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After spending a month with two women in New York, Eric returned to Los Angeles near Christmas. As the most important period of the year except for the summer period, most of the films in the Christmas period will be released in the two weeks of December 18th and December 25th.

Firefly's last Detective Plane in 1992 is also scheduled for December 18, because Jim Carrey and tg have been unable to agree on the salary of the next movie. In early December, Jim Carrey made public again. Expressed to the entertainment media strong indignation at being 'cheated' into signing the option contract, while also stating that he did not plan to attend the premiere of Detective Plane.

A few days before the premiere of Detective Plane, after a long tug-of-war negotiation, tg finally signed a contract with Jim Carrey for another $11 million film. I saw Jim Carrey at the premiere of 2019.

Hollywood stars often star in the films of directors or producers who know them well at a low price or even for free, but they often go head-to-head with the film companies that discovered them, and they have a lot of trouble in terms of remuneration, which has almost become a Hollywood phenomenon. This is a habitual trend, and Eric is also used to it.

In addition to Detective Plane, Warner's Bodyguard and Mrs. Smith co-produced by Columbia and Firefly's Disney Pictures were also released on the same day.

Eric did not participate in God? The premiere of Explore the Plane, but at the request of Peter Cooper and Nicole's soft words, he finally attended the premiere of Mr. and Mrs. Smith.

According to the original agreement, Firefly cooperated with Colombia on five films. North American distribution rights belong to Columbia. The overseas distribution is handled by Firefly. This agreement is of course to cover up the impact of the private agreement between Eric and Peter Cooper. Columbia's overseas distribution network has been broken at this time. If it is distributed overseas by Columbia, Mrs. Smith The overseas box office may even be half as expected.

Because of the optimism about the prospects of Mrs. \u0026 Mrs. Smith, Colombia almost took out all her wealth, and arranged more than 2,800 screens for Mrs. \u0026 Mrs. Smith in the first week. The means of distribution that exceed 'the film's box-office potential are likely to result in a substantial shrinkage of the film's box office in the following week. However, after three days of screening on the first weekend, Mrs. Smith received an astonishing $39 million at the box office, and it is expected that the first week box office will likely hit the production cost line of $60 million. Before that, such results generally only occurred in the summer vacation. It is a blockbuster, so the shock to the industry can be imagined.

As soon as such a result came out, most of the media that had been pessimistic about Colombia's hairstyle strategy changed their direction and began to analyze the reasons for the success of Mrs. Smith. In addition to the scale of the premiere, Mrs. Smith used completely different The oriental kung fu factor in the form of action films in North America has also become the focus of the media.

The three-day box office opening of the film was released. In just a few days, John Wu received cooperation invitations for more than a dozen films and countless media interview invitations.

Because he has signed a contract with Firefly, although John Wu is very excited about the high director remuneration and share reported by other film companies. But he also knew that he didn't have private contact with outsiders, and he didn't mean to tear up the contract with Firefly. On the contrary, the interview invitations from the media made John Wu very enjoyed. He received interviews from various newspapers, magazines or TV stations in a row, talking about his violent aesthetics and Oriental Kung Fu, and even flew back to Hong Kong to accept TVB. 's exclusive interview program, for a time can be described as infinite scenery.

In the original time and space, the most successful and also the earliest cooperation between Kung Fu elements and Hollywood local commercial films was The Matrix. As for the earlier kung fu movies, most of them had kung fu stars from the East, and they were not authentic Hollywood movies.

And now, because of the great success of Mr. and Mrs. Smith, Hollywood has also begun to pay attention to Hong Kong films that are far across the ocean and are going through the last period of crazy prosperity. Because John Wu signed a contract with Firefly, several other major Hollywood film companies knew that they could not poach people from Eric, so they set their sights on the first-line directors in Hong Kong, and local filmmakers in Hong Kong also saw John Wu The scenery during this period has become a lure for international directors. In addition, the development bottleneck of local films has appeared, and the solicitation of Hollywood is also extremely eager.

Although the box office of Mrs. \u0026 Mrs. Smith fell by more than 40% in the second week, the second-week box office of 36 million US dollars plus the accumulation of point screenings in the early stage of the film easily exceeded 100 million US dollars within two weeks of its release, becoming the 1992 annual box office. The biggest box office dark horse in the Christmas stall, it is estimated that the total box office of the film is likely to exceed 200 million US dollars. Firefly and Columbia will be able to recover all the advertising costs and make profits at the North American box office alone. A series of later distribution methods bring It will be all pure profit, which is undoubtedly the most eye-catching box office result after Sony's acquisition of Colombia.

Peter Cooper originally complained that the first film he worked with Firefly was not a special effects blockbuster, but now he is only ecstatic, even though Colombia could only get 40% of the profit in the original sharing agreement, but the Profits still exceed what Columbia has made for most of the films released in the past two years. If the four films with Firefly in the next three years can still maintain similar results, Peter Cooper thinks that he can sit very comfortably in Columbia's seat.

In addition to Mrs. Smith, Firefly's Detective Plane and Eric's Bodyguard have also achieved good results. Although they do not have the strong box office harvesting ability of Mr. and Mrs. Smith, the two By the end of the week, The Detective and Bodyguard both topped $50 million at the box office.

Except for Firefly, Warner and Columbia. The performance of the other four major Hollywood studios in this year-end schedule is relatively unsatisfactory. The most tragic of them all is MGM. For a whole year, MGM did not make any film, but only distributed the films produced by other small companies. The total box office revenue of all the films released by MGM in 1992 was even less than 100 million US dollars. It can be said that Depressed to the extreme.

Due to the fraud lawsuit of Italian investor Giancarlo Paredi, MGM was publicly auctioned by the Bank of France in December. There is no final bidding result yet. Although Eric is a little interested in MGM's huge film library, he In order to accumulate funds for more promising investments. Eric has not made a move against MGM for the time being.

Fox originally planned to obtain the copyright of the Home Alone series from Firefly again to make a sequel, but although the last Home Alone was a success, because the little protagonist Stuart Runkel is another year older, these years have been very good. His life makes him seem no longer suitable for pretending to be cute in movies, so this series has also entered the stage with the highest risk, and Fox's asking price this time is only 50% of last year's, but he hopes to participate in the peripheral sharing of Home Alone , In the end, the two sides did not reach an agreement. Due to various considerations, the Home Alone series was completely stranded. And Fox's self-developed several comedy films did not perform well.

Paramount's Martin Davis has spent the entire year dealing with a possible acquisition by Viacom or perhaps not the movie business. So nothing came out.

Universal is better. Under the leadership of Michael Eisner, Universal launched a strategy of winning with low cost and volume at the end of the year. When several other film companies only released one or two works at the end of the year, Universal launched at the end of the year. After making six movies, the opening screen was all around 1,000 yuan, and then appropriate adjustments were made according to the film's performance. Anyone in the industry could see that Michael Eisner did this out of frustration. He was in charge of Universal Events for too short a period. It was too late for a long-running movie to be launched. In order to improve the business situation of Universal as soon as possible and boost the confidence of investors, Michael Eisner came up with such a strategy.

Except for Schindler's List, the other five films are comedies or feature films with an investment of no more than 20 million US dollars. Although the box office results obtained are not too bright, but in the two months of Thanksgiving and Christmas, The six movies including Schindler's List also add up to more than 200 million US dollars, and it is not a problem to reap the box office of about 100 million US dollars in the follow-up, and the profit prospects are quite considerable.

At the same time, Schindler's List has undoubtedly become an Oscar favorite.

As a film describing the Holocaust during World War II, and the target is still Jews, the attitude of all the media in North America towards the film can be described with care. Basically, you can't see Schindler's List on the print media and TV. Of course, it is definitely not without other voices. For example, some Jewish groups have voiced that Spielberg's film restores historical facts to a certain extent, and uses the situation of a documentary, but it is still not realistic enough. The tragedies of the year were not well portrayed. Some other Jewish commentators also said that the best way to deal with the Holocaust is to be silent, rather than to repeatedly promote it as a victim, which will only increase hatred and lay the groundwork for another conflict. seed.

Regardless of the attitude of the outside world, the film was released a few weeks ago. With the support of a large number of Jews, the box office quickly exceeded 40 million US dollars. Universal thought it would be a doomed project, but the results surprised Michael Eisner. At the same time, it also strengthened his determination to intensify efforts to win over Spielberg.

Spending Christmas with Drew and Nicole, who stayed in Los Angeles, at the Corner Manor, during which time he attended some unstoppable parties and drinks, Eric thought that this year was about to be the hottest Under the turbulent atmosphere, it was peacefully passed, but with the release of Hollywood's annual box office statistics, fireflies have once again become the focus of everyone's attention.

Although many movies are still in the release stage, it is not too difficult for box office agencies to count the total box office of a movie based on the word-of-mouth and box office curve in the early stage of the movie, and the accuracy rate is quite high.

In the last few days of the new year, although most people are on vacation, professional or non-professional magazines in Hollywood have begun to comment, review and summarize all the movies in 1992. Hollywood box office, overseas box office, major movies The company's annual box office total is undoubtedly the data that everyone is more concerned about.

The results given by most of the magazines surprised both insiders and outsiders for a while.

Firefly Pictures has made six billion-dollar films with Tornado, Nuns Are Crazy, Greeks in Disguise, Aladdin, Life and Death and Detective Plane, plus Disney, New Line, etc. under Firefly Pictures. Seventeen other films, released on several labels, grossed $1.53 billion at the box office, far exceeding the second-placed Time Warner's $840 million total, and totaled $5.5 billion in North America in 1992. It has a 27% market share at the box office.

Although some magazines have also raised objections, saying that the two films Geek in Disguise and Detective Plane should not be counted under Firefly, but should belong to TG Films, but even so, minus the two films of more than 200 million At the box office, Firefly Pictures still far exceeds the second-placed Time Warner. What's more, anyone who knows a little bit about the Hollywood circle can know that tg is almost equivalent to a subsidiary of Firefly, and some people also refute that if it is to be counted as investment rather than distribution, then Mrs. Most of the box office should also be counted under Firefly, so most media are more inclined to the approximate box office amount of 1.5 billion.

27% of the box office share, such an astonishing figure has not appeared in Hollywood for many years. The Hollywood Reporter made some statistics on this, and the annual production and operating budget of Firefly Pictures is expected to be about 800 million US dollars. , after deducting the taxes that should be paid, Firefly may earn a net profit of more than 400 million US dollars at the North American box office alone. What's more, Firefly also has overseas box office results that are not inferior to those in North America.

After the acquisition of Disney, the entertainment industry chain of Firefly Pictures has been very perfect. In addition to the fixed domestic and foreign theater distribution box office revenue, Firefly can also obtain a large amount of profits from the film's video tape distribution, TV broadcast authorization, exclusive business authorization and other channels. . What's more, Firefly now has several Disney parks and Disney merchandise stores in major cities across the United States and Europe, bringing huge sales revenue.

It can be said that the annual turnover of Firefly will far exceed the figure of 1.5 billion US dollars.

However, unfortunately, because Firefly has not been listed, there is no need to disclose Firefly's financial report to the public, which also leads to the fact that the actual turnover and profit of Firefly are basically unknown to outsiders except for the core executives of Firefly. (To be continued...)

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