America's Road to Fame

Chapter 162

On December 12rd, "Magic Mike" began to be screened in more than 23 theaters across the United States. As Christmas approached, there were many films released. Among them, "Magic Mike" was not the one that attracted the most attention. At this time Of the films released, if we say the most anticipated one, it should be "Sherlock Holmes" directed by Guy Ritchie.

However, after the box office of the day was released, the result was still surprising. With a box office of 2000 million US dollars on the first day, "Magic Mike" became the runner-up of the box office on the Christmas day after "Sherlock Holmes", and its box office was only less than that of "Sherlock Holmes". Less than $300 million.

In fact, many people have roughly guessed that "Magic Mike" performed well since the movie started to be released that day, and the situation of queuing up to buy tickets, but this result is still surprising.

You should know that this movie is an R-rated movie, and it is shown in fewer theaters than "Sherlock Holmes".

However, after the film critics watched the film, the newly released film reviews were not friendly to "Magic Mike", mainly criticizing that this is a film that sells meat, and it was shot purely to please female audiences. Some film critics directly and mercilessly said that this film is extremely rubbish, the plot is simple, without any skills, it is just a sensory stimulation full of muscles on the screen.

William Chen didn't care about these bad reviews. He knew that only when there was controversy would there be popularity. Now when the movie is released, what is needed is popularity.

Not all audiences go to watch movies because of the skill or connotation of the movie, otherwise most of the movies that won’t sell well at the box office are popcorn movies.The more this kind of family carnival, everyone prefers lighter movies, so in the final analysis, the box office is the most important thing.

Speaking of movie box office, William Chen knew that a heavyweight movie was about to be released, that is Truck Driver's "Avatar". With a box office of 7.5 million US dollars, the global box office has accumulated 27.5 billion US dollars. It can be said that every time the truck driver makes a shot, it is groundbreaking.

It's just that "Avatar" is the same as his previous "Titanic". At the beginning, everyone's box office expectations were not very high, and the production and distribution company of "Avatar" is Twentieth Century Fox.

Therefore, if William Chen wants to acquire this company, he must do so as soon as possible.But even so, "Avatar", which cost a full US$5 million in production and publicity, has made [-]th Century Fox look forward to it even more, because they incurred huge losses last year, and now they are counting on this movie to make them more money. .

Even if the purchase is made at this time, I am afraid that the other party will delay until the release of "Avatar", let's take a look at the box office of this movie.However, according to the survey results of Goldman Sachs, even if "Avatar" is a big hit, the share that 5th Century Fox can share will not be as high as expected, because most of the total production cost of the film is 60 million US dollars. Both were invested by two PE funds, and their investment accounted for more than [-]% of the total cost.

Twentieth Century Fox is responsible, mainly for the publicity and distribution costs of about 1.5 million US dollars.Therefore, even if calculated based on the final global box office of 27.5 billion, 35th Century Fox can get about 15% of the box office share in China, and even lower overseas. The share should be between 25-17.5%. Whether Tenth Century Fox can independently distribute locally or does it need a partner (for example, the box office share of this movie in the mainland is only 7%). If this is the case, if only the box office share is used, they should be able to get 3 million US dollars The left and right box office share, equivalent to [-]th Century Fox, is less than [-] million US dollars.

The above mentioned is the share of the producer, but as the publisher, 1th Century Fox can also earn an additional share of the distribution, which is between 1.5 and [-] million US dollars.

However, in Hollywood movies, the pure box office share only accounts for a part of the total revenue of a film, and the rest of the DVD rental, TV and online media broadcasts, especially movie peripherals, can get more total revenue than the box office share.

It's just that these other benefits, unlike box office cuts, can be obtained in the short term, but long-term benefits.However, even if it is a box office share, the billing period with theaters in various places will be very long.

Sure enough, after Goldman Sachs first contacted Murdoch, the other party's attitude was rather ambiguous, neither outright rejection nor overly positive attitude. Camillo Hagen analyzed that the other party may have waited for many years and carried out After three full months of warm-up, I still hope to see the reaction after the release of "Avatar".

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As Christmas approached, there was a snowfall in New York. At this time, William Chen's manor on Long Island was covered in silver, which looked very spectacular.

In the house, however, it was very warm, and the fire was burning brightly in the fireplace.

In the middle of the hall stood a Christmas tree that they had just cut back, covered with decorated ribbons.

William Chen was half lying on the sofa reading a book at this time, while Erica was sitting beside her with a notebook and processing documents.For convenience, she would still live in William Chen's villa in the Upper East Side, but William Chen brought her back when he got off work today.

"Nicky, you traitor, you made it clear just now that we will deal with Jessica together!"

Paris' voice came from the corridor. William Chen turned his head and saw the Hilton sisters and Jessica Alba walking into the living room together. On their hair, traces of snow could still be seen .

"Hehe, you were the one who hit me with the snowball first." Nikki said not to be outdone.

"I said it all, that was my miss."

Paris pouted unhappily and walked in front of William Chen, took his arm, and said:
"William, you should go out and see, we made a big snowman, it's very beautiful."

"Didn't the maids help to pile it up? Paris, you have to be honest." Jessica said with a smile.

"I said it all, we piled it together."

"Yes, the only thing you did was put a scarf around that snowman."

At this moment, William Chen suddenly realized that it was not a wise thing for him to call them all home, because they were too noisy.

Since this is the case, he didn't want to read the book anymore, folded the pages, put them on the coffee table, and said to the girls:
"Well, why don't you go and see if dinner is ready?"

"I asked Mary just now, and she said that it will be a while. I'd better take a hot bath first. I feel a little cold on my body." Paris followed his words, and when she walked to the stairs, she looked back. He glanced at William Chen, gave him a look, and said:

"William, don't you want to come with me?"

Uh, under the watchful eyes of the other three pairs of eyes, William Chen really didn't like it, so he agreed, not to mention, it's a bit early now, so he sat upright and said to Paris:
"My dear, you'd better hurry up and don't delay the dinner together. Besides, I need to remind you that you don't want to wait until you run out of strength to go downstairs."

"Pfft~" The laughter came from Nikki. Seeing her sister staring at her, she turned her head and said:
"Speaking of which, I'm still a little hungry. I'll go to the kitchen to see what's going on."

"Hmph!" Paris expressed dissatisfaction with her, and then went up the stairs.

Jessica sat next to William Chen at this time, glanced at Erica next to her, saw that she was concentrating on operating the laptop at this time, her beautiful eyes rested on William Chen, and said to him:

"William, I read reports that the box office of your company's movie is very good."

"It should be, Jessica. I didn't pay much attention to it, but judging from the box office on the first day, it's not bad, and it met expectations."

"I heard you're planning to buy Twentieth Century Fox, isn't that right?"

"There are contacts with Murdoch, but there has been no progress yet."

Murdoch is worthy of being an old fox. The news was leaked just after I got in touch with him. William Chen estimated that most likely he ordered it.He is no stranger to this kind of method, he just wanted to test it out, even if he sold it, he could raise the price if there were other bidders.

However, he won't have too many headaches about these matters, so he will leave them to Goldman Sachs to deal with. Anyway, his choice is not only [-]th Century Fox, but MGM is also in contact. It depends on whether he can accept the other party's offer, buy it or not, anyway, he won't be taken advantage of.

(End of this chapter)