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As for Fox's "King Kong Warrior", it ranked eighth on the list after several other old films.

This child-oriented sci-fi movie similar to the later "Dinosaurs" cost 4500 million U.S. dollars, and it was considered a little ambitious, but it didn't make any waves. It has reached the dismal level where Murdoch would cover his heart.

After that comes the more competitive Easter week.

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The cross-Easter box office week opened on March 3. Compared with the three new films last week, a total of five films have landed in North American theaters on a large scale this time. Taken, Sony Pictures' "Walking with the Devil," Disney's fantasy comedy "The Sixth Man," and Paramount's Orion Pictures' "The Friends of the Year."

Of the five films, the most expensive was "Walking with the Devil," Harrison Ford and River Phoenix's second collaboration after "Raiders of the Lost Ark 3," costing $9000 million, about Frankie, a young IRA young man, and A romantic entanglement between a middle-aged British policeman.

The original "Walking with the Devil" was Harrison Ford's partner Brad Pitt. This time, Sony also sent an invitation to Pete first, but it was a pity that Pete chose "Face Changing".Sony then approached Keanu Reeves, who didn't like the story and recommended it to friend River Phoenix.

River Phoenix did not die young due to drug overdose in this life. A few years ago, he shined with the role of the Joker in "Batman: The Dark Knight Rises" and won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor. He is also considered a popular first-line niche .In addition, it was a gimmick to cooperate with Ford in "Raiders of the Lost Ark 3", and it was finally selected by Sony.

Unfortunately, the whole project was a disaster.

The experience of "Walking with the Devil" is very similar to that of "Future Water World" that made Kevin Costner stumble. During the filming process, there were many disagreements and conflicts between the director and the leading actors, the script was frequently changed, and the cycle was severely delayed.In the end, not only was the budget significantly overrun, but the media also received negative reviews after the release. The comprehensive media score was only 3.5 points. The two male protagonists were negatively slowed down in publicity because of serious unhappiness during the filming process. It was also rumored that Harrison Ford refused to record "Week Six Nights Live" is a gossip for the film.

The result can be imagined.

In addition, Disney's "The Sixth Man" and Orion Films' "Friends of the Year" are low-cost small productions without any big name participation, and their reputation is also very mediocre. As a foil, so during the week of Easter, Daenerys Entertainment is still the dominant family.

Or the all-round kind.

Not only tasted the sweetness of the packaged marketing of the three films on Valentine's Day, but also in order to save the marketing budget, Daenerys Entertainment released two new films during the Easter week, "Scary Ghost" directed by Peter Jackson and starring Jeter Lee. The new version of "Taken" held a lively premiere on the same day on March 3 in the internal theater of Universal Studios Burbank.

Not only that, in addition to all kinds of conventional advertising, the peripheral gimmicks about the two films are also one after another, flying on various platforms such as print media, TV, and the Internet.

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Jeter Lee demonstrates Chinese Kung Fu on "The Late Show with David Letterman";

Quentin Tarantino publicly expressed inspiration to reporters after watching "Taken";

John Wu praises Jeter Lee for "Taken" platform;

Mingna Wen, who played the role of 'Doctor Chen' in "The Story of the Emergency Room", once again shocked the big screen to share the wonderful behind-the-scenes;

At the premiere on the same stage, two 'pseudo-newcomer' directors meet to compete at the box office;

As such.

Under the hype, the two medium-budget films with a combined cost of only 5500 million US dollars just gave people a sense of sight that was crushed by blockbusters.

On the second day of the premiere, the word-of-mouth ban was lifted directly. The comprehensive media scores of "Phantom" and "Taken" were 7.7 points and 8.1 points respectively, which completely eliminated the audience's last worries.

Since the first day of March 3, the two films have occupied the top two positions on the box office list without any suspense, so that they inevitably have a negative impact on old films such as "Cable Repairman" and "Alien 28" last week. Over the Easter weekend, the two new films with good reputation and popularity became the first choice for most audiences.

After the Easter weekend, entering a new week, the reopened North American stock market is still gloomy, while the film market is still booming.

当3月28日到4月3日的一个票房周结束，北美单周总票房也创下了进入1997年来的一次新高，达到1.37亿美元，基本相当于热门暑期档的水准。

"Taken" and "Taken", the battle between the dragon and the dragon, in the first week of PK, the result was beyond most people's expectations, and it turned out that "Taken" won.

This film is directed by Doug Liman, a newcomer director who has just been discovered by Simon in the past two years, starring Chinese kung fu superstar Jet Li, with Wen Mingna, one of the heroines of "Emergency Room Stories", and potential actor Sam Rockwell, etc. A crime action movie with a Hollywood star, which cost $2500 million, finally reached a box office of $3137 million in its first week.

At first glance, it seems that it is not as good as the US$2 million of "Alien 3314" last week. However, the number of opening screens of "Alien 2" is 2679, and the first week of the exhibition is 1.23 US dollars.Because it is inevitable to be cautious about Chinese protagonist films, the number of opening screens of "Taken" is only 2203. Calculated, the average museum is as high as 1.42 US dollars.

It is conceivable that if "Taken" can have an opening screen size comparable to that of "Alien 2", even if the average box office will drop slightly, the box office in the first week will definitely surpass "Alien 2" easily.

No. 2 in the regret list of "Scary Ghost".

With 2563 screens basically enough, the box office of "Scary Ghost" in the first week was only 2837 million US dollars, and the average museum barely reached 1.11 US dollars.

Of course, this is definitely not a failure.

As for the opening box office of the two new films, compared with last week's "Cable Repairman" and "Alien 2", the main reason is that the competition is too fierce this week.

No.3 "Alien 2", due to similar reasons, fell by 49% in the next week, earning 1690 million US dollars, and the cumulative box office reached 5004 million US dollars. It means that there is no hope for this movie to exceed 7000 million yuan, and the subsequent total box office will probably stay between 8000 million and [-] million US dollars.

The No.4 "Cable TV Repairman" is still the same, with a drop of 53% in the next week, and the decline is even more severe than "Alien 2", earning 1272 million US dollars, with a cumulative box office of 3979 million US dollars.The total budget for the production and publicity of the film happens to be 5000 million US dollars. Even if the overseas is equal to the domestic one, Daenerys Entertainment can only look forward to the follow-up channels to recover the cost.

No.5 is Sony's "Walk with the Devil".

After all, it is a super blockbuster that cost 9000 million US dollars. Even if everyone says it sucks, many viewers will inevitably want to see how bad it is, so the first week's income reached 1149 million US dollars.

Of course, compared with the production cost of 9000 million US dollars, the first week earned 1149 million US dollars. The current head of Sony, Norio Ohga, probably needs to cover his chest with both hands to not feel so uncomfortable.

Further back.

No. 6 on the list, "BJ's Diary", with a weekly decline of 27%, earned 614 million US dollars, obviously starting to fall behind, and the box office data of other old and new films are even less worth mentioning.

Culver City.

In the VIP hall of an AMC chain theater near Sony Studios.

When the lights came on, the two people in the projection hall didn't get up, but they looked at each other speechlessly.

The two are John Kelly, the current chairman and CEO of Sony Pictures, and Chris Lee, the president of Columbia Studios. They have just watched a "Taken" starring Jeter Lee.

It's Saturday, April 4th.

To put it simply, in recent days, because of the disastrous box office failure of "Walking with the Devil", the life of the two of them has not been easy.Even though today is Saturday, he was called to the studio office in the morning, and was beat and beaten by the head of Sony, Norio Ohga, who was far away in Japan.

However, the two actually felt a little wronged.

Sony Pictures has experienced frequent high-level changes in recent years. John Kelly, who has worked at Warner for many years and participated in the production of blockbuster films such as "The Exorcist", signed a contract with Sony last year. Lee partnered with himself and was in charge of the operations of Columbia Studios.

And "Walking with the Devil" was a project that was finalized before they arrived.

Frankly speaking, the chaos in the production process of this film is not unrelated to the turmoil in the process of high-level power transfer last year, but neither of them thinks that they should bear too much responsibility.

Because from the beginning of their employment, due to the lessons learned by Peter Guber and the others, they have not been granted too much power, almost dancing in iron shoes.

This is also the main reason for the frequent changes in the management of Sony Pictures in recent years.

Nobody wants to be a marionette.

And the two of them, although they would never admit it, can only be regarded as second-rate executives in Hollywood.

Not having enough financial and personnel power, just acting like a marionette, it's strange to be able to take care of a big studio.

There was a moment of silence, still reminiscing about the hearty and exciting fight in the movie just now, and John Kelly, who had to be a little shocked by Chinese Kung Fu, finally spoke first and asked the people around him: "Chris, what do you think we should do next?" Do?"

Chris Lee smiled helplessly, and also recalled the video just now.