Chapter 1131: The Beginning

The plan to acquire Twentieth Century Fox has not yet officially surfaced, and it remains within the scope of a very small community of interests, and Relativity Entertainment has not affected the company's normal business operations except for quietly preparing for this work.

In particular, in terms of films, filming, production, and publicity and distribution are all proceeding according to plan.

In late January, Uwe Bauer's magnum opus was once again released as Relativity Entertainment's opening film.

The witcher Washington premiered in Richmond, the capital of Virginia, and legend has it that it was in this state that Washington achieved the feat of cutting down the Cherry Tree Demon and thus embarked on the path to saving America with the other founding fathers.

This movie is not only the adventure of Washington alone, but also introduces like-minded people such as Franklin and Jefferson.

The phrase "mankind will never be slaved" was also shouted by Washington sonorously.

Last year's "Vampire Slayer Lincoln" caused a good market response, and it also made enough warm-up for "The Witcher Washington", coupled with the appeal of Uwe Bauer's Internet celebrity director, many viewers are willing to pay for this film.

In the first week of its North American release, "The Witcher Washington" was only second in the box office list at $32 million, although it was not as good as "Department Store Men" produced and distributed by Sony Columbia Pictures, which was released at the same time, but it still received $22.66 million in 3,750 theaters.

This achievement is close to the production of three films with a production cost of $8 million.

Although the film's reputation is still a mess, it does not prevent Uwe Bauer from achieving another commercial success as a director.

Brother Bao's road to directing is far from the end.

Perhaps after filming so many invincible video game adaptations, and being a dog licking dog for Blizzard and Warcraft for several years, only to lick to the end and still have nothing, Uwe Bauer has learned something and found his own way to the movie.

Once Uwe Bauer's film was so bad, in addition to its own problems, the source of film funding is also a reason that cannot be ignored.

Germany's film tax rebate policy has led to too many people running films instead of making them well.

Just like the super-stereotyped horror movies like "Here Comes the Grim Reaper" and "Chainsaw", Uwe Ball also has an audience of his own.

Reflected in the movie, "The Witcher Washington" exceeded $40 million at the North American box office in just ten days, easily bringing a lot of profits to Relativity Entertainment.

The last "Vampire Slayer Lincoln" earned $152.68 million worldwide, and the box office share alone brought tens of millions of dollars in profits to Relativity Entertainment.

The film will then be shown on a global scale.

The first weekend into February belongs to football, which is the largest sport in the United States, and the influence of the NFL is estimated to be comparable to the next three sports leagues combined.

The Super Bowl is basically held on the first weekend of February every year.

As the American Spring Festival Gala, its influence and ratings can only be described as amazing, and even the movies released on the Super Bowl weekend will be greatly affected.

Hollywood's slightly larger movies will basically focus on the next weekend, which is also the weekend before Valentine's Day, and there are many movies that are ready to squeeze out the Valentine's Day schedule in order to get a satisfactory income.

Among them, there are two most eye-catching films: one is "Lunar Eclipse", the third installment of the "Twilight" series owned by Relativity Entertainment, and the other is "Terminator 2018", a sci-fi masterpiece produced and distributed by Twentieth Century Fox.

Both films are sequels to the hit franchise, with the former setting a series of magical records last year that can be called a miracle for fan films.

The latter cost $200 million to produce, and Twentieth Century Fox invested $150 million in global publicity and distribution.

Twentieth Century Fox has high hopes for this supermasterpiece.

Similarly, Relativity Entertainment is looking forward to "Twilight: Lunar Eclipse" to achieve the same revenue and profits as "New Moon".

It has been a year since the release of "New Moon", and the data of the one-year settlement report of this film has also been counted and transmitted to Ronan's office.

"New Moon" grossed $315.04 million in North America, more than $413.06 million overseas, and $728.1 million worldwide.

At present, the global box office share has been fully received, and Relativity Entertainment has received a total of 276.5 million US dollars.

In terms of home entertainment, led by DVDs, "New Moon" grossed a total of $185.69 million worldwide.

On global television rights and online on-demand, the film earned $151.25 million.

Due to the separate accounting of peripheral products and copyrights, the total revenue of the film is only counted for these three major items, totaling $613.44 million.

In terms of costs, "Crescent Moon" cost $45 million to produce, $84.5 million to global publicity and distribution, $26.5 million to home entertainment and TV rights, $16.2 million in post-production for the crew involved Lindsay Beale and director Kathleen Hardwick and other main creative staff, $15.7 million in investment interest from the Pacific Foundation, and $32.1 million in daily management and other expenses for Relativity Entertainment.

According to Hollywood's usual calculations, the total cost of the film is as high as $220 million, and the net profit is an exaggerated $393.44 million.

Of course, there are some of these calculations that belong to Hollywood, such as the daily management expenses of film companies and some other expenses.

This is the revenue of the three major film items in the past year, and including other peripheral income, "New Moon" brought in a net profit of more than $450 million for Relativity Entertainment.

The film will continue to shine in the future, bringing in hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue every year for the past three years.

Relativity Entertainment expects that the profit of "Lunar Eclipse" in one year of release will not be lower than that of "New Moon", even if there is a behemoth like "Terminator 2018" in the movie released at the same time.

Twentieth Century Fox encountered financial difficulties and was eager to recoup funds, and "Terminator 2018" was deliberately selected in February, the Valentine's Day schedule, which is the most enthusiastic release time period between the New Year and the summer season.

Even, Rupert Murdoch personally invited James Cameron back from the South Pacific to attend the premiere of "Terminator 2018" to promote the movie.

Compared with the big investment of Twentieth Century Fox, Embassy Pictures still focuses on last year's policy in the promotion of "Twilight: Lunar Eclipse", and the publicity center mainly revolves around the couple of Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart.

The promotional plot of this part has been pushed into the stage of Robert Pattinson proposing to Kristen Stewart by Embassy Pictures.

The two attended the Super Bowl together last weekend, and Kristen Stewart's diamond ring on her finger was particularly dazzling, and even stole a lot of the limelight from Super Bowl winner Pittsburgh Steelers, driven by Relativity Entertainment.

In the next two years, you can break up, make public marriage proposals, and even get engaged, and there are many eye-catching articles that can be done.

Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart, promoted by their agencies and Embassy Pictures, have long signed an agreement that they will not cheat or break up until the end of the "Twilight" series, regardless of whether their relationship is true or false.

As for whether Robert Pattinson broke up or cheated on Kristen Stewart after the end of the whole series of "Twilight", it has nothing to do with Relativity Entertainment.

This couple, who are both real and fake, has played an extremely important role in the promotion of the "Twilight" series, whether it was once in the hands of Lionsgate or now under the contract of Relativity Entertainment, it can be called a model of Hollywood couple marketing success, and it can be used as a classic case in the textbook of film marketing.

"Lunar Eclipse", as a film with a completely female audience as the audience, successfully continued the success momentum of "New Moon", and broke the series record on the first day of its release in North America, getting $66.83 million, easily surpassing the super giant "Terminator 2018" in the same schedule, and stood at the top of the North American box office list on the day of its release!

"Terminator 2018" has finally collected the seventh Dragon Ball for Twentieth Century Fox!

The blockbuster received $11.4 million on its first day of release, and the response from audiences was extremely average.

The series of negative effects brought by the third part finally acted on the fourth part, and it seems that the film also proves that without the governor as the main character, the audience is not willing to pay for the film.

In fact, even if the governor returns, audiences will no longer pay for the film.

Is Judgment Day over? Will robots go back to the past in the future? The constant time travel may be tireless.

What started out as a great idea for the Terminator series has turned into a terrible mistake.

In the next three days, although "Lunar Eclipse" and "Terminator 2018" both showed a trend of continuous and substantial decline at the box office, and even the latter fell even less, the overall audience of "Terminator 2018" was too low.

In the three days of the North American opening weekend, this sci-fi production only got 26.62 million US dollars, which can only be described as super tragic compared to the huge investment.

Although "Lunar Eclipse" has attracted a lot of scolding and the overall word-of-mouth has hit a new low in the series, it is still a treasure among young women, with a three-day explosion of $157.77 million, not only won the box office top, but also easily achieved a large profit in the opening weekend!

The last two parts of this series have completed all filming and will continue to be released on Valentine's Day two years after tomorrow.

Twentieth Century Fox originally planned to develop "Terminator 5", but canceled plans for a sequel on the first day of "Terminator 2018" release.

Seven shiny dragon balls have finally been collected by Twentieth Century Fox, and the dragon has been successfully summoned!

The fiasco of "Terminator 2018" was first reflected in the stock market, with the stock price of Twentieth Century Fox plummeting, and the market value of the North American film evaporated more than $1 billion on the first trading day after the box office was released.

This is just the beginning of a series of bad events.