"Youth Musical" and "Bad Teacher" are completely different works, so the difference between the launch of a week will not be a cannibalism for MGM, not to mention that "Bad Teacher", which has accumulated to more than 60 million in the first week, has already made a lot of money for MGM - major institutions estimate that just the global box office, "Bad Teacher" may bring MGM more than 100 million revenue - not to mention the window period after the theater window period DVD, limited TV network and other window period, will also bring MGM nearly 100 million revenue.

Controlling box office revenue at 40% of total revenue is qualified for MGM, and basically controlling it at 30 to 35 like Disney is already the highest standard in Hollywood. Of course, this refers to the average value, and when it comes to a specific work, of course, it depends on its characteristics.

For example, DD Pictures is still enjoying the profits of most of its works during the major window periods, but the performance is completely different.

Pirates of the Caribbean 1, fueled by the hype around Pirates 2, is now seeing a new wave of DVD sales and cable network play. In addition, it is also very popular on more trendy channels, such as FN.

F2F-NOW, nicknamed FN, is a streaming site that F2F recently launched. The site differs from YouTube in that it does not exist as a content producer, but only provides a channel and platform, and its content, such as movies, TV series, TV shows, etc., is licensed through major studios and cable networks. Therefore, as soon as FN was born, it was considered a symbol of Daniel's Internet media empire's war on Netflix.

Now Plutos' business is very broad, through a series of shares, acquisitions, with F2F, MB and so on as the core, plus LinkedIn, MySpace, YouTube, FN and many other entities for different functions, user groups - most of them are not Plutos holdings, and even Plutos rarely interferes with the work of management - the way to achieve unity is attractive. F2F's huge number of full-coverage social groups has enough ability to provide a large amount of traffic for more professional websites and help them stabilize the market. Moreover, it is difficult to be accused of monopoly, because many websites are innovative and have not appeared. F2F is not about using its dominant position in the industry to crowd out competitors.

Importantly, from the very beginning, Daniel intervened as an investor - except for F2F, he did not try to control the other websites, but co-existed as a heavy cooperation. Even MB, the only NYSE-listed company in its subsidiary, is seeking to reduce its holdings and give up its holdings, although no real action has yet taken place. But judging by a lot of Raymond's work, it's not a gimmick, it's something that's being pushed through.

Going back to FN, the current number one on the streaming site is Pirates of the Caribbean: The Voyage of the Black Pearl - sadly, DD Pictures only gets 5% of that, as well as the profits generated by FN itself, considering it's still in the user development stage. F2F is losing money on FN – but the situation is very minor, thanks to the vertical business system. F2F, in a sense, is Plutos Investments, which receives a portion of the revenue from YouTube, DD Pictures, DD Animation, and MGM Pictures' own content producers.

Take YouTube as an example, a paid subscription project pushed by FN. The ability to provide a new monetization channel for active personal content producers on YouTube would encourage them to produce more and more interesting programming – making YouTube far more than Netflix in the field of homemade content.

And DD Pictures, including MGM Pictures, which sold its own film library, has been expanding its film library — with thousands of productions being produced in Hollywood every year. Some of them are just satisfied with a small number of users, and they are not worth releasing in theaters, or even DVDs, and the deep-pocketed cable TV networks, of course, are even less likely to buy them, and at this time, they still have a way to go, and that is to sell movies to the libraries of large companies, which may only cost a few thousand dollars, or tens of thousands of dollars. For a producer, if he's an individual, the money can open the next door to a treasure trove of Alibaba, and if it's an institution, it's a good way to detract from losses, and the investment in these films is not usually a big number.

Because, these content manufacturers under Plutos themselves consume part of the operating pressure of FN - this is the innate advantage that FN was born into a wealthy family.

Compared with "The Curse of the Black Pearl", "The Social Network", "The Hangover", and "Chainsaw" are also quite popular, but not so prominent, and the earlier "Greek Wedding" and the literary "The Immortal Gardener" are a little worse.

But this channel has indeed created a new profit point for DD Pictures - you may not know until this moment why DD Pictures is expanding its film library so quickly and refusing to license to Netflix.

……

"Are you here?"

David, who was half-leaning on the couch, straightened his back when he saw Sally come in - although it didn't have much to do with him, the filming of "Transformers", and the upcoming "Pirates 2", and the end of the year, "Unstoppable", "Saw 3", "Happy Feet" and "Night at the Museum" are worth his attention. However, this does not prevent him from staying here and listening to the data of "Youth Musical".

Who told Daniel to stay in David's office at DD Pictures?

Sally handed a folder to Daniel.

Everyone's faces are relatively relaxed, as evidenced by the fact that Kusa, Melissa, Ferguson, and MGM's Meyer and Dele all have their own duties. Although I don't know what the box office was on the first day, according to the data and information they received, the super high attendance, the rave reviews, and the soaring number of discussions on social networks all indicate the success of "Youth Musical".

Now the question is how successful it will be.

20 million?

"Impossible!" David walked over. "Don't expect 20 million, or even 15 million, it's good to surpass "Bad Teacher", after all, we're working against "Superman Returns", aren't we? Young people dancing in school can't compare to cool and handsome Superman, right? ”

The first day of "Bad Teacher" was 12.24 million. "Superman Returns" had a box office of more than 11 million yesterday, Thursday, and is expected to reach 16 million to 17 million today.

"Those damn movie theaters gave 'Superman' 4,100 screens, but they were only willing to give 'Singing and Dancing Youth' 3,200. It's good that we can have 10 million, with word of mouth, "Youth Musical" can go a long way, and when "Superman", "Racing", "Remote Control", and "Bad Teacher" are all gone, "Youth Musical" may be able to trample them all under their feet. ”

Sally looked at David. The smile is a little meaningful.

Daniel closed the report, leaned back in his chair, and looked at him with a smile.

"Laughing at what? How much exactly? Is there really 15 million? ”

David reached over and grabbed the report, flipped the page, and saw the box office figures—his eyes widened in disbelief.

"How is this possible?"

21.03 million!

Broke through the 20 million mark!

And together with this number is "Superman Returns" on the sixth day of release - 16.23 million, Superman, who was caught and killed once by "Bad Teacher", still has not ushered in its championship moment.

inferior to the officially released "Superman". "Bad Teacher" won 10.02 million on Thursday, followed by "Life Remote Control" 8.45 million. As for Sandra. Brock's new film "Untouchable Lovers," Paramount's comedy "Mad Father," and the third week's "Fast and Furious 3" — Universal has re-engaged with Fan. Diesel and Paul. Walker, all of them are under 8 million, and in addition, "X-MEN" has entered the closing period. Jennifer. Aniston's "Breaking Up Men and Women" no longer has three melons and two dates.

Therefore, the reality is that "Youth Musical" - a campus youth song and dance film with 900 screens less, greatly cut "Superman Returns".

It's hard to say what is to blame for this achievement?

** for good song and dance films?

Contempt for a teenage audience?

It is the beautiful and extremely youthful atmosphere of "Youth Singing and Dancing" - fearless. Living with dreams – these are the unforgettable feelings of all ages?

Or last night's record-high ratings of the "Song and Dance Youth Cup" finals?

Or is it the propaganda that is ubiquitous on the Internet, as Internet believers believe?

Even, the invisible starring role of "Song and Dance Youth" - Daniel. Sandler Shadow?

"Today's post-dawn newspaper may be filled with all sorts of analyses and comments." David let out a sigh of surprise and let out the look of amazement, "It's incredible. ”

Traditionally, Saturday will be higher than Friday, and Sunday and Friday will be about the same or slightly higher, so that "Singing and Musical" will cut nearly 65 million in its first three days of weekend — nearly 20 million more than "Bad Teacher."

Importantly, there is no Cameron in this. Diaz, just a fresh group of minors.

Which of the above factors is responsible for all this, or is it something outside of them?

"Tomorrow is not necessarily," Daniel smiled with his eyes closed, "not all newspapers are waiting for data. ”

"Most of them will wait!"

"Really?"

"Because it's MGM, it's your company making a movie -- they're going to wait for a possibility." David looked at Daniel with burning eyes, "However, can you give us an analysis first, why is there such a number?" I promise, Warner Bros. must have gone crazy by now. ”

The Superman live-action series, which has been absent for 20 years, is back after three versions of the TV series. It is rumored that Warner spent 270 million for this Superman screening, but as a senior in the circle, David knows that there are not so many, but about 230 million is credible - judging from the current performance, it is likely to lose to "Youth Musical" with an investment of less than 20 million.

Is it Jeff or not. Robinoff went crazy, David didn't know, but Warner Bros. definitely someone would go crazy. (To be continued.) )

PS: I wanted to follow others to beg for tickets, but I don't know what the use of tickets is for me to hit the street......