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Universal Pictures is ambitious and wants to take advantage of the success of the "Mummy" series to use a top-notch production with huge investment to bring the once brilliant Universal Film monsters back into the audience's sight, just like a mummy, and once again create huge profits and returns for Universal Pictures.

Even Matthew received news from Sean Daniel that there was a discussion within Universal Pictures that if both "Mummy" and "Van Helsing" can succeed, it can allow more monsters to reappear on the screen, and at the same time, stuff more monsters into a film to enable linkage.

However, Universal Pictures is very cautious about this suggestion, after all, the disastrous defeat of "Shocks from Heaven" is still vivid in my mind.

But these discussions then temporarily stopped in Universal Pictures' written plans.

Unlike "Dawn of the Living Dead", "Van Helsing" was lifted on the day of its official release. On the second day, the film's Rotten Tomato Index completely rotted. Twenty-four percent freshness and an average score of 4.3 can make people squirt blood directly.

In the past, there were also films with very poor ratings of Rotten Tomatoes but were sold at the box office, because there was a clear difference in tastes between audiences and professional film critics during the summer season, and the freshness of Rotten Tomatoes was completely obtained by collecting the latter's reviews.

But behind the freshness of Rotten Tomatoes, there is also an audience viewing index, and most popular videos have indexes of 85% or even 95%.

"Van Helsing" only has 57%.

At the same time, the imdb audience scored, and the average score of 6.1 can only be said to be barely OK.

"The biggest failure of Van Helsing is that it resurrects the classic monster images but fails to make them horror. Although the visual effects created by the film are very shocking, the story is weak, and the background of the three demons gathered together is unclear."

Public opinion and film reviews are all a bad voice.

Of course, for such a movie with great investment and high publicity, audiences and professional comments have more influence on the box office trend of the film's later stages, rather than the box office on the first weekend.

The quality of the film itself will definitely have a certain impact on the box office in the first week, but in comparison, the promotion, investment, topicality and star appeal of large-scale films will have a greater impact on the box office in the first week.

Especially now, both online and offline in North America have started early ticket sales. If movie fans are interested in a video, they can pay in advance for movie tickets through the Internet and telephone channels half a month or even longer.

What can affect reservations are often factors such as publicity, investment, topicality and celebrity appeal.

If we talk about the first weekend box office alone, although "Van Helsing" did not meet Universal's expectation of more than 60 million, the first weekend box office of US$51.7 million is definitely a medium-high level.

However, the data released by various forecasting agencies are generally believed that Van Helsing will open high and close low.

Data surveyed by cinema Sore, an authoritative forecasting agency for North American film market, is particularly unfavorable to "Van Helsing". The on-site rating of theater audiences is only "b-", and the audience's reputation is not good.

In addition, cinema Sore's market forecast that the North American box office of Van Helsing will be between $120 million and $130 million.

Looking at the entire North America, cinema Sore is the institution with the highest accuracy in box office forecasts in North America. The box office forecast accuracy of medium-sized and above films even exceeds 85%.

Although major studios will also hire external survey institutions to conduct market surveys on the films, and thus conduct market forecasts and adjust related promotional and promotion strategies, cinema Sore, as a relatively neutral survey institution, has more objective and accurate predictions.

The profit model of cinema sore is mainly based on the prediction data for foreign sales. If the prediction data frequently has problems, it will soon be done.

If the North American box office of "Van Helsing" is really as predicted by cinema Sore, it lands at more than $120 million, Universal Pictures might really cry.

On weekdays, the box office of "Van Helsing" showed a plunge, with a box office drop of 70% on Monday compared to last Sunday!

Even zombie films like "Dawn of the Living Dead" with a relatively small audience range, the decline was not so large at that time. Moreover, "Dawn of the Living Dead" is an R-level film, while "Van Helsing" is a rating of pg-13.

In the following working days, Van Helsing's daily output fell at a rate of 15%.

Very star, this is very consistent with cinema sore's prediction.

Standing in front of the office window, Helen Hermann looked through the glass and looked at the street view of Burbank outside. He took off his black-edged glasses and placed them on the windowsill. His bright face was full of thoughts.

She even had a little bit of gratitude in her heart. Fortunately, she and Matthew didn't get the male lead in the end, otherwise...

According to the current situation, even if the North American box office and overseas box office of Van Helsing are combined, it cannot offset the high production costs of Van Helsing and the promotion and distribution investment of more than US$70 million in addition to the production costs.

If nothing unexpected happens, the male lead Orlando Bloom and the female lead Kate Beckinsale will suffer a career decline. Orlando Bloom is fine. He has signed a contract with Ridley Scott's "Dynasty" crew, and with the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy, it is not without a chance to turn around.

The heroine Kate Beckinsale will no longer have first-line productions to enable her as the heroine. The starring "Pearl Harbor" did not meet expectations, and there were constant bad reviews. Now "Van Helsing" is in poor condition. Not to mention hitting first-line stars, I have to thank God for being able to maintain the status of second-line stars.

Director Stephen Somos will also be silent for many years, and it may be possible to return to mainstream commercial production.

What if Matthew also participated in this film? Helen Hermann didn't need to think about it, and he knew it would bring a huge blow. When she wanted to compete for this role, "Pirates of the Caribbean" had not yet established a project to recruit actors. There was a certain conflict in the shooting of the last two films. Matthew won "Van Helsing" at that time and was likely to lose "Pirates of the Caribbean"...

What will happen? Without the success of "Pirates of the Caribbean", Matthew will be basically done without the blow of "Van Helsing". The resources and energy she invested in him over the years will be wasted.

Fortunately, I was lucky and didn't fall into the big pit of "Van Helsing", otherwise I wouldn't have been able to get out of it.

Helen Hermann put his hands on his chest and thought about it carefully. His luck with Matthew seems to be really good. For Hollywood stars, luck is also indispensable.

Every year, Hollywood has big-line productions that go from opportunities to huge pits. Even if she is very confident in herself, she knows that it is too difficult to judge whether a big production is successful or not. In addition to vision, ability, market analysis and keen touch, it also requires good luck.

Take the project "Van Helsing" for example. The production cost is as high as US$160 million and the promotion investment exceeds US$70 million. The director and producer is Stephen Somos, who has previously directed two "Mummy" and has achieved great success. In recent years, the success of the "Mummy" series, "The Lord of the Rings" series, and even "The Scorpion King" has proved that this type of magical color has a very high market acceptance.

No matter what the perspective is, this is a very reliable project, so she tried hard to get it at that time.

Reliable projects did not meet expectations in the end, and there was still more than 95% chance that they would become Waterloo in the careers of many main creative personnel...

Helen Hermann shook his head slightly and quickly got rid of this feeling of gratitude. Whether it was her or Matthew, if she wanted to have greater development, she would still need luck in this area in the future.

However, she will do her best to minimize the influence of luck.

In some ways, the project, which has been named "Mr. Smith", is somewhat similar to "Van Helsing". From the perspective of investment and main creative staff, it is a very reliable project.

Perhaps because of the box office trend of "Van Helsing", Helen Hermann was thinking a little too much.

But she quickly recovered, and Hollywood's past history told her that those videos that seem reliable are much more likely to succeed than those projects that seem unreliable.

The office door was knocked outside, and then the sound of the door being pushed open rang out.

Helen Hermann didn't have to look back and knew that the person who came was Matthew. She picked up the old-fashioned black-rimmed glasses and put them on her face.

"Hey, Helen!" Matthew said, seeing Helen Herman standing in front of the window, "What do you think?"

"Nothing." Helen Hermann turned around and glanced at Matthew, "I just think you're lucky."

Matthew had no way to explain this kind of thing, nor did he want to explain it, and said directly, "I have always been lucky, you know this."

He first took himself a glass of water and sat on the single sofa in the office.

Helen Herman came over and sat on another sofa next to him and said, "Isn't this simple luck? I remember you were not very active in fighting for "Van Helsing."

Having expected this situation, Matthew also prepared to speak up and said seriously, "You have not had in-depth contact with Stephen Somos. I have worked with him on two projects and have a certain understanding of him. This director is very capable and has great ideas, and I have many ideas. I always think that it may not be a good thing if there is no excellent producer to suppress him and let him perform at will."

Such words don't need to be very convincing. Helen Hermann couldn't say anything if he just said a suitable and legitimate reason.

Besides, isn’t it a good thing to avoid jumping into a big pit?
Chapter completed!