As Christmas gets closer, the holiday season has arrived at its final outbreak, and various movies have begun to be released in large numbers, all wanting to get a share of the Christmas holiday.

Paramount Pictures' song and dance film "Dream Chasing Girl" defends its consistent good performance in the recovery of the music and dance market since "Chicago". It earned nearly $30 million in the premiere weekend in North America, and the heroine Beyoncé even contributed the best performance in her acting career.

Since becoming a wholly-owned subsidiary of Relativity Entertainment, Big Machine Records has been in constant contact with Beyoncé, but the success of "Dream Chasing Girl" has instantly made Beyoncé popular and added many new suitors.

It is not easy to win Beyoncé, and Big Machine Records is facing competition from Sony Records and Universal Records.

But Relativity Entertainment took another approach and used the film partnership established with Chanel in recent years to place a Chanel endorsement contract in front of Beyoncé.

As long as Beyoncé signs a contract with Big Machine Records, she will become the spokesperson for a perfume under Chanel.

The endorsement contracts of top brands have a huge bonus to celebrities. Even as long as the celebrity actors have endorsement contracts of super big brands, they can maintain their status even if they are not good at movies or TV works.

Beyoncé soon became inclined.

Undoubtedly, Paramount Pictures and Beyoncé became the winners before Christmas.

If there are winners, there will naturally be losers.

Twentieth Century Fox unfortunately became one of the losers.

In recent years, I don’t know if it is because of Ronan and Relativity Entertainment that Twentieth Century Fox has developed a close connection with epic and magical films.

However, the film released by Twentieth Century Fox this Christmas schedule has no direct relationship with Ronan and Relativity Entertainment.

"Dragon Knight" was released at its premiere in North America.

Twentieth Century Fox, a quasi-first-tier blockbuster with a production cost of up to $100 million, had a box office of just over $20 million in the first weekend, and it was difficult to make a profit.

Even, ema score predicts that the North American box office of "Dragon Knight" will be around $70 million.

The dragon ball given to the Twentieth Century Fox by Relativity Entertainment has not yet been shown its power and the dragon has not been summoned yet, the Twentieth Century Fox himself fell hard.

Ronan received news that James Murdoch rushed back to Los Angeles from London, England and held a two-day meeting at Twentieth Century Fox.

But he was not worried that Twentieth Century Fox would give up summoning the Dragon. Those film projects have already invested a lot of funds. According to the operating rules of Hollywood film companies, they will definitely choose to complete the movie first.

If you give up a project in the middle, all the tens of millions of dollars you invested are wasted, but if you finish it, 50% of the movie may be successful.

Like Warner Bros.'s "Return of Superman" is a typical example.

I would rather continue to increase my investment, even if I pile up the production cost to a terrifying $270 million, I would never give up.

Facts have also proved that 20th Century Fox has not given up on summoning the dragon at all. Those film projects are still steadily advancing. The fastest shooting and production speeds, such as "Ten Thousand Years of Prehistoric" directed by Roland Emmerich and "Pharaohs and the Gods" directed by Ridley Scott, will be released as early as next summer.

"Blood Diamonds" produced and released by Warner Bros. starring Leonardo DiCaprio is also officially released. This is a few movies with very poor box office in Little Little Little's career.

The production cost of this film is as high as $100 million, and it was released on a large scale like "The Walker", but the box office in North America was only $8.64 million in the first weekend. If Warner Bros. wants to recover the cost, it will take a long time to accumulate.

It is well known that Leonardo has always had a good vision of choosing films. Throughout his acting career, there are very few films that have truly lost money. "Blood Diamond" is precisely the worst one.

The poor response of "Blood Diamond" also destined Leonardo's fate of being at the Oscar this time.

Having said that, the way Leonardo won the Oscar Little Golden Man was similar to that of Martin Scorsese, relying on the outbreak of a certain movie, but the accumulation of long periods and qualifications.

Even when the Academy doesn't give Leonard a little golden man, the Academy itself will feel embarrassed.

Embassy Films basically ignored Leonardo in the promotional public relations of Tom Cruise's Best Actor. Like Ronan's plan, it focused its main goal on Forest Whitaker of "The Last Dictator".

The way of suppressing it is the same as when he was rushing for "When Happiness Comes Knocking" a few years ago, it has been emphasized in the media that "The Last Dictator" is an African film, and Forest Whitaker is a Ugandan warlord.

Will Smith has gained more say at several black parties in Hollywood and is quietly exerting his own influence.

According to him, the black judges in the circle were not very willing to vote for Forest Whitaker.

Ronan also roughly understood some of Will Smith's plans. Will Smith wanted to take advantage of Clint Eastwood's opportunity to wipe Spike Lee out of face to compete for the position of the black opinion leader in Hollywood.

This is a good thing, and he also expressed his support.

Will Smith was greatly influenced by him. Through Will Smith, he could influence some black groups in the circle.

The general trend of social development cannot be stopped, but more benefits can be sought through appropriate methods.

One weekend before Christmas, Relativity Entertainment also released a film, with the premiere of "The Hangover", starring Bradley Cooper and Seth Logan.

Because the film itself is not very invested and is a typical comedy, the premiere is not large.

The industry itself is not particularly optimistic about this video, and everyone thinks that even if it is successful, it will be at most "The God of Death is Coming".

Before it was officially released, "The Hangover" also had an internal preview. It may not have produced many comedy movies. Relativity Entertainment's internal response is mediocre. This typical comedy of shit, pee, fart, and fart is difficult to win true recognition. Even in the commercial film circle, shit, pee, and fart is considered to be the lowest-style type, and it is not even as good as a bloody horror movie.

Because Ronan manipulated the script, this film is basically the same as the original plot.

This is a group drama. The groom of the protagonist group is about to enter the church in a few days and marry his beloved woman. After hearing this good news, several of his best friends were sincerely happy for him and decided to hold a bachelor party before marriage. So the five of them drove to the casino Las Vegas, where they wanted to spend a crazy and confused farewell to the singles carnival night together.

Under the stimulation of alcohol, the five people fell asleep in a drowsy way, and after waking up, they had no impression of what happened last night.

It's nothing, but the most troublesome problem is that there are only four people left in the room, and the protagonist of the party: the groom Doug, is gone! What's even more strange is that there is a tiger in the bathroom, and there is a baby who looks less than one year old in the closet!

Faced with such a chaotic situation, the other four were completely helpless, but they knew that there was not much time and had to figure out what they did last night. The wedding was about to be held, and they had to find Doug within two days, otherwise greater trouble would come.

So they began to search for the truth about last night by chance, but as things developed, they faced more and more difficult things...

The most successful part of this film is that it successfully integrates suspense elements into the comedy atmosphere of shit, piss and farts.

Suspense is one of the most important elements of all narratives in the movie, which can make the recipient develop expectations for the later part of the narrative due to curiosity, anxiety, anxiety or sympathy. When the audience sees a confusing event or discovers an open question, they will naturally produce "puzzle-solving" **.

Under the operation of Embassy Films, this film has landed in nearly 3,400 theaters in North America on a large scale. To everyone's expectations, the reputation of the film after its release is completely different from that of the internal trial of Relativity Entertainment. Except for a few media giving bad reviews, most media gave good reviews to the film.

"The theme of "Hangover" condenses the subconscious content of psychoanalysis, and shows the tendency of modern people to seek stimulation and carnival due to mental depression. In terms of creative skills, the film adopts the perspective of the common people, applies suspense to the extreme, and truly records the language in life, bringing visual and psychological pleasure to the audience."

The comments from a certain media reporter seem very reasonable.

Every year, there are always some movies in Hollywood that are not favored by all parties before they are released, and they are even criticized by the media and film critics during the preview, but they can achieve very unexpected box office after they are released.

"The Hangover" undoubtedly became one of them.

Three days after the first weekend, the film was released in 3,360 theaters, and the box office on Friday actually reached 17.54 million US dollars. The box office in North America in the three days of the first weekend was as high as 47.88 million US dollars, with an average single-stage box office of more than 14,000 US dollars. For this film, whose production cost is only about 25 million US dollars, the box office is so good.

What's even more amazing is that emascore gives an extremely bold prediction, they believe that the final North American box office of "Hangover" will exceed the $250 million mark!

You know, the total investment of this film is only US$50 million in terms of promotional costs.

"A surprising movie", "an uninnovative plot and hilarious dialogue", "I can't extricate myself in the movie, and the plots are constantly changing in my mind", "The film itself is really funny, not deliberately pretending, and not whining without any illness, but its performance is also surprising", "It's so great satisfaction!"... Although the media's evaluation is generally conservative, the huge reputation given by the audience has shown that it is a must-see for this R-level comedy.
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