"Boss, the producers of "500 Days with Shamo" have agreed to our terms, $12.8 million, and from now on, the rights to this film will belong to us." Chris. Anderson laughed.

"Oh, great, hopefully this will be another successful operation for us in terms of film acquisition." Lin Yuquan smiled slightly, he was not surprised by such a result, "500 Days with Shamo" is excellent, but it is limited by investment restrictions, and there is a visible ceiling invisibly, you know, not just any movie in this world can get hundreds of millions of box office with a small and broad box, in that case, in addition to the quality of the movie itself, almost all of them are created by a collection of various special factors, which is often difficult to replicate, such as his own "Heartbeat", as a small and fresh love movie with a small budget, If it weren't for the time when his influence was in full swing, how could he have ended up collecting more than $700 million at the global box office.

In the same way, the genre of romance films determines that "500 Days with Shamo" does not have the potential to explode at the box office unless there are special factors. The reference is "The Notebook", a recognized classic of the genre, which was a box office dark horse that year, and finally received $81 million at the North American box office and 1. $1.5 billion at the global box office.

Compared with the two, the same is a small fresh love movie, the same starring does not have obvious box office appeal, and the same low-cost production, but the difference is that "The Love Notebook" is adapted from the best-selling novel of the same name by Nicholas Sparks, the godfather of pure love novels. Director Nick Kasavitz is already a well-known director and actor. The investment production cost is 29 million US dollars. However, the screenwriter of "500 Days with Shamo" is an unknown young screenwriter, director Mark. Webb is only a long-time director who has been shooting short films and music videos for a long time, and the film investment is only a modest $7.5 million.

According to normal logic, it is difficult for "500 Days with Shamo" to achieve the same box office as "Love Notebook", not to mention that "500 Days with Shamo" may not be as good as "Love Notebook" in terms of quality, as for expecting "500 Days with Shamo" to be a box office hit like "Juno" and "Little Sunshine Beauty" with the same investment level, it is purely a small probability event.

It's not hard to see why the producers were willing to sell the rights to "500 Days with Sammo" for $12.8 million, after all, at a cost of $7.5 million. The producers immediately made a profit of $5.3 million, a whopping 70, without risk. 67% economic return, no one can guarantee that the operation of the release can get a higher economic return, if it is released in the form of guaranteed account sharing, deducting the publicity and distribution costs, at least the North American box office of more than 40 million US dollars can get the same profit, the risk coefficient is too high, it is far better to transfer the risk to Summit Entertainment and withdraw by yourself.

Lin Yuquan is naturally well aware of the risks, but there is a lack of peak entertainment film library. Second, Summit Entertainment is now well-funded, and when it comes across high-quality films. You can choose to gamble, win a big win, lose, as long as you take a good scale, I believe it will not affect the normal operation of the company.

"Yes, hopefully this will be our second gold rush success after "The Hostess", and after watching the film, we will immediately work on the release and strive for success." Chris. Anderson Road.

"Very well, you decide exactly how to do it, you send me the video disc later, I can't wait to find out what kind of film "500 Days with Shamo" is." Lin Yuquan smiled.

"Okay boss, another boss, the last wave of publicity offensive for "Immediate Rescue" has been arranged, and we are ready to fully launch it on June 1st." Chris. Anderson said calmly.

"Really? I'm looking forward to seeing what this all-energy propaganda campaign will do. Lin Yuquan smiled slightly.

"Boss, we're all looking forward to it, it's the first time we've tried to do it, it's a bit risky, hopefully it won't mess up." Chris across the phone. Anderson smiled.

On Thursday, May 21, many eyes once again focused on North America, and the summer blockbuster film "Terminator 2018", which cost up to $200 million to produce, chose to land in North America one day earlier on this day.

Lin Yuquan is one of them, he doesn't care about the box office impact that "Terminator 2018" will have on "Immediate Rescue", he is purely curious about what kind of box office results such a film will achieve, and he thinks that he also had a problem with James at the beginning. The first two installments of the Terminator series, directed by Cameron, amazed him.

Warner Bros., which is responsible for the local distribution of "Terminator 2018", and Sony Pictures, which is responsible for overseas distribution, are more concerned than the outside world.

For Warner Bros., "Terminator 2018" and "Harry." Potter and the Half-Blood Prince is the only blockbuster of the year, and it has a crucial impact on whether it can once again dominate the annual box office charts.

As far as Sony Pictures is concerned, on the surface, it seems that the local box office of "Terminator 2018" has nothing to do with it, but in fact, the local box office of "Terminator 2018", especially the word-of-mouth evaluation, has a direct impact on the overseas box office of the film. Prior to this, in order to ensure that its masterpiece "Angels and Demons" received as much box office as possible, Sony Pictures deliberately postponed the overseas distribution plan of "Terminator 2018", which is responsible for overseas distribution, and finalized the release time of most of "Terminator 2018" in most overseas regions in June, and only a few overseas regions, including South Korea, can see "Terminator 2018" in North America at the same time, so that once "Terminator 2018" loses its reputation at the North American box office, It is bound to have an adverse impact on its subsequent overseas releases.

How much box office will it have? Time finally gave the final answer, and together with the $3 million in the zero point priority show, "Terminator 2018" grossed a total of $13.11 million on Thursday, May 21, far lower than the $25 million that "Raiders of the Lost Ark 4" also opened on Thursday and the highest single-day box office in history for "Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith" of $50.01 million.

Warner Bros.'s original plan was to use next Monday's Memorial Day to replicate the "Raiders of the Lost Ark" and "Star Wars" franchises, creating the effect of the first five days forming a "big weekend" similar to the Independence Day schedule, grabbing as many premiere box office as possible, but the result was not good.

That's fine, what's worse is that the film's word-of-mouth evaluation is hardly excellent, although overall, it is a qualified summer popcorn movie, but it is not enough to be qualified in this particularly competitive summer file, after all, most fans and audiences belong to the average income of teenagers, with limited spending power, if there is no unparalleled explosion, it is difficult to attract them to the theater to watch the movie, fans and audiences will save money to wait for a movie that can really attract them, maybe "Wonderful Night at the Museum 2", Maybe it's "Flying House", maybe it's "Immediate Rescue", maybe it's "Transformers", maybe it's "Harry." Potter and the Half-Blood Prince......

Thursday's box office came out, and the time has naturally come to Friday, and "Wonderful Night at the Museum 2", which focuses on family fun, has also been released.

Overall, the audience of "Fantastic Night at the Museum 2" is very different from "Terminator 2018", considering the vast market of family carnival, the media generally believes that the box office potential of "Wonderful Night at the Museum 2" is better than that of "Terminator 2018", and the single-day box office results on Friday also show this, "Wonderful Night at the Museum 2" beat "Terminator 2018" with a box office of $15.36 million to become the single-day box office champion, and then even though the reputation is not very good, still relies on the relationship between the subject genres to gradually widen the gap.

At this time, Lin Yuquan withdrew his gaze from North America after filming, because Shi Shi finally came to the crew of "Immortal", and after the filming of "Immortal", it is expected that Shi Shi will stay in the crew of "Step by Step" for up to four months, so he cherishes the days with each other very much. (To be continued.) )