Chapter 973: Keep attacking
There is a saying in Huaguo that it is called striking while the iron is hot.
Disney's "Happy Hotel" and "Life and Death" released by United Arts Film Company are just the beginning.
Their role is only to let the two companies settle down, and there will be no panic and uneasiness for the time being.
Yes.
This is the reason why Yin Jun would rather spend $50 million in sky-high publicity costs to fight hard with "Superman 2".
To a certain extent, Yin Jun still has to thank "Superman 2", if they didn't come out halfway, even if "Life and Death" achieved good box office results, the North American box office easily exceeded 100 million, or even higher, it would not be anything special.
After all, in North America now, there are still five or six movies that break 100 million a year, and "Speed of Life and Death" is just one of them.
But!!
After a direct PK with the North American local super IP "Superman 2", "Speed of Life and Death" has surpassed the box office all the way since the sixth day, and has never let "Superman 2" come up again, and the North American box office of "Superman 2" has been beaten to 100 million US dollars, which is definitely a superhuman performance.
Only through the competition with the strong will the stronger one win!
After such a war, who else dares to despise "Speed of Life and Death"? Who else dares to despise Kirin Films and Lianyi Film Company?
Not to mention anything else, "Beverly Hills Detective" and "Terminator", which are already in production, no giant wants to come out to snipe anymore.
Maybe they just lead but don't trigger, but now no matter who they are, they don't dare to go against the Kirin movie so blatantly, lest they be slapped in the face again.
Just like Warner Bros., George Harding now leaves with a blue face whenever he meets a reporter on any occasion and talks about it.
Several presidents, including Michael Eisner, are definitely not willing to fight to the death with Yin Jun until they are completely sure.
Then the employees of the company are obviously much more confident, talking and doing things outside, they are much more atmospheric, and they are a little more daring to fight, and they are no longer panicked and feel that they will be fired at the next moment.
Judging from this result, Yin Jun's $50 million publicity fee is indeed worth it.
In the past two days, in addition to announcing that Stallone will be the producer, director and starring in the filming of the adaptation of "First Blood", United Arts Film has aroused strong attention from many people.
Stallone is already a big star close to the first line, but United Arts Film Company attaches so much importance to him, not only the director gave it to him, but also the more powerful producers actually gave it to him, which is equivalent to Stallone having supreme power on the set, just like Michael Simino, who almost collapsed when he filmed "Heaven's Gate" last year!
According to the news that came out later, the script of Stallone's "First Blood" was adapted by Yin Jun.
After Syllegro personally went to Xiangjiang to surrender to Yin Jun, Yin Jun not only gave him a good script, but also gave him so much power.
Everyone thinks that Yin Jun is really bold, and he dares to do this, Michael Simino's experience is still not far ahead!
But there are also smart people in Hollywood, and they immediately noticed it, although Stallone was shoulder-to-shoulder during filming, Yin Jun did not hand over the most important "final editing rights" to him.
After Michael Simino, almost all Hollywood companies took back the final editing rights, which were already very strict.
Only Universal Pictures did not take back Spielberg's final editing rights to "." But they were also terrified, for fear that the big guy would be unhappy and bring them down.
Fortunately, Spielberg is as good as ever, as good as ever, and "." was a hit as soon as it was released.
As of the end of August, the world's major film markets have been released one after another, and the global box office of "." has exceeded 1.123 billion US dollars in one fell swoop, becoming the first film in the world to break the 1 billion moat, forever in film history!
But Spielberg is only one, don't think about comparing with him anyone else, at least before making Spielberg's achievements, don't even think about the final editing rights, let you watch from the side when you can edit, everyone discuss it, and you will already be treated as a great director.
Then again.
After a series of additions, the cost of "." is only about 30 million US dollars, which is much smaller than the cost of comparing and tearing between "Life and Death" and "Superman 2".
Because Spielberg's name is still distributed by Universal Pictures, Disney and United Arts Films, the box office is still so high, so in terms of box office share, "." has an overall share of 36%.
Among them, one of the sharing agreements signed by Yin Jun is that if the global box office exceeds 1 billion US dollars, he will automatically receive a certain percentage more.
Now that United Arts Pictures and Disney distribute together, Universal Pictures naturally has no way to cheat, and in the end, in addition to the distribution of United Arts Films and Disney, Kirin Group's box office share ratio has reached 18%, Universal Pictures is 15%, and Spielberg's director's dividend is 3%.
As a result, Spielberg got more than $33 million in pre-tax income in one go, and also set a record for the highest director's dividends!
Universal Pictures also received $168 million for the 15 percent, and Kirin Group for $202 million.
In terms of investment-output ratio, Yin Jun's pre-tax profit on ". " is as high as 1200%!
Boy!
A movie made $200 million, what a terrifying profit!?
More than the last Raiders of the Lost Ark!
The people who eat melons don't care about movies like ".", they may not encounter it once in ten years, they only know that Yin Jun is making a lot of money again!
Especially the people of Xiangjiang, their respect for Yin Jun has once again risen to a new level.
They think that even if the rest of Yin Jun's career collapses, with this ability to write scripts alone, he can make a comeback again, right?
Now, even in the United States, there is a lot less debate about whether Yin Jun will bring down Disney and United Arts Films.
Even if Yin Jun makes a "." in two or three years...... No, when a movie like "Life and Death" comes out, the pressure on both companies will be much less.
Coupled with their serious and cautious development, maybe they can really come back to life.
In the face of everyone's praise and praise, Kirin Group did not have any pride and pride at all, they just announced the new film plan again.
007's twelfth film, "007's Top Secret", will also start recently, the main creative team is still the previous batch, starring Roger Moore, who is loved by everyone, and it is expected that around 1983 at the latest, it will be able to meet everyone.
007's restart, that's a reasonable thing.
Because it is the trump card of Lianyi Film Company, with the dispatch of 007, Lianyi Film Company will be more stable.
But when everyone calculates it carefully, they are a little dumbfounded.
Boy.
Kirin Group is silent, but in the past two years, it has to release six movies in one go?
The popular "Speed of Life and Death" is considered one.
The animated film "The Lion King," which Disney has already begun to make, counts as one.
That little producer Bruckheimer's film counts as one.
James Cameron's movie counts as one.
Stallone's "First Blood" counts as one.
Now "007's Top Secret" is another one.
That's 6 movies in total!
"007: Top Secret" was released at the latest, and it is estimated that it will be released in June 1983, so what is it if it is not about 2 years?
In two years, 6 self-produced movies have been released intensively, which is a bit conspicuous in the seven major Hollywood majors, not to mention that your United Arts Film Company was a film company that was about to collapse a few months ago.
The Hollywood Big Seven don't look at them, they release many movies a year, but they really make their own two or three movies a year.
The rest are small and medium-sized companies that don't have the ability to distribute, and after making their own movies, they hand them over to the seven major Hollywood distributions.
It's just that Lianyi Film Company has been unlucky recently, so many businesses that originally belonged to them have been eaten by other giants.
If it is replaced by someone else, it will definitely be slow and steady, not greedy, as long as it can be done well one by one, it is enough.
For example, if your "Speed of Life and Death" was a great success in July this year, then it is most appropriate to wait until May next year, when Stallone's new film "First Blood" is released, and in December next year or January of the following year, "007: Top Secret" will start to work again.
But Lianyi Films chose a very radical approach, either because Yin Jun was very confident in the movies he made, or they were too inflated.
Of the five movies they are going to produce next, except for one "007: Top Secret", which is a script that has been written a long time ago, the remaining four movies are either original by Yin Jun or adapted by him himself.
Now no one dares to say that Yin Jun, a screenwriter from Xiangjiang, can't do Hollywood movie scripts well.
is not only the movie script, but also the sitcom launched by the now popular Disney TV channel - "Happy Hotel", which is also written by Yin Jun.
After breaking through 30 million viewers in the seventh episode, it broke through 40 million viewers in the eleventh episode, and directly became the ratings champion so far this year!
In the United States, watching "Happy Hotel" has become a social phenomenon.
Even "Wind x Doctor Pretty Gentleman", which was the most popular in the previous ratings, has many plots that the old people and teenagers don't like to watch.
But "Happy Hotel" was unexpectedly liked by people of all ages.
"It seems that everyone can find their own shadow in it, and can find joy and comfort here. ”
This is an editorial written by the New York Times specifically for "Happy Hotel", which devotes half a page, which shows how popular "Happy Hotel" is.
Encouraged by "Happy Hotel", Disney's situation has suddenly improved so much that at least there will be no malicious speculation that they will go out of business.
Now, the advertising fee of Disney's TV channel "Happy Hotel" on Friday has soared to a whopping $200,000 per 30-second ad -- which is the price of an episode alone! The ads in the front, middle and back add up to two or three million dollars that can be earned casually!
Of course, the most ruthless is the Super Bowl commercial, which is $2 million less in 30 seconds, and you are embarrassed to say that you are competing.
But after all, there is only one Super Bowl, and there is only one time a year, and if "Happy Hotel" is done well, the benefits in a year will definitely not be worse than it.
Even many people began to speculate whether the final viewership of "Happy Hotel" would soar to 80 million, which is almost the peak number?
So far, decades of TV shows, that is, "Wind x Doctor Pretty Soldier" has done it!
And at this time when everyone is unanimously optimistic about "Happy Hotel", a talent show called "American Idol" officially kicked off the audition......