China Entertainment: Starting from 07 Kuainan

Chapter 294 "Source Code" challenges "Twilight"

11 month 26 number.

"Good Time" achieved four consecutive championships.

At the same time, a piece of news spread across the ocean to China.

"The Twilight Saga: New Moon", released on November 11, grossed US$20 million at the box office during its first three-day weekend, with a single theater box office of US$1.4.

It swept to the top of the single-week box office in North America.

Not only in North America, but also in overseas regions such as Australia, the performance of "Twilight" is also strong.

In the three days of its first weekend, the global box office was US$2.58 million, ranking seventh in film history, better than the performance of "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince".

If it had been any other time, China would not have cared about the box office results of "The Twilight Saga: New Moon". After all, the vampire theme is not very popular among Chinese people.

But on November 11, "Source Code" starring Lu Yuan will be released simultaneously in North America and China.

There is such a powerful "Twilight" in front of us. Will "Source Code" be a hit at the box office?
Not only the relationship between domestic movie fans, but also Lianlianqiu Pictures is a little guilty.

The performance of "Twilight" can be described in one sentence.

So brutal.

What is the concept of US$3.5 per hotel?
Based on a single movie ticket of US$10, the number of moviegoers in a single cinema in a single day is 3500+. There are nine screenings a day, and the number of viewers in a single show is close to 400+.

Excluding some midnight shows and some garbage time periods, the attendance rate of "The Twilight Saga" during prime time is infinitely close to 100%.

Seeing this data, Summit Entertainment, the publisher of "The Twilight Saga: New Moon", smiled.

The box office sharing model in North America is different from that in China, and the specific account sharing ratio is not a fixed ratio.

Some large distribution companies, or the sequels of some high-quality IPs (the previous one was successful at the box office), usually have great bargaining power.

Disney, which has the strongest legal team, can get at least 65% of the box office share in North America.

In addition to fixed account sharing ratios, there are also several special floating ratios.

"The Twilight Saga: New Moon" did one of those things, with 80% of the first weekend box office going to the distributor, and theaters only accounting for 20%.

The next week, 60% for distributors and 40% for theaters.

In the third week, 40% for distributors and 60% for theaters.

In the fourth week, 3% is from the distributor and 7% from the theater.

A month later, the distributor's share was reduced to 25% until the movie was released.

Generally speaking, as long as there is a choice for fan-oriented movies, they will basically choose the ladder-sharing model.

"Twilight" is a typical fan movie. Almost all moviegoers are young women. The box office of 1.4 million in the first week not only recovered the cost.

You can also make a small profit.

Even if the box office fails in the remaining weeks, it doesn't matter.

Because it’s all earned.

At the beginning, Universal Pictures was also preparing to adopt a laddered account sharing model.

After all, Lu Yuan has never proven himself in the North American film market.

Just because you are popular in the music industry does not mean that you will be popular if you cross over into the film industry.

Even if MJ crosses over to star in a movie, the box office may not be a big hit. Most of the moviegoers are fans.

For this type of fan-oriented movie, the box office is usually very impressive in the first week.

Then, it plummeted.

At last.

Lu Yuan personally flew to America and asked Universal Pictures to wait until the rough cut was completed and the finished product was seen before making a decision.

Universal Pictures, which saw the quality of the finished film, decisively abandoned the ladder-sharing model.

Using a fixed account split ratio is obviously more cost-effective.

Although Universal Pictures is not as good as legal gangsters and domineering contract manufacturing machine Disney, it can still guarantee a 60% account sharing ratio.

The finished product of "Source Code" is of good quality and worth giving it a try.

However, due to such a delay, the number of movie screens on which "Source Code" opened was greatly reduced, with only 2688 theaters showing it in the first week.

It is completely incomparable to the [-]+ in "The Twilight Saga: New Moon".

More than 4000 cinemas in North America are basically covered, because there are only more than 4000 cinemas in North America.

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Los Angeles.

Galaxy Cinema.

Jerry is a die-hard fan of Lu Yuan. He has listened to every song of Lu Yuan countless times, and he has not missed any news related to Lu Yuan on the Internet.

Because of Lu Yuan, he even went to learn Chinese.

Although Chinese is a bit difficult, he persevered and now it is basically no problem for him to use Chinese to communicate simply.

His original intention of learning Chinese was simple.

Listen to Lu Yuan's Chinese songs and watch the TV series and movies starring Lu Yuan.

He has watched "Cohabitation in Time and Space" and "My Love from the Star", but he only watched the version from the Xiaoli area.

Because the version there has English subtitles.

no way.

Chinese is too difficult, and relying solely on self-study is not enough for Jerry to watch Chinese TV series and movies fluently.

After watching Lu Yuan's TV series and movies, Jerry was pleasantly surprised to find that his idol's acting skills seemed pretty good?
At least it's better than Britney.

Therefore, as soon as "Source Code" was released, Jerry bought tickets for the premiere movie at zero o'clock.

Idol’s movie must be supported!

Jerry bought the ticket and walked into Theater No. [-] with Happy Water and popcorn.

Then he was startled.

Looking around, there are so many people in front of us.

Zero o'clock venue, full house?

These should all be fans like me, right?
Thinking of this, Jerry couldn't help but smile.

Lu, everything is fine.

I just haven’t been on tour.

The few opportunities to appear on stage are either at program recording sites, award ceremonies, or music festivals.

As a die-hard among die-hards, every time Lu Yuan performs at America, Jerry will go as long as he can get tickets.

If you have difficulties, solve them!

Even if you buy high-priced scalper tickets, go!

but.

almost.

Lu's world tour will start next year, and Jerry is ready to grab tickets.

[On the road] The first stop of the world tour concert seems to be in Yanjing?
The specific location and ticket sales time have not been announced yet, but it doesn’t matter. No matter where it is, Jerry will be the first stop.

It just so happens that he hasn't been to China yet.

It would also be nice to take the opportunity of the tour to go to China and see the hometown of the idols.

After a while, Jerry struggled through the crowd to his seat.

Seventh row, seventh seat.

After sitting down, Jerry couldn't help but glance at the blond girl sitting next door.

As soon as he stood at the entrance to the seventh row, he noticed this girl.

I saw a couple sitting next to the girl. It seemed like she came alone?

For a while, Jerry started to think about it.

If two people were together, where would they go on their first date?

Where is the wedding held?
What should the first baby born after marriage be named?
How about calling him Lucas?
Just as he was thinking wildly, the lights in the theater dimmed.

The movie officially starts!
Jerry also put away those things that he had and didn't have, and looked at the big screen with concentration.

(End of this chapter)