Made in Hollywood

Amidst the heated discussion of public opinion, "The Dark Knight Rises" passed the second weekend after its release. Affected by a series of events, the box office of the film fell more than 50% compared with the first weekend, and it gained 86.57 million. Dollar.

Although this decline exceeded Warner Bros’ expectations before the release, plus the $135.42 million in the previous five working days, the North American box office of "The Dark Knight Rises" smoothly exceeded the $400 million mark, reaching 427 million. Ten thousand U.S. dollars.

At the same time, the film received nearly 250 million U.S. dollars overseas, and the global box office accumulation has been infinitely close to the 1 billion U.S. dollar mark, and it only takes one to two days to break one billion U.S. dollars.

Various negative events did have an impact on "The Dark Knight Rises", but the momentum of the film is still amazing.

"If there is no negative news, what is the box office of "The Dark Knight Rises"? Will it be another "Avengers"?"

Some media have raised this question. Without the Santa Monica Commercial Plaza shooting, the North American box office of "The Dark Knight Rise" would indeed be stronger, but Duke does not believe that the global box office will increase significantly.

The reason is simple. The North American market is mainly negatively affected, while overseas, "The Rise of The Dark Knight" has become more famous because of this, attracting more passersby to enter the theater.

Although CinemaScore predicts that the final North American box office of "The Dark Knight Rise" cannot exceed US$600 million, the global box office will stay between US$1.3 billion and US$1.4 billion instead of the US$1.5 billion expected by Warner Bros. One can deny that even so, this film was a huge success.

This fact makes many people quite annoyed.

David Ellison, who has been jumping around behind the scenes, is one of them, in the office of Sky Film Studio. After seeing the latest box office report, he couldn't help scratching his hair, his expression clearly irritated.

Although everything he did obviously worked, such box office numbers did not hit Duke Rosenberg at all, and even made his behavior seem a little ridiculous.

If today is not the same good news, David Ellison really wants to tear up this box office statistics.

Sent with the box office statistics report. There are also several cooperation agreements between Sky Studios and Universal Pictures and Paramount Pictures.

After a long period of negotiations, and after the 2008 economic crisis, Hollywood has been facing a shortage of money, especially Universal Pictures and Paramount Pictures’ capital chain is tight, Sky Studios finally cooperated with Universal Pictures and Paramount Pictures Reached agreement on many conditions and became a partner.

According to the content of the agreement, Sky Studios has obtained the investment rights for the next three parts of the "Star Trek" series under Paramount Pictures. Unlike ordinary investments, Sky Studios will receive half of the investment quota and enjoy all the benefits corresponding to the investment share.

On the other hand, Sky Studios, as David Ellison wanted, received the investment rights for the next four parts of the "Fast and Furious" series. And unlike "Fast and Furious 5", Universal Pictures, which is short of funds, basically agrees that Sky Studios enjoy the same investment income rights.

In addition, David Ellison will also invest in the new movie "Jurassic Park" restarted by Universal Pictures, which accounts for 50% of the investment.

He invested in a new one of "Jurassic Park." It also solved the urgent need of Universal Pictures.

All these make David Ellison's mood better, after years of accumulation. He fully understands one thing. The risk of investing in so-called new ideas and new ideas is too great. The possibility of failure far exceeds success, and he invests in the sequel of a successful film series. Just like "Fast and Furious 5", the investment return ratio is obviously higher.

David Ellison also made up his mind that in the short term, Sky Studios will never invest in so-called creative films.

Putting these thoughts aside for the time being, David Ellison flipped through the document about "Alien Battlefield", which is about to be released soon. Success or failure is also related to the future development of Sky Film Studio, although there are some doubts and I was worried that I was scammed at the beginning, but after watching the film, he still thought it might sell well.

This film is very well-made and adapted from a well-known novel. There is no lack of a fan base. With enough investment in publicity and distribution, it should be a success...

Just when David Ellison was thinking this way, a quick knock on the door suddenly sounded. After David Ellison spoke a word, his assistant opened the door and hurried in.

"Boss!" The assistant directly turned on the TV in the room and switched to CNN. "There is a press conference about James Holmes, you better take a look."

Hearing what the assistant said, David Ellison closed the file and turned to look at the TV. That was the latest case briefing by the Los Angeles police on the "Santa Monica Commercial Plaza shooting and James Holmes".

On the TV screen, hundreds of reporters focused on the Los Angeles County Police Chief Li Peisi, and David Ellison was also staring at him, hoping that the other party could throw out more amazing content and attract the attention of the media. Continue to stay on "The Dark Knight Rises".

What Li Peisi said did not disappoint David Ellison, and the leaked news was absolutely shocking, and even made David Ellison's face changed drastically.

"According to the police's interrogation and verification, the Van Diesel car accident last year was not an accident, but a deliberate murder. According to James Holmes, he was the direct perpetrator of that incident. fierce……"

Not only David Ellison, but his assistant did not expect such content to appear in the press conference, and his shocked mouth opened slightly.

"What's going on?" David Ellison's angry eyes fixed on the assistant. "What is going on?"

"I...I...I don't know." The assistant gently wiped off the cold sweat on his forehead, "Boss, you said that we can't come out in person for this kind of thing. I was passed on to someone else. I found an alcoholic pauper..."

In order to keep things from involving oneself, this kind of thing must have turned countless corners, helping ideals. There are countless unemployed and homeless people in the United States. Some of them dare to do anything for money.

It just didn't happen that James Holmes would be involved.

And this James Holmes's mouth is too loose, isn't he imitating the clown? Such a person can still call himself a clown?

David Ellison couldn't sit still anymore. He stood up and walked back two laps, and kept telling himself to be calm. After all, there were too many turns in this kind of thing, even if the police learned of Van Diesel. The car accident was not an accident, and it is impossible to find his head.

In addition, this kind of thing also has room for operation, as long as there is no chaos on your side, you don't have to worry too much.

Taking a few deep breaths, David Ellison sat back behind the desk and told the assistant, "You temporarily put down other tasks and follow up this matter with all your strength."

The assistant nodded vigorously.

"Listen to the latest news." David Ellison said again, "I want to know how far the case is."

After the assistant left, David Ellison no longer had the thought of looking at the file. He sat here thinking for a while, and rejected the idea of ​​immediately informing his father. After all, things were far from getting out of control.

The progress of the case announced by the Los Angeles police seemed to have thrown into a bowl of cold water in the waste oil, causing waves in the sky. The focus of public opinion suddenly shifted to the Van Diesel incident. The dead Hollywood star once again used his residual heat, not only It has become a focus that the media can't compete for, and it has also allowed "The Dark Knight Rise" to gradually break away from the previous whirlpool of public opinion.

Any news or even gossip has its timeliness, and the media is always chasing the freshest news. Compared with "James Holmes murders Van Diesel", there is already a cold-blooded "Dark Knight Rise" and movie violence. Problems, it is difficult to arouse public attention.

"Don't relax."

In the office of Warner Studios, Duke told Tina Fei, "Push Li Peisi and the police to continue the investigation."

"They have tracked down a private detective." Tina Fei told Duke of the latest nervousness. "Although under some pressure, the Los Angeles Police Department has no intention of stopping for the time being. They are looking for the private detective. I also think that things will not be as simple as it seems."

Duke thought for a moment, then said, "What about Van Diesel's family?"

"No response for the time being." Tina Fei glanced through the information, "Van Diesel has a bad relationship with his parents, and his parents don't care much about his life and death."

"Where's Paloma Gimanez?" Duke was talking about the girlfriend that Van Diesel had abused. "Get her to be found and put pressure on the police station."

Tina Fei nodded slightly, "This is a very greedy woman. It is not difficult to move her."

"From now on..." Duke raised his mouth slightly, "We are standing with Van Diesel."

For profit, they once stood on the opposite side of Van Diesel and vigorously discredited his reputation after his death; for the same purpose, they could also stand in Van Diesel's camp and urge the police to investigate the incident.

"If it really has something to do with him," Tina Fei asked suspiciously, "are we really going to send him to prison?"

"Sent to jail?" Duke stunned, then shook his head, "Why send him to jail? Don't forget, with his and his father's wealth, it is enough to hire a huge lawyer team. And send him. What good is it for us to go to jail?"

Without sufficient benefits, how could Duke waste so much effort to do it?

After discussing a few more words, Tina Fei left the office, and she wanted to follow Duke's instructions to keep an eye on the reactions of all quarters. (To be continued~^~)

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