Chapter 25 Crushing the Lost World
The former "Titanic" was released in the Christmas season, as long as it leads the Christmas season, it will be the off-season after that, and it can always lead the box office.
In fact, the same is true. Titanic has ranked first in North America's weekly box office for 15 consecutive weeks!
Such mythological records are certainly impossible to be included in the summer vacation.
Even Tang En was mentally prepared to give up his position to "Jurassic Park 2" after being the top of the weekly box office for two weeks.
The box office was early on Thursday, "Jurassic Park 2" was 9.5 million US dollars, the box office was 19 million US dollars on Friday, the box office was 23 million US dollars on Saturday, and the box office was 18.6 million US dollars on Sunday, and the box office totaled more than $70 million in the first week!
Such first-week box office data ranks third in film history, just like Jurassic Park 1 and Titanic.
But Steve Spielberg couldn't laugh at all.
Because the box office of "Titanic" that week was even more popular, exceeding US$85 million, a drop of less than 15%!
Such an amazing box office trend shocked the entire Hollywood, while also making Spielberg smile bitterly.
Even the box office in the first week was not as good as Titanic. It is conceivable that after this, Jurassic Park 2 will no longer have the chance to suppress Titanic.
In fact, this is indeed the case.
In the fourth week of the release of "Titanic", the box office still exceeded US$60 million, and the total box office in North America reached US$330 million!
The box office of "Jurassic Park 2" fell by more than 50%, with a box office of only over 30 million US dollars that week. According to market estimates, the North American box office of this movie is only over 200 million.
A crushing defeat!
Before the release of the two movies, "Titanic" was a joke in the entire Hollywood and even the United States, while "Jurassic Park 2: The Lost World" was a highly anticipated super blockbuster!
But what is the result?
"Titanic" is like a giant, crushing everything along the way, and even the dinosaurs that have always amazed and awe-inspired, awe-inspired, must humbly give way.
It's a shame!
Since Steve Spielberg became famous for his self-made "Jaws", he has become the godfather of Hollywood commercial films. All monsters and monsters have to avoid him when they meet him.
This also made Spielberg, who was of Jewish descent, expand his status in Hollywood, and even went out with an ambitious attitude to go out independently and opened a DreamWorks Film Company that wanted to compete with six major film companies!
But unexpectedly, this summer, a child under the age of 20 became famous on his head!
With Steve Spielberg's status and reputation, he naturally cannot fall into depravity and deliberately attacking the younger director, but it is true that he feels unhappy.
Just like big-name directors such as Francis Coppola, Woody Allen, Stanley Kubrick were unhappy with him!
As time goes by June, many commercial blockbusters have been released. Under the attack of films such as "Prison in the Sky", "Man in Black", "Life and Death 2", "Batman and Robin", "Titanic" finally gave up the top spot in the box office, and the weekly box office fell sharply, exceeding 55%, and fell to $30 million.
Especially "The Man in Black" starring Will Smith is another big surprise this summer. The box office in the first week exceeded 65 million US dollars. Its cool and gorgeous scenes caused a big sensation.
This result naturally further squeezes out the living space of "Jurassic Park 2".
By the end of June, the North American box office of "Jurassic Park 2" was only US$180 million, while "Titanic" exceeded 400 million, reaching US$450 million!
The records that "Jurassic Park 1" that year are now shattered one by one in front of "Titanic".
The official stage of the summer vacation is from July to September, so there are crazes about "Titanic" around the world. Many local movies have not been released yet. So far, the overseas box office has only been US$340 million.
But even so, the global box office of "Titanic" has reached 800 million US dollars, and everything is heading towards the figure expected by Don Walker!
On July 1, Cameron, Donn, Leonardo and others flew to the UK on Cameron's private plane to attend the UK premiere.
Starting today, Titanic will be officially opened to the world!
It can be expected that in the next two or three months, the box office of the movie will increase wildly.
In the UK, everyone saw Kate Winslet, who looked a little haggard.
"How are you?"
As her two best friends on the crew, Don and Leonardo hugged them with concern.
Kate pulled his hair and forced a smile, "I'm fine."
Tang En frowned, "Is that guy embarrassed you?"
Kate returned to China a month ago to deal with the termination of the engagement. Judging from her expression, the situation seems to be not very good.
Kate was extremely disappointed on his pretty face and shook his head, "It's okay, I can handle it."
Leonardo said unhappy: "Kate, don't you treat us as friends?"
Kate felt the concern of the two and sighed: "The matter has been resolved, I paid a hush fee."
“House fee?”
Tang En and Leonardo's faces changed. Unexpectedly, things would have gone so badly. Her fiancé... has a bad character, right?
"Forget it, problems that can be solved with money are not a problem." Tang En patted Kate's arm, "Just fix the trouble. I still have some cash in my hand, if you need help..."
Kate finally smiled happily, "Thank you, Don Eun, there is no need for the time being, but... I think I need to take on a drama right away."
Tang En nodded, "Okay, don't be too tired of yourself. Remember, no matter what the future will be, Leon and I will always be behind you."
Leonardo also made a statement immediately.
Kate was a little moved and hugged the two of them briefly, "Thank you, it's my luck to have you two good friends."
...
Donn's assistant George Paxton also came to London, and Donn had a very important task to him.
"George, you go to major bookstores immediately to look for teenage fantasy and magical literary novels, remember that they are novels, not fairy tales."
It is natural that Tang En could not directly expose the title of the book, which is too incredible.
George is mediocre, but his brain is good, "Donn, are you trying to create a fantasy movie for teenagers?"
Don En asked him to inquire about the copyright of "The Lord of the Rings" and found that it had been purchased by Xinyi Film and was joining forces with Peter Jackson to bring this epic classic to the big screen.
George naturally thought of Donn's idea.
Tang En did not deny it, "It does have such an intention."
George frowned and said, "Don, you know... I'm not good at negotiating. I think it's better to have your agent come forward for this matter."
"William?"
Tang En curled his lips, his face a little disdainful.
He was very disappointed with his agent William Mihawk and was almost fired.
With the popularity of "Titanic", more and more director invitations were given to Don En. William Mihawk was like a rustic bun who had never seen the world. An invitation to a movie that invested 18 million yuan could make him happy and cheerfully flatter him.
Don knew that although he was the director of "Titanic", his qualifications and age were too poor. No film company would take such a big risk to hand him a commercial blockbuster with an investment of over 100 million yuan. In contrast, commercial directors such as Steve Spielberg, Mel Gibson, and Ridley Scott, who had many successful works were safer.
But William Mihawk, as Donn's agent, can't be hungry and eat?
So Tang En completely lost trust in this incompetent agent, and it was impossible for him to hand over such an important task.
"It's okay, I know it in my heart. You can do it."
A small loss in the negotiations cannot change Tang En's determination.
What's more, he knows the general trend of the future.
Chapter completed!