The east coast of North America has already felt the pain of the cold winter. Only Florida, the southernmost state is still sunny, and the "Trumen's World" is being filmed here in full swing. Not only does the west coast of North America not only have no ice and snow, except Seattle, but California has also become very lively due to the arrival of the holiday season.

This year's summer season is just a fair and even a big disappointment. Not only is it not able to reproduce the glory of last year's "Independence Day", but the current annual box office champion has been won by "Los Angeles City Secret". The autumn season defeats the summer season, which is also the first time in North American film history.

Now, everyone is looking forward to the holiday season. See if Thanksgiving and the power of Christmas can regain the box office glory and bring the North American box office market back to the "normal track". Even the courageous people cannot imagine that the North American annual champion belongs to a suspense drama work in the autumn season. This... is really too outrageous. Reform is urgent, but it also needs to be taken slowly. It is really impossible to withstand this stuttering to become a fat man.

Unfortunately, people were disappointed. Although works such as "King of Fighting 2: Great Annihilation (Touching tral.kombat:annihilation)" and "Dr. Oolong (F-Bber)" performed well, they were far from comparable to the summer season, let alone "Los Angeles City Secret".

There were only two weeks left in 1997, and there was not much time left for the North American film market. "Los Angeles Secret" actually made history and won the 1997 box office championship, only two weeks away. This surprised all major film companies, and many media began to panic. Now, everyone's hope is placed on three new works that will be released in the third week of December.

"Titanic", "007's Empire of Tomorrow (to touch.never.dies)" and "Fine and Beautiful".

This is a very interesting thing. Such a match is not common even in the summer season. The strong collision of the three works is even more unpredictable. Paramount and 20th Century Fox teamed up to play against MGM Pictures, Sony Columbia Pictures, and the eight major Hollywood film companies occupied half of the market this week, and the ending of facing confrontation is full of countless possibilities.

As the most invested work at the end of the century, "Titanic" has been full of countless topics since its filming. At first, the investment was only 100 million US dollars, but later it gradually began to lose control. James Cameron was like a dinosaur that could never be fed. The cost control was like a wild horse, first breaking through 150 million, and then breaking through 165 million... Before the movie was released, the cost data officially released by Paramount and Twentieth Century Fox was 200 million US dollars.

This is the first work in film history with a cost of $200 million. More importantly, unlike "Independence Day", the two starring actors of "Titanic" Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet are not at the top level. Their pay combined is not as good as a Hugo, which means that "Titanic" has squandered a sky-high price in terms of shooting costs.

In addition, the shooting cycle of "Titanic" was delayed again and again. It was originally scheduled to be completed in six months, and then it was delayed to eight months, and the final nine months were completed. Not to mention that as a director, James's irritable temper was well-known, and he had many conflicts with other staff members of the crew, and trivial unfavorable news kept spreading, which made Paramount and Twentieth Century Fox worry.

All of this reminds people of a familiar work "The Future Water World".

Although "Independence Day" created an incredible box office miracle last year, none of the works in this summer can replicate such a development trajectory, which gradually extinguished the enthusiasm of the North American market. People once again remembered the disastrous box office of "Future Water World" and "Batman and Robin".

The same costs are repeated, and the same goes forever, the same is full of conflicts within the crew, the same is the same is the same is the same is the same is the same is the same is the same is the same is the work with the theme of "water", and the same is the same is the work with far higher topic than the movie itself...

"Titanic" and "Future Water World" have too many similarities, and the cost of the former is incredibly exceeding 200 million US dollars. What does this mean? It means that even if the movie's North American box office exceeds 400 million US dollars, it may not necessarily be able to make a profit. It must rely on the global box office to achieve its goal; it means that "Titanic" must copy the "Independence Day" miracle to satisfy the appetite of the two major production companies and avoid replacing "Future Water World" and becoming the first disaster in film history.

This is almost an impossible task.

All media are discussing the box office prospects of "Titanic", and more than two-thirds of people are not optimistic about this work being able to create a box office miracle. There are even many views that "this work will become the most terrifying disaster in film history", and have received a lot of support; although the remaining one-third of the conservative views are not that direct, they do not have much hope for the "Titanic" to reach the "Independence Day" level, they just think that this work may not be a disaster, but it is difficult to create a miracle.

Before it was released, the prospect of "Titanic" was already covered in a shadow.

More importantly, the opponent facing the "Titanic" is an absolute summer-level heavyweight player: "007: Empire of Tomorrow".

Two years ago, "007: Golden Eye" was released. Pierce Brosnan took over James Bond's position and was highly praised and considered the most elegant 007 in history. Many people even compared him to Sean Connery, and also achieved great success in the box office, which made the "007" series revitalize its vitality and made the precarious MGM catch a life-saving straw again.

Now, the "007 Empire of Tomorrow" is coming, costing 110 million US dollars and is very powerful.

Originally, MGM planned to be released in the summer season this year, but because the filming time was too late, it was not started in April this year, and it was not completed until September. However, it was too late to postpone the release of next summer season, and MGM could not afford to wait at all, so it was arranged to be released in the holiday season, looking forward to the long holiday that can bring outstanding results to the movie.

When the "007: The Empire of Tomorrow" collides with the "Titanic", who will win the final victory? Most media have chosen the former, not only because of the outstanding results of the previous work "007: Golden Eye", Pierce Brosnan, was also well received; but also because of the strong appeal of the "007" series, it has an indefinite appeal to the movie-watching inertia of movie fans; it is also because people believe that the "Titanic" is likely to become a disaster.

This makes this week's North American weekend box office rankings exciting. Whether it is the "007: Tomorrow Empire" crushing the "Titanic" or the "Titanic" crushing the "007: Tomorrow Empire", this is a painful defeat for the losers; or there is a win-win situation and the two are defeated, which is even more unimaginable. Even in the summer season, such a grand occasion is rare.

What's more, no one will forget the existence of "perfect and perfection".

As a comedy drama movie, "Fine and Beautiful" costs 50 million US dollars, which is not inferior to the two works released at the same time. Although this work is just a comedy movie, first of all, it is incomparable to the two competitors in terms of magnitude, but its attention is absolutely not inferior, and it is even slightly better.

Jack Nicholson, Helen Hunter and James L Brooks have many topics to talk about; however, they are not as good as Hugo who appears on the producer list as a screenwriter. This is the second time Hugo has made an independent screenwriter since "Before Sunrise". And unlike "Before Sunrise", Hugo did not participate in the performance this time and was just a pure screenwriter. This will also become an important test to verify Hugo's screenwriter's skills and level.

The expectations for the works of Hugo screenwriters have also made the topic of "perfect and perfection" still very popular.

Interestingly, Hugo and "Titanic" have a great fate. He once was infinitely close to the position of the male lead, but he finally rejected the proposal and recommended it to his close friend Leonardo, but Hugo still played a cameo role in the movie. Now "Titanic" is about to try to copy the box office of Hugo's classic work "Independence Day" and also to compete with Hugo's screenwriter's work "perfect" which is really interesting.

Faced with such a lively scene, although the reporters did not find Seaside to interview Hugo, they contacted Hugo by phone. Nicholas McClenn's aggressive question made Hugo laugh, "I have confidence in the 'Titanic', this is a very good work. I just hope that the 'perfect' results will not be too ugly. I will carefully read the film reviews about this work, especially the screenwriter."

Nicholas was quite surprised. In terms of box office selection, Hugo chose the "Titanic" without any hesitation, which is completely different from the mainstream media's current media ideas. "Have you not read the newspaper recently? No one thinks that way."

"Nick, are you sure you want to discuss with me the question of the correctness of media views?" Hugo's rhetoric also made Nicholas laugh.

"Of course, why not, because this time I think the media views are correct." Nicholas replied with a smile, but heard Hugo's unanimous smacking lips. "Or we bet that the box office of the Titanic would definitely be defeated."

"Business or private matter?" Hugo was intrigued.

Nicholas thought about it, but still didn't plan to give Leonardo an ugly look, so he said, "Private affairs."

"Success! What about the bet?" Hugo was completely excited.

Nicholas thought seriously, "In the event of a public media interview, shouting the other person's name and saying 'I love you'."

Hugo laughed loudly, "Nick, I will definitely not accept your love." The tone seemed to have won the bet, which made Nicholas laugh and cry.
Chapter completed!