1novels Chapter 296 That Lion Chapter Is Here
Chapter 296 That Lion Chapter Is Here
The layout of Lehman Brothers is naturally left to professional investors. Jade is still worried about the release of Sherman Entertainment Group's films in the second half of the year.Galaxy Animation Company has prepared two animated films this year, one is "Kung Fu Panda" released in the first half of the year, and the other is "Madagascar: Escape to Africa", the sequel to the hit animation film "Madagascar" that year.While sequels have always been a thankless move in Hollywood, animated sequels are an exception, since animated films are aimed at a fixed age group rather than a fixed user interest group.Therefore, children in this age group are updated every year, so the significance of sequels to animated films is actually not great.
Although the performance of "Madagascar" was very impressive that year, with a global box office of nearly 54 million US dollars, the Sherman Entertainment Group Group still did not carelessly, and the promotion and publicity that should be done continued as usual.After such a generous publicity, "Madagascar: Escape to Africa" immediately became the most anticipated movie among children.Since their children want to watch it, the parents naturally decided to make this day a family day, and the whole family went out to watch the movie.That's why Hollywood studios are eager to get involved in the animated movie business, knowing that one audience for an animated movie is equivalent to three audiences for a normal live-action movie.And as the child grows up, the sales of related peripherals are also very gratifying.
After going through two film low periods in September and October, "Madagascar: Escape to Africa" produced by Galaxy Animation Company and released by Sherman Entertainment Group officially landed on 11 major theaters in North America on November 7th. Own a trip to the Thanksgiving schedule.In fact, there are very few films in this schedule that could pose a threat to this animated blockbuster.In the past parallel time and space, "High School Musical 6: The Prom" produced by Disney caused some troubles for "Madagascar: Escape to Africa", but in this time and space, the "High School Musical" series has become Sherman Entertainment The signature series of the summit film company under the group.
With the release of the first two episodes of "High School Musical" movies, teen audiences have high hopes for the third episode of "High School Musical".But to the regret of Summit Films, Jed Sherman stopped the shooting plan of the "New High School Musical" series, even though the soundtrack and related peripherals of this film are amazingly profitable.However, Jed thought that the audience's enthusiasm should not be too much backlogged, so he put the shooting plan of the "New High School Musical" series five years later.But in order to prevent the audience from losing their memory of the film, Jed Sherman authorized Dongfeng Television to start producing the TV series version of "High School Musical".
Of course, the TV drama version will not be called this name, but the specific name has become the target of the major gossip media.The only news we know so far is that the TV drama version of "High School Musical" will be broadcast on the 6we TV network in the fall of next year.With Jed's increased attention to the we TV network, this emerging TV network has finally established itself as the fifth largest TV network in the United States, and has become the first choice for young men and women aged 15 to 25.
The top box-office release ahead of "Madagascar: Escape to Africa" was "The Erotic Selfie," a rom-com under the banner of hardcore comedy.Due to the novel subject matter, despite the old-fashioned script, it also won a box office of 13 million U.S. dollars in the first week. Compared with its production cost of 24 million U.S. dollars, it seems that the probability of recouping the cost at the box office is still very high.However, this kind of achievement alone made the producer Weinstein Films quite dissatisfied. It seems that the possibility of making a sequel to this film is almost zero.
And in the second week of the release of "Selfie", "Madagascar: Escape to Africa" directly squeezed "Selfie" to only US$63 million at the box office with a box office score of US$6 million.Jed estimated that the Weinstein brothers should vomit blood silently at home, wondering if he would form another pair of enemies because of this.However, I and the Weinstein brothers have always been at odds. When we were both under the Disney Pictures Group, my Galaxy movie and the Weinstein brothers' Miramax were noisy.Back then, in order to suppress itself, Disney indulged Miramax to take action against Galaxy movies, and finally forced himself to fall out with Disney.But a few years later, Miramax also defected to Disney, and even took away nearly half of the film copyrights in Disney's classic film library, making Disney now hate the Weinstein brothers far more than themselves.
"Madagascar: Escape to Africa" achieved as high as 63 million US dollars in the first week, and the critics gave this sequel a very high evaluation. The imdb score is 7, which is worthy of entering the ranks of excellent movies; the freshness of film critics on Rotten Tomatoes 64%, and 67% of the fan favorite is also a good result.But if you look at the sequel movies, this evaluation is actually relatively high.It’s just that such a result didn’t last long. After winning the weekend box office championship in the first week, “Madagascar: Escape to Africa” encountered the sniper attack of “oo7: Quantum of Solace” in the second week, and finally achieved a box office score of 35 million US dollars Lost, and the latter topped the box office with $68 million.At the same time, the controversial Sony Pictures Entertainment Group has also returned to the mainstream critics with this oo7 movie, and even some pro-Sony media have played the nasty slogan "Old soldiers never die".
Jed just sneered at this a few times. oo7 movies are the big killers in Hollywood movies. No matter how bad the filming is, it is still no problem to win the first weekend box office. After all, the diehard fans of this movie are more than Star Wars. more.Moreover, this movie will also be the last oo7 movie that Sony has the right to distribute. According to the acquisition agreement at the time, all the copyrights of oo7 movies before "Die Another Day" belong to MGM, so Sherman Entertainment Group Nature inherits this part of the rights.The following "Casino Royale" and "Quantum of Solace" will be shared by MGM and Sony. At the same time, the theater distribution rights and box office revenue will be owned by Sony, but as compensation, MGM will obtain from these two films in the future. The DVD and other related income also do not need to share with Sony.After "Quantum of Solace", the copyright of oo7 movies is still owned by MGM, so Jed doesn't mind the success of "Quantum of Solace" at all. The success of this movie is equivalent to making a wedding dress for himself in the end.
At the same time that "Quantum of Solace" was released, the film release plan for "Twilight" also began to attract media attention. "Twilight" is a youth love novel with a vampire background created by Stephenie Meyer. At first, this book was packaged and published by the publishing house under the name of Jed, and the film and television adaptation rights were bought by Sherman Entertainment Group The move was not favored by relevant professionals, but after the first part of "Twilight" topped the "New York Times" bestseller list for 36 consecutive weeks, everyone knew that Sherman Entertainment Group had dug another Treasure.However, some analysts also pointed out that the best-selling novel does not mean that the film adaptation will also be successful. They pointed out that the Lionsgate Film Company under the Sherman Entertainment Group only arranged a production cost of 37 million US dollars. The movie wasn't well received within Sherman Entertainment Group either.
In fact, Jed also admitted that the analysis of these professionals was not wrong. The group did not look very optimistic about the movie, and it was completely tested as a water test.Jed saw that the group only had so much investment, so he turned to the production of TV dramas angrily, and took out the script outlines of "The Vampire Diaries", "True Blood" and "Teen Wolf" in one breath, and also from the UK. Bought the TV series copyright of "I Want to Be Human".What made the other bosses of the group dumbfounded was that Jade actually said that there were still several magical TV series whose copyrights had been registered by himself, and could be used by We TV Network and Art Entertainment TV Network at any time.
This little gimmick has also become a joke snack in the major entertainment media, and some people who dislike Jed pointed out sourly that Jed is losing control of his film company.But soon a vice president of Sherman Entertainment Group came out to refute the rumors: "Mr. Jed Sherman was and is the leader of Sherman Entertainment Group. He is the banner and mentor of our company. About "Twilight The controversy over the City of Light movie version is only an internal discussion within our company, and Mr. Sherman accepted our objections with grace, which does not mean he has lost control of the company."
Amidst the controversy, "The Twilight Saga" also appeared in major theaters in North America on November 11.As a long-term "Jed Black", "Variety Show" sneered: "Maybe no one will pay attention to this movie except fans of "Twilight", right?"
But it turns out that just being a Twilight fan is enough. The schedule of "The Twilight Saga" is not ideal. Before that, there was a senior killer like "Quantum of Solace", and later there was a celebrity comedy chase like "Four Happiness". Killing animated comedy film.But what surprised the film critics was that not only did "Twilight" not sink under such a bad situation, but it was proud of the crowd with a box office score of 7 million US dollars. Not only "Quantum of Solace" was defeated, but even "Flash Dog" "It only won a box office of 26 million US dollars.And to the continued surprise of critics, "Twilight" continued to lead the box office with $35 million in its second week.Although the box office has dropped by 5% compared to last week, it is still within an acceptable range.
Generally speaking, as long as the weekly box office decline is within 5%, it is a sign of expanding the scale of releases, and if the decline is within 3%, it is a magic movie.Of course, the premise is that the box office of the film itself is still sufficient.If there is only a box office of less than 2 million, no matter how small the drop is, the theaters may reduce the scale of screenings. The great success of the "Twilight Saga" movie has also made "The Vampire Diaries" which we TV network chooses to release in the fall of next year a favorite, and "True Blood" which will be released on the Arts and Entertainment Network at the same time. The new favorite of advertisers.Although these two movies are both about vampires, "The Vampire Diaries" is obviously a campus youth romance movie, so it was placed on TVB, which has relatively strict standards; while "True Blood" is a large-scale adult romance movie. It's safer to put it on a cable channel like Arts and Entertainment Network.
Of course, the happiest news for "Twilight" fans is that two weeks after the movie was released, Lionsgate Films made it clear that the second episode "The Twilight Saga: New Moon" is already in the production plan. A movie will be retitled The Twilight Saga: Twilight in the DVD release program.
Although the Christmas season has not yet started, Sherman Entertainment Group seems to be running ahead.