Ritt and Ovitz sat side by side in the back seat of the car, looking out the window at the receding streetscape, each thinking about their own thoughts.
After a while, Ovitz turned his head and glanced at Leet, who was still staring intently out the window.
"Do you really think Titanic can exceed $1 billion at the box office" In fact, when he got in the car, Ovitz wanted to ask Little, but he held it back until now, during which he kept thinking about how likely this hypothesis was to become a reality, and finally came to the conclusion that it was negative.
Litt withdrew his gaze from the car window, and began to think about the appropriate wording.
Littlet knows very well that Ovitz is not optimistic about the box office prospects of the Titanic, in addition to the problems of the film itself, it is also related to the general environment in which Hollywood is now talking about the "water" color change. is also a film about "water", and many people still have vivid memories of the fiasco of Future Water World produced by Universal Company two years ago.
When Future Water World was filmed in Hawaii, it cost $5 million to build a 2,000-ton abandoned city at sea, but due to the uncertain tides and weather changes, the main scene was repeatedly submerged, resulting in additional costs, which soon exceeded 100 million yuan.
As the film with the highest investment in history at that time, Future Water World only returned to the North American box office of 88.23 million with an investment of up to 17.5 billion US dollars, which can be described as miserable.
Judging from the filming process alone, Titanic is simply another remake of the future water world.
At the beginning, the budget of the Titanic was $1.5 billion, but by the time of the original release date, the film was still in post-production, and at this time, the production cost of the film had soared to $200 million.
The similar shooting experience of the two movies makes many people wonder if the two hundred million dollars invested in the Titanic will also be wasted After some deliberation, Littlet gave Ovitz this answer: "I'm not so sure, but my gut tells me that this James Cameron film is different from any other movie. ” "Intuition" Ovitz couldn't help but repeat the word, his tone full of doubt and uncertainty.
Litte nodded helplessly, not that he didn't want to use more realistic reasons to convince Ovitz, but that the Titanic was so special, other movies called breaking records, and Titanic directly created a myth.
In Litter's memory, the Titanic's first week of release in North America was not remarkable, with a cumulative income of $27.6 million over three days over the weekend, which is only half of the box office of the first weekend of My Crazy for Mary, which is currently in theaters, and the cost of the latter is only one-tenth of that of Titanic.
As you can imagine, when this box office result was announced, the whole world was waiting to see the joke of James Cameron's failure.
But in the second week, the box office of the Titanic grew to more than 35 million against the trend, and there were still more than 33 million in the third week, and then in the next few weeks, the film continued to perform with no less than 20 million per week and even rose against the market, subverting the box office law that a movie should follow when released in theaters again and again.
Finally, almost 2 months after the film's release, some mainstream media in the United States began to cautiously put forward the assumption that Titanic is likely to become the highest-grossing film in film history Although the box office of Titanic has soared to $300 million at this time, everyone is still very skeptical about the establishment of this hypothesis, because Titanic is still far from the box office record of $9.1 billion set by Jurassic Park, which tops the list of highest-grossing movies.
By the time of the Oscars in March 1998, Titanic's North American box office had soared to $500 million, only one step away from breaking the highest box office record in North America, and just three North American records were enough to staggering 15 consecutive weeks of winning the North American box office champion, 26 weeks in the top 10 of the North American box office, and a long North American release period of 287 days.
At the same time, the film also began to conquer the city in the world's major film markets, constantly refreshing the local box office records, by this time, people all over the world knew that there was no force on earth that could stop the Titanic from moving towards the king of the world box office.
In this way, the Titanic successfully reached the peak of the box office record in film history in the tears of fans around the world: $600 million in the United States, and a record $1.8 billion worldwide.
At the end of the '90s, when AX was far from popular, a movie grossed $1.8 billion worldwide, a plot that many later YY entertainment novels didn't dare to write casually, but it happened, and this record remained until ten years later, when James Cameron broke the record with another of his works.
Until Little's crossing, the Titanic held the number two position at the global box office, and no one knows how many years it would take for a non-James Cameron film to surpass that number at the box office.
Therefore, when many people mention this history of the Titanic, they will not say that it has set a new record, but more that it has created a box office myth.
Myth is called myth because it has too much irreproducibility.
In addition to the ultra-long release cycle, Titanic is also a film with a super high "return rate", and it is not uncommon for the general audience to rewatch it two or three times, and even an Australian die-hard fan actually watched Titanic 76 times in the theater, which became a hot topic in the news at that time.
And all of this, Littlet can't explain it to Ovitz, because judging from the various circumstances shown by Titanic, no one believes that its global box office can exceed $1 billion, let alone $1.8 billion.
So when Littlet said the explanation of "intuition", Ovitz had actually given up all the illusions that James Cameron might become a customer of AG, because he felt that James Cameron would not succeed at all this time, and Little's suggestion that James Cameron and Fox sign a VAM agreement would only become a reason for James Cameron to say no to AG in the future Littlet didn't try to convince Ovitz again, he just needed to use this incident to plant a seed in Ovitz's heart, and when Titanic proved that his "intuition" was extremely correct with facts next year, this seed would take root and sprout, and then turn into a deep-rooted trust. t1706231537: