Chapter 724: Luck, Stepping on a Foot
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On the 8th, "Gravity", which had a 31-week release cycle in North America, was finally released offline, and the final total North American box office was also fixed at $281 million, which is a bit regrettable and failed to break through the $300 million mark.
In any case, the film can be regarded as having an ending, plus 712 million yuan in Chinese mainland, about 80.83 million US dollars, and 435 million US dollars in other countries and regions around the world, so that the global final box office of "Gravity" reached 796 million US dollars.
It is only a few million short of breaking through the $800 million mark, but unfortunately it can't be crossed like a heavenly guide.
However, people should be content, the box office of 796 million US dollars is amazing enough, roughly calculated, North America can get at least about 169 million US dollars at the box office, Chinese mainland about 20.2 million US dollars, other countries and regions about 155 million US dollars, adding up to 343 million US dollars.
The production cost of "Gravity" is $100 million, with Dune and First Pictures investing $30 million each, and Warner $40 million.
There is also a publicity cost of 80 million US dollars, which is paid by the Warner family, so it is necessary to subtract these two parts of the investment, and the remaining 163 million US dollars is the net income.
But this is not over, after all, Fu Luo's starring role has a box office share to take, or 20% of the $343 million, not the $163 million net profit share, so he has to deduct $68.6 million.
In the end, the remaining $95 million was split proportionally among the three production companies, with Dune and First Pictures each taking $28.5 million and Warner $38 million.
In terms of the proportion of costs, it is already about 90% of the rate of return, which is definitely a success.
And this is just a box office share, and peripherals, DVDs, and online on-demand are really big, especially for a movie that is very successful at the box office, the only drawback is that the time cycle is long, and it is a long-term business.
Just like Fast and Furious, it is currently bringing millions of dollars in profit sharing to Dune every year.
In addition, Fu Luo's single-film salary can be regarded as a new high for him, 88.6 million US dollars, which is 540 million yuan at the current exchange rate.
If this is reported by the media, it will definitely fall into the eyes of countless people, but fortunately, the salary is generally confidential, and the outside world can only roughly estimate it.
Then I have to mention that as two weeks have passed, "20 Years Old Again" has also swept away the weekly box office of 179 million and 223 million yuan respectively, accumulating a total box office of 403 million yuan.
and successfully won two consecutive championships, and also trampled on "The Amazing Spider-Man 2", not to mention "Frozen Man", "You at the Table" and "Hypnosis Master".
Well, this may be a bit exaggerated, in fact, only "Frozen Man" may be really miserable, and the box office is only 68.32 million yuan in two weeks, and if it can break the 80 million mark next, it will be happy.
The other "You at the Same Table" swiped 71.2 million yuan in the first week, which is not bad, which is higher than the two weeks of "Frozen Man", after all, it is just a youth film with a low cost.
However, this movie is quite affected by "20 Years Old Again", after all, not to mention the subject matter, the former crushes the latter in terms of word-of-mouth.
No, the total box office of this movie in my memory seems to be 450 million yuan, and this time it can break 200 million yuan, and it is estimated that it will have to burn high incense.
As for "Hypnosis Master", the trend is relatively stable, and the reputation is also very good, and after Xu Zheng Xu bald head in "Thai Embarrassment", the box office appeal has also been greatly improved, and it has also won a box office of 113 million yuan in a week.
However, due to the limitations of the subject matter, the next big explosion is at most, and the probability of a big explosion is really not great.
The last "The Amazing Spider-Man 2", the box office in the first week was 61.48 million yuan, which doesn't sound high, the key is that the movie was released on Sunday, and it only took one day to brush up on such a high box office, do you need to say more?
Therefore, the reason why "20 Years Old Again" stepped on it was really just a step on luck.
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Time slowly came to the fifteenth, and Fu Luo, who was idle, became an otaku because he had to avoid the limelight in the past two weeks, and then took time to see his daughter from time to time, as well as his daughter's own mother.
In the rest of the time, in addition to spending time with his family, he also took care of the company's affairs, preparing to promote the two film projects "The Martian" and "Hong Kong".
This is not his temporary idea, but it has long been in the schedule, for example, "Hong Kong" already had a plan for a trilogy when filming "Embarrassment", and now it has been more than two years since the release of "Thai Embarrassment", and it is time to start this series of film projects again.
And these two projects, among which "Hong Kong" are easy to handle, as long as they are progressed step by step according to the established plan, there is no difficulty.
When it came to "The Martian", it was a bit troublesome, originally Fu Luo intended to see if it could be adapted into a Chinese-language movie, but in the end he found that it was simply difficult, and his idea was too naïve.
Not even to mention anything else, the domestic space agency will definitely not disclose some useful data to the film company to make a movie, and without these internal information, can the filmed "The Martian" still be watched?
And there doesn't seem to be a director in China who can make this kind of film, and thinking about it can only make people sigh, although China's film box office market has soared frighteningly, but the gap between it and Hollywood as a whole is not on the same level at all.
The key places are not technical problems, after all, all kinds of domestic shooting equipment are actually quite advanced, and they are not lagging behind Hollywood.
The difference is only the overall quality of the industry practitioners, and it is obvious that this kind of thing is not done quickly, and can only be slowly accumulated through time.
It seems that if Dune wants to start the "Martian" project, he still has to find a Hollywood company to work with.
For the time being, Adam West, the head of Dune North America, can release the news first, and I believe that there will definitely be film companies interested in it, who has made Fu Luo create a lot of miracles in Hollywood over the years.
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At one o'clock in the afternoon, Fu Luo and Guan Qingqing came to the set of "Heart Flower Road" in the capital again, the film will be officially launched today, for which Sand Dune also held a simple start-up ceremony, and invited some media reporters to attend.
Then before the start-up ceremony officially began, Fu Luo naturally met the director Ning Hao, as well as the main actors Huang Bo, Xu Zheng, Yuan Quan and Zhou Dongyu.
Three of them don't need to say anything, just say hello casually.
And Yuan Quan, who met for the first time, politely greeted each other, this person has not been black or red for a long time, and his personal appearance is relatively strange, anyway, he is quite skinny.
I don't know how Ning Hao found this, but the absolute protagonists of "Heart Flower Road" can only be Huang Bo and Xu Zheng, and the other female actors are all supporting roles, which is not so important, it can be said that this is a movie without a heroine.
And the reason why Yuan Quan came here today is just to participate in the boot-up ceremony, including Zhou Dongyu.
Actually, Fu Luo didn't have to come, it was enough for Qingqing to come forward, but he happened to be idle, and he also wanted to talk to Xu Zheng about "Hong Kong", so he came along.
However, it is also beneficial for him to visit, at least it will attract more attention, which is conducive to the promotion of the movie "Heart Flower Road", and there have been many media reporters who have been trying to interview him recently.