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The box office of a film not only depends on film factors such as quality and publicity, but other off-site factors will also have a profound impact, the most typical is the source of the film, such as films from Europe and Asia, even if the quality and publicity are passed, but 99% of the time, North American audiences will still not buy it.

After reading the information of competitors, Duke found out that although "Heroes" is a production of Carlock Pictures - the producer of "Terminator 2", and now the boss of Hollywood's second-tier labels - the biggest investor comes from Silvinho Berlusconi!

That's right, it's the owner of AC Milan! He is also the first producer of the film!

It may seem like an inconsequential factor, but it always has some impact on the film.

And then the most important point, because the distributor Twentieth Century Fox took a considerable part of the proceeds of "Terminator 2", the director ended the cooperation with it, and did not choose the seven most powerful distribution labels on "The Heroes", but used the second-tier distributor Samsung Pictures!

Although this is also one of the old labels with a history, it cannot be compared with the seven major labels in terms of ability and publicity and distribution channels, and the distribution is by no means with the distribution authority and distribution ability, and it can win the same scale of theaters of the same production in North America, especially in the extremely competitive summer season!

No one can deny that Hollywood is a circle of giants who can cooperate with each other but never allow new entrants to rush to the same level.

Today, the leader of second-tier companies, Kallock Pictures, is the focus of the restriction, and they only won 2,300 theaters for "Mighty Mountain", which cost as much as $70 million, far less than the 2,512 theaters of "Brave Island".

The gap in the number of theaters brings about the gap in the box office!

The giants have a variety of methods to encircle and suppress the new rising companies, and the distribution channel can be said to be one of the simplest, crudest, most direct and most effective ways, just like dealing with DreamWorks in the future, there are not enough distribution channels, and even strong people like Spielberg and Jereif Katzenberg can produce high-quality content, they can't save the fate of DreamWorks.

Not to mention that it is a pipe dream to acquire a distribution company and distribute a film on a large scale in North America and around the world!

Katzenberg and Spielberg have been deeply rooted in Hollywood for more than 20 years, and their own ability and capital are strong enough, but they still can't do this, can those who have been in Hollywood for a few years do it?

If it is a weak opponent, "Mighty Mountains" will definitely win, but when the opponent is replaced by Warner Bros. and Duke's "Brave Island", its congenital weakness in production and distribution has affected the overall trend of the box office over the weekend.

On Saturday, "The Heroes", like most movies, rose significantly at the box office in a single day, earning $5.76 million!

However, the weekend box office of "Brave Death Island" also showed the normal pattern of high-audience word-of-mouth movies, slowly rising to $7.25 million, still beating "Desperate Mountains" and "Interview with the Vampire", ranking first in the single-day box office!

At this time, the overall situation of this weekend's box office trend has been decided, and even if Carlock Pictures and Samsung Pictures want to do something, it is too late.

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"Pat, the latest number jù! Sue me! ”

It was a new Monday morning, and when Tom Cruise arrived at the CAA building, he didn't go to see the other condominium agents, but went straight into the office of the female agent who single-handedly brought him up, Kingsley.

"Interview with the Vampire is not bad!"

Pat Kingsley looked at the gold owner sitting opposite, suppressed the unhappiness caused by the interview incident some time ago, and said, "I got $17.43 million this weekend, and the North American box office totaled $60.68 million, and there should be no problem in the end exceeding 100 million." ”

If it was in the past, Tom Cruise would have laughed, a movie that grossed more than 100 million in North America would not only cement his current position, but also allow him to continue to climb to the top of Hollywood, but now his mind is not on this at all.

"What about 'Death Island'?" There was anxiety in his tone, "Won the box office list again?" ”

"Yes!" Kingsley found a piece of information, opened it and looked at it, """Brave Death Island" is $22.89 million, beating "Heroes" of $18.51 million, and won the second box office top, and Duke Rosenberg also won his fourth box office title!" ”

"$22.89 million!" Tom Crusmo calculated for a while and squeezed out a sentence, "The box office has accumulated $78.89 million, damn it!" It may break 100 million this week! ”

His face instantly darkened.

"Calm down, Tom!"

Speaking of knowing Cruise, Nicole Kidman is definitely not as good as Pat Kingsley, "Stop doing stupid things and saying stupid things, you will only lose more than you gain by smearing Duke Rosenberg and "Into Death Island"! ”

Her client is a star, an idol star, and the other side is just a director, a behind-the-scenes profession that has never relied on fame, and if the two sides pour black water on each other, the most unlucky one must be Tom Cruise.

As long as there is an agent's suggestion, Cruise is still a relatively sober person, dissipating the unreliable thoughts that have just been born in his heart, and leaning back in the chair.

"Tom, it's just normal business competition." Pat Kingsley also tentatively persuaded Cruise, "You and Duke Rosenberg have no personal vendettas, there is no need to continue the confrontation!" The big hit of "Brave Death Island" also proves that he is a commercial film director who is on the rise rapidly, don't tell me that you don't see the benefits of making friends with such a director! ”

"The Speed of Life and Death" became popular with Keanu Reeves and Uma Thurman, and after "Brave Death Island", Ed Harris, Nicolas Cage, and Christopher Lee, who could only be regarded as unknown, were so hot that they became hot......

What would happen if the person who played Stanley Goosby was himself? Tom Cruise could almost have predicted that everyone would treat him as a box office elixir, and the next film could even shout out $20 million plus at least 10% revenue share!

Taking a few deep breaths, Tom Cruise said slowly, "I know what to do!" ”

Regardless of Tom Cruise's actual thoughts, "Brave Death Island", like all successful summer films, stands out from the fierce competition and continues to hit the new box office, although with the growth of the showtime, the box office numbers have risen, and the film critics who never belong to the market and the public have become more and more aggressive on the film, and the professional score has even been reduced to about 7 points, but it has maintained a A-level praise rate of more than 80% of the audience, is enough to ensure that the film continues to harvest every dollar from theaters.

When Duke and others traveled all the way through cities such as Philadelphia, Atlanta and Nashville, and finally stopped in Miami to end their entire North American journey, "Death Island" also spent its third weekend in North American theaters and earned $14.39 million at the weekend box office.

Although it unsurprisingly slipped to the second place in the box office list, with the cumulative of $11.22 million in the first four working days, the total box office in North America reached $104.5 million!

The North American box office of the film successfully exceeded 100 million!

However, Duke is very clear that this should be the last single week high box office superposition of the film, and he can only rely on the screen time to accumulate in the future, because in the new weekend, there is a film that will be terrifying at the box office even after twenty years, and he deliberately avoided and did not dare to compete head-on!

That's right, Steven Spielberg's "Jurassic Park" is coming strongly, but all films that want to make a difference in the summer season have avoided this weekend in late May and early June.

Yes, Duke is not afraid of competition, but not being afraid does not mean that he has to hit his head on the iron plate!

"Brave Island" also landed in the United Kingdom, New Zealand and Australia in the third weekend of its release in North America, three English-speaking countries, which are all one of the five English-speaking friend areas, and the market response of films that are generally sold in North America will not be bad.

The UK grossed $6.12 million, Australia $3.24 million, and New Zealand $780,000 at the weekend box office, each of which successfully occupied the top spot in the local box office charts.

This 10 million dollars does not seem like too much, but now that Eastern Europe has undergone drastic changes and the collapse of the Soviet Union, most countries and regions in the world have opened their doors to Hollywood, except for romance films and poop comedies with distinctive North American characteristics, and super-selling movies such as action movies and science fiction films, the final overseas box office can completely crush the North American box office, and some can reach 1.5 times or even two times.

However, in today's era, the exchange of information is not smooth, and it is impossible to achieve a truly global simultaneous release, and most overseas regions often have to end the screening after three months to half a year or even a year after the North American stall is down, and the sharing and settlement of the overseas box office is very troublesome, and it is normal to not pay for a long time.

Now Duke's idea is to make the North American box office as high as possible, and then he can repay his mother's $10 million loan with one-fifth of the revenue share in the North American market, and the remaining 10% of the revenue share interest can be slowly settled after the overseas share is received.

According to the original contract, the lawyers hired by Duke and the team of accountants at PricewaterhouseCoopers were involved in the preparation, shooting, publicity and post-screening of the film.

Employing these highly specialized and credibility firms is just as expensive, with a 5 percent share of Duke's investment income in addition to a base remuneration of $1 million.

In this highly commercialized society, there is no gain that can be obtained without effort, especially for supervising Hollywood companies that have always had a bad reputation, and hiring a professional team at a high price, the final loss is likely to exceed the pay!

In June, Lee, Cage and Harris went to Europe to continue promoting the film, but Duke returned to Los Angeles because of the director's relative lack of attention, and there were many people waiting for him in the City of Angels.