Chapter 480 Troubled Summer
Entering a new working week, the box office of "Warrior" and "Van Helsing" will inevitably begin to decline, which is normal.
While the outside world is busy discussing the gap between David Ellison and Gilbert Jr., as well as David Ellison's interview, and Gilbert Jr.'s book delivery, the box office results have been released over the past few working days.
After consuming too much enthusiasm from fans during its first weekend, "Warriors" grossed US$10.975 million in a single daily report on Monday, a good weekday box office.
"Van Helsing" has declined sharply, with a single daily revenue of US$4.32 million on Sunday. Its reputation is not enough to maintain a healthy box office curve.
On Tuesday, when movie tickets are traditionally half-price, the box office saw a slight increase.
The two movies "Warrior" and "Van Helsing" grossed US$12.038 million and US$5.024 million respectively.
On the following Wednesday and Thursday, "Wushuang" earned US$7.275 million and US$8.213 million respectively, with a total closing of US$38.501 million in the four working days.
At this point, "Wushuang" has been released in North America for seven days, and the North American box office has easily reached 120.026 million US dollars, which is quite an outstanding result.
"Van Helsing" earned US$2.256 million and US$3.019 million respectively, with a total closing of US$14.619 million in four working days, which is completely inferior to "Warriors".
Although media outlets such as the "Washington" Post continue to badmouth little Gilbert, saying that little Gilbert has been worse every year since "The Return of the King".
But the impartial media and the public don't see it that way. It can take five, six, or even seven or eight years for a phenomenal movie like "The Return of the King" to appear.
What's more, although "The Return of the King" can be called a classic movie in film history, it has benefited from the benefits of the original work and its predecessor, and has accumulated a huge reputation and fans.
But "Wushuang" is completely different. The script is original, and it is completely supported by the fame of the big director and several big stars.
If you had changed the director and the starring role, "Wushuang" really wouldn't have made $120 million at the box office in seven days.
Besides, little Gilbert’s brain is not normal. If you change the screenwriter and director, who would have thought of such a brilliant story?
Another very surprising thing is the overseas market. Just like North American weekdays, the box office of "Wushuang" on overseas weekdays will inevitably decline significantly.
However, the film still earned US$75.358 million overseas in four working days, bringing the film's overseas box office to US$215.215 million, and the global total box office to US$335.241 million.
Because overseas box office statistics are complicated, although an accurate number is given. However, due to the lack of box office statistics in various markets, "Wushuang" will actually have a higher box office.
Such a crime movie is destined not to be as big a hit as "Titanic" or "Jurassic Park" or "The Return of the King."
However, the global box office harvested by "Warriors" within seven days is still very satisfactory to both Disney and Warner.
The only fly in the ointment is that the peripheral products of "Warriorless" are not as good as those of the films directed by Gilbert Jr. in previous years.
This is also normal. The peripheral products of "Wushuang" are nothing more than various co-branded products. Such as clothes, sunglasses, jewelry, etc.
In addition, there are character dolls and the like. The sales of Tom Cruise and Charlize Theron dolls are very high, probably because they are both handsome men and beautiful women.
However, because the two people's images are used, they have to share the sales of the dolls.
There's nothing to say about this, it's the way Hollywood has always done it.
In the future, Gilbert Jr. will try his best to increase the selling points of peripherals and long-term income. For example, when the DVD is released later, he can include several versions of the endings he filmed to increase the selling points.
In short, it is not a problem for "Wushuang" to make a profit through the box office. The peripheral products are purely pure income. More importantly, Disney and Warner's performance in the stock market will be stronger.
This is the role of blockbuster movies, which can improve a film company's performance in the stock market.
MGM United Artists' capital chain was broken due to the continuous poor performance of the new series of "Windtalker" and "007", which affected the performance of the stock market.
Today, despite the opposition of many traditional Hollywood forces, with the help of Michael Ovitz, Prince Abdullah from the United Arab Emirates officially acquired MGM United Artists on behalf of the Kingdom Investment Group.
Hollywood has not changed from a big seven to a big six. MGM United Artists has received sufficient funds from the Kingdom Investment Group and does not need to sell its assets at a low price.
This was one of the huge butterfly effects caused by little Gilbert, who originally aroused Prince Abdullah's determination to enter Hollywood and introduced Michael Ovitz to him.
As you can imagine, Michael Ovitz was very happy working with Sky Studios and Columbia Pictures.
Although this year's "Van Helsing" is not a success, at least it will not lose too much, and it can achieve return on investment and profitability through long-term gains.
Therefore, Columbia Pictures has not lost confidence in Michael Ovitz and David Ellison, and has signed a three-movie distribution contract with Sky Studios.
MGM United Artists, on the other hand, packaged Prince Abdullah's first project after taking over and gave it to Michael Ovitz.
After acquiring MGM United Artists, Prince Abdullah held a celebration party. At the same time, he announced to Hollywood that he was here.
He invited film company executives, including Gilbert Jr., who was the culprit who encouraged him to acquire MGM United Artists.
Of course, little Gilbert was invited to attend. The North American promotional trip was not long, so little Gilbert did not follow him to other places. He attended the party with Cameron Diaz, who was recovering from postpartum. Tom Cruise took Vera Farmiga and others to Central and South America for promotion, Charlize Theron went to Asia for promotion, and Tom Hanks went to Europe for promotion.
And this weekend, the number of markets where "Wushuang" will be released will increase to more than 70, including the mainland Chinese market.
So it can be expected that although the box office of "Wushuang" will not explode as much as it did on the first weekend, it will maintain a good curve.
Let’s take a look at the global box office of “Van Helsing”. The revenue of “Van Helsing” on four weekdays is not as good as that of “Warriors”, but it still received a box office of US$25.665 million on weekdays.
This brings the overseas box office of "Van Helsing" to US$93.012 million, which seems good at first glance, but it is not good enough when compared with "Warrior".
In fact, after the opening weekend contest, David Ellison knew that his ideas were naive.
Without a work of excellent quality, it is impossible to achieve the goal of a Little Gilbert movie, even if it cannot be defeated.
Because little Gilbert never misses, he is so stable, like a robot.
Coupled with the box office of "Van Helsing" on weekdays in North America this week and the box office of the first weekend, the global box office of "Van Helsing" reached US$151.057 million.
According to media predictions, the final box office of "Van Helsing" will be around US$300 million worldwide. The box office of "Wushuang" will be higher, around US$700 million.
Don't look at the small amount of 700 million US dollars. You must know that Tom Cruise has never had a movie with a box office of more than 700 million US dollars.
When the global box office of "Terra" exceeded US$100 million, Tom Cruise had to hold a celebration party. But that was the 1990s, and the environment was different from today.
Although Tom Cruise and Gilbert Jr. collaborated on "Chicago," it was a musical after all, with a global box office of over $300 million, which is pretty good.
Even here, some people praise Tom Cruise for his strong ability to withstand box office. It is not easy to be able to bring a musical movie to a global box office of more than 300 million US dollars.
Now Tom Cruise can proudly say: I also have a starring role in a movie worth more than 700 million US dollars, hahahaha...
It seems a bit out of place, but this is indeed what Tom Cruise really thinks, what Nicole Kidman said to Naomi Watts when she came to visit.
Next, Tom Cruise and Gilbert Jr. have another collaborative project, which is "The Last of Us" that has been finalized for a long time and will be launched after the first part of "Batman".
Tom Cruise was looking forward to this collaboration, and because he had too many projects on hand, he had to turn down Spielberg's invitation.
But Spielberg's projects have never lacked superstars, and he once again found Tom Hanks to cooperate with him. This movie is "War of the Worlds."
Coincidentally, Tom Hanks also plays a father in it.
It seems that after the cooperation in "Wushuang", the two Toms will start a fierce competition again.
Within the scope of the same family proposition, the master and apprentice pair, Gilbert Jr. and Spielberg, also faced a competition. Nowadays, no one thinks that little Gilbert is worse than his teacher Spielberg.
"The War of the Worlds" is adapted from the 1898 novel "The War of the Worlds" by the master of science fiction novel H.G. Wells. The novel tells the terrifying experience of alien invasion of the earth.
This terrifying story describing the earth being attacked by aliens and making tiny humans as vulnerable as ants has become a literary classic of a generation.
The novel is not only famous for its wild imagination, but its accurate predictions of modern weapons are even more breathtaking.
A 1938 radio drama based on the novel caused panic in the United States, and in 1953 the novel was adapted for the big screen for the first time.
However, due to the limitations of the shooting technology at the time, the film was unable to express itself as expected, so director Spielberg came up with the idea of remaking the novel.
It can be said that this is an adapted movie with a certain audience base.
The project "The Last of Us" is an original story based on several manuscripts revealed by Gilbert Jr. on his social account.
It's an original story again, and movie fans are already familiar with it. After all, Gilbert Jr.'s screenwriting ability is well known.
What the audience doesn't know is that this movie is actually an adaptation. It's just an adaptation of a game story into a movie, and the game hasn't appeared yet.
This is a bold attempt by little Gilbert. "Warrior" has been successful in adapting a Hong Kong film into a Hollywood film, and there should be no problem in adapting the game into a movie.
The previous movie "Tomb Raider" had already set an example for little Gilbert. Although it was not a big hit, it was at least profitable and a sequel was made.
This movie was previously wanted to be directed by Gilbert Jr., and star Angelina Jolie promised that as long as Gilbert Jr. was willing to direct the film, she would let him do whatever he wanted.
However, Gilbert Jr. has no intention of getting involved in her disputes with Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston.
And with the chaos in Angelina Jolie's private life, someone she comes into contact with may be sick, and little Gilbert doesn't want to get sick.
If possible, little Gilbert hopes that his film dynasty will last forever, but he doesn't want to die early.
(End of chapter)