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In November, the North American film market ushered in the winter season, which has several important festivals.

For example, November 1st is Halloween, so around Halloween, the North American film market mainly focuses on horror and suspense movies.

It’s December, the eve of Christmas, and it’s the Christmas season again. The movies at this stage are mainly comedy, animated, and family-friendly movies.

After Christmas, there are New Year's Eve, Valentine's Day, awards season, etc., which are mostly literary and romantic movies. During the summer, there are mostly commercial blockbusters and popcorn movies.

Between these major schedules, small-budget movies, R and movies, and literary and artistic films have become the main focus.

There are two major attractions for Halloween this year. One is "Cape Fear", which will be released on November 1 with a total investment of 35 million. This film is directed by Martin Scorsese.

The leading actor is Oscar-winning actor Robert De Niro, whose representative works include "Once Upon a Time in America," and the heroine is Jessica Lange, who won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress and whose representative works include "My Fair Lady." The cast is strong.

The second highlight is the movie "Basic Instinct" co-invested and produced by Carlock Films and LV Pictures, with a total investment of 38 million.

The director is the famous Dutch erotic director Paul Verhoeven, the heroine is Hollywood sexy movie star Sharon Stone, and the hero is Michael Douglas, who won the Oscar for Best Actor in the 1987 movie "Wall Street".

It is also relatively powerful.

"Basic Instinct" began pre-heating in September, intensively promoted it in October, and is scheduled to be released in North America on November 22.

The competition for summer and winter sales is fierce every year, and this year is no exception.

In addition to Universal's "Cape Fear" in November, there are also "Beauty and the Beast" released on the 15th, "The Addams Family" released on the 29th, "Captain Hook" released on December 11, "The Prince of Fashion" and "The Assassination".

Kennedy" and so on.

It can be said that there are blockbusters released every week, and there are also several blockbusters colliding together, so the competition is very fierce.

After watching Martin Scorsese's "Cape Fear" and Disney's Buena Vista's "Beauty and the Beast" in theaters, Duca began to worry about the release of "Basic Instinct."

"Cape Fear" grossed 10.13 million at the box office in three days of release, ranking first at the weekend box office, while "Beauty and the Beast" pre-sale box office reached 12 million, showing great momentum.

Facing these two powerful opponents, how much box office can "Basic Instinct" get?

Especially in the early stages of its release, when two trailers were released, the film encountered protests from gay organizations because the film depicted such people as perverts.

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In addition, when it was submitted for review in October, the film failed the first two reviews due to the large number of bloody scenes of violence, explicit erotic scenes, drug use scenes, and foul language.

In order to get the film an R rating, director Paul Verhoeven re-edited it 14 times before it was rated R by the Motion Picture Association of America and allowed to be released.

The release process of "Basic Instinct" was full of difficulties. Can such a movie still exceed 100 million at the box office in North America like it did before?

Duca closed the newspaper and walked out of the villa.

He decided not to read newspapers or watch TV during this period, but to wait until "Basic Instinct" was released before looking at the box office data, so as not to worry in the meantime.

The weather outside the villa is nice, sunny, the sky is blue, the lawn in the courtyard is green, and a few kittens and puppies are rolling on the lawn, but the two groups are clearly distinct.

Every time that naughty Chihuahua tries to harass the little cats, the little cats will walk away proudly, unwilling to go crazy with them.

Duka smiled and reached out to pick up a blue-gray short-haired cat. He held it in his arms and stroked it. The plush felt good to the touch.

Didi~

A red Beetle drove into the yard and stopped when it drove beside him.

"Hey, boss, you are so laid-back and you still have time to play with the cat."

Gloria lowered the window and smiled.

"Of course, with a diligent assistant like you, I don't have to be too busy."

"That's nice to say."

Gloria drove the car into the garage and picked up several sets of clothes and shoes from above, both men's and women's. Because there were more cocktail parties at the end of the year, as well as movie openings, etc., he didn't like to wear rented clothes.

You need to prepare in advance.

"Gloria, do you have time recently?"

Duca entered the room and poured her a cup of coffee.

"Boss, if you have something to do, just arrange it directly. You don't need to ask me if I have time. My time is your time."

Gloria said with a narrowed smile.

"Okay, I'm going to buy three sports cars. How about I leave this matter to you?"

"Three sports cars?! Boss, why did you buy so many cars?"

"Of course you should reward yourself when you make money. A good sports car can also be used as an investment. That's what you said."

Now there are only four cars in his garage, his Rolls-Royce Silver Spur and Bentley Mulsanne, and Monica's Ferrari and Mercedes-Benz.

Gloria also picked up these cars.

"Okay, boss, what kind of sports car do you want?"

"A new model with a cooler appearance. Two cars for women and one for men. The price is between 100,000 and 200,000 US dollars. How about it?"

"Hey, boss, you are such a good man. Buy two for Monica and one for yourself."

Gloria winked and joked.

"Of course, I have always been the representative of a good man."

Duca said proudly.

"Really? By the way, boss, Laurento, let me ask you. He told you before about Morgan's internal resource sharing service for senior VIP customers. He asked you why you didn't experience it after you only experienced it once? When are you going to experience it again?

Wait, he's waiting for your call at any time."

Gloria covered her mouth and smiled.

Duka twitched the corner of his mouth and was about to refuse when he suddenly remembered something.

"I really need Lauren's help. You also know that "Basic Instinct" is about to be released, and several movies in the same period are relatively strong. Ask Lauren if there is any way to help us sell more movie tickets."

"This, is this an internal resource sharing service?"

Gloria tilted her head and said doubtfully.

"Of course. Lauren said before that Morgan can provide any service I need. Can't you help me sell movie tickets?"

Duca smiled.

"No, I think Lauren's intention at that time must have been to provide those informal services. For this kind of serious business, it is better to rely on Morgan to find more media to expand the publicity.

Okay, I remembered that every year at the end of the year, Morgan Bank will distribute Christmas gift packages to members at all levels, including baseball and movie tickets."

Gloria clapped her hands and smiled.

"Really? Why didn't I last year?"

"Of course, it was "Home Alone" last year, but last year you were only focused on picking up girls, so you probably forgot about it."

"Okay, I'll talk to Lauren."

"Wait a minute, I remember Monica said that the erotic film "Basic Instinct" is not suitable for the whole family, so it is probably impossible to give it as a gift."

Gloria spread her hands and smiled.

Duca frowned again. The distribution of R-rated movies is indeed very troublesome.

He called Lauren and talked about Morgan's service, which was to buy movie tickets in groups at the end of the year and give them to customers and company employees as benefits.

Lauren thought for a while and said that she would apply to the higher authorities and tell him the result after she got the result.

Duca expressed his expectation.

If the application can be successful, it will be a great boost to the box office of "Basic Instinct".

The reason is very simple. This involves the issue of movie distribution methods. Some movies are more meaningful, so they will be released in different regions and periods.

They will be shown in high-end residential areas. Most of the high-end communities are upper-class people with higher economic and social status.

After these people watch the movie, they will form a public opinion field in their daily conversations.

For example, if a leader says that this movie is good and they start talking about it, but his subordinates have not seen it, they will be embarrassed.

In order to keep up with their leaders, they will selectively watch this movie. If they don't watch it, they will not be able to join the leaders' conversations and become outsiders.

And these people will be other people's superiors, or opinion leaders in a certain group. Under their influence, other people will also go to the movies, which is two-level communication in communication science.

By the same token, most of Morgan's clients are wealthy people in leadership positions. Even Morgan's employees are mostly middle class in society.

If we can deliver movie tickets to them and let them go into the cinema to watch "Basic Instinct", the publicity effect produced afterwards will not be much worse than that of mass media.

Two days later, Lauren Tynes called and said that Morgan had chosen movie tickets for "The Addams Family" as one of the gifts in the Christmas gift package.

However, after he applies, Morgan's customer department will purchase some "Basic Instinct" movie tickets as gifts based on the situation of its customers.

For example, if some customers don't like to watch family movies, "Basic Instinct" is also a good choice.

But there won’t be too many of these customers.

Lauren said that Morgan will only pre-order about 1,200 tickets.

Duca expressed his gratitude. Although these more than a thousand tickets were not many and were worth less than 20,000, they were still a help.

In addition, Duca also ordered more than 200 tickets to give to all his acquaintances and company employees.

"Hey, Duca, I heard that there is a passionate scene with Sharon Stone in the movie, and you and Sharon Stone have a house like that. Is it really okay for me to go see it?"

Quentin said on the phone.

"Shut up, how's the script going?"

"Forget it, you said you wanted to add that story, and Roger also said it was appropriate. How can you write it? How about you write it?"

"Okay, if you can't write it, I can do it for you."

"No, I will never take pictures of what you wrote, for no other reason than I just don't like it."

"Hmph, I wrote the MV script last time, why don't you just shoot it as well?"

"There's no next time."

"Not necessarily."

Duka chuckled and hung up the phone.

On November 22, the premiere of the movie "Basic Instinct" was held at the Melrose Cinema in Los Angeles. More than 40 celebrities and celebrity partners came to the scene that day, which was quite a scene.

These people were all invited by Duka, and they relied on their reputation, which they would have to pay back in the future.

Fortunately, this movie was released very well. During the viewing process, guys like Quentin, Keanu, and Andrew stared at the screen without blinking, and kept mumbling about how sexy and beautiful it was.

When the movie ended, the applause was very warm. When the director, Sharon Stone, and Michael Douglas came on stage to canvass for votes, many men loudly expressed their love to Sharon Stone.

"Fake, Sharon Stone is so sexy, why didn't I realize it before?"

Quentin complained.

"It's very sexy, very sexy in a different way. Hollywood will have another sexy goddess."

Keanu Reeves commented.

"This movie is a rare genre movie in recent years, and it should do very well."

Julia Roberts clapped her hands and said.

"I hope so."

Duca smiled.

"It seems we are doing well."

Monica raised her lips and smiled.

"Yes, very good."

Three days later, the box office results of "Basic Instinct" were released in the first three days of its premiere. The film was shown in 2,862 theaters across the United States. It grossed a total of 21.29 million in the three days of the weekend, making it the first weekend movie box office champion.

Moreover, the film has a very good reputation. Many media and professional film critics praised it as an R-rated film of extremely high quality and a rare erotic film in the past five years.

Seeing these results and comments, Duca and Monica breathed a sigh of relief. According to this trend, "Basic Instinct" will have no problem exceeding 100 million in the North American box office.

"Basic Instinct" has a box office of over 100 million, and LV Pictures has truly gained a foothold in Hollywood.

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