Rebirth In Hollywood

Disney invested a total of 60 million US dollars for this film, including production costs and publicity expenses. The original first-week release plan was only 3,224 theaters, but as the most promising super blockbuster in October, "Alexander the Great" The performance is really good. Too bad, a large number of theaters gave up the screening of this film and joined the screening of "Argo" one after another.

Luckily, Disney has enough print capacity to supply the newly added theatrical line with plenty of copies ahead of the premiere.

As a result, the number of theaters in the first week of "Argo" surged to 3,586, making it the film with the most theaters in October this year.

Restricted by the subject matter and genre, the box office of the movie is not as good as those of Ryan's past big productions.

Of the three days on the weekend, he only got $12.55 million on Friday, the second-worst opening score after "The Pianist" as an adult.

However, the film's fast pace, intense and exciting plot, and good reputation among the audience drove the box office on Saturday and Sunday.

Especially on Saturday, the box office ushered in a moment of explosion. The single-day box office of 17.55 million US dollars is worth the box office performance of "Alexander the Great" in the first week.

On Sunday, the film's box office did not escape the law of decline. The single-day box office of 13.5 million US dollars was also the last time "Argo" achieved a single-day box office performance of more than 10 million US dollars.

On the first three days, "Argo" won $43.5 million in North America, which is incomparable with those commercial blockbusters that often earn about 100 million yuan at the box office in the first week, but compared to the total investment of only $60 million, it is already very good. The results are enough to sit on the top of the North American box office charts.

Due to the increase in the number of theaters, the box office in the first week was higher than expected by Ryan and Disney. Capital always wanted to maximize profits. Disney increased its publicity efforts and invested the remaining publicity expenses into the market one after another.

The crew also went to Antonia Kidman's evening talk show, which has now become one of the TV's signature shows, although the interviews focused on George Clooney, Ellen Arkin, John Goode On Deman and Robert Downey Jr., but Ryan finally answered a few questions.

"Movies belong to all human beings, and whenever a great Hollywood movie comes out, everyone suddenly becomes a movie fan." When Annie asked which plot in the movie he was most satisfied with, Ryan deliberately threw out an after-thought affirmation will be discussed by a lot of media.

“The most fascinating scene in the film is when Tony Mendes and his party present their storyboards for the film to members of the Islamic Guard who are trying to hide their Hollywood fandom. When Tony finally gives the storyboards to the Iranian soldiers,

They smiled happily like children who received a poster of "e?t Aliens" from Steven Spielberg himself. "

"So..." Ryan said seriously, "The fanaticism of Iranian fans is no less than that of our American audiences."

Including George Clooney, Antonia Kidman and others laughed at the same time, and the audience sitting under the stage applauded warmly in the laughter.

When they looked back on the movie, they realized that the plot was exactly what Ryan said, and the Iranians were really like Hollywood fans.

Ryan only attended three stops in Washington, New York, and Los Angeles, and handed the rest of the promotion to George Clooney, who was definitely the most acclaimed after the release of "Argo" - the media and the public Having long been accustomed to Ryan's success--even successfully getting rid of his previously awkward male vase identity, the better the film's performance, the more actual and invisible benefits he can get.

Under the intensive publicity campaign, although the box office of "Argo" inevitably suffered a sharp decline in the second week, the result of 33.5 million US dollars still maintained the top position of the North American box office chart; it is regarded as its largest box office. Rival "Alexander the Great" grossed a negligible $570,000 this week.

In the words of the media, "Alexander the Great" bloodily demonstrated to Hollywood how a big production can suffer a big box office failure in an extremely tragic way.

Subsequently, "Argo" landed in overseas markets one after another, and the latest entry was naturally several English-speaking countries. Although the film was full of Hollywood-style self-righteousness and American arrogance, it performed fairly well in these regions.

Especially those hard-core allies.

Australia's first-week box office hit over $5.8 million, the UK grossed over $4.9 million, and even New Zealand had over $500,000...

Except for these hardcore boys, "Argo" did not perform well in other countries.

Major overseas markets like Brazil, France, Germany, Japan, South Korea, Argentina and Italy almost all grossed under $1 million in their opening weeks.

This situation is also expected by Ryan. It would be strange if a movie with the theme of "Argo" can be a great success in these non-English speaking countries.

However, the film's performance in North America is very stable. Although Disney's newly released "National Treasure" was squeezed out of the North American box office chart in the third week with a box office of more than 36 million US dollars, it achieved US$ 23.47 million. The North American box office exceeded 100 million in three weeks.

In addition, in the eyes of the media and industry insiders, the film will be one of the strongest contenders for major awards such as the Oscars next year.

A successful movie can bring benefits to many people, even a movie like "Argo" that can't do much about the surrounding is no exception.

As the prototype of the protagonist of the movie, Antonio Mendez is completely famous in the United States and has become a hero in the hearts of many people. In addition to fame, he actually gained a lot of benefits, even though the movie did not pay any fees to the CIA, But Disney still paid him a whopping $3 million in royalties.

And his memoir, "Argo: How the CIA and Hollywood Teamed Up for the Most Audacious Rescue in History," easily sold more than 500,000 copies, even at a book signing. During the event, Antonio Mendez sold 16 paintings in one go, the most expensive oil painting sold for 40,000 US dollars, and all the paintings together earned up to 170,000 US dollars.

Later, on the phone with Ryan, he also mentioned that he was going to start writing two memoirs, "Master of Disguise" and "A Classic Case of Deception."

One of the fifty best operatives in CIA history, it won't be long before he becomes a multimillionaire.

The CIA is also the beneficiary, and the film basically sings their praises. To a certain extent, it reverses the incompetent and bad image of the CIA in the public's mind after 9/11.

That's why they agreed to work with Ryan on the film.

In terms of cast and crew, not to mention Ryan himself. Since the release of the film, Disney's media has started a campaign to win the best picture and best actor nominations for the upcoming awards season's major awards.

Another big beneficiary is George Clooney. In view of the success of "Argo", Warner Bros. is considering letting him replace Steven Soderbergh in the new episode of the Lohan series "Thirteen Lohans". "director, and his management team also started public relations in order to win the Golden Globe Award and even the Oscar for Best Director nominations.

The bright sunlight fell on the grape trellis all over the garden, and through the gaps between the yellow-green leaves, it left a golden halo on the ground. Although it was November, it was not visible in the Napa Valley. Belonging to the desolation of the late autumn season, nothing seems to have changed.

In the leisure floral corridor under the grape trellis, Nicole was sitting at the small table, flipping through the laptop, and squinting to see Ryan, who just happened to see him hang up.

"Who's invitation." She looked at Ryan who put away her phone, and asked curiously, "So firm in refusing?"

"George Clooney." Ryan poured the cold black tea in the cup into the trash can, Nicole picked up the silver pot to refill him, and said, "Could it be that you were invited to star in "Thirteen Arhats"? ?"

"Honey." Ryan shook her hand. "You're right."

"It's on the entertainment news." Nicole pointed to the screen of the laptop, "Yahoo Entertainment just reported that Warner Bros. is planning to let him direct this movie."

Ryan leaned over to take a look, Nicole was watching the entertainment gossip, and sat back again. He didn't explain why he refused, and Nicole didn't mean to ask. After all, he has only appeared in the works of his own film company over the years.

"By the way..." Nicole looked away from the computer screen, looked over, and asked with concern, "Isn't Alison's mv finished? When will it be released?"

"Wait until she comes back from Australia."

Seeing Nicole's missing expression, Ryan reached out and grabbed her left hand, "Don't worry, she has someone to take care of and supervise over there... Well, at least four hours a day will be spent practicing, you Didn't you see her there last month?"

"Scarlett, Alison, Kristin, and..." Nicole frowned, but didn't mention the name, "Do you want to put all your friends in that movie?"

"It's just for the sake of box office appeal." Ryan squeezed his chin a little embarrassedly, changed the subject quickly, pointed to the notebook and said, "Is there any exciting news recently?"

"It's not like what happens in Hollywood..."

Nicole held the right hand of the mouse and kept flipping the web page, when she suddenly blinked her eyes, an inexplicable smile appeared on the corner of her mouth, "I really saw some very exciting news, dear, and it's related to you. "

"Me?" Ryan pointed to his nose, "what is it?" r1152 ()