Why do these Hollywood film companies have to operate Oscars? They have to invest a lot of money in it? If the investment in film awards in the past was roughly hundreds of thousands or more, just like this year's "Chicago", which only invested one million dollars in total, then since "The Patient in the UK", Miramax officially joined this game, and the Oscar awards expenses will be piled up to millions or even tens of millions of dollars at a lightning speed.

By the turn of the century, tens of millions of dollars were even just an entry-level guarantee for awards.

Why do film companies invest so much money? Because of honor and artistic achievements? This is indeed a reason why high-sounding and high-quality improvements.

What about it in fact?

Perhaps "Save Private Ryan", which won a great victory last year, is the best example. The film won nine Oscars, and when it won the award, it was basically down from the global market. The Little Golden Man he got was not very helpful to the box office.

But! Don’t forget that a film not only has box office revenue, but over time, the ratio of box office revenue to total revenue has been declining!

After the last Oscar, "Save Private Ryan" launched videotapes and vcds in global markets including North America, including sales and rentals. As of the New Year, the total revenue in the global market was US$144.58 million!

There is also the copyright of TV broadcasting, with a total global revenue of US$41.8 million!

In addition, the film also cooperated with Hasbro to launch figures with characters such as Save Squad and Soldier Ryan. Although the sales situation can only be said to be very average, it also earns more than $4 million.

The best film can be said to have played an important role in it.

Before the Internet was not developed enough, information had not yet completely exploded, and the Oscars had not been completely niche and politicized, Oscar nominations and best films were still the weather vane for quite a few films selected by a large number of films such as "The Shawshank Redemption", films that received multiple Oscar nominations generally ushered in a significant increase in commercial income.

After the Oscar nomination list was announced, the scale of "Chicago" North America screenings expanded again, and the number of theaters that had fallen from 428 to 1,550 at the first time, just like last year's "Save Private Ryan". Stimulated by the Oscar nomination, many viewers who had no plans to watch the film went to the theater, and some who had watched it reviewed it again.

In the first weekend after the theaters soared, the box office of "Chicago" rebounded strongly, with a sharp rebound, closing at $10.78 million in three days. In the following three weeks, the film won $8.75 million, $5.89 million and $4.58 million respectively, with a total box office of $169.81 million in North America.

The film's box office potential in North America is gradually exhausted. The theaters have once again dropped sharply, and have continued to reap the last possible gains North America can get at a scale of less than 500 companies.

Also after the nomination list was announced, the overseas release of "Chicago" was officially launched, and the film also landed in some markets in Europe, Latin America, Australia, Asia and even Africa.

Ten Oscar nominations did indeed put a dazzling halo on the film, but the musical and dance films left the Western world and were destined to be unacceptable. During the four weeks when Duke and Charles Rowen discussed New Zealand affairs, "Chicago" won $11 million from Australia and $6.37 million from France. It collected $5.32 million in Germany and $9.22 million in Spain.

The two largest overseas ticket stores in the film appeared in the UK, which has the same roots as American culture and Japan, which is deeply influenced by American culture, and received the highest overseas US$27.33 million and US$25.93 million respectively. In addition to other million-level markets, the overseas box office of the film quickly reached US$100 million!

By late February, the global box office of "Chicago" has accumulated a total of US$287.55 million!

Subsequently, Duke Studio collaborated with Warner Records to launch the original soundtrack album of "Chicago". The disc was launched for two weeks, and its sales in North America alone easily exceeded one platinum. It reached 1.52 million copies.

The discs were also on overseas markets. By mid-March, the soundtrack album sold over $30 million in total. Although the Duke Studio wanted to share the accounts with Warner Records and marketers, this alone took back one-quarter of the production cost!

The popularity of the film also led to other peripheral developments. At the same time, the Duke Studio reached an agreement with Mattel to authorize the copyright of the doll model of Velma and Lockhee for US$1.5 million. Although according to Hollywood practice, one-third of it will be used to pay the portrait copyright fees of Naomi Watts and Catherine Zeta Jones, and the remaining US$1 million is also a considerable gain.

Duke Studio and Warner Bros. are still negotiating with multiple TV stations, and at this time they reached some agreements. NBC took away the film's first North American TV broadcasting rights for $3 million.

Since the film is released in North America at a scale of more than 300 theaters and can contribute hundreds of thousands of dollars in box office every day, TV broadcasts can only wait after the Oscars.

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"Charles, after all, we have to go over and inspect it ourselves."

In the Duke Studio, Duke closed the thick folder and said to Charles Rowan, "After I came back from London, we called Robin and went to New Zealand together."

Charles Rowan looked at the time, stood up and said, "Then I'll wait for your phone call."

The two shook hands and said goodbye. Duke watched him leave the office and sat behind the desk. In fact, it was not just New Zealand, but he also wanted to go to Hong Kong to find some action guidance.

New Zealand is preparing for the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy. Of course, he would not be stupid enough to add kung fu-like action elements to it, otherwise the film would be inconsistent and the failure would be infinitely large.

Duke is looking for action guidance, so he naturally uses kung fu to show program conflicts in order to use kung fu to name him. In the name he was once familiar with, this project can be named "The Matrix".

This is also a very troublesome film to prepare. Not to mention that the special effects require a lot of time and manpower, it takes several months to train Hollywood actors to be just kung fu actors, and it is difficult to save time and effort. There is not enough early training. It will inevitably lead to endless problems during shooting and even the actors are injured.

Moreover, Duke also discussed with the action guidance team who worked on several consecutive films. They will inevitably participate in the film in the future, use high-power cameras to shoot all the training and performance processes, and then use high-tech means to analyze them one by one.

The purpose of this is very clear. It is to steal the teacher.

Of course, Duke is not a kung fu enthusiast, and he is not interested in flying around and fancy fights. Instead, he lets his action team combine kung fu, Muay Thai, wrestling, karate and free fighting to design more direct, sharp and simple and rough action routines. After all, he knows that the popularity of kung fu movies in North America and the entire Western world is extremely short, and after the audience's freshness disappears, he is quickly defeated back to his original form.

Speaking of which, Hollywood's action style has been going on for decades. It's simply impossible to look at it...

This can be said to be one of the reasons why Kung Fu movies were able to flourish in North America at the turn of the century, but Hollywood has always been a melting pot. If you know how to integrate, you can become an important member of this circle. If you follow the old ways, you will soon be eliminated by this circle.

Moreover, Hollywood does not need to understand what kung fu is. For highly professional and technological teams, learning some kung fu is enough to combine other fighting methods to design action routines that are more suitable for popular around the world.

As for promoting kung fu movies to the whole world? Duke believes that in the East where talents emerge, countless people are more suitable than him.

After thinking for a while, Duke pressed the phone and called Tina Fei in. His female assistant had just experienced a terrifying incident that could cause many people to collapse. She had only recovered and returned to work recently.

Duke pointed to the chair opposite the desk. After waiting for Tina Fee to sit down, he asked, "Are you moving out of North Hollywood?"

"Yes, I don't want to stay there."

After working hard for a long time, Tina Fee also found a way to get along with Duke. Knowing that her boss was very good to the people around her, she said frankly, "I usually live in the Duke Manor, but I occasionally live on weekends, but I encountered this kind of thing. My impression of North Hollywood is extremely bad."

"Have you found a suitable house?" Duke shook his head when he saw Tina Fei, "Put your luggage to me for the time being, and you can find the house slowly. Also, I'm going to London on the weekend, so you can stay in Los Angeles for rest."

"I've recovered." Tina Fei insisted.

Seeing the other party's firm eyes, Duke couldn't say anything else, so he waved his hand to her, "Remember to book a plane ticket to London."

Tina Fei nodded and stood up, turned around and walked out of the office.

Duke sighed, this woman was strong.

On the last day of February, the worst bank robbery in Los Angeles in North Hollywood occurred in North Hollywood. Two fully armed bandits armed with drum-mounted AK rifles robbed the Los Angeles branch of Bank of America on Laurel Valley Avenue. The unlucky Tina Fee happened to go to the bank to deal with her own accounting problems. Unfortunately, she was involved and witnessed the entire process of the incident.

In fact, Duke also saw that when the incident occurred, a helicopter on the abc TV station was broadcasting a live program nearby. It arrived at the scene as soon as possible. Through the camera lens and TV screen, two bandits wearing double-layer Kevra and holding automatic firepower were shown to the audience in the United States how the more than 50 Los Angeles police officers could not be raised until Swat rushed to support...

Such events may leave a shadow on people for a lifetime.

Recalling the scene I saw on the TV, Duke suddenly had an idea flashed through him, "This should be a good material for adaptation, right?"

In the last two episodes of the "Lord of the Rings" series, the narrative method will become extremely complicated, and the two-line and three-line narrative will become the norm. The investment in the film is so huge that he cannot fail. It will definitely help to practice a small-cost three-line narrative video.

Duke wrote a note on his memo. This is just a very basic idea. Whether to implement it specifically or make plans after participating in the annual Victoria's Secret show in London. (To be continued, please search for Piaotianyi, the novel is better, updated and faster!
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