have dinner together. Tomorrow, I will let someone book a small hall in advance."
"Are you willing to accompany us over the weekend?" Elizabeth sneered habitually with joy in her eyes, and changed the subject in a blink of an eye: "By the way, how was the box office last week?"
"The Lion King 2 ranked first with $55.7 million. Prison in the Air ranked second with $34.2 million," Eric just introduced the two films, without continuing, he raised his head and smiled: "This is The box office performance of the two films was not too high, and the total box office in a single week was only 1.3 billion US dollars, far from reaching the limit of about 200 million US dollars in the summer. A week before "The Lion King 2", with the mutual stimulation of two different types of animated films, "Ice Age" will definitely perform very well at the box office."
"I don't want to be used as cannon fodder by you. "Ice Age" is the first film of Blue Sky Studio. If it breaks, it will be very shocking. Why don't you put "Finding Nemo" in "The Lion King 2" ahead?"
"I'm saving Paramount a way to survive. We can't bully people too much. "Ice Age" is different. The cost is only 59 million US dollars. The investment is not high and there is no pressure to return to the capital. It is more suitable for coexistence with big men. "
"Nonsence."
Due to the impact of the ultra-low word of mouth, although "Godzilla" had a gratifying performance at the midnight box office, it only received $17.5 million on Friday, and the subsequent Saturday's box office results only increased slightly to $19.3 million. On Sunday, The single-day box office of "Godzilla" fell directly to a low of 16.7 million.
Although the total box office of the first weekend reached 59.75 million US dollars, although it easily won the position of the box office champion of the summer weekend. However, due to the continuous bombardment of negative reviews by the media for three consecutive days, the box office potential of "Godzilla" seemed to have suddenly dissipated on the working day, and the single-day box office fell directly to the situation where only more than 4.3 million US dollars remained. On the next working day, the single-day box office of "Godzilla" continued to decline.
In the end, the box office of "Godzilla" was only US$7,366 in the first week. Although this box office seems to far exceed the data of US$55.7 million in the first week of "The Lion King 2", considering that Sony Pictures has been bombarded in the early stage. The publicity offensive and the general tone of the industry that "Godzilla" broke 100 million at the box office in the first week, the box office of 73.66 million US dollars, is still far from being a success.
What's more, the bad word of mouth is destined to usher in a big box office drop in the next week. After the box office of "The Lion King 2" was $55.7 million in the first week, the box office of "The Lion King 2" dropped by only a very weak 24% in the second week, and then received another $42.33 million. In two weeks, the cumulative total of "The Lion King 2" The box office reached 98.03 million US dollars, only one step away from breaking 100 million, which undoubtedly brought more pressure to the upcoming "Finding Nemo".
However, because the market performance of "Godzilla" was not so strong, the box office drop of "Prison in the Air" in the second week was also very considerable, only 323%. On the basis of the first week's $34.2 million, it collected another $23.15 million, two weeks. With a total of $57.35 million at the box office, it looks like it has the potential to break 100 million again.
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"The Lion King 2 ranked first with $55.7 million. Prison in the Air ranked second with $34.2 million," Eric just introduced the two films, without continuing, he raised his head and smiled: "This is The box office performance of the two films was not too high, and the total box office in a single week was only 1.3 billion US dollars, far from reaching the limit of about 200 million US dollars in the summer. A week before "The Lion King 2", with the mutual stimulation of two different types of animated films, "Ice Age" will definitely perform very well at the box office."
"I don't want to be used as cannon fodder by you. "Ice Age" is the first film of Blue Sky Studio. If it breaks, it will be very shocking. Why don't you put "Finding Nemo" in "The Lion King 2" ahead?"
"I'm saving Paramount a way to survive. We can't bully people too much. "Ice Age" is different. The cost is only 59 million US dollars. The investment is not high and there is no pressure to return to the capital. It is more suitable for coexistence with big men. "
"Nonsence."
Due to the impact of the ultra-low word of mouth, although "Godzilla" had a gratifying performance at the midnight box office, it only received $17.5 million on Friday, and the subsequent Saturday's box office results only increased slightly to $19.3 million. On Sunday, The single-day box office of "Godzilla" fell directly to a low of 16.7 million.
Although the total box office of the first weekend reached 59.75 million US dollars, although it easily won the position of the box office champion of the summer weekend. However, due to the continuous bombardment of negative reviews by the media for three consecutive days, the box office potential of "Godzilla" seemed to have suddenly dissipated on the working day, and the single-day box office fell directly to the situation where only more than 4.3 million US dollars remained. On the next working day, the single-day box office of "Godzilla" continued to decline.
In the end, the box office of "Godzilla" was only US$7,366 in the first week. Although this box office seems to far exceed the data of US$55.7 million in the first week of "The Lion King 2", considering that Sony Pictures has been bombarded in the early stage. The publicity offensive and the general tone of the industry that "Godzilla" broke 100 million at the box office in the first week, the box office of 73.66 million US dollars, is still far from being a success.
What's more, the bad word of mouth is destined to usher in a big box office drop in the next week. After the box office of "The Lion King 2" was $55.7 million in the first week, the box office of "The Lion King 2" dropped by only a very weak 24% in the second week, and then received another $42.33 million. In two weeks, the cumulative total of "The Lion King 2" The box office reached 98.03 million US dollars, only one step away from breaking 100 million, which undoubtedly brought more pressure to the upcoming "Finding Nemo".
However, because the market performance of "Godzilla" was not so strong, the box office drop of "Prison in the Air" in the second week was also very considerable, only 323%. On the basis of the first week's $34.2 million, it collected another $23.15 million, two weeks. With a total of $57.35 million at the box office, it looks like it has the potential to break 100 million again. (To be continued.)