[I accidentally wrote the chapter number wrong, this should be chapter 835, take the time to let the editor change it]

"Titanic" already reached $447 million at the box office last week, and it is almost inevitable that it will surpass the North American box office record of $460 million for "Star Wars" this week. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 info Eric didn't have much surprise in his heart, listening to Christina's excited tone, she was obviously also a fan of "Titanic".

The drowsiness dissipated, Eric turned sideways, looked at Christina lying next to him with a smile on the corner of his mouth, and said, "Let's talk about this later, now ......"

Saying this, Eric suddenly reached out, grabbed Christina's slender waist and pulled her over, and then rolled over.

"Ahh

Eric is more than 1.8 meters tall, but Christina is only 1.55 meters small, and with Eric's movements, Christina's petite body completely disappears under him.

"Little kitten, next time remember, the man who was suddenly woken up is very angry. ”

Christina narrowed her eyes, her face flushed, stretched out her arms to let Eric take off her small T-shirt, and begged for mercy in a soft tone: "Eric, I was wrong, I won't dare next time." ”

"I'll talk about it next time, and I'll punish it this time. ”

"But, I've already made breakfast, and it's going to be cold when you're done. ”

As soon as Christina said this, Eric also felt a burst of hunger, and looked at the sunlight outside the window again, it was not early, "Casino Royale" was about to be completed in the past few days, and all the work needed to be watched by him personally, so he restrained his desires, let go of Christina, turned over and got out of bed, and said: "Okay, for your sake, I'll let you go this time." ”

After many re-releases in the past 20 years, "Star Wars" has just exceeded $460 million at the cumulative box office. Therefore, if you want to talk about the box office record of the first round of screenings, before "Titanic", it should be "Jurassic Park" produced by Eric a few years ago, and the North American box office ended up with 450 million.

However, in any case, after 12 weeks of reflection, the North American box office of "Titanic" reached $469 million, breaking the box office record of all previous North American films, and also won the record 12-week North American single-week box office championship.

Although everyone knows that "Titanic" will break the North American box office record this week without suspense, after the real data is released, there are only a few people who can react as indifferently as Eric.

After waking up that day, in just half an hour of breakfast with Christina, five or six phone calls were made to Eric's mobile phone in a row.

Today's media in North America is basically focused on this matter, and more than half of the newspapers that Eric subscribes to have the news of "Titanic" breaking the North American box office record on the front page. The Internet is even more boiling, and the huge fan base of "Titanic" has posted in the Yahoo community and major movie forums to celebrate the film's breaking of the North American box office record.

Under the company's arrangement, ABC's morning news program "Good Morning America" spent a full 20 minutes reviewing the whole process of "Titanic" from its start-up to the present, and the host even connected with several film creators who were in Japan to promote the film, and the report on "Titanic" directly increased the ratings of "Good Morning America" by 30% compared with the past.

Although a few months ago, no one, including Eric himself, could have known whether "Titanic" would break the North American box office record this week.

However, today is March 14th, only 10 days away from the 69th Academy Awards, after the nominations are announced, in order to make the most of the Oscar influence of "Titanic", the film's remaining major overseas box office countries are basically scheduled for the next two weeks, and at that time, the number of overseas countries for "Titanic" will increase from less than 30 to 68 in one fell swoop.

Today, the overseas release countries of "Titanic" will increase by 17, including Germany, France, and Japan, the three most important overseas box offices.

In the original time and space, the first round of screenings of "Titanic" grossed $1.2 billion overseas. Eric remembers that the Japanese box office is about 200 million US dollars, according to the UK's current box office figure of 91 million US dollars, Germany and France, which are comparable to the British market, may also exceed 100 million US dollars in cumulative box office, that is, the total box office of these three overseas box office countries will reach about 400 million US dollars, accounting for one-third of the overseas box office market share of "Titanic".

Therefore, Firefly also attaches great importance to the release work of these three countries, and several creators of "Titanic" began to rush to Europe and Japan to participate in the premieres of the corresponding countries a week ago, while Cameron and others were still in Japan.

Eric believes that after the release of the new **** scale, the overseas box office data of "Titanic" will also completely explode, and again, because of Firefly's established distribution strategy, the overseas box office has barely reached $400 million so far.

After a busy morning at Firefly Studios, Eric rushed to Burbank in the afternoon to attend the next stage of the release work meeting on "Titanic".

The North American box office in the 12th week reached a total of $469 million, which also brought a big trouble, or regret, to the distribution department of Firefly.

"Although the current box office data of "Titanic" is still maintained at the scale of $20 million per week, according to the survey data in our hands, most of this is the result of repeated viewing by the core fans of the film, who repeatedly enter the cinema not only because of the attraction of the film itself, but also because of their love for the film and the expectation that it can create more box office miracles. ”

During the meeting, Robert Thompson, president of the Firefly distribution department, introduced the current situation: "Therefore, "Titanic" has a total of three publicity points that can stimulate the North American box office data to continue to rise, breaking the North American box office record, the total North American box office exceeded 500 million US dollars, and the Oscars, if these three promotional points can appear in three weeks respectively, it is undoubtedly the best state." But the current situation is that "Titanic" has broken the box office record, and there are two promotional points left, which are likely to happen in the same week, or even the same day, based on the current box office trends. Because it is now a full week and a weekend before the Oscars, the awards ceremony is Monday next week, and the box office of the 14th week weekend of the same day happens to be released. ”

Robert Thompson said this, but there was not much regret in his tone, and so did everyone in the room.

Everyone can hear that "Titanic" broke the North American box office record this week, exceeded $500 million at the box office next week, and hit the Oscar record next week.

But the box office of "Titanic" remains above $20 million in a single week, and it is already a fan show, although Firefly can easily come up with $10 million to support the box office of "Titanic" to 500 million next week, but doing so is like drawing a scratch on the flawless "pearl" of "Titanic".

Everyone whispered to each other for a while, and someone said, "Robert, have you forgotten to consider the publicity point of the movie breaking $1 billion at the global box office?"

"Of course I thought about it," said Robert Thompson, "but it's not a new record, Jurassic Park broke it four years ago. Moreover, this data should come out after the Oscars, and by then, there should be a good chance that the North American box office will start to fall sharply, and we can't expect anything from the North American market anymore. ”

Someone suddenly said, "What about the world's 2 billion?"

There was a brief pause in the meeting, and then everyone chuckled.

Robert Thompson also shook his head, looked at each other, and spoke Kenneth Horn, president of New Line Pictures, before the release of "Titanic", because New Line Pictures almost caught up with the annual box office performance of the headquarters, Kenneth Horn's status in the group has increased significantly, however, after the box office of "Titanic" exploded, the data of New Line Pictures was once again far away, and Kenneth Horn, who was originally fighting for more resources for New Line, was still quite depressed, but he would not show it on this occasion.

In the entire Firefly group, Kenneth Horn is on par with Robert Thompson, Kenneth Horn's New Line Pictures includes the entire production and distribution system, although it has been producing most of the films with budgets below $30 million, but the performance of the new line has been very good in recent years, and with the support of the old ministers in the New Line period, Kenneth Horn is still quite concerned by the high-level attention. Robert Thompson, as the president of the group's distribution department, is in charge of the Bowell International Distribution Group, which is responsible for local and global distribution, although he is not involved in production, but because he controls the film distribution of all major Firefly studios such as Firefly Pictures, Disney Pictures, and Pixar Animation, Robert Thompson's position should not be underestimated.

Although there is no overlap in the management of the business, within the same system, both of them have more or less signs of competition.

"Kenneth, since you say so, let's make a bet, if the global box office of "Titanic" can exceed 2 billion US dollars, I invite everyone present to eat, if not, you come. ”

"Of course, I can afford a meal," Kenneth Horn said without hesitation, looking around.

In this festive atmosphere, no one will say anything about this kind of small gamble, although almost everyone feels that although "Titanic" can steadily break through $1 billion, or even touch $1.5 billion, $2 billion is still too much hanging.

Eric closed the document he had just read in front of him, raised his head, swept a circle between the two of them with a smile, and said, "Okay, I have written down the gamble of the two of you, and when the time comes, I will choose the location, and you had better keep last year's year-end bonus first." ”

Kenneth Horn and Robert Thompson, the core executives of the Firefly Group, both have multi-million dollar year-end bonuses. Hearing Eric say this, Robert Thompson was 'shocked' and said: "Eric, you better rob directly, there is no hotel in the world that can eat millions of dollars for a meal." ”

"Robbery is illegal, I'm a law-abiding citizen," Eric joked with a laugh.

After a burst of laughter, Katzenberg announced the next topic.

"After analyzing this period of time, we found that many "Titanic" fans are very interested in the filming process of the film. Moreover, we happened to have perfectly preserved all the props during the filming of "Titanic", the model of the Titanic ship is still standing on the set of Rosarito, Mexico, and some of the core props have also been shipped back to Los Angeles and are currently in the warehouse in the studio, so let's discuss the feasibility of the "Titanic" theme exhibition. ”

After Katzenberg finished speaking, the people in the meeting did not speak immediately, and everyone flipped through the investigation report that had been handed out in an uproar.

Eric also flipped through the investigation report in his hand. Westerners are generally very interested in collecting, and some props from classic movies can often be auctioned for sky-high prices. This is also the cultural basis for "Titanic" to be able to hold prop exhibitions.

Although he doesn't know the specific data in the original time and space, Eric remembers that after the success of "Titanic", Fox held a grand "Titanic" shooting props tour around the world, and if it wasn't for the huge profit drive, Fox would definitely not do it.

Moreover, one of the most regrettable things in the original time and space in Eric's opinion is that the Titanic model that Cameron copied on the set of Rosarrito in a one-to-one ratio was directly dismantled and sold for scrap metal in the later stage of the film's production in order to raise enough production funds, which must also be a big regret for many fans.

This time, from the very beginning, Eric instructed the creators of the movie to save all the props perfectly. The reason he gave at the beginning was, of course, to provide prop support for the subsequent production of retro films related to "Titanic", after all, the production of props for "Titanic" cost tens of millions of dollars.

However, now that "Titanic" has achieved the same success as in the previous life, then the real reason for the original move can be brought out in a grand manner.

Although the "Titanic" theme exhibition will certainly not survive as long as Disneyland, with rich experience in operating Disney theme parks, Firefly has a very high possibility of success in holding the "Titanic" theme exhibition.

(To be continued.) )