Chapter 554 Overseas and Farewell
The best-selling movies in the North American market can basically get the attention of the whole world. Due to the good response in North America, Batman: Time for War has attracted the attention of many overseas fans early, and the major overseas market distribution and theater companies, They also put a lot of resources into the film.
Correspondingly, due to the failure of both the North American box office and audience's word of mouth, Air Combat Hero has been blacklisted by overseas audiences and theater companies. Many companies continue to promote the film's release in their own countries. That paper contract.
There are 95 overseas countries that have confirmed the introduction of Batman: Hour of War, while Air Combat Hero only has 42...
Looking at the data on the report, David Ellison changed his sitting position to a more comfortable position, and his slightly puzzled eyes fell on Cook Dick of Disney Pictures, Why is the gap so big? I remember a week ago. There are more than 60 countries that want to introduce Air Combat Heroes.
There's no way. Cook Dick's face was a little helpless. More than a dozen overseas distributors who were originally negotiating, after seeing the North American box office in the first week, directly withdrew from the negotiation ranks, and some have already been negotiated. The company that signed the distribution contract would rather breach the contract and pay the liquidated damages than release Air Combat Heroes.”
Some words, Cook Dick did not say it face to face, or left some face for David Ellison. Those publishers who breached the contract believed that paying a small amount of liquidated damages would definitely cause more losses than investing resources to publish Air Combat Heroes Be cost-effective.
David Ellison's face is quite ugly. The fewer overseas markets the film enters, the lower the box office figures it can earn. Although he doesn't care much about the money, it represents face. If Air Combat Heroes The final global box office could not even catch up with the production cost. How will he face Duke Rosenberg in the future?
Also, will the father take back the management of some of the funds? These are all things he has to consider.
Only now has David Ellison discovered that the film industry is far more complicated than he imagined. Originally, he thought he was backed by a huge amount of money, and he had studied Hollywood in depth. With the well-established Michael Ovitz and Walt Disney as partners, how could it not be successful?
Facts have proved that what he thought was too simple, except for causing some trouble for Duke Rosenberg in the Anne Hathaway incident, he was beaten by the opponent and had no ability to parry.
Despite his unwillingness, David Ellison understands. The decline of Air Combat Heroes is irreversible. If he wants to succeed, he has to start all over again.
But for someone like him, it must be difficult to accept failure.
Before leaving Disney Studios, David Ellison couldn't help but ask. Cook, I remember that Batman: Hour of War signed a formal contract with more than 80 overseas distributors before May, why are there so few of us...
He is not questioning Walt Disney's ability, but if Air Combat Heroes can have a broader channel. The box-office numbers he finally got made him look a little better.
Cook Dick sighed and said it directly. Who made 'Batman: Hour of War' director Duke Rosenberg.
Hearing this sentence, David Ellison suddenly understood something, and when he got into his car, a helpless smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.
yes. Who made the director Duke? Rosenberg? Who made the other party a super director with a combined global box office of nearly 9 billion US dollars? Who let the other party establish a illustrious reputation in the past? Who made Duke? Rosenberg's name has already become a golden sign in Hollywood and even the world's commercial film industry?
Think about it from another angle, if he wasn't Duke Rosenberg, would he still go to him at first and want to invest in his films?
The opponent is indeed very powerful, but as long as he learns from the experience and lessons, he can finally defeat him!
Just like Larry Ellison, David Ellison won't be let down by one setback, let alone leave the Hollywood of his choosing.
It's just the dismal box office figures of Air Combat Heroes that really left David Ellison speechless.
Not to mention overseas markets that will only enter on weekends, starting from this Monday, Air Combat Heroes ushered in the test of the first working day. The film's single-day box office has no suspense and fell below seven figures, with only a pitiful 620,000 In US dollars, this result is only a fraction of the box office results achieved by Batman: Hour of War that day. Although the latter is also declining, it continues to maintain a relatively stable box office trend, with a single-day harvest of 5.21 million US dollars.
In the next three working days, Air Combat Heroes was like sitting on a slide, all the way down, $530,000 on Tuesday, $450,000 on Wednesday, $410,000 on Thursday...
The film's box office over the same period was the same as Monday's, a fraction of that of Batman: Hour of War.
Duke's blockbuster has been steady, with a healthy enough drop, grossing $17.21 million in four business days, pushing the North American box office past the $150 million mark to $160.52 million!
Then, at the beginning of a new weekend, Duke left North America, split with the main cast of the crew, and went to London and Berlin to participate in the promotion of Batman: War Hour in Europe.
Compared with East Asia, which is deeply influenced by Japanese comics, Europe is more influenced by DC and Marvel comics. Batman, like Superman and Spider-Man, is a well-known superhero. The Moment was a big hit in North America, and although the audience's reputation was not as good as Duke's previous Lord of the Rings trilogy, it also received an excellent response, which all contributed to the film's overseas attendance.
Duke first spent a day in Berlin and participated in two promotional events, and then rushed to Munich to watch the first Bundesliga game of Bayern Munich, the Bundesliga club, at the newly completed Allianz Arena. Found him, and during the intermission, the big screen of the stadium also played a commercial clip of Batman: Time for War.
Of course, this must be a paid advertisement. Even Duke's appearance in the stadium to watch the game accompanied by Rummenigge was planned by Warner's German branch.
Duke doesn't know much about football. Most of the games he sees occasionally are in the Premier League. The current Bayern Munich is also relatively unfamiliar. The only player he can recognize is Ballack. Pass.
Duke, are you interested in cooperating with FC Bayern on a football movie?
Since Duke did not understand German, Rummenigge spoke to him in English. We have been planning to make an influential football movie.
Sorry, Carl. Duke politely declined, I don't know much about football, so I'm not suitable for directing a movie with this theme.
What he said is just one of the reasons. Football is a well-deserved number one sport in the world. On a global scale, it completely kills sports such as American football and basketball, but football movies are truly niche movies.
Besides, he really didn't know much about English football.
Even if he wants to shoot sports-themed movies in the future, the American football he once engaged in is undoubtedly more suitable.
Duke spent two days in Germany over a three-day weekend, the final day in Vienna for the Austrian premiere of Batman: Hour of War.
After a short weekend, this overseas promotion came to an end temporarily. Duke left Europe and returned to Los Angeles. As an overseas market with a more similar culture, the achievements of Batman: War Hour in Europe are also satisfactory enough. .
UK opening weekend $12.65 million, Germany $14.32 million, France $10.35 million, Spain $9.21 million, Italy $8.55 million…
Although in the East Asian market led by Japan and South Korea, Batman: War Hour received a certain cold reception, but in Australia, it also opened a good result of 11.78 million US dollars in the first weekend.
Batman: War Hour was released in 77 countries and regions overseas, and this weekend totaled 122.17 million US dollars!
In the same period, the overseas box office of Air Combat Hero is still only a fraction of that of Batman: Hour of War. This fraction is not in tens of millions, but US$2.17 million!
Air Combat Heroes was the first to be released in 41 countries and regions, and the box office figures achieved can only be said to be better than nothing.
Duke also cared about this competitor's situation for the last time. After seeing that it could be described as a complete failure, he threw it aside. He didn't even bother to watch the other party's second-week box office in North America, because there was no need for that. .
Not even the presence of God can save the film.
In North America, Batman: Hour of War spent its third weekend. With no big-budget films released this week, Batman: Hour of War topped the box office chart with $20.12 million, easily achieved Three consecutive championships.
So far, Batman: War Hour has accumulated a total of 180.64 million US dollars at the North American box office and a combined global box office of 302.81 million US dollars!
At this time, it is said that Batman has received a new life on the big screen, and I am afraid no one will refute it.
However, the film's rampant time is about to come to an end. Memorial Day is approaching, and a film that has become a cultural icon in North America and the world is about to be released.
George? Lucas with his Star Wars Episode 3: Revenge of the Sith strong attack.
And in the film's publicity, George? Lucas made it clear that this will be the last of his Star Wars series, in the understanding of Star Wars fans, this is naturally the last of Star Wars.
The last Star Wars is self-evidently attractive to Star Wars fans, and even those who are not fans of Star Wars are eager to say goodbye to this great series by watching it live. (To be continued ^)
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