Chatty Hollywood

In fact, what Charlotte and Charlize said, he had already told the producer Westwood before the film was released. The two were also very troubled at the time. Although they got a lot of exposure and free publicity because of Allen's affairs, they had to enter this devil's schedule and fight with a lot of fierce blockbusters.

Although according to Charlotte's analysis, it is true that "Fatal Turn" may rely on playing differentiated cards to fight a bloody way out of the blockbuster encirclement, but as an insider, Westwood can see at a glance that the "Wolf" Most likely the producers have the same idea. And between these two movies, you really can only fight against each other, and the brave wins when they meet on a narrow road.

"We don't need to take the initiative to discredit each other's films!"

On this point, Mr. Producer agrees with Charlotte. This is not out of any psychological cleanliness, purely because it is unnecessary. You know, although Jack Nicholson is a master of acting, his box office appeal is really average, after all, his honor is there.

And even if someone would watch this movie for Michelle Pfeiffer, in this kind of thriller movie, the appeal of female stars is limited after all.

"That is to say, ignore them. They are limited to their own appeal, and they may not be able to cause much trouble. However, if we fight a propaganda war with them, it may make some viewers feel curious and want to watch this "Wolf". It would be bad if they incited them to turn against them—after all, these two have good acting skills."

Based on this consideration, Westwood did not take the initiative to provoke a publicity war between "Fatal Turn" and "Wolf", but this does not mean that he did nothing. Especially in the two days after "Fatal Turns" was released, taking advantage of the fact that the FBI found a large number of missing persons' bodies in Vianers Valley, he made waves in the media - on the one hand, he was doing "Fatal Turns" Propaganda, on the other hand, is to suppress as much as possible the promotional pages that the "Wolf" crew may use, and reduce the chances of the other party to make their voices heard.

"Thanks to Jodie Foster's additional investment, otherwise it would be a bit of a struggle to play like this. After all, the so-called reducing the chances of the other party's voice will essentially spend more money to buy the page."

Mr. Producer thought to himself, feeling quite a sense of accomplishment as a mastermind behind the scenes...

And just like that, a new week has arrived.

"Our opening week grossed $15 million?"

Although Charlotte was very confident during the previous analysis, when the first week's box office was really in front of him, he still felt like he had won the jackpot.

"The situation is more optimistic than we expected."

Anthony Westwood smiled like a Maitreya Buddha at this time,

"Although "Speed" was indeed a box office bomb, the audience they targeted was different from ours, and it really didn't have a big impact on our box office, while "The Lion King"—"

Mr. Producer laughed out loud,

"Disney probably was afraid of failing too many times in animation films in the past few years. This time, it only showed two screens. It seems that it wants to take a small number of screenings to accumulate word-of-mouth, and then make a profit from long-term screenings..."

At this time, Disney is not the Dibao who acquired Marvel and Lucas Studios in later generations, holds two major IP systems, and can punch Paramount and kick Warner Bros. Now they are still under the domination of the tyrant Michael Eisner, and they are struggling to transform.

"Regardless of Disney, they really gave us a precious time gap by scheduling The Lion King this way."

Charlotte was also very happy about the news.

In fact, unlike feature films that can be screened for a long time, the box office potential of horror movies is often quickly exhausted within more than a month after the opening of the film. After all, the selling point of horror movies is to be scary.

After a long show, many interesting points will no longer be fresh because of private communication among audiences, and will naturally lose their appeal by then.

Few horror movies can escape this rule, and Charlotte doesn't think "Fatal Turns" is an exception. The plan he discussed with Westwood before was to use the fast to beat the slow, and use the gap period of about two weeks before the release of "Forrest Gump" to try to strive for a higher box office. During this period, the main opponents they faced were "Speed", "Wolf" and "The Lion King".

Although according to the previous analysis, "Speed" and "The Lion King" should not have a big impact on the box office of "Fatal Turning" because of the different types of films, but this is only a relative term. Now "The Lion King" wants to take the long-term screening mode because of lack of confidence, and has made active concessions, which is naturally a good thing.

Charlotte knows the horror of "The Lion King". The box office accumulated in the later stage of this animated film is quite high, otherwise there will be no "Lion King 2" and "Lion King 3" later - after all, investing in people's brains It's pretty clear that a movie that doesn't make money wants to make a sequel, how is that possible?

However, no matter how the "Lion King" series makes money in the future, it has nothing to do with Charlotte. "Fatal Twist" is following the typical horror film release model that harvests box office in waves. Waiting for "The Lion King" to accumulate enough word-of-mouth to start working hard, they have already stuffed all the money they should have earned into their pockets.

"But the movie "Wolf" is really our rival!"

Mr. Producer, who was laughing at Disney's guts just now, sighed at this moment,

"Although there are no such little tricks prepared by you, Charlotte, judging from the feedback on the opening day, the word-of-mouth of "Wolf" should not be lower than ours, and their screens have more than 2,000 screens... If it weren't for our publicity before They have made great efforts and borrowed the momentum of Allen, and now the single-day box office may have been surpassed by them."

"You don't really need to compare with them."

Charlotte's mentality at this time is rather open-minded,

"Think about it, how much does "Fatal Turn" cost, and how much does "Wolf" cost? Just the remuneration of Jack Nicholson and Michelle Pfeiffer is enough for them!"

"indeed."

Thinking about it this way, Westwood's mentality is much more balanced.

Because none of the actors used is famous, the shooting cost of this version of "Fatal Turn" is much lower than that of "Fatal Turn" in real history. Counting the full dozen, it is only a few million. Assuming that 1/3 of the North American box office comes from the profits of the film studio, the box office of the first week of filming is enough for the crew of "Fatal Twist" to recover the cost of filming.

Even with the various post-production and publicity costs included, the total cost of "Fatal Turns" is only a little over 10 million U.S. dollars. According to the current box office trend, this cost should be recovered in at most two weeks.

What follows is pure profit.

And this does not include other income such as video tapes in the later period.

Westwood suddenly felt that maybe this "Fatal Turn", which almost couldn't be turned on due to the disappearance of the director a few days before shooting, was the most profitable movie he had ever made in his life.

"Charlotte, let's have a celebration party!"

"good."

Charlotte nodded,

"It just so happens that I have a script, and I would like to invite several investors, including Jodie Foster, to read it."