eurekapd Chapter 211 Galaxy Pictures is Still Strong
Chapter 211 Galaxy Pictures is Still Strong
Although the world premiere of "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets" was held in London, England, as the distributor of the film, Galaxy Pictures Group still regards the North American market as the first ticket warehouse.Jed also showed 100% sincerity and carefully edited three versions of the trailer, which are broadcast on the weekly editions of major TV stations in North America.
The protagonist of the first version of the trailer is naturally the speeding car of the Weasley family, from the Weasley family's twins using the speeding car to sneak out of Harry Potter, to Harry Potter and Ron having to drive the speeding car to Hogwarts. Z... Jed's shot was completed after several times of aerial photography by invited stunt pilots.So after editing Harry and Ron, the whole promotional film became more thrilling.
The protagonist of the second version of the trailer is "the most charming and smiling wizard" Gilderoy Lockhart. The "wonderful" explanation by the elves.The second version of the promotional video not only shows the progress of the new film's special effects, but also makes people smile.
As for the third version of the promo, it introduces Tom Riddle, his notebook, and his past experiences.The reason why the protagonist of the third version of the promotional film is set as Tom Riddle is because Jed knows the importance of Tom in the seventh episode and wants to lay the groundwork as soon as possible.
These three promotional films were broadcast not only on major major TV networks in the United States, but also on major movie channels and music channels. More importantly, even the pre-roll advertisements of major theaters were bombarded in turn.The Galaxy Film Group is also holding its breath this time. In the second half of the year, it bought the November and December pre-advertisements of the four major theaters of the Royal Entertainment Group, AMC, Cinemark, and American Entertainment. Lippert and the Chamber of Secrets and The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers.
With such a grand publicity campaign, and the release of "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets" in the UK is also very satisfactory, so "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets" won 3682 canvases in North America. This is already the limit of synchronous drawing.And "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets" did not disappoint the theater companies. In the first week of its release, it kicked the film "Eight Mile" starring the No. The domestic box office far exceeded the runner-up "Eight Mile" by four times.And the box office of "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets" is as high as 8836 U.S. dollars, which makes the theater company vomit blood, and can't wait to change more canvases for "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets" to be released immediately.
In the second week, the MGM film classic "oo7 Die Another Day" was released."Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets" narrowly lost with a box office of 5 million, but still maintained a box office score of 42 million.Under the pressure of MGM and Galaxy, only four films earned more than [-] million yuan at the North American box office this week.This is the Christmas weekend that is making money every day!
"Vanity Fair" magazine published a commentary article saying, "We used to think that the box office in North America was a vast ocean, but this week's cruel facts tell us that when two humpback whales came to this 'expanse ocean', it became extremely narrow." Presidents of online companies, go find more movie theaters! Managers of film companies, come and find a way to snipe these two humpback whales that are causing trouble!"
It's a pity that the humpback whales didn't hear what the commentators of "Vanity Fair" said. In the third week, it was still a big fight between "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets" and "oo7 Die Another Day", but this week Haribo Special counterattack Bond succeeded.On the weekend box office list of the third week, "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets" once again won the first place with 32 million box office, while the total North American box office is still as high as 2 million US dollars.
The situation of the duo competing for hegemony was not broken until the fourth week. When "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets" was released for the fourth week, the low-cost comedy "Big Brother" won the runner-up at the weekend box office, and "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets" also began to enter the second half of the screening cycle.By the fifth week, Christmas masterpieces were released one after another.Columbia Pictures' "Manhattan Cinderella" and Paramount Pictures' "Star Trek 1o: Nemesis" jointly won the weekend box office champion and runner-up.
However, at this time, the "Lord of the Rings 2" promotional videos appearing on theater advertisements and TV commercials are reminding everyone that Galaxy Pictures has just thrown out one of its double-insurance killers at the end of the year, and the other is still in the making. .And importantly, "Harry Potter" is not as popular as "Lord of the Rings". After all, one is a children's book, while the other is an adult book.
The most important thing is how many readers "Lord of the Rings" has accumulated. "The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring" has already made people see the strength of this novel, so no one doubts that "The Two Towers" will fail at the box office.What's more, the only reason why film critics questioned "Lord of the Rings 1" was Peter Jackson's qualifications. Now that the first work is at the bottom, who dares to doubt the success of "Lord of the Rings 1"?Since it can't stop others from succeeding, film critics voted "The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers" as one of the most unmissable movies of the year in their columns.
Under the advocacy of film critics and the instigation of advertisements, the major theaters are ready to give the film the best screening halls and screening time.In some second- and third-tier cities or less important movie theaters, the managers have already planned to set up a handful of one or two screening halls to show other movies, and the rest of the screens will be dedicated to "The Lord of the Rings 2: The Two Towers".
And "The Lord of the Rings 2: The Two Towers" did not live up to everyone's expectations, and the box office in the first weekend attracted everyone's attention with 62 million US dollars.If "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets" is a humpback whale, then "The Lord of the Rings 2: The Two Towers" is a super huge blue whale.The appearance of this blue whale made the runner-up and the third runner-up only get a box office of more than 4 million, while all No. 15 and below had only a million-level box office.You must know that this week is a genuine "real Christmas file", and there are nearly 2 new films released this week.As a result, when the blue whale in "The Lord of the Rings 1.8: The Two Towers" appeared, Bond, Harry Potter, or Captain Kirk (the actor of "Star Trek") were all defeated.The revenue of US$[-] for a single hall once again made theater managers want to buy negatives and build new movie theaters tomorrow.
After a nearly crushing victory in the first week, the performance of "Lord of the Rings 2: The Two Towers" in the second week is still eye-catching.It grossed $49 million in its second weekend, more than the opening weekend of "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets."After three straight weekends at the box office, it was only in its fourth week that "The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers" was beaten by Fox Films' ultra-budget romantic comedy "The Newlyweds."Murdoch also made a special call to Jed, "Haha, Jed, the production cost of my movie was only 2 million US dollars. Your movie is at least close to 18 million, right?"
Jed didn't take Murdoch's ridicule to heart at all, and just replied lightly: "I have already earned 2 million US dollars in box office in North America for "Lord of the Rings 2.8", and I have also won $2 million for "Harry Potter 2.6". [-] million at the box office."
Jed's response made Murdoch choke for a long time, and then said bitterly: "Next year's "X-Men" depends on you!"
After hanging up Murdoch's phone call, Jed began to plan for next year's shooting plan.He still only has the filming plan for "Harry Potter", but when he saw next year's film schedule, Jed wondered whether it was necessary to include "Harry Potter 3" in next year's release plan?The second part of the Wachowski Brothers' "The Matrix" has been produced, and the third part is also under intense production, so next year they are bound to occupy a place in the summer file and the Christmas file.
The Marvel series will produce "Daredevil" and "X-Men 2" next year, and the animation department also has "Finding Nemo" to be released next year.Michael Bay plans to film "Charlie's Angels 2" next year as a transition, and John Woo has also negotiated with himself to make a fantasy movie.Moreover, "The Lord of the Rings 3: The Return of the King" will consume a lot of publicity resources of the company, because the Galaxy Film Group has decided to support this film into the Oscars, so the release plan of "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets" can only be postponed for one year up.
Jed had to call and talk to Rowling about this, and Rowling breathed a sigh of relief after hearing it, "Thank God! I can't keep up with your schedule for writing novels now, so you can postpone it for a year It couldn’t be better news for me.”
For the coming 2oo3 year, Jed is full of hope and full of regret.The Iraqi crisis will inevitably lead to fluctuations in oil prices, and Jed's opportunity to make a fortune has come again.But this year's SARS caused the Chinese people to suffer. If Jed wanted to, he could use this to short the renminbi, but Jed gave up.On the one hand, his heart does not allow it, and on the other hand, Jade has always been friendly to the Chinese people, which also gave Asia Satellite TV the opportunity to land on the mainland, and also allowed Wanda Cinemas to slowly deploy in the mainland. Wake up, Jed would not do such a stupid thing of self-mutilation.
You must know that in the 80s, the mainland acquiesced to a certain Hong Kong film and television tycoon (not the one who passed away recently) to run theaters in China and try to run a newspaper in Guangdong. He made a speech dissatisfied with the mainland, and as a result, Hong Kong movies and media will never have the opportunity to become real domestic media and receive national treatment.And the film and television tycoon was also depressed because of this, and finally slowly sold the film company in his hand, and finally became a rich man with peace of mind.Jed's evaluation of this tycoon is only one sentence, "If you don't die, you won't die!"
Since there was no filming plan of his own in 2, Jed was planning whether to prepare a wedding for himself.For John, after all, 3 is also a memorable year for gays in the world.First, the Supreme Court of the United States overturned the Texas bill that banned consensual sexual relations between homosexuals. At the same time, gay marriage in the United Kingdom has also made great progress, and in the United States, anti-gay speech in public has become more and more tolerated. Low.
So for Jed, getting married in 2 is a good choice, the question now is will John agree?And importantly, only Massachusetts currently allows legal same-sex marriage in the United States, while California does not.If Jed and John want to register their marriage, they must change their place of residence, which involves a series of legal relationship changes.
Jed had to hire a team of lawyers to start studying the feasibility and risk of this matter.More money is not necessarily a good thing, and a risk assessment is required to get married, what is this!