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In fact, since entering the new century, the commercial performance of several works directed by Spielberg has also been quite weak. Did not meet expectations.

This Happy Terminal, even with Tom Hanks joining, still can't change Spielberg's recent weakness.

Two thousand years ago, it would have been unimaginable for Spielberg and Tom Hanks to have a box office of no more than $40 million in the first week, and a North American box office of no more than $200 million.

It seems that all of Spielberg's weaknesses and problems broke out in The End of Happiness.

It is not difficult to find some of the reasons for this situation after careful analysis.

The situation and internal disputes in DreamWorks distracted Spielberg too much energy.

After more than two decades, the audience seems to have a certain degree of boredom with Spielberg's stereotyped films.

The times are developing, the old generation is gradually silent, and the new generation of directors is rising, just like when the four directors including Spielberg reached their peak in the 1980s, this is an inevitable law.

The box office of Happy Terminal is not good, and the word of mouth is not good. DreamWorks's large investment, it is difficult to reap the corresponding returns in a short period of time or even in two or three years.

The other films that started painting this weekend are much better than The End of Happiness in terms of the ratio of investment to income.

With a production cost of $29 million, The Notebook, starring Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams, earned $13.45 million over the three-day weekend.

Although Fox Searchlight's Napoleon the Big Man grossed only $7.75 million in its first weekend, its cost was only more than $10 million.

In contrast, Crazy Dodgeball starring Ben Stiller became the biggest winner among newly opened films. This comedy film with a production budget of only 20 million US dollars earned 30.07 million in three days during the opening weekend. Dollar.

In this period when medium-scale films are pushed, Crazy Dodgeball will undoubtedly become one of the winners with a small and big picture.

But that wasn't enough to guarantee Dodgeball a top spot at the box office.

Because in the chaotic strangulation of many films, Relativity Entertainment's Wedding Crashers still stands out.

The box office trend of this bad comedy is extremely stable, not even stable like American comedies.

The box office of Wedding Crashers in the second weekend was only 25% lower than that of the first weekend, with 30.85 million U.S. dollars, and it continued to be the top box office in North America.

Ten days after its release, the North American box office of Wedding Crashers totaled US$118.24 million!

Compared with the production cost of 30 million U.S. dollars, plus 15 million U.S. dollars in publicity and distribution costs, this film has undoubtedly achieved great success.

The outside world also raised the North American box office forecast of Wedding Crashers to $200 million.

The film's outstanding commercial performance also made the embassy film industry full of confidence. Taking advantage of the fact that there were no major blockbuster films released before Spider-Man 2 at the end of June, another wave of publicity companies was launched.

The promotion still centered on Ronan, the producer.

Since entering Hollywood, except for the failure of the first film to test the waters, almost all other film projects initiated or purchased by Ronan's production have achieved commercial success, from the earliest such as Human Purge Project and Death Comes Horror films from The Bourne series, fantasy adventure films from the Pirates of the Caribbean series, video game adaptations from Resident Evil, youth idol films from Summer of Jeans and Mean Girls, White Girls From the oriental martial arts films represented by Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Hero, to the current comedy Wedding Crashers, Ronan has been involved in almost all types of commercial films in Hollywood, with a frighteningly high success rate...

The article in the Los Angeles Times surprised many people by counting the types of movies Ronan has been involved in since his career.

The famous film critic Todd McCarthy wrote on his Netflix share: Compared with another ace commercial producer in Hollywood, Ronan Anderson has involved more types of films and has a higher success rate!

A reporter with good news went to interview Jerry Bruckheimer specifically about Ronan. Although the two parties can only say that they know each other and are not familiar with each other, there is no direct conflict of interest. Jerry Bruckheimer is quite polite.

I am more focused on the field of adventure action films, and Ronan Anderson covers a wider range of film types. Jerry Bruckheimer said to media reporters: But in my opinion, I have a relationship with Ronan Anderson. One thing in common is that they love to tell easy-to-understand stories and fully respect the market and audience.

Entertainment Weekly selected Ronan as the cover character this week. In the cover slogan, it reminded all movie fans with eye-catching fonts that Ronan Anderson has become a movie brand.

These reports will not only allow the audience to continue to pay attention to Wedding Crashers, but also remind those who missed certain relativity entertainment movies to go to the offline market to find movies.

Since the embassy film industry has focused on promoting Ronan's various soft-text reports, the rental orders of Ronan-Anderson films on the Netflix website have increased by nearly 10% compared with last month.

The offline market can allow a film to continuously generate commercial returns.

Of course, the box office performance of the theater market directly determines the offline return.

With the arrival of a new weekend, the popularity of Wedding Crashers, which was released in the third week, continued to decline steadily. Under the impact of many new films, it also gave up the box office champion as expected.

Fahrenheit 9/11, which won the Palme d'Or at this year's Cannes Film Festival, came with crazy public opinion, and it closed at $35.66 million in its first weekend in North America.

This film once again proves to the world that regardless of the authenticity and quality of the film, as long as it can cause huge controversy, its commercial prospects will not be bad.

The entire United States and even the whole world are going crazy to discuss this documentary. Xiao Bu’s classmate and stupid classmate are once again at the forefront of the storm. Many people even think that this film will drive Xiao Bu out of that building in the next general election. White house.

But this documentary, which is true and false, is impossible to shake the little one.

Many people have overestimated the influence of Fahrenheit 9/11.

After all, Hollywood movies, no matter documentaries or biopics, anyone who has a basic understanding of the film industry knows that they are full of nonsense.

If someone regards Hollywood movies as the golden rule, it can only be said that not only water has been poured into the head, but the entire Pacific Ocean has also been flooded.

After waiting for too long, Lionsgate finally ushered in a blockbuster.

But Fahrenheit 9/11 brought more than just good news at the box office. Many well-informed people like Ronan got some rumors. They were all targeted.

Although many people describe the person currently sitting in the Oval Office as a pig, it is not a real pig after all.

Moreover, Lionsgate is not Relativity Entertainment, and Frank Gusta has not really analyzed Ronan's practices in The Blair Witch and The Passion of the Christ. Gate Films is tied with Fahrenheit 9/11.

This is probably also the effect brought by Ronan. Since the establishment of Relativity Entertainment, Lionsgate Pictures has been suppressed a bit miserably. There are only a handful of movies with good response. Now there are finally blockbusters, and the suppressed emotions of the entire company have exploded. .

As for whether this is a good thing or a bad thing, it depends on the development of Lionsgate in the next few years.

This weekend belongs to Fahrenheit 9/11, and for many weeks to come, Fahrenheit 9/11 will be the focus of media and public discussion.

In addition, the comedy Miss is White released by Sony Columbia Pictures also performed well this weekend. The opening weekend box office of nearly 20 million US dollars also marks the emergence of another successful comedy this summer.

Although Wedding Crashers gave up its top position in the North American box office chart, its trend is terribly stable. This weekend's box office dropped only 24%, and it took another US$23.45 million.

As a result, the cumulative North American box office of Wedding Crashers has reached 161.28 million US dollars.

As for next weekend, it will be a test for all the films that are showing, because Spider-Man 2 will hit hard.

On a new Monday, Vin Diesel's agent came to Sand Sea Entertainment Production Company and met Jessica Felton, the producer of the Fast and Furious series.

The agent was a little helpless in the face of such a powerful client as Vin Diesel, but he was still a little smart in negotiating with the production company, and did not directly convey the four conditions of Vin Diesel.

Miss Felton, my client starred in the first Fast and Furious. The agent said loudly, Isn't it appropriate for him to audition for Dominique Toretto?

The conditions were listed by Jessica Felton, because she had heard of Vin Diesel, and the purpose of listing such conditions was to bargain.

Jessica Felton nodded: You can cancel the audition, but we also have conditions.

The agent asked: What conditions? Please explain clearly.

Jessica Felton is currently focusing on the post-production of the two sequels of Pirates of the Caribbean. The Fast and Furious series is only in the early stage of planning. I have discussed it with Ronan many times. For the role of Toretto, the two and the screenwriter department made two plans.

Mr. Vin Diesel is an actor. Jessica Felton specifically emphasized the identity of actor: Signed an agreement with Shahai Entertainment on the Fast and Furious series for no less than five films!

The manager's expression changed instantly: This is impossible!

At this moment, he felt that Shahai Entertainment and the female producer on the opposite side were more like crap sticks than Vin Diesel.

Jessica Felton shrugged slightly and confessed frankly: This is the premise of the cooperation between Sandsea Entertainment and Mr. Vin Diesel in the Fast and Furious series.

In this meeting, the agent did not mention the other three conditions at all, so they broke up unhappy.