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389 - First Week Box Office Champion

Under Wayne's favorite lawn sunshade, Sergey carefully dug a hole against the other dog's cemetery. Fendi was buried here next to his brother.

These two dogs have been with Wayne since their youth. In fact, there is basically no difference between them and their family. In some ways, the relationship between them may be better than that between them.

Nina stood silently not far away, and she was still thinking about the story in her mind. This story was beyond her expectations. It was like a beam of afternoon sunshine, full of warm hearts. Unfortunately, she did not see the ending.

When she thought of the previous scene, Wayne sat on the ground with the golden retriever in her arms, bathed in the red sunset, and each person and the dog were emitting a reluctance. She suddenly felt that she understood the story, which was a teenager and his companion who accompanied her youth, saying goodbye to each other.

"I'm fine, everyone will go back."

Wayne looked at the place where the two dogs were buried, looked up and found that the people around him were full of worry when he looked at him. The corners of his mouth twitched twice, and it could be seen that he wanted to give everyone a smile.

He had already made mental preparations for the current result and had done it after leaving another golden retriever.

Naomi Watts could understand his feelings. The golden retriever has been by her side since she was pregnant. A white hand reached out and gently held Wayne's hand and pressed it twice.

"Dear, Fendi is so gentle and kind, believe me, God just called it back."

The two of them held hands and walked towards the villa along the lawn. Facing the comfort of the Australian actress, Wayne shrugged silently and nodded.

"Write the end of that story." Naomi Watts turned around and looked up at the big boy beside him. "We can invest and shoot it ourselves. When Fendi is older, we can show it to our little princess."

"I will."

The departure of the last golden retriever seemed to take away Wayne's teenage mark. Although his mood was always low, he forced himself to look at the hot summer war.

"The Matrix" keeps moving forward in controversy. This film completely covers up the light of "The Hulk" next door. Countless young people keep going into the theater to watch repeatedly. This special science fiction film brings young movie fans a novel and cool movie viewing experience.

"The plot of the film is boring, the story rhythm is slow, and even the dark wind in it is so deliberate."

"Watching "The Hulk" is a waste of time. The dull plot will not get any other gains except for the strong sleepiness that brings you."

Many movie fans who don’t believe in buying tickets and watching "The Hulk" gave quite poor reviews when filling out the questionnaire.

Just one week later, the audience reputation and professional reputation of "Hulk" have dropped to the lowest point at the same time. The media described this video as a box office tragedy that began the summer season.

In sharp contrast to this film is the hotly released "The Matrix", which has a strong reputation. The audience also has been released for a week, and although the attendance rate has continued to decline, it is completely in a healthy decline.

When the second Friday arrived, the media's first week box office statistics showed that the box office of "The Matrix" was as high as 86.82 million US dollars, completely crushing the $39.6 million US dollars of "The Hulk" next door, and easily won the weekly box office championship.

After the box office hit on the first day, the number of fans buying tickets has decreased. Due to the gradual collapse of reputation, its prospects in the theater market have been generally declining.

In this regard, the fastest reaction was the theater company, led by the three major theater companies of Imperial Cinema, AMC and American artist chain theater chains. Before the second weekend, the number of screens and screening rates of "Hulk" were uniformly lowered.

As a large production with a production cost of more than 100 million US dollars, it is very rare. The screening rate was reduced to just 20% the next weekend.

This part of the screen was also tacitly given to the "Matrix", which has a strong reputation, by theaters. Starting from Friday morning, the average screening rate of this film will reach about 40%.

"No need to contact the theater company anymore, they won't talk to us at all now."

In a café in Century City, Ron Mayer gently stirred the coffee, making a jingle sound, looking at Justin sitting opposite him and said: "There is basically customer flow in theaters. They will only make way for profitable videos. It is impossible to give up large profits that can be obtained in order to maintain their relationship with Universal Pictures."

Justin put the mobile phone back on the table and sighed. "Now the senior executives of the three major theater companies no longer answered my phone! This group of bxxxh!"

"The Hulk..." Ron Mayer shook his head, picked up the coffee and took a sip. "There is basically no possibility of a comeback. It will take at least ten years to recover the losses caused by this film."

As the distribution director of Universal Pictures, Justin knew that the reality was like this. Although he was a little unwilling to accept it, the box office numbers would not be lie. Universal Pictures was destined to fall into a big fall in "The Hulk".

"It's now." Ron Mayer crossed his hands on his legs, leaned his upper body behind the chair, and looked out through the floor-to-ceiling window of the cafe. "Warner Brothers are still trying hard to hype and desperately creating hot spots about "The Matrix". They won't give "The Hulk a chance to breathe."

"The advantages of "The Matrix" are too obvious." Justin shook his head in annoyance. "We underestimated the advertising director and also underestimated Wayne Greenberg. Bill Bakerby is not as good as a novice director in some aspects, shit."

Although there are many reasons for the failure of "The Hulk", there must be someone responsible for the failure of the project. Director Bill Bakerby and producer Brian Glazer are the best responsible objects. You can't let Universal Pictures executives stand up and be responsible.

"Don't worry, we have "Professor Fatty." Ron Mayer has watched too many successes and failures of the film, and there is no severe emotional fluctuation. "Let Warner Bros. and Wayne Greenberg go and compete with other companies first. When "Professor Fatty" is released, they will be almost done. I don't believe that dark madman can also affect the box office of "Independence Day".

Justin looked at his confident boss and nodded and reluctantly agreed to the other party's point of view. However, judging from the news he received, "Independence Day", a competitor of "Fatty Professor", also received a lot of praise after the preview held by 20th Century Fox.

Fans and media who participated in the preview all praised it as a well-made summer popcorn, which belongs to the most widely-received science fiction production, and is definitely not a bullying opponent.

"Fatty Professor" is placed in front of science fiction popcorn like "Independence Day", and you will not be able to gain any advantage in any aspect.

"You say, what price did Wayne Greenberg pay that dark madman to make Warner Brothers go crazy with him..."

Ron Mayer's murmur came to his ears, and Justin frowned, and was also puzzled by the question.

Warner Bros. is an absolute giant company, and even ranks first among the six major Hollywood giants, including performance, revenue and box office. Even if Wayne Greenberg is the major shareholder, Warner Bros. has no reason to accompany him to go crazy.

Although the box office of "The Matrix" exceeded 80 million US dollars in seven days in the first week, the sales performance in the surrounding area was probably equivalent to this number. But if other major Warner Bros. fail to compete in the subsequent major productions, the profits of "The Matrix" will definitely not be as good as the losses of other films.

"The Matrix was released for seven days, and the Matrix was released for seven days, and the total box office exceeded $80 million."

In an office on the eighth floor of Fox Building in Century City, Townsend Rossman looked at the statistics in front of him, curled his lips and shook his head, and joked at Terry, who was sitting opposite his desk. "Universal Pictures is going to make a big fuss. "Hulk" wants to make a profit from the box office and surrounding areas, at least ten years they can't recover their investment."

"That Zach Schneider is very good." Terry scratched his chin with one hand and said thoughtfully: "From the film "The Matrix", he has indeed learned enough experience in Wayne Greenberg in a few years. Boss, have you discovered that Zach Schneider's shooting and production style is completely like a little Wayne Greenberg."

Hearing these tongue twisters, Townsend Rossman's eyes narrowed and he lowered his head thoughtfully.

The rule in Hollywood has always been that if you want to get a reward, you have to pay first. However, 20th Century Fox agreed to Wayne's deal. After getting the promise, he gave the reward first, and advanced the release date of "Independence Day" by a week.

Then, facing the negotiations of agent Jimmy, they were always in a state of delaying as much as they could, which was completely inconsistent with the rules. Their main purpose was to see what the result would be for directors other than Wayne to make superhero movies.

Now that the Hulk has hit grandma's house, they have completely cut off their other messy ideas, they will soon invite Jimmy again to continue the stagnant negotiations.

The main reason why negotiations stagnate and the reason why 20th Century Fox wanted to watch the Hulk was that Wayne's personal treatment requirements were too high and it was difficult to negotiate. There was no way, he was indeed worth such a high value, and other companies could not ask for this opportunity.
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