America 1995

Chapter 77 This time it's really hot

More than ten days have passed since Milo arrived in New York.

As time passed, the calendar of 1996 moved from January to February.

This morning on the 5th.

In a suite at the Waldorf Astoria.

After taking a shower, Milo changed into dry casual clothes, shook the water droplets from his hair, and came to the dining table in the living room to enjoy breakfast time.

Milo took a bite of the delicious hot dog with plenty of veal meat and flipped open the newspaper in his hand.

After being reborn in the United States for more than half a year, he has now developed a good habit of reading the daily news while eating breakfast.

Monica, his personal assistant who was supposed to be serving him, was now lying on the Simmons mattress and couldn't wake up at all.

So David, who had been responsible for protecting him since he was ten years old, played the role of a butler.

David put the New York Times on top of the pile of newspapers according to Milo's reading habits.

The Blackburn family owns about 3% of the shares of this newspaper.

So last year, the first newspaper in the United States to promote "The Da Vinci Code" and the first to publish the bishops' debate was the New York Times.

Watching his boss flipping through the newspaper, David, who had already had breakfast, smiled and reminded:

"Boss, check out the entertainment section. You're famous. Very famous!"

“Oh?” Milo was surprised, then smiled and said casually, “I think I’m a little famous, hehe…”

"No, now you are more famous!" David said immediately:

"Many newspapers are reporting about you now. Wendy also called me about this matter an hour ago."

"I told him you were still sleeping, so he told me not to rush to inform you. He also said that he would let you read the newspaper after you woke up, which would put you in a good mood for the whole day!"

"Oh?"

Milo was a little surprised by what David said.

Hearing this, he opened the New York Times.

"Just look at the entertainment section, the front page headlines of the entertainment section!" David reminded.

Milo nodded and opened the entertainment section of the New York Times.

On the headline, it was written in huge English font: "Box office 450 million! !"

Milo began to read.

This report from the New York Times is basically a review of the global box office of the movie "Angels & Demons" one month after its release.

4.5 billion dollars!
Although the film is still being shown in some places outside the United States.

But the film's box office potential has basically been exhausted.

Even if we continue to broadcast it for another half a month or a month.

It is estimated that it can only increase the box office by a few million, at most 10 or 20 million.

The New York Times believes that on the basis of US$450 million, another US$100 to 200 million will be added.

Around 4.6-4.7 million US dollars should be the final global box office of "Angels & Demons".

Next, The New York Times began calculating for Milo how much the movie had brought him.

There is no doubt that he made a fortune on this movie!
The total investment in the film was 40 million US dollars, plus more than 20 million US dollars in post-production promotion.

The total cost was less than around $6500 million.

Generally speaking, American films make back their investment twice.

Based on this investment, the investment can be recovered as long as the box office exceeds 1.3 million US dollars.

Now that the box office has exceeded 450 million, there is no doubt that the movie has made its money back.

The New York Times speculates that Angels & Demons is expected to gross around $4.7 million worldwide.

Since the box office sharing ratios vary in different regions around the world, film producers should ultimately be able to get around 44% of the total box office revenue.

4.7% of $44 million is approximately $2.068 million.

25% of it was Disney's investment, and the final figure Milo received was 1.55 million US dollars.

This is the box office return of the movie calculated by The New York Times for Minogue.

But that's not all. The New York Times also calculated Minogue's income beyond box office revenue.

For example, videotapes, VCDs, and newly released CDs, as well as the subsequent income from related peripherals, copyrights, etc. Generally speaking, the income from this aspect is 1-4 times the box office revenue.

Angels and Demons grossed about $4.7 million worldwide, so the revenue from this should be $4-16 billion over the next ten years.

After deducting production costs and commissions from various channels, The New York Times assumes that the revenue is $10 billion.

The final amount received was about 5 million US dollars.

Of the $75 million, Milo still gets %.

The final calculation showed that Milo could get a total of $1.55 million for the movie "Angels and Demons", plus $3.5 million.

The return is approximately $5.05 million.

The following is the main text of the New York Times:

【……而成本呢？很好计算，6500万的75%就是米洛·布莱克本在这部电影里的总投入。那么6500万的75%是多少呢？是4870万。】

[In other words, our super talented screenwriter and super best-selling author Mr. Milo Blackburn made $5 million with less than $ million! ]

What does this mean? Last year, the third most profitable Hollywood film company was Paramount Pictures, which announced a profit of exactly $4.5 million.

[Assuming that Paladin Films does not shoot any more movies this year, or that no new movies are released. Even so, with the movie "Angels and Demons", the profit income of this film company of Minogue can also rank among the top three last year.]

[God knows how Milo did it. Before that, Milo was just...]

【…】

As one of their own, the subsequent content of this report by the New York Times was basically just a crazy round of flattery for him.

Milo skipped over it and said to David, who was smiling beside him, with a happy mood: "Oh~ It seems that I am really famous."

"Also." David said with a smile, "Basically, more than half of the entertainment reports in today's newspapers are related to you, boss!"

"Really? Let me take a look."

Milo smiled and opened several other newspapers.

For example, he only read the New York Post after he came to New York.

The New York Post is Murdoch's newspaper.

Maybe it's because he's currently working with Fox on Shakespeare in Love.

It may also be the style of the New York Post, which pursues more exaggerated text and entertainment.

When it comes to coverage of Angels & Demons and Milo.

The New York Post went even further.

They just say things like "The rise of the ninth largest film company in Hollywood", "The emergence of the second DreamWorks movie", "Super talented director", "The youngest and best screenwriter"...

The words were so outrageous that even Milo, who was so shameless, felt a little embarrassed by the flattery.

If you open other newspapers, you will find that their entertainment sections almost all have reports on the box office of the movie "Angels and Demons" and reports on Milo.

As the creator of "The Da Vinci Code" and "Angels and Demons".

And the investor, producer, director and screenwriter of the movie "Angels and Demons".

The name Milo Blackburn has become completely popular across the United States this time.

And it’s different from the last fire.

The last time he became famous, it was just his name and the novels he wrote.

At that time, several major religious forces in the United States used him and his novels as their raft.

A group of religious leaders are debating in the media to seize the hot spots and fight for the right to debate.

Those religious leaders used Milo's name as a tool in their war against each other.

The main focus is on debate.

At that time, Milo could be said to be famous, but it could also be said that he was not that famous.

This time it's different.

This time it was the super high box office returns and revenue of "Angels & Demons".

In addition, there is the continued hot sales of "The Da Vinci Code" and the fame brought by the last great bishops' debate.

Finally, he became completely angry.

Let the name Milo Blackburn be truly remembered by all Americans.

(End of this chapter)