Chapter 486: Take Me Away

At the same time that "Pirates of the Caribbean" was in theaters, another film also produced by Shahai Entertainment and distributed by Embassy Pictures was released from major theaters in North America.

"Summer of Jeans" is a standard commercial youth idol film. The target audience of this film is very clear, that is, those adolescent boys and girls. Due to the limited audience, the popularity always passes very quickly. In just a few weeks The time fell to no one cares.

It only took seven weeks for this youth idol film to go from its premiere to its release, and its North American box office has accumulated a total of 68.62 million US dollars.

Overseas, 39.05 million US dollars have been harvested.

The global box office of "Summer of Jeans" totaled more than 100 million US dollars, as high as 107.67 million US dollars.

The success of this film has also given Relativity Entertainment more confidence in the holiday release of "Mean Girls".

It can be said that youth idol films will never be out of date!

Jessica Felton, as a post-producer, has entered the "Mean Girls" crew and fully leads the post-production of the film.

Ronan had great confidence in her abilities.

"Summer of Jeans" has also entered the offline operation stage. In this regard, the embassy film industry has already established a very mature system and mechanism. Azimuth's offline operations.

According to the consistent performance of Hollywood high-grossing movies, the offline income of "Summer of Jeans" will not be lower than online.

At the same time, Embassy Pictures has never reduced the promotional efforts of "Pirates of the Caribbean". Even if the distribution costs are excluded, the funds spent on the global promotion of the film have reached as much as US$100 million.

It is no exaggeration to say that behind every blockbuster movie, there is a huge cost.

Even movies like The Blair Witch are no exception.

The stable box office trend of "Pirates of the Caribbean" gave Embassy Pictures the confidence to continue to invest in publicity and further tap the market potential.

The importance of publicity and hype to a film is self-evident. The most direct result is that the box office of "Pirates of the Caribbean" in the third weekend once again showed an unusually strong trend.

In the third weekend of the film's release, the decline was still controlled within 40%.

In three days, it gained 28.1 million US dollars from the North American film market, plus the box office accumulation of the previous four working days. It took only three weeks for "Pirates of the Caribbean" to successfully break through the 200 million US dollar mark at the North American box office, as high as 200 million 589. Ten thousand U.S. dollars.

In addition, "Pirates of the Caribbean" has also appeared in theaters in more overseas markets, and it has been screened in nearly 50 countries and regions, and the total overseas box office has successfully exceeded 100 million.

The film's global box office hit $300 million.

Whether it is word-of-mouth or box office, "Pirates of the Caribbean" has been a great success. The success of the film has brought huge benefits to many people and companies.

Of course, Ronan's Relativity Entertainment Company has benefited the most. There is no doubt about it, followed by the director and a group of actors. Director Gore Verbinski became famous instantly from obscurity.

In terms of actors, Johnny Depp rose from the second-tier weirdo to the first-tier with the role of Jack Sparrow. A series is about to be made, and Johnny Depp is generally optimistic about the future. After years of faltering, he has finally become a mainstream star in Hollywood.

Followed by Christian Bale, no one has any doubts about his rise to the second tier. In addition, "Batman: Beginning of War", which is already being filmed, belongs to the kind where the second tier continues to rise. Many media and critics believe that , Hollywood may have found a new action superstar.

And the action star's acting skills are not bad.

Compared with his predecessors such as Stallone, Schwarzenegger and Bruce Willis, Christian Bale's acting skills are undoubtedly more reliable.

Then there is Keira Knightley. Although Elizabeth Swan's response is mediocre, it is enough to make her enter the second line. In the words of the media, after Kate Beckinsale, Hollywood has another dazzling British flower. Rose.

As for how many actors the media has given the title of Rose of England to, no one can count.

Just like the future "goddess", the English rose is also called a bad street in Hollywood.

The popularity of "Pirates of the Caribbean" seems to have awakened the adventurous spirit of the ocean deeply rooted in Western society.

As we all know, the modern West is an era of ocean expansion. Although Hollywood pirate movies have suffered disastrous failures before, no one can deny the attraction of pirate culture.

To a certain extent, the rapid rise of the West and its advanced dominance of the world are due to this pirate culture.

A series of legends about pirates has also been thrown out by the embassy film industry through the media, further attracting people's attention.

Some people say: Since the day the ship was invented, pirates have appeared.

There are many pirate legends full of mysterious and exotic colors, which makes the pirate culture in people's eyes more legendary and magical.

They are the most free, passionate, and unrestrained existence in the Dark Middle Ages.

They wrestle with the sea. Although they are greedy, evil and even kill innocent people indiscriminately, they have the vitality, freedom and adventurous spirit that modern people desire. Such a person, though immoral, is charismatic and attractive.

This is the image of pirates in European and American culture. Every child who grew up listening to pirate stories has dreamed of becoming the "man of One Piece" and looking for the lost treasure.

Perhaps during this period of time, news about pirate movies has spread all over the world, and pirates in modern society are unwilling to be lonely. Somali pirates successfully steal the spotlight of Pirates of the Caribbean, hijacking an American merchant ship in late July and demanding a ransom of 200 million US dollars.

Disney also came to join in the fun, announcing that the Pirates of the Caribbean ride, built in 1967, was the last Disney ride supervised by Disney founder Walt Disney.

The media under his company even claimed that Walt's body was buried under the Pirates of the Caribbean ride.

After a movie sells well, someone will always jump out and infringe his copyright, and countless people will come over to gain popularity.

As a distributor, Embassy Pictures certainly won't let Pirates of Somalia and Walt Disney steal the limelight.

The publicity and distribution department immediately mobilized the media, and a new wave of publicity came.

A large push of promotional soft articles appeared in the media and the Internet, among which the accompanying article on the official website of "Pirates of the Caribbean" attracted a lot of attention.

This article begins with an outrageous image of a group of Somali pirates holding aloft their AK-47 rifles.

Then, the article solemnly warns:

"If you meet a pirate with a machine gun on his bare feet, robbing or extorting people in the nearby waters in real life, run away. Believe me, you don't want to experience the life of a real pirate, and you are really waiting to be taken away by pirates All you have is hell."

But when I got here, the discourse and atmosphere of the article changed instantly, from seriousness to joy.

"Unless he's standing on board—"

The picture below is a large close-up of Captain Jack Sparrow standing on the mast when he first appeared in the "Pirates of the Caribbean" movie.

Below the picture is a sentence that represents the voices of countless movie fans.

"If the captain is him, I have only one sentence: Jack, take me away! Let's go to the horizon that can never be reached!"

The article was well-received and reposted by countless bloggers and media, and someone actually wrote to Johnny Depp, begging the real-life pirate captain to take him to wander the world.

Perhaps with a wave of Johnny Depp's arm, countless men and women will really follow him.

I am afraid that the portrayal of Captain Jack Sparrow when he arrives can be described in two sentences: full of big men! Left and right are men!

At the beginning of August, "Pirates of the Caribbean" entered its fourth weekend in North America, and its box office decline suddenly tightened.

And achieved four consecutive championships at the North American box office!

This achievement made many people dumbfounded. Although the outside world paid enough attention to this film, they did not expect that the trend would stabilize to a terrifying degree.

The North American box office of "Pirates of the Caribbean" is also close to 250 million U.S. dollars. Coupled with the ever-expanding scale of overseas screenings, the combined global box office has exceeded 400 million U.S. dollars.

The global box office of 500 million US dollars is definitely not the end of this pirate blockbuster.

Who doesn't love Captain Jack Sparrow? Who wouldn't love Johnny Depp turned into Captain Jack Sparrow.

Ronan knew very well that Johnny Depp would become the real Jack Sparrow.

As for the film's unusually stable box office trend, it's not unexpected. On the one hand, the audience's word-of-mouth of the film is extremely good, and on the other hand, there are vague memories of it.

Although Ronan does not remember the specific box office trend and data of "Pirates of the Caribbean", but because this series has a great influence, many media have analyzed and reported it. After reading some media articles, he vaguely knows that the box office trend of this film used to be very stable.

As mentioned in that article, "Pirates of the Caribbean" not only experienced a weekend box office drop of at least ten percent, but even went up against the trend for a few weekends!

Just when "Pirates of the Caribbean" had just surpassed $250 million at the North American box office, Scott Swift approached him.

"A few good news." Scott was all smiles, obviously in a good mood: "Ronan, after the news of the big sale of "Pirates of the Caribbean" spread, South Korea and island countries have concerns about the foundation's repayment ability. The last trace of doubt has also been let go, they just got in touch with me and want to renew the investment agreement for the third phase."

This is indeed good news, Ronan said: "Scott, you are fully responsible for this matter, and strive to get a higher investment amount each period."

Scott nodded: "It's not a big problem. Their intention to cooperate is very strong. I will finish the new cooperation negotiations with them as soon as possible."