After consecutive holidays, the working life of the North American public is gradually returning to normal.

For Hollywood, the first full box office week of 1990 also passed quietly, and this week, "Batman: Time to Go to War" was still the focus of everyone's attention.

From January 5th to January 11th, the third week of release, the box office of "Batman: Time to War" showed a significant drop in the weekly box office, with a drop of 33% compared to last week.

However, because of the box office base of more than $80 million last week, although "Batman: Time to War" fell by 33% this week, the box office revenue was still as high as $59.51 million. In three weeks, the groundbreaking superhero movie quickly crossed the $200 million mark at the box office, reaching $230.69 million.

In the light of "Batman: Time to War", all the other films of the same period seem not worth mentioning.

Because of the same hot media attention of the film and the box office, during this time, many news related to this movie have become the focus of media hype.

First of all, of course, is the DC Super Hero Universe Project that accompanied the birth of "Batman: Time to War".

According to various sources, Daenerys Entertainment and Warner Bros. Pictures will jointly develop a number of DC's superhero film projects such as Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman in the next few years, and connect all the films through a complete story line to form a large-scale DC superhero cinematic universe series.

After the news was officially released, not only comic fans and movie fans were boiling, but a large number of media also began to find ways to dig up more news about the DC Cinematic Universe plan, and a number of high-level executives such as Time Warner and Daenerys have become the target of reporters these days.

While keeping an eye on the progress of negotiations between the two companies on the details of the implementation of the DC Cinematic Universe plan, another piece of topical gossip quickly spread after last Saturday's "Batman: Time to War" celebration party.

At the beginning of the "Batman: Time to War" project, Adam Baldwin, Valerie Golino and other leading actors all signed long-term film contracts with Daenerys Entertainment, which is not a secret to the outside world, and many people questioned whether Daenerys Entertainment had the need to do so.

As the film exploded at the box office, some of the creators who were rumored to have signed long-term contracts began to be dissatisfied with the salary they received and hoped to renegotiate the agreement.

In order to express its dissatisfaction with this behavior, Daenerys Entertainment directly canceled the additional cash reward plan that was originally intended to give all the crew members of "Batman: Time to War" totaling tens of millions of dollars.

The rumor was so topical and appealing enough to attract the public's attention that it quickly became hyped.

The first thing the media talked about was how much Daenerys Entertainment and Time Warner would be able to make from the release of Batman: Time to War.

The domestic box office quickly rushed to $230 million in three weeks, and the North American box office of "Batman: Time to War" reached $400 million without any problems, followed by overseas.

Batman can be described as one of the cultural symbols of Americans, although it has a very wide popularity around the world, but overseas audiences will not have the deep feelings that Americans have accumulated for half a century. Before the film's release, some industry media judged that the film's overseas box office would definitely not exceed the local box office.

However, things turned out to be more than anyone expected.

Simon Westeros's phenomenal superhero film is so groundbreaking that with a series of stunning cinematic techniques and action design details, even if you replace Batman with another character, it can definitely be described as 'stunning', which is enough to ensure that there will be no cultural barriers to overseas audiences.

As a result, the media is now generally optimistic that the overseas box office size of "Batman: Time to Go to War" is enough to be on par with the local one.

Based on the global box office of $800 million, the producer and distributor will probably be able to recover $350 million in box office shares, of which Daenerys Entertainment should be around $250 million, according to leaked distribution agreement information.

Based on the progress of a film's distribution in recent years, the money will probably be recouped in the next year.

According to the media's forecast of $2 billion in derivatives sales in the next year, Daenerys Entertainment should be able to earn about $300 million, excluding the 10% that needs to be paid to DC Comics, leaving $270 million.

Combined, Daenerys Entertainment will be able to recoup $500 million in funding in the next year with "Batman: Time to Go to War."

Even if the production and distribution costs of the film are directly calculated as $100 million, Daenerys Entertainment can make a net profit of $400 million from the project in the next year.

Then, a year later, in the five-year revenue period, the subsequent spin-off sales, videotape distribution and TV broadcast revenue of "Batman: Time to War" will definitely be only higher than the first two receipts. You know, according to the latest statistics recently, with the further expansion of the videotape market, the average proportion of global videotape revenue of Hollywood films in total revenue has exceeded 45%, and the proportion of box office revenue in total revenue has fallen to less than 30%.

As a result, the revenue of "Batman: Time to Go to War" in terms of follow-up channels can at least be on par with the revenue of Daenerys Entertainment's first year.

Taken together, Daenerys Entertainment will be able to earn at least $800 million in revenue from the distribution of "Batman: Time to War" in the next five years. As the issuer, Time Warner's share of revenue will not be less than $200 million.

$1 billion, which happens to be the total profit scale of "Batman: Time to War", which is generally recognized by most of the media.

Daenerys and Time Warner can make $1 billion with "Batman: Time to War", how much do the heroes and heroines get paid?

The media immediately exposed it.

Adam Baldwin, Batman, $300,000. Valerie Golino, Catwoman, $200,000.

Combined, the two are only $500,000.

The salaries of other supporting roles in the film are even cheaper in comparison.

Because of the release of "Batman: Time to Go to War", Adam Baldwin and Valerie Golino have quickly amassed a group of fans.

Under the reports of the media who are afraid that the world will not be chaotic, seeing that idols can only get such a small salary, Daenerys and Time Warner can earn $1 billion, naturally began to be dissatisfied, and many fans began to ask Daenerys Entertainment and Time Warner to renegotiate the contract to raise the salary of their idols by writing letters and phone calls.

The relevant news was originally released by Daenerys Entertainment, and it was natural to respond quickly to this situation.

Although it has not yet been acquired by Time Warner, Turner Broadcasting's CNN channel, which has always maintained a close relationship with the company, quickly did a special issue after the news fermented, exploring the current situation of the last few Hollywood actors who were shortlisted for Batman roles last year.

Compared to Adam Baldwin, who has already made a name for himself, the last few finalists last year, the best development was just just getting a resident role in an ABC TV series, more dramatic, and even some were reduced to some 'movie' sets in the San Fernando Valley.

Subsequently, "The Hollywood Reporter" also revealed the details of Adam Baldwin's five-film contract.

In addition to the low salary of $300,000 in the first film, the total value of Adam Baldwin's remaining four films is actually as high as $30 million, and the average salary of $7.5 million is completely A-list star level. Compared with the salary that Christopher Reeve received from the three "Superman" back then, Daenerys Entertainment is already very generous.

"Hollywood Reporter" also pointed out that relying on the popularity brought by participating in the "Batman" series, Adam Baldwin can not only take on other movies with the salary level of an A-list star, but also get a lot of other well-paid advertising endorsement income, which adds up to definitely higher than the income of most Hollywood stars.

In addition, the same goes for other actors in "Batman: Time to Go to War" who have risen to fame.

Without the opportunity of "Batman: Time to Go to War", most of these people would not be known to the public, and even fall into the situation of those actors who were shortlisted for the Batman list but ultimately failed.

Because of the importance of the DC Cinematic Universe project to Time Warner, Warner Bros. Pictures CEO Terry Semel directly stated in an interview with ABC's "Good Morning America" that Warner Bros. Pictures will never work with filmmakers who lack the spirit of contract.

Hollywood studios usually sign additional option contracts with actors in their key projects, especially new actors, which actually represent the interests of the entire Hollywood studio class.

Therefore, with Terry Semele's statement, Fox Film's Joe Rose, MGM-United America's Shirley Lansing and other Hollywood studio executives have also spoken out, saying that they will boycott filmmakers who lack the spirit of contract.

Simple words are always unconvincing, and a seemingly unrelated little thing that happened immediately made many Hollywood stars and filmmakers feel a chill in their hearts.

After completing "Born on the Fourth of July" with Tom Cruise, Oliver Stone, who is preparing his new film "The Gate", has publicly stated that he does not plan to invite Meg Ryan to be the heroine of his biopic about the story of the Gate Band.

Subsequently, John Slesinger, a veteran Hollywood director who directed "Midnight Cowherd", also publicly clarified that his new film "Midnight Terror" has confirmed that Melanie Griffith will be used as the heroine, and the previous rumors that Meg Ryan may star in the news are completely nonsense.

Immediately afterwards, there was news that Barry Sonenfeld, a famous Hollywood photographer who had served as a cinematographer to famous films such as "Blood Labyrinth" and "Flying Over the Future", was preparing his first directorial new film "The Addams Family" at this time, and told Paramount executives that if Paramount insisted on asking Meg Ryan to be the heroine, he himself would withdraw from the project, and other opportunities that had been confirmed for this famous TV series adaptation project The actor also publicly stated that he did not want to work with Meg Ryan.

Things go on and over again, as long as the brain is not stupid, you can probably see the problem.

Meg Ryan's affair with Daenerys Entertainment was almost entirely public, and the Hollywood actress who quickly rose to prominence with "When Harry Met Sally" quickly terminated her two remaining film option contracts with Daenerys Entertainment after becoming famous.

Daenerys Entertainment and CAA clashed over the "Rain Man" incident, and in the end, the seemingly unrelated Meg Ryan and the creators of "Rain Man" were terminated by CAA.

Unlike Dustin Hoffman, Barry Levinson, and Tom Cruise, who are already entrenched in Hollywood, Meg Ryan has just become famous and has not yet fully established herself in Hollywood.

Then, the actress first opened her mouth after becoming famous, and then terminated her contract with Daenerys Entertainment, and also participated in "Rocket Expert" stolen from Daenerys Entertainment by Paramount Pictures, and the festival can be said to be getting deeper and deeper.

The most important thing is that the box office of "Rocket Expert" also ended in failure, in Hollywood, without box office dependence, then you are nothing.

Coupled with the atmosphere of public opinion at this time.

Most people who follow this have a proverb in their minds: Beat the dog before the lion.

Hit a dog in front of a lion.

To use a more apt idiom in Chinese to describe it, killing chickens and setting an example for monkeys.

Even a year ago, Daenerys Entertainment wanted to ban a first-line actress, it was simply wishful thinking.

However, last year's 10-film project directly linked most of Hollywood to Daenerys Entertainment, and five of the traditional seven companies got the projects in the 10-film plan. The remaining two, MGM, because of the intervention of Australian capital, also began to move closer to Daenerys Entertainment.

The last Paramount, because of the two scripts of "Rocket Expert" and "Firebird Attack", did not get the project in the 10-film plan, so it did not need to give Daenerys entertainment face.

Although the "Rocket Expert" project failed, as long as Meg Ryanken significantly reduced her salary, relying on the popularity of "When Harry Met Sally", Paramount management was still happy to pick up a bargain.

It's just that Daenerys Entertainment may not be able to influence the decisions of Paramount's top management, but it is still easy to exert influence on specific film projects. The public boycott of the collaboration with Meg Ryan by the creators of "The Addams Family" is the result of Amy's efforts, and even if Paramount doesn't care about Daenerys Entertainment, these filmmakers are still looking forward to working with Daenerys Entertainment.

After all, it is impossible for Paramount to forcibly use Meg Ryan against the wishes of all the other creators.

Outside of the Big Seven, under the edge of Daenerys Entertainment, as long as there are other options, other second- and third-tier film companies can't make enemies for themselves for a Meg Ryan.

A first-line actress completely lost her foothold in Hollywood in a blink of an eye in the face of the strength of Daenerys Entertainment, and many Hollywood stars lamented that when Daenerys Entertainment was strong, the actor of "Batman: Time to War", who was still a little unwilling, wisely dispelled all thoughts, and took the initiative to say in an interview with "Entertainment Weekly" that he felt very honored to be able to participate in the filming of "Batman", and would definitely try his best to play this role in the subsequent series.

After Adam Baldwin spoke, whether or not he had certain thoughts, the other creators were smart enough to express their attitudes, both publicly and privately.

As a result, this contradiction and conflict that had not yet been brewed quietly ended in a gossip atmosphere.

If you hit a stick, you always have to give a sweet date.

Daenerys Entertainment then announced that an additional cash prize would be given to all crew members involved in the filming of "Batman: Time to War" because of the film's box office hit.

It's just that the total prize money for everyone has been directly halved to $10 million.

$10 million, $20 million, it's nothing compared to what Daenerys Entertainment can get from the "Batman: Time to War" project, and the prize money is halved, which is also an attitude.