Chapter 589: Fiercely Competitive Summer Files
"Congratulations Lin, it seems that this year is another extremely glorious year for Summit Entertainment, I didn't expect the momentum of "Spartan 300 Warriors" to be so strong. The release time of Love 4. "Lang. Meyer's wry voice came. "Thank you Lang for your congratulations, but I must correct it, it's still early, before the specific results come out, everything can happen, which should be very clear to those of us who make movies, just like this "Spartan 300 Warriors", to be honest, we didn't expect it to perform so fiercely, our expectation for its premiere box office is 40 million-50 million, and it is absolutely unexpected to soar to nearly 80 million." Lin Yuquan smiled: "Also, you have to be interested in "Speed and Excitement. Love 4" is confident, as a producer, as an investor, I also hope that the film can achieve good box office results, didn't we watch the edited version of the film together last time? I believe that the 50 million premiere box office should not be a problem. ”
"Well, actually, I also believe in the use of Speed and Excitement. The quality and public recognition of "Love 4" is not a problem in recovering the production cost, but due to the sudden rise of "Spartan 300 Warriors", it is more difficult to get a higher box office, and you also know how fierce the competition is in this year's summer file. "Lang. Meyer said.
"yes, I know." flashed the schedule of this year's summer file in his mind, and Lin Yuquan also felt that yes, the competition in this summer file is very fierce.
May 1 is 20th Century Fox's "Wolverine," a $150 million production starring Hugh Jackman. As a side episode of the super-grossing series "X-Men", it is undoubtedly a heavyweight movie. Before the outbreak of "Spartan 300". The film is seen as the opening work of this year's summer season, and Fox has high hopes given that the box office of "Iron Man" exceeded 100 million in the opening weekend of the same period last year.
May 8 is Paramount's "Star Trek," also $150 million in production, directed by J.J. Abrams and directed by Alex. Kuzman's screenwriting has received more attention than Wolverine, after all, Star Trek is a long-time sci-fi series in the United States, and there have been ten previous series in the series, and in terms of the number of fans in the United States. It's almost on par with Star Wars.
May 15 is "Angels and Demons" produced by Sony Pictures. Directed by Howard, Tom Brown. Hanks, Ivan. Starring McGregor, the production cost is $150 million, well, these are not the most important degrees, the most important thing is that the film is based on the novel of the same name by Dan Brown, and is a prequel to "The Da Vinci Code", which was released in 06 and finally achieved an astonishing result of $217 million at the North American box office and $760 million at the global box office. This is enough to make "Angels and Demons" the highlight of this year's summer file.
May 21 is Warner Bros. Terminator 4, albeit without James. Cameron and Arnold. Schwarzenegger. The film is expected to cost $200 million to make, and was produced by Christian Brown. The film starring Bale is still the highlight of this summer file.
May 22 is 20th Century Fox's "Night at the Museum 2", the film also cost $150 million to make, although it is considered a sequel film only for money, but given the box office popularity of the previous work, it is still expected by many fans and audiences.
May 29 is Disney's new Pixar work "Flying House", the film's $175 million production cost is only slightly lower than the $180 million "Robot Wall-E", higher than the previous 150 million "Ratatouille", 120 million "Cars", 90 million "The Incredibles", linked to Pixar's previous record, this will undoubtedly be a blockbuster film.
June 5 is the comedy film "The Lost Continent" produced by Universal Pictures, which cost $100 million to produce. Seboning, starring Will. Farrell, Anna. Fryer, Joma. Tacone, based on the well-known TV series of the 70s, comedy is the genre that Universal Pictures is best at. Starring Farrell, the competitiveness is certainly good.
June 24 is Paramount's DreamWorks "Transformers 2", after the brilliant success of the previous work, the production cost of the film has risen sharply from $120 million to $200 million, and no one will doubt that this will be a super heavyweight box office bomb in the summer file.
July 1 is Universal Pictures' "Public Enemy", a $100 million production director Michael Anderson. Mann, starring Johnny. Depp, Christian. Bell, Channing. Tatum, the star-studded cast makes the film a strong competitiveness.
July 3 is the 20th Century Fox produced by Blue Sky Studio's new work "Ice Age 3", in terms of investment cost alone, the $90 million of "Ice Age 3" is naturally not high in the middle of a group of summer blockbusters, but who makes it have the solid foundation laid by the first two parts of the series, the first part of the 02 series "Ice Age" $378 million global box office, the second part of the 06 series "Ice World 2" $652 million global box office, if you follow the box office trend of the series continues to rise, there is naturally no need to doubt its box office power.
July 15 is Warner Bros. produced "Harry Potter and the Necronomicon", not to mention the production cost of $250 million, not to mention the huge fan base accumulated by the "Harry Potter" series.
July 24 is Disney's "Guinea Pig Squad", the production cost of $150 million, gold producer Jerry Bruheimer, Nico. Raskechers, Penelope. Cruz and other star actors dubbed, which is naturally another highlight.
August 7 is the action movie "Special Forces: Cobra Rise" produced by Paramount, adapted from the popular comic book of the same name, with a production cost of $170 million. Quaid, Channing. Tatum, Sienna. Miller, knowing from the production cost alone that the work intended to develop a series of films was pinned on by Paramount.
August 21 is "Here Comes the Grim Reaper 4" and "Inglourious Basterds", the former is a sequel to the well-known series, and the latter is David Browns. Directed by Fincher, Brad. Starring Pete.
And, of course, there's his "Immediate Rescue," "The Hangover," and "The Expendables," with the former set to be released on June 12, the middle on July 24, and the latter on August 14.
Throughout the summer, the competition can be described as daylight, with blockbuster movies released before and after, and if you are not careful, you may suffer a catastrophe.
"We were originally going to take advantage of the summer season to harvest as much box office as possible, but who knows, in fact, if "Spartan 300 Warriors" was not locked in on April 17 earlier, it would have been a good time period to choose to be released on April 17." Bright. Meyer smiled wryly.
There are a total of fifty-two weeks in the year, and there are hundreds of movies released, it can be said that any good schedule will attract many films to compete, such a fierce competitive situation, not to mention small and medium-cost films, even Hollywood A-level big productions are worried about not having a good schedule, and even sometimes more worried than small and medium-cost films, after all, big-budget films are considered to be their own company's seed players, once the schedule is unfavorable, not to mention the box office loss, and the face can't get by, to the extent of the Hollywood Big Six, If there are not a few films with a box office of more than 100 million yuan a year, is it still like words?
"In this way, the staff of our Summit Entertainment Distribution Department has chosen a good schedule!" Lin Yuquan smiled.
"Of course." Bright. Meyer didn't have a good airway.
"So is it said that the first strike is stronger, and the second strike suffers?" Lin Yuquan chuckled: "Actually, don't worry too much, the schedule is one thing, the quality is the fundamental, the time is still very long, and no one knows the result." ”
"I hope so!" Bright. Meyer's tone inevitably seemed worried, compared to Summit Entertainment, the situation of Universal Pictures this year is really not optimistic.
It's really a competitive summer file, but there is competition to be challenging, isn't it?
Hanging up the phone, Lin Yuquan looked at the clear blue sky, his face was full of confident smiles, he was looking forward to and curious about what kind of results "Immediate Rescue" could achieve in such a summer file, and what kind of results could Summit Entertainment achieve? (To be continued.) )
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